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VOL. 1 CAMDEN, 8. G, "WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 21,1864- HSXX TO.
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General ?arly:
"Phax," who is lately-from the army of Virginia,
contributes to the Rebel the following
sketch of the distinguished commander who is
opposing Sheridan it the Valley :
Old Jubal Early, or as Gen. Lee calls him,
his "bad old man," has won a name, daring kia
sojoufn in the Valley of Virginia, of which'Jbe
is well worthy. Did you ever see him ?' If
not you have missed one of the greatest curiosities
of the war. He is a man of considerable
corporosity, with a rail fAce, wHch has the apof
the full moon when it, is atits heitrht
id redness. He is abonfcsix feet high, and of
immense structure. His voice sounds like a
cracked Cbinese 'fiddle, and comes from bis
mouth somewhat on the style of a hardshell
Baptist, with a long drawl, accompanied with
an interpolation of oatbs. In the wintor his
head is encased in a net stripped woolen^ skull
cap drawn down over his ears, while^his body
is contained ^within the embraces of a -Virginia
cloth overcoat striking bis heels. His legs are
covered by leggins of the same material, wrapped
from the feet upwards as high as the knees
with white tape. He is as brave as he is homely,
and as homely as any mail you ever e^w,
except Parson Brownlow, who is said to rival
his Satanic Majesty iu his personal appearance.
There are'wanv annecdoles jrefated of old Ju
ba!, but I cannot at present call to memory but
one. Daring the battles In the .Wilderness on
one occasion a regiment from South Carolina
was ordered to charge the enemy.. Fop. some
reason they faltered. Old Jubal hearing of it
rode up to the head of the column and in that
peculiarity of tone for which he is noted, cried
cut at the top of his voice, "Boys you got us
into this d?d scrape, and by G?d you'- shall
help us out Charge 1" The regiment were so
cut by the remark that tuey rushed' upon the
foe, driving him from every position.
Heavy Defalcation.
The city was alive with new seD6ation on
yesterday, to which the disappearance of two
young ipen in highly responsible positions gave
rise. The young men alluded to were George
Butler formerly a clerk in the Treasury De
partment, ana Tnomas ?&Dox, (Japtain and
Commissary at Camp Jackson Hospital. Butler
was relieved from his clerkship some time
ago, for drunkenness, but was granted a fur*
longh by the bureau of conscription, for sixty
days, in which to balance his books. On Saturday
evening last, be and Knox left town on
the Fredericksburg train, Butler it 3aid, personating
Knox's "blind brother,7' having his
head shaved, moustache off, and green goggles
on. On the same morning Knox bid
drawn from the treasury, on a requisition for
Camp Jackson, $149,000, which, it is alleged,
he converted into gold and sterling, and poek
eted. An examination of Butler's accounts, it
is said, discovered a defalc&ion of no less than
$700,000. He bad, it was reported, b$en purchasing
sterling for some time past. Knox being
a native of Fredericksburg, easily managedto
get a passport, and if the two have been as
successful in evading tie pickets as they' have
the detectives it is probable that ere this they
are both in Yankeeland.?Rickrtiond Enquirer.
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The General Marauis de Grouchv. who has
just died at Paris, commenced a few days before
he died, a lioel suit against M. Thiers, for
the statement made by the latter in his "Consulate
and the Empire," that it was by the'fault
of the deceased's lather, General Grouchy, that
the battle of Waterloo was lost.
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The army postoffice for Gen. food's army
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CAMDEN "DAILY JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21
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t Tbe Examiner bas conflrmation of the report that
Mosbt hung thirty Yankees whom he caught burning
residences in Clark coipty.
A Cool Couple.?An exchange announces themar riage
of James L. Ioe and Miss Harriet A. Freeze.
"Wo hope they will be able to koep cool this' warm
weather. ;
The New York Times of the ^Ofh says, that tho secret
of the surrender of Fort Morgan is that the rebels
wfere really starved out. I telegraphed you two weeks
ago that it had been the practice to supply the fort only
for a4;?rtnight at a time ; and that the claim of the
rebel commandant, that he was provjsioned . for six
months, was all humbug. The event has fully borne
out the statement
The Confederate War Vessels in France ?It
may be remembered that not long ago two war ships,
destined for tho Confederate service, we^e ordered at
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Nantes. The Phare de la Loire now tells us,that the
San Francisco and the Shanghae are yet in the docks
there, and that they are, in a mysterious manner, bfeing
armed. A label, in larger character^. is posted above
the coupe, ordering no stranger to enter either vessel
It is said that in the interior of these ships, on the one
side armed, the machinery hooks are being studded,
on which to hang chains in case of air attack. M.
Voruly^Vo are assured, has bpen authorized by ,the
Minister of Marine to tesl these machines; but M.
Chasseloup Laubat demands that only one 'ship at a
time shafl leave the harbor. The day ontwbich experiments
are to be made is n<^t yet fixed.
Captured by a Negro.-^A Yankee prisoner
who bad m#naged# to make' his escape from
one* of the trains, was captured below Graham's
Turn Qut, S. C., on Thursday: The circumstances
are as follows: The prisoner went. to
the negro informing him who h\j was, and asked
for food; he was told'to remain in that place
and food would be brought to him. The negro
at once went and told his master. He remarked
that he Vould go with him gund capf
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uvug tuv i nimctt Aiiu iw *i? s.-?j
and said that the man would iHin if he saw a
white person approaching; and also advised
that he be permitted to take him somefopd in
company'with nnothcr'liegro, and that his master
approach cautiously an4 arrest him. This
plan was agreed to. While the Yankee was
eating he discovered the gpntleman approaching
through the woods, and started to run.?
But the negro'was to* smart. He at once
grabbed him with the remark "No you don't,"
and held him nntil his master came up.
The boy, \ve;think, should receive a handsome
present for lilvshrewdness and fidelity.?
Augusta Chronicle.
The fiDal scene of a melancholy deama was
played to an end to day.
The last chief of the celebrated Polish National
Government and four of its members
died this morning upon the gallows.
The unfortunate victims were Romuald Trangutt,
a discharged Russian Colonel; Krajcwski,
an architect; Joseph Tdozyski,. a book
keeper ; Zulinski, a teacher at the gymnasium,
and John Jazloranski, a tax collector all yonng
men. none over tbirtv Years of af?e. Ori<nnal
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]y twenty two men and four women were sentenced
to "death' by the military tribunals; but
the Viceroy pardoned seventeen of the men
and all the women.- It must not be imagined,
however, tljat the objects of Count Berg's clemency
have much reason to congratulate themselves
; for their sentences have been commuted
partly to shorter periods of confinement in
fortresses in the same bleak ahd -inhospitable,
country.
The five persons were^ executed upon the
glacis of the fortress this morning, although a
pardon was hoped for to the last moment.?
They stepped upon the scaffold firmly, and underwent
their fate with perfect resignation and
composure, in presence of an immense crowd
of, spectators.
i Thus perished the latest victims of the jlljudged
and jll-fatod Polish rising of 1863.?
War*C<b. of the London Times.
Extract from the.Chicago Times of August
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wSold.?A negro child was sold by it? mother
at Ruction at. Hudson, If. YM recently, and
was bought by a, lawyer at $1000?'
Verily, negroes are looking dp in the North.
Usefulness of Diamonds.
Many persons suppose that diamonds are
only use^. in jewelry?ft>r rings and other articles
of personaj adornment, and that they are
really of no essential value whatever in the
practical ^irts. This is a mistaken notion;
they are used for a great number of purposes
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in toe ans. xnua, ior cuuing me giass or our
windows into proper sizC, no other substance
can equal it, and it is exclusively used for this
purpose. A natural-edge, or point, as it is
called,ris used for his work, and thousandsr of
such $re annually required in our glass factories.
Diamond points are also employed for
engraving on carnelians, amethists ami other
brilliants, and for the finer cutting of cameo
and seals. Being very hard, the diamond is
also used in chronometers for the steps of pilots,
and as it possesses high retractive with
.inferior dispersive power'and.little longitudinal
.aberration, it has been successfully employed
for the small deep lenses of single microscopes.
The magnifying power of the diamond in proportion
to that of plate glass, ground to a definite,
for/n, is as 8 to 3. For drawing minute
lines on hard steel and glass, to 2"ahe micrometers,
there is no substitute for the diamond
point. 4
. The*rough diamond is caHed bort, anj} the
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"points' usea ior cutting glass areine iragmenw
of borts. Great care and skill are necessary in
selecting the cutting points, because the diamond
that cuts tBc glass most successfully has
bfcen'edgesof the crystal-placed exactly at right
angles to each other, 'ana passing through a
point or intersection made by the crossing oi
the edges. A polished diamond, however perfect
may be its edges, when pressed, upon the
surface of glass, splinters it with the slightest
pressure: but with the natural diamond the
most accurate lines are produced on glass, and
their surfaces ar<S so finely ^ burnished that, ii
ruled close together, they decompose light and
afford the most beautiful,''prismatic appeatanfcc
?all the colors of a rainbow flash from them
as from the silvery interior of a pearl oyster
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A Belgic Description of Charlottes
villKj Va.?TIic following racy description,
from the. Charlottcsvillo Chronicle, pnrports to
be an extract from tbe Indeptndent Beige :
The people of Charlottesville are remarkable
for their simple and Spartan tastes. They go
clothed in the most ancient and thread bare
garments, and eat very little besides unjiuttored
cakes made of com meal. The latter gives
them a rather gaunt habit, and is in marked
contract with the large-bellied hucksters that
, come from the country. Their chief drink is
water, which is held in abomination a few
miles out of tpwn, where the people raise large
orchards, and convert les fruits into brandies
?a bottle of which is sometimes exhibited on
the public square for the citizens to snuff, at an
established tariff. In the winter time, tbe
chief trade between the townsmen and the
country jpeople is in wood, which is very scarce
near the citv. and accordingly commands fab'u
Ioub prices. It is sold by the stick, one ol
which, eight feet long and four inches through,
will bring about two dollars. The farmers, to
do them justice, arc perfectly willing to'ex1
change their jpmhon and flour with the citizens
for large snms in Confederate notes?generally
a pound of one for a pound of the other
?but the citizens have gradually fallen into
the habit of living on peas and bread.
The Saratoga belles, this snramer, delight in
contrasts in dress. Yellow or red trimming oil
black is popular. Military high necks, with
"buttons all over," and shoulder straps, for the
morning; and very low dairy windows, with
short sleeves and long skirts, in the evening.
For the hair, one-style is a couple of puffs in
front, the hair falling in ringlets behind, and
made fast with a gold, ivory orjewelled comb;
and another, gatbored in a swab, without order
of neatness, an<J crammed into a nei to fall low
on the neck, the curls looking extremely tidy
and comely, tl^e' swab looking as if the maiden
had mado a hasty tt>ilet and had forgotton to
arrange her hair. 4
The 6rst" Christian church' built in Japan
since the treaty made with Mr." Harris was by
the Koinan Catholics. This is a neat and conspicuous
building of white stucco*; it is erected
on ground gi Ten for the purposo by the Freneh
Minister. *
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REPORTS OP THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.'
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Entored according to* the Act-of Congress in the year
1863, by J.*6. TiiraSheb, in the Clerk's .office of the
District Court ?of the* Confederate States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
FROM MOBILE. .
Mobile, September 19.?Last-eroiling the
passenger engine on'the Mobile and Ohio Rail-'
road blew uti. killing the engineer. Six veseek /
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off the .Bar. All quiet, and rumors unreliable.
The people of the Confederate States arc .littie
aware, as the Dispatch remarks, of the ex-1"
tent to which the country has been imposed* "
upon in the matter of details ainl exemptions.^ * ,
From good authority, we learn, that an immense
army?an army which, if 'enrolled, dis-' ,
ciplinedvand led by proper officers and a prop1-* , r
er General, would be able to plant the 6out?H-e'rn
cross on tie spires'of Philadelphia* befbrtJ'
the ides of JjTovember^-an array 'of one- Uutt1-,
dred and fourteen-thousand men?seeks, and*
has secured; exemption from service as agriculturists
sneaking under that piece out of the
Joanna tUnir r-rtrm*?,T_lonvincr ' tind#?r t.hflt
VI tic UOU VI bUVll j <VN>
, piea others to fight their .battles tor them? /
good Confederates,.Wave patriots, worthy citizens,
delighted to hear of Vhe brave deeds of
, our gallant army, provided they be not. called
on to share in the glory willing to be free provided
it*cost them nothing. One hundred and
p fourteen thousand men detailed as agncultu.
rists, and all these of conscript age, in a popu,
lation of five millions ! Oh shtwne, where Is
thy blush f *
1 Critic Proverm.?An old patbolic' rhyme
. may thus be*Englished : ^
"Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse
Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man ;
Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer;f
. Thrice the age of a deer is tlipt of the'eagle;
Tluice the age of the eagle is that of" the oalc
tree.** '
CENTRAL* BUREAU,
^ ' Columbia, Sept. 15,1864. ,
, . Cars will be Dwpp'thed.
For Leo's and Beauregard's Armies.?ep..2G t Oct 7'
For Hood's Army '. ... Sep. 22 dt Oct.
For^Charloston and the Coast...'. .Sep. 22 Jc Oct ^
M. LaBORDE, Chairman,
rg* It is again requested that boxes be properly
secured by wooden hoops; end.that molasses jugs and:
bottles bo excluded from the boxes.
Papers of the State plenre copy.
?>?mmmm?wgrntgmmm.?
School Notice?Private Lessons.
The next session of my school-will
open on the first Monday in October.
I shall also continue to give PRIVATE LESSONS1
in all tbe English branches of education, Mathematics,:
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aiJflCUt OUU ?UUUC4U
L R. StfAUDENMAYER. '
Sept 20 * . ' 4ti
Ofi&ce Q. M- Department,
' , Camden, Sept letb, 1864.
PLANTERS ARE URGENTLY REQUESTED*
to haul in immediately all now fodder and peas,
as well as old fodder and Bhncks, in order to meet tho
pressing demands of our armies.
They are also notified that they can have credit on /
'their Tithe of 1864, for their deliveries of corri if thejr ( 1
prefer-it to payment in casli
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Notice.
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I CAMDEN,*Sept 16, 1864. f
ON AND ASTER THIS DATE, FREIGHT ON
all packages will be requited before delivery.?
, This rule will be strictly oblerved. .
Sept'16 6t JAME8 JONES, AgenJ, .
Musical fastractions-'
MISS ALEXANDER WILL REOPEN
her musical SCHOOL the first Monday in.
i October, if a sufficient numberof pupils can be ee
cured to warrant he; return. Terms $T5 per quarter.
All nunila rvtmrnnnnino' a nuartar. will be dhanted.till
" the close. 1 * * ^ \
' Those wishing to oppjj, will leaye tlfeir names with
l Mrs. MeCandless by tbe SOth of Beptembe*. .
September 10 . **?
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