The Camden Daily Journal, 1864-11-19

0 | credible relics have not vet been nil gathered U j in, lor 1 saw in Fredericksburg ami at Hamili ton':* crossing, great piles of old Iron and frag. moots of tents, blankets and overcoats which : were just ready to besefnt to Richmond. 11 A number of refugees have returned to 1'rod ,f ericksburg, which contains f npw some skv or ? eight hundred souls, principally women *n?d d children. Their spirit is unabated; their hao trod of the Yankee is quenchless; their faith > in the cause'and their cheerfulness is worthy of n all praise and universal imitat'ou. W'heti our o last call for men was made a woelc or so ago, i- Fred oil cks.hu rg sent down one volunteer CO 1- years old, and another of 17 ; and while I was ?- tin re half a dozen boys 15 and 1G were comi comiplaining - plaining comiplaining because Gen. Kemper wouldn't let y them volunteer ir, the old Frcdcricksdurg compr nics and join iVce's army at once, instead of iv -waiting for the reserves to be ordered out. y t ' Gamma. c t Cor. Mobile Register. rt ? n Secessionist to ije IIung dy order ok T5. d ,F. lJuTLElt.? A recent lv nvrii-nrl

upper portion 01 me town'Jiavc licen sosiinttei ed as to be uninhabitable ; the stores have bee * . gutted of their*shelves and counters to ivrak dry places for the countless thousands of Van kees wounded'at the Wilderness tpul Soottsy . _ vania to lie oh. The churches have heen rc pc&todly struck, and so have most of the pr vatfe dwellings. 1 counted twenty or thirt ' s hdlcs in the fine mansion of Douglas Gordcn which -was nearly complete before the \vn broke out. A shell had passed diagonall - through the house in which "I staid, and on had exploded in the parlor under the room i which I slept. Looking out of, my bcd-rooi window I saw naked chimneys and deserte bouses in every direction." Of course, 1 went to Marye's 3Iillv and sa the famous stone fence which served as a ran part for our men. I walked over the wkl .' fields which the enem$ bad to pais before the got within range of our deadly rifles, and stoo under the tree which Cobb leaned against whe

nl Whcelcc had fallen back before the enemy, who at last accounts were marching on. Griffin, devastating the whole country behind them, burning bridtre.sj rail roads, &'c. ' An official dispatch from General Wheeler Thursday, states that ho had checked the enemy's advance at Bear Creole. . < The.CoxtrAltaxd News ?'An exchange ol papers took plaeo.nl Richmond, Tuesday, New York journals of tlio 12th were delivered, but none of the 1 Oth or 1,1th wen; to bo had. Deserters say that every number of the 10th was seized by officers, acting under orders from headquarters, and burnt. The supposition of those men was that the papers of the 10th contained sumo news which was not thought proper for Confederate ears. One numbgr of tlio 10th has, however, come to hand, and there islitrle yiffinnlty in discerning the points which wore considered contraband. Here they are: New Yohic. Nt-v. 0?fr p. m ?The gold quotations to-day were as follows. Queued.at 24fi. wont. m?

J m wt^s buried in his garden, as many as twenty : in some places, lie also pointed to a deep ditch,in which about a thousand of Burnside's crew were piled and packed like dead mackerel 0 in a barrel. Many, many other gardens and yards contain dead Yankees by the score. 0 The stone fence is "at the bottom of a I till, a*id on that hill is the tiim old homestead of . the Marys, npw gqne to wreck, with eountless3 apertures made l?v shot and shell, and open to^ ' the-winds that blow. Ah! it was a sad thing j to tread the deserted halls and chambers of | this old house, and In ar only the echo-of your | E own footsteps. Not even a rat squeaks behind the wainscot. The si lone.* is. awful. Outside the' house, and running through the yard, which is still beautiful Ayith its shade.trees, are the rifle riflepits, - pits, riflepits, ami on the hill tops are heavy earthworks for artillery, all thrown, up after the bajttlc. of

? j j tlio l'hillips House, which - whs, burnt out of spite '>y \Stoneuinn, because liis brother ollh-ers objected to his usin'g it as his private tpuirtdrs. * What a picture fit' ravaged beaut" is to i>e ' seen from the height on which this house lj stood. v Stranyfe to tell, StrlY-rd County, naturally j sterile and sparsely peopled, is now richer and ^ more thickly settled than ?t, hnsbeen since the j- colonial days. It is a debatable land, in which' '{ n<ntlier Confederate nor Yankee rule, is acknowledged, ami it is filled with deserters, who s have thrown rich- by thorium and selling' 'lie immense .debris of Hooker's camps to Wash- i ititjton or to jjicluuond purcha-ets.'as happen- ] J eil to he most convenient,? for these lawless | } p'-ople care little for either side. Hooker's in- i

UM..-M i?i wuiwii an: mere. uurcuaniu rumors? j nothing more. A gentleman in this city received this moi'nling si letter from si gentleman up the ro:ul, I which contsiins the annexed news: A .young lady who resides in a village about forty miles from Atlanta, resolved'a few. days since to visit that- place "on business. Knowing that sl)$ would not he permitted to enter the city, as a white gill, she determined to enter it disguaised as si mulatto. Accordingly she stained her face and hands with si preparation made from the green bark of the walnut. This gave her skin a rich r.livc eolor. She then frizzled her hair and started. The pickets permitted her to pass, supposing that she either belonged -in the city, or was a rnnsnvsiy tV<?m below. While in Atlanta she heard souic officers remark, that a largernutnber of troops would leave soon.?

# A . " " t?" the oars is one tiling, htid crossing the strean ' . . on'foot over a plank trcslle is another. Whn ?* surprised me As much as the'great stroah bridged at the Xottli Anna, was ,t.he> cheerful ness of the few people we met at the blacken ed ruius of th<^depots, and the unconsciousoes! ^ ,of the war displayed by the passengers,; wh< sat in the cushioned seats reading* newspaper: and eating grapes and poaches as cosily ant contented as though war never existed. \Vhen you get to Hamilton's, crossing, tin desolation of war breaks fully upon yon. A fev trees remain upon the hills near the sitfc of tin depot, but thei'e in not a fence nor an inliabUlu house all the way to Fredericksburg. A fev cattle may be stten grazing on yhe rich plain? which bear no crops now but crops of luxnrian