University of South Carolina Libraries
*,v. w ( AMDHX. s. 1 )ECEMBEB 11, 1SS3. NO. Iff. VOI -Am XXXIII. L -i. ? ----- -?T" 1 ^TfllCAOENJOORNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TRAXTHAM A HAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES" One year, in advance $2 50 Six months 1 50 Three months 75 fogf Transient Advertisements uiust be paid " u advance. i | ADVERTISING RATES. Space \ 1 M. j 2 M. 1 3 M. 6 M. 1 Y. 1 square i 3 00: 6 00 8 OOj 12 GO1 16 00 'J square* | 6 00* 9 00 12 00 18 OOJ 20 00 3 squares I 9 00i 13 00 10 00! 24 00' 35 00 4 squares ! 12 00? 16 00, 20 OOj 80 0uj 43 00 i column I 15 00. 19 00 24 00 34 OOj 50 00 l column 20 00' 80 OOJ 40 00 55 OOJ 80 00 1 column | 80 00 50 OOj 00 00 90 00(150 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged On* Dollar per Square for the first and Seventy-five Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion Single insertion. $1 50 per square. FALL AXD j Winter Goods! I AT 1 O". A T. I. JOXRS' CHEAP CASH STORE. JBSBBMSE WmwwiBI '1'IHl Our Stock of General Merchandize, Consisting in part, of DRY O-OOIDS, * Groceries, Hardware, ! Cutlery, Boots, and Shoes, Notions, Hats, &c. Will be sold at the very lowest prices for cash or its equivalent in barter. A11 Goods sold by us are warranted uunKocnntMl iia itpimmvM W e Lave h large and well selected stock of North Carolina Shoes, Which we offer at low figures. We pay the highest market prices for Cot ton and other Country Produce. Agent for Neblett & Goodrich's Cotton CI ins. whic we offer at Manufacturer's prices. ??rAll Goods purchased by parties resi ding within the corporate limits of the town, will be delivered by us free of charge. J. & T. I. JONES. Camden, Sept. Ii5. tf. Fall and Winter. i k 1?/ ?>. Dry Goods, Clothing, T Boots and Shoes.' Hats, Groceries, I Crockery and Hardware, AT W. L ARTHUR'S, j I I am offering extra inducements to pur chas ers from mv LAROC STOCK, and would respectfully solicit u call. W. L ARTHUR. September 25. BININCER'S OLD LONDON DOCK GIN H?tipcia11 y le^iirne'l f..r the tue of the Wnliral Proftisson and the Family, possessing those in trinsic medicinal properties which belong to an (Hd and Pur* Gin. Indispensable to Females, tlood for Kidney Complaints. A delicious Tonic. Put up in cases containing ou? doren bottles ench. and sod by all druggists, grocers. &c. A. M. Hinnitiger Si Co , established in 1778, No. 15, Beaver stjeet, New York. October '23?9tu Flour! Flour!! 100 barrels of different grades. For aula by BALM BitO. PHOTCGKAPHS. The undersigned having returned and opened a gallery will be pleased to see his friends. With more experience and IMPROVED APPARATUS he feels more capable than ever before of pleasing the people. Come ar.d have your pictures made before grim winter with his frost and snows pounces upon us. Gallery in Workman House. A. IS. IjLU. Camden, S. C., Sept. 11. 1^73. FALL AND "WINTER MILLINERY ?AMU? FANCY GOODS. | MR8. T. H. WALK EH has opened ut her 1 establishn ent on Broad Street, a hand- ( some assortment of j Millinerv and fancv Goods, a Of the latest styles. selected with great care, j to suit the taster of her customers and the public generally. The Ladies : rc respectfully invited to call o ?nd examine he stock of Straw Hats, Sasl ai M Rlons. j Together will every article to be found in veil supplied M llinerv establishment. c Oct'?her23. tf a THE LATEST! : 8 - . f( <5 I IIA VIC OPENED TIIE I s 3Iost Complete Stock of DRY GOODS, i i> c ItK I HV M A 1>K I. CI.OTII i ><;, \ u BOOTS and SHOES,'; f Tu which I give my special attention, j fl Hats and Caps, i c i Waddles, &c., i ( Ever offered in this Market, i i ear S/iecitl care and at ft nlion Jmrnij | been given to If selection and nuinufaefurhit/ of fat'r rs for nii/valr*, of the presmt season, m tamers will find an nnii.ni- ( nlli/fully eJtc'ce, and attrtirtirr assort- ( ment pure It as d since the decline in [trices. . JO S. 8. CLOU IK October 9. tt". NKW ! 1 AND , ATTRACTIVE!! - The allcntk i of customers is called to my , I.A liGE AND ('Hreriillj Ni'lfcD'tl Slot'li of PHY GOOI'S, CLOTH L\G, l?< M ITS an<l" SIT< >LS, H ATS and CAPS, IIAKPWARE, | CHOCKKKY. A Large Stock of GROCERIES. I liave also mi hand, an assortment of l^iiniit 111*1% 0 With a var'ety of otlicr articles. Ml of which arc oflcied noon the most rcasnnablo terms. J. ?. McCUBRY, Apt October 9. tf TUTU PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Washington, Hoc. The President's message was read to-day. [t opens with a reference to the financial crisis, the Grangers' movement, and the Virginius matter, which, it says, is in course of negotiation, and is likely to be amicably and honorably arranged. Tt refers to the Vienna exposition, which was creditable to the artisans of the United States; to the reception of the Western ambassadors by the Emperor of China, and to the need of further legislation to suppress the coolie trade. It recommends a commission for the purpose c.t considering and determining the amount to he paid for losses sustained by the Confcdrate privateers, and refers to the mixed ommiswion lor determining the claims be!wecn British subjects and American citizens, and asks for an appropriation to pay ~ * * * * t TT !i. J he amount of decisions against tne uniteu Stales. It also recommends a law creating i special court of three judges to hear and letermine all claims of ftlipps against the jnited States arising out of not* committed igainst their property during the insurrccion. Tt asks the decision of Congress on he action of the Ottoman and Egyptian rovernments. relieving foreign consuls of udicinl powers. The President transmits he application of the Republic of Santo ( )omingo that the United .States shall excr- , ise a protectorate over the Republic. The ] uessage discusses at some length the ques- , ion of the right'of expatriation, particularly . s to citizens of the United States residing , ermanently abroad with their families, and , uggesfs legislation on the subject. Tt re- ( ?rs to the establishment of a republic in , pain and to the efforts of the new govern- ( lent to abolish slavery in all her dominions. 1 liich efforts aro oppose ] by the reactionary ] laveliohlcrs of Cuba, who are vainly slriv- , ig to stop the march of civilization. This | ancfnl influence has thus succeeded in do- ( stiiM' the efforts of all liberal-minded men ' j Spain to abolish jlayory in Cuba r.i .1 in ( rerouting the proposed reform in that ] iland. In tho interest of humanity of ( ivilization, and of pri gross, it was to be j oped that tho evil influence might sr.on be f verted. Tn reference to tho capture of (lie . Trginius and to the inhuman and illegal iurdcr of her passengers and crew, he says | hat tho Spanish government had recognized , lie justice of his demand, and had arranged or the immediate delivery of the vessel, and or the surrender of the survivors of the lassengors and crew, and lor a salute of the lag, and for proceedings looking to thepunshmont of those who may he proved to have icon guilty of illegal acts of violence towards 1 itizens of the Ciiiled States, and towards j ndctnnilying those who may he shown to I ?e entitled to indemnity. The cnrrcspon- 1 lencc on die subject had been conducted in ipl.er and by cable, and was. therefore, not n a condition to he submitted to Congress. I'hc President expresses his con\iction that lie existence of African slavery in Cuba is i principal cause of the lamentable condition if the island, and does not d >ubf that Confess shares his hopes that it will soon be nade to disappear, and tbaf peace and pro-icrity will follow its abolition. lie suggests wo constitutional amendments?one to an liorizo tbc President to approve so much of my measure of Congress as his judgment nay dictate, without approving the whole, intl another providing that when an extra ession of Congress is convened by executive proclamation, legislation shall he confined to ?uch subjects as the executive may bring before Congress, from time to time, in writing. He recommends the creetion. at Washington. of a building suitable for the cabinet officers, and for such officials receive com- j mutation for quarters?thus -ctting ancx-j ample to the States, which m <y induce thoni i erect buildings fi?r their Senators. The message g<>cs very fully int.. the financial que-tion, and declares that the country can never have permanent prosperity until specie payments bo reached. IIo recommend?. )< i'-lriti-.ii prohibiting Xntiomd banks from tlic payment of interest on deposits and forcing thciii into resumption, if only in Ic- j gal tender notes, lie suggest the question whether banks should not be made free, but securing all the present safeguards t o billbolders. He notices the improvement in American shipbuilding during the past MI.,1 lii.l.Ov l',l? M i'lltlf tllll'lltc III' if 111 repaid I" tlie problem of cln ap transport a(f it In* refer* ('> (ho l\rie aiel Illinois Canal ami sn.'_'e<(< whether it Would not he wise statesmanship to pledge (.. the State* that own these canal* that if tie v will en1 nue them the Concral tiovernmonl will look after ami keep in navignhle eomlition the ereat pnhlie highway.* with which those canals eonneet. to wit: The lliiilsoii River, the St. Clair flats, and the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. He recommends n gnvernmeu exploration of the L'ppur Amazon River and its tributaries. u revision and codification of the tariff laws, and the opening of more minis. He endorses the recommendation of the postmaster general for the establishment of postoffico savings depositories, and invites the attention of Congress to the proposition for a postal telegraph. He recommends legislation in regard to the judicial proceedings in Utah, and also in regard to the bankruptcy law, which he considers as productive of more evil than good; if not totally repealed, it should be modified in tnose poi'ROns pruviui:ig I'll iiivuiuniuij bankruptcy. Those portions should be repealed. Tfe calls attention to the immense aggregate claims against the government, many of them growing out of the rebellion and not a few of them fabricated and supported by false testimony. He* recommends that persons having claims against the government be required to present them at an early period, and that the personal attendance of witnesses be required by the Court of Claims. Tn regard to the Indian question he recommends a territorial form of government for the Indian Territory; be also recommends such action at will permit the settlement of a body of Russian colonists on the public lands, and endorses the proposition for a cen.iusin 187"). He endorses the > Washington board of public works, and speaks of the great improvement of the city 1 under the operations of the hoard; recom- 1 mends a liberal action on the part of Congress in defraying a portion of the expenses, ind suggests the establishment of a national 1 miversity. He recommends the passage of 1 in enabliug act for the admission of Colora- ' lo as a State, and suggests the opening of a Ninal for the purpose of irrigation from the ' eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains to the 1 Missouri River. In conclunion, he renews lis recommendation for general amnesty, iiol says there are a number of persons yet < aboring upder difficulties very small, but f mough to keep up constant irritation.? < I'lierc can be no possible danger to the gov- < irnment in restoring them to eligibility to jold office, end lie suggests the enactment of < i law better to secure civil rights which ' Veedom ahWltl secure, but has not efToctu- i * illy secured to the enfranchised slave. The 1 eading of the message in tho House occuaiad an hour and a half. Tt was ordered to be printed and referred to the committee of lie whole. > LEE'S LAST CAMPAIGN. , TO IT UltfNU KF.C Ol.l.Kt'l'ION OP SOUTHKRN \ aii"n A.^l' I'bl<rn</,1, At a mooting of the Virginia Division of llie survivors of the Aruiy of Northern Virginia, Col. Vcnablc made substantially the following addross. the report of which we take from the Richmond Dispatch: When, in the early days of May, 18C4, Grant crossed the river with 1 10.000 men, General Lee could command less thau 52,iiOH of all arms, and yet he boldly marched to Attack him. having In hand when he first struck Grant's column, only 20,000 men. He gave a vivid picture of the battle on the plank road, fought on the evening of the 5th of May, between Wilcox's and Ifcth's divisions of A P. Hill's corps, when (under the immediate eye of General Lee,) this heroic band of only 10,000 beat back lO.nOO with which Hancock made repeated assaults upon thorn. lie also spoke of Kwcll'g splendid success on (lie old turn pike, where with 10,000 men, lie had driven buck Warren's corps, nod illustatcd the unexpected boldness of. General Lee's strategy by quoting the remark of Gen. Meade when the columns eauie in collision : "They have left a division to tool n?< while they concentrate and propare a 1 position on the North Anna; and what 1 want is to prevent these fellows from getting h.u k to Mine Hun." lie vividly pictured the battle of the next morning, when IlillY two divisions, which had become aware that they were to be re. lievod by l.ongstrcet. and were not in the host fijilting trim, were violently assaulted lu f ?ro Longstrcet had ennic up. and a porti"ii ? 1" them h id been forced back several handled yards, when I/mgstrcct's men double quirked a mile and a half, and went into I il.rt 1, .1.# tritli #li.* ,1-ll.I.w# nliitnriliir fl!1 ll i?!l thu^a-m. Ho gave the correct version of| that ! j<< 11< 1 i< 1 historic iii< iilonl of tiregg'sl I \:i brigade pausing in tlicir advance a* I Mm y saw (licit* lnvoil leader going into the j fight. am] vociferating "(!< back, (ionoral ! !.< *; go back, (ieucral Lee and told how contidonoo was restored at once to Hills brave iiii'ii, tlie whole line swept forward, the 1'ank attack was made, and Hancock was driven hack in a eon fusion that would probably have resulted in utter route, hut for the unfortunate wounding ?>f Longstrcut j at this juncture. He told the story of llrant s Hank movement to SpotUylvuuia t'wurt Jlotiso, and how splendidly ntnart wim nis cavairy ^assisted by part of Anderson's infanlry) held in check overwhelming numbers until Gen, Lee could get into position. He then gave an account of the repulse of Hancock by Iieth's division, under Early, in its attempt to turn Leo's flank, and the terrible repulse which Kershaw's and Field's divisions gave the enemy in their repeated attacks on their lines, even though the odds against them were fully five to one. He gave striking incidents illustrating the heroism of our men in these fights. Ho gave the account of the breaking of Rhodes' lines on the 10th, and tells of the gallant style in which they retook them under the eye and in the immediate presonce of Gen. Leo, whom the troops again begged to go to the rear. He gave the details of the disaster to Johnston's division on the memorable 12th of May, (exonerating that noble old Roman from all blame,) "by which we lost three thousand prisoners and eighteen pieces of artillery; and told of the splendid courage bv which a new line iust in the rear was formed, against which the blue waves dashed in vain. lie gave an inc ident of the refusal of Har ris' Mississippi brigado to go into the fight with General Leo, and brought out the point that this incident occurred several times in this campaign, and that General Lee, when written to alter the war about it, only mentions one (in reply to a direct question) so unpretending was he, that such incidents were regarded by him as of minor importance. Ho claimed that while others did most loble service, Rhodes and Ramscur were he real heroes of that memorable 12th of May. He said that in reply to the question fre(uently asked why General Lee sent the 'lovernment no telegram about the battle >f the 12th, that he il>'<f semi u ttlejnm that svening. He theu sketched the further progress of ;hc campaign by which Lee foiled Grant at [lie North Anna, gave him a crushing de 'oat at f'nld Harbor anil finallv forced him to lay siege to Petersburg, which he might have clone at the beginning of the campaign without the loss of a single man. This narrative is intersporsed with touching and valuable historic incidents, which wc regret our want of space will not allow us lo givo; hut this will all doubtless be published iu full, and will give the future historian invaluable material. IIis summing up was as follows: lie had not designed to give a review, but only a few incidents of the campaign. Bui a few more general statements of this greatest campaign of that army would not be out of place On the 4th of May four radiating invading columns set out simultaneously for the conquest of Virginia. The old State, which had for three years known little else save the tramp of armed legion9, was now to be closed in by a circle of fire from the mountains to the seaboard. Through the southwestern mountain passes; through the gates of the lower valley ; from the battle-scarred vales of the Rappahannock; from the Atlantic seaboard to the waters of the James came the serried hosts on field and flood, numbering more than )*S HUM /IxalnJaJ In tliij niimK*P olflM -1 U1UII, ^lUtlUUCU III VUiO UUU.W. reinforcements sent daring the campaign.) No troops were ever more thoroughly equipped, or supplied with a more abundant commissariat. For the heaviest column transports wcro ready to bring supplies and reinforcements to any one of three convenient deep-water passes?Acquis creek, l'ort Royal and the White llouso. The column next in importance had its deep-water base within nine milea of a vital point in our defenses. In the cavalry arm (so important in a campaign in a country lite ours) they boasted overwhelming strength. The Confederate forces in \ irginia, or which could be drawn to its dci r / fense from other points, numbered not more than 7f?.U0U men. Vet our great commander with steadfast heart, committing our cause to tho Lord of battles, calmly mado his dis. position to meet tho shock of the invading hosts. Iii sixty days tlie groat invasion Iiatl dwindled to a siege of Petersburg (miles from deep water) by the main co^tim which, ' ''shaken in its structure, its valor quenched in h]<>ud. and thousands of its ablest officers killed or wounded, was the Army of the Potomac no more." Mingled with it in th<? lines of Petersburg lay the men of the second column, which fur the Inst forty days of the campaign had been hold in inglorious inaction at Pcrmudah Hundreds by Honuregard, except when a portion of it was sent to share the defeat of June Jrd on the Chickuhcminy, while the third and fourth columns, foiled at Lynchburg, were wandering in disorderly retreat through the mountains of West Virginia, entirely out or tne arena of military opera* tions. * Lee had made his works at Petersburg impregnable to assault, and had a moveable column of his army within two days' march of the Federal capital. He had made a campaign unexampled in the history of defensive warfare. Colonel Tenable concluded bis noble address as follows: "My comrades, I feel that I have given but a feeble pioture of this grand period in the history of this time of trial of oar beloved South?a history which is a great gift of God, and which we must hand down as a holy heritage to our children, not to teach them to cherish a spirit of bitterness or a love for war, but to show them that their fathers bore themselves worthily in the strife, when to do battle became a sacred duty. Heroic history is the living sonl of a nation's renown. When the traveler in Switzerland beholds the monument to the thirteen hundred brave mountaineers who met the overwhelming hosts of their proud invaders, and as he reads in their epitaph : 'Who foil unconquered, hut wearied with viotory, giving their souls to God and their bodies to their enemyor when he visits the places sacred to the myth of William Tell, transplanted by pious, patriotic friends from the sages of another people, to inspire the youth of that mountain land with a hatred of tyrants and a love of beroio deeds?or when he contemplates that wonderful monument by Thnrwaldsea, on the shores of Lake Lucerne, in commemoration of the fidelity in death of the Swiss Guard nf Louis XVT?? rnlofiSfil linn nnf nnf. nf ' ~ ..W.., the living rock, pierced by a fatal javelin, and yet in death protecting the lily of France with his paw?he asks himself how many men of the nations of the world have been inspired with a love of freedom by the monuments and heroic stories of little Switzerland ? ''Comrades, we need not weave any fablo borrowed from Scandinavian lore into the woof of our history to inspire our youth with admiration of glorious deeds in freedom's battles done. Tn the true history of this army of Northern Virginia, which laid down its arms not conquered, but wearied with victory, you have a record of deeds of valor, of unselfish consecration to duty, and faithfulness in death which will teach our sons, and our sons' 90ns how to die for liberty.? Let us see to it that it shall be transmitted to them." Colonel Venahle's verv interesting ad dress was received with frequent bursts of applause from the audience; and yet during the whole of it the decorum observed was remarkable. Ilis touching allusions to the past services of the gallant Army of Northern Virginia drew forth a tear from nearly every eye, and when he eloquently recited the heroic deeds of the faithful sons of the South, his words wero greeted with enthusiastic applause. Now and then a humorous incident of the campaign?the last sixty days of the t ir?as recited by Col. Venable, excited the risibilities of the audience, and the next moment he carried hii hearers through some of the most solemn and impressive scones of those last days of battle, and their laughter was then almost turned into sobbing. Not long ago died the Col. Ruuel, known in the South-West as "Owl Russell," who was once Henry Clay's private secretary.? He was a man of intense egotism, whose chief object in life was to be admired and notorious. Years and years ago, while in the Missouri Legislature, he got the toubriqiut which hung to him all the rest of his life, and actually carried him out of bis political career. It was during a violent po litical debato in which ho had snown an absurd pomposity, that one of his political comrades rose and quietly related a little story. He said that Russcl, one night, while travelling through the wood?, lost his way, and being a stranger in that part of the country, became rather nervous. While in this sorry plight, ho suddenly heard a voice not far away, calling out "Who, who who arc you?" The answer was loud and prompt: "I am Col. William II. Russell, for many years a prominent member of the Kentucky Legislature, was School Commisilnnnr fv<r fhr* southern district of Kentuckv. am now (ho Representative of Calloway County in tlio Missouri Legislature, am spoken of as the Whig candidate for next Congress, and am lost. Who are you?" Of course tho question was repeated, and the answer again returned with all its linked dignity until the audience screamed with laughter and greeted poor Russell whenever he dared to rise with "Who. who are you?" And so he'got his name of "Owl Russell." A woman never tells?that which she does not know. a