The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, November 14, 1862, Image 2
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for fiVst iusemon, and each subsequeDt insertion
75 "cents*' ';
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oi tort MlMiiary B^ctlon*
An election-wns held on Friday )osfc| for
Majorat the Bower Battalion S. C. M., to fill
thg Yaicancy caused by the death of Major W.
A. Anorum, which resulted in. tho choice of
Capt. A. M. Kennedy.
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We are requested by Mr. H. Pate?TaxCollector
for Kershaw District?to say that he
will keep open the War Tax Books until Wednesday
heft, the 19th inst., for tho benefit of
a number of our country friends who have not,
as .yet; bed a chance to pay their taxes. All
aftfer that date *will be double taxed.
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".*! Chinese Sugar Cane Syrup.
We have been presented by Major A. M.
Kennedy, with a bottle of an extra fine article
of Chinese Sugar Cano Syrup, made on tho
plantation of our gallant and accomplished
yonng townsman, Col J. D. * Kennedy. The
article is most delicious as a syrup, and the
yield abundant. The Major tells us that with
proper cultivation, fifty gallons to tho acre is
a fair average.
A Wooden Soled Shoe.
We have a fine specimen, in our office, of a
wopden soled shoe, for negro use?mado on
the plantation of J. It. Dye, Esq., at Red
Hill. It is of neat finish, and substantially
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I? V uu uui AUUIT LU nilKb UAbUia 1Ur.
Dye intends the mpnufacturo of this shoe, but
we think, if he has the facilities for extensive
manufacture, he would be doing his country a
great service by at once enlarging the business.
It is a lighter and more durable shoe than any
we have lately seen made of leather solesThe
wood is walnut, and secured to the upper
leather by screws
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Fires.
During last 3unday wo had two fires in Camden.
/ The first, at the residence of Col. John
8. Ash, and owned by Capt. W. L. DePass,
which was extinguished, with but little injury
.to the building, except a portion of the roof.
In the evening about 7 o'clock, the store
house of Messrs. Gayle and Young, was discovered
to be on fire?caused from a badly
constructed fire place, the fire igniting in the
flooring of the second story of the building.
Through the timely arrival of a few citizens,
. who fortunately were in tho vicinity, the building
was saved, and the damage of goods to
Messrs G. & Y? were slight
Should not our fire department be resusitated
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?
Gen. O. M. Mitchell, the Yankee commander
in Sonth Carolina, died at Beaufort on the 31st
ult Gen. J. B. Richardson died at Sharpsburg
on the 3d inst., of wounds received in the
battle of AntietAm.
Abolisionibm
in Europe.?One of the
London Journals expressed surprise that while
Mr. Lincoln had his hand in at abolishing, he
did not abolish slavery in Africa, which he
might have done by a proclamation as effectually
as in America. It would have been no
more a brutum fulmen in one case than the
other. The London editors are entirely right.
The passage of persons under flag of truce
between the two countries now at war, has totally
ceared for the present save as to paroled
prisoners of war. This suspension grows out
f the requisition of the Lincoln Government,
that persons passing from us to the United
States, shall first obtain passports of their Government
or take the oath of allegiance.
The late census returns of manufacturing
establishments in New York city reveal the
ffcet that more capital is employed in oarrying
on the printing trade than any other business,
the amount being over $8,500,000. Over six
thousand persons are employed in printing, and
the various establishments use up about five
millions of dollars worth raw material, ink, paper,
etc., per annum, producing over $11,000,000
worth of books, papers, etc.
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Brother Soldirrs: I mast congratulate
* ? y?t mwm, good, eoodoot and sol<Ji?rlBMriDf
opoi\th? 6?Jd of battle UhUj.
Yoa have proved yourselves to bo soldiers of
the right stamp-?yoa are worthy the name of
Sooth Carolinians?you have been tried and
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nave not oeen iouna wanting, lou stood
your ground for over two; hours, against** force
greatly superior to ours in number, under a
heavy fire of grape, canister and musketry*
with undaunted braviJry, and while the balU
were falling as thick as fyail, and your comrades
falling atoundyou on all sides, you wvro
not discouraged, with that courage that none
could have but brave men fighting for all
that makes life dear, and trusting in God and
the justice of our cause, you still pressed onward
until you succeeded in completely driving
the enemy from their dead, and wounded upon
the field.
Brother soldiers?I cannot express my feelings
toward you, but with such men the South
can nover be subdued.
In conclusion allow mo to say io you, in be.
half of my brother officers, that we feel proud
to command such a corpse?that wo hare the
greatest confidence in you?a confidence that
will curry us through all future battles as a
band of brothers?that your names will always
be fresh in our memory; and while we mourn
the loss of our bravo comrades' and sympathise
with their relatives and friends?feeling confident
that our cause is a just one?we will still
press onward until wo gain our independence
or perish in the attempt?prefering death
rather than submission.
[FOR THE CAMDEN CONFEDERATE.] '
Mn. Editor: Pleas?-publish for the benefit
of the friends and relatives, the following list
of casualties, received at the Battle of Poeotaljgo
on the 22d u't, by the Kershaw companies
of the 7th S. C. Battalion-infantry?ColP.
II. Nelson.
Company (A) Lucas Guards?Capt B. S.
Lucas, Jr., commanding. Killed?none.
Wounded?James Sinclair, severely in thigh.
Company (D) Kershaw Greys?Lieut Young,
commanding. Killed?none. Wounded?
none.
Company (F) Lucas Rifles?Capt. Dove
Segars, commanding. Killed?Corporal ST.
Folsom and private James llall. Wounded
?John McGougan?mortally, (since dead);
R. J. Turner and James Bruce?supposed mortally;
R. D. Turner, James Hopkins and J. W^
Horton?slightly.
t Company (G) Moffalt Rifles?Capt. Wm.
Cltburn, commanding. Killed none. Wounded?Martin
Gilbrain?severely in both thighs;
J. A. Smith, flesh wound in right fore-arm;
Wm. Justice?slightly in chest; A. F. A.
Hughes?flesh wound in thigh; H. A. Tiller
and D. R Smith?slightly.
Yours most truly,
' B. S. Lucas, Jr., Capt Company A.
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auiv>? uuh) vjaiiij^ vamuy, iiuv, <
(for the camden confederate.)
Mr. Editor:?Messrs Gayle & Young return
their sincere thanks to the citizens of
Camden, for extinguishing the fire in their
store on last Sunday night?both of the firm
being absent at the time. G. & Y.
Gun Cap Machine?Southern Invention.
?Wo were shown at the foundry of A. L.
Maxwell, yesterday, a beautiful piece of machinery
for making percussion caps, invented
by John C. Cole, a refugee from Missouri. Mr.
Cole came to this city some months ago, and
under the patronage of Mr. T. G. Rawlins,
who was then a citizen of Knoxville, applied
his inventive genious to the supplying of this
great want of the Confederacy. The fruit of
his labors has been a machine which excels
any of the kind either North or South. Its
superiority consists in the simple manner in
which the cap is cut from the copper and
formed at a single operation, without transferring
from one tool to another. It is capable
of making by hand 100 per minute, and by
steam 105,000 per day. The one exhibited to
us, is the second made at these works for the
Atlanta Arsenal, under the patronage of Maj.
M. H. Wright, who has contracted for four
more.?Knoxville Register.
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of Npw York; nineteen Democrats and twelve (
KepoblTcans have' been elated to Congress J
from that State. The *Herald says that: New J
York city has gone for the DemocraU by 31,- i
000 majority. The election passed off qoietly. 1
Among those elected to Congress from New ?
York city are the two Woods, Fernando and <]
Ben. Also James Brooks, of the New York p
Express. i]
i . In Massachusetts, 9 Rebublicans and 1 )
Democrat are elected to Congress. In 32 o
towns, Andrews^Republican candidate for Qov- p
ernor, has 45,0Q0 votes, and Devina, Democrat, ,
29,000. Andrews' majority will reach 25,000. J
In New Jersey, Parke (Democrat) is elected 2
Governor. To Congress?four Democrats and (
one itepnblicao.1, ]<
In Illinois, six Democrats and five Republicans
elected to Congress; two doobtfol. b
In Michigan, the Republican majority is i
5000. s
. In Wisconsin, the election is closely con- c
tested; but Brown, Democrat, leads Potter, Re- (
pnblican. s
The New York Herald says these astound- a
ing manifestations do not mean that the war n
shall bo ended iu an ignominious peace involv- t
ing a division of the Union into two Confed- a
eracics, but that the war shall bo prosecuted s
for the maintainanco of the Union, and nothing b
else. As the Congressmen elected will not p
take their seats until the first meeting afler the h
the 4th of March next, the Herald recommends a
that an informal meeting of the Representatives
elect be held in New York City, to declare fi
their general policy. g
Hon. James Brooks addressed a Democratic C
meeting in New Y<ork on the night of the eloc- fi
tiou, and that, as a member of Congress, while
vindicating the supremacy of the Constitution C
and the laws, ho would also demonstrate that n
mere is no reason wny protner should longer fi
imbrue his hand in the blood of brother, and n
thus causlcssly prolong a fratricidal war. This h
sentiraont was followed by loud, long and ^
tremendous cheering, amid which Mr. Brooks r
retired. o
The steamer Cahawba arrived at New York
on Tuesday last, from New Orleans, having on "
board Rev. Messrs. Leacock, Goodrich and Ful- d
ton, Pastors of the Episcopal Churches in New f<
Orleans, who had refused to pray for the Pres- t
ident of the United States.
The
I??ue of Treasury Notes.
The Richmond correspondent of the Grenada n
(Miss.) Appeal, sends that paper the following ^
items: ^
By the way, I have jn&t heard two facts 8
mentioned, which would seem to show that no 8
pause in the utterance of Treasury notes is con F
templated by that officer. A gentleman tells n
me that a contract is pending between the Go- ^
vernment and tho Richmeud Paper Mill for a c
hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of ^
bank note paper, on which to print new fives, ?
tens, fifties, and one hundreds; and I am in- ?
formed that fifty new female clerks, in addi ^
tion to one hundred already employed by the c
Treasury Department, aro about to bo ap- ^
pointed, to number, sign, register, divide, and
clip the small notes (the ones and twoes), of c
which myriads almost are already in circula- P
tion. / ^
It may not be geneeally known, but it is a J
fact, that will be interesting to some readers,
that the $1 and $2 bills of tho Confederate
r<. . y *
states?tuose wnicn are embellished with badly
engraved likenesses of Secretary Benjamin, v
and Mrs. Governor Pickens, of South Caro- a
lina?aro all signed by young ladies, of whom q
many are beautiful and accomplished girls, g(
oranments of the society of the Capital. Each
clerk is required to sign two thousand notes a ^
day. The salary of these gentle employees
' is $600 per annum, but will soon be raised*
fifty per cent. Mr. Memminger, in making
appointments in the female bureau, has been c
very properly guided, other things being equal,
such as fitness ar.d responsibility, by the neod 11
and circumstances of the applicants, recogni- I
King in the young widows or the orphaned chil- n
dren of soldiers killed upon the battlefield, a i
peculiar claim upon his attention.
Sickles declines to run for Congress. He
i* cannot consent to leave his lambs, the Excel- g
siors, or rather what is left of them since the j
Texans fell upon them at Manaasaa and made B
the hills red with his fallen Zouaves. . 0
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Carolina exchanges show that' the movement j
IM begun. The object of the enemy iabcr
ieved to be to get such a position as will tend to
solato Wilmington, Chnrles^fkfMoah^d^ t Jf
tlobile from the seat 9? Government, and pre^
eat prompt co-oporation fpr mutual bo swrt:;
luring the winte* months. Weldon is the
>oint at which they aim for the accomplish* t
nent of this purpose. The papers report the
Iankees as pushing their advance up the line
>f the Tar River, and a fight has already taken
>laco, of which we get the fajlowjug account.
Ah engagement occured near ^illiAinston,
lartin County N. C., on the afternoon of the
:d, botween four companies of the 26tn North
Carolina regiment and a large force of Yanees,
who had marched from the town of
Washington to a point on the Roanoke river i
>elow Williamston, with a viow of. catting off
he 17th and 57th North Carolina regiments^
tationcd in that neighborhood. The four
oinpanics engaged were undor command of
Col. Burgwyn, and held in check a largely
uperior force of the enemy during the dayr
nd until the 17th and 57th regiments came
p, when battle was offered, but declined by
he enemy. Our loss is reportod at two killed
nd thirty-one wounded, most of them Only
lightly. The enemy's loss is known to have
>een much greater, one entiro cavalry com any
being cut up and destroyed. Our troops
iave"fallen back towards Tarbora*, whore they
re being reinforced.
The Petersburg Express of Friday learns
roro a very reliable source, that the Yankee
;unboats had reached Scotland Neck in North
Carolina, which is in close proximity to Haliix
and Weldon.
Tho Wilmington Joumnl says: "That the
Confederate authorities are alivo to the immiency
of tho danger of which wo have tho
allest assurance, as we have information of a
movement under a distinguished General, that
saves no dcubt on our mind of the deterrainaion
of the War Department to maintain its
ailroad communication^through North Carlina.
The Petersburg Express of Friday says that a
it is no longer a secret that the admirablo
ivifiinn c%f Donnral T.<\nrvof*?nnf iu *?a??? a** ?
I. . *w.v*i V* V<VMV*I*I JO UUIT ViJ 1VUVO
:>r Petersburg, and will be there in a day or
wo,
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New from Richmond. ?
Richmond, November 11.?Heavy canonading
was heard all day yesterday at Orange
). H. and Gordonsville. The firing was probaly
the skirmishing between the advanced
;uard8 of the two armies. This may bring on a
eneral engagement. SiegePs division is retorted
to be on the south side of the Rappahanock.
The Yankees made a raid up Chuckatuck
/reek, Nanesmond county, Va., from Suffolk,
ommitting the grossest outrages, shelling,
urning and plundering the houses of peaceale
citizens. They arrested and carried off
lessers. Daniel Shepherd and John Bunkley,
irmers. The town of Haymarket, Fanquier
ounty, is in the possession of the Yankees.
Vcathcr clear and pleasant.
Later.?Passengers by the Central Railroad
onfirm the reports of skirmishing near Cul- j
eper C. H., no movement of any importance, m
owevcr, has taken place. Exciting move- a
lents are expected in the neighborhood of 1
ront Royal. All is quiet at Fre dericksburg. 1
{From Another Correspondent.) j
Richmond, November 11.?In the skirmish J
sstcrday beyond Cnlpeper C. H., the enemy I
/as driven back two miles, having encountered -M
n unexpected obstacle in his advance towards 1
lordonsvillc. Our loss was trifling. It is as- |
orted, on good authority, that there is no pot- J
ion 01 tne enemy's forces South of the Kappa- 1
annock River. J
From tlie Army of Virginia* I
Richmond, November 7.?A snow storm H
ommenced falling bere last night, and contin- H
cd during the forenoon. The Army of Gen. H
icc has changed its position and taken up a
ew lino of defence. Our cavalry captured H
04 Yankees near Winchester to-day. H
From Ccororgetown. I
Charlkbton, November 12.?The enemy's. V
;un-boats had a brush yesterday with Captain ? J
piston's Battery, below Georgetown. The I
helling continued two hours. No damage on
ur side.
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