The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, January 17, 1862, Image 2
J. T. HERSHMAN, Editor.
FKIPAY, JANUARY 17, 1S?1~
Apologetic.
Absence on business during the present
week, w ill be our excuse for a scarcity of original
matter for tin's paper. There are several
matters of interest to our readers which arc
unavoidably postponed for the future, owing to
the late hour at which we returned home.
War Tax.
Capt. A. M. Kennedy lias received the appointment
of Collector of the War Tax for
Kershaw District. In accordance with, and
* under the provisions of an act of the Confederate
Cougrcss, all tax payers arc expected to
make their returns to the Assessors on or hefore
the first day of Fcbuary next, of "taxable
property held by them on the 1st of October
last in the District where the property is or
from which it may have been removed." The
Assessors may be found, as will be seen by
reforancc to advertisement in another column,
at the counting room of the late firm of A. M.
and R. Kennedy.
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iilillltll'J I'llCl'IIUKN)
An election was held on Saturday last lor
field officers of the 22d Regiment of S. C. M.,
which resulted in the election of the following
named gentlemen :
Burrell Jones, for Colonel.
Wm. Dixon, Lieut. "
W. A. Ancrum, Major.
Also, on the saim day, for commissioned officers
of Beat No. 2, which resulted as follows:
W. E. Hugiieson, fc Captain.
J. McLernon, 1st Lieutenant.
Wm. Billings, 2d "
L. Sommers, 3d "
Di'KpoiHlciicy.
The following extract is taken from a leading
organ in the North, the New York IIVA/,
who seems to be caving in, or weak about the
knees:
"The credit of the Government is sinking.
The people are becoming desperate?ready for
relief from the crushing suspense and horrible
burden of an immovable army and a war, at
once the most costly and the least profitable
known in the history of civilized communities.
All manner of factions will arise. Abolition
fanatics?red republican furies?secession conspirators?will
grow potent in the unwholesome
atmosphere of a war conducted by imbeciles
for the benefit U ...Hi I
? - v? vvmi tiv tv/1 r>i ib M ill
not do to wait, and wait, any longer?now or
never."
Beef foii the arm v.?Wc learn from tlic
Alexandria (La) Constitutional of tlie 10th,
that an immense slaughter-house is being erected
near that city, in which forty thousand
head of beeves arc to be made into mess this
winter to fill an army contract. The mighty
herd will be driven from Texas. The contract
is for a hundred thousand barrels.
The defences of New York city, when completed,
will include fourteen different works,
mounting 1569 guns. They have already cost
$3,GG6,2G4, and will need, in order to complete
them, according to the estimate of the
engineers, $,3,552,139.
A noti'l inn ni.io 4 - ? - 1 n 1
j/wivivu iiv/iH \/jnu iu appoint J*rcnioiit'
Lieut. Gen. of the Federal force!*, lias been prescnted
in the Federal Senate.
Brownlow denies the statement that he refuses
to cat, and wishes to starve himself to
death. Ae says lie cats too much.
A prize fight took place near New Orleans
on Thursday last, between two men named Fitzgerald
and Burnett. They fought 352 rounds
?lasting three hours and two minutes. Neither
side was victorious.
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COMMEXDAIILF, IYRPOSK OK A CoNKKDF.KATU
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mj. wi.inu i rsnnilg 111 Memphis,
^hosc husband is a volunteer in (Jen. Pillow's
command,recently wrote Inm that she had not
received any assistance from the city authorities,
and added that she did not know how herself
and children could get along. The contents
of the letter having reached Gen. Pillow,
lie addressed a letter to the Memphis press, in
which lie states that unless the families of the
volunteers under him arc properly taken care
of, he will release all such as have families dependent
upon them.
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Speech of Mr. Viinliuiditfliaiii,
of ohio, in thk settlement of the trent
affair.
The following is the remarks of Mr. Vallaxdinoham,
of Ohio, in the House of Ueprcspcntatives
of tLe Rump Congress of the
United States, with reference to the surrender
of Mason and Slidbll, made on the 7th inst:
In the House of Representatives on the 7th
inst., a motion having been made to refer to
the Committee on Forerign Affairs, the papers
in the Trent affair, which had been coinmuni!
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J cated by President Lincoln, Mr. Vanllandighnm,
of Ohio, said : I avail myself, Sir, of the
eailiest opportunity offered to express my utter
| and strong condemnation, as one of the representatives
of the people, of the act of the administration
in surrendering up Messrs. Mason
and Slidell to the British Government. For
six weeks, Sir, they were held in close custody
as traitors of the United States, by order of
the Secretary of State, and with the approval
and applaHse of the press, of the public men,
of the Navy Department, of this House, and
of the people of the United States, with a
full knowledge of the manner and all the circumstances
of their capture, and vet in six days
after the imperious and peremptory demand of
Great Britain, they were abjectly surrendered
upon the mere rumor even of the approach of
a hostile fleet, and thus for the first time in our
national history have we strutted insolently in
a quarrel without right, and then basely crept
out of it without honor, and thus for the first
time has the American Eagle been made to
cower before the British Lion.
Sir, a vassal and terror-stricken press of servile
and sycophant politicians in this House or
out of it, may applaud the act, and fawiv, and
flatter, and lick the hand which has smitten
us down in the dust. kbit the people now or
hereafter will demand a terrible reckoning* for
this most unmanly surrender. l>ut I do not
trust myself to speak of it now as 1 propose
some day to speak. I rose only to put on record
my emphatic protest against it, and to express
my deep conviction that the very war
which the other day might have been avoided
by combined wisdom and firmness, is now inevitable.
Sir, the surrender may be no fault of the
Secretary of State, but he lias sown, I fear, the
dragon's teeth, by this, his fatal despatch, and
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iiniK'u war win spring ironi it. In the name
of Cod, Sir, what does England want with Mason
and Slidcll ? It was a surrender of the 1
claim of tlic right to seize them on board her ]
ships, under her flag, that she demanded, and (
this is the very thing that Mr. Seward pertinaciously
refuses, and lie only condemns Captain
AYiIkes because lie did not enforce this asserted
right with greater severity against the offending
neutral ship. AYliv, Sir, upon the
principles of this despatch, if a merchant vessel,
as at first intended, had been employed to
carrv these men out from Fort. Wurrnn F.n
gland, she might to-day have been arrested on <
the high seas^ind they dragged from her dcck? 1
provided only she were forthwith brought back !
to the port of Boston for confiscation. j
But more than this, England needs, T do not
say wants, a war, but she must and will have
it, and this administration has acted from the *
beginning as if it was her purpose to oblige 1
her in it to the utmost. Look into your diplomatic
correspondence. Look at your stone
ileet. But let that pass. Who, 1 ask, among
all the millions of this country, or even in this
House or Senate, or the Administration itself, 1
in the midst of the dead calm of stolid sccuri- '
ty which seems now to rest over all, has rellec- '
ted for a moment upon the signilicancy of the
passing hours ?
A Lritish man of war bears to the shores of
England, there to be received in triumph and,
with shouts of exultation as martyrs ami he:os
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and with the gustos of the people of England
and as the proteges of their ministers, the very 1
men who, but for the rash act of Capt. Wilkes
and the still more rash endorsement of the
Administration and the country, would six ,
weeks ago have been quietly landed from a
private ship in quiet security as rebels and refugees.
All Europe echoes now with their !
names. All Europe will rise up to do them
honor, and yet you surrendered them, did you,
to escape the recognition by England of the i
Confederate States, and your Secretary of
.Tiiuu, wnu Vv-uiistian resignation or stoic philosophy,
calmly rejoices that the effectual ehe? I;
upon and waning proportions of the insurec- ;
tion, as well as the comparative unimportance
of the persons concerned, happily enable the
administration, after six weeks experiment, to
cheerfully liberate them, and thus to remove
the teterimi can si belli.
Sir, give inc leave to say, that the moment
they (Mason and Slidell) stepped upon the
deck of a British man of war, your prisoners
of state, whom the other day you would have
consigned to felon's cells, became indeed the
envoys and ambassadors of a recognized independant
State, and I predict hero to day, in
spite of this deep national humiliation, or
rather perhaps, because of it, and in spite, too
of the surrender, without protest; of the Monroe
doctrine, for forty years the cherished and
proud policy of this Government, in less than
three months you will be at war with Great
Britan, or else, in the meantime, will have
basely submitted to the recognition of the
Confederate States, and the breaking up of
the blockade; and if at war then, with hearts
unstrung and hands unnerved by this very
surrender.
Courago! courage! courage ! sir, is the
best and lirst of peacemakers. I know well,
of course, sir, th at like all other similar predictions
for some years past, in regard to our
affairs, you will treat this one also with scoffing
and incredulity ; but, nevertheless, I put
it on record here to-day. "The prudent man
forcsccth evil and hidcth himself, but the simple
pass on and arc punished."
iSTotos of the War.
AKHIVALOF TIIE lil'RXSIDK EXPEDITION IN PAMLICO
SOUND.
From the Norfolk Day Book, of last week,
v/e copy the following:
Information reached this citv last evening
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to the effect that a Federal tleet had made its
appearance in Pamlico Sound.
The fleet consists ot'20 gun boats, drawing
from Ave to six feet ot water, and carrying
some of them, live guns.
They were lirst discovered by Capt. Hunter,
who, while reconnoitcring, was shot at by them.
On his return to the island he reported the
fact, and our forces proceeded at once to place
themselves in a state of readiness for an attack.
This is supposed to be a portion of the Humside
expedition, and it is thought, by some,
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i.iiiii/ ii/? uu|v.'ci/ is hj jnujuiru jor an anaCK upon
Norfolk from the rear. However this may beano
tiling is certain, ami that is, that should
this be their programme, they will find it a
liar J road to travel before they get to the end
of it.
GEN BEN M'cri.LOCII.
We extract the following paragraph from
the Nashville Banner, of the oth inst :
Our dispatches from Richmond frequently
make mention of Ceneral Ren McCulloch as
being still in that city. J?y thus placing himself,
or allowing himself to he placed, in an
equivocal position, < Jen. McCulloch is doing
serious injury to his fine and merited reputation
as a gallant soldier. The West and his
men call upon him. There should he be found.
The gay saloons and diawing-rooms of a brilliant
capital are not the places for a ranger,
when the camp is a stir with the triumph of
war and his men are eager for his presence.
[Jen. McCulloeh should take better care of his
fair good name.
AXOXTIlBIt YAXKEE WRECKED.
The Newborn (X. C.) Proyresa, of the 7th
inst., says:
We received the pleasing intelligence yesterday
that another Yankee steamer had gone ;
ashore opposite Swansboro, or Cedar Point, on
Sunday night. We have not heard the par
ticulars about it yet but may be able to give
something more in our next, as Major Loonc
and Lieut. Col. Robinson lclt yesterday to pay
it a visit.
A BUSY 8CEXE.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 7tli instant,
says :
Our direct importers arc not waiting for the
blockade to be opened to begin their opera- j
lions. Yesterday one of our city wharves pre- j
scnted quite an active scene in consequence of
the fine display of merchandize which covered i
tlic surrounding space, and which was being !
discharged from the splendid Ella VVarley, lately
from foreign parts. The cargo consisted of
uiiniKULN, vvonicueratc gray cloths, I
hardware in casks, coffee, soap, candles, codfish,
spool cotton, English paper and envelopes,
hotter, arrow root, cheese, linens, hoisicrv, buttons,
needles, Spanish cigars, and various other
articles of great value at this time. We have
no doubt but that the adventure will turn out
most fortunate for all the parties interested.
BY LAST NIGHT'S MAIL
From Lyiirhbury,
southern victory in kentucky a desperate
fioiit ? the iiayonet carries the day
casualties, etc.
Lynchburg, Va., January 15.?The train
just in on the Virginia and East Tennessee
Railroad, brings the news of a battle which
occurred yesterday, a few miles beyond Pretonsburg,
Ky., between 2,500 of our troops,
under Gen. Humprey Marshall, and 8,000 of
the enemy. Marshall's force was retreating at
the time it was attacked. The enemy came
upon our men in a narrow gorge, and the engagement
is represented to have been one of the
most desperate of the war. Col. Moore's regiment.
charged the enemv with the l??>vnn?t
X hand to haiul conflict ensued, which lasted
I fof about halt' an hour.
The Northern troops fought hard, but finally
broke and ran in the true Bull Run style.
| Gen. Marshal's force, being completely exhausted
and so much smaller than that of the enc|
my, fell back to l'rcstonsburg. The loss on
; our side was 25 killed and 15 wounded. The
enemy's loss was over 200. This information
was brought to Abington, Ya., by parties who
participated in the battle.
From Norfolk.
hl'unhides flkkt still at sea "crushing
the reijellion'' in tiie west jim lane to
take command of an expedition agrinst
texas.
Norfolk, January 14.?The Bay Book of
this morning says, that it "learned at a very
late hour last night, from a reliable source,
that the Rurnsidc Expedition had not returned
to Hampton Roads, as was reported on yester
via >
Tlic Chicago Journaly of Jauuary 9, says
that private advices had been received from
Washington, to the effect that Gen. (?) Jim
Lane would arrive in Chicago at an early day
en route for Kansas, there to take command of
*25,000 men, 0,00 of whom were cavalry, dcsignd
for a grand expedition along the Arkansas
border into Texas, to be simultaneous with
the grand movements of the other divisions of
the Northern invading army.
E'ioin Xaxliviltc.
snow and sleet?an advance of tiie enemy
still expected the northern
troops moving to outflank zoic li coffer,
etc., etc.
Nashville, January 14.?Yesterday evening
a heavy storm of snow and sleet began
I falling here. It is reported from howling
I Green that our Generals still expect an advance
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oi mo enemy, out it is thought that the late
rains have retarded the movement. At last accounts
5000 of the Northern troops had crossed
Green River at Munfordsvillc, and were encamped
at Rowcttks Station, four miles from
the Bridge. On the 7th instant, heavy embankments
were thrown upon the Louisville
and Nashville Turnpike, near Woodsonvillo.
J >cspatches have just been received that a
largo force of the enemy arc marching on
Burkcsville, w ith the design of outflanking the
' o o
force of (Jen. Zollieeffni- rPl.?o --
.. x 1110 ir> Ifjjitrucu us
reliable. Much anxiety is felt here for the
safety of Zollicoftcr's command.
?w* ?9 <a?
Oeu Sick Soldikks.?We arc informed that
much inconvenience and even distress are
caused by the occasional failure of captains of
companies to give their men when they leave
for hospitals a descriptive list whereby not only
the identity of the soldier may be established,
but the period of his last payment, so that
when he is discharged from the hospital, lie
will have no dilliculty in procuring the amount
to which lie mav be entitled. As it is, soldiers
sent to hospitals at remote points from their
regiments, often find themselves, upon their
discharge, in a strange place, without friends
fll' ninnnti nn.l uii?liA..t p 1
.uMvj iiiuiuiii tiic means 01 ODiaimng
any. The lot of the private soldier is hard
enough in all conscience, without entailing upon
it the evils arising from neglect of duty in
his superiors. It is enough to make the heart
bleed to meet the pale, wan faces which we
encounter, of sininle-niinihwl nr><J lin.n/?e+-liooT-+
, I Itxvt ItVKVQV UVfll U
cd men, who, animated only l>y love of their
country, have rushed to her defense without a
thought or care for pay, promotion or renown,
and whose miserable monthly stipend will
hardly pay for a pair of boots. But small as
the sum is, it is too bad that even that miserable
pittance is often out of the soldier's reach,
at a time when he most needs it, merely because
the captain of his company has omitted
a simple formula which can cost him little time
and trouble, and which, if it did, it is his duty
to make.?Richmond Dispatch, 10(h inst.