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TRADE WITH BALTIMORE. ( So long as Charleston itself is not 1 a gaeat centre of trade, so long as i there is from this city no direct rail- ( road communication with the great | grain and provision markets of'the \ West, so long as the South has no r manufactures of her own, so long as t --riknrloctrm hns no direct steam com-, f munication with Europe, and so long 'as protective tariffs prevent the introduction of European manufactures, just so long must Charleston merchants procure their supply of marketable commodities from one or more of the great centres of trade at the North. If sympathy or grati tude could control trade, there would be no doubt as to which of these great Northern markets would be selected by Charleston merchants. Before, during and since the great war, from which all chronology in this country . is reckoned, Baltimore has been Southern in sentiment, character/ sympathy and action, and we only 6peak of it as one of the great Northern markets, because it is far North of Charleston, and as a business centre resembles, and properly belongs ^m to^Jie same class with, those of o'ther cities, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. So much for sympathy, but we are still more firmly bound to Bal timore by gratitude, for in the days * of our distress, both during the war ; when our soldiers pined in Northern ^ hospitals and prisons, and since the t , war, when gaunt famine and direful f distress have been present through i out the length and breadth of our 1 once prosperous State, it has been c Baltimore that has stretched out the f hand of relief. But sympathy and j . gratitude do not control trade. Com- \ merce, alas! is but a mercenary jade, v who dispenses her favours where the f most money can be obtained. The r question of which is the best market, t of course all business men will de- r cide for themselves, the opinion of the press to the contrary notwithstanding, but feeling strongly the bonds of sympathy and gratitude , above; alluded to, we shall take the liberty in this article of suggesting j1 to the merchants of Charleston some - - . ~ , . n of the advantages of the Baltimore .*market... As the trade between this j port and Baltimore already supports a first-rate line of steamers, we presume! that some of our merchants have discovered these advantages for them;6elv.es, but these should be more wide]y appreciated, and the line of steam- f : era should be able to have a vessel t leaving each city every day. ^ . In selecting a market there are j several things for the merchants to ?? consider. Among others he must take into consideration the character j of the community in which he will soi journ aDd its capacity for making his stay pleasant and agreable,?the . time and expense of going and returning?the character of the com. modifies produced in the market and , its facilities far obtaining what it does not produce.. 1st. The character of the commu- . nity and its capacity forgiving pleas ure. These things may be thrown ? out of consideration when there is a ^ difference between markets in more important respects, but if the expense ^ and the time comsumed in going and returning, and the cost of board, j and the prices of a bill of goods be t( the same for the cities of A and B? j and a merchant knows that in A, he will be opposed to the men with whom P * .1 r t< ne is inrown in contact in pontics, sentiment and religion, while lie agrees with the people of B in all t these things, if he fears swindling, robbery or assassination in A, and feels sure of honest dealing, and safety of ^ person or property is .B, he is of course sure to transact business in B Secondly, tha^thejme consumed in going and returning and transacting tl business at a market and the expense fi of travelling and board, form no in- s considerable item in the relative ad- r vantages of markets, admits of no a dispute. So too with the character b of goods manufactured in a place, c and the facilities of procuring those t not there manufactured. The mer- s chant will necessarily prefer the mar- c ket which combines the best produc- a tionsofits own with the best facili- " ties of procuring those of other places, t Baltimore combines all these advan- I tft<?es to a greater extent than any r other Northern market. As regards t the pleasure of a stay in Baltimore, a ? the assurance that a Charleston mer- c chant can better enjoy himself there ' than elsewhere scarcely needs the c supportofan argument. "We agree n with the people of Baltimore in an f ardent love for constitutional govern- n ment, in sympathy with the lost cause " of the Confederacy, in admiration for d the men who fell in its defence, m li our ideas of morality, in social eti- a quette, and in short on all those many t questions, on which it is so pleasant a for men, associating together, to agree, B and so very disagreeable for them to g differ. The cost of going to and 2 f om Baltimore, and the time con- I somed in travelling is less than with f other markets, and the cost of board t is not greater while you are more sure j m ... - 1 ii- i: )f comfort and good society. The jest flour in the country is manufaqured in Baltimore, and it 'is in the :entre of a very extensive wheat region, while its direct communication vith the West by means of the Baltinore and Ohio Railroad, makes it lie best market in the Atlantic States or grain and provisions of all kinds. ?orn, rye, oats, wheat, pork, bacon, ard, butter, &c., &c., pour into it lailv from the teeming markets of he West, while railroads, steamboats ind sailing vessels are always ready or freight to Charleston. For dry i i. * l ;oons, agricultural implements ana ;uch other manufactured articles as ire not made in Baltimore, and which he merchants of that city procure urther North, there is of course the ixpcnse of transportation and a profit :o be added to the first cost, but that s far more than overbalanced by the act that the goods are already selectid for the Southern market, and that he Baltimore merchants arc able to )uy in much larger quantities than >ur own merchants, and consequently, ;o obtain their goods cheaper from irst hands. For all foreign comnoditie?"*consumed at the South, Baltimore stands on a par with other narkets, while for the coffee trade it s a special depot. We have thus endeavored, as fully is the limited space of an editorial vould allow, to set forth some of the idvantages of Baltimore as a market 'or Charleston and other Southern nerchants, but we are aware that we lave scarcely dono more than point >ut the lines of thought for others to ollow, and our aim will be accom>lished if we can awaken serious arid rise consideration of the subject, for re feel sure that it is only necessary or the advantages of the Baltimore narket to be properly considered for hem to be appreciated and recoglized.?Charlestoji Mercury. Grant's Ambition.?There is a ery decided tendency towards furher complication in national affairs, nd since it has been pretty definitey ascertained that "the General ccmlanding the armies" has ventured to dvise the prompt removal of the 'resident, at leaot one Radical Senior has taken the alarm and has . I i . _ . _ A.' entureu 10 crmcisc in severe terms he daring insolence of Grant. At irst many were unwilling to believe hat General Grant had ever enterained or given expression to the seniments attributed to him by the New fork Tribune; but^ others who proess to know the man, pronounced the irticle genuine on sight. Some in 'estigation which has since been had, eaves no doubt that Grant did ay that the only hope for the peace >f the country is the success of the mpeachmcnt trial, and that the naional security demands the. removal >f the President. Giddy from the icight to which fortuitous circumstan:es have elevated him, and crazed by i seeming near approach to the Prosdential chair, General Grant is not ?nly prepared to speak foolishly, but o act rashly. Without mental calibre, he is left a prey to an inordinate mbition with which he has been fired y his Radical keepers, and there is o telling what he may say or what e may attempt. He is but the mere doI of the Jacobins, and may be in- , uced to attempt the role of Robesierrc; but, as the Senator alluded o said, lie had better keep a look ut for his own head. It is undertood that a court of inquiry is being ivlked of in official quarters. Grant's ommission is onlv held during the lcasure of the President. Cor. Bait. Gazette, 8th inst. Whipping the South.?The only tiing the malignant mongrels can ofjr in defence of their horrible opprcsions is to appeal to the hatred and evenge of the baser sort of society, nd declare that "the South has not een whipped enough." Well, ic annot be denied that the South is so horoughly "whipped" that both the taples of our commerce, and the hief market for Northern wares are lmost destroyed. We have therefore 'whipped the South" so thoroughly, hat we have whipped over 250,000 Northern nlen and women out of emiloyment. In the single city of Boson 25,000 men, women and children ,re daily fed on soup, at the public harge. That is what comes of 'whipping the South." While with .apitalists money is plenty, labor has othing to do, and the poor must be ed on soup to gratify the malignant mongrels in the sweet revenge of 'whipping the South." And every lay w.U come le;s employment for the aboring classes and greater abund,nce of pauper soup, while the Chrisian work of ''whipping the Scuth" is ,llowed" to go on. Some years ago dr. Seward, always a shallow dema;ogue, came back fro n a visit to few Orleans, and made a speech in : few York which electrified all the ools in the North, by showing that he South was so helpless that it delended upon Northern mechanics for ? 4 nearly all its wants. Going along the streets of the Southern cities, he "saw no hoes, harrows, plows, boots, shoes, ready-made clothing, &c., that were not made in the North." This was said as a sneer at the South, which was eagerly swaliowed by every human ass in the North. But now, Seward and his band of malignant fools have "whipped the /South" out of the means of buying our wares; and in the same ratio thai; we haye destroyed our /Southern market we have established pauper soup houses in the North. Now if zS'eward were to go zS'outh he would find plenty of soup homes as the net resub of "whipping the zS'outh." And thin same tribe of Northern noodles wants to put government, commerce and industry in the hands of the negroes, which wcuild effectually prevent that section from again becoming a market of our wares, and would render the soup houses a permanent institution in the North. But how Jong will the poor of the North continu3 to be fed on spup, to gratify the deviiistn of the mongrel party in ''whipping .the South ?" If this thing goes q# there will, by and by, be throat-cutting somwhere. But it will not he the throat of the despgiring people who are fed on soup !?Bay Book. The Shoe Pinciieh.?At a meeting in Illinois, a resolution was offered suggesting Mr. Pendleton as the Democratic candidate for President. Mr. Springer, of Springfield, opposed the motion and said : Again, I am frank to say that I do not know whether Mr. Pendleton is the proper man to nominate or not. Aside from the question of his unavailability in some of the States, I have another question that I would j x. i.! l. .f t i-i r propounu 10 mm oeiore x snoum iavor his nomination for the Presidency. I should want to know of Mr. Pendleton, whether, in the event of his constitutional election, counting out the negro votes of the negro State governments of the South, he means to be President, even if he has to be sworn in at home, and fight his way to Washington at the head of an organized Democratic army? I fear it is coming to this. The Radicals mean to count the negro votes-of ten negro governments, which have no more right to be counted than have an equal number of votes in Hayti or Liberia, in order to elect their man. If we are going to submit to this outrage, we may aswell quit now. For I tell you wewRinnot carry enough States at the North to overcome the negro votes of the South, tfence I am f. r no man for President who is not willing to stake his property, his life, his all, for the cause; and if constitutionally elected, be willing to draw his sword, call ihe Democratic hosts to arms, and c'iaim the Presidential office at all hazards! If Mr. Pendleton will do this, then I am for him; if not, I am against him. If we mean "business," let us understand ourselves, and act accordingly. T t *1 1 ? 1 T . 1 .1 i! cnna 8 piay, i want to De counted out. Negro Rule?The following is a picture drawn by a Northern Radical newspaper of the negro rule in St. Domingo, after they have had fifty years of experience as rulers of about the fairest spot on earth: "The latest news from San Domingo is that the country is in anarchy, and the prisons are full; but this is probably about the full extent of its power. It is painful to see such a rich and charming part of the world given up to ruin and savagery. It is grievous to see the control of such a country in the hands of such a people. But we see no help for it. And we may rest satisfied that if there be any lower depths of human degradation than that which they have reached, it will rot require them many years to sink it. If the population would resort to eanibalism, and devour each other out of existence, it would probably be the best thing that could happen." The National Intelligencer of the 7th inst., says: "In the Michigan election yesterday the vote was upon the adoption of the new constitution. There were two separate articles submitted?one in regard to prohibition of license for selling liquor; the other, whether the sessions of the Legislature should be annual or biennial. Michigan is one of the staunch tot ui IIIU xvumv/di utuitti wvn ators?Chandler and Howard?and her Representatives in Congress have deVoted themselves exclusively to t ie elevation of the negro above the white man. Rather than submit to this disgusting imposture, the people of Michigan have rejected the entire constitution. By what majority would they h ive rejected the brutal heresy of negro suffrage had it been submitted to them as a separate proposition ? The Fenian trials at London have been postponed until after Easter. / V TH E JO URNAL Thursday, April 1G, ISGSFrisshet. We learn this morning that the river has overflowed its banks, and all the low lands are covered with water. The water is Btill rising and the indications nrft flint, tknra will kn n 1 nrrro fronliflt. Rain, has fallen every day this week, some of the showers accompanied by high wind. Farming operations have been suspended and the ground is so saturated with water that several days of fair weather will be required to put tho soil in a proper condition to receivj the seed, this will of course throw the farmc'rs considerably behind hand. While we write, rain is falling, with the prospect of a stormy day. Easter Elections. Grace Church, Camden, S. C. Wardens ?L. R. Deas, J. B. Kershaw. Vestrymen?j. ii. desaessckk, l. m. Df.Sacssuke, J. A. Youno, James Ciiksnut, E. B. Cantev, H. C. Salmond, J. M. Davis. Delegates to the State Convention?J. A Young, J. B. Kershaw, II. C. Salmond, t i r n j. ju. .uavis The Election. So far, the election has passed off tolerable quietly. We have heard of nc disturbance, except an attempt at fisticuffs by a couple of freedmen. Mutual friends interfered, the parties were separated, and the matter ended. Up to 8 o'clock this morning, the votes polled in this precinct foot up 1,152, as follows:?Whites 104;? Blacks 1,048. Corn. W9 call the attention of purchasers of corn to the card of Messrs Matiiewson & Co., of Augusta, Ga., in to-day's paper. The well established repua'ion ofthisfirmis sufficient guaranty thai those who forward tfigir orders will be fairly and liberally dealt by. Result of the Impeachment. It is difficult to form an opiuion as to the probable result of the pending impeachment of the President, by those who arrive at their conclusions from the various Washington correspondents of Via Pi-om tt-Vwisa nntninnH fliffbr fif) widely in regari to it. Tho correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, of the 10th inst., says: "A very intelligent Radical, who is on terms of great intimacy with many Radical Senators, remarked: "Curti3 is delivering a great speech, but it might as well bo addressed to the Pawnee Indians, the case is judged now." And such seems to be the opinion entertained in well informed circles here of both parties, de spite all the attempts made to create a different impression. Under that terrible influence of party pressure, the back bones of those Senators which needed "stiffening" are being gradually braced up, and no fears are entertained that they will Jbe able to toe the mark when the day of pronouncing the verdict rolls around." On tho other hand, the correspondent of the Gazette says : "The resolution offered in the House by Mr. Robinson, of Brooklyn, seems not to have been entirely unanticipated by the impeachers, and but little surprise was expressed at its introduction. Although the impeachment "ring"' forced an adjournment of the House to prevent an expression of opinion on tho proposition to rescind the articles of impeachment and call back the managers, yet there was clearly manifested a feeling ' of despondency which told but too j plainly that if they dared to <lo so they * ? 1 11 /*? J __ themselves woum eau on ineir nogs and give up the ohaso. After the adjournment the Radioals gathered in small groups and earnestly discussed the effect which Mr Robinson's resolution would be likely to have upon the country. When the report of the proceedings reached the Senate there was a most ludicrous flurry among the Radcal members of that body, and for a few moments business was almost suspended. The rapid change which is tar king place hero in regard to the probable result of t e impeachment trial seems to bo reacting upon the Jacobins themselves, and is producing a corresponding depression m their ranks. In u word, impeachment is now generally regarded horo as upon its last legs." An lmj.ort. nt Order. The following ordor, says the Charleston Mercury, should be oarofully considered by every civil officer in North and Soutb. Carolina. Any man who holds office after reading it is bound to execute the most arbitrary military order that may be hereafter promulgated, and cannot evade the obligation by resigning: General Orders No. 06. It is hereby ordered, that all resignations of civil officers, tendered either to the Military or civil authorities of North or South Carolina, shall not take effect, or relieve the officer tendering the same from his responsibility for a due discharge of the duties of his office, until the acceptance thereof is officially notified, and a successor to such office has been duly appointed and qualified. By command of Brevet Major-Genal Ed. R. S. Canby. 1 ' ? Bow to Collect. We have heard of many novel wave of collecting little debts, bnt that adopted by a white minister not a thousand miles from Camden, is a little more "cute'' than any that has yet come to our knowledge. Being called upon a few days ago to perform a marriage ceremony for a colored couple, he promptly attended, and at the proper time, proceeded with the ceremony, when half through, he stopped and said that ho had married a number of couples, fiom whom he was unable to get a cent, and he would not proceed ' farther until tho. bridegroom or 6ome of his friends forked over one dollar, his charge for his services. The money being handed over, he concluded tho ceremony, no doubt highly gratified ? with the success of this strategem. Fon LiDEniA ?The colonization ship Golconda, was to havo leit Baltimore on yesterday, for Savannah, whence ( she will proceed on the 4th of May to ( Liberia. S.:e will carry out about six i hundred and fifty colored people said to be composed of the best and most industrious of that race in the South, who have asked the society to i send them to tho land of thoir futhers. This will be the largest number of ernii grdnta that has yet been sent to Africa l in one ship. ; ? ? I POIt THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. To the White fi en of Kershaw District "111 fares it with tue flo k, If shepherds wr.ug'e when The wolf is nigh." / ' There are a thousand white men in ; Kershaw District, lot them think, feel i and act as one man. The one iden ? should be to keep together, let nothing separate, let notliing breed division in 1 our ranks?remember?do this and t we are safe. We claim to be true to the Constitution of the United States, to which we have sworn allegiance since our flag went down, as interpreted by the wisest and best of the North, soldiers and statesmen, and by the majority as wo confidentially believe, of the Northern people, so we talk no 1 treason when we call upon the white men to be true to their class and race, i and let no heart burnings or jealousies, no past discord, divide us now, and join to resist this asserted determination by the radical party and their representatives among us, to subvert education, refinement and wealth, by ignorance. brutalitv and naunerism. To ' * AT : ties roy a people to guin an electiou.? But the people of this country have not agreed to such destruction. This tempest of the vilest passions, that has r been and still is desolutiug our land, must in its nature exhaust itself, it muy not yet have reached its highest point we think it has, but culminuto it will (for the sensible radical once in power must become conservative) and let no white man think that he is gaiuing his object (which of course is to better himself) by yielding all he has been taught to respect, and becoming a partisan in a colorel league, they may like the treason, but be assured they must de^ spise the traitor. They, the colored men, feel their own position to be very different, they are dqjug their best, according to their lights, to sustain their cause and race, and the good among thefh, (for the most of tJiem are we j think conscientious) are we believe rea-1 dy to recognize thejr truo friends among the Southern men, whoso interest is j identical with their own, as soon as I their minds can be reached, through the j rush and clamor with which they are surrounded. There is no use in forcing our particular views, upon the Freedmen now, what have we got in our broken fortunes to give against the glittering promises mai{e by the irresponsible adventurers, who lor thepregent have their ear; those promises will be bro- [ ken; thoso glittering jewels, held up by these apostles of the future, prove but tinsel, and when that reaction does come, as come it must, all that is truo will be gladly recognized, and the false prophet meet with due reward. Time will cure onr trouble, bad off as we aro, the great white race must rule, God has so orcjaiued it, and what stand aan the puny three or four millions of a weak ignorant and rapidly decaying peo pie, make against, a march ofthatmigh- $ ty race, that is today holding in the hoi* low of its hand, colored races all over }t the earth, far more advanced in civili* zation, and character, than these feeble colonists of Guinea, and the Gold coast, we have among us. In India, Ewp < land, from whose loms we are proud to claim our iesCent,, wilh t])faa half a world between them, conquers, and holds as she call? them subject*, Jwt might well say "slaves" with a ha?i full of white soldier, one hundred. ?nd fifty millions of Hindoos, fcc?'itto*with M China, and Japan, Vfhen brought itf AAntenf nnfh A??v\ A*?/1 aT ill /J I \sKjkxtav/i Tvitu LUC aiiu, auu viaiu, ui U-itx ; European. . f The brutal Turk would butcher Jew, and Christian, at Damascus, the white J men of the world, put forth their hands to put it down. ' j We are friends of the colored man, J our associations have always been with ^ him, and a thousand ties still bind.us together, ties that will n&t be easy to break. For a time, as we saidbe&re, they may be lost sight o? but they rest upon the best and strongest principle of humanity, a mutual necessity to begin with, and the recollection in that ne- * cessity, of a common help in the past, ^ they need onejanother. they are so sfc uated as to recognize that fact at a glance, when they have time to take breath and look around them. Though the colored race is yet weak- V er every day and the white man stronger, by natural increase and immigration, no thinking Sou hem white mpn is now, or will be unwilling to giro freely to the black, just as much lnfluence in the government, as may be suited to his capacity for, or his interest in it, more than this, the best and wisest among themselves, will not desire, w^hen they realize what government really is. The protection of life and property, considered with, a view to the elevation and comfort of the. one, with a due development of the other. Bomember, that in your hands am . held all that wo reverence, and respect, " let not despair dishearten, or a craven fear disgrace you?look f <r the boV in the cloud, and be assured it is there though you may not see it. God will never permit that his law, put forth in in thunder on mount binai, and illustrated by his Son in his walk, and con- j verse, while on earth, should be, crush- A ed and outraged by the destruction .of all He thus taught to be most holy, A while we are, by his permission thirty millions of the same race He ohoeofbr his incarnation, to assert and defend it. B.:' . l?ttK ANJTHBR CARD. . .. .. Jy In the Card published on Saturday, I confined myself to the action i of the meeting in Columbia. In taking y leave, however, of the public, as At* torney-Gcneral, after a service offiear . ' r tt~i.iL- x- -L _ 1..J twenty years, 1 uesire w say a wum as to the office, and the more so "because I consider myself the last of the Attorney-Generals ofSoqth Carolina. I mean of the old White Man's South Carolina?one of the original "Thiiteen"?the South Car* ' olina which gave to the ''Revolution" her Rutledges and Pinckneys, and to the crisis preceding the "second Wap of Independence," her Lowndes, Cheves and CaUioun, which has. con-, tributed to the counsel since her Mo 1 Duffie, Ilayne, Preston and Lagare?? of that SouthCarolina I am the last Attorney-General! Heretofore the office has been, in this State, as in England, one 6f the prizes of the profession, to be attain-, ed only after a long and arduous service. The Attorney-General is the acknowledged head of the Bar, and have jealously guarded the position. The office, since the Revolution^ , has been filled?first, by John Julius ' Pringle, a learned lawyer, of large I experience, with a very lucrative and multifarious private practice, second, Itangdon Cheves, clarum et venerabile nomen, a giant among giants with the very largest private practice ever known in this State; third, John S. Richardson, eminently eloquent j a:ul successful as a barrister, for very many years a Judge in our* highest Court; fourth, Robert Y. Hayne, who between the age of twenty-one and thirty, began ami finished a brilliant professional career, which gave hin^ fortune enough to enable him to de-. vote twolve years to politics; fifth, James L. Pcttigru; his very name a svnoym fop a Lawyer; sixth, Hugl\ Swinton Legare, a "polished corner of the temple," as profound as he w&a, brilliant, and equally the scholar and the lawyer; seventh, R. Barnwell Rhet, who, after a very brief term of . ^ o ce, was translated to the halls of- T Congress, and who has run a cireer since which has made his name familiar from Canada to the Gulf; eighth, Ilcnry Bailey, who, as a lawyer, was a fit ?compecr of his distinguished predecessors. For myself, I will only say that, when elected AttorneyGeneral, I had been sixteen years a f ' * ? /