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33y XX, D. HOCOTT.
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The Fall of Plymouth.
The G'oldshoro State Journal gives the an (
nexed. account of the capture of Plymouth by
the Federals:
On thd>evening of Oct. 28th, Gen. Baker, *'
commanding this Department, received inf>nnation
by telegraph, that the eneiny had succeed
. cd in surprising and destroying the gunboat 1
Albemarle near her wharf at Plymouth. Gen. |
"Baker, accompanied by his personal staff, im- '
, mediately, left Goldsboro for Plymouth, at which
place he arrived on the afternoon of the 30th
in the midst of a fierce bombardment of the
town froni the fleet of gun-boats which had 1
stationed themselves in the middle of the liver 1
out of sight of our batteries.. ' 1
From their concealment the enemy.kept up I '
.a continual shower of canister and,shell on the j 1
devoted town. . . II
Finding all tJicir attempts to sail r.p to Ply- J j
mouth direct, foiled by the stout resistance from | i
the batteries un^er command of Colonel Whit- J
ford, the enemy retired and ascended Middle \
River. There they met obstructions which t
they soon removed, and re-entering the Roan- ! c
oke from this direction they Attacked the town I t
< in reverse. General Raker attempted to pre j \
vent this by throwing out sharpshooters, but ( t
owing to the exceedingly heavy fire of the ! ,
. gunboats and the acduiacy of their fire these ' t
were driven back ; and the eiy-iny finding no ; {
opposition they ascended the Roanoke and ;
came down upon the town. j ^
The first or upper fort was manned l?v ibo ! ]
crew of the Albemarle. .This the gunlfnats j ^
sailed past, though several times struck bv the ,
shots.-from its guns, the damage not appearing ;
to be "material. The ileet then paid their spe. ial j 1
respects to Fort Jones, where they succeeded in ! .
dismounting all the guns and exploding the j 1
magazine. Meantime the enemy threw an oc- j
casional spitclul shell or hot shot over into the j1
town, which, caused several of the buildings to I
fire. At this juncture, in the midst of the con- j 1
fiagratiou of the town, the neoessavv evae.ua- !f
tion of the several forts, and the landing: of the ' 1
enemy, General Bailor issued his orders to 1
blow up the magazine and withdraw the garri- 1
son. i
The mynoMivre of falling back whs clone with I
sfrch perfect order that nothing of any value
fell into the hands of the enemy with the ex- 1
ception of two guns belonging to Lee's battery, i
the hordes to'which had all been killed. The 1
total loss in killed, wounded and taken prison- t
crs will not exceed twenty-live or thirty men. .
^ General Baker has fallen back only to James- ,
ville and seems determined to dispute, every ! ,
foot* of ground around Plymouth, lie having 1 t
dec.idcd not to evacuate Washington. Thus ,
ended the eventful affair, though sad in its resuite
to tho Eastern part of our State, its defence
under such .forbidding circumstances
forms another brilliant, episode of gallantry in
the history of-this State.' 1
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WHAT Till? V?AR HAS ItEVEALED.? ( Hlicial !
documents from the "War office,at Washington
fchow that the Yankee Government has called T
into the field, from first to last, over three mil*
lions of men. They have, besides, some six
. hundred vessels of war, equivalent, we should
think, in what they have done and what thry j 1
have prevented us from doing, .to a mijliofi 1
more of men. Query?what has heroine of all 1
these men ? Echo answers: What ? ,
The steamer Marmora was fired into at Prai- 1
rie Landing,on the White Kivor, and followed, !
firing five or six miles. One of her officers and 1 ,
fifteen negro-soldiers were killed and a number . (
wounded.
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* ?^r?n?cT?r i rgtmtirwan? u-w.uj. -nam* wctf
[fou the camden i \il\* .jotrnw i..]
Mr. Editor;?Prominent it voi'n editorial column !
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of the 9th instant, tln-re was a enmumnir; lion in ruler- j
ence to a trial, of a slave "before a.Jury I'freeholders, '
on this 7th of November, 1801."' The object of this j
communication is to publish, approve and endorse the !
following protest; "Wo beg leave to enter oiir protest,
igainsl such trivial eases beinglbrought before a Jury,
when they van he settled by owners of slaves at home,
without calling men from their business uselessly."
1 Thus, Mr. Editor,court of Magistrate aud freeholders,
constituted, in the words of the Iftw, "for the trial
of small and nienn causes." finding it inconvenient to
cave their "business" to discharge a duty required of
them by the-lawk of their country,-have seen tit to de"
putt from the record and to rebuke and arraign before
he bar of public opinion oho of our oldest and most
resnectanlo uii! /??!< .?
?. ....in v mi uiu uisn ici, a son or a I
Revolutionary hern, having himself borne amis in tlie |
service of his country, having spent neatly all of his
active iif?* in civil office in his nativeDistrct, and now.
at three score and ten, has his only grown hmis, two,
zealously serving in the armies of the Confederacy.
Wfth.the finding and sentence of the court, however
absurd, *1 should have had nothing to do; but as the
aourt itself has chosen to open and go behind the record,
f choose to cuter and anaign in turn them and
.heir protest.
The gcntlenidn thus arraigned lives on a very public
road near town ; he lias in these frying times cinfca- i
voted to eko out tho support of a hirge and helpless j
hintlv l>v- ruictn.r t.n. a..i_
j ,v ..h ...o un ! snppiy 01 meal; iila business
:alls liim from lioine during Vlie most of the day, and
us unprotected home litis had stolen from it since the
war began sixteen head of lieel cattle and over thirty
logs. During the year ISM lie was robbed of twepty
vi.ling hogs, and as the necessary result the larger
notion of his salary for this year has been expended
n procuring meat lor his family. During the present
'till he litis had ten hogs stolen from him, nine ot them
vhile his eldest son Jvns lying trembling between life
>nd death from a wound received in the battles of his
:<juntry; and when, forsooth, at last he detects y thief in
he very ael, and, according to the provisions of the
aw, brings tho culprit before a courr,' that court sendices
the thief to receive ' twenty-live lashes," "protests
aeainst such trivial eases," aiid fr.-tn the irrita
ion exhibited at the "expense to the t-'tnto," the saeriiee
of business, annoyance, Ac., I doubt not they leil
Ini; the prosecutor, and not the thief, was the party
via) had committed an outrage. A very trifling mat\
f t ? * *
er, .nr. iMi:n>r, ti1 thaws should foe two years do- j
pod a !:iin ly of ?t.s means of living ! :i mailer. for rebuke j
hat one of our oldest ehizens should asaort/ according
law, liis-' prscoiibed lights!
A court should comprehend tliat tlic ohj'ict of punshiiicut.
is threefold: 1st, to deter ilic criiuinal himself;
'.lid. to furnish an. example toothers; 3d, in hardened I
rases, to put the criminal where he can do no harm.
The piosecutor, in^ this case, desired to accomplish
he two Iirstobjects o( punishiiicnl, and surely lie had
itmnjr motives'to desire an example. What example
,ho court sat for the consideration of our thieves, may
>o deduced f out the fact that the very night after
.heir''protest"'was'published, a house in this town
,vas bvokon open nud all the meat possessed by the
amily stolon.
The courts of Mngislintos and freoholdeis have advertised
tVc tliicves, with words of tender sympathy,
that the price to he paid for stealing a hog is twentyjvc
lashes, and thes m" r Kiihn?r, in broad day, the
!<iw of a lone widow- m* ovejv sm is in tin- ;m>o
?mill tlio result nuo ! i *:*.1| : ? d. /. it i com- |
nun -jts ci'inu ii...- n \v s i ('conic more so,
rvlien thus fostered and nertui't- <:.liu-ii [ :is it now is
o raise atofck, it will bee ine impossible; and instead of j
*OJ*?rtiiifjr t<> the conns of the e uulry, our .ati/aus
nust lake the law into their own hands, and shoot
lown the thieves, whom courts encourage.
Mr. Kditor, it would lie unjust to thi? remarkable,
protest, to dismiss this suliji-et without this enquiry:
V\ hat philosophy?what history?has ever taught
that when crime has become so common as toniake the
trial of criminals inconvenient to the citizens and burdensome
to the fctate, prosecutions should cease or
have ceased? CITIZEN.
The London Alhcnsenm says in tire course of
a review of Wciiis' Life of Theodore Parker,
that nieoh divine, during the Fugitive Skive exitilen.ent
in Lost on, wrote his sermons with ti
cevoiyerlying l>y him on hi.\d
At <i Democratic. inc?iin?v ... *i- v 1 ' *
y IICIM a I |
Si. Louis, ' Kosi'crnuz is reported to linvc de- 1
dared himself lor MrCiellan, and said there |
should he a free election in November. I
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CiXiMREN DAILY JuURNAL
S ATS lltDAl BrOIlACfcG . NOV. ?2.
From Generad Hood's Army ?The only intelhpence
we Ihnl ofGetiortil Mood's movements, as" far sis
"thd Yankees lienr of them, is. contained in the following
telegram, dated Nashville, the 'id distant:
So far sis heard from, the rebel attack on Decatur,
Ala., has not been reviewed. The rumor that Hood's ,
entire army is in that neighborhood is hardly credited 1
We are, doubles, prepared Tor anything that may iurn j
tip. Heli. Ilosseau is displaying his characteristic en- .
crg^\ General liariiard is in town.
Restitution.?Ily request the Richmond Whig in- |
lorms an unknown "Honest Man" that iho two linn- j
drcd dollars of old issue enclosed by him lo W. II. S. j
Tayi.oh, liSq., Second Auditor, as an amount duo by i
Jiim to the Confederate States, lias been deposited m |
the Confederate Stales treasury, and adds : If every
man who lias defrauded the'treasury, would "do likewise,"
we*fcre ^uite.suro thai our excellent Seercta-y,
Mr. Trkxiioi.m, would have to employ a lew extra
clerks to record the receipts.
Affairs around At^ant* ?The Macon' Conftdera
cy of thcSth inst says: "There iais been considerable
excitement in the city to-day, occasioned by rumors of
an unfavorable character from above. Wc learn, just
before going to press, that Siihrmax lias sent about
SOuO additional troops to Atlanta, and lias made seine <
demonstrations in, the neighborhood of -Hough and 1
Heady, supposed for the purpose of ascertaining- the
character and strength of our picket force. We don't
think there is any cause for uneasiness or alarm, ns i.lm i
force of llic enemy, after receiving his SuOO additional
men, cannot exceed fourteen-or fifteen thousand. lie- '
sides, we have a force on lntnd sutliciom to attend to
lliem. i
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
KKPOKTS OK TIIK lMUfcS ASSuClATJoX.
Kntered Jiceordiner to tlio.Act of Congress in the year ]
lSo!!. by J. S. Tmuasmkh. in the' lurk's office <>! the I
District Court of llie i'on federate States for the i
Nortln rn District of Georgia. t
NOJiTHEUX Nh'WS.
Richmond, No*'. 11.?Nothing delihiio Juts'
neon received from the Yankee .Presidential;;
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election. The prevailing opinion is that Lin- I
coin is re-elected. A gentleman who arrived j ,
from Maryland last night via'Potomac reports!
that New ^ oik ai.fi Pennsylvania have ttone I
tor McCiellan. A courier from below, this afternoon,
reports that the mail boat has not arrived
to-day.
J-ROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, Nov. 11.?At auction to-day Confederate
Bond, eight per cent, coupon, long
dates, 120; seven per cent coupon bonds, 79 ;
bonds of the fifteen million loan coupon, 130;
do. registered 118 to 120 1-2; non taxable
bonds from 132 to 133; non taxable certificates
92 to 93 1-2 ; four per cent certificates
71 to.73?all with interest added. Al-o eom*.
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fhoii interest bond 108?flat; specie 27 to 28 1 :
for one; at a private sale sixty-five thousand |
ignu jilt cent coupon ootids long dates, 122
iintl interest.
Who auk Extohtioneks?[Scene.?-'One of
our auction stores; enter countryman, bearing }
a basket of eggs. |
* Countryman.? What's the price of that bed- ,
stead ?
' Auctioneer.?One hundred dollars.
Countryman.-? One hundred devils?why
I've bought many a one for six dollars.
Auctioneer.?Ilow do you sell that lien
fruit ? ' . i
Countryman.?If you mean eggs, they 're '
five dollars a dozen.,
Auctionccr.-/Why I've bought bushels of
them for eight and ten cents.
The countryman left, perfectly unconscious
of any extortion in charging five or six prices ,
for egsf.-. while the liiereluoit lm 1 ? i
chid' of siryu-rs lor charging sixteen prices lor a !
bedstead. Thus do we see the mote in our J
brother's eye, while we are totally unconscious
of the beam in our own.? Chronicle and tSculi- i
ncl. |
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The Elections Carried by Military Des-5
potism. ? A Yankee paper, speaking of the way
in which the,elections in the North have beencontrolled,
says :
The informal votes taken by soldiers and*
others, expressing their Presidential preferences,
show such large majorities for McClcllaa
that the. Government officials have begun to issue
orders against any More*such votes being
tivkeu. The military eofnmandanl at Alexandria',
only six miles from Washington, wherd'
there are many ?pldiors stationed, has started
this rtew movement for preventing these informal
ballots, either 'of soldiers or citizens,
and has issued a prohibitory order. This is but
mo beginning; and we shall probably see siniifcir
orders issued where soldiers are stationed
indifferent pfli5s of the country. Are we liy?
iilg in an American republic, or under a.Turkish
despotism?
OBITU AKT'
Dim), at her residence, in Camden, Snath Cirrolioa,
on Tuesday morning, Xovenihor 8th, 18U1, Mrs ELIZABETH
YOUNG, daughter of Stephen and Mary
mi\ve,oi iMirinamptou, Kngland, and relict ,of the late
Ai.k.vaniikk Younu, aged 81 years.
This most estimable lady, was a resident of Camden
for more than lift}* years, and was a consistent member
of the Pre>byterian vliureh, although for soifie years5
prevented b}r the infirmities of age fioin attending it$
services: Gentle in her nature, domestic in lier tastes,
ipnet and unobtrusive in disposition, energetic and industrious,
her home and the private circles of life |ormo<l
the arena both of her pleasures and duties. In that
home and in those circles, her rare merit was-fully appreciated,
and many, now themselves bf somewhat ad*-'
vanced years, have associated with their earliest mend"
jries the gtnije, yet active kindness of this true, devoted
Woman.
. "Her children rise up and call her blessed," whilomany
of oui^ohlcst and best eiti/.eu? add,their testimony
to her great worth. a FItlHND.
Council Hotice|
T H ORHKHKD THAT Till-'. vfit.r mnvn
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I rales of Stallage be charged, on and after Monday
next, viz:
On all beef offered for sale in Market. Four Dollars.
Veal, ... . Two Dollars.
llogA?over 50 lbs , - - - Three Dolfara.
Figs?under'iiU lbs., - - Two Dollars.
Mutton and 11ides. - - - Two Dollars.
It ik also ordered that Two Dollars be charged for
iMigonii'liug Horse- and Moles, h'or Ilogs, Two Dola'.seaeli.
For >lice|? and u5"ai--. Dae Dollar.
1; is further ordered tlad t!.>- Weigh* r at the Public'
scales bo allowed Filtv Cents compensation for each
draught.
iiy oriler fcf Council. It. M. KI-.NXEDY,
Cv**rk of Council.
Nov. 12. ? ad
NOTICE.
OAK A.VD riN'F. WOOD F?? If RARE. ' API ..A
JOHN CAN TIC!
Soy.'J?tl
Salt oil Consignment.
r f\ Tl KRt KS FO It PALK. A PPf.Y TO
e)V; A. M. KFNNKDV
November 1 tu. th. b. <i
T<T^X* _ _
AN ULXUfc?4
LI, PERSONS INDEHiKI) TO THE ESTV ,
r\ of the Into Allen Snmlcrs, will please make*
mediate, payment ; and these hnvinjr demands ajtn
said estate wiil present ihein properly attested to
undersigned ' J. D. DUXLAP,
Nov. 8 3 A dm'
Notice.
PERSONS KNOWING THEMSELVES INDEBTED
to the estate of the late It. L. W1 -,.i
ker, will mako immediate payment ; and those ha ?
inir demands against said estate will present then for
pavinent properly attested. J. I). HUN-LAP,
Nov. 8 :t Adm'tr.
/ Overseer to Hire.
rpiiK UNDERSIGNED WOULD BE PLEA
-I to negotiate with any planter in Kershaw
Lriet for next year's services as overseer, from tin
:>f .larniarv next. The applicant is clear of active
Luryst rvice, heiiig several years over the eons
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nppiy 10 H. T. \V ATI
Nov. 8 3
For Sale,
AHOT]$K AN1> LOT, iM.KASANTLY SIT
TKI'on IVKall) street, coritnininp: live re
with lire places. Kilclnsi. soi void's house, si
liouse, stable, carriage hou?c and pardon ; well of
ralo water. Will be sold lor cash. Apply to
K. G. UOB1NSON,
Nov. 8 :\ Mansion llousv
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