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4 * , I ,11 I II I ? IBM I I -V" Tl ?I)C Camden Confederate. VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1863. N TTMRFR 47 tlje (EttutJim Confrkratc AT THREE DOLLARS A YKAE, PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-YEARLY IN ADVANCE Terms tor Advertising: For one Square?twelve lines or less?TWO DOLLARS for the first insertion, and CfNE DOLLAR AND HFTY CENS for eaeli subsequent. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged io at advertising rates. Trausiont Advertisements and Job .Wont MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrons. J. T. HER^HAtA.iV, Kditox'. Sonic of niic Bcanticw ofSiiliJugailoii. Louisiana's appeal to the west. i \v ltlnn the last few clays intercourse lias been rc-cstabishcd between the Great West of ' the South, between St. Louis and New Orleans. Boats from above, laden with valuable and 'most welcome freight, harbingers of the re-establishment of that peace, of that plenty, of that cordiality and sympathy which never ought to have been interrupted, but which we grieve to sAy, has received a terrible if not, irreparable shock. Our Westerns friends will recollect how zealously and ardently we contended against the disruption of the innumerable ties which ought to have bound us to each other; and which we once thought indissolubly connected us; and how ineffectual our endeavors were; and they will share the overwhelming distt-css which oppresses us when the return of their boats, empty, and void, tells them of the sad ruin which has been wrought among their former most reliable, welcome and affluent customers. Louisiana of old is Louisiana no more. !3hc was committed to civil . war; contending' Jinnies have desolated her fairest features, and faction, made drunk by its unwonted success, iR eifga^dd tfr trym$?the experiment how it is possible, in the shortest time, to make the greatest havoc of the republic piecotneal. As Louisiana is to day, Massachussetts will ere lone be: there in nothiner new ?nHer on? Some six or eight weeks ago, ere yet Vicks-biH-g or Port Hudson had fallen, we warned our Western brethren of the danger of believing the re-opening of the Mississippi to be the revival of the old, lucrative, reciprocally, advantageous trade with this lower country. No idea could be more fallacious. The Confederate edicts to burn and to destroy are no more destructive to commerce than the acts of the Federal Congress and the incomprehensible regulations (?) of the Treasury Departn ent, with its swarm of electioneering spies and agents. No man in Louisiana can be said, Jiterally and truly, to be master of any description of property. If a man buys a shirt for himself, or a cotton gown for his wife, to go out of the city, he must first go to the permit agent and wait his convenience to receive from bim five per cent, tax on its cost, and then go to a provost marshal and wait six, eight, ten liouis, or perhaps a day, to have his permission to take it home. If ft planter buys a barrel of St. Louis flour, pork, lard or beef, he has to go through the same process, and this whether or not he belongs to what is in official jargon designated loyal Louisianna. In like niannor, if a man wishes to bring sugar or molasses to the city, he must pay five per cent, on its assumed value for the privilege, and then on arrival two cents per pound additional internal revenue tax, to say nothing of the five dollars hospital lee and the fabulous freight charges. If a permit to bring cotton to the city is required, the applicant must first deposit twenty dollars per bale as the tax at random levied upon it, and should ho return without his cotton for want of transportation .or other reason, he must wait leisurely for the return of his deposits. If, however, ho succeed in getting his cotton here the treasury agent will seize it and hold it foa proof satisfactory to him of loyal ownership, ;and that as such, its owner has never given aid or comfort voluntarily to the Confederacy. That our Western friends may know the ex- , act mode to which the treasury locusts proceed, and tho form of the instrument they compcll 1 persons to sign who apply for permission to ship the merest personal, family or plantation supplies in the admitedly loyal disrricts of f Louisiana, wc submit .a copy of their blank N form, as follows, to wit: ^ application and affidavit foit shipment into insurrectionary states and districts. ! ( Special Agent's Office, j ^ , 186. ; i To Special Agent Treasury Di- it partment: 1 Sir : desire permission to ship from this | I port to of by way of ^ , the goods, wares and Merchandise ( named and described in the duplicate invoices s hereto attaohed, the aggregate whereof value * is $ , which goods, wares and merchandise ! < are owned by , and are consigned ' f to , and are contained in , < packages, which packages are marked and des- j < cribed as follows, viz : t Murks. No. c?r Description of Packages. Value ( - ? c J. * . * State of Louisianetj Parish of Orleans, to wit: of ~ parish and station deposes and says that is owner of the goods, wares and merchandize described in ! the invoices, true copies of tvliich are hereto 1 attached, and that the quantities, description afid" values Qf-J.h?gp^Js wares and merchandise are correctly stated in said invoices, arid " that the marks on the packages arc correctly stated in the application, and that the packages contftiri rioehing except ftj stated in the said duplicate invoiced. And this deponent further swears, that the 1 goods, wares and merchandise permitted to be ( transported upon the above application, and * this affidavit, shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance or assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, nor in any other manner so as to give aid, comfort, information or encourageraent to persons in insurrection against the Government oi the United States, nor in any 1 hther wav innnnsish^nt. with th<? tnr?r?<i nnrl 1 spirit of the rules and regulations of the Tres- 1 ury Department; and this deponent further swears that he is, in all respects, loyal and true 1 to the Government of the United States; that he has never voluntarily given aid to the rebels . in arms, nor in any other manner encouraged the rebellion, and that by his conduct and conversation lie will do all that can be expected of hiin as a loyal citizen to suppress the rebellion and restore obedience to the constitution and laws of the United States. { Subscribed and sworn before me this , day of , 1SG. , * * * * * t Special Agent of the Treasury Department- ^ From this exhibit our Western friends will * see the utter hopelessness of expecting any trade worthy of the name being done here, ^ even if there were products in the hands of f our planters to dispose of. The growing crop ^ is scarcely worth consideration, either of cotton ^ or sugar, consequently there can be no trade ^ with a neoDle havincr nothing to rrivo in ta 1 I O o o- * " ( turn for the necessaries they require. Slavery is practically abolished by the government, the ~ country is "cleaned out," the future is before * us, and the gold-laying goose is dead. We deplore the catastrophe, and we rejoice that ' our conscience acquits us for New England and |he West is not yet, but soon will be; let us wait and see. \ $ i c General Jeff. Thompson and Capt. Hay, his Adjutant General, have been committed to the 8 military prison in St. Louis. He managed to a destroy all his important papers before the Fed* e eral officer captnred him. s Persecution of President Davis by Confederates. Wo copy below, from the New York Times, in extract which should put to shame writers vho spend their time in depreciating President Davis: Bad as Jetr. Davis is, he has served the reb" ?ls well, and they have no right to complain of lim.?Ho was made their President by aunan- I mous vote. They had known him long and ;horough)y, and could not be mistaken either ibout his faculties, or his devotion to their principles. It is the judgment of the whole .vorld that they were not mistaken. They i :ould have found no man within their borders ;o consummately fitted for their leadership. Jold, reserved, imperious, lie could be the tool >f no man. Ever audacious, yet never rash; in-1 icxible in his purpose, yet versatile in the use pf his means; of very clear apprehension in general matters, and yet of the most bigoted at- i .ach incut of the great rebel idea; of a temper 1 "?f soul inonnahlo. alike ef nnrlne elntinn r?r .In. 1 ? ? ~ v* >poudeiicy; of tireless industry and firstrate exjcutivo ability; ho was precisely fitted to be the chief of this tremendous enterprise. The wonder ever will be, not that he at last .inks exhausted, but that he was ever able to ?tand against our Government at all. History may be searched in vain for another instance :>f so prodigious a power organized from such limited materials, and holding out so long against such terrible trials. The ability and the energy with which he has consolidated and sustained the rebellion have extorted the admiration not only of Europe, but of 'even the loyal North; for the qualities are in themselves none the less admirable, though employed in the most wicked cause. Of course, it cannot be pVfctcnded that Jeff,Davis has made no mistakes. Were this so, it would prove him more than human. There never was human energy yet which did not sometimes flag, nor judgment which did not mis-calculate. Our pointis, ft-ot that the rebel leaded was perfect in his management, but that he was as nearly so as any living man in similar circumstances could have been, and that, therefore, he cannot justly be reproached in any measure for the failure of the rebel enterprise, lie has surpassed all the expectations his Confederates in treason could have reasonably formed, and he is just as much entitled to the confidence of his fellow-traitors now, in this, their day of disaster, as he was a year ago> when, in the flusji ofvictory, they shouted his name to the stars. A Model Lettku from Lincoln.?The foils a model letter written by tlie great warrior ind strategist, Lincoln, to Gen. Grant: Executive Mansion, ) "Washington, July 13, 1803. j Major-General Grant: My Dear General :?I do not remember dint you and I ever met personally. I write this now ns a grateful acknowledgement for the dmost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When ,'ou first reached the vicinity of Vieksburg 1 bought you should do what you finally did? narch the troops across the neck, run the baterics with the transports, and thus go belowj ind I never had faith, except a general one hnf. vnn knew hotter f.hnn T tbot ?ass expedition and the like could succeed. iVhen you got below and took Port Gibson "?rand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should ;o down the river and join Gen. Banks; and 011 turned Northward, East of the Big B!ackf I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to uakc the personal .acknowledgement that you j vere right and I was wrong. . A.LINCOLN. < There are to-day one hundred thousiil efE- ! ient exempts, speculating on the needs of the oldier, who ought to be in the ariny. These lone, distributed in different quarters, are suffiient to chango the whole aspect of the case, i! ays the Chattanooga Rebel. 1 Affairs iii Tennessee. Chatttanooaa, Sept. 6.?With tbo exception of a few shells thrown At our pontoons yesterday, nothing occured to break the monotony of this place. The enemy seem quite active both above and below the place, but there are no further indications of an attaek. It is thought no attack will be made here, but an effort made to flank us. Two privates, four regulars and one of Rosecran's telegraph operators were captured yesterday near Run' ning Water Bridge. Atlanta, Sept 7.?Passengers from Chattanooga report a force of the enemy at W7adahachite. The number is not stated. We learn from another source that a force is advancing on that point. All concur in stating that the feeling and disposition of the army is one of great desire to meet tho enemy and of confidence in the result. From East Tennessee wo have no recent movement to report. Kcticcucc. Some -recks ago our news papers informed the Yankees that an enormous amouut of rolling stork had been carried up to Grenada. But not content with this some correspondents told their readers and the Yankees that Johnston was re building tl/eir briges over Pearl river in order to run off his stock and save it. In other words, Arrant was told to hurry on bis raiding parties. He was not slow to take the hint and a terrible calamity has been the result. Privateering might have been carried on for years from the waters of North Carolina had not our papers told the Yankees where our cruisers made their rendezvous. The capture of Hatteras, Itoanokc Island and Newbern was the result of this babbling. A Chattanaoga paper, a few days since, informed Iios^cranz whprg Forrest was, and published the Dutchman's proclamation ' inviting our soldiers to desert. The Charleston papers tell Gillmore from day to day the effectof his fire and warn him of the preparations Beauregard is making. The Yankees are duly apprised of every movement of our tioops. They are told about all our plans, hopes and fears; they are taught where are our weak and strong points. Every street combination of our military leaden against the vandals is proclaimed from the house top'. Can nothing be done to arrest this terrible evil ? Would not a law depriving every ' indiscreet and babbling writer of his exemption papers and placing him in the ranks be worth to onr cause an army of fifty thousand men ? This, though, would be wicked. It would bo muzzling the press! IVlf A rr^OTTAwfl ? Tl. ^ ^ ? 1 lib acrbtfiiuiiis, X licit' IS <i tamous pss* sage in the writings of Rousseau, that great delineator of the human heart, which is as true to human nature as it is beautiful in expression: 44Were I in a desert, I would fine out wherewith in it to call forth my affections. If I could do no better, I would fix thera on some sweet myrtle, or some melancholy cypress, to connect myself to. I would court them for shade, and greet them kindly for their protection. I would write ray name upon them, and declare that tbey were the sweetest tree* throughout all the desert. If their leaves withered, I would teach myself to mourn, and when they rejoiced I would rejoice along with them." Such is the absolute necessity which exist in the human heart of having something to love. Unless the affections have an object, life itself joyless and insipid. The affections have this peculiarity, that they are not so much the means of happiness as their exercise is happi nc-ss itself. And not only so, if they have no abject, the happiness derived from any other power is cut off. Action and enterprise flag, if there be no object dear to the heart, to which these actions can be directed. ?|? Dr. Smith begins a sermon, "the wages of tin is death," as follows: "Poor wa^es indtod, :hat a man can't live by."