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" . 'y \ ''. * < " : * "* r'r * ' * , /* " 2 * - ' . : Cljc Camden Confederate. VOLUME II CAMDEN, S07CA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1863. MMLFB 31 fyt ami> en Coufrberate, AT TIIREK DOLLARS A YEAR, PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-VEARLY IN ADVANCE Terms for Advertising: - For ono Square?fourteen lines or less?ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for each insertion. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged to at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements aud Job Wor?c MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrons. .T. T. HERSHMAN, Editor. Administrator's Sale T WILLSELLON THK 3ftr.? n i V nv U * v ir-rom ? VAJL A VX' IUA i , O UOl X fifteen miles abovo Camden, -at the mill of Thomas Cautheu, the following property, belonging to the estate of Thos J. Clyburn, deceased, viz : One Turpentine Still, a lot of Itosin, Ac., also a lot of Spirits of Turpentine. Bricks, Spirits Barrels, aud bne Watch, at the Castou place. Terms cash. May 15 3 s. c. clyburn, Adm'r. Administrator's NoticeAllpersons indebted to tun kstatk of WM. F. PKI1IIY. deceased, are earnestly re quested to come forward and make payment?cash preferred?and all having demands will present them duly attested, to War. M. Billings, at CamdeD, or to the undersigned, at Flat Rock. Tho creditors are anxious to bo settled with, and I am dosirous of closiug up the business of the estate. May 15 4 D. D. perry, Adm'r. Proclamation by the Governor. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Columuja. May 5, 186H. WHEREAS INFORMATION HAS BEEN RKceived at this Department that "TERREL" a slave, the property of C. F. IliuKou, of Lancaster District, convicted by a court of magistrate and Freeholders. on Saturday, the 25th day of April last, of burglary and rape and sentenced to death, did, on his way to tho jail of the said District escape from the (.instable who had him in charge. "The said Terrell is six feet three inches high, well proportioned of black complexion, and his front teeth much decayed; quick sriokcn, with lieavv beard under his chain; the whites of his eyes inclined to a yellowish cast; and was dressed in a frock <x>at of a dark color, with pantaloons of similar material." Now, know ye, that to the end that justice may he <lone, and that the said negro. Terrejl, may lie brought back to confinement to await the execution of the sentence. I, MILLKDGK L. BON HAM, Governor and Commander in-Chief in and over the state aforesaid do issue this ?t?v proclamation, offering a reward of THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for his apprehension and delivery into any jail in. this state. Given under my hand and tho seal of the [i,. k.] State, at Columbia, this the fifth day of May A. D. 1863 M. L. BON HAM W. R. Huntt, Secretary of State May 6 Lancaster Ledger will insert three times, and .alJ other in the state once. STATU OF SOUTH CAROLINA ADJ'T & INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, J Columbia, April 30, 1863. ) U1KUUL.AK. TN answer to the many inquiries addressed to the Adjutant and Inspector General in relation to the 'provisions of the Act of the General Assembly entitled " An Act for better organization of the Militia and for -other purposes, passed at its la to session, it is hereby made known that, according to tho construction of said act as adopted at this offico, person only between the ages of eighteen and. fifty years are now liable to ordinary militia duty, which duty they are required to perform under the command of tho militia officers * without regard to the organization of companies formed ' for actived service, in aooordance with General Ordors No. 10, issuod from this office, and that the Patrol 'Laws have in no wise been altered by tho recent acts 'touching the militia. A. C. GARLINGTON, Adjutant and Inspector General South Carolina. May 16 1 IST Papers of the State copy once. I>R. JOHN McCAA OFFERS HIS 6BRVICES TO THE CITIZENS of Camden and surrounding country. Office two doors above the Branch Bank, Camden So. Oe. January 30 ? The Late General Van Dorn?A Card from his Staff. Mobile, May 15. We, the undersigned, members of the late , General Van Dorn's Staff, having seen with pain and regret the various rumors afloat in the public press, in relation to the circumstances atteuding that officer's death, deem it our duty to make a plain statement of the facts in the case. Gen. Van. Dorn was shot in his own room at Spring Hill, Tenn., by Dr. Peters, a citizen of the neighborhood. He was shot in the back of the head, while engaged in writing at his table, and entirely unconscious of any meditated hostility on the part of Dr. Peters, who had been left in the room with him apparently in friendly conversation, scarce fifteen minutes previously, by Major Kiiumcl. Neither General Van Dorn nor ourselves' were suspicious in the slightest degree of enmity in the mind of Dr. Peters, or we would certainly not have left them alone togetner, nor would Gen. Van Dorn have been shot, as we found hiin fivfl milllltne lator citfirnTr i?? l.ia /?linir i.;u I back towards liis enemy. There had been friendly visits between them up to the very date of the unfortunate occurrence. Gen. Van Dorn had never seen the daughter ef his murderer but once; while his acquaintance with Mrs. Peters was such as to convince us, his staff, who had every opportunity of knowing, that there was no improper intimacy between them; and for our own part we are led to believe that there was other and darker motives, from the fact that Dr. Peters had taken the oatli of allegiance to the United States Government, while in Nashville, about two weeks previously?as we are informed by refugees from that city?that he had remarked in Columbia, a short time before, "that he had lost his land and negroes in Arkansas, but lie thought he would shortly do something which would get them back;" and finally, that having beforehand torn down fences and prepared relays of horses, he made his escape across the country direct to the enemy's lines. Such is the simple history of the affair, and we trust that in bare justice to the memory of a gallant soldier, the papers that have given publicity to the false rumors above alluded to ?rumors alike injurious to the living and the dead?will give place in their columns to this vindication of his name. M. M. Ivimmkl, Maj and A. A. G. W. C. Sciiaumbuko, A. A. G. Clement Sullivank, Aid-de-Camp. K. Shoemaker, Aid-dc Camp. Confedenate Pkisonkrs.?Some oUO Confederate soldiers captured near Fredericksburg, during the late battles, reached the city yesterday from City Point. They report that the whole number captured by the enemy during these battles does not exceed 1600, all told.? The Yankees have a lorg account to settle with us on the exchange list yet, the odds being four to one in our favor at present. [Richmond Enquirer, 16///. ?>. A Plea for Old Maids.?A woman at the age of thirty-three and a third years, who has never been married, is- considered passes; is called an "old maid."*and the term is most unjustly used in derisom. The very fact of being an old maid is prima facie evidence of the WAceacQlAn nf nnrit.r.. nriidnnr.A find ?olf-df>nial' |7VOOUoo.V.. r j f- I and these arc essential to the character of a perfect wife; without? them, no woman is worth having. Being an "old maid" implies decision of character; neither sham, nor sh ows, n or courtly manners, nor splendid person, ha ve won them over; nor fair premises nor shallow tears; they looked beyond the manner and the dress, and finding no cheering indication of depth of mind and sterling principles, they gave up the specious present for the chance of a mor e solid future, and determined, -in Jbope, and pwti.^ce, and resignation, to-"bide their time." From the United States. From the United States papers of May 14th? we gather the following : The Washington Chronicle learns that the e Court Martial which has been trying Mr. Val- , landigham, at Cincinnati, have agreed on a ver- ^ diet and submitted it to Burnside. s The majority of the Court sentenced Mr. ^ Vallandigham to the Dry Tortugas for two i years. The minority, it is said, were in favor of sending him South, with the injunction not r to return until the war is over. As the proceedings of court martials are secret until promulgated by the General ordering the trial, j and, as Burnside has neither approved nor dis- x approved the finding of the Court up to this j time, the Herald concludes the report is pro , mature. [The Diy Tortugas is a large fortifi- , cation in course of construction on Tortugas , Island, off the coast of Florida, near Key West, { and persons thus sentenced are forced to labor, ^ regardless of rank or station.] j The Ilerald says editorially, "that gentleman , has been trying hard to become a martyr, j and to carry out the proposed sentence would exactly suit him. His chance of being elected Governor of Ohio was small till now, but let him be sent to tire Island of Tortugas, and he , is sure, to be elected to that office." Comments or the Hew York Herald on the Heath of Gen. Jackson. The Herald, alluding to the death of General Jackson, says: This event is a serious and irreparable loss to the rebel army ; for it is agreed on all hands that Jackson was the most brilliant rebel Genoral developed by this war. From his coolness and sagacity, rapid movements and stubbornness in the fight, and his invariable good fortune, he resembled Napoleon in his early career more than does any other General of modern times. The victory at Chancellorsville is dearly bought. To him was largely due the first fight at Hull Run. Here he received his nickname of 44 Stonewall," from the firmness with which l:c and his regiment fought. Ilis raid through the Valley of the Shenandoah was a masterly strike of strategy for while he kept McDowell's and Hanks' corps employed, and struck terror at Washington, by a rapid retrograde movement lie appeared on the battle field in the seven days' fight"on the Chickahominy, to turn the scale just at the critical moment, while McDowell was non est, like Patterson at Hull Run. Again, when Pope was retreating from the Rapidan and the Rappa- | bannock, Jackson, by forced marches, gained j his flank, caused terrible confusion and gained vast spoil. Lastly, at the battle of Antietam, after capturing Harper's Ferry, he turned upon the light llank of our army in time to repulse liooker, save the remnant of Lee's forces and prevent the battle from becoming a rout.? Wherever Jackson appeared on any field victory seems to have perched upon his banners, lie was an universal favorite in the rebel armies, and popular even in our own. What is very curious about the manner of his wound is, that he was shot by some of his own men? which is very probable, in the smoke and confusion of so terrible a battle, with perhaps onc part of his line more advanced than another, and he, as he generally was, in the front of tho fight. His death is owing no doubt less to the wound than to his exposure in the rain storin, and by continuing in command in such a condition, superinduced pneumonia and a fatal termination. "Sister, are you happy ?" "Yes, deacon, I feel as though I was in Belzebub's bosom." "Not in Belzebub's?" "Well, some one of the patriarchs, I don't care which. A man who don't take a newspaper is not oniy poor, bat will Always remain so. The less men know the less they earn. Folks who labox for seventy-five cents a day, always sign their names with an X. Stonewall In Rlexlco. The newspaper sketches of9tonewall Jackso'ns :arly professional ilfe are necesearily meagre is yet, and in some respeets inaccurate. Like nost artillery officers in the Mexican War, he vas very desirous to be transferred to the light irtillery, which alone carae iuto play in that var, A correspondent of the Richmond Whig larrates the following: After the battle of Cerro Gordo, his old comade, General, then Captain, J. Bankhead Marruder, was placed in command of a battery of lix light pieces. Capt. Magruder, 1st Artllery bad led the storming party under Gen. Harney lp the heights of Cerro Gordo, llo was tha t . first artillery officer who entered the enemy's works, sword in hand?had captured the guna *nd turned them on the retreating foe. Gen. Scott rode into the works, and addressing Capt. M., said: "Captain, you have won these runs; they are yours; vonr arJcnt wish for a light battery can now be gratified. Take these guns and mount them. They shall henceforth be Magruder's battery." When the army advanced beyond Contreras towards the city of Mexico, Lieutenant Jackson reported to Capt. Magruder for duty in his battery, having ob tainod at last tbe desired transfer to the light artillery. Magruder placed him immediately in command of a section of tbe battery, and conscious of bis skill and courage, assigned him to a separate position in tbe assault on tho City. With characteristic valor and impetuosity be boldly assailed the defences at the San Cosmo gate of tbe city, and contributed powerfully, by his skilful and well-directed fire to tho subsequent capture of the Capitol. Ills signal services were duly chronicled in the official report of Capt. Magruder and tbe formal and full report of General Scott, as tbe records of th? United States Government will show. The motive of bis ardent desire to join Magruder's battery was stated by him to a friend at the close of tlie war, and is characteristic. He said: 4,I wanted to see active service. I wished to be near tbe enemy, and in tbe fight; and when I heard John Magruder had got his battery,* I bent all my energies to be with him, for I knew if there was any fighting to be done Magruder would be on hand.,' Uncle Ark's Latest Joke.?During the past week a gentleman called upon tbe President and solicited a pass for Richmond. Well, said tbe President, 441 would be very happy to oblige you, if my passes were respected; but <t?i? fo/?t ic cir f ltnvo within the nast two V..V. ,..^U .. , r years, given passes to two hundred and fifty thousand men to go to Richmond, and not one lias got there yet." The applicant quietly aud very respectfully withdrew on his tip toes. Opinion ok a Yankee Officer.?One of the Abolition officers of Hooker's army that left by flag of truce Wednesday, in a conversation with a gentleman of this city, said so far as the fighting qualities of the Southerner and Yankee were concerned, there was not much difference?both would fight hard if occasion I required it. lie added that none of the Yankees became enthused in a fight; that they would go if ordered to do so; Southerners, said | he, arc different; in battle the eyes ot the most forlorn looking private lights up with 'animation?he is all dash, aud even when the pangs of death sieze him, his face is aglow with tho enthusiasm that fills his soul, while his voice is j heard encouraging his comrades to go forward, j We have none of this in our army, said tho candid Yankee; "our men are mere sticks."? It. strikes us that this follower of Old Abe has | fu rnished about as good an interpretation of j tbie difference between the Northern and Souther n soldier as could be desired. [Rickmond Dispatch, 13*A. A witty fellow slipped down on an icy pavement. While sitting, he muttered, "I have no desire to see the town burn down, but I sincerely wish the streets were laid in ashes."