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v * ' . * ' . IM I .1 .11 BEBB? f t)c Camkn Qionffkrati AT TI1KKE DOLLARS A YEAR, payablk ixv ab! A hi v n ?i ? * ? _ .. mwu &aiil1 1w adv anc ?? Terms lor Advertising: l'or one Square?twelve lines or less?TW< DOLLARS for the first inse:tion, and ONE D0LLA1 AND hIKTV CISNS for each subsequent. OiiiTUAitv Notices, exceeding oue Square, charge lo at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job WorK MUST 111 PALD FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advortisii patrons. wmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmammtT ? ? ' n ???-J?J? ?T? T. I-IERSHMAN, Kd itor l'KIDAV, NOmUJBGR 21, 1S68. The Legislature. The two Houses of the General Assembly o South Carolina convenes on Monday next, ii regular session. Cotton Card<i. Mr. W. D. McDowall, has received tlx quota of Cotton and Wool Cards, for Kershaw District, and are now supplying the wants o these for whom they were originally intcndcc ?the wives of poor soldiers, and others whose means were too limited to purchase at the present high rates. Din? * n>-' * s* * " p ? liiucrai Kownrd Offered. Mr. J. M. Gaylc requests us to say, tlmt lu will pay a liberal reward for the recovery of s ruediuiu-sized Italian Greyhound?-sandy coloi ?stolen or strayed during the past few days The dog answers to the name of "Lady." Second Growth of Fears. We were shown, a few days since, a twig or which grew ten pears of second growth, taker from the garden of Mr. L. M. BoswcJI, of Camden. This heats anything in number, for second growth, that we have heard of. liefercnco is made to this from the fact thai "it is not generally known that such instances are on record. But having seen the pears referred to, we take pleasure in mentioning the fact. Mr. J. V. Lylcfe on the Subject of out Finances. On our first page will be found a letter from our esteemed townsman, J. V. Lylcs, Esq., to the lion. W. W. Boyce, on the currency question?also, the remarks of Mr.'Boyce, following, in answer to Mr. Y.'s scheme. With our very limited knowledge of the present condition of the finances of the country we shall refrain from making any comments on the merits of the article referred to. It appears altogether feasablc and efficacious to us, if, as Mr. Boyce says, it could be supported as constitutional.? We have no doubt, with the clear discernment, 1 nnu suunu reasoning of Air. Lylcs, on all matters pertaining to the welfare of our government, lie can make that satisfactory to the mind of every intelligent reader, if not as the Constitution now reads, by slight amendment, which in these days of war and carnage, conhl readily be effected, when the health and vitality, notipnlv of the currency, but our country, depends on the issue. ? ? Col. James H. Withcrspoon lias been elected to Congress from the First District in South Carolina, at present represented by Mr. Mc Queen, by the following vote: Mr. Witherspoon, 1,28G, Mr. McQueen, 1,149; Mr. AV.'s majority, 140. Why Semms avoids the Vanderihi.t.? In commenting upon the probable consequences of an encounter with the Vandeibilt, Capt. Scmmcs spoke with much modesty of the power of his own ship. lie said that although the machinery of the Yanderbilt would be a good target in fighting with a steamer, it is not easy to escape from having a broadside, lie found tliat to be,the case with the Ilatteras.? Although he disposed of her pretty easily, it was as much as he could do to prevent her from giving him a broadside. The plar. he adopted with the Ilatteras was to use his large Blakely gun fronrthc stern of his ship, and that gun did the work. Tho gun is an eightyfive pounder, and he thinks that his only chance with the Vandeibilt will be to use it upon her machinery. His opinion is that the Vandcrbilt has very much greater speed than the Alabama, and that it will be impossible for him to get away from her. lie does not intend to go and look for her; but he says that if he has to fight her he will do his best. I -V \ . Tli? Trials to Come. It is not improbable that the coming win months may test the courage of our people k it 1ms never been tested before. The one is determined to exert his whole power in sj ^ of wind and weather, and there is reason H feai that he may gain some important adv tages at some points, which are cither imp fectly detended, or left to the care of comm S ders who have failed to display the ability tl quired by their position. Then, again, < I linaticcs arc in a deplorable s'ate. The wh * country is alive to the dangers which threat . I us in this quarter and the people are willi and ready to submit to any remedy the ci ? may require; but it is a question whether 1 doctors iu Congress and the Cabinet have 1 f nerve to resort to that severe course of tie i mcnt'which affords the only hope of cu Strange, after so many trials, the people shoi for a moment be doubted. But the venom of the enemy and the inl tion of the currency arc not all the evils w P which we shall have to contend during 1 I winter. The Commissuriat, both for the ari and the people, is already in a bad plight, a threatens to become worse with each sliced ft I ing day. Our foes count more upon the ra ges which hunger will make in our ranks, th , upon the success of their arms. Unfortunate i they*reekon with something more than th t wonted accuracy, yet by no means with tl mathematical certainty on which they phi . themselves. There are reserves of meat as \> as of men, which have not been computed their calculations?perhaps not in our own. The tripod of evils on which the Confed 1 ate cause appears to rest may, therefore, be 1 fined thus?Yankees, Repudiation, Starvati With the first we are familiar, and have lu ' I these two years and more ; the other two i new foes, whose power we have not yet < ' countered, and need not if we manage righl ' At all events, we do not intend to succumb them any more than their parent?the detesl : Yankee. Our Revolutionary sires ovcrco the last two; be ours the task to overco , I them all. The coming days arc full of tri; but they are winter days?dark, but br i | Courage ! A fickle and uncertain spring v i follow the winter days, and then?the cle tranquil sunshine?type of peace ! Col. Jeff. Forrest, the brother of Gen. F rest, whose death lias been so universally < p'ored, still lives, lie was shot through t hips. lie is now at the house of Capt. Stc a mile and a half from Tuscumbia, and isdoi well. On the first day of his series of fights had with him five men, and Forrest, pnrsu by a large number, took refuge in an inacc sible mountain cove, lie and his comrai killed twenty-eight of the enemy, among tin Colonel, a major and two captains.?Knoxvi Register, Mewspapek Change.?James Gardner, Es lias withdrawn from the control of the Aug ta Constiti<fiona/ist. The paper will herc'af he published by Messrs. Stockton A Co. Since the battle of Chickamauga the an of Tennessee has lost the service of Gener Polk, Hill, Forrest, Cheatham, Buckner a Col. Scott of the Louisiana Cavalry. Railroad Accident.?The passenger a mail train which left Charleston on Sunt] morning for this place; met with an accident sight of Orangeburg, in consequence of 1 breaking of one of the wheels of the cngin tender, by which the baggage and the in train were thrown across the track and the c< ductor's car slightly injured. The only loss life was that of Mr. Green, of Augusta, t Mail Agent, who, leaping from the mail car the moment of the accident, was thrown neath one of the wheels of il>e ? . ?"V and instantly killed. A passenger, whose na; we have been unable to learn, was - slightly jurcd. No other casualty occurred. Carolinian of Tuesday. Another Yankee Falsehood.?Gen. Tho as follows in the footsteps of his illustrious p decessors. An official despatch from Ilos< , crans' successor " annpnnces the capture Bragg's forage train with its escort." Notru in it. No train of General Bragg of any ki has been captured. Our forces seized a Yi kee train, but were unable to bring it off, a , it was retaken by the enemy?and this is t whole of it. The Slegc^-Oiie Hundred and Thii ter tieth Hay. ! as It is believed that, in the late assault upc ray Moultrie, two, at least, of the monitors we; >ite considerably injuriod. The smoke stack of oi to was pierced in two places, her turret in thre an- and one shot entered her pilot-box. Anotln ?er- was twice perforated in her turret and smol an- stack. No report has yet been received Iro rc- Moultrie of any casualties, jur The monitors on this occasion dropped tv ole pairs of buovs on the flood tide. These pass* ten up the channel between the obstructions ai ing Fort Sumter. It is suspected that they carri< use heavy weights suspended at a certain depth b the low the surface of the water, and that tin the wcic designed to prove whether there was at- practicable.passage for vessels of a ccrta ire. draft. uld Our last report of the number of shots fin at Sumter ended with Sunday evening. C Ha- TSundav night one hundred and eightv four 1 * . ith fled shots were fired, of which thirty-two inh die ed ; and tweb c mortar shells, of 'which t\\ tny missed. On Monday fotty-two rifled she ,nd were fired, of which five missed; and thn ed1- hundred and sixty three mortar shells, ofwliii va- one hundred and eighteen missed. The nui ian her of shots of all kinds fired during the pn sly, week, up to Monday morning, is three thou cir and and thirty. Iiat On Tuesday the enemy continued to keep \ mo a slow fire on Sumter from Gregg and tl el' Cummings' Point Battery. The monitors we in inactive, Batteries Bee, Marion, Johnson and Sitnkii ier- returned the Vanke fire with deliberation, de- About half-past elaven, a. m., the eneir on. made another impotent attempt to shell tl ion city.?Mercury of Wednesd ay. 4re Charleston, Nov. 10, 0, P. M.?The en cn my fired about twenty-five shots from two gin at Gregg 011 the city, but failed to do any m *? tcrial damage. No person injured. It is r ported from good obsereation that one gr me burst at the last lire. Slow firing on Sumt< 0 all day. No casualties. Present indicatioi * s' arc that the enemy intend more extended op ,e^' rations. No monitors in action. All the mo kitors have returned.? Carolinian of \Vednesdc ar, Charleston, Nov. 18.?A slow but stcac fire has been kept up on Sumter last night ar OI" this morning from the enemy's mortar batter Everything else quiet. No casualties at Sun 'l0 tcr the past two days. Maj. Elliott and ga e'? rison all well. n? 10 P.M.?The firing 011 Sumter continu ,c steady. Our mortar batteries on Sullivan's I C(' land have been shelling Gregg and the Cur cs* mines' Point battcrv all dav. No casiialtios 14 ~ " Sumter. The enemy fired at long range v " n Cooper River to-day at a passing steamer, su ^e posed to he with one of the same guns fired c the city.? Carolinian of Thursday. ll'' Latest from llirluiioiid. ,1S" Richmond. Nov. 17.?Since the attempt tt>r the Yankees, last Sunday, to cross the Rap an, nothing has occurred of any interest.The infantry ami artillery only, not the cava ry were engaged in tlie demonstration, at Mor ' " ton's and Raccoon Ford. After a portion the infantry had crossed under cover of tl batteries, the sharpshooters of Rhodes' Divi "d ion advanced upon the enemy, and drove thei lay | hack across the stream in short order, killir in and wounding about' thirty, he The only rumor by the tfains to-night io's that the Yankees are moving down to tli iail Rapid an. The prospect of a general batt on- is receding, neitUer commander showing an 1 of determined purpose to cross thg stream sepi he ratine: the two armies. One or the other inn at advance, or both go into winter quarters ei be long. car R. Gratz 15rown (Radical! has been nlortr \ / wwv me to the United States Senate ftom Missouri, in- Everything is quiet on the Peninsula. Scv< ral thousand prisoners of war have been sentl Danville. The United States Marines captu ed at Fort Sumter have arrived at the Libb m- _ ^ re- Arrived in Richmond.?Mrs.Todd, of Kj sn- the mother of Mrs. Lincoin, arrived in this cit o on the steamer Sehultz, Thursday night, havin ?tb come to City Point on a flag of truce boat.nd She goes South to visit her daughter. Mr in_ Todd is about to take up her residence in tl n(j South, all her daughters belong here exce] the wife of Lincoln, who is in Washington, a;i "e Mrs. Kellog, who is at present in Paris. 1 Richmond Dispatch. . . .r.~7*F-. / * " i. >' U' .1. 1 'J I. .1.1. . r- From Northern Virginia. The only item of news from Northern V ir >n ginia is a vagno rumor, which conies to us from rc Orange Court House, that the enemy's cavalry io had, op Wednesday, advanced to Madison 'L c> Court House, and that Fitzbugh Lee had fallen cr back from that place. iC Persons who arrived in Richmond on Thnrsm day from Fredericksburg say that all is quiet, and that no cnciny is reported in that vicinity. k'? The New York Times of the Oth intimated 'd very plainly that Meade designed advancingon 'd Richmond over the Chan^cllorsville battlefield. 'd If this had been his purpose, says thc'Hxuminer, e~ he would before this tunc have reached the yy neighborhood of Germania, which he has not a done. But, as before stated, ?*e do not believe ,n the enemy wishes to do more in Virginia than to occupy Lee's attention whilst they conccn2d trate their forces in the Southwest for a grand >n forward movement from Chattanooga. i'i- ^ ,s- Tiie Alaiiama as sees at nije Cape.? ^ What strikes one most on board the Ala, bama is to sec so small a vessel carrying such as ? oc huge metal. She is not much larger, it she is ,j at all larger, than her Majesty's yacht, the Victoria and Albert, and yet she has guns of the st largest size. She is the smallest vessel with ^ the largest guns and the greatest speed, afloat. It is doubtful whether anything upon the waters has a chance of taking her. She would )e run roufld all her Majesty's fleet without being rc taken. She is a perfect yacht; it is said to sail like a witch, and to steam, without sail, fifteen knots.?Itcinet Herald, Aug. 26. The Yankee Ciiakacter.? A pamphlet >y was published in London in 1699, entitled "A >e Trip to New England?with a character of the country and people." Some of the descripc tions are truly graphic, and show that the Yan Kec ot 18U3 is a legitimate descendant of the a Yankee of 1699.? Speaking of Boston, ho says : 4,Evcry stranger is unavoidable forced to to take this notice, that in Boston there is more in religious zealots than honest men; more pcrer ? . sons than churches, and more churches than as than parishes. For the town, unlike the peopie, is subject to no division. The inhabitants seem very religious, showing many outward ^ and visible signs of an inward and spirtual ly grace. But though they wear in their faces id the innocence of doves, you will find them in J v. their dealings as subtle as serpents. Interest t n- is their faith?money their God, and large posr sessions the only Ilcaven they covet." Readers, invalids and others who suffer from es . . cold feet, will be astonished on trying a slip or double slip of common newspaper or other paper as an inner sole, to'find the favorable effect. The result in most cases, will be ip i equal to a good cork sole, and far more convenient in a tight fitting shoe or boot. Jerrold's notion of a wife at forty was, that a man should he able to change her, like a 0j* bank note, for two twenties. "* ~ OI5IT 11A It YT d- IjIKI)?in this i>l;ice, November 8th, 1SG3, MAltY K., youngest daughter of K. (1. and Martha A. Robe" inson, in the second year of her age. ? - ? Dearest Mary ! God lias taken le What He lor a season lenr, Though we mourn, we can hnt blc.3s Kirn For the blow His mercy sent, m 1(. j "S DIED?on Friday morning, 30rl? OetobcF, MARGARET DOBY, third daughter of Robert M. and 4| M A Kennedy, aged eight years, seven months, and ' ls six d-.ys, alter a severe iliners. \ iC In this sa l bereavement the family circle has lost I one of the most dutiful and affectionate of their number, tier bright and smiling face and healthful 5 iy appearance gave promise ol long life, but He who ,J_ knows the end from the beginning has seen fit to remove her from this world of sin and sorrow, to dwell . st in the bosom of her Saviour. May our Heavenly rc Father, who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," impart to the attlict?-d parents, the consolations of His (irace, and sanctify it to the go d of sisters and brothel crs, and the young of our community. From adverse blasts and lowering storms. Her favored sou) He bore, And with yon bright, angelic forma 0 She lives, t.? die no more. Desirable Cottage For Sale. >' 1)Y IMMEDIATE APPLICATION, I WILL SELL r I) a small Cottage House, containing three rooms. well finished, with all necessary outbuildiugs. Terms j y cash, Apply lo the Editor of the Confederate. November 20 Z To Rent. ic rp ii e house now occupied by mrs. [x* -l hymes, with ten rooms finished?with six fire ??? * * - . pinve?, wmi an necessary outbuildings. Possession \ 1 given 1st January. Rent $1,200 per year, payable monthly. Aplly to W. D. McDOWALL. November 20 3