VOLUME I. CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1862. NUMBER 30. I
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Nov. 8?tf H. T. PEAKE, Gen'i Sup't.
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February 28 B. W. BONNET,
Seed Oats.
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February 28
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Naval Engagement at Fort Pillow.
We get the following from the Memphis
Avalanche of tho 12th inst:
Gen. Jeff. Thompson, who is in command of
the gunboat fleet at Fort Pillow, an hearing
that it was the intention of the enemy to come
down to attack that place on Saturday, concluded
he would go up and anticipate their
movements. Accordingly about i o'clock on
Saturday morning, the fleet was put in readiness,
and about 7 o'clock the fight commenced.
The steamer Bragg, Capt W m. Leonard, led
in tho attack. She steamed up amid a shower
of balls to the St. Louis gunboat, which wan
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coming uown, ana strucK ner on tne starboard
side; the Sumter, Capt. Wallace Lamb, followep
next, and also butted the St. Louis near the
stern: the Gen. Price, capt. Henthronc, followed
next, and also butted the St. Louis in the
stern, knocking away her rudder, and sternpost
The Van Dorn, Capt Fulkerson, came
last.
The Bragg had her chain shot away, and
dropped back; the Sumter was surrounded by
three gunboats, which.' for the space of fifteen
minutes, poured a deadly fire upon her. Some
of the enemy's boats were almost alongside the
Sumter in the engagement, yet she was net
seriously disabled, though her cabin was almost
riddled. .The Van Dorn had a special engagement
with the mortar boat, and, it is believed,
seriously datnaged her. Indeed, it is reported
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mat toe mortar ooat nas since sunk. Some of
the enemy's balls penetrated as much as six
feet into our boats, yet, so far as their 6ervicsble
capacity is concerned, they were uninjured.
The Van Dorn's upper works were almost riddled.
A spy glass was shot out of the hands
of her captain. There was no damage done to
the hulls or machinery of our boats. General
Thompson was on board the Bragg which
made the first attack. All did their duty nobly,
though special attention is made of Capt.
Fulkerson of the Van Dorn.
The St. Louiafwas seriously damaged, and
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nan iuii uu n u?r uppmrne nuiuu X"Oini. lesterday,
at noon, sbe was still on the bar, with
a transport alongside, suflposcd to be in a sinking
condition.
The fight was brought to a close by the Federal
gunboats withdrawing into shoal water,
where onrs could not go. They then opened
broadside after broadside at us, throwing some
three hundred shot, but with no damage.
The Benton gunboat, Com. Foote's flagship
did not leave the shore, but all the time poured
a most destructive fire upon our boats.
The Federals made an attempt to board the
Sumter, but the boarding party were all dispersed
bj a shower of balls and hot water.
Several of the Federals were killed at their
guns, and others at their forecastle. We fired
from our big gnn not exceeding twenty shots
mostly from the Jeff. Thompson.
Our loss in the engagement is two? the cook
on the Bragg, and the steward on the Van
Dorn.?The former had his leg shot off at the
thigh, and the latter.had his head shot off.
We aUo had four slightly injured. The Federal
loss is known to be at least twenty-five.
The engagement took place at Plumb Point,
and lasted an hour and a half, when our boats
returned to the fort.
The impregnability of our ootton clad fleet
is considered now to be fully demonstrated?
the enemy's shot penetrating into the cotton
only a few inches and none passing through.
Therefore there is now no danger of the enemy
reaching Memphis via Fort Pillow.
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The Philadelphia Ledger has become alarmed
at visionsW the gentlemen with "yellow
eyes and saffron hair/' and says:
It is high the ablest medical men in
tho armv. who have had exDerience of a South
era clime, should be arranging all the devices
that can be arranged to save soldiers from exposure,
and to counteract in every way the dan- .
gere which will soon be npon them. I
Latest from Blew Orleans.
We have New Orleans dates up to the 8th
instant:
The invaders are already experiencing the
effects of the rammer climate of the Crescent
City, and it is stated that about sixty have
already died there. They have established a |
hospital in Odd Fellow's Hall. The papers
continue to be put to great straits for interesting
matter for their columns, and two or three
are gradually going into the ulight literature"
business, and publishing stories, romances, et
cetera, original and selected.
The Picayune acknowledges the receipt of a
Philadelphia paper, and "regrets that its contents
are of such a nature as to make it almost
a perfectly sealed book to us, for any practical
purposes, under the recent proclamation of
General' butler.'
The Picayune has received a copy of the ^o- ;
bile Advertiser of the 4th instant, from which
it makes brief selections, the greater part of
the paper being considered "contraband" in
that quarter. This did not prevent, however,
the assemblage of a large crowd on Canal street
to hear the paper rea<f, and we are informed
that when the stirring address of Beauregard
to the "Army of the Mississippi and Elkhorn"
was read out, cheer on cheer rent the air, despite
Gen. Butler and his Provost Marshals
and his Massachusetts Regiments. No . interruption,
however, was attempted and the Or
ivnuvio cujvjcu tuc ucns iu Mien own way,
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Nothing proves the fixed resolution of .the
Southern people to maintain this contest to
the bitter end than the tenacity with which
they adhere, even in places overrun by the enemy,
to the Confederate currency. Within
'the lines of our own armies every body receives
Confederate money as equal to any currency
that is afloat, and every body frowns upop the
slightest effort to decry it This is one of the
most favorable and"cheering signs of the times.
It proves the fixed determination and the uiti
mate purpose of the whole community. Neither
the fall of Nashville, nor of New Orleans^
nor of Norfolk nor any ottier valuable place,
shakes the currency?a fact which proves that
no disaster and no shock can shake the fixed
determination of the people to work out their
independanco through every adversity.?Richmond
Examiner.
Who are Enemies??'The men who are
speculating in food?grinding the poor from
mercenary motives.
The man who directly or indirectly shake
public confidence in the value of Confederate
money.
The croakers who are filling the people with
doubts of the final accomplishment of our pur
pose.
The men who express the opinion that it is
better to be a subject of Lincoln than of any
other country. There are some persons so
speaking. Of course, we will never be put to
the necessity of making the selection, but the
man who entertains A. L. as a second choice,
is not in heart with the cause. Better the
government of the Czar of Russia than that of
the miserable administration of oui enemy.
Hatred of him is the only legacy which be
can leave us and that ought to be nursed until
the vast amount of it will be beyond computation.?Mobile
Tribune.
The Tyranny in Baltimore.?The following
is an extract from a letter from a gentleman
in Baltimore to his brother in this city, dated
1 a. k nil .
lutll uiu.
"Oh! if you only knew what we hava to suffer
here?the tyranny is almost insupportable.
Negros now sit in the congregations with the
whites, and that yon may be entitled to any
consideration, it is necessary to paint yourself i
black. Ladies are not respected, but on the 1
contrary are insulted every day."
Surely there must be a day of retribution for
the God-forsaken scoundrels who have imposed
these humiliations upon a gallant, but defence- 'i
less community.?Richmond ( Va.) Whig.
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DlaclpllMrttiRi la ?ar Army.
The Mobile Tribune tayt that some of the
soldiers from Gen. Price's division have been
ir. that city, on their way to Virginia. It was
interesting to hear these men expressing their
admiration of their chief. The Tribune says:
One of them declared that he wonld rather
die under his command than fight^inder any '
Jjther. It was a little extravagant, bnt evident- *
y earnest. And yet Gen. Price is as rigid a
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umuipiiiinrinn as any omcer in ui0 service.
How is it that he has held a ragged and half
starved army in the bleax climate of Missouri
in so good a fighting trim as to win every battle
where there was not a great disparity of
numbers?holding his men in his band to do,
and eagerly desiring to do, whatever they were
ordered? This is the secret of success, and it
shows that their military knowledge and experience
are not the complete measure of a soldier's
fitness for command. Beauregard has a \
great deal of this control of h is troops. Napoleon
had it, and every great soldier must
have it. Between a martinet and a commander
of this kind there is an infinite difference.
The officer whom his men are attached to can
handle's brigade with as much effect as one
lacking it can a division. '
Gen. Johnston's Army.
From a gentleman who left the army at ten
o'clock Tuesday forenoon, we have informaiion
of Oen. Johuston's position at that time. His
vanguard was only one mile this side of New
Kent Court House. Gen. McClellan's advanced
forces were at the court house, but the impression
seemed to prevail that he was retiring.
New Kent Court House is twenty-eight miles
from Richmond, and were McClellan defeated
at that point, the greater portion of his forces
would be compelled to retreat in the direction
ofYorktown, before reaching which, they
would be captured or cut to pieces. It was
thought not improbable that Gen. Johnston
would tender the young Napoleon battle, and
we think it more Drobable that thin in nhrmfc
the most favorable opportnnity the Confederates
will ever have to engage him. The loss
of three thousand as (admitted by his Surgeon
General) at Williamsburg, has doubtless given
him a very fair foretaste of what he is to expect
when the great struggle shall take place.
This great struggle will not take place near
New Kent Court House if McClellan can help
it?Petersburg Express.
From Pensacola.?IJy a private letter from
Pensacola we learn that on the night of the
29th inst, a detachment was sent over to Santa
Rosa Island, from the Confederate eamna. to
bring off three negros and a white man, who
were seen to land there late in the evening.
The troops crossed in a small boat, landed, and
took the runaways by surprise, and captured
tbe entire party. On returning the pilot lost
his way, and the boat drifted down the stream*
very near to.where the Lincoln guards were
marching up and down the beach. Luckily,,
however, they were not discovered, and putting
across the bay, reached their own camps in
safety, bringing with them the "contrabands"
and their Yankee friend.?Atlanta Commonwealth.
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From Jackson's Command.?The Lynchburg
Virginian, of Monday the 12th, thus al
ludes to a rumor which was current io Richmond
on Sunday :
Intelligence was received from Jackson's *
army yesterday, by telegraph, to the effect
that Jackson had secured the paseee of the
Cheat Mountain, and had forces at Franklin,...
Pendleton county, whereby the enemy's retrpftt,
had h??n ent off. Thftv are ranrMAitlA/1
as-being in a most deplorable condition, utterly
broken up, having thrown away their arms
and are wandering about the mountains without
either food or arms. It is said that about
five hundred of them were captured. Large
quantities of ammunition taken from the enemj
have been sent by Jackson to Staunton.
A more utter discomfiture never happened to
any army than that which has overtaken Milroy's
forces.
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