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^ - . ^ ( % .-a-.- . ..v . ^ . > v ^ # ' . > - , , ^ _ k THE CAMDEN CONFEDERATE. "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER,.AND THE PHEStfS THE ROYAL THRONE UPON WHICH SH SITS, AN ENEDTHRONMONARQH.V> *.-L-^. ?L-x tnJ U-- 1 ?,_. I-.U-L.. , ..,- J|_...,-J-L_J.1^.- . i = ' 7=**=*=* "g"!^ .-.Jx?J.i-m II ? II,., MMaawiahM Vol. Ill] . CAMDEN, S. C.5 WEDTSFESEAAf, vFA.NT.ll, 1865. CNo.40 2 - .._' ? Cl)f Ciiiftkratt IS PUBLISHED AT CAMDEN, EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY J. T. HERSHMAN. Jit WIFE. t - - '; " ; . 7 ' IiY MA JOJt GK0I10E M'jiltfDT. Ye soft winds sigh your mournful"song Above tlio bed Where sleeps the dearest ono anion? \ The myrtiid*dend & * " Sweep gently o'er the graasy mound, fhoq peeping wijlqw, Wliere ir.y own loved and lost hath found A dreamless pillow 1 # Ye sunbeams j as ye play upon Tlie hillock green, Ppceail o'er the slumber of this one i, Yoitr Uightpsi Bl^apnl i'arliDgj I lovo thee as I ne'er C'ao love anothor; And jnourn thee in thy Jiappjer sphere? My children's mother. A Story ef ??. Sherman.. The Baltimore Clipper tells the following story A distinguished official -who was lately at the hsftdquartcrs of Gen. Sherman, gives us the following apecdote.of the l*ttpr, in the ncccesi: ty under ybipb hp lay of sitting in judgment on a class of men in Atlanta, when that place j xrnm ncurnoforl Kw VIA !a! ? botb bis armsat fuIl leDgth before biro, but -unluckily^Wcfoor which stood half open, passed ieeubis htfEfda 'and struck him a woful ,.blcrfupon the noi?e. * ' JDfiokcns"!'' muttered bo when he recovered bis senses aiittle, "I always heard I had plaghey long nose, but 1 vow ,1 never have thought before, that it was loDger than my arm;' nuiW V I MVWWWU J VUO UUitVUS* ' VV rill UQ US^ our friend says : Let me give you a little incident which , took place in my presence at Sherman's headquarters in Atlanta. You will remember that an order was groraulgated directing all citizens to'leave Atlanta (North or .South) within twelve days. The day of its issue, a gentleman entered Sherman's oj&ce and iuquired for the general. The latter apswei;ed jn this w&v, very promptly, "I aui Qerieral Shorraan." The colloquy was very nearly as follows : Citizen?General, I atu a Northern man, from the State of Connecticut; have bceu living in Atlanta for nearly seven years; li'dre accumulated considerable property here ; and as I see that you have ordered citizens to leave within twelve dayj, I came tq see if you would ,not ma&e ap exception in my case. I fear if I leave, piy property will bo destroyed. .Gen. Sherman?What kind of property do vouown sir?. perhaps I will make au exception in your case, sir. . ^ Citizen?I own a block of stores, thrgfc'dwcllincr. a nlaniatinn tivn miloc mi* nf .....l - foundry. i:Gen. Sfierman?Foundry, oh! what have you been doing with your foundry ? Citizen?Have been making castings. nGeja. Sherman?What kind of c^siipga ? dBhot and s^iell, and all 4h.at kind of thing f '.Citizem?Yea, I have ma<Jc Borne shot and shell: ; .Gesp^jShexman?You have been making shot 'JQ*. JBliell to flpgtTAy "jou Tand'you still claim favor on the account of beitlg a Njorllxeru^ xuuu? Yes, sir, I will .make an.exosption .inyo.vtr.case ; you shall go South to-morraw morning at sunrise. tajpt?, fee tbat this order is carried out. Or9diiflj, 4hoVv; fjiifli man the door. " Citizen?JJ'ut, general, caa't I go North ? Gen.. Slwrman?No, sir. Tgomany of your elaas tbere already,, sir. A gentleman havifag put .out a candle "by accident, one night, ordered his map, who was a simple being, to light it again ip the kitchen. "But take oare John," said hev-t'that .you do not fni y'p&feif agiins' anything in7-the dark." .ftf tbs cautjon, John stretched out J. T HERSHMAN-Editor. Camden, Wednesday, January 11. r JScy"" Au apprentice, not subject to conscription, and who is willing to be governed by B pjintin<* office rules, and is of industrious tcraperate habit might find it to his advantage to j, make immediate application qt the Confeder- t ate office. o . *#* "7. -i Persons desirous of subscribing, or tboBC al- j L readv havinir their names on the hooks of the ! 0 v U " Y Confederate, will please notice the advance 0 rates of subscription and advertising, and gov- s eru themselves accordingly. Wo have some three hundred .different accounts out standing, ^ and duo us by responsible parties, contracted during the parjt fqup years. We would be a pleased to have t}ic money for the same. Qur u subscriptiou in future, for tho paper will be 0 #10 invariable iu adyaqpe. Advertising terms ?#5 per squaro of ten lines or less, for first; L> insertion, and $4 for p?fpl} subsequent. j It is said that all nf (*phf>ral Oir.inr.vs' SfifT" ' who vrere with IIood's army in the battle " of Frankville, were either killed or wotpjppd. n A letter from Londou in the New York ^ ill- 0 Ilcald, says : "The hard times nro easier.? \ Rebel bonds arc going up, and greenbacks I down. Interest has fallen, nnd the severe c prcssuro seems to bo over. B6t few failures lately." * The New York "Herald" says grass will be b growing in the streets of Atlanta in three C( months. " ? We suppoSc it thinks.blue grass will spring jv up from the large number of blue bellies that <y were planted there. 'fJW Cotton in Savannah.?The Southern a Covfrderucy loarus from a high official gojjrce that there were about lo0,000 hales of coftqn fl in Savannah at the tiiiie SilKit.man ontcrc^-U. Near 120,000 bales of this amount belong to ^ foreign uxyebants and cahno/. ??c interfered 0i with. The remaining <3Q,00Q belonged to ai American incrchauts. h - ? & . I' cr; A letter from -Wilmington to to,e London Times says : "If, instead of ;ndalgiog spite le against Charleston in April, 1863, the whole p power of the Federal navy had been turned u agaiust Wilmington, tjhc coi^sc of the war might have been more influenced than by bur- jr ning ten cities of Charleston or capturing half g; dozen Yicksburgs. Wilmington, being uumo lcsted, has grown ii^to such a fortress as to de- j;1 fy the utmost efforts of Yankees from the sea." ^ From Gen. TIooo.?Gu official information m the Montgomery iscuaLJed ic olatetbat H1. General llooo, with his army, is once more ou tliia side of .the '.Teuucssee Kiver, which he ^ crossed at Bainbridgc Ferry, on Monday and Tuesday, 2@th and 27th. No p^rticujajs be whatever are given, though we arc inclined ,to_ 8' think, from the tenor of recent Yankee des patches, that he was not very closely pressed 5 jj by Thomas, and infer t?at, with the exception of some stragglers a,nd the severely wound- to ed, lie hps.br.pught his army out entire. There le is little reason to doubt also that he has lost a considerable portion of bis artillery, though .this can easily bo replaced. A few days, how- c|, ever, we hope, will place us in possession of all wi the particulars. Altogether, we can but regard ce this as an ill-starred campaign, though we feel ^ great relief from the knowledge that be has j0 succeeded in again putting the broad TenneB- wc ee between himBelf and the enemy. lal 9 The Attack on Wjlminoton.?Admiral 'ORTF.u in his lengthy report pf the Yankee Tt eversc in attacking W^hpington, acx^doyfle^gea he following disasters iD-a single paragraph : v1' "I regret, however, to liaye to report sotoe *e-1 evere casualties by the bursting of iOQ npup- * i cr Parrot cannon. One tnrst on board the A 'iconderoga, killing six of thecrcw and wo^id: ng seven others,'"'"^pother burst op the ian- .? ic, killing one officer apd two meu. Another '11 u the Juniata^ killing two officers and wound- ? ag and killing ten others. Another on the . lackinawj killing one officcrand wounding five ^al tlicr men. Another on tuo yuaker (hty, founding, I believe, two or three. Anotl^r n the SusqlfcliMinab, killing and wounding '1Ta even, I think. -s 'l^be bursting of the guns?six in all?|p^h vv isconccrtcd the crews' of the vpsscls wKerc sea ho accidents happened, and gavo one and all great distrust of the Parrott 100 pounders, D'? ud, as subsequent events prove, they yvere nfitfor servifjp, aud calculated to kill"more of ? ur men tli^n those oftliq (jqemy. ....... " WM Gen. Sherman.?The jjneon correspond- *a nt of the tycmpbi^ Aygta\x -speaking of this Pa elebrated Yankee General, says : ji0J "I native an ill-titled and injudicious arti- a t lc izoinfr the rounds of the Dress entitled. a a x / Sherman an Insane Man." A friend rclaiked to me, on reading it, that lie 'wished re had a. crazy man to send after him.' So o I. And so do we. Sherman has taught jjD ur gonerals a lesson they ought to'- profit- by. a|j Vre haven't a general iu our army, from Gen. ]Qn Jo down, who doesn't constantly entertain j1Q| hronic apprehensions about communications Qn ith his rear. This ig sheer, unadulterated I'estpointisro, which it seems impossible for ^jj ur generals to get rid of. Sherman throws i STcst Point to the dogs, cuts loose from his asc of operations, swings clear of all lines of jjmmunication, and marches from Chattanoo- fa a to the Atlantic ocean, fighting his way as j:j e goes. There is a spice of Napoleonic gen is and daring in this which is admirable, vcu if it is displayed by a brute. ^ qui Gambling in Blood.?The liiclftnond Ex- wh miner says of Grant: rcn Jo him war is analogous to the game of f<r ). Persons who have seen hiin playing at J je latter game say rule is to light a cigar, ?1 >lec? two or three cards aud put down his cce loney'on them, no matter whether they win j j r lost?, until his last ce.at is gone.' As soon ? his purse is absolutely empty he rises from' is chaiy, lights a fresh cigar, takes a'(fig drink f branny .and water, and walks' out of tjbe ambling bejl as cool and impertuyba^e as lough nothing had happened. ,l3ut he never., laves the table while there is a dollar in his ' ockers. Faro was Grant's bane in CaliforLa, ftnd ^ar will be h'is rain yet, if y.j?;t(ohj bin game well. Men are 110 more to him wc inn so many "chips," and all our commandig General has to do is to put no limit'on his -Ha .inie and. he will soon sacrifice his last man as sa^ily as he has .done his last cent a tho.psar^ mes at faro. What commiseration docs he el for the myriads of wretched privates nn- .c jr his command ? laJbe not to be the wr*>at, ienJ^dTrt^Te^^f^co.^yia.nding all the aries of the United States, and must he not bo '* ,one nused ( are F.unny Olp ,Gal.?A Canada paper tells c^i ie following curious story: ^he< few days ago an old woman died in* the the aall town pf Lievik^ee, on the banks of ,tbie Wai sheldt. The old lady was regarded by her bus; triple neighbors as .being only'a few removes star om positive poverty; !but she died, and as the ie had always had her will during her life- lpek me, she left no will behind her; to tho as- any nishment of her neighbors, "what she did the ave behind her was cash, bank notes and shoi ook, amounting in value to about two mill-, sent n guilders. There were pots full of gold id silver, of withdrawn and forgotten curren- T ss, which had been hurried for years. There long is ft -box full of Austrian and other stock Scot rtificates, tho coupons of which had not of tl en cut off for a quarter pf a century ; whjle .man a tin canister, which might have been tto "or e rnestic tca-caddy, was a quarter of a million's that nth of bank notes, musty with the accumu ied damp of years. they / Ut ii<r4N.iq II I I, I II I I*I ? Sherman Complimented.?Tho Macoi^ legrujih relates the following: \Y^le the Yaukeo troops were at Milledgcle, a lady residing two miles from town,' it'a note to Sherman requesting liihi fo Beri'dj juardto her house to protect it from pillage, " faithful old negyo named Daniel, was thp| arer of the noje. Upon nrrjyjpg at the use where Sherman was quartered, Dan was >wn into tys presence by a gnard, and talcing his hat, presented the missive. The Yan. J .L . 1 t ? 3 ucuurai reau iuc note, ana lOOKing up, (1 : wT?kc (j seat, old gauJjcnnn, take a teat.'.' "Jjfo, tank ye, masse," Mid Dan, "I'se jjis? itiu' for cle answer\o missus note." ' "\Ve art about to dine," said Sherman, "and II be happy to have jour company.. Tako a it-M " . i'Yah, yah ! massa, yc make fun wid de old :gcr" \ - ' % i*I insjst uporrit.., You must dine with cfle. hall be much pleased to talk with you." in vain Dan protested. Sherman- insisted, i the result was, Dan teok dinner with the iikee General. As soon as he could'eseane. returned to bid mistress. ' Sherman has goed cause to boast of the nor done him. It is rarely he has as honest an as Dan to sit at his table. "afcl Sorts of Ladies."?A sign painter, ng called upon to letter the front of a large leral clothing establishment, finished one e acrois the whole front, thus?"Deader in sorts of Ladies, and finding his ladder ten ig to pajnf; tfie next line, returned to ni'4 use to get one suitable length; but stepping V a stone, it turned his foot up, sprained hid lie, so that he could: tiot finish the lettering jM the next day. In tlie meantime, the pco1 stared at the new sign, and many of them, V J owing the character of the man to be strictin keeping with that o?.agood husband and her, it was unaccouutable, as "all- sorts'0! ies,'" comprised commodities in their autL Jcs, tfic bcsp an(J "woiat on earth. The ^ glrborsma<?c the^sejyes busy that day inraises, scurrilous remarks, and injurious ziiug ; which coplii ' hardly lie overcome ^ cn the finishing lettering, "and geut'leraen'ii dy made clothing," was added. \ Quick way of- Popping the Question. father a bashful acquaintance of ours sucded a few weeks since in performing that icatc operation in the following handsome nncr: 'Mitt, arc you a good grammarian 7" 'Only moderate." ,'Can yon parse kissing 7" 'No, sir." 'f!&n vou rbrHne mntrimnnT f" 'No, sir." "" " "* . 'Well then, we'll go to house keeping next ;k." 5he blushed, and simpejed, "All right."? iron Telegraph. [*he Desolation of War.?A correspond _ of the Indianapolis Journal paints ing picture of Nort.Vero Georgi : ^ to you wind I'nrough the forest, ravine and n country; from llesaca to "Dalton, the utionclincss, the want of hnman life, strikes with a feciing of desolation. The fences gone, the houses arc deserted, the bubj> spring on tho roadside shows no happy d drinking or paddling in its waters. -No p graze in the fields, no cattle browzo in woods, not even the crowing of a oock is rd. The beo hive is deserted by its once y tenants, and the ruined mil) is still. So uing is tne utter silence, that even when i^jld bird of the forest carols a note, you around surprised that amid such loneliness living being should be happy. This is result of war?stern, desolating war ! And ild the rebels succeed, our homes will prea similar picture. he highest legal tribunal of Scotland^ not ; since, decided " that, according to the ch law of marriage, consent is the essence . L te contract,' and is sufficient to constitute A riage without aDy ceremony or publication, ven* without the ' parties livibe1 together: if the parties seriously and actually cento be mau and wife, from that time fortfc are man and wife, in'Scotland. 2 i