The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, August 27, 1864, Image 1
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9?elf?ion hi Uic Army.
Wo arc cnablccftto lay before x>nr readers the
following "extracts from a letter of Bishop Lay
to a relative in. this city, not designed for publication.
Bishop Lay. is now engaged in missionary
labor with tho Army in Georgia, under,
Ge.neral Hood :
Yesterday, in Strawl's ".brigade, I preached
and confirmed nine nnranVic ?;?*!?
t T , iiHOU lllgilt VI ?
had a very soleipn service in Gen. Hoods room,
some forty persons, chiefly Generals and Staff
Officers, being prcsont. I confirmed Gen. Hood
and one of hi& Aids, Capt. Gordon, of Savana
nah, and a young Lieutenant from Arkansas,
Tho service was animated?shells exploded
- near by ^11". the time. Gen. Hood, unable to
kneel, supported himself ou his crntcb and
staff, and with bowed head, recoived the bonediction..
Next Sunday I ara to administer the
communion at Headquarters. To night ten
or twelvo are . to be confirmed in Clayton's
*division. The enemy thoro, are* within two
hundred and fifty yards of our line, and the
firing is vory constant. I fear it may bo hard
to get tho men together.
I wished that you could have been present
last night,and have seen that company down
all upon bended knee, tho reverence was so
marked that one could not fail to thank' God
that hi hits put such a spirit into the hearts
of our leaders.
We are requested to add that Bishop Lay is
ably supported in his labors by the Rev. Dr.
Qtiintard, who is Chaplain and Surceon,
ministers to the. body and mind?and than
. whom no man is bettor known to, or rnoio
beloved by that army. To serve it he has
given his time, and sacrificed nearly the whole
of his property. To carry on this gopc! work
he now needs means. Bihhop Lay writes of
hirn :
"I told him that he could not leave the army
?-he i$ better than any man in it. Everybody
knows him and comes to him for counsel.?
There is noCh.aplpin. comparable to him in
point of usefulness, and he canqot possibly be I
spared. It ? proposed to establish an ec
clesiastieal headquarters to move with the
army, to have stated servipes, to be always accessible,
to *npp!y books and tracts, to receive,
the "clergy and show tbera bow to go to work.
General Johnston Earnestly endorsed this planand
General Hood will furnish all facilities for
carrying it but." , . >
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Vandalism in Stafford.?A cavalryman
who left Fredericksburg Friday morning, informs
the Richmond Winer, that crunboata came
within four miles, of, Fredericksburg. They
landed ia.party on the Stafford side of the river,
proceeded to the honse of the late Col. John
Seddon, ten miles below Fredericksburg, ordered
his Widow and ^children out of doors, and
burnt it to the ground, with all its contents.?
The cowardly fiends would not permit the
family t6 save a single article from the flames.
Iirave men and Christian gentlemen they inudt
hav<fcriii the Yankee navy 1 Three gunboats
sent to burn the house of a delencless widow,
and'.make, houseless her orphan children. It
makes one blush to ramembcr wo were ever
united tp s.uch a nation of incendiaries, thieves
apd cowards.
Geo. Forrest has issued an order at Okolona
which says : "No ono will be perinitttd to go
North of this place, except upon passes issued
from or approved nt these headquarters. All
persons attempting to go North in violation off
this order will be arrcsrted, imprisoned and tried
as spies." . \
It is a legal maxim that "the law does not
concern itself about small matters but lawyers
and law makers ofteu do.. , - . I
UM1DM DAILY JOURNAL
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SATURDAY jfflDIlNIKGt AVJCti; 27.,
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No neWd by telegraph up to tho hour of going to
prewthis morning: '
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A convention or all tub confederate and all
the United States."?We'think it "is perfectly? plain,
says the Charleston Jfarcnry, that the Democratic,' 01
Peaco Party of the United States, wfll'-ldy down attlm
Chicago Convention, on one ot the plauks in their
Platform, the assembling of this Confederate and the
United States together in n Convention, to reconstruct
a union betwceu thorn. It is, therefore, time for tho
people of the Confederate 8tates to consider gravely
| tfyeproposition. * .. t .
j Our Yaokco foes have^made war upon us on the
: ground, that the Confederate States are not -Statek.?
| They have not a particle of sovereignty {' but aro mere
districts or counties of a groat consolidated nation, call,
ed ihe United States. Of course, they will see or ro
cuyiuie no muepeoaence tn inose mates. 'l'hcy will
act as if they aie still a part of their groat consolidated
nation ; nDil proposing to receive them' into consultation,
they will take it for grapted that that rebellious
agency at Richmond is qfuito competent to bring them
in. If they have read the Constitution of the Confederate
States they will naturally infer, that it cannot
bo raor6 sacred, than their own Constitution of the
United States, which is only a piece of dirty rotten
paper, respactort or observed by nobody. Hcnco they
talk flippantly of making a treaty or agreement with
the Confederate Government at Richmond, by which
afl the Confederate States are to be brought' into a
Convention.with them.
Xow, it is well for our Yankee foes, as well as our
Government at Richmond to understand, thi.t tho Constitution
oftho Confederate States confers no power
whatever on their agency at Richmond, to put any of
them into a convention with any foreign State whatever.
There is but one kind 6f convention which it
can convoke, and for but one purpose?and that is, a
Convention of the Confederate States to amend their
Constitution. Tho Constitution sajs: ''Upon the demand
of any threo States' legally assembled in their
sover.il Conventions, the Congress shall summon a
Conveution of all tho StatM, to take into consideration
such amendments to the Constitution an tho said
Stntos shall concur in suggesting at tbe lime the said
demand is made, and ' should any of the proposed
amendments to the Constitution be agreed on hy said
Conveution?voting hy States?and tho same he ratij
ficd hy tho Legislatures of two thirds of the several
j States, or b}* Conventions in two thirds thereof?as the
ono or tho other mode of ratification may he proposed
by th^Cencrnl Convention?they'sliall thenceforward
form a part of this Constitution.''
But it may be said?that by tho Confederate States
Constitution, the President bus tho power, ''by and
with the advico and consent of the Senate," to make
tfeaticB; and if the President make3 a treaty by nud
with the advice and consent of tho Senate, providing
that the Confederate States shall go into a Convention
tviflt f Ko Ctofao r\C TTnil A/1 * 11 *
i *t?vi> uuv ijiniuvp ui vku uuiinu iq aner &0Q
amend their ConRtitution?are not tlio Coiitederate
Statea bound to go into the Convention? We answer,
nol The CQnfederato Stuteaare separate sover*
eignties. They have agreed with onch other that the
Congrvs of the Confederate 8tates may summon them
to go into Convention with each other, for oue purposo?and
one ouly. They have agreed with oach
other, that their compact of Confederation between
thorn aball be altered or amended in ono wny, and in
one way only. To break this compact, and attempt
to alter or amend it, in any otbor way, is n clear
j breach of faith. The Confederate agency, may treat
with foreign nations*concorniDg any oftho powers the
1 Constitution confers upon it. It can make a treaty
^ with foroign nations regulating tlio commerce between
t t.nm aii olinillh*in? - A * ?
tnviu, >! ov.pn.nviub luimn 01 uBbiRumce >or onenco or
defence against other nations, or for the mutual rendition
of criminals, or for abolishing privatoering on
the high sens. These aro mattorft over which, by the
Constitution, it has contn^. But it has no control
over the action of XbeAovereiga States, beyond the
limited grant in the Ccflfttitution ; and can no more
order them into a convention with a foroign nation,
than it can extinguish them as sovereignties. It is
entrusted with the conduct of our foreign affairs ; but
lias uo? power whatever to convoke the States to settle
them by altering their Constitution. This would be
an usurpation, not relating to our foreign affairs only,
but to our internal affairs in the vital matter of altering
tho internal structure of tho Government. To
Bnch an usurpation of power there would, of course, be
but ono course for tho States to pursuo? repudiate am}
object it/ ' ! 1 ' v *.
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:.-~?..... . DeclipaUou; .. .
H? the Citizens of Kershaw District: Finding that
the interests of my command roqnire my. wholo care
,and: attention, on accgjmt of the increasing demands
of duty tipon it, I have determined (thought confess
with reluctance)to withdraw. iny naino as a candidate"
for elfttion to tbo House of Representatives for the
next term. I return toy warm and heartfelt thanks to
the friends who nomiuated me, and to the many who
bavo written roe such encouraging hopes.
At some futuro time, when the alarms of war shall
have ceasod, if my fellow-citizens deem me then fit
for thoir worthj* honors it will prove a source of
gratification aud pride tp me to serve in tho councils
of the oountr}*:
Very- respectfully,
* Your nioat ob't servant,
W. L. DePASS.
Camp Rose, August 22.d, 1864.
;mc ?iid of tlie War.
"Wo arc asked fifty times a day, more or less
wficn we think the war will end. As we have
no right to think, in the absence of data to
think upon, we are sometimes at a loss for an
answor. However, for the information of thoSe
who are particularly inquisitive and anxious
upon the subject, wo will relate h dream tlu^
a friend of ours had upon the duration of the
war, which may thrdw seme "light upon tho
subject. He dreamed that he woke from n
sloep of fifty ycare, and found himself upon tho
south bank of the Rapidan. He saw at a little
distance from the spot where he awoko a corporal
with 17 men and a wheelbarrow, lie ap
pro^chod and asked the corporal what this little
gathering meant. *'This," replied the corporal,
"is the Army of Northern Virginia!"?
"Where arethe Yankees?" enquired our friend.
"They are on tho otljer side of tho river," re-,
plied the corporal. "They have the advantage
of us in'mimbors and transpoitntion?as they
have twenty-one men and two wheelbarrows?
but.fce expect to get tho advantage in position,
will whin ? ??/! ...... 1 "
...... ...su.iu urn.ii iiiiv nni mil rim. ?
As this is the best and *11 the information -we
have about the probable duration of the war,
we give it free gratis for nothing at all.?Abingdon
Virginian. t*
A Tolori Toast.?Any one who has been
in St. Augustine, Florida, an}* length of time,
nmst have scan or heard of old C ; who has,
until recently kept a store in that city, who
had the misfortune to be deaf. lid had a
stock of good liquor in the cellar, and the officers
at the post cultivated C '? acquaintance,
and appeared very friendly, although
some of them disliked him, and thought ho
was a little too 'stingy," hut they were -always
ready to drinkwhen he asked them to "take
something." a)u one occasion he invited a
few of them into his back room ; the old "rye"
was turned out and the er I asses raised, when
one officer who wished to amuse his companions
a little at C 's expense, gave the following
toast in rather a low tone of voice :
"Mr. C , hero is hoping that yon \vill go
to h?1.
Old C did not hear what was said, but
seeing the officer's lips move supposed that he
had paid him the usual compliment of drinking
his health, and promptly responded :"
"The same to you, sir, and all of your
family."
The laugh was turned on the officer, who
was punched-for his impoliteness. '
WnisKEY Rations to thr Yakkkk* iv
Front of Petersburg.?Tbe Baltimore A)rtitrican
of the 13th inst., convinces us that the
Yankees in front of Petersburg are reaping the
full benefit of the malaria of. the James and
Appomattox. It says, despondingly :
4tAa a sanitary measure, and to" counteract
the efforts of malaria on the troops serving in
the Department of the South during the warm
months, tho Medical Department has directed
that whiskey,- with quinine, in prophylactic j
doses, shall be issued to the men, particularly ,
those on duty in districts especially malarious,
or on excessive fatigue duty, only on the rccom- 1
mendation of the senior medical officor of tho
district in which service is performed. The
distribution of whiskey to the men performing
only ordinary fatigue, dqty has been, discontinued.",:.
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Corn is soiling in.tbe vicinity of Columbus, ,
.Miss., at one. dollar.an4 a quarter per bushdlj*
i??n? ???1=?ggggPg?
A SuccEBsrcb Confederate Raid.?Colft*
nol Rowan, with 250* men, lias just returned
from a successful raid into East Tennessee,'
where he destro^d the 'splendid rail road'
bridge, 780 feet long, over the Tennessee river
at London, capturing 75 prisoners, brought,
away 700 pairs, blankets and 200 uiiifbthis, besides
destroying a considerable number qf^wsgons
and other property. '1lie movement'
would have b^cn a surprise but for. the treachery
of sotno porsons, whp revealed the plan Jto
the enemy and caused them to be oirthe alert,
A fight ensued in consequence, durlhg which
we loss five killed and twelve or thirteen',
wounded, and tho Yankees suffered a loss of
about forty killed, besides a number wounded.'
Our forces consisted- of soldier* recently exchanged,
and started from a pointr near the *
Tennessee line.
aekms of l'kack.?-The New York Herald
has the following on this subject:
In his ultimatum, addressed "to whom it/
may concern," Mr. Lincoln lays down the abolition
of slavery as one of the terms of peace..
Where did he get his authority fof t|jis!
What section of the Constitution-authorizes it ?
When was the war for the Union transformed
into a crusade agaiust s[avery ? By what.
right does Mr. Lincoln presume to say that
the emancipation of negroes is as much the object
of this war as the restoration of the Union?
What party sustains him in this view of the
case ? If the South jfish to go back into tbo
Union with slavery, what party will dare to oppose
their return ? The Northern peoplo caro
running about slavery. What they want is tho
Union. Who will lefusis to let tlinni have that
when the iel?cl>> offer to l^y down their arins *
For Sale
rPWO GOOD PLANTATION' WAGQNS. APPLY
X TO S. SHIVER.
August 27 P>
To the Public.
K. THE UNDERSIGNED PHYSICIANS 01'
* * Camden, in consideration of the laienclion nl'the
Medical Society of Charleston, iner?iising their charges
from three to live times thy^e ?? their old fee bill, have M
agreed from tlio present date to adopt tin? tnininum
recommendation, making our fchnrgCHThree titues tho
usual feis, which WC believe is as low as is adopted in
any part of the State. Discretion will be u'sed in par'
tieular cases. v
L. Hv DMAS, MP.
L. V. DicSAUSSURE, MD.
T. W. SALMON It. Mt>.
H. 11 MAT11KSON, MD.
JOHN .MgCAA, MD.
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August 25 ?
NEW cimi
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r I "M I 15* S17 BRCRJ BE It BKC.S LEAVE TO IK FORM
tjie citizens of Camden, and tho surrounding
country, thnt lie has on hand, for sale the folloWWhg articles,
to wit: s
Salt, Lard, Bacon, Butter, Flour, Meal, (Writs, Brown
Sugar, Molasses, Kice, Tobacco. .Cigars, -Soda. Cotton
Cards, Cotton Yarn, Coffee, Black Peppor, Vinegar,*
Crust Sutrar, ?c, all of which will be sold ht the lowest
possible itfites for cash, or exchange for country
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August 26 tf BASSETT SIKES.
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nutxue to uusLiiiers.
Distillers of fruit for ninety days
or lofts aro required to pay a tax of sixty dollar?,
and also fitly conts per gallon on the first ten gallons,
and two dollars per gallon on all spirits distilled beyond
that quantity. Parties interested will pleane take
notice of this, otherwise tho ponalty will be imposed.
JOHN OANTEY, ) .
It. M. KENNEDY. \ Asse!,BorflWar
Tax Office, August 20th 1864.
August 28 2
Notice.
All persons having ^claims -against
the Kstato of Angus McLeod, of Kershaw Dis
trict deceased, will present ilie aau.o to me duly attested,
all persona indebted to aaid Estnto will make
payment to me, as It ia desirablo to sottlo up the Estate
as soon as possible.
August 24 3 j. e. KODGEItS, ei'tr.
Hog Stolen.
Any person having purchased within
tho pastr'\veek, a small white and blac^itaal?
jhoat, unmarke<V"wifl.please report the samolto t'hia
jffiee. Tbey shall.not loose the hog, the object fcefng
io detect the thiofc ^
' August-26 ^ - 3d