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"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND THE PRESS IS THE ROYAL tfHRONE tfPON WHICH SHE SITS, AN ENTHRONED MONARCH."
Vol. Ill], * CAMDEN, S. C., WHDNE8DAY, OCT. 5, 1864. [No, 27V
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Cause of our Defeat m the Virginia Valley.
Correspondent of the Savannah Republican,
writing from Richmond states the following
as the reason of Early's defeat in the Virginia
Valley :
. ^ . The Confederate arms have met with a
fresh disaster in the Valle^ of Virginia. After
his defeat at Winchester on the 19th,
Early retreated up the Vblley to Fisher's Hill,
a strong position a short distance above Strasburc,
and which- It J
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bo able to bold. Not so, however. On, the
22d, Sheridan assaulted bim in this strong position,
turned his left, which soon gave way,
followed by the entire line. We lost twelve
pieces of artillery, though but few men. Such
is Early's official report to Gen. Lee. The
Confederates were retiring further up the Valley
towards Staunton.
Do you ask for an explanation of these rap
tuiy occurring disasters in a portion of the
State where the Confederates, until"Sept. 19th,
never suffered a defeat? It is simple and
easily given : We have two enemies to contend
with in the Valley, one of whom has never
been beaten since Noah drank too much
wine and lay in his tent. These enemies are
the Federal army and John Barley Corn.
Sheridan has been largely reinforced, and the
Valley is runnning with apple brandy. Here
is the key to our reverses. Officers of high
position?yes, of very high position?have,
to use an honest English word, been drunk?
too drunk to oommaud themselves, much less
an army, a division, a brigade, or a regiment.
And, where officers in high command are in
the habit of drinking to excess, we may be
Bure their pernicious example will be followed
by those of lower grades.
Shall I call names ? Not now. The names
are known to the authorities, and shall be to
the country, unless there be a speedy reformation.
Let us wait a little to see whether the
guilty parties will not reform their habits, and
^especially whether the Presideut, Secretary of
War, Gen. Lee and Gen. Bragg will take hold
of these men and punish them as they deserve.
Just think of a drunken man in command of
a body of men in battle !
Hood cm the March in Sherman's Hear
?The Lcvejoy Station correspondent of the
Columbia Carolinian writes on the 23d instant
:
Griffin is now an outpost. All trains from
aboye have been withdrawn, the "telegraph
wire taken down, and the country evacuated.
We have Dotbing from Hood's army of a very
authentic nature, except that itwas on themareh
vu?l?nn/1 fkft ?1~? 1 _ t
fc-Vj vuu uu(/ vuuwuuou^ucc w utill ltiyc S6 D A
feel no apprehension about its reaehiug Blue
Mountain in safety. Last night, Sherman
despatched a considerable cavalry force down
the right bank of the Chattahoochee, for the
purpose, as is supposed, of developing our position.
But it is certain that up to that time
no general movement of his army had taken
place. We feel certain that he was as unpre-!
pared for this bold movement, as he is unable
to prevent it. I base the latter portion of that
sentence upon the well authenticated fact that
his stock is in the worst possible condition.
Every .eye-witness agrees that no one of his
teams can have enough for its own subsistence,
and, therefore, without the aid nf a rnilrnnd
he caD do nothing, for if he marches to 'confront
Hood, be will have to do it in a country
where he will not have cars to bring up supplies.
hfiijor Lamar Fontaine, soldier and poet'
and well known by name and good fame to
many readers of the Corner, is now in this
city and expects to remain some days.. He
? ha8 fceea for many months a prisoner and ia
now released on a conditional parole, which we
hope will result in an exchange. He appears
in usual health and in a cheering tone of spir.
. jtg. Of course he brings no other news, but
his friends will be pleased to receive this reCfiar&do.t
C carter.
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J. T. HERSHMAN?Editor. 1
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Tar is selling in New York at $2 a pound. (
It used to cost eighty cents a barrel. r
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*Tbe income of the four Rothchilds of En- t
rope is estimated at 9,000,000 a year, or a 8
thousand dollars an hour.
Brig. Gen. John Echols has been appoin- 0
|e'd to the command ef the Department of
Southwestern Virginia, to succeed Gen. John a
H. Morgan. I i
Treasurer o? the Confederate States.?
It is reported that the position of Treasurer of 3
the Confederate States has been tendered to j
John B. Hendren, Esq., of Staunton, Vir- 8
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Under the Lincoln dynasty negro soldiers t
search all white gentlemen and ladies who I
cross from Cincinnati into Kentucky over the s
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iciiica. j.u buia uugi auutiuuj auicuuuu uu*-j
zcns are obliged to submit.
Vallandigham is out in a letter supporting ?
the nomination of McClellan. We suppose he ^
has had a closet talk with McClellan, and find- a
ing him all right, has turned right about face
to give him bis support.
Our recently returned prisoners from the
North are represented by the Richmond press
as being in a wretched conditiou. Thirteen
of them died on the passage from Fortress
Monroe to that city, and many others are represented
as being in very critical health.
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i Toe Final Struggle.--The Richmond Ex- j
! aminer considers that the final struggle for t
the possession of Richmaud and of Virginia c
! is now near. The war is drawing to a close, e
I and if we bold Richmond till the first of November,
it will be ours for evermore. This c
renewed effort on the part of the enemy is due, *
the Examiner thinks, to Sherman's triumph
in Georgia, which compels Grant to match it ]
or sink into insignificance. 1
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The news from the Valiey of Virginia is a
far from being agreeable. The enemy seem s
disposed to make all that is possible out of 5
their success, and are pushing up the Valley '
with considerable spirit and a flourish of trum- ^
nnfo "Rnf if ia o l/.nrr fhof Irnnmo ma I
ywvo* xj u u i id io n iuij^ iuau vuuu Duuna uu q
turning, and the pursuers of to-day may become
the pursued to-morrow. On this cele- v
brated race course the Yankees have always a
made better time returning than advancing. *
The views of theJEnquirer od the Valley-situ- a
ation are just and cheering, and we commend *
them to our readers. Gen. Longstreet's return a
to duty is just at a critical and opportune mo-i b
ment. We shall no doubt hear soon of dispo- c
sitions being made which will effectually check ?
any further advance of the enemy.
Statistics of Carnage.?A writer in thrf ?
Jefferson County, New York Union has made
some calculation^ relative to the number of
men killed thns far in this war, and gives the 6
following results.
Enough have been already slain to encircle '*
our State if their dead bodies were laid in one fe!
continuous line.
If they were placed in coffins and corded, t
they$'ould eeunt 39,000 cords, n
If laid in a wall twenty-five feet thick and v
thirty feet high, it would be over one-fouhh t
mile long. ?
If five fget ihick and ten feet high, the pile ^
would reach across the State. . a
If piled upon a ten acre lot, they would be v
nearly two hundred feet high. a
And if laid upon the ground, they wbuld jj
cover every foot of soil in Jefferson County.
7,5,000 tons of human;?blQ?4-J^tf?^beeiP ?
sDilied in Dixie's soil?frnrntoK'1nW
spindle in Lowbll, and if the tears werl!;<added jS
to the flood it would turn the machine^ of-$
the continent; and the unavailing sighs would ft
fiirevery ocean sail. q
The one-half has not yet been told. The h
The millions of wounded and maimed for life ft
must be taken into account in summing up* o
the grand total of evils iaoident to this bloody a
and fanatical war. h
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Thf Strength of the Reserves.?A co
emporary has bit upon an ingenious method
if ascertaining "the reserved strength of the'
Confederacy." He says, take a trip over the
ailroads of the Confederacy, and when you
.rrive at a city, town or villi&gU, announce
hat President Davis, or Gen. Beauregard,,or
ome other famous personage is on the train;
rait half an hour, then go to the next town
,nd repeat the announcement After a trip
if this sort through the States, it will be easy
o tell where the men may be found to make
ip the six or eight hundred ^thousand*. They
re all safe, and the Confederacy is maintainng
them.
Htm M/l l?r ATTri Tf Id oKnnf oa r?
jLyu i iiiu x uvun* av to nwvuu cms vuuiv/utv a
ob to buy good flour as to bay a good horse.
,-et us tell you how to go to work with it.
rirst, look at color; if it is white, with a
lightly yellowish or straw-colored tint, buy it.
!f it is very white, With a bluish cast, or with
>lack specks in it, refuse it. Second, examine
he adhesiveness, wet and knead a little of it
etween your fingers: if it works soft and is
tickly, it is poor. Flour from spring wheat
s likely to be stickly. Third, throw a lump
if dry Hour against a dry, smooth, perpendicilar
surface; it it falls like powder, it is bad.?
fourth, squeeze 6omo of the four in your hand;
f it retained the shape given by the pressure,
his too is a good sign. Flour that will stand
dl these tests is safe to buy.
A matrimonial newspaper is to be established
n Paris. It is to be dtvoted * exclusively to
tinning the happiness of its subscribers and
lorrespondents. The title chosen is L'l&cho
Yupitial, and the motto "Tauter leg ames soiU
$mur?"?"All Souls arc Kin.'^ Etrerv dav
he Echo Nupilial will publish several columns
>f wants" and "offers," and alio a short cor espondence
between the advertisers, together
vith a review of the matrimonial marke^ aniouneing,*day
by day, whether blondes are
n favor, whether browns rule high, whether
here is a brisk demand for widowers or widows,
and whether the business of matrimonial
ixchange is good.
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Athens is the county seat of Limestone
:ounty, Alabama, one hundred and fifty-four
niles north by east from Tuscaloosa, one hunIred
and ninety-six north of Montgomery and
tbout twenty northwest from jHuntsville.
jimestone county borders on the Tennessee
ine, arad is therefore in the rear of Sherman's
rroy. Athens fa considered by Sherman
, luuak iiupurtuub pusiuuir, auu ueuee me
trong garrison stationed tbere. The Central
Southern railroad, which unites Nashville with
he Memphis and Charleston railroad, passes
hrougb the place, and its occupation by our
orces therefore severs odc of Sherman's line
f communication.
A Strange Spectacle? Our co arm unify
ras considerably stirred up yesterday evening
t seeing Charles Arnold, son of Mr. J. D.
Arnold, marched through our streets in female
pparel, accompanied by a guard. He was
rrested, we learn, at Albany, Ga., a day. or two
go. He left this city some time since to
void conscription, and it is presumed he has
een passing off as a female in parts of the
onntry where be is not known. It is indeed
serious difficulty, and we doubt not it is owng
in a great measure to the misguided effecion
of his parents. We trust, should he get
ut of tbis disgraceful affair, that he will go
orward #nd prove himself a man, and in some
egrec retrieve the bad name he has thus inurred.?Coinmlus
Enq.
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Major several JJana has arrested a majoriy
of the Treasury Agents at Vicksburg for
muggling, and conniving at the contraband
rade with the rebellious} districts. In one'
ranaaction, the military order permitted a
ran named Burbridge to take six barrels of
rhiskev up the Yazoo river. In passing through
he "Treasury regulations" the "six barrels"
ras changed to -"sixty barrels," which were
artered at twelve dollars a gallon for cotton
t forty cents a pound?that single operation
ielding the parties concerned net profit of
hundred thousand dollars. Some of this
iquor as well as stationary, olotbing, &c., found
is way to Meridian, tbe transaction being on
roveument account.
; A'?ommaaication printed in the New York
respecting prWate insane asylums, "is atrteiing
a good deal of attention. The writer
harges. that some of them are mere prison
onsesj in which a man incarcerates his aaughsr
or wife%bcn he prefers to have her ont
f the way, and daughters imprison their aged
lotherin order to enjoy the larger part of
er income.
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A' Startling Disclosure Of 'A Rilifo. '
Pirate Scheme.?A New Lohclop (Connecticut)
correspondent of tfie Gominercial Advertiser
says : 1 ' * 4
The greatest excitement h?s prevailed during
the past were# in thp stean? \fdn( offices of
the lines From Boston^o*NeW York, ponse- ?
quent upon thei. revealing to, Collpctofr Barney*of
a plot to des'trqy al|, th^ sfceimr' hoats run- ,/
ning oti the Bound* It . was said that the . ~'~J
Fl'.-.ric'S^ark, recently captured by the TaU' v
iahassee, and now herjooasort/has been hover-V:
ins about our co&at. and was to do "the work.
n io I- . M..I it. m.n l. ' ' - :*
xv la ascunu ua u. itt?. cuut me xauanassee, t >. JO?
about, three weeks sihce, went into Newport. - *
harbor, steamed around the Constitution then f
lyin^there: and ^tapmed put again- unchaitenged.
Four gnfoBoats haye .Been sent into" # u&flh
the Sound to tooli after the affair. #
JDbe World has the following graphic para- \ ^
#> the pictorial vigor and trtith of wbiqh
puts the IriVune into fl terrible state ofnapves:
Only say negro, and there is a class of this .
community upon whom the word has tbfc effect . ? ?
of catnip upon the feline species. They wrig
gle, they smirk, they roll over, they mew, they t
por'r, they fondle, they stick Cut their claws, 4
curve their hacks, and twist andf gyrate in every * "
Conceivable form of delight. According .
them, l.hia rrrpnfr A m/irinon ? - -*
I., J ^.v?v MwwiiVinu tuio grCiM;
constitutional property, are of no account iy
comparison vntb the possible elevation of a
race which has been slave since the beginning
of creation.
The Spirit of the "Old Dominion."?
Speaking for Virginia, the Richmond Dispatch
says: # ' . ,
Reverses in the field, the slaughter of her.
young men, the affliction carried home'to near-.
ly every family within her borders the lAs of
property, the desolation of whole districts, the - t
fury of a war unparalleled in dimensions and'
ferocity, have produced in .her no change or
shadow of turning. She thinks ho more of
giving up the day after a defeat than she does 4 .
the day after a victory. Other States no '
doubt, entertain the same sentiments and reso- j
lution. I
New Impressment Schedule.?The Com- # ' '
missioncrs of the several States, who Recently t>
met in convention at Montgomery, to estab- ,
lish a uniform schedule in relation to the im- , ,
pressment of provisions, etc., have mltei'tally*
reduced the rates ; for instance: bacon not to 4
exceed S1.31 per pound; flour, ?15 per hun- ?
dred; corn, $'2.25 per bushel; first class horses, " .
8760; first cl^ss mules, 3600., These prices
are to be Uniform in the States o/ Alabama,* ( ?*
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, ,Geotgia *?
Florida, and South Carolina. i , * r
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"Blowing up the Tunnel."?1feortio
weeKa ago a statement appeared infthe Tele- , j
graph, foundod upon the report^of a "Courier"
in regard to the blowing up ' of thp Tiuioel
beyond Dalton. This statement was 'cxtSfesively
copiejl By the press, and fbr days thereafter
the public rested confidently under the ^
impression that the Tunnel aforesaid had been $ *
effectually destroyed. All this, however, was t \ /
adefusion.v The TunneJ was never <blown tip.^
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Repentant Repels xp Fight for the'union.?The
steamship Continental, Captain ... -f
Somcrs arrived at the Long Deck, jersy City, t t* *
on Wednesday, having on board the First U.?*
S. Infantry Regiment, from Norfolk, and bound
for the frontier, to engage in th^/war against
the Indians. This regiment numbers 960
urn, composed of rebel prisoners who have*
*?y ?.tl -c .11.^? - .. ..
iMGu me uuwu ut anegiaDce ana enlisted.in
the Union army. They are under-commands *
of Col. Diamond. ' ' & .
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A Fighting EDiTRESs.-^Hecently. the*e4-V ?
itofc of a paper in Columbus, Ohio, was cowhi- *
ded by a female of that city, because of some-^ t
thing he "put in the paper about her." jThe; v /
next evening the, fvife of '.the beaten editor,
who is said to be the boss .qf the- concern, met ' '
the COwhider and pave lier a trempndnn* ft>w>en_
mg with a horse whip. We are of the opin- * .
ion that no woman will ever attempt to- whip
that editor again:?iV. Y. Clipper. ;'
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Quite a large number of negroes came out
with the Atlanta exiles, and many of them^
towards the close of the truce, were quite ear-^ ' II
nest in their entreaties to be brought through
the lines. They had discovered, in the short
time they had been thrown with the Northern
army, that there is very little sympathy arnopg
Northern men for negroes, and no affiliaii-;;