The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-29
From North CaroIii,a

correspondence Vi the 24th says, that three thou
sand Yankees attack our pickcts and three rer
'ments at Gum Swamp, on Friday, and surprised
and routed them. We had several wounded.
and nifty to one hundred taken prisoner We
LOOK eight prisoners. General Hill forced the
enemy back, and drove them to within eight
miles OF Newbern The Colonel commanding
the Yankees reported killed. The enemy burnt
the court house and other buildings at Trenton,
Jones County, Friday, aud robbed and plum
dered the citizens as they went.
"A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.-We regret to learn
that the powder mill, located about fourteen
miles from Charlotte on the Catawba River
was clown up on Saturday morning, about s
o'clock
The PRESIDENT S. w. Davis Esq, was not
III the mill when the explosion took place.
iIve OF the operatives were killed. The follow
ing Sa list of the killed: Charles Klucppcl
berg, Sup, John N. Lee, George Hutchison,
Christopher Ounce, John Ocher. 1t is i'm
possible to account for the accident. The mill
house is entirely destroyed, but the principal
portion OF the machinery is uninjurcd.
Charlotte Bulletin.
ARR1vAL.-Thc Confederate steamship Gen.
Beanregard, Captain l.. NJ. Coxetcr, arrived here
yesterday from Nassau, which place she left on
Tuesday evening last. The Bcaureuard was
hrcd at flttccn times by the Yankee blockadcrs
and one OF them discharged his broadsidc but
1t did no harm. She brings the most Valuable
assortment of goods that has eutercd the port
for some time. The steamship Orion and
Sirius were left at Nassau but have since ar
rived.
The steamer britannia from this city arrived
their on Monday last.
1t is with much regret that we announce
that Captain Coxeter rctircs from his ship with
this trip, and that his valuable services as a
shipmastcr will be, for a period at least, lost to
lis. His health, which has been indifferent
required that he should remain ashore and re-
crut, after passing through two years of intense
excitement, first as commander of the Pri-
vatccr Jefferson Davis, and afterwards in the
steamers Antonica, (IIcrald) and Beauregard,
(lavelock) AS the commander of an armed
vcssel in the early stages of the war; his name
was terror to Yankee shipmasters, and the
steamer which he has for some time had charrc
ofhave been of great value in bringing into tin e
country military supplies. On one occasion his
ship came near being blown out of the water
by the Yankee steam sloop of war Adirondack
and he has been frequently fired at more or
less heavily, but has always passed the Lincoln
blockade successfully Charleston Courier.
ARR1vAL.-The steamship Orion, Captain
F. N. Bonneau, arrived on Friday night, hav-
ing left Nassau on Wednesday. She was fired
at by the Yankees off hisharbor, but sustained
no damage.
The Orion is a beautiful vessel, and has
every qualification necessary to make lner a
successful blockade runner.
Captain Thomas Lockwood, formerly of the
Kate, has arrived in Nassau in command o,rthc
steamer Atlantic.
The British steamer Flora, which had left
Nassau, it was feared, has been taken by Yam
kee n-boat, as she was chased, and firing
was heard in the direction which she went.
Wesare gratitied, however, to report her safe
arrival at Wilmington, after passing thr ough
another heavy fire off that port.