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fN LIKEt> DISASTROUS SCENES, To UI IU.HS DO, CAMDEN Number 37. WHAT YOU WOL'LD WISH BY OTHERS DONE To \oU /AHVi IN. GAZETT Thursday, Becenrber 12, 1816; ? Volume I TERMS : 1 he ftriee to Subscribers is &S fter avnuml exchiKive of ftontnge ; and in all cases ivhrre fiafiers shall be delivered at the exfirnse oj the fiublisher^ the Jirice will be 50 a yeur, to be fioid six month* ajret subscribing. It is reflected , however, ihit subscribers li~ ?vinff at a distance , from the inconvenience of collection, will /lay in advance ? Terms ol advertising m Advertisements not exceeding eight lines toil I be . fir in ted for fifty cents* for the first publication^ and half that price for every subsequent insertion ? Larger advertise ments will be charged in firofiortton . A liberal discount will be made on the bills of those who are constant or considetble customers in this fine. If no directions ar? given with an ad - ?veriisementy it will be continued till forbid. Wholesale Prices Current. Domestic Article*. Charleston Cotton, Sea Island lb 00 0 . o 48 ? Upland, Pice, prime new civ/ Flour, Superfine bbi ? v Fine country CorDt bush Wheat, i\>twcc,o, leaf lb manufactured Whiakey, gul Butler, lb Bacon, ? Laitl, Tallow, Bees Wax, Hemp* ~ Homt.*pun, cotton yrfjo ,, N. Carolina tow ,Shoe thread, ft Indigo, prime. r Dear Skins in hair, Foreign Articles. Coffee, prime, lb ? old Sugar, Muscovado Salt , bush Iron, 100 lb. Molasses, git 0 60 . 0 65 O 23 . O 25 0 14 "0 17 0 20 . 0 2 2 0 18". 0 20 0 28 . 0 30 i Camden# 0 21.0 23 12 .14 87 1 50 .0 00 0 10 .0 11 0 20 .0 25 0 80 .0 8 5 O tS.0 25 0 12 .0 15 0 12 .0 15 000.0 T8 0 00 .0 25 23 ? O 28 0 30 .0 37 0 25 .0 30 62 10 75 . 0 80 0 75 .0 87 10 0 19 .0 23 0 30 .0 32 0 12 .0 15 0 35.0 65 5 00 . 6 00 0 45 . 0 48 0 18 .0 20 1 00 .0 00 7 00 .8 00 0 87 .0 00 We arc requested to state that Mr.JOHN HAVIS is a candidate for ihe office of Sheriff of Kershaw District, at the ensuing election* Dee. 5, 1816 Wc are also authorized to stare that Copt. WILLIAM DR.\KkFOttD tit a candidate, for the office of Sheriff *?f Ker shaw District* Dec. 5, 1816. It is also understood that Mr. MATTHEW WIGGINS in a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Kershaw Dis trict, at the ensuing election* 'December 5, 1816, YV e are authorised to state, that Mr T HOS. ft VLMONDS is CamU? date for th? Clerk s Office, of Kershaw District.- ? - Nov. 21, 1816. VV e are also, authorised to state, that Mr. JOHN PEOPL.KS, late an Officer of the U? S. army ; is a Candi date (br the Clerk's Office, of this I>is ~ T' r **>v YrmiBr ire requested to state, that JUTOlVHN SWlLLEYjf. is a candi cUte for Clerk of the Court nt this Di*. trict st the ens^irifg election. Not, 20, < *?? ?? .^a? p| " ? * * i i^? mmmtm Lre auth< that Mr* DAVID EVANS is a candidate for the oflfioc of Clffflt of Kershaw District, at the e)cctiot) to take place in January next* November 14? 1816. 1 *' 1 i 1 \ ? " ' , ? ? - * We are authorized to state that SAMUI L BROWN, 1i?q. is a can didate for the Office of Clerk of the Court of Kershaw District. October 24. Just. Printed, jind fit &a!f at thi* Ofpcr , firice 1 2 \ cm(9} A DISCOURSE, Delivered at a conference held in Camden, p Y George Da'gbrr/ijy Iildcry /!/. /?. C. FXJR THK CAMDEN GAZfTTK. A 1SRIEF ACCOUNT OJ the general afi fleam nee oj SouTh-Caro i.isa , and iitt cuma!r% connected with 06 - scrvuuo & it/itm the manners qf it* inhabit. antsy and the influence of ciimcue uflon ihtm , toy _? tHk editor. ? ? [f9.vc/.gfbgu.] Climate has'not as great an effect upon the system, as the utihe alth fulness of local 51 1 u aiTOTis. Person s removing from a heal thy, Wr 11 watered part of the country, to the lower part of the State, or from high lands to swampy aitua ions lose their con stitutions, in :* frw years ; become sallow &> acquiie an indisposition for active exercise. Hence we discover that those who inhabit the upper part of the State aie more rud dy, vigorous, and athletic than thei* low country brethren. The observations which I have made re lative to the eftefcts of climate upon tiie constitution, are the foltowing. 1st. Those who inhabit the upper part of tiie Slate, enjoy betteV health, and more equanimity of temper than the inhabitants fl the low country ; in short they differ but little from the inhabitants of every other part ol the United States, who en joy the advantages of good water and u sa lubrious atmosp iVjre. My observations, | therefore, will be extended in future only to the inhabitants ot the low country, *(L_ . 1 hese are affected more or less, according to their q^nner of living, occu pation, and original stamina. 3d. i hose who are engaged in agricul tural pursuits are sallow, subject to repeat ed attacks ot the bil ious fever, intermit- ? tents, Uc. and have but slender constitU tions. ? 4th. Tliev a re,ge lie rally speaking, short lived, and laitlv die ot chronic diseases. 1 am here met by an observation of Dr. Rush's; which t think extremely pertinent. He has said, if I mistake not, that avarice is a very powerful mean of protracting animal Jife. I know of scarcely an in stance of old age, among the affluent, in which the immediate influence of that very powerful stimulus may not be disco vered. 5th. FroiVi tlieir quickness of . temper and precipitancy of conclusion, there are few cases of * mania, comparatively speak ing* it is remarkable that among the 1 blacks this disease is as rare as that ofy consumption. Contentment, which ap pears to constitute the happiness of man, seems 10 extehd its benign influence alike over body and mind. In the first we rare ly or never discover the inroads of disease, Irom that quarter ; in the latter mental aberrations extend no fahher than the pros pect of another nocturnal excursion. Man, who is the creature of habit and imitation, no matter what his colour may be. if doom- ! *d to toil in slavery and ignorance, in a country where the custom has exfsted from time immemorial, will accommodate his mind and manners to those ol his associ ates, where there is no piospect < f better ing his condition* Hetye no apprehen* sionof futuie want corrodes his mind; no leir of pi i vat ion of. rights ; no anticipation ~?vf"Tuture evils preys upon his setises|; bu? cheerful submission to the superimendance ot an all wise Providence, sooths the un derstanding, and covers the road to a f\i ture state with flowers of the m<Jfct delight ful cast. How imminently provident has the great architect of the universe beorin the distribution of our variooa'faruftit*s. If misfortune frowns upon man, and dooms him to transient slavery, hope buoys him up, and enables him to sustain its greatest cur*e. If doomed to inevita ble bondage, hope transports him in ima gination, where future bliss lavishes upon him theft* choicest blessings. How dubious then is the decision, which places superi or happiness in the supposed preponderant scale of civilisation, snd unrestrained free dom as it regards mental quietude. 6th. Females generally out live their husbands, and are not as prolific generally, as they are in the tipper part of the state. This remark is particularly applicable as it respects the opulent, among whom there few children raised. 7th. The facility with which the v - appetite is ?atijted, where Congress be tween the two sexes is not confined t'o a particular colour, affords abundant proofs of the influence of a warm climate upon the system. Henre the number of mulat In's, who answer many valuable purposes, a* litiu^e servants* Changabieness of climate. irregu- I lariiy of living, and hertditaiy influence I predispose lo consumption. In the village ol Camden, Containing iit farthest not I mote llian three hundred families, theie I ha*e perished as many as ten or lwd\t per- I - softs of thai dreadful malady wit. in a fe^v 1 - ye*rs. Although foreign to the subject. I 1 cannot refrain from expressing my ub- I hor?Bnce of the sentiments inculcated re- I specking its incurability. I have uniform- I ly observed, that t^o^e who are under this I impression- fall victims to the disease. | I through the instrumentality ot their <. wn I f remedies, and the Ye?y injudicious p'e- ] sctipuons of much sooner than I they would otherwise have done. 9ih. Pet sons raised in the I^w coumry are not as liable to the attacks of disease i at foreigners. They become insensible 10 I the disagreeable taste of the water, and beat extremes of heat much belter than I otbats. f 10th. Person Migrating from ("onnecti- I cut* Massachusetts See. complain of being lea* capable of bearing the cold of our J country t!i an theiT own. th In the city of Charleston, theie I have been instances of apoplexy occurring 1 ilk the streets, during the heat ol Summer. I Those accidents are, for the most pare, con- I fined to habitual drunkatds. . I 13th. Negroes, from an exposure of I their bear heads to the direct rays of the 1 sun, are very frequently attacked with ln60- 1 1 iatititt, which proves fatal in three or four; J day* I shall here remark, although cbn ? trary to my proposition, that bleeding and I deliquium animi and evacuating the bowels I pc*t?y copiously with topical (applications, I tectifcirse to in time. J-ith. The warmth of climate "predis- I posts to contaneous diseases. liih. Those wlio reside in low un- I healthy situations, having experienced many 1 attacks of the augue,' have enlarged spleens. I I am disposed to attribute them in part to the influence of miasmata, although op- I posed by Dr. Cleghorn, who places their I remote t ause in bad water. Then influence of slaveiV upon the mo- I ral iaculty is very greafc. it extinguishes I the glowing spark^<5i -religious fervour, I generate elhpicT sensttalty, and produces cruel y tQ^Hiichis superadded Us penici- I ous effects, in a political point of view. It I begtts idleness, effeminacy, vbiuptVlous* 1 ,ness, and a thirst for powek*.- li endangers our safety; and destroys domestic Iran- I quility. in short were it not for slavery, I we should be consolidated as a people, I formidable as an enemy, i^nd happy as brethren. ! would not have it understood. I as has been very unjustly reported, that 1 am an advocate for Emancipation. I am now regretting, and have always lamented I that the policy of our country has noi been I to remove, instead of introduting domes- I tic enemies. Were I disposed, I could shew that it has ever been one of the principal causes of the subvtrtion of the most powerful, and flourishing republics of antiquity. I could also prove, lhat it /rEtfcrds the pio gress of arts and sciences, that it produces despondency and pusilanimqy io those, who are dependant upon their own excre tions for a support, and that it destroys the natutal energies of the mind. The females of our state, eaily embibe the sentiments of their respective families, and are much devoted to fashion. They are sprightly, fastidious and display a con siderable taste for painting, vnusick and reading ; they are fond of dancing and pot* sess in an eminent degree, the social and moral virtues. Brought up to a high sense of filial and parental duty ; they enbilie those sentiments which beget circumspec tion of conduct, diffidence and modesty, for which they arc so distinguished They are generally small, slender and well made. When nature refuses that booft, which to them is inestimable, they neve* fail to ob viate the deficiency, bv diawtng them selves in with what have been called corset tf# It is truly astonishing to see, to what an extent they carry this pernicious custom, although sensible of its dangerous effects upon the constitution. (There are not wanting instances in whifch the ribs pass the sternum, in ftiteh a manner as to give it the appearance of being depressed. Thi? in part accounts for the pallid face, hysteria, syncope, difficulty of breathing, anorexia consumption, and many other self acquired disease*, which sweep from us annually the fairest portion of tbe tace. Their mannet of living corresponds with their si uation in life. Those, who fiom indigence have n '-Rice* *o dischat u'.t a;'ive> industrious and pr. i.liv.. 1 hose on the o'her hand, to whom propitious fortune 1ms been mote liberal, lead a se dentary Mr, and de\ote their time to the needle, and amusements which feavt- di rt ady been mentioned. With this view of thjr subject, I shall close my present cotffmUnicaiion ; other remaiks mitflit be introduced with advantage, but they be long more p:operly to a medical work. SPOTS ON THE SUN, Some * poison the sun's disc have re opptaud. They arc iriore considerable ui. (I in greater number* than wee remark ed ( uring the nomh of Ju:y. They form ' w< ii legnlar ch?7plets, ol u hich the first is \cr\ apparent, and covers, longitudinally* 'he 7th part ol the sun's diametor Refer i? ?r t<> <ht ct* sc. considered in its apparent ? Xi nt ol ' feet ?ti cncumferi nee, the two principle spots of he first duplet are equal in siefce 10 two large chcrries, which they also resemble in shape. The space which sipuaUs th?m is coveted "with twelve or fifteen other spots more or less visible, some large as a |>ea, others as a lentil# 1 he second o!i ;plet is composed of seven or eight small spots, of which the two mc.si appnt.ni appro chin siz.-* those | which appeared previously. So says the Gazelle de Stance ; to illustrate the subject* I it gives u print of the sun with its cheek* all cover eel with fpots. like the patches on a fashionable English lads ICO years ago* Uverfiool A/er. The Bank of the United States will the beginning of January, and the several offices or branches at Boston, New-York* Baltimore, Charles'. on, Suvannah aniLNeW Orleans, it is expected, will be ready to commence about the same time. It is al ready well ascertained, that the directors of this great National ihstitution are dis posed to act wiih the most friendly liberali ty m their inteicoui ne with the State Banks, and all apprehension* of injury res'Jtirg from the commencement of it* operatioi s? are changed inrt> the pleasing certainty of bentfi to the merclytints in particular^ and to the nation in general The i tVer made ol ten million in Specie by a respectable mercantile house in Lon don, on terms highly advantageous to t tie Bank, will probably be* accepted ; and will at once effect the restoration of gold and silver to current circulation. ? fed. Guzctte. yfn act to aufifire** Duelling , passed the Legislature of New-York on the 5th inst. which enacts thai if any person shall send or carry a challenge, the probable itsue i of which may or might result in the death | ol i? e challenger or challenged^ such per son shall he detmed guilty of public of fence, and be intapabl? of holding any of fice, civil or militay, under this state. It obliges every person who may heteafter be elected a member of the Senate or as- . sembly of this state, and after the first -of July nekt, every person who shall be elect ed or appointed to any office under the state* i civil or military, to make oath that lhey |~ havenever been engaged In tiny tn anfter in violation of the act to suppress duelling, passed on the fi at of July, 1816. The age of Invention . ? M Schmidt, pi ano-maker, in the Rxie des Bons Enfans* has invented a nautical machine of the 1 I greatest simplicity , by means of which, in the most stormy wheat her, and in th* midst of the moat voilent tempest, any per son may contend against the waves* and he preserved from ship-wreck. During the next week, he will, in presence of the au thorities, make trial of this machine, Which he calls the Parapon>ic Chair.** The maker proposes to walk in it from Culai* to Daver. ^ [/Jari* fia/ier. A man having been capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, was. as usual* asked what he had to *ay ^rhy sentence of death should not be passrd against him ? * Say ? (replied he) why I think he joke hp s l?een far enough already, and the least that is said on it the better ; so if you please* we'll drofi the tubject. Teagtve at St. Ja meat Strolled about* One of hi* Mocking* wrong side out? - ? The srftfy nsk'd by way of sport* If he drfesa'4 thus to come tci court ? Or if before *twas light he rose, That he had thus put on his hose ? " No faith, dear honey," Teague replied-** "I've got a hole, vn t'other ?i(fc.*$