The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, December 06, 1861, Image 2
J. T. HERSHMAN, Editor.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER ?, 1861.
We learn Irom the telegraph bulletin
of this morning that the steamer Nashville
appeared off South Hampton Roads, England,
and destroyed a Federal vessel at sea.
Sixteen Yankee vessels appeared off Tybce.
w. ?j. DCPuns Esq.
This gentleman, we understand, is organivinrv
n PAinno n \r nf vAlntiinnre fnr cnoAinl
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State service. Mr. DePass is favorably
known to every citizen in our District, and all
who may feel disposed to enlist under liim, will
have the satisfaction of knowing that they
will be led 4o the field of battle by a brave,
accomplished and efficient officer, and in whom
they can repose every confidence.
Goods at Cost.
We would call the attention of our readers
to the advcriscmont, in another column, of
Mr. E. A. Young, one door above tiie I'ostoffice,
who is selling off his entire stock of
goods at cost. This is a rare chance for persons
wishing to purchase goods cheap, as cost
sales are not in fashion at this time, and another
such chance may not occur again until
after the close of the war.
Distilleries.
Wo do not mean the kind that changes the
essence of the pine tree into the useful and
necessary article of turpentine, but that kind
which converts the staff of life into a curse.
As there may be persons tempted by the high
price of whiskey to embark in the business at
this time, we would earnestly call the attention
of our Legislature to the subject as not unworthy
of their consideration. When efforts
arc being made to prevent speculation in necessary
articles, let them look to the use that
maybe made of corn and other grains. Although
now apparently abundant, will be
needed before another crop is made. As giving
our views we copy from the Richmond
Dispatch the following :
4<A Southern contemporary denounces in
terms of just reprobation the extensive distillation
of the staff of life into the most prolific
fountain of misery and death that ever was
let loose upon an unhappy race. In the present
condition of the South, when it is absolutely
necessary that all the grain we raise should
be converted to its legitimate purposes, its
distillation into whiskey should be restricted
to such limits as arc required for medicinal
purposes, and the moderate supply which is
nccssary for the army. Anything beyond
this is a wanton, criminal, and trcasaonablc
waste of articles essential to the support of our
soldiers and the comfort of our people."
Our Citizen* on the Coa*I.
The conduct of those on our rich islands,
whose crops of cotton, rice, corn, Ac., have
been destroyed by their own hands, is the best
evidence of devotion to the cause of Southern
independence, and will no doubt make the Yankee,
English and French, all know that we are
in earnest. As the only way at present those in
the interior can render assistance to our brethren,
whose negros are driven from their homes,
is to offer them shelter and care. There are
several citizens in this District who can accommodate
a number. By such a course they
could be sent to the different Districts, and a
double object accomplished?out of the way
of the barbarians, and taken care of for their
owners.
4?cii. Fremont.
The enormous levies of General Fremont upon
the Federal purse in Missouri have by no means
alienated the affections of his loval lieges in
the city of St. Louis. He was received upon
his arrival in that place rather as a conqueror
than a pick-pocket, ai.d an immense torchlignt
procession shed a gloryfying glow upon his
brilliant financial achievements. As the present
war is one of avowed rapine and robbery,
we conceive that the admirers of Fremont acted
with logical consistency ir. doing honor to their
piratical chieftain. It is another example of
the ingratitude of Republics that Fremont, who,
in robbing the Federal treasury by wholesale,
showed his eminent qualifications for plundering
the South, should be dismissed from the service
of his country just when he was fully
prepared to make himself useful.?If in two
months he could steal two millions from his
friend?, what could lie not have done if he had
been let loose among his enemies?
Tlie Yankee Pulpit " Retributive
Justice" tor Charleston.
On Sunday before last a ''Sermon for the
Times" was preached at the Church of the
Unity, in Boston, by the Rev. Mr. Hepwortln
which will doubtless take high rank in the
fanatical literature of the day. From the Boston
JoumaVs report of this sermon, we take
the concluding paragraph, as follows :
You remember how in Sumter, Anderson
and Ins men knelt in prayer, before they sent
aloft the stars and stripes. Well that prayer
has been answered. We have been led through
repuisc because we were not equal to the emergency.
Now that we are, the work has begun
in the right plaee. The sacred soil of South
Carolina, made sacred by the infamous treachery
of political demagogues, who have .been at
once sophists and bullies on the lloor of Congress,
lias at length been pressed bv Yankee
feet.
Charleston hangs out the black flag and
thereby claims her brotherhood with savages
of the South Sea Islands. Do we wait/ quarter
from her? Have we ever asked it? Are our
boys likely to ask it? The probabilities are that
she will never have an oportunity to show her
canibalism in this way. What do we all want
to see. Two things 1 take it. First, we want
to see the stars and stripes floating over the
ramparts of Fort Sumter; the rebel flag, the
shoddy flag of a sham Confedracy, must give
way bfore the colors of Union and liberty.
Second, we want to see the City of Charleston,
A 1 1 . 4* A A11.11/*. I
me Jioinc 01 treason, iiic not oca or treachery,
laid in ashes. This is noi revenge ; this is retributive
justice in its mildest aspect; and we
want her ground plowed up and sowed with
salt, that no green thing may ever grow there;
and a pillar, black as night, shall be raised,
bearing this inscription?"Jiehold the righteous
end of those who arc enemies of Cod, of humanity
and of their country.
Startling Development?Ail Abolition
Club in flie City of* TV. Orleans.
From the New Orleans Creact'Ht, of the '2-d
nit., we take the following :
Yesterday morning, Lieut. Morrel, of the
Third District Police, upon information received,
arrested a Oerman named Frenzcl, who
lives on Charles street, in the Second Districtcharging
him with being an incendiary and
traitor to the State and Southern Confederacy.
It appears that Frenzol, who is quite an intelligent
man, had excited Lieut Morel's snspi
1 ... i... .i.?. 1 -
uuiin iiiIIv r>iin.?j in I uill.ll lv."> II1.IL in* ;is
reported to have made in favor of Lincoln and
his dynasty ; he was watched, the result of
which was that he was heard to boast that
there was a powerful organization in this city
?at least 5,000 strong?which, the moment
that the Lincoln army made its appearance
here, or on our coast, would rise and help
them to the best of their ability.
lie further is reported to have said that his
society would help to cut all the rebels'throats,
and that as no one knew, or suspected its existence,
it was all the more powerful.
The Heal Blockading Fleet.?From the
Herald of the 2oth ult., we take the followiiig:
The fleet of twenty-live old whalers, that
sailed en the 20th inst., is the elVective blockading
squadron of the Atlantic coast. A
blockade of such a description did not enter
the minds of those who framed the treaty of;
Paris, but the populations of Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile, and other rebel seaports will
lind that it completely answers the purpose of
preventing ingress and egress to their respective
harbors. In the beginning of the present
century, the patriotic fathers of the Kcpublic ;
of the L nited States presented nearly every
practical point that have since occupied
the attention of international legislatures for
the consideration of the civilized world.
It has taken the powers of Kuropc about a
half a century to dcvelopc them, ami to roil nee
them to their practical shape; but just as rapidly
as foreign Governments come up to our
ideas, we go ahead, and leave them far behind,
in the wake, after us. Hence it is that the !
delusion so prevalent in the South that the
blockade is a mere dead lettor, and in Ih </
and France that it cannot be rendered i(
tnal, will be rendered absurd when the ..
of a hundred vessels that have just, been d.
patched from Northern ports shall have lultilled
their mission ; rebel channels and rebel
1 harbors will be hermetically sealed up before ,
the close of another month.
BY LAST NIGHT'S MAIL
election of Confederate Senators.
Columbia, December 3.?Tlio General Assembly
to-day, elected lions. Robert W. Barnwell
and James L. Orr, to represent South
Carolina in the Senate of the Confederate
States.
From Savannah.
Savannah, December 3.?All the Yankee
troops have left Tybee Island. There is now
no invader upon Georgia soil. Five of the enemy's
vessels arc at the bar.
Rroin l!i< IiiuoimI.
liiciimoni), December 3.?Congress satVith
closed doors to-day. The Examiner of this
morning states that Col Henry Heath of Yir~
y
ginia, has been appointed by the President Maj
General, to Command the Department of Missouri.
This announcement created considerable
supprise; and many express the opinion
that Congress will refuse to confirm the nomination,
in as much as it practically superceded
(Jen. Price. No such nomination has yet been
presented to Congress.
The weather here is cold and bleak. There
is 110 exciting or interesting news from the
camps. There is no j>rospcet of on enf/ae/enicnt
in on;/ portion of 1 iryinia. The mountains
arc covered with snow; the roads, in every
.i:..,...? .n.wwf :..,^..oj..i.i? 1 ...:n 1.
?ii VJ; (IIIIIVMI 11111 iiiMiiuitj UIIU ? 111 III uu*
ablv remain so all the winter.
.iSiKxeari.
Skdalta, Mo., November 23.?The buisncss
portion '.>1 Warsaw Mo., was burned on the
night of the 21 st.
Jei'kersux Cnv, November 24.?It is rcportcd
here, that a lire last night destroyed
the main buisncss portion of Sedalia
From
Memphis, December3.? It is stated here on
good authority that Cen. Sydney Johnson believes
the movement <>f the Northern troops
against Columbus Ky., to be merely a faint>
and that the real strugle will soon take place at
Bowling (Ircon. The reported transfer of
troops from Cairo to St. Louis is confirmed.
The Linoolnites in St. Louis are getting
alarmed at the rapid approach of the Missouri
forces.
Xasii vij.i.r, ]December 3.?Advices, from
Howling Green represent tlic enemy to Instill
north of Green River. It is reported
that they arc preparing to go into winter
quarters at Camp Levin near Xolin Hridge.
Tw o More Gexekai.s for she Soutii Carolina
Coast.?The Charleston J/i renry of the
3d inst., says: Private advices, we learn, have
been received from Richmond that HrigadierGcnerals
X. G. Lvans and John C. LV-mhcrton
have been ordered to repair immediately to
commands which will he assigned them upon
this coast. The Hero of Lecshurg needs no
introduction to the people of South Carolina.
Gen. Pcnibcrton was appointed to West Point
from Pensvlvania: ami o-mdnnti'il in lftaa
During the Mexican war, lie distinguished
himself for his gallantry in the successive contliets
at Monterey, Cherubusco, Molino del Kev
and the City of Mexico. In the last named
action he was severely wounded.
?
The Yankee Kuksidknt's Position Kkssi'eotino
the Akkkst.? Wiicti the information
of the arrest of Mason and Slidell on hoard
a Kritish vessel was lirst eominuuieated to
Lincoln, he declared emphatically that they
should not'be surrendered by the (government,
even if their detention should cost a war with
Creat Kritan.
The N. Y. JI era hi threatens the heads of
Mason, Slidell and Laulkencr, if Corcoran and
other Yankees, arc executed.
Attention Beat No 2
VIX PKItSONS MAW.K TO MTISTKU IX THIS
Company are ordered to :i|i|iear at llio Market,
r>ii Saturday next, T11> inst.. at lit l-'J o'clock. I'or I trill.
I tcfaulter- will lie returned to Court \lartial. and the
w imi :>rt ailly enforced Hv order ('apt K knxkdy.
1 teeeinher (i I Dl'BoSK, O. S.
jjn 01 ice.
HA VINO I5KKV A DM ITTKI> TO PR A (TICK
in the Confederate Court of South Carolina, I
will sittoiul to siny business in s.iid Court that may ho
entrust* <1 to my care. \VM. 11. TAYLOR.
December G :?
Special otices.
KERSHAW LODGE, No. ?9, A. F. M. !
A REGUEAR COMMUNICATION OP THIS
Lodge will bo hold at Masonic Hall, Tuesday Evks1KG,
10th instant, at 7 o'clock.
Brethren will come prepared to pay dues, By
order JAMES JONES, Secretary.
December C 1 ,
CAMDEN POST OFFICE.
AFTER TO-DAY, T11E CREDIT SYSTEM IS
abolished at this oflico, oven till ''to-morrow.' No
letter will be delivered uutil it is paid for.
Persons having boxes, who wish accounts kept, will ^
bo accommodated, by leaving a deposit.
Notice is again given, that no letter droppod
in the box is doliverod, unless the postage (two cents)
is paid. T. W. PEGUES, P. M.
November 22
HOST OFFICE NOTICE.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, TIIE MAILS WILL
be closed daily at 8 p. m.
The office will be opened from 8 a. m. to 12 m., and
from 1 to o p. ni., and for ono hour after opening of
the mail in the evening. For the mid-day trains, the
mails to Richmond and Charleston aro closed at 11 a.
m.; and for all the other olliccs at 10 a. m.
Letters dropped into tho oflicc for delivery, must bo
prepaid, two cents each. No letter is delivered unless
so prepaid. T. W. PEGUES, P. M.
November 15 ' tf
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
ALL WHO WISH TO ENTER THfcl SPECIAL
Service for the dcfenco of tho State, can report tome
at Camden, with such arms as they have?muskets, Titles
or double-barrel shot guns. Both Infantry and
Mounted Men will bo received. Each man will bring
with him whatever ammunition he may have. Wo
must promptly rally to the rescue.
By authority of tho Governor.
JAMES CI I ESN UT, jr.
November 15
RAILROAD NOTICE.
1
' j |Bi;-ia?S9s!*s;
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, :in OF NOVEMBER,
the Passenger Train will run as follows:
Leave Camden 5:20 a. m. Arrive at Camdon 4:40
p. m. Tho Extra Passenger Trains on Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday will arrive at Camden 10:20
a. in., and leave at 11:40 a. m.
November 1 JAMES JONES, Agent.
D.I ST OF LETTERS,
I REMAINING IN THE POST OFFICE, UNfcj
called for on tho 1st of December, 1801:
A. J.
Aldridgo, George Jackson Miss Francis
Anderson, Thomas K. Jackson, Henry
Addison, Win. A. M.
B. Montgomery, J. A.
11 racy, Miss Fanny Miller, Mrs. J. M.
Bracy, James Manning, Wado
Brace}*, Jos. M. t P.
Branch, L. A. Tickcns, Tollcy
C. Proctor, R. W.
Carroll, Clark ?fc Co., Pctifoot, Grace
Coale, Joseph W. Pinckney, Logan A.
Cloud, Mrs. 1). L. R.
I). Raley, Charles
Dnprce, Henry S.
Hunlap, James R. Smith, L. M.
Derham, Thompson Singleton, Mrs.
Hunlap, A. T.
Hunlap, Elizabeth 2 Taylor, Robert
F. Taylor, Miss Ada
j-arrnr, u. xrantnam, J Jr. *W.
Frnscr. jr., L. S. U.
Ford, Dr. J. W. . Urven, Nancv
G. W.
Gibbes, Miss Susan "Walker, Rev. Cornelius
II. Watts, Miss Susan
Ilall, Rev. Manning Williams, J. N.
.T. Williams, Mrs. E.
Johnstone. Miss E. S. V.
Jacobs, Elizabeth Villcneuvo, J. II.
EST r ersons calling for the above letters will pleaso
say they are advertised. Tho postage on each is two
cents.
Good Servants to Hire.
VGOOD COOK, WASHER and IRONER.
AI.SO,
A No. 1 Bricklayer and Plasterer. Also, a coed
House boy and Farmer. All of whom can bo liirod
to approved persons, by making early application to
this ollice, or Mr. I. 13. Alkxaxder.
December G tf
To Hire.
\ FIRST RATE COOK AND WASHER WILT*
be hired for the year 18G2, to a careful person.
Apply at the Old Corner." E. W. BONNEY.
December 5
otice.
1) EQUIRKD IN ALL CASES TO TAY CASn
\ for purchases and making collections, I ant compelled
to inform my customers, that if no snoeinl nr.
' rangement is made for short credit on call, I will adopt
the cash system exclusively on the first day of January
next. W. D. McDOAVALL.
Notice.
rpilK rXDERSIOXKD IXTKXDJXG TO MARK
1 a change in his business on the first of January
next, will dispose of his stock of goods at exceedingly
low prices, until that time for cash, or to punctual
j customers. My object is to turn as many goods an
I possible into cash, giving the purchaser a LIBERAL
' bargain for his money. E. W. BONXEY.