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

iercd by steamers or" sailing vessels
Among the officers reported wouu!ed in the affair
of the mine, Petersburg arc Col! SMITH of South
Carolina, slightly in shoulder, and Major G1pBEs Of
South Carolina, commanding battalion of artillery. Sc
verely
$780,.
lle Augusta Cons:Gtionalist has been informed
upon authority coming direct from the surgeons them
selves, that lew days after Gen. RooD assumed tho
command of tile army Of Tennessee thar, with hi:
STAFF he visited all tho Hospitals at Atlanta, and that
the result OF his strict inspection was return Of ff.
teen hundred men to the trout
REcoGSlT1oS WITH CoSTISGESuy.-rhc London
1i"es OF July 18th accounts for tho withdrawn; of Mr.
LISDsAI's motion in Parliament for the recognition Of
the Confederate States by the statement that it was
agreed Oh in an interview With PREMIER, held by
Alessrs. LINDSAY and late Commissioner Mr.. Ma
SON. in which Lord PALMERsroS gave "a sort prom
se to support it at moro opportune noment-hati is
to say, when GRANT and SHERMAN have been defeat
ed and the Conedrracy stands in no need Of recocni
uoh' IT Is quite amisthke, says the Richmond lVhiq
to suppose that the Confederate States have ever stoo
! Ill need of recognition, and none the less mistake
on Tie iact that most OF our own people one time
shared in it. Indeed these States were recopnized as
! 'ee ana independent Governments eighty years ago
! by the very Government over which Lori PaLuAc
SloA now presldes and have been sire. as much
independent ana sovereign powers that Government
1"e9 are nos lighting now to achieve Independence
o"' 10 MAINTAIN It, and that in behalf they have given
PROOF OF power superior to any ever furnished by That
hanghty realm.
"heh IN tho history OF that renowned kiug4lom
n'S II ever happened that within the term of three
years ana threo months three millions of men for
that is the number TO which Lincoln last call swcs
DIS lo'erS) nave been summoned toihc field for ruth
less war upon hcr-thr'c millions of men on land, and
nav? numbering now, as is claimed, nearly SIX hun
area vessels OF var and many Of these protected hv
~ hVulncraoe nrAor. and provied with guns doub!y
as formidable as my ever heretofore used in wara
"hcn. we repeat has Great Britain ever given such
proof OF her right to ho considered one of tho lwcrs
OF the earth MS the Confederate States have afforded
~ revshne tins avalanche or aggression and assault +?
LORD lALMKRsroS il behind the times and So we
fear, arc MGsrs. LINDSAY, MASON and other wc,l
meaning persons. We have long since passod ont of
the stage wien we looked across the waters with any,
icty for this measure OF simple Justice and we NAV
well afford to sniIe at the Importance Which these old
toges seem to attach to the doing of an act which wa
hold to be ono of very trivial Importance
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel clo.cs an elab
rate editorial in reply to some structures, with tbe
following paragraphs
For our part, we have our nor,,;t;os. our
aversions; our friendships; but we shall never srren.
der our individuality our independence our PRIVILEGE
speaking the truth We shall fearlesslv oss,ult tHo
measures of tho Administrator when we thinl. thai
they ought to be opposed We shall unsnnrinrl,
bring to'the popular view their sbortcomin9a Uo
shall applaud their acts when we can
We are no maQ Is organ. We know how TO resnoct
All upright true conscientious and ndetendent nnbc
servant Whatever Of support we can v1ve to him
'whjie pu suing luis high, noble patriotic course We
shall freely give. Here is our position We shall
maintanit. So far we have been indeneud,,t We
may lose sono friends whom should be clad to re
tain, we may make enemies by our boldness we NAV
wound by our rahkness but ono thing we incnd 10
do--we shall to The last assert our intcpcndcucc wc
shall dare to speak the rntliaand shall bring within
the range o! our observation the whole field of public
affairs and le columns Of our Journal shall oll times
utter the language which men love TO lear ,yL, tr
that they frccmen, and tIa they have uok surt ~
tercd their liberties, or sold themselves to any ADJ
mnistraton. =
The Wheeling Virginia, Register saws: "rwo
handsome and accomplished young ladies are
to be tried for treason at the June term of the
court at Fairmount. The Attorney General
expects to convict them Of the capital offence.
In that case will thew hn axao,+,jo