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? v & t " __ ? . - * VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA DECEMBER 21, 1852. NUMBER 102. " -*?'" : ' " ' * .*-,> '"<*' V - * ? i ? aaHMMOaWMBBpWWBWMMMBMMMMMMMWBBMyBMP rwraniiH ! raaaca??aimibm? im " THE CAMDEN JOl'llNAL. "" ~ PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. TER.HS. Tiie Seiii-TVeekly Journal is published at Three Dollars and Fifty'Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delated three months. The TVeekly Journal is published at Two Dollars If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed thre? months, and Three Dollars it not uaid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the Bemi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five i cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, 'r seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-seven and a half ceuts for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. y5S~The number of insertions desired, and the edition to be published in must be noted on the margin of -?it o/ii-or+icnmonts nr th?v will bo nnblished semi-week y uatil ordered discontinued and charged accordingly NEW CASH-STORE. AFTER returning my thanks to my friends, acquain* ces and the public generally, lor tlieir ibrinur lib* eral patronage, I oiler to them a variety of Groceries, l>ry-Goods, Crockery and Hardware, At wholesale and retail, consisting in part as follows GROCERIES. SUGARS? Muscovado, New Orleans, St Croix, Loaf, Crushed and Powdered COFFEES?Java aud Rio MOLASSES?S. Orleans, Muscovado and West India SALtl?constantly on uhiiu TOBACCO?Yellow Bank, Ellis, and a variety of common, at prices from 12 to 75c. per pound TEAS?Gunpowder, Green, Hyson ana Bluck SEGAKS?Kio Hondo. Gold Leaf, Sylva, Palmetto, and a variety of common, prices from G to $40 per AL CANDLES?Sperm. Adamantine and Tallow CHEESE?Goshen and English BA COX?Sides, Shoulders and Hams LARD?Coustautly on hand a FISH?Salmon, Herring and all numbers of Mackarel [ FRUITS?Figs, Raisins, Almonds, Currant1?, English . Walnuts, &c. SPICES?Allspice, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Gin- t 11 ger, Mustard and Pepper o PICKLES?English and American, a variety I KETCHUPS?Mushroon, Walnut and Tomato t PRESERVES?Citron, Orange, Lemon, Pine Apple .. v' and Ginger ! ' BRAND Y-FIiUITS?Peaches, Cherries and Limes j v JELLIES and JAMS?A variety j li LOBSTERS and SARDINES?Hermetically Sealed | s, CANDIES?Of all kinds : CRACKERS?PicNic, Soda, Butter, Wine, Water and j Sugar I v CROCKERY Assorted, j 1' SADDLES?Riding and "Wagon 1 "WHIPS?Carriage, Buggy, Driver's and Wagon t CARDS?Cotton and Wool e ' " POWDER and SHOT ALSO *. -?-?A new und complete stock of DRY-GOCDS, consis ! in part as follows; j ? 200 pieces Prints, at prices from 5 to 15c. per paid | 75 do Long Cloths from G to 18c. \ < ' 300 do Brown Homespun, from 5 to 12c. j il 250 paif Xegro Blankets from $1.50 to $2 25 perpair ; ; 100 pieces Kerseys, from 12 to 18c. : j Oznaburgs?DeKalb ulways on band I , ALSO?A VARIETY OF i * Muslins, Alpaccas. Irish Linens, Tickings, Apron ! ! Checks, Shirtings, Drillings, Ginghams, Li users, > lan- . nola Salieia. Serire. Cashmeres, Pocket Handkerchiefs, ! " Cravats, Suspenders, Hosiery, of all kinds; Cloves of k all kiuds; Linen Shirts, Merino Shirts, Cloths, Cassi- i meres, Satinets, Tweeds, ic. Together with a large assortment of Ready-Radc Clothing. ALSO Violins, Double barrel Shot Guns, from $11 to $15, 0 Rifles, flint and Percussion locks $9 to $12 n And a great variety of articles, both in GROCERIES 1< and DRY- GOODS, too tedious to mention. jl will attend to the Receiving and Forwarding j s Business a3 heretofore, and I am prepared to make liber al advances on Cotton shipped to Messrs Chambers, f Jeffers & Co., Charleston. 11 I intend selling exclusively for Cash, and most res- t pectfully invite any who wish Bargains, to give me a ? call, and they will find the cash system decidedly pre- , ferablc. tarCall at his Old Stand on the corner. 1 B. W. CHAMBERS. s Camden, Oct. 5. 80 tf 'J c FRESH Solar Oil?Received yesterday by s Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN. f ?__ - SPERM and Eard Oil?For sale by Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN. J1 Mexican Mustang; Liniment, c TN Bottles at Fifty Ceutsand One Dollar. For sale j e ? at Z. J. DK.'JAl S. 'j ncxka-i iUii tans; Liniment, ' IN bottles at 25, 50c. and $100. Received toby J" Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN, ' Woollen Goods. J An assortment of . ALL-WOOL PLAINS KEUSE YS, LJXSEYS ' SATTJNETTS, T WEEDS ? JEANS, Ac. Ac. Ac. Ac. ] }'or the Plantation and IIouso Servants. Purchasers J will please call, as they will bo sold cheap, by n Oct. 21. W. ANDERSON. . CARPETINO, Printed Drnggetn, Rugs and Baze.at I A. M. & R. KENNEDY'S t LEATHER! LEATHER!! VLPEX & MURRAY liave now on hand, n choice lot of BAND, HARNESS and UPPER LEA- 8 THER. of their own tanning, which will c sold low. f ALSO s A superior lot of NEQRO SHOES, of their own r manufacture, very heavy and warranted good, at prices | r.n,. tr. ?J ALSO t Expected in a few days n choice lot of FJSE SHOES, of every description, comprising many now and beau tjful styles. Sept.. 28. ( QAA LBS. of the handsomest Candies ever offered f f)UU in this market. W. C MOORE. ( Charleston Prices. HARNESS, Saddlery, Trunks, Military Work. kc. i ' mnniifaof ured to order, and warranted, at Charles- I s to' prices. f nsrTen tier cent, discount for cash within 30 days. , ^ LUKE ARMSTRONG. Camden, April 23. 23 sw2wt o THE HOURS. BY WILLrAM C. BRYANT. The hours are viewless angels And still go gliding by, And bear each moment's record up To Him who sits cn high. The poison of the nectar Our hearts' deep flower-cups yield, A sample still they gather swift, And leave us in the field. And some fly by on pinions Of gorgeous gold and bine, And some Hy on with drooping wing Of sorrow's darker hue, And as we speed each minute That God to us has given, The deeds are known before His throne? The tale is told in Heaven. And we who talk among them, As one by one departs, Think not that they are hovering Forever round our hearts. Like Summer bees they hover Around the idle flowers, They gather every act and thought, These viewless angel hours. And still tliey steal the record, And bear it faraway? The mission flight, by day or night, No magic power can stay. So teach me, Heavenly father, To spend each flying hour, That, as they go, they may not show My heart a poison flower. T7U >_rm. >i Saving Pork and ITIahiiig llacon. j( It would probably, just at this time, be a more : cceptable service to many ol onr readers, to tell hem how they are to get pork, than how it is o be saved. This however, does not lessen the : importance of the proposition with which we set i ut; and as our advice would not be available in t he one ease, we proceed to the consideration of, < he other. It is indispensably necessary to per- j ict success, that the* hogs wuich are tu be cuii- ; i cried into pork should be fat, and made so by 1 ealthy, solid food?otherwise the meat will be oft, and subject to much shrinkage and waste 1 it drying, llogs sometimes arc slaughtered I ihen in a d(dining state; in all such cases the i oss is considerable in converting to bacon? and he meat, when boiled, seems to grow less, and he bones slick out, sis though too I rge for their nvelope. Fine bacon can therefore not be ex- j cctrd from i oor or declining hogs; nor may ! weet, jniciy hams be made without pr.-prr care j j rrd nrreiiiioi! to the | tilling 14* ol tin* pork.? ^ he slaughtering and cleaning sliouM lie eon- ( Iticicd with neatness?the scalding and reniov- j ng t!i<- hair, rojuiriiig judgment stud skill, that he one m.'i\ be neither more nor less than may i, it* lHCf-.x-an to tin* accomplishment of the other. j, Ui the hair should be taken out by the roots, !, ltd not shaved off with the knife; this is r.ot ony neater, but in better condition to be saved weot and kept from worn*. After the pork is iilcd, and has hung long enough to have draind and dried well, operation of cutting out may uinmence. This is too well understood to need nv instruction from us, further than to remark, hut some skill and good taste may be displayed ven here in the shape of the ham, and some reI advantages are obtained by smooth cutting, saving no gashes for the tiy to enter and deposit is eggs. After the cutting up, all the pieces i?Jii i . i _ i i: ,j. . u noma ue i;uu awaj, s^pniinimg v.iou jintc mm alt, and there permitted to remain until the aniriid heat is all gon?, atid the marrow in the tone shall become cuol. To accomplish this iio.-t speedily and successfully, it shoul.1 not be iulked, but laid in single layers, if possible. If I his is properly done, a single night v il usually uffice. Then the salting may commence.? .'here is much difference of opinion?some who laiin very good success, do not rub at all. but | imply pack away in salt. Our practice, and the esult of our observation, have been different.? iVe should therefore recommend that all the nint< hn wall riihlu'd with s;tlf liefnre Dufkiflir. vv I"" O* I (Vlicrc much is 10 be done, the baud would beoirie tender by long rubbing; this may be reindied by using the ear of the hog for a rubber, ['his rubbing with salt is done almost exclusiveyon the skin side, and is continued until the kin appears chafed and softened with salt. A itlle saltpetre should be added to the salt ? ome four or five tablespoonful, well pulverized, 0 Ciich bushel. This aids llie salt in striking in, md reddens thp texture of the ham. Too much, lowever, is an injury, making the meat too dry md hard. After the rubbing, lot the pork he mcked away, covering each piece well with salt, t is better to waste salt than to lose meat.? I'liere is much diversity of opinion as to whether t is best that the joints should be covered with n ine or pickle ; we think that it would be beter to be covered. With very large meat, it is 1 good practice, after lying for two or three veeks, to rub the joints a second time with salt, j md pack away again. The weather should he old when this is done. When it has been in alt four weeks, (and if the weather has been vey cold, five will not be too long) it should be mng up to dry. The hams should he hung so hat the hock may be down. This should he 1 lie in cold weather also, and if windy the hot j or, ;is it will aid very much it) drying and liar- 1 loning the surface. The smoking should now j lonurioiice, and be kept up constantly for about j bur weeks, or until 'he meat is fully cured, lie "arcful not to hurt, by having too much fire, and he meat hung too |qw. The smoking may then >c suspended, but in all damp, wet seasons,, Jiould lie renewed sufficiently to keep the bacon j md ins:Jc of the house free from moisture. Some erons report very good success by doing 110thng more. f>ur advice would be, to take the | hams all down the last week in February, if well dried, (and they should be) and pack them away in dry asheS. A good plan for this is to have shelves in the smoke house, and lay some of the meat sticks, corn cobs, or anything dry and hard, upon the shelf, then lay the ham, skin side down, upon these?tirst, covering the whole surhice oi the meat, and carefully filling all the little cre\ices, with dry ashes. They are then in a condition to be easily seen and examined through the summer?and if the pork has been well made, and the hams put up iu good time, little trouble may be expected, more than occasionally to scrape off a little mould. The smoke should be made with green hickory or oak wood. One of the most convenient articles which we have , tried, is ground tan bark, after it has been used ; and thro'vn from the vat. 'Hits gives tiic Dacon i a beautiful brown njipearance, and the smoke is . kept up with little trouble.? Soil of the South. Demolition of the Old Brewery.?The work of pulling clown the Old Brewery, at the Five Points will be commenced this week. Such an event is not to be passed unnoticed. A newimpetus is thus given the physical and moral regeneration of that locality, from time immemorial considered as beyond the reach of Christian sympathy. The day of its demolition deserves to be distinguished as a red letter day in the annals of'uur city's history. The gieat landmark of vice and degradation, the haunt of crime and the home of misery, will soon be among the things that were a remembrance, but no longer a fact. In its stead will rise a landmark for virtue and morality, and a borne for the disconsolate and ' th- desolate. The drunkard and the debased, and the stealthy murderer, will no more hie j thither for concealment, but sobriety, and purity,; and mercy will stand with open anus to receive j whomsoever will eschew vice and make tallow-! ship with virtue. What no legal enactment could accomplish?no machinery of municipal government could oft'ccl?Christian women have , brought about, quietly but thoroughly arid tri , umplwmt'y. From henceforth the Old Brewery ( is no more. Had any one predicted this ten, or even five years ago, the laugh of scorn or the j | smile of incredulity would have greeted his prophecy. ] It is to the credit of the religious denoniina- ( lion known as the Methodist Episcopal Church, ] that they were the first to enter the then tin- j liromisinir field ; and it will be an imperishable , honor to the Lin lies' Home Missionary Society of , that church that with them the idea originated, ( and by them has so successfully been carried on. : Com. Advocate. , The Dignity of Labor. < It is an indication of idleness in any mind to he ashamed of work. It is to deny the law of Nature, for it is a universal mandate, written in I In. i i.mim. >j? t v i if lliinirs, tlint il-o . ...it uttlii face" is everything great or valuable to be accomplished. We look as in vain, to witness the iiecom|ili<lime:it of anything without the nppli cation of mental or physical effort. Where are ! the monuments of cieativc idleness? When are | the triumphs of genius everlastingly at rest ?? They are not to be found in the past. History makes no record of them ; ti ey are not among the wonders of the present. The universe is void of all trace of them, for they are not, and have not been. All that diirnitied history, or makes the present glorious, lias been the same law uf work. What has hot labor done ? In fact, nothing has been done without it. It has builded 1 our cities, floated our navies, led our armies and '' governed the nation. It has stored the mind of the student, penned the inspiration of the poet, 1 struck eloquence from the mute marble, given history an unforgcttiig memory, and thrown ! hues and speaking lines of life upon an inanimate ! canvass. All this and more has labor done. It 1 has benutiiicd life and made it tolerable. With- ' out work, existence were a dull monotonous pro- ' longation of days, with naught to luark the lapse 1 of time but the rising and setting sun. Who ' covets the barren life full of ease, that has no j manly struggles, no doubtful battle-fields, no generous thrills ? Rather than to be doomed to such a Dead Sea fate, we would be thrown upon the billows in an eternal contliet, to alternate forever between triumph and defeat. They 1 1 * 1 * ^ ?1* M mn/lnnec idtoh I wiiosc lol is u jot ui ion, hi men iikiunv^o uni.u sigh for repose and care-less indulgence of t he opulent children of Mormon. But little do they ' think of the days vacant of incident, and the J nights burdened with sleep, and the ceaseless return of the forms misnamed of pleasures. And too lightly do they estimate the luxury of genu inc impulse, the consciousness of mighty pas- i siou, awakening the sublimity of life, and the | i 1 -^.1 -i*..! . t|i?it n/.mnc with film I , l>rOUCl JUKI bclllMJIIIg ri jiu^c buuw vviuvw *..V^. | triumph over temporary ills. We have said there is a dignity in labor. Ev- , cry one has felt it, who lias lent himself earnestly at work. He has felt that his virtue was safest, when he had thrown about it the safeguard of honest, unwavering occupation. These arc the moments of his most conscious pride. It should la- the part of education to inculcate the love of labor, the esteem of its reward ami the supremacy of its law. Were its true <1 ijljiiity nppreciatul, men would seek to make their children gentlemen hy making ihein workeis, rather than j titling money into their purses. it idleness be tin evil, then is the fill Iter's Messing too often a curse. Labor is not onerous when performed with an appreciation of its nature. It toeii becomes dignified ij 1 honorable, elevating i.:.. i,.?a itncitimi ninonc the creatures of man iu iiin u mv ^ Omnipscicncc. Neglecting this law, of liis be ing, he becomes an idler in a universe of activity and energy. lie sleeps till the crisis of a great destiny is past. He sells his birth-right for a day of inglorious ease. He doffs the priestly garments of Nature, and puts on in its stead, the beggarly rags of an out-cast and *> vagabond. Of all portions of our life, the spare minutes are the most fruitful in good or evil. They are the gaps through which temptation find the easiest access to tlio garden of the soul. Saturday IViglit. This is a period which every otie welcomes, for [ it gives a finish to the concerns and business of; the week, aird a lest to both- body and mind; and to the heart that looks with pleasure to every i return of the sweet Sabbath, it is particularly welcome. \Ye love the Saturday night partly, because it approaches so near the day of rest. It is a time in w hich methodical persons will make oil fr.r tlw. ,1-jv ?c - till ?IM...eVI.IV.IW j well as to balance up and settle all the trausac- ! tiuiisof the past week. It is the close of a particular period.?The moralist may devote upon it some of the same reflections he would bestow upon the closing year. Our lives are made up of years, and oui years of weeks. On Saturday night, another week of our > existence is gone, another year is broken. Are i we better than on the preceding Saturday ? Has j one week brought us any nearer heaven, as it cer- \ tainly lias nearer death ? This question is treated j ligluiy by some, but it coiues home solemnly to j us all. On the subject of preparation for the Sabbath j and for church, it cannot be but regretted that j this night is not more devoted to that duty, that , the Sabbath should be encroached upon even by i many professing christians. If the Sabbath is to j he kenr liolv \vp r?:mrw?t. rnnsistpntlv burthen it ! "i" ?j' 7 J with the cares and duties which are not absolutely necessary, and which might have been perfurtned the evening before. As the Sabbath is emphatically called a day of rent how pleasant it is to see it unencumbered by the noise and preparation of worldly business. It is on that account I love the sweet serenity of a country Sabbath. F\ery thing there is as quiet as the grave on that day. To one who is fond of contemplating the God of the S.ibbath, and his wonderful works, the country affords the highest and purest satisfaction. lie may there withdraw himself from the world and temporal things, and pursue his meditation without noise or intrusion. There may be music in the trees, but it only awakens a ino-e harmonious strain in his own bosom. There may be fragrance in every breeze, and his soul pours forth the more grateful incense of his prayers to the God of nature. My walk to liushwieh church comprises the happiest moments of my life. The distance is one mile from our collage, through a delightfully rural lane, interspersed with fruit trees, wood land, farm houses and cots, and the parsonage of jur late pastor. TheSabhath morning is always uifliciently still to hear the mellow ehimings of the New York 'church going bells,' over the more humble one of our own church?one might use the pleasing lines of Moore on such an oc- i :asion, so as to read, i "Those morning bells?those morning bells! How sweet a tale their music tells, (Jl Home and youtli, and mat sweet time When lirst I heard the thrilling chime." J_iiit#biJd 1 am JigTTssTng i'.uin night into morning, the association however of a Saturday niofht with the return of Sabbath is so near that it may be considered the same subject, and elieting almost the same reflections. In concluding j these thoughts imperfectly offered, I may be permitted to hope that my readers may all enjoy the sacred stillness of a Sabbath in the country. PASQUIN. We find the following in an essay on Proctor LSarry Cornwall: "There is something inexpressively touching , in an anecdote which I have heard of a foreign , mist. lie was an American, and had coine i hither (he and his young wife) to paint for fame j ind?a subsistence. They were strangers in ? England; they had to fight against prejudice ] and poverty; but their affection for each other ( placed them under privation, every frown of , fortune. They could think, at least, "all the way ( over" the great Atlantic; and their fancy (very . little cherished here) had leisure to be busy a mong the friends and scenes which they had left behind. A gentleman who had not seen jthem for some time, went one day to the artist's painting room, and observing him pale and worn, en- , juired about his health, and afterwards regarding his wife. lie answered, only, 'She has left , meand proceeded in a hurried way with his work. She was dead! and lie was left alone to toil, and get money, and mourn. The heart in which he had hoarded all his secrets, all his hopes, was cold; and fame itself was but a shadow." T * 4 i r .1. Why should i fear:?a Clliei 01 me orceiv Indians, having been appointed to ncgociate a ( treaty of peace with the citizens of South Caroli tia and having met the proper authorties for that , purpose, was desired by the Governor to speak his mind freely and without reserve; for, as he was mnong his friends, he need not be ''afraid." ''I will," said he, "speak freely; I will not be afraid. , Wliv should I be afraid ainoner mv friends who , nin never afraid among my enemies." ( i Teeth. ? IIi-sili hy teeth depend mainly on < healthy digestion, and on cleanly habit' as regards the teeth. They must, of course, bo contined to the purposes for which they are design i od. Tf tiny are employed for the purpose of i ('inciting nuts, biting thread unscrewing needle i ruses, or turning the stopper of a smelling-bottle; < if the mouth is used as a kind of portable for a I tool chest, in which a pair of scissors, a knife, a vice, a corkscrew, or any other instrument, mav 1 be found at the time of need?then serious and irretrievable injury will eventually he done to the enamel of the teeth, which no healthiness of digestion nor cleanliness of habit will avail to romedv. " J California contains four hundred thousand square miles. This would give eight States as large asNew York Statc, fifty seven as large as New j Jersey, California would support eighteen millions 1 and if equal to Massachusetts, forty millions or J fifteen millions more than the prcsentpopulation ' of tho entire United States. 1 4 Good Sensible Talk. . Tlie world is full of life ; full of action. And yet there are thousands who loiter on the great race of life. They pass along and leave no record of deeds to live after them. No valuable ambition seems to stir their sluggish souls. No soaring aspiration sec-ins to throb in their hearts. rvi. ti'.l i 11 .a i/icy o*i-~k in cue sunshine, ana snun me conflicts wliere mind grapj lea with mind, living a brief day, and living in unbroken light. Our young men do not .appreciate the privilege of this day. They do not make a goad use of the advantage which surround them. There are very many of them who are uobly struggling to do so, but hosts of others seem to have no ambition. No impulse stirs them. The world in its ui iii^a ilo uc<i>ultra tu lueir vrijr uuuraf but they liave not sufficient energy of character to reach out and grasp them. We see much to regret in society. The young hearts where lie the hopes of our country, are too generally ingloriously idle, or frittering away their usefulness and influence. Let a person pass through the country and mingle with the gatherings of our young men, and they will look with sorrow on the frivolous character presented. Why so much ill-breeding? Why so much vulgarity and profanity ? Why so rude and repulsive a disregard of all the little courtesies of life? Why is their conversation so grossly coarse? We miss the warm heart-born politeness that should characterize the conduct of a true' gentleman. We even see those claiming gentility and respectability, treating strangers?nay, women? with marked discourtesy and insult. And where is the fault ? There are some "good old ways" which ought not to be departed from?counsels which should not be forgotten. We di-precate that arrogant selfish and repulsive manner which so generally marks the character of young people. There is no truer mark of a gentleman than courtesy iff . 1 , i r ^? PA.i. _I me ireaimeni or omers. oiaie siang is no accomplishment?it is a stain. The ill bred retort degenerates into deliberate insult. The young man who thinks he is not "a blood young man" until he can show how little he cares for the unpretending, but shining qualities of modesty and home simplicity, commits a sad mistake. A man may swagger and sneer at all these sacred influences?even at his own mother and talk boldly about the "foolish old woman," but we would shun him as we would a ruffian. Extraordinary Lock.?The editor of the American Artizan was recently shown a piece of mechanism which certainly goes a head of anything in the shape of a lock that we have ever seen or read of, in the essential of security from depredation. It is called Yale's Magic Lock, and : L ? 1..A_I_. O Id <13 UUaUllllClJ' UiipiCftai;ic no iuu net uci vi ? walnut would be without damaging the shell.? The only opening is a circular orifice, half an inch f. .. n.i^a>;.g ti.. 1 .1 gji....jt. which there is no possible access to the tumblers by any instruraeut whatever?not even by the key itself, strange as that may seem. By a singular contrivance, a portion of the key is detached after insertion, and sent to a distant part cf the lock, where it moves the tumblers, and where the tools of the burglar could never arrive except by first battering the lock to pieces. The key hole resembles the interior of a small pistol barrel, and having no opening in the interior basis of the lock, would not receive powder enough to blow it open. The lock is therefore absolutely gunpowder proof also. Among other peculiarities, the key is susceptible of from forty thousand to one million of changes. A change of the key changes the lock also in the act of locking, so that one may have a new lock every day for hundreds of years! By a change of the key after locking, it is rendered impossible to unlock, tven with the same key, until altered back again. One may thus lose the key or have it stolen, and still entertain no fears of the lock's being opened with it. The proprietors offer a reward of five hundred dollars to any one who will pick it through the key hole using wnateverinstrument he pleases, ana taking any length of time he may desire. __. Facts for the next Edition of Unci*. Tom's Cabin.?A correspondent of the Martinsburg (Va.) Gazette furnishes the following facts for the next edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin : There died lately in a lower couuty in Virginia, a mulatto man who had been manumitted by his master, and was under our law one of those persons who was permitted to remain in Virginia, llis master had with his liberty, left him a respectable property, and this man by industry accumulated an estate of ?25,000. He ? ? 1 j had purchased his wire, who was a siave; auu ma children were therefore his own property as well, as his wife. Falling into bad health ho went to Philadelphia some time during this last summer for medical advice, but learning from the best phy sicians that his health was worse than he thought and that he could not live, he wrote to'a relative of his old master to come on for him, which this gentleman did, and stayed with him, and brought him back to Virginia, at bis request.? lie died shortly after his return, not long since; and by his last will left all his estate to this gentleman, as well as his wife and children, who are thus the slaves of his friend?trusting of course, that lie would care for them, and provide for them. LI r..?? or, Ir>?. lUrront WPaltllV 111011 tvhrt Xxirii; Mao an iuuinpv nM .. ..... knew the condition of colored people in the Northern States, thai preferred to leave his wife and children and all his property to a white man to sending them out of the State to live as free persons with a tine estate. These are notorious and recorded faots, and can be proved if denied; and there are many such occurrences anions* our colored people which might be made public, to put to sharae the exaggerated fictions of Mrs Stowe and her adherents, if thi-re was any possibility for substituting in the Northern mind fact for fiction?reat son {ox imagination?and Ciuritv in the place of sectional prejudice.