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v \ Semi-tUcclUn Comucu Journal. SAIPS SOTScARoSteSEpS^^^^K NUMBER 72 * < . ???^-^? ?^? ?????^?? THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. PU8M3rffc!D BY THOMAS J. WARRBIV. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Is published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paiJ in advance, or Foar Dollars if payment is delaved for three months. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL Is published at Two Dollars if paid in idvanee, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if payment Is delayed for Six months, and Three Dollars, if not paid until the end of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one square (14 lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each tubseqnent insertion. ' In the weekly, seventv-five cents per square for the first, ? and thirty-swvgn and a half cents for each subsequent in- j ertion Single insertions one uoirar per square. 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KERSHAW, 1 Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Equity,!:l CAMDEN, S. C. J C , Will attend the ? ourte of Kershaw, Sumter,: Fairfield, Darlington and Lancaster Districts. W. H. R WORKMAN^ t m. Attorney at Law, and Solicitor in Equity, r, t ??rvr< V O . 13. v. _ .... i u ' UJ/ic* nearly opposite .4. Y mtng x Book Store.) j ' WILL ATTKND THE COI KTS Or" j Darlington and Sumter District*. ' Business entrusted to hirn win meet with prompt j 1 and careful attention. JulvSG. I ~r~^" C. N. WI ST, ' Attorney at Law. Office in Roar of the- Court House, Camden, a C. [ June 17 43 2ms ? a. srr<o ASSST i Saddlery and II a rues* ?laiitifac(urcr. " Opposite 3Ia*onic Hall. c camden, s. c. S, O. I1ALLFOKD, ? Ory Goods, Groceries, Crockery, &c. AND GENERAL AGENT, [ Camden, S. C. t I ' R. X McOREIGHT\ ,l COTTON GIN MAKER. JRutledge St., one door east of M. Drucker & Co. Camden. s. C. j r ; r Charles A. McDonald, I FASHIONABLE TAILOR, I Camden. S. C. ! f L P. SOOT, '{ CAMPBM, S. O. j RICE IrtJLIN, FACTOR AND COMMISSION MERCHANT. CENTRAL WHARF, f CHARLESTON^. C. May 2. tio tt i ZTJT deIiay, "; DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, ' Camdrn, S. C i Fashionable Boot Maker, r ? ? CAMDEN, S. C. J Fashionable Tailor, ! Camdkn, S. C. 1 t;; GLOVERS & DAVIS, i L Factors and Commission Merchants, [ W- CHARLESTON, S. C. ' Aug. 8 02 3m < PAVILION HOTEL. (BY H. L BUTTERFIELD.) Corker of Meeting and Hasell Streets, i and ik the immediate vicinity of hayne and . Kino Streets, Charleston, 8. C. ( ROBERT LATTA'S GROCERY AND MCVISISS 5T??| Cahdrm, S. C. I LONG TIME AGONear the pond so still anil lazy, Long time ago? On the banks where grew the daisy, Whiter than snow, Lived a bouncing buxom lassie, Vot wan't so slow ; Oft she tripped the lea so grassy, Long time ago. Sobs and eyes chuck full of water, Long time ago? Praise and sighs and presents taught her My love to know ; Oft did my fond fancy think her Purer than snow; But she eloped with a tinker! Not long ago. " Oh,' shall-T neer, ne er forget When life and hopes were new, When love, unmingled with regret, Lay on my heart like dew? I often pictured, as I dreamed, A form divinely fair; So chaste, so beautiful it seemed, Not earthly, but of air! At last the image of my thought? The thing my fancy drew? The creature in my visions sought, Rose on my 'raptured view; At once I told her all my love? Despair wi hin me raged; She said my passion she approved, But tiiat?she was engaged! AN ODDITY. I TUP KiDDimr 1Q?| iUUOft I?1 .1IV IH.1U Li. BY MRS. ANN 8. .STEPHENS. ( Concluded.) How melancholy poor Lida had been ail the ! previous day; how many strange conjectures! lad passed through her brain, regarding the renark able absence of Mr. Gilbert. They haunt;d her all night, and, in the morning when she :;tme along the foot path through the fields, ears stood iri her eyes more than halt the way. >he had cast many a sad, earnest gaze through he shop window, before she saw Gilbert and : diss Warner coming through the opposite por- i ico. The sight made the heart struggle with | i throb of pain in Lida's bosom, and a mist j auie over her eyes till thev could scarcely dis- ' em the needle with which she seemed occu lied. They were coming toward the shop, rid the sound of footsteps in the entry madehe young yirl tremble on her seat. "Come,*' said Miss Warner, addressing the niiliiier, "put on your bonnet. We are going 1 p to the house, and we want your opinion." | .Miss Smith ran for her bonnet, and for the rst time in her life the young lady addressed i lie apprentice. "Get your sun bonnet," she said, "you can j ;o with us.*' The blood rushed over Lida's face, and she j vould have refused; but .Miss Warner whis- j iered a word to her lover, and he pressed Lida : o go with such respectful earnestness that she j trose, tied on her little straw bonnet, and was ; . . 1 .i i : eauy w niitfiiu n:uii? juiijj utiuic .'iu^ ^....... . nade her appearance. The homestead was a large and superior ' Id inaiisiun for a country village. Its materi- ! il was heavy, and touched with the brown tinge >f age; the trees around it were majestic, and is shrubbery luxuriant; its furnitrre was that if anotner century, old fashioned and massive, mt (Jilbert had interspersed it with chairs and ables of lighter and more recent model; and lie gloom which low ceilings give to an apart- ! nent, was relieved hy tall mirrors and modern vindows, which were cut from ceiling to floor, i Altogether, it was the dwelling which a donestic and studious person would have prefered above all others. Lida had never 6een anything half so splerilid before, but there was a heavy feeliug at her leart which mere novelty could not dispel, tflie bllowed her conductors up the broad stairs, teard them admire the oallusters of dark malogauy, and walked through the chambers like me in a dream. She was pale, bewildered, ind sick at heart, almost for the first time in ..... lift, There w;is one room on the first floor, which Gilbert had fitted uj> exclusively for his bride, t had but one bay window, which opened up>11 the most verdant nook of the old fashioned garden, and this window required no drapery, or an immense white rose tree was trained Jong the casement, till a profusion of thick ;reen leaves and snowy blossoms dropped like i curtain over the upper purt, and, when the ash was ojK.'n, a storm of fragrant leaves fell ike snow flakes all over the rich old easy chair ind moss like carjiet, which decorated the ! oom. On a curious little table, with legs car edand twisted together like a knot of serpents, ay a guitar, with an azure ribbon attached, and ,-et unused; a superb old book-case, crowded vith newly bound volumes, stood opposite the >ay window, and a little French work table, >erlectly new, occupied a corner close by. Miss Warner flung herself on a seat, and fating up the guitar, began to trifle with the firings, and as she turned with au unpleasant smile towards Lida?* "How would you like this room for_ your own ?" she Baid. " Me ?" i-nid Lida, faintly, "I have never dreamed ol living in such a place as this." ?? i:i.~ ? ,.>nv,aA IJUI jyjU KjaII Ii*c neru II JUU | the milliner. "My mother was well off once, and Bhe would not let me live out for anything," said the apprentice, tor she could only imagine that Miss Wnmer wished to engage her for " help" when she should take possession of the homestead; "besides 1 am not strong enough for very hard work P j "0, we don't mean that," replied the milliner; 1 "Mr. Gilbert wants a wife, and, as the lady i here has taken a fancy that he likes you better ! I than he docs her, she is quite willing that he j make you mistress of the homestead instead of i herself." "Don't say so?it is cruel to joke in this manner!" said the bewildered girl, turning very j pale. "I am sure, quite sure, that Mr. Gilbert j never thought of me!" Lida spoke hastily, j but in a faint voice, and had a look of troubled ! doubt in her eyes. "Bat he does think of you J ?he told me so last night!" said Miss Warner; j "and I am willing to give him up; what harm < can come of it?" | " And could you give him up ?" said Lida, j I / Insmnfr hor small hurirls with an onprfrv which I bespoke her astonishment that any one could j. resign, of her free will and aci ord, a being so perfect. ? i " Oh, Mr. Gilbert is not the only agreeable I man on earth," replied the yoang lady, remov- 1 ing the azure ribbon from her neck, and laying I down the guitar: " I am perfectly willing to < resign him it any moment?so prepare your- I ; self for a wedding to-rtiorrow, if you like." i As she spoke Miss Warner and her compan* 1 ion gli'led from the room. Lida had no pow- I er to follow: she was confused and strength- : less, a mist came over her sight, and, sinking into a seat, shu covered her face with both i hands, and remained in a state of mental be- ! < | wildenneut, almost unconscious of the solitude t which surrounded her. Miss Warner and the milhner met Gilbert in < ! the parlor, and both were laughing as they mo- ; ! ved towards him. i 1 "We have broken the ice for you," said Miss i < Warner; "she w in the little room yonder, { s quite prepared for a proposal." j f "And you are really determined to carry ( i this hoax to an end?" inquired the lawyer, r gravely. c "Oh, by all means," was the reply; " it real- s ly is ridiculous, the idea of her believing us. I wish you could have seen her clasp those hands 1 and wonder how I could give you up. Go, go, j before she takes it into her head to follow us. c lint 1 say, Gilbert, do remove that table Willi t the twisted legs?it is such a horrid fright. t " it was my mother's," replied the young [ lawyer quietly." \ " Well, well, it can he put into the gar-et, t and kept quite sale. But go along?your lady c love is waiting." r Mr Gilbert stood motionless in the hall, till | a his affianced bride and her companion disap- <i peared among the oaks; he then turned with a % calm, f;ee and resolute step towards the little \ room where Lida had been left She was still t sitting In the easy chair, sobbing like a child, \ and tears were breaking, like halt confined jew- v els, through the slender fingers that concealed 1 her face. \ Gilbert approached with a noiseless tread, I s and gently taking one of the hands from her j r face, pressed it to his lips. She started up and d tiied to conceal her tears with the trembling j c hand, while her face and brow and neck were 1 deluged with crimson. His voice was strangely tender and musical j, for the cruel part he was acting. " 'l'hey have told you no falsehood, Lida," g he said: " I do, indeed, love you?very much c Will you come and live with me in this pleasant old house, where my parents were so hup- r py ? Can you love me, and study for my sake t when we are married ( for if you can answer t yes, to what I have said, with your whole ^ heart, iu three days you shall he my own sweet t wife." " * t The poor girl could not answer?she was li perfectly overcome by the sensution of exquis- j ite happiness that thrilled every nerve. \ " Whv do you weep so, Lida? Am I an- 1: noyingyou by these questions? ? " No?no," said the young girl, half lifting t her eyes to his face," it is not because I am so t surprised, so shocked?so very happy?" she t broke off in confusion, turned her head away s an instant, and then looked him earnestly iu the ? face. " You are sincere with me t" she con- t iinued; " I half suspected that Miss Warner r guessed how much ?I mean how well?1 \ tiiought of you, and so was trying to punish i rue with false thoughts; hut you, Mr. Gilbert, c eould you have the heart to trifle with uio so 1 dreadfully?it would kill me indeed." c Gilbert tiied to look into the soft eyes lifted t so full of eloquence to his face, hut he felt the | hot blood rush to his forehead and answered f hurriedly that ho was most earnest to make her g his wife. He kissed her forehead" as the words t were uttered, and then she became suddenly conscious that they were alone in the house j and wished to leave it; he drew her arm res- t pectfuliy through his, and, conducting her to ^ the hall, went in search of Miss Warner and c her companion. They were in the garden I chatting, in high spirits, full of laughter at the success of their scheme. _ 1 "And how did you succeed ? Did she suspect? How did she act?" they exclaimed together, running eagerly towards him. "As you predicted," replied the lawyer with a grave smile; "your pleasant little hoax will he carried out three evenings from this." " But 1 have just been thinking?who can we get that will play the minister ?" exclaimed Miss Warner. " Here is a dilemma 1" chimed the milliner. " Not in the least," replied Gilbert; " I have thought of that already. My friend Morris, who graduated with me at Yale last year is just the man. He looks as much like a parson nB if bred to the cloth. I will ride into town in the morning, and let him into our frolic." "There?now all is arranged. We must give her a wedding dress, Gilbert, and that ? [[[ console her for her loss," said M;S8 Warner. They walked towards the house, and found Lida standing in the hall. She advanced toward the milfine- as she came in. i " I am not well enough to work this after- I noon; can 1 go home V < "Oh, certainly! We cannot expect you to think of a trade now," said the milliner, cast- < ing a glance of sly ridicule at Miss Warner.? 1 "Mr. Gilbert will, of course, see you home." I The blood burned in Lida's cheek, but she \ answered in quiet dignity, that she wished to c see her mother alone. i "Then she is not oot washing to-day?" in- 1 quired the milliner, with another covert look at Gilbert and his companion. 1 Lida could not understand the low malice of 1 the question, so she answered quietly that her : t mother was at home, and left the part, when j r they went towards the work room. The next morning the washer woman was I r at our house very early?she wished to consult j \ ti.? ...u? i L- j r i 11 wicii uiuae wuu iiuu ueuu huiu irifiiub tu uer, 1 regarding the strange proposal her daughter had received. Mr. Gilbert bad been at her y bouse the night before, she said, and every h thing was settled tor a wedding on the next f uvening but one. Of course no opinion could I; be given after affairs had gone so far, so con- h renting that''the children" might come to see Lida on her wedding day, our mother allowed c the kind mother to depart without expressing v iny of the misgivings that beset ber own mind, p Mr. Gilbert drove by our bouse that after- tl ioon,and took the New Haven road. The se- it jond day from that, we were permitted to visit the washerwoman's house behind Castle Rock, li If il'OO n Krifflit /lo tr n liffln l? amoa IaaI/ fl aw ii (Id it m i^?i uuj , oiivc iiiv iiiuu uuuoc iuwh* ?* :d neat and cheerful as we approached it, thro' a i foot path across the meadow, golden with tl jitter cups and mottled with lilies, l.ida was h lathering flowers from a little yard which h .urrounded the door in her dwelling, and, in a a ew minutes we were as busy as herself gather- i' ng daisies from the meadow, and the wild ho ? icy suckle from the rocks, which wo brought lown in arm fulls and heaped upon tho door- g itep ready for use. . ** Before sunset, the widow's house might have >een taken for a sylvan lodge, it was so fra- ai rrant with blossoms. The whole dwelling ni :ontained but three apartments--a kitchen and ft wo small sleeping rooms: but these were as w leat as human hands could make them. The u' line floors and splint chairs were scoured as It vhite as it was possible for wood to become; i y he little old fashioned looking glasses were | I irowned with nsparagas branches, where the ci ed berries hung thick and bright as coral drops w Jong the delicate green spray; the scant win- ? low curtains of coarse, but snow-white muslin, ? vere festooned with wild blossoms and ground si tine woven together?while that in the "spare sj led room" was looped up to a single wreath of vild roses and sweet briar, which filled the tl vindow with a delicious fragrance. On the sj ittlo table in this apartment, stood a japan vaiter with a decanter of wine in the middle, A urrounded by slender wine glasses; and a fine 1< lapkin drawn over a loaf of cake closo by. A u Iress of purost inuslin lay upon a counterpane tl if old fashioned dimity, that covered the bed ei ike a sheet of snow. Wo stood by while the old woman arra.ved 6< ler child for the bridal, and wondered why her a land should tremble so, and why the tears 01 houM fill Lida's eye, so constantly, when she ibserved her mother's agitation. 1 It was scarcely dark when we saw a party ?f two ladies and as many gentlemen coming 01 oward the house. The washerwoman closed he bed room door, a?d went to receive the ;uests, leaving us with the bride. How beau- 01 iful and pure she looked in her simple dress 1:1 hat had exhausted all the money her mother 111 tad hoarded up for the winter, in making the 1,1 lurchase. The black hair, which she usually ^ vore twisted up in one heavy woof over her lead, was now braided inlo three rich braids, md knotted together on one side, just back of 81 he ear by one single rose. Another bud with C( he blush leal just bursting asunder, lay within ^ he folds of sheor muslin, that covered her bo- ^ torn. When she placed it there, Lida's cheek 'row pale, and her hand began to tremble, for c< hat moment she heard Gilbert's step in the I e< icxt room. It was instantly drowned by the 8 mices of Miss Warner and the milliner, both 11 high and cheerful conversation. The sound tc inly caused our friend to tremble the more.? 0 3ut \rhea her mother came into the room, fob led her in a kind embrace, and led her towards 81 he young man, who came forward to receive 111 ler, a soft blush broke over her ehepk, and her n ingers wove themselves in his confidently, as if die had nothing to fear, and yet could not help ^ rembling all the time. " Be kind to my child," said the washerwo- ^ nan bluntly; *' when 1 was married to her fa- nl her, he was prosperous, happy, and proud as 01 ,-ou are. He died#and left me in poverty. His ^ shild has never heard a rash -word beneath this tumble roof,?be gentle to her as I have been." 6 The old woman sat down, and bending her 55 lead, began to smooth the folds of her faded silk 0 lress. and thus she tried to conceal the teara " hat her own words had unlocked. Gilbert did not answer, but his cheeks turn- r' >d a shade paler, and he bent his eyes almost lJ iternly on the two females who bad urged him j* nto his present embarrassing position. k The young student arose, tie had been 81 wisely chosen by the plotters, for never was d dericul dignity more thoroughly put on. He ooked serious and earnest enough to have de- 8 seived more suspicious persons than Lida and " ler earnest hearted mother. He pronounced ? ;ho ceremony with impressive solemnity?so " mpressive that Miss Warner and her oompalion could hardly restrain their laughter at his iuccessful acting. I" TV coupio sat down, Lid a, pale, confused a ind tr^mbliujf; but Gilbert sat motionless, and 8 with bis eyes steadfastly on the two females who wero whispering together. Miss Warner seemed striving to suppress her mirth till the iroper time, and a slight giggle now and ihei> # * .>rol;e from the milliner at the exquisite success )f their joke. The washerwoman arose, and brought forth lake and wine. Lids could not taste a drop, >ut she touched her lips to the glass, wbilo G|l>ert drained his to the bottom. The railKtfer vas compelled to set her wine on a tabled to rnnceal the laughter which shook her hand? vhilo Miss Warner gracefully drank] to the ride. "And now, "said the yoUng lady, sitting down ler glass, and dusting the crumbs of cake from ler white gloves, "as our amusement ia over for he evening, we will teturn home, if yon are eady Mr. Gilbert." Lida lifted ber eyes almost in terror to-the nan whom she believed to lie her husband, vhile the washerwoman arose from her seat and ooked Miss Warner keenly in the face. "Yon need not look at "me so voraciously, ;ond woman," said the unfeeling girl; "if I ave lent Mr. Gilbert to Miss Lida here, it was or our mutual amusement; but play cannot ist forever, and it is getting dark, we most go ome again." -r- . , r "Very much delighted with your little party/' himed in Miss Smith; "if you ever get up A redding in earnest, this would lie a delicate attern; I trust she will not feel so exalted, lat she cannot come to her work in the morn* >g" ? The washerwoman was deadly pale?she fted her hand as if to enforee silence on the ippapt mockery with which she was1 insulted, nd, stepping a pace forward, about to addrekl le man who had violated the peace of her ouse, but Lida had risen to her feet, and would ave fallen, but Gilbert reached forth hie and, nd drawing her to his bosom, kissed her foreend, and her pale lips, while be trembled from ead to foot. "What means this?" exclaimed Miss Vfatfiet* rasping bis arm in passionate amazement^** what means this in my presence, sir ?" ' It means," said Gilbert, who lifted bis bead nd looked firmly about, "it means that sber is ty wife, my own beloved and wedded wife^be>re God and in tlie sight of man ! Weak, ickcd girl! did you believe me so base/feo ttcrly devoid of all manhood, that I should did myself to a plot so atrocious ? I loved ou, Louisa; at least 1 thought so! and when was flung into the dangerous society of ? reature so good and lovely as this young girl, IIU 19 11 > > mic, I ICIV Uldl JfUUI iwa WWfl ellfounded that'my allegiance to yourself wag i danger; I consented, as an honorable man ioulii, to see her no more. You were not wished with this submission to a just demand -but would have made me a villain?and alter int, would have married tbe dastard for the ike of the property and homestead I" , Before the last words were fairly uttered* liss Warner had dropped to the floor in vio. mt hysterics, and, some two hours after, she ndertook rather an unpleasant walk home irough the damp grass, between the crest fallti milliner and the young clergyman. The next day, she had the satisfaction of ?eing Gilbert drive towards the homestead io barouche which had been purchased for anther occasion, and, on the back seat, was the asherwoinan in a new straw bonnet, and that lentical red cloak; by he. side sat our Lida, 10king as pretty as a snow drop, a sight which iiHn fhp villilfyp /irirfnernt rnthar nut nf ? >? ?it with the mock marriage; bat we were perctly satisfied?true we were obliged 4o look at new help, but the homestead gained a capiil housekeeper in the washerwoman, and the lost joyous, lovely, and warm-hearted little listress you ever saw, when it rccehfed our ida. i 1 ? ? -vS * A friend just returned from a short executou in North Carolina, informs ua that the inoming crops of corn in the upper portion of partanburg District, and in those portions of le old North State which he visited, is ahnnant?yielding not only a sufficiency for home ansnmption, bat some to spare to less favorJ regions. The price of this indispensable rain in that State, he thinks will greatly recede om its present high rales and make it the inTest of those residing in the middle Districts f South Carolina, whose crops have been cat lort by drought or the freshets, to seek their lpplies in that quarter. This is truly gratifyig intelligence, and we trust there are other ,'gions that we know not of at this time, which ill contribute of their abuodance to relieve le impending scarcity. In relation to the politics of the people of forth Carolina, whom it lyas his privilege to leet, particularly those of the First (Cling* tan's) Congressional District, he wasgrati* ed to find a deep^and abiding feeling of resis* in.ee to tho late aggressive ineassurs of Con* ress, and a cordial sympathy towards this tate. They spoke of South Carolina in terms f kindness and even of admiration. Amid le scorn and obloquy which it is attempted tQ 4 11st upon the chivalrous Palmetto State in ?a-j" ous sections, both North and Souto, amid io scoffs and derision of her despoilers and le base millions of power, it is cheering to now there are thousands of true and loydi ana of the "land of the sun," who would coriallv bid her "God speed." should she with* raw herself from the Union, and who if foroe liould be used ag dnst her, would freely lavish leir treasure and pour out their life-blood io er defence. Conquer 8outh Carolina? It would e madness to attempt it.?Newberry Sentinel. * ^ S An old edition of Morse's Geography aavs: Albany has fonr hundred dwelling houses, ind two thousand four hundred inhabitants,*^ handing with thetr gable onds to the street*^ >. TO BACHKLOHS. Bachelors repent, 'tis time to take a wrte,, Your happing forbids ? single life..,