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"KNOWLEDGE IS POWEE, AND THE PEESIS THE jlOTAL THEONE^fPON WHIC& SHE SITS, AN ENEDTHEONMONAECH." Vol. Ill] CAMDEN, S. C.a ^BDNESDAY, JSTOV.9,- 1864. CN"o.89 j| fit Conftkrott IS PUBLISHED AT CAMDEN, f v EYERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY J. T. HERSHMAN. -v jpgy Terms of subscription?Five [Dollars per ^nrtum. fig*Hates of Advertising?TWO Hollars, & ! a half per square of twelve, lines, for firs insertion, and TWO Dollars for each subsequent onessr Communications calculated to advanethe in- ! erestof our District and State, published free of charge. . / The Late Victory in Virginia. Readers of tbe Courier will accept and prefer in place of ranch that could be culled from other sources, the following from the trustworthy and eminently accurate correspondent of the Savannah Republican : Richmond, October 29, 1864. The details as they come in leave no doubt that Grant made his grand assault on Thursday,, the 27th. He may make another effort between this and the day of the Presidential election ; but that be took his measures and ! prepared his plans with a view to tbe speedy capture of Richmond or the Southern Railway, or both, of them, is now manifest to the dullest apprehension. As it is, he took nothing by his Inst move : on the contrary. h:s defeat waR complete at all points, on the right, on the left and in the centre. The importance and extent of our victory do not appear so much from Gen. Lee's official report, as from trust- i worthy persons who were present and partici- i pated in the battle. Indeed, Gen. Lee has an inveterate habit of understating the losses of his adversary and of refining away his own victories ; whereas it is the practice of the enemy to magnify bis triumphs, and not unfrequcntly to claim a victory where he has suffered a defeat. . , r_. The effect of these diverse policies is as different as the policies themselves. In the one caae, the enemy is encouraged ami the war spirit stimulated; in the other, neither our army nor our people receive the encourage.ment which should be derived from our successes. The re-publication here of the war i bulletins of the enemy even have a bad effect, notwithstanding he is known to be a great asonomist of truth, and in many instances to ect up claims which are as preposterous as they 6co unfounded. If the positions of the two armies had been reversed and we had been the arsaulting, and the enemy the assailing party, the whole North would be ringing with pueuus of victory. It now seems that our success beyond Pc* tersburg was quite as complete as it was below Richmond. The enemy got possession of the Boydton plank road at Burgess' mills, on Ilowanty Credk, when Mahone moved against him with three brigades in front and Hampton took him in the rear. Though he was not then . v dislodged, Mahone took over |four hundred prisoners, three stands of colors and six pieces I of artillery. The latter could not bo brought off. however, the enemy having possession of the bridge over the Creek. In the attack subsequently made by the enemy, Mahone broke three lines of battle and inflicted a heavy loss upon the foe, who retired during the night from the plank road, leaving many of his wounded and between two and three hundred dead on the field. Including those made on the North Bide, quite a thousand well prisoners were taken during the day. During these operations on the extreme left and right, a considerable (demonstration was made on the centre, between the James and Appomatox. This was done to prevent rein* c i : i .:4i i. .1 L. iorccm.enia irum uuiug scut, uituer tu mu ngut or the left. Having failed at all other points, and supposing doubtless that Gen. Lee had weakened his lines in front of Petersburg' in order to rcinforee his wings, the enemy, about " nine o'clock at night, advanced against our works on the Baxter road, and took possession of them ; but they were soon driven out. The two armies, therefore, now occupy the same relative positions they held before the fight.? Ar already remarked, Grant took nothing by his move, but lost more than?a thousand men for every hundred that Lee lost, in other words, his loss will not fall short of six or seven thou j T j c.? gailUj WUllC JLiCC O UUCO iiVU CAWCU uvc ur OlA hundred. P. W. A. Who Invented Hoops.?The oredit of the invention of hoops belongs, it is said, to Angelique Milliet, a poor French peasant girl, who got the index from her hencoops. She patented the invention and has become very wealthy. .' ' ' V . Camden, Wednesday, Noremjtjer 9. J- T- HEBSHMAN^-EditA One Hundred and Forty-Two T$H)bani) Converts.?It is estimated that 14^000 soldiers have been converted in the Co&fedcra\c States army since the war commenced,* The Richmond Whig learns that deserters from the Yankees say that soldiers in Grant's army were offered one hundred dollars and a furlough to vote the Republican ticket Jefferson City is oq the Missouri rrier, near its .junction with the Osage, and afout one hundred and fortv miles above St. L&in. Tt stands, for the most part, on a lofty bjuff, and is a position of gre3| strength. Greeley is making stump speeches' New England; and is returning to his old p)|nciples ontheUnion question. In'bis Hartford ^speech, tha other day, he declared that, ff thi. Southern people decided by a fair vote to go out of the Union, he was in favor of letting'shem do so. That is precisely ^liat he said in:J.83L Schenectady. (New York) boasts $|novelty ;n n i.?- L o?:i u dtiiv * iu juui uuiimu jLu ua? a uuujr pujjvr WH" twu editors, one Republican and the otb?'Democrat, vrho have a page of every day's Jfa?er.? The second page is for McClellan $nd ^jet)iirtl for Lincoln, and spirited contro^rsiesj^re constantly going on within the limits ofV single sheet. Lincoln has been frightened out of the Soldiers' Home back to the White Hffise.g A -letter says . " 'Rot' ous signals have been observed in that direction, and last night the suspicious indications of an attempted raid -had multioled to such an ? I * exteut as to induce the President to abandon bis insufficiently guarded suburban residence. Editor Wanted.?An editor is wanted in the office of the Hendersouville (N. C.) Times. The present editor desires to retire. This is a good berth for some one who is too feeble to be a soldier, and who desires a situation well guarded against "conscription." The applicant must be of moial habits, educated, and "sound on the goose." Address W.L.Love, llcndersorfvillc, N. C. Rampant.?It is odd to find the word ram\pant expressive of anything high-handed and over bearing. The word literally means in the French, creeping or crawling. The misapplication had its rise in the jargon of heraldry, where a lion or other animal, represented with the feet as if in movement, was termed rampant?from the word ramper, to creep. So that a poor man making his way on all fours, is really and truly the rampant individual, after all. Thl New Governor of Georgia.?Gen. Logan, who formerly commanded the 16th Yankee army corps, says the Augusta C)onstilutionalist, has beensyppointed to the command of Atlanta and declared Military Governor of Georgia. He is now on a visit to Ohio, and Gen. Osteriiaus commands in his ste?d. Ify the time he is ready to return, we hope that our civil Governor will be prepared to givo him and Baron Oysterhouse a fitting reception. The inaugural ceremony to take place at the Hotel de Andersonville. Proclamation of Governor Bradford Declaring Maryland a Free StateThe Court of Appeals, at Annapolis, having affirmed the decision of Judge Martin in refusing to grant a mandamus against the Governor in relation to the soldiers' vote on the new Constitution, Gov. Bradford has pioclaimed the new Free State Constitution of Maryland. . <?he Governor's proclamation says: Upon actually counting and casting np the vote returned to me, for and against such Coni stitution, including the soldiers' yote afore- f said1, it doth appear that jhere were 30,174 ballots for the Constitution and 29,799 against th6 Constitution ; and. there being, therefore, of the aggregate veto so cast, a majority in favor of'tbe- adoption of the said Constitution, Now, therefore, if Augustus W.Bradford, Governor of the'State of Maryland, etc., do by this my proclamation declare atid make known that the said constitution and form of government^ framed and adopted by the. convention aforesaid, has been adopted by a majority of the voters of the State; and .that, in. the pursuance of the provisions therein contained? the same will go into effect as the' proper constitution aod form of g'dVernmeht of this'State^ su* percedjng the one now existing, on the first day of Novotpber next, etc. A Scout's Adventure. GnK; Blake, one of General A/ P. Hill's moaf daring and successful scouts,.had rather a singular and- ludicrous adventure some days ago. lie was captured bv thfc enemv and sent; to City Point as-a. spy. "Fortunately, be had , papers 6n hi?pcrsjfa to provo who and what j' he was. Having been eaptured sevgral times'} before, he di<f not lose his gplf possession, but looked'"^out An to"tee whether he eonld not mape good his escape as . he bad" done on so I maiSy-flrevious accounts. He was not long 1n discovering a newly drafted rnanf whose ai^ , pearanae showed he was well to do in tqP world, and.whose melancholy visage told unmistakably his dislike of the army. Blake made up to him immediately, andf entering into conversation, soon learned that he was the most anxious of living Yankees to return "to hnm," and willing to run considerable risk to aceoniDlish his Durnnse. Blake's * ~ *~~r ?' ?? ready wit and eool head quickly .CQpcocfed a plan. They flipped behind^* honse and exchanged clothes, Blake assuming the Yankee's ntune and the Yankee Blake's?tlfe Yankee TTitendhig tcrgo'dort^R) Porflresi Mtiti^eTftNr " prisoner of war, take the oath of allegiance, and return to the bosom of his family and pumpkin patch. Just then it occurred to Blake that he lrad gotten himself into a decidedly bad scrape.? Said he to himself,-f'lf I go to this man's company and try to palm myself off as bio), I wi/l certainly be detected and forthwith hung as a spy. That won't begin to do. I will walk up the road and see if something won't turn up." No sooner said than done. lie had walked but a f w hundred yards before be met a Yankee, mounted on a horse and leading two others. "Where did you get those horses?" enquired Blake sternly. "Got'em up the road a bit," said the Yankee; "they are stray horses," he added aDolocizinedv. ? * ?_> tj w I Blake put on him most peremptory manner. "Stray devils!" he cried; "you know they are not stray horses. If you don't get down this instant, you rogoe, I'll report you to headquarters and have you shot for a thief." The Yankee jumped down as quick as lightning. Blake took bis place, and after some little trouble in avoiding the onetby's pickets,brought two of the bosses safely into our lines. What became of the poor fellow with whom he swapped clothes it is impossible to say. Richmond Examiner. In anticipation of the defeat of "Old Abe," in the approaching Presidential election, the following business Card has been published: A. LINCOLN, Attorney and Counsellor atLaxe. springfield, ill. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. My.old customers and others are no doubt ' aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that 1 I will be back on the same side from which I ' started, on or before the 4th of March next, 1 when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Bis- 1 pense Law, make Jokes, Split Rails, and per- ( form other matters in a small way. 1 Reducing the Democratic Vote.?Two deserters from the one-hundredth New York 1 regiment, who came into our lines yesterday, 1 state that recently a vote was taken in one of } the army corps, and that two New York regi- 1 ments voted en masse for McClellan. This i made Butler very irate, and on Thursday the t two offending regiments were put intfl the battle's front, each losing more than half their men. The truth of this statement is in part 1 corroborated by the fact that the majority of prisoners taken belong to New York regiments. ^ Richmond Examiner. ... /Ht^bd's Army on the March. . Wejtokc the t'oilowiDg from the.Montgome- ; ' ry Mail of Wednesday : * ^ ^ Th6 first intelligent account wa have rcceiv- 1 ed of the whereabouts and situation of the, Army of Tennessee, reaches us through a private letter to a well known gentleman of this ??| city. On the 23d ultimo, Hood's army pftased ' . jfc Brooksville in North Alabama. At tbb point it separSted in. three columns, all makifig for the Tennessee river, at three different p'oints-*-\j*^M Decatnr, Whitesburg, atyl Gunter's Landing. * Sherman's armv followed npnrlrnn In !?? v'-v^na Coosa river. ilia advance skirmished wiih.' Wheeler's cavalry up to die vicinity of Gad*-. "|SH den. Here the Federal commander halted, and? then "Went back, apparently nonplussed at.tft# ^ y&m movements of our army. By this time it sppposecU that the tbree^columirs of ouf hrtny are safely over the river* and that they have converged apmewhgre in the vicinity of Huntsville. The general? impWssion is that its fu- BraS tnre coirrso'^will be fn the direction of Tuscumr ' bia. Everything was progressing favorably' % and all were in confident spirits. sOur .cavalry officers appear to be in doubt. * . themselves as to the foree and designs of tbfc;< y ' ehemy o? the Coosa. $here is no doubt, bow ever, b?t thar they a^e in the tei(;hborhodd of'1 ' $588 Cedar Bluff witb .infantry, cavalry and artiK j: ;' lery. -On last Thursday iLforce of fifteen hunjdred 'cavalry, under Kflpatrick, advanced tor Ijp Ladiga, thirteen miles northeast of this place, and m thin eouiity. ^hey were met by Gen. Ferguson's brigade, an?$a bard fight of ten hours' duration followecF Ferguson finally ? drove the enemy'from every point of the field ' ? aad eaptured bis dlhd, mortally wounded and three pnsotofera.- They left twelve of the form- * er on the grotond. Iu threir'retreat the enemy took the Borne road. Subsequent ^coutiDg parties failed to di^over any force tbls side of the Coosa. %. 31an} officers of Geo.- Wheeler's ccvalrjr arc o? the o pinion that SherafaTi will a rong forco down the Selrnat and Blue Mouataio Railroad, and that hq is under the impression tbat Hood.w drawing bis supplies over that way. Gen. Wheeler has received instructionsto full back in front vof such a column sbonld; it advance. Nothing wonld gratify Geo# Hood1 more than for Sherman to make such a disposition of auy of his army corps, while be is redeeming TeBnesse. My own impression isthat no such expedition will be made. There* ^ is nothing along that line upon which to sub- * sist a force strong enough to make the ^itoove-ment successful. *?. . . ? * It is further hoped that the Yankee Genera? will hold on to - Atlanta and all other captured points between there aud Chattanooga until! the grand battle for Tennessee is fought. If . , that is done our success ifr assured. There was a rumor at General BfeauregardVbead-* quarters the otberfoay that Atlanta had been captured by General person; "I hope,"'said the General, "that it is not true; I expect it to be captured but not now.,lr Th^'theory advanced b^oneof your city cotemporaries that Corinth and1 Shiloh are again to be occupied, is wholly untrue. For that ^ . matter these historic places are already in' "our . possession. But now, as three years ago, they are of no strategic importance. The present ' < grand advance has a far deeper meaning: thaw that. >t> A High Old Toddy?Dr. Dickson of New" York, editor of the Scalpel, whose grandfather ( owned the site of Fort Lee, near the Hudson river, and about 11 miles above the city, on the New Jersey s;de, mentions as one of the incidents of the occupation of that section of the country by the Hessian troops under Ge?eral,Kuyp.iausen, during the Revolution off 76, that the tLssian soldiers rolled a barrel! _/? _ j i t f* t A - it- ? ' or sugar ana a oarrei o* wntssey out 01 iaecollar, emptied the contents of both into therain-hogshead, stirred the compound with a<? Pence rail, and used their shoes for drinking:ups. Some of-them got tight, which is-surprising. . , \ 4 i i Big Game.?Brigadier-General A? N." Bufie, commanding First division cavalry, Bejartment West Virginia,Sheridan's army, who~ vas "gobbled" receqtly by Colonel Moshy> arived in Richmond yesterday, and was oomnitted to the Libby. Gen. Duffie" is a Frenchnan, was born in Parts, and would pass for a ;entlcman in any other than Yankee oompa- ' iy?Richmond Examiner. Why. does oar market'house rcqemble a-' fl >arber shop ? 'H. ' . Because every body goes there to be shaved* J . JBl