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r Wb& WLmit&Mtv iLttetr* , mm??? ? i I I . ^ r 0 L ,U M E III, LANCASTER C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 1,1863. NUMBER 21. THE LANCASTER LEDGER Pmbliihtd nvery Wednesday Morning BY W. M. CONNORS, Editor and proprietor. TERMS-: ,1 adrance, - - - $2.00 At the expiration of Six Months, 2.60 At the end of the Year, - - - t.00 No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at pur optica. ADVERTISEMENTS, Will be inserted at two dollars per square for tba first, and one dollar per square for eaeh subsequent insertion. A square to consist of the space of 12 lines, llrcrier type. No advertisement considered less than a square. iro* tat la>caster lspoer.] Camm Arovnd Jackson, Miss. Jud# 9th 1863. Mr. Editor ?I have no doubt but that a few items from the old Seventeenth S. C. V., would interest many of your readers, and as I am Dot accustomed to write for the press, 1 hope your readers will not expect much. Our Regiment arrived here at the ^terminus of the It. It. the U3d of May, attar hasty travel of seven days, from Charleston, S. C. As I did sot come through with the Regiment all the way, 1 cannot give you any incidents of travel; suffice it to say, nil that came through landed safely here. We saw the first track of the Yankees in Miss luippi, me n.au nosu neing torn up from her* to Jackson, the bridge acios* Perl River.burned * distance of five mile*. We inarched a few mile* and bivouaced on the East bank of fPsfrl River around a large pring, enjoying ourselves fishing, bathing, die., and listening to the booming cannon around Vicksburg, whicii somewhat marred onr enjoyment, a* w* expected an order very moment to march to the spot and face tho music, But here we lay for a week, and no order coming to move us up to th* field of blood and carnage, we uioveo Weat of the river and again bivouaced in the wooda, without anything for a covering aave a few bushes, and the canopy of Heav* en. llere our absent friends that left us on the way, began to come in and in a few days, (they in the meantime availing themselves of our worthy General's leniency) all, 1 think, without a single exception, repor ted with smiling countenances and light hearts for duty. Our worthy Colonel, 1 am eorry to say, is not yet able to join us. After drinking the water out of the cisterns near town, we again moved up th* river about two milaa, where there ere two excellent springe of water, and here we are in our usual good health, bivouaced in the woods, on tho banks of the beautiful Pearl River ; which much resembles !o beauty the precious stone whose name it bears?the water clear, the current mild, with banks of sand. 1 cannot giv? you any description of the City of Jackson, as 1 only passed through the suburbs. I saw the ashes of e great many buildings ; it formerly had a population of some 36,00?a Penitentiary and Asylum.? The enemy occupied the town three days, burnt the Peuitentiary, and put the convicts into their army. We are in General 11 reck nridge'a Division, who are all camped around town. 1 know not whether as a Reserve, or to reorganize his division, but I am inclined to think the latter. We can hear the sound of cannon every day,and all night, occasionally, in the direction of Vicksburg. The soldiers here do not know I where Ueneral Joe Johnston is, but they are satisfied that he will be at the right place at the right time. Oar soldiers hers are in high spirits, reeling confident of success Our fare ? as <?a v:u*V The inexhaustible bull is like the mau's razor strops.?there is elwsye oue left. Xow# of i the boys think it ie omnipresent, for from the Maryland Heights, to the valley of the 'Mississippi, it has ever been present with ue. A TIGER. {TO* ins LAS CAST IS LIDOS*. J Ths Ladies of ths Villas* wers. sodoi tiwe since, ryqeaeled to iinI at the Presbyterian Church far tha purpose of da? ieiog seme plan by which they ceuld raiaa ao amount of money with which to aaaiat in coding rsligjaua reading to oar ooldiora. In roapanaa to thia call, tha following ladiaa oat and oiganixedthemaelyea inje ap extemporary aociaty, baring for Ue object, aa abora atatad. Mrs Coonora waa made Treasurer, Mrs. Dr. Crawford, Secretary, and Mra. M. P. Crawford, President Tha sum affixed .OMpMteama, iatbf,donation uiada by each of" lli? aociaty. R. 1* Crawford, 10.00 J lira. M. P. Crawford, 16 00 lira. II. Buur, 6 00 Mrs. Wm. Moors, 10.00 Mrs. J. 1). Wylie, 5 00 Mrs. NV. M. Connors, . 2.00 Misses J. &, M. Stevens, 5 00 Miss Harris l'rics, 2 Oo Miss R Ntewmau, 2 00 Niisa K U. Dili ley, 1 00 The socisty would also acknowledge tlie receipt of the following donations, through their souimittee on contributions t Mrs. Allison. 5 on Mre. Jones Crockett, 10,00 Mra. Wjtherapoon, 5 00 lira. Dunlap, 5 00 Dr S. L Strait, 10.00 P. T. Hammond, 5 00 Dr. T. K. Curelon, 30 00 Dr. K. K. Wvlie, 20.00 Mr. Jainea Touipaon, 5.00 Mr. II. II. Duncat, 5 00 Dr. T. F. McDow, 5 00 Dr, R. id Mellow, 5 00 ' Making iu all 8172 (a hundred and sev* enty-two) which have bean appropriated aa follow?: S5C to tha Confederate Bible Society, and the aama to the South Carolina | Tract Society, to be expanded in their iaauaa for the benefit of the auldiera, $40 to the editor of the "Southern l^eabyterian," and $20 to the "Christian Advocate." The lliblea, Tracta and Presbyterian, we have sent to the add/eaa of Kev. J. N. Craig, for him to dialribule wherever he may find dcati'.u. tion, in hie field of labot. The Chriatian Advocate, we have aent to Mr. D. J. Carter, of thia place, for the benefit of the cotnpa ny to which he belonga. Thia aiatcment is made, that thoae who have been ao kind aa toaaaist us, muy know what diaposilion haa heet^made of the fanda We feel that we hare cant our inita into the treaaury of the l.ord, and we trust it amy be tha means of bridging the word of life to aouie of our brave aoldieia, and, perhapa, of enabling aonie to become "good aoldiera of tha crovs of Chriat." MRS. M. P. CRAWFORD. | June 39th' lb63. The War in Virginia A gentleman who laft Winchester Tuea. day morning arrived ia this city last evening by tha Central train. Intelligence brought b) l>ini confirm*, and to soma ex tent corroborates, that contained in the telegram from Harriaonburg, pabliahed in an other column of thia paper. We give hia account. Ganaral Kwoll surrounded Winchester on Saturday evening, when thara ensued soma skirmishing and driving in of picket* On Sunday morning, Genera) Fwell formally demanded the surrender of the town ? Milroy replied that be would not surrender, and threatened, if an attempt w as made to sto.-m the poaioo, to fire every building in the town. General Lwell sent him word that he would carry the place by aaaault, and it a single houae waa tired, he would give no quarter, and hanp everv Yankee he captured. Soon after this parley, at a giv. en signal, the assault was made from several qusrlers at ones. The outer works sere speedily carried, and in two boura the Van keea capitulated. General fcwel) at ouca nushsd ou with a part of hia focce toward* Marlinaburg, leaving General Early to Uk* care of the priaonera, "Sic M On taking poaaeaaion of tha town, General Early learned that Milrov, with aiz hundred cavalry, had, whilal the fighting waa going on, cut through a weak point in our line, and made hia eacape. The Yankeea fired no lo.uae and made no attempt to deatroy their aturea Wo look between six and eight thousand priaonera, inuch ammunition and stores, and a very large number of wagons and fine horses. Our loss in killed and wounded in tfila important action is believed not to exceed fifty. THe story of General Smith's death is without fotimiation. Kwell pushed immediately on after the capture of Winchester, and seized the ford ot the Potomac at Shepherdslown, thirty ci'.ee fr^a \Yio< heater. Tha Ba'tiuaore and Ohio Railroad is ours once u<we, and ia of conrae already diaroantled. The cap tura of Milry'e army puts tha whole Valley at our command, and opens llarylaad and Pennsylvania to tin. Hooker, who la reported already in Washington, will,waaup pose, move up through Maryland pretty much in tba track of McClelian. Tha eampaign ia a foot, and great a ants may eoea be azoactad Tli* moat important item brought by par* eons who loft WinchoaUr Wednesday evening ia tba raport which, wo think, an titled to credit, that Geo. Ewoll ia certainly in Maryland Jankin'a cavalry are aaid to have bean in Hag* re to wen. What waa the direction taken by Ewell after croeaing the Po to mac we have been nnablo to learn. There are many reports, bat all baaed upon conjeetaro. It waa reported yesterday in Staur.ton that Mrs. Ewell had received a letter from the General eUtiog that Milroy had been captorod on the Potemae. Bat the whole atory of the letter te regarded aa a fiction. It tvaa believed in Winchester en Wednea d?y that he hud mndu good liin escape ? Nor hat hi* wile hscn taken a* wo fondly hoped. JMie Marled aeveral days before tlis battle Mitb nine large trunks, though she brought when she came to Winchester only s smull, round to|>ped dog hnir port uiuiiteau. It is reported that our fo-ces nr. besieging Harper's Kerry, but we can learn nothing authentic on the subject. The number of prisoners captured at Winchester and Rerryville has been over slated. It is now ascertained that there were 3.000 taken at Winchester and 1,500 at llerryville, all of whom ars on the tramp, under guard, to Staunton. The number of hornet that fell into our handa ia aaid to bo ao great that we hardly know what to do with them. Everybody in Winchenter Raa n bora*, and ia rinding about enjoy iog the acquired freedom. There are a thousand conjecturea aa to (?ari. Lee'a present deatinntion. Pittsburg. Chambersburg. Ilnrriaonhnrg. Philadelphia and Washington are ull mentioued aa the point at which be ia aiming. But, on this aubject, as little is known here aa at the North, though there ia not quite the same degree ot anxiety. It waa reported heye yesterday evening, that intelligence hail been received, in official quartern, though through what source we could not a*cer> Uia. that the greatest panic ever known prevailed in Washington city, and that l.in ' coin had called for 100,000 aix month's men?60.000 to be drawn from Pennay I vania.?Richmond Examiner UOfft Tito Yankees Scheming to Obtain Cotton. The English page.a are giving a good deal of proiinuet.ee to an ante le copied trout the New Y<>rk i.conomttl, combatting ?tie idea that UUOII the uulicluaiou of tlia V mr cotton will return to the old price*. The article Irom the Ecoitomnl cnutaius the following remarkable development : A very large proportion of the cotton crop ia now virtually the property ol Northern and European manufacturers and speculators, Mom* of our Northern corpor ationa hnve already, through Southern agents, equally interested in the speculation with themselves, bought very considerable amounts of cotton in the interior of the South, to be delivered at the Conclusion ol peace. They have bought it at merely, nominal rates, and will sum# day realizs upon it perhaps three time* the pur chace value. The same ia rqually, or, perhaps, to a still larger extent, true ol Knglieli speculators, who hav* now immense stocks of cotton in the Mouth, nominally in possession ol ihs Southern agents. It would be unsafe lu conclude that the apec ulative buyers of this property will at ones thrown their purchases on the market at live opening of the porta, and thereby de prcciate price*. Men who can buy so lar is advance of delivery ar* mostly those who can afford to hold their "lock fur the most advantageous market, and lh>*aa tar seeing culloo speculators may be trusted to nnn* in* mgoeai | oaeiuie pr|c?, t>* their I sale* effected early or late for Ih* above, I Miin>ng niHiiy rrwuiii, ?? Ihink those who I imagine thai coiioti will cell uiuch below U0?. per pound during the ue*t seven year* ^ill Had they ha** wrongly ealiujaied prubAililiea. Another Repqlie at Vicksburg. JacK*ua. June 22 ?Ou c'aiurday uiorn iog, ui '2 o'clock, ti>* enemy made a furioua aaaauil on our line ju faar ol Vicknburg.? The action lasted until 10 o'clock a ui., eudmg in a complete repuls* of the enemy. Citizen* from Ilia neighborhood report the hre of musketry to have exceeded anything ever heard. The loaa of the eneiuv ia heav ier than uoy other at.nek Nothing what ever ia known with regard to our loaa, but It ie certain that another great victory has be?n gained. A special correspondent of in* Mxttitt tppian estimates the lost of the enemy, on Saturday, at 10.000 ; also, that the enemy are throwing pontoons across the big ttl.ot k? I .U-. D-.l- U-' ? ~ I ...-< >! Miirt'au uriu|d aou aldwin'a Ford, near Warrmton. It ia reported that our torcea ha*e taken poaaaaaioo of Union Bluff, on tha Yazoo. Our acouta, juat arrived from the interior of tha eneuiy'e linea, report that they acknowledge their loea ia heavier than any ether aaeault, varioeely reported at 10,000, and that the repulae waa complete. Their troop* are much depressed in eoneequenee, ' and aay that Vk-ksburg haa aver been a 1 -I? n " -* -^o, ami iduh UID. urui lor undertaking no tmpoaeiUiiy. Geo Grant nrnlafligof I roc* to Ganaral | Jackaun, yesterday. aaking petmisaion to { remove hi* wourrd. d, left at Kdwardn' Dn. | pot, after ih- fight at linker a Crack, which w?a allowed ; after which they were duly | exchanged < The Jackson Miasiaaippian think* Gen. Pain- 1 oertoo baa baan madW the aubjact of the moat I unjust critic ism. That paper aaya ha baa bad 1 atupaodoaa difflcultiee to oootaud with, aod a 1 barcuiaao taak to; perform. , 1 We had a good atery yesterday related by a German who was confined in one of the hospitals nt Nashville, which prove* conclusively that tick aoldiera uppreciale food for the atomach more than food for the mind. A rebel lady visited the hoapilal one morning with a negro servant, who carried a Urge basket on liia nrm, covered with a ...l.Sl. II... .I.IL DL. ? * ? mien kiuui. out approacnea our German friend and arcuated him thus: Are vou a good Union man !" "I iah dat," wai the laconic reply of the German, at the earne lime casting a hopeful glance at the aforeaaid basket That is all 1 wanted to know," replied the lady, and beckoning the negro to follow, she passed to tho opposite side of the room, where a rebel soldier lay, and aaked him the ?ame question, to which he very promptly replied?"Not a d d eight"? The lady thereupon uncovered the bucket and laid out a bottle of w ine, miuce piea. pound eaka, and other delieaciea, which wire greedily devoured in the preeence of the Union aeldiere, who felt somewhat in. dignant. <)b the following morning, however, another lady made her appearance with a large covered baaket, and ahe alao accoeted our German friend, and deaircd to know if he wae a Union in mi. "1 i*h, by Got ; I no care what yoa got; I beea Union." The lady then aet her baaket on the table, and out Gcrmun friend thought that ine truth availed it^ Una caae if it did fail in the other lliit imagine the length of the poor fellow'a face when the lady uncovered the baaket and prevented liiro wilh about a buahel of tracta. lie ehook hie head dolefully and eaid : '-i no read Kngliah, and. peaide, dat rebel on to nm^er aide of te houee need dam ao more aa sue." The lady diatributed them and left. Not lung afterwarda along caiue another richly dreeaed lady, who propAunded the Mine question again to our German friend. He stood gazing at the basket, apparently at a loaa for a reply. At length he an awared linr in Van L 1- ? <*_!I , . wmsmww ?/ ir( mm iuiiuwi ; "Uj Gut. you no got mo dia timo ; *ot you gut mid do bavkel ?" Tito lady required an unequivocal an* war to hor quealiun, and waa about to mot* on when the Germao, ehootiog out "If yuu got traeta I beta Union ; but if you got uiiuce piea tuit pound cako and vine, I Bkee aecwah lako to tevil.M? Yankte Paper. 8TATX OF 80UTH CAROLINA EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Columbia, Juno 16, 1861. ?aUK vandal foe, unable to cope with tho ^ Confederate forcea in the open field, have luaorlrd to a mode of warfare which arouaee i he indignation of every heart capable ol a patriotic emotion. Not content with wreating peaceful ciliiena from their bouaea and confining them io loalhaotne dungeona, and with eelsing our contented alatee and inhumanly placing them in military orgauitatione, tobeahotdown lu the front of battle, they have inaugurated a nyiiera of raida into the interior of the State*, atealing negroee, burning ciliea and farina, deatroying live a lock and growing erope and apreading deaolation everywhere in t^eir trrck. To meet tliia condition of thiuga, and to raudar unslinhU .u- _< t , Q- >JI uvr IUIXM already in the Acid mid afford adequate internal protection to the States, tbs President of tbs Confederacy deems it sspedielit to call for a portion of their reserve force for service within th?ir respective limits. Upon the Governor of Soutli.Carolina be calls for fivp thousand men, lor tbs period of six mouths from ^he first day of August neat, to be furnished by draft, unless in the intei mediate time a volunteer force, organized under the Act herewith.published, "To piovide for local defence and special ser vice," at least an equal number be mustered and reported to the War Department as subject to the call of the Presided for aervico within the State. These organizations may be voluntary, as will be seen by en esenuneiion of the Act, end end are for speciel service only within the Sute, under officers of their own eel action, sod with the Drivilewe of remalQfn* at home In it. I pursuit Of their ordinary avocatioue unlets cell ed for a temporary etireocy te active duty. Now, therefore, I, MILLEDGEL. BONN AM, Go ret nor end Coeitnander-io Chief io end over the State of South Carolina, call upoti the poo* pie ef the State to aeoemble oa the day died in the enacted orders, at their respective Refi eatal Parade Grenada, ead to raise tad ergaaits the foreee celled for by the Precideut for the defeoceef the State, For two loaf year*, year brothers have borne the brant of thia war for independence on the frontiers of the Confederacy. The time has now arrived to show your clvee worthv of those ??IUm a- ??? log their home*, their wire# end the.r childran, in common with your own. Uutil the above organisation take* place, It is recommended to the citisene of the Ota lee to continue dieting voluntary organisations and to fonu immediate others, with such arms as they have, for the protection of every neighbor hood, especially along the rivers end arms of the see. Many a deadly volley may seceesfolly delivered at this raider* i* their boats trees the bhifle and forests lining their banks. Immediately after the requisition of the Tree- j ident ia filled, the Governor will take steps for a more complete organization for neighborhood protection, of auch as are lees fitted, by years i or otherwise, for the active duties of a caui- ' paign. Given under mv hand and the eeal of the [l. e ] State, at Columbia, thie aixteeth day of June, A L). one thousand eight hundred and sixty three. M. L. BON II AM. Wm. R. Hum, Secretary of State. j\n j%ci ( fromclt Jot LaxoA Itrfenc* and Spt. rial Srrviee. t Section 1. The Congress of the Con fed# rata States of America do enact, That the Preeident be and he ia hereby authorized to accept the trricea of volunteers of auch kind and in euch proportion as he may deem expedient, to serve i lor such time as he may prescribe, for the de? I fence of exposed places or localities, or such special service as he may deem expedient. Section 2. And such forces shall be muster' ed into the service of Confederate States, for the local defence or special service aforesaid, the muster roll setting forth distinctly the service to be performed ; and the said volunteers shall not be considered iu actual service until . thereunto specially ordered by the President. | And they shall be entitled to pay or subsistence only for such time as they may be on duty ua I ?? .... . . .. i ... ... ?.... v. un i tcHuini or uj nis JitKlion. Bkctior S. Such volunteer forcee, when to accepted ud ordered into eerrice, chill be organized in accordance with end subject to ell the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to I provide for the public defence," approved March A, ISA I, end me; be attached to such divisious, brigades, regiments, or bsttelion as the President may direct, and when not organized into bettaliona or regiments before being mustered into aervice, the Preeident shell appoint the field officers of the bettaliona end regiuieuta when organised aa euch by him. ( Arraoveo A gust 21, 1SA1. o BTATI OF SOUTH CAROLINA ADJ't. AMD IScriCToR.GsSEItAL'e OVFICK, Columbia, S. C.f June lfi, I8CI. OEXERAL ORDERL XO. JO To carry into effect the proclamation of hie i Excellence the Commander-in-Chief and the Act of Congreaa, "To provide tor local defence and special service," it is hereby ordered ' I. Thai the commanding officers of the Militia Regiuieuta assemble at their usual places of parade, on TUESDAY, the 7th of July next, ell persons within the limits of their respective commands liable to any military service by the laws ef the Slats, end rail 'or volunteers to meet the requisition of the President of the Confederate Steles on this Slats for troops for local dafsnco?psroous between tbe ages of forty and forty-five to be included in the caM. It n. w? ? ... - - ... I ... wm mmaj n?|iia?ai lining IO lUltlllfl DJ volunteering iu quote ot troop*, which U filed by General Orders No. SI, accompanying this ordor, lha commanding officer of each Regimant will immaditoly draw Irom tboao liabla to "actual military service beyond tba limita of tbolr respective Diatricta," between tbo ago* ot forty and fifty (40 and 60) years, a sufficient number of men to maka up said quota. III. Tba commanding officers oj Ragimaata are required immediately to organise tba troop* thua raiaed into oompaniaa, of uot laaa than sixty-four (64) aad bat mora than oaa hundred and twenty-five (126) privates, by holding elections for company officer*, vis : on* Captain, on* First Lieutenant and two Second Lieut*e< ante, the son-com mission ad office re?-four fiergeants and four Corporals?to be appointed by tba Captaiaa, and immediately return to tbia , office certifflcatas of aaid elections aad rolls of tba companies. IV. Tba commandfng officers of Boat Cam-1 paniaa are required to prepare aad return t?| the commanding officers of tbelr respective! Kogiinent* on the day abora mentioned, accurate roils ot all males residing within thsir ra spectira beau between the egea of forty and fifty (40 and 60) years. V. Officers of tbe militia between tba ages of forty and fifty years, will be subject to draft. VI. Companies organised under this order ill 1?1 - - "... ? ? niuiiHu, 07 uratn UNM from Ibis olct, ioio Kogimoau of too eeap*. ' oioo oooh, by tbo oiocuoa oi flokl officoro; oat wboo ooliod into tbo Hold, will bo of nd into Coafodorolo oorrioo, for loool dofooeo ood opo? ciol oorrioo within tbo limito of tbio Sutt, for tbo torm of liz uiontha from tbo irttfUj of Augoot Mlk VII. Tbo'eooawondiog o>oa?a of KapMMi oro cborgod with tbo prompt oxtocoloo oatf o>ocotfoo of tbio ordor, ood oar dotoclt oo fbafr port, or 00 tbo port of ooy ofloor. will bo riottod with lb* oormool poamMoo of *0 low. Br command of tbo Gwroroor. a. a oablinotom, Adjotoot ood laapaotar flioiral of B. CL J000 St, IMS. SO?ft. Fresh Arrival. Writing papor, Borelopo, Stool Pope, Spoiling Booko, floe Combo, Took Cmgfp, Side Combo, Shoring Soop, Pino ood %tol ThrMd. Under Ledf*r (Sn. M J.B.90YD. Mtrch 4, IMS, 4-tf