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VOLUME II CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1863. N TTMRFR 47
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J. T. HER^HAtA.iV, Kditox'.
Sonic of niic Bcanticw ofSiiliJugailoii.
Louisiana's appeal to the west.
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\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 (
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J.
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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.
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>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.
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Dr. Smith begins a sermon, "the wages of
tin is death," as follows: "Poor wa^es indtod,
:hat a man can't live by."