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IN LIFERS DISASTROUS SCENLS, IO O 1H1S DO, CAMDEN Number 25. CAMDEN, S. C. -T"W ---? 'II ? ? WHAT YOU WOULD WISH BY OTHf.RS DONE TO YOU. . ? 1)a n W IN', 5GAZET I;eT ' '"Thursday, September It), 1810. Volume I". CONDITIONS OK THIS CAZKTTK. THH. price Jo Subscribe** is THREE DOL->{ lars per annum, for Jlfiy-tivo number * , ex clusive of postage ; and in all ca*es where papers s/inll be deliver ed at the extience <>f thr publisher , the price to: 11 be, including postage, four dollars a year , payable half yearly in advance, * ( _____ ^ I Terms of advertising ~?n this Ga**tt*. " Advertisements not exceeding tight lines wtt Or fir titled* /or t ift y cm*ts, for theT first publication , and hedj that p*ice fur tvery hudteqnent inaction. Larger advertise' j mem a will be charged in proportion . . %f vi ti bcrql^ditCQunt will be triads on the billi'of those who are corutant or consider ble customers in this ? J tit 4/ *? direction* ore given t ykh an od-^ ve rhement, it will be continued liU forbid. ^ ; Just j^Vinted, # And for sale at this Office, price 12$ cents, A DISCOURSE, j Delivered at a conference hclfLjn Camden, BY George Dougherty, Elder, l\f. JZ. C. j Sept. 1 2. \ 4 -j ?J*We are authorized to state that WILt.lAM MAVR ANT, K*q. J of Stateburgh, is a candidate (or the ensu ~ ing CoRgfe**. THR petitioner humbly solicits all his friends in Kershaw District, to aid and assist him to-trying to acquire a major ity of voles in liia favour* for the Sheriff s place, at our next election, as he assures them that he is a real candidate. - WM. BRASINGTON. Camden, Aug. 21,1816, 2 1 tf ~ MILT. SAWS. THE Subscriber has a few Philadel phia made MILL SAWS, for sale on good terms. HENfflT ABBOTT.^ Camden, August 0, 18 1 5. 20tf Notire. - COTTON in the seed t?ilf be received and expeditiously picked and pack ed, on usual loll, ai my Cotton Factory in Camden* J. LYON.-,1, j Aufc. 15, 1816. . N. JJ. I wish to hire two first rate pack- 1 ers for 5 or 6months. tf* ^ South* Carolina? bumttr District. .Tolled before me a certain bright bay Horse, ban the nppearntice r>t fk> ing very ohi, quite 'grey abo?it the flanks* and his legs grey to the krieets about 14 hands and u half high, no brand perceiva ble. - A JtMU Pj&KDLES, A ?. August 16, 1816. 4 6 " NOTICE. , ' * FOR Sale, Twto LOTS, one situate on the corner of Broad k Rutledige streets i the other adjoining t^fwttfag on RuHedge st it having on thetnff good two story dwel ling house, calculated for a store, a kitchen* smoke house, stable and carriage house, and all other necessary buildings for a family and a atore.? -For terms and fuither par * ticulars appljr tg the subscriber. EL1SHA BELL. Camden, A^g. 1 3, 1 8 1 6. ^ 20tf For Sale, A bODYorRWxJ HiKh LAND of a jt\ bout SIX THOUSAND ACRES, in Lancaster County, on Wild Cat branch and Camp and Crane Creaks ; the Plaits are in Dimension of Jamet H. Blair, whn enn girl information about the Lapd* tr any person wishing to purchase, jmd will receive proposals for the same. ROBERT BALKLEY, DUNCAN M'ftA. ZACII. CANTEY, July 10, 1316. |7rf LEE ^ DeLEON HAVE on liand a general assorts ment of seasonable and F a sliio liable (roods. Also, a ^ood supply of OHOCKftlES, which they will sell low for cash or pro duce. Camden, May 0, 1810. DOMESTIC. ' ??' i . ? I ' /Vo/rt /At* / alii more GuzeUe, The Kngli ih papers contain short ac count of ti ijI^ which take place in theit' courts, both of Civil and criminal jurisdic tion, which are very amusing u> a majority of readers. In cur coin is here many trials occur, leports uf winch would lie equally a in using, and, in some instanced furnish useful information^ l-t>e en as a specimen of-what might be done, if vre could induce some of the gentlemen of the bar, who are known to possess the abili ty, to turn their attention to the subject when any case of sufficient interest is tried. THE STATE vs. LANMAN On Sirttrrtiay last, June, alias Jenney Lanman, spinster, was tried in the count ' of Oyer and 1 ermlntr, tor ^Baltimore county, upon an indictment for^ being 4* communis rixatrijcy"w? a common t>cold and turbulent biawtrr. The Attorney, general opened the piose cution with a brief statement of the tacts he expected to prove against the Traverser, and observed, that the gentlemen of the jury must be perfectly aware that the pub lic peace might be more noisily disturbed, and the dignity of the good people of the state of Maryland more loyUly insulted by the shnli clamour of a woman's tongue, than by the boisterous quairels of men ? that assaults and batteries vmxzqui ckly over, and the mischief usually confined to the parlies ; bul the rattle of a common scold Was iucchbunii 'and annoyed the whole neighbou. hood? that although this offence was strictly of the Jrmtninc gender, anrl^ to the honor of our sex, the law had no terni to fix the leproach upon men? yet, i inasmuch as ive were the principal ^ij def ers, the policy of the law had vested men with the sole prerogative of trial and ptm Uhmcnt? -thui he trusted he might remind them on this occasion that the tranquility of society mainly depended Upon a saluta ry restraint of its >e*tleas and ungovernable I If&viOcru * , NflP^ie first witness culled was the clerk of (he market, whu testified that lie had known the traverser about four years, during fehich the witness had charge o( the market. 'That on market day* she \*us particularly nofoy and troublesome, bellowing ami screaming at all the market people within the reach of ber Ipogtifc? - that excepting her tongue, he knew no . harm of her? ahe Was at ttme*iutl?st?Mftttft and submissive? indeed? he must confess, he had now become so used 10 her tongue, U did not annoy him a great deal, though he could not tell liow her scolding sat upon utlmr people's eafS i iilliat he b<|)it*edf ho\fr. ?Vor, she was afnad of no man bi woman upon earth exevfu hmmclf. i wo con>tabies were then called, one of whom declared, that he considered JeAny, the traverser, one of the moet ytrbuicnt creatine # he nad ever saw in the whole course of bis life-? that she was ffiUe^abiy abusive to every bony, black and white, gentle and simple? that witness had fogged her over and over again* with a Vt? y g</Od cow hide, to See if he fcould not quit t her unigue, but ail to no purpow, for the more* he had whipped, the louder ahe had scream ed, so that he absolutely despaired of a cure. /J* . Here the jury begged to have the traver ser produeed} that they might see her* and ujftn tldsp without leaving thejto*, they found her 4i guilty/' ,.We understand the punishment is not yet fixed, though the law still atith'ories ?the court to inflict the antient ami appro priate punishment of ducking till tha of fender W ill hdd her tongnr. Interesting case of Sickness. Miss , about *ix yefcrs old, T found very ill in the evening ? she labored tinder a perfect degree of i<iiotism; she alternately muttered, groaned and laughed*^. Every limb and all parts of her body were in in cessant motion; she would pull or tnatch at the bed clothes, her own clothes, or any thingelse that came in her way; she fteevned 10 know no person, and if she took notice of any, it appeared to be accidental; she would attempt to climb the walls of the hruse, approach the fire as if she would go against any object or person, and fall over him, as if she were blind ; she was perfectly listless, and, therefore, urina sua improvidi mixit; she would neither eat nor drink, and she imagined pins stuck in her hands and that she saw im.\mv things that were not pfesrnt, as simk'.ts, In fact I thought every object appeared to her in a disguised arul in a terrifying form. Her pulse was little disordered, but her skin "was dry * and the pupils of her eyes werj? considerably abated. All the information that the family could give me was, that " she appeared well when sSe sat iCtheVable to dine; tw?"f, while eat ing. she became very sick, puked her face hcugne spotted, white and red, that The family demanded of me, in a minutes af er my arrival, what I thought was the matter with her ? I candid! f replied, I believed she had eaten some poisonous berries- _ All the family, both white and black, assured mt I was mistaken* and that the child had not had any chance to eat any th'wg of the kind, and one Jjerson present, ^ who partially practises medicine, mention ed four complaints, with one of which both he and the family thought she must be af fected. ^ ; ! persisted in my opinion* and the case was confided to me. I freely administer* ed Ipecac, and Tartar Kinetic. She was resolutely opposed to take medicine ; but I succeeded to Rive so mUckvas to vomit re peatedly. No poisonous berries came up, I therefore inferred they, must be too far advanced in the common passage to be evaluated by puking ; hence I pave purga tive * medicines, and directed clysters to speed their operations. Evacuations sue ceeded, but no btrries. She seemed to grow better, but the a me i ulmen't w as tran !?itf>ry.' More purgative medicine ^Vas KiveUf and at lant twenty- fry berries of the Jamestown ( 1 -utura Stramonium), were dischmged iri one passage. These satis* fied $ht family I was right in respect to the nature of tlie complaint. More mediciine was given* and many moqty of the berries were evacuated-? the child appeared hour* ly to mend, thougU with some appear* ances of occasional relapses. She got per fectly weU in a fcw days. - , Perhaps Uie preceding statement con tains ii.fovnjatibn thjt msy Le useful* The substance of It was penned down by the side of the patient \ it 4s therefore more worthy of aitcniion* It is now abstracted from a work called Medical Philosophy* once announced to the ptiblice* though not yet quite ready for the pvcst.ma&nquirer. Eason, the Blackheath Pedestrian, %bo had uudertakeifciri JLondtn, for a wager, to go tleyen hundred miles in eleven hundred hours, and to go only one in each hour, entered iipon his thirtieth ?l*ys* perform ance on the morning of the 4th ot July, and was g?*h>g on well, lie had complet* ed his 709th miles* S * i i X. Y, * ? Inundafiomi ? roreigV^^apers contain numerous accounts of inundation, htorHis, and their disastrous effects, in Holland, tier many and Swilaerlud- The river# had swelled to a height never before known In the ?ummer,anci breaking their banks, had inundated the surrounding country, devas tating every tiling in their course. On thr flh Jul** the water jvaw on a level with the highest dykes in some pars of flo land, apd the most fearful apprehensions were entertained. In one village ail the popula tion had assembled in a church u Ho ap pease Heaven," when tlfc inundation, pene? titrated the fenetuagy y h**4\y time for the unlortunate inhabitants to escape to the roof and the tower. The accounts are I truly distressing, and a famine was fearfully anticipated. ? m Wm. Pknn, on Marriage. ? Do thou be wise; prefer a person before money, y virtue before beauty, th<^ mind b^Jjjre the bfcdy: then thtou hast a wife, a friend, a compan ion, a second self, one that bears sn equal share with thee in all thy toils and trou bles/' ^ SCRAPS. * % Prom a Art v- York Paper ? Pugilism J ? The federal and democratic newspapers, being crowded together In the mail bag, got to fighting And torr rack other to fare en- This accounts for the scarcity of news in our present paper. Patriot* of South America / ?The KVen ing Post informs that Bolivar's army is reduced to eight hundred men, who are chit fly negt org from St. Domingo; from which it appeafs, that tin; Patriots h.?vt been beaten until they arc nearly all bluck ! ' Original. &0*ne account of the di$cove7~y. of ytmerica and ii* sHtltment^ - connected with a short sketch of events that have occurred since. [COM TINUF.D.l Notwithstanding bickering and pftrty spirit had, in a manner, supplanted har mony and biothertyhrve, the provincial continued to extend their settlements ; and the growing importance of ihe colonies be came, in Europe, a matter of admiration and jealousy. ?Cnticipating anjncrca^e of wealth, by encouraging the settlement of the TOW world thekings of Trance, Spain and Great-BAtain, who had by this time , extenitffi possessions in .America, seemed to vie with each other fit their exertions to promote the advancement of their respec tive colonies. Wheri^ such a collision of interest exists, it cannot be expected that a mutual good understanding should be maintained long. At the death of King WilliaWthe rifcht <of government dejfolved h|>on Anne SteW art* the ' youngest daughter of King James the^second, whose ambition induced j hdr ib think of humbling the ytde ot t foe infu6nceof whope power Ik was thought becathe dahgeroiis to the li berties of Great-Britain. The address ftn<! Wfeience of Lewis \ 4th induced ih# Spanish nation to asist in declarirg th6 pretended PHnce Wales "King of Eng- ^ land, which superadded to restric^ibn* iml posed on the British comtnerce, bedamC ? sufficient cause fbr a declaratfbn of war. The disturbances of Europe did not at first interfere much with the concerns of the colonies, but the gathering storm -burst upon our shorfef at last, with a Airy thfceat ening the most alarming consequences* .Surrounded by eneitiies, some of whom were civilised, other barbarous, and many savage, we had mucH to apprehend, Spain Oif the one hrfnd, always vindictive, insti gated our negroes to revolt, inflamed the savage mind, and poured upon us the * whole artilfety of her ^disff^abie force. 1 he -rrench fle^t, by no meSns contemp tible, harassed our\ortina^rce. Her land l^^^eviiiee^'an ' vt&Mj resolute aftd de* vastating disposition* The Yamassce in dians, on our western frontier sparejl nei ther age nor sex* Alarming, dangerous and threatening as was the attitude of war It' 4. * ?*' f"1' at tnis moment, the unconquerable intre pidity of the provincials with an arm nerv ced by heroism, and teve of country, re eri that victory would never be theirs. Peace being restored, matters went on prosperdusly and the faCe of, our infant kcountry resumed its former appearance* Bttt the check which hud been given to the >pfetensioni of tfie late enemy had left an impression, to effrcc which required time. So far from promoting m good understand ing, small petty depredations were fre quently committed by the Spaniards, and Jthe *p roads Of savage Warfare continued to harass the peace and safety of our frontier settlements,' and nothing but the prompti ?e, vigilence and energy of Governor nston could have kept alive the hopes of persecuted planters. Spain appeared to be foremost in fomenting those disturb ances, which pacific measures could not allay. Although the accommodating disposi tion of ihe Carolinians and Georgians was calculated to preserve lasting peace, such was the contentious unjust and avaricious conduct of Spain, that nothing shoi t of a renewal of hostilities could reduce her to terms rendered tolerable by hal>it. A new war was accordingly declared : That event