The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-02-19
FROM TIE SOUTH WEST.

gun OOalS anu ohc piISadc iiNc just appeared,
standing in the same course.
E NOBLE, Feb. l5.-Merdan was evacuated
Yesterday. The Government propc.ty WAS
saved. Advices from Enterprise to-day state
the enemy have not appeared there.
Capt. Adder Of FORESTS staff, has arrived
here. lie left Forrest at Oxford, on The 9th,
confronting column Of infantry, 600" strong,
from Memphis via. lcrharrdo and twelve
regiments of cavalry via. CoIIicr>vilc.
Advices from Gen. s. D Lee report Sher-
man, $4,000 stron. OF all arms, marching in
close order. Lees cavalry is hovcring on his
fanks, pisking up srrggiels. Persous report
that they left the Big Black with twenty days
cooked rations.
Gov Watts this morning ssncd a proclama-
ton 10 the citizens of Mobile. in which he
states isI@t the city is about 10 be attacked, and
'-expecH non combatants to leave.
FROM RIcHM. Nd.
RI a&D, February lO.-Ar anction to-day,
eight' snt: !n! Confederate bonds lro"sht 10
brought rU6l-2; bonds Of the fifteen million
loan, with coupons attached 73 bonds Of the
fifteen non loan, r 'gistered, l6J; cottonIoan
bonds brought rs, fiat.
RtcHMoNn, February l3.-TEerc WAS IT.
port Inst night that the Yankees were again
coming mp the Peninsula, said to he proceeded
br al advanced troop of cavalry, supposed to
be u T." direction of BarhamSvilIc.
ni"tMpSD February lG.-Nor,hcrn dates of
thc I,h aul 18th have been received. \
C'n"cc'i'ut Regiment lost one hundred and
', Ill ll..l IN, tl ,Ir, -, a.
folr hundred rebel officers, ncIIll.iuy Jcit
Thompson and Captain breckenridge, have
been transferred from Johr<om's Island to Bal.
timorc.
Hon. Mr. Garnctt. Representative in Con.
fedcratc Congress, died in Essex County i lew
days ago.
FROM FLORIDA.
LAKE CIr', Fla February II
To Grnc,al Than $ Jo dn":
The enemy, As surpassed. attacked my com
mand at nine and half, H. m. After two and
a half hnurs sharp filing, we drove them hand
soulc'y. They are at this time in full retreat
on S,ndrr,uu.
(SsnrD JOS. FINSAGAS,
Brigmlicr.(icnrl.l Commanding.
LATEST NORTHERN SEws.
4 Telegram i"m W;>l"gni, of the S;lI,-
SAYS parties rrnr The front rr'Incscrt thai llm.
Unon l,o"I'- rxi".rirrr,I considerable !,,>S "n
thc:r rrt.lru from the ar demonstration, tic
Ra lan. Nnihng us interest from the army
ul fcmHvS>rr.
Congressional proceedings unilnportant.
Guild I59 SIS.
Colts pistol factory at Hartford WAS destroy
ed by fire OH the 5th inst Ile loss is i'm
mensc.
The late escape OF n vessel from the port
of Richmond, will a cargo of one hundred and
fifty boxes OF tobacco. has given rise tn several
stories rs to the paltles concerned and the des-
tnaton OF the craft. The vessel, 4 single mast
schooner, had been heretofore engaged in the
humble service of hauling wood TO Ruckc,ts
from below, in charge OF a man, who, according
to one story, hired or sold himself and vessel
to five or six Jews, among them one Henry
jerks, living on Church Hill, to carry a cargo
of tobacco to Petersburg. The tobacco was
shipped from the auction house of Mcssrs.
Robinson, Adams l. Co., put on board, rcgu
lar clealarct obtained, and the man in charge
OF the craft set sail, oster,sibly for the "cockadc
city, as his port of otdestnaion, it being under
stood that the conS gucrS Of the cargo, or their
ageut should procee'i to Petersburg by ral,
and await the arrival Of the vessel aud tobacco
But instead of steering into the Appomattox
river, the "srprrcarg"" KEEP, on with all the
speed that wind aud sail could lend him, think.
ing, doubtless, to find better tobacco market
at Fortress Munloc than in Petersburg, with
the advantage of cash in grr"nImcks.
lhc other story is, that the six Jews accom-
panied the craft as crew that ;hc plan WAS
made mp beforehand, and that vrssc!. cargo a. i
Jews are gone. The above is the first regular
clearance from the port Of Richmond since the
usS-Rishmond Graminer.