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VOLUME III CAMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1863. NUMBER 6
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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."
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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."
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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tMiMi TJiimiiiirs nas uecn arrested in .Montreal
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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.?
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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
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_<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.
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