The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, April 18, 1862, Image 2
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J. T. HERSHMAN, Editor.
FRIDAY) A Pit 11, 18, 186SI.
Acknowledgment.
The President of the Ladies' Aid Association
of Kershaw District acknowledges the
receipt of $20 from the " Ladies' Aid Society"
of Lancastcrville, for the " Soldiers Rest
also, two dollars from a friend.
April 9th, 1862.
Tlio Spirit of our People.
There is none of those outbursts of noisy
demonstrations at the recent victories of our
army in the West, manifested by the ringing of
bells and illuminations, which the North exhibited
after the fall of Fort Donelson. The
feeling is one of deep and intense gratitude,
mingled with a sense of our great lossesMany
of our best men have been killed?the
lights of many households have been extinguished.
We rejoice with trembling, thankful
that God has crowned the heroism of our brave
volunteers with success. The country owes
them a debt that can never be paid. All
honor to the Southern heroes that gained the
victory at Shiloh.
Prayer Meetings.
11 i*i < i iii .
livery ancrnoon tins wcok me congregations,
worshiping in the l'resbyterian, Methodist and
Baptist churches, in this place, have met in
their respective places of worship, alternately
and united to suplicatc the blessing of Cod
upon our country, our rulers and o^- soldiers.
They feel it to be a time of great anxiety, and
of consequence the most momentous. As a
Christian people they desire to look to the Supreme
Ruler of men and nations; that he
would manifest his power in our behalf. The
meetings have been well attended?a deep seriousness
pervading nil, indicating the presence
of God's spirit. May it be poured out in large
measure.
In the Episcopal Church, during the week.
flioro lias 1 ??><>11 snrviei? il'iilr
l)calli or Gen. A. II. (liliuldcii.
With sorrow we heard, on Tuesday Inst, of
the death of this gallant son of South Carolina.
His devotion to his native State was first shown
as a private in the Richland Rifle Company,
in the Florida campaign of 1830. In that
capacity he evinced the character of a true
soldier in learning to obey, lie was ever at
liis^post, ready for duty. His name is in the
pages of history for his gallantry as Major of
the Palmetto Regiment, in Mexico, and subsequently
Colonel, after the death of Cols. Butler
and Dickinson. His elevation to the distinguished
position of Brigadier is an evidence
o 1 ~
that his ability as an ofllcer was appreciated;
and fully w as that shown by the great services
that brigade rendered 011 the memorable day
in which he received the wounds which terminated
his life.
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Latest from ilic West.
Cokimtii, April 12.?Despatch to {Savannah
Republican.?No general engagement has taken
place since the memorable struggle of the
Gth and 7th. Wc still hold part of the battle
iicld, and considerable skirmishing is going on
daily, in which the Confederates nearly alw ays
, .1 i j
get tuc DCSt.
The Federal official papers found on the battle
field shows that their expeditionary forces
on the river, exclusive of that of General Bucll's
command, amounted to sixty-one-thousand.
Dackagcs of poisoned balls were also found on
the field among the amunition of the enemy.
It has been definitely ascertained, by scientific
analysis, that quantities of quinine, which the
enemy allowed to be smuggled across the line
into the Confederate States, contains poisonous
adulterations.
The towns of Iluntsvillc .and Decatur, in
Alabama, have been occupied ly the enemy.
This was expected by our Generals, and should
create no alarm. When the Federals came to
the bridge at Decatur the draw was raised by
the officer in command, to prevent them crossing,
whereupon the enemy threatened to shell
the town if it was not let down. The citizens,
desirous of avoiding the fire of the enemy, prevailed
on the officer to let it down.
l w-ii ..I.- L1?J 1
vjviiuiui *i HiiHuu 01 uiu ruuurai army, was
killed in the late battle.
An improved percussion-cap machine, invented
by Win. H. Wash, has been manufactured
in Lynchburg. It will make nine thousand
caps per hour.
A CARD.
To the Subscribers to the Fundfor the Camden
Volunteers :
Gentlemen : Having severed my connection
with the Camden Volunteers, by the tender of
my resignation of the position I held in the
Company, on the 13th day of December, 1801,
and accepted on the 13th of January, 1802,
on account of my inability again to enter the
service of the Confederacy, from the effects of
my wound received in the battle of Manassas,
it is due to you as well as to myself, to produce
some evidence that mv financial connection
with tho said company has also ended,
which appears bv the receipt below, to which
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reference is desired.
Some of yon, perhaps all, arc aware that
the fund so liberally subscribed by you, for the
uses and necessities of the company, and
which 1 collected, was managed and disposed
of by a Board of Finance, consisting of the
commissioned officers?Capt. .1. J >. Kennedy
acting as Chairman, myself as Treasurer, and
the Orderly Sergeant as Secretary, or with air
thority to countersign all orders for payment
of money, which rule was strictly adhered to.
To this Board I submitted a report and an account
of my receipts and expenditures as Treasurer,
(before the acceptance of my letter of
resignation by the War Department at Richmond)
which authorized its Chairman to settle
the same with me, which was done by him during
his visit home.
A copy of the report and of the account
are in the hands of the Editor of The Confkdekate,
an examination of which, is subject
to alii whom it may concern.
W. L. DePASS.
Camden, S. C., March SM, l^G'2.
1 have this day settled a fund belonging to
the Camden Volunteers, in the hands of Lieut.
Do Pass, Treasurer, for which he lias thoroughly
and satisfactorily accounted to inc, producing
vouchers, receipts, etc., for every item of receipts
and expenditure.
JOHN D. KENNEDY,
('apt. Camden Volunteers, 2d Keg. S. C. V.,
and Chairman of Finance Hoard.
- ?The
Deserters at Aioista.?Yv'c published
from the Augusta Cuiisti/utHniulist, a statement
that certain South Carolina troops of
Lythgoe's regiment, chiefly, it is said, from
Edgelicld District, refused, in passing through
Augusta, to go out of their State to light, on
the ground that they had enlisted for local
defence only. There is no reality in the ground
assumed by these misguided men, as a justification
for conduct so unsoldierly, so unpatriotic,
so wanting in every clement of honor. The
fair fame of the State is irreparably wounded
by this wretched business. Tho discipline of
the Confederate soldiers is deeply involved.
South Carolina washes her hands of these miworthy
sons, and repudiates their conduct.
It is to be hoped that both the men who acted
thus, and the ollieors who permitted it, will be
summarily dealt with bv the military authorties.
Nothing less will meet the exigencies of
the occasion.?Mercury.
The Casualties at Siiiloii.?Our latest
advices by mail from the great battle near Corinth
are from the Memphis Appeal of the 8th,
containing a partial list of the killed and wounded,
in she battle of Sunday. The Appeal says
the Federal loss is estimated, on the very best
official authority, at 12,0U0 to 15,000 111 killed
and wounded; two or three thousand prisoners;
aDout one hundred pieces ot artillery, and
twenty thousand small arms, with tents, wagons,
Arc. The same authority states that the
Confederate loss in killed, wounded and missing,
at 5,000.
The New Adjutant Genekal of the State.
?Brigadier-General Wilmot G. DeSaussuro,
recently in command of the 4th Brigade, has
been appointed Adjutant and Inspector General
of South Carolina, in place of General
S. R. Gist, who is about to take the field as
Brigadier General in the Confederate States
army. General DeSaussore is peculiarly fitted
for the duties of this office, and we have no
doubt but that his administration will be satisfactory
to the Military, which, at this time, is
the State itself. ?
I)uc notice will be given when the new
| Adjutant General assumes the duties of Ins
office.? Mermry.
The Board or Exemption for tbe-92d
Regiment s. C. HI.
The Board of Exemption held their last
sitting on Monday the 14th inst. It consists
of the following named gentlemen : Col. B.
I JnVlTfl 1 .lilllf.P.AlAnAl W*f Tlx VAV MniAt? W?f
AJlVUk X/VIV1IVI ? ? i?I JUXAUIlj 1UOJVI 11 ?!
A. Ancrum, Drs. John J. Trantham, D. L.
DeSaussure and Judge Advocate Joseph M.
Gaylk. A complete list of exemptions will
be found below, numbering in all 112:
heat no. one.
1*. I). Hammond, A. 1). Jones, jr., W. C.
Cunningham, Joseph Simpson, J. G. Richards,
D. Harrison, R. C. Patterson, J. D. Standly,
Tlios. McDow, John MeCaa, J. Vinson?11.
uk at no. two.
J. \V. Ford, J. L. Downs, E. Gaskin, Wm.
II. Martin, John S. Fletcher, G. R. Miller, J.
L. Stover, L. 13. Stevenson, I). G. Lanier; S. J.
Truesdel?10.
beat no. three.
J. R. Sowcll, J. S. Hough, L. 0. Jones, J. A.
West, C. West?5.
beat no. four.
s m
J. A. Kirkland, A. J. McDowall, Richard
Hocott, Isaac Owens, James T. Truesdel, A.
A. McDowall, W. W. Gardner, A. J. Uaile, J.
Shailor, J. 13. Gaskin?10.
DC.A1 I\U. r 1 Y h..
AY. C. Gerald, Jas. AV. Team, II. F. Ilodson,
J. AAA I)oby, Clias. Gooding, (1. M. Turner,
J. A. 1 loswcll, Ii. MoCatidlcss, C. II. Peek, Rev.
,). S. Hankie, Rev. S. J I. Hay, Jos. Sonimcrs,
F. L. Zcinp, Dr. D. L. DeSaussure, J.K. AA7ithcispoon,
Duncan Shcorn, AA'in. R.Taylor,Monroe
C'rowell, AA'in. Ostcn, J. 1>. Hammond,
Adam Team, George Taylor, Thos. Davis, Jr.,
AA . Koopman, J no. Nettles, Rol>t. Robertson,
J. J. Thompson, J. M. Gayle, J. A. Perry, J. M.
Rodgcrs, N. F roleieh, T. L. Shiver.?32.
HEAT NO. SIX.
L. MeKinnon, Peter Stewart, J no. Bairficld,
Harwell Outlaw, John Brnnnuni, J. A. Elliott,
Moody Ingraham, M. McGougin, AI. K. Ararborough,
Samual Cato, AA iley AA'atkins, Bently
Outlaw, C. P. AI lingo.? 13^
HEAT NO. SEVEN.
J no. Kelly, Nathan Umlrccs, J. J. Titlcr, AA'.
Blackwell, AA'm. M. Kelly, J. Kirby, A. J. Melton,
J. A. AA'. Perry, Thos. Holland.?9
HEAT NO. EIGHT.
Isaac Shirah, J. Morgan, W. J). Morgan, D.
MeCloud, ,1 no. McCaskill, ^ml. Brannum,
Jas. Motley, Allen Young, A. L. Gattis, \Y. LCook,
.las. Kellcy, David Robertson, A. Rabun.
Joel Gardner, J. J). Jsbcll, Mason D. Wood,
Will. J. Ross, Wm. Christinas, Wm.R. Jenkins,
A. A. Iluckabce, J. J. Nelson.?21.
l*:?MNSigo of tlic CoiiM'r|>1ion Kill.
Richmond, April 15.?The Conscription
Bill passed the llousc yesterday. It bad previously
passed the Senate. It is believed that
Congress will adjourn next Monday.
No news here.
liioalli of ilien. Ciladileii.
Savannah, April 14.?A despatch from the
I correspondent ot tlie liejmBticau, tinted Corinth,
April 12, says that Con. A. II. Gladden died
on that day of wounds received in the late
battle.
From Gi:\. Beauregard.?The Lynchburg
Virginia>t, ol yesterday, says:
We understand that a messenger from Gen.
Beauregard passed through this city yesterday,
reports that we captured and sent back 88
guns, of the most beautiful pattern. He mentions
that one battery of eight pieecs, was of
rifled cannon, 24 pounders, lie also says, that
it was for want of transportation that the cap
tureil stores had to be destroyed and were a
loss to the enemy. These statements conic to
lis from a source entitled to the highest credit.
Sterling I'ri. p whs horn about, the year 1810'
in I'rinnn K.Kvov.l i>nnnn> \* ?
... ? .......... v.Ml.ll), ? 11 UUWIIiy i
which also gave birth to General Joseph E.
Johnston, another of the most distinguished
hcros of the war for Southern independence.
Official information has been received here
that the enemy's attack upon Forts St. l'hilip
and Jackson, at the Passes of the Mississippi
below New Orleans began yesterday.
^A^nriouricerriexits.
\f l> Wl.ITATJ. Plnnoo " n"
> ? - "UI1VI1. i IVIIOU 4III1KMIIIUO Air. W M. XVI, lilliLINGS
a candidate for Tnx-Collector of Kershaw
District, at tho ensuing election, and much oblige
April 18 MANY VOTERS.
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LATK5T BY TELEGRAPH.
From ICiclimoml.
Richmond, April IV.?Official despatches
last night from Lee's Farm, ir. the Peninsula,state
that the enemy commenced bombarding
our lines yesterday at half past eight o'clock (
a. m., and continued until seven, p. m. The
attack was on our centre, and was splendidly
repulsed. They tried to force Gen. Cobb's position
at Lee's and Winn's mills. They waded
up to their arm-pits, but were driven out and
repulsed with heavy loss. Our troops behaved
nobly.
At 10 o'clock our loss was 20 killed, including
Col. McKenzie, of the 15th N. C. Regiment.
Not over 75 wounded. Eight battery
horses were killed, and one howitzer disabled.
Special ISTotices.
MEDICAL CARD.T
DR. R. "WILSON BEING DESIROUS OF
RESUMING the Practice of bis Profession, respectfully
offers his services to the citizens of
Camden and Kirkwood, on and after Thursday,
May 1st, he may be found at the DcKalb '
House.
April 18 4
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WAISTTED.
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lOOO 13 a 1 e s
OF
GlOOn HATTON
V A V/ V/ -X_v V/ V/ JL JL V7 -L 1
"WANTED, for which the highest market price w
bo paid in CASU, by
WM. J. GERALD.
Camden, April 18 2
CALL FOIL VOLUNTEERS.
* HAVING RECEIVED-A COMMISSION FROM
the Secretary of War of the Confederate States of
America, authorizing me to raise a corps of Cavalry
for three years or the war, all those who are desirous
ol joining said corps of Cavalry, and will furnish their
horse, bridle and saddle, cau enroll their names by
calling at the office of the Editor of the Camden Confederate.
T expect to be at home in the course of ono
month, when I will be able to attend to it in person.
April T> W. Z. LEITNKR.
DURING ITIY^BSENCE, MR. JAS.
DUN LAI' will act as my Agent.
March 21 THOMAS J. "WAi REN.
Election for Guardmen
A N ELECTION WTT.T. TU<'. TTl?T/n at tim.^
jt\. Council Room on Wednesday, 2 4th inst., for four
Guardmen, to servo for the current year. Applicants
will hand in their letters addressed to Council, in their
own hand writing, previous to that time.
J5y order of Council. It. BI. KENNEDY,
Recorder pro tem.
Council Chamber, April 10, 1862. 1
Notice.
Council Chamber, April 10, 1862.
On motion, it was ordered that the following section
of a Town Ordinance, relative to slaves, passed Juno
4, 18.14, be published in the Camden Confederate, and
the same enforced from and alter publication of this .
notice:
Section 2. Slaves shall not occupy any house, outhouse
or kitchen, not connected with and under tho
supervision of some white person. Penalty?Such slave
shall bo committed to jail until discharged tby tho
owner, ?ii, ins cost. i'asseu .IU110 4, lbi>4.
April 18
Notice.
M R. A. M. KENNEDY WILL ACT AS MY
Attorney (luring mv absence from tl?o State.
March 28 2 J. D. KENNEDY.
Coperas.
Three hundred lbs. of good coperas,
for sale at a low price, at tho " Old Brick Corner."
January 31 8mo T.S.MYERS.
HARDWARE,
CARPETS, RUGS and CRUMB CLOTHS, for sale
at the " Old Corner." K. W. BONNEY.
January 24
NOTICE.
/"1APT. J. J. NELSON WILL ACT AS MY
" I authorized a^ent during my absence from tho
State. W. W. McCOY.
April 5 4
NOTICE.
J^URING MY ABSENCK FROM THE STATE
mr. .lonuiiian rage win net as my aiiinoriiou
agent,
April 5 4 W.T.ALLEN.
For Sale
A N EXCELLENT ONE OR TWO HORSE BUG-,
tx Gy, with top; and also a good DUMPING
CART and ({ear. Apply at the Bank of Camden.
April f> 4
Clothing
A LARGE LOT OF SUMMER CLOTHING FOR
Men and Boys, on hand, and for sale at low prices
by E. W. BONNET.
April 11