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<V ./ . VOL.. 1 , CAMDEN, S. C.5 TUESDAY, OCT. 25,1.864. ?mamam?cm?am? ?' iwiwcwe wmb.ii ? m?um.nj'ijn i ^ i i?i n wmtm nmm n? iwi ,..inTMIM ? ?jL-f.. Terms of Subscription. Daily paper per mouth $3.00 " 44 for Six Months - - - SI a.00 "Weekly, - -- -- $5.00 1. ^ O Rates for Advertising: For oho Square ? twelve lines or less?TWO ' DOLLARS and FIFTY CKNTS lor the first insertion, and TWO. DOLLARS for cadi, suliscqeuiii. . oiutu.vit v Notices,'exceeding one square, charged at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job Wor* M CST UK rAID FOR IN ADVANOK No deduction mado, except to our regular advertising patrons TSati 'Frsstli alt out Ai;U ? >?>'wit. A 'correspondcut o! llig Mor.toomeiy -ieVt/tiser writes : (JONCKKT IIA LI. HoSI'lT M., ) Montgomery, Ala., October 13, I SOI. ) Having been a participant in tlie assault on Alatoona, (ami beiiig'uni'ortuiuitc.dy wounded,) i know something of (he assault, ami in justice, not only to tho public, (which have been mi?-inl'orinetl,) but also to our noble division, it is but proper that a true statement of these facts should h.e made known. Our division was never repulsed. A dispatch was sent by one of our cavalry commanders to General Stewart, stating that.a column of the-enemy amounting to ten thousand had been at l ig Shanty, (advancing from the direction of Atlanta,) a snflieient time to have been around Alatoona.? General -Stewart then ordered General French to withdraw to New llope Church. Thus by * it false report we were forced to retire after iidi iHg Hi a Vi II uuc Drill Ul llll! C Ul'IllV S 101'lUlL'lltions. It is confidently asserted by all, Gen. French included, that had we been permitted to remain at Alatoona half an hour or an hour longer, we would have taken the place. More unexampled heroism and bravery has not been displayed since the war began thau was exhibited on the bloody heights of Alatoona. Gen. French says that it was the most severe and hardest fought battle he had o**r witnessed. It raged with unabated fury for foni hours ami ten minutes. Again, the paper referred to says-that Gen. Stewart came up on Thursday with bis whole corp* and on Friday assailed and carried the place, capturing Tour tbousond prisoners. &c., after, a desperate fight of two hours. 1 was with the troops until the Oth. It was then passing through Cedarlown, (in., and never icnewed tlio attack. After the function of our di\ ision wit li the corps'at New lfopc Church on tJie 7th, instead .of moving on Alatoona we moved in a Northwest direction to .Cedartown, and did tu t move in the direction of i\latoona in trie least. The Reporter and Hullctin also says that Gfeip Flench lpft his killed and wounded on tli 9 fir Id. It is due to this gallant officer to say that though our dead and many who were severely wounded were left, many came ftwav, in fact all who could he brought off the field, 'it being from two to four miles to the ambulances and their being, but a small number of them, it was impossible to rescue all.? Neither did the army of Tennessee move on .'up the railroad towards Daltoii from Alatoona. It id not prudent to say in what direction it was moving at last/accounts received by us, October lltli, It is enough to say that we will soon hear from the jinny of "Tennessee" not only in name but in truth lav, far acioss th'o Georgia bordei. Col. Robert Onld, the rebel Commissioner for Exchange, bad a nmrow o.seapo?from drownr ing yesterday. Indeed, it was thought atone time lie could not possibly be saved. lie was passing from the rebel exchange steamer Alii son, at Coxe's wharf, a short distance above Aiken's Landing, when the "gang plank," one end of which, it appears, rested too slightly on the edge of the boat, gave way, and precipitu. ted Col. Ould into deep water. He immediately sunk and rose, bat too much time, was consumed in rendeiing him assistance, and he was at last saved only hv dint of greatest exertion. His semi-Confederate uniform was, like hynsclf, thoroughly drenched, and he was obliged to exchange it for a citizen's suit, borrowed from the crew of the Allison.? Cor. Yankee 'paper. CA.ViDLN DAILY JIUMAL Tui:si>Ar otosihikg ?CT. as. General Howell Cobb lias purchased a residence in j Sumter, South Carolina, and is about to remove his ; family there. The New York Inspector' General estimates the j I number of I'ersons killed in New York city daring tho j ! rio.tr at fully 1,000. ~ .1 It app>a,-s fr.un an o li m i si, it j a rut hat the North . A tlani ic Moekadiuv. ripiudron has, from August 1st, lfiOM, to October 1st. captured or destroyed* lilty \ easels. Most of these wwe li-st class blockade runners. Nbw i.mt'uk.^n.mkm ?The Commissioners of l he St \u?l'.d Slates. t> bo rm et.ru- ...? J ? .x w....; <! ? im;> cm urn i at Montgomery to islnulish :i uniform schedule, id rei 1'ition in the i i pressui lit of provisions. elc.. have mai tc.ially reduced ii:e rates, lor instance: bacon not to | exceed HI per pound ; Hour. $13 per hundred ; ; i corn. $'Ji3 per bushel ; first class 1 oV.-es. $730 ; first i , ' i i class iuu.es, SGOt) These ntieesare to he unifor" iu i 1 j the States of Alabama, Louisville, Mis-issi--pi. Ten ties- i j see, Georgia, and Florida and South Carolina. I The Charleston Com ic says : | Tub Musi: Unchained.?Maj. IS George McK night, i j of Moh.le?a native ol Colon bin, S. t , has been re | leased after and froth a Ion eonlineiueiit, er.d has t i reached ourlii.es in Virginia "Ami Hart'/." we hope i j will now gi\ w- in .. letter to ,'aeque 0. I hounds, : j one of .his l><.? itle truuips. Our friend o! ti:e Lou it> is certainly mist ken es ; to t tie place of h C . ity ol'Major (iKoUGK MCKNIGHT? | hettc: Kit wr as "Asa Unit/.." lie is a native' of j Catinl^en, !S, C , whe-e his latnily resided for many j years prior to his birth, and lor some yea.s alter, i Gexkiiai. Page on Tuiaj.?Luio intelligenee lrom | New Orleans gives probability to the report that (Jen. j Page is on trial before a Yankee court,oti the charge of j spiking his guns and doing other damage to the works \ at Fort Mo;gnu tiller he had hoi-ted the sigtin for sur- ! retrier. Tito Yankees pretend that it was impossible j for bis men, nuder the heavy ami concent rated tire j brought to be ar upon the fort, to (fleet the desir-jetion j of mulct ial which had taken place, when the enemy took possession. The Mol ilo fitgixter learns from the Chaplain, who aided in spiking the guns, that the eh in ge is uttoi Iv -false. (.'OXKItiM'HATK OkFICi RS It Kt ritXK!) FROM CaI'TIVII Y ?1 ast Miiid.iv evening one bund ed and sixlv-niue ; * .- * 1 Confcdern'e oflicei> and one hundred and sixty-eight ! enlisted men an ived in lliclm oud. We give it list of J | the mm es of those Iroin this State : j 1 Nia.jor t.ii-o. MeKnieht. A A <: Cupt'iius? ax iv Ivinekcli. 1st S (! Jhilt iliim. .lolm ; 11 Doweti. 1 si!iiptc?ii*? Ij?'y:on ; 1! .5 ]*: :?1 Ifnli St". | First LinuteiHinLi?J (J Clements,- iijst S (J; 10 A ! Youuj*. 1 lii S. (1. St-c- >)kI L irut ui>i u (y?Sum Dihhle, 25'li 15 f; lien it : Shaw, 1?'tli Si;; V Hue, 25ih j> C; J \V (iardi.er, 7tl? SO; 11 W Hemlr.eks, 27th SO; 0.1 Maeh th '27th S O ; K (I M'ullens, iitli 0 ; A W Muck, nt iss', 27 lit S C; J K Sc< It, 20lh id C. orthueak OF NeGKO .PllISONEIIS at ]>anvii.i.i'..? On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'cloek, tin* negro prisoners engaged at work on tin? foitili ations around Danulle, made an attack upon the guard, and after a desperate strug-! <>ie, succeeded in over powering tlie small foicc, j and gaining possession of about twenty nutskcts One hundred of the jcoundrels then j made their escape, following the Danville River i in an Easterly direction. During the scutHe, I ein'ht of the neirrocs were hi h.,1 Th,.*/. i prisoner#, with their white hMhercn, were ear- j riod over the Danville Head during last week, on their way .South, hut for wai t of tran.-por- j tat ion were temporarily detained in Danville.] The authorities thereupon' determined to place j the negroes at work on the fortifications, and ! while so engaged, they availed themselves of j the opportunity offered to make their escape, j The citizens armed with shot guns and muskets, tinned out promptly, and started in pur suit of the fugitive-, and hopes are entertained of the capture of the entire party. TkAVF.IH OK a I'iu NT Kids hash.? A good printer will set G,OOU ems a day, or ahout l'J,(joo letters. The distance traveled over hy his hand, will average one foot per letter going to the hexes in which they /ire contained, and of course returning, making two feet every 'ctter lie sets. This would make a distance each day of 54,000 feet, or mens than four miles, and in the course of a year, leaving out Sundays, that. - member travels about 1,400 niilea. i ' LATEST BY TELEGRAPH"' KlCPOJiTS OF THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. .Entered acconllnir to tlie Act of Oonpress in the year 18G8. by J S. TniiAS "Kit. in llie < Jerk's otliee of the Pistrict Coii't ol' tlie 1 onfeilernlc States lor the Nnrlli' ni Pistriet of Georpin. FllOM Vino J MA. IV.Tsnsnruti, Oct. 2 1.? (Jen. Shepr.ey, at Norfolk, issued a pem ral order rripiii inp all' persons over 10, males or females, to take the oath or he sent out of the lines l?v the lot i of October. Parties are not to take the oath utui.T threat to intimidate them, hut with fall knowledge that" if violated penalties will o indicted. All males takinir the oath to he eonscripted. Chester, Vorktown and Xorollc. art* t'le plaees lot'them to take the oath. Xmii bers of- males li.ivc been banished rather 1 li .11 take the ?-alh, and have arrived incur lines*.? Nothing new in" the situation InTe. north vies xj-: n\s. Richmond, Oet. L'ti.? l>v recent arrivals from Rurope, assurances has been received at Washington, from the highest sources of information, that .no" vessels capable of beligeront service will be allowed to leave French ports to enter Confederate service against the United States. The Ne'w York Herald of the 21st has been received. No later news from Sherman. The latest official reports from Missouri states that the main body of the-rebel army is still east of the JJIackwatcr River. The Vermont raiders ; were arrested in Canada. The Governor General has assured the Governor of Vermont that i.? ...11 1 - - - .ivi ?ui mrtKc u iuqui-iuon on me uovennncni of the U jiitud States fftr the delivery. of these criminals lor the outrages committed. Great excitement prevails in Vermont. Lincoln was serenaded in Washington on . D Wednesday night; and made a speech of some length, in which he congratulated the people of Maryland on the expiration of slavery?declaring that if defeated in the November election, whoever waselectedjjhy the people should he du 'y installed President on the fourth of Maivir HeXt. Ku'tJMOND, Get 24.?Northern papers of the 22tl has het-n receive 1. Telegrams from Jellor- i so'i city says Cm lis lias been lighting Price's advnme .for the last day of 20,.on Blue Kiver, 10 miles from Independence. Boscncraiitz was advancing to aid Curtis. 1'rice's camp, when 1 last heard from, was at Waverlv. Lincoln has j Lsncd a proclamatioii calling tl.e people to prayer on the last Thursday of November.? Nothing later from Shorniau. The French oc enpied Metamoras u ithont opposition on the 2(>th. The Cincinnati Peace Convention adjourned sine ?Jiu without mal C1I1G1 it nnminnt!/\n (Jold steady?market quiet at 219. Richmond, Oct. 24.?Tin- Baltimore American > .Evening edition, of the 21st lias he-en received. Despatches from Sheridan to Stanton claims l(iO() prisoner; two Cols, commanding, and one Eng. (Jeneral fa-veivly wounded.? (Jen. llansonr died <?n the morning of the 20th] tnspatehos from Stanton says the telegraph line now working to Atlanta; Nothing new from there. All quirt la-low Richmond. To IiOrisianians.? Refugee families from i Louisiana, or persons now in i.ioiin ss in the ; Confederacy, residents of New Orleans la-fore the'war, aiv requested to send their addresses : and postolliecs to the ''Lntllsalia JInnie," ill 1 Kichmolid. A-1 took, wit 11 the naiins and present address of such Lonisianiars as have hreii ! dnvoii Ironi tiie State is kept lor reference, in 1 order to answer the etu]iiiries of soldiers in the army or those visiting Ki, hinond, as to the piesent nhode of their friends. Persons in the armv from Louisiana, do-irons of sending letj tors to the "I'rans-Mlssisij'pi, will have them fur ! warded ivgniai ly, if properly directed ami setit under cox or to "ijouisiaiui llotne," Lichmond, I Virginia. ' | k Exemptions undert.he "Meat Law."?One hundred and fourteen thousand exempts from active service, each bonded to furnish not less than fifteen hundred pounds of bacon and fifteen hundred pounds of flesh beof. Many are under objurations to give two, three or four times tli.it much meat, but wo wish to make a calculation at the minimum figures?114,000 multiplied by 1500 ?471 000,000 pounds? that tor the b.con ; a? d a similar amount would be the prooii'-t in fresh beef Thus the Com-' iiiissarv (?? !? r .l lias now, subject to his order, 04*2,000,(100 pounds nf beef and bacon. Nov., idr a iit?!r ealeulatiou as to bis wauls*. Say we have 4t?0,(?00 men in the field to feed ; allowing half a pound of bacon to the ration, and a u'ul of tivsh hroi, which is ample, as our-'loops will iiflirm, by issuing bacon two lays and beef one day. and in lliis way alternate die ration, t'ol Northrop has full meat itlon lor t w l\*o billid red and eicrbtv-t wo rl?ve in nitiii the cu i ot 1807. Besides this, llio ivihe i- t<> hi* counted! !! and such surplus as rati b hong t. If there he any truth in figure we ai r so strong in food, that we ran defy tin* Vankers for all time to roine if the Commis ary 1). pailincnl makes itself frit. Why talk of the possibility of arming negroes, when next. Apiil 114,000 arms-bearing >men can be setil to l-.ee and Beau regard ?? ( Cannot some one make an estimate of the num; ber of inen necessary for Stale oflicers : it docs ; appear that 35,000 is too many ? Reduce it tcv ' figures, and let us see if there are not 25,000 too many.? Saeanhuh lit publico a. An (ffieial despatch, received this morning, at theAVar Department, from Gen., Lee, shows that the indomitable and irrephta&ilde Mosby is > again in the saddle, carrying destruction and j consternation in bis path. One day in Richmond i wounded and eliciting the sympathy of every i on?e eapidiletof appreciating the daring (Meeds 1 of the boldest ami most successful partisan lead or the war lins prodiuuMl?-tlu'tv days-afterwards surprising aiuk'soaUering h Yankee force at Salem, as it they were frightened sheep fleeing lie fore a hungry wolf?ami then before the I great mass of people are made aware of the 1 particulars *of th s flashing achievement,, he lias 1 swooped around and cut the lkdtimore and j Ohio Road?the great artery of communication j between Fast and West "and, capturing a train and contents, and constituting himtfelf, l?v virtue of the stiength of liisbwn right arm, and the keen blade it wields, a receiver of-army funds for the United States. If lie goes on as-he has commenced stnen t! ** *t.? __ . ...v IF VUlilil^ uu: Yajikcrs gave him, who can say that in time we will not be able to stop Mr. TrtJtJ' holm's machine, and pay our army oft'in greenbacks. It' he has not yet won a Brigadier's wreath upon his collar, the people have placed upon his Brow one tar inoic endirfing.?Jitchmo ml Whig. * j Ykllow Fever.?To-day is the 20th of Octb The weather is cool and pleasant?too cool for the propagation of yellow fever, of which no case has been reported as occurring since Friday. We think all who have left, and who have ahv business to <lo, or duties to discharge here, might as well come along. We can see no risl; that they will run by doing so. There is no fever here. Not even a spoiadic case.? Wilmin'/lo < Jbit > not. ! School NoticeI TilK SGBSORIBER PROPOSES TO ' "pc*H fi diiv Si'lIOOI. for boys, if a sufBeient number o( pupils cnu be proeurcil. v Tonus?$10 per inoiilb. | <si&JPr ' GOlMKD BAILET. Oct 22 , 3 Fotice. 1 IJ, PRK-.^S IIAV1 0 DEMANDS AGAINST' ,\ ibe ? st.-iti* <?J tin* Int.* It Henry Ciinlej, will present lliem properly ut tested. tint! those indebted, will uiiike payment to Jul in i nnt?*v. MARY 0. CANTEY, Oct. 22 tl. Admitiiui p.ifri* Certificates for fale. % F< \V 'II-OITSAXD DOLL A l<S IN 4 PEK ' . * ci'i.t ' ortilic'.ites, fur sale by ()? t 21 2 MATHKSON & Co. For fale. 1>I K ?? 0. J) Fi It S' LE. APPLY TO It. U. JOHNSON. [ Oct. 24 10