The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, February 21, 1854, Image 2
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T!i<? T?r!ij k Ari?;>.
A\ e have !.'?i el tails < ! jho Into actions : s j
the neighii'irhno.-i <f Kr?la!:if, l>ul jotters ilateil
some <!avs before the attach tie^ciibe tfi?* j?ii
ti->n ami strength cfthe Tiuiiish armv.
The Turkish garrison at Ivalal'at now consists
of Il> battaUions of infantry ami one hat
. t.iliiun of chasseurs, amounting to about ltf,-!
400 firelock^, three regiments of regular caval j
rv, 18,000 sabres, irregular cavalry, 1,000 sa- j
lues. Aitlllcry, IS piece* of position, and 24 j
field pieces, horded, manned by some 000 or:
000 gunners, giving a total of combatants of
lt5,000 or 17,000. The Russians are said, a* !
above stated, to have moved 2.7.000 men from
Bucharest. At Krajowa they had already i
about 12,0()0 including Cossacks ; so that;
shortly f]0,003 men may be expected in front |
of Kaialat, of whieh 12 000 are already at Cso j
rojn, u iibin 24 miles. The Turks have enclosed j
Kalafat will) an intreiichment of about (:00U j
paces in extent, terminated bv a but at each j
end. It fbr.us a salient a igle towards tin* j i
Russians, and ha- evoiy 000 or 700 paces a |
bastion or lunette, mounting heavy peiees of i
artillery. The Tmks are very confident nfi<
their powers of remitting tin ir at lack, more par J i
ticularly after their late oxpmiences at ''!le , (
nitza, where the proportion ?if men was infinite . |
Iv less favorable to them than in their present ; .
position; and as every officer tmd soldier is j <
quite assured of the impossibility of a retreat j
across the liver, they will light do?peratel\
and bravely until the last shot is expended. |
The Tuikish advanced posts ate within al|
couple of hours' march of those of the Kus- j |
sians, and at about the same distance from I ,
' i r. ! i I
iYaituar. i up npproacnes are so carcinny ,
watched, that, to use an expressive phrase of j
the Turks, not even a bird can pass unknown. |
The position of Kulafnt, in a stragetic point (
of view, is one on which o_ i ions differ vcr\ '
much, arid on which there ought assuredly to ,
he no difference of opinion. It is in front of ;
the extreme end of t!ie Turkish line, extending !
from W'ddin to Karason. In it, as has been ,
stated, arc now some sixteen or seventeen thou :
sand men. Of what possible use can this force
be in case of offensive operations in Waliachia (
by the Turks ? it may be fairly asked. To this
it has been replied tlnit it can act with any in ! (
vading force which the Turks may send across j .
the Danube ; that a ccneprted movement may j
be arranged with it ; and that thus the dilfer- j ,
ent columns may move, without hindering I
each other on any point on which it may be j
desirable to concentrate troops. Hut on the ; '
other hand it may be said that thi> is the moth- i
od most proper to adopt to be beaten in detail;
that operations where different portions of the j ,
same army are to meet at a certain position,)!
at a certain hour, generally fail, of wliicb his- j
tory gives examples without number ; and that l
it would be easy for the Russians to send a
couple of regiments of cavalry to observe the .
force, gradually retiring before it, hampering
its movements and destroying provisions, &c.,' 1
while the whole of the available Russian force j J
might be brought to bear 011 the other corps. !
Again, some persons become mysterious as to I '
the advantage of keeping troops at Ivaiafat, and '
say that it covers Servia. It may do so. man j '
is liable to err, but it seems about as natural to ! 1
say that it covers Bulgaria. In time of war '
every one makes use 01 technical j muscology
of the military art without clearly understand 1
ing tlie true meaning of it, and thus imposes '
on the uninitiated world, like the old philoso I
j hers, who were accustomed to mystify every i
subject they touched upon with their teeln.i- j
ral jargon, and to cheat their hearers into be- ; <
licving them to he mighty clever fellows. No ; 1 |
it w ould have been the part of w isdom to have j '
merely made a demonstration at Ivalafnt, and j 1
to have withdrawn the troops w hen the army j j
went into winter quarters. I <
Widdin, situated about a mile lower down j -i
the river on the right bank, is like most other
Turkish fortified tow ns, so far as the town is j
concerned. Its fortifications are in a bad con-1 I
? . dition, the wails of the ditches being of oid ma- j r
sonrv, are calculated to tumble down after the j s
first few rounds. Round the eastern side of the j
city is a considerable faubourg, in which the j J
enemy might establish himself, w ithin a few j \
hundred yards of the walls, unseen there at j |
his ease, to establish his breaching batteries in i
perfect safety. On the river side there arc ajc
number of very powerful batteries, whicta^j
would stop effectually any traffic up or dow^H
the Danube; but as the town would never h^H
attacked from that side, they add little to tl^E
strength of the fortress. The town has tl^B|
f i.? M .... I ...: . ..MB
UMJ.u uiiiuut'i ui i??11j iiiin.iiui^ 1
??t' the latter being very handsome ?of (flfH
stone; baths, shops, >tirt, dogs, soldiers, sleigHH
full of wood for burning, brought in by tHE
t Unitarians; a few Germans or Hungarians ko^EE
tailors' or shoemakers' shops; and lastly,
is an hotel with a l>i liard table in it, own bro^^B
er to that at Kalafat. The civil Governor HH
VViddcn is Samil Pacha, who visited Ivigln^RS
some four or five years ago. He is a man ^^9
perior to the generality of civil govcrnorsflu
towns in Turkey, a man of considerable HE
quirernents and education. He served
met A!i in Egypt for 25 years. flH|
ENGLAND preparino r???. ... r. ,.,.rl. HN
The London 'limes has a lengthly article
the condition of the English Navy, and says:^fl
"The great ability and assiduity which ItavlH
been devoted by the present. Admiralty Hnari^H
to the organization of that department havc^^
placed at our disposal, for the litimiliation cHj
Hnssia, a fleet such as no civilized nation itnltc^E
wot hi has ever possessed; but we are sadl v defl
ficicnt in bands to work litis mighty maclm-eH
Volunteers are, indeed, coming in, ami it
|?e that bv the time we are called on to act i:^|
the Paltic we atav have made up the full num^B
bcr of sailors whom we yet need, though wi^H
fear t his is a piece of good fortune scarcely t<^E
be expected. A mail may be an excellent scn^fl
n.an and vet know little or nothing of giuim-r^H
;tii art which nothing bill time and practm^fl
can impart. Ihosc who are t*> meet the ii<i
eiaii Heel in April ought to be now iiiccss.mtlyfl
working at their guns, if tlc'V are to meet on I
an equality the practised artillerymen of lius I
?...i who will, of couise, take care t?? fight only I
w here their infeii .r .s<-nmai>d.ip will not injure I
them, arid their long practice as nun !>inei? w ill I
avail thein to the utmost. jl
"Impressed, th?-n, with absolute neeessi I
. C . I !..> i-:- l! ,i tt, vl,i?s I
H I'l ill UCf.-l A'. r ? .
which "! ' iu*cijil. il I" mtV" . i the j it sent vc.ir. ;
?vc wkijM j-'i^'^c t t'? the v. tijii.i ;.i th.'t it
;j | . ? < ;i j'i;!If? III i 111j\ i), (
i' I- ;?? : ? :
y. 'ht. U'hich will iiiLuli'.) :u, c ,h ? j the i
opening of the spring find ns U!?i?rfj?ar?,?l for
vigorous and decisive action."
?
Thk Oalifounia Fi?.ibi'sters.~ liy the new?
published in our paper ofyesterday, and which
wo had no room to notico cditoiiuliv, it appears
that Pn si>l?.-i:t \\ aII;or, as he is called,
has luen joined iiy two hundred and thirty
im-ii, under tho leadership of Col. W'nlkins ;
and, since this jinn-lion, that new and important
suicides Imve heeli achieved, The troops
scent t<> Imvc been suhjccJcd to ail tile rest mints
of a rigid discipiine, and resemble more a band
of regulars than a turbulent bod\ of lawless
freebooters. The government established under
the auspices ol "IVcsideiil' Walker makes
ambitions pretentions to legularily. Indeed
the actions and proceedings ol this expedition
have been characterized by a seiimis Inisiiiess
air indicates a will digested and matured plan.
The Mexican government does not seem to
have taken an\ sli ps to expel tin: invaders of
its soil. The more that government procrastinates,
the strongi r and better uis< iplined Walker's
force v.ill become, and th<; greater will
be the dillienlty of expelling him. W hat the
issue of this expedition will he. is linedtain.?
We can hardly think it possible that this band
ran establish it.sell linnly in power, and vet we
.oi readily imagine how hard it will lie |br
miserable, cowatdly Mexican sol tiers, however
numerous they may be, to subdue ami expel
a well-organised and increasing force of
American adventurers, who go determined to
:omjuer"or die.? II'us!iiiiyl<m i>nttincl.
Bo rr and Siiok .Market.?The Boston Sliippiiig
List says: The boot and shoe trade lias
been <|wite active the past week. The western
trade have purchased freclv and the sales foot
up quite large. There is a very linn tone to
the inaiket. Leather and hides keep up the
previous high range of prices, and there is no
pro.-pect that goods can be manufactured for
[he present as cheap as they are now selling.
There is a very line assortment of all desirable
Ijoods, suited to the Spring, although the stock
is not laige compared with previous years.
There is a fair inquiry for California, and some
jousidi rable lots are about to be shipped.
The Supreme Court of Michigan is equally
divided on the constitutionality of the prohibitory
liquor law enacted in that State; lour of
[he Judges sustaining the law, and the other
['our pronouncing it null and void. The effect
?f this decision was to send the case hack,
which had bee it brought up on an appeal, to
[lie Circuit Court in which it originated, the
Judge of which was one of those pronouncing
igainst the law. A second ease was brought hefore
the Supreme Court, when the bench was
lot full, and the constitutionality of the law was
sustained. A question is yet pending before
the C??urt whether ale is an intoxicating drink
ivithin the meaning of the statute.
A better pistol than Colt's, says the Huston
Daily Courier, is now in the market, which is
namifactured by, and the properly of the Rob
jius & Lawrence Company, of Windsor, Yt.
This pUtol is entirely dilierciit from any ever
i?efo!c offered to the attention of the public.?
It is simple in its construction, has a revolving
latntner instead ot a revolving cylinder, is loadMi
by unscrewing the barrel, which exposes the
;haiiihcrs, and is not at all liable I" become iniperative
by corrosion or rust, as all the workng
parts are contained within the stock or
ireech, free from any connection with the ex lodinjr
ga1*In
Sunderland, .Mass., there is an association
if young men whose object is to cultivate a
jiece of land, by the gratuitous labor of its
nenihers, the avails from the sale of the crop
icing appropriated to various benevolent oh
ects. Last year they cultivated three and a
juarter acres of broom corn, which yielded
<135.
?#?
The total value of the foreign exports from
jaltiinore, for the week ending on Thursday,
imouiits to x 137,001. The expoit%of hreud
1 nils for the week has been large, comprising
{0,1)07 barrels of (lour, 7'25 bai relsof corn meal.
{,ll"J bushels of eorn, and 55.075 bushels ol |
\heat. Of tobacco, SO.'J liogslieads were extorted.
The total value of the foreign exportor
the prescJit vear up toThursdav is -7l,0S5,)S0.
Mr.TitoiM.vr Ciin.wii .Si:it.?The following!
wo cojiy fVoivi tlie Cincinnati Gazette, It:
! states ;ni iiit|>orl;iiit lad, and expresses much of
j the feeling with which the Church South is rc-|
t ga riled.
i M:.i ti.uwsr CiirucJi Law Srrr?North and !
j Sot?ni.? It i* will known that the Now York i
j C< ii::iiis ionc s and the Comiiiis.sinners of the ,
j Church South by the arbitration of Judge Mc j
, Lean, agiecd on a divi.-ioii of the funds of trie i
: v \" ' I. II !./?.. '.1 . ..? ... I_ ? S
\c\\ l OIK IMIOU miicirii, wunmu ;I|'|K\IIN'U IO ;
j tin: .Supreme Court o! the1 nilcd Slates. Such j
! is not llic case with the Cincinnati Dock (Jen- '
I ;
!cern.
By an cdiloiial in the Western Chii-tinn Ail- '
I voeatc of this week, v. o icarn that I ho \\ estern j
Commissioners '' have made all tlu* nvtu litres I
| in their power to the .Southern Commissioner*, j
j ami can, therefore, do no more. '1 hey have i
: proposed, on condition thai the South will -us- j
I pend the prosecution of their appeal, to allow '
! them time to have the matter laid In-forc the !
j annual conferences, and a-ceifain if a eonsti- j
' tntionai majority can he uht.a ned, to suspend j
! the sixth rot i ictive rule, for the specific oh 1
ject of distributing tiie [importv at Cincinnati, j
i \nd this reasonable proposition has been re- ,
j jeeted by the Southern Commissioners. Tliev |
j will, tlierelore. without flinching or wavering, I
; ileli n l the rights ol tile Methodist Episcopal j
i < and o| all the Churche* in the I nivil
i States, before the highest legal tribunal of tin
countrv, to which result the M. E. Church
* 1
! South have coni/xl/e'/ the .Methodist episcopal |
| Church to resort?all solemn constitutional and j
! statutory ecclesia-tieal compacts, in this case, j
being rep -elml In* the Methodist Episcopal i
Church South.
I1a:ii> Timks.?Every nmv and then I he old j I
cry of Hard, hard times'" has to he raised. : 1
But of all the times that ever yet came along, I
we have the tightest and toughest in old Edge*
: Meet just now. titiuer n n- ine case ev? ry |
I where else ! W * earnestly hope not. \\ e M
1 wish not to see the limits of this moneyed .
misery e.\t"ii(h (l. Why it i>, or how it i<, we 1 i
(ani'Ot well imagine. The Hank of Ham- I i
hurg is near at hand, doing a full and fine husi- j ,
lies*?the Gold Hank of our friend Dorn has i .
jnit some hundreds of thousands in circulation : j
?the Cotton crop (though somewhat sh<>rt) i ,
' has hecn all sold at reasonably lilieral ia'e-:.? I (
I Hilt the money, the ca?h. the r'mo?where is :
it? Echo answers, "where!'' Is it " gone j
i glim'iing'' to some more happy and deserving I ,
I community ? Or is it pneked away in the .
pockets of the money-lender, there to await j
the impending crash? What bouts it though <
to ask the idle question! Let's think what'- j '
host to he done.? We have thought our thought i
in a twinkling and now pen it down. It i- tlii*: !'
Let us all Ibrhear?Let as be lenient to the j '
I verge uf a fault?Let us make the easie-t ar- i
| rangeuionts possible with every good customer j
: ?Let lis not siic our neighbors. Thus alone j
jean these "hard, hard times" he softe led.? ;
Thus alone can the country escape a calamitons
-cason of moneyed conlii-ion. And we |
| are right clad to learn that such a disposition j
j now prevails in this section. Saturday next is J
I return day for our Di-triel, and only oie linn I
: died and liftv cases have as yet lin n returned.
K b/< lie f l A'.tceriiser.
*
CoM.'ttiitciAi. Cox>i:tii"KNCi:s or War.?There
is tin branch ofinqn'ry more conjeetnral and
difihult to bring \si:iiin the range of analogy j
than the probable consequences on trade of i
j the impending war in Europe. No class of
J tliinkers imagines that a general war w ill not j
l seriou-lv damage the interests of commerce, j
! Hut in the event ..f hostilities being limited to
j the Eastern corner of Europe, not involving
i ..i! in.. .........c it... ..r..1...t<i.. ;>.r............
i .... .... p....... ,,w..... ...........
j is tlial there would be no serious einb.irr.i~si
ment to general trade. Russia and Tur'.ey are |
i not in themselves gnat commercial nations, ,
i and the large thoroughfares of trade do not lie .
| within their tcrritoiies. 'l'he nations tint bor- | (
l der < n the Haitie and IJl.u k Sea ma\ m Her in j
their commercial relations, without afleeting!.
i those larger divisions \\hi?h command all the j
I great outlets ?the rivers?and the lines of rail j
n.ad trallie in Western ICnrope. The corn of j
j the countries watered l?y the IJ dtic. and IJIack j
! Sea may L.- supplied by the large stores of !
j tiie t'nited States. The hemp and tallow u| i 1
j the North will advance to war prices, but the ! '
1 eoinmaud of those seas liv the allied powers!'
will tend to remove many of the obstructions 1
to trade peculiar to a stale of war.
\\ hen IJonaparte attemp'ed to cut ofl" Urit- ! 1
i-h tiade w.th the continent, he bad armed eve- i '
ry State within bis influence in commercial I
hostility to I'biglntid. Stili hi- purpose was
only impelfectlv accnmpli-hed. Then* cannot i i
lie conceived a state of the civilized world more i
favorable for tbe military over this eonuiieicia! ' ;
spit it. Still the power that controlled the seas ]
preserved a market lor her maniilaetures a I- j i
tliougli neatly all the prolits of a motiopolixcd
supply centered in her hands. It is not posd- ,
ble to imagine a worse state of things Ibr trade '
for it took indirect channels and was carried
on liy convoys, unless it in; the prevalence (
throi.ghout Kurnpi! of tlint insurrectionary vio.
lotiee, which will put a stop to all peaceful i
pursuits whatever. I'tdcss, then-fore, mi the
contingency of revolution, no war in Kurope, i
limited to its Eastern corner, will or can ali'ecl
the gciicrai commerce of nations, or even that
ef Western I']urope.? Char. Nve. News.
Tujkisii Host Advam ino.?We learn from i
the Salem I're-s ol the lili that a drove of nunc i
than sixteen hundred tui keys passed that place i
on the IM inst. They were en route for ( harleston,
S. ('., and came from Smith county, \ iroiltia.
'J he drove travel ahout seven mile par
day, and eats seven litisliels of corn in thessnie '
space of time. The corn is strewed along the j
road, and the turkeys in that way coaxial
along. \\ c should like right well to see this
lutkish host (for so the Press faeeioi:>|y styles !
it) marshalled somewhere in the precincts of j 1
our town, I or chickens are poor and high, ducks
scatce, part ridges plentiful, luit dear, and wild
pigeons numerous?in the woods.? South Car
I
...
it is stated tli.it Jolin \ ;iii Hum) Jims wiillen '
n ii1111iim 1 liii'inls el'tin* I'm-.:.lent ami himself,
Jeinniiiiiiie t lie Ni-lii ask.i l?ill, ami what Ik- rail- |
lie complicity of the Ivvrutive with Senator ;
juti^las in that measure. Wo should liaii '
iirli a nijilnri' of political ties, as is indicated ;
liuvr, as plating J >lm Van Hureii in his natn !
al position, tint u| association witli the almli <
iniii.-K 11 s I nil hi wit h i lie democracy which
"l.tiriH ledges tiir |t>a(lci'.s|ii|i f11' I'iereo, Douglas!
ml Cass, was arriiimtal, am! therefore minatn- !
al.
**I
lie friends nl t l.i' .Nebraska hill w ere In hulil
:n"ther ramus al a-liin^tun on Thuisd ivlast. '
(Lijc (Cautku liu'dili) Journal.:
Tucsduy, February 21, 1S5-J.
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
The Campbell Minstrels.
It, will be seen by their advertisement m another i
colon.n that the celebrated Campbell Minstrels are to
1.0 wiili us ami give the ir first Concert on Monday eve- ,
liiny next. From tlio high reputation of tlii.s troupe, ;
our citizens may expect a rich and rate treat in
their performances.
Sudden Death.
We arc pained to have to chronicle the sudden death
of Mr. James Tiller, an old and estimable citizen of
our District.
Oil Thursday last lie came to town apparently in
good health for one of his age, lor lie was between SO
and 90years old, and spent the night with a friend.?
On Friday morning he complained of a pain in the
head, but breakfasted at the Mansion House, from |
whence he went to the store of Mr. P F. ViLLti'iGt'E. :
011 the opposite corner, for the purpose of attending to
the business which tailed him to the town. A little
after ten o'clock, being in the store, lie was observed I
to fall, and was taken up by those nearest to him, who '
offered him every assistance, but the vital spark had;
fled, and the old man was gathered to his fathers, lie i
was removed to the Mansion llouse?an inquest was
held and the jury returned a verdict of death by the
''visitation of God."'
Mr. Tiller was re-pected by nil who knew him, and
lie has left a famiiv and a large circle of friends to
mourn his death. Verily the 'men of other days' are '
passing away, and soon the last one that linked the !
present with the past, will be gone. Truly "in the !
midst ol life we arc in death." !
Editorial Correspondence.
The annual meeting of the South Carolina Railroad |
Company commenced on Tuesday at the Rank Hall. I
J 11. Honoi'R, Ksq., was, on motion, called to the
Chair. and tlie Secretary of the Company, J. R. Kmeftv.
F.-q., acted as Secretary of the meeting. The Annual
Reports of the Presidents of the Bank and Road
were each submit ted and adopted. Mr. Oalpwells report
has already been published, and it is useless to re- i
mark upon it, only we may be allowed to express our <
?onlidciice in iiimasa practical, business, working man
in whoso judgment and ability we have entire eonliilencc.
He will be re-elected President of the Road
without opposition. The usual committees on proxies
and elections were appointed.
A memorial front "the Convention of the Protestant
Kpiscopal Church in South Carolina," was presented
by the Chairman from t ho Committee of that body, Mr.
J. Li Cl.AttKSo.x, and read by him. This memorial
prays for a discontinuance of all labor 011 the Sabbath
Jay upon the Road?in which we most heartily con:ur.
We have, on a previous occasion, (one year ago)
expressed sentiments fully and unequivocally upon
Lhis subject. We stated our convictions then, and we
-tate them now, that this custom on the South Carolina
Railroad, of disregarding and dishonoring the Sab
bath day. is a positive and direct violation of law human
and divine. We challenge successful contradiction.
We a:c at a loss to determine by what process
of law lhe South Carolina Rail Road Company
claims the special and absolute right of using this day
(or ordinary week-day business purposes. Ko such
right is ive ignised in the Uible or in (he-finite lr o!;,
and this a-suniptitm of power ought to cease. It is
no argument, in justification, tos iy that public a voiiiinodation
requires tli >1 tlse mail and passenger cars,
it least, should run on the Sabbath day. It it is a ;
moral and legal wrong (and who can doubt it?) for a
man to build a bouse or otherwise profane the day of
the Lord, which we arc commanded to keep lady, and
in which we arc to do no work?then most assuredly
wrong is it for a company of persons, who are each
separately and distinctly, as individuals, responsible
for their actions, to employ, as a body, a day in which
they have no right to do any work where the sole aim
and object is gain. Are we honest in our recognition i
if the divine law? J>o we act up to our prof\<-ion of j
in.ml ami christian o'/iiration. when our actions are !
iii direct opposition to 11int profession? II' w can we !
reconcile this tiling to our c >?scienee, and respond a i
liearty assent to the truths an I precepts of the reveal- i
_d will wiiioh teaches us plainly ami oniphatic*:illy !
ivlial we ought, ami what we ought not to do? We !
must insist upon it. that the Christian world is greatly '
it fault in this matter If tlmy wore united ami un- j
.-onipromising in their demands tor a Cessation of la?
nor on our Railroads on the Sabbath, then a change
Would he speedily effected, whieli would, at least,
[daee the means in the power of hundreds, who now j
have not the opportunity, he they over so anxious, of ,
keepingsaered the Sabbath day.
The memorial of the Committee was at tir<t laid upjii
the table, hat subsoptently called up and ordered
lo lie printed, and referred to the hire.lion of the Company.
Resolutions upon the snhjeet were offered by
fleti..!. H. Ana.ms and adopted by tin? meeting, oxple-'sin
r gr.atilieation that tin- Hoard of Directors have
iliseontinned tlie ordinary work of loading and unloading
and forwarding merchandize at the various ;
termini and depots on the S. C. Railroad, on Sunday : i
also, that the Company conlide in the Board of Directors
to I'lfeet. as early as possible, the discontiiiuaucc
of all Sunday work on the road, except so much as is
connected with the transmission of the mails. The
election of officers resulted in the choice of the old
hoard, both of the road and Hank.
Mr. IIhxky tl. Loftat, formerly a merchant ami citizen
of Camden, has been elected the Cashier of the
People's Bank.
We see by the papers here that the IMroohTS of the
North Ivistern Railroad Company have ma le a contract
for the completion < f the road by 1st J ly,
ami that sttehguards and conditions have been introduLvd
as give the 1 >irei tors of that Company theassuranco
that everything shall be done by the co dractor, Col.
T. C. Xyk, oftlie State of New York, necessary to its ;
permanent and ellieient action. This will, ol course,
benefit. Charleston considerably, and Charleston needs
it quite as much, aye, more than it is likely to boheu.
ilittcd. This will not be sullieient for making tip the
great falling oil', which has taken place since the
through Western mails have been transferred to the
Wilmington ami Manchester Road, and tin* ?lis?'ontiiinance
of the Wilmington boats. Charleston must
do something more. The Savannah and Florida Bailload
presents a favorable opportunity for Charleston
to retrieve her former commanding position, as an important
seaboard termini, connecting the great western
ami south-western countries with the boundless nioun
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(Mill ICglOUS ?'I III'* V SIOIIUUS. ucorgia, I nmiVfl'l', ,VC..
its i><may yet be maintained as the "Queen city
of the South for in point of accessibility front all parts,
health, business facilities, Ac.. we confidently claim for
it a comparison with any city in the States.
lit tho way ol amusements we believe Charleston is j
about as usual. On next Monday evening. Mrs. Mow- \
alt, the distinguished actress, is engaged to perform !
h.or , and o|V<vut,c expectation i.-e tting opto tin* j
highest pitch, and, no doubt r-onn thing ' grand, gi^onr.
and peculiar." may bo expected. Mr. ItompsbT, the
f
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composer of the "May Queen," ' J.amcnt of the Irish
Emigrant, ?c., is announced for Monday evening next
at Hibernian I fall. He is worth hearing, and the lovers
of good music cannot ho disappointed in him unless
a great change has come o'er the spirit of his
dreams.
Fl-B. 18, 1854.
The Evening Sews of this date announces the asso- i
ciation of John Cunningham, Esq., of this city, with |
that paper, who is to have special charge of the edito- j
rial department. Col. Cunningham introduces himself
bv a well written inaugural, in which he is pledged to
use his "time and talents," to the best interests of the
paper, which will, no doubt, be improved by bis connection
thc'.ewitli. J. N. Cardoza, Esq., will continue
to aid in the editing of the Sews. Mr. Cardoza has established
a reputation as a clear thinkcrand able writer,
which there are few who would not be fortunate
in being able to claim. The present mail arrange
incuts material! v interfere with the i. to rests of the i
Keening Xeics. The Northern and Western mails are
so late in getting here, that this paper is considerably
impaired in the news item department.
A walking match came oft' yesterday at the race
course. The performer, as we see by the Xews, accomplishing
the feat of walking six miles in 57 minutes
3G seconds. Ife is matched for $500 to walk the same
distance on Monday, 20th iiist., in 57 minutes. This
only confirms the opinion of our living in a/a-sf age.
We see that I J. Kiev, of the Anderson Southern Rights i
Advocate, lias retired from the ranks of single editorial J
blessedness, and. as a quaint friend of ours would say,
has doubled. This occasions our friend of the Anderson
Gazette, who stood by hirn in that trying hour, to
indulge in a few sober reflections, upon the probable I;
state of tilings, should his example be followed, and a
regular matrimonial stomped': take place among the
editors of the State, many of whom are anxious expectants.
awaiting their time to enter, like Kice, the
ambrosial state. The fears of the Gazette arc well
founded ; and serious apprehensions may be felt for
the future conservative independence of the Press, for
it is undeniable, if the editors all get married, the ladies
will be in a lair way to get this, "mighty fulcrum
and lever" also into their own hands, and exercise an
additional and yet more powerful and controlling influence
over the destinies of our race. Where these innovations
upon tiie reserved righis of the Press-gang
are to find a termination, it is indeed difficult to say.
lot- there is no telling who is on the point, even now,
of entering this combination, and if we are not greatly
in error, we shall hear Mo(o)iti: of this tiling before long.
IIV also ' hope for the best Laying all jokes aside
we resume our rhapsodical editorial, and haul up as
usual upon matters and things in general in the business
world.
Cotton for some time has been Iieaw and dull, owing
to tiie difficulty in getting the means to carry it oil',
and a combination and chain of unpropilious circumstances
which have influenced, and will continue to
inllncncc all commercial ami monetary operations.?
Upon war. it is contended, would be preferable, fur
commercial interests, to the doubt and uncertainty
widen bang over the question and darken the political
sky with their gloomy forebodings. Wc would put
oil'the evil day as far as possible?but not so with the
world generally ; wars and rumors of wars seem suited
well to the present age of progress and wonders.
There is little or no change to note here in the price
of cotton, and prices may be regarded from 7 to 101
cents. Other articles continue pretty much the same.
Breads!u:ls, grain, hay. &c., are high. The weather is
clear and cold.
Removal of the Capitol.
We loam, says the Carolinian, that M?\x?rs. Glaze
ami Boatwriglit have undertaken to remove the old
State House, and have contracted with the building
Committee for that purpose. It will be a heavy job,
but the contractors hope to have it entirely completed
early in the tail, in ample time for the meeting o! the
Legislature. The building will he removed from its
present site by May, so as to allow the now Capitol to
progress.
NnuiASKA.?Nebraska, about which we hear so
much earnest discussion, just now. is an imperial territory
in extent. It embraces all that territory ceded
by France to the United States, which yet remains
unorganized under Stare or territorial government. It
lies hot wees Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota 011 the
Fast, and the Ilucky Mountains on the West. Its
boundary is three thousand miles in length ; its area
live hundred thousand square miles, and it will form,
it is staled, twelve States, each as large as Ohio.
Mr. San ford, the Secretary of the Legation at Parishas
resigned that post, and Mr. Pratt of Ohio, is to sue'
coed him. Mr. Sandlbrd, conforming to the suggeslions
of Mr. Marev, adopted plain clothes while the
New Minister, Mr. T. Y. Mason, adhered to the usua
diplomatic costume. Upon this question Mr. Sandlbrd !
throw up his ollice. It is said that a rule of the French 1
Court requires thai foreign representatives shall appear
in some designated costume.
The lee Crop, the present year, says the Cambridge
Chronicle, bids tair to he enormous. A mammoth
building, three hundred foot long, byonehundred wide,
has been erected at Horn Pond, in Woburn, and ope
rations are briskly going forward. The raw material
is pler.iy enough, but the cost of getting it housed, t
will bo a serious drawback on the q lantity gathered. '
It is reported by telegraph from Washington that J
orders came out by the Arabia for the return home of '
the larger part of the British squadrons on the North
American coast, at the West Indies and in the Paeilic !
If the report is true, the call home lias considerable
significance.
The amount of money invested in the liquor tradio j
in Chicago, is estimated to lie one million of dollars.? |
The actual loss to the city arising from the trallie is put
at $::!>,770.
The length of the river Amazon is about 4.000 miles,
and its navigable course in a direct line is upwards ol
three thousand. It is said to be entirely free Irom sand
banks, and everything that would tend to obstruct
navigation. The narrow-minded Kmperor of Brazil,
however, still continues to deprive his own people and
the rest of the world, of the benefits which would accrue
from its being thrown open to the vessels of all 1
nations. j
Si. wk Tkauk.?The New York Herald learns that
seven vessels have sailed within six or eight weeks
from Baltimore, Boston and Now York, with the direet
intention of being employed as slavers.
Washington, Feb. Id.?Mr. Boycc of South Caroliii-i
inn.In n -iti!.. I nr..f!.liii.l <ncceli nil FliO
Trmle to-ilav in llu? House. It lias won him goMon
opinions on all sales.
CiEO. Law's fir.n Spkpi'I.atiox.?It is statoil tli.it
Mr. tloo. Law, <>| Xcw York, is rupnlly ilispnsitijr ot
tin* two Innulivtl tlionsaini trims lie some years sinoe
pnivliascil of tin* (iovcrnnu'iil, ami is getting lor tliem
quadruple the sum lie paid lor litem. The demand
from abroaii for Anierieatt nianufaeluro.i muskets an i
other ttroatm* , teprewtiU?1 > he i'argi > t
Supply.
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Tub South Carolina College.?The catalogue
of the College for the current year has
jtist made its appearance, and we congratulate
the friends of the institution upon the prosperity
of its external condition. There arc now
in the different classes one hundred and eightynine
tinder graduates, a number much larger
than there was reason to expect alter the lo?s
*? !.!/.It I.iion Pi. ?.ArtA?.t I I? Oiioh.iiwwl K I! fli4?
ttiiiv.ii ii'i-t i/wru o'' iruviai ) ouciumvu. ivn iuv>
departments of instill' timi are fi.led. ami we
are happy to say that the new professor who
succeeds .Major Wi liains is giving the highest
degree of satisfaction as an aide and accomplished
teacher. Hut, above all, we are most
pleased with the internal s'ate of the College.
We have reason to believe that there exists a
very high degree of diligence in study, with a
pervading spirit of literary enthusiasm Seldom
known before. We know, too, that the standard
of character among the young nun is
very high. A stranger cannot enter the walls
w ithout, feeling that he is among gentlemen, ?
who know what is due to him and themselves,
and it is the general testimony of the town
that the deportment of the students is increasingly
distinguished by the courtesy and manly
sense of propriety w hich belong to liberal pursuits.
We honestly believe that the South
Carolina College is one of the safest institutions
in the land. Its standard of scholarship
is very high ?the competition in its walls intense
and ardent; but its crowning glory is
the standard of character which prevails among
its young men. They tolerate among them-elves
nothing low, or little, or mean, tsucli
an institution cannot fail to turn out scholars
and gentlemen.?South Carolinian.
Tin: Gadsden Treatv.?Information from
Washington and from t he more reliable -otirces
assures us that the treaty with Mexico lias
been submitted to the Senate, in the main,
with the ful approbation of the President. We
were, perhaps, hasty in saying that .Mr. Pierce
litwl nitPiiniltPrml if wifn umuiulmflnfc uc wj?
learn that the amendments made, if any, refer
ti> provisions of unessential hearing and import,
and do not at all affect the greater issues on
the boundary and on the 1 lib article of the J
treaty of Guadalupe, which the new treaty has
so satisfactorily adjusted and settled. Speculation
continues to betray its selfishness, in exception
to certain provisions of the treaty, because
they do not minister to the cormorant
appetite- of hurgry expectants. If, in <;on-equeiiee
of disappointment in not obtaining their
wished for share of public plunder, they per-ist
in their unrighteous clamor and opposition,
some astounding developments, it is intimated,
may he made, to their discomfort and discomfiture.
The negotiator, strong in conscious right,
and in the s rvice he has rendered his country,
-tands upon the treaty, unmoved and unfrightened
from his propriety by the uproar and
rage of the harpies and vultures about the
capital whom he has foiled of th.ir prey. The
Pies'dent and Senate will, we are strongly as-awed,
maintain the treaty in ail its essential
piovisions, however much the outsiders and
mercenaries, lor se fish and piivate ends, may
d cry and oppose it . ? Charleston Courier.
Tkimiiiile Scexks at a Shipwreck.?The
Livcq ool papers furnish full accounts of the
wreck of the sliio Taylor, oil the Jri-ll coast,
at iin- 1-land of Lamb*, on tl e *21.-t of Jauuai
v, having (520 souls on hoard, of whom near
100 were l-'Sf. One of the passengers snvud, m
tiiiis describes the scene : *
"A raft was constructed on which great
nmuhers of persons embarked, but it was diified
against the rocks and upset, when all on
it perished. A rope was then conveyed on
shore bv one of the swimmers, and about one
hundred attempted to gain the rocks l>> dinging
to it, when the vessel suddenly fell over on
her side, whic h slackened one end of tne rope,
and caused the whole of them to let eo '.heir
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The c:i| -tain, whose name was Noble, was saved,
hut t!ie oniv p:irt of his dross thai lie laiulod ill
was a ilnnel shirt.?The surgeon of the ship,
who had iiis wile and ch id on hoard, attempti
il t > swim on shore with Ins child on his back,
and supporting his lady with one arm, while
In-swain with the other; the three, however,
unto innately perished. One lady had ?3.000
in bo k notes sewed in her stays; she offered
?"2,000 to any one who would save her life,
hut in vain.?She also was drowned. A child
of live months old is saved, and both parents
are drowned. A (icrinan emigrant rescued
this child's life, by bearing it in his teeth from
the wreck to the shore. Only seven women
arc saved, the rest, 197 in number, are drowned.
There are now upwards of sixty dead
hodies on the i>land, and 200 survivors."
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JCul/aI, of which has been said lately, is a
tow it of 2,000 houses. It is surrounded with
walls, ha-* a quarantine, a town hall, a custom
house, three churches, and a cavahy barracks.
u is iue enter place oi a snii miiiuiiisirntoi s
(listrirt. The red' ubts raised by the Turks
are of groat extent and very strong. Tliev arc
partly raised on two high hills in the plain of
Kalafat, aliout a mile distant from each other,
and have a numerous artillery. All the neighboring
country is commanded I y these hills in
such a way that no approach to the Danuhe
can be made. In 1828 these hills were occupied
and fortified by the Russians. Between
Widdin and Kalafat the Danube is less than a
mile wide, and the coarse of it is very rapid.
The island in which the Turks are fortified is
situated near the left bank; it is partly covered
with wood, and is defended with strong intrei.chinents
in earth, hearing large artillery.
Above Widdin i lie Turks have constructed a
new citadel according to all the rules of art.
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Wikk Bkiduf.?Thomas T. Patton. Dsq, has
commenced the construction of a W ire Bridge ^
across Swannanoa, opposite his heautifnl farm
"PI-asant Retreat.'' It is the p'-onecr euterpiise
of the kind, we believe, in the State, and
when completed will he no lo>s an object of
curiosity, than an ornament to one of the loyc..
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In s St renins UWtl ilir I*' IHU I inner
ol Waters." 11'*' abutments are completed
ami two wire cable of about an inch in diameter
a>*' stretched pendant over the river. It is
Mr. ration's design, in order to give strength
and dnrahi it v to the structure, to have two parallel
cables on either side of the bridge. The
wni k is now suspendtd lor the want of more
. ...i.:,s. M.. I ..- __ i i
wilt'. \t linn .Ml. I ill t till Hits IMllLNVtl.
We an* im liiit tl to tlu? opinion that Mr. Pattun's
expeianient; wi.l demonstrate the futthnt
wiio laid^es. besides lii-itit; more durable and
sale are quite as iheap, as eommon wooden
bridges. Of course, the smvess that has atteiiiletl
the construction of wire biidjje.s elsewhere.
,tbriiids the entertainment of an idea that
Mr. P.:ll"ti2 enterprise wi'i he a failure.
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