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. * \ * . ' I / . 4 t VOLUME III CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1863. NUMBER 6 |^|? IMP-MMJ'i- M ! J?WI? Ull H?M?iTT? ???Mj?M?W???P?J II I III II ? I I I r)fW???111 >' '? II ' .WW'H I ? ' <?? " Cljf <Uu:imi (tcnftkriite AT Til 15EE DOLLARS A YEAR, PAYABLE INVARIABLY II ALK-YKAKI.Y IN ADVANCE Terms lor Advertising: For one Square?twelve linos or less?TWO DOLLARS-for the lirst insertion, and ONK DOLLAR AN I) MFTY" OKNS lor eaeh subsequent. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged lo at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job WorK MUST BK DA ID FOR IN ADYANCK. No deduction made, except to our regular ad vertisin patrons. w??g/n? mil IIWBK?O??MU.j*.BIMI J. T. HKJtSIIMAN, TCditor. The 1'olisli WomaiiN l*atrio3i?m. "Suwloiska, open the window; I desire to die in the sound of the church hells." Suwloiska had not courage to obey. She looked pensively at her mother. "\\fy daughter, is not this the Sabbath ? The hour of prayer has come. Help thy old mother to prostrate herself before our good (rod;" and, pious child, the young woman helped her to kneel. "Suwloiska, I implore thee, my daughter, open the window, in order that I may hear the hymns of the church." She opened the window on the public Aqua re, in which the church was situated, and then returned and sat down at the feet of her silent mother. "Suwloiska, I do not hear the sound of the bells." "Not hear!" "It is the cannon." "Yes, mother, they have come down from the steeples of the church to kill the Russians.'' "God is with us." The mother listened again. "What has happened, my daughter? not a chant, not one voice in the church. What is our priest doing ?" 'lie lias turned soldier." "Let us pray to (Jod for him. He lias prayed for us often enough. It was he who blessed thy marriage, my daughter. Oh, well do I remember it. Thou wort beautiful; 1 had dressed thee imself. Then the bells rung out joyfully. Then on thy knees, before the altar, thou didst promise fidelity to thy Snwloiska." "I have kept my oath," replied the young "woman, blushing with pleasure. The aged mother pressed the hand of her daughter closely in hers?but suddenly starting, she exclaimed in a shrill voice, "Where is the wedding ring?" "I have given it away," said the daughter, holding down her head. "Snwloiska, has (Jod reserved such alHiction ' for my old ago. Oh, my daughter, who has caused thee to forget, to such an extent, thy duties as a wife? That ring, the token of an eternal covenant between Snwloiska and thee, what hast thou done with it ? To whom hast thou given it ?" "To Poland !" and she. raised her head with confidence. "Our husbands arc soldiers ; our church bells have been melted into cannons ; our collars, our car-rings, our pearls have been bartered for nmskets. We wives had no longer anything to give, and, nevertheless, Poland lacked powder. Well, there are six thousand of us already who have, for our country, made a sacrifice of the only property which remained to us, that which a woman esteems of nil ornaments the most precious in the world, our mairiage rings. We have given them up to purchase powder." rm i .1 i" ' ? ? ? i ne aged lnoincr supped irom tier linger the golden covenant, which she had thought she would never part with; and, after having kissed it repeatedly, she wiped her eyes and said : "Suwloiska, take this ring; let it be sold with thine. Do, my daughter, tell our victory; for the country in which wives ?ell their wedding rings to make powder, is free. Perish the Russian, now, Suwloiska, open all the windows. I desire to die in the sound of the cannon." _ m ft Substitutes in the Army. It is sai?i that the hooks of the WarDepart nicnt show that over 75,000 substitutes have been put in the army since the war began. The Solum (Ala.) Reporter says that, as a judicial thing, substitutes make unreliable soldiers, and that two thirds of the deserters are among that class. The complaint against them is uu ivcrsal; thev seem to have become objects of loathing to the whole army. Governor Drown, 1 in his message, recommends that the Legisla- ' tare pass a joint resolution requesting Congress ! to repeal the "substitutes clause" in the Conscript Act. The same scntiement prevails extensively in other States, and the Solum Re porter says that several members eleet to the ; next Congress from Alabama have pledged their support to any measure looking to the . repeal of the odious clause in the law. Congress may extend the maximum age of persons * liable to service, mainly for the purpose o( making the substitutes liable for themselves, and thus ine.liidinor those for wliom llmv m-n ciKcO ? PI - ? - tutes. Most of the substitutes, we imagine, arc between the ages of torfy-five pnd fifty years, j and it is probable that the Jatter age will be j the maximum. j A Sockdologkk for Bkkciiek.?The rector I of Liverpool has sent the following letter to the Secretary of the emancipation Society : OniLLWALi., Oct. 10, 1803.?Sir: In reply to your letter requesting me to inform my con* ! gregation that Mr. II. \V. Bcechcr "will de{ liver a lecture in the Phithannonic Hall, upon. ! the American war and emancipation, 1 beg to inform you that I decline to invito my congregation to attend a lecture upon that species of "emancipation" which Lord Brougham, in my opinion, justly calls "a hollow pretense, designed to produce a slave insurrection." I return you the platform ticket you have sent me, not intending to attend the lecture, being of opinion that persons professing to be the ministers of the merciful God, "the author of peace and lover of concord," might be better employed than iu advocating a fratricidal war, accompanied by strocities, which as Lord Brougham says again,?"christian times have nothing to equal, and at which the whole world stands aghast almost to incredulity." , Your obedient servant, AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL, Hector of Liverpool. Mr. Uorkrt Timmhle. Getting a Family.?A Germcn named Ileoflich, residing five miles West of La Crescent, was married in Portage, in No\ember, 18(50, to a healthy German girl. The week i after they married they moved to Minnesota, on the farm which they now occupy. In August, 1801, Mrs. Ileoflich gave birth to three boys, two of whom lived. In June, 1802, she gave birth to three boys and a girl, two of the i boys and the girl living. On the 4lh of this month, she gave birth to two girls and a boxall of whom were, as late as Tuesday of this week, alive and well. Ten children in less than three years is pretty good, even for this vicinity. The parents I are proud of their success in the family lino, and point with pleasure to their company of German infantry. Government cannot afford to draft the head of that family.? La Crosse Democrat. ? ? ? Tiie "English'' Imported Goods.?The remaining cargo of the Margaret and Jessie, a blockade running steamer, captured by the Fulton, has been taken out at New York < Most of the original cargo had been thrown into the sea or burned before she was captured, A New York paper says : It is noticeable fact that most of the smaller articles constituting tno cargo, such as matches ( blacking, brooms, <fcc., arc of New York manu. facturc, ami evidently recently exported. It appears when the Fulton first hove in sight the captain employed all his time?nearly fourteen hours?in the destruction of the freight. * ^ . i lisip^rtiisil ]mov? in<M8(N ??f llie iCnetaiy on the Coast Below. Tin; S: i v; 11 n i: 111 Jirjmb, icon says til at it lias been ascertained tlie.t threat activity prevails ' among llic eneim at Reaufort and Hilton Head. 1 A large number of vessels are in Port Roval, and heavy accessions have been made within a few days to the troops on Hilton Head. On Friday afternoon the vessels were moving ahont with great activity between Hilton i,Icad and lieanlbrt. \ The intentions of the enemy are, of course, unknown; hut it is fair to presume that they meditate an early descent upon the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, if not an attack upon or demonstration against Savannah. \ve shall probably hear from them at some point in the course of a few days at farthest. It has recently been ascertained that the Yankees have pretty well abandoned the coast of Georgia. There are none on St. Simons, ('umherland, or Jekvll Islands, and very few, if any, on the islands higher up the coast. They keep a gunboat in most of the inlets. Most of the pirates arc probably congregated at Hilton Head.?Mercury of Monday. A (Jai.lant Deed.?Wo arc informed, through an officer from our army in East Tennessee, of a gallant encounter between two Confederate ollicors and five Yankees cavalry, in which the five Yankees were placed //or.1 da combat. Capt. l)odd, Company A, Gist Tennessee regiment, and Lieut. , of his compa# ny, were at Uhcatown, Tenn., a few days since, and while standing on the side-walk thev ohserved five Yankee cavalry-men riding down the street, armed with carbines. They were warned by friends of the enemy's approach, and urged to conceal themselves, which they refused to do, declaring that they would give them battle. Accordingly, when they cainc up, the Captain and Lieutenant drew their revolvers, walked out into the street, and demanded of them to surrender, which they refused to do. They lired a volley at the Captain and Lieutenant, which missed them. A well directed fire hum our men emptied two of their saddles, killing one and wounding one; j two surrendered, and the fifth escaped. Capt. j Bycrlc, of the same regiment, was passing J along the Blieatown road shortly afterwards, J and met the one who had escaped, and took him prisoner. The four prisoners, five horses ami equipments have all arrived at Bristol.? Ll/mlitiU Iff I it i> II <> fir (IV. Compi.imkxts to "Beast Buti.eu."?The Chicago !' airs thus presents its compliments to "Beast Butler" on his assignment to a new Department: President Lincoln has adopted a "policy" . which we can coidially indorse as an exemplification of Emerson's theory of compensation. He has sent Beast Butler hack to his old field i of Big Bethel; tlit! scene of his only encounter with masculine rebels during the war, and where he won as much glory as over the rebels in crinoline of New Orleans. Baltimore has ; been included in tlie limits of l>utler\s now tie purtinont. Heaven should ha\c mercy on this | unhappy city, for Butler after Schenek is like Caligula succeeding Xero. o j? Hats nv Wholesale.?At a hall given the other night, twenty-one hats were stolen from the ante-room, where the tiles were deposited. In the grey of the morning a precession of bareheaded, monk-looking individuals might have been seen wending their way homeward, their heads turhancd around with white pocket handkerchiefs. The thief of that ball, doubtless, realized more than the getters-up of it, at the present rates at which hats aid selling.? Richmond ftxaminer. t*,i. i i - ? *? . tMiMi TJiimiiiirs nas uecn arrested in .Montreal O for kidnapping. If they can arrest a man for Kid-napping?what ought to be done to Nap. the III, for seizing our full-grown rams? Fr?m Hie Annie* in Hortliorn la?Another Conflict Imminent* Orange 0. H., Va,. November 27.?It is believed that the enemv crossed in force at Ely's and Gorman's Kerry. Preparations are now being made to meet him. Cannonading can be heard this morning. The fight is expected to ojour in the vicinity of the Chancellorsville battle ground. (Later.) 1? mn \ti*?vn Vnr ()B Ttin ? 4.1.? ? iiv?. - v. jl&jv nynn j i u in tuc Army of Northern Virginia to-day is generally of a very encouraging character. The train on the Fredericksburg Railroad did not proceed further than Alsop's to-day, some Yankee cavalry having appeared at Llnmiltou's Cros, sing. On its return trip the train took aboard at (lunacy's Station about one hundred Yankee teamsters, captured on Thursday morning, eight miles this side of Ely's Ford. The wagons, about eig'itv in number, and laden with ordinance and commissary stores, were on the road between the positions occupied by the 2d and oth (Yankee) Army Corps, when General Rosser, with a squadron of cavalry, surrounded the train and captured the teamsters. Only about twenty wagons, with two hundred and fifty mules, were brought oft". The rest of the wagons were destroyed. Siege of Knoxvlllc. Bristol, Term., November 28.?Persons from the vicinity of Ivr.oxville or. Tuesday last represent that the city was then completely invested by our forces, who were shelling it. All that portion of the city north of the railroad had been burned bv the enemy. Twenty-eight prisoners, captured by our cavalry on Clinch River, below Bean's Station, lmve arrived here. The enemy has evacuated all that portion of East Tennessee, and has retreated to Cumberland Gap, closely pursued by our cavalry. V.ateNt Xoi'iluM'ii i\ews. . Richmond, November 30.-?The Baltimore American, of the 27'h, contains a despatch from Grant to llallcck, dated Chattanooga t i.: .1. "T -a i- i* _<iii, i |?. in., wiiicii says ; "i mii' jusi in irom the front of tin; enemy. Most completo victory. 1 lundrcd.s of wagons and caissons, and occasionally pieces of artillery, are everywhere to l?c found. 1 tliink Bragg's loss fully/ reaches sixty pieces of artillery. A large number of prisoners have fallen into our hands. Pursuit will continue to lied (.'lay in the morning, for which place 1 start in a few hours." A despatch from Thomas, dated the 27th, claims a capture of 20,000 prisoners, of whom 200 are ofliccrs of all grades. ~ A telegram, dated Cincinnati, 27th, repre sents Burnsido as perfectly secure it) his posi- V tion, and savs Longstreet has not yet made a 1 heavy assault upon the city, but seems anxious to secure a position tor bis batterses. \ column, tinder W ilcox, is in motion for the relief of Burnsido. Ciold in New York 148-1-2. i President Davis on Extortioners.?President Davis lias a very comtcniptiblc opinion of extortioners and those who owe, but dodge military duty. In a late speech tie is reported to have said : "If I were a young girl, and wanted to mary, I would rather lean upon tlio empty sleeve of the soldier who had lost an arm in battle, than upon the muscular arm of him who staid at home and grew fat." Escape from Fort Johnsons?Lieut. Grcgnn, of Gen. Tnmblejs staff, has just arrived in . Richmond, having succeeded in effecting his escape from Fort Johnson, in Lake Erie. The mode of his oscapc was very adventurous and perilous, but is not proper to be made known. The Lieutenant parsed through Maryland, and expresses himself very grateful for the aid and comfort so freely afforded him, as usual, by tho good Southerners of that State. If we would have peace ft must be this sort of P's?l^tience, Perseverance,;"*; Patriotism, Prudence, Pains, and Practical Philosophy. I i