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The Burning of Chambersburg. J
A8 it sceras not to be generally known that
the burning of Charnbersbarg was done by au?*
thority,!as an act of retaliation, we deem it prop i
er W publish the following copy of the order
under which Brigadier General McCaualandx
laid the town' in aslieB :
1
ItTTr. A- " " *
ua auvakuk rOBCES U. O. A., / j
July 29, 1864. j"
14To the Municipal Authorities of Chambers- '<
burg, Pennsylvania : f j
"The houses of Andrew Hunter, Esq., Alexander
R.'Boteler, Esq., and Edmund J. Lee, 1
Esq., citizens of Jefferson County, Virginia,
having been burned by order of the officer :
commanding the Federal forces in the department
called the -'Department of- West Virginia,'
I.have directed that your town-pay for the said
houses, to be handed over to the owners, the
sum of $100,000 in gold, or its equivalent; or,
if that cannot be produced, $500,000 in curI
rent Northern funds: In default of the pay
taent of this money, your town is directed to be
laid in aBhcs, in retaliation for the burning of
said houses, and other houses of citizens ofVirc'_
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gmia uy .rgoerai antuority.
~ \ "J.'A. Earlt,
"Liout. General Confederate States Army."
The following is a list of tho of the
Confederate steamer Tallahassee :
John Taylor Wood, Commander.
Win. H. Ward, Lieutenant.
-?? Benton, Lieutenant.
Joseph Gardner, Lieutenant.
John W. Tynan, Chief Engineer.
Charlea H; Levy, Assistant Engineer.
Elias Y. Ball, Assistant Engineer.
James Foy Green, Assistant Engineer.
' J. J. Lyell, Assistant Engineer.
. H. H. Roberts, Assistant Engineer^
B. M. Ross, Assistant Engineer.
Al.exandey. Curtis, Acting Master.CvL.
Jones, Assistant-Paymaster.
WvL. Sheppardson, Assistant Surgeon.
> - - Crenshaw rwf
? Cassidy, BoaAsw.ain. t
-? Stewart, Gunner.
?77?. Russell, Motor's Mate.
Profits,of Beockade Running.-?An English
rpApe)r gives .some curious information reap^pUng
.IhSjprofits of blockade Running. A
eingjeotfip, ,it shows -by a copy of a bomif.de
account, costs, $80,265.- Of this amount $5000
wrepttp tho *captain for ono . month's service,
t>3j)0Q for^pilqtagp^ut and in, and other sums
eqppljy Iprgo.to pincers, engineers, and others,
all of .whom, in view , of t.l?? j
...... iion niL'urreu, were
paid the most-liberal wages, even the coalheavers
receiving $200, a month. Against this
heavy expenditure, the following is given on the
Credits side.as the earnings .
* iOO bales of cotton lor- Government. $40,000
800 bales of cotton for owners. 40,000
Return freights for Government 40,000
Return freights, for owners. . 40,000
Passengers .' 12,000
Thys.jjjn case of a successful trip, the operator^.makflua;monthly
profit of $91,785,
The hoi\sc'in which William Pcnn and his
family resided while they lived in Philadelphia
was recently purchased by a' citizen of that
place, and will adori be deuioliahcd. The house
wa9.occupied by Pcnn in 1700, and in this
house his son John Penn was born. . It is now
about one hundred end seventy five yeara old,
and, is the last relic of the Fenn family.
According to Yankee, statements no filth efraids
into pennsvlvauia'or Maryland arb feared
for the present'.
CAMDEN DAILY JOURNAL.
TUESDAY MORlVIlfG, SEPT. 6.
THte family of President Juraz, of M exico had ar|
tived at Ne.w Orloans'from Brazos Santiago.
? Ring ofthe Old Metal.?"Resolved," says tli6 late
meeting ofthe Democracy, in Pike couuty, Pennsylvania,
"That the Government of the United States has no
right to coeice a sovereign State."
Capt. SemmeS is about to become the historian of his
own exploits, aDd two Arms in New York hnto announced
the re-publicnlton of his book, now preparing
in England : "The Cruiser ofthe Alabama and Sumter,
from the Private Journals of the Captain." The newspapers
are now referring to a volume of naval sketches
written by Semmes when onboard oftlieUnited States'
vessel, the'&miers, as affording proof of fair literary
ability.
Charleston".?The subjoined article, which we appropriate
from tho Carolinian, of Friday last, is 60
just, and ho felicitously expressed thnt we can not
deny ourselves the pleasure of republishing it, although
huiuuwnai xorig lor our wee sheet:
Every uewspapbr in'tho Conl'ederacy keeps n corner
for the brief daily report of the siege of Charleston.
When these terse bulletins first began to appear in the
columns of the^Courter and the Mercury, they. were
read with an interest as peculiar as it was profound
and universal. *pieif meagre, colorless descriptions;
their calm, laconic narratives; above all, their cool
summary of shots that missed and shots that- hit,
were found to bo more darkly and tprribly suggestive
than the minutest do (ails of the most elaborate
letter-writer could o?*>r -
tw u?u. vrrauuaiiy,
howfcVer; th^ repeated perusal of these pregnant but
monotonous paragraphs caused them to assume the
character of a "thrico told tale," until at last they
lost, na the familiarity of their scenes and . incidents,
almost all their power of affecting the imagination.
In reading them now, it require* an effort upon our
part to till out the picture of which they aro but the
faint outlines. Yet they shadow forth ,too real and
too heroic story to be altogether devoid of iutorest;
while, ever and anon, as we glance them over, we
encounter a phrase neither particularly new nor at1
all felicitous?generally, indeed, it is but the bare j
record of nn oft occurring incident?which, .some* I
how or other, seems replete with the same dread- J
fill significance that marked the first lrcah reports.? j
Thus, it happened, not long ago, that in picking up
a copy of the Courier, our eyes fell upon a clause
which simply announced that "tho enemy is putting
upauewgun bearing "upon the city." As if by
enchantment, the noble old sea-pott rose before
our view in all tlio grandeur and pathos of its present
situation. The lower p?rt of the' town, with im
vacant dwellings, its shattered hearth stones, its
dishevelled gardens, its empty streets, its dumb
spires and deserted churches; the "Neck," as the
other division of the city is callod, where the1 brave
and bustling inhabitants of this besiogod place are
conducting thoir ordinary avocations, within sound
of the enemy's guns, nud not so far off from those
guns but that an occasional shell helps to vary the
dull routine of their business ; tho lovely bay which1,
a few short years ago, was thronged with ships from1
every quarter of the world, which Is now ahnost
as lonely and desolato as when its waves were disturbed
only by tho canoe of some solitary Indian ;
SutnU-r.'still brandishing its flag, lying like a fallen
giant across the threslldld of tho harhnr MmiHw*
, ??V..i.*D|
"watching in grim delinnce the sea-coaBt opposite;"
the loug, low line of Morris' Inland, dominated by that
infamous flag, a glimpse of which irriiates one so much
as to drive for a moment all the poetry of the scene
from the head; lastly, the dim Atlantic, stripped of its
solemn and- mysterious influonoe by the presence of
three or four prosy looking Yankee blockaders ; in a
word, the whole theatro of the touching drama which
has been going on for tho last fourteen months within
and around the metropolis of South Carolina, lay
mapped out beneath our sight. No poem, no painting,*
codld Worthily embody such a scene; for it derives its
principal charm from thoughts which tho poet and tho
paintor could, nticr all, but faintly express?yet-il will
live rougbly sketched upon the page of the historian,
with all its precious memories of Buffering hrawly on.
durcd and danger gallantly mot, as Ion.. .or*
and fortitudo are admired upon the eartl
duty in South Carolina, especially, to k . i '<<". *,
fresh in our minds. The air is shaken wcli :..** t:
of far greater, though not more hen " battle." !
have evor taken place, or eould ever t . ~
fence of Charleston; and there is a eh v. <,v .
thunders of these hattlefl we may, t<- \ ?. a y
, get the recollections of that spot, th
should bo particularly Cherished by tlio people of1 this
State. As we value that feeling of State pndo which
has done so much to place South Carolina ih tho front
rahlc of both the councils and the battles of tho
Western world, let us avoid this error. We, at least,
who occupy a region of which Charleston is'tho immediate
bulwark, will not ignore her glory.
A Canadian Eulogy of Ceil. Eee.
In the New1 York Metropolitan Record of
July 22d, we find an admirably written review
of the Federal campaign of 1864, copied frdhi
the Montreal Telegraph, from which we extract
the following! ,
So far, we repeat, the campaign has failed at
all points. The Federal armies have been hurled
to certain slaughter by a hard-heartcdncss
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huisc i*ijciii ueviiisu. i>o vjeneral ever exhihiited
so great an indifference to tho lives of his
soldiers as Grant. It is impossible to say that
his ffrmy has not fought well/and endured all
tho hardships, dangers and labors of the campaign
with heroism and docility. They were
directed by a biitchor, and opposed by the greatest
General of this or any other age. Posterity
will rank Gem Lee above.Welliugton or Napoleon,
before Saxc or Turrefme, above Marlborough,
or Frederick, before Alexander or Coasar.
Careful of the lives of his men, fertile in resource,a
profound tactician, gifted with the swift
intuition which enables a commander to desccrn
the purpose of his encmjr, and the power of
^rapid combination, which enables him to op ?
pos&to it a prompt resistance; modest, frugal,
self-denying, void of araogance-or self-assertion;
trusting nothing to chance; among men, noble
as the noblest, in the lofty dignity of the Gliristiaq
gentleman; among patriots, less self-seeking
and asjpurc as Washington; and among soldiers,
combining the religions simplicity of
Hevelock, with the genius of Napoleon, the
heroism of Bavard and Sidney, arid the untiring,
nevcr-faltcripg duly of Washington.
If this great soldier had at his command the
forces and material against which he is called
on to contend, tbe superiority 011 land and the
supremacy aid water, in six months the whole
Federal States would he prostrated at his feet.
Asitis, he has made his own name, and that
of the Confederacy he serve*, immortal.
?
Kuskin on Dcnuiitrk. '
Mr. Ruskip^the art critie, in a letter tc the
London Post, thus bitterly discourses open the
course of the English Government in relation
! to tho Danish question : .
j The cession of Savoy was-the peaceful pres1
ent of a few crags, goats ar.d goatherds by one
| kisg to another; it was also, fair to pay for
fair work, and iu the profound est sense, no
I business of ours. Whereupon Mr. Kinglake
mewed like a moonstruck cat going to be
mane a mummy oflor Eubostis; But we saw |
the noblo Circassian nation murdered, and
never uttered a wofd for them. We saw the
noble Polish nation sent to pme' in ice, and
i never struck a blow for tbeni. Now the nation
of our future Queen calls to"tt8 for help
in its last agony, and we round sentences and
tnrn our backs. Sir, I have no words for these
things, because I have no hope. It is not these
speaking puppets who play before us whom
we have to excuBej it is not by cutting the
strings of them that we-can redeeWi1 our deadly
error. Wo English, as a nation', krtow not and
care not to know, a single broad basic, principle
of human justice. We have only our instincts
to guide ub. W,e ' will hit' any body
again wh<y hits usf. We will take care of our
own families and our nwn . --1 ? -
w.. * pv/vsivubd j HUH WC
aYc characterized in our present phase of enlightenmenttaiainly
by rage in speculation,
lavish expenditure on suspicion or panic, generosity
whereon generosity is useless, anxiety
for the souls of savages, regardlessnes9 of those
of civilized' nations, enthusiasm for liberation
of blacks, apathy to enslavements of whites,
proper horror of regicide, polite respect for
populicidc, sympathy with those whom we can
no loncrer serve, and reverence for the dead,
vboui v.\ ?;?< '>u? doiWi.r
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LATEST BY TELEGRAPHREPORTS.OE
THB PRESS ASSOCIATION:*
Entered according to tho Act of Congress in tho yeaf _
1863, by J. S. Thrashxr, in tho Clark's office ofthd' t s
District Court of tho Confederals States for thd
Northern District Georgia.
FROM THE GEORGIA FRONT.
Lovejoy, Sept. 4.?Our army is in line of
battle, confronting tho eneray*s advance At this
point. All our trains were brought off safely.*
The Federals, entered Atlanta in columns, by
fllfs rr?*aa Pao/1 ?^ I??M?
vtauu ai?u xtuau uu r i lutty morning At 9
o'clock. The city is quiet, ^nd the!'.citizens
who remained wero unmolested. The lines'
arc comparatively quiet this morning.
From Mexico.?The latest news w.q jtftite
from Mexico is a letter from Mataraoras of the
25th July, which presents the state of affairs in
that country as being by no means H& unfavorable
for Jaurez as Maximitlian's Organs havo
lately tried tor make the world believe. The
statement that Urago deserted Jaurez and submitted
to the Emperor is refuted in the letter
which contains a paragraph from a letter from
Urago himself. Maximillian, even by tno
showing of the $sta fette, and other o^ficipl oigans
find many unexpected difficulties. It/
complains of the want of assistance ^nd co-ope-'
ration from the influential citizens who heretofore
were opposed to Jaurez, but they* do not /
seem to like Mmfeamilian any better. We are
told that the clergy are very much opposed to
this civilization } they expected-to get back
their property, but Maximilian, Almonte & Co.,'ftant
it themselves, f
The Peace Mission lo Richmond. x
Jaquess and Gilmore, the late peace missionaries
to Richmond, were afrkilly as Greelv and
Colorado Jewett. They displayed none of tl?C'
diplomatic ability of Napoleon and the Cbeva- 4
lier Wikoff. They humbugged President Lincoln
badly enough but Jeff. Davis wound them
round hks fingers. Two school boysemfid have
cut a belter figure in the presence of ihe rebel
r A I ? .
cinui iimn oaqucss and Wilmdre.did.judging by
their own story. Jeff. Davis beat them upon
every point, and .finally cornered them so cruelly
that they were glad to sneak out of any'?
further discussion. According to their own
accounts, their ignorance is as great as .their'
impudence. They were not authorized to offer
any terms, and had no terms to offer. Jaquess*
evidently set about the business in order to get
a furlough ancf be relieved of working and*
fighting in our army. Gihuore's object was to'
colject material for a penny a line article in a1
magazine, and to seduce newspapers into puft-'
ing his stupid hook indirectly. We do not believe
that the slightest reliance can be placed'
upon the statement of the romance which
.Tailless and Gilniore have written about their'
viiit. Their account will, dobtless, be immediately.
disclaimed and contradicted by Jeff.*
Davis.?New York Herald.
Notice to $roducera
; WAR TAX OFFICE, )
Camden, S. C., Sept. 6, 18*4 )
I WILL ATTEND AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES'
and places tp rceive returns of WHEAT, OATS},
RYE, CURED HAY, and WOOL, produced in the'
proscntyear:
Liberty Hill, on Monday, September 19. A
Flat Rook, on Tuesday, " 20.
Buffalo, on Wodnesday, " * 21. c.
Lisinfcy, on Thursday, " 22;
Schrocks' Mill, Friday, " 23.
Curoton's Mill, Saturday, " 24,-'
Thero is no exemptions on Wheat, Oats and Rye-*
Wool is taxable when rooro than ten pounds is grown?*
add producers will mako their returns accordingly.
W. WALLACE,
I ' Assessor Tax in Kihd, It Collection District.
September 6 ' Bdlw
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School Notice. .
The e?Mciseso'fViiss. dbnoon's school*
will be resumed1 on the 1st October next.
September 6 * 4t.
Cotton Tarn.
BUNDLES SUPERIOR QUALITY.
OU COTTON CAltpS?2 dozen Whittemore's; 3'
dozen English. t
CIGARS! CIGARS}!?10,000 Cigars of Florida
Tobacco?a good artidle,
?A LSO? ^
Superior chewing and smoking Tobacco, Salt, spoolThread,
Needles, Ac. W. C. GERALD A CO.
Sept, 6 tu. f. 4t