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" ' ' ' ? . ? k^ui'miw i 1 ii ? l)( (Jamltfii (Eonfrfctriitt at there dollars a teas, payable invariably half-yearly in advance Terms for Advertising: For one . Square?-twelve lines or less?TWO DOLLARS for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR AND hlFTY CENS for each subsequent. Obituary Notiqes, exceeding one Square, charged to at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job Wont MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertisin patrons. MMPIT??P??Of .'?w?w??? j .J. ?. Jw.jiijrt?.t?jyjLA.cN, j^aitor. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1863. Explanatory?Our Obligation. Having given notice in our last issue that we had succeded in purchasing a press and other material with which to continue the publication of Tiie Confederate, we were not aware of any obsticle existing, to interfere in any degree, with its future permanent issue. We had a recollection of having obligated oursclfy before entering the publication of tho paper?to return to Capt. Warren, whenever called for, all the material on which The Confedekate was to bo printed, but had given no thought as to the important (to usjpoints contained therein. That those of our friends who were disposed to favor us, and were desirous to see the paper continued, may not be surprised at its suspension, we give below our obligation, which binds us, in honor, to make a transfer to Cnpt. Warren, or his successor all and everything pertaining to the publication of The Confederate, even to its good will, should it, perchance, have any to bestow : Camden, October 23, 1861. . This is to certify that in the publication of the Camden weekly Confederate, it is in no wise to iuterfere with the re-publication of the Cainden Journal, and that on his (T. J. Warren) final return from the war now existing, I am to deliver to Thos. J. Warren, the establishment as I received it, and not to continue the publication of said paper, unless agreeeable to the aforesaid T. J. Warren, and that I will deliver over to him, or his successor all the good will ofthe Camden Confedrate, whenever required. (Signed) J. T. HERSHMAN, Wllnoce rr VV Prnftwe Tf J V 11 Vff j -*. V* JL AM V/fliO* Wo cheerfully comply, in every particular, and in parting with our friends, as publisher,assure them that our association with them has been of the most pleasant character, and for their indulgence and liberal patronage will be good enough to accept our warmest thanks, hoping that the day will not be far distant when we may urge their kind consideration in our favor, under more auspicious circumstances, and when our now bleeding country will not be besieged by the ravages of we. and , speculation. l>r. F. Olin f>umieity. This gentleman has been acting, during the the present year, as Chief Medical Director and Exatnning Surgeon of the State, for the V Conscript Department. His last visit may be p tennfed the round for general revision of all ' conscripts corning under his jurisdiction, sub ^ sequent to preparing an annual report for the War Department for the conscript service. It is always a source of great pleasure to ^recommend a worthy public servant to his constituency, or to the government of whom he may be engaged, and not often has it been our privilege to record such a combination of qualifications, so essential in these times of war, and especially in a public officer. Impartiality, promptness, high gentlemanly bearing and fidelity to the trust reposed in him have characterized his every day intercourse with those ..whom he was associated, and we hope our liigh military authorities will appreciate his valuable services by promotion or retaining him in his present important position?having a twelve months experience, and so acceptable to the people and government, no new man could well fill his placo with credit to himself or do justice to the appointment. Dr.. D. has also been fortunate in having associated with him Mnj. McClukk, as a Chief Enrolling officer of the 6th Congressional District. This gentleman is too well known and appreciated to require / any plaudit lrorn us. Dispatch is the sonl of business, and method I the soul of dispatch. V I i I Special Notice. As our next paper will be the Inst of the issue of The Confederate, wo would urge all tbose indebted (and there are many) to come foiward and settle, cither by cash or note?we prefer the money. Tlie Episcopal Church Bell. Many hearts around the hearthstones of our little totfn were delighted, on last Sabbath morning, by the clear and inviting ring of the Episcopal Church Bell. After an absence of near two years?having been tendered to assist our cause--it has returned to summons our good people to the house of prayer. South Carolina Legislature. We regret tliat we are unable to give any satisfactory account of the proceedings of the Legislature, up to this time. As yet, there has been but little of importance transacted. We hope by next week's issue to give a tolerably full synopsis of the entire session. Fast Day. In consequence of Thursday being set apart by our Governor, as a day for fasting and prayer, * lie Confederate will be served one day earlier than is its custom. The churches of the Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations will be open for service, at the usual hour in the morning. ^ Tlic Wartcrce itlouufcd Riflemen in We have seen an order from Gen. Vance, commanding the North Carolina State troops, of mounted Infantrv, recently cn<ra<xed in ac ' ~ o tive service in Tennessee,and with whom Capt. E. M. Boykin's Company of Mounted Riflemen were associated, in their late engagement. Gen. Vance compliments the valor and gallant conduct of Capt. li.'s company, on the occasion, where they were engaged against immense odds, numerically, and states that the emergency having passed for which they were called to that District, lie relieves them, that they may return to their former field of operations. We have learned from a friend who was a participant, and who was present at the parting of Gen. Vance with this gallant corps, that he could not find words to give expression to his great gratification at their heroic conduct; and i yet, to our sufpiise, wc find a paragraph going the rounds of the papers, taken from the Asliville iVrtc.v, who, it scums, would give the gallant North Carolinians all the glory won in the engagement, when in fact there were but few of them that could be induced t? go within buig taw, and consoled themselves, no doubt,1 that "lie who from battle stays away, May live to*fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Will ncrcr live to fight again." Head the A'c ??: *' precious paragraph : "Oi.i> Rip" os her own Hook.?Gen. J Vance's forces have been down in Tennessee during the week. lie had a pretty severe skirmish with the enemy, near l'arrottsvillc, one day last week, losing one man killed and two or three wounded, lie emptied several Yankee saddles. "General Vance has been helping the Tennessee Unionists to gather their hog crop.? Nearly a thousand fat lings have passed here en mute to the great Confederate smoke house." We would also state, that every man and horse k Ihd or xeoundtd in the skirmish referred to in the ahove paragraph was from the ranks of Capt. Bovkin's company, which is conclusive evidence that they were there, ami where South Carolinians should he, well to the front. In the above it is not our purpose to reflect in any wise on the bravery of many thousands of North Carolinians now fighting for the success of our cause, and only make reference to it, as we conceive a great injustice has been done the Watcree's, either inadvertently or intontionnllx? l?v tlio otfii-n />Anti.....??..1 J -J JV.IIil* graph. V.nte*t ft niu 1.tie's Army. Oranoe C. II., December 6.? Five prisoners were brought to day, captured by our scouts in Culpepper. Six hundred prisoners have been registered bv the ariny Provost Marshall since Meade crossed. Over two hundred more have been sent to the rear who were not registered here. No military operations to report. Weather clear and cold. The New Voik He)aid says that Grant's entire losses in the recent fight?in killed, wound* cd and miwring-? amount to forty thousand. .. * Quantrell. The humane and benevolent Abolitionist* are grievously distressed and exasperated at the f method of war adopted by the Missouri gucril- * la chieftain, Quantrell. That execcrntcd war * rior seems to have fashioned his campaigns af- ^ ter the Yankee system, to have infringed their J patent right of barbarous and savage warfare. We can scarcely bo expected to credit their accounts of the proceeding of any Confederate warrior, but, to some extent, believe it possible j that Quantrell may have departed ^rom the . general Confederate custom of fighting wolves t and liycnas according to the rules of the knightly tournament. Having to deal with Jim Lane and other incendiaries and murderers of that stamp, Quuntrell fights them with their own weapons, exacts an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and pays the debt of retaliation j with the most scrupulous sense of justice, and \ to the last farthing. Whenever the Yankees hang a Confederate, Quantrell hangs a Yankee; I whenever a Confederate'house is burned down, a Yankee dwelling shares the same fatb, and < whenever a Yankee ofliccr issue* an order for ! QuantrelPs execution, as soon as caught, it is a ( lucky thing for the Yankees if he is not stran- ' gled by his own rope. Gen. Blount, who late- i Iv issued such an order, was himself caught be- 1 ^ ? tore the ink was dry, attempting to escape, was , prevailed upon to stop by a shower of buck shot. Of course, this uncivil conduct of Quan- | trell must meet the reprobation of all civilized mankind. He ought to allow his people and , himself to be strung up and shot down like j dogs, and ask pardon of the Yankees for put- , ting them to such an expenditure of rope and I powder. But he is peculiar man, with a strange savage sense of tit for tat. and lives 1n a wild C* * country, where every one executes justice with his own hands. He is said to have suffered grievous wrongs at the hands of the enemy at j the beginning of this war, and to understand i how to right his wrongs in the only manner that barbarians can appreciate. The Yankees hold him in wholesome awe. lie is as secretive and cunning as themselves, and makes retribution the study and passion of his life. They would give a round sum for QuantreH's scalp, but the brains under that sealp arc too much for them, and the men that seek his life are apt to fall into his hands. We observe that t Quantrell makes 110 speeches and utters 110 threats, but retaliation is law of bis existence. lie does not seem to lie ambitious in the least, nor to be at all covetous of glory; but on the contrary, to hold the pomp and circumstance of war in low esteem. He is the avenging angel of the wild Western border, and is destined, we trust, to scourge to the death the outlaws and murderers who have made Missouri and Kansas shudder with their crimes.?Richmond Dispatch. Luteal from Trans-Mississippi, Mobile, December 5.?The Eoeninfj JVeics has late advices from the Trans-Mississippi. Scott, the publisher of the Wanderer at Covington, states that the Yankees were defeated by Green, at Plaquemines, with a loss 2000 prisoners, on the 27th November. | The navigation of the river was virtually | closed. On the 29th Captain Scott attacked j 200 Yankee cavalry at Plain Store, five miles below Port i udson, driving them irto the latter point, killing and wounding thirteen, capturing five prisoners and ten horses with full equipments. Our loss none. On the 28th Lieutenant Powell captured tljrce valuable eases of medicine near Port Hudson and 13 prisoners from a sunken transport. At Port Hudson the garrison is 2000 strong, mostly negroes. j Tlio following is one of the latest things ati t> United to Lincoln : When some one charged Gen. Grant, in the President's hearing, with drinking too much j liquor. Mr. Lincoln, re-calling General Grant'* successes, said that if he could find out what brand of whiskey Grant drank, he would send a barrel of it to all the other commanders. Voices of Wan.?The minic ball 6ays as it rushes through the nir, "Hit, hit, hit, hit!" One kind of shell savs distinctly, "I'm coming, Pin coming Pm coming Pin coming!" Another kind of ihell, with a terribly significant voice, coarsely says, "Whare's you, whaie's you, whare's you, whare's you!" v . . " / " : V? t i i i _ , Latent from Chattawooga. Dalton, December <L?A gentleman arrived roui Chattanooga t'J-day says that the mfrin >ody of tho Yankee army have left that placo or East Tennessee. Osterbaus' division was at duntsville. The enemy's pickets were at Mcfarlan's Spring*. Latest from Richmond. Richmond, Dec. 6.?Nothing of interest has ranspircd here in the last forty-eight hours. Members of Congress are arriving hourly, but t is feared that a quorum will not be present ;o-morrow. No news has been received from Longstreet or two days. OJ3ITTJ ARY. beneath the sod of a foreign land, side by side with riend and foe, far from the scone* of his affection and isefulness, lie the remains of Oapt. THOMtiS J. WAKRKM He sleeps on that bloody spot, unmindful now >f Yankee oppression ; his graven warning to their oil nttAmnt ' ? CI I ??btcill|/v IV VlltlllUI U }>IUUU Next to hia religion, he lovi d his country's rights, ind his uame hallowed by his sacrificial offering will lesceiid, so long as a friend shall he left to breathe it, ?ynonimous with State rights. He was an enthusi istic admirer and disciple of Carolina's great npostlo, and in conversation, in the columns of liis paper, and an the rostrum, he advocated his great principle of government and constitutional interpretation. Kven farther, a secessionist ycr se, ho hated the isms, notions utid galling tyranny of a poltroon race who, to their Pharisaical cant added the pride of money and the insolence of power, lie urged secession, and when the war was developed, assisted tho different organizations raised in the District, until ho buckled on the sword himself, in n few months, as captain of Co. D, 15th llegt. His example accorded with his theory, and although loath to leave a fond family circle and loving friends, ho obej-ed the cali of duty and fell acting Major of his regiment, on the 2d of July, 1863, in the lierco conflict of Gettysburg. His tall form towering Ami > the smoke of haitlo. whilst his voice could be heard speaking words of encouragement? "His feet to the foo, his back to the plain,' He looked proudlj* to heaven from his death-bed of fame " Unharmed in the several engagements through which lie had passed, it was reserved for him to die ncross the b undary. Death found him ready to enter un the enjoyment of a blessed rest. Thn religion of Christ was the milk of hi? spiritual nature. He never seemed happier than when hymning the songs of Zion. Mis whole soul was wrapt in religious exercises, and when engaged in i etionieg a throne of grace he seemed wrought up His church will miss him; the moral 9oc;oties will miss him Truly a good man lias fallen. Aident in temperament, he never undertook anything in a cold manner, hut with might and main he "put his hands to ti e plough." Hisu.+nd was of a nervous. nrneninir nnorrrot inanm' 1 - ' ^ ?? i ? ? , ..VMJ "Iiu vmi.oai. I nriuhl g or ail the | ecu.iari ics ol nis dispo.stioii. Gifted wj li aa-oinmand of words, lie aiteinntoly impressed er amused. Without the ndvi ntages of n collegiate course, thrown at an c nrlv ape upon the world, he hid to work and s*udy at the same time. Se f 'inade, ho deserved gnat eiedit lor the eult.vntion he exhibited. Kssaical rather than argumentative, be, nevtrthe-ess welded a pungent pen. He was* warm in his friendships, and siucere in his attachments. As a husband, father and brother the drep. inexpressible grief of his family speak trnmpet-tongued. I will not obtrude cn the sanctity ol that grief. His death is a loss to our community. His life is known to all. 'Tis uselcsss to attempt any lengthy potrayal of it. It would he a meaningless repetition of what we are all thoroughly acquainted. llis memory is in our keeping. Ho sleeps the sleep of tl.o useful citizen and Christian patriot. A FRIEND. DIED?At her residence, in Sumter District, on the morning of tho 28th, ult., Mrs. K. M. HATFIELD, aped 48 years. She leaves ft husband and ten children to mourn her departure*. Special Notices. NOTICE? Tho creditors of Col. WM. A. AXCRUM, deceased, will please call on Wm. M Shannon, Esq., who is prepared to settle their demands. An early settlement of the Estate is greatly dosired, and prompt attention to this notice is earnestly requested. J. D. KIRKPATRICK, December 11 Administrator. TAX NOTICE. Iti consequence of the 6ickne#s of tho Assessor, ho not being ab e to attend to the appointments last week, one of the Assessors of Kershaw District will bo at the following places at the days mentioned, to receive returns of neal cattle and tax in Kind: Goodwyn's Box? Tluusd-jy, 10th December. Liberty Hill, Friday, 11th " Flat Rock, Saturday, 12th. " Buffalo. Monday, 14th, " Lisinby's, Tuesday, 15tb, " Shcrock's Mill, Wednesday, 16th, " The books for returns of neat cattle will be kept open until the 19th December, when they wid be closed, and defaulters dealt with according to law.? It is earnestly destred that the returns of Tax in Kind be made to the Asses ors, one of wliorti will be found daily, (Sundays excepted) at my office, from 9 to 2 o'clock, by tho 19th of December, at farthest. A. M. KENNEDY, November 28 2 C. 17th C. D. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. ON AND AFTER TUB 26TH INST., THE CAMden Passenger Train will leave Camden, until further notice, at 5 o'clock, a. m., arriving at 5:40 p. in.,? leaving, as usual, on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Sat* * urday's at 12:30 p. m. Trips to Columbia, as usual on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's, arriving at Columbia at 9/60 a. m.; leaving at 1:20 p. m. October 80 JA?. JONKS, Agent.