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1 i ir ' icav, North and South. Ou tbo fourth page ill be found several General Orders, from hfadqttitrtets, in wlifeh a great majority of our cttisens are especially interested. it erill bo seen by reference to another colutqn, that Dr. 1J. M. Bo * sin, of Caradon, makes an appeal to ail persons assigned to the first corps of reserves for State service, and others who are not subject to the Conscription Act, to come forward and assist him in filling up his roll for Cavalry service in the State. Address Dr. E. M. Botkin% at Camden, So. On. First Petcb of ibe Season. We have been favored with a large and most delicious ripe peach, from the orchard of Mr. I. B. Alexander, of Camden, for which he has our thanks. * Remember Them. We have recently seen a letter written by Messrs. C*. A. & K. G. Chisolm, of Charleston, from which we make the following extract: "We have been soiling salt at $5 per bushel, and trill continue to do so, to long as we keep our works in operation, notwithstanding what others may charge." They only regret that their works are so limited that they cannot meet a tithe of the demands made upon them?but hopo soon to be able to do something for us here. They are not selling the salt to speculators and extortioners. but aro giving the privilege of pur chase to th* consumers, and especially " to the families of volunteers now in service." Wo chronicle this fact, not for the purposo of praising the patriotism of the Messrs. Chisolm? for they are only doing as every lover of his country will do?tut that our people may remember them?believing that when the day of peace and prosperity shall again gladden our land, they will see that they suffer no detriment. Sunday nails. 4 We were pleased to see a pe'.ition from our citizens against the running of the cars on the Sabbath day, on tho branch of the railroad from this place to Kingsville. It appears somo complaint has been made to the President of the South Carolina Railroad that the contract for carrying the mails was not complied with, inasmuch as the agreement was for a daily mail, for a specified length of time. "$Ve have had no Sabbath running of the cars for several years, and of course no mail on that day.? With this our citizens have been perfectly satisfied. As a Christian people we believe in the observance of the Sabbath, and letting those who are Connected with the Railroad and Postoffice have the benefit of the day of rest, and the opportunity of attending the house of God with their families, as other citizens have.? And we are happy to say they avail themselves of it. The result is manifest in the unexceptionable deportment of all concerned with tho Camden Branch of the Railroad. We would be doing injustice to discriminate, as agents, rnnHnrinra onrri nenro fipnman >-J ? " , ^ ^ Uivuieu, OIIU till OLIierb engaged, are, each in himself, thoroughly competent and attentive in the respective positions assigned them. We believe nothing is lost in a temporal point of view in the observance oi the Sabbath. And that community of people who set aside the regard due to the injunction to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy, will give fearful evidence of it in degeneracy of morals. Let all, then, sign the petition to continue the running of the cars, as for some time past Latest from Richmond. Richmond, June 25.?The First Louisiana Brigade engaged Sickles* and Williams' Briffflde. this ftftflmnnn an/1 Hrftwa ?iiU 0 , ?> Itugiu jk/aujk WlbU great slaughter. Also captured 75 prisoners. Confederate loss considered heavy. Parson Brownlow is taking in the loose change in tho North, and is advertised as one of the great "cards" at a Yankee strawberrj festival. Secretary Stanton has ordered the Whit* House, in Virginia, to be converted into a Hob pita!. It will accommodate, it is said, five hun. drcd sick and bounded. cargo of British ?oode, l*ing precisely what wo inoat sorely need at the pre*eot juncture. The Memphis had the mis* fortune, while coming into port on Monday, to get ashore on the beach of Snllivah's Island, where she remained several bourn, but was finally towed off by the steamers Marion and Etiw&n. When she first got aground she was approached by one of the . blockade!*, which fired a number of shells, most of which struck on Sullivan's Island, but none of them hit the ship. Tho Yankee gunboat was finally driven off by a rifled gun on Fort Beauregard, which discharged but one shot at her, when she retired. The Memphis is a new iron ship, on her first voyage, and was built at Dumbarton, on the Clyde, is a most sightly vessel, of (rood speed, about 800 tons register, but is capable o[ carrying the cargo of many a vessel of 1200 tons* She made the passage from Liverpool to Nassau in sixteen and a-half days, and was boardod off Abaco by tho Yankee steamer Quaker City. Left at Nassau, on the 19th inst., the steamships Hero, Herald, Nashville* (now Thos. L. Wright), Loyds, Kate and others. Tho Cecilo had left Nassau some days previous to the 19th to an unknown port.? Tho Yankeo cruisers keep up quite a sharp blockade oft Nassau, and board nearly all vessels bound in or going out. The Hon. Mr. Ward, late Minister to China, and Major Bateman, came passengers in the Memphis. Mercury of Tuesday. ' [for the camden confederate.] Mr. Editor : It 1ms become a common practice for boys and youths to try the speed of their horses within the corporate limits of tho town, especially on DeKalb and Littleton streets, Hnd this in the evening just at a time when there are more carriages on the streets than any other hour of tho day- These young gentlemen ought tc know that racing horses in such places is against the law; to say the least the practice is extremely dangerous. No carriage can be driven on tho streets at such a time without great danger to ladies and children taking their usual drive. We hope this hint will be sufficient to put a stop to the practice, but if not, the Town Council must be called upon to exercise their authority. An Observer. Butler's Proclamation.?The New York Times, for a wonder, does not approve of the brute Butler's proclamation : v If Gen. Butler had issued any such order, he ctlAllIrl Ko frtft K Wlfk flio ?? ouvuiu uv ivituniw UIOUJIOOCU 11 UU1 MIO BiliiVa It would be ^ disgrace to the servfce?an infamous outrage upon the morality and decency of the country and the age. It purports to be a warning to the ladies, but is really a license> expressly given to the soldiers, to treat as "women of the town," every female who ma), "by word, gesture er movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States." Such insults may be very annoying, and may deserve punishment, or, at least, measures of repression, though we believe that, as yet, they are not offenses against any code of laws, either civil or military. But to commit their punishment to the unrestrained and sanctioned license of a rough soldiery would be a stride towards the brutality of the most ' barbarous ages, from which we trust the Union cause will be protected. Such an order would inflict lasting disgrace on the oflBcer who should issue it, and bring the cause he professed to serve into just and general contempt. Evacuation of Cumberland Gap.?The Atlanta and Knoxville papers announce the fact tha^ Cumberland Gap has been evacuated by the Confederate forces. The Knoxville t Register says: The force which has so long been stationed i here has fallen back, we learn, to a position on Chnreh River. That croaker* mav nnt. d row any conclusions from this raorement distressing to the nerves of those who have of late been so " shaky" in regard to the safety of East Tennnessec, we may state that before the Gap was evacuated, the Federals had left there, after so blockading the road in their flight, that > they conld not return if they would. In the opinion of some of our military men, the aban. donment of the Gap has long been held to be a politic measure. A neW ordc* ttttmbofed 4l\as bceu issued! t>y Bitlpr. Piwyiio k certainly an 'ingenious I jtyrant. He terns ell his netiitA*Ms I? ' yeiy and his skill as a political platform maker,'.% to devilish account to force the collar of submission upon theunpappy people of New Orleans. No.Devil from below conld bare invented a more infernal device than his order No. 41. First, it preludes . every Louiaianian from holding public office, until he has forsworn himself and committed peijury in his heart by swearing allegiance to the United States. This turns out all tlio judges, magistrates, sheriffs, notaries and pnblic attorneys. It will vacate the offices of the municipal government, the school boards, and all offir.m nf *?v?rir / ! ?> r. ~J ~.?>o of public administration. Butler by one dash of his pen has thus inflicted grievance which the Creoles of Cuba have long complained of as the most noxious and trying of all the evils of Spanish tyranny?to wit: to excludo the natives from all sbaro in the public administration. ( Second?the order not only condemns tho refractory Southerners to exclusion from all , public office, but it sweeps every individual from beyond the pale of protection of tho law ("ex cept protection from personal violenco'') who , refuses to take the Federal oath of allegiencc. , No favor shall be asked for or received by, "no protection, privilege, or passport" granted, "no money paid, property or other valuable thing" delivered to any one except he swear to support tho Government whose viceroy is Bntler. o..~u i ... - ouuu ? iuy Ltjxi: w 11 at win it oe nndcr a despot's construction ? A man shall not have 1 his check paid at bank unless he swears. He shall not collect his rents for his negro hire unless he swears. He shall do no act or thing that a freeman may do, and enjoy no privilege that a freeman is entitled to, "save protection from personal violence," unless he takes the oath of allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States. Northern lYcns. I Richmond, June 24.?The Petersburg Ex- j Dress, of this morninir. rays th? line i_ ' ?' J- ?? ?< versed with a gentleman who recently left tho rear of McClellan's army, and who says ho saw Philadelphia papers of the f 9th. They contain full accounts of the guerilla raid of General Stuart, and confess to much loss of property. They deny that the engineer of the train was killed. Tho Yankees, says the Express, admit a loss in the two days' battle of the Seven Pines, in killed, wounded, missing and demoralized, of forty thousand. They do not contemplate a march to Richmond until tho reduction of the batteries at Drury's Bluff, to effect which they have sent for Porter's mortar 'fleet.? Carolinian. Interesting from the West. Mobile, June 24.-^A special despatch to the Tribune, dated Grenada, June 23, states that arrivals from Memphis report that the defeat of Curtis by Hindman in Arkansas is generally credited above. Col. Fitch, with two Indiana Regiments, was sent up White River to reinforce Curtis. He attacked our batteries at St. Charles, seventy miles above, and with the aid of gunboats and land forces succeeded in capturing them by an attack in the rear.? .i . ? - i a not snot lroin our battery entered the maga- t zine of the Mound City, and blew her into j atoms, killing all but twelve out of 175 men \ on board. Tne Federal cavalry in considerable t force appeared on Saturday at Cold Water Depot, on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, thirty miles above Memphis. Cotton is ( being bnrnt throughout the upper counties by t the planters.? Carolinian. t Who is "Governor" Johnson.?Andy Johnson, Lincoln's Military Govornor of Tennessee, is a native of North Carolina. His j grandfather was hung duriDg the first Revolution, as a Tory marauder and spy in the employ of Tarlton. His cousin Madison Johnson, j was hung for horse stealing, some twenty years , ago, by a regular verdict of twelve of hia peers, . as the law of that State directs. Andy having more sense than the balance of the family, left . his native State at an early day, went to Ten- { nessee, and tamed his attention to politics.? He has, therefore, been more fortunate in his ( villainy than his illustrious ancestors were.? The day of retribution may yet overtake him, however.?Savanttoh Republican. ' x An incident in iLe career of ^fleayone ' in Now Orleans baeeome totrtr koowl' *%! ? .a4 ? * -wfr ?cge? say8 1110 AloinpM* Appeal, which wo derm should be made poblic, it being such a highly proper succedaneum of his infamons order recently issued with rcfcronco to the ladies of the city. A few days since, preparations wore making for a drees parade, and a number of officers had congregated in front of the St. Charles, Butler's headquarters. A splendid carriage was driven in front oftho hotel, accompanied by servants in livery?the whole affair betokening an ownership of great wealth and excollent taste. The occupant dressed in the latest fashion, and sparkling with jewelry, drew from her pocket her gold card case, and taking therefrom her card sent it up to Butler's rooms. The next day himself and lady called at tho residence indicated on t.lm ?o ? -- ....s. <* unv iijmiisiimi, 111 li fashionable part of the town?where a couple of hours were agreeably spent in conversation, followed by the introduction of wine and cako, when the highly delighted visitors took their departure. Picayune did not appreciate the fact that he had been made the victim of a successful "sell," until he learned shortly afterwards that he had bcen?payirig his respects tothe proprietress of one of the most celebrated bagnios in the States, who is at this time "considered a woman of the town, plying her vocations as such. The retribution that thus fell upon Picayune was deserved. Arrival from New Orleans.?Mr. Saufr Street, of this city, who left Now Orleans oiv the 8th inst., arrived home Sunday Morning. We learn from Mr. Street that the city was very orderly, the stores all open, but business very dull, and very little doing. Several vessels had arrived from the North with canroes C7 of ice and provisions. Icc was selling at five cents a pound. The Federal soldiers were encamped at diflbrent localities,. and garrisons were quartered at the Custom House, Mint and ctbcr public buildings. " Troops were also stationed at Oarrolton, Baton Rogue, and several places on the river. The strictest discipline is observed among the soldiery, and the slightest cftense against the citizens, or violation of rules, ire punished with great severity. Gen. Butler still has his headquarters at the St. Charles i otel, while the St. James has jcen converted into a hospital for Federal solJiers.? Charleston Courier 23d. A correspondent of a Northern paper statesSeneral Halleck's force near Corinth at 312 egiments, numbering something over four jundred men each. The correspondent of the ;nicago Tribune gives a list of fivo Illinois egiments Laving an aggregate ot 1655, or ibont 330 men each, and adds that there arc egiments in the field that do not number over 220 effective men. It would be hazardous to jstimatc the actual force of either the Federal )r Confederate army by an enumeration of the lumber of regiments.? Courier. ??? Prospects in the Valley.?Tho Lynch>urg Virginian, of Saturday,, says : Large reinforcements from the South have >assed over the mountains to join Jackson's irmy at Fort Republic. His strength is now jqual to any rival force which he is likely to neet, and the advance he makes will be maim ained down the Valley. We heard it asserted yy able officers that if the war should last welve months, our army would bo in New fork. Stranger things than this have ruled the lestinies of armies. The time may come when ,he South may refuse peace without " indemlity for the past and security for tho future." From Nashville; By late arrivals from Nashville, says tho Atanta Confederacy of Tuesday, wo learn that \ndy Johnson is putting down the heel of oppression upon our people, with fearful tread. Efe has actually cut off supplies of water and 5as from the people in the city, who refuse to ate the oath of allegiance?nay, he refuses to illow any ono to carry on any trade or busi1AM rvr VinXT anxr ' A'? 1 , ? wm.tj mwuicb iruui wo couniry neiessary for the sustenance of life, except to inch as take the oath of allegiance to the gov% ' irnmont of the hated North. The whole nominal circulation of United States notes at this time is $117,500,000.