The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-08-11
CAMDEN DAILY JOURNAE..
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The Yankee Press generally is jubilant overt the re
moval OF Con. JOHNSTON from command


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MILITARY PROMOTION. Brigatlcr General WILLIAM
MALONE has been appointed Major, General in the
Confederate Army, tho date Of his commission to he
from tho 3oh Of July, 1864. General MAlloNE has
hcen acting Major General for some time ms
InR PRISONERS AT ANDERSON WILLIE. -gIhc large
number Of Fcrras have been capturing lately has
increased the number Of prisoners Andcrsonville to
over thirty thousand. and the Cry is "sti they come
We learn ysthc Macon Telegraph, THAT not a day
PASSES without from hundred to ono thousand az
rive and arcsaH'lcd TO tin, number.
y FALL INDEEr.-A negro woman foil asleep in one
Of the windows IN tic second story Of TIC Planters
Hotel iii Augusta. OH Sunday hight and during her
nap made plunge and landed head foremost in the
yard The conc,sson Of course was Il severe one.
No bones broksn-thc scull remaining sound and I'm
cracked. The distance was about forty feet.
HARD SroRy.-An exchange tells the following
hard story:
n hog Of marsh in England becoming dry, tho pco-
pic were surprised ut the Sight Of square milo of frogs
moving across hetcounry tho old frogs ,ciM Hne freq,
upon Mei docks, and all led by huge old parilrl,s,
oalisratng to the nearest water
We have seen circular published by Mr.. Tn0Mr-
son ALLEN, Commissioner Of Taxes in which he states
that tax payers arc positively required to make re-
turns OF their quarterly sales within twenty days af
ter the Assessors give notice that they are ready to re-
ccve them. The law is stringent, and we would adj
wise all registered persons having quarterly returns TO
make, to bear tins important matter in mind if thcv
wish to avoid the penalties attached to neglect of
this duty.
Tie news from Mobile, which We published IN an
extra day before yesterday morning although unlvor-
ablc need create alarm for tho safety of that city,
Fort Gaines Which secns:to have been surrendered
unnecessarily, is than thirty miles from, tho city
Fort Powell which was IN cartllwork on thu, north
side Of Grahts lass, was even further Tho .lexs Of
these two forts will have no more influence in ccctin
the reduction Of Mobile, than the capture o. Fort Put
lask did in s2c;rHg the fall Of Savannah, And as for
Mr.. MALLoEYs roncats, they have only .ulrt their
destiny. >Bnt the country will learn with great rccr,
the misfortune which has bcl;lilen the gallant Eu,u
ANAN.
RErALlATloN.-There. seems to Lo no doubt that
Gen. EARLY has burned the town Of Chambe rshurr,
Pa, and take this earnest that some portion
Of the devastation Which has marked the track Of the
Yankee armies Confederate soil is to he henccfort
retorted upon the dwcllers in Y Yankccdom For tho
benefit Of those who afraid that this nolicv NAV
ac1ate our friends moth OF tho Potomac we rc.pu-
lish the following from the Den,ocraL a papcr pub-
lislcd i'll Now Jersey:
"Scymorc," an intelligent correspondent the Daily
News is somewhat apologizng because the rebels de-
stroycd bridges and private property in their march
through Maryland. We confess we see not hing TO
arologiz for in this act, though they had raZed
every house To the ground and DESTROYED every yns.
tao Of property in their track that they could not con-
vcnienty carry away. 'Rcvcnge is sweet" accord
ing to tho old adage, and consequently if they had
burned and destroyed, leaving naught but the black
ness Of dcsoa.inn and ruin wherever the feet Of the
Invader pressed soil, it would only be the ndest
retaliation for The unnnmbcrcd ourascs and crimes
which have been committed against deiencclcss ,n-
| protected women and children in tho South by our
| armies during tho last three years of terror and
blood.
This, by the way, is pretty bold as an indication
that the Bastio ganle is played out in Lincondom.
Wo find in the 'oldsboro' .Sufo 0urnul the follow
ingskclch Of Chambcrsb',rg, Pa. which was recently
| burned by our troops under EARLY:
Chambcsburg was a lourishins borough; capital of
Franklin County, situated on the Conccochear,lo
Creek at tic junction Of tho Cumberland Valley Rail-
! road with the Franklin Railroad 10 miles Southwest
tof Harrisburg. and l50 miles West of Phladclphia-
is conncctcdhy good turnpike roads with Baltimore,
| Ptshurg and Philadelphia, and by rairoad with
| Plilalclpnia Harrisburg, &c Tho dwellings were
mostly built Of brick stunc. It had in 1860 = fine
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