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VOLUME 2. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JULY 25.1851. 5UMBER 58.
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
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tv >. u^?.
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B. W. CHAMBERS,
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Avn
lluyer of Cotton and other Conntry Produce,
CAMDEN, S. C.
WILLIAM C. AIOOliE,
B A N K AGE N T, j
And Receiving and Forwarding Merchant I
CAMDEN, S. C.
References?W. E. Johnson, Esq. Maj. J. M
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paul tTvillepiguu
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fiSi
AllJJ. 3?U.
JOS. B. KEKSllAYt% I
Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Equity, I
CA.VDEN, S. C.
Will atipnd the Courts of Kershaw, Sumter, j
Fairfield, Darlington and Lancaster Districts.
w. n. R won KM AX,
Attorney at L^r- Solicitor in Equity,
camdl:'. S. C.
(Office nearly opposite A. YoWl 1 Hook Store.)
WILL ATTKNf) TTir: COtRTi or |
Darlington niul Surnter District*/
Businessentrusted to him wih meet with j'< 0,nI>'
and careful attention July I
F. ROOT, " |
ns/r/ag-tavT.-T-iV jf'-a-TH'-o. !
CAMDEN, S. C.
;
KICK DULI.V,
FACTOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,!
CENTRAL WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. C. 1 !
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1 I
J OX. B. 9IVCKLE. ,
Attorney at Law and SolicitorinEqnity.
WIXSBOROl'GH, S. C.
(Office io the rear ofthe Court House.)
may 6. 36 4m I
Fashionable Boot Maker, I
CAM/)EX S. C. I
a. 9a
Saddlery and Harness ?!;uiufactiiror,
Opposite Masonic Hall.
CAMDKN, 9. C.
S, D. IIALLFORD,
I>ry Goods Groceries, Crockery, Ac.
AND GENERAL AGENT,
Camden, S. C.
R. J. lUCUiiUitrax,
COTTON GIN MAKER.
Rutledge St., one door east of M. Drucker&. Co.
Camden, S. C.
A. G. BASKIWTAttorney
a I Law, and
Solicitor in Equity,
Office in Rear of Court House,
Camdkn, S. C.
Will practice in the Courts of Kershaw anil
adjoining Districts.
"a7g. baskin,
Camdkn, S. C.
/. J. DkIIAY.
DRU66IST AND APOTHECARY,
f ? ? C
V/.X.nnr,.i, U,
ROBERT LATTA'S
GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE,
Camden, S. C.
C. A. PRICE,
5iCiaijS'?iS3<Air?sEiti<i?I>
OFFICE AT THE COIIET-Ulll'SE, CUIIIE.Y, S, C?
Wino 22o WAlfS?SJ9
Fashionable Tailor,
Camdfn, S. C. *
Charles A. McDonald,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
Camden, S. C.
C. S. WEST, "
Attorney at Law.
Office in Rear of the Court House, Camden, S. C.
June 17 48 2ms
Jrarinc, Fire, and Fife Insurance.
BY THE
Commercial Insurance Company,
OF CHARLESTON, S. C.
CAPITAL, $250,000, ALL PAID IN.
OFFICE, NO. 1, BROAD-STREET.
president.
WILLI A.U B. HERIOT.
directors.
JAMES K. ROBINSON, 1IENRV T. STREET,
GEO. A. TRENIIOLM, WM. McBCRNEY,
ROBERT CALDWELL. J. H. BRAWLEY,
A. K. I'A FT, ? T. L WKAGG,
A. M. I.KE. Secretary.
E. L. TESSIER, Inspector.
B. C. I'RE>SLEY, Solicitor.
R. A. KIN LOCH, Medical Examiner.
The subscriber having been appointed agent for this
"onipnny. is now prepared to receive I'loposals for Fire ;
Risks, and will effect Insurance on fair and liberal
itrme. W.M. I). McDOWALL.
Cainden ,S C. ..Mat' *?, 1891. tf
CODBTENAY & WIENGES,
BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS
and w
CHEAP PUBLICATIONS.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Opposite the Post Office.
Agents for the best Green and Black Teas, and
Patent Medicines.
S. c. courtenav. g. w- wienges.
CHARLES A. PRICE"
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
tAJIDEY, S. C.
Will Practice in Kershaw and the adjoining j
districts.
Feb. 4 j
MANSION HOTJSET"!
camdje:*, S. C.
THE undersigned l>eg* leave to return hi* grateful
thank* to hi* friend*, and the travelling Public, fori
the liberni support which he has rereivod since he has been j
opened, (four months) and has entered upon his duties for ]
1851. with renewed energy to endeavor to please .all that
may call upon hint, both rich and poor, llis House will
be found one of the most desirable, situated, and best fur- j
nished Hotels in Camden. liis servants also will he
found respectful anil attentive, and the table will he supplied
with the best the innrkeLaffords.
His >l??b!e* and Carriage Hou-e* :ir- roomy atid always
fully supplied w ith Provender, and nn experienced Hostler
An I hiitiibtiN calls st tiie I louse every umriiitig for pa*-,
sengers for the Itailro.uJ. iJive ine u call and test my motto. I
A* you tin.I nie, j
6?<i recommend tie*.
W. G. ROBLWSO.W
Proprietor. {
Camden. February ?th, KM 11 tf
I Darlington Hotel,
j DAKU.Ncrru.x corrt-hol'mjk.
above House having been purchased and '
1 fitid I "n ;H?e\v by John Dotes, is again open- j
ed for lite acd..'""''ol the Public. Strict j
attention to the wat.'* end cmnlorN of guests
will he given, and no effo,' n'cuotletl to merit
the patronage of ali who may favo'tlid establishment
with a visit, shall be spared.
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All llirti wio n.uri\?;i ,iuu mii:mUi>Ui<^ wu.. -j
afford will be found upon ilit table. ?
Coiiifoitab.e renins, lor li'inlieu or individuals, |
are prepared.
I The Stables will be attended by careful and i
! attentive bustlers.
Drovers can be well accommodated, as any
number of horses and inules can be cpt in the |
stables and lots expressly prepared for them.
Nov. 1, 1630. 66 tf
NE W STORE.
THE subscriber would inform bis friends and
the public generally, that he lias opened an
extensive stuck of GROCERIES, at the stand
formerly occupieo by Joseph YV. Dobv, one door
south of Campbell's Bakery, and opposite H. Levy
&. Son, where may be tuund all articles usually
kept in the Grocery line, consisting in part
of the following:
Fulton Market Beef
No. 1 and 2 Mackarel in kitts, for family use;
Rio and Java Coffees; crushed and brown Sugars;
New Orleans Molasses, (new crop) butter, wine
and soda crackers; cheese, buckwheat, raisins,
currants, alrnonds, English mustard, filbert?, pecan
nuts, assorted pickles and preserves.
also
A few doz. old Port YVine, lleidsick best Cliatnt
i~.. I)...i?. or.#! Knniuli A In in ninfs. In.
pagne, JjtJIIUUll 1 UILLI aim ac?wt.v?a * . ,* ... g.. ? _
gelher a large stock of .Bagging, Rope and Twine,
all of which he offers low lor cash.
Jan. 1. S. E. CAPERS.
NEW STORE.
THE subscriber is now opening a large assor*,
ment of Grororie* and Maple Goods.
in the Store lately occupied by William J. Gerald
(south of the Bank of Camden,) which lie will
dispose of at Charleston prices for cash.
Those wishing to purchase would do well to
call and examine the stock, consisting in part, ot
the following, viz:
Loaf, Crushed, Ground and Granulated ?S'ugarn
S Croix, Porto Rico, and Now Orleans do
Nw Orleans, Muscovado and Cuba Molasses
Java, Lainura and Rio Collee fi
Gunpowder, Young Hyson and Blaek Teas
Rperm. Adamantine and Tallow Candle*
No- 2 and 3 M a ol;a r el, in Barrels, Half and Quarter*
Wine, Soda and Butter Biscuit* and Cheese
c? * -
v.?M^? mm -liircii, uhS(?ru*u .
repper, Spir#?, Giiitfer, Nutmeg*, Mace ami Clove*
Povder, Shot nuil Lead
Hardware, Cutlery, Nailc ami Canting"
Paint*, Linseed Oil, Sperm. Oil and >V m w "U
?Also
Bleached and unhlenched Shirting* and Sheeting"
Blankets, Bed Tick*, Apron Check* and Oinaburg*
Together with a large assortment of
Bagging, Rcpt> and Twine.
J. VV. BRADLEY.
CnmJen. S. C. Sept. 23.
$7 ('uf<h pflid for Cotton and other Produce,
From Arthur'* Home Gazette.
THE DROP GAME.
BY JOHN' JONT.e, JR.
'Come, Laban Lee,' said the Post Master of j
a certain village in New Jerse}*, situated within ;
ten miles of Philadelphia?'You must tako a
paper this year. How can you live, man, with- |
out the news V
'The news!' returned Lee. 'Ilumph! Ii
have more news now than is agreeahle. In j
fact, I don't believe in your news mongers, no i
how. Every man mind his own business?that I
is my motto.'
'Yes, but friend Lee, it is of interest to know
what is going on in the world.'
'No special interest to mo. What do I care
about other people's concerns ? It won't make
my cows give more milk, nor my land grow
more bushels to the acre.'
'1 am not sure of that.'
'Aint you V
'No.'
'Well, I am, then.'
'There are farmers whoso cows givo more
milk than yours, and whose land yields a better
increase. From these you might learn some-:
thing to your advantage.' ;
'Jdut what has that to do with newspapers ?' j
'A great deal. Intelligent fanners inform ;
the nnblic of their agricultural experiments; ;
and give the new methods by which they obtain
large yields of produce.'
'Book (arming!' exclaimed Laban Lee, in a
tone of contempt. 'Never believed in it; and
never expect to. The good old fashioned way
is good enough for me. Industry and economy?that
is my motto, and I teach it daily to
my children-. Hand work is worth all the
newspapers in the world.' .
'I am not sure of that/ returned the Post i
Master. 'Hand work is badly without head j
work, and will soon find itself in the rear.'
'I'm not in the least anxious,' said Lee, with
a self-satisfied air, as he turned ofi' and went
on his way towards the city, his tubs well filled j
with butter, and his wagon loaded with a good- j
ly stock of poultry and fruit. 'A bird in the j
hand is worth two in the bush/?lie kept on i
talking to himself. 'When there is a dollar in
my pocket, I know what I've got. But, if I j
spend it for a newspaper, what is there to show J
for it? I never knew anv good to come of I
t ? O
taking the papers. They only put nonsense j
into ttie young people's heads, and make them
think themselves wiser than their parents.?
Dad! and they shan't come into my house.'
Laban Leo, if the tm'h must be told, had a
sordid love of money. The dollar was always
held so close to the axis of vision, that little
beyond tlie round origi^i coin was ever uiscerm*
ble. By hard work,industry and economy,he
had gradually gained upon the world, until he
was the owner of a snug piece of ground covering
about tiltv acres, well stocked, and as
well tilled as his -'good old fashioned " way of
farming would permit.
The over careful in saving, when love of
money subdues almost every other sentiment,
are not generally over honest in getting. The
every-one-for-himsclf principle of action generally
leads to a disregard of other's interests, !
a trespass upon others rights, and a departure
from truth in dealing. Into these defects Lnban
Lee naturally foil, as many'a citizen, who had
bought tough chickens, had butter, and spoiled
turkeys, from the "fair and honest countryman,"
could testify. Lee knew how much was guinea
iii these transactions; but never had any
idea ot bo'>' much he lost. Far oftcner than
. l!_ ...ofz-MriprR (Tii?ssi>d bis hutter. or at
any 01 ms uusiu 3 , , (
least a carefuii/ arranged portion contained ;n
his tubs, lacked sevefj <3"nces of the true
weight; and more than once n?.d he ?ome near
losing a goodly number thereof, at the hands
of the Clerk of the Market, Such a man was
Laban Lee.
As the countryman wended his way towards
the city, his thoughts were busy in summing up
the probable amount he would receive for the
contents of his market wagon ; yet this occupied
state of mind did not keep his eyes from
resting with intelligent discrimination upon the
road he travelled. Money, and articles of value,
had been found by others, and why might
he not be so fortunate! Such tilings were frequently
lost by the careles. The idea ofresti
! A
tution never occcurrcd to him ; tins was kcjh
obscured b}' the pleasurable anticipation of
gain, as the finder of lost property. Once, and
only once, had Laban Lee been fortunate.?
On a certain occasion as he walked along the
road, he espied, a short distance in advance, a
bright object partially concealed in the sand.
Eagerly lie sprung forward, snatched it from
the ground, and was rewarded by obtaining
half a dollar! Small as the sum was, to guin
it thus, awoke in his mind the most pleasing
sensations. From that time, whether in town
or country, few squuro rods of earth or pavement
over which he passed, escaped his watchful
eyes.
On the present occasion, notwithstanding
Lcc examined the road by which ho travelled
to the city with his usual care, no treasure was
found. Loiter fortune, however, attended him
on the day following. Ho had sold out his
' ' 1 .1 I
butter, poultry ana iruu, ami over unriy uoilars,
received in exchange therefor, were in his
pocket. Prices had ranged pretty high, and
the farmer felt satisfied with his sales. Just as
he was preparing to leave, the sudden exclamation
of a man by his side startled him, and
turning quickly, he saw a gentlemanly looking
stranger, with a well filled pocket book in his
hand.
'Somebody's dropped this!' said tho stranger,
addressing Lee. 'And it's filled with money.'
The farmer's eyes were instantly distended,
lie felt his knees tremble.
'Is it yours, friend V enquired the stranger,
blandly.
\
Leo could, with difficulty, refrain from saying
that it was. Hut he forced out the words ?
'No; 1 believe not.'
'What's to pay?' half carelessly enquired a
third paity, coining up at this moment.
'Somebody's lost a pocket book' was replied.
'Indeed! Much money in it?'
'It's full. See there.'
And the possessor of the book showed the
folds and edges of a large bundle of bank bills.
O O #
'Gracious me! What are you going to do
with it.?'
'1 don't know, I'm sure. It's not mine.?
Whoever lost it ought to have it. But, as 1
am a stranger in the cit}% and shall leave in an
hour, it will be impossible for mo to restore it.
No doubt a large leward will bo offered for its
recovery, in tho morning papers. What's to
be done 1 I'm really in a quandary.'
'You ought to get the reward,' said the second
comer. 'For you are the finder.'
'True,' replied the man. 'But I can't possibly
remain in the city until to-morrow. Tonight
must see me in New York.'
'ifyou choose to take it,' said the person who
came up last, 'I will give you fifty dollars for
your chance in the reward.'
'Fifty dollars,' was the musing reply. 'I
don't know what to say about that. The reward
will doubtless be two or three hundred.
There can't be less than twenty thousand dollars
in the pocket book.'
'1 wouldn't like to risk more,' was the halfindifferent
response to this.
The possessor of the pocket book seemed irresolute
for some moments.
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' >ven, lie ai lengm saiu, laae u. dui i iuuju
your are driving on me a very hard bargain.'
The other thrust his hand into his pocket,
and after feeling about there for some moments,
said?
'That's uufortuuate! I'vo left my pocket
book at the store. But, come with me, and
I'll give you the $lty dollars.'
'Where is yourstoreT
'On the wnarf.'
'O dear! No, I'm not going away down
there.' Then turning to Laban Lee, the stranger
said, in the most insinuating manner,
'Why can't you take it friend f
'Havn'tgot fifty dollars,' replied Lee,his eyes
fairly gloating on the pocket book.
How much have you ?'
'Only thirty.'
The man shrugged his shoulders, and shook
his head.
'You'd bettor come down to my store, No.?
South Wharves. I'll give you fifty dollars.
Or, if you will take our friend's thirty dollars,
I will make it fifty for him, the moment he
shows himself at my place of business.'
'T suppose I will have to do so,' said the
holder of the pocket book, in a changed, sober,
and rather disappointed voice. 'But, it is giving
up a large advantage for a mere trifle.'
Eagerly Laban Lee drew forth his thirty dollars,
handed it to the man, and grasped the treasure.
' (June down to No.?, South Wharves'
sounded in his ears. A moment after, and he
stood alone, yet so bewildered that all his ideas
were in a whirl of confusion. Soon a calmer
state followed. He crept into his cart, and
there, safe from prying curiosity, opened the
pocket book in order to feast his eyes upon the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, and to debate
the question of restoration.
Alas! From what a height of imagination
down to the very bottom of the pit of reality did
Laban Lee soon fall. Wrapped around by
three or four one dollars counterfeit bills, was
a mass of soiled, crumpled, and blotted strips
ol bank note paper; and this wa3 all the treasure
contained in the pocket book !
No wonder that in his bitter disappointment,
the farmer groaned aloud. It was some minutes
before even a gleam of light broke in up
C?j) the darkness that enveloped him. Then he
thought pl the .'nail who had agreed to five fifty
dollars for the pocket book. Ho would go
to him instantly, ami concealing the discovery
he had made, get from him the promised sum,
and thus shift the loss upon another.
Of course he did not find the individual he
sought, at No.?South Wharves. He was the
viciim, and this man an accomplice.
Two days afterwards, the Post Master of
f .?n's villncrt* s.-iid to llilll?
'Aha! So the drop game boys have been
trying their hand on you.'
'D. op game ? What do you mean V returned
Lee.
'Listen.' The Post Master drew a paper
from his pocket and read. 'Yesterday a farmer
from New Jersey, named Lee, was silly enough
to pay a couple of sharpers thirty dollars for a
pocket book which they pretended to have
found. Of course, this Lee doesn't take the
newspapers, or he never could have fallen into
a snare that has been so often exposed. We
have little pity for men who are wilfully ignorant.'
Laban Lee turned olf suddenly and walked
hurriedly away. The next time lie went to the
city, he ordered a newspaper.
There is much truth in the following extract
from a correspondent of the Providence
(R. 1.) Journal: "There are many thousands o
people amidst the magnificence and splendoi
of the British capital, to whom the labor of i
sugar plantation would be ease, and the tare o
the negroes in the slave States a luxury thej
never dreamed of. The number and conditioi
of the poor in England should leave English
men no sympathies to waste upon distresse
beyond the range of their own vision."
At an anti-slavery meeting held in Geaug:
co., Ohio, on the 4th inst. Mr. Giddings wn
present and publicy announced that he ha<
withdrawn from the N. S. Presbyterian Churc
r 1
^on aecount or siaMjrj,.
Letter of Hon# J, T. WltnoM. . r /
Received by the Commit ee of Invitation of in# j f
Anti-Seccession Celebration at (Jreenville, 4tk [
July, 1851.
Gentlemen: I acknowledge your InvltatlOrf
to join tlie citizens of Greenville, cm the ensuing
4th of July, in a meeting, projected and
intended, as you inform rrre,- to express opposition
to separate State secession. You wilf
sec reasons (I am pursttaded,) td excuse my ah-*
scnce, and accept this manuscript as my representative.
To be a faithful one, it must con-r
tain no adulation, no hobbling- compliments,
no cajollery, no cunning reservations, no arro<
gancc, on the one hand, no hypocritical humili
ty on the other. Theae may be useful tool?
for political jugglers; I have riot the art to use
them, nor do 1 wish to be taught, the acriont'
plishment.
I proceed, therefore, to say to you thai if I
were in the Convention, this day, I would vote
against an ordinance abrogating the Constitution
of the United States, and separating
South Carolina from all the other States of
this Confederacy. Yet I would promptly
vote for one that should abrogate that instrument,
and, a I the game time, introduce this States
as an integral element, into another Confederal-'
ey, preconcerted, and calculated to organize a
slaveholding power adequate, by numbers, by
extent and contiguity of territory, in wealthr
and homogeneous interests and pursuits, to in-'
spire confidence in each citizen, as well as in
other communities, that it was competent and
determined to protect life, liberty and property,
by the safeguards which the present age
and our circumstances have rendered necessarv;
adequate to give assurance that it could
vindicate its title to respect and to justice, ii>
external relations; adequate to reseut, in fact/
affront and aggressiou; to work out, iu short, by
sure and steady steps, and by republican ingt>>
tuiions, the great end of alL righteous g3vernment^
I repeat it, Republican Government}
for if Iain to inhabit a solitary continental fragment;
if I am to be made Robinson Crusoe, in
his solitary isolation from all friendly sympathy,
without his insular protection against any
annoyance, but open by sea and by land to all
that are possible; if I must be exposed to every
Robin Hood spawned upon mankind by the
vagabond benevolence of tbie pruirent age and
country, who, by my own act, shall find sanctuary
in every point beyond the limits of my
narrow domain?I shall not deem that man a
eunatic who betakes himself to the study, with
favorable eye, of the energetic virtues of monarchical
government, to grow the more acceptable
as pressing necessities may infuse the ele<
ment of military vigor, uuder that most enga<
ffing aspect, "the pomp and circumstance of
glorious war." \^/
I do not think it woold be impertinent for a
member of the convention, whenever it may
deliberate, to suggest to that body something
like this, to wit; the people of this State are
enti:led to expect the security of such a republican
structure as is above described: the pastf
the present, all the portants of the future, proclaim
that they will need it; their compeere
arc in precisely the same circumstances, the ma
tonal arc abundant for a simple and solid municipal
and federal polity in the patriarchal form
; of society, in which African slavery has placed
| us of the South, in the recent experience (all
our own) of certain quicksands to be avoided
in constructing a federation, abundaut for happy
relations to the external world in that security
for peace and good behavior which is
found in the value, to all civilized man, of cotton,
sugar, rice and tobacco. Are those materials
organized ? If so. let us take the final
steps. It' not, let us observe to what extent the
organization has proceeded, and join in any,
the most earnest and solemn effort, to forward
! the process. Let us not despair of those who
are in the same bottom with ourselves, whose
eyes and brains and hearts, we have no reason
to attirm, are inferior to our own; especially
may we halt, while we percevie our comrades
working up to the designated level, and refrain,
with long patience, from taking an irretrievable
step, while any hope remained that they would
reach the elevation that should disclose to them
the land of Canaan. We are not yet driven
to that sort of policy which, under the stimulation
of an impetuous, though intrepid sentiment,
would subject an army, all sufficient,
being judiciously ordered, for victory, to be'
come a prey to the cunning adversary, by presenting
to him the force, not in column, but in
advance guards, or in successive regiments.
It is to bo hoped that the convention may /.'
bear to be further told, and some member venture
to suggest, that masses of men, of agriculturists,
free from the heat and discipline of
perpetual association and coutact. even more j
than individuals, are siow 10 aiscara, in proportion
as they are sincere, party association!, '
1 long standing and cherished; are slow to surrender
to trust, though no longer deserved, in
familiar leaders, though artfully contriving to
I betray them; are most of all slow to rupture a
- fundamental structure long admired, the theme
of impassionned and perpetual eulogy; beautiful
and noble, in reality, when seen in its ori
ginal and genuine proportions; justly to be cal;
led (and a thousand times declared by us all,)
f the most magnilicient monument of a glorious
r generation. Slow to abandon all these in ori
der to shun a calamity rather looming in the
f future, than now present to the senses, seen as
; yet in its hideous deformity rather by the keen1
or eye of a practised and vigilant observer than
by the more careless observation of the man at
s his plough, the busy multitude. Yet there may
be do vain hope that when pointed steadily in
the right direction and to the true object, the
a vision of others will prove sufticiont for the dia?*
s covery, if ours has been.
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h or Mississippi as an apostate, and denounce "
him as ready for ntynaclevbeosuse bedeet