Camden gazette. (Camden, S.C.) 1816-1818, July 07, 1817, Image 4
Ftcm 1hB~&JrtQyAL ftKCISTER.
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Bj IT. M. Brackearfcge, Esj.
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?TTiave described th? sccond
trace watefed by the ^Missouri, as a
specimen'of that which lies west of
the Mississippi, & south of the north
west chain of lakes. ~ The country
spoth of'thc Arkansas, that on Red
filler, and the greater part. of the.
province of the Texas, have similar
features. Thus iumpcars> that with
the exception of a^fclt of one hun
dred and fifty, or two hundred miles
in width, at. most, stretching from
the Missouri, in a line parallel with
ihe course of the Mississippi, across
the dffkansas and Red -River lo the
Sabine, about twice thfc territory of
New-York, but not a tenth part of
the ' wesjtm section of the valley,
thejprojRrice of Louisiana is little
better than a barren waste, and thac
the eastern side will always contain
? much glrateT population .
From- what has been said, it
will be Seen that the prevailing idea,
and" with which we nave so much
flattered otirsehrjes, of these western
* ions being, likrthc rest of the
ted States, susceptible of* culti
:iofl, and fording endless outlets
to settlement is certainly errone
ous/'
He theft gives a more free and
fanciful .description of those vast
prairies, or natural meadows, which
of
* liuTtferj,". and describes as a gently
_ wdpUtinfl ,sca of bright green.
Those wastes, useless and even in
jurious as thev may be in a civiliz
ed country, afford to the traveller
delightful scenes, not only of softly
sweet picturesque, but often of sub*
lime effect) and filling the princi
pal extent, as well as constituting
the first characteristic feature of the
country, they seem to claim the
Chief attention. Producing abun~
dant pasturage tucy will probably
never fyr destitute of inhabitants :
either Jh# present Indian tribe will
form independent there, and
occupy them, like Tartar Hordes,
to the annoyance of the future civi
lised ?Cukr$onthe rich borders of
the riverf, or else be- expelled by
the faZf and outlawed of the whites,
who n>av form, in their stead, bands
more dangerously savage. . Bur,
leaving*rhe political dreamers coin)*
maginc the consequences of these
things, we proc<4|fto our author's
'dc?cii{jtiun of rciuuics tiot tew un
Xirtary, |
might opcratclPRv^pt the great
er part of the Western region j but
tomcthiWEOf ^jtfFer ent kind must
have effected vjjtange in this coun
try, which appareiuiv were once co
iperc? with trees. what immense
quantities of the earth must have
been carrird *bff, to form the great
allurriom of the Musissippi, by
means of the Arkansas,. R?d River,
JWfcchieBy ?from the Missouri, not
to mention the vast quantities lost
;n thj^fiulph of Mexico ! The re
mit? ? calculation would be iu
rious^Thr proofs of the loss which
this country has eu>uinefl, ar^ very
e vident in the neighborhood of near
ly all the rivet; whTch discharge
? tham.sdves in the Missouri above
the Plajte. Some of the appear
ances wfje?e the earth has been tl.u#
cfiriedWii*, may rank among our
greatest curiosities. The traveller
on entering a plain, it 'deceived at
Kthe fir^g lance, by what appears to
l? the nTigp of some great city : hi?
^eer rows of h<AM% stretched for
several milts, aton? apparently re
gular struts, there seems to be
alt the symmetry ? and order of a
town .built on a magnificent plan,
and tl?e occasional deviations from
this plan, in imagination, represent i
I palaces, temple*, or structures
| standing detached f#os? the rest;?
I These appearances are caused by the
washing away of the tisth and
durable substances, while the *eins
?t uc>(\4 prevade the mass,
continue undecayed, and seem l!D be
walls constructed by human hand*.
The horizontaT strata which mark
them, from the different stories,
while the detached hills of various :
sizes and shapes, with their ever
green, creeping junipers, on their
dfosj represent the insolated edifices.
Rie remarkable walls described by
te wis and Clark on the Missouri,
have bctn produced in this way."
The extract oTa letter from Mr.
Sibley, United States' factor jn the
Osage nation, is not less interesting r
"The Grand Saline is situated
, about 280 miles southwest of Fort
Osage, between two forks of a small
branch of the Arkansas,one of which
washed its southern extremity, and
the other, the principal one, runs
nearly parallel, within a mile of its
opposite side. It is a hard level
plain of a reddish colored sand, and
I of an irregular or mixed figure $
its greatest length is from n'orthwest
to southeast, and it* circumference
full 30 miles? ^firom the appearance
of drift wood that is scattered over,
it would seem that the whole plain
! is at times inundated by the over
| flowing of the streams that pass near
| it. This plan is entirely covered
; in dry hoc weather, from two to
I six inches deep, with a crust of beau
I tiful clean white salt, of a quality
j rather superior to the imported
brown salt i it bears a striking re
semblance to a field of brilliant
snow after a rain, with a light crust
on its top. On a bright sunny
morning the appearance of tbb na
tural curiosity is highly picturesque.
1 It possesses the quality of looming
j or magnifying objects, and this in a
very striking degree, making the
! same billets of wood appear as for
midable as trees. Numbers of Buf
faloes were on the plain. The Sa
line isienvironed by a strip of marshy
prairie with a fefr scattering trees,
mostly of cotton wood. t ? Behind
there is a range of sand hilL?,some of
which are perfectly naked, others
thinly clothed with verdure, and'
dwarf plumb bushes^ not more than
thirty inches in height, from which
we procured abundance of the most
delicious plumbs I ever tasted.-^
The distance to a navigable branch
of the Arkansas about So miles,' the
country ? toierable level, and the
water courses easily passed.
<f About 60 miles south west from
this, I ramc to the Saline, the whole
of this distance lying over a coun
try remarkably rugged andbroken,
affording the most romantic and
picturesque views immaginabte. It
is a tract of about y miles, in which
nature has displayed * great variety
of the most strange ana whimsical
vagaries. It is an assemblage of
beautiful meadows, verdant ridge*,
and rude misshaped piles of red
clay thrown together in the utmost
apparent confusion, yetaffording the
most pleasing harmonies, and pre*
senting in cve;y direction an endless
variety of curious and interesting
objects** After winding along for
a few miles on the high ridges, you
suddenly descend an almost perpen
dicular declivity of rocks and clay,
into a series of level fertikmesdows^
watered by some bcautMk rivulets,
a ni here ?nd there adorned with
shrubby c otto ft trees* elms and rc-> ,
dars. These meadows are divided]
by chains formed of red clay, and
hugh masses of gypsum, with here
,nd^/#^of,rv*
might Imagine himself surrounded
t?y the ruinx'of some ancient city,
and that the plains had sunk by
some convulsion ?f nature,
than 100 feet below it* leve
hugh colurftflW
se to the height of, aofl |
' capped *ith rocks |
sum, w^ich the hancf, of time
ever crumbling oflL and strewing
in beautiful traftspd^Bt flrfkea along
the declivities of Phil),
ir.g like So many mirrors
sun." ?
(To bt ContinurU.)
atictfcotetf.
A husband and wife, who quar
relied .ratheftfrorc than man and
Wife iisdbly do, which the reader
will believe was bad enough, were
on the eve of separation * when t*r
.good lady, affecdng tofidlMck, fold
her spcuse that " shei>etieved she
should die, and put on the best face
to the world, thought shr had hrtvc*.
stay and end her days in their old!
house which he, good easy old
man, fully assented to ; and very se
riously asked her, " whoiushe would
advise htm to marry when she was
gone. This was too much. "Mar
ry the devil P* replied she in great
warmth; " Marry the devil ? No,,
my love," answered he ; <f no that
can never be, * the canons of the
church prohibit it, I have married
his daughter already. "
One Sxoallow doe* n*t make a Summer. t
One sharp frosty day, the prince
of Wales went into the Thatohec
House tavern, an4 ordered a beaf
. steak : but, observing that it was
excessively cold, desired the waiter
to bring him first a glas* of brandy
and v^ater. He emptied that in a
twinkling, then a second, then a
third. ? "Now,*' said his royal high
ness, "I am warm and comfortable i
bring my steak." On this, Mr.
Shertdan, who- was present, wrote
the following impromptu :
TKe prince came in, ancl safif 'twas eold,
Then put to his head \he rummer -?
Till vwallovt after twaUovt came,
Then he pronounced It summer .
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A Contribution to Natural Philosophy
A traveller was Miking of having
seen is some foreign country 1>u%j
so large and powerful, that two of
them would drain a man's blood in
a night ? Sir John Doyle, to Whom
tki^was addressed, replied, " My
good sir, we have the same animals
in Ireland, but they are knoWn by
another name ?, they arc (failed bum
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X A W -j* ^ it VI A -
An msrrman tell Ironvth'e main
top of one of our. ships' a few days
fcgo, and tumbled on the deck, very
near the first lieutenant. Every onfc'
thought all his bones 4ere broken j
however he cot up and rubbed his
arm, when the firsc lieutenant ex
claimed, " where do you com*
from ?" " Please your honor I am
fro in t 1* North of Ireland 1 f*
? 4'i
m
" What haye you got to say, old,
Bacon Face i said a counsellor to a
Parmer, at the late Cambridge as
sizes, *' why," answered the Far
rner, /??! am thinking Ait my B<*%
? con Face and your Calf's Head would ,
make a good dish^T
- near Manchester,
#ere observed b|aome gentlemen, j
a few days sincejfo be Susy in as
sisong jBl ass over the wall of a
pound, where it was confined. On
asking the reason, the tan, with true
humanity and Character, made the
following reply ? Why lookee,mi^
ter, we saw this here animal agr
without victuals, d'ye ?etf? ~
&
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at
W(shaid
that he had
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L-Mlg
table with
Oitc of the
fhe company,
me ahd genealogy,
that he had been ori- 1
led for a church, re
j-?* thai ahc thought him
futinglor the steeple." ?'? .
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?*+i*n-trs ij
NO. i5
WnEUr.AS, 1 have ihis day received
a.Coftimuoioiiion from toe L?iamt Lodn*?
io wt>ich ye uwe juiivhmmi,
officially ihc Union o f itit lua Grundl^od%t4
ot 4h|UttA and ac^uipumed by tUe a? u^
cles, of the Union, concerted m unani
mo vi sly by each. _ .<
ji-'id e*erea?, I am required to lay tbs -
same bsriore ihe'OftictW and Members of
the Lodge over which I have the hut\ur
io prtrvtcrtr* in LfOttfre c^cnrmcorw tjttrer
that thejr may take the same into consider
?lion, aful solemnly ddermine whether
they wiH-'acqui??ca <? or dissent from i ho
Tctma of tfiesaid Union* You are thcre
feat hereby notified a unrequired to give
your attendance at the Lodge Koom in
, Camden j on the regular lodge evening > pre-"
cisely at 6 o'clock-; which will be on
TUESDAY the 2M day of July ne?u
The utmost punctuality la enjoined 6t? <
the mejnbers. as the business Is ^f a mo*
| m&ntous ami interesting ** %
* ' ? ; CHAPMAN W&fJif
Master p/ KetMhaw Zhdfe A o. 65*
j June 23. ^ ^
R EGIMENTAL ORDERS*
Cairiden June 23 l3li\L
THE Captains or officers commanding
companies sfe heitby required t*
h a v^ their defaulters at the general review ??
of the 35th HeKimeAt on the 29m Mtafr ?
last, summoned to attend the Keu\ihentaS
> Court Martial at Camden on the 25th July
ne*t, (as well thou: who absent a a
those who were . not equipped according ^
? to law) and iha&e their returns to Capt*
j i.avr, Prqgdent of Hi* Court* at lets!
three days previous to their sitting*
By Order o/ Col. F. Ulair,
C- D. HUNTER Mjutonu
June ii
REGIMENTAL ORDERS. *
A-fcOURT MARTIAL ^eitl convene
at Camden, on Frft&y thd SstJt q?
July next, for the trial c? non-commis
sioned offers end privates* defaulters it J1
the Gen. Review of the *6th Rdgt. 3. C. y C
; Militia on the *Wk May last. The cotitt
to consist of the following Officers.
CHAPMAN LEVY, JHrendenU * k :
Capt. BELK,1 ?-?'*' jfo'kftSgU -
Cspt, EVANS- J
Mr* John ^hUak^r.will act ?% Judges
Advocate. The^ cdurt^ will adjourn from'
day to day, until all the business that may '
.come before .them . shfll be, concluded*
By Order Dm., $
C..0.-MUNTER ,4<jut*nt.
?*- June 33. ? $
to come