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*- i gljL"";'!1'.".M'j*' l"w*T " _ ITrks?The'first alarm of fire, given on last Monday morrmg about Jour o'clocl(; was caused l>y the liufiwd torch of some feind being placed in a slu'd adjoining tlio pnhtrv or store-ioom of tiie dwelling of Mrs.-Dr. Lke. Fortunately the flames were discovered and arrested, with but little damage to the building. The ravages of the above had only been arrested, when "an alarm was uiajlo from the lower part of -.town, where Mr. Bon'nky'^ store-house was .discovered "to be enveloped in flames, and total Jy consumed, with the adjoining building, in which was stored a large and valuable collec* , lion of hooks?the property of KlVeU & 9 Jones?all of which were saved through the ?ixeriions of our citizens. A large amount of cotton, furniture and others goods belonging to Mr. IIon-vkv wits destroyed in his building. 'UIia rVmitik.arv ?tnri< m>Tt al>m'<> was <rnv.il Iv VV. -...J 0 J. endangered, bat we b'elieve suffered no damage, unly in the removal of the goods. On yesterday morning the stable of Mrs. Arthur was also burned, in which was two * _ Valuable horses, both of which were lost. We also learn that on last Saturday night, the residence of Mrs. Joy, tvus'fired in the same .way?r. torch being plated under the piazzo* j Tis enongh to battle with a foreign foe, but to bavo an enemy in your midst whom you recognize as friends, ami who stab your vitals j in the darkest hour of night, is too mucli for us to bear. It would appear that wiiat^ the j Yankees have left undone, those -kind friends are doing for us. Good Lord deliver us from such friends. <a> If we lose our independence, wc lose all our propel ty, of eery kind, it the country?our debt, our slaves and our land. Kut wo lose oiiorc. The people of the United States have a greater debt than we, and we shall not escape without being obliged to pay our proportion of "their debt. In what a condition will that leave, us. with our proneity, our lands, bonds, bouse* and slews, all gone, and the mighty dehfc .............4 V.v ,i, . ,.i.?niv in 1,5* u-f?r for our Sub U'V/UHIVI Ut l|l\ i i> vuij ... .,.v ..... .... juration still to he home, in part, by us and I our children. Then our subjugation, with all | its personal evils, l in- lit fur (Icgrcimtiou it involved, mu.-t be eonsideietl. t Subjugation? .submission? jgcsciits tsn Jioju- j but in continuing the .war it is otherwise. AVe eau sec clearly the ei.ti and the evils of submission.? It involves oi.r tlcgredaiion "and tlio turning loose among ns v'u a footing 01 equality, to the j <bst ruction of our society aou civilization, millions of nrgtoes. The filial rcsuit of prosecuting the voir is not now discernible, but it ... i-Ooiilv hohls oLll to US 110 ho',l?'. . ...o Tov.'Kii of skulls ?Laniartine, in his "Pilgrimage l? tins Holy Luni," writes as follows: '"When I was about a league from Nisx, the 'Turkish town almost on the frontier of Servia. ] **\v a large tower rising up in the midst of tile plains as white as Parian marble. I took the path which led 11 it. I desired a Turkish lad who accompanied me to hold n>v horse,' <ind sat down under the shade of the tower to -enjoy a few moments' repose. No sooner was j sealed than raising my uys to tlsc mouunient, 1 discovered that the walls which VI rnpposo to he built of marble or of.regular rows of white atone, were composed of regular tows of human skulls, bleached by rain add sun, and ssrnoutcd by a little sand and lime, formed entirely the triumphal arch which now sheltered >ne from the burning sun. There must be from fifteen to twenty thousand. In some places portions of hair are still hanging, and wared like lichen, or rnoss with every breath of wind. The mountain breeze was then blowing fresh; penetrating the innumerable cavities of the skull, aud Mounded like a mournful and plaintive sigh. These were skulls of fifteen thousand Scrvnns who had been put to death by the Pacha in the last insurrection of Service, however, is "now free, and this monument will ^ow teach their children the value of independence by showing them tbe price at which their forefathers purchased it. Iu one of Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, < a splendid flank movement was-attempted by the cnemv, which would have been crowned with, brilliant success but for the delay in it*, execution. result was that the whole division that undertook the enterprise was captured. Napoleon njado this brief comment on tbe circumstance : "These Germans do not understand, the value of minutes." We commend the observation to tbe Confederate Congress. \' . . *jfe : A. Depreciated Currency.?The following extract from one of Mr. Webster's speeches in the Senate, in 1634, coutains a graphic description of a depreciated currency: . "Sir, the very man, of ull others, who has tfie deepest interest in a sound currency,'and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in money matter, is the man who earns his bread by daily toil. A depreciated currency, sudden changes of prices, paper money falling still lower between noon and night?these things constitute the very harvest-time of speculators, and as the whole race of those who ?yo nt ouce' idle atni crafty; and of that other race, too, the Cutalines of all times, marked, so as to be known forever by one stroke of the historian's pen, men srreedv of other men's property and prodi g.d of their own. Capitalists, too, may outlive such tim?s- The}* may either prey on the earnings of labor, by their, cent, per cent. or. they may hoard. But the laboring man?what can ho hoard.' l'reying ou nobody, be become* they prey of nil. His property is in his hands, llis reliance, his fund, his productive free-hold, his all, is his labor. "Whether he work on his own small capita,!, or oil another's, his living is still, earned by his industry; and when the money of the conntry' becomes depreciated and debased, 'whether')!. be adulterated coin, or .paper without credit, that industry is robbed of its roward. lie then labors for a country whose laws cheat him out of his bread. I would say to every owner of every quarterN section of land in the West?I would say to every man in the East, who follows his own plough and to every mechanic, artisan and laborer, and every | citizen in the. country?1 woufd say to every man, every where, who wishes, by honest means, to gain an honest living, beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." Whoever at tempts, under whatever popular cry, to shake the stability o?the public currency, bring on distress.in monev matters, and drive the ..I. COlHlll'V Hlicr ["Hjifi inujn^ , ouiw \ vni HIIVIV.II wild your happiness to the liuart. "The berd ol hungry wolves, who live ou otlicr men's earning*, will rejoice in shell a J state of tiling*)-. A system which hlisbrbs into their pockets the fruits ? !' other men's industry, is the eery syiyciu for them. -V Government that provinces or countenances uncertainty,' lincluatioiis, viol- ut rising and fallings in prices, ami finally, ]?apcr money, is a Govertiincnt exactly alter' their own heart. Jlcnco, those men are always-lor chalice. They wilL never let well enougn alouo.' A condition of i.-t i..n i.v !< s?f.> indiist Jllll'lll AU?III?? 41 $ ry certain of its reward, mid every man Mourn in liia own hard earned gains, is no paradise lor them. Give tiicm just (lie reverse of this state of tilings; bring on change, and change let it not l?e known to-day what will he the vwluc of pioperiy to-ninrroiv; let lie nun he able to say whether the money in his pocket at night will he money or worth less* rugs iu ihc morning; and depress labor till double work shall earn but half a liting?give tlicui^lhis stpte.of things, and vow give them the consummation of their earthly bliss," - . j A SiMJLE.?It is sai.i that when Ethan Allen was a prisoner in England, lie had an aud.etiee with*George the Third, tfho, anxious to win over the bold American to hit. cause, laid down the map of North America before hiin, and pointing out particular localities, tendered him the choice of certain possessions -.?lav.., a? .arsiiu in t.hp'roval caiitic. He 1 uu gi;iiuiuuii v? ov> nw ?? ... who had SumjneUed Ticonderoga to surrender I "in the name of God mid the Continental Congress," paused a moment, and then broke out into a hearty laugh, remarking to. the king: "You remind me of a certain character who took a certain other person upon the top*." of a high mountain if he fall down and worship him; when, in fact, the rascal did'nt own a foot of it." The course of the Yankee Congress in disposing of millions of our property without onr consent is rery analogous to both the cases recited above. A hearty "union of the people of the fc?Quth aid such efforis as they are capable of making, may spoil tho programme and defeat it utterly. . The New York News edited by Bex Wool), denounces Firnando Wood for going over to the Republicans since the peace mission exploded.,'^ bring, of Missouri, lias tecently arrived in liiclimojul, having escaped from prison 'in S^' Louis, and having made lii? way through the Federal lines in Kentucky Capt.Sebringwas teonfincd for a long time in McDowell's .old; college in St. Louis, it having been converted ihto ?,prisoD, and during five months of his captivity was kept in a dungeon, fettered to two irou balls, and constantly in handcuffs. For eight days during this period be was fettered to a post for, twelve hoars each day; and while enduring this torture, thus exposed to the winter's cold, he bad his hands -and feet butli frost bittcu. lie was charged with being a spy, and was sentenced to be shot. On the night which proceeded the morning appointed for his execution, be made his escape by adesDL'rat# enternrise : nine of the orisoners oveT X . i 1 ? X , . powering twelve of the guards with arras id their bauds. Two of the nine.who made this desperate assault were killed, and two woruidThe names of the killed were Cole|a?ay a jtFrtnchmnu, and a person of the name of Sbulty. ' " ' (Japt. Sebriqg says tbere are now in the prisuns of St. Louis at least five hundred Confederate soldiers whose status is determinedby Yankee military commissions as that of criminals, on various charges of bushwhacking, violating the oath of allegiance, &c; and that at Alton, Illinois, tbere are about fifteen hundred men congregated tbere who have been aoleetcd from'the different Yankee prisons, ?to be degraded from the priviliges" of prisoners of war, apd'hcld under special penalties as criminals. The practice of converting the relation, between an eucmy and a prisoner of wan tothat between magistrate and culprit, is one which is practically entirely at the discretion } or caprice of the Yankees ; and the extent to ! wlyoh it is pursued is bub iittie imagined by i the Confederate public, as these victims are ! placed in circumstances where tbey cannot i effect any communication with their friends- or cuuutryinen, and their story is never known unless through the rare accident of tbo escape I of some of them. . . . Fnou Cheraw.?Hardee's troops crossed ! the bridge at Cheraw on Thursday 3d iDst., j and Sherman's urmy (3 corps) entered Cheraw : dn Friday morning and' continued passing I through the. town until Tuesday morning, i The wagon train was seven miles. The sol. ! diers were guilty of no disrespect to families. ! 'J'licy burned the whole of Front street and the i 11. It. Depot and buildings in the i^ighborhood. ! Aii accidental cxrdosion killed OiRnd wounded ! 40 of their.>m:n, and btokc all the in the town. Their forc-i was estimated at (j0,000 ! men, exclusive of 15,000 who passed 9 miles above Clieraw. They took all .'rim provisions ' and whatever else they wanted from private families. There were,many families iroui dif! ioreot parts of the State following the army. ' ?St/mlcr Walcjmun. a.. ! Kwa<iR)Bg.'j?" ^ j j Special Notices. | ! C'AKD OF ITUMHS. ' " '' | MRS. 1>R. .r. LKE, MOSf GRATIFL'LLY UK-j ; TUilNS her thanks to those kind friends, and servants,' j who arrested the (lames on her dwelling en Monday ' ! juoniing 13th iust. j Mink 10 " "" VVASIED, j at xnK PIKST SO. CA., hospital, camdbn i So. On? seven ladies of rcspectabililty to act as niu! trims ; six washwomen. References required.' Boarding and lodging furnished, with liberal wages. Apply to any of the Surgeons in ciarge_ March. 1G , ^ROLLING OFFICE, - * Camden, March 16,M65. ANY IT. It SONS HAYING GUNS IN ThEIR j Dossceuion, l'urnivhed from this office, are requested to return Lb?m immediately. alex'dr'colcloo;gh, March 16 Capt. and En-Officer of K. D. 'T7" Notice. ^ ; " headquarters post camdix, i Xl March I?, 1865. f j THIS CERTIFIES THAT PERSON! HAViJfG reported to me that they had reason to beliey# that goods taken from stores iuAlatnden, could be found in tlie house of Meudal Smith, aud a warrant haying ueon procured of search for the same, nothing was lound, and Mr. Smith is released from all suspicion, Ac., whieli bare.arisen about him. ' AIKXDR. COICLOUGH, ' ' Capt. commanding Post. Fire Insurance .COMPANY., . THE UXDEfasiGNED, AS AGIST FOR THE aboTO ' Southern Insurance Company, is prepared to issuo policies of Insurance against loss by Fire on all buildings Ac. ' "W. L. Defass. iprii;l3 , ! . . . , v* ' ' "./> *. s&ro.. IN Bli^Lf OP TfjB CITJZl^l#fcil&N? and .^cmi^ snj ?nd AtUl pww^ In^g "pro.TisIww * .? 'jn their pwatssyware earnaa^'ip^aVpCnd to -Bent " V'\>??y their stirplu* to this jrtint for gals or distribution to? . the needy. ..--It ii known to M* ? . .' . course loft.T?rj lew honea or mules, and'lb many pltMi all tko prorhriou were uiken ;'?o' tliatr'.thoae- , who raiiy have a rarphu to aispooa'afhaTt ao of.felting it to mftket*. 7 V J fT/ ^ There area largo number of person* litibf id tin ?"' ' town abla to purthaaeauppllw, but they ttrW-tttitrte*bobadat any price, -anti unlosa -<bilp bonnJ ftiim:;i," ' j broad great suffering must in?oe. ' \ 1 P<ruu can delirerprorisions of 907 kind on. the llailr.iad and they will be brought up and de]iT0C& tot"; ?, * Vr. James Dunlap, lateudant of tha town, who wilt J;; sell or distribute as the owner may direct " ' * - ;; 1/ It iu requested also that parson's wear the W&Z*: S will send up wood by the trains, as it ? impossible for wany to be supplied by the few wagons around.'' ' All articlos .sent up to Mr. Dqnlap will W prbn'pUy ' attended to, as above mentioned. '>:r V ' Citizeaa below Catufon: the facts are'before you, and your suffering breiiveren appeal ipjou for assistance. Are yen unwilling to 1 for yourselres, and your hearts mnH'beumli->?k < '< AliEX'DRjCOI^WUOHi ^ . : March IT . Captain commanding Poit.n.r ST JLTE C^KOL'liVl < ' EXECUTIVE ? Spartknhuru,. March bf 1S65. I. Tbo Militia of tlio State between the. ages, ot' 16 and 17, who hare reported for dntyi,' 'i and those who havo not reported; those hd*J absent by furlong I ior with leave, those who1 bate not been able to rejoin their' command,: and all others of thjs age/who from iny'WneQ ^ whatever are abscnt'from dutjr: will" aesemlblo at Spartanburg, as soon after ' notice oF:\ffl? order, at is practicable. : itr.VII. When nsMnbled here ilicy will be pjacv '> . cd in a Camp^f tnstrnctioni *ndSpti;piLti^itit -? such servicers the defence of v 4 il. . '' ) . s ,;^ks9? Til. As soon us it cao llo done, the . m.; ' Cadets, attached to the.Citadel;-.At Cbarltfltdq and Arsnal at Columbia, ^iU,.bia |>We<i ia > charge of this Camp of Instruction; 'anil' the/ 7, diseiplipe of these Academies "toiirBe exter.ded *. over and embrace this*portion of IV. -The officers of these inatitatfons'.-iwill t be charged with the duty! of, gijsjn^, jt??e *> *??. 'y-\ troops not only the jJIilitaiy.. tfainiDg^ifhiC^*? will enable them to be efficient j - ' itut saoh educational advantages jjr can be^f- " forded; aud by w hicMbc qualities'of th*^'ci!izen will be developed. *.- v V. The Quartermaster (General wifcpiaie provision fortlJe accoinmo<l^ti<^i|p?t^e%Qops, 'v and the Comnwsary Geqerfll wijj[ ..tyafce all :. ^ proper arrangements for their subsistance.1 . p VI. The servico for wlrich4 those lrdfcp?.w;,,'. are intended, it the-defence of the -State; nnd*^' "r'\ i it is hoped Mist norite will h'esitnte or delay- in -.iM I offering themselves , for:; that- servk&^jyTboy ' preservation and care of fHo youth p^cS^te^. . % their improvement so fir as it can t be.Sccpnfi."* ' plished under existing disadvantages; and, Tl(o f effort and inteption^p do good" to there, While > \ they do good to their Statek jure. declared; to ;:pr bo the purposes which shall ^lua^jj^rikler.. whose care these you.tbMge' / ->>3 VII: The Ob^jjriuau and Visltgi^^f.the. <;' State Military Ae^etnies are.ibTyftcij; a^kist) ' *'f|j ih the organization oftheite trqc*e? $ 'i 11* # *' .* . VtlU T?h.til oth^wise'did^lw, tJbh iflead-. quartera?of this comtnaW ^IJfybe atSpfcftato.. > * ' '& *$J burraH.c;';, By the - Governor, '. ": ?| - . r.v* , \^G;magba3?:- -?fl (Official0 >>. ~m.. v g|| G. A. Folhin, a. A. C- laai , MUTUAL LIFE INSTANCE, Jfc fB^HE SUBSCRfUfcR-HAWNGACCEPTfc? TBS \intitit t urn rvcrfv ivn*' "T&aSMKf COMPACT of Raleigh, North Carolina, KEN AND VJQEttTY, it prepared to 'netiijf *3'- Jgg pfifcatfone impolicies of LIFE INSURANCE., on ' jW'( nBE the mostreasotftjift.terms. The Lire* en 8LATBf j- >fp^ insured at aoderafe' rates. '. r 'M gaps ; fr. l DePaaS, Aaenfc %$%& . April 18 ' If "W WEALABAMA i # A NO 1 M good price,will-be ,paid. Apply at Gdnfederat? A Jqurpal .0mc9^^