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VOLUME III CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDA^-Q6T0BER 6, 1863. NUMBER 2
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"SOUTHERN PRJBRflVJRI SEW1NC
MACIIIXE."
Ono of tl 10 kind a man can love,
That wears a shawl and a soft kid glove;
Has the merriest eye and the daintiest loot,
And sports the clmrmingest gaiter boot,
And a bonnet with leathers, ribbons and loops,
And an indefinite number of hoops.
Ono that can dance and possibly flirt,
And make a pudding as well as a shirt;
One that can sing without dropping a stitch,
And play the housewife, lady or witch?
Ready to give us the sagost advice,
And do up our collars and things so nice.
"We like the machine that can laugh and talk,
And take our arm for an evening walk ;
That will do whatover the owner may choose,
With the slightest perceptible turn of the screws?
Tis the cleverest thing that ever was seen,
Our wonderful family sowing machine.
NeFai'laiul. the Iticliiiioucl
Barber, in Wuttliingtoii.
The very interesting colored barber, direct
from Richmond, wlios arrival in Washington
and >yhosc revelations of life in Richmond were
thought ofsniHeient importance to be telegraphed
to the New York Times has turned up in
that city with a "handkerchief full of locks ol
hair, shorn from the head of rebel notables, oh.
, taincd in the course of business," and has been
doing a good stroke of trade by selling them tci
the fanatical dupes. A special meeting, to receive
him and hear his stories, was held in tin
basement ofCheever's church; reporters wen:
in attendance, and the particulars arc given in
a copy of the Tribune, of the '2'2d futuro, which
was forwarded to us by an obliging friend in
the Signal Corps, and received at a late lioui
last night. We have room only for a few ol
the most remarkable passages :?Richmond
Examiner.
Quite a. collection of prominent ladies and
gentlemen were assembled, last evening, in the
basement of the Rev. Dr. Chccvers church, tc
pay their respects to the very interesting colored
barber from Richmond, whose arrival in
this city has been anticipated with so much
anxiety. Among, the celebrities present, we
noticed Mr. Grcely, of the Tribune; Mr. Raymond,
of the Times ; Mr. Stepen Pearl 'Andrews;
Miss Dix; Prof. Fowler; Mrs. Kcmble;
Dr. Hodge, of Princeton Seminary ; Dr. Guernsey,
of Harpers' Monthly; Rev. Dr. Pyne ; Dr.
Checver; Mrs. Swisshelm, and others. The
meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev.
Dr. Chccver, who then introduced the distinguished
guest, Mr. Jupiter McFarland, a tall,
salmond-colored gentleman, about thirty years
of age, quite handsome with intelligent black
eyes, hair almost straight, and a decidedly
pleasing address. After shaking hands with
the principal personages, Mr. McFarland, who
"has in his veins the best blood of Virginia,"
stood up in the centre of the middle aisle and
answered, in an audible tone, the questions put
to him by Dr. Chcevcr and others. His education
being imperfect, Mr. McFarland's English
was not altogether elegant, but his melodious
tones and his frank directness of manner
i made him easily understood.
) We pass ovef the incidents of his escape,
k which are minutely, and no doubt falsely, narrated,
and come at once to the important ques|
tions and answers, as given by. the reporter,
who makes a feeble attempt to imitato the
mulatto lingo.
it Question.?Are you acquainted with the
rebel leaders?
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, Answer.?Yes, sir, intimately. They come
' regular to my shop to get shaved. v
Question.?All of them ? t v
! Answer*?All 'cept- Mr. Benjamin and the
'Torney-Gcn'ral; they is too busy. t
> Question.?Docs Jeff. Davis come?
t Answer.?Yes, lie is de fust one, every mor- ti
j r.in,' sure as de sun shines.
Question.?What sort of a man is he ? j h
Answer.?Well, he don't cuss none scnce he
. jined the church, but he is potty rambunk- t
tious when he can't got no good segars from I
uuua to smoke. j ti
Question.?Do the. people like him? d
1 Answer.?Some un'em does and some un'em c
does'nt. Them that lives in the Department b
swars by him, but the rest says he apints mean p
Gen'rals just to spite the people. g
Question.? Ilis Cabinet fear him very much, <1
do they not? j b
jinswer.?Well, as for cabinet makers, thar ! n
haint but mighty few left; most un'em havin' i
took to makin' coffins. (Suppressed laughter.) 1 n
Question.?There arc a great many deaths |
in the city, then ? I b
Answer.?Yes, sir, we has beriied nigh into tl
four millions of'Fcdril soldiers since the war ii
begun. [Sensation ] c
Question.?Docs Jeff. Davis get shaved eve- Ci
ry day ? . h
Answer.?Xo, he gits shainpood, and then h
he sets in a cheer, smokes, and spits about, and c<
talks politicks to his friends.
Question.?What other persons come to d
your shop? . j g
Answer.?Mr. Letcher comes to git his hair e
i curled, and so does Mr. Seddons. Mr. Mem- d
' minger and the Press Gcn'ral, Mr Northrup,
they conies to git their moustaches coufumed, : <_ <
i and bathes together. a
f Question.? You don't mean to say thev
bathe in the saino tub at the same time? n
i Ajiswer.?Yes, I do ; they washes one an- e
> other wi^li castile soap. They is great friends, ;l
and plays into each others hands.
Question.?How do they do that ?
: Answer.?Why, Mr. Memniingcr he makes tl
i money aecordin' to the claims of 11?o Press j,
Gen'ral ; and tlie Press Gcn'ral, lie is a licrco S(
old man ; lie say lie hedam it lie aint going to
press everything the people raise to eat. so'* to
make expenses light. p
Question.? There is great scarcity ot food p
in Richmond, then ?
Answer.?Yes; people dies every day of star- t;
vation. y;
? Question.?That's the reason there are so p,
many mohs of women ? c.
i Answer.?Not adzackly, for Governmint is a]
afeard of their risin,' like they did last winter, a1
and so they gives 'cm plenty of money ; hut it's a,
mostly the rich planters that's heen drove away ]j
from home and lost everything that perishes c,
; for the want of something to eat, and is 'sham- t|
ed to say anything ahont it. [Loud and pro- ],,
, longed applause.] SN
i Question by Mr. Greely.?How about the
, rebels rams? Ql
Answer.?I declare; sir, I don't know. I n
, aint taste sheep meat for two year. I. don't
i love it. w
[The merriment of the audience at this un- ,n
expected reply, says the Tribune reporter,
conld not he repressed ; the lecture room shook st
i with laughter, in which Mr. McFarland joined
1 when his mistake was explained to him. He w
then stated that the rebels had three or four
, rams completed and about two dozen more, of
. the largest size, well under weigh, at the little
. town of Fluvanna, about five miles above Rich- g<
mond.] 1(
Question by Miss Dir.?There are a great th
innntr IAIU WAmo?? *1?^ A* 1 ^ p
iiaitHj ivit " uiiieu ill uiu NIC UUMC IlOl f 10
Answer.?I don't ktiow, old Mississ?
Miss D/x interrupting.?I am your sister, tr
. not your mistress ; recollect you are free now.
Answer.?So I is. I forgot dat. Well, sis- Wl
I ter, the women is mostly about your hight,
some a lectio higher, may be. ^
, By Mr Pearl Andrews.?Society is in a very co
disorganized state, I imagine ? eh
Answer.?A good deal that way. Since the
wr broke out the furrinors has quit com in'
>ith their organs and monkeys.
By Mr. Raymond.?How long do the rebels
hink the war will last ?
Answer.?About fivc-and-twentv year, unless
lie Hour and ineal gives out.
Question.?I suppose they hate us very
eartily ?
Answer.?They don't do nothin' else; and
lie little boys is worse than the grown folks,
t' tliev catches any of your men in the street
j.j ,
lying to get back home, they chokes 'em
own, and takes 'em in the back yard of the
ullercd folks jails, and turns bull-dogs and
lood-hounds onto'em tell they tears ,cra to
ieces. Cap'n Alexander, at the Libby, has
ot a big hound that has cat at least two hunrod
prisoners alive. But they never lets this
c known. [Intense indignation and excitelent,
especially among tj^^adios.]
Question.?Money is very scarce in Riclilond,
isn't it ?
Answer.?There is plenty ot it, but it don't |
uy nothin.' because the fiovetnmor.t ?!?it I
le sense to manage its business. When I was '
1 Washington, Mr. Chaste larfed at his brothr
Secretary, as he called him, and said he
ould wind him around his little finger. He
ad been patterning hard after him, but that
ad just brought him into trouble, for the two
3Untries warnt in the same fix at all.
[This financial revelation of the Richmond
arkev was hailed as a positive proof of the
re?it intellectual capacity of the African, and
licited many compliments from Raymond,
it least this is what the Yankee reporter saysi]
Question by Gen. McClillan, who had just
ynie in.?llow many troops are there in and
round richmond ? '
Answer.?A good many,- There is the Arlory
Rand, and the city Battalion, and Genral
Brown's horse company, and the militia,
nd about a thousand hundred niggers.
On
Question.?Are the negroes armed I
Answer.?Yes, sir. They makes out liko ,
icy was working on the fortifications, but they
as as many and good arms as anybody. I
;cn 'em.
Question.?Who commands the whole force?
Answer.? I liaint sartin for sure, but 1 ex- ,
ect Cap'n Freeman and Gen'ral Brown, the (
'resident's fust cousin.
[Here, says the Tribune reporter, the impor- ]
int part of the conversation ended, and Mr. ,
IcFarland opened his handkerchief and dis- (
used of a lot of hair trinkets, made out of the ^
ipillary excrescence of the noted rebels, male ^
ml female, whom he had, at various times, |
ttended in his capacity of barber. Most of the
rticics brought high figures. A lock of Jeff'.
~ o O
avis hair sold for $10; a curl of Gov. Letch's
for $5, and a neat watch guard, made of i
ic plaited tresses of two kinds of beautiful ;
air, one straight and the other curly, but t
vcctly harmonizing, was knocked down to t
[r. Greely at $40. Bracelets made of the hair
? .1 i i t 1 *
oincr socesn oeiies sold at less remarkable t
itos, but Mr. MoFarland must have netted be- t
veen $d00 and 8400 by the night's operation <
ith "a few more left of the same sort," which t
ay be had on application to him at his lod- *
ings, with Miss Pix, on East Thirty fourth i
reet. The doxology was sung, the bcnedic- c
an pronounced by a clergyman from Boston, t
hose name we did not catch, and the meeting s
okc up harmoniously.]
Ladies for the Armv.?A lady fricna sug- ^
;sts the propriety of withdrawing at least ^
)0,000 men from the field, and recruiting in t
icir place the same number of woman. The s
Mowing are her reasons:
1. The inequality in the sexes is becoming
uly alarming. v
c? tn.. e.. - ' i -
i ur iHt'l 111hu wunmii vnn acraicn 11)011'
Eiy in and out of a fight, better tlian men.
3. There are some masculine old women at
home, vs^o arc satisfied in their own minds, ^
at if permitted to manago things, they could ^
impel the Yankees to present arms in a very h
ort time. M
An Affair of Honor.?We learn that a
hostile meeting'took place on Wednesday afternoon
at the Sand Bar Ferry, on the Carolina
shore, between Mr. C. H. Red, ol this city,
and Mr. Richard Copeland, of Maryland, resulting
in the death of the latter. The parties
fought with Colt's repeaters, to fire atthe word,
and to advance and fire at will after the first
shot. Neither party, however, availed themselves
of this privilege, but each kept his original
position. Copeland was struck at Red's
second fire?the ball entering the body at the
upper end of the breast bone, and passing out
under the left arm. We are told it was a fair
stand up fight, both parties evincing great coolness.
Mr. Copeland fired two shots and exploded
one cap after being struck. He expired
in a few minutes after he fell. Mr. Red's first
ball passed through his opponent's hat Wo
do not know the origin of the difficulty. There
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?i iv: tumult roteuty nvu spectators oi me scene.
?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
?
Gen. Scott on our Generals.?The "Washington
correspondednt of the Cincinnati Gazette
says that Gen. Scott was encountered the
other day by a leading Washington official,
with whom the old veteran fell into a very unreserved
talk about our Generate. It will not
surprise any one to know that he pronounced
Lee the greatest General of the war ; or that
he declared that he was more disappointed in
Gen. McClellan'a performances than ho was
ever before with those of any officer in our service.
Gen. Grant's operations he spoke of as
displaying more military skill than any other
General had exhibited on our side ; and could
only remember him in the Mexican war as a
young lieutenant of undoubted courage, but
giving no promise whatever of anything beyond
ordinary ability.
"Monsieur Tons on come Again."?The
immortal Parson Brownlow has turn up again
this time in a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial,
breathing fire and destruction upon
the "rebels." llu says :
For my part, I have every confidence in our
ultimate success. Let Rosecrans?be reinforced
and he will whip the Confederacy. .The mediation
I advocate is that of the cannon and
the sword ; and let there be no armistice, on
sea or land, until all the rebels, front and rear,
North and South, are subjugated or exterminated.
And then let condign punishment bo
speedily meted out to the surviving leaders in
this unholy crusade against civilization. My
motto is, Greek fire to the masses and hell fire
for the leaders. And none but the loyal should
L>e consulted in the great casting up of these
recounts. W. G. Brownlow.
Gkn. D. 11. Hill and tiih Musicians.?A
correspondent, writing from General Bragg's
irmv, tells the Columbus Inquirer a good joke
hat was going the rounds of the camp rclaive
to D.* II. Hill and a band of musicians.
The leader of the band made application,
hrongh his Colonel, for furlough for himself
md band. The application took the regular
hannci, and was approved all the way up un,il
it reached General Hill. The General disiDftrovcd
it. and returned it with the omlercn.
nent, ' Shooters before ToolersIt smacks
>f liis characteristic aversion to every class but
hat which carries the musket and the knapacks.
"Possums has Ris."?Good crops don't
>ring down provisions in war times; an cvilence
of which is, the 'possum crop is larger
han ever known before. The pi he for this
peecios of bacon has run lip to 83, and in conequence
possum, dogs have taken a spasmodic
uinp from 85 to 25, and holders firm.?Abbeit
le press.
The Virginia Legislature has passed a striuent
law for the extermination of gamblers,
unong the penalities inflicted is "thirty-nine
islies well laid on the bare bark at the public
rhipping post."