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IN' LIFE'S DISASTROUS SCENES, TO OTHERS DO, Number 40. CAMDEN, S. C. WHAT YOU WOULD W 1*H BY OTHER.-, DONE TO \ i?C. I / a ;m\ in. Thursday, January 2, 1817. Volume I. Terms : The price to Subscribers is &3 per annum , exclusive of postage ; and in ati ease* t vhere ?hafiere shall be delivered at the expense t>J the publisher , the price will be $3 50 a yca*s to be paid six months after subscribing. Ji is expected^ however ^ that subscribers li ning at a distance, from the inconvenience of collection , will pay in advance ? >>?-. , Terms of advertising in this Gakbtte. Advertisements not exceeding eight tines vtill be printed for fifty cknts, /of the first publication , and half that price for every subsequent insertion .? Larger advertise ments will he charged in proportion . A liberal discount will be made on the bills of those who are constant Or consider Ole eua'ome+s in this line, 1_ t|t // no directions are given with an ad - veriisement , it will be continued till forbid ? u Luj-i, ii ii i ,11 in ,i,i i ?! Wholesale -Prices Current. Domestic Articles ? Couon, Sea Island lb ? Upland, Rice* prime new cwt Flour, Superfine bbl | n Fine country Corn, bush Wheat, Tobacco, leaf lb ? manufactured Charleston; Camden* 00 0 . 0 48 0 24 0 25 0 21.0 23 0 00 . 5 od 1 5 ? 00.0 ool 0 00. I 00 I* .14 87 " 1 50 0 00 0 14.0 160 10,011 0 20 .0 25 gallO 60 . 0 65 0 80 .0 8* #|0 23 .0 *S!0 4 8.0 25 0 14 ? 0 ir|0 12 0 15 |0 20 ? 0 22 0 12 .0 15 O 18.0 2010 00.0 18 |0 28 . 0 30|0 00 .0 25 sr O 25 .0 30 lb\y ^ ? , 02 at,. . 0 75 . 0 800 75 .087 ' ' ' 18 Foreign 4nifile*. Coffee, prime, . M iO 19+0 23(0 30^0 32 Whiskey i Butter, Bacon, Lard, Tallow, Bees Wa*, > feHemp? Homespun. cotton ydlo 23.0 28>0 30 .0 _ ? . :.v -feU Sug.r, Muscovado ! OH ; 0 150 l? ,0 ? Salt, bunh 0 55 .0 6i i 00.0 00 , IroiHv*..' ? VI 100 0. f CO .6 00700 .8 do Mola?ey , M> . 0 4* 0 87 .0 00 We arc authorized to announce Wiili** Nrxo*, m i Candidate lor tlie of Sheriff of Kershaw District. Camden, I Jth December, 1S16. ? We are authorised to say that CaptJ W#Sfc.L M'CAA is a candidate for the office of Sheriff. 3 December IS. 1816. ? ? ? *?' 1 ' " We are requested to ttate that XSSJ&lZ&tt lMU<ni election- Dec.?.*8?g.^ <M> Mthori?cd to state iztd to say that Mr. Uii(JlNS i*a candidate erilt of Ketyhaw Dis liiMC election. lair,. ? m y i ?? A., .i ? v ? hi I Mr. Wtt.t-IAM THAPf m a candidate J Jar the Office of Sheriff if Krrthuw Uittrict. JlMrwAw IS, 1816. 'M NOTICE. it toner ; humbly solicit* hit >haw District, to aid* lo acquire 6 tttamJ r, Tor the Sheriff's place, an our next election* a* he assures them thai kt ?a aremfcaodidate. WM. BRA.SINGTON. Camden, Any. lUftMih *.Htf \:2 notice. \ ; I HpHE member* oC the itWrfc*. library] -* Socify, are Hereby ty*!tV&<f* that the J aunWertary meeting nf mm) Society, will take place on Saturday the 4lh January, at their room in the Market Mouse, at ^o'clock p. m. Members are requested to be punctual in their attendance, and to Cpmt prepared to discharge their arrears, J* Carter, ?S>4>* Camderv, Dec* . ,| ATTEM'ION ! An Election will he field at Camden on Saturday the 4 1 h January next, for a second Lieutenant in ? he Artillery Comjjany, to filJ the vacan cy occasioned by the resignation of Lieut. BuoNsoN.?The members of the Coin pa* ny are requested to meet at 10 o'clock. In full uniform. Immediately after drill a Court Martial wiil be held for the trial of all former absentees ; and those on whom fines are already inflicted w ill come pre* F. BLAIR, Capt. Camden Art. C'y* - Dcrgm ber 20, 1 8 1 6* 9-0 ^OriCL. .It is expected lhai~the members of the Camden Juckry I tub | will pay their subscriptions the day before the faces. . " ? . CHARLES SHANNON, Treasurer. I >ec. 2f, 1816. ? ? ? . . i , i ? x i. The Subscribers, UNDER the firm of J. ?. Sc ELI AS PRIOLEAU, have entered into the Factorage and Commission Bwnnet>u Their Counting House is on Phiolkau's wharf. John Cordes Prioleau* L_ ? _ ? Kfaaft ^ Charleston, Nov. 25. - , 35**0 sheriff's ALii: BY -virtue of an exeeution, to me directed, will be fold, before the court hout'e in <; amd?*n on tbe first mood ay and tnemUy in Jan'y next, with in tli# leffat hour*,of fJe, fl\HREE likely Negro men, levied on as the JL property of Thomas Harrington, dteeafed, at the fuit W R. W. Carter? et al Conditions eoak purchaser* to fiay for bills I sale. F. & J.KRs Shcrijf% *HT. D. Camden, Dec. 16. 1816, i ? .. : - ? , ? Tailoring Business . *T*HF- subscriber informs the citizen* of Camden, and it* vicinity, that He will this day open a shop at the house of Hver+ t?rd Cure ton , opposite the Post offk e, where he intend* cm crying on the above business, in its various branches ; ami pledges I ini self that those persons who may patronize him with their custom* shall have their work done m the newest, most fathionable, and workmanlike manner. . r ? ; ? - ? - ? ? J-. SLAU(ili rER? "| December 19, 1816. - 3?tf ' lljllttlia I' I, I IWMBU From a Cork Paper, Sept. 17. ( Continuation oj Mr, Phillips' Sflccch.) H So dear to heaven ?? saintly chastity, ' That when * rou I it found sincerely no, A thousand liveried angel* lackey her. Driving far of each thing of lid and gutter And in clear dream of tokaio vin'oo ^ T\ Tell her of things that n- grot* ear eaa bean Till oft eoHverae with keavealy habitant* *3. | Begin to cast a beam on th* o|t?ari shape, > <} The unpolhMtad temple of the mind, And tujrnt it by degrees to the iovI'i csttnt* Hill alt be made ImrtorkaV."? . ; Such wlhe Wprimt fowtr oT chattily, at described by one of our dtvinest bards and the pleasure which I feel in the racita* tkmof such a passage is not a little en* hanccd; by Ihe piide that few countries more fnBy afford its etfem^ificStion than ;*ur own. Let foreign envy decry us as they will, chastity is the instinct of the Irish female? the pride of her talents-* the power of her beauty? the ?pbiKte|pf iee^iWlkmplishmcots are but so mmnf handmaids of this vestal virtue? it adorns her in the courti^it ennobles her In the oftttage-n whether she basks in prosperity ctejftfte* to sorrow, it clings about her like the diamond of th? Mtfnirig on the mourn tain flowret, trembling even irf Ihe wy that 4 at once exhibits and inhales fo ! Rare in our land is the absettce of this virtue. Thanks to - the modesty that venerates-? thanks to the mantinesa thai brands and avenges Ma violations* You have aeon that ; it waa by no common temptations even this | humble villager yielded to seduction. I jnow come, geMlefttet* to another fact to , the progress of this transaction, betraying ' in my mind as base a premeditation and a* i low and sa deliberate a deception aa t ever I heard of. While thla wretched creature ( was in a kind of counterpoise between her fear and her *ff*ctions~**atr?ggtihg as Well j as she could between passion wfliimed and ' virtue unextinguished, Mr. Ditton ardent* ! ly vowing that such an event aa separation ! was impossible ? ardently vowing an eter* j nut attachment, insisted upon perfecting* I an article which should place h*r almve | the reach of cufiiingencies. Gentlemen, you shall see this document voluntarily executed by an educated and estated gen tlemen of our count! y. ! know not ho* you till feel, but for my patt I protest I am in a suspence of admiration between the virtue of the proposal* and the inagni ficient prodigality of the povision. Listen to the article? it is all in his own hand writ ing i " 1 promote, says he, to give Mary Connoghton the sum of ten pounds sterling, when 1 part with hefr, but jf she* said Mary, should at any time hereafter conduct her selt improperly or [mark this gentlemen] has done so before the drawing of this ar* ticle, I am not bound to pay the sum of ten pounds and this article becomes null and void as if the same was never execut ed?John Dillon"? There Gentlemen there is tbe noble and dignified document for you take it into your box, for I know not haw to comment on it. Oh yes, I have heaid of ambition urging men to crime ? 1 have .heard of- love inflaming even to madness ; I have rettd of passion lushing over law and religion to enjoy ment ; but never until this did I see frozen avarice, chilling the hot pulse of sensuSlt ty .and desire* pause before its brutish -draught tfrat it might add deceit to ?ks6* laiton ; i need not ^11 you that having provitfedin tbe very execution of this arti cle for its predetermined iufiingihent. that knowing as he mutt any stipulation for the purchase of vice .to be invalid by our law ; that having in the body of this article in serted a provision against that previous pollution which his prudent caprice might invent hereafter,, but which his own con science her universal character and even hit own desire for her possession, all as sured him did not exist at the time? 1 need not tell you that he now urges (he in* validity of that instrument? -that he now presses that previous pollution ? that he refuses from his splendid income the pit taoce of to/* to the wretch he hail ruined* ' and spurn* her from him to pine beneath the reproaches of a parent's mercy, or , linge r out a living death in the tbarnel houscol prostitution ! You s?e gentlemen, to what design* like these may lead a man ?I have no doubt, if Mr. Dilkm had giv tn tieart km play, had let hia own nature gain a moment's ascendancy, he would not h*ve acted so* but there is something in guilt which infatua'e^its votaries forward, it may begta with a promise broken, bill K Will end w?th^he home depopulated, yet there is something in * seducer of a peculiar turpitude* I know of no character so vile, so detestable. He is the vilest of robbers; lor he plunders happiness* the Worst of murderers, for he murders innocence* his appetites are of the brute, his arts of the daetoob, the heart of the child and the coipf of th$ patent are the foundations of the altar which he reurs to a lust, whose fires ate the fire* of bell, and whose inho~ cence is the agony of virtue ! I hope Mfr. D's adVocate may prove he does hot de serve to rank in sUch a fclass as thin, hut if he does* 1 hope the Infatuation insepa rably connectcd with such proceedings may tempt him to deceive you through the state plea by whith he has defrauded his miserable dupe, him to attempt the defamation of I character! which be fore hi* cruelties, never wis even suspect ed. Happily # gentlemen, happily (or he r . self this wretched creature thus cast upp>?! ! the world, appealed to the parental refuge tftie had forfeited. t need not describe to I you the parenA anguish at the heart rend ing discovery. God help the poor man : when misfortunes comes upon him I How few are his resources I How distent his : consolation ! You must not forget, ?entl?** men, that it is not the unfortunate victim 1 herself who appeals to you for compeitsa tion. Her crimes, poor wretch, have outlawed her from retribution, and how ever the temptations by which her erring i nature was seduced* may ptocure an audi* ence from the ear of mercy, the item mo rality of the law refuses tlulr interference. N6, no, it is the wretched parent who comes this day before you# his aged locks withered by misfortunes, and his heart broken by crimes of which he was uncon \ scions. He resorts to this tribunal In the language of the law# claiming the Value of his daughter's servitude, but let it not ? escape you that H is for her mere manual labours he solicit* compensation* No, you are to compensate him for all he is to 1 i suffer, f?r feet bigs Outraged, for gratifica tions plundered, for honest pride put to the bliish, lor the' efclted endeur?nents of bis once happy home# for all those innu merable and instinctive exticieswith which a virtuous daughter fi.ls her father's heart* U?r which language is too poor to have ft . name, but oi which nature is abundantly and richly elc quent ? Do not suppose I an endea voting to iniufcDce yen by the power ot declaration. 1 am lay ing dnwn to y?->u the Briusft La#, as libei ally expounded and solen nly acjudged. I speak the lan guage of the L.ngti?h l ord Eldon, a Judge of great experience and greater learning (Mr. Phillips hire cited several cases as decided by Lord Eldon)? Such, gentle Bknen, is the language of Lord 1 Ulow. I speak al?o on tlx Vuthbrity oi' our own Lord A von more, adjudge who illuminated the Bench his by genius, endeared it by j his suavity, and dignified it by his bold uncompromising probity: one of those I rare men who hid the thorns of law be neath the flowers of literature* and as it were, With tl.e hand of an enchanter, changed a wilderness into a garden ! I : speak upon that high autt o ty, but I speak upon authority paramount 10 all ori the | authority of Nature, rising up within the heart of a man, and calling for vegean^e - upon such an outrage. Goa foibid that in a case ol this kind, We wtre to grope our wny -thjvtigir ttieroms of an tyui?y, and blunder over statute* and 'borrow through blank letter, in search of an interpietatibn? which Providence has engraved in %mg letters on every human heart* Yes-? If there be oiie amongst you blessed with a daughter the Smdcs of who*e infancy still cheers your memory, anu the promise of whose youth illuminates your hopet?? wi.d endeared the toils of your manhood whom you look upon as the solace of declinging years, whose embrace alleviated the pang of separation, whose growing Welcome haileo your oft anticipated return. Or. if there be one amongst you to whom.thoso hopes are precious ; let them only fancy that daughter torn from his caresses by the Seducer's a?ts and cast on the Worlds rob* bed of her innocence ; and then let him ask his heart, u what money could repriie him." The defendant canhot complain that I put it ifetiii to you* If in the place of ?e i duCing, he had assaulted the poor utrl ; if he had attempted by ? forrc what he ha J ? achieved by fraud* his II would haVe bee a the forfait ; unci yet how tiif)ingNjn*couipa? tiscn woyhl have been the parents agony ! He has no ri^ht then to complain if you should estimate this outiage at the price of this very existence. I am told, indeed, this getiiltman entertain* an opinion, pre valent enbugh in the age of feudalism as arrogant as ii wan barbarous, that the poor are only a species of property, to be tren ' ted according to interest or Caprice ; and thai Wraith i? at once a patent for a crime, and an exemption from it* consequences* Happily iof this land, the day of such opin ions has passed over it-*?ihe eye of a pure feeling and more profound-philosophy now behold riches but as one of^thf aids to vir tue, and sees in oppressed poverty only an additional stimulus tdincrejifed protection. A generous heart cqppot help letting that in cases of this kind, the poverty oft ho injured is a dreadlul aggravation. If the .jrich suffer, they haVe much to console them ; but Whch a f*or man Jo^es the dar ling of his heart? the sole pleasure wills which nature blessed him*? how abject ! how cureless is the despair of his destitu tion ! Believe me gentlemen, you have not only a solemn duty to perform, but yott have an awful fcsponslbility Imposed upon yotl. You are ibis day, in some degree, trustees for the morality of the people? perhaps of the whole nation ; for depend upon it if the sluices of immorality* are once opened among the lower orclers of the per pie, the frightful tide drifting up* on its Mm face all that is dignified or dear ?Will Mon rise even to the habitations of the highest. I feel, Gentlemen, I have discharged my duty? I am sure you will do yours. 1 repose my client with confi dence in your hands ; and most fervently dot hope, that when evening shall find you at your happy fire aide, surrounded \>y the aacred circ e of your children, you may not feel the heavy curse gnawing at your heart, of having let loose, unpunished, the prowler that may devour themrCcnt1emen, we will now call our evidence. I assure you I hav? stated this case far lest strong ly than my instructions would warrant m? i but even so 1 cannot avoid warning you to take no word of mine for granted, and to decide solely according to the tes timony produced to yoi*. V There was a Verdict for the Plaintiff; of a, 500/. *?