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VOL. 1 CAMDEN, S. C? SATUEDAY, S3EPTEMBEB, 24> 1864 M&- 73
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~ Life in Sau Fraifcisc^-Four .Men
Killed.
San Francisco, June 24, l'S64.-7-Tbere \y-as
a serious shooting affray on our principal street
(Montgomery), which resulted in the death* of
four persons. The facts, such as arc ascertained,
are as follows, viz : It sccras one Bill Davis,.'
a uoted gambler, who resides at Yreka, was in\
terosted in and drove a horse race which came
off at Placcrvillo on the loth inst., and ,4th rowed"
the race, making some $4,500 by it.?
Hank SUven^, B#ll, Dutch Abe and Spanish
liob, four "sports,77 backed Davis7 horse 7arcl
.got broke; swore vengeance, killing on sight,
etc. 0n.the 18th they all come to this city
(except Davis) and publicly said they were going
to shoot Davis on sight, etc. Ou the -1st,
Davis came in town, and at '2 .o'clock p.' m.,
was sitting, having his boots polished, in a
black's adjoining the Fas}iion,'when Ball and
Dutch Abe c.uuo to the door, and looking in,
exclaimed, "Here's the dirty thief now," and
drawing their revolvers, commenced shooting.
Davis jumped out of the chair1 with one boot
polished, and drawing bis revolver, fired, {Hid
Ball lell dead across an iron grating. Davis
then jumped oi\t on the sidewalk, laughingly
saying, "You've made a mistake," and tired at
, Dutch Abe, the bafl taking effect iu bis right
breast, lie fell, wlx>n Davis ran ^rid caught
the revolver from Ball's hands, saying, as he
walked towards the door of the Fashion,
"Where's the, rest of you mudcrers?" Blood
was running down Davis^ left hand from the
arm, and also down the right check. As he
it uu Liivj- pviui. ut i-uiuinii^ luv; uuur, iiu m;is
met by. Stevens .and Spanish Dob, when Davis
iaised the revolver in his right bairn and fired
twice. Stevens fell, arid Spanish Dob jumped
over him on the'sidewnlk and fired, staggered,
but recovoring, they (Davis and Spanish Dob) !
commenced in go.od earnest,, each -striving to i
fire a deadly shot. Davis was laughing Jill the
time.
They then commenced firing at each other,!
# about twenty feet apart. After Davis had fired I
. two shots he threw the revolver at Bob,'- and,
changing the revolver he took from Ball into
bis right-hand, he raised it, and it snapped
three times; the fourth time it went off, and
Bob fell.' Davis bad fallen before this, and was
lying on bis breast on the banquette. Davis
threw the Tevolver iDto the street, saying, "IIell
and furies, damn the thing." lie then pulled
a Deringer, and both (only having- one shot
oach) began craw^tig towards each on their
ftoroachs. When about five feet apart they
botirraised partly up and fired-simultaneously,
when Bob's head fell, and he remained perfectly
still. Davis then said, crawling towards
Bob, "He's goue, I cooked him," , and then
partly turned on his side .and tried to rise.
On examination, Ball and Spanish Bob were
dead; Dutch Abe and Stevens mortally
wounded, the first having been shot through ,
* : the right lung, causing iuternal hemorrhage,
, &c. The latter was shot through the left
breast.
Spanish Bob had four wounds on him?two
in the right breast, one in the riorht. firm find I
one between the eyes. Ball had a ball in his
heart. Davis has six wounds?two in right
leg, one in right breast, one in left shonfder,
one in left wrist (through,) and one on right
cheek, where a bullft had struck the cheek
bone and glanced off, cutting out a piece of
< fiesh of the size of a ten cent piece.
Stevens died on the 24th, at forty minutes
past 10 a. m. Dutch Abe died yesterday morning.
Doctors say Davis will certainly recover.
x ?Cor. N. O.Pjcayunc.
Avarice is more opposite to economy than
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camden daily journal
SATURDAY MORMIVC, SEPT. 21
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Astronomers pi^dict that in November of this year*
a meteoric display of falling stars, similar to that of
Noretliber, 1833, will take place.
Changes IV Ikton's Ap.my.?From the Lovejoy correspondent
of tho Columbus (Gfa) Tunes of tho 16th,'
we learn, that on account of irreconcilable difference
with General ITood, Lieuteoant-Geueral Hardee has
been relieved of the cpminaad of his corps. MajorGeneral
Cheat a am will probably succeed him. Brigadier
Shoup, Chief-of-Stail? h?3 been relieved from his
' position at his own request. Lieutonant'Colonol McMiCKtxt
Chief Quartermaster of tho army, lias beep
removed by the Quartermaster-General at" Ricfuqondt
and Major1 Ateu, formerly stationed at LaGrange, one
of'-the oldest Quartermasters in service, given the
positiou.
[FOR THE CAJfUE.V JOURNAL.J
Mr. J?d?(>r: I ask a short spaco inyour columns to !
defend a (-lass of the community, not inferior to. any !
in patriotism and devotion to country, against the unjust
imputations, cast upon them bytbe following pargraph
of the Charleston Courier, and by other squibs
of similar spirit and calibre: ' ' " j
Tlic people of the Confederate States are lit- !
tic aware, as the D'^pakk remarks, of the ex- i
tertt to which the country has been imposed i
upon in the matter of details and exemptions. I
From good-authority, we. learn that an iin- i
mense army?an army which, if curollcd, ,
ciplincd, and led by proper officers and a prop- j
er Gonefal, would he able to plant the South-1
eru cross on the spires of Philadelphia before ,
the ides of November?hu army of one hun- j
dred and fourteen thousand men?seeks, and >
has secured, exemption from service as- agrienltnrists
sneaking) under that pica, out of the
defence of their country?leaving under that
plea others to light their battles lur them?"j
good Confederates, brave patriots, worthy citi- I
zcns, delighted to hear of the brave deeds of .
our gallant anily, provided they be ndt. called [
on to share in the glory, willing to he free prey j
vided it cost thcin nothing. One hundred.and j
fourteen thousand men detailed as ngvicultu- j
rists, and all these of conscript ago, in a pop'u-!
lation of five millions ! Oh shame, where is
thy.blush ?
Now these exemptions were.neither offered nor accepted
as acts of favor. The subsistem-o of tha'army
and of the country required that the negro labor of the
'plantations sliould^be left under the direction ol skill- 1
ful qui! cfTieieut managers. For obvious reasons' comparatively
few, of the class exempt, from military service
by age or infirmity, were 'qualified to be such j
managers, and the deficiency could only be supplied by*
exempting or detailing for such employments, the
persons within conscript age, who were actually so
employed before the passage of the law, and who
have continued without intermission tobfc so employed
since. And the congress took care to impose upon
the persons so exempted, such obligations as must ren- 1
dcr their services, in the capacity of agriculturists,
quite *s valuable -to the Confederacy, as the services
of an equal number of conscripts ?an be in the field.
Nay, their servi.ces in this capacity,were indispensable
'jU uiv nauiicui iiiv umuu v, uui v^jiiiu iuuii jiiihamJ
have been filled from any class, less exempt titan
themselves, (com military servico. How tlien. is their
service less honorable than that of Quartermasters,.
Ccrmmissaries and other employees of the Government
whpsb duties do not expose them to danger ? IIow
is it less honorable than.that ofisoldiorsjin the field, if,
as is clear, their services iu that capacity are indispcnsible
to the country ?
> One hundred and fourteen thousand vigorousrdcruitsi
such as.most of the class referred to, are, would indeed
ho invaluable in the army, and might cause the bal
ance ot war to preponderate decisively in our lavor, if
famirio and insubordination all aver the land thrown
pito the opposite scale did not make it more speedily
and disastrously against hs. Who is to determine this
point?the congress, tlio President and Secretary of
War, or tbo Courier and Dispatch? Or where is the
ground for complaint and reason for shame by which
tjie "Courier*' is sq exorcised" as, at thol-isk of fomenting
discontent in'the army to traduco a respectable and i
oatriotio class of citizens, and cast unon them fmif.i
august', an J unjustifiable amputations? . Does it .con- |
gist in their having accepted unsolicited exemption,
tendered by tho highest authority, not as acts of private
favor but for public and patriotic purposes? If
it were so; if the agricultural exempt who faithfully
discharges the obligations imposed upon him by law is
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deemed to shim his duty more than the soldier in tbe
field und to be less meritorious and respectable, I
would scorn to bold such exemption longer, as I would
have scorned to accept it in the outset; and I have
no doubt but that a very large i-ajarity of that clas9
would do likewise. But the question is not a trivial
one, and nni&t net be determined by the gassy patriots,of
the ' Courier" and "Dispatch" otEcos who per"
chance seek to push suspicion from their owd doors by
heaping it recklessly upon others.
Aei ^iOKlUULTL RAh J1.AKMPT.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
REPORTS "OB" THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
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Entered according to tho Act of Congress in tho year
18G3, by J. S, Thrashes, 'in the Clerk's oflico of the
District 'Couit of the, Confederate States for the
Northern District of Georgia.
FROM THE -WEST. .
Giuffijt, Sept. 21.?It is reported that the
enemy was skirmishing with Gen. Hood's ar..< *
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IIJV iiuai i rtiiuuin jusiviutiy ?11 ii'i uu(.Mi| uuu
nothing reliable lias been received yet. A
train of Yankee prisoners went up to Rough
and Ready, last flight to be exchanged. The
10 days armistice expires to-night. The Chattanooga
Gazette of the 18th says Gen. Lee is
being heavily reinforced, and that Kirby Smith's
forces arc encamped in Misouri, 70 miles from
St. Louis. Guerillas, bn route from Smithland
to Louisville as prisoners, overpowered, the
guard of the boat and forcejj a landing. Farragut
does not design attacking Mobile at present.
Sherman has issued an order forbidding
.all citizens coming this side of Nashville, from
beyond there. Says 25,000 prisoners have
been removed from Andersonville to Savannah
and Augusta. Pespatc'hes arc published from
Qiant and Sherman calling on Stanton to enforce
the draft at once, as they greatly need
men. Gold in New York on the I wtli 221.
Grifjix, Sept. 2.1.?One thousand of our
men were exchanged at Rough and Ready this
lriorning and have arrived here. The oath has
been fivcly offered at Atlanta- Prisoners say
they met a great many of Sherman's men going
home from Chattanooga. Dalton is garrisoned
by three- brigades of negroes; There hud been
,no movement of the c'ncniy at Atlanta up to
last night, and nothing known of the whereabouts
of our army.
FROM PETERSBURG.
' Petersburg, Sept.. 22.?Except the usual
picket firing ali is quiet at the front. Iieports
of heavy reinforcements sent to Grantv prerail,
and generally believed to be-true. The enemy
are very vigijent on our right, evidently fearing
an attack on the Weldon road.
*
A Sharper Circumvented.?An extensive
swindling operation was brought to grief iu
this city yeslerday.' A man dressed in a Confederate
Major's uniform, applied at this post .for
Rations for the 5th Tennessee cavalry, in Morgan's
cornrnaricL Everything appearing- to be
right, the order was filled, and the supplies
sent to the railroad for shipr^wt. The ''Major"
here took them and sold?icm, realizing
a handsome 'sum by the t^saction. The'
facts becoming koown to the. authorities, he
wasrairested and lodged in iail. We under
stand that in hij trunk were found complete
suits of officers' unifqrms to personate brigadier
generals, colonels, lieutonant colonels, &c.?
The "Major's" case will probably receive early
attention.?Augusta- Chronicle.
From Mobile.
A correspondent of tho Griffin JRebel in
speaking of Mobile, writesthus ::
I have little fear that Mobile will be captured.
Gen! Gardner of Port Hudson memory, said
before he was appointed to command the District,
that the city could never be if men and
officers did their duty. Each day's delay on
Granger's part, inures to the ultimate security
of the threatened city. Its garrison is hourly
augmented.- Alabamians and Mississippians,
conscious of the extent o? calamities involved
in the fall of Mobile, hurry onward "to the gulf;
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and even the militia of Governor Clark, enlisted,"
as they snpposed, to serve only within the limits
of the State, readily assented to a transfer to Mobile?thither
many of them will be removed.
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The fall of the forts and the loss of the iron-" 1
clads has been of inijiy'tc service in arousing^ j
the people of Alabama . and; Mississippi to a
sense of danger: Tiro readiness with which
the militia of this Stato have responded to Gov. J
Clark's proclamtion is to be ascribed to the 1
'presence of imminent peril. They anticipate I
hard service, and even now tliat tliev are transferred
to Gen. Maury, there is no apparent dis: '
satisfaction. ~ ' I
Every line of entrenchments around Mobile,'
mac]e- during thd reign of Leadbetter, Withers,
Buckner, Maury et idomnc genua,, will be occupied.
The giins mounted, are of the best
description, and thoso in the fort, near the city,'
of the largest calibre. The gunners are veterans,
and officers skillful. There is no point
from which the city can be shelled, which is
not commanded by ten inch cofuinbiads.? .
Brooke guns guard the upper bay which cannot
be navigated by vessels drawing more than
seven or eight feet. An attempt will hardly be
made to -shell the city, till tho batteries below
are reduced, of which such vessels are incapable.
At the Apalacha battery there are not so
many guns, hut it is being strengthened, and '
guns can be floated to it on our iron-clads.
The iron-clad Nashville is as strong as the
Tennessee at all points at which she will be exposed
in a fight. A land attack will not materially
aid oue'made simultaneously by water.But
I may not tell more of the defences of Mobile.
In al! that I have written; nothing issta-"
ted which may not be glecncd from the Federal
publications.
Arab "Wisdom.?The Arabs have a saying
st is not good to jest with Go,d, deathT or the
devil; for the first neither can nor. will bo
mocked; the second mocks all men one time
or another; and the third puts an eternal sarcasm
on those who afe too familiar with liiui.
litlt t .n mmi
Headquarters,
KKSEYE FOUfiFA, S. C., )
\ - . Columbia, s-ept. 17,18Gi." f
SPECIAL ORDERS NO. 73.
J- fHK PLAN wnicn- HAS BEEN HERETOJL
FORK adopted by the Kiirollini? Otltcers of furloughing
raen%lu>3e applications for detail ,md exeroption
are ponding, will bo discontinued. All su?h furloughs
are hereby revoked.
II. Enrolling Officers w ill, in all cases o! forwarding
members of tire Reserve Forces to nnv point, furnish
them wish papers, stating in full the purpose for which
they are sent. HI.
The District Enrolling Officers will take tho
most effective method in their power.of forwarding tor
thoir proper commands every man of tho Reservo ?
class who caimo^ shoy/iiis papers of detail, exemption
or furlough
By command of Brig.'Gen. Cuesnut.
ED. II. BARNWELL, A. A. Gen
Sept 22 \< 3
?3^~Siate papers Copy three times.
AUSaa A TOT Tt J.
viiiut; i*. iu- j^eparimtfiii,
Camdes, Sept. I5tb, 1861.
PLANTERS ARE URGENTLY REQUESTED .
to haul ia immediately all now fodder and peas,
aa well as old fodder and shucks, in order to meet the
pressing demands of our armies.
They are also notified that they can have credit on
their Tithe of 186-1, for thgir deliveries of corn if they
prefer it to "payment in cash
' CONWAY BELL Agt. A. Q. M.
Sept 1* 'tf
Notice.
' ' OFFICE S. C. R. R. Co. )
Camden, Sept 15t 1?64. .j
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE, FREIGHT ON
all packages "will be required before delivery^?
This rule will be strictly observed. ? ' >
Sept 16 6t JAMES JONEg Agent. .
- ?:?-?- ?_5 hMusical
Instructions'"
gjSgfel MISS ALEXANDER WILL. REOPBN
F? ^er mu3'cal SCHOOL the first Monday^in
October, if a4 sufficient number of pupils can be secured
to warrant her return. Terms $75 per quarter.
A 11 M? - . ... -
ah pupus commencing a quarter, wHI bo charged till
the close. Tho8o
wishing to apply, will leave their names with >
Mrs. McCandlessby the 20th of September.
September 1U
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