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4 * VOLUMES. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 22,1852. NUMBER 1 P- THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. PUBUSOED SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY bV THOMAS J. WASHEN. iv a-: a m s. The Semi-Weekly Joubxal is published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cent.-?, if paid in advance, or Four j Dollars if payment is delayed three months. Tn v wkeki.y JofRXAti is published at Two Dollars , if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay- , mcnt bo delayed three mouths, and Tliree Dollars if not oaid till tho expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the follow- i tag terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the j semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five j cents for each subsoquent insertion. In the weekly, | seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents far each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. ^"The number of insertions desired, and the cdi- j tion to be published in must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published senn-wecKly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly Timely Hints to All. FRIENDS.?Reader, if you have a valued Friend, ; in whoso welfare you feel an interest, that friend ; will prize, as a precious memorial, your Daguerreotype Miniature, if taken in Sqcier's peculiar style. K PARENTS.?If you are still blessed with Parents, 1 and uo Artist's Pencil has or can truly trace the lineaments of his or her familiar face or form, you may well act the part of wisdom to advise or persuade them to , visit, without delay, Squier's Daguerreotype Rooms, , 1 and have their Miniatutes taken in his superior style of art. TO ALL.?How many have lo t a Father, a Mother, j a Sister, a Brother, or an innocent prattling child, and ; have not even the shadow of a resemblance to look upon. After the separation, some "little toy" or trifling article is often kept for years, and cherished as a token of remembrance. IIow much more valuable would be one of Squier's perfect Daguerreotype Miniatures of the j "loved and lost." There is scarcely any one who does not take pleasure , ? in gazing on the features of a friend, and, when that friend has been removed by death, we often hear the ! exclamation uttered with an expression of deep regret, ! "Oh, what would I not give for such a picture of mv ' k- iricna.- , ( Reader, perhaps you cannot do a better thing, while ( your mind is upon the subject, than take an hour or t two now, and visit the gallery; than you may. at some ' future period, have reason to feel grateful for these I "Gentle Hints" from j . SQUIKUS DAGUERRSAN GALLERY. \\ September 24. 77 tf i Notice. ALL those indebted to the undersigned will please < call ami settie their accounts by the li st of No- j vetnbor. Ou and after that time all debts will be placed in otlier hands for collections. TIIOS. RASKIN. I Sept. 10." 73 tf ; Notice. THE remainder of the Tools belonging to the Estate of R. L. Tweed will be sold at Public Auction on the j ' first day of Full Court, if not previously soid at private < sale, consisting of Blacksmith's Bellows, Y ices. An- !j vils, tic. The above may be seen at the Store of Jatncs Me- j Ewen, where the sale will take place. Sept. 17?75tf S. TWEED, Adm'rw ilarn and OzsiabtiVK*. ftAA BUNDLES Concord Yarn; 30do Mount Dear m \J \J bom do.; 30 pc's. DcKalb Ozuaburgs, For sale by W. C. MUURE. - ? "? J "I t j Livery and sale staples. FOBXERLV JOH.\ C. O'HAXLOS'S. j rpHE Subscriber lias the pleasure to inform his J , JL friends and the public, that, having purchased the j , Splendid STOCK of FIXTURES of those well-known ; and popular STABL US, formerly owned by O il AN- 11 LOX, and lately by \V. K. ARCHER, he is now pre- , ; pared to furnish all who may liivor him with their pat- (; ronage, with excellent SADDLE HORSES, and liaud- '| some and comfortable CARRIAGES and 11U G G1KS, of the latest styles, with teams to match, and drivers, in whose sobriety and experience every confidence can I be placed, at most reasonable prices. Many improve- ' ( t mcnts have been made to the Stables and Lots, and i ] Drovers will find every aecommodatiou t:.cy can dc- : r sire. j ' Carriages and Omnibuses from this Stable will run from Boatwright and Januey's universally favorite i "American Hotel," and also from tho long-established and well-known Columbia Hotel, by Mr. D. Caldwell, to tho various Railroad Depots, or any point desired. ^"Orders left at the American Hotel, with Mr. "tt*. D. Harris, or the proprietor, at the Columbia Hotel, will be promptly attended to; and the subscriber is ( confident that all who employ him will be pleased with , his prices and his teams. XATIIAXIKL POPE. 7 0?Gm 1 -1. 2tortli-C'aroIiira Flour. I ,4 FEW barrels first quality North Carolina Flour, l\. For sale by W. C MOORE. ( Basins and Itopo. rpi! E subscriber has on band a large supply of GUN 1 NY and DUNDEE BAGGING. Also, best qual- ' ity BALE DOPE, and three ply* TWINE, which he I will sell at the lowest market price. Planters are in- | vited to call and purchase. Sept. 14. EL W. BONNF.Y. |3INE APPLE and Goshen Cheese, Family Hams , A and Bacon Sides. Also, Lard anil Canal Flour Just received at BONNE VS. Superior Cotton Gins for Sale. A SUPPLY of superior "PREMIUM COTTON < GINS," from K. T. Taylor A Co.'s Cotton Gin Manufactory, at Columbus, Ga., just received and lor . sale by the subscriber, on a credit until the first day of January next. The first premiums have been awarded to the manufacturers of these G ins, for the best gin exhibited at the ; great State Fair at Atlanta, Ga.; also, at the Alabama , . , ,1 ana UCUrglit .igiaununu iiLiu Jitx-llilllic ? ran, hum .h Columbus, and at tlio Annual Fair of the South C'arolir na Institute, at Charleston. These Gius are warranted. AV. ANDERSON'. Camden,'May 11, 1852. 38-ly In*t Received. 1 Ps- SIIIRTIXGS and SHEETINGS .1 f)U 100 pair Blankets 5000 yds Gunny Bagging 25 coils Ropo. 100 kegs Noils. Sept. 3. VT. C. MOORE. SUPERIOR Pine Apple Cheese, Capers, Currants. Citron, and Lemon Syrups. For sale by May 8. E. AV. BONNET. To Rout. f I^HE Store at present occupied by Shaw <fc Austin. L Apply to V. ANDERSON. - Aug/20, 0T tf THE SOURCE OF JOY. Joy springs in the heart that is tender and kind. 1 Like a fountain that kisses and toys with the ' wind; 1 Whence riiis trickle softly to blend with ,tlie 1 ground, Spreading freshness and .verdure and beauty j around. ( O! seek not lor joy in the doptn of the bowl, Nor quench in its poison the fire of the son!; Each draught leaves a seed that will quicken and ' hear < An Upas wither with grief and despair. , No ! revelling: yields not the bliss we desire, Though poets have sung in its praise to the lyre ; True happiness flows in a still silent stream, j Not whirling in eddies, as some fondly dream. It is found in the peace and comforts of home, It is lost to the heart when in exile we roam; It is glimpsed in the smiles of faces wc love, Like a star beaming forth from its station above. ( But it blesses not those who branded with guilt J For the victim betrayed, or the blood idly spilt; ^ It flies from the miser, the selfish, the proud, f And eludes their pursuit till they lie in the shroud. Be kind to thy neighbor, but stern to thyself, Grant free to wretches the aid of thyself; , Press hopefully forward?the treasure is thine, f A treasure more precious than lurks in the mine! r From the Savannah Courier. ? EL DELCE JOVEIVETTE, OR, A BRIEF SKETCH OF The Life, Loves and Adventures ot ; , SIGNOR CARLOS 1)E CASTRO, J ALIAS. CATTAIX VALENCIA, j THE UNIVERSAL LADY-KILLER. ] Iii our edition of yesterday's Courier, \vr.s eon- e tainod the following paragraph : i " A Spaniard, of the Mexican army, named c Signor do Castro, alias Captain \'alencia, has | ( been arrested at Cincinnati on suspicion of having ! ( stolen the *19.000, which was lost recently at <" [he Weddell Hotel, in that "city." I This SioNou de Castro, alias Captain Va- 4 lkncia, is tolerably well known in Kiorida, Geor- j ( gia, and other sections of the Union, as one of ; the most accomplished, fascinating and genteel l' villains unhung. He is a very small, and veiv |1 handsome man, with fine dark Spanish contour ; t it :d complexion ; very expressive eyes, long flow- 1 ing hair, and remarkably delicate hands and feet. s He is, withal, quite well educated, and thoroughly 1 versed in all the minute forms and observances r >l" genteels-ieieiv. He i> i-\e-vdiagty iu.ili;.iti his maimers, and is " d nth on ladies' heart^ lueiuldnl OIK I ' 1 [?;irucuiai i\ 11 unj ^ ? ..?. . VV.-1! suppli. i with the " r<<t<hj rhtlio'* Jit: ' dances, sings, plays, Uiittfr^, llirS, :it:<l fools tli- ; 1 viuely. IK' is, emphatically, a little lei- ' low"?a "precioit's angel"?a "love of a man." 1 He quotes j>octry?says prayers in Spa libit? ' talks French?wears kid glo\es, aul sjioris, that 1 universal woman-killer, a iiucmoU'.tacho. II.-is < withal, a kind of .spiritual rapper?endowed with ! ] the jioWef of unbiquity?ami possessed with the | faculties of the chaineleoii. 11is traits of clia- [ 1 racier are taken from his associate;. He can be I ' ' grave or gay. nfutllotc or sever./," according to ' :l the whims or fancies of his companions.?-He is !1 i Spaniard, a Portugese, a Cuban, or a Mexican, ' 1 just as occasion require*, or as it is profitable to j' be one or the other. Wo lirst heard of Capt. Yai.k.\*cia among the ! ' upper ten. alias the number one cod-tidi ari>to- ! 1 ;raev of Gotham, lie lodged in sonic of the I 1 inarblehalls in the vicinity of Washington. Square 1 ar the Seventh Avenue, lie rolled leisurely ' through Broadway in the same chariot with a > distinguished " leader of t he ton," from Mobile. ' With her, he visited Newport, Saratoga and ' other fashionable resorts. He flattered the ' mothers and fumbled the daughters through all 1 the l.i-hioiiable polka- of the day. If he failed ' to excite sympathy suflieient for his purpose, he ; i i i ..*,,1 i i. ,.i i i UllU\>t'U IVJ^M W?l (UtM mV'Vl rtVMIIV V 1 1*0 111IV. i ll J'?\ j paration" which induced a (/nasi hemorrhage of 1 Llic lungs that never failed to produce an immense ' sensation, to draw both the anxious mothers and ( their lovely daughters in crowds to his chamber! 1 The Captain, moreover, was, according to his 1 own modest story, a hoi the first water?a ( Creole Cuban, who had joined the standard of 1 hurt/. and fallen desperately wounded in the :I light at Cardenas. In proof of his patriotism lie would separate his beautiful jet black wliis- 1 Iters and expose the ghastly scar inflicted by the t blood-thirsty Spaniards ! lie also tuld of a sc- n l ions wound which he had received in one of his l thighs from a catliine. Valencia, in short, was i the "lone star" that gilded the fashionable hori- < ton. lie was wined and dined andpolka-ccl un- j. til lie became sick and disgusted with the fool- <pries of Saratoga. lie accordingly turned his i face towards West Point. There lie made the f acquaintance of some gallant officers, who had < served in Mexico. i At once our Cuban transformed himself into i a Mexican. lie described minutely the battles : of Corro Gordo, Coutreras and Chepultepcc; in \ all of which he had borne a part. He even per ] sanded a distinguished officer into the belief that t lie was the identical man who had inflicted the ( wound which came so near taking off the comely 1 head of our hero. Having thus ingratiated him- t self with the gentlemen at " the Point," lie fi- t nally obtained letters of introduction to their 1 c..: 1? WntAfflnit Tlinrn ho bnrrnwoit snmn 4 II ?!(< Iiaivmvivi - - - SI,500 and decamped, lie afterwards became 1 a tenant of the tombs for a short time, where ho 1 amused himself by sending his daguerreotype likeness to his distinguished lady friends. Those 1 much cherished love-tokens were of course " post ( marked" anywhere else but at the ''Tombs"! \ Finally one morning he slipped through the fin- ( gers of the " turnkey," and was off in a hurry. 1 His next appearance, according to our record, ] was as a Cuban j at Ilolly Springs, whore lie inched ail the Indus' hearts in upper Mississippi. 1'e I'tved billiaids, flattered the old lalies, fooled she voting ones. cultivated his niouslaolto, and made occa-ional explorations into the trunks of his fellow boarders! In one of iho-c :'.\j'lor:;tio!io our hero discovered that his friend liad more money than was absolutely necessary lo siijijiiy the actual wants of nature, and accorlingly "divided the pile."?Suspicion rested iipon him, but 110 one dared in openly accuse the patriot, who had fought and fell under the heroic Louix The men shunned him but the lalies carressed him only the more loudly, because they regarded him as a persecuted man ! Yalknci.n, having keen instincts, saw that all tvns not right, and soon sought the more rrfined society on the Gulf coast. JIc accordingly paid lis respects to his dashing lady friend in Mobile, ....1 1 ; 1 1 >., IIJU. Hl'iin; i' jMiivu iu x ii ut-'/ma, nvit u^uiu, >ur "lovcbf a tn:;n," by h:s personal charms ! 1 bland Manners, made a profound impression ipon the ladies. Nut sal.isli??<l with the evident >arliality shown for liiin in the dance and the 1 rawing room, lie again resorted to his " elicmi\'ils," again had hemorrhage of the lungs, and igain was caressed, and fondled, and nursed by he congregated lair ones. lie acted his part ? admirably as to pa s through all the stag* s of tpparent convalescence. His daily visitations to he saloons of fashion were looked for with the ntensest interest, and the lovely belles almost juarrclled among themselves for the privilege of auning him, and of playing with his beautiful, flossy, jet black curls. The only ditliculty with >ur hero now, was to make a proper selection tmong the victims of his charms?Before he omi 'leted his investigations as to their relative inancial merits, a bona fide Captain in the \mcrican army, who had boon stationed at Vera 2rnz, arrived at Pascagoitla. Capt. Valencia! Aipt. Valencia! war upon every fair lip. Fina!y the hour fur the gay dance arrived, and the urge saloon was tilled to excess. After the first otillion our hero, exquisitely apparelled, made iis appearance. There's Capt. Valencia, exlaiined one! Isn't he liandsotne, said another! >h ! what beautiful ringlets, ejaculated a third ! )ne of tlie fair sylphs, turning to our army friend, inquired " Sir, are you acquainted with Capt. Valencia "Where is he?" was the reply. | ' That handsome gentleman approaching Mi-s I w That Capt. Valencia, Madam ! I is-ure v?>u he is a Vera Cruz barber, and has oujjibuled to my comfort l^v his skill many a :mS!" There was a perfect-stampede among lie fair ones as the news .quoad. Some bit their ips?some turned red?some pale?some looked illy?some indignant?while the "anxious nother of tlie supposed happy lass sat holt, upi-dit in the corner, and fann-d herself most fu i u'.-!v \\':i!rr ' !i" ?' [ : ho it'll it from I lie byiiwiit?I said lie was an tj>-tai,t, and I iohl my out that lie must be a arbor, kasc im wore a?what i/'i/e cell it?and ook stieli nice care of lii> hnirf Dear me, we asliionabl". rich folks, of p>ud families, lnu-the i lore careful who we introduce to our <ft I it.?I ra/'itl you I'll lu-ver bo tak'-n in!" In the nid-t of ihi> scene. Valencia quietly glided to hi hainber. and in a few hours was on his way to arts unknown. OuraM'iul next report-. Valencia at a.select and j ashioiiaMe hoarding house in Charleston. Here ie ojx'iii'il tin* show with a hemorrhage. llis| ij?| areiit sutf'rin^ excited sympithy, while his Plicate airaiic-', and hlandaess of manner ? adily <* lined him the ac-juaintance of the lakes. II n >w :>ass'-,l !iis:i-.*lf . {fas Si^m?r Caros do Ua .n, a in u:!?. r-?f . di-lio'iubh-d laiiiiy in Cui'.-i. lie ckiinit-d to have boon liic intinatc f;i nd and companion of Dr. Wurdeinan luring hi- frequent visits to that Island. In j his way he made the acquaintance of the friends i >f that distinguished gentleman. Whether he: ucceeded in making his u tial impression upon he ladies, we are not informed. W"e presume ie did, liowevcr, as he was for a time the Poet .aureate of th<- City, and was feted by the elite i" the chivalry. lie at least, managed to obtain i-om them letters introductory to some of the irst gentlemen in Florida, llis excuse for leav ng Charleston, was that the Caj't. (Icneral of j Julia ha.I lixial a large price upon his head, and ie was afraid ?if being kidnapped! He remained a lew days in Macon, and iliencc ]>rocceded o Tallahassee, where his letters gained him imucdiate access to the cheerful homes and generuis conlideiice of the most intellectual and lioslitahle gentlemen in that glorious land of chivilry and of (lowers. Sig. Carlos dc Castro \v:is soon the lion of Tallahassee and all the surrounding forests. The gentlemen admired him tor what he had done tnd suffered for Cuban liberty?the ladies ad11 ired him, just Incause thci/ could not help it! Vtiother hemnrrkaye was necessary for the ac :omplishiuent of his purposes, and to furnish a jood excuse for hi.\ loitering so long amid the range groves and bland breezes of Florida. Ac ordinglv, the performance cat.ie off to the satisactioii of all. Again, lie was carefully nursed luring his illness. By way of variety here lie ntroduccd some new features in the play. lie ndulged occasionally in a kind of intellectual iherration, in which lie made some startling de'clopments. From his incoherent expressions lartly in Spanish and partly in English, his at eiidanls gathered, that in his devotion to the atisc of liberty he had been regardless of human ife. lie would frequently exclaim : "Ah ! mi ? .1 il'.L,. nadre?take otl that eye?tanc on unn. eyi? hat bloody eye?mi madrc!" In his apparcnty calmer momciits lie. alloved his friends to 'sup on horrors" ad libitum ! He had killed lis host friends, "cl vncrida libcrtudand hence lis mental anguish ! Upon his convalescence he was taken by the land, by every one and treated with distinguished consideration. On one occasion, being inviod to a dinner party, he claimed to have lost a liamond ring and insinuated that the theft had jcen committed by one of the guests, also a professed Cuban patriot. The insinuation was resented, and a challenge passed. The fine of the respective belligerents, feeling nsst that tliey must be gentlemen, because intra ced by gentlemen, took sides and a deadly f was near being the consequence. A tight supposed to be inevitable* De Castro, ho we w:i> not. tube thus stiminarily disposed of. had a he mm rha/c, but with great coolness composure sent word to his antagonist that was ready to meet him as soon as he was si cienlly n covered. The meeting was thus p poned for several days?meanwhile the ring found in the possession of a 'fairladie" at X port or St. Marks. Upon inquiry she sta that it had been presented to her by the pa accu-H'il, The offender decamped in "don quick time," and left De Castro the hero of I Everglades! I I >0 Castro jyas now in tlie "full tide of s cessful experiment," and was caressed and co cd by every body. What slaughter he in among tiic affections of the fair Floridiamy t n be idelicate for us to say, or even insinuate. < informant says that he basked in the lovc-lij of many a dark eye, and might have had hand of the loveliest and fairest in raatrimo As Valencia was upon every lady's Up at Pas goula, so De Castro was the only one talkec in the land of love, and of flowers. One bri; morning, as his fortunes approached the zen; a gentleman who had visited Pascngoula, nu a living visit to some friends in Tallahassee, wl lo! he recognized in the bland, gentlemanly, quisite De Castro, his accomplished and po friend, the Barber of Vera Cruz, alias Cs Valencia, the hero of the hard-fought battles Cardenas and Ccrro Gordo! De Castro 1 just completed his arrangements to' accomp; a delightful party of lovely and charming lac tr? tli - Wirt 11- IT.? was liromntlv notified t ! lie inu<t travel in "some other direction." Ag he exhibited his peculiar genius for villainy, professed to be highly indignant, and annouw his determination at once to visit Macon, Sav nah and Charleston, in order to establish identity, and confound his revilcrs. lie acc J dingly turned his back upon the land of flowi ! At Macon he did not leave the omnibus to I his referee. At Savannah he called upon a c | tinguished Cuban, who frankly told him that j knew nothing about him, and that he doub his being a Cuban, as he did jiot use the idi of the Island. The next we heard of Do Castro was his cond advent in New York. There he quit called upon a portion of tin: very party that 1 expelled him from their company in Florida, t informed them that he had seen his friends Macon and Savannah, and had in his possess letters stating that he was really a membei I the DeCastro family, that he was a geut'.eiii a j>:t *. and oc.-iyi'mig ho prcifi-?vu<l to L? One of the party, who had become thoroug ae.[iiai!iteil with the facts cill'dup n him once ' to produce the documents." This we poser. (>ur hero was taken by surprise, had failed to have the letters prepared, he.-itated, statntnered, and finally said that ! had left th an at his hotel, but would call aga Finding that lie was detected, DeCastro left (itv, or carefully concealed himself; at any r; he could never after be found. What fair lie? i have since then fallen victims to his charms, 1 cannot say. The last news we have of him contained in the paragraph at the head of t article. We presume lie has come to the e chiMon that as there is little difference betwi marrying merely a fortune a ul stealing one, might as well seize upon the" money and r upon his wits to get the wife afterwards. Mu. WunsTKti on the Mouxing.?The lowing beautiful letter, from the pen of Mr. W stcr, was written to a friend soinc years ago. will be read with much interest, not only for intrinsic beauties, but as a purely literary prod tion : Richmond, Va. ) 5 o'clock, A.M., April 29, 1847. j My Dear Friend Whether it be a favor an annoyance, you owe this letter to my e? habits of rising. From the hour marked the top of the page, you will naturally coiiclu that my companions are not now engaging attention, as we have not calculated on bei early travellers to-day. " This city has a pleasant scat. It is hit the James River runs below it, and when I w out, an hour ago, nothing was heard but the r of the Falls. The air is tranquil, and its tempi turc mild. It is morning, and a morning sw< and fresh, and delightful. Everybody knows morning in its metaphorical sense, applied to many occasions. The health, strength and be t y of early years, lead us to call that period,' morning of life.' Of a lovely young woman say, she is 4 bright as the morning,' and no c doubts why Lucifer is called 'son of the ui mug.'" '4 But the morning itself, few people, inha tants of cities, know anything about. Arno all our good people, not one in a thousand s the sun rise once a year. They know nothi mm - i ' ot tlic morning. i noir luea 01 it is, mat u, that part of tho day which comes along after cup of cufice and a beefsteak or a piece of to; With them, mornitigis not a new issuing of lig a new bursting forth of the sun, a new wak up of all that has life from a sort of tcmpor death, to behold again the works of God, \ heavens and the earth; it is only a part of domestic day belonging to reading the news pers, answering notes, sending tho children school, and giving orders for dinner. Th? t streak of light, tire earliest purplings of theE; which the lark springs up to greet, and the dee and deeper coloring into orange and red, till length the ' glorious sun is seen, regent of day'?this they never enjoy for they never see 4 Beautiful descriptions of the morning abou in all languages, but they are the strongest p haps in the East, where the sun is often an < ject of worship. " King David speaks of taking to himself 1 nds wings of the morning. This is highly poetical ired and beautiful. The wings of the morning are kIu- the beams bfithe rising sun. Rays of light are cud wings. It is thus said that the sun of righteouswas iic-ss shall arise ' with healing in his wings'?a ver, rising sun that shall scatter lite, health and joy He j throughout the Universe, and j " Miltonfine descriptions of morning, but he j not so many as Shakspeare, from whose writings, utli- j ] ages of the most beautiful imagery, all founded ost- 011 the glory of morning might be tilled, was " I never thought that Adam had much the ow- advantage of us from having seen the world while ted it was new. irty " The manifestations of the power of God, like ble- His mercies, arc ' new every morning,' and fresh the everv moment. " We see as fine risings of the sua as evef ;uc- Adam saw, ami its risings are as much a miracle urt- now as they were in his day, and I think a good ade deal more because it is now s part of the miracle, nay that for thousands and thousands of years he has ")ur come to his appointed time, without the variant ; tion of a millionth part of a second. Adam could the j not tell how this might be. I know the morning ny. : ?T am acquainted with it, and I love it. I love en j it, fresh and sweet as it is?a daily new creation, 1 of breaking forth and calling all that have life and ght breath and being, to new adoration, new-enjoyith, iucdIs, and new gratitude, ule Daniel Webster. More-of it.?Edgefield, says the Adverti- ' j^e str, is continuing to develop her mineral resources. In addition to Dorn's now celebrated vein, , * ^ other localities arc beginning to be worked, which promise finely. We learn that Messrs. Talbert and Co., who released a part of Dorn's land, are .. *. already doing well, and that Major Hughes, seven j nines above our village, is also workiug successfully. Several other diggings jjgtcontemplated. Ou Dr. A buoy's place, in thaPfcicinity, a minoral?paint has recently been discovered which judges pronounces very valuable. We believe it j jg is in considerable abundance. ? Carolinian. or- Armies in the Am.?From'time immedfcri; 1 ers. occurrences which could have been accounted for on natural principles, have been received as omens lis- of forthcoming events?and, however reason may he tend to dissipate such fancies, yet there are few ted minds which are so free from superstition, as enum tirely to cast aside belief in these apparently supernatural events. Some prognostics are $fipse posed to have a local, and others a more general tly bearing. The appearance of armies marching in md the air is of the latter class, and is sppposed to md indicate approaching war, the idea of war being i in naturally associated with that of a soldier. The 1?\t1 astioafie /\f tjonr vak1? ocm/) ,v" vi .iiiuuivuviuu^iJj iitn AUIAJ O<IIU r of to have been favored a few days since, with the an, view of a lar^e body of soldiers inarching and !dy light. If this sight were really witnessed as staat ted, we should like to know if there are any sol- ' is a cliers stationed within ten or twenty miles of He that town. If there be, then the phenomenon He can be explained, without resorting to the mihe raeulous. If there be not, we must suspect the <? ' appearance was an optical delusion. The Duke the de Sully witnessed a similar exhibition, in day ito, light. The armies appeared to approach each irts other in the air, and to engage in a tremendous we battle. The manoeuvering, firing, <tc., were disis tinctly seen?and finally, the retreat of one of his the armies. The attention of the whole village on- where the Duke theu was, was directed to the ?on spectacle. On the next day, an account was rehc ccived of a great battle which had been fought ely at the very time indicated by the appearauce in the air: shewing that the atmospheric phenomenon was the reflection of occurrences then tranful spiring. This is the solution given by the duke eb- de Sully, and is no doubt correct. But, whilst It we would, in every ease, endeavor to account for its extraordinary appearances or events, some occut* uc- rences take place which cannot be explained by our philosophy.?Scientific American. The Washington Republic states that the 4*?iilnrn /vf fli/i ^ U'jnlr tl?n TTninn" Vino ir% a Kiiiuiv vi buv L/iiiin vi buv wuivu uuvj bv w .], great extent, unsettled public confidence in all *t the banks issuing notes of a less denomination than five dollars. The exact amount of paper c in circulation has not yet been stated by authori' ty, but it is supposed "to be not far from seventy ? thousand dollars ; from six to ten thqufeand of fj which, it is estimated, is held in Washi^ton by ent var'oUS i^dividuuLs. oar Decay ok the Money Power.?Every day >ra" brings fresh evidence of the continued decline of the money power throughout the world. The tlie bank of England, after having long "stood upon s0 its dignity," and refused to come down in ita au" rates of interest "to the vulgar and plebeian rates t"e that were prevalent about town," has at length we "given in," we see. and is loaning money on gor? )ne eminent securities at ant and a half per cent, per lor" annum! Surely, the dignity of pockets" is in a galloping consumption. >ng Naval.?The Washington correspondent of ees the Baltimore Sun states that the powhatton? steamer is ordered forthwith to the" Havana, in* is stead of the Mediterranean. Judge Conklin, a Minister to Meeico, takes passage in her. The vt. steamer Mississidpi, instead of going to Havana, has been ordered round to Annapolis, to join the '"g Princeton, and the expedition thence will proceed ary to Japan with the Alleghany. The line of bat^ie tie ship Vermont will join them in the Spring. tlin pH Florida Election.?A letter from an intellito ffcnt gentleman residing in Jacksonville, receive! Irst here Saturday, says that the returns of the recent ist election in Florida have all been received, except pC,'. from two or three of the smaller counties. The^e at returns show that Btoome, (Dem^has fcern the i elected Governor by about 150 majority, and , it, i Maxwell, (Dcm.) member of Congress by" about inj i 190 majority. We have nothing further from l(,r. the election for the State Legislature, but pre3l). sumo, from the returns heretofore received, that the Democrats have carried l^oth Ilouses,? Savt the