The Camden confederate. (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, December 11, 1863, Image 2
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.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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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!"
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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.