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. i ? ' , ^, I I "l * * * ... * ~ s ' 1 ^ "VOL. 1 CAMDEK, 8?o3?^^ij^^XY,~^]5"STcfOT W&1-4&; _ . ... -1* .'.? _ ' . ... v" ... ?' ~ ' ? V ??I I?w^???? ?w?p?Pi^wi?p?r??tummmmmrnma?? ?? ' ? ..." >>' ?< . ?'--*? 1 | " < ?? f ~ L . _ : 1 TM.h ? - By P, P. HOOOTT. '^.Teynig oT Bu-bscriptiop.. . * pep.teosfh^' --; V V$3.00 ' u :..;V \: w> for Blic Mofiths '* - ' $15.00 Weekly, ? - * - $5.00 *;>? ; B^tes fov Advertising: . ' For ono 8quaro?: twolve lines or lese ?TWO DOLLARS ?ud FI?TTCKNt$'^or. .the .first insertion, aiod'TWG DOLLARS foV eaob subseqeunt. OeiTU&fty.Notices," exceeding one square, fcharged at adverti&ng'rates. ' * Transient Advertisements and Job Wori MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE ' - i Nbidflductibn-ftiade, except Ao our regular advertisng patrons' " <I>IWW^WWBBWWBWBWIBWI imh PJI? w***pmmvwm 9?elf?ion hi Uic Army. Wo arc cnablccftto lay before x>nr readers the following "extracts from a letter of Bishop Lay to a relative in. this city, not designed for publication. Bishop Lay. is now engaged in missionary labor with tho Army in Georgia, under, Ge.neral Hood : Yesterday, in Strawl's ".brigade, I preached and confirmed nine nnranVic ?;?*!? t T , iiHOU lllgilt VI ? had a very soleipn service in Gen. Hoods room, some forty persons, chiefly Generals and Staff Officers, being prcsont. I confirmed Gen. Hood and one of hi& Aids, Capt. Gordon, of Savana nah, and a young Lieutenant from Arkansas, Tho service was animated?shells exploded - near by ^11". the time. Gen. Hood, unable to kneel, supported himself ou his crntcb and staff, and with bowed head, recoived the bonediction.. Next Sunday I ara to administer the communion at Headquarters. To night ten or twelvo are . to be confirmed in Clayton's *division. The enemy thoro, are* within two hundred and fifty yards of our line, and the firing is vory constant. I fear it may bo hard to get tho men together. I wished that you could have been present last night,and have seen that company down all upon bended knee, tho reverence was so marked that one could not fail to thank' God that hi hits put such a spirit into the hearts of our leaders. We are requested to add that Bishop Lay is ably supported in his labors by the Rev. Dr. Qtiintard, who is Chaplain and Surceon, ministers to the. body and mind?and than . whom no man is bettor known to, or rnoio beloved by that army. To serve it he has given his time, and sacrificed nearly the whole of his property. To carry on this gopc! work he now needs means. Bihhop Lay writes of hirn : "I told him that he could not leave the army ?-he i$ better than any man in it. Everybody knows him and comes to him for counsel.? There is noCh.aplpin. comparable to him in point of usefulness, and he canqot possibly be I spared. It ? proposed to establish an ec clesiastieal headquarters to move with the army, to have stated servipes, to be always accessible, to *npp!y books and tracts, to receive, the "clergy and show tbera bow to go to work. General Johnston Earnestly endorsed this planand General Hood will furnish all facilities for carrying it but." , . > >: Vandalism in Stafford.?A cavalryman who left Fredericksburg Friday morning, informs the Richmond Winer, that crunboata came within four miles, of, Fredericksburg. They landed ia.party on the Stafford side of the river, proceeded to the honse of the late Col. John Seddon, ten miles below Fredericksburg, ordered his Widow and ^children out of doors, and burnt it to the ground, with all its contents.? The cowardly fiends would not permit the family t6 save a single article from the flames. Iirave men and Christian gentlemen they inudt hav<fcriii the Yankee navy 1 Three gunboats sent to burn the house of a delencless widow, and'.make, houseless her orphan children. It makes one blush to ramembcr wo were ever united tp s.uch a nation of incendiaries, thieves apd cowards. Geo. Forrest has issued an order at Okolona which says : "No ono will be perinitttd to go North of this place, except upon passes issued from or approved nt these headquarters. All persons attempting to go North in violation off this order will be arrcsrted, imprisoned and tried as spies." . \ It is a legal maxim that "the law does not concern itself about small matters but lawyers and law makers ofteu do.. , - . I UM1DM DAILY JOURNAL ' v ' . <. ? * . ?*: *ir ' SATURDAY jfflDIlNIKGt AVJCti; 27., ,, v- j-.v, .? TZ " ~ ? ? ^rTTTT No neWd by telegraph up to tho hour of going to prewthis morning: ' ; i ' --- -". - A convention or all tub confederate and all the United States."?We'think it "is perfectly? plain, says the Charleston Jfarcnry, that the Democratic,' 01 Peaco Party of the United States, wfll'-ldy down attlm Chicago Convention, on one ot the plauks in their Platform, the assembling of this Confederate and the United States together in n Convention, to reconstruct a union betwceu thorn. It is, therefore, time for tho people of the Confederate 8tates to consider gravely | tfyeproposition. * .. t . j Our Yaokco foes have^made war upon us on the : ground, that the Confederate States are not -Statek.? | They have not a particle of sovereignty {' but aro mere districts or counties of a groat consolidated nation, call, ed ihe United States. Of course, they will see or ro cuyiuie no muepeoaence tn inose mates. 'l'hcy will act as if they aie still a part of their groat consolidated nation ; nDil proposing to receive them' into consultation, they will take it for grapted that that rebellious agency at Richmond is qfuito competent to bring them in. If they have read the Constitution of the Confederate States they will naturally infer, that it cannot bo raor6 sacred, than their own Constitution of the United States, which is only a piece of dirty rotten paper, respactort or observed by nobody. Hcnco they talk flippantly of making a treaty or agreement with the Confederate Government at Richmond, by which afl the Confederate States are to be brought' into a Convention.with them. Xow, it is well for our Yankee foes, as well as our Government at Richmond to understand, thi.t tho Constitution oftho Confederate States confers no power whatever on their agency at Richmond, to put any of them into a convention with any foreign State whatever. There is but one kind 6f convention which it can convoke, and for but one purpose?and that is, a Convention of the Confederate States to amend their Constitution. Tho Constitution sajs: ''Upon the demand of any threo States' legally assembled in their sover.il Conventions, the Congress shall summon a Conveution of all tho StatM, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution an tho said Stntos shall concur in suggesting at tbe lime the said demand is made, and ' should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on hy said Conveution?voting hy States?and tho same he ratij ficd hy tho Legislatures of two thirds of the several j States, or b}* Conventions in two thirds thereof?as the ono or tho other mode of ratification may he proposed by th^Cencrnl Convention?they'sliall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution.'' But it may be said?that by tho Confederate States Constitution, the President bus tho power, ''by and with the advico and consent of the Senate," to make tfeaticB; and if the President make3 a treaty by nud with the advice and consent of tho Senate, providing that the Confederate States shall go into a Convention tviflt f Ko Ctofao r\C TTnil A/1 * 11 * i *t?vi> uuv ijiniuvp ui vku uuiinu iq aner &0Q amend their ConRtitution?are not tlio Coiitederate Statea bound to go into the Convention? We answer, nol The CQnfederato Stuteaare separate sover* eignties. They have agreed with onch other that the Congrvs of the Confederate 8tates may summon them to go into Convention with each other, for oue purposo?and one ouly. They have agreed with oach other, that their compact of Confederation between thorn aball be altered or amended in ono wny, and in one way only. To break this compact, and attempt to alter or amend it, in any otbor way, is n clear j breach of faith. The Confederate agency, may treat with foreign nations*concorniDg any oftho powers the 1 Constitution confers upon it. It can make a treaty ^ with foroign nations regulating tlio commerce between t t.nm aii olinillh*in? - A * ? tnviu, >! ov.pn.nviub luimn 01 uBbiRumce >or onenco or defence against other nations, or for the mutual rendition of criminals, or for abolishing privatoering on the high sens. These aro mattorft over which, by the Constitution, it has contn^. But it has no control over the action of XbeAovereiga States, beyond the limited grant in the Ccflfttitution ; and can no more order them into a convention with a foroign nation, than it can extinguish them as sovereignties. It is entrusted with the conduct of our foreign affairs ; but lias uo? power whatever to convoke the States to settle them by altering their Constitution. This would be an usurpation, not relating to our foreign affairs only, but to our internal affairs in the vital matter of altering tho internal structure of tho Government. To Bnch an usurpation of power there would, of course, be but ono course for tho States to pursuo? repudiate am} object it/ ' ! 1 ' v *. * :.-~?..... . DeclipaUou; .. . H? the Citizens of Kershaw District: Finding that the interests of my command roqnire my. wholo care ,and: attention, on accgjmt of the increasing demands of duty tipon it, I have determined (thought confess with reluctance)to withdraw. iny naino as a candidate" for elfttion to tbo House of Representatives for the next term. I return toy warm and heartfelt thanks to the friends who nomiuated me, and to the many who bavo written roe such encouraging hopes. At some futuro time, when the alarms of war shall have ceasod, if my fellow-citizens deem me then fit for thoir worthj* honors it will prove a source of gratification aud pride tp me to serve in tho councils of the oountr}*: Very- respectfully, * Your nioat ob't servant, W. L. DePASS. Camp Rose, August 22.d, 1864. ;mc ?iid of tlie War. "Wo arc asked fifty times a day, more or less wficn we think the war will end. As we have no right to think, in the absence of data to think upon, we are sometimes at a loss for an answor. However, for the information of thoSe who are particularly inquisitive and anxious upon the subject, wo will relate h dream tlu^ a friend of ours had upon the duration of the war, which may thrdw seme "light upon tho subject. He dreamed that he woke from n sloep of fifty ycare, and found himself upon tho south bank of the Rapidan. He saw at a little distance from the spot where he awoko a corporal with 17 men and a wheelbarrow, lie ap pro^chod and asked the corporal what this little gathering meant. *'This," replied the corporal, "is the Army of Northern Virginia!"? "Where arethe Yankees?" enquired our friend. "They are on tho otljer side of tho river," re-, plied the corporal. "They have the advantage of us in'mimbors and transpoitntion?as they have twenty-one men and two wheelbarrows? but.fce expect to get tho advantage in position, will whin ? ??/! ...... 1 " ...... ...su.iu urn.ii iiiiv nni mil rim. ? As this is the best and *11 the information -we have about the probable duration of the war, we give it free gratis for nothing at all.?Abingdon Virginian. t* A Tolori Toast.?Any one who has been in St. Augustine, Florida, an}* length of time, nmst have scan or heard of old C ; who has, until recently kept a store in that city, who had the misfortune to be deaf. lid had a stock of good liquor in the cellar, and the officers at the post cultivated C '? acquaintance, and appeared very friendly, although some of them disliked him, and thought ho was a little too 'stingy," hut they were -always ready to drinkwhen he asked them to "take something." a)u one occasion he invited a few of them into his back room ; the old "rye" was turned out and the er I asses raised, when one officer who wished to amuse his companions a little at C 's expense, gave the following toast in rather a low tone of voice : "Mr. C , hero is hoping that yon \vill go to h?1. Old C did not hear what was said, but seeing the officer's lips move supposed that he had paid him the usual compliment of drinking his health, and promptly responded :" "The same to you, sir, and all of your family." The laugh was turned on the officer, who was punched-for his impoliteness. ' WnisKEY Rations to thr Yakkkk* iv Front of Petersburg.?Tbe Baltimore A)rtitrican of the 13th inst., convinces us that the Yankees in front of Petersburg are reaping the full benefit of the malaria of. the James and Appomattox. It says, despondingly : 4tAa a sanitary measure, and to" counteract the efforts of malaria on the troops serving in the Department of the South during the warm months, tho Medical Department has directed that whiskey,- with quinine, in prophylactic j doses, shall be issued to the men, particularly , those on duty in districts especially malarious, or on excessive fatigue duty, only on the rccom- 1 mendation of the senior medical officor of tho district in which service is performed. The distribution of whiskey to the men performing only ordinary fatigue, dqty has been, discontinued.",:. ' ' v 4 j ? - ; - , Corn is soiling in.tbe vicinity of Columbus, , .Miss., at one. dollar.an4 a quarter per bushdlj* i??n? ???1=?ggggPg? A SuccEBsrcb Confederate Raid.?Colft* nol Rowan, with 250* men, lias just returned from a successful raid into East Tennessee,' where he destro^d the 'splendid rail road' bridge, 780 feet long, over the Tennessee river at London, capturing 75 prisoners, brought, away 700 pairs, blankets and 200 uiiifbthis, besides destroying a considerable number qf^wsgons and other property. '1lie movement' would have b^cn a surprise but for. the treachery of sotno porsons, whp revealed the plan Jto the enemy and caused them to be oirthe alert, A fight ensued in consequence, durlhg which we loss five killed and twelve or thirteen', wounded, and tho Yankees suffered a loss of about forty killed, besides a number wounded.' Our forces consisted- of soldier* recently exchanged, and started from a pointr near the * Tennessee line. aekms of l'kack.?-The New York Herald has the following on this subject: In his ultimatum, addressed "to whom it/ may concern," Mr. Lincoln lays down the abolition of slavery as one of the terms of peace.. Where did he get his authority fof t|jis! What section of the Constitution-authorizes it ? When was the war for the Union transformed into a crusade agaiust s[avery ? By what. right does Mr. Lincoln presume to say that the emancipation of negroes is as much the object of this war as the restoration of the Union? What party sustains him in this view of the case ? If the South jfish to go back into tbo Union with slavery, what party will dare to oppose their return ? The Northern peoplo caro running about slavery. What they want is tho Union. Who will lefusis to let tlinni have that when the iel?cl>> offer to l^y down their arins * For Sale rPWO GOOD PLANTATION' WAGQNS. APPLY X TO S. SHIVER. August 27 P> To the Public. K. THE UNDERSIGNED PHYSICIANS 01' * * Camden, in consideration of the laienclion nl'the Medical Society of Charleston, iner?iising their charges from three to live times thy^e ?? their old fee bill, have M agreed from tlio present date to adopt tin? tnininum recommendation, making our fchnrgCHThree titues tho usual feis, which WC believe is as low as is adopted in any part of the State. Discretion will be u'sed in par' tieular cases. v L. Hv DMAS, MP. L. V. DicSAUSSURE, MD. T. W. SALMON It. Mt>. H. 11 MAT11KSON, MD. JOHN .MgCAA, MD. til - August 25 ? NEW cimi ? r I "M I 15* S17 BRCRJ BE It BKC.S LEAVE TO IK FORM tjie citizens of Camden, and tho surrounding country, thnt lie has on hand, for sale the folloWWhg articles, to wit: s Salt, Lard, Bacon, Butter, Flour, Meal, (Writs, Brown Sugar, Molasses, Kice, Tobacco. .Cigars, -Soda. Cotton Cards, Cotton Yarn, Coffee, Black Peppor, Vinegar,* Crust Sutrar, ?c, all of which will be sold ht the lowest possible itfites for cash, or exchange for country produce. - ^ August 26 tf BASSETT SIKES. a.. nutxue to uusLiiiers. Distillers of fruit for ninety days or lofts aro required to pay a tax of sixty dollar?, and also fitly conts per gallon on the first ten gallons, and two dollars per gallon on all spirits distilled beyond that quantity. Parties interested will pleane take notice of this, otherwise tho ponalty will be imposed. JOHN OANTEY, ) . It. M. KENNEDY. \ Asse!,BorflWar Tax Office, August 20th 1864. August 28 2 Notice. All persons having ^claims -against the Kstato of Angus McLeod, of Kershaw Dis trict deceased, will present ilie aau.o to me duly attested, all persona indebted to aaid Estnto will make payment to me, as It ia desirablo to sottlo up the Estate as soon as possible. August 24 3 j. e. KODGEItS, ei'tr. Hog Stolen. Any person having purchased within tho pastr'\veek, a small white and blac^itaal? jhoat, unmarke<V"wifl.please report the samolto t'hia jffiee. Tbey shall.not loose the hog, the object fcefng io detect the thiofc ^ ' August-26 ^ - 3d