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VOLUMiE II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1*9, 1863. NUMBER 34
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Latest from the West?tli? Siege of
TlofcRburg.
Jackson. June 12.?An officer who left.
Vicksbu!^ en the Sight of Wcdn6sd#y tl^c 10th,
reports all as working well. Tlio garrison
is in fine spirits, and well supplied with provisions.
So far but little damage lias been done
. by the onemy's fire. The total loss to the
garrison since the siege began does not exceed
500. Grant is still pegging away upon his
parallels, but no mischief has been done so far.
Our scouts from the vicinity of Vicksburg report
Grant hauling, water for bis troops from
tho Big Black, eight miles. * He lias mounted
siege guns and oponed fire. To-nigjit the firing
is incessant. Our columbiads are replying
promptly. Ali eyes are turned to Gen. Johnston,
who is i? front superintending in person.
Such a#c the secresy of his plans, it is stated
they are unknown to' his commanders. The
next five days will determine the fate of Grant's
army.
At the latest advices Grant was compelled to
burn most of his dead before Gen Pemberlon's
"slaughter-pen." The Vicksburg ladies promenade
the streets during the bombardment,
and at night go out to see the display, which is
very fine.
We have good news from the Trans-Missisfiinni
"Donartment- hut it. i? considprorl nnntrn.
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band. You may, however, soon expect to
bear that Gen. Kirby Smith is at glorious
work. He has undoubtedly captured Millikcn's
Bend, in Madison county, Louisiana, on the
right bauk of the Mississippi, and seventy-five
miles oabvc Vicksburg, Kirby Smiah came up
the Tensas, rendered navigable by Federal
ditching, and is now said to be master of Millikcn's,
Bend, Carthage and Delni.
Jackson's cavalry and the enemy's had a
skirmish at Edward's Depot. The enemy retired
Our loss was two killed.
Grierson, with a force of 2,000 cavalry, attacked
Col. Logan's command of 400 men)
near Clinton, on the 4th inst. The enemy was
handsomely repulsed and driven off, with a loss
of 80, including 50, prisoners. Our loss was 3
killed and 14 wounded.
Rumors that Magruder is marching on "New
Orleans are current, but are not credited in
official circlesi
Marmadukohns captured one transport and
sunk another near Helena1 on the 11th inst*
Two regiments were sent from Helena against
him which he routed and drove back to the
town. Gen. Price is marching on Old Town
Point, 18 miles below Helena. Twenty-two
companies from North Mississippi have reported
for doty under the Governor's late call.
Jackson, June 13.?An officer just from
Natchez, reports that the Yankee gunbaat Arizona
grounded on bar, lour miles below Natchez,
on the 11th instant, and that the river has
since fallen three feet. He also confirms the
sinking of the Essex and two other gunboats
at Port Hudson.
Grant's parallel approaches have now reached
within 300 yards of our outer works. So far,
our loss during the series of attacks has been
600; the enemy's between 40,000 and 50,000.
Grant's present force does not exceed 60,000,
notwithstanding heavy reinforcements have
reached him. Great numbers of his men have
been swept off by sickness and desertion.
Some apprehensions are entertained about
the sufficiency of the supply of food at Vicksburg.
The following is a statement of the
'daily rations now issued: 1-4 lb. bacon, 1-2 lb.
beef, 5-8 lb. meal, with an allowance of peas,
rice, and sugar and molasses. <.
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The Belt or D cpolatloia.
Day tiy day the track of the destroyer bocoracs
broader. Two-thirds of Virginia, two
thirds of Tennesee, the costs pf North and
South Carolina, part of Georgia, nearly all of
Florida, Northern Mississippi, Western and
Southern Louisiana, a great part of Arkansas
and Missouri, have already been laid waste,
and every hour brings tidings of'fresh destruction.
Telegrams of Saturday informed us that
the enemy had destroyed a million of dollars
worth of property on the Combahce and stolen
a thousand negroes; it was but a fow days ago
that they ravaged the county of Mathews in
this State, and even while we write tidings come
to us that they are burniug private houses and
destroying every grain of corn they can lay
hands on in the country of King and/ Queen.
Enough has been said of the barbarism of
this mode of warfare, and too much has to be
oonfessed of the entire impunity with which it
is carried on. Our outcries and our admission ;
of the weakness or the imbecility of our forces
in the field but add to tbo hellish joy of. the
foe, without stimulatidg troops, Government or
people to the pitch of retributive vengeance.
The belt of desolation widens hourly, nor is
there much prospect of an abatement of the
evil. Citizens complain of tho Government,
which in turn complains of the citizens. Meantime
common inquiry is made as to the existpnpu.iinrl
nrohfint, wliorr*?hr?iit? nf tlir>
forces of the Confederacy.
We may be sure this state oftliings will continue
so long as the war is waged exclusively
on Confederate soil. Every day the enemy remains
in our territory will add to the width of j
the belt of desolation, and they who now fancy j
themselves out of danger will soon discover
their mistake. If a thousand Yankco cavalry
can ride entirely through the State of Mississippi,
without molestation, what is to hinder a
like number from going through Virginia
North and South Carolina to Port Royal?
Certainly unarmed and unorganized citizens
will not hinder them.
The belt of desolation serves many purposes
of the Yankee nation. It opens a way to free
labor and Northern settlers; it diminishes production
and concentrates Southern population
within limits inadequate to their support, it |
prepares a place for Yankee emigration if peace 1
All tlia Kuoia A f onnovnfiAit i a /I nn 1 -* ? / ?/ ! f liio
vii t.uv? vaoio vi o^aintivu 10 uuviaiyu* jliui tu 10
is not all. It answers the purposes of war as
well as peace, by interposing a country destitute
of supplies between our own and the Yan- i
too border. Thus it is a safeguard against invasion.
IfTice should advance, ho must move
through a desert, dragging immense trains of
food behind him. The ease is the same with
Bragg, with Johnston, with Price. Indeed we
hear that Price will on this account find it difficult,
if not impossible, to enter Missouri. In
front of all our large armies lies a waste, where
there is food for neither man nor beast. Girded
by a belt of desolation, the North is safe from
invasion; the broader the belt the greater its j
security. As the months wane and the years
roll on the South, unless something be done,
will become, in the language of scripture, "the
abomination of desolation." We believe that
something will be done?the necessity of the
case demands it imperatively; would that we
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couiu be sore tnat it win dc aone speeaiy. j
This cup can be returned to the lips of the '
North drugged with ten fold bitterness. Mercy
to ourselves demands this act of retributive i
justice to them.?Richmond Whig.
Stonewall Jackson's** Family.?The Savannah
Republican, noticing the proposal to
erect a monument to GenerelJackson, says:
We have hoard that the widow and child,
who should be adopted by their country are left
in very moderate circumstances, and if this be
so, while we approve the project for a monument,
we are first for placing them in circumstances
entirely independent. This is the first
duty we owe to the memory of Jackson.
Mr. Valfondigham has arrived in Wilmington
N. C. euroute for Nassau.^
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PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, {
Columbia. April 18, 1863. )
WHEREAS, THE. PRESENT SUPPLY OP
provisions in this State is needed for the subsistence
of the people thereof and the soldiers of the
Confederacy therein: and whereas it is doomed important
to prevent the exportation of the same tor speculation
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Now, therfore, I, MILLEDGE L. BONHAM, Governor
of South Carolina, by virtile of the power vested
in me undor the Constitution of this State, do issue
this my proclamation, and forbid all persons, for the
space of thirty days from this dote, from exporting
beyond the limits of this State, any Salt, Bacon, Pork,
Beef, Corn, Meal, Wheat. Flour, Rice, Peas, Potatoes
or other provisions of any description whatsoever.
The following persons are excepted, viz: Quartermasters,
Commissaries and other agents of the Confederate
Government purchasing provisions for the army, who
must exhibit satisfactory evidence of their official character
and authority; persons from other States who
purchase for their own private use and consumption,
and not for resale, who shall make oath to that efTect
before the next magistrate previous to the removal of
the articles purchased, which oath the magistrate shall
preserve and furnish for the use of the Solicitor of the
Circuit when required; agents of counties, towns, corporations
and Soldiers Boards of Relief of other States,
who exhibit satisfactory proof of their authority to
purcnase sucn provisions in oenaii 01 sucn counties,
towns, corporations or Soldiers Boards of Relief, for
public use of for distribution at costs and charges, and
not for resale or profit.
Salt mado by non-residents and cargoes entering
our ports from abroad, are also excepted.
It is enjoined upon all sheriffs, magistrates and constables,
and all good citizens are appealed to, to aid in
the enforcement of this proclamatibn, and also of the
Act of the General Assembly, entitled " An Act to
enforce any proclamation of the Governor, prohibiting
the exportation of provisions," ratified the 10th day
of April, A. D. 1?63.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at
Columbia, this eighteenth day of April,
[l. S.] in tlio year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.
If. L. BON HAM.
TV. R. IIuntt, Secretary of State.
BW"A11 papers of the State publish once a week for
one month.
May 22 *
AN ORDINANCE.
nX> AMEND AN ORDINANCE PASSED ON THE
X 8th day of May, 18G2, imposing a tax upon country
produce, poultry, Ac.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Inteildant and War*
dens of the Town of Camden, in Council assembled.
and by the authority of tho same, that from, and after
the passing of this Ordinauce, the following Tax shall
bo levied upon all Country Produce, Provisions, and
Poultry herein enumerated, if bought for sale in
other markets, when tho same has been purchased
within tho corporate limits of tho Town, by any resident
or non-resident, or when such has been purchased
by any citizen or transient person from aay party outside
tho limits of the Town, who may be on their way
to this market with the intention of exposing the same
for sale.
Flour per bag of 98 pounds, $5.00
Com per bushel, 50
Peas per bushel, 35
Oats per bushel, 25
Turkeys each, 75
Geese each, 60
Ducks each, 60
Chickens oach, 50
Eggs per dozen, 2&
Bacon per pound, 30
Beef per pound, * 20
Mutton, j>er pound, v 20
Pork per pound, 25
Seo. 2. Aoy person violating the above Ordinance,
or refusing to comply with its provisions, shall be
lined in a sum not less than Five Dollars and not ex- .
ceeding Twenty Dollars, in addition to tho tax?the
same to be collected by Council, when within their jurisdiction,
otherwise by due course of law.
SEC. 3. Free negros shipping any of the above articles,
shall be charged double the rates specified;
Provided there is nothing in the above Ordinance
to prevent regularly appointed agents from shipping
provisions for the government, or parties from the
country from shipping their own produce.
Any ordinance or part of an ordinance hitherto in
force, and repugnant to the above, is hereby repealed.
' JAMES DUNLAP, Intendant.
R. M. Kennedy, Recorder.
May 1
SWEET,
FIREY, AND
TOBACCO.
NO. MOLASSES, CRUSHED AND BROWN
SUGAR;
500 dollars wortlj Matches, best quality;
Tobacco?Common, Medium and Fine;
Rice?good and fresh Rice Flour;
Salt?Confederate and Turks Island,Smoking
Tobacco and good Cigars;
Pepper Sause, Spioes of different kinds;
Jars and Jogs, various sizes;
Nails, coarse Shoes.
May 22, 1863. A. T. LATTA.
Executor's Notice.
All persons having demands againsl
the late Mrs. Sarah Ciptea, are required to reader
am account thereof to the undersigned, acoording to
law; and those indebted to her to make payment to
June 12 3 J. M. DeSAUSSURB, Ex'r. ?
Lost.
My note, payable to b. cook or order,
for seven hundred and ninety-five dollars, dated
about the 13th of February last. Having gives s duplicate
for said note, payment for the original will be
refused; and all persons aro hereby warned against
trading for ft. geo. ALDKN.
Juno 12 t
Dissolution of Copartnership.
t*?e copartnership of koopman ft solfL
M ERS i.?ythis day dissolved, by mqtual consent ?
either party will sign the name of the firm in liquidation.
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All persons indebted by note or account, will please
make payment to the undersigned, or their authorised ?
attorney, Mr. M. Druckbb.
M. KOOPMANN.
L. SOMMERS.
Camden, June 1, 1863. 6 June 12
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KERSHAW?IN EQUITY*
John Gaskin, et. al. vs James Bruce, et. al.?Bill.
IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER PASSED IN
above stated case (Bill) at June Term, A. D. 1863,
I will offer for re-sale at public outcry, before the Court
House door, in Camden, S. C., on the 1st Monday in
July next, at 12 o'clock, m., the Tract of Land de?
scribed in the pleadiags in said case (Bill), to-wit;
Thft ftnnrl TTill Troni onnvovnH Kir flnniAl *
? ? ? ???? * ??wv, WM ? WJ wv? KTJ i/HUIOI VJi "OR 111} or.,
to D. T. Malmffey, Trustee for the children'of John C.
Baskin.
Terms?So much cash as will pay the ousts of resale
and a proportion of the costs of proceedings?the
balance on a credit until the first of January next, A..
D? 1864. Said balance to be secured by bond, with
at least two good sureties, with interest on the same
(payable annually) from day of sale, and a mortgage
of the property. Purchaser to pay for papers. Said
tract of land to be sold at the risk of the formor purchaser.
WM. R. TAYLOR, C. E. K. D.
Commissioner's Office, June 10, \ D., 1?63. 4
South-Carolina?Kershaw District
In Equity.
Thomas Lang, vs. Edward M.Boykin and Mary
C., his wife, Saliio W. Boy kin, Hairict M.
Lang, John C. Lang, Theodore Lang, Sam'J.
W? L. Lang, Cornelia A. Lang and Edward
B. Lang.?Bill of Supplement and Revivor.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court
that John C, Lang, Theodore Lang and Cornelia
A. Lang, and her infant son Edward B.
Lang, four of the above named defendants, re- *
side beyond the limits of the State of South
Carolina?on motion of Richardson & Gay,
complainant's Solicitors, it is ordered that the
said John C. Lang, Theodore Lang, Cornelia A.
Lang and Edward B. Lang, do appear and
and plead answer or demur to the said bill ot
supplment and revivor on or before the 18th
dav of September next or the same will bo
taken pro con/esso against them.
And it is further ordered that this order be
published for three months before the time
above appointed for the appearance of said
defendants in the Camdcti Confederate, a
newspaper published in the town of Camden.
W. R. TAYLOR, C. E. K. D
Commissioners Office, June 9th A. D, 1863.
June 12 3m
A_lat>ama
Fire Insurance
com; 3? .A. 2sr Y .
THE Undersigned, as Agent for tne, above Southern
Insurance Company, is prepared to issue
policies of Insurance against loss by Fire on all Build
ings, Ac. November
1 W. l. DePASS.
Closing up Business.
Being anxious to close up my present
business, the rematnder of my stock will be disposed
of at low rates for cash. Persons wishing supplies
would do well to call and look at the goods.
February 20 E. W. BONNEY.
Council Notice.
INFORMATION HAVING BEEN RECEIVED
by the authorities, that certain parties are in the
habit of injuring, and defacing ornamental and shade
trees, on the public squares and streets of the Town,
by stripping them of bark, to raak dye stuffs.
This is to give warning that all persons found guilty
of this misdemeanor, shall be prosecuted to the utmost
extent of the law, and a reward of Five Dollars will
be paid, to any one giving such information as will
lead to the conviction of Die offender.
Surely there are trees enough injthe wood, without resorting
to such wantonness, as the destruction of some
of the handsomest oaks wtyhin the limits of the Town.
R. M. KENNEDY, Recorder.
Council Chamber, February 26,1963.
March 13