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VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1863. NUMBER 37
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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
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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.
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"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.
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> 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.
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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
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...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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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|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.
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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.
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The Strength of Hooker's Army.?The
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New York ATews says "the army of the Potom- :
, i ac has dwindled down to about 50,000 ctfec?d
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! 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."
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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
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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.