Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lu) reign. CHARLESTON, SKPT. 20. 1 KOM EN C> LAND. 1$\ tlif arrival at this port last evening of the ship Famo ? Captain Vekky, in 3 7 tla\s from L/serpool, accounts tlience to the 18th ult. have Leen received. We have been po litely favored by a friend with papers of the latest dates, extracts from which will be found below. The affairs of the Queen engrossed the undivided attention of the publish nation. Her trial was to have com menced on the 17th August. An extract of a letter, received in this rv\% sav* : "There is a pros pect of a dreadful riot about the Queen. The military are rather at tached to her party. 1 believe par ticularly the guards in the neighbor hood of London, w ho are all order ed off to different parts of the cuun Wi and the Scotch and Irish regi ment* ordered in their ste id." UVEIU'OOL, AUGUST 17 " Our cotton market contin e3 in the most depressed situation you c n imagine. In Lapland, the daily re ports of sales do not average over 50 nales ; but we have reason to sup pose there is business doing private ly, ai reduced rates ? say fniv lots, at under 12d per lb. Upland Cotton 4ull at 11 to 13 1 2d ; Sea Island ? Is. 6d. a 2s. 3d. ; stained A2 a 17*'. i It ice 18 a 20s." t , * w LONDON, AUGUST II. ? ( The Paris Papers, which tre due , thi* morning, have not arrived, but we have received private letters from that capital, from which we subjoin a tew extracts. They contain little of political news. ? PAH IS, AUGUST 7? - There is nothing new, either in politico or in finance. The only in cident Ht all worth * attention appears to me <0 be the conduct of Austria, with reganl to Naples ? the refusal, Oil the 20th July, to admit Wince Cariali, tue new j^liuister, into tlu Kiuperor^spreseuce, 01 e\ento Met < teruicirs, am) the declaration of tin. old JSea| olitan. Ambassador lioil. that, he should not take the oath o: fidelity to the new Constitution, ann should remain at Vienna. W heii one corC pares* these circumstance s ''With the Russian Declaration in an SWOT to the Chevalter Zea's Note, one is tempted to conjecture tliat the |>eace of Europe will, ere long* he iron hied? that the views and plans of ttussi* on the >outh of Europe will, ere long, he put into execution ?raud that tl?e Court of J->L Teters burgh; dexterously taking advantage ?f the apprehensions of' Austria for her Italian possessions, will engage her in au Italian war, the evident result of \i hich must he a general conflagration throughout all Italy. ? - "Wlicre these events, should they take place, may lead us to, it is im pofcible to sajf ; the after thought ol Mussia is |H?4yal^r to swallow the ojsler?' " Accounts have 4w?en received by the French Government from Paler mo, dated the 12th of July, contain ing details of l?ig< importance 00 the late transactions in , icdy. . 'I he inhabitants marched en masse ngain*r the constitutional fofces and, after several enlargements, in which inovtr than 2000 men were left on the Held, succeeded in taking possession ol the Island, and planting thv ,r ow n flai;, composed of four colours, in contradiction to that of the Neapoli tan Insurgents which is tri-colouretL They solemnly procl inied the In dependence of the Islands, *od de clared the\ M>uul listen to no order . or injunction woich nn^ni he extor ted from an intimidated and enslaved Monarch. ?? I he troops under the on l era of CJen. Cainpaiia^hii\e lecetwd con Mtierahle r< inlorcemeuts Ironi the ile serleis who are hourly tlo<Ui;,^ to Ids standard. The peopte, far tiom rejoicing at the late events, do not conceal their dread of the dangers, with which their routim is meuat eii. The pn|H'rs of Vienn a under ? date ot the Juh, annouot that Field -Marshal li.auchi, Ju* 'received orders f.o march an army of |^0,1'00 men towards iiuiuanu. It probable that a certain portion uf the >ea|Kjliiuu ermy lme? already been disembarked iu bic?iy, great preparation* having been matte Lu that effect ere the departure of the courier. " The i I tra- Libera Is of thi^capi 4al, attribute to .England the move ments which have lately manifested themselves in Cialacia. i he aims of some of the . oyalist peasants were taken, awd found to l>e of Eng lish manufacture. This fact is much insisted on, and the arrival of many slum! of arms allirmed to be recent ; although no w ell-informed man is unaware, that Portugal must neces sarily, from the long residence of our armies in it, possess a considera ble number of English muskets. | CAMDEN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 18?(X Sickness having again deprived us of the assistance of two of our workmen, we are compelled to issue this number oi our [paper on a half sheet. Whilst almost all parts of our count! y were suffering with disease, Columbia remained quite healthy, until within the last fortnight. ? Within this period, it has become more sickly ihan usual. The num ber of cases of fever have heeo con siderably encr eased, and, -as y*et, ac ..perceive -but little abatement. ? >< learn, however, from the phy si cians, that the fevers nave very gen erally been of a mild character, hoi remittents, ami intermittent^, and vith good nurses and attendants, it have been very manageable. The mortality of the last week, it is true, considerably exceeds the ordinary mortality of this town; but it must <e remarked that it has fiUlen, almost exclusively, on strangers and tran -detrt persons, of whom we v have, \ present, a considerable proportion, ;m d many of whom are necessarily destitute of those attendants and comforts so essential in violent illness. It -is also to he observed that several tave been brought into the town &ick for the purpose of availing tlietn selves of medical aid. 1 1 is amongst ? iiese descriptions of people that tire principal mortality has occurred. ? Within the last fortnight there have been but two dentins amongst these inorecV to the climate. - Yv* are happy in being able to state on the autho^ity^of our physi cians, thnt there is 410 unusual malig nly, nor any thing new in the fea tures of our prevailing fevers 5 but are of the same type with tire pre vailing fever* of the surroimdit g country, ? Stale Gazette* SAVANNAH, SEPT. Sfl. rThp number of deaths by the official return from the 2tst to the 24tb inclusive, are thrty-frmr. On Sunday evening last Bn at tempt was made {and frustrated only j Us accident) to set fire to the, new ! buil tins; now erecting; by Cot. vShell I mart, for a hoarding;- house, on tlie corner of ftrmighlctn and Whitaker streets. . An act of this description and at - this moment, w hen we are suffering . under calamities inflicted by the wrath of Providence, could only i have been attempted by the most un? feeling; and unprincipled of villains: and for the honor of human nature, we would gladly erase the fact from < record. \\ e trust that the officers of our city, and every individual inhabiting it. will be on the alert to detect those who would apply the tolch of des truction fur no other purpose than plunder, and (heir nun hellish grati fications. At the last meeting; of, the South Carotin;) Au;iici?!iural Society, it was lieaol W 'I hat the President be re <|U,;ed, loi and in tiehalf of the same, to s i^n the memorial to Congress, lately adopted b\ the Citizens of l*i lesion, Hi;a?i.s! the raising the iiiies on Foreign Goods, ares *uid Merchandize. -v ~ j The last ITunUville, (Ala?;.) j p per, sjhns : ? ?? The retc Cotton cv'r is opening finclv, anil is ot m-i v perior staple : Ibis crop is much ?? best, both in quality ami quanta ? hat was ever grown in 3iadM? county, and is almost a month ea i lit . than usual. A New-Orleans paper says, w t tire informed that three bales of ;ht new crop of cotton, have already been soUl iu'tQftu, at 21 1-2 cents. The IViirjjuw hitelli^pvccr ot Saturday last, says? ??.The pros pects of our Rice planters, aie gloo smy indeed, at present. The rivers are very much swolen by the lal< raius, and tlte. easterly winds which have prevailed for three weeks, pie vent the water from receding. It is impossible to harvest, for by every tide, most of 4he fields &?e inunda ted." The British frigate Spartan, Cap?. Wise, Arrived iu Hampton itoaii on the 20th inst. from Portsmouth ( ling.)? having on hoard the Hon. Stafford Canning, Minister Plen poteutiarv from the Court (4* St. James to the United States, and his suit. Census. ? It is said the population of Raleigh, *Y. C, lias m?nv ; a doubled itself in the course of ten years, aud thai it now exceeds 23CV persons, Hagersiotcn in Marxians eontaios^O^O souls. Conn.' contains 4i5(J3 .inhabitants ; increa ? siuce 181(1^9^. cit - ituvtju Conn, contains 882(5* increase in ten } eat - 1359. JXeurpoti., it. J. contai;. 7000 ; deCreaneJ)Q&, Madison Couit ty , Alabama (in which is HunlsviLh j contains 19>50t inhabitants ? At the close of the late -war, this whole country was but a wilderness; jet now, how does the " wilderness blos som like the Rose." Monument to General Jaclcson. ? The city council of New -Orleans have passed a resolution for the ap propria tion of the sum of 50,000 dollars to defray the expense of erecting an equtairiaa statue of Gen eral ANUUKW JACKsON, in the public square in front of the Calhe dial Church. It is intended that the statue shall be executed by Canova, the koman sculptor, the most cele brated artist of tin? age, and that it shall he commenced ami finished as soon >as circumstances will permit, The While Mills in New Hamp shire,. are the highest in the United States, being between 7 And 800CJ feet fkbove the level of the m ean. ? j The ascent is bcjth difficult and dan- 1 gerons, as theses of the mountain consist of nakeljlj rugged, and ; re cipitous rocks, over which the travel ler is obliged to climb his slow And toilsome w,i.y? ^The last 4^ July and the 1st of Augusfjs the only time iu which they can be ascended at all, as they are Ihorost of theyeai cover ed with snow*, x An Eagle was shot at on the 17<h iust. in the vicinity of Dedhara, \jas sachusetts, and brought down wiih one wing hrukep. He was taken alive by the sportsman; but, (re marks the Vedham paper) tho bird Hue to his valor, and as if disdain- j ing the triumphs of an enemy, in slant ly buried both bis talon* iu his own head ; choosing rather to die th.in l?e conquered, lie measured when dead, five feet aud frix inches from wing tc wing. Genuine Anecdote.-*- The Hon. AVillian* Gray, of Boston, celebra ted as " the rich, w and respected for his exemplary virtues, some year* since, on his accustomed visit to the market, found a newly admitted j lawyer seeking fyr tfome boy to ca? ry home bis meat. Wr. Gray, whov usual and ordinary dress is plain an< simple, and whom the lawyer di not know, stepped up and offered t take it home for him, which otter n attorney immediately accepted ; hi. on arriving at his house, and Vv.n the nvnt where lie sva> direct 1 the miorne\ < i.(|i'iu'' i:? v\ huh; ' . ?t;?d 1\ ?i v . i i n in_ ? .Mi. iv replied lie left il to his ?* gen* ? >mi\ 1 1 |kj u vv liicli ihe ether ^a\e nt a *hiilij)?, which l.e very icadi accvpted .unh thanks; observing .at, ii' lie luul, at'anj time, aus . iikel things to carr^ liome, he mkiIiI readiU do it tor him; and *? il should liOl happen tu he there," .id lie, ''ju^t enquire for liill \ GraJ^ id 1 will come immediate! v. r it ? unnecessary to add the surprise 'nd mortification of (he law ver on * tearing that a man \v oi*t li a million of nihil s iiad performed this menial -ei vice for him ; hut it had its effect, or Ikj never afterwards required the issistance of anv one, to aid him in performing l.is maiketing, or to cut - ry home his meat . DIED ? In this Town, on Monday iasi, Mr. Alfokd. At tne .cs.Ujaue of iiis lather, at the >and-liilis, on Wednesday last, Jamlis son James Ucas, E^q. 8Cr" VY e are authorised to announce . v 1 LEI AM M'V\ 11X1 E, Esq. as a Car dictate tor a beat in the House ol Represen tatives for Kershaw District, at the ens>u- , nig election, j jC/0* VVe ate authorised to announce JO UN IU)\K1N, Sen. Esq. as a C andi date lor a scat in the House ol Rcprt setita .vcs for Kershaw Disttict, at ir.e ensuing election. 7^ We are authorised to state that I '? ? SKI1 11 J A l l KHSON, Esq. is a Can didate for a scat in the House of Represen- | tattves for Kershaw District, at the ensu- j ing election. h_j \N e authorised to announce ! S LANG, Es.i. as a Candidal r | 1 . i i a Heat , e csentativet i Keishaw District at the t i.suin^ eke j tion. - ' I |C?* We are authorised to announce. < CiEORt.E FERRY, Esq. as a Candidate for a scat in the House ol Representatives for Kershaw District, at the ensuing elec tion. We are authorised to announce Cap*. DUREN GRAHAM, as? Candi date For the Office of Sheriff for Kershaw District, at the ensuing election. ?cr We are authorised to state that Mr. Jt ?HN HELL, is a candidate for the Office of Sheriff of Kershaw District, at ti*e en uing election. I "J* 'Vt: are authorized to announce Mr. WILLIAM O'C AlN as a Candidate for the Sheriff's* ih< i ?>i ktishaw district at the election in January next~and that the report of his having declined being a (candidate is without foundation. MU. M'EYVEN'N SCHOOL Will re^open on Monday, (lie 16th in stant, for the wintei session. Camden, Oci, 5, 1820. CUM l)EN / ihrujy Society. THE regular quarterly meeting of the Society will bt held at the Library Room on Saturday next, at iO o'clock, A. M.-? Members are requested to give punctual attendance. JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Secretary. October 5, 1820* CORONER'S SALE. By virtue of an execution to me direct ed, will be sold before the ('ourt-Hou?e in, Camden, on the first Monday and Tues day in November next : * All that Lot or parcel of Land, situated >ti the West side of Broad-street, in ihe Town of Camden, known in tbc plan of said Town, by No. ?? with the build in^s and improvements thereon. Levied on as the property of M. C. Wiggins, at suit of Wyat Stark, and sold subject to sundry mortgages. i Conditions, Cash? Purchasers to pay for Corontrr's Titles. , Joseph Mickle, Coroner K* 1). Camden, Oct 5, )820. If ateree Plantation for Sale , ON A l.ONG CRKDIT. THIS Estate, known by the name of 'tocky Brapch, consists of 1851 acres of LAN D, ascertained by rcsurvey, situate on the W ateree River, eight mile* above I amden, having nearly five hundred acres f cleared Land, and about the same quant tity of an excellent quality for the c ulture o (lottou, remaining uncleared. This situ ation is remarkably healthful, and has on it ul tut best Orcuaids in South- -Caroii* ? ALSO? I'rom ten to fifteen young NLCiROES, ierto attached to the esiate. They will ild on reasorable terms to responsible 1 ?asers. i sons disposed to purchase, will inokt , *r applications lo*' J. i Al( I LR, Com. Eg. Camden JJintricl. Camden, Uct. S, l&SO. X02? -ti Notice. An election wi:l be held at the MV.v .r * places on Muiiiuv and 1 utMu v, i: t- ^ t . and loth da)s oi October i.ix', tci a inc:.?. bcr ot C ongress, a Senatoi ano three R? react dative* in the Stale Legislating to u i:. \t the (Joint-House in Camden, at L.b rrty-Hill, at llat Isock, at John Lisenhx^ J r. on Lynches (J reck and at ilium Ml:. ni'b on twemy-ftve mile Cretk. ltrs>.;.> entitled to vote, at e desire d to attend on cnc ot those days and exercise their rivrht o ^^ra^e. The Managers to meet the o>.y ^Pr tifc Election, count the votes* unddu cl^Mfcc election. . Msi.WIGERS. John Deby k Alexander Hodges, C;<m <Jcll. William Bell and George Perry, Liber ;v-Hiil. David Miller and Isaac Knox, Fiat Rt-ck. Kichard liunley and Allen M'Kaskiil, Lynches Creek. ' J\v crard Cuj^ton and Henry Horn, twen ty-five niile^Kreek. Camdc^ September 6, 18C0. Jlatheson Co. AVE just received their /*W/ Supply xxndon, Outilt;, Point ai d Kose H an rkcts ? Welsh and Lancashire white Plains ? London Superfine Cloths Sc Cassimeics ? 40 inch Cotton Hanging and Twine. At Wholesale. An invoice amounting to about &200CW consisting chiefly ot Superfine Cloih*,Cas simeres, Valencia Vesting, JLint ns, Cotton Shirtings. Calicoes and Silks, fcc.kc. Camden, Sept. 28. - 23? h dollars Reward. Lost oil Monday the eighteenth day of September 1820 a Red Morrocco POCK ET BOOK, containing a Bank Note of twenty dollars, the Bank not recollected, one other Bank Note on the State Bank of North -Carolina for four -dollars ; alsotj^ht Notes of Hand, on the following persons, io wit : three Notes of hand on Elizabeth tiopkins, the first, for three hundred and ninety dollars aiid some cents, dated some time in the year 1819, the\econd i cte for one hundred and five dollars, dated some time in the year 1818, the third note, for one hundred dollars, given sometime in the year 1819, with a credit of sixty five dollars upon the same, the above three notes made payable to James Johnson, (or. order.) Two Notes of hand on John Walker, the first for forty four dollars, given sometime ill the year 1820, the se cond note for thirty dollars, and given sometime in the year 1819, both of the above last mentioned notes alto made pay able to James Johnson (or order;) a note of hand on Elizabeth English for fifty dollars, giveh sometime in July 182G, and made payable to James Johnson (or order) ; one note on Joshua English for one hundred and sixty one dollars, given in the first of the year 1820, and made payable to Reu benC. Dukes (or order;) and also, a note of hand on William Youn? for fifty seven or sixty seven dollars, with a credit on the same .given sometime in, thr year 1819,* and made payable to James Johnsor. (or order;) also sundry Receipts and Beef Accounts, a gold Breast Fin marked with the letter, M. The above Pocket Book, containing the said money, notes, accounts, receipts and breast pin, was lost either in Camden, or on the road leading to the Swift Creek mills, as the papers will be of no service, to any other (person, than tho subscriber, he earnestly hopes that if any person has the same, they would return them, or give information so that he might obtain the same ; and all persons are here by cautioned not to trade or ncgociate for the said Notes, Accounts and Receipts. James Johnson. Camden, Sept. 21* 1820.^ ....... _ ? - . . i. An E stray. TOLLED before me on 2d September, 1 820, by Elijah King, of Lancaster dis trict, one SORREL MAKE, 4 feet -10 inches htgh, four years old next spring, ail her feet white, a small snip on her nose and some saddle marks on her back-?val-*? ued at forty-five dollars. > William Jolrason, J. p. Lancaster, dist. S. C. Sept. 10th 1829. Henry Axtell, Informs his friends and the public, that he has furnished himself with a complete stock of ma'ciials for carrying on the . Boot ?? Shoetnalcing Business in all its J>ranchcs ; having Northern ^york men, he is at all times ready to meet the commands of the public, in a manner which he flatters himself will be satisfactory. M^A Wanted a few additional Journey - men *and one or two Jtp/irenticee . Camden, September 7. 2 1? Notice. A Note of Hand given by John S. Perry, or Ninety-one Dollars and Seventy Cents, >uppo*e<l to be dated Januaiy 27, I HI 9, or car that time, has bpen stolen or mislaid. thai wc cannot find it? Therefore, all rrsonR are cautioned not to buy said note. For Cioochy Vunivghum if Co. James Durem Libcrty-IIi!l, Aug. 15, lb2(J. I'W