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Cljc Camden Confederate.
VOLUME II CAMDEN, S07CA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1863. MMLFB 31
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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."