The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-03
The latest Northern News.

SENAToBlA, Mss, September 500 10, tho
Mobile Advs, tiser,)) The Memphis Bullss;n.
OF the 29th inst. has been received here. It
says that there is no news of Importance from
the North. All was quiet along the lines Of
the Potomac. Private dispatches received in
Washington from McClelIan's Headquarters
represented matters as dull. l'
A despatch, dated Louisville, September "a,
says that that place is no longer threatenedE
BuelPs advance having arrived, via Salt River.
Bragg is concentrating his forces at Bloomfield.
KY.
correspondent of the New York Tribune
in describing that fight at Shepherdstowp, Va,
says: .SsGy
NBarnes' brigade crossed the Potomac at,
Sharpsburg on Saturday. No sooner had thew
crossed than it was discovered that they wore,
hemmed in on three sides by overwhelming
masses OF rebels, who Immediately opened a
most terrific fire OF musketry from every part
OF their lines. Gen. Barnes, who was in com
mand OF the Brigade, instantly ordered his.
men to fall back across the ,iver. A scene Of
the widest confusion and most terrific slaughter
then occurred. The rebels pressed them close
ly and shot our men down by hundreds. as.
they attempted to recross the river. Great
numbers of the wounded could not contenal
with the rapid current, and were almost in
stantly drowned"
"A late Chicago paper says that the advices..
rom the Upper Potomac to the effect that our
(the Yankce) troops had made no forward
movement, though active operations would not !,
long be delayed. Gen Lee's headquarters are
at Falling Waters; the rebels are concentrating
at Winchester, which place is being fortified.
Mcclellan, in an official statement, estimates.
his loss in tie battle of the Antietam (Sharps-
burg) at 1920 killed, wounded and missing.
while that.of the enemy, he says exceeds lo,-
600. ...l-9s.,''t
A despatch from Washington to the Chica-
go Times says that the rumor that draft ia
about to be made has a foundation, in fact to
the extent that President Lincoln has er-
pressed his determination ain ease the country
does not At once rally under the policy an
nounced in his Emancipation Proclamation.
that he will Immediately enforce the draft nm
I'll our army reaches an aggregate of million.
of men,"
SPo1Ls.-A writer to the Msss;ssippian emu
merates Gen. Prices spoils at Iuka as follows /.
Fifty or sixty wagons were ready to drive off.
but the Yankee teamsters did not have time to.
hitch the teams, but thought it wise to save
their own bacon by leaving the wagons and
riding off with the mules. Sixteen hundred
barrels Of flour remained in one pile a near the
station house, besides what was found in the
commissary. About eight thousand sacks, Of /.
grain were piled up on the edge of the town
besides some five thousand more upon the plats !;
OF the depot. Cheese, lard, clothes, and va
rious good things were found in abundaEce..- .-
Ihe Campaign i'm Kentucky.
MURFREsBoRo', TENN, September 2s-A
gentleman just arrived here from Bracg's army.
reports that Bragg and Kirby Smith have ss
formed junction, and were within twenty
miles OF Louisville. Humphrey Marshall was 3
at Rising Sun, on the Ohio River, twenty miles
below Cincinnati, and had closed the nayiga-
ton OF the river. Buell., at last accounts, was
on Green River. The Efty-third Kentucky
regiment had been mustered into Confederate
service. The enemy's force at Louisville was
sald to be 6o,00o--c consisting chiefly Of new