The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-07-13

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Returnof The IRON Age. =
Great men and minds, as; The types and rep
resentatives of their race and people, give color
and name to the. periods during whjch. they
exist. We have heard of the men with the
..'iron mask" but when we consider our Presi-
dent, we congratulate ourselves on his Superb
ority, in being iron all over, and, therefore,
having no necessity for mask Of that metal
We are told that he is man of '.iron will"
''lron purpose" and iron dctermination;;'' and
We believe it. We claim him as true repre-
sentative Of an iron, agSp come again. If this
had not been All iron age, we could not have
endured what we have gone through for three
years aThe actual presence or tile attributes
Of iron are visible everywhere, proving this to
be- an ron age, onr people and iron people, and
our President an 'iroh President. Most of our
cities have had iron thrown at them, and have
throwpIt BACK, ct troublesome parcel Of peo-
pie, with whom I'VE. have been for. some time
interchanging "lfoh 'civilities" The iron has
penetrated everywhere. It has gone into the
Naval Department, ahd Mr.. Mallary has sent
it; ont in -cads, and has then sent the iron
cads, either mp or down, by the persuasion of
has gotten among the mailbags, and the clerks
of the department have dropped their qiiils,
taken rifled 'tub bes Of the metal and cone to
Bottoms Bridge. Md tho consequence is,
that we fear VIC shall never see the bottom of
our maii-bags, nor. anguished dear ones at
home the bottom of their sufferiugs, fears and
anxieties about loved ones in the army.
All this comes Of our living in AN iron age,
and having an iron President Now. we
greatly admire iron, but we also do not like
too much Of it. We praise the President for
hayiugso much, but we think he ought not to
ewholly iron We think he should hive
"bowels OF compassion" and not Of the stern
metal, in order that he may feel how our pos-
pie want to hear from their children, fathers,
husbands, brothers and friends in the army.
Iron should, by all means, be kept out of the
post office, and the mails allowed to 60 on.
We feel that the "books of STEEL" which bind
Bragg and Pcmberton to our destahies, arc too
strong to DC broken, but we hope ethe from
has not "entered" too deeply into the mail
bags.
We know that the return of the ten clerks
to the post office will jcopardze Bottoms
Bridge, but we have that abiding confidence
in General Lee, which induces us to believe
that ne can remedy this Withdrawal Of troops
from his command, by some species. of strategy,
at present unknown and incomprehensible to
u.s. The ten clerks at Bottoms Bridge are
said to be suffering much from musquitoes and
blackegnats, and their rest is much broken bv
the nightly music Of ,bqll7frogs We believe
they will be better service to tho country !, in
the post office, than at Bottom's Bridge, or
any other pons asinoruns that Grant sRou]d
attempt to cfoss.--Ia IaichmonH WAiq.
Switzerland, already so rich in beautiful
scenery, has found new feature which adds
to its wonders Of nature. sNear St Maurice
in the Canton de Maud, grand crystal cavern
has neep discovered, at which one arrives by a
boat on asubterfanean lake. : The cavern lies
1900 feet below the surface Of the earth, and
it is said to be beautiful Beyond description.
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