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-*> \ V jhj . ^*r'X- { ' ' ';*/ .'-u :\w?* ip. < , .* y\ ' *- ' ' 5 a " " " : , -i ; ' ' rr v ^?; THE CAMDEN CONFEDERATE. ' . T ^Siu' 1 , - . . ' ; i > , A "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND THE PRESS IS THE ROYAL tfHRONE tfPON WHICH SHE SITS, AN ENTHRONED MONARCH." Vol. Ill], * CAMDEN, S. C., WHDNE8DAY, OCT. 5, 1864. [No, 27V ClrSoafrtttait . ^ IS PUBLISHED AT CAMDEN, ? *EY.ERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, * BY - . J, T. HEBSHMAN. iOHferms of subscription?Five (Dollars per annum. J8@*Rate? of Advertising?Two Dollars, & a half per square of twelve lines, for firs insertion, and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents for each subsequent one. aor Communications calculated to advancthe interest of our District and State, published free of charge. , Cause of our Defeat m the Virginia Valley. Correspondent of the Savannah Republican, writing from Richmond states the following as the reason of Early's defeat in the Virginia Valley : . ^ . The Confederate arms have met with a fresh disaster in the Valle^ of Virginia. After his defeat at Winchester on the 19th, Early retreated up the Vblley to Fisher's Hill, a strong position a short distance above Strasburc, and which- It J ^ , ? .v <iue UC WUUIU bo able to bold. Not so, however. On, the 22d, Sheridan assaulted bim in this strong position, turned his left, which soon gave way, followed by the entire line. We lost twelve pieces of artillery, though but few men. Such is Early's official report to Gen. Lee. The Confederates were retiring further up the Valley towards Staunton. Do you ask for an explanation of these rap tuiy occurring disasters in a portion of the State where the Confederates, until"Sept. 19th, never suffered a defeat? It is simple and easily given : We have two enemies to contend with in the Valley, one of whom has never been beaten since Noah drank too much wine and lay in his tent. These enemies are the Federal army and John Barley Corn. Sheridan has been largely reinforced, and the Valley is runnning with apple brandy. Here is the key to our reverses. Officers of high position?yes, of very high position?have, to use an honest English word, been drunk? too drunk to oommaud themselves, much less an army, a division, a brigade, or a regiment. And, where officers in high command are in the habit of drinking to excess, we may be Bure their pernicious example will be followed by those of lower grades. Shall I call names ? Not now. The names are known to the authorities, and shall be to the country, unless there be a speedy reformation. Let us wait a little to see whether the guilty parties will not reform their habits, and ^especially whether the Presideut, Secretary of War, Gen. Lee and Gen. Bragg will take hold of these men and punish them as they deserve. Just think of a drunken man in command of a body of men in battle ! Hood cm the March in Sherman's Hear ?The Lcvejoy Station correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian writes on the 23d instant : Griffin is now an outpost. All trains from aboye have been withdrawn, the "telegraph wire taken down, and the country evacuated. We have Dotbing from Hood's army of a very authentic nature, except that itwas on themareh vu?l?nn/1 fkft ?1~? 1 _ t fc-Vj vuu uu(/ vuuwuuou^ucc w utill ltiyc S6 D A feel no apprehension about its reaehiug Blue Mountain in safety. Last night, Sherman despatched a considerable cavalry force down the right bank of the Chattahoochee, for the purpose, as is supposed, of developing our position. But it is certain that up to that time no general movement of his army had taken place. We feel certain that he was as unpre-! pared for this bold movement, as he is unable to prevent it. I base the latter portion of that sentence upon the well authenticated fact that his stock is in the worst possible condition. Every .eye-witness agrees that no one of his teams can have enough for its own subsistence, and, therefore, without the aid nf a rnilrnnd he caD do nothing, for if he marches to 'confront Hood, be will have to do it in a country where he will not have cars to bring up supplies. hfiijor Lamar Fontaine, soldier and poet' and well known by name and good fame to many readers of the Corner, is now in this city and expects to remain some days.. He ? ha8 fceea for many months a prisoner and ia now released on a conditional parole, which we hope will result in an exchange. He appears in usual health and in a cheering tone of spir. . jtg. Of course he brings no other news, but his friends will be pleased to receive this reCfiar&do.t C carter. ft- } L- ' ' Hi, : Camden, Wednesday, October. 5. J. T. HERSHMAN?Editor. 1 !?. , , ' 1==. Tar is selling in New York at $2 a pound. ( It used to cost eighty cents a barrel. r - m. . w - a *Tbe income of the four Rothchilds of En- t rope is estimated at 9,000,000 a year, or a 8 thousand dollars an hour. Brig. Gen. John Echols has been appoin- 0 |e'd to the command ef the Department of Southwestern Virginia, to succeed Gen. John a H. Morgan. I i Treasurer o? the Confederate States.? It is reported that the position of Treasurer of 3 the Confederate States has been tendered to j John B. Hendren, Esq., of Staunton, Vir- 8 ginia. .. I ?~ _ ' I Under the Lincoln dynasty negro soldiers t search all white gentlemen and ladies who I cross from Cincinnati into Kentucky over the s c 4v.- j a i iciiica. j.u buia uugi auutiuuj auicuuuu uu*-j zcns are obliged to submit. Vallandigham is out in a letter supporting ? the nomination of McClellan. We suppose he ^ has had a closet talk with McClellan, and find- a ing him all right, has turned right about face to give him bis support. Our recently returned prisoners from the North are represented by the Richmond press as being in a wretched conditiou. Thirteen of them died on the passage from Fortress Monroe to that city, and many others are represented as being in very critical health. , M , 1 . r i Toe Final Struggle.--The Richmond Ex- j ! aminer considers that the final struggle for t the possession of Richmaud and of Virginia c ! is now near. The war is drawing to a close, e I and if we bold Richmond till the first of November, it will be ours for evermore. This c renewed effort on the part of the enemy is due, * the Examiner thinks, to Sherman's triumph in Georgia, which compels Grant to match it ] or sink into insignificance. 1 .... a The news from the Valiey of Virginia is a far from being agreeable. The enemy seem s disposed to make all that is possible out of 5 their success, and are pushing up the Valley ' with considerable spirit and a flourish of trum- ^ nnfo "Rnf if ia o l/.nrr fhof Irnnmo ma I ywvo* xj u u i id io n iuij^ iuau vuuu Duuna uu q turning, and the pursuers of to-day may become the pursued to-morrow. On this cele- v brated race course the Yankees have always a made better time returning than advancing. * The views of theJEnquirer od the Valley-situ- a ation are just and cheering, and we commend * them to our readers. Gen. Longstreet's return a to duty is just at a critical and opportune mo-i b ment. We shall no doubt hear soon of dispo- c sitions being made which will effectually check ? any further advance of the enemy. Statistics of Carnage.?A writer in thrf ? Jefferson County, New York Union has made some calculation^ relative to the number of men killed thns far in this war, and gives the 6 following results. Enough have been already slain to encircle '* our State if their dead bodies were laid in one fe! continuous line. If they were placed in coffins and corded, t they$'ould eeunt 39,000 cords, n If laid in a wall twenty-five feet thick and v thirty feet high, it would be over one-fouhh t mile long. ? If five fget ihick and ten feet high, the pile ^ would reach across the State. . a If piled upon a ten acre lot, they would be v nearly two hundred feet high. a And if laid upon the ground, they wbuld jj cover every foot of soil in Jefferson County. 7,5,000 tons of human;?blQ?4-J^tf?^beeiP ? sDilied in Dixie's soil?frnrntoK'1nW spindle in Lowbll, and if the tears werl!;<added jS to the flood it would turn the machine^ of-$ the continent; and the unavailing sighs would ft fiirevery ocean sail. q The one-half has not yet been told. The h The millions of wounded and maimed for life ft must be taken into account in summing up* o the grand total of evils iaoident to this bloody a and fanatical war. h V , ; . ' . . "' 'f :MMH ' ' "X XIS< Thf Strength of the Reserves.?A co emporary has bit upon an ingenious method if ascertaining "the reserved strength of the' Confederacy." He says, take a trip over the ailroads of the Confederacy, and when you .rrive at a city, town or villi&gU, announce hat President Davis, or Gen. Beauregard,,or ome other famous personage is on the train; rait half an hour, then go to the next town ,nd repeat the announcement After a trip if this sort through the States, it will be easy o tell where the men may be found to make ip the six or eight hundred ^thousand*. They re all safe, and the Confederacy is maintainng them. Htm M/l l?r ATTri Tf Id oKnnf oa r? jLyu i iiiu x uvun* av to nwvuu cms vuuiv/utv a ob to buy good flour as to bay a good horse. ,-et us tell you how to go to work with it. rirst, look at color; if it is white, with a lightly yellowish or straw-colored tint, buy it. !f it is very white, With a bluish cast, or with >lack specks in it, refuse it. Second, examine he adhesiveness, wet and knead a little of it etween your fingers: if it works soft and is tickly, it is poor. Flour from spring wheat s likely to be stickly. Third, throw a lump if dry Hour against a dry, smooth, perpendicilar surface; it it falls like powder, it is bad.? fourth, squeeze 6omo of the four in your hand; f it retained the shape given by the pressure, his too is a good sign. Flour that will stand dl these tests is safe to buy. A matrimonial newspaper is to be established n Paris. It is to be dtvoted * exclusively to tinning the happiness of its subscribers and lorrespondents. The title chosen is L'l&cho Yupitial, and the motto "Tauter leg ames soiU $mur?"?"All Souls arc Kin.'^ Etrerv dav he Echo Nupilial will publish several columns >f wants" and "offers," and alio a short cor espondence between the advertisers, together vith a review of the matrimonial marke^ aniouneing,*day by day, whether blondes are n favor, whether browns rule high, whether here is a brisk demand for widowers or widows, and whether the business of matrimonial ixchange is good. ^ Athens is the county seat of Limestone :ounty, Alabama, one hundred and fifty-four niles north by east from Tuscaloosa, one hunIred and ninety-six north of Montgomery and tbout twenty northwest from jHuntsville. jimestone county borders on the Tennessee ine, arad is therefore in the rear of Sherman's rroy. Athens fa considered by Sherman , luuak iiupurtuub pusiuuir, auu ueuee me trong garrison stationed tbere. The Central Southern railroad, which unites Nashville with he Memphis and Charleston railroad, passes hrougb the place, and its occupation by our orces therefore severs odc of Sherman's line f communication. A Strange Spectacle? Our co arm unify ras considerably stirred up yesterday evening t seeing Charles Arnold, son of Mr. J. D. Arnold, marched through our streets in female pparel, accompanied by a guard. He was rrested, we learn, at Albany, Ga., a day. or two go. He left this city some time since to void conscription, and it is presumed he has een passing off as a female in parts of the onntry where be is not known. It is indeed serious difficulty, and we doubt not it is owng in a great measure to the misguided effecion of his parents. We trust, should he get ut of tbis disgraceful affair, that he will go orward #nd prove himself a man, and in some egrec retrieve the bad name he has thus inurred.?Coinmlus Enq. . ? t w . a - Major several JJana has arrested a majoriy of the Treasury Agents at Vicksburg for muggling, and conniving at the contraband rade with the rebellious} districts. In one' ranaaction, the military order permitted a ran named Burbridge to take six barrels of rhiskev up the Yazoo river. In passing through he "Treasury regulations" the "six barrels" ras changed to -"sixty barrels," which were artered at twelve dollars a gallon for cotton t forty cents a pound?that single operation ielding the parties concerned net profit of hundred thousand dollars. Some of this iquor as well as stationary, olotbing, &c., found is way to Meridian, tbe transaction being on roveument account. ; A'?ommaaication printed in the New York respecting prWate insane asylums, "is atrteiing a good deal of attention. The writer harges. that some of them are mere prison onsesj in which a man incarcerates his aaughsr or wife%bcn he prefers to have her ont f the way, and daughters imprison their aged lotherin order to enjoy the larger part of er income. "V } ' ' . * - . rv' * r ' w - > ; HHfc 4- ' '-V . A' Startling Disclosure Of 'A Rilifo. ' Pirate Scheme.?A New Lohclop (Connecticut) correspondent of tfie Gominercial Advertiser says : 1 ' * 4 The greatest excitement h?s prevailed during the past were# in thp stean? \fdn( offices of the lines From Boston^o*NeW York, ponse- ? quent upon thei. revealing to, Collpctofr Barney*of a plot to des'trqy al|, th^ sfceimr' hoats run- ,/ ning oti the Bound* It . was said that the . ~'~J Fl'.-.ric'S^ark, recently captured by the TaU' v iahassee, and now herjooasort/has been hover-V: ins about our co&at. and was to do "the work. n io I- . M..I it. m.n l. ' ' - :* xv la ascunu ua u. itt?. cuut me xauanassee, t >. JO? about, three weeks sihce, went into Newport. - * harbor, steamed around the Constitution then f lyin^there: and ^tapmed put again- unchaitenged. Four gnfoBoats haye .Been sent into" # u&flh the Sound to tooli after the affair. # JDbe World has the following graphic para- \ ^ #> the pictorial vigor and trtith of wbiqh puts the IriVune into fl terrible state ofnapves: Only say negro, and there is a class of this . community upon whom the word has tbfc effect . ? ? of catnip upon the feline species. They wrig gle, they smirk, they roll over, they mew, they t por'r, they fondle, they stick Cut their claws, 4 curve their hacks, and twist andf gyrate in every * " Conceivable form of delight. According . them, l.hia rrrpnfr A m/irinon ? - -* I., J ^.v?v MwwiiVinu tuio grCiM; constitutional property, are of no account iy comparison vntb the possible elevation of a race which has been slave since the beginning of creation. The Spirit of the "Old Dominion."? Speaking for Virginia, the Richmond Dispatch says: # ' . , Reverses in the field, the slaughter of her. young men, the affliction carried home'to near-. ly every family within her borders the lAs of property, the desolation of whole districts, the - t fury of a war unparalleled in dimensions and' ferocity, have produced in .her no change or shadow of turning. She thinks ho more of giving up the day after a defeat than she does 4 . the day after a victory. Other States no ' doubt, entertain the same sentiments and reso- j lution. I New Impressment Schedule.?The Com- # ' ' missioncrs of the several States, who Recently t> met in convention at Montgomery, to estab- , lish a uniform schedule in relation to the im- , , pressment of provisions, etc., have mltei'tally* reduced the rates ; for instance: bacon not to 4 exceed S1.31 per pound; flour, ?15 per hun- ? dred; corn, $'2.25 per bushel; first class horses, " . 8760; first cl^ss mules, 3600., These prices are to be Uniform in the States o/ Alabama,* ( ?* Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, ,Geotgia *? Florida, and South Carolina. i , * r ? i # "Blowing up the Tunnel."?1feortio weeKa ago a statement appeared infthe Tele- , j graph, foundod upon the report^of a "Courier" in regard to the blowing up ' of thp Tiuioel beyond Dalton. This statement was 'cxtSfesively copiejl By the press, and fbr days thereafter the public rested confidently under the ^ impression that the Tunnel aforesaid had been $ * effectually destroyed. All this, however, was t \ / adefusion.v The TunneJ was never <blown tip.^ Macdn Confederate. . ^ / , ' ' ^ Repentant Repels xp Fight for the'union.?The steamship Continental, Captain ... -f Somcrs arrived at the Long Deck, jersy City, t t* * on Wednesday, having on board the First U.?* S. Infantry Regiment, from Norfolk, and bound for the frontier, to engage in th^/war against the Indians. This regiment numbers 960 urn, composed of rebel prisoners who have* *?y ?.tl -c .11.^? - .. .. iMGu me uuwu ut anegiaDce ana enlisted.in the Union army. They are under-commands * of Col. Diamond. ' ' & . <( ?f~? A Fighting EDiTRESs.-^Hecently. the*e4-V ? itofc of a paper in Columbus, Ohio, was cowhi- * ded by a female of that city, because of some-^ t thing he "put in the paper about her." jThe; v / next evening the, fvife of '.the beaten editor, who is said to be the boss .qf the- concern, met ' ' the COwhider and pave lier a trempndnn* ft>w>en_ mg with a horse whip. We are of the opin- * . ion that no woman will ever attempt to- whip that editor again:?iV. Y. Clipper. ;' m , . " jf Quite a large number of negroes came out with the Atlanta exiles, and many of them^ towards the close of the truce, were quite ear-^ ' II nest in their entreaties to be brought through the lines. They had discovered, in the short time they had been thrown with the Northern army, that there is very little sympathy arnopg Northern men for negroes, and no affiliaii-;;