The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-09-23
CAMDEN DAILY JOURNAL.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 90


The captured privateer Georgia arrived at Beaufort
N. c., on tho 9th, and would proceed to Boston.
The nomination of McCLELLANis is unsatisfactory to
the Missouri Democracy: They will, however, stand
by it as they say there is no useef boiling.
Itappears that regular military department. has
been erected in Southern Koatucky, comprising an
area ofeight pcpulous counties.
Is IT TRUE IA Northern telegram announces that
FaRRAGUT hassucceeded ip Obtaining the services Of
she man who sot topedoes in Mobile Bay, aid is now
engaged in taking them up s
The capture of the rebel guerilla and fsider, Quan
trel is announced to have been recently effected lin
Indianapolis He was there in disguise and was re-
cognized on the street by a refugee.
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s DRIFTING INTO An APEx.-A Cannda editor gives
an account Of an interview with ABRAHAM HANKS
who appears to have been in noralzing, and is re-
ported as having sads cIt is very strange that T.
boy brought up in the woods, and seeingtas it were
but little of te,word, should be drfted into the very
apex of this great event"
The fool had probably heard, says tue Charleston
Nerca,y, of vortex but concluded that any sort OF
an er into wlIich he drifted must be an ape,et.
Postmasters and correspondents should in directing
mail matter to the army Tennessee, carefully avoid
the use oftho name of any town. and direct the pack
ages simply army ofTennessee" Glothcr directions
produce confusion, and not unfrequenty occasion de-
lay in the delivery Of the packages at their proper des
tnatlon. sThe army OF Tennessee" isa distinct post
Office and letters directed to sGrifn" or NAtlanta,
though the persons towhom they may beNirected are
in the army and the regiment and brgades is indicated
in the supescrphon do not necessarily go into the
Office of the army Of Tennessee" and consequently dc
not reach their destination. Therefore, TO avoid Al.
mistakes address tile packages to the 'army of Ten:
nessee" alone.
ENTERPRlsING IN THE WRoNG DIRECTioN--
There yet appears to be a few newspapers
which are determined, in: some way, TO give the
Yankee Generals information in regard to move
ments AID matters tliatpuglit to be kept Sc
cret. A short time since the Commandant of
this post very respectfully requested the press
not to make any mention whatever in reGardto
the disposition of the prisoners lat Ardcrson-
sonville. Well, what do we see Why. one
of them in their Tuesdays issie gives Sherman
a very valuable piece of information by stating
that the Yankee prisoners arc being rapidly
sent from Andersonville, ito Savannah, Charles.
ton, and Columbia" This kind of enterprise
enterprise which is calculated to do us injury
lis We think enterprise in the wrong direction.
There may be difference of opinion. however,
on this subject-for it is an old saying that
"great men will differ. Chronicle and Sen.
tinel.
GEN. JosErH E. JoHNsToN-It is believed by.
many shrewd persons that the fall of Atlanta,
and the loss of the immense Stores that were
suffered to accumulate there, will open tie eyes
Of the President wide enough to see and ac-
knowledge his error in removing Gen. Johnston
from the command Of the army, and. that he
will reinstate the beloTed chief whom he. has
dealt with so harshly, by way Of conciliating
F the people, and at the same time giving the
country convincing proof of his magnanimity.
We would not tear. a leaf from the laurel wreath
that encircles the brow of the gallant Hood but
think With the Philadelphia Enquirer, that if
Joseph b. Johnston had been commanding the
army of Tennessee, at Atlanta, Sherman would
have been whipped ere this. We have, how
ever no heart to quarrel with President Davis,
but hope he will yet do justice to Gen. John.
ston. Selma Reporter.
1t is said that Frederick the Great required
all the judgments of his country, condemning
persons to death to be written on blue paper;
thus he was constantly reminded of them as
they lay on his table among other papers, from
which they were readily distinguished. He
usually took long time to consider such cases,
and thus set an excellent example to sovereigns
of their duty