The Camden Confederate, 1861-11-01

entirely too busy seeking military information, and reported liini to the Governor. When MeGowan was locked up he asked Chief McClelland what he thought of the ease, and the Chief replied, "My opinion is that you have a very hard bed of it." " Ah, well," replied McGowan, stroking his beard with an easy nonchalance, " I have seen harder ones." The same evening, and in the same hotel, Izard apprehended Isaac D. Marks, a man infamously known to our community, although lie has not been in our city for live years. To a long list of private crimes lie lias added public ones, piomincnt among which was his embezzlement of the funds and supplies contributed by our people in 185o for the sufferers by the Norfolk epidemic. On reaching this city yesterday morning lie acknowledged that ho had left Philadelphia only three weeks ago, and Cincinnati two weeks since, and falsely asserted that lie had been playing the spy there for President Davis. He boldly called upon the Governor, and offered to return to the North as a spy for him, and this led to his arrest and confinement. The above is from the New Orleans 13cc. In addition, it notices the arrest of four or live fishermen under circumstances of great suspicion. If the statement is correct, the* men have been in communication with the enemy's fleet. Two abolitionists have also been arret 1 in

State#. In numberless ways the fact lias become! known in the progress of the war. A few ?lays ago the pickets of a Pennsylvania regiment had a friendly interview with the pickets of a Virginia regiment 011 the Upper Potomac. A discussion of the cause of the war closed by an expression of regret on the part of the Virginians that they had not a 1 regiment of South Carolinians to shoot at in place of these Pcnnsylvanians. And this is believed to be a wide-spread feeling among the Confederate soldiers. Is it wise to overlook such an advantage as this in planning oficnsivc war movements? Let Charleston be lassailed, and a feeling of gratilieation will possess the blurts of three-fourths of the Confederate soldiers, who for South Carolina's wrong, now snlVer hardships in the field. And, even if orders|?verc given to go quickly to the relief of tlkt original seat of rebellion in its strait, mpiy a mishap would occur to track and train known to the oommon soldier soldier, il jot to engineer and waymastcr, to retard tlij expedition of the relief. Let the prayer ii" Unionists in all thirty-four States be head for the early and unsparing chastisement o! South Carolina. Tub Way tiiey Fioiit.?A person who was in tlie battle of Lexington, Mo., relates the folowing: I sav one case that shows the Confederate .a 1 <? rt 1 ? ? - ?

' - ("0 " ' rebuke upon that accursed Ciiy and State, whose crime it is to have originated the war. South Carolina stands out pre-eminent in the unhailo\N ed work of sedition and treason. It is South Carolina that invented the words 41 nullification" and 44 secession," wlrch have wrought such mischief; unsettling the minds of men in regard to the rights of States under the Federal Union. It is South Carolina that has, for thirty years, been a malcontent in the otherwise happy family of States, and an industrious preacher of disunion. It is South Carolina that incessantly muttered discontent and threatened secession, until the national mind became familiarized with the crime, and ceased to regard it with that horror which its enormity^should have inspired. And finally, when the poison of thirty years' stealthy and treasonable teachings had corrupted the South and prepared it for insurrection, it is South Carolina that led the way in the overt act of disloyalty. Her Senators and representatives were the first to vacate their seats in the National Congress, and thus to proclaim to the tuo ?i 1ir/\lrAn on/1 /1iCi?t?n/lifo/1 TTm/vw T 4 -

Slio prayed for loved ones near bcr, For friends, both far and wide, Said, " I want Thee, God, to bless tlieni, And all the world beside." Vengeance Invoked on South Carolina. The Yankee papers do not disguise their longing to wreak a bitter vengeance upon the Pal.nctto State. Under the heading "Shall South Carolina Escape?" the New York Times thus pours out the vials of its wrath upon our little State :?Charleston Mercury. Although the loyal public is not permitted to know upon what part of the Southern coast the immense navel expedition now about to be precipitated, we think we do not mistakein saying it is the almost universal wish of the people that Cearlcston, South Carolina, if it receive not the present, may not await a similar blow. If the Government would arouse ttic liveliest symphathy of Unionists, in the South as well as in the North, let it be seen that a clear and distinct memory is kept of the origin of the war, and a resolute purpose held, however the conlliet may go, and whensoever it may terminate, not to fail administerinrr a f.-arfnl

" vi *v* u ui nnu uiffvivunvu u iiiuu* it was one of these recreant men?a true representative, however, of South Carolina treason? that proclaimed the infamous sentiment, in a public speech in the city of Charleston, while the State Convention there was sundering the popular allegiance froni the National Government : " Let us seize the pillars of the Federal i Union, as Sampson did the pillars of the tern-/; pic, and drag it down, though we likewise ( perish in the ruins.*' Such was and is thd i true spirit of secession. It is infernal am destructive; ready to involve thirty millions of happy and prosperous people in strife, rapine s bloodshed and Woe, to satiate the malice d ( subserve the ambition of a nest of disappoinj cd and disaffected politicians of South Carolinj Now, is it nk a duty, is it not more thii j poetic justice,/ hat South Carolina, so flagrar in sin, shoukyjc made to feel the earliest ail ^ heaviest pen/Hies of war? If a Southern cjy

From the Mobile Tribune. ExtviiKive Arrest of Supposed Spies? Ail Ex-Congressman in IJmbo. During these times of war our detective police arc kept busy almost night and day watching suspicious characters and hunting up spies. At eight o'clock Saturday night, Smith Izard arrested a notorious personage in the St. Charles Hotel, whom lie and the Chief had been searching for all day. This was no other than Ned McGowan, the California exCongressman, who was given twenty-four hours' notice to quit San Francisco by the Vigilance Committee, and who found a new field for his energies in the Territory of Arixona. llo is a tall and robust man, although about fifty-five years of? age, fine looking, and wears a remarkably heavy moustache and goatee, the hairs of whiuh arc white with age. He arrived in New Orleans last Wednesday, and was at once recognized by a returned Californian, who questioned and watched him until he became satisfied that Mr.Gowan w??

incw urieans. Une is a Bostonian, Anson Peck, a three year resident, and engaged in the selling of toilet articles 011 Bourbon street. The other is an Englishman, named Win. II. Marshall, an eight year resi- ^ dent, and a grocery shopkeeper at the corner of Julia and Baronne stroets. These men S were not only abolitionists in sentiment, but w acting as spies. They wcro detected by the aid of a woman, Madame Boycr, who, having suspected that there was a secret association in the city, with grips, dec., set to work to discover it. In her persait of the information, she herself was suspected and arrested, and .hen she let out the facts before the Mayor. She said before his honor that both he and jis chief were blockheads or they would have ct her alone. She is an old habitue of New Orleans and well known there. The True Delta gives a long account of her skill in iho natter, and calls her a "Fcmalo Vidocq." m * +

stvic oi ngnting. An old Texan, dressed in buckskin and armed with a long rifle, used to go uj to the works every morning about seven fclock, carrying his dinner in a tin pail. Takig a good position, be banged away at the federals till noon ; then an hour, ate his dine r, after which he resumed operations till G, pm., when he returned home to supper and a right's sleep. The next day, a little before sevn, saw him, dinner and rifle in hand, trulging up street to begin again his regular d^'s work?and in this style he continued till ' thj surrender. J Governor Harris, in his message to the Leg- i isiturc of Tennessee, says : ( In the aggregate, Tennessee has contribu- 1 t/1 thirty-eight infantry regiments, seven cav- ] ^ry battalions, and sixteen artillery compa- ' 108 to the common defence. Attention is . Iso called to the efficient services of the J >tate Military Board, whose labors are visible