The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, October 19, 1864, Image 1
; , VQl,. 1* OAMI)]t!y, S. P., WEDNESDAY, OC T. 19,1864. 'NO. 94.
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By X>. P. HOOOTT.
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How tSarrolerji are Punished in England.
The following is extracted from the Durham
Chronicle, an English paper : *
John Crndacc and Thomas Allison, who were ;
convicted at the assizes last week of garrotc
robberies at Sunderland, and sentenced, the
? . former to five years and the latter to ten years
pc'nai servitude,,with twenty lashes each, underwent
the? punishment of flogging at the
ccunty prison (in Saturday. The instrument
of punisbipeut was manufactured by a sailor,
who is undergoing imprisonment in the goal,
expressly for the purpose. The cat is' ingeniously
composed of nine thongs of stont. leather,
in each ofwhich-are nine knols, and these
being connected to a flexible handle, the pow?
. \ cr; wielded by strong hands, is terrific. At evefy
stroke the kuots cut deeply, making flesh
and blood fly in every direction. The prisoners
were?6rinly tied np in a reclining position, j
the lowei part of their shoulders exposed, the
. higher ilia Tower part of their backs being protected.
by padding, Tbo warders, Hodgson
nod Alison, executed their task with the skill
of more practiced hands. The officials of the
? . goal were present, but the prisoners were kept
in their cells. Hodgson and Allison alternate
lyr inflicted-ten lashes each on eacli of the, prisoners.
The first lad) was received with comparative
equanimity bv each prisoner; but. on "
the second, the yell of deep and exoruliating
agony which burst forth is represented-as ltide
seribable. Their cries continued during the
whole of the punishment,-, and these, together
with the sight of the flying'fiosh and oiood,
the mangled'bncfcs of the sufterei-s, and the
clotted skeins of the,cat, made up a spectacle
of horror overpowering to thos-; who w itnessed
it. AYhen the punishnibnt-had been inflicted,
the prisoners were, taken down and removed to
the prison infirmary in a state of complete
prostration?indeed, it is averred that neither
of tbem could have leeched another lash withe
out the greatest-daugOr. Althongh the pris
otiers: did not witness the punishment. tliev
could heAr the shrinks of the unhappy sufferers
in their cells, and it is to be hoped the contemplation
of the punishment may have a salutary
effect on their lhinds.
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Horrible Villain v.?The New Yjbrk. Herald
ofihe Stb'has been received in Richmond.
In it, aays-the Dispatch of Monday, is a letter
irom Grant to Sheridan, in which lie directs
liim to burn every bonse in the Valley to
drill every horse, cow, hqpr, slicep or other aniin)d;
to destroy every mill; to set fire to every
barn, wheat or hay stack, to cut down every
i ornamental tree and carry off every negro. He
savs that if this war continues twelve months
longer, be desires to convert the whole Valley
into a howling wilderness. There is nothing
in modern history so atrocious asthis'order.?
It is the a<ft of a man with small brains and
great vanity, who has been beaten and baffled
until his .senses have fled completely. It is the
outpouring of a beaten and wounded spirit.?
He cannot whip Leo, but he can starve the
women and children. We tnrn him over to
' Gen. Lee.
This order was issued while Sheridan was,
' as he thought, carrying everything before .him.
It had not time to be published before be was
flying down the Valley with his freebooters,
and Early in pursuit. Is there a man belonging
to the Valley who can stay away froin hpt
eolors under such circurostancts ? If there is,
be must be dead to all the impulses that en no
ble man. Never was vengeance more londly
called for.
' The invaders of the old Dominion ought to
be pretty tfell "seasoned" with their experiences
of /Sa&ville and Culpeper.?Mail.
WiiDXCSiMY OCT. ID.
The President sent General Fokkest lifteen hun- !
drcd tine English carbines for his men. ns an appreciation
of (licit services during the past -few months,
which is a well deserved tributo to then; prowess.
Wiiat the Wak uas Kkvea led.?Official docu-'
ments from the War office at Washington show that
the Yankee Government has called into the lipid, from
fii st to last, over three million of men. They have, ,
besides, some six hundred vessels of war, equivalent, i
we should think, in what they hnve done and what i
they have prevented us from doing, to a million more
of men. . i
Goon Move.?It is stated that Col. Ou^d, C. S.
Commissioner, for exchange of prisoners, is now on the
ove of eutoring into fresh negotiations for an agree-;
ment which shall secure for each Government the right
10 furnish to" its own soldiers in the liands^-f the other, I
3ui.ii pujjjiij ui wjiriii coming iiuu owDKew ns may oe :
required for comfort during. 'lie approaching winter,!
and a slated ration of meat, bread, coffee, sugar, pickles j
and vinegar^ ho that actual physical siiffe-ing shall not !
lie added to those that arc inseperable from imprisonment.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 13th, lias.the follow- ,
ing items from Bichmond and tlio Valley;
The armies confronting each other, on tho. James
River, with the exception of some artillery firing night
befqro last, remain quiet. Gbast seems indisposed "
tojrenew the-cotnbnt; inoced, we do not believe he. is
in a condition to act in the offensive. His at;my?
which is believed to have dwindled down to 50,000
men?is not of the same material as that which crossed ,
the Itapidiin last May, but it is chiefly composed of
new recruits and negroes.
f)e:KETio.vs Piio:i tjib Enemy.?Since our Govern- 1
ment have adoptod the policy of sending Yankee de- 1
sorters through the lines to their homes, instead of
holding them as prisoners of war, they have been com- j
ing within our lines in large uuipbers, and when tiioso
Who. are drafted learri how easily they can escape nnd
the facility afforded them by the Confederate Government
to return 10 their own country. they will come '
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U) .4IUI!lll<JU?.
At first, n>osttof the Federal deserters were foreigners,
hut for several days nearly nil who have arrived
within our lines are natives of the United States.
Butleb piiaexologiqally Developed.?(
while in New York n sho:t time ago* whs o.vumincU |
>>y Professor FowiJir, wiio, it is said, ?ravfc hiin a plire- ,
nologieal explanation oi the peculiar defect in hie moral
organization by attributing it to an, unhealthy development,
of. the organ of nppropriativt-uesa. Hero- '
marked, however. immediately afterwards in a sooth- j
ing tone, that this bump hi the Great Mariborough's <
head was almost, il not quire as large, and that it is?
and has been in all ages a 'peculiar- characteristic of
true greatness, to have petty foibles and trilling weaknesses.
The General greatly gratified replied: Fewr.Eit
von aie a smart follow "and n hanrUlt' tr> m"P
raoo. When I am President you shall bo provided
for. ' ]
From Georgia.?Wo are still without any definite - '
information from our army in Georgia, owing, we-sup- '
pose, to the embargo laid by Gen. Hood on the send- <
ing <Jr despatches The following extracts may assist j
in dispollirjg the fog which just now shrouds eVery <
thing in thai qunrter :
Mail Office, Montgomkrt, tuesdar-r-11
a. m.?The movement of Gen. Hood's army has
at last developed into a march for Middle Ten- ,(
nessee. and has thus far nroven entirely sneense- '
ful.. '
After df strgying the State road, with its gar- 1
risofls, froni Big Sbantv to Kingston^ tbe army. 1
turned to the left towards Rome, and en route <
for tbe Tennessee river. ' 1
We have no doubt that the report of our 1
special correspondent, "E. P.," is altogether 1
correct, and that by this time a large part of J
our army is North of the great river.
Sherman, with a.portion of bis men, is at ^
Chattanooga, but he will be forced back to defend
Nashville. '
Tbe garrison at Atlanta will be isolated and r
starved out v \
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ii young limn wa.s arruaieu iu v/im-ago a lew
days ago, for running away with and selling a 1
horse and buggy. -Another man's wife was in |
the buggy. t ,
, Thq Indians in Kansas arc visiting upon the r
Yankees a just retribution for their cruelties to t
Southern men there, and farther South. f
LATEST Bt TELEGRAPH
REPORTS OE TUE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Entered
according to tlio Act of Congress in tlio year
18G3. by J. S. Thrasher. in the clerk's office of the
District Court of tlio Confederate States lor tlio
Northern District of Georgia.
. FROM PETEIISDUHG.
Petersburg, Oct. 17.?No military move-1
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ntenis nave irnjisptrcu in irns department, anu
no appearance of any since Grant got into position
before the.citv.
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The \? ashing ton Chronicle of the 15th has
been received. It says that the Democrats arc
even with the Republicans in Pennsylvania ;
though the vote in the army'may carry it Re- j
publican. Maryland has voted against the
new Constitution by 3000 majority, aim! the
soldier's vote will adopt it.- Indiana and Ohio
have both give Republican. Despatches from
Grant's army, before this city, says active operations
will soon be renewed.
' The Chronicle says Mosby ltiadc a raid on
the Baltimore and Ohio JLtailroj^cI and the Manassas
Gap Railroad, at White Plains, in both
of which lie was successful.
Price is at Boonville, Missouri. Shejby is
north gf the Missouri, pillaging and conscripting^4
Price made a speech at Boonville, stating
that he came to redeem the people, and it
was the last effort in their behalf. If they
would r.^Ily to his .assistance all wonld be,
well, and lie could remain with them; if not
the Confederacy would not again offer them
the opportunity of redemption from their woe.
Mosby is reported to have crossed the Poto-.
mac in Montgomery county on Friday last ?
Nebraska has gone llcpublican.
Gold in New York 214, and no war bulletin
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from Stannton. %
FROM VIRGINIA. '
Charlottsvii.lk, Oct. IS.-r-In the affair at
Fisher's Jlillon Thursday, we killed and wound
sd from- .50 to 75 of the enemy, and took as
many prisoin-rs, who report that jhc 6th. corps
was at Front Royal. T{jc enemy were near
Strassburg on Friday,' and a small force-of their
cavalry were in the toWn. Lieut; France Adjutant
to Prig. Gen. Carter, of the artillery, was
severely, though not dangerously wounded in
[lie leg, on Thursday. Nothing else has ocjnrri'il.
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KORTUSRST.KEWS.
Mcbile, Oct. 18th.?The Advertiser l?as dcs-.
patches from Scnatobia. The Memphis Bulletin
of the IGth says the Republicans claim
40,00(3 majority in Ohio. Chief.Justice Taney
tlied on the 12th. . Chase is spoken of as his
successor. Nothing from Grant,- Sherman,
Sheridan or Misouri. Yankees admit a defeat
it Eastport, by Forrest.
Mosbt Defeats Tire Yankees at Salem,
n "n n ti
UAPTURING J3AGGAGE, UAMP EQUIPAGE, (SC.?
Official dispatches received yesterday state that
i body of about one thousand of the enemy
moved np tho'Manassns.Gap railroad on the 4th,
with trains loaded with railroad materials, and
jccnpied Salem and Rectorlown? Col. Mosby
ittacked them at Salem, defeating them, captu*ing
their baggage, camp equipage, stores, &c.,
ivith fifty prisoners and killing and wounding a
joryuderable number. His loss, ttvo wounded,
rhe prisoners reached Richraoml last- evening
jy the Central train. . '
. . .
Northern dates of the 7th inst. state that on
tuesaay, (4tnj the reool UTMiert.1 Stirling 1'ricc,
ivith a force of about twenty thousand, was six
niles West of Union, marching Westward towards'Jefferson
City, designing to take the.
dace, install a Secession Governor ami hold the
state for Jeff. Davis.
Union is the county scat of Fra'rtklm county,
md about fifty miles from Jefferson, and somewentv
miles Sonth of the Missouri T-tivn* ntvl
orty milesWcst of'Str Loais. ,
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Ulurdor of Confederate Soldierraud
Ciiizciixat I'roul itoyah
The Richmond Sentinel has received from a
gentieman. who was an eye witnessed the atrocious
acts of the Federal troops at Front? Royalj ^
the following particulars of the affair:
The Yankee cavalry, nnder Gen. Torhctt, on-'
teipid the town, and drove out the few Confederates
x>n picket, who fell back to Miiford.- At
this latter point Gen. Wiekiiam iqet the Yankee
force and.repulsed it., .,
A part of Moshy's men, nnder the command
of Capt. Chapman, annoyed the enemy very
much on their return to Front Royal, whiclifwith
the mortification of their defeat by Wit'kr
ham, excited in them such savage feelings a* to
prompt them to murder six of our men who fell ?
into their hands. Anderson, Overby, Love and
Rhodes were shot, and Garter and one- other,
whose'name our informant did not recollect,
wurt; hung to the limb of a tree at the entrance
of the village, with a card attached to the bodies,
threatening with hanging on the same limb any
one who should remove the corpses from the
ire'e. . '
Henry Rhodes was quite a youth, living with
his widowed mother, luid supporting her by bis '
labor, lie did not belolig to Mosby's com-- .
tnand. Ilis mother entreated them to spare
the life of her soil, nyd treat him ** a .-prisoner
ot war, but the demons answered by whetting
tfieir sabres on .stories, and declarinnr thev would
7 >f. P ^
cut off his head and hor's, if slur cainc near.?
Thev ended by shooting linn in Iter very presence.
The tnnrdem were committed on the 22d of
Sept, Gens. Torbcrt, Merfrtt and Custer being
present. It is said that .Torblfeit and Alerritt'
turned the prisoners over to Custer for their
fate, who ordered the execution. . V
Carter, one of the two tlfttt were hnngj died
the death of a brave man, defying his executioners,
atld tlirentehiiior them with the tenfold
vengeance of his comrades. If either of the
three generals in command on that <'ay, wji'o
are responsible for these brutal inassarfes.
should be captured, liis immediate exerution by
hanging would meet the demands bfjnst cc and
the anorbvai of the people.
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PkacsT, ant lion'.?A hopfful corn^poiulont
writes to-tlie Mobile Register from Clinton,
La. "As to tlie result of the norl election for
a Yankee President, I h.dicve it will make but
lltlc difference to the South who succeed*. If
Lincoln is ro-clecfltl there will Ik- a Western
fevolltion amf Confislcrnev before tlie 4t!i of
Mnrch*ie\t. If McOLIInn i? elected Lincoln?
will make peace 'before the 4th of -Marcji.?
Keep this in mind."
Special y of ices.
FUNERAL'"llOTflCE.'
THE FRIEND? AND ACQUAINTANCES' OF'
Mrs. S A. Jot and family are requested to attend thefunonil
services of her daughter RACI1EL, to-morrow
(Thursday) morning 8t 1PJ o'clock, at the Methodist
f!!mr/"*h * .
October 19
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
* Central Bureau. )
( Columbia. Oct. 1, 1864. )
HEREAFTER, CARS WILL BE DISPATCHER
regularly for'Lee's and Beaaregard's Armies on every
Wednesday; for Hood's Armv'on the 1st, 10th and
20th of every mouth ; for Charleston and the Coast on
ftie 1st, 10th and 20th of every month.
if. LaBORDE, Chairman.
pHT It is again requested that boxes be properly
secured by wooden hoops; and that molasses jugs and
bottles be excluded from the boxes.
Oct !8 " . . ' '
- Papers of the State please copy.
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
Central Bureau, Sept 24, 18S4.
* JWicrvn#e-o n/ IPWr
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THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION' WILL FORWARD
packages, containing Clothing and Tobacco,
for PRISONERS OF W AR, to Colonel Jones, Commissioner'
of the State of South Carolina, who will forrr-oivl
ti.nm frt thn rviint nf oTehanire below Richmond
All charges on this side of the.line, will be paid by us; . '
the charges on the other side, must be paid bj the receiver.
Also, all open letters of one page for TRIS0- NERS
OF WAR will be forwarded by us..
/ ' M. LaBORDE,
Oct 18 Chairman Association..
P. S.?Boxes must be socujoly strapped,