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|? JCfiiqcr. l an caster vi lle, sc. Wednesday Morning, Aug 6. 1862. We regret exceedingly tliat, for the want ( enough paper, a portion of the present issue < the 1a<1<jct will be delayed a few days beyon the usual day of publication. This is owing I the negligence, or to the disregard for the ii terests of those whom they undertake to servi of the agents for the Stage lino between Can den and this place. They have had paper t? longing to us, iu their oflicc at Camden, for period of more than six weeks, which the have repeatedly piomised to forward, and sti it has not arrived. Hereafter we will endeave to have our supplies brought up through more reliable vehicle of transportation. Wo have been requested to say that the I'o: Office address of tho "Catawba Rangers, 'is at present nl Hardeeville, S. C. T> it. _ f "TV _ T 1 TT mv as oj; niu ui xji darnel, n inorawei;, Our community has been grieved by the ir itelligcnec of the dentli of this' eminent l)ivini which fad event occurred on Friday, the h instant, in Cliarlotte N. C., where he had bee on a visit. Ilia Church sustains in his deall iirepaiable Iofs, and Ids country is deprived, a a critical peiiod, of his valuable support an able counsel. First Corps of ReservesIn pursuance of orders published last wect peiscns within the bounds of the 21 at Regimen ?>. C. M.t liable to iluty in the First Corps c Reset ves, met at the Court House on last Sal urday for the purpose of being organized int Companies. Two Companies were organize %| ?one in each Hattalion. The Companies wi number, when the exempts are all ascertains and relieved, probably eighty-five or nini ty men each. Flections were held for Compa ny ollicers with the following result: From tiik Urrr.r Hattalion. II W H. D. Montgomery, 1st Lieutenant. Wm. Howell, 2d " Random Plyler, 3d " Fkom tiib Lowkr Battalion. Jolm X. Sjwell, Captain, James Kuiull, 1st Lieutenant. Lewis M. Cautlicn, 2d " John M. Caulhen, 3d " The Price of Flour. The following from the Kdgefield Adveitisei is applicahlc to other localities : "We would ask, is it not possible to kee down the pi ice of tlour in thin Distiict so tha the poor may have a chance at it ? The farm era have generally been severe in their cen sures of those who have made large piofils i, the expense of the needy. They are now upo critical ground themselves, and their couiseii the premises is awaited by many with anxiety They may make highly leuiuncrativc sales at i much less figuie llutn the present quotation lu the cities?quotations that are said to hav been established by speculators. Will the now woik with these speculators or agains Ithem? We judge no man or set of men, bu would simply reiterate the inquiry, cannot horn ptices be kept within reasonable Irouuds ? Gen Lee'a Construction of the Con script Law. Gen. Kobeit K. Lee liavuig been applied ti for his opinion respecting the construction e the Conscript law, replies that by its expres terms it subjects all persons who may be ove the age of eightecu years at the time of an; call for troops made by the President, to set vice, and persons attaining that age, at onci become subject to military duty. Alihougt the law contains no expicss provision as to ill discharge of persons in service upon their at taining the age of thirty-five years. Gen. Lee i of opinion that such peisons will become enti flu.l I/I llioie ilieolkarrvA imAtt roaol.ltiw * l? -? - ? - . ....... ... ...... ........"I?"K* anil their places will be supplied by other* be . . tween eighteen and thirty-five years. The opinion upon the Utter point is in direc vaiisncc with the constiurliou of the Secretar of War, wlio hold* that troops enlisted for th war, irrespective of age, are not entitled to discharge until tlte cipiialioii of their origins term ol service. 0 General Lee has issued an order suspondinj all camp duties, except those of inspections during Sunday, to afford the troops rest and b enable tlicm to attend to religious services, li the fame order he requires superintendents o , railroad* and others connected with the road* . to give the Government aid in apprebendinj and returning to llieir commands, all deserter rfnd stragglers from the army. Rewards au s thorized lor the apprehension of deserters wil be paid in all instances of conviction by i , Court Martial. ? ^ ri IFbom GordoxbVille.? I'asasngers frcn (jotidonsville, Tuesday, bring the importan intelligence that Pope's army has beet largely reinforced within the pant few days and is conjectured now to exceed fifty thou nand men. This information, says the I.ynch burg Republican, was obtained from dreer tcrs who have come into our lines When the reinforcements came from, or lo who I j , i i i - - - f cvii-iukiu mcj ii?vr ncreioiore belonged, II I out Muled. An advance on Ihe part of lh< (enemy is hourly expected. Hkirmishinf ^continue* between the opposing forcea flU'hich jn several instances has resulted ii slight loss to both parties. ' Texas Irtklliosrck.?The latest intel igence it to the 4lh inst. At that dsti there were seven Yankee vessels off th? tar at Hahestun, but no demonstration bar been made of any ferious character. Fo<?? was reported very abundant within th< Slate. Ih-i-l, mutton, corn, w heat, etc. wer? til plentiful and cheap ; but the I'fexsn* ar? Dot"Vin that account lying indifferent to tht tar. The Houston Telegraph says thai t has organized the equivalent of fifty.eight ' gimentv, or fully 45,000 men. nun r?AYT>KP 11URTM ' A II OI,I*A . I ll6 laoipede of negroes from Kustern North i* no great tliat unless strong uerrilli* |>arti?n arc inline (lately formed rid sent thither, it is thought that the ouintrv will be entirely drained of its sUvs opuUtiop io ? abort time.?Ari/y Teleraph. T ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. i Camp, Near Richmohd, Va., < July 28, 1SGX 1 Dear Ledger.?Everything of a fighting I charucter, has, for lite last week, remained j | ? iu nn unbroken quiet, except rumor* of nu ' occasional videtie skirmish. The camps are t dull?nothing to excite or interest. Some I j while away their time at reading and ivri- t to t'ogi others endeavor to hunt up some in- | i- nocent amusement, while a large number 1 | e, "lounge it out." There is an opinion preva- ! ( i- lent, smoDg those at home, thnt nil camp t s- diseases, invariably arise,from too much ex. ; t a posure of the person. My opinion is not i i y worth much in such matters, but with all ; i " due respect to "the professional," I must i >r ditrer upon the causes of camp I a diseases. The life of n soldier is a lazy one, ' I and it requires determination in a man, such j I ^ are the temptations set before him, to keep | I ? the body properly exercised. Exercise of t the body is the mainspring to hen tli. Too ' I close confinement, generally, creates fever. ' ; though exposure is no doubt the cause of t i. many, deaths. ?t Our whole Division have advanced their it line about live utiles. We are no* encamp* ii ed upon tho New Market road, ten miles h from Richmond. It is reasonable to sop ' lt pose, that our army has advanced its rnliro 1 ^ iine of operations. We do not see anything 1 to lead us to believe that there Mill he an * early attack, but do not let it surprise you, < should the news reach you of another glorious I < | naval victory upon the James liner. Mark I r j. the prediction ! One more grand rjf'urt,and ' McClellan is ours. Our present ilrigudu encampment, is snid | j to be, by the knowing ones, "Camp Holly," II of the revolution. The lurger portion of j it, is a beautiful location?picturesque seenery and excellent water. Here presents iti self material for the poet and puiuter? description through uoy other medium would not be interesting, even if we possessed its powers. A range of precipitous lulls exlend front the Jauies Hiver to several miles Hast of us, on our front, w hich will serve as good posiJoua for our urtillery in case of attack. We have heard, through private sources, of the very excessive prices, demanded by the speculators of lstncxsler District, fur their produce and other species of property. It is truly mortifying to the soldier iu the held, expused as he is, to all the hardships that a tnun could possibly endure for the p protection of those at home and their propyl erty, that auy man (?) should be so base, a a ! to take tliitt ndvuntuge of the poor people i- of l^rru-asler District. We hoped for bcU ,t ter things, oven if not what was promised u to those who parlriotically responded to n every call made upon the District. It is ' known, that it would not do to send all the * men from home, though complaint is not * entered agsinst any one for remaining at ' home. Dot let us remind those, who aie uow speculating upon the soldiers (til per 1 mouth, that all the sentences uttered, and c ali the grand demonstrations made in which thry bore so conspicuous n part, has not yet faded from memory. Their actions huve been stored into good keeping, and the day oi reiriuuiion will yet overtake lliem, when 1 o there will be a mighty awakening among c 'I the people. Those who hold the power, ' * should wield it with prudence aud fore- 1 r thought, lest perchance they lose it. These ( y are the sentiments of volunteers, who have * suffered from the wrongs of the speculators e at home, and not less theirs than my ow n. I Notwithstanding the siiutn?ful rumors rile ' e in every camp about these unmerciful ven- I dors, we occasionally hear of acts of hu- 9 inanity and Lindoess. Rest nssured this 1 , latter class, will not be forgotten, and their 1 i. memory will be engraven upon the heart of t every soldier. Our cause, they lisve shown 1 i by their actions, is their cause ; and our 1 y honor sod glory is their tumor Slid glory. It e | may be auid, that we have digressed trom I * our usual scope, but let us ioform you, that I d it is partly by request. * t The health of the Regiment is not very I z I good. We have been reduced by sickness ' , j to a considerable extent. The two Ijui. I 0 ! caster Companies are in tolerable health? f a I The "Hornets" has lost but one by death " fi since the fight, viz: Sarg't. 8 M. I.nthon, 1 ', { who died at the Winder Hospital, on the f < 2l*t of Jirly, of Typhoid Fever. He was ' * an excellent young man, a good soldier, v and a firir. and unflinching patriot. P.very ' ' man in the company loved him for his lion- e \ esty of purpose and unsullied integrity.? c He was sick at the commencement of the c t fight on the 26th June, and against the p< r. ,v ( suosione of his friends he would go. lie 'J 1 went through with both engagements and " suffered sli the privations of a fourteen 0 Am.-m ......i. ?...r i? ?--it-. -- ? " , HMMVII| vcuic lie ii ii it i jr up. Al one lime during the wuruieat part of the 0 contest of Monday evening, Harg't. latlhen V _ wm catted upon to take cominand, and ; '' ^ | none filled hi. pout with more honor and K B ' credit. In hie death ire have loat a good ^ b { aoldier and a firm friend. We deeply ayin- '' ^ pathize with hie relations and friend.? " More anon. "I^cal." * jroa thr usc.rrta lkoork.J p la there no God in all tlie.e Confederate ? . Ktutea, aave the God of ninmmon ? Verily U , i there aeema to be none other, in the eyra b , of a very nunieroue cla.a of our fellow eili. I I { zena. Should Ihia country (deatined I tru.t )' I by God himself to be the freest and the j h , happieet under the tun) ever he overrun )' , and subjugated by the Yankee vandal., it , will be the Invt of the almighty dollar that * , 1 will do it. Are our I'reeider.t, Cabinet and S I member of Congreaa, an imbecile or ao infat- tl i uated with their own fat silarie. a. not In b be able to aee the tendency of all the com- t< binationa, now going on in the Government a i to make money, are but en many aappera b l and miner., striking directly at the very li ' pillars upon which the superstructure's tl I bqt temporarily re.ling, I?et the Oov.nj- ai i uisot lake cure and reniember that in all tl i Democratic Government*, the power is ai lodged with the people la it reasonable ei j 10 atippoa# that the poor aoldier will aub- J? mit to be made a soldier nolens xolent, nnd I I thut too at $11 per month, while liia poor j c wife and children are subjected to the heart' j c less speculator and extortioner, and made I *' Lo pay per bbl for l'lour and 60 cents 1 per pound for Dacon?nnd this too by men, whom the Government have undertaken to j iay are too old or too young to be soldiers. ] Mow the people ask the Government to in- ? erpose the power lodged with them by the c jeople for the purpose of extending equnl y rrotection to all,and to relieve their suffering ? ..u.i.ica 1IWU1 1111- gra?i) ui IIIH uccurbed ex- r ortioner. I-et the poor soldier but know t lint while he is suffering all the privations t ncident to his aituution, that that Govern. ? mint for which he is suffering and lighting j s indeavoring to feed and protect his fmni- t y, then will the rugged paths over which ! |, le is culled to go be rendered comparative* > i y smooth and easy. This much the people . p inve a right to demand. Should they be j y lenied, after an nppeul to the powers that 1 j. >e, then let the people prepare nt all hnz- I y lards to resume that power delegated for hn common good. VOX I'Ol'UI.I. Iroa 1II K I. A NC AST k R LKDO KR. f \ Extortioners and Speculators. These are trying times to the men who ire nt home as well as the soldiers in the ented field. This war will develop the ' linra jtcr and patriotism of the first class as veil as determine the heroism and hr..very >f the second class. Tho soldier w ho will iknlk from his duty on the battle field, his * tame will go down to posterity with igno- ^ niny and disgrace. The first class referred j o who will stay nt home and extort and peculate to an exorbitant degree from the i I uiuao V. in. nntc ? (J HIM Keren 10 Oelellil IJ our country'* honor. Those who have tl ft their families and their all behind and < one to the tented fields there to suffer, ri ' I leed and die, that your wives, sisters and i I* aughter* might not be insulted and rav- w lied by an invading foe. You who will tr nd have been guilty of acquiring these ill* d otten gains, I say you would rob and "? lunder the graves of the dead to make loney. I have heard of some boasting of f heir liberality to tlie volunteers, who have e< can guilty of the above charges. but,sir, tell you that your liberality will recoil on ou with ignt miny and disgrace, for you ave forced it from m? and others bv which w ou could bo liberal. tn In time of war we need men nt borne as m 'ell as m o need soldiers in the tented fteld. rc lome sre so silnnted, from different causes, ol ist tbey would be of little use in the camp ; " ut tb.it does not sav that he has no duty w > perforin nt home. He will be nn useful bi t 1 ome, if lie but pviform* his duty nnd n ear his *'hob" ns the soldier in the tented fx eld. For there sre poor men's families, & ere sre rich men's families, there are rich p' nd poor men's farms to be attend* d to, 01 lere are widow ladies farms, whose sons G re all in the war, eome of whom have fall- t< a on the bloody fi?ld of battle, there ere idow ladies farms to attend to whose bus* In .<i tuu soicierti ana the people | {enerully I any that the future history of ' )ur country will chronicle their names a- j ^ uong the same category of crimes. These ' ire times in which every man ought to 3 i r peak out and censure and denounce and j mid up to public gaze the greedy extor- | inner together with the unprincipled spec- j . itutor. Fur in this way, to some extent, | rublic opinion is formed and when it is I "ormed, it has a great height in determining I ^ he acts and conduct of men. | . There are n great many planters who I .\ould have planted their usual crop of colon had it not have been denounced so hiterly as unpatriotic bv public opinion That jublic opinion, with the aid of a kind I'rov dence, will be a great blessing to the country is *ell as to themselves, in tilling our store- ^ louses with the necessaries of life. There are two classes of merchants or peculators in the country. The one clars ' ays out his money in goods and different ' irticics for sale (I have allusion to the ne- 1 pessaries of life,) and puts a regular profit ? >n them and t-ells them out at that profit, ' >nd then goes and lays in another supply, linking only his regui.tr profit. This class 1 if merchants are a great blessing to the B ountrj al ' large. In thia way suppose a 1 nan wanted 10 bunches of yum and it would 8 :ost at the Factory fc'2,00 per bunch tlial 1 vouid bo $20,00. Then suppose it cost * lim ten dollara for bin expense", that would n >e fifty per cent, besides his time. There- I1 ore it can be seen that the man who wants 0 ho yarn had better give the merchant fifty 11 ents per bunch or twenty-per cent upon lis money, and he could ntlord to tnnkn 11 noney^by the operation, for the expenses ' if going to purchase five hundred bunches 1 vould be no tnore than tho ten bunches ? 1 Then after selling out whatever article ho n ins on hand, if the same articles have nd- n mnced twenty-five per cent higher, he is ' lerfeclly julifiuble, in the eyes of every renlonable man, to add his regular profit. 1 c iay such a class of merchants or speculaors, as you may call them, are a great v dessing to the country, and I further stale 4 hat the people are under great obligations 8 o such merchants. But there are another class who after tuying articles for sale puts on their reguar profits of 25 or 50 per cent, if something urns up by which such articles advance in r irice, they put on another 25 or 50 per cent ind so on until they are through selling,and, P lerhnps, make from two to five hundred r ler cent. This clans I say are a curse and ^ in eating cancer to the community, besides 0 hey will merit for themselves eternal die* ' [ranee and inherit for their posterity ill got- 1 en gain*. Not only this, it is my opinion 1 vhen they w ill'bu arraigned before the tri- ' Kinal ou high, tin y will there stand charg. P d guilty as one having committed a great rime. You may search deep into the re- ( esses ol human nature, and where will e oil find a crime more potent with evil and t ilavk with disgrace, than a man taking the C dvantage of the necessities of his dislross. o d and bleeding country. What! take the n dvantage and get rich from the necessities n f ...L? I 1 " ' * tands have been taken away by the cannon 1 >r disease. 1 suy ail tiiexo are to be nttenled to, therefore, let ua who nre ut home act well our part for there all tho honor lea." I nek these mammon loving souls, have rou advocated the doctrine of aect ssion ? f you have it will be presumed that you dvocated it because you wanted to fill your olFcra with money from tho distresses of our country. How will you feel, sir, when ve gnin our independence and give to our eturning volunteers a welcome dinner in oken of their well merited valor, to face hem ? Sir, if your conscience Is not seared 1 s it were with a hot iron, you ought to cry n the language of the sciipture and c ill for he recks and hills to fall upon you and udc you from their faces. Sir, you ure incrested in the continuation of this war? tublic opinion should continue to denounce ou and hold you up to the public gaze.? Sir, never let us hear you again boait of our secession principles J. .v. C. [>OR THK I.AISCASTF.It LEDGER.] Wl. y it it thut the people of Lancaster fillnge, and many others in the District, rlio do not produce the article are in great | cunt of F'oui ? is it because the great disicn.ivi of all earthly good has withheld the j arlv and the Iniier rain, nnd thus denied j he husbandman the reward of his lubor ? j Ye answer these important questions in i he negative. And w hen we answer thus j ve do not mean to assert that full and | lounliful crops of this cereal have been j unde in our District; but we mean to say but a much greater breadth of land was own than usual, and that in many sections if our District fa11 crops have been made, vbiic in other sections, loss fortunate, about lalf crops per acre have been made. Thus welling the aggregate to something like m average crop. Now the true answers to hese questions arc to be found {anil it is in time for prudential reasons to disguise the act,) in the morbid, greedy appetites of hose whoa, a kind Providence lias blessed villi good crops. Is this a proper return or His blessings thus freely bestowed ?? n the XI Chapter, 25lh nnd UGlli Verses >f Proverbs, may bo found these words, to vhich I would ask the reader to r?*fer ? The liberal soul shall he made fut, und he 1 hut watered) shall be watered also himself He that "vithboldelli Corn the people shall urie him, but blessing shall be upon hitu 1 bat sclloth it." Arc the beads nnd fronts of our Churches caching and practicing these doctrines!? Vre those who stand vp before iis at stalfd literal*, to teach lessons of morality and godliness, living vp to these gtdden precepts .' | f not let us say to you in ail candor and mm the authority of this Book llint your caching is iu vain. The writer does not Dean to point out what our relative duties o each other are, viewed froin a moral tend-point, for this the reader is referred o Ethical writers. But I write to hold up o public view the conduct of those who ' re withholding and extortioning on the 1 rime necessaries of life, while our common ounlry is bleeding at every pore. While ' tie poor soldier has been compelled to ' ?nve his wife and children, lake up his itifket and fight for the pitiful sum of II1 00 per month, and while he is submit. ' 'ng thus to nil the privations incident to ho soldiers' life, w ithout a milliner, here ' ro those w ho ought to be his fiier.ds and eighbhrs instead of selling to the soldiers atnilies, many of whom are dependent upon ' lis ?tl 1,00 per mouth, added to the pittenee ^ aked out by the different boards of relief, or their entire support. liow much Hour vill 811.00 buy at 88 to $10 per cwt ?? 1 ifuke the calculation, thou extortioner, and ( ice if your conscience will feci easy, wh:a 1 ou remember this money is, in all probn>ilily, the very last cent, which remains 'nun a draw of $2*2?two months wages. If the Government has the power to comnand the services of tile citizens and make hem aoldiers nolens rolens, and that at $11 >er month, which none now for prudential j easons doubt. Then I ask has not that J government the power to regulate the price 1 if, at least, the prime necessaries of life ?? j i it idle to tulK about public opinion opera- ! ing on a man whose face ia hard enough o atand up and ask his friend and neighbor M p?*r bushel for wheal and 88 to 810 ier cwt. for Flour. Then let th? people riae up and aak the overnment to protect and naaial them to ' xtrieate themselves from the power of [ heae craven hearted extortions. And if the overnment refuses to protect the families | ( f soldiers, while they are compelled to re* ! , lain in the service. Then, as a law-abiding ' ( tan, rather than to submit to these exorbi* ' ( int prices, I w ould favor an up-riaing of j Is public, to thnt extent, that the people f size hold of the Flour and other neoessa- ( ea of life, row in the hands of tho apecu itora, extortioners and producers, who are ithholding their crops with an avowed in. ? nlion of getting $25tper bbl. 1*1 this be one and a fair price be paid at the time of sizure to the craven.hearted extortioner, ( iy 8^.00 per bushel for wheal and 85,00 t er cwt. for Flour. This scciua the only j jurse left for the protection of the I i NON-l'RODUCKR. , Tiir Supply or Malt.?This is n matter | hich nt the present lime is of great impor- : nice to the people of the Mouth, and it lay be interesting to know something with iference to the preparations in progress for j btaij.ing the fall supply. The t>rin.in?l I ill work* in Hits South, Ihnne of Mouthealern Virginia, nrn now turning out ? out 3,000 bufthel* per day, and the compay owning the work* nre improving their icililies for increasing the amount. The / Utes of (Jenrgin nod North Carolina are { J ulting op work* at the Virginia well*, in | rder to supply their people. Thoae ol , eorgla are nearly completed, and will > >on commence operations. The salines ?j e very rich, and are helieved to be inei. ' ) iu*iibl?. ?llirkmAmd DfyaicK- r The Enemy's Fleet?Movements of Mc- J tl Clellan's Aimy. 1 ic The daring exploit of a few members of i fj( the I'rinee George cnvnlry, on James river, opposito MeClellnn's cninp, last Saturday w morning, has led to greater \\ ntchfulness on the part of the enemy, who seem to ? fear for the safety of their fleet of trans- I ir ports. All the vessels hate been drawn up ' ni ns near as possible to the Northern shore I of the stream, whore they are protected by ci gunboats. The belief that n considerable ! d portion of MeClellnn's army is being with- I t| drawn for the purpose of reinforcing Pope, vv gains strength daily. Information has j readied uh within the past week that large I '1 bodies of Federal troops were quietly cross- p ing tlie Chickuhomiuy and marching down the Peninsula towards Fortress Monroe ; j ci but before giving currency to this report, we preferred to await further developments. It is now asserted tlint observations from the opposite side of James river show that ninny of the enemy's tents have disnp- c< penred, and it is also noticed that the ves- cl sels in front of the camp frequently dimin- II ish in number during the night. That some ol important movement is in progress, seems in to be well authenticated ; and the utmost caution is observed, with the view of pre- ,d venting the Confederate authorities from I h learning its object. It is presumed that Me- i w t'leilnn, unwilling to hazard another advance towards Richmond from below, will j a bold his present fortified position with a ' e sufficient number of men, protected by j v gunboats, while the business of conquering I si the "Rebel Capital" will be entrusted to I j Pope, the idol of the present hour in Ynnkeedom, who is to have all the men and " means necessary to make "short Work" of <] the enterprise. v Our inquiries have failed to elicit any- 11 thing new with reference to operations on n the Rappahannock line. It is pretty well j 11 ascertained that Pope's army is being lieav- j _ ilv reinforced, and an early engagement in j j, tlint quarter in confidently anticipated.? j ii Richmond Dispatch, 30th ult ^ Engagement on James River?Heavy ' * Cannonade- I ti Shortly nfter IJ o'clock on Thursday In night the citizens of Kichmond were star- J1, tied by heavy and continuous reports of 1 cannon, proceeding from the direction of It City l'oiut. The reports were very rapid, cl nnd those who occupied eligible positions fu could distinctly ace the fl.ish of the guns.? This was kepi up for nearly two hours, o dnring which period it is estimated (hut there were no loss than five hundred dis charges. From information received yesterduy morning, it appears that our nrlilir- ei ry, including a number of heavy siege guns J'j which bad been placed in position at and w below Cnggin's I'oint on Thursday, opened n fierce cannonade during the night upon '* the Federal Meet and .McClellan's camp, on the opposite side of the river. The enemy >?< was evidently taken bv surprise, nnd nil the * tu lights of the Heel were immediately extin- w guished, but this did not prevent our gun- Cl lers from preserving their range, which they lad taken care to obtain with accuracy ct while day-light gave them an opportunity, ct \ feeble response was made by the gun- ,M joat.s; but firing at randoifi, and eompica- a. ively ignorant of our position, they inflict- w< ?d little damage. The fleet, on the contray, is supposed to have suffered heavily.? \ great crashing vvns beard in the river, ind it is conjectured that collisions occur ed among the vessels in their haste to get >eyond the reuch of danger. At daylight nf esterday morning the entiie A ct had (lis ca ippeared, and great commotion wns visible m u .McClellan's cainp. The only casualties ? -eported ou our side were caused by an nc:ident to one of the guns, by which one iuan was killed and six were wounded ? two of the number, belonging to I'age'a battery, badly.? Richmond Disj>aich,2d mat. WAR NEWS. Tfle Movements in the Weit Tupelo, July 28.?Accounts from Memphis report that a body of Confederates from Missouri invaded Iowa on the 19th, capturing arms and horsea. There ia a i grtyvt stir in Northern Missouri. The tnva- J aiona ot Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa are :> creating much consternation, and the belief ^ is beginning to pre vnil lliat the wcr is at length being brought to the doors of the j i Yaukees. Htsumlioaiirig on the Ohio is 1 a considered unsafe. Heavy fortifications are u being constructed at Memphis by a force of negroes, who drill every evening. Colonel ( Fitch hang two hostages?citizens of St. ( Charles, Arkansas?lately, as an act of re- G laliution against our guerrillas. It is ru- Ii mored at Memphis that Nashville is captur>d. J Ther? is great activity at this point, and ^ ill the movements indicate an early and de. lisivo campaign. T No attack ii apprehended at Vickaburg. rhe Movements in Kentucky and Ten* ^ nesaee. V ChaTTAKoer; a,JJuly 29.?Morgan's whole (J :ommnnd has returned safely to Tennessee. \ part arrived at Knoxville yesterday, hav. y\ ng, in the aggregate, 1000 prisoners, Gen. VI Humphrey Marshall is marching into North- J; astern Kentucky, (sen. Buell's forces are ^ narching up the Sequatchie Valley towards 'ikeville. p From Virginia. Richmond, July 29.?The opinion gaina fround that McClellaO is gradually evacuning Rerkely and reinforeeing Gen. Pope. q From Courtland, Ala. v> k:chmord, aug. 1. A special dispatch to the Mobile Advtr ^ iter (f- Remitter, dated Tupelo, Mia*, July 11 aays : Three Federals Cap'ains and ^ Lieutenant*, raptured at Courtland, Ala , irrived here to night. ^ ( en. Armstrong's official states that on I5lh inst., he attacked the enemy at Court- ^ and, Ala.t oo the Memphis and Charleston ailrond, and look one hundred and thirty. ?" ?- - * - J - a. 1M uce prisoners including eight gommissmed officers. The non-commissioned ofcers and men were parolod. The enemy's loss was three kiilcd and founded. Ours less. Gen. Armstrong also captured twelve 'agons, with horses attached, and equiplent*, together with u large quantity of riny stores. The camp and garrison equippnge or four atnpanies, a quantity of supplies, induing five hundred bushels of corn in sacks i 10 depot, telegraph line, bridge and tresle orss were destroyed. Gen. Armstrong defeated ths enemy at ' 'own Creek the same day taking fourteen ' 'ederal prisoners. Gen. Rosencrautz'a division is ?!, TusJinbia. ' l < Northern Newa. Richmond, July 31. Northern dates of the '36th ha* been rei-ived here. Charles Gordon nnd others, ^ largcd with cheering for Jeff. Davis in 1 oston on the 3d of July, when the rumors f the defeat of the Union army arrived 1 that city, have been diseliargd. The New York I'osl says that the most evoted friends of McCletlnn pronounce j iin a failure and even the sagacity and : f isdom of Lincoln is questioned. A correspondent of the New York 7/?r- | v Ul, says that tour divisions of the Confed- |, rate army arc concentrating at Gordons* t iile, constituting the army at sixty thou- ^ and men. BHnBBHBaBaBHB I OBITUARY- c It has become our paiurul duty to record the t oath of an oilier of those excellent young iucn, ho nobly periled tlieir lives in defence of ieir country. J auks P, McDow* fell in* battle before Kichloml on Fiiday 27 ult., Aged ly years 7 lontlis 11 days. lie was being carried back dangerously if ot mortally wounded, when his body was I ierceJ by an other ball and lie died almost I islantly. ile was a sober, orderly, moral | nung man : and the neighborhood lias lost | 1 le iiiosneel of ? nani'nl ?*>.i " , , ? ? ? ...... K?.<? uiumii, ne as a brave soldier and true patriot : and the iniitry has lost one in whom she could rely iu if hour of danger. At the head ol this young era's grave stands a Confederate li.?g draped , i mourning. The blue ground is emblematic of ic modesty of his nature?the white of the urity ol his patriotism, and the red of ihe J tarlesencss of his courage. Well may our ' juntry be robed in mourning and bathed in ' >ars, when so many of her choice jewels arc tiling. ( Difd, at the Winder Hospital in Richmond, 1st ult., Sergeant Sauckl M. Latiiem, Aged i years. lie was a member of the Lancaster "florets" 12th Kegt. in service for the war. lie ad served nearly one year, lie was in twro ngagements in his native Stale, and partici- r atetl in all the bloody engagements before j ichinoud ; and received only a slight wound, j Inch did not disable him from duty, lie fell y the ruthless hand of disease superinduced y the excessive fatigue and exposure of that rotracted conflicts He was a true soldier, and iflioching patriot. None made greater sacri:ea?none rendered more faithful service. Hut his crowning honor is, he was a chrisin. When quite young he connected himself ith the Associate Reformed i'rcsbytcrian liurcli worshipping at Shiloh ; and ever maininei a pious and consistent deportment. The lurch and numerous friends, as well as the * unitry deeply mourn the loss of such ait exillent and promt dug young man. We knuw 0 it what his views and feelings were as he ^ tared eternity. Hut we are satisfied the joys >d comforts of an honorable, virtuous and in'spent lile wei c Ids. "How sleep the brave, who wink to rest With all their country's wishes blest." Announcement. d The friends of Dr. T. L. Johnston an tuiice him a candidate to represent lain ster District iu the lower branch of the txt Legislature. \ ~HEADftUARTEES" HAMP'ftP lMSTPITPTinV Columbia, S. C, Ju'.y 29,1862. DESERTED, from the Camp of Instruction, Department of South Carolina, t Columbia, the following named inen. A award of $30 each, if taken out of the itate.and $15 if taken in the State, will be aid for the npprehension ot these men and lieir delivery at three headquarters. They re supposed to have gone to Richmond inder feigned preteneos to join South Caio. ina Regiments of Volunteers ; rilOM GEORGETOWN DISTRICT. !. C. Davie. Peter Kbney. iabriel Hartley. A. D Peel. I. C. Anderson. ? Miiliken. sac Bourne. I.. C. Robertson. FROM TORE. G. Mintrr. f) Stuart. V. K. Sutton. Charles Crosby. FROM CHESTER. '. II. Dates. FROM GREENVILLE. rsse Gonnlen. E. Edwards, onhua PruiL T. K. Ed-vard*. rsse Stone. James Miller. V1111 a i n Crowder. J. S. Thornton. >. Denuigsn. FROM SFARTAN1IURG. [. L. Bishop. \V. J. Wslden. ] /. P. Henderson. James Mason j . T. Jackson. William Tolleson. ? eorge Blew. J. C. Turner. ( . T. Ragan. W. L. Paiker. F.ROM DARLINGTON. . W. Hill. E. C. Reynolds, indeey Hersey. J. VV. Warr. FROM NKWBKRRT. .F.Hawkins. S. C. Hartmnn. ' FROM BARNWELL. 1 . P. Mima. FROM L'KluN. r v p-t? Fit oM MARIOW. . II. Amtnons. II. Cliinnes. FROM ADBKVILLK. , Gainea. i FROM ARDERiOR. . 8ni(>pa. FROM FAIRFIELD. . C. Faaaler. JOHN S. PRKSTON, 1 (put. Col. A. A. G, Commanding. July 30. 06 It. SOUTH CAROLINA. LANCASTER DISTRICT BY' P. T. Hammond, Esquire, Ordinary for aaid District. WHEREAS. James A. P. Riackmon hnis, rppli'ed to me for Letters of Administration on nli and singular the Goods and Chatties, Rights and Ore Jits of Elisha Dlnckmon late of the District aforesaid, deceased. THESE are, therefore, to eile and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before uie at our next Ordinary's Court for the said district, to l>? lw,ld..r> ,? I Jim-aster Court House on tlip 81li dnv of August next, to show cause if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. t j Given under my hand and seal, L. S. > this 25th day of July in f y die year of our Lord one thou and eight hundred and sixty two, and in he eighty-seventh year of the Independence >f the. State of South Carolina. I?. T. HAMMOND, O. L. I). July, 30 1S62. -25-21. p f $2 50. SO U T II C Alio LIN A . LANCASTER DISTRICT. (In the Common I'I fas.) Dudley M. U?sery,el ul. ) Declaration vs. > in Samuel Spencc. 3 Attachment. Whereas the Plaintiff did on the second iay of December 18t>l, tile his Declaration gainst the Defendant, who (as it is said) is ibsent from und without the limits of tho State, and has neither wife nor Attorney mown within thosnine, upon whom a copy >f the said Declaration might be served. It is therefore ordered that the said Djendant do appear and plead to the said Declaration, on or before tho third day of December next, which will be in tho year >f our Lord one thousand eifftit hundred ind sixty-two, otherwise final judgment will lien be given and awarded against biili. II A itANivvrw Dec. 4ih, 1861.? 43-ly. VTOTIC'K.? Ah it is believed that tlio L s Kstate of Caswell Mohley, dec'd , is inolvont notice is hereby given to all perions having claims ngainat the aforenienioned Kstate to present thetn legally an henlicaled within six niohttis trout date for >ro rato distribution. J. n. MORI.EY, Exr. Pleasant Hill, S. C, July 8, 1862. 23-tf. A CARD," rHK UNDERSIGNED HAS JUST received a fresh supply of Groceries, iz : Old Port Wine, Pickets, Jellies and 'reserves, Salmoud and Lobsters in cans, 1 obi of Molasses and 1500 lbs of Sugar, Tobacco, &.C., which we will sell as low for Jash as can be bought unv where. NcLAKNON &. DRUMJIITTE. July 1, 1862, ai-tf Notioe. 4 LT, persons indebted to the Kstate of ZA. James Faulkner, deceased, are hereby eqnested to settle the saute, and those havng dent tnds against the said Kstate, aro lereby notified to present them as the law hrect.s, to the undersigned, A. J. KII1LKR, I ... W.L. FAULKNER, V June 25, VII) tf "j! D. IIA1 liE, Attorney at Law, AND 1CTING MAGISTRATE, Will attend promptly to the collection f arrearages due deceased soldiers front he Confederate States. Cilice at Lancaster Court House, S. C. July 23, 1862, 24?2m. WANTED. 2,0 0 0 BALES OF COTTOA. For a good article the highest price will ie paid in CA SI I. Apply to J A. IIASSELTINE. May 28, 1862/ 16-tf V C U C U 1 U7 ?- C n ? V n n D M *% II XA a Vf Ub WU il in U AO| ATTORNEYS AT LAW AN3 Solicitors in Equity. LANCASTERVILLE, S. C. Will atten i promptly to all buaiueas intrusted to tlicm. J. B. KERSHAW, | W.M.CONNORS. Camden, S. C. Lancaster, C. U. Aug. 10, 1859. DrTALFRED GRAVEN, Iteiidcul Kni'Keoii DciiUm!, YOKKV ll.LK, 8. C., Offers his Professional Services to the citizens of Lnnonster Village and surrounding country. ARTIFICIAL TEET1I inserted on Gold Plate, from one to n lull Rett. June 11th, 1856 16-ly MELTON & WITHERSP00N, ATTORNEYS AT LAW A!ID Solicitors in Equity. Will practice in laincaster and the surrounding Districta. C. I). MkLTOK, I B. J. WlTHRHSPOOl, Cheater, S. C. | Lauciialer C. It Jnnunry 11, 1860. 48?tf WILLIAMS & ALLISON, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW and Solioitors in Equity. LANCASTER. C. H., S. C. Will practice in the District or Lancaster. Prompt attention given to Collections. Sr. YYii.i.iavh may be consulted at Yorkville, 1. C., ami Mr. Allison at his ollioo iu the ^ourt House, at Lancaster. July "7ih 1868. 31?tf C B NORTHROP. Attorney at Law AND SOLICITOR IIV *:<|IJITY, IVill practice in Lancaster and the neighbor* ing Districts. OFFICE AT LANCASTERVILLE. October 21st, 1861. 37?1 jr Exooutora Notion ALL person* having any claims against the Hume, of William Duncan, dec'd., ure hereby notified to com* forward and [resent the same, to the undersigned as the aw directs ; and all who are indebted to the said Lstate, are requested to uiake payment of the same. ?Ll!S5g?J??July 23, IRA2 3 4-3ai.