The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, November 15, 1861, Image 2
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J;T. HER8HMAN, Editor"
^FRIDAY, NOVEMBERTS, 1861.
Plt'ttio Take Notltc,
* That*The Confederate is to be conducted
atnctly on the cash principle; and all those
wHjo arc not disposed to comply with our terms,
will be kind enough to return it, with their
name on the margin. Our terms are half
YKAULY PAYABLE INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Wc would like to indulge our friends in the
town and district, as lias been customary in
times gone by, but the cash system seems to
be the order of the day?and with ourself it
is an imperitive necessity. Every paper wc
issue, costs us in iiard money the full price of
the subscription, with a prospect of a higher
figure by the time we make our next order.
So we hope our patrons will give this notice
an immediate favorable consideration?and
make no delay.
The paper will be sent to all the citizens of
the town?cither to their residences or through
the postoflicc, and those who do not wish it
will send it back, as above mentioned, that we
may know whose name to place upon our book.
The publication of The Confederate is in
no way connected with the Journal?and the
business of the same to be conducted separate
and distinct from that paper.
The Attempted Invasion of our State.
The present attempted invasion, by the Lincoln
Government, of our State, wiil end like
all their previous efforts? wc predict in defeat
t i' n, rni p 1
ana aiscomniure. me spirit 01 our peopic is
now aroused, and the enthusiasm which has
ever characterized Carolinians on every
battle field, will be displayed in defence of
their own soil; and the vain glory of the boastful
Northern hordes, whose watchword is
"booty and beauty," made to feel the power of
Southern arms, when called upon to contend
for all that is dear to man?the inheritances of
freemen?the transmission to our posterity of
a Constitutional Government?the guardianship
of our wives and daughters?with such
incentives, and the God of truth and justice on
our side, we have nothing to fear. Let every
inan lend his aid?every mother, sister and
daughter freely send forth their husbands and
brothers, that we may show now, as for months
past, that one hcaVt and mind animates our
people. Tliat the miserably deluded oligarey
at Washington, and their misguided followers,
may know, that there are none so low as to
acknowledge their authority. If needs be, let
us destroy every bale of cotton, burn every
city and town?and every foot of soil from
Fort Sumter to King's Mountain mark a soldiers
grave, before South Carolina shall bow
the knee to the Lincoln government. In the
. fear of God, and invoking His blessing, we are
willing to testify by our acts what we have
written.
Governor's Message.
We hastily read the Governor's Message,
addressed to our Legislature, containing many
excellent suggestions, which, we arc sorry to
say, wo have not time now to. notice. The
only matter of prominent importance at this
juncture, is tire condition of the military. The ,
organisation thatis spoken of in it should have
been efficient and made ready for active service
long ago. lruly procrastination is the thief ,
of time"?and in this particular instance
proved so to our great detriment. There lias
been sad neglect in this respect. AVc arc not
disposed to cast blame?the facts are apparent.
Lot the evil be remedi ed as speedily as possible.
Let those interested?and what good citizen of
of our State is not?see to it, that the order 1
shall come from headquarters?that competed
men be called upon to take charge of
companies, battalions and regiments?that
everywhere our citizen soldiery be put on a
war looting, ready for any emergency.
The Kersliaw Guard?Capt. Warren.
We have been permitted to make the follow
i nor extract from a letter received in this
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place, mom an officer in tbis company;
"Say to .our friends, that although we were
in the battle at Hilton Head, on the Tth, and
were slu-Me- to our heart's content, all the
Kershaw < .u*rd arc safe and well.""
l l>rng Store Open.
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and ^ e a'? to sec our ^r'e,1^? ** ** McKain#
re? who is still in his company in Virginia, has his
establishment open?under the management of
^ Mr. Jlodson. This will be a convenience to
oui citizens \> Lo require articles in that line.
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Tlic Synod of South Carolina.
The meeting of this ecclesiastical body convened
at Abbeville C. II., 011 the Oth inst.
The number of Clerical and Lay delegates in
attendance, although smaller than usual, was
good, notwithstanding the existence of the
war and the particular excitement in our State.
Very few from the low country was iu attendance.
The opening sermon was preached by
"Dr. Mcllrvde. of "Pendleton. Uev. J. II. M
Adams, of Yorkville, was chosen Moderator.
An excellent spirit, wc learn, pervaded the entire
sessions. The most important matter of
public interest was the adoption of a very able
report prepared by Dr. Thorn well, separating
the body with all connection heretofore existing
with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, and giving
adhesion to the new Assembly of the Confederate
States, to meet in Augusta, Ga., December
next.# On Saturday the S\ nod adjourned,
to meet at Yorkville, on the Wednesday after
the first Sabbath in November, 1802.
The liiifUN iiiiard.?Capt. Blair.
This Company is now camping, for instruction
and drill, at the old Cornwallis quarters,
and are quite ready to be mustered into service.
They are a fine soldierly looking set of
men?true types of what old Kershaw can
produce. This make* the seventh company
furnished from our District, and wc may yet
raise two others.
The following arc the officers, so far as we
have been able to learn, aiul would be glad to
receive the complete roll of both officers and
privates:
L. \V. B. Blair?Captain.
B. S. Lucas?1st Lieutenant.
Dove Seigeus?2d Lieutenant.
F. McCaskill?Lieutenant.
A. W. Balev?1st Sergeant.
Wsi. McSween?2d Sergeant.
AYc understand the company will leave for
Stono in a day or two?though it is somewhat
uncertain at what point they inay be stationed.
Returned Volunteers.
Capt. A. II. Boykin, (our State Senator,) of
Bovkin Bangers, returned some days previous
to the meeting of the extra session of the
Legislature. 11 is health, we understand, is
good ; though will probably not return until
after the close of the regular session.
Mr. C. B. Curcton, of the same company,
arrived last week. His health has so improved
that lie expects to return to camp in a day or
two.
Mr. Win. McKain, of the Camden Volunteers,
reached home 011 Monday last, sick.
We hope a few days will restore him to his
usual health.
Mr. LeGratid, of the same company, got
leave of absence 011 business, and will, we
learn, return soon. Ho seems to have stood
the campaign finely.
Day of Fasting, Humiliation, an<(
l'rsijer.
We can give nothing more expressive than
the Proclamation of 1'resident Davis on that
subject. We may add, that we trust our peo1
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pic everywhere win suspend their Imsinoss,
and assemble in their respective places ol' worship,
with reverence bowing before the King
of kings and Lord of lords?to thank him for
mercies past and implore llis grace and gui
canoe for the future.
Closing Stores lor military Drill.
AYc, the undersigned merchants of Camder.,
agree to close our stores every day at 4 o'clock
p. m., for the purpose of engaging in Military
Drills, from this date, November loth, 1801 :
A. M. 6c II. Kennedy, E. W. lionney, Geo.
Alden, James Dunlap, J. A. Young, W. 1>.
McDowall, McCurry 6c Hnnnncrslough, W. C.
Gerald, F. McLarnon, Koopinan 6c ^Soiumcrs,
John "Workman tfc Co., C. Shiver, Thomas
Harris, Matlicson A* Co., A. T.Latta, C. A. MoDonald,
T. S. Myers.
Death of Sergeant Soimncrs.
Wc regret to learn that Sergeant Sommers
was drowned, on Thursday last, in the bay.
lie was a member of the Kershaw Guard. His
friends have the sympathy of our community
in their sad allliction.
Tlic Invasion of flic Coast.
Owing to the forced reticence of the telegraph,
says the Mercury of 12th inst, our news from
the neighborhood of Port Royal is still rnca
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gre and unsatisfactory. At last accounts,
Tfc i? . ? ? *ii . 1
JL>eauiort nail not oecn occupied Dy tuc enemy.
We arc informed that a small boat load of
Yankees from the fleet came up to the town
on Saturday, Hailing a negro, they enquired
about the people of the place. Upon receiving
the reply that they had all gone, tho marauders
remarked that the inhabitants need
not have fied, as the orders of the commander
of the expedition were, not to disturb anybody
who might prove 44 loyal." This is the negro's
account. Probably, the idcafc of 44 loyalty" entertained
by the Beaufort folks, arc not identical
with the Yankee notions 011 the subject.
A private despatch was received here yesterday,
indicating an intention, 011 the part of
our military authorities, to burn Beaufort.
AVc have received nothing confirmatory of the
statement.
AVc get the following items from the Savannah
Republican of yesterday:
NEGUO FIDELITY.
AVc have heretofore stated, that in the retreat,
from Hilton Head, Captain Bead was
compelled to abandon two brass field pieces,
and leave the horses grazing 011 the island.
Saturday last, a faithful negro, the property of
Mr. Pope, who resides on the island, captured
all the horses of the battery, sixteen in number,
placed them in a Hat, brought them to
Savannah and delivered them to the Captain.
the loss ok tiie enemy.
A negro man on Hilton Head, the property
of General Dray ton. Seeing a number of officers
approaching a small house on the Island,
unobserved concealed himself underneath.
The officers entered, took scats, and discussed
at length the events of the battle, which occured
the day previous. In the course of the conversation,
the negro says, they reckoned up
their killed in the action and fixed it at forty,
nearly three times the Confederate loss.
Provision Depots.?The presence of an
army in the low country of South Carolina,
renders great and early exertions on the part
of the planters and Generals, to provide for
the support of our troops. This is not a grain
country, and, besides the soldiers, there will be
the usual large number of white and slave inhabitants
to feed. There is a large quantity
of corn, peas, and potatoes between the proposed
line of defence and the sea coast, in the
theatre of this war. And, in addition, there is
an immense crop of l ice, and large stocks of
cattle, snoop, nogs, an ot winch are at tine
time most desirable. AYagons and carts,
mules and horses, too, are indispcnsiblc to the
locomotion and effectiveness of armies. This
country can supply much that is needed, both
for Commissary and Quartermaster stores.
AYc arc authorized to state, that Commissary
Depots have been established already at Iiardceville,
Coosawhatchic and Pocotaligo; and
that provisions for the use of the army are desired,
and will be purchased from the planters
upon delivery at those points. All are urgently
requested to sell to the Covcrnmcnt all they
have to dispose of. AYe trust, that in time, and
arangcmcnts progress, similar Depots will be
established along the whole line of railroad to
Charleston, at convenient localities; and that
much of the property of this description, othcr
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? isv; cajiusuu iu inu r?n a^cs 01 uic C11CI11V, may
be saved to the army and our planters pockets.
? Charleston Mercury.
To tiie Seaijoaiid.?Now is the time for a
general rising of the people. Let them come
forward. Every brave young man, every vigorous
citizen, let him rush to the seaboard to
swell the ranks of some one of the hundreds of
gallant companies which are pushing forward.
Wc must not let the enemy take footheld on
the soil. Our wives and daughters must not
suffer the horrors which Maryland and Virginia
have been compelled to endure. Their miseries
have wholly arisen from the fact that they
were too slow. Let us not be slow. Wc
have Leon too slow long enough. Let ns meet
the enemy wherever they land; never fail to
meet them. All that our boys want is the
opportunity. They will make the teetli meet in
the flesh 1 Let us fight as soon as possible.
Waste no time in idle ditch and earth works
on the islands, except the all important James
Island. (Jet the marauders there on the main,
and probe them with rifle bullet, bowic knilc
aud bcyonct.? Charleston Mercury.
Baton Ilougc, La., was visited with a destructive
fire 011 Saturday, the 20th ult., which
consumed *26,000 worth of property.
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BY LAST NIGHT'S MAIL j
From the Charleston Mercury.
Latest from Beaufort.,
PoccTiLico, November 12.?A detachment
of the (. hirlcston Light Dragoons, uuder command
or Jicnt. Col. Colcock, acting as an escort ^
to CaptaJves and Manigault, aids ofGen.Leer p
visited Banfort at daylight this morning.
They reptt that two gun boats lie a mile and a
half bclov the town. The negros report that
the cue nv visit the place daily, bnt return at
night. N? white persons were in the town
triKIIIItll AOCldCllt.
Columbis KY., November J. 1.?A largo
I )alilgren un burst here to-day, killing Capt.
Ivciter, Lidwnant Snowden, (aid to Gen. l'olk)
Lieut. Ilqllijcr and six privates, were woun- At
dcd.?Gen.'oik was stunned, and liis clothes
torn off by tc t'orec of the explosion.
Jiiteestin;; from IVcinpIiisi, ?
MemlMiis,November 11.?Two Texanswho
were capture on Galveston Island two months ^
ago and take to New York, arrived here today
from Cao, having been released. They .
report that tiops at Cairo say that they were '
very badly wipped at Hclmont. ltTts reported
that Gen. rant was killed. The gun boat
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Lexington wjsunk.
The St. Lois JicjHtblican of the Yth instant,
says that Ho .1 esse U. Bright, U. S. Senator
from Indianiiihasjoined the South, and will
be made Briglier General,
Matthew YMaurv, of New Orleans, has ar.
rived at Clevand.
Fremont li. arrived at St. Louis. General
Hunter publisld his order, assuming the command
of the IS. forces at Springfield, on the
4th instant. fJo Germans are much dissatisfied
at the dispition of Fremont.
The correspidcnt of the }Appeal says that
over oOO of thoiicmy were killed in the late
battle at Belmtt, and that 200 arc now prisoners
at Colunus?half of them wounded.
Nearly 100 ^ our wounded arrived here
this morning. Lieut. Bob Alexander and
Major Butler, ?Marks' La. Regiment, are
very badly wou ed. Charles Gibson, formerly
of Yieksburg.as killed.
Fro IliclimoiMl.
Richmond, Nembcr 11.?Col. Corcoran,
three Yankee Gtains and ten Yankee Lieutnants,
now prisors in our hands, have been
chosen to be hu:, in case of the execution of
Baker and the civ of the Savannah, who have
been convicted (piracy. Ely drew .for Corcoran,
now abseiat Charleston.
The voluntaryantributions of the people of
the South, for tlnoldicrs, continue to be re
ccivcd here. lhng the past few clays $20,000
worth liavc becnceivcd for the 2d, 8th and
Kith Georgia Regents, not sent tlirough the
Association at Austa, hut directly through
the Regiments, othing worth ?27,000, has
also been rcceivcdrthc Mississippi Regiments.
?33,000 worth 1 the Alabama Regiments,
and smaller cjuauies lor the Regiments of
other States.
A scinnish occd on Sunday night, about
15 miles from Bml, on the Kast Tennessee
Railway, bctwcer.he Confederate scouts and
the Unionists. Tvof the latter were killed and
1) taken prisonersThc Unionists arc said to
be posted at two ints with 900 men at both,
with tlift lmin? ?
...... ? - J?- LiVyi iuiiiiuiuvu iu i>Jvuu^
llathcr stirring d exterminating times arc
expected in tliatighborliood.
Fredekicksbi, November 11.?A Yankee
steamer on Fridihrcw 140 shots into Urbana,
in Middlesex coy, seriously damaging the
Church and dllings. The Confederates
killed two ofthncmy, and wounded others.
The enemy l&<bccn abducting slaves on
Thursday.
m'cri.i.ocHTaiMY to AYinter in the Arkansas
ValLe-TIic Fort Smith Times, of
the 23d ult., W
" AYe havolirniation from reliable sources
that after a si days' campaign in Kansas
and Missouri.'ATnriiill/vf?R ,llvicirm will foil
back into Arkhs. The Quartermaster lias
advertised for building of stables to accommodate
2) army horses and a large
number of i>s; also, for 100,000 bushels
ol corn an?7?,o 0f hay to forage
these aniiuals.'