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\ * ?l)e Camucti Joucnnl. VOLUME 11. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 2,1850. NUMBER 61, THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. PUBLISHED BY THO. J. WARREN & C. A. PRICE, EDITORS AKD PROPRIETORS. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL I* published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed for three tmontlis. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL Is pnblished at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in vlvance, or Three Dollars if payment is delayed for three montlts. Any person procuring five responsible' subscribers shall ho entitled to tlie sixth copy (of the edition subscribed for) gratis for one year. ADVERTlfiiOlEATS will be inserted at the following VaN*s: For one square (14 lines or less) in the semi-weekly, 'one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each ^subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for tlie first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent in sertion. Single insertkins one dollar per square. 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Night's veil is falling o'er land and sea? Come thou to me! come thou to me! Come tlnu to me! Daylight is fading, And the young birds have folded their weary wings; The vapours oftwilight the mountains are shading And silver mists rise from the cold fountain's springs? Night's robe is closing o'er land and sea? Come thou to n:e! CJtne thou to ine. Come thou to me!?for the bees are reposing, 4 Who've hum'd 'mid the thyme bank the long sunny day; The butterfly's wings on the rose leaves are closing, The ants from their hillocks are up and away! Night's veil is failing o'er land and sea? Come thou to me! loine thou to me! Corre tl:ou to me! the ring dove is mourning, Like the sigh of some lover amid the piue trees. Who waits with impatience the dear one's return i?g> And murmurs his griefs to the stars and the breeze! Night's curtain closes o'er land and sea? Come thou to me! come thou to me! 3 Selected (Enlc. From the Southern Literary Gazette. THE MAROON. A LEGEND OF THE CARRIBEES. BY W. G1LMORE SIMMS, ESQ., Author of " The Yemarsee," etc.. X Let ns now return to our "Maroon."? Three days upon his desolate islam) did not materially lessen its terrors, or increase its iittraction, in the eyes of Lopez de Levya. Ho *'" ' 1-'*- *1 fon/tiHll 11 nr! sirs HI III Hmuiurreil, lim in* <** ? ibmvhui ruu unknown danger, tbanat bin iitsolation among them. But the Necessity of looking about him?of looking upward, indeed,?of feeling himself in motion, and realizing a* thoroughly at be could, the sense oflife, as well its consciousnew of suffering,?led him, at the end of this period, to make an effort, which in his previous feeling of des|Ktir, he had never thought it possible he should make again. The nature, even of the constitutionally timid man, does not easily succomh to fortune?does not usually, ?except, perhaps in the first moment of overthrow, yield itself submissively to fate. The first moment of weariness which succeeds the contest, is, perhaps, the one of greatest prostration; and, aftertbat, the .recuperative energies arouse themselves, and the sufferer, together. The very sense of abandonment is usually one of awakening and new resolve. This is one of fje marked cnaracierisucs w m? uummi uuium. ; Indeed, the natural impulse of every free moral agent is rpsittence* To oppose, to struggle if arther; to contend to the last, and even where consciousness of the conflect itself fails, is one of the earliest, as it is one of the most necessary developments, of the moral instinct. CJotnhntiveness, indeed, is one of the most important of our moral qualities. It is one which, arguing always the presence of a great and pressing -.necessity, is, at the same time, continually counselling the means !>y which tocontend against it. (Lopezde Levya, though feeble, was not en"tirelv wanting in the natural instinct; and, armed with the Spanish crossbow, and the shafts which had been accorded him?a spear, a knife, and or two other implements of use and tie cessiv.wluch might, in me evem ui i;*igonuj. he cuverted into weapons?he now proceeded to explore his empire. A sense of his possessions whs also rapidly beginning to make itself felt in bis reasonings. That delightful human instinct which, in the consciousness of sway, reconcifes us so readily to all its dangers, was about to contribute Its assistance toward comiforting our Maroon in bis desolation, Ho was' indeed a sovereign, though he commanded no subject*. Yet, the wild (owl which sped along the shore before his footsteps, or sprang aloft, wheeling in slow gyrations overhead, as he drew nigh their envoi ts, might be made to feel his authority as well as to minister to his wants. He could persecute, punish ?nd destroy them, quite as certainly, and certainly with less dan. ' ger to himself, than if they were of his own spe cies ; and a sense of fierce delight at this consciousness of lii^ power to do mischief, was grateful to his heart, as it always is to that of the being who is himself peculiarly sensible to the influences of fear. Ho was beginning lo regard with complacency a condition from which there was no escape. A thousand years might elapse, as Velasqnez had malignantly assured him, without suffering the prows of any Kuropean vessel lo approach ro nearly to his islet as to discover the existence of its lone possessor. He -irinst make the most of that existence. He must hoard, must economize his resources, as well of thought and enjoyment, as of covering and to??d. Hejmust not destroy his subjects simply to exe.cise his authority. His power must lie sparingly indulged for his own sake arid safety. He laid aside his guitar with care and tenderness, protecting it from hurt and exposure, by hanging it beneath the friendly palm trees where he had passed the night. In the first paroxysm of his despair and madness, conscious krtf /lonAnemie Itisf I i ?rl*1 fl > I t n CI Pt 1 ma fl f IV H ft uiai ||I9 nniijjriiMin imii uciiguiiMi ? <?? i ?? . < ? .? connected with his present sufferings, he whs about to dash it upon the bleak sands and trample it under foot, or cast it from him into the engulphing and surrounding sea. lie knew not, himself, why he forebore to do so. ^ome ten. der recollection in hi?j thought procured its safe, ty ; some conviction that it might minister to him in his wretched exile; and the desperate mission which might have destroyed it, was re. strained. Yet hitter were the tears that he shed over it, as, arousing from the swoon that followed the departure of the vessel from his eyes, he found the cruel memorial still about his tfrck, where it had been hung by the mock- I ing hands of his enemy. With the subdued | temper that followed the first feeling ofhjs de. j spnir, the instrument became doubly precious, a< it not only spoke of future solace, but reminded him of former enjoyments. It constituted one of the (ew moral links which connected h i in ??*Stk tKrt milir ,.r m-tn lla ]nr?l/arl ihe courage to part with any of his treasure*, and the care with which he recreted his favorite instrument beneath the palm trees, was that of the tender mother, who leaves her infant for a while, solicitous of its comfort even while she has no fears for its safety ; and sometimes look ing back, not with any hope to see, tort rBaHw eyes involuntarily yield themselves lothe coutse indicated by her heart. This charge disposed of, Lopez do Levya grasped his spear with as much martial dignity as he could command, lie felt for his knife at hia girdle, he slung the crossbow over his shoulder, and. ready lor any event, he sallied forth to explore his empire. But though his territory was a small one, such as an adventurous spirit would have traversed wholly, and surveyed thoroughly, in the course of a single day, our Maroon was quite ion timid, too cautious in his footsteps, not to make it a work' of longer time.? Several day* were necessary to his examination. He proceeded slowly, and winding heedfully about, and probing every copse before he penetrated it. he first assured himself against any j possible dancer from secret foes, before he made hi* search satisfactory. His domain was equally ample and compact; not wanting in variety, but baring its elevations of rock, and its valley of verdure and its long wastes and stretches of sand, in a comparatively close compass. The islet was not, as it had been thought bv Velasquez, a mere series of sand hills, raised op by the sea, the creation of its own contending billows. It was a solid rock, whose gradual ascent, nowhere rising into more than a very gentle elevaion, admitted of the easy accumulation of snnd and soil, which, in process of lime, had, <n various places, received a cov. ering of very green and beautiful vegetation.? The shrubbery was rnihpr close than lofty.? Among the trees wpre the plantain, the cocoa'nut. the breadfruit and the banana. The pine apple grew in gold and purple, unobserved by man ; and slender vines, which shot out from the knotted and anclpitt Imlhs, from crevices ol the rock, ran wantonly over the aides o( sudden hillocks, which they garnished with blue rlusters of the grape. Verily, onr musician had an empire in truth. Velastptez little dreamed of the treasure he had given away in his malice. The sterile islet was a principality of fairv land, and Lopez de Levy a grew more and more reconciled to life as he beheld the wenhh which lay scattered around him. His possessions were beyond his wants. Nature hnd made ample provision, and millions might have been found among the needy and oppressed children of Kit* rope, to whom a life of exile and isolation in Rttch an abode, would have been the most acceptable boon of heaven. Nor were these veg. etable possessions all that came to Lopez with his empire. Tribes of small wild animals wantoned before his footsteps, scarcely seeming to fear his presence ; and the nimble little marinozet ot the tropics, with a petty, playful mischief, darting before him as he came, would fling the nuts from the tree tops, and chatter, in equal fun and defiance, at his sovereign authority. Our Maroon began to grow interested in his possessions, Rod fato rooh conducted him to other discoveries. His island, stretching away from north to south, whr exceedingly long in proportion to its width. He had been landed nl the northern extremity, at which point it had been impossible to conceive its dimensions, except from its width, and this hud led to conclusions which gave no reasons to suppose its extent to he half so great as Lopez found it. At the close of the third day of his explorations, he had nearly reached its southern extremity. He had found the land gradually to rise as he advanced, until, toward the close, taken in comparison with the uniform level of the sand and sea surrounding the spe* to which he approached, and hy which the in*..,id was terminated in thisquarter, he discovered what might be considered a moderate mountain. It was certainly a large and imposing hill, seen from the low shores or the waters which surrounded them. Here,too, the groves thickened into something like a forest. Healed by his ramble, and somewhat fatigued. as the day was wearing to its close, he passed gladly for shelter intothe shady recesses of its heights. He soon found himself in one of the cooipst realms or shade wnich he naa ever j traversed. A natural pathway, as it seemed, conducted him forward. Gradually advancing, j he at length emerged from the thicket only to stand upon th*? ' .ow of a rugged eminence which rose, almost perpendicularly, overlooking the sea. A small flat of sandy beach lay at his feet, which was evidently subject to overflow at the rising of the tide. Not half a mile beyond could be seen a small cluster of little rocks, just peering above the sen. scarcely bigger, it would | seem, than so many human heads, which the waves covered at high watei. Between them he could distinguish the hoiling and striving of the billows, which sent up a sheeted shower far above the rocks with which they strove. Long lines, strplching from several points and losing .1 1 .1 1._ U ,u? incmscivrs among mii*i*b rucnii) ouimjcu inc course ol strong currents which were caused by the capricious whirlpools that lay within their embrace. The eye of Lopez took in all these objects, but (hey Hid not Iwnind his survey.? Stretching far beyond, did he only fancy, or did he really behold a slender dark speck which might be the outline of a shore corresponding with that on which he stood ? miles of ocean lay between them, but in that unclouded realm of sunshine and of calm, objects might he seen from an eminence, such as that on which he stood, at a surprising distance. It was only in glimp-es now that he beheld, or fancied the object in his gaze. Sometimes it would utterly disappear, but this might f?e from the continued and eager tension of his vision ; again would it ' it .? I i . .1 ! I ? grow out hniillv hetieain his eves ; uui inis mtgni be in obedience only to the-desires of his mind. filing and feverishly did he watch, and many were his conjectures as to the distant empire " !.ich his hope or his sight liad conjectured up. He turned away, and his glances rested upon the smooth plane of yellow sand beneath his fee t, which lay, inviting to his tread, glinting a thousand fires from bits of crystal, which re. fleeted the now waning sun-light. To this little esplanade which looked so exceedingly inviliutf oitr-i' Maroon " was p?r<naded Jo descend, from his heights, by nuding a convenient series of tilde steps, which wound below?little gaps in the bill-side, or fractures in the naked rock, which one might almost be tempted to imagine, ?so admirable was the assistance which they gave to the anxious loots'eps,?had been the work of art. Following these, Lopez descended to the hard arid sandy floor, and standing in the shadow of the rock, he once more looked forth eagerly upon the doubtful waste of sea. There still lay the empire of his desire. It was along and over those billows that he was vet to see the glimmer of a saving hope. . Such was still his dream, and, sealing himself upon the sand, he inscribed almost unconsciously the names of Spain, of the Diati de Burgos, and of the lowly hamlet in his own country, from which he had been persuaded regretfully to j wander. Then followed rune oiuiiiien ui mc ship which had abandoned him, and then, natural ly enough, a portrait, something less rude, of the fair but passionate woman, tor whose fatal lorp, he was suffering the dreadful doom ofexile and insolation. His own name was written, but as quickly obliterated, muring over the melancholy record, his heart failed him, ami he sunk forward, prone, upon I lie faint memorials which the rising waters would soon wash away forever. Thus he lav, moaning, for many weary minutes, till, all at once, a coldness fell upon him which chilled him to the heart, and aroused him to more immediate apprehensions. The shadow of the hill beneath which he lav was upon Iiirn. The sun was slowly receding from tlie heights. Starling to his feet, lie turn, ed to re.u?cend the hill, and recoiled with a feeling little short of horror, as lie beheld the huge month of a cavern yawning directly upon him. This cavern was open to the sea. Its waters, at t^eir rising, passing the little stretch of sand upon which he had Iain, glided into the di?t hollow, which now looked, grimly threatniog, upon the easily alarmed spectator. The nnenincr was not a very large one, hot would " I r? r easily arlmil of the passage of throe or more persons at a lime. lis lips were covered wilb a snfi and beautiful clothing of green moss which made the darkness within seem yet more dismal. Long grasses,- and thick shrubs and vines hanging over from above, contributed to increase the solemnity of its aspect, as showing the depth and ce/lainty of its solitude ; and the deep silence which prevailed within, added still more greatly to the impressive influence with which it possessed the soul fit the ".Maroon,1' while he timidly yet eagerly gazed upon the opening. At the first discovery of this domain of solemnity and silence, he receded almost to the sea. lie was not encouraged by the still, ness. A voice from within, the cry of a beast the rush of a bird's wing?had been more encourairinsr. [lis advance wasverygrndu.il,? but he dill advance, hi* doubts being much less easy of endurance than the absolute presence of a real cause of apprehension. Willi trembling nerves ho presented his spear, and got his knife in readiness. The spear was thrust deep into the throat of the cavern, but it pro. voked no disquiet within. Then, his hair erecting itself, and his heart rising in his throat as lie advanced, he, at length, fairly made his way into the suhterraneal dwelling. Theio he shouted, and tho sounds came rolling back, upon him from so many hollow voices within, that he once more recoiled from the adventure, and hurried hack in terror to the entrance. XI. But he gathered.courage for a Recond trial. The answering echoes were not followed by any evil, though they seemed to mock his ears with a laughter such as he had hpard from the lyranl ot trie JJian tie mirgos, wnen ne oevoica him to his melancholy exile. He passed again into the cavern, taking care, by his own silence, to provoke no such fearful responses as those which had driven him forth. A few feet brought him to a small dark pool which lay directly in his pathway, and which left but a narrow space between its own margin and the walls of the cavern. This he sounded with his spear, and found to be shallow. It was a lakelet left by the waves of the ocean, by which, at its overflow, the cave was evidently penetrated. Pas. sing this pool, our "Maroon" found himself upon a dry floor, the foundation of which was the solid rock; but a slender coating of soil had formed upon it, which was in turn, clothed with a nice smooth covering of green and velvet-like moss. Here he was gladdened by a glimpse of the son, which, breaking through a chink in the rock, a slender crevice, glided along the rugged vault side, affording to the timid adveniurer, a more perfect idea of an angel pres ence. than he had ever heforp possessed. Anothsr opening in the rock, almost immediately above, afforded sufficient light for his examination of the whole interior. The cave narrowed to a still slenderer gap, as he advanced, than was the one by which he had entered. This was the entrance to another apartment. It was sometime before he ventured to enter this and not until he had thurst his spear, its full length, into its rpcesses. He then clambered up, for the elevation of this inner chamber was greater than the first. Here he was again refreshed with brief glimpses of the sunlight, which, peeping in through two openings ot the rock, looking like two of the most natural and smiling eyes in thp world. This apartment, though of less height, was of larger area than the other. It soon afforded hirn new subjects of curiosity if not alarm, in the centre of the chamber stood a rock, scarcely larger than a i blacksmith's anvil, and having something of the appearance of one, on which lay the remains of a fire. Brands lay half consumed, the fires i of which were now extinguished; but the ashes j were there, still undisturbed, as if the flame had i only recently gone out. Piles of an aromatic < gum, lay upon a shelf of the rock, and other piles, in slender fragments, of wood of which our Maroon knew nothing, lay contiguous also. But inKul.mnra than ajuilhinn Iio^uLl Mfri'tlff] and confounded our "Maroon" were cerin,'n tttlrx.? J rnns shreds ofdark hair, soft, fine and very long, like the hair of women, which hung, neatly tied ' in separate volumes, from the tops of reeds, , which were stuck about the vaulted roof of the cavern, and wherever a crevice could be found sufficiently large in which to introduce their slender extremities. Examining several of j these shreds of hair, the wonder of the explorer was increased to discover that the ends of thein j were shrivelpd as in the flame. There were other objects to excite his surprise, if not to occasion his alarm. Baskets of shells and pebbles. flowers which had decayed, a bow and many arrows,?all of the latter being broken? ' and a heavy stringent of large pearls which ! had bepn slightly injured in the fire, but which Spanish cupidity readily conceived aould still possess considerable value in the Cuba market. 1 (To be continued.) 1 Political Department. j From ihe Clmrleston Mercury. MR.RHETT. The speech of this distinguished Carolinian ' at the late meeting in Charleston, has raised a ( terrible dust among the political rubbish in Washington. .Mr. Clay was thrown into "tcrritsand fits"?Mr. Foote pressed his two hands on his bosom, and looked sick, and the Union ( turned up the white of its gander eyes in J speechless amazement. After a while they all three recovered their speech, and a great spot- ] tering to] I owed. Mr. Clay's part in the scolding lias been already brieHv reported. It was J coarse, insolent, and, as far as it bad any mean- ' big. just as applicable to the resolves of the ' Legislatures of at least half a dozen States, as .Mr. Khett. They have all equally asserted the i right and the determination to resist, at all haz- ' ards and to the last extremity, the unoonstitu- I tional and ruinous designs of the free soil party. Mr. Khett may believe these designs nearer consumation than others, and ho may differ from them in thinking that it is nearly hopeless to attempt to counteract them in the Union. But ' it remains to be shown that Mr. Rhett is wrong 1 and the others right in the points wherein they < differ. Time has not weakened the force of his I position, and the insolent threats and coarse ' denunciations of Mr. Clay do not very much ' increase the chances of an honorable and pea- ? ceable settlement of the question. They do not ' ? -? i promise mueii in me wuy ui jusutc iu uiv South. The threats of a "traitor's doom" and ' "invasion"' do not savor of the perpetuity of < the Union, but indicate that even in Mr. Clay's < view, it is a rotten and foul carcase that is no ' longer to be held together by its own warm vitality, but by force, by chains and locks, the I safeguards of a lawless and hated despotism, i Mr. Clay appeals to violence in behalf of the i Union, and threatens South Carolina with the i gibbet for speaking their minds. w i> nro frlnd to rpo th.it tho Southern Press | i and the Republic in Washington republish Mr. i Rhett's speech. The Union of course could not i go so far. But it makes a great howling over i it, openuig with: "one of tho most remarkable signs of Southern sentiment is the far-famed speech of Mr. Uhett, of South Carolina," &c., and thence proceeding with a tirade that looks very much like hysterics, and ending,,with picking out of their connection, somo of the strong passages and arraying them as "precious specimens." . The " Southern Press" accompanies the speech with a strong editorial, iu which Mr. Clay's denunciation of Mr. Rhett is repelled tvi'tli Hirrnifu anrl Our cotemporaries of the Sooth Carolinian, and the State Rights Republican have taken the occasion to make some pretty severe comments on Mr. Clay. The CaroUnian opines that Mr. Clay must be bent on enlarging the market for one of the staples of his State, and proceeds to say: " Could Mr. Clay's pious wishes be carried out every pine tree in the South would be a gallows and old Kaintuck could not supply rope euough foF a halter for every Southerner whose heart b<Sfts in unison with the sentiments uttered by Mr.Jftbett The dopm of a traitor! And this invoked in the Senate Chamber of the United States by a recreant to the South, upon the head of an ardent and devoted friend of her rights under the Constitution. We may well despair of justice, when an expreesed determination of resistance to aggression upon the.consritutional rights of any portion of our people is branded treason in the Senate Chamber, and draws forth applause from the galleries." The State Rights Republican, after passing a warm eulogium on Mr. Rhett,s speech, and treating the Kentucky Senator's attack with a pretty broad expression of scorn, fortifies itself with an admirably apt quotation from a New England Orator: " Although England," to use the words recently uttered by General Cushing, of Masa chusetts: "Although England set a price on the heads of John Hancock and Thomas Crushing, as traitors, yet they well might and they did retort?that the aggressor and not the aggrieved ; that the violator of the public compact not the victim of the violation ; that the oppressive majority, not the oppressed minority, was responsible for the dissolution of the Union between, the British Colonies and the British metropolis." If Mr. Rhetl be a traitor, the citizens of South Carolina are traitors to a man. Should he meet with a traitor's doom, so considerately and piously invoked for him by the pseudo-patriat, Henry Clay, there will be thousands who would gladly share his fate." The other day amotion was made in the Sunite to give the editors of the Southern ty-ess a u' " -l.7J1'a><u.-i)odY; it wa^ met at mce ny a proposition to gtf"1 Viiw mum in Ults National E?a a seat also. The Era is the aotislavery organ published in Washington city. Phis is one of the annoyances that a sanction if sectional organs at Washington has prepared brthe South. The Press is established on pur 4i._ ........ T7-., Tlia ?f)se i?i mri'i tun ni^uiaium^ wi tuv uim i u& South acknowledges that the opponent is resectable, and worthy to he met in the war of words. If CongresR then give privileges to >ne, it must in all courtesy extend them to the >ther. We should vote against admiitingeither )u the floor of the Senate. We should pay no wmpliment to sectionalism: hut if either was idmitted, we should admit both. If we must lave such a set-to, let it he fair?no gouging. Louisville Democrat. The Editor of the Louisville Democrat don't tnow how he would vote on this question. Ho would have to ask his party leaders or masters. In assigning us an equality with the Editor of :he National Era tho Democrat ha? given us a position much above his own. We have far pobuppi for the man who eniraires in tho :himprical scheme of making a frppman ofa ne;ro, than for one who, like the I'Mitor of the Democrat, has made in his own person a slave >fa while man.?Southern Press. The Morgan county meeting declare in favor )f county meetings, but do not relish the idea if a mass of the whole people of the State.? rhey dread the effect of the demonstration ivhen the mass meeting of the people, proposed n this paper, takes place. Well may we dread t. It will blow this Clay Compromise sky jigh by an indignant blast of the popular voice Why Ho not the Clay Compromise party prowse a counteracting mass meeting ? Do they ireatl the comparison of numbers, and of popular enthusiasmat the respective meetings? We reckon this must bo the case. Augusta Constitutionalist. Republican Institutions.?The adinira. >le working of our true republican institutions was never more forcibly illustrated than in the lequence of the mournful event which recent, y deprived this mighty nation 01 its Chief Magisrate. Such an event in other governments tvouUl have suddenly cheeked the whole ma:hinery of the political establishment; whilst tere the event, apart from its unexpectedness, rnd the public grief which was excited in the Ttindsnfour pooplo hythe death of i distinguished man, scarcely caused a ripple on the surface if our well-ordered social and political institutions. The Constitution wisely provided forthis contingency, and designated a successor who immoliniely resumed the functions of the office vara led, and, in presence ol the people's representatives trick its oath, and at onee was recognised as President of a nation of twentv-seven million of people. There was no let or hindrance, not rtven a murmur from political opponents. Such a spectacle must appear wellnieh inromprehen. Bible to the people of less favoured lands. To the faithful maintenance of such a Constitution we fervently say, eslo prrprtva. South Carolinian.