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1 ..r -fi - - ' --? '^- fl - - v - - - - .- ' - >.; CAMDEN JOURNAL. PWBW* Sl^TiES.] VOL. 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST.3, 1842. KO* 35, THE CAMDEN JOTKNAJ PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY THOMAS W. PEGUES. terms'' Three Dollars per annum in advance, Thn Dollars and Fifty Cents within six months, orFou Dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per squar (fourteen lines or less,) for the first and 37 5 cent for each subsequent insertion. The number of ir sertwns to oe noted on an aa imwcnremo, ui t>?> te>iW Ae published until ordered to be discontinue vend charged accordingly. One Dollar per square for a single insertion.Quarlerly and Monthly advertisements tr ill he char gcd the same as a single insertion, and Semi-month ly the same as new ones. For publishing Citations as the Jaw direct three dollars will he charged. All Obituary Notices exceeding six line?, an Communications recommending Candidates fn public offices of profit or trust?or puffing Exhibi tion will be charged as advertisements. IT Accounts for Advertising and Job Work id b-: presented for payment quarterly. AIL letters by mail must be post paid to insur dunctual attention. POETRY. For the Camden Journal. THE DYING FLOWER. BY EDWARD J. rO.'ITER. . Morning kissed the dewy flover, Flushed upon its breezy spray! Zephyrs lingered near its bower, Bearing its sweet breath away! Sunny hues were spread around it,? Perfumes breathing incense bound it,? Nature's sweetest love-tones stealing, Shed a softened, holy feeling, Making all the spell-fraught air Passion bound with gifts of love, Breathing from a higher sphere, Tones the silent, soul to move. Change came o'er its gentle brightness, Ere the noonday beams were shed! Quenched its breathing spirit's brightness, Morning's love lay pale and dead! Zephyrs wept no longer o'er it! Dew-drops may not now restore it! Perfume's spirit sighed its last, When the tleeting dew-wreath passed,? Sister flowrets pale and drooping, Lovely mid their loneliness, O'er the fragile thing were stooping, Blighting where it breathed to bless. ^ y Hope! Say is not such thy being, Waking mid the sunbeams first, Brightest gush of gladness, fleeing Ere the noon's full glory burst? Dreams that all their radiance caught, v From its earliest flush of thought, .X From the first impassioned ray, mLa; Gilding its gVn.l W'!?-t? JsTC Silently all, all are ended! As the flowret's hues are slied, As its sweetest breathings blended, With each breeze that reckless fled. Sumlerville, S. C. - V. MJM?? MISCE L L AXE PUS. From the New-Orleans lice, 20lk insl. FROM TEXAS. Thesteam ship N. York.Capt. Wright, which arrived in port yesterday morning brought the Galveston papers of Saturday. The most interesting item of news is the skirmish between the Texian volunteers in the West ant!.the Mexicans. The fol lowing is the account from the Civilian: FROM THE WEST. ATTACK ON THE CAMP AT LIPA^MTTLAN The following is the ofikial 'account o Gen. Davis of the attack of the troops un der his command. Unfortunately it oc curred before the arrival of the volunteer: who last left this city: HEAD QUARTERS, TEXIAN VOLUNTEERS, ) rCamp Lipantitlan, 7th July, 1843. y Hon. Geo. \V. Hockley, Secretary of War and marine, co- n.. i,ci o?oninir \ rpreived certaii C?I r vy ii ?wow v ? - intelligence that we should be attacked ii a short time by a large Mexican force. The position which I occupied being ai unfavorable one for a small force to con tend against a large one, I removed m; encampment some few hundred yards to strong position. This morning about day light, the ene my, seven hundred strong, entered our ol encampment, and in a few minutes attacli edusin our new position, which the}' kef up for about 20 minutes, and then made hasty retreat. Three Mexicans were le dead on the field, and from their trail; many were dragged off, their killed an wounded could not have been less lha thirty men. I am happy to inform yo that we had not a man either killed o 11 i?i_ < ?? wounueu. .Tiy winue mrtr, iiibiuuiiig uiy Cameron's Company of mounted ^unmei did out exceed two liumlred; the Mex'ca force, as I learn from a wounded prisonc consisted of two hundred regular troof and five hundred Itaneherus, the who] v under the command of Gen. Canales.The expedition was fitted out for the e: press purpose ofattacking this post. The had one field piece, a four pounder. Congress still continued in sessio The principal questions which have occ pied the attention of the body since i meeting are the Mexican invasion, and tl replenishment of the treasury. The C vilinn of the latest date says? The bill to make the President Coi maniler in person of an army to be raisi for the invasion of Mexico, giving him a thority to draft one third of the inilitia i . the purpose, and authorizing him to h pothecate (the right to sell was strick< \j out) the public lands for the purpose of raising means, passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst., by a vole of _ 20 to 14. We understand that the Senate is oppos>c cd to some of the features of this bill, but lr that it will be adopted as it stands by that body, before they will allow the whole ?> measure to fall. s The question in the House on the adoplion of the two most important features of i the bill stood as follows? 1st. The provision to authorize the -! President to take command of the army ?-1 in person--27lu 7; majority 20. j 2. Authorizing the President trvsell or hyI pothecate any portion of the public domain sior any other unappropriated revenue of ^' trie republic, was carried by 29 to 3, or 20 majority. j The Brazos Farmer mentions the receipt : of an open boll of cotton on the 25 of J one, 11 and adds that the crops promise well in j that vicinity. From the N. O. Picayune, 20th inst. ! FROM MEXICO. By the arrival at the Belize of the Bril ish Royal Mail steamer Forth, from Vera Cruz, we have received full files of the Diario del Cobierno up to the 6th inst.? Vera Cruz papers to the 12th, besides letters from our correspondents up to the latest dates. Some thirty of the released Texan prisoners had arrived at Vera Cruz, and several of them had already died with the voniito or yellow fever. The balance were at Jalapa with Gen. McLeod, waiting the chartering of a vessel to transport them either to this place or Galveston. Among those who had died at Vera Cruz we notice the names of David Landers, of Ohio, and Thus. H. Spooner of Virginia. Several others were down wilh the vom- < ito, but it was thought they would recover. n I /y I i rr I i xjoi. i/iiiiK aiiu anomer omcer auacneu , In the Sanla Fe expedition arrived at Vera Cruz on the 11 ill inst., to make arrange- , rnents for the transportation oi the men out of the country. . . Our worthy Consul at Vera Cruz, L. S. | Ilargous, Esq. with his accustomed liberality has done every thing in his power to , alleviate the condition of the liberated pri- | soners already arrived at that place, and it was through his advice that the balance of ? them, some 240, were detained at Jalapa, e!fe rnnnv death- It was thought they would | all be got off by the 20th or 2oth of this month. t The Great Congress was in session at the city of Mexico and almost a dead si- ( lence reigns as regards what is going on in ' it. One of our correspondents, stales the | 'general belief to be, that the session will , be allowed to go on as long as the memI hers do not commit any act which may 'differ from the opinion of Santa Anna, and in case they do run counter to the wishes I | of the provisional President they will go . to their homosquicker than they came from ; them. In the meantime every thing is . quiet; but it is almost impossible that this . quiet should last, for the simple reason j that a majority of the members of Cont gtess are Federals. As Santa Anna will f not listen to any thing like a Federal form of Government, without materially chan ?I.A . ging Ins views, as a mauer m tnuisc u.e s two interests must clash. We inust wail | patiently for the next news from the Mexican capital They had all sorts ofa rejoicing at Vera j Cruz on the 10th inst.?a turn out of the ' military, firing of cannon, ringing of bells, 1 illuminations, Te Deums, &c., in celcbra, lion ofa recent achievement of Cornnio! dore Marin, commander of the Mexican j navy. It seems that the Commodore has . recently succeeikd in cutting outand bringy ingintothe port of Vera Cruz the best a brig belonging to Yucatan, and from un. der the very guns of a fori at Campeachy. i It seems that the expedition which re(] suited so successfully was commanded by ..! Commodore Marin in person. With 70 )t chosen men he embarked in a pailebotito, a without a single cannon, and made sail for - I'nmnMftiv. There he surprised the brig n ~"-"l J 5 | at night, and succeeded in capturing her j ' without tiring a gun or losing a man, and ? : she is row safely moored under the guns u of the Castle ofS-nt Juan de Ulloa. r | The brig was one that was formerly lat ! ken to Vera Cruz for the purpose of dispo 1 i sing of her to the Mexican government. n ['Disappointed there, the owners finally efr feeted a sale of her to the Government of Yucatan for the sum of 821,000. TheYu[e catanese must have been sleeping when _ she was captured, for at the time she was without a sail; and even when taken into ,y Vera Cruz she had no other canvass than the spanker and jibs. The Mexican dullar n was probably one of the foremost of the u_ boarders in this coup de main, although Com. Marin has the reputation of being an ^ active anil brave officer, and we believe Jj. justly. Many questions are asked in Mexico in relation to the Texian blockade, and whethtn* er the vessels that were to enf irce are on the water or only on paper. The Texi;u" ans should let them into the secret. or 3 " A person choked with a potato will find inert stant relief by swallowing a pumpkin. Useful Hints.?An excellent wny to v get rid of trouble from corns is to go bare- I foot I When a man is hungry .it is good for him to eat, provided he can obtain any ti thing edible. f In case of catching a Tartar, it maybe li wisdom to gel rid of him as quick as pos m sible. o When you have got any thing particular li to say, it is worthwhile to be particular li about saying it. b When you don't know what to do with a your money, inform some friend of your s perplexity, and, ten to one, he will suggest <*> a means of relieving you. c If yon are desperately enamoured of a n pretty face, be sure tu see it at the break- c fust table. This remedy has been often v taken with success. 0 it you desire to be quue comtortable in mind, pay the printer. ^ When your wife scolds you, hold your ^ tongue. I' If you want to be enlightened, read the 11 newspapers. n If y<?ti want to 6ee confidence in the cur- ? rency, don't be too ready for panic your- e self. 1 If you want to be wise, take a hint. e Taking a hint sometimes saves taking a 1 kicking. 1 "SOME THINGS CAN BE DONE AS WELL AS C OTHERS." s This whs a favoriie expression of the a late Mr. Samuel Patch, who "div" himself n to death one day, in search of the bottom v of the Genesse falls. Now there arc some 1 things that can't be done as well as others. i o For instance, a poor devil without a pen- p ny in his pocket, and if such a thing were possible, Jess credit, must ex iicccssitas go H without n horn. ' " A while horse cannot be changed into a 0 gray mure nor tailors live without cabbage. Sl A man with one leg cannot possibly go a an two, except one is of wood. u A man that has lost-his ears cannot have k them pulled?and He that squints cannot ? look straight. w lie that is deaf and dumb cannot scold much, nor will he need to if his wife has a j1 tonffue. 11 He that goes into a barker or broker's ihop on business, will come out shaved. tc lie that listens to a sermon divided into ir i^aen parts, will findfc,?ut to 1ms sorrow n ong. ' **" lift that goes to sea will most likely be J >ut of sight of land. j w If you run very fast, you will reach your ' ^ Jinner sooner tliun if you walk slow. |jr The man that can't read never studies the newspapers. R ? n From the Washington Index. tf MURDERS AND MURDERERS. A: At the time we are writing these remarks ' :u (says a New York paper) we expect that N the Jury in the rase of Low, for the mnr-1 tier of Winans at Railway, are retiming tI a verdict of guilty, in which case he will be (f hung in a month as he deserves to be.? ja Toppan will be hung in this city the 5th l( of next month; and Colt will be hung be- j, fore the year is out. J rr These executions, we hope, will have a a salutary effect. It is high time that n something was done to awe the cold ~...l loec e^nnnilrpU that nrtjivl /I UHi(iuc<i ami i cc?\i - j ^l about the community, "doing murder s, cheap." Unless this is done, no man is c sale who owns any property, or who may 0 unintentionally give offence to any one. ;u And in these days of frequent and al- ^ most daily murders, wc think it advisable n to call the attention of passionate persons j to ibe following death bed scene given in ^ the Concord N. II. Statesman. It is giv-| en in the shape of a deposition taken be- h fore a justice of the peace at Grafton in j| that State. Hazen Wilchcr and David M. p N?rris depose that on the night of June f, 19, they were watching at the death bed v of their neighbor, Samuel Mann, of North s B"iiton, in a small room, the situation of e which is thus described:? !a , t The bed was on the north side, the fire s place on the south side, the door-way to f the kitchen on the east, and a door leading i into a bed-room on the west end of the r room, and a set of drawers on the east a side of the room neif the foot of the bed, a and a window bv the foot, on the north e side. The window w? raised from four to six inches. The door into thp kitchen was open, and Mr. George \V. Mann j slept there in the south east corner of it. c The door into the bed-room was shut, and s Mrs. Peter Howe and Mrs. Mann slept.c there. jt The man with whom they were watch- f ing had been in a dying stale f.?r several ? days, but appeared to have perfect posses-j' sion of his senses. After the house ivas .? still nn Sunder ni^ht, the deposition goes J' ~ V - - on to say: 1 Mr. Whitcher was standing by the foot ' of the bed, close to the open window, and Mr. Norris was silling souih of the ' bed some four or five pacps from the head, ' on the west side of the room. The can- j 1 die was standing on the mantle, over the i' fire-place, when we both distinctly heard ; a groan. We are both positive it could j i not come from the 6ick man, nor the bed i thereon lie was, nor from another room, t was a deep, lengthened groan, and starled lis both. Mr. Whjtcher stepped to the fire place o get the light, to see what the noise came mm, or what caused it. As he took the ight and turned round toward -the bed, /e both saw the room lighted up all at nre with an unearthly crimson colored ight. It almost extinguished the light of he candle, so that its light was very foe le, apparently almost out?and immedilely we both saw a staange-lonking man lauding between us and the bed, looking ppareutly at Mr. Mann?his dress we unnot describe, his whole face we did iot see. ilis clothes were dark, but we annot give the fashion or make, nor say whether he had on boots or shoes, or hat, r not. We were both transfixed?both stood here side by side, as Norris hail risen up, Yhilcher still holding the candle in his anil and no fire in the fire-place, at least one that gave any light, and as the strange nan stood before us, and his face towards dr. Mann. Mr. Mann appeared much xcited and agitated; he rolled on the bed, hrew liis arms about, and opened his yes wide, and appeared frightened, and o gaze upon the apparition, then he ried to cover up his head. The sick man, it is slated, then declard that he had forty years previously asisted his employer in murdering a man nd making away with his body. He lentioned the name of Edwards, but in /hat connection the deponents cannot say. "he affidavit then goes on: He called no other naoie, and we may e mistaken in this name, but think we re not. He then sunk down, after turriig over once oratwice, and throwing his rms about, groaned ami died. We know rt were frightened, and could not speak, r did nut, nur did the stranger, and as non as Mr. Mann had finished confessing, nil was dying away, he (the {stranger) 'as gone. How lie got in or out, we now not; one door was open, but we did ot see him come in or go out, nor can , e believe that he did. The editor of the Statesman, in conection with the affidavit, tells the lbllowig story: About forty or forty-live years since (we :ll the following stoi*y.as told-to us by idmduaJs in the vicinity) 3 man by the ime^o^Hodgdon w'as working in Luiu.. nnaihan Noyes, and made his home ith Mr. Noyes during the lime. He lent oyes some two or three hundred dollars i money, so that when the house was finhed, Noyes was indebted to liim about >tir hundred dollars, for labor anil m'>ry. When Noyes's house was comple?d, lie went to work upon a H.?uee for Ir. John Cross,in the vicinity,his clothes ad part of his tools still remaining at foyes's house. He left Cross's house one evening to go n to Mr. Noves's?and was never seen af ;r thai lime. Snme little exrilement ex-1 ted there (as the old people s.iy) at the me, respecting his mysterious disapearancc, but as he was a stranger, in a ' ieasnre, it was said he had absconded, nd Noyes snon alter preteuded to have fceived a letter from somewhere in New rork requesting him (Noyes) to sell his llodgdon's) tools and other things, and ititl the money on to him, which he acurdingly did, but whether the proceeds f the sale went to New York, or any 'here, is not known. The excitement, owever, soon died away, and nothing lore said or thought about it, until the eath-be.il Confession which we publish rought the hidden mystery to light. Noyes died a few days sincp, and on is death-bed, intimated that he had some, liing to disclose before he could die in ieace, but Mann went a day or two be>re his death, and spent a whole day mh him, and after that nothing more was .1 ?I i,? aid about divulging any iiimg, unu i.?;. xpired apparently in the greatest mental, gony and under horrible remorse of con-1 rience, frequemly exclaiming 0 God! J arrive me that one sin. The Edwards; o whom it is supposed, he, (Minn) refered, and who, many now suppose, was ccessary to the murder, is now living, nd has been partially deranged at times :ver since, as well as Mann. Eloquence of Diction.?A good one s told by an English paper, of an old laly, who had received a letter from her on, who was a sailor on board- a merihantman, which ran ihus: 'Ha"e been ?? ? ..c -p....,!; i,,, ? nam Irivun into iim u;iy ui x uu... ? , >oon, right iii our teeth. it blowed great runt) and we carried away the bowsprit; a leavy sea washed overboard the binnacle iod companion; the captain lost his quadant and couldn't make an observation for ilteeu days: at last we arrived all safe at Halifax.' The old woman, who could not herself end, got a neighbor to repeat it to her three or four times, until she thought she iad got it by heart; she then sallied out 11 tell her story. 'Oh my poor son!' 'Why, what's the matter, im-ther?I hope no mischief?'?'Oh.jthank God, he'ssafe?but he has been driven into the Bay of Finaa % ment by a bamboozle right in his teetli-^- % it blowed great guns and they carried away the pulpit?a heavy sea s\v* pt overboard the pinnacle of the Ubcrnacle?the captain Inst his conjuration, and couldn't get any salvation for fifteen days?at last 1 however thr y arrived safe at Hallelujah.' 'La bless us! ? what a wonder they wasn't all beat to atoms! Well, I wouldn't be a . -i sailor.' ; $ From (he Columbia Chronicle. ^ Horrid Murder!?It becomes our mel? anchoiy duty to record the rnujrder of an estimable young man named Daniel* fttcCaskill, late an overseer, in the emjiloy*' ment of Col. Richard Singleton, oq.^rne^ A of.his plantations in this DistritS?^E^|pT:": had visited Columbia on Monday the inst. on business, and returned the same evening to a neighbor's house in Lexlng^ ton District, in the vicinity of the plantar tion, where he remained during ihg nightjpR^.^M In the morning, after an early breakfast, lofr fi\r tlipfprrv ii'Kim'p nanti naft. rniifl. .J9H .... ........ . ... . j T ... . ... uoa- ^red the Congaree, and from that lime noth- ^ ing was lieai<1 ofhiin until Sattlrftty ning last, when his body was f<?uno river about 10 miles below this p'cr-r, ? ing evident marks that violence had' used to cause his death. He was severely**? "M bruisetl on the breast and shoulder, and ti * severe wound had been inflicied on Mil \ neck, (supposed to have been done with a < hatchet or axe.) which had completely severed the tendons and even left:an inden* tion on the vertebrae. His horse had beeir previously found, and his saddle* co'iif waistcoat boots antl watch were discover* ed on Saturday, about forty yards from the ferry antl ten from the road. IIis hat* pantaloons and drawers have not been found, and were probably destroyed to hide thejygns of blttod. The murderers must have'stripped him of liis coat and vest as there are no signs of blood upon them.? A Jury of Inquest sat upon the body oi Sunday morning last, and returned a verdict of Murder, by some person or persons Unknown. p^We have known Mr. McCaskill fof the last nine years, and never knew him have a dispute with any one, or heard any thing in disparagement of his character.? He was a man of remarkable industry", and ' . & enjoyed the favor of his employer in ft degree. Suspicion rests on some of Col. Singleton s negroes <ts having perpetrated-^* ?? ' ~ mons are aTJoiTt TrrflVTTn<rn-?trT-~...mj f in?r, in Essex county, New Jersey, ana "" public discussions, attended by thousands, bave recen'lv been held in Boston, Pittsburgh, and various other prominent points. The spread of this sect is almost beyond belipf. Parson Miller, the end-of-tke-tborli preacher, is also creating a great sensation in different parts of the country. At AI-, bany, one of Ins disciples is nightly attracting crowds to the church in Grand street, while the apostle himself is holding forth, * with great unction, io Northampton. Truly, we live in an age of wonders?and, what with Mesmerism, ftlillerism, Trans, ccndcntalism, Fourierism, and Tyleristn, , the present bids fair to be ranked amongst the most conspicuous eras in the history* of the world! When James Gordon Ben- ^ nett is Doctor of Laws, and M. Y. Beach * has turned moralist, it is time for honest men to take to tlipir prayers?for truly, "the end of these things is not yet." IRISH WIT. V "Plaise votir lordships honor and glory," replied Tim, "I shot the hare by ac? cidcnt." "By accident," continued thel|^ji the postilion, "I was firing at a bush, and : the baste ran across my aim, all oi its . l.o.noii lalU J? own accord." "ine ^umc-nrr,,,., _ different story," replied his lordship?? "Och! don't put faith in what that man says," said Tim Ryan, "when he never cares about speaking the truth any how.?? ' lie tould rne, t'other day, yer lordship was not so fit to fill tho chair of justice as a jackass!" "Ay, ny," exclaimed Viscount Kilskiddery, "indeed, and what did you say?" Plaise yer lordship, 1 said yer lordship was< A Change.?The editor of a paper ifl ^ Pennsylvania says he wants a wife, and he thus ennumerates the necessary qualifies* tions of the lady: . "She must be a gal whose eyes, heart with love, tenderness and pity; "twinkle with fou, frolic and mischief: and lighten jj up the flash with the immortal part of its frail tenement; whose countenance is illu* urinated by virgin innocence and purity, chastened by humility, and happy, from the practice of homely virtue, with a heart to feel, a hand to relieve and a bo* som to symyathize with misfortune; one who can mend breeches, make shirts* scrub floors, per l taiers, and cook dinner." The Picayune says: Hud he been a yankee he would pfobably have appended to the list of qualifies* nke ,i,e following;?one lions SUIIu;nn. b iba t ran ride horses to ploti^o, attend to the garden, fecd-.tfie pjgs^.drive home the cows, and occasionally'-lick the schoolman ter! i'