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yyx,. 1 CAMDEN, S. C., THIJBSDAY, JTJLY 28, J 864. , 3STO. 23.
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ABE Llit OL?'$ MID^ICUT MEDsxA'Sjfoais.,..
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Scene in the White House. Abe iq .a sitting posture,
his elbW3 on ins knees,,his hands supporting
'^'his chih, and stupidly, gazing into vacancy..
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tEAxDER tCER, CUAFLAIK.
'Abo snt iui his cliah'j 'tlio type of despair, . . .
*" And'blno devils'ur&fi'nd him were grinuing.
And muttering ho said, as lie hung down-his"head,
"], an* making poor progress in winning.'.'
And'ho thouglit on the time when he,'ih Iris prime,
. -On the Illinois river was boating, '
Jn' hisfiaibout so smart, the fond pride of his heart,
' ; As he down the curron't went floating.
Then he said: "They were fools, unlearned in the
schools, ' 1 ' ' . . ;
Who placed u.& Where-1 am now sitting;
Far. bettor for mo I were-cHopping a tree, , , '
Alnd engaged in the \vork of rait-spfu'ting. _
"Thoso.rebhjs .annoy mo, I fear tlioy'll destroy me ;
Whb^dtiid^hinktthey could give the.such, trouble?
They are so uncivil, and fight liko the devil,
And scatter my Yankees like stubble.
"Ho! Seward and.ChaSo, com? attend to my ease;
And, Stanton," pray, what are you doing ?
Your lying wpb'fc do! -they're not worth an old shoe;
Oh, what wobble around me'is brewing !
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."My speech bsUipdneitdrs, my.handcufis and fetters,
1 lave failed jmo to bring to submission
T||? In tKlnmnl. ?!.!.?
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In this new lo&motiv.o Secession.
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"My troops are defeated, my generals retre:tfcd,
And slaughter is followed by slaughter;
With naught but disgraco aud Hull Run races,
0, give nte aonao brandy and water I
[Drinks.deeply and feels comforted.]
"Each fight is a Bull Run, and nothitigls well done ;
. And the slaughter 1 there never was such ;
; Those rebels are furioUj; their lighting is curious;
s. How thoy1 smash Yankees, Negroes and Dutch!
,kX gavo Dahlgreon full powers to inako Richmond ours
. And to burn that proud city and liver ;
.But Dahlgroen is deau aud my Ynnkoos aro fled,
And Richmond is holder than ever.
"And,G rant, you're a humbug, or .you would h^ve dug
Yourself into Richmond by this tune;
If spades aro your trumps, you should dig out the
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And the capture of Richmond bo pastime.
"Oh, what shall T do? Things look terribly bluo
And I Ibel very bad in my liver, (conscience!)
Oh, that I were alioat, in my jolly flalboat,
'. Onco again on the Illinois rivor.
. [Drinks riioro deeply to drown his sorrow arid roliovo
his livor; but sees strange sights.]
* 'What' Btrnngo things surround me; dread horrors
* confound nio;
, Ah, the rebels around rno are swarruing;
I'll go seek my bod, and rest my poor head,
Ahd "bleep, if I can, till tile morning.
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"1 believe I'm a fool, antl tho diorticst tool
Of the black abolitionist party;
Soward, you and tho dovil hnvo caused all this ovil;
In ply soul I could curse you most hearty."
[Exit Lincoln into the land of frightful dreams.]
Camp Winder, July, 186-1. ?
Guerii.i.as at a ITc-nic.?The Washington
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Chronicle lias the following nqtice of some of
our partisan troops :
A party of youug ladies and gentleman who
\vcrp enjoying the.delights of a pic-nic on Friday,
near Falls Church, Va., were startled in
the midst of their festivities by the appearance
of about twenty-five persons, said to he Mos"by's
men, who told them not to be alarmed.?
After., dancing a set with the ladies, and devouring
the'"refreshments provided for the occasion,
they decamped. The scamps must have very
curious notions of chivalry. .
One who reads our paper, but is too stingy
to subscribe for it, says it is too little. That
person has no taste: We like little things?
vj especially' a little woman, a little baby and a
Hub) whiskey.?P curie News. ?
The Kxcape of Gen. Franklin.' t
Major General Franklin has arrived in! Baltimore.
The following is; p brief account of his ^
capture and escape:
He was seated in the car, at the time of hia
capture, alongside of a wounded Lieutenant
Colonel, when a rebel officer came in the train
and addressing himself to the wouilded mau,
said : "Are you Major General Franklin !" He
replied thai, he was not, and gave him hisname
and rank. j)
Gen. Franklin was in citizens1 dress; but the
rebel also put the question toliim, and frankly
answered that such was his rrame and rank.?
There was no doubt in his mind, from ihemanner
of the, interrogator, that he had been pointed
out by some of the passengers. The rebel;
said : "General, T. "am happy to see you." The
General replied ; "I cannot say that I am pleased
to sec you, under the circumstances."
About, ton ininntoo - n:t
.? u....ui,va mikinaiua vjjnucr Ct^ITlG
into tko car, and addressing himself to Major
General Franklin, surd.:1 "General, you will consider
yourself my. prisoner." lie-was then put"
in a carriage, ahd-.witli other prisoners, driven
through the cduntry, stopping awhile? at Townson
tow u, ati{| tbeivq,croSs to the Reistown road,
where they arrived1about .pne o'clock on Tuesday
morning, and immediately bivouacked for
the night.
The GettMnl was put in : custody of Capt.
Owens an^Pwo guards, who were charged with
his sate keeping. Expressing himself as sick
and weary, he immediately laid down and feigned
sleep. Soon after the captiari and his guards .
hud down, and he listened anxiously for indications
of sleep on their part. He ,liad not to
wait long befons he heard the guard nearest to
him commence to breathe heavily, momentarily
increasing in volume and profundity, yint.il it
became sufficiently loud to wake an ordinary
sleeper.- The,captain and his'fcther guard, had
also iu the meantime commenced, -to breathe
rather heavy, and the General continued, witlf
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m.-> uuitN open, aiso 10 feign sleep. lie laid in
this lor some time, nrllil4 all three gave Unmistakable*
signs of sleep.' Fearing that they were
playing possum, he got up and walked carelessly
around them, moved over to the fence, and
still watched them. He then coughed loudly
and, made considerable noise, thinkihg that
they wanted an excuse to shoot at him, each
man layir.g with the right band grasping the
muzzles of their rilles.
The indications of profound sleep'Mxnng so
unmistakable on the part of all three of them,
lie now thought that lie would, test the sincerity
Of their slumbers by jumping the fence.?
This he di<j, and 011 looking* back cpuld sec no
movement1 of .the'dnskey fortns of his guardians,
and oft'lie shot across several, fields, jumping
fences, and keeping straiglil- ahead in the direction
bethought would take him-towards the
city. He ran*for about, three quarters of an
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uour, wnen nc .entered a tumlc woods, and in
his weakly state, being broken down by fatigue,
Uc sought a place of concealment.
A Monster Gun.?The Yankees have just .
completed a monster tweilty inch anny gun,
made at the Fort Pitt Works, near Pittsburg,
Pcnn. The papers describing it say :
Tne estimated weight of the gun is one hundred
and fifteen thousand two hundred pounds,
and in order to distribute the lmnieuse weight
so that there would not be too much bearing
At .any one point on the bridges that it will
have to cross, a truok of peculiar .construction
was necessary. This was done by building
two vcrv strong trucks, each eight feet wide
1 in the cleat, and nineteen feet long; tliey ar6
coupled together in sdeh a manner as to leave
one foot space between their lloors. A strong
bridge is then built from oqc to the othert the
bearing resting on the centre of each car and
the ends turning on pivots, while the side
pieces rest in cast iron slides. The truck was
built at Altoona, and it is thought will answer
all purposes for which it was designed. Yesterday
evening it was loaded with a fiftoen inch
gun, weighing forty-two thousand' pounds,
which it will take to Wall station, proving
ground, and then return for the twenty inch
gun.
Sheridan, with two brigades of cavalry, has
left Grant's camp, lie was last heard of at Isle
of W-ight. It is considered doubtful, ^whether
he was going on a raid into North Carolina,or
was about to cinbark at Portsmouth for Maryland.
CAMDEN. DAILY JOURNAL.?
THURSDAY MOnNlNG, JULY 28
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losses in the battle of the 22d at Atlanta will
not oxceod 3,000 killed and wounded.
The Alabama.?It is announced upoh good authority,
according, to a Southampton despatch, that Cppt.
Semmes has obtained the steamer Rappahannock, and
will immediately .put to sea with the purpose of attacking
the Kearsage.
, ..We are requested to draw the attention of Merchants,
Millers and Professional meu to the War Tax
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Asaessors notice. They cannot call on every one. The
time will soon expire, and thofio. having returns to
make must not complain if they are- double taxed..
. A fire broke out In Atlanta, Ga., on Tfiesday night
last, which destroyed property estimated .in value at
hulf a million dollars. The tiro oriirinated. in . Con
nally's establishment, comer Alabama and Whitehall
streets, and. extended to deveral buildings along
Whitehall street.
Brig. (jtejfc.S. R. Gist.?-We are happy to learn that
Genaral Gisr.iwas not seriously wounded as at lirst reported.
A gentleman who saw him at Macon on Sunday
states tj^at he is wounded in (jhe left forearm,
which, at the time our informant saw him, was in
splints. The General, however,-was walking about,
in good spirits and doing well.
The New Oomi^nder of the Army of Tennessee.
?We find in the CHarleihin Mircury a Bketch of the
military career of Gen. Ho'ftD, from which it appears
that ho was born in Bath County, Kentucky, on tho
29th of June, 1831, aud is consequently only a littlo
over 33 years of age. fle graduated at West Point inthe
class of 1853, and was assigned to duty in tho
Fourth infantry, in California, where he served twenty-two
months. In July, 1855, he was transferred to
the 2d cavalry, commanded by tbo late General (then
Colonel) Albert Sidney Johnston, and of which
General R. E. Lee was Lieutenantr Colonel. In tho
winter of 1855?'56 he entered the frontier service
in Western Texas, where, in tho July following
ho was wounded in a spirited enaracement-Avith the.
Indian^. lie continued in tho service of the United
States, and a short time previous to the beginning of
the present war whs ordered tb report for duty at West
Point as instructor of cavalry. At his own request,
however, he was allowed to return to duty in Texas,
boing desirous of casting his destinies with that portion
of the country to which he was most devotedly
attached. On the 16th of April, 1861, he resigned hisi
commission and tendered his services to the Confederacy.
.His name was entered upon the roll fcith the
rank of First Lieutenant, and he was ordered to report
to Gen. Lee in Virginia. Ho served with distinction
on the Peninsula, and so rapUtjjfras bighornotinn that
on tbo 30th of September be received" tho commission .
of Colonel of infantry, and <was placed in command
of tho Fonrth Hegimeut of'Texas Volunteers, then in
cainp near Richmond. Subsequently tho Fourth and
IJiftli Texas Regiments weft organized into a Brigade,
and on the 3d of March, 1862, Colonel Hood was appointed
to tho command. Thus within the brief space
often months and seventeen days lie rose from the
rank of First Lieutenant to that of Brigadier. At tho
battle of Chickatqaugn, as in evory other battle jn
which ho was engaged, Gonornl Hood $ore a prominent
part, and was so severely wounded in tho right
leg as to ronder amputation necessary. For signal
courage uispiayeu ou mat nnra-iought tield be was
mado Lieutenant-General. As/soon as he had sufficiently
rocovered, he resumed HA active duties in tho
Army of Tennossoo, of which he has now tho command.
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Gen. Lee's Perbonal Property.?The
Virginia State Journal (Yankee) says:
The following are some of the articles belonging.to
the personaj estate of General Lee,
which have been "condemned by the United
States district Court, and are advertised to be
sold in Alexandria on the 19th instant, by the
United States Marshal, viz: Eleven sofa bottom
chairs, lour arm red plush seat chairs, one
brussejs carpet, threo red plush seat sofas, seven
large paintings, one cxtcntion table, one large i
painting of Washington," two paintings of J
Washington's Generals on battlefield, four book 1
cases, cane bottom ch/iirs,' bedsteads, wardrobes, ,
mattresses, stands/centre tables, bureaus, sWcboards^liair,
shuck and straw mattresses, candle
sticks, fancy glass cases,''toil paintings, engravings,'and
almost every variety of ornaments,
gilt frames and secretaries, three large boxes of
books, stoves^ carpets, etc. The most of these '
articles arc of the most elegant description, l
some of them very rare and valuable,
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lATEST BY TELEGRAPH
FROM PETERSBURG.
Petersburg, July 27.?Hancock's 2d corps
which was on our front four days ago has gono
to the North bank of James River, and per
haps other Yankee forces.
An engagement has. occurred there to-day,
but all the particulars had not been received.
The 18th corps of the Yankee arrpy has appeared
in front of Bermuda Hundreds. All is
comparitively quiet. It is thought that Grant
is still digging. A citizen ofCalifdrna was sent
in our lines under a flag of truce yesterday on '
privato business, A . telegram of the 25tli
should have read, "Grant is strengthening his
left, which rest near the Weldon road, and 13*
on our loft in front of Petersburg."
P?t?r8Buho, July 27.?Baltimore papers of
the 26 th. bon firm the defeat of the forces of
Cook'and Averill, on Sunday. The fights lasted
nearly the whole of the day^. Averill lostall
of his artillery.
It is reported that Averill and Milligan were
killed. - ?
A telegram from Georgia though not claiming
a victory, does not acknowledge a defoat,
McPherson'a death is officially reported by
Shcrrhatl. He estimates his loss at 20,000,
Confederate loss 7000.
A conspiracy has been discovered, having"
for its object; the formation of a|nortbern Confederacy.
(Sevoral proininent citizens of St.
Louis were arrested.
Gohl in New York^259.
Siege of Qliarlestoii.
THREE IJUNDRB}? "AND EIGHTY-SECOND DAY.
One hundred and sixty-five shots wero fired
at Fort Sumter during Monday night, and ouo
hundred and sixty shots during Tuesday up to
six o'clock. Two shots were fired in the direction
of Secessionville.
> There has been no shelling of the city for
several dftVR. Nn rll?nnn in fKn ie ....
ported.
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Quantrell, the famous guerrilla chief, is on'Py
twenty-nine years of age. He showed no mercy
to the "Yankees that fell irfto his hands, and
consequently, was arrested by Gen.Kirby Smith.
While passing through a town in Texas, some
of his men assaulted the guard and released
him. Quantrell golloped off in in triumph,
first sendiij? his compliments to Gen. Smith,
and telling him to go to the devil, that he did
hot belong to his Ouvalrv and was fighting theYankees
for revenge' For this reason, Gen.
Smith issued an order declaring Quantrell an
outlaw. We don't wish Gen. Smith to go to
the devil, but we sincerely hope lie may never
catch Quantrell. We rather like his style of
fighting the devil with fire.?Macon Confederate.
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Fine French Bombazine.
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