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The ffpiher't Lwi Sacrifice.
BY CARRIE BELL^NCLAIR.
Oh t spare bin), 't's the only one?
My darling' youngest boy ;
'Tie all a mother now has left
To fill her heart with joy.
A husband and two eldest sons
Were battling with the brave?
They fell; Sud each I know now fills
A soldier's honored grave.
Then do not take the last I have,
If you have* power to spare.
But leave him to a mother's love,
And to her tender care;
For sad will be a widow's heart,
Bereft of all her joy,
Oh I Freedom I must thy sacred cause
Demaud my only boyf
Dear mother hush tho murmuring now
That rises iu thy heart;
If ia 11 I'lnrioiis pause, and I
Would gladly bear a part
Thou must-1 stay, when duty calls.
Or bear a coward's name?
Or cause the check of iunoeeico
To wear a blush of shame.
No ! lot me go and sh op besido
A father's hallowed grave,
Or fall, as did ruy brothers dear.
Amid the true and bravo.
I know 'twill uud a bitter drop
To thy deep cup of woo;
But mother let your heart respond.
And say, if I must go!
My noble son 1 thy mother's heart
Is filled with yearnings wild,
And gladly would I cling to thee,
, My last, my only child;
But Honor's path is bright I know?
That path thy father trod;
Co! serve thy country, well my boy?
I give thee to thy God!
But spare oh, Father 1 spare him when
Tho battle rages wild ;
And, if it be thy holy will,
Bestore to me my only child!
But if in sinfulness I breathe
An anxious mother's prayer,
My country take my noble boy?
'Tis my last, offeiing there I
How YAiicoIn Recruits lii* Army.
A gentlemen recently from Norfolk gives tlic
following accounts of a proceeding which was
doubtless regarded by the enemy as a "cute
Yankee trick"
There are in the city of Norfolk four churches
which are used exclusively by the colored people
for public worship. One of these has a
bell, and is known as the "Hell Church." A
notice was recently circulated among the colored
population, by order of the Provost Marshal,
that on the following Sabbath something
would be communicated in the Bell Church in
which they were interested? Their curiosity
being thus appealed to, the ringing of the hell
drew an immense crowd. The house was
filled. Many who could not get in stood mound
the doors and windows with listening ears. At
an appointed signal, a military manoeuvre was
executed; they found themselves surrounded
by 3U0 soldiers, with fixed bayonets. Resistance
was useless. Escape impossible. Al)
who were neither too young nor too old for
military service were hurried away. No time
was given for farewells or for making any preparations.
In their Sunday clothes, they were
marched on hoard the vessels that were in
readiness to carry ihoni to the North to swell
the armies designed tor the subjugation of the
South.
We doubt not that Mr. Lb ^ohi lin?i> this a
much easier way of recruiting hi? thinned ranks
than by endeavoring to e; a draft among
the infuriated populace o| New York.
The average daily circulation <>(' the London
Time* is 05 000, which require* a - . ?1 y of
sixty tons of paper per week. The ; .;:.!?< r <.f
persons employed by it is 370. The editor,
Mr. Dclanc, receives ?9,000 a year, and has
a twenty-fourth shave in the paper.
OFFIC E Ul;ARTERRASTER,
Charleston*, S. October 1, lsr.j.
MR. A. M. LKF. IS AITOIXTKD A<IK >T <.>K
this department, for the purchase of ( oi ti uisd
Fodder, in tlio Districts of Rcrsliuw and
Laiieialcr,
Vlautvrs desiring to soil, will communicate, with him.
Particular attention must he paid to Lpe packing ?>
the fodder, and no water must he used. During the past
year the Government experienced honvv loss from
improper packing. and ait such \ ill he her nl'<>r rejected.
MOTTIO A i'Wi !.'
Captain and Assistant Qm,r'leriiniH> >.
Tho subscriber can oo found at his r.-id ue
DaKalb street, next west of fho Presbyterian Church
October 10 A. M LEK.
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDEST
TO THE SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERATE
STATES.
AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF WARfare
scarcely equalled in the number, magnitude, aud
fearful carnage of its battles; a warfare in which your
courngo and fortitude have illustrated your country
and attracted not only gratitude at home, but adinira*
tion abroad, your enoraies continue a struggle, in
which our final triumph must bo inevitable. Unduly
elated with their recent successes, they imagine that
temporary reverses can quell your spirit or shake
your determination, and they are now gathering heavy
masses for a general invasion in the vain hope that
by adesporate effort success may at length be reached.
You know too well, my countrymen, what they
mean by success. Their malignant rage aims at nothing
less than the extermination of yourselves, your
wives aud children. They seek to destroy what they
cannot plunder. They propose as the spoils of victory
that your homes shall be partitioned among the
wretches whoso atrocious cruelties ha\e stamped in
j farny on their Government. Tlioy design to incite
j servile insurrection and light the fires of incendiarism
whenever they can reach your hemes, and tlioy- debauch
,i;e inferior race, hitherto docile and contented
by pr misi: g indulgence oftbo vilest passions as the
pr co of treachery. Conscious of their inability to provail
by legitimate Warfare, not daring to make peace
lest they should bo buried from their seats of power,
the men who now rule in Washington refuse even to
confer on the subject of putting an end to outrages
which disgraco our age. or to listen to a suggestion
for conducting the war according to the usages of
civilization.
Fellow citizens, no alternative is left you but victory,
or subjugation, slavery and the utter luin of your
selves, your families and your country. Tho victory
is within your reach. You need but stretch forth
your lisnds to grasp it. For this and all that is ne- j
| ccssary is that those who are called 10 the field by t
even motive that can move the human heart, should
promptly repair to the post of duty, should stand by
their comrades now in front of tho foo, and thus so
strengthen'the armies of the Confederacy as to ensure
success. The men now absent from their posts would,
if present in Hie field, suffice to create numerical
equality between our force and that of tho invaders
?and when, with any approach to such equality,
have we failed to he victorious? I believe that but
few of those absent are actuated by unwillingness to
serve their country; but that many have found it difficult
to resist the temptation of a visit to their homes
and the loved ones from whom they have been so long
separated; that others have left for temporary
attention to their affairs with tho intention of
returning, and then have shrunk from the consequences
of their violation of duty ; that others again
have left their posts from mere restlessness and desire
of change, each quieting the upbraing3 of his conscience,
by persuading himself that his individual services could
havo no influence on the general result.
These and other causes (although far less disgraceful
than the desire to avoid danger, or to escape from
the sacrifices required by patriotism,) uro nevertheless,
grevous faults, and pin. e the cause of our boloved
country, and of everything we hold dear, in imminent
peril. 1 repeat that the men who now owe
duty* to their country, who have been called out and
have not yet reported for duty, or who have absented
themselves fiom their posts, are sufficient in number
f.. cnniirn no t-i/itrvrt- in tho ct rn .'rtrlo nmv imnnnitinf
I call 011 you then, my countrymen, to hasten to
your camps, in obedience to the dictates of honor and
duty, and summon thoso who have absented them*
selves without leave, or who have remained absent
eyond the period allowed by their furloughs, to repair
without delay to their respective commands, and
I do hereby declare that I grant a general pardon and
amnesty to all officers ar.d men within the Confederacy,
now absent without leave, who shall, with the least
possible delay return to their proper po*tsof duty, but j
no e xcuse will be received for any delay beyond twenty J
days alter the puplication of this proclamation in the j
St <te in which the absentee may bo at the date of j
the publication. This amnesty and pardon shall extend
to all who have been accused or who have boon
convicted and are undergoing sentence for absence
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j without leave, or desert.on. excepting only those who
have been twieed convicted of desertion.
Finally, I conjure my countrywomen?the wives,
mothers, sisters an.d daughters of the Confederacy?to j
- use their all-powerful influence in aid of this call, to .
add one eiowning sacrifice to those which their patri- j
otisni h:ts so freely and constantly offered on their j
country's altar, and to take care that none who owe i
i
service in tin- field shall be sheltered at homo from the
. : h .ving d? sorted their duty to their fatui
lies t< > t!u !r country and to their God.
lim n under my hand and ilu seal (if the Confederate
State.-, at Richmond, this 1st day of Ani
[Stgust, in tho year of our Lord one thousand
em lit hundred and sixty-three:
.1 EEEKkSi i\" DAVIS.
' lly the President:
J. P. Buxjamin", Seme I a ry of State.
August 11 3
Th" papers throughout the ( onfedcrato States
are requested to copy the above proclamation at tho
earliest moment, and for twenty days thereafter, and
send their bills to tie Private .Secretary of tho President.
! Administratrix' Notice
4 I,L Pr. It SONS INDEBTED TO Til K ESTATE
. \ of rhns. .11. Peek, ere requested to call on Mr. W.
P. Mm;1i-oii. (who is my authorized agent) and set Mo
th'- *amo: ..nd al! who have claim against tiie estate
wiii hand ihe:u in t'Oiim properly1 attested, on or before
i i tho tirstday of November next.
August 21 2 FRANCIS M B. PECK. Ad'rox
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INSURANCE.
HAVING BEEN APPOINTED AGENT FOR
the Insurance Company of the State of Virginia, I am
now prepared to take Risks
Against Loss or Damage by Fire
Persons wishing to insure their property, will have a
favorable opportunity of doing so, in perhaps as safe a
Company as there is in the Confederate States.
May 22 N. D. BAXLKY, Agent.
Runaway.
COMMITTED TO THE JAIL OF KERSHAW
District a Negro Boy, who says his name is
JUlIS, ami that lie belongs to Robert Oliver, of
Georgetown, S C.
Said Bov is fivo feet five or six inches high, will
weigh 150 or 60 pounds, had on an old black coat, and
grey satinett pants, and a Confederate hat, made o
\\ ire grass. The owner is requested to come forward
prove property, pay expences and take him away.
DUNCAN SHEORN, Jailor. '
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TnST OPENED, AT THE "OLD CORNER,
Printed Muslins; also, Tapes, Pins, Hooks am
Eyes, whito and colored serpentine Braids, Ac., tha
has just run the blockade. E. W. BONNE V.
July 3
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1 1 I i.lLUIMgP^??Mil llll "II
[PROCLAMATION.]
STATE OF SOUTH CAKO LI IV A
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, )
Charleston, S. C. August 2, 1863. J
WHEREAS, BY INFORMATION RECEIVED
at tins Department, it appears that in Charleston,
on the 24th of December last, a man by tlio namo
of Sam'l. Collins was stabbed iu the breast by somo
person or persons up to this time unknown, and that
the said Srmuel Collins died instantly:
Now, therefore, I, M. L. BONHAM, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the aforesaid State,
do issue this my Proclamation, offering a reward of
THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for tho apprehension
and delivery of tlio real murderer of tlio said Samuel
Collins into any of the jails of this State; and if more
than one, an additional roward of Three Hundred Dollars
for each one who shall be proved to bo an accomplice.
Given uuder my hand and seal of the State, at
[l. s.] Columbia, this eighth day of August A. D. one I
thousand eight hundred aid sixty-three. ?
M. L. BONHAM. ^ J
Wm. R. Hontt, Secretary of State.
C5>" Columbia papers publish twico, and other papers
of the State once a week for one
August 14 5
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
ADJ'T. AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL P OFFICE. j>
Charleston, Aug. 12, J sg:;. j"
GENERAL ORDER NO 32.
rpilK FOLLOW IXG PERSONS II AVE R EC KIT KI>
1 a majority of votes at an election lieM on tlie 31 si
nit. for Field Ofliccrs of the Regiments organized for
"local defence and special service in the State for th>?
term of six months," in pursuance of General Order
No. 28, issued from this Ottice, are hereby declared and
announced duly elected to the Offices as hereinafter
stated, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly,
to wit:
first regiment.
THOMAS ROBERTS, Colonel.
AV. L. HODGES, Lieutenant Colonel.
W. E. WKL130RN, Major. #
second regiment.
WILLIAM FORD, Colonel.
G. A. LEWIE, Lieutenant Colonel.
WALTER QUATTLKBAUM, Major.
fou rth regim ent.
J. H. WITFIERSPOON, Colonel.
F. M. MELKTT, Lioutcnont Colonel.
J. C. EVANS, Major
fifth regiment.
J. IT. WILLIAMS, Colonel.
JOHN A. BRADLEY, Lieutenant Colonel.
L. I?. SADLER, Major.
II In the Third Regiment there was a failure to
elect Field Odicers, owing to the failure to organize
the Companies in the 16lh Regiment, S. C. M., beforo
1 the day on which the election was ordered to be held.
An election for Field Officers of said Regiment will bo
ordered as soon as these Companies have been organized
II J. The Colonels will nominato persons for the *
Regimental Staff?one Adjutant, one Quartermaster,
one Surgeon and one Assistant Surgeon?their appointment
to be subject to tbe approval ol the President.
Colonels will report their nominations to this
office, and thov "ill be forwarded for approval.
IV. The Colonels commanding these Regiments will
hold themselves in readiness to report, with their respective
commands, at the shortest notice, lor duty or>
the coast.
By-command : A. C. G A It LI \QTON,
Adjutant and Inspector-General S. C,
j?t?" Papers of State copy three times.
August '21 3
Sequestration Act
A LL PERSONS WIT HIN THE DISTRICTS OF
rV Fairlicld, Kershaw and Sumter, who have not
complied with the provisions of the Act in relation to
interest, (approved 30th August, 1801) are notilled
that executions will be lodged with tho Confederate
Marshal, against all defaulters, on the lirst day of September,
1803, for debt, interest and cost.
Mr. JAMES V. LYLKS is fully empowered to receipt
for tho District of Kershaw, and Montgomery
Moses, Esq., lor the District of Sumter
If debtors arc resting under the impression that sorpiestratcd
claims cannot be collected during the war,
J tliey are specially referred to the 13th section of tho
amended Act, in which it is said ' Jn the collection of
del'tn or choses in action, no State Stay Law shall
yovern
1 have granted indulgence to those who have already
paid a fair proportion of their indebtedness, and
will continue to do so, when circumstances require it;
but to those who have paid nothing, executions and
levy will bo issued in full
August 14 3 J. R. AIKEN, Receiver.
Dissolution of Copartnership.
fpiIH COPARTNERSHIP OF KOOPMAN &80MI
MKRS is tins day dissolved, by mutual consent ?
either party will sign the name of the linn in liquidation.
All persons indebted by nolo or account, will please
i make payment to tho undersigned, or their authorized
1 attorney, Mr. M. Druckeic.
t M. KOOPMANN.
L. SUMMERS.
Camden, June 1, 1863. 6 June 12
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