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mmmmmrmmrnnmrm* *mim nwnw>?^wi?>? >? ??^???"B^?a|w?ai? MPMpp?PBiMHWw?MWMiWMwaMMMCTW?n^wwi?Mw^pBMCT>in?111uumjjhi ?, i ! ? n nnw.ii-iri^r-u ?ixigyjTuin yuJtLJijuwajiwpiy^i^a; . lt % VOL.1 CA.'MJDT^N, &. C., T'HTJRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1864, USTO. (> " IfllfJUiy1 II HI M I " ? jtsy jj. u. HOOOTT. . . Terms of Subscription. Daily paper per month - - - $3.00 " ' for Six Months - $15.00 Weekly, ------- - $5.00 Kates foi* Advertising: For one Square ? twelve lines or less?TWO DOLLARS and FIFTY CiiNTS for tho llrst insertion, and TWO DOLLARS for each spbseqeunt. Obituart Notices, exceeding one square, charged at advertising rates. ( . Transient Advertisements and Job Wonr MUST BE PAiq FOR IN ADVANCE No deduction made, except to our regular advertis4 flg patrons. EiE rato^r! No news from the front; all's quiet there And the sentry his lone watch is k-ppnino" ? o , Steadily ho walks his measured beat v "While his comrades around him are sleeping. Ah 1 httlo cares he for thb pelting rain, Or the wind that is howling by; % v For ho feels that the fate of a nation Depends on his watchful eye. '-/ VNo news from the front," cries the widow, "While her poor heart is throbbing with fear; For she sees from tho army dispatches, That a general engagement is near. Then she thinks of her life's only comfort, And the hope of declining years; She mutters a prayer for his safety, While she .wipes oil' the fast falling tears. "No news from tho front," erics the wife, No hope to her louo heart ia given; She clasps her child close up to her breast, And prays to her Father In heaven. Her hus'baud and only friend is there, QU- 1 -- " " oiio iiMs uo one 10 coinlort lier sorrow; And her heart is swelling with fear as sLo reads Ot the battle expected to-morrow. "No news from the front," cries the sister; She thinks of hor brother how? She hopes he is safe ; -but a cloud of doubt Comes ovor her fair young brow. She dreamed last night that she saw him Hushing madly into tho fray, And she thought she suroly would hear Some news from the front to-day. No novrs from tho front; no thought of tho brave Who are battling with frecmau's might; Baring their breasts to the leaden storm, I While struggling for freedom's right. All's quiet in front; still they say, . Though we are losing them one by ono? And wo only give a sigh of regret, ' When wo think of thoso that aro gono. H. L.W. C. - ?? ? While discing and mining and oo o . o fighting in front of Petersburg, Grant has not been idle in other respects, i He has been grading the country in rear of his works preparatory to. the building' of a branch railroad to City .Point, and thereby have a rapid and unbroken line of communication between all points of his army and his main base of supplies. He is now * busy at work laying the rails on this new track, and will ere long have it completed.. From those portions of our works nearest this road, the noise of the fall innr l'rnn oa" if ia AMTAAtUg JLJL V/JU UAJ 1U JLO thrown upon the ground, can. be plainly heard. >We also have it iroui high authority that this new road is in rapid progress. There seems to be but little doubt that Grant is receiving reinforcements, and that he is conveying them to his ' left.- Where they come from, or what the object of collecting them on our right can be, we are unable to state. He may probably contem__ _J.J--.1- T umtt? (in iiLijciCK on our HUGS 111 th&t direction, or may be, a further extension of his lines around the city. The enemy's batteries were again opened on the city yesterday morning, and for an hour or two night before last. One negro was injured and one or two houses struck. From elevated positions around the city the trains on the City Point > s s railroad can be distinctly seen, and the rattling of the cars and'whistling of the engine beard.?Petersburg JExf>reS'$. J"ceac 011 a Skirmish Lin?. Your readers have seen many accounts relative to the heavy skirmishing that, has characterized this campaign. If any of them desires to see evidences of its destructiveness, he has only to walk up and down our skirmish line for an hour. He then can realize what a terrible fire the soldiers of this army have undergone for the past one hundred and fifteen i days. I saw this morning and lneasured a white oak saidiner, seven inch es in diameter,.literally cut-off-about one foot from the ground by Yankee bullets. The undergrowth is cut to pieces and.resembles a deadening in tlie forest- Along this line thousands of pounds of led can be gathered up, not only along the two skirmish lines, but in the camps lately vacated by the enemy. Officers of the Ordnanace Department ought to look after and have this lead gathered up for future use. In my walk over the ground between the two lines, I saw the decomposed bodies of two Yankees lying about fifty steps in advance of I their skirmish line and in full view their own comrades. Here they fall lulu. vur;u, nut- uue ui Liieir comraues possessing tlie charity to aid them in their sufferings. A little further on were four others lying huddled close together in a small copse of woods where they had evidently crawled after receiving their death wounds. As I stood over the decaying bodies of these men, I could but *sigh and think how utterly denrn.vod must ! ?# ? that General, Colonel, or Captain, as the case may be, who would stand by and see his fellow-men, his own soldiers, thus perish for want of attention. What can we think of those brutes wearing the garb of soldiers, who stand idly by and see thir brother-soldier die and not make one effort to give his body a decent soldier's burial at least? * Under some circumstances the desertion of wounded comrades in battle is admissible, but in this case never. [Cor. Colunibus Enquirer. ' Hanging in numberless coils across a hook in the printing department of this journal, is a long, narrow slip of paper, which lias been made up by passing together from time to time the various list6 of the dead and wolinded that have been published in the columns of the South Curolinian. It in kept as a sort of registor, by referonce to which the foreman is able to avoid the necrelogieal tautology of announcing a death more than once. Curious to ascertain the length in feet and inches which it had attained, we caused it not long ago to be.' measured, when it was found that in this da k, strange record wc had rolled or- ' an thirty-five feet of closely pro I in-.uii.ee j then, it has received . , n d now probably exceeds forty . .. W e ought | "rack the world of fancy" in vain, for a!' im i ago which would afford a more distinct con * i ? ! ception of the horrors of this war than the ; above borne I) fact.? C'aroliji Lady Franklin, in London, recently entertained a party of Southern sympathizers at her residence. She is said to favor the Confederate causo. CAMDEN DAILY-JOURNAL. ^THURSDAY MOKNIKCJ, SISl'T. 15. . Two hundred thousand Poloa liavo been added to the population of Siberia by the Russian Government. Tim Florida.?The Confederate States privateer Floridh, sailed from Santa Cruz, Tonerififc, on the 4th August, on a cruise. The last sensational novel at tlio North is entitled "Cudjo's Cave." Scene in East Tennessee?hero, a Yankee school master. Of course it is having an "Uncle Tom" run, since tho "niggers is in the cave." Armed launches at tho mouth of the Mississippi have reudcrod navigation so dangerous below New Orleans, that the Yankee pilots arc afraid to venture out. Southern* Telegraph Compa'ny.?Mr. Joseph Trek, formerly of the Norfolk and Petersburg Kailroad Telegraph Line, has been appointed Superintendent ol the Southern Telegraph Companj*, in place of Mr. J. K. DoIvell, resigned. By tho arrival ol the United Stales steamer Cage, from North Carolina, tho New York Times learns that the new pirate steamer Corvette, one of the number now in Wilmington is considered tho most formidable of them all, and will bo lirst to Am out of tho harbor. Patriotism at Home Illustrated.?A few items of expenso iucurrwd by a wounded soldier on his way home, whilst in Columbia, S. C. Three inoals at a hotel $30.00 Attendance of a servant at do , for ono I our, whilst undergoing a severe Surgical operation. .. 10.00 Omnibus litre (being unablo to walk in consequence of wound).... * ? 12.00 $52.00 Add to this half faro on rail road from Charlotte to Columbia, 110 miles: $10,00 $G 2.O0 P.oiu tho abovo it may be readily inferred that from the.limn ri <li<-il?L>.l e?l.liA? ? ...>?-1~ ' --- r% - _ .iuiviiui il-hv.iiv.1 iuj? iiuiul' in u corgi a, Irair. 14a U(.r's annv in the Valley, he "bleeds most freely. FVOM ATLANTA. A correspondent of the At lanta Intelligencer writing from Jonesboro' un< leu date of Sept 8, speaks thus of a (fairs in Atlanta: On Monday night the Yankees had a grand ball at the Trout House, under the direction of Mrs. Clements, its present proprietress. Gen. Sherman and stall* and his corps and division commanders patronized the all'air. About a dozen women of the town, not a decent lady amongst them, attended the tiling. Hut what was wanting in while was made up in niggers. The)' mingled, oh ! how they mingled. l>iac!t and brown, white and givy. Tlinv llfUVtili tlw* T - - 1 ? UIIW.U i? IL1I LI J U liilllCl'l'SI Quadrille, in which Gun. Sherman led off with Mrs. Clements for partner. 1 lis vis a vix, (Ion. Howard, had one of Mayor Jim Calhoun's wenches us partner. One of Sherman's stall' danced with one of J. E. Buchanan's nigger women he took there himself. Billy-Solomau's nigger women lent the charms of her presence and her figure in the dance, and had a great deal 1 of attention paid her. Billy Markham brought two nigger women to the ball, and . looked on the scene with grinning admiration. , He nobbed with the blue bellies until he had to be retired in a carriage. ' Several respectable negro women, who were 1 invited and sent after, in carriages with Yankee < officers for escorts, refused to go, and freely e*x- \ pressed their dislike to the insult that was offered tliem. They looked on it as an indignity to ( he asked bv the enemies * 1 j wuuli v iu its* sociatc with tho white women who attended the ball. c The negro women were feted and toasted and . monopolized the attention o'* ^'i Yankees; and in fact some c who have affiliated. They wa .. ! - . and polluted and danced unti rem " 1 * tiretl and drunk and the stink ar< ' .1: untiir-1 "" able, having scented the lions.- * < v iircj A almost untenable. They kepr : > ' > , :na-; fir until morning, and were tin a ; ingly ' tottering home, in many linkc ivory; c and ebony. . t Mavoi Jim (kdhoun was prcse and congratulat ing the Yankees 01 . . trickery and the success of tbei a. I said that lie proposed to open ih prayer and thanks for the gre.. victory that had captujod Atlanta, broken i spirit of the Confederacy and brought Geor: into a condition where it could be governed the free and enlightened rule of the royal a lie was proud to see so many of their black . ' ters in alius welcoming the conquerors, a-u-' hoped for many returns of the like occasii 1 It is supposed lie was uproariously drunk before he began. \ I. T. Banks lent the baleful light of his tra v or visage to the scene. lie hopped around t room with one of the blackest niggers in t c ball room and promenaded arm in arm exhiu ting much elation at being permitted to pron enadc arm in Minn with a huge nigger Sergeant, w,ho remarked, he didn't known but what < : was disgracing himself by walking with such a' trashy white mail. I. T. Banks wm; fii-ct ?r v. ~ - .. w..w illOU Ul Li I ?i V/ 11 U I IUU U1 ' who visitod Sherman. He had laid wait, watch ing for him and before he had washed himself. Banks placed before him an accurate list of the secessionists and minute men of Atlanta a.t-i the description and location of their proper ' lie was very extravagant in lps demonstrate c of joy and extremely elated oyer the Yankc-. . success and occupation of the city. lie cc oratulated tliein on the streets and ming with them whenever opportunity offers, a doubtless by this.timc occupies some office cc inensurate with his worth to the enemy. A Yankee journal will be in operation tl.it' week, they supposed it would make its first appearance on Sunday. They have taken p?. s session of the old Intelligencer buildings a id propose to issue the paper from your old offii The first copy 1 secure I will scud you. It reported that Billy . Markham saved materud enough for Ihejii to start a paper with. flfj* p/jn??nmii? wj[nra?'V.' LATEST BY TELEGRAPI' RETORTS OF THE TRESS ASSOCIATION. t Entered according: tn the Act of Congress in the yi 18<;:5. V>y ?T. 8. Tiilt.vsu Kit, in the Clerk's alike oft .District Don it of the Confederate 8luli:.s fur '< Northern District of t Jcorjrin.' FROM MA C0.\. Macon, Sept 14.?A train of Atlanta oxi..s arrived this morning. They were st lipped the Yankees of everything except one eh an of clothing, and are in a deplorable eouditi indeed. The impression that the campaign Georgia lias closed for this year, is fast gaini ground. Sherman may reinforce Grant a i try to hold to Atlanta with a small force, I no further advance is anticipated. Last nig a train loaded with Federal prisoners, ran the track, on the Western Railroad. atiji 8 c: were smashed up. A large number of the Yz. kccs.were killed and wounded. No furtl partieulars. Hood and Sherman have had further correspondence about the exchange prisoners. No conclusion arrived at. XOl! THE UN NE \VS. IvICiimoni), Sept. 14.?New York papers the 12th received. War news uniinporta MoClellan's letter of acceptance has caused a great sensation among the peace doniocra The N. Y. News says it cannot support 1 candidate in collision with the convention t! tendered him the nomination. Mulally, edi of the Metropolitan Jl<r<>r<lf repudiates McC! Ian. Vallandigham, who was on his way canvass Pennsylvania, withdrew his appoi I mcnt and returned home in disgust. U lcii mom), Sept. 14.?The J/era Id of 12' says our recent successes and ''em - P if *'r 4 . . at : ti'c 1 h 'itu < a-di?ia:o3 if m vlto' war jdaitbruj,'s .. . . r.o oilier causes n!' to i.Mit i:.r ' :vck1 to 11?. On nt? ; ?j \ i',., . . ?ro t.< .rni>h{.(i a fri.sn*! i t. V.'-; iv vojni-r.^'Aic<'!o!liiir : !etvcr :.M- I : i' != !?".\vi?|' 'r-i-' :anVJlS.-. l ite i.iOU!SY.'iio ./ : - fit : i ).< <.'!i: jl > lu'iwi i r?". ' . :i- : ' ti<?. v.? 1. u . o ? <?.. O'Vil ' i iSi' . 5 J vs '.i" v siro u til)j'ioi'Siil.iov; . > , Vv I 1 (' t U'VJ'y UU.i s;il)Co & tX \ I : f. . ' '