Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' - : v/ ,<?W. ' ' * ' > * ' r\ f . . i . ; , y \ .+ ,. mi n 1 - ? ' i" ' ' - L.U11 illjc Camden Confederate. VOLUME II* CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JULY 17^ 18637 NUMBER 38 : ljc QEomlifn (lionffiifrnte,! AT THREE DOLLARS A YEAH, . PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-YEARLY IN ADVANCE Terms for Advertising: For ono Square?fourteen lines or less?TWO DOLLATtS for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR i AND FIFTY CENS for each subsequent. Obituary Notices, exceeding* one Square, charged ! to at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements aud Job Wor?c MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except te our regular advertising patrons. T. T. HERSHMAN, Editor. South-Carolina?Kershaw District in tquifjr. Thomas Lang, ? #. Edward Boylcin and Mary C., his wife, Sallio \V. Bo.vkin, llairiet M. Lang, John C. Lang, Theodore Lang, Sam'). AV. L. Lang, Cornelia A. Lang and Edward 1>. Lang.?Bill of Supplement and Revivor. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that John C, Lang, Theodore Lang and CorII v t I ft rv 1 1 It neiia A. Lang, and her intant son i!,uwara 15. Lang, four of the above named defendants, reside beyond the limits of the State of South Carolina?on motion of Richardson Gay, complainant's Solicitors, it is ordered that tiie said John C. Lang, Theodore Lang, Cornelia A. Lang and Edward 13. Lang, do appear and and plead answer or demur to the said bill ot supplment and revivor on or before the 18th day of September next, or the same will . be taken pro confesso against them. And it is further ordered that this order be published for three months before the time above appointed for the appearance of said defendants in the Camden Confederate, a newspaper published in the town of Camden. W. R. TAYLOR, C. E. K. D Commissioners Office, June 9th A. D, 1863. June 12 3m Extra Fine Florida Syrup' AVERY SUPERIOR ARTICLE OF FLORIDA SYRUP is now in store and for sale at MRS. CONNERS, Opposite the old Post Office Building. June 19 2 Wanted to Hire, \ COOK, for wliora usual Wages will be paid, punc* u\ tually. Good recommendations required. Apply to * PAUL TRAPIEIt, June 19 at Kirk wood. Bonds Wanted(1ash WILL BB PUD FOR APPROVED, J well secured. BONDS, that have from one to throe years to run. Apply at the 4,0!d Corner " May 22 K. W. BONNEY. Bluestone, Bluestone, Bluestone OAAA pounds bluestone. for sale by i zuuu pratt, dowie & j am es. Juno 26 2 Charleston, S. C. Hams and Shoulders Fine hams and shoulders?also Brown Sugar, Rice and Salt, just received and for sale at the " Old Corner. May 8 E. W. BONNEY. Notice. All the notes and accounts, former LY in the hands of W. L. DePass, due J. M rio,rirt oiift _T \1 (Iflvlo .V. Co.. will hereaflor be found ? at the store of J. S. DePass, on? door aboire C. Matheson's store. March 27 Alabama Fire Insurance COMPANY. 1rFHE Undersigned, as Agent for tno above South- ; JL orn Insurance Company, is v > rod to issue , policies of Insurance against loss.b} f'ir on all Build ings, See. November 1 v> L. DePASS. NctV FK>U1 \ FRESH SUPPLY OF EXTRA FINK FAMILY Ff.OUR, just received and for sale at the "Old Corner," by E. W. BONNKY. July 10 Notice to Debtors ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE UNDER signed by Note or Account, are earnestly requested to como forward and pay up. In future no work will be allowed to leave the establishment without the cash?to commence on the 1st of July next. A good supply of Leather on band. June 26 6 F. J. OAKES. From Gen. Lcc'u Army. Richmond, July 12.?The correspondent ol the Whig at Winchester, July 8th, says: In Gen. J. Davis* Brigade every field officer was wounded* Gen. Hood wounded in the arm bv a fragment of shell, but It will be saved; Trimble lost a leg, wounded in a previous battle.? The following embraces a list of casualties: Col. O. G. Groncr, Gist Ya. Regiment; Adjt. Campbell, 4th Miss.; Miller, 42d Miss.; Col. Smith, 55th N. C.; Edmondson, 38th Va.; Col. DeShussure, S. C.; Col. Jones, 20th Ga., re pdrted killed; Col. Thomas, 8th Ga., wounded; Col. Jack Brown, 59th Ga., shot through both legs; Maj. Gee, Ga.; Col. Kennedy, S. S.; Lieut. Col. Whittle, 38th Va.; Col. Thomas Griffin, 18th Miss; Col. Ililder, 17th Miss.; Col. Lightfoot, Ga.; Maj. Culver, Gth Ala.; Col. Humphries and Maj. Blair, 2d Mississippi, reported missing. The writer says the disadvantages of our position at Gettysburg will be understood by saying it was decidedly worse than the position of the hostile forces in the first battle of Fredericksburg?it was Fredericksburg reversed. Our loss has dwindled down astonishingly trom the first report. Most ot the wounds are in the hands, arm and leg. It is reported that Meade's army was concentrating near Washington. Not Acquainted with Mr. Bull.?There was a habeas corpns case the other day before Judge Lochrane, in which his honor took ground which we think may probably be law, but is certainly common sense. The case arose upon the arrest of an alleged deserter, and one of the points presented by the defence was a letter from the British Consul at Savannah, showing that the prisoner was a native oi Canada West and a British subject. The Judge, in his decision, stated that lie bad little respect for Consular papers at best, in behalf of men claiming the protection of this Government. The benefit of protection qarried with it the reciprocal duty of defending the Government. But before such Consular papers could be respected, the Court must have access to official information of the existence of such functionaries and the States they represent.? No officer in the Confederate States knew anything about Great Britain or her Consuls, and they could not go to the newspapers for information. It was the duty of that Government, if she wished to exercise Consular jurisdiction in the Confederate States, to set forth this fact in official form, and in no other way could the Courts become legitimately cognizant of the fact. As a citizen he might understand and believe that there was such a Government a9 Great Britain, and certain men in the Cotifed eracy claiming to be consuls, bdt lie liad 110 proper official knowledge of either fact. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. ? ? Defence Against Raiders.?The Mississippian says no Jess truthfully thali cncouragingly: We believe that one hundred men, with double barrel shot guns, can always put to fight five hundred raidersj by ambushing them properly, and evincing the coolness and courage of determination. With the advantages of ambuscades and our knowledge of the country, and facilities for taking the enemy by surprise, one man ought to be equal to five. There is no doubt of the fact that we can prevent these raids, and let every man solemnly resolve to do it. President Davis' Plantation Sacked.?A few days ago a body of Yankees went upon the plantation of President Davis, in Mississippi, and rifled it completely, destroying every implement of husbandry, all his household and kitchen furniture, defacing the premises, and carrying and driving off every negro on tho place. The plantation of Mr. Joe Davis, brother of the President, was treated in the same | way, if we except four or five domestic ser| vants which the robbers left. Wliut u \VuU>r Cure iHan says about * medicine and the Southern Army./ It was a most unfortunate policy on the part ! of the Government in making medicine couj traband. The worst thing that could have I been done to the rebels would have been to ' send them all the medicine they wanted.? There could not have been a more economical method of carrying on the war. * * * | We have heard for a whole year or more that the rebel armies are poorly fed, scantily clothed, | almost, wholly destitute of medicine, and that in many places quinine is held . at fabulous j prices, while miserable whiskey is twenty doli lal-s a gallon. And because of these* things, I wo are assured; over and over again,,that the i enemy is terribly demoralized. But who had suspected the real truth. Who* I lias imagined that the wonderful endurance, ! the strange success, the almost marvelous efficiency, the long inarches, the celerity of movement, the successful raids, the masterly retreats, and the sleepless vigilance which characterize so many portions of the rebel army, | arc owing to their simple and scanty fare, their j destitution of drugs, and their privation of in; texicating drinks? To a higher physiology j atid a deeper philosophy than prevails in po I imoai circles tiie remarkable events ot tbe war ; arc neither strange or mysterious. The army of the Potomac, while in the ! Chickahominy swamps, was fed on double raj tions of whiskey and any quantity of quinine, ! as preventives of disease; and never was a j well appointed army more rapidly destroyed by disease. The sum of- money paid lor a sin, gle drug?quinine?was at the rate of live and , a half millions dollars per year. If this ?um f had been appropriated to sending quinine clan: destinely to the rebels, McClellan might not s have been neccssiated to "change his base;'' and the taking of Richmond would have been with his ariuv, "only a matter of time." i Yankee -paper. A good story was once told of a connoisseur in the line arts, who said to a friend : T wish you would come up to my house and see a picture I have just' purchased. I wish vnn In o-lVA in a vruir panrlwl nniniim /\f if A I J,? J? ' J?" " ' friend of mine, who thinks lie is a judge, had ; the impudence to tell me last night that it was i not an original. I should like to hear another I man say that it was not an original; I think I should almost be tempted to knock him down ! But yon come up and see it,.and give me your candid and unbiased opinion of the picture ! Here was freedom of opinion with a vcngcj anc| and something like the liberty of action ! said to have been granted by Col. McLane to the troops under his comqiand before going into winter quarters at Valley Forge. They were suffering for provisions and clothing'and Congress had been repeatedly petitioned for ! that relief which it was not in their power to be* stow. Under these circumstances, Col. McLane paraded his band of suffering soldiers, and harangued them as follows: 'Fellow soldiers 1 you have served your country faithfully and truly. We have fought hard ' fights together against a hard enemy. You arc in a bad way for comfortable clothes, and it al-, most makes me cry to sec you tracking your half frozen bloody feet on the cold icy ground. But Congress can't help it, nor can I. Now if any of you waqt to return home, to leave the army at such a time as this, you can go. Let those who would like to go step out four spaces in front?,but' (he added) 'the first man that steps out, if I don't shoot him, my name is not McLanc!' It is needless to add that not a solitary volunteer for home was to be found in the ranks. Fearing an attack, the bankers and others of Pittsburg thought it prudent to remove their coin, and tho American Express Comyany delivered in Cleverland, on the 15th ult.,$15,000? 000 in gold, and on the succeeding day $7,000, 000 more, of which $650,00Ctwas also in gold. The Battle of Gettysburg. Wo arc happy, says the Richmond Examii ner of the 10th# to hare the means of allaying* the natural distress of the couutry on this sul>'? ' jeet. Information, ceftainly authentic, is in the hands of the Governnient, winch ieaves no doubt of the safety and triumph of the noble army. Gen. Lee was victorious in all the combats which have taken place. He has been engaged with the whole force of the United States and has broken fts backbone. He has approached Hagerstown oiHy for the reasons suggested iu this newspaper on yesterday? namely, that he must reopen and establish hiR communications, which have been menaced and partially interrupted. lie is burdened with 13,000 prisoners, and has on his hands all the wounded in the late sanguinary battles. Of these he must be relieved: and he could not either weaken his army by a detachment sufficient to convey them into Virginia, or entrust them to an ordinary guard, iu the presence of the Yankee cavalry. Herfce he has drawn near to his base with his whole < force." Iff a few days these arrangements will be completed, and iiis icsses will be replaced by reinforcements. Then the campaign will continue?and HagersInwii Ifi tlourop A WofcV*in/?4 Ar? ? Z"1 ?w .. aw Wlliva w II nouiii^ivil IUIIII V2CHVSburg. Merited Rewardof a Notorios Abolitionist. ?4*P. Wr. A.," of Savannah Republican, writing to that paper fr<?m llagerstown, Md., says: All honest men throughout the. world will be. rejoiced to hear that malignant demagogue and Abolitionist, Thadeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has* received some of the punishment due for his enormous crimes against the happiness of the human race. He owns large iron works and mills in Adams Countv on the bor? der, which I am informed have been utterly destroyed.' llis machinery, aqueducts, buildings, and supplies for his operatives, including it is said, twenty thousand pounds of bacon, have been swept away. Amen ! will be the involuntary exclamation of every lover of justice and every foe of hypocrisy. An effort is made, in the work of impressment, to distinguish, as far as possible, between the friends of peace and the aiders and abettors of Mr. Lin coin. Thus the red hand of war is made to. fall heaviest upon those who were first to lift it. Some of the troops complain, however, that they arc not allowed to appropriate and destroy as they go. If permitted, they % would avenge Mississippi, Tennesee, and the Carolines and Virginia, and leave behind a track of desolation as barren and enduring as the desert of Sahara. Thcv give^Gen. Lee high praise ^is a fighter and strategist, but they say "he has not a good pillaging mind. Gen. Lec is right, however, as all will acknowledge after a white. Beautiful Simile.?In reading^ Dr. Curaming's Prophetic Studies we were struck with the following passage : "The Scotch fir tree" is, to my inind, the best symbol of the Christian. The least of earth is required for its roots : it finds nourishment in a dry soil, and amid barren rocks, and yet green in winter as in summer, it towers the highest of all the trees towards the sky, and with least of earth makes the greatest approach to heaven." A private letter from Hardeville, says Foot Point Plantation, on the Colleton Ri7er, bclonging'to Capt. John A. Seabrook has recently been purchased by a company ?f Charleston Merchants. It is supposed that a new city will spring up on this bold peninsula, which will Vltrol 1 i trnf rvrvAl * r\ 'I A 111 Its UUUJtS ttUU SUippjIJg. A Navy Yard will doubtless be located there after the war by Government.?Mercury, Qtk. At best life is not very long. A few more smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much pain, sunshine and songs, clouds and darkness^ hasty greetings,?abrupt farewells?then our little play will close, and iujurer and injured will pass away. It is worth while to bate etch other!