The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-08-13

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graph says that private letters state that the ercny
arc bow busy mining the salient at tc head OF Ma.
r'tsa street and VIC may very except rc,c,i-
'op of the Petersburg expulsion.
| N.TcHEz To RE EvAruA1ED-A gentleman lust
from Natccz sscs that tho Yankees arc prcparn.. to
cvac'r'tc NacleS. ALI the horde Of lo,usts who
opened their shops there, under Ya,keeausliccs were
mailing up their boxes, closing their Stores a.l, getting
ready to move to some other quarter.
ANoTlEH RAID IN MlSslSSIprl.-trom nrc,orations
being made i'll Mississippi it looks as if the Federa]s
were ABOUT 10 start onlnother grand raid through that
otato. Tho papers say that slcrillas arc fully
prepared to meet them. and will give them warm ro
cepton when they make their appearance
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MILITARY CHANGES General MAuRy, Of Mo-
bile has been ordered to take command of tic Ncpart
ment OF Alabama, Mississippi, and East Loisana-a
pace made vacant by Gen. 5. u. LEE being assigned
70 inc command OF lloons corps in the army of Ten
nes'ce Gen. HIGGINS succeeded Gen MAUKy IN th.
Mobile District
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fAlD FROM PE;SACOIA-It is definitely asrr,,inc1
that Yankee radiug party has left Pensacola E,,
and as advanced UP the line of the railro,d Atl,
accounts they were ut Gonsaa, ,.twcve miles from ,hc
supported by artillery. The number Of the enemy is
not asccrtancd
The Commercial -drertiscr, Il Republican,
paper, makes the following remarks on III. sub
Jet OF the MISREPRESENTATION
The author Of the bogus proclamation las
had the satisfaction OF Seeing all the nr.in ica
tures OF that document ratified bv the President,
and can now justly claim release FROM Fort
Lafayette. We have had the pro.,Iamatio, for
Il HaI {" lasting an,:: prayer, and now comes the
caIl Tor more iro"ps-thc only differences in the
calls being that Howaru's WAS issued on lbc
ISlh ol.A May, and cacd'ior four hundred thou
sand while the Presidents WIS issued on the
i,lh OF July, anhgoes one hundred thousand
better Howard, like his friend Fremont, has
hau TO snllcr Tor attempting to lead public
oplh1on instead OF following after it.. AS things
have turned out, it would have been about as
well to let the bogus proclamation stand as
genuine, Tor III that case we would have been
IN a TAR way OF filling our quota by volunteer
ing before the 5th of September, wllcreas now
1t IS next to an impossibility. Seriously, this
new levy lor five hundred thousand men at the
present season OF the year is no jokc--albcit it
comes from source given to jokes-;lnd it be-
hooves our cltizeps to speedily bestir themselves
to meet the emergency.
= What conld exhibit a morctantastica appear
ancc than an English beau of the fourteenth
century? lie wore long pointed shoes, fasten-
ed to his knee by gold or silver chains hose
OF one color on the one leg and another color
on tho other; short brecchcs which did not
reach to the middle of his thighs coat one
half white and the other half black or bIue: a
long beard silk hood buttoncd undor bis
chin, embroidered with grotesquc figures of an
imqs dancing men, DC, and sometimes orna-
mented with gold and precious stones. This
dress was the height of the mode In the reign
of King Edward III.
Gen. Dr,nhInski the Polish patriot lcadcr--a
soldier OF til" French army under Narolcon the
First and KoSs,th's Comnal.Lc:r ih- thief cf1hc
Hungarian revolutionary torcn--has lust been
buried at Paris Hc was eighty ears Of aec. !
Mr.. Antrohns, tho Chicago artist. who was 7
commissioned by Congress to prepare The dc .
sign for the four thousand dollar COLL medal to
be presented to Gen. Grant, is in Philadelphia, |,
experimenting the construction Of the medal at
the mine.