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Mollntainoll8 Islands in the Pacific;.
The islands of this class, with hut
very few exceptions are truly splendid.
Tli P 1 nilllOri CO TllAnnlnInn
auVv 1LLV t-ill L'(l*lULO 1 1 ?5l#
gradually from tlieir base, till tlieir
lofty summits are lost amid the clouds
of heaven ; some are broken into a
thousand fantastic shapes; here a
pyramid piercing the skies, and there
a spire presenting its apex above the
belt p? clouds by - which it is girt;
and then you see a precipitous rock,
lifting itself in solemn grandeur, and
frowning, like the mouldering battlements
of some immense castle, over
yoi\r head. The sides of these magnificent
heights are clothed with
bright verdure, of varied shades.?
Beauty, grandeur, wildness and sublimity,
are so fantastically blended
and contrasted, as to excite the most
varied and delightful feelings. Then
there is the ocean beneath you stretch
. ing away in "boundless majesty, until
it appears to embrace the-heavens in
th# distance. At their base are fertile
and luxuriant valleys, intermingled
with the stately breadfruit tree,
the banana, the Brazilian plum and
>many other tropical productions ;
some of which fire trees of gigantic
growth and richest foliage,?all equal-,
ly beautiful, hut each having its own
hue, from the darkest shade to green
of the li<rh+.p?f. 4^**
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the cocoanut tree, over-topping the
whole, and waving majestically to
the passing breeze from the ocean,
give an exquisite finish to the landscape.
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Iticii?Veiiv.?Yankee official bulletin's'
. since the war commenced, liavc announced tbc
killing of 500,000-Confedcratc soldiers in skirmishes,
and 2,500,000 in pitched battles ;
they also estimate that 500,000 more have
died of diseases incident to camp life ; making
a grand total of 5 1-2 millions of our men
"wbo-bave been killed during the war, which is
considerably wore than the entire fighting population
of the .South, at the beginning of the
struggle I The conclusion, therefore, is irresistible,
that Yankee official reports are Munchausenisms,
(lies, and monstrous lies at that,)
or else the grand armies which the papers tell
us the South still lias in the field, arc altogether
fabulous ? mvtllip.nl prnntintiQ r.f 4lw?
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According to Yankee reports, if we believed
tbcm, we would say there was not a white
male between 16 to 60 left in the Confederacy.
But the Yankees know, as well as wc do,
that although many of our brave men have indeed
fallen, there are still left in Dixie a fcw~
more of the same sort.?Sumter Watihman.
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Oui reporter states that a lady who died of
cholera, and was laid out by her friends, was
found tho following night standing at the Clipboard
. eating cucumber pickles, or in other
word a:?
They left her'"a laying in" white,
Prepared for the grave's quiet slumbers,
But they found her tho very next night
"A laying in" pickled cucumbers !
CAMDEN DAILY JOURNAL.!
WBDSESDAY ]?IORNING, AUG. 24*
The terra of servico of twenty-six regiments m
Sherman's army expires daring the month of August.
Major Rodgers, of tlio .City Battalion, during tlio
late fight near Macon, heard firing half a mile aliead
of our line, and on going thero found throo convalescents
of Cleburne's Division fighting the Yonkoes "on
their o\yn hook."
' Death op an Oi.d Editor.?The New Orleans papers
announce the death of Prtf.r K. Wagner, Ksq.,
the oldest printer and o litor of that city. ITov was, it
is stated, a brother of the editor of the old Federal Republican,
published in Baltimore in 1612.
Wo regret to learn that Cnpt. .Tames Doby, of the
Kirkwood Rangers, was wounded in the tliigh in ouc
of the Into cavalry fights in Yirginia. Privates CImrlos
Young, Josae Arthur and Alex. Johnson, of the Watoroe
Mounted Rifles wore taken prisoners, and privato Jos.
TV. Doby iB reported missing. Also Capt. John L.
Jones, of the 7th S.-C. Battalion was taken prisoner
and Lieut. Lewis Glyburn sevoroly woundod.
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In the trenches in front of Atlanta, among
the Georgia Militia, is the veteran soldier, Captain
Samuel R. Anderson, of Tennessee. The
history of this war, fruitful as it has been, does
not afford 'a nobler example of gallantry fcand
patriotism. Few Temiessceans will recognize
our old friend as Captain Anderson. It is not
claiming too much to say that, no State won
more ciedit in the war with Mexico than Tennessee,
and it will not be doing injustice to
any one to. say that no one of her gallant sons
acquitted himself with more credit in that war
than Samuel R. Anderson, the Lieutenant
Colonel of the 1st Tennessee regiment. At
the breaking out of the present war, he was
appointed, by-Governor Harris,. Major-GeneraJ
in the. Provisional Army of Tennessee. Upon
the transfer of that army to the. Confederacy,
he was continued in command by President
Davis as a Brigadier General, and made an ar
duous campaign in Western Virginin, under
General Lee when he confronted Rosencrans.
The impaired health of Gen. /*, forced him to
resign Ins commission. Recent events found
him a refugee iif Georgia. His health .having
entirely, restored, General A., regardless of
rank, looting to the service of the country
rather than to his own advancement, became a
private in the Georgia Militia. Desiring the
benefit of his experience, he was prevailed up
on to accept the captaincy of the company to
which he.was attached.? Carolinian.
Interesting to Yankee Purchasers of
Real Estate.?Gen. J had ley Johnson, during
the recent invasion of Maryland, found himself
one evening quartered in what was onco
his own house, which had, however, been sold
under the confiscation act some months before.
He sent for the new owner and asked bow
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luuf; lib iiiiu ubbu^/ifu iiia i iik ri'jjiy was "iiuoui
fourteen months." "Well," said Bradley, "this
house belongs to me, and unless you immediately
pay me the hack rent at the rate of Snooper
month', there Will be a little difficulty between
us." The disconcerted occupant stirred
rouml and .pretty soon raised the amount which
Svas over. Upon being asked if he desired a receipt,
he replied that it was not necessary.
"Well" said Johnson, "I will give you twenty
minutes to move your things but of my
house, for I am not going to rent it again. I
intend to burn it^ *
And burnt it was.
Fokeignkiis.?A Yankee correspondent in
Sherman's army amuses himself with tho following
story of a woman he, or some of his comrades,
met in North Georgia. Tho old lady
had a very correct idea, in the main, on the
subject of foreigners :
"You'ns fellows don't fight wcc'ns fair," said
the old lady ; with the air of a Madam Roland.
"How so?" said the soldier:
"Why, you'ns fight wid bags, and that's not
fair," said the old lady, drawing a very indignant
puff from the pipe; "besides," said she,
"you'ns have forruners fightin."
"Not that I know."
"You'ns can't come over mc that way, wasn't
thoro fellows from a place called Now. York
hero to^day ?"
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HEPORT-S OP THE PRESS. ASSOCIATION".
Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year
1803, by J. 3. Tiirasueu. in the Clerk's ofliee ofthc
District Court of the Confederate States for the
Northern District ef Georgia.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Petersburg, A\tgust22.?All quiet along the
lines to-day; there is less picket firing and
but little shelling. The enemy still hold his
position on the A Veld on road, and our scouts
report him strengthening his fortifications.
The Baltimore (razctlq ofthe 20th says that
Grant captured 500 prisoners on the north
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unuK 01 me James. J lie object of the expedition
was to prevent the rebels from drowning
our 111011 by cutting a canal across the Dutch
Gap.
The same paper states that Sheridan had
retreated from the Valley, making his escape
along the border. Innumerable rumors arc in
circulation in regard to the fate of Sheridan's
expedition. lie is said to have lost S00 men,
captured at Strasburg, and 70 wagons, near
l'erryville, forming the larger portiou of his
supply train.
Telegrams from Wheeler arc confused,?ono
account states that lie whipped Hall at Dalton;
another that he whipped Stedman, eight miles
froni Chattanooga.
Richmond, August 22.?Official dispatches
slate that Gen. Hill attacked tlic cneny, on the
Wcldoif road, on Sunday morning, drove .liini
from his advanced lines to his cntvenchmcntSj
and captured 300 prisoners. Our loss was
principally'in Ilagood's Brigade which mounted
the oncmy's entrenchments, but, not being
supported, were captured. Hispatclies Ironi
Atlanta state that the enemy's cavalry lost two
stand of colors and one piece of artillery in the
light on the 2Otli, mentioned in onr dispatches
of yesterday.
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A Buki^k at Ska.?A Nassau paper of June
4th publishes the following :
A melancholy incident occurred on Friday
of last week upon.the steamship Fannie, while
being chased by a Yankeo man of war. One
at the passengers on hoard, Captain Frank DuI'arry,
late Chief of Ordnance on ( Jen Beauregard's
Staff, C. S. A., died that morning. Preparations
had to be completed tor his burial,
which took placed 111 id all the excitement of
the chase. A burial nt sea is a ceremony at
all times full of solemnity, but it is when coupled
with such events sis this, that war assumes
its most repulsive aspect. Jn that frail little
steamer, quivering with her efforts to escape
tho relentless fate bearing down on her with
frowning guns, and thoxferocity of a tiger,
while every living heart on board was throbbing
with anxiety for safety, they were suddenly
called upon to render the last and most
solemn rites known to our existence. No
time then to stor> in wiiUn
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that consigned "dust to dust," "ashes to ashes,"
went up in presence of the grim destroyer, hut
still duelling onward through the waves?a
short and hurried service?a heavy splash?
and a body sank to its eternal resting place,
in the broad ocean's bosom, while all that was
dear to it in life sped from it on its wiiy like
the arrow from the bow. .
Some years ago, a rich banker in Berlin was
robbed to a very gi;cat extent by one of his
clerks, who fled to America with his spoils.-?
A few days ago, the banker received a letter,
and with it the entire sum of moncv of which
he had boen robbed. The tbeif made a large
fortune in America, and being mortally wound-'
ed in an engagement with the Confederates, lie
desired that he might be carried to tlie hospital
to make his will, which he was enabled to
accomplish before dying. In the will he left
his former employer the money he had taken
from him.
Poetry is the flower of literature ; prose is
the cofn, potatoes and meat; satire is the aquafortis
; wit is the spice and pepper; love-letters
are the honoy and sugar; lotters containing
remittances are apple dumplings.
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Tito Five* in illaiitc.
TIjc people in many parts ot'Maine have suffered
terribly, both in npprohension and actual
loss, from'the tires which have been raging in'
that State. A correspondent of the Spring- tl
field Republican writes from Winthrop, Me.,'
during the prevalence of the tire :'
The State seems shrouded in a heavy pall,
of smoke. We'arc cut off from the light of
the sun. We hear that hi our towns and cities
the people arc really preparing to flee, before
this worse than rebel foe. Many homes
have already been destroyed, many fruitfulfields
swept over by the flames. Iii one instance,
where a member of the family had just
died, the tiro came so swiftly that there was
not limp. t?? rpllUiVP ll>P finnrl In n wlrir>r? nf mCr._
ty, and 1.11e wretched family were forced to leave
it to be burned. 'Tis bad enough davtimes to
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ciiduie with fortitude such a state of things;
even at uoon wo cannot, on some days, see a
quarter of a mile in distance, and the birds
seem ominously thick and tame about the
Irousc ; but nights are fearful. "We arc wrapped
in darkness that can be felt and smelt, and
that stifles and sickens 'us. "We cannot see
the fire until it is just upon us," said a little '
maiden, sadly, one ni<jht this week when we
^iad started up from our beds alarmed at an.
appearance of sparks flying about not far from
us, "and when it comes we shall. not know
which way to go."
Maj. Gen. Bnell, who was mustered out of
service as a Federal Major General of volunteers,
being reduced to liis original rank as
Colonel in the regular army, resigned.
Mc lias lately written a letter hour Bedford
Springs, in which be gives "the following reason
for his resigning, lie is another witness
of the infamous maimer in which this war
against the Confederate States has been coni
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<iui,ai. u\ iJlHClilll fUii-l IOS supporters. .AS me
['residential canvass progresses we shall have
more letlers of a similar character published
in the Yankee press :
1 believe that the polie)' and means with
which the war was dicing proseented were discreditable
to the nation and a .stain upon civilization
; and that they would not only fail to
restore the Union, it indeed, they had not al;
ready rendered its restoration impossible, but
that their tendency \ui> to .subvert the. institu-'tions
hiuler which the country had realized unexampled
prosperity and happiness; and tosuch
a work 1 could' not'loud my hand.
Shakp Thick ok Ciiinksk Imfoutukh.?Thecustom
house authorities at San Francisco discovered
a very ingenious trick, which led tothe
seizure of another lot of smuggled opium.
Among the caigo of the bark Cores were 400
tithes invoiced eggs, value stated at one dollar
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eaeri. l no eggs were cnatcu with a peculiar
kind of varnish to preserve them. One.of the
oflicers, in examining the eggs, scraped off a
little varnish ami disclosed a tnetalic case, egg
shaped, filled with opium. So fur as the exam-ifiation
has proceeded, oOO have been found.
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Notice to Distillers.
DISTILLEKS OF EHUJT FOR NINETY DAYSor
less are required to pa}' a tax of sixty dollars,
and also fitly cents per gallon on tlio first ten gallons,
and two dollars per gallon on ali spirits distilled beyond
that quantity. Parties interested will please tako
notice ol'this, otherwise the penahv will bo imposed.
JOHN CANTKY, ) .
It. M. KENNEDY. \ Asse33?r8War
Tax Omen, August 20th 18G4.
Aiurnst. IX f
Garden Seeds.
A SMALL SUPPLY OP THE FOLLOWING
Garden Seeds are for side at tho Post Oflico :
Karl}' York, Drumhead. Savoy and Enfield Cabbage;
Yellow .Patch, White Stone and lied Norfolk Turnips;
Beets, Carrot and Parsnip.
Tlieso Seed were imported by tlio Confederate Got
eminent, and are believed to ho fresh aud,genuine. ,
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Until Bnea, White Norfolk and country Turnip.
July -9 ' 3
Notice.
All fkhsons having claims against
tlio Estate of Angus MeLeod, of Kershaw District
deceased, will present the sati.o tome duly nttostod,
all porxons indebted to said Estate will make
payment, to mo, as it is desirable to scttlo up the Estate
as soon as possible.
August 2-1 3 ' J. K. RODOKRS, Ex'lr.