Camden gazette. (Camden, S.C.) 1816-1818, January 02, 1817, Image 1
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Number 40.
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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*
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0 24 0 25 0 21.0 23
0 00 . 5 od
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1 50 0 00
0 14.0 160 10,011
0 20 .0 25
gallO 60 . 0 65 0 80 .0 8*
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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
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at,. . 0 75 . 0 800 75 .087
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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.
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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,.
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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.
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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,
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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. .
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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/. *?