The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-05
Another Account ef Mergan's Ex-
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force o. only seven hund red, and engaged
twelve hundred of the. enemy under General
Richard A. Johnson formerly lawyer of Pa
ducah, Kentucky. The enemy were routed
with loss, in killed and wounded, Of ope hun
dred and eighty men, and two hundred taken
prisoners, among whom are general johnson
and two officers Of his staff.
The loss in Morgan's command was. Ave
killed and eighteen. wounded.
The Reaction IN New YoRK.-A gentle
man who has arrived at his home in the South,
after sojourn of about six weeks in, New York
having been taken with captured vesselin
attempting to run the blockade-says the re-
action for peace is making swift, though silent
progress. ~
Meetings of secret organizations and parties
we're held nightly. One Of these parties, said
o comprise very large number Of the most
influential citizens, have put forth the following
remarkable propositions for termination of
the war:
First. A cessation Of all hostilities or armiis-
tice. tea
Second. Each party to pay its own debt.
Third. The resignation or deposition Of
Abraham Lincoln, and new election ip all
the States for new President.
Fourth All the rights of the South to DO
guaranteed by special amendments to the Con-
stitution and reconstruction of the Union.
|, Fifth Failing in the, above, a General Con-
vention to be held and terms of separation
agreed upon, with treaty offensive and defep-
sive.
Referring to the military execution of two
deserters, the Richmond Dispatch says: eve
hope the President will take this occasion to
issue proclamation Offering pardon to all de-
scrters who will return to their colors by
named day, and distinctly declaring that he
will not interfere to prevent the death penalty
in any case of conviction for the same offence
hereafter. We hope, too, that Congress will
pass some law enabling him to get rid Of un-
worthy and incompetent officers. It is
they who are the really guilty parties in most
cases of desertion. 1t is their criminal neglect
of duty that occasions the entire RELAXATION of
discipline which leads to it. IF their is no law
let one be made.''
The Yankees have invented peW sewing
machine. 1t is represented as being a marvel
in it's way. Its size and weight are such that
it can be carried in the pocket without any in
convenience, and it screws on a table in a
manner not unlike that of the pretty old fash
ioned Sewing Bird" which it also resembles in
Its "bJou," ornamental appearance. 1t opper-
ates by turning small crank, using only
needle, and produces a running stitch, very neat
and even in its proportions, and exactly adapt
ed to running up skirts, hemming, tucking,
gathering and many other kinds of work which
cannot te done on other sewing machines, and
which enter largely the elemepts of family
sewing. ssa
REBELS IN CoNNxcTIcuT-The following
placard, according to to the New York Express,
was posted about the streets of New Haven on
Wednesday night 9th ult:
'Let the standard of the Confederate States
be carried beyond the boundaries of the Con-
federate States of America, that we may de-
mand from the Federal Government our rights
and our recognition, and that the traitor Lin
coin shall kneel to US while we dictate to him
terms" $50
Another was as follows: Hs'
"If we are drafted, we shall be treacherous to
E = I'll, the Government.
Southern Independence or Death"
The other: ,
~The Federal army is again defsatedl