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; v; \ # i . 4 . * vtljc Camden Confederate. VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1863. NUMBER 37 l)e Comb (it Coufckrfite, AT THREE DOLLARS A YEAR, PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-YEARLY IN ADVANCE Terms for Advertising: For ono Square?fourteen lines or less?TWO [DOLLARS for the lirst insertion, and ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENS for each subsequent. Obituary Notices, oxcocding one Square, charged in at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job Woric MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrons. I. T. HERSI-IMAN, Editor. Uliiroy stud (Sic fiiptuic of Wi.t. cticstcr. The New York Thrall is very savage on Milroy for the loss of Winchester; thinks that ; lie ought to l*e "arrested, court-martialed and shot." rt says : , The loss of Winchester by General Milroy is J a matter tliat demands thc-ininicdialo attention ! of the Government. It is worse than the snr- i render of Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights I by Miles and Ford last September, ami General j Milroy ought to be placed iinmodiatelv under arrest and tried by court martial. The blame of losing it must be equally divided between the War Department and Gen. Milroy. The intention of Lee to move north 1 through the valley was known to the Govern- j nieut, more than a month ago, and it was the I business of tin; War Department to post a suf- j ii 'ie t force at Winchester, and to place in command of it a reliable General. Miirvy did not make what deserves the name of sf fight. The facility with whi< h the key was wrested from the grasp of Milroy has reversed the picture, and given Lee a tremendous advahtagc, which lie has not failed te use with eft'cct. It has not only provided him with ammunition and ample stores, but it has opened the gate to Maryland and Pennsylvania. These consequences and disgraceful panic in Pennsylvania have resulted from the utter want of capacity and courage m Gen. Milroy, whose military imbecility was long since well known to the War Department. The public welfare demand that lie be arrested, tried by court martial, and shot as an example for the future. The interest of the nation equally demand that Mr. Stanton be removed from the .. T\ i - - - i 1 . * v> ar j/cparuncnt, ana mat a competent officer receive his port-folio. Tbe Great Disadvantage!) the United State are Under. The richest article we have seen lately is from Harper's Weekly, of the 20th ult. We suppose it was intended chiefly for European circulation : It seems that their arc some people who think we are whipped. If so, we are all like (?cn. Taylor, who never knew when he was beaten. It is precisely the strain in which John Bull has addressed us from the begining. o o "lvicking's no use," sneers honest John. "You k arc dead as a door nail, if you only knew it."' This is exactly the point we cannot beat in our dull brains. Here we have been fighting for two years, We began without an army, without a nary, without scarcely a dollar, and i with no expetution of a fight. The enemy, 011 the other hand, had been carefully preparing for many years. We suddenly see that we must fight, whether we are rebuffed, defeated and victorious. We win and lose battles through two years of fluctuating fortunes, but meanwhile, we steadfastly push on, &c., Are. We lose no ad. A 1 ... 1 > milage we once seeure, ana wc prevent their own succession in the field from helping thcin. An English engineer has invented a'printing press which will print 23,000 sheets of a newspaper on both sides in an hour. The paper from which it prints is in the web 011 the reel, and after passing under the typo is cut hi sheets. The Machine does without feeding, and the reel of paper that it feeds from is unwound by its own action. % A Fierce Denunciation. The New York Freeman's Journal lias tl following bitter denunciation or the Feder Government : The imbecile and wicked Federal Admin tration is drifting without rudder and witho compass. It knows neither where it is n where it is driven. We can well believe tli the ungainly and vacant countenance of Li coin, as it is reported, is frequently ovcrcn with a vague sense of terror that renders hi incapable for a time of speech or of motion. The truculent iueapables that surround hi are seeking to illustrate by a new example tl ,.U ...I . . 7V?. j t .... ..'r? ...SV . M. UIJ-I Vt/I lir JJ-ICUJII jjcruum. "?l wicked destroy others that themselves may c cape." They are tools in this as in all tin have hitherto attempted. ;.'f ?: V.* * >. ' ?,* And those cowardly and incapable thingsLincoln, Seward, Stanton?have imagined th this liorcc lighting American race, trained liberty even in its excesses, will bow the heads heneath the trembling paws of the creatures, and quietly lay on the ground ll "symbols of the free"?the arms that the Co stitution of the land guarantees to them keep and hear for the protection of thcmsclv and the State*1' Every revolver you take from these prop is replaced l>y a rifle and bayonet! Every o shot gun you steal from them is good for dozen regulation muskets, with ammunition match! You think you have a trophy win you have seized a rillo; you will find, rrs if had dropped down from the clouds, or as the earth had yawned to let it forth, a well l'u nished mountain howitzer, making good tl loss of the rille ! Hunt the brush and you will not find then Uurn barns and you will destroy thoiu ! li haust your suspicious and narrow brains, ai you will be no nearer the mark. But we tc you?not by political forecast, but as the chro icier of what is, and is ready to become an a complislied fact?that, if the freedom of ti bailot box be interfered with in theNorthwes crn States, or if the free canvass ncccssarv i "J a free election be further interrupted there, tl Irreparable blow will fall. As if the heavei dropped it down from above, and the earl budded it forth, from the four winds of heave the cntjrc Northwest will be in one blaze armed array. F?y your attempts at supprcssir speech and the Democratic press, you hai forced men to action instead of words. Yc have to deal, in the Northwest, with the kin of men who took Fort Donclson for you.Against thein what can avail your weepir " Wide Awake" transformed into " Unic Leagues." * * * * * * We want peace and order here at the Nort In order to have it, we must have peace wit the South. If we have it not, we tell money < men, even those who arc making profit by tl war, that their gain will turn to loss. The sweet things will become bitter. Their fa eied security will vanish. The scourge is band. When it comes?if it is not stayed I wisdom and consideration?we will sec wl will houl loudest?the men who will not b lieve us now, or we. The proprietors of the Charleston Morcn have announced that from the 1st of July, i slant, the subscription prices will boat the ra of !"- _'<) per annum for the daily, and, ?10 f the tri-weckly paper. They state that tl change is made rcluetantlv, and only in she n ? ' ^ justice to themselves, believing that all the readers will not wish it supplied or coutimu except at living rates. An Old Professor Detected.?On Al'o day morning Patrick Coll, a foreign gentlema with British papers, who?had entered the Co federate army as a substitute four times, ai deserted regularly pretty soon after beii mustered in, was arrested in Richmond. < course his papers will protect him. Raid in Korlli Carolina. ,e Wilmington, July 5.?The enemy is adal vancing on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. They were at Kcnansville last night, is- seven miles from the railroad, with 1500cavalut ry. The wires were cut at 9 o'clock. [Kcnor ansville is a small station, near Magnolia, N. C.] at Later.? Wilminoton, July 5.?The enemy r;- took Waftaw, on the Wilmington and Manst Chester Railroad, at 9.f?0 this morning. It is in reported that they burned the Company's I warehouse, containing about twenty thousand ui j pounds of Government bacon. They leftabont l(> ' 4 oV.lrtpk this I'VOllinrr rMmut innr in tlw? s ~ v-vic i tion of Kcnansville, where the main body of s- i tlieir forces bad stopped. The enemy are esti?v i mated to be from 3000 to 4000 strong?cavalry [ w 'I ' and infantry. About half their number arc '< said to be negroes. at | The New York Times in speaking of the adto ; vance of our army into Pennsylvania remarks it* ! as follows : S(, \\ bile the J oval men of Pennsylvania are ,,, filled with mingled dismay and shame, in the n_ j presence of the vile horde of rebel invaders, j0 these copperheads welcome them with undises i gursed pleasure, fraternize with them, supply ! them with all desired information, conduct them t ' |c 1 fo the hidden property of loyal neighbors, and |, j in every possible way, short of actually enlisting ;l in ihc rebel ranks, help tliem on in their hostile | work. Jf to "give aid and comfort" to the en- | j eniies of the United States" constitutes treason, j jt | as the Constitution declares, these Pennsylvania it Copperheads make themselves as complete u- traitors as JelT. Davis himself. ic ~ The Capital of Pennsylvania.? Harris? i burg, the capital of Pennsylvania, is situated on x- the left bark of the Susquehanna, and on the id Pennsylvania railroad, luC miles from Phila;|] dclphio, 252 from Pittsburg, 82(by railroad)from n- Baltimore, 191 from New York and 110 from c- Washington. Population in 1850,t7,834. Its ie situation commands n fine view of the riverand t- surrounding country, and it lias a splendid | to Stntelioute, on elevated ground, from which [ ic there is a gradual descent to the river. The' us bridge oyer the Susquehanna is a fine structure, h extending to nn island in the river, and thence in to the opposite bank, 2,87G feet long, 40 wide, nf and /iO above tlic'snHnre of the river* chert ior distance below it is the viaduct ot the Cumberre land Valley railroad, an elegant and substantial stucturc. Population in 1S59, 14,000,? id Richmond Examiner. inr Otrit Peace Party.?Gen Lee's sword is i >n vonr only olive branch. In his van hovers, dove-eyed peace, with healing on its wings; and the banner over him is Love. Those j h. "Denmcrats," who lately would not touch Peace h without reconstruction, will now be willing to id take it "straight." As the flying farmers and ; ie and their families go trooping across the Sus-j ir quehnnna, those noble constitutional objections n- to Lincoln's despotism gain force and volume. ! at Western Peace Democrats hold up again their j >y heads of copper; and Illinois thunders back to 10 ' Indiana?shallow calling unto shallow ?to j e- demand back Yallandigham and Peace, and the Constitution of their fathers; a document which thev were very near forgetting, and ry which would probably have become utterly obn solcte but for Gen. Lee. We call this a peace movement; and of the j mcst balmv kind.?Richmond Examiner. or ' _ I lie The Strength of Hooker's Army.?The er , i New York ATews says "the army of the Potom- : , i ac has dwindled down to about 50,000 ctfec?d . , ! tive men. Where the balance of the. 135,000 j Hooker is said to have had prcviohs to the n- battles ofChancellorsvillc are I don't pretend to in say. Of course a good many have gone home n-1 in the mustering out ofservice of the two years' id and nine, months' men. Put if the loss in the ig Chancellorsvillc "skirmishes" was only 4 5,000 Of "killed, wounded and missing, why there is cheating going on somewhere." * \ Lee and > Stonewall" Jackson. The letter of Lee to Jackson, so full of cha- acteristic generosity and heartfelt sorrow fo * his frieud, is worthy the highest place amoD the memorials of great men. 44 Greater lov hath no man than this, that he lay down hi life for his friend." CfiAKCJCLLORfiviLLS, May 4th. General?I have just received your not* informing me that you were wounded. I can not express my regret at the occurrence.? * Could I have dictated events, I should hav< chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, K. E. LEE. ,Jackson heard the letter read, and with manifest emotion, llis reply was noble, and just what, might have been expected of him. With his usual modesty and reverence, belaid: "General Lee should give the glory to God!". He always seemed jealous of the glory of his Saviour. Then, bursting into tears, he exclaimed, "far better for the Confederacy that ten Jackson's had fallen than one Lee !" Another touching evidence of Lee's appreciation of Jackson was afforded wlren Mrs. Jackson reached his headquarters in search of her wounded husbanc!. She is is said to have remarked, upon entering : " I am told that Gen. Jackson has lost his left arm." "Yes madam," was Gen. Lee's reply; "and I have lost my right." Par nobile fratrum ! What reciprocity of esteem ! The loves of Damon and Pythias are more than rivalled by those of these two heroes in arms?these soldiers of the church militant. Patriotism is exalted in the lives of such good men. A House for Ceil. Lee. There is a subscription going on among the wealthy citizens of Richmond, to buy a house for Gen. Lee. Not less than one hundred thousand dollars is to be collected, and with this fund the building is to be completely furnished in the handsomest manner. Such a tribute to the distinguished and incompatible services of our grant commander, is in the highest degree appropriate and becoming, and certainly no community will offer it with abetter grace than the citizens of Richmond, who are undoubtedly indebted to Gen. Lee for the preservation of their homos and fortunes from the hands of a ruthless enemy last summer.? Gen. Lee has been a serous loser by the war. IIis family residing at Arlington Heights, opposite Washington City, has been in the enemy's hands ever since the beginning of hostili i .1 i i.i uu?, ana muy uurnea tue dwelling at the White House, on the Pamunkcy, and devastated the plantation during the ' Peninsula campaign of Gen. McOlcllan. If the subscription to purchase a house for Gen. Lee were thrown open to citizens of all parts of the Confederacy, there is little doubt that money enough would be set down instantly to buy a Blenheim or a Stratsfieldsaye, such as England gave to her Marlborough and her Wellington, but all that is now proposed is to give the noble leader of our armies a comfortable mansion which will afford a home to his family while he is lighting the battles of his country, and this the citizens of Richmond claim the proud privilege of doing. Richwond Cor. Atlavta Appeal. The last "rebel" privateer built in England lias been appropriately named "The Coquett." -VjL Mr. Secretary "Welles will find "The Coquett." In his hours of ease, Uncertain, coy. and hard to?seize." Horrible.?A grocer's advertisement in a North Carolina paper contains the following : Special JYotice to the Ladies.?That delight, ful snuff for which there is such demand is not quite exhausted.