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Awful Shipwreck a
Four Hundred and Fifty-four Lives Lost.
At two o'clock in the morning of the 2Cth of
Fcluary, her Majesty's steamer, the Birkenhead,
wars wrecked between two and three miles from
the shore of Southern Africa. The exact spot at
which the calamity happened was Point Danger, j
Off rl.tc Tininf she struck upon a reef of sunken J
rocks. The ship was steaming eight and a half
knots at the time. The water was smooth, and
the sky serene; but the speed at which the vessel
was passing through the water proved her
destruction. The rock penetrated through her
bottom just after the foremost, and in twenty
minutes' time there were a few fruiting spar*
and a few miserable creatures clinging to them, I
and this were all that remained oft!i?? Birkenhead.
Of six hundred and thirty-eight, persons |
who had left S'mon's llay in the gallant ship
but a few hours before, only one hundred and
eighty-four remain to tell the tide. No less than
four hundred and fifty-four Englishmen have
come to so lamentable an end.
There is no mystery about the calamity. Wo
tlip r-ise of the Amazon, to,
Hru IlUb ICIC, i*o tii .
conjecture the origin of the disaster. .Inst what !
happened to the Orion oft'the Scottish coast. < r
to the Great Liverpool oft'Fin?terr..\ iiashaj>p--n- i
cd now. Captain Salmond,theoflieerin command.
anxious to shorten the run Algoa Bay as much
as was possible, and more than was prudent,
hugged the shore too closely. Four hundred
and fifty-four persons have lost their lives in i
consequence of his temerity. As soon as the j
vessel struck upon the rocks the ru<h of water
was so great that the men on the lower troopdeek
were drowned in their hammocks. Theirs
was happier fate?at least they were spare d the
terrible agony of the next twenty minutes. At
least the manner of death was less painful than
with others, who wore first crushed beneath tbefalling
spars and funnel, and then swept away to ;
be devoured by the sharks, who were prowling I
round the wreck. From the moment the ship ;
struck, all appears to have be-on done ih.tt Lu- j
man courage or coolness could cftect. The soldiers
were mustered on the afterdeck. The instinct
of discipline was stronger even than the
instinct of life. The men fell into place as cool- |
ly as on the parade ground. They were told oft',
''into reliefs, and sent, some to the chains-pumps,
some to the paddle box boats. Captain Wright,,
of the 91st regiment, who survives to relate the
dreadfnl scene tdls us:
Every man did as he was directed, and there was
? - <i.,.
not a cry or a murmur among m-m nm.. ,
vessel made her final plunge. 1 could not name ,
any individual officer, who did more than another.
All received their orders, and had them carried :
out as if the mc-n were embarking instead of
going to the bottom ; there was only this dill'erence?that
I never saw any embarkation con- j
ducted with so little noise or confusion.
Poor fellows! had they died in battle-fi-M, ;
aud in their country's cause, their fate wou!d
have excited less poignant regret; but theiv is
something inexpressibly touching in the quiet,
unflinching resolution of so many brave hearts
struggling manfully to the last against an inevitable
disaster, it is gratifying, also, to find
that the women and children were all raved.?
They had been quietly collect d under i!..- poop i
awning, and were as quietly g"t over the ship's j
side, and passed into the cutter. The boat stood j
off about 150 yards from the ill-starred IJirkeiihcad
and all were saved. There is not a name of a |
single woman or child upon the list, of persons j
who perished. The other boats, as i> u.-atal in
such cases, were not forth-coming in the hour of
need. One gig and two cutters were all that
could be rendered available. In one account
we find that when the men were ordered to get
the pabble-box boats out, the pin of the davits
was rusted in, and could not ho got out. Cap i
tain Wright, on the other hand, tolls us that
when the funnel went over the side it carried
ou-iv ftio ctahnnrd naddle-hox and boat, tmd tiiat
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the other paddle-box boat capsized a> it was
being lowered. Of the 184 persons who were
saved, 116 made their escape in the thre<- boatwhich
succeeded in getting clear of wreck.
Never was destruction more -udd<m or nu?rcomplete.
Within liftcn lninu t- ait; r the v-ssel
struck, tlio bow broke short olf. J-'iv minutes
more elapsed, and the hull of the vessel went in !
two, crossways, just abaft the engine-room. The
stern part of the vessel immediately surged, iiii. d,
and went down. The only hope of the survivors j
lay in the main topmast and main topsail yard,
which still showe d above water. There w ere
some fragments of the forecastle deck still floating
about; there a few spars, and driftwood. ,
About forty-five people to the yard, and, after
remaining until 2o'clock the following aft< moon
were picked off by the Lioness, a schooner which
was providentially at hand. C'upt. W right as
sorts, that of the 200 persons, more or less, who
were clinging to the driftwood wh-n lie got away,
nearly evcrv man might have been saved had
r.i._ .r:_r. l?1. ...
one Ol IUU Mll]l S U'JIIC II' I uuij. 11.,-y
boat the assistant-surgeon 1 got, with eight
rnen. They immediately pull d away, aid landed
about fifteen miles from tie vessel. The tact
appears to have teen that the p*" rer aturc- v. ho
were clinging to the driftwood had n cat t ied
by toe swell in the direction of i'oint Danger.?
There they got entangled aiuong the -en weed,
which at this point of the coast is thick and of
immense length. Capt. Wright's opinion is,
that had not the assistant-surgeon carii d off the
boat, or even had the boat pulled hack to the
scene of the disaster after landing the medical
gentleman in safety, the majority of l!ie?e persons
might have been picked off the soawt ed. It 011ly
remains for us to mention here that Capt,
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ftaimOIlU, wno appears to nave num.' iii' uiuj
alter Ihe vessel struck, has not survived the calamity.
When last seen alive, he was swimming
lrom the stern-post of the ship, which had just
gone down, to a portion of the forecast !e-deck,
which was floating about twenty yards from the
main body of the wreck; something struck him
on the back of the head, and lie never rose again.
London Times.
A Live Snake Ejected from the Stomach?
Remarkable Case.?The Charleston (Muss.) Aurora
states that Wm. \V. San for 1, of that city,
who has been sick for two years and supposed
to be in a decline^took sonic Indian medicine
which caused him to retch violently. wlvn he,
threw from his stomach a living snake, about
eight inches in length, almost perfectly white,
with sharp black eyes. Mr Sanford drank water
from a brook, in Main", some two years since. '
Tfee Way it Works.
The expenses incurred by the government, in
arresting, holding, trying, and restoring the fugitive
slave Siimns to his master in Georgia, exceed
live thousand dollars, to wit:
For guard, before grant of certificate 61,556 00
For board of guard 714 00
For guard, after grant of certificate and
for ex|>eiis-s of sending Simins to
Georgia 2,570 06
C ounsels tecs. 6:of Marshall Devin 500 00
65,341 05
Add owner's expenses in same ease 3,000 00
And we have a total of 68,341 00
?as the actual expenses incurred in the recovery
of a single slave, in tie- law abiding commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
Ami this is one of thy laws which Col. Jack.
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son :ii!i| ij:s niiiiniv irii*iiu> nuuiu i.uto *i.->
lias been executed, "'and that we believe it to be
the intention of the people general I y*1 (of Massnchu.-etts,
Vermont, ami h'liio of course,) to
enfoice it in good faith, notwithstanding so far, i
v. itli the influence of the friends of Mr. Webster,
in Ibi-ton, all the strength of the Merchants,
combined, with the power of the Government to
make out as good a case as possible for Fill:More,
uiilv one single slave has been recovered from
Massachusetts, and that under cover of night,
and at an expense of nearly ?0,000 t<> the Government
three-fourths of which sum, by the operations
of the revenue laws, must come out of
tiie pockets of southern men.? J/ricon Telegraph.
Tlie Cotton Crop.
As the amount of the present crop is a sul>jcet
of much spe culation, we eopv the following
estimate from the Montgomery Journal, bMiev- |
ing it to lie as nearly correct as any one thai has
been submitted to the public :
It may have been noticed that the estimates )
for the present crop have, in thcla-t few months, !
in the estimation of good judges, rapidJv in- I
creased : and it is now put down, according to
: r.....o 7dm nrio to a nnn ruin Tl.nt I
> (ti Uliliif It I*II? 4mm VW.VVV IV V,VVVfVV\'t & >
the crop would be a large one. became evident,
as the !ro>t continued t?> hold ofi and the fall
dry and without storm. In fact, almost the
whole crop was gathered without loss, and much
that was not anticipated; and what seemed a
small crop in September' turned out ii November
an increase over the September estimates of,
in maiiv cn<es, more than one-third. We received
in September and October the reports and
estimates of some nine hundred planters of their
own crop?, f,,r the purpose of publishing a tabular
estimate, which we should have done, but
for the subsequent statements of many of them,
that their calculations had proved erroneous, owing
to the unparalleled favorable season for gathering,
and that their estimates v.ere too low bv
one-third. We theref re d 'f-rn d publishing the
table, lest the estimates of September should
tend to midead as to the real yield . f tlic crop.
An intelligent correspondent at X w Orleans,
on who"-e jndgnu nt great reliance may be placed,
gave us the folh?wing estimates from all availabl"
sou ices.
Th-* following is an est imat4 <!' the probable
rnipt- of cotton at tlie port of New Orleans,
aed of tli^ 'rem ml cro!> ot the 1. nited States,
mndo from i:itoriiifi?!??n o<>t:iinc>l from Factors I
doi?^ biwmss with the various sections of the
c tton-^nrwincr count it, im>I ^iven from thoi:io?t
r !i;?1 ! i-firinatio i to h -obtained from their corrc-j
outputs:
Receipts 10th April, in^t, 1,100,000
Probable amount to !> itvric. il fr in
N::-!u:I!c :?!! Cumlv ilund River. 1.1,000
1'roli?tI?!<- amount to be r evived from
Teiuio-see Hirer. 20,000
Do. from Yazoo River and Tributaries. 25,000
IK., from Hetl Hirer. 10,000
Do. from ! li 4* Pluck Riv-r. 10,000
Do. fp in M 'i:ij lii-. Ti 'iii. 20,000
D<>. main trunk of Mississippi River. 23.000
Total rcecij f; of New < Means. 1,.'121,000
' " Texas 00.000
' 44 .Mobile. 510,000
P". <>f Atlantic States tV Florida
210,000-1.510,000
Total cropr.f t he 1*1,:,'. .1 States 2,831.000
The annexed paragraph fioin i!i.? Now York
Tribune, shows tli.it tli?-Chaplains and Fairbank?<-s
an- .still at their dirty work ?>}'enticing servants
away fioin tin ir ina-t'-rs, :m?.!M-ndin^ them
to Ikiiial ngioiis. Tin* abettors of tin* villanv
appear to be tit close communion with tin: Tribune.
"IJi viv.u. of IUmnkss.?The Directors of
the rtulergmund Jlailroad report to us the passage
through oar city last Monday of forty one
Iiuniaii chatties from lite lain I of lite slave whip
and cofiln on a pilgrainagc to the North Star.?
They ara now all safely landed in Canada, where
tli- v have eeasi d to strayed cattle and become
in -n wetticti and children, no tnorc to be subjects
of tie-aaet'on block and brand. The Directors
n-jiort the liuilroud in ( \v. lb-til. order and doing
a sale and inert as tag business."
Mark'aok a i a F\xcy Ball.?A fancy dress
bell was giv< ti at Syracuse on the c\ening of the
Rtli instant, when, among oilier incidents of the
evening, the following is related by the Syracuse
Standard :
' Among the most pleasing incidents of the j
evening was the marriage bv Justice .1. lni>on, of
Mr. Jane s Doran, who appeared in the brilliant '
In ,.f M-.li . I in ulii,*li In* ;ii?- '
4/1 44 * * "i
j>< a red to guod advantage, to Miss Bnrtlett, a
tl:irk-cy?*tl beauty, who was elegantly attired in !
the dre>s of a Greek girl. The audience wore
iv<juc>t? d to prosene order for a few moments,
and to the surprise of most of ttiose present,
the young, hund-mim ly and elegantly attired
bride and bridegroom stepped into the middle
of the room, and the marriage ceremony was
] < if<Tined in the inid-t of a gay and brilliant
a -embly of re|.resentati\es from every ijuart r
of the g|..be. Alb r the ju-iiee had pronounced
them ' Itn band and wife,' he retired from the
room, and the dance went merrily as the marriage
b lis."
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Woman's Rights' Convention.?It is in contemplation
(the Chester Republican says) to hold a Woman's
Rights' Conveutioii at West Chester, Pa., on tho
3d and 3d days of June nest.
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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1852.
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
Our Cotton market has been somewhat active since
our last, with an increase in receipts and an advance
on last week's quotations. TVo quote 5 3*4 to 8.
Charleston quotations 7 to 8 3-4.
Madison Springs, Ga.
We invite attention to the communication in to-day's
pajier referring to these delightful Springs. The time
is approaching when our friends will be looking out
lor summer quarters, and wo expect tiiey will find the
Madison equal to any springs in the United States lor
health.
Mr. P. S. WhiteBy
a notice in to-day's paper it will bo seen that
Mr. Wiiitk will deliver two Lectures in Camden, at
Temperance Hall, on Thursday and Frida}' evenings.
? ??*"Waterec Division will meet on Wednesday, in
place of Thursday evening.
The Convention.
According to law, this body eouvencd at Colombia
on Monday. We arc not in possession of any inlbrmation
relative to their proceedings.
There was a time when we should certainly havo
been there to see and hear for ourselves, but that time
has passed, and with if all of interest or moment. We
arc not concerned at all in (lie proceedings of the Convention.
What can they do? llave they the right
to do anything? Have the people not spoken through
the ballot-box, and precluded all hope of action? Wc
arc opposed to Convention and paper '-Resolves"?
We have seen but little accomplished by these means,
and wc wetc opposed to the Legislature fixing the
time lor the meeting of this Convention.
It is idle, preposterous and unreasonable, to speak
of this Convention passing an ordinance of scces.-ioii,
or taking oat* solitary step towards it; they have no
right to do so. and we presume the thing will not he
attempted. What is the sense or use in South Carolina
resolving any more? Why put down another
plank on her ext.-nsivc platform? The Legislature
have done enough of this.
Hon. W. T. Ward.
We have received a copy of this gentleman's speech
delivered in the House of Representatives, 111 favor of
Hen. Scott, for the Presidency. We have not read
the speech, fir we have quite enough else to engage
our attention ; and besides, wc are not in favor cither
of Hen. Scott, or the time of Congress being consumed,
in Presidential quibblings. particularly where three or
four thousand dollars )>er iliem, are paid to the Hon.
gentlemen for their interesting debates.
Congress.
We have nothing from Congress worth notice. The
distribution of the public lands, Presidential bickerings,
and political wire-pulling. personal explanations. See.,
occupy tlie time of this great body, who consume from
throe to four thousand dollars per day?but who cares?
Uncle Samuel is a good natured old gentleman, and as
his funds come easy, and there area plenty of them, it
makes no material ditrerence how, or for what they
go, particularly as the dear North receives the bcnclit
A Platform.
If South Carolina must have another "Platform" to
occupy, we suppose the following from the Charleston
Mercury, over the signature of "Colleton," will do as
well a3 any other:
R-janlred, That the State of South Carolina
colliders the past aggressions of the General
Government sufficient cause for a dissolution of
the Union ; and it is her conviction that itshotild
now take place.
AVWm/, That she holds the right of secession
to be fundamental, and regards it as a right
to he e.\erciJcd on all issues, both past and future,
according to her sovereign will and pleasure,
whether with or without the cu-operatiuit of any
other State or States ; and as a power indispensable
to the protection of State sovereignly as
well as Southern institutions.
Jhtolr.d. That site is prepared, and would
1)01 M lf 1)0 now willing to exercise that right but
forbears to do so in deference to the opinions express
>d by her si?t-r States of' the South ; and
although differing from thorn in the course they
have taken, believes in their unanimous and solemn
declarations of loyalty to the common institutions
of the South and insists that they will
not finally desert and betray them.
Jtiwolcvil, That in the event of the abolition
of slavery by the General Government in the
I >islrict of Columbia, or of any interference with
the slave trade between the States, or of a refusal
to admit into the Union as a State any territory
hereafter,applying, because of the existence j
of slavery therein : or of .my act prohibiting j
the introduction of slaves into the territories of
Utah and New Mexico; or of a repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law?the Governor of the State I
shall forthwith convene the Legislature, if that j
ho.lv be not then in session, and ;t shall be the
duty of the Legislature forthwith to call a Convention
of the people of South Carolina to act
in tin- promis s.
!? WW. That as the harmony and unity of
the State are of the first importance, and our
unhappy divisions render us impotent for good;
we recommend to the people of South Carolina
that hurving <'dl party feelings and discarding
nil party prganization, they re-unite as brothers
and Carolinians to vindicate the honor of the
State and to mantaiii the common rights and
interests of the South.
Southern Cultivator.
The May No. of this excellent agricultural monthly
lias boon received. The price is only one dollar, and
there is a large amount of valuable information worth
ten times the subscription price. "Hook Farming" is
oil en objected to, yet, a farmer might pick up an idea
from what lie reads, wliieli would confer great boncfita
upon him. This paper is published by Wm S Jones,
Augusta, Ga.
ItKKPiTEr.?Reed and Clemens, tho two pirates,
who woro id liavo been executed at Richmond, wero
respited by tho President for two weeks.
Poisoned.?The family of Mr. William Miller, dentist,
of Harrisonburg, Va., with somo visiters, wore
poisoned 011 the 3d inst., from eating cakes made up
with soda that had portions of arsenic mixed with it.
A physician was called in immediately, who succeeded
' in saving their lives.
A SMALL LOT OP SUNDRIES. |
Great Slaughter in* China.?A late Canton paper (
records a great slaugliter of government troops near j
Yung-gun-cho.v, by the rebel army. About 10,000
soldiers and more than 60 officers were slaughtered.
The printers of Pittsburg have abolished Sunday
work.
Tho subscription to the New York Crystal Pa'aeo
amount to $30,000 so far?$200,000 are required before
the exhibition can commence.
I
Tho Wesley an Missionary Society of England has
received a donation of $50,000 from Thos. Marriott,
i Esq. 1
Oddities of a Wealthy Man*.?linns "Wilson, o'
Steubenvillc. who died on the 21st ult., in llio 82d
j rear of his sere, bequent' od in his will to bis only
1! daughter $1000; to the widow of his only son, now
the wife of Rev. Pr. Cox. of Piqun. ?'300: the balance
of his fortune, estimated at ?200.000. he divided, in
small sums, to different churches in his town, and in
i '
j large sums to foreign and domestic missionary societies
Love and Foli.y.?A man CO years of age has been
' committed to jail at St. Louis for threatening to kill a
j girl of 19. because she refused to marry him, after he
had made her the snug little present of ?25.000. It
was rather provoking.
| ''Have you any travelling inkstands ?': asked a lady '
of a clerk at one of our stationary stores the other day.
' .No ma'am; we have them with feet and legs, but
they are not old enough to travel yet," was the port
reply.
A sharp talking lady was reproved by her husband,
who requested her to keep her tongue in her mouth.
"My dear," responded the wife, "it is against the law
to carry concealed weapons."'
I A Poet carried some verses to a critic, and desired
his opinion of their merit Alter reading them, the
critic observed?"My dear sir. these lines need fire." ,
And lie threw them into the grate.
"I wish T owned an interest in that dog of yours," 1
said a neighbor in our hearing the other day, to another
neighbor, whose dog would dart toward the legs
of any one with whom he might bo talking, and then
'back up again," and look up into his master's face, <
as much as to say, "Shall I pitch into him??shall I
I give him a nip on the leg?" j ,
"An interest in my dog?" said his master, "what,
| could you do with it?"'
"Why," replied the other, "I'd shoot my half within
the next five minutes!"
Said a bed-bug to a mosquito, whom lie chanced to
meet:
"How is it you make out to extract so much nioie
of life's current than myself, when I can bite as severely
as you ? How can you explain it ?"
"For particulars, see small bills," quoted the mos- j
quito with dignity.
Reynolds, the dramatist, observing to Martin the
' thinness of his house at one of his plays, added, he
supposed it was owing to the war.
; "No," replied Martin, "I should judge it is owing to
the piece."
' What is the best attitude for self-defoucc ?" said a
pupil, (putting on the gloves) to a well-known pugilist,
"Keep a civil tongue iu your head," was the signilicaiit
reply.
A Yankee down east has made the grand discovery
that a window gla/.ed with old hats, is a sure indication
that tho occupants have seen a rum bottle.
A gentleman who gave up the iron trade co publish
' a newspaper, says that tho newspaper business is tho
hardest of the two.
For the Camden Journal
Look before you Sipt.
The owners ot lite real estate in the town of
Camden have now submitted to them a proposition
to sell the stock own d by the corporation
i in the Smith Carolina llailroad, amounting tj
, 143 shares, which est fourteen thousand three
hundred dollars. The shares are now selling at
ninety dollars, which would make a loss of one
thoti-and lbtir hundred and thirty dollars. The
pas! ye.-tr a dividend of 7 per c.-nt was reed ved
on the >toek, and every probability of an equal :
dividend for the present year, as the receipts
of the Kot.d for the first quarter of the present
> i ? u ? .1 .. i
V ':T exceeds iiy sixty luousaau nouars, mc re- i
eeipts lor the same period hist year. Resides :
the t"\vti does not owe mu -h over eight thou- j
sand dollars, tor which we pay G per cent per I
annum, while we are getting 7 per cent on ->14,- j
1300, with every prospect of the stock being at:
par in the course an oilier year. What can be !
gained to the pockets of our citizens by selling j
now? the stock having already advanced from j
5G to 90; what is to prevent its going to 100 is j
respectfully asked by a TAX PAYER, j
For the Camden Journal. j i
To the Tax-Payers of Camden. j j
You are now being called upon to give your
assent to a sacrifice by sale of the stock in the
i South Carolina Rail Road, held by the town. I ?
have called it a sacritiee?that assertion is pro-1
| veil by the fact that it is now ten per cent, bo- 1
low par; that it is a needless sacritiee, can be as (
' readily proven by reference to the financial con- i
ditioii of the town, and the rapidly advancing j t
prosperity of the Rail Road Company. The town !
of Camden owes some little over eight thousand
dollars, while its resources, independent of all
lieu for taxation ifce., are in round numbers Eif- I
teen thousand dollars. From taxation, ike., the 1
town receives something over three thousand per . 1
annum; to which may be added as almost cer- j I
tain, one thousand per annum on this stock. i i
With this hurried and imperfect statement, it 1
would surely bo supposed that some relentless [ j
creditor w;is urging tin: town to utter ruin to ill-1 ,
duce it to raise money at a shave of ten percent.;',
but we tire credibly informed that the reverse is 1 ,
the fact, and that the town can get whatever ac-j,
coininodations it may desire in this matter. !;
Hut some one says we wish to get rid of the ',
stock and reduce the taxes. If any one will j <
show me how the town is to be able to reduce ]
taxation by throwing away ?1,430, I shall be ,
happy to receive some instruction in the new |
school of finance. The stock now pars a divi- |
dend of seven per cent.; we have every guaranty i t
that that rate will be kept up if not advanced ]
upon. The gross receipts of the Road last year j (
w? re slightly over ?1,000,000. Thus far in this ,
year they have greatly increased, and promise .
?1100,000 or upwards. In three months the <
stock has advanced seven dollars per share, and ]
is now most difficult to obtain even at that ad- (
vance. I know of no sellers except those driven
1
by necessity, or some moving cause almost
equivalent to it. If such a necessity existed in
this ca?e, "why sell ?14,300 of slock to pay ?8000
jf debt? AY* it v sell even a sufficiency to pay the
debt on the v< ry eve of a dividend; The only
plausible rea-on for selling would be a belief that
tl.e stock is now at its full value?a belief which
is at variance with the opinion of the business
men of the S'ate, ami the South Carolina Kail
Koad is regarded from Maine to Texas, as one
of the most successful and promising in the Union
: and it is believed by many loading minds,
that the stock will beat par by the next meeting
of the stockholders, the stock in old Road being ;
now, fniilv estimated, sold at only 3 3-4 per
cent below par.
This communication is written as the ' Journal"
goes to press; but as evidence that the
opinion herein expressed arises from no factious
opposition, I may prolong it to state that the
writer is a personal friend of most of the Town
Council, the movers in this matter, aud supported
ovt'i-r member of it at the late election.
A NATIVE.
For the Camden Journal. g
A New Spring in Georgia.
Mu. Editou: A new and very valuable Spring
lias been discovered at the Madison Spring's, s
now the property of Mr. Watkin'u. The com-'
ponent properties of said water are per oxyde otf
iron, magnesia sulphur and soda. It is now being
improved, aud will be in readiness to offer
to visitors this summer in connection with the?
old?every desirable variety of waters. At
Madison "Springs the bathing is free and truly
luxurious. New walks arc being laid along the
brow of the nreeioice. commandite a distant
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water and moir * in view, where a nulling, tumbling,
mountain torrent leaps from rock to rock,
forming many beautiful cascades worthy the
pencil of an artist. The improvements and stylo
of finish at the Madison Spring's surpass those
of any other watering-place in the U. S.; while v
the shady groves, the sloping lawns, the equable
and bracing climate render it a delightful summer
retreat.
The medical properties of these waters are
well known to cure all female complaints and
irregularities. Dispepsia, Liver and Kidney diseases
are healed as if by magic. Ague and fever
of the most inveterate type are cured without
medicine?there lias never been a failure to
el Let a radical cure in a single instance. They
impart strength and vigor to the constitution,
and paint the female cheek with rosy health.?
Extensive preparations have been made for the
accommodation of families, where each can have
a cottage in the grove, with conveniences for
their own servants to do their washing if desired.
It lias over been a favorite resort for Carolini
an*; a id taking all in all, nature nud art combined,
have done more for the Madison Springs
than for any other watering-place. Its climate
is peculiarly salubrious, 'jcing dry, bracing, buoyant
and equable?devoid of the extreme midday
heat, and nocturnal damp of the mountains,
as well as of the arid and suffocating heat and
musijuito's of the low country. They are situat
d twenty-three mile; from Athens, "the terniiuus
ofoiii' branch of the Georgia Rail Road, w.Vre
stages will !) in readiness daily, to convey passengers
to the Spring;'. MADISON.
Dank Faili rk.?We are indebted to a cor- ^
r.sjHiiideiit, writing from Augusta, for the iutel- ?
lgeiice that the Hank of St. Mary's, Georgia,
kno w u as .John G. Winter's Hank, has suspended.
The holders of the bills of said Bank are offering
them tor 23 cents on the dollar.?South Carolinian.
Georgia Ci.ion Convention.
This Convention adjourned on Friday last.?
The following resolutions were adopted:
1. Resolved, That the Constitutional Union
party will not give its support to any candidate
fbr the oilieeof J'resident or vice President of thel
c.n?..o ....We tliA P/invotit.irtii nomina- "?
L ' till*"* 1 ? *l<? I I ", UIJIV.TO lliv VV?.
till,' such candidates shall declare its ncpiieseciioe
in the measures of Congress known as the i
Compromise measures, and its determination to
consider these measures as a final adjustment of
the matters embraced by them.
2. Resolved, That this Convention at this time
will take 110 action in relation to the approaching
Presidential election.
.1. Resolved. That another Convention of the
Constitutional Union party be called after the
Democratic and Whig Convention have made
their Presidential nominations, for the purpose
of considering said nominations, and for the
purpose of taking such action in relation to.
the Presidential election, as shall be deemed
proper. And that said Convention be held in
XIHledgevillc, at such time as the President and
Vice President of this Conventual, shrill 'liere^ \
ifter appoint and make public. 1
It is understood that some of the members
>f the Convention, principally the friends of
P..1.K tvr.im tn In .Id :i MKvtino* Friihiv <nv>n
""'l''vul1 0 ng
t?>r the Selection of delegates who arc to. go
o Baltimore.
Tiik Charter Saved?*550,000 Sl*bscribei>
?It affords us pleasure to lay before our readers
:he gratifying intelligence that the Georgia Char
tor of the Rubun Gap Railroad h:vs been secured
oy a subscription of ?550,000, one hundred and a
fifty thousand dollars more than the amount ro-i J
juired by the Charter to secure it, ]i
Ihe book severe opened at Clayton on the 6th ^
inst., when the above amount of stock was atonco
taken?thirty or forty shares in Rabun, and the
remainder bv gentlemen of Charleston, represented
by their Attorney. Well may we sav, 'well
;lone, noble, generous Charleston,' when we look
lit this evidence of her interest in the D-rnnrW.
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jnterprise of the age. The capital stock of tho
Company bv the charter is one million of doK
lars, and more than half of that amount is now
jwned by gentlemen of Charleston! Who, with i
this fact before him, can for moment doubt that
lie Road will be built ? Tho chartered rights of
the company are now vested, the head of tho
Iron Horse is set westward, and nothing now
\an stop him, until his snort is heard, as he paules
among the green clover fields of Tennessee, j
tnd gathers renewed life and speed for the marts i
>f the great West. We have no doubt that tho
iberality of Chai hasten will be followed up by
)ther parties interested in the Road.
Anderson Gazette,