The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-20


vAio.' .'gh obtained from !'ri.eir houses tc
'naSc more men in onr division drunk
than | ever saw in two Years before
.\hont IL 7: NJ, fire begs,. to spread ovel
the city, sat! Il aoise from the grand revel
could I:a heard.
TILE ENTIRE CITY IN RuIHs.
About midnight an intimate iri"n,l
who had been in the place from three
O'Clock il, the afternoon, ,cturncd to the
regimen, and reported as tnllows. "lTs
'ehoh c'tyFs IN fumes and the r01ok army
rs da~ak. The place is: swimming with
liquor, brought frmn Savannah, Char
lesion aud Wilmington by the hIcrla,l,
runners, and abandoned. The citizens,
in their desire to please the soldiers, de-
lngcl them with it, and men, women
and children were on the streets handing
liquors to every blue coat that came
along. The guards have been charged
three times already. AZ fast us they are
changed they get drlnk.''
rLUNDEE WITHOUT REsT:AIsr.
As we passed by the Lunatic Asylum
we were surrounded BY hundreds Of men,
women and children begging for protec-
ton. On the grounds attached 20 this
buildms were thousands whom the fire
had rendered huuselcss and homeless,
congregated at the only place ii refuge
left in that quarter of the city. Near by.
Il crowd of soldiers, accompanied l,y a
performer seated by piano, were sing
ing "Brown."
On Main street, for near one mile,
there was not single house standing,
and on space as large as this ciry there
were not twenty.
TERRIBLE EVIDENCES OF THEIR GRACE
AND HATE"
The streets throughout this district
were covered with the broken and burned
remains Of furniture of every variety
Near the new State House large bon
fire Of tobacco, near two hundred feet
long, fifty feet wide and five feet high,
was burning, and wasting its fragrance
on the air. \ number of Jews were
standing by, weeping and exclaimiug: {:
"Ale poor, :ile starb, starb, siarb. Your
mems Games in mine house, kicks me ON,
sets fire to mine house. Me carry mine
to?accy ont in The street. Your mens
puts wood on him and burns all mine to-
paccv." Around the new State Hou>c,
however, were stronger cvId~nces of the
rage and hate Of the soldiers toward
everything belonging TO CT CONNECTED
with the State of South Carolina, than
even the general appearance "F the town.
This building WIS unfinished. Mus: Of
the ornamental portion had 10; been rc.
moved from thcboxes in which j. had
been brought there. There were the re
mains Of hute.l cpI,npns, capitals, cntabla-
lures, frcizcs and corniccs, OF tic finest
Italian marble, that had ever hcen tic.
stroycd by fire, dcS.cc'l by blows from
muskcts, aud mashed t.: axes and ham>
mcrs.
MONUMENT TO TIE GALLANT DEAD Desc
GRATED.
Even the monument erected by the
State to the gallant dead of thr Palmetto
Regiment list South CaroiE.) i'll the
Mexican war, had not hcen spared. |!
consisted Of four iron columns, resting on
1 foundation Of stone, and supporting an
iron platform surmounted hy It Palmetto
tree Of the same material. twenty feet
high and painted green, IA true copy from;
nature. On hrass ranncIs, between the
iIon columns below, were inScrit.s | the
uamcs, residence, cause and date Of i aIl
Of all the dead of the regiment. One
OF the panel: has been battered 10 pieces.
WHAT WAS BONE DY NORTHERN nEac>
At noon returned to my regiment,
engaged in destroying the railroad near
the city. Close at hand WAS a varant
bui!din. containing fup library bclour>
ins to the Rhe,t, Baruwei, Hayward and
Middleton families. 1t was fred and
hurn'i in the presence, and without
word OF rcmonstranrc, OF an officer cono
brigade, who has since been Il
candidate OH the Democratic State ticket
in a Western State.
COLUMBIA IN Ruins.
On the 10th, hundreds of men were
engaged IL destroying the last yes'sge Of
everything that had been or could be
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