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IW.'.JL Mil H1 !' I. . . Cljc Camden Confederate. VOLUME I. CAMDEN, SO. CA? FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1862. 1^UMBER?4 ?lje (Cumlicii QLoufcbfrate IS PUBLI8I1F.D BVRKY FRIDAY BY J. T. UEHSHMAN, AT TWO DOLLARS A YEAS, PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-YEARLY IN ADVANCE. rPor?m a A ! ci /* JU vyx AJLX?_> xv/x XXVA V t/JL For one Square?fourteen lines or less?ONE DOLLAR for tlio first, aud FIFTY CENTS for each subsequent insertion. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged tor at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job WorK MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrons. ADVERTISING TERMS PER ANNUM. One Square, 3 months, - - - - - $5 " " G " 8 " " 12 " 12 Two Squares, 3 months, ... . 8 " ? G " - * - - - - 13 " " 12 ? " 18 Three Squares 3 mo8n 12 ift u /* a * ~ u j a 41 44 12 44 25 Four Squares 3 nios., - - - 1G 44 44 6 44 24 44 44 * 1 2 44 30 ESjT" Eight dollars per annum lor every additional square. Business, and Professional Cards Eight Dollars n-year. All advertisements for less than three months Casii. If the number of insertions is not specified m writing advertisement*, will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. Announcing Candidates, three months, Five Dollars over that time, the usual rates will be charged. No advertisement, however small, will be considered less than a square; and transient rates charged on all for a less time than three months. _ .I., TO TRAVELLERS. :o: UK THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL ftOAD v"* i-y NORTHERN ROUTE. 1)AY NIGHT TRAINS. TRAINS. Leave Charleston I 7.00 a m 8.15 p tn Arrive at Kingsville, the Junction of the Wilmington A Manchester R. R.. 2,45 pm |3,15 a m Arrive at Columbia 4 00 pm lo.Ot; a in Arrive at Camden 4.40 p m J O Leave Camden 5.20 am I Leave Columbia 0.15 am )5.30 p in Leave Kingsville, the Junction of the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad.. J 6.40 a m 3.25 p. m Arrive at Charleston | 3 00 pm 2.30 a in. WESTERN ROUTE. DAY | NIGHT STATIONS. TRAIN'S. j TRAINS Leave Charleston 7.00 n in |G.30 p m Arrive at Auirusta 2.46 pm j4 30 p m o Leave Augusta I 8.00 am j 7.30 p m Arrive al Charleston 3.30 pm i 4.30 n m ruuouuu tiuvel between auousta a^d kinsoville day kioht stations. trains. trains. Leave Augusta 8.00 a m 7.30 p m Arrive at Kingsville 2,45 p m ;3.15 a in Leave Kingsville [ 6.45 am j 3.25 p m Arrive at Augsta 1.15 p mi 11.15pm MID DAY TRAIN BETWEEN CAMDEN AND KINGSVILLK, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, down. i up. Leave Camden, 11 40a. tn. | Leave Kingsville, 8.5 a.tn. Leave Boy kin's, 12.12p.rn Leave Clarkson's 8.20 " Leave Claremonl 1.248 ' Leave Manchester JuneLeave Middleton 1.10 " tion 8.38 n. m. Leave Manchester June- Leave Middlelon 8.43 tion 1.18, p. m. Leave Claremonl 9.08 " Leave Clarkson's 1.38 " Leave Boykin's 9.48 " Arrive at Kingsville 1.60, Arrive at Camden, 10.20 Nov. 8?tf -H. T. PKAKE, Gen'l Sup't. Oats and Cow Peas T70R SALE FOR CASH, AT TI1E OLD CORNER.' "1 x'??1 w w nowNvv 11 UYUU1 ?JOI M. ? ?? Notice. THAVR THIS DAY, 0( TOBER 24, SOLD OUT my entire stock of Goods, Wares and Merchandise, in the town of Uamden, to I. M. Springer, Esq., who will continue the business at the same stand I have occupied heretofore in tho said town. All persons who are in anywise indebted to mo, will pleaso mako payment of tho samo to said J. M. Springer, at an early day; and all who havo claims against me will present them to him for settlement. Pesember 1R. SPRINGER. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER.) April 4, 1802. f rPIIE FOLLOWING LETTER OF RESIG * NATION, and the resolutions adopted by the Governer and Council in reply thereto, have been ordered to be published : * * * * STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) Adjutvnt and Inspector Gen's. Office > Columbia, April 8, 1802. ) To His Excellency the Governor and Council: Gentlemen: Having accepted the commission of Brigadier General in the Confederate service, I have the honor herewith to resign my commission as Adjutant and Inspector General, with which I wa? invested by the General Assembly of .the State. In taking leave, officially, permit me ro express my thanks for many acts of kindness and the uniform courtesy which has been always extended to me by each member of your honorable body. With the kindest regards and best wishes for your success in the great work | before' us, ] have the honor to he, very respectfully, your obedient servant, S. R. GIST, i -\r\??**? ? 1 ^ 1 c a *-/i i^uwix v/uu^iai V-/# kJ. ?i? * * * * * * EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER, ) April 3, 1862. J Itc.solrci/, That the Governor and Council accept the resignation tendered by General S. K. Gist as Adjutant and Inspector General of this State, and request that he will act as Adjutant and Inspector General until he shall receive orders from the Confederate authorities, or until the Governor and Council shall appoint his successor. I/csolrcd, That the Governor and Council sincerely reciprocate the kind feelings expressed in the letter of Gen. Gist, and express their reurot at. hoinir coinncllcd to Kpnornto from r? 1 ? ?r 1) 111). l>v order of the Governor and Council. F. J. MOSES, Jr., Secretary. A&T'All papers in the State copy once. April 11 1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. f J executive council chamber, April 4, 1862. Tiie following preamble and resolutions, adopted by the Governor and Council, haw been ordered to be published : * * * * Whereas information lias readied the Governor and Council that sundry small vessels have, from time to time, carried from the port of Charleston cargos of cotton, which the Governor and Council have reason to believe have found their way to the cncmv, and which certainly have not brought back return cargos of arms, munitions or army supplies; therefore, Resolved. That during the continuance of the present blockade the exportation of cotton from any port in South Carolina is hereby prohibited, unless by the express permission of the Confederate State authorities. Resolved, That an agent, resident in the City of Charleston, be appointed, who shall be authorized to grant permission for the exportation of cotton on the terms hereinafter prescribed, to wit: Affidavit shall be made that no part of the cotton exported shall, with the consent or connivance of the exporter, find its way into the enemy: and bond, with good surety, shall be given that the full amount of the net proceeds or the sale of said cotton shall be brought back into the Confederate States in arms, munitions of war or army supplies, tin less prevented by successful interpotition of the enemy. Extract from the minutes of April 4. F. J. MOSES, Jr., Secretary. JK^"A11 papers in the State copy once. April 11 1 WOMAN'S RIGHTS. It is her right to watch beside The bed of sickness and of pain, And when the heart almost despairs, To whisper hopes of health again. Her right to make the hearthstone glad, With gentle words and cheerful smile, Arid when man is with care oppressed, llis wearied spirit to beguile. t It is her right to train her sons, C?_ 11 P -1 1 ou iney may oenuie cunmuers grace; Thus is she with more lionor crowned. Than if herself had filled the placo. It is her right to bo admired, By every generous, manly heart, When with true dignity and grace She acteth well a woman's part. She hath a dearer right than this? To be in olio true heart enshrined Who, though the world may all forsake, Will.cherish still and still be kind. And there is yet a higher right, Which also is to woman given ; "lis her's to teach the iniant mind, Those truths divine which come Irom Heaven. I What should she more than to perform, On earth file's holiest, sweetest ta.-ks? When vou a nerfect woman find. Is'o other rights than these she asks. Tlic Virgin!;* and (lie Cumber I aiul. ' The New York World publishes a very interesting statement, obtained fro in Mr^ A. B. | Smith, the pilot of the Cumberland during the battle, and who. having escaped from the sinki ing vessel, arrived in New York on the 10th inst. We reproduce the narrative in full: On Saturday morning the United States sloop-of-war Cumberland laid off in the Roads at Newport News, about three hundred yards from the shore, the Congress being about two hundred yards south of us. The morning was mild and pleasant, and the day opened without any noteworthy incident. About 11 o'clock a dark-lookin?r ol iect was descried co.nin*? round Clancy Island through Norfolk channel, and proceeding straight in onr direction. It was instantly recognized as the Merrimac. We had been on tho lookout for her for sometime, and were as well prepared then as we could have been during the last six months. As she came ploughing through the water right onwards to our port bow, she looked like a huge half-submerged crocodile, ller sides seemed of solid iron, excont where the crnns ? ? i e? pointed from the narrow ports, and rose slantingly trom the water, like the roof of a house or the arched back of a tortoise. Probably the extreme height of the apex from the water's edge perpendicularly, was ten feet. At her prow 1 could see the iron ram projecting straight forwards, somewhat above the'water's edge, and appaicntly a mass of iron; Small boats were slung or fastened to her sides, and the Confederate Hag tloatcd from one statf, while a pennant was fixed to another at the stern. There was asmoke staek or pipe near | her middle, and she was probably a propeller, ? 11 1 i < 110 skio wneeis or mncninery oemg visible. She is probably covered with railroad iron. GETTING READY FOR ACTION. Immediately on the appearing of the Merrij mac the command was given to make ready for immediate aetion. All hands were ordered to their p'aees, and the Cumberland was sprung acioss the channel, so that her broadside would bear on the Merrimac. The armament we could brine to bear on the Merrimac ! was about eleven nine and ten inch Dahlgren i guns, and two pivot guns of the same make. The gunners were at their posts, and we wailed eagerly for her to approach within range. She came up at the rate of four or five knots per hour. OPENING THE BATTLE. When the Mcrrimac arrived within about a mile we opened on her with our pivot guns, a tut rh ?ion ms wo. could boar unon hnr nn. l*" " """" "" ** """ *" -f vill whole broadside commenced. Still she came on, the balls bouncing fron her mailed sides 1 like India rubber, apparently not making the ! least impression, except to cut off her flag staff, and thus bring down the Confederate colors. None of her crew ventured at that time on her outside to replace them, and she fought thence forward with onlv her pennant flying. She appeared to obey her helm and be very readily handled, making all her movements and evolutions with facility and readiness. We had fired six or eight broadsides, when a shot was received from one of her guns which killed five of our mmino* It was impossible for our vessel to get out of her way, and the Merrimac soon crashed her iron horn or rain into the Cumberland, just starboard the main chains, tinker the bluff of the port bow, knocking a hole into the side near the water line as large as the head of a hogshead, and driving the vess< 1 back upon her anchors with great force. The water came rushing into the hold. The Aierrimac then backed out. ai d discharged her guns at us, the shot passing through the main bay and killing five sick men. The water was all the while rushing into the hole made by the ram, so that in five minutes it was up to the sick bay on berth deck. In the mean timelier broadsides swept our men away, killed and maimed, and also set our vessel on fire in the forward part. That fire was extinguished. I cannot tell how many were wounded. The sick bay, berth and gun deck were almost literally coveted with men killed and wounded, but the surviving ones still fought well, and every one, officers and men, displayed the utmost heroism. The fight lasted about three fourths of an hour, the Cumberland firing rorv;.ii.* _ i??g n^/ivin ^ ami ail the time the water pouring into the hold, and V?y and by the ports, as her bow kept sinking deeper and deeper. Near the middle of the fight, when the berth deck of the 'Cumberland had sunk below water, one of the crew of the Merrimao came out of a port to the outside of her iron plated roof, and a ball from one of our guns instantly cut him in two. That was the last and only Confederate that ventured within sight; the rest remained in their safe, ironwalled enclosure. We fired constantly, and the Merrimac ocasionally, but every shot told upon our wooden vessel and brave crew. Her guns being without the least elevation, pointed ' 1 straight at lis along the surface of the water and her nearness, she being ranch of the time within three hundred yards, made it an easy matter to send each hall to its exact mark. Probably her guns would be useless at a considerable distance, as it appears impossible to elevate them. Finally about three quarters of an hour of the most severe fighting, our vessel sunk?the stars and stripes still waving. That flag was finally submerged; but after the hull grounded on the sand, fifty-four feet below the surface of the water, our pennant was still tlvincr from the topmast above the waves. None of. our men were captured, but many were drowned as the vessel went down. We had about four hundred on board, and I suppose from one hundred and fifty to two hundred were killed during the engagement and drowned at the sinking. Lieut. George V. Maurice was in command of the vessel?Capt. Radford being absent on the Roanoke, at a court of inquiry, and, though he hurried back to reach his vessel he could not arrive till after she had snnk. Very few of our men swam ashore, most of those who were rescued from the water being saved by small boats. The Mcrrimac seemed to be uninjured, although her small boats and flag staff were shot away in the commencement of the action. A Soldier's life saved bv a Testament. ?One of the w< u ded f m Gei o a '? (Stonewall) command ha- with him a Testament Dierced bv a bullet. A physician of w ? Richmond, who is attending him, states that but for the obstruction of the Testaim nt the ball would, without doubt, have passed through his heart and proved fatal. The same was true of a soldier engaged in the fight of the 21st at Manassas.