discourse delivered before 7 he g r a/) ua ting class of the college of charleston?by ki.v. j. ir. miles:-' We noticed this able and eloquent produclion when delivered in tfife .College Chapel. Its impassioned, and, occasionally, nervous arid glowing diction U made the vehicle of sound opinions ideniied with judicious advice. The theme wjfeh has been treated in the following * passage has been iiiadn over and over again the sunject of descant, in prose and verse; it has lost t he attraction of novehv. whether of thouirht ^ " v ' , ^ c or language; yet there is something in the im^ agery and diction of this extract, instinct with eloquence, which will favorably compare with any similar exercise in rhetoric or composition. We possess an instructor, whose claims it would here he impertinent to discuos; hut to whose moral value, permit nie to direct j'our serious attention. Let us seek it in contrast with the hoary and venerable lore of ages; and fqr this purpose, enter with pie, in imaginatiifk some well stored library, and glance arounil upon the stately array of tomes, in which the wisdom nnt^tbe mighty thoughts of the dead are garnered up. They are immortal.? There they stand,*so calm and solemn, as if conscious of their imperishable glory. Dare we hope, that we, too, will one day be numbered among those ranks, and leave thoughts for which tbu wise will barter their gold ! And, yet, what matters it ? Those creations, it is ' . j ...l' irne, are great, nouie, ut.nu csa. uie maimctiou, the incitement, the very ech??, of the heart of Humanity. Rut they can tell ns nothing of the mysteries must uecessary tp be known, and which, curtained by death, and dreadly palled by iiiturit$j0od retribution, agitate and oppress the inquiring spirit They can only inform us that those mysteries have also darkened other spirits, awakened fears, doubts, and fruitless speculations; and the collected wisdom of the world, leaves us only more deeply conscious of the.ignorance of, man. But amidst the grand array, the eye of the weary and unsatisfied inquirer, turns to one small and aufietit volume. It has passed through a more fiery ordeal of criticism, than all the writings collectively of India, Greece, aud Rome; aud holds enthralled the faith aryl homage of the civilized world. Strange, Venerable, Awful, Terrible book! It is folly to ridcule you ; it is madness to reject you ! With all your* hard" sayings, and dark Mfl.IlAM ahJ n ?/l if b^AwlAa i iuuics, auu uim uauiui;tia} auu uiuuuj ow? ivo; you have triumphed oter the literature of Greeee, and; what is raare, over the noblest intellects and the finest hearts which have regalized humanity* . What a triumphant, though silent concession, have you extorted from your enomiea, in tliat thev have deemed you sulHciently formidable, to elicft almost every thing which learning, assiduity, genius, weariless research, and the most'polished' intellectual armory, could furnisli to combat you. Ooe book in barbarous dialects, against the glorious language and unrivalled .genius of a library of Grecianal? The trUtT Olympian Eagle of Song, the Fiery Mrw??n? nf the lyric torrent??the enthroned Tri ad of action and passiort?the Lute-voiced old Chronicle/;?the Promethean Thief of Clio'* StyJus-rthe Pure-tongued. Annalis of the Immortal Retreat?the Thunderbolt of winged eloquence.?.the mighty genius ot that suble Encyclopedist? the polished Censor and Panygerist of declining Athens?the genial Essayist and Hiogmpl Or?-fad even the sublimely attuned soul; whose tffoughts and language roll on like the everlasting harmony of the spheres, yes, all ?poet, orator, historian, philosopher?you must all tloff your starry, well-earned crowns, before the awfn! diadem of thai authoratutive volume.. Old Grecians, your glory is like the glitter pf the starry firmament? your majesty like that of "the old rolling heavens;" but the Kiblo- is like floods of sunshine, and stormy night, and lurid fire, and balmy morn, and life and death, and heaven and hell, in the rapidly shifting scenes of an universal panorama. Masters of the'heart and intellect, as ypu"Grecians unce on the validity of the lafr. fin in questions involviug the right to power wwRher this or that power has been delegated or Ifeseryed, they cannot and ought not to he the arbiter; that question has been left, as it always was, and always must be left, to be deteiiniued among the sovereignties in the l?est way they can. Political wisdom has not yet discovered ajiy infallible | mathematical rule, by whicb to determine the assumptions of power between those who know ' ' ' " * t' o ??n 4 U n f imnACorl i no OIIICT lilW Ul lllllltmiv/li Oiuc Lliab lilllJuavu j upon tliem by their own consent, and which they can abrogate at pleasure. Pray let me ask the gentleman?and no one knows better than himself?who ordained this Constitution V Who defined its powers, and said, thus far slialt thou go, but no farther? Was it not the people of the states in their sovereign capacity t? Did they commit an act of suicide by so doing ? ?an act of self-annihilation ? No, thank God, they did not; hut are still nlive, and I trust are becoming sensible of that importance of those rights reserved to them, and prohibited to that government which they ordained for common defence. Shall the creature of the states be the sole judge of the legality or constitutionality of its own acts, in a 'question of power between them and the states ? Shall they who assert a right, be the sole judgeaof their authority to claim and to exerehe it? Does not all power seek to enlnige itself? grow on that it feeds upon ? Has not that been the history ot all encroachment, all usurpation ? If this Federal Government, in all its departments, then, is to be the sole judge of its own usurpations, neither the people nor the statesj in a short time, will have any thing to contend for; this ereatare of theirmaking will become their sov ereign, and the only result of the labors of our revolutionary heroes, in which patriotic band this venerable(geutleinan was most conspicuous, will have been a-changeof our masters?New England for Old England?for which change I cannot find it in my heart to thank them.' Col Jkkfkrso* D*vis.?VVe are informed that this distingtflshed hero, and Statesman, will visit event ]Hirt of Mississippi, previous to the meeting in Congress, in December next, and address his fellow .citizens on the dangers that surround the SdaVh. A cordraf welcome awaits him every where. He is one of the Jewels of Mississippi, that site delights to cherish and honor- .He led her sons to glory and fame that never dies, on the bloody fields of Monterey and Bucna Vista. He is a Soldier and a States ? A - mo?? Itroll mail, lllill nilV umvr, u> uuiiuh uiu> nm ui proud of.? Alius. Jacksonian. Was Washington born in England.?The Boston Transcript publishes nn extract from a letter dated isle worth, Middlesex, England, Feb. 25th 1851, and addressed to Geo. Harvey, Esq., Winthrop House Boston, Mr. Field has in possession an original portrait of Washington's mother, which he wishes to present to our government. Mr. Field is 75 years old, and a gentleman in every way to be relied J>n. He raises the question of Washington's native land, by the following paragraph: "It happened when I was a boy, that being in the neighborhood of Cookham, Berkshire, with an uncle of mine, he pointed out n pretty country cottage in which the parents of General Washington resided, and from which they re moved to America. Uur roan leu 10 a green or common, where there resided a Mrs. Anna Morer, whose maiden name was Taylor, who there showed me the portrait of Mrs. Washington and other reliques of the family, given to her when they quitted the place for America, to which country her aunt and mother, she told me, 'took their son (George Washington) in her arms.' I believe I use her own expression." Damages against the T'legraph Company.? Tiie proprietors of the New York Express have recovered from Morse's Telegraph company for tlu ir failure to deliver a despatch in New York which had been paid for in Ihis cTty, the clerk of the company at New York having withheld the despatch, because payment of a previous demand bad not been made. 1 Va.sh ington Rrpu 1)1 ic. Mr. Whitney, despairing of Congress ever making his railroad to the Pacific, goes out in flm Ktpjimor hv invitation from England, it is said to negotiate for a route through |f|?|?t-r Canada, ami through the lands of the Hudson Hay Compauy, above tlie United States boundary. Tlic Sfiit.?The mean depth of the sen, according to La Place, from three to five nrles. If the existing waters were increased by one-fourth, it would drown the earth, with the exception of some high mountains. If the volume of the ocean were augmented by only oneeighth, considerable portions of present continents would be changed all over the globe. Uvaporation would be. so much extended, that rains would continually destroy the harvest, and fruits and flowers, and subvert, the whole ecouo' mv of nature. There is, perhaps, nothing more beautiful in our whole system than the process i by which our fields are irrigated from the shirs, the rivers fed from the mountains, and the ocean restrained within the bounds, which it can never I exceed so long as that process continues on the present s^ale. The vapor rimed by the sun from the sea floats wherever it is lighter than the atmosphere; condensed, it falls upon the earth in water, or attached to the mountains, dissolves and replenishes the conduits with which, externally or internally, they are all furnished. By these cdnduits the fluid "is conveyed to the rivers which flow on the surface of the earth, and to the springs which lie deep in its hosoms, destined to sunply man with a pure; elementIf we suppose the sen then to be considerably diminished, the Amazon and the Mississippi, those inland seas ofthe Western world, would become inconsidernhle brooks; the brooks would wholly disappear, the atmosphere would be deprived of its due proportion of humility; all nature would assume the garb of desolation; tlie birds would droop on the wing, the lower animal would perish on the barren soil and man himself would wither away like the sickly grass at his _____ CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. BKADFoRI) THK INNKF.KPEK. Jonathan Bradford kept an inn in Oxfordshire, on the London road to Oxford. J/e l>ore a respectable character. Mr. flays, a gentleman of fortune, being on his way to Oxford, on a visit to a relation, put up at Bradford's. He I there joined company with two gentlemen, with whom he supped, aud in conversation unguardedly mentioned that he had then about him a considerable sunt oT money* In-due time they retired to tliei^'itespeCtive chambers; the gen llemen to a . two-bedded room, leaving as is customary with many, a candle burning in the chimney corner. Some hours after they were in bed, one of the gentlemen being awake, thought lie heard a deep groan in an adjoining chamber, and this being repeated, be softly awoke his friend. They listened together, and the groans increasing, as of ouo dying, and in nnin. tliev both instantiv arose, and uroceeded silently to tbe door of the next chamber, from which the groans had seemed to come. The door being ajar, they saw a light in the room. They entered, but it is impossible to paint their consternation on perceiving a person weltering in his bed, and a man standing over him with a dark lantern in one hand and a knife in the other! Tbe man seemed as much petrified as themselves, bat hi* terror carried with it all the appearance of guilt. The gentlemen soon discovered that the murdered person was the stranger with whaiu they had that night supped, and that the man who was standing over him was their host. They seized Bradford di-, rectly, disarmed 'him of his knife, and charged him with being the murderer. He assumed by | this time the air.of innocence, positively denied the crime, and asserted that he came there with the same humane intentions as themselves: for that hearing a noise, which was succeeded by groaning, he got out of bed, struck a light, armed himself with a knife for his. defence, and had but that minute entered the room before them. These assertions were of little availhe was kent in close custodv till the morniiiff, and then taken before a,neighboring justice of the peace. Bradford-jstill denied the murder, but with such apparent indications of guilt, that the justice hesitated Dot to tnako use of this extraordinary expression on writing his mittimus, "Mr. Bradford, either you or myself committed this murder." : > ii -3 - ~ 'iliis remaritable affair became a topic of conversation to the whole country. Bradford was condemned by the general voice, of every company. In the midst of all this predetermination came on the assizes at Oxford. Bradford was brought to trial: he plead not guilty. Nothing could he stronger than the evidence of the two gentlemen. They testified to finding Mr. Hayes murdered in his bed, Bradford at the side of the body with a light and a knife, and the hand which held it bloody. They stated that, on their entering the room, he betrayed all the signs of a guilty man : and that, but a few minutes preceding, they had heard the groans of the deceased. Bradford's defence on his trial was the same as before; he had heard a noise; iie suspicioned some villainy was transacting; he struck a light, snatched Up the knife, the only weapon at hand, to defend himself, and entered the room of the deceased. He averred that the terrors he betrayed were merely tire feeling3 natural to innocence, as well as guilt, on beholding so horrid a scene. The defence, however, could not but be considered as weak contrasted with tlu? several powerful circumstances against him. Never was circumstantial evidence so strong, as far as it went Tlrere was little need for comment Irom the judge in summing up the evidence; 110 room appeared for extenuation; and the prisoner was declared guilty by the jury without their even leaving the box. Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring that he was not the murderer, nor privy | to the murder, of Mr. Hayos; but died disbelieved by all. Yet were these assertions not untrue! The murder was actually committed by the footman of Mr. Hays; and the assassin, immediately on stabbing -his - musfc>r, rifled his pockets of his money, gold watch and snuff-box, and then escaped buck to his own room. This could scarcely have been effected, as after-circuinstances showed, more than two seconds before Bradford's entering the unfortunate gentleman's chamber. The world owes this information to remorse of conscience on the part of the lootman (eighteen months after the execution of Bradford) when laid on the bed of sicknoss.? it was a death-bed repentance, and by that death the law lo?t its victimIt were to bo wished that this account could close here; but there is more to be told. Bradford, though innocent of the murder, and not privy 10 it, was nevertheless a murderer in design. He had heard, as well as the footman, wliat Mr. llayes had declared at supper, as t > die having -d a sum ol money about him; and he went to tiic chamber ofthhe deceased with the auiiic drcadiul intentions as the servant He was struck wit'i amusement on beholding him - .u~ U? 1,1 .m'H tlilUCIp?iUJU III uic tiiiiiv* no v/ouiu nui inheve iiis at uses; and in turning back the bedciotues to assure him.-elf of tliu fact, he in his agitation dropped his knife on the bleeding body by which means both his hands and the weapon became bloody. These circumstance s Bradford acknowledged to the clergyman who attended him after sentence, but who, it is extreemly probable, would not believe them at the time. < ?} Besides the graver lesson to be drawn from this extraordinary case, in which we behold the simple intention of crime so signally and wonderfully punished, these, events furnished a siri'king warning against the careless, and, it may be, vain display of money or other property in strange places. To heedles?iiess on this score the unfortunate Mr. Hayes fell a victim. The temptation, we have seen proved too strong for two persons out of the few who had heard his ill-timed disclosure. .nanitagansbtt Tkappbr.?Some time ago I called at the Saucatucket l iver, between Wakeheld and Peacedale, in South Kiugtown, a great part of whose life had been passed in trapping and kindred pursuits, lie showed me a book in which he had recorded the results of his exploits, from which I made the following extracts. Between the years 1814 and 1847 he bad trapped 8084muskrats; 2007 minks; 1185 wood chucks; 16,403 lbs. of turtle-meat, after being thoroughly cleaned and prepared for food. During the same period he had caught with hook and line, 3734 fish; he had shot one eagle measuring 9 feet from tip to tip of wing; had shot nine wild geese: 1252 teal and duck, 300 crows.?for the heads of which he had received thirty three dollars bounty. The turtles are what are called mud, or snapping turtles, and were taken in powerful steel traps, which were set in the water and haited. He showed me one of these traps; I could make but little impression on its springs with both hands, and jet, he assured me that in bis prime he used to press it completely down with .one hand, while he adjusted the fastenings with the other. Sixteen turtles caught in Nye's pond, in the South-western part of South Kingston, weighed 86 pounds each, and when prepared for food yielded iu the aggregate 086 lbs of meat, lie stated-as a curious fact that he had in several instances taken what appeared to he litters of this species of turtle, each litter .from the same pond, and that when this was the case they were uniformly of the same individual weight. To visit ail his traps required a walk of about sixty miles in eireuit. The value of the skins and food thus procured, exceeded five lliousaiid dollars.?Neuroorl Mercury. ,, f Punch saya that "Vly dear what will you have for dinner?" is now considered the greatest question of the day. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, _ J THO. J. WARREN A O. A. PRICE, Editor* TUESDAY EVEYINfc, APRIL 8,. 1851. Municipal Election. On yesterday the following gentlemen were elected Intendant and Wardens of the town ol Camden, to serve for one year. InltmLint. James Dcjnlap. Wardens. K. 8. Moffat, C. H. Davis. C. Li- fTiiA-rrpic. ' A. AJ.KtN.NEDT. / Our Court Adjourned on Saturday last, having lasted longer than is usual for our District, in consequence of a number of cases on the Sessions side, and a few on the other Dockets of a tedious and rather uninteresting character. The sentences of the Court, for Assault and Battery or simiiar offences, were delivered by his Honor Judge Withers, and we have never on any similar occasion, heard or seen this unpleasant duty, so ably and feelingly discharged. We must think that those who listened to his charges or admonitions, when addressing himself as the Arbiter of the law, to the different individuals before him for sentence, were forcibly impressed with the truth, dignity, and elegance of his Iangu 'gPKav TpmrtAranr? Wall We are pleased, that the town of Camden has a Hall sufficiently commodious to comfortably accommodate six hundred persons, perhaps a larger number. At a I events it will hold every person who is in ihe. habit of visiting Concerts, Exhibitions, &c. in this place. This is quite an accession to our town ; and it is probable that others may be induced to pass this way?since the advent of the world, renowned Anna Bishop. For our part, we should interpose no serious objection to the more frequent occurrence of these grand musical events; and if we cannot however, hear M'lle Parodi or Jenny Lind; we have heard one that sings well enough for us. An Editor with a New Hat. Our Iriend and cotemporary of the Carolinian is in luck, he is congratulating himself upon having received through the delicate attention of his neighbours Messrs. Fullitigs &.Co, "a new beaver ot the latest Parisian style," Thus enabled as our friend is, from a practical observation, we are not eurpreed that he should give a voluminous description of the "fine and glossy texture" with the "very desirable shape," well adapted to the season, &c. We never think these "dtlieate at' temions'' out of place. Who wouldn't loom out extensively under a new Hat of a "desirable shape" on the same terms; for ourselves, we would feel perfectly Warren-ted in doing so at that Price. "Casting Pearl before Swine," Or laboring to adorn an object unworthy of ones attention, or in other wo^ds, complimenting those who are incapable of appreciating favor, is somrlima an uphill business, and unfortunately! too often the fate of the Corps Editorial. One instance at least, in which this is significantly illustrated, is that of an old "Boxer" who stands out in "bold relief," and is to all intents and purposes, a purty considerable specimen of the class we allude to. This french gentleman, with Madame Bishop, are making a "brilliant tour in the States," and have en route visited Camden. After | enjoying the hospitality of the Town, and having! | demolished a considerable quantity (we judge by \ & 1 appearances) of the stores of the Mansion IIousej T as we are inf rmed and verily believe fhee grat- \ is for KOTiit o, or next thing to it. The said V i| "old Boxer" Attempts to abuse and vilify some of I us, as high icnt) robbers?lie disputes with the \ m Printer, and is unwilling to pay his Omnibus fare; . r? Such a character ought to beheld up, to these 3rn V and contpinpt, of every civilize^ cpinmuiiity. Wd . 1 append the following notice tafteu from the.Fay- J etteville borlh Carolinian of Saturday last. "The Bishops and the Bocksers gave a grand I concert at Cheraw, but the people there, wd learn, were 60 vulgar as not to appieciate their extraoi'ilinnrv nntvArs. mid th(>v upro hiaai?d. Whether it whs because they were too flat or . too sharp, or whether the people nad found out that they meanly refused to pay the Livery Stable hire for carrying tbem to Cheraw, wO _ are not informed, They gftered the driverjus* one-half the price agreed upon, which he refused to take, and sued them spolly. They gave bond by leaving-the full amount in the. hand* aT limit* cooneiIir + I10# tuna nAf !?/? kumlif \r vs? MIVII OWUIIIJ* WOI MJM^IIUHIMV IIVIqMV V* meanness, strike me uiasicaL *' After the grand concert hy Madame Bishop? the citizens gave her and the Bockser, a'sPfitf^ demi-cowbellion-calithomptan serenade, dj&g*? sisting of co\v-bells, horns, pans, and*rtharllM? ' lodious iiistrnou-nts. SeWed'ein Hgte; for tney are a holy set; they take In all strangury as our friend McKinhon and others eantestifo*P. S.?The Cheraw Gazette does not mention the serenade; and we shoold judge the editor was not thrown into ecstacies by the concert. CAMDfcN PRICES CURRENt." ' tm Baireine, per yd. 14 10 Id Laid, Jb W ]0 Bafettope- lb to 12 l-ead. Ih i iojf Baron, lb 9 to 12i rati 31 to 40 I Butter! lb 18 to 20 Mscksret, WZ* to?. Brandy, call 28 to 35 iNails, lb 4? to J 1 Beeswax, lb 18 to22 Oat*, (Mabel" B., Href, lb 4 te 5 Pea*, bushel * SO Clieese, lb 12 15 Potatoes, ?we?t. bo 30 folton, lb 74 u? 11* L Irish b? ,, It" Corn, bushel $1 to 106, Rye, busliel 93 to 1 I Flonr, bbl 61 to 7 ttlre. bushel 3t"to t , Fodder. ewl ISOjSuear, Ib5;iol0 1 Hide*, dry lb 8 to 9 fSalt, seek II _ Iron, lb 5' to 61 shoe beg it Lime, bbl 2 to 2iiTobaero, . ? 16 10'to30 -?*Leather, *ole, lb 17 loit IWlieat, bash _ 1 Our Cotton Market. Cotton quotations are from 7 Ivl to II1-8. i O-We are authorized to aintonnce JOSEPH J. MICKLE. as a Candidate for Sheriff of Kershaw District, at the ensuiug election. ? ? , SONS C? TS1?2PJUJT33. Wateree Dtviiion !!*. 9. The regular meeting of thisDjVsionwillbeheld i on Thursday evening, at yoiir New Han btrer A. r M. &. R. KcnredyV Store, at 8 o'clock. - ? By order of the W. P. i p. a. kbtxepx. *?. v CAMDEN BERATING CLUB. .An Extra MeetingWlff be held oqfcWednesday Evening the 9rh met, at Library Halt, when the following Query will be discussed. Query.?Are the causes which tend -toperpeto* ? ate stronger, than those which tend to dissolve the n '? union of these States. S. B 1?VY, Secretary. workman & jsoone Are now receiving large addition* to their Stock ?embracing SEVERAL-NEW STYLES* tad rendering their Stock by far the mo?.t full and + complete SPRING STOfcK of 79 I BOOTS AUD SHOES i that ha* ever boon offered in this market. In the selection of these goods, great rare fane been taken as to style and quality. The workman ship and materials ai% of the best description?and the terms shall be accommodating. V The public are respectfully'invited tn call and ? examine their Stock, which cannot fail in quality and price to give satisfaction to any and all. ^ ? April 8, 28 " tf',v ! .?i McDowall & Cooper. TT A VP. Anano/1 our) nflor fur aa !m ihoip StAfik |_| .1 > U ..p.n.w, .... r"7"T . 1. J. of Spring and Summer Hoods. ' April 7 28 i . i '' In the Court of Ordinary, LANCASTER DISTRICT. Joseph Rodgers, Applicant. * rs. Jamee Harvey Rodgers, Defendant. . ? Division or sale Real, Estate of James. Rodger*, dee'd., devised to Jos. and Jas. H.ftodgers,/ IT appearing to my satisfaction that Jaiaes Hafvey Rodgers the defendant, resides wtttomtAfce State, It is therefore,, ordered, that he doUR1 and object to the 'e or division of the Real Estate of James Rodgers deceased, devised io Joseph and James Harvey Rodgers, on or be'ore the 16tb Juiy, 1851, or his consent to the same will be entered of record. JAMES H. WITHERSPOON,o:t.*<< April 5, 1051, (Fee 80.00) 14 lotw $100 Reward, , .i R ANA WAY in November' last?* Heck bojr named KENT; Kent is about Sbyears old, is slim made, black with rather long hair for so dark a complexion an he has, he has very white tenth rather pointed, in smart spoken, and ha* a pleasant countenance ; his hands are small and slitu, and he has good feet and ancles, with htgh Ihntep, and is about 5 feet 7 inches high. -Kent was. raised about horses, and has worked a littlest the Black* smith trade. The above reward will be. gud upon his safe delivery in any Jail in tire StajyMtbat his owner will get him, with proof to convicpM of his having been harboured by any White person or free pertotl of color ; or fifty dollars if his cwner getsnim. Oil his recovery, the amount Writ twpaia oj application to me or to my Attorneys at?SumterviJle? Messrs r. J. & jII. Moses. UICHARD C. RICHARDSON. Fulton, S C., March 26, 135* 28 tf, SPIN G, 1861^ 1. M. &. R. KENNEDY, are-just vcceivirg their In. usual supply of SPRING GOODS, and will be plr a^eu to receive a cat) from their 1 Friends, and all who may be in want ?fHmdsi>uje Goods, suitable for the Season, either in LADIES OR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR. The Stock will be found complete in all if* Branches. April 4, 1851. 27 * ^ > &