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VOLUME III CAMDEN, SO. OA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1863. NUMBER 3 ???????????i??.>?????< ??w???i i ??rwm?an???????1 11.1 11? 1 ? ? y??* Cljc (Cfiutfu Q!fd(tierutf AT TI1UKE DOI.I. AliS A Y K A It, PAYABLE 1NVAKIADLY IIALF YF.A1ILY IS ADVANCE * * Terms tor Advertising: For ono Square?twelve hues or less?TWO DOLLARS for the tlrst msc ti >n. ami 0X1? DOLLAR AND i IFTY CKNS for ca li subsequent Ob::-jauv Xonciis, oxeeeding one Square, charged to at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job WorK MUST BK PAID FOR IX ADVAXCK. No deduction made, except to our regular advertisin patrons. jtt."tho k silman, kditov. A ITalUtoii Willi ii IIoiikc A (ci cited. Tlio Paris cot respondent of the New Yoik World gives I lie following account of an attempt at atrial navigation on a giiti.il scale : The Parisian love of spectacles was giatifieil to an extraordinary degree on Sunday Isist, l?v the ascension of Nacini's halloon, the Giant. The time for the ascension was 4 o'clock, but from 12 o'clock crowds Hocked from sill quarters of Paris to the Champs de Mars and the Troeadcro, the heights on the opposite side of the Seine, to witness the inflation. Nadar has written of late a series of articles and has made a number of experiments to prove that his dear screw, (as he calls it,) attalchcd to a body heavier than the air, is to be the means. of aerial locomotion; and the greater portion of the crowd, amounting to more than 200,000 persons, expected to sec the balloon stored like a ship in the air, and were consequently d.sap , pointed. The balloon held more than G,000 cubic meters of gas, and is the largest ever sue.essfully fbled. Nadar states that the only one of equal size?''The City of New York"?exploded in the process of inflation. The balloon itself was nothing more than a very large and well proportioned balloon. The house?an im mouse structure of willow ? in which the adventurous travelers were to occupy during their flight, was the great curosity. Jt consists of fwo stories, with sleeping rooms and dining room, and was hung around with a variety of provisions, guns, and two large wheels, which were intended to transport it after its descent. Thirteen persons in all made the ascent, among them one lady, the Princesj de la Tour d' Ant _ 1*1 .1 ..a .1 i\ vorgn, who, wiiiic <in\ing ouv in uie niicrnoon was attracted hy tlic sight of tlie crowd* all flowing in one direction, asked her cnaehmaii the cause of the commotion, followed the stream* and upon arriving upon the grorinl, was siizcd with a sudden desire to go up with the party. Nadir positively refused at first, hut'.lie princess would not he said "nnv," gained her point and her name will he on the Ii>t of the pioneers in aerial navigation in nil future time. All arrangements were made for a voyage of se\er?| days, hut an accident to the rope at'atehed to the valve, when they had hcen only four hours in the air, caused a sudden and rapid descent, which, according to the Messrs. (jodard, the well known aeronauts, who were of the party, would have proved as disastrous as that of f Icarus, if it had occiitred a little later, as the wind was driving them to the sea. As it was there was only the. shock of the full to support, which all bore very well ahthnugh the wicker J * ' i i - .1 . . .. . e . I iionsu was dragged more uimi a quarter 01 ;i mile before tlie motion was entirely cheek ml. This accident has by no means dis on raged Xa. dir, who announces another ascension. He hopes l?y charging a certain sum to the inmr circle near the balloon, to realize a sum sufficient to have the machine which he lias invented constructed, and to be the first to really navigate the air. "Pray, my lord," said a gentleman to a rather whimsical judge, "what is the distinction be tween law and equity courts?" "Very littb\ in the end," replied his lordship; "th'.'y only differ so far as time is concerned. At common law, you are done for at once; in equity, you arc not so easily disposed of. The one is prussic acid, the other laudanum. ' Mmll wo have mi Blight Yent^ War? U the Union worth an eight years war? ? Except r?r i'lustration, this is an idle interrog-1 alorv ; for it is certain that the war cannot last j eight yen's on its present gigantic scale with- j oti. engulphing the country in hopeless bank- . ruptev. The war has already lasted two years and nia iiiuuup, ?111 i in iii.it unit' wv; iiri* u nituiMic latcd a national debt amounting to about 62.000.000. Jv? )i year of the war must cost more than the year next preceding, for the constantly increasing inflation of the currency will cause a eoNespoudint; increase in the rest of military supplies. With the same number of men in the fiohl it is probable that, taking one year with another, at least thirty per eent. ! wiil be annually added to tlie cost of supporting tlie war. A simple calculation wiil show the impossibility of the war continuing eight j years without bankruptcy to the nation. It \ may fairly be doubted whether it can continue j live years from its commencement, or double | its present duration, without prostrating the | > <>< I if ill" tlii? <rni'i>riiiii<>iit * ' * ! ? - j It is clear that a war lor tlie Union cannot . he indolioitely prolonged, ami consequently that an udmidistrat ion which spends much and accomplishes little will, if continued in power, ( bankrupt the nation, and f.fil to restore the Union at last. "The Union at any cost!'' is a well souml-' ing cry till vou come to examine it. Do we ! I want the Union at the expense ot national honor? Ought we purchase the Union by na* tional bankruptcy? We are shocked by nicli questions; we recoil from the alternative llnv present. l?ut if the thought of either part of the alternative is intolerable, what shall we sav of an administration that is so managing the war as to ihcatcn lis with the the accumulated horrors of hotli ? If the war continues to he mismanaged as it has been ? that is to say, if, the Kcpuh'.iean parly continues in power anoth- ; er four years?we shall have a nation bankiupt-1 oil and dishonored, without the compensation r>f a Union li'slocnl. " But llic war has made considerable pro-; gross." If you look only at the credit side of. your balance sheet, and shut your eyes to the j del?t side, you may easily fain y yourself lieh. It may ho satisfactory to have an omelet on your hVcak'ast table, hut if you have paid enough for the omelet to l?nv a house and lot | you have really very little to show for your i money, la proportion to the number of men , called into service ami the amount of debt ao-' cumulated, tlie administration liave accom- j plisaed veiy little. "Washington is safe"? and so is Kicbmond. "Vnkshnm is ours" ? but a cry conies Irom all tiie Western cities that tlie Mississippi is no more opeu# to eoinmeiec than when Yicksburg was in possession of the enemy. The Army of the Cnmhcil nui river is in Chattanooga?but it w s driven there defeated ( and stands on the defensive. The Aduiinh t rat ion has railed successively for 75,000 me;; for 50,000 men to ltd the war eariv bv a sir.- . gle overpowering dibit; for 300,000 men to , save Washington and rep; I the invadii g rebels; for 330,000 men again to serve nine montli*, : .... i i .i... I ..!! iii'i VMM IHV mhi 1111111 uiiii 11111 v> ? * ? wim peiadvcntim; for 30,000 men > t i 11 again to replace !lie nine months men who wele mustered out, with Washington again menaced r* j and the North again invaded? and now the j Piosidciit calls for still another .300,000 men,! I to he allowed for, he tells lis, on a In I lire drnfi! I Unless the war makes a more rapid progiessj in proportion to the colossal scale ol our ex- j < pcuditurcs, our resources will give out before I > the rebels give up. We shall have lost the J < knife, and hav<? Hung the iiandle after it. I j [Xcw York- !Vu,U. j ' "Heroine" '? perhaps as peculiar a word as ' any in our language; the two first letters of it 1 arc male, the three first female, the four first a brave man, and the whole word a brave wo ' lunu. [ I foul. "Hermes," writing to the Charleston Mcrru ry, relates the following anecdote of oue of l'e glands st; ft": After Chit hatnargn, or during the two day trouhle, I.Vgram was ordered at night to tak< position at a certain point. He advanced will his stall", at the head of his column, and pres cntlv met a man on horseback, in the iniddh of the road, and on either hand In* deseriia dimly a leg'imi.t lying down. What if'gi tnei.t is lh?*t {" he iinjniml. "Such a one Iron Ohio" i-( 11!11 11 111< " V...I j' 1 - * | ?>< ?*< Snrli :i one from IHiiioh." lYgr.-nn cnnsii'tc. his stair for a few moments, wheeled his l orse ordered the culr.inn to at out lace, and retired Not long nl'Ui winds, a join g fellow, name. Courtney, who I.ad heen separated from tin rest of the st; 11*, Hide rp to the same horseniai in the middle of the road, saw the remanent! lying down, made the same enquire* l'egran had made, and received the same answer, lit drew his revolver, put it to the head of tin horseman, and whispered 4 Follow me.,' "] can't," replied the man, "1 am the Cell. orderly/' 'Open your lips again," said Coait ney, hetween his eliuclied teeth, "ami I wil Mow your hraiuso.it, 1 may l?e killed if I lire lint yon will die oertainlv." The man obeyed rode with him baek to the conmi m.l without uttering a word, sat down hy the camp tire huried'his face in 1.is hands, and alter a loiijj pause exclaimed, "Well, I'll he d d !" An elinost identical oceiimmee happened not long ago, in which the hero was a piivati in Stuart's Cavalry the only ditf. r nice heiiijj that the affair happened in broad day light, and the private on loot made the Yankee surrender his horse and equipments. JVIotc Yankee* i c|>ttirc?I. Richmond, Nov. 9.?The fol owii g official di.-pateh wa> received at the War Department yes erday : N'aruov.r, \ia Drci.ix, Nov. 0. ? the followll-U lllvt til.Mil l-ll|.|.i V-M. t lY.IIII IV.I llllci'il'il J"? ?v.. .VV...V. ....... ."< Our eavalrv, under IGen. Win. K. Joiiet :iii? 1 Coi. Gilmer, yesterday captured :it. Rodgelsviile 850 prisoners, 4 pieces of arti lery, 'J stands *?f eolors, (i;J wagons ami 1,000 animal.* Our l<?ss 2 killed and 8 n?!? I. 11. HANSOM, Miij. Gen. Aiiinciiiix, Va? Nov. 0. Right bandied and fifty Yankees captured near Morn-town on Sutr.r?lay I?y Jones ami Gilmer's In io nics, passe! hero this evening ut mm c for Hi.-liuioml. 'J hey belong to the 2d Tennessee ami 7th Ohio. Cartel's brigade.. Four pieces of artillery ami olio thousand liois.es and wagons also reported captured. Wiiki:k ts Gi:n. Wiij: 1:1.1:1:?("'an anybody answer this question ? Our correspondent, some days ago, speaking of a certain occasion ami naming certain Gencrils that were present, rcinniked significantly with an underscore, ' 1 Vhnl.r wuv I ot*% We iafer that there is soinelliit'C omit oils in bis absceiieo?that u hilst the other (jeiierals ale deliberating on what is to'he done, \\ heeler, with his 3ud0 troopers, is operating on the lines of the eiu my. Wc hope ll.is is so. Ifheean succeed in ctltling ' fl'the supplies of (irnnt, nil the plans of i lie enemy may he deranged. As it is easier Jo starve ont a largo amy than a mall one, the heavy reinforcements recently receive*! may hceomu an element ot weakness rather than of strength. ? Sui'unnah Jicpubiiron. Some young ladies feeling themselves ngIjrieveil hy the severity with which their friends iiiini.itlvcit? d <>n their gav pinnies, crinoline?, !carlcl petticoats and llounccs, went to their >astor to learn liis opinion : "Do vo l think*." s iid limy, "thit there can m? any impropriety in on* wearing* tlu.se hint;* "By no means," was the reply. 44When the mart is full of ridiculous notions it is perfectly >ropcr to hang out a sign." Vfcc BnruiyN Bombardment of Suui* lor. Ten days have elapsed since tlio opening of tin? second grand ! oinbardinent of Smuttr, s wliicli commenced on the COtb of October. It . has been more uninterrupted and heavier than , the first. . ' The firsi bombardment began ou thu 17th . of August, and was concluded, after mtettniir | sioi s, bv the combined attack of the 2d Sep* . teinber. T!?e furl having already bceu silenced , and battered to a ruin, the fire Uieu suicided. ' 'I he artillerists left in the fort were half of tbcm ; in fit for duly from exhaustion and exposure. Aili!leiists were wanted and applied ibr to fight gms in other positions. They wcrs all ; withdiawu from the fort on September fi, with . 1 heir cuiniinindor, Col. Alfred Illicit. Daring , ! tin se nineteen duyr, 6.S51 shots were fired, d ' and Sumter was struck 4,G31 times. The , ! ensunlities were ?7?S killed aud 49 grounded. j : Tin* i'.ag wus cut down fourteen times, nclwith, standli g the distance of tl:c enemy'sgunfc? [ | A garrison entir.ly of riflemen was sent * down 'Vptrnil ir 5, tinder Major Stephen Elliott, to lio!d, tin- y.o-.P, pnrlieulaily against asj saults. On the o'.h, J kddgreti's r.ssjuut from ; halves was made ;;t:d was handsomely repulsed ' wiilinut a casualty. From September 5 l> OcI toher 20, duune" 111';y days, a vc; cinr.iJ uura! her oi shots were fired al the fort, named/. 607 t ?hots. of which hit' 670 struck the work. I Mean while, our defences have nrogrcssed. | | The enemy's labor on Morris' island being . ] eon pletid, i!.e retold grand bcmbnidmenfc r[ reuiiiu to ?.d on the i'Cth of October, ami baa heeii kept up for ten day a witliout inlen.iis. sion. Uu? l iau troops, under II..jor Elliott, are s\d jeeted to a trying ovden' and In; er.rtben bomb'-pioofs and traverses erected by our engineers are put to a sove.o test. ' | Si nee the 'Jlitli of October, 7,42." id;Mo have j been {in .1 at Snm'er, of which .3,203 have ! sti >( k it. Tbe easiialtn s Live be;v* bt>?10 killed and 00 wounded; 13 cf tlu*is were killed !.? ili.. C..lli. <> ...''lit.. li.iiT.wU r-uM V!i '. "itii. . "V *">i ' ? ? - M.-8 ' placed low <?n the Soulii-ivcrt angle, u? ' liich the oncim'.n lire lias been i:meh diluted at short iange, 11:?** been o i. i'owii about twenty thins; two ensigns have boon t->rn t.> piece# by I lie fin*. Il is gratilY.i g t r. helivva tliatlho li<?iiil.-|iioo!s ?:c h-> yet unimpaired.? Charlet ' i ton Ct.w ier. i ricnriioof ax Okcuaud.?Tbo *'Millcdgc* . ] villi* litcufxlrr say% : About two months ago Mr. L. O. Luckner I O . * UK*veil for mil- his ou'loiiii and grape fnrm in 1 thin x i. iiiii v, consisting of 100 acres in ?ho fiu? est condition of fruitage. His price vas $12 000, to give possession itnutcd'.ulely, including the crop, or $100,000 l?v the fir?4 of January, after tin: 1'rui: was gathered, lie received scores ??!" letters making inquiry, and scleral visits of inspection ; but, fortunately for Mr* i>> . i i r HurStiicr, iu>. sale Wife t lii'i'U'U. lie lias sinct rc.iliz.-d from liis apple cmp of 1863, between and $70.0l'.0. Such a yield is unprecedented in the histoiy of orchard#. Grnecal Ti:oiia9. ?"iVrsor.ne," in hit last letter to ihe t'uinirr, from Lookout Mountain Mi\s: j The appointment of General Thomas as the successor of General Uosccrans, appears to affold saiisfact on throughout the ainiy, and to none more t.ian to General Dragg. Thomas was his tiist Lieutenant in Mexico; beforo tho war he w as a rabid secessionist; since the war he has become a radical abolitionist; anil may be summed up mentally and physically in the language of Gen. Bragg. as "a brave, slow, obstinate and perverse man." Lincoln o B?>d. Giaud.?A gentleman who left Washington City on the 1 St It October, inlot ms the editor of the Abingdon Virginiuti that Lincoln never leaves the White House without a body guard of 10 soldiers. AYlieii lie ride* in his carriage tho guard are mounted on hand" Io o -? ~ souic black borsvft.