The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-10-19

we should think, in what they have done ana what
they have prevented us from doing to million more
Of men.
GOOD MovE-1tis stated that. Col. 0ULD, c. S.
Commissioner, for exchange prisoners is now on the
eve Of euterng into fresh negotiations for an agree
ment which shall secure for each Government the right
10 furnish TO its own soldiers IN the hands of the other
such supply of warm clothing and blankets as may be
required for comfort during the approaching winter
and stated ration of meat bread cUfee sugar. pickles
and vinegar, so thatactual physical suffering shall not
be added to those that are inseperabe from imprison
ment.
The Richmond Sentinel Of the 18th, has 1lie follow
ing items from Richmond and the Valleys
The armies confronting each other on the. James
River with the exception Of some artillery firing night
before last remain quiet GRANT seems ndisposed
renew hecombat; inGeed, we do not believe be is
iii condition TO act IN the offensive. His army
which is believed to have dwiudled down to 5000
men-is not Of the :naedal that which crossed
the Rapidan last May, but it is chiefly composed of
new recruits and negroes.
DE.ERTIoNs FRoa TIE ESEMY.-since our Govern
ment have adopted, the policy Of sending Yankee de-
serters through the lines TO their homes instead Of
holding them as prisoners of war; they have been COM
ing within our lines in large numbers and when those
who are drafted learn how easily they escape and
the fncility afforded them by the Confederate Govern
pent 10 return 10 their own country, they will come
by hundreds.
at first most of The Federal dcserters were foreign
ers but for several days nearly all who lave arrived
within our lines are natives oftNe United States
BUTLER PnREyoLoGIcALLY DEvgLopED.-BrrLER,
wilhelm New York shot time ago WAS examined
by Professor FowIEr who, it is said gave him phre-
nologca explanation o tie peculiar defect in hs NOR
al organization by atributng it to an unhealthy dc.
velopmcnt of the organ of appropriateness. lie re-
marked, however immediately afterwards in sooti-
ing tone, that this bump IN the Great Mariboroue's
head was almost il not quite large and that it is
and has been in all agesa peculiar characteristic of
true greatness, to have petty foibles and tang weak
nesses. The General greatl5 gratifed replied Few-
I.ER you are smart fellow and benefit to yorr
race. When Fam President you shall be provided
| for. a
i FROM GEoRGIA.W We are still without any definite
information from our army in Georgia. owing wesup
pose to the embargo laid by Gen. HOOP on the send
ing 6f dispatches The following extracts may sssist
in dispellipg The fog which just now shrouds every
thing in that quarter:
| MAIL OFrIcE, MONTGOMERY, TUEsDAY-lI
A. .M.-The movement of Gen. Hood s army has
at last developed into march for Middle Ten.
nessee, and has thus far proven entirely success
ful..
After destroying tbe State road, with its gar
risohs, from Big Shanty to Kingston; the army
turned to the left towards Rome, and en- route
for the Tennessee river.
! Wehaye no doubt that the report of our
special correspondent, "E. p" is altogether
correct, and that by this time large part of
our army is North Of the great river.
Sherman, with aportion of his men, is at
Chattanooga, but he will be forced back to de-
fend Nashville.
The garrison at Atlanta viii be isolated and
starved out.
A young man was arrested iu Chicago few
days ago, forrnnning away with and selling
horse and buggy. Another mans wife was in
the buggy.
The Indians in Kansas are visiting upon the
Yankees just retribution for their cruelties to
Southern men there, and further South.
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