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THE CAMDEN JM UAL [HEW SERIES.] IOL. 1? CAMlMEiY, SOET3B CAROLINA, SATURDAY FEBRUARY fl, 1810. NO. &. '' ^ ^ THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, Published every Saturday Morning, BY THO.lI.lS W. PEGl'ES, Publisher of the Laws of the Union. At three dollars in adva?.ci , three dollars and filly cents in six months; or four dollars at the expiration of (he year. w Advertisements inserted at 7j cents per square for the first, and H7 1-2 for each subsequent insertion.? The number of insertions to he noted on all advertise incuts, or they will he published until ordered to be discontinued, and^clierjcd accordingly. One dollar ,?:ii k., <Vxi. n <:>urli> insertion. per <?iu.uv v? Scmi-inr?.iMiIy, Monti.!/ and Qurtorly advertiseincuts will be charged tlic same us new ones cacli in. aertiou. AH Obituary Notices exceeding six line', and Commsnicatione recommending Candidates foe pubic Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, will be charged as advcitisemonts. - Accounts for Advertising and Job V.'ork will be presented for payment, quarterly. UTAH Letters by mail must be post paid to insure punctual attention. SHERIFF'S SALES. virtue ci' sundry Executions to me directed, will be soiti before thcCourl House in Camden, en the first Monclayar.il 7" Tuesday, being the 3rd ami 4th days of February next, within the usual hours ol sale, thf^Collowing properly, viz: Onesori?:l llor-e grey .Mare and Colt, nut! defendant's interns.! in a Cotton Gin, lovied upon and to h - sold as l!ie property of Thomas M. Creightou, at the suit of Murray & Bonr.ey, now tor the benefit of Thomas J. Cuiiiliiu. One bay Hor^e, and the defendant's interest in a Cotton (Jin, levied upon and to be soidas the properly of Eli Crci?hion, at the suit of Murray Si Bouncy, now lor the benefit of Thomas Cauthin. Also?Two Cows, a sma'l lot of Pork and a Chest of Drawers, levied upon and to be sold r.s the properly Eli Crcightou, at the suit of Longford Carson. N. B.?All the above property, except the Horses, Mare and Colt will be sold at me uoutiC k! i nomas u, CiuiiiM, ..ear l'lal Uock, on Tuesday the second day of sale. Conditions, cash. Purchasers to pay for titles. BF.XT. G VfiS, R. K. D. Sheriff's Office, <n. 10. 1510. orn er of Broad <& RiUlcdge streets, OFFER for sale on the most accommodating terms, a variety of fl - .! E.jjtcj urj uvuusi consisting in part of Superfine black an.! blue, green, br o\v and niix'd Broad Cloths, " Cassimercs and Sattincls, Kentucky Jeans, white and red Flannels, English and French Meritioes, Bombazines, Italian Crape, Muslins, (of every description) Cambrics, Furniture and Cambric Dimiiv, A very genera! assortment of Calicoes, Apron Checks, Bed Ticking, Damask Table Cloths, Tabling and Bird-eye Diaper, Negro Cloths and Blankets, Brown Shilling at 0, 7, 9, 9, 10, 11 and 1'J yards for 6'. Cotton Oziub :rgs and Suffolk Drilling, Silk, Cotton and worsted Hosiery. ?.- Kin m-.m Superfine Black Gros elf Rhine, " " Gros de Swiss, " Rep. " Blue-black fig'd Gros de Nap. " Color'd " do. " ' plain do. Black and blue-black Silk Velvet, Super. Black India Satin, Rich Mouslin Delaine, Mourning do do Rich Satin r.nd Valencia Vcs:ings, Silk and worsted Shawls, worked Collars, IIlack Lace and Gauze Veils, Zephyr worsted, ohencel &c. SHOES. Ladies' French and English Kid Slippers, " rrtinelle, Seal and Leather Shoes, Men's Shoes of various descriptions, Misses' and Children's do do All the Shoes from the manufactory of Mr. W hite will bo sold by us. They have also on hand a general assortment of Hardware, Crockery, and * ? V J 1 S \ ?> r-% uicuuttKias, all of which will be disposed of at the lowe ;t cash prices. Merchants and others from the country would do well to call and examine the stock before making their purchases. January 4: Dissolution of Co-partnership. THE firm of WM. MATHESON & CO was dissolved on the 1st inst. by mutual consent.- The business of the conceru will be settled by William Matheson. WM. MATHESON. C. MATHESON. Jan. 6. 1840. a - From the Edinburgh Journal. C "IT'S ONLY A DROP!" i It was a cold winter's night, and though c the cottage where E!!c:i and Michael, the c two surviving children of old Ben Mur- t phy lived, was always neat and comfortable, still there was a cloud over the brow c of both brother anil sister, as they sat before the cheerful fire; it had obviously 41 been spread not by anger, but bv sorrow. \ The silence had continued long, though it t was not bitter. At last Michael drew a- j; way from his sister's eyes the checked a- \ pron she had applied to them, and taking j her hand affectionately within his own, f said, " It is'nt for my own sake, Ellen, t itiiMiio'U flip. Lord Iriinws 1 hp lonesome _ ! enough the long wintcrnights and the long c i summer days without your wise saying, c ] and your sweet song, and your merry c i laugh, that. I can so well remember?ay, i | since the time when our poor mother used 1 i to seat us on the new rick, and then, in the 5 ! innocent pride of her heart, call our father j to look at us, and preach to us against be- 1 ing conceited, at the \ cry time she was ma- ; king us proud as peacocks by calling us i her blossoms of beauty, and her heart's 1 blood, and her king and queen." ? Cod and the blessed virgin make her 1 . bed in heaven now and forcvcrmorc, a- i . said Ellen, at the same time draw- t iug out her beads, and repeating an avc I withincopci lvr.' ' rapidity. "Ah,Mike," 1 site added," that t'-v.v the mother, and the i j father too, full of grace of god I moss." I > " True f a ye, Ellen: but that's not what ( I I'm afther now, as you well know, you [y blushing little rogue of the world; and ,I ! sorra a word I'll say against it in the end, f ! though it's lonesome I'll be on my own t ' hearth-stone, with 110 one to keep me com- ^ pany but flic ould black cat, that can tsee, c let alone hear, the craythur!" i;Now" said Ellen, wiping her eye?, , and smiling her own bright smile, " lave r oft*; ye're just like all the men, puilcnding r to one thing, whin tliey mane another; ^ 'there's a dale ofdesalcabout them?all? "vei v one of them?aod so my mother of i ten said. Now, you'd better have done, ? or maybe I'll say something that will bring ( if not die colour to your brown check, a r dale more warmth to ycr warm heart, than would be convanicnt, just by the men- ^ lion of one Man*?Mary ! what a purtv f name Mary is, is'nt it ??it's a common | name too, and yet you like it none the \ worse for that. Do you mind the ould ? rhyme ?? { ' Mary, Mary, quite contrary." t Well, I'm cot going to say sho is contrary t ?I'm sure she's any thing but that to you, | any way, brother Mike. Can't you sit still, 1 and don't be pulling the hairs out of f Pushcen cat's tail, it is'nt many there's in I it; and I'd thank you not to unravel the ]? beautiful English cotton stocking I'm knit-; i ting; lave off your tricks, or I'll make'e common talk of it, I will, and bcmorcthan r even with you, my fine fellow! Indeed, e poor ould Pushcci)," she continued, a:l-' f dressing the cat with great gravity, "never 1 heed what he says to you; he has no no- 1 tion to make you cither head or tail to the > house, not he; he wont let you be without 1 a inislhrcss to give you a sup of milk, or r ycr bit of sop; he wont lei you be lone- t some, my poor puss; he's glad enough to 1 swop an Ellen for a Maiy, so he is; but j that's a sacret, avournecn ; don't tell it to ] any one." f "Any tiling for your happiness," replied s the brother somewhat sulkily; "but your f bachelor has a worse tauit than over I had, 1 notwithstanding all the lecturing you kept t on to mc; he has a turn for the drop, El-' len, you know lie lias." !? Ifow spitefully you said that," replied a Ellen; " and ;t is'nt generous to spake of c it wncn he's not hero to defend himself." j " You'll not let a word go against him," 1 r said Michael. vNo," she said, "I will never let ill be a ?nr>ken nf nil absent frieml T lrnmv he t has a tarn for the drop, but I'll cure him." t " After lie's married;'' observed Michael, not very good-naturedly. r "No," she answered, "before. I think c a girl's chance of happiness is not worth If much who trusts to rz/ter-marriage refor- \ mation. I wont. Did'nt I relorm you, Mike, of the shockin' habit you had of putting every thing off to the last! and af- s ter relorming a brother, who knows what Ii I may do with a lover! Do you think that Larry's heart is harder than yours, Mike ? 11; Look what fine vegetables we have in our garden now, all planted by your own hands c; when you come home from work?plant- a cd dtirimr the verv time which vou used to spend in leaning against the door check, t or smoking your pipe, or sleeping over the ^ fire; look at the money you get from the Agricultural Society." t "That'syours, Elien," said the generoushearted Mike; "I'll never touch a penny I of it; but for you I never should have had 1: it; I'll never touch it." o "You never shall," she answered; "I've \ laid it every penny out, so that when the ? 1 i house of comforts as are not to be found i n the parish?white table-cloths for Sunlay, a little store of tay and sugar, soap, i :andles, starch, every thing good, and plcny of it." "My own dear generous sister," exdaimed the young man. i " I shall ever be yoursister," she replied, i ; and Iter's ton: She's a good cullccii, and vortliy my own Mike, and that's more 1 haii I would say to 'ere another in the i )arisb. I was'nt in earnest when I said 'ou'd be glad to get rid of me; so put the loucli, every bit of it, oil' yer handsome i hcc. And hush!?whisht! w;!i ye! there's i lie sound of Larry's footstep in the bawn ?hand me the needles, Mike." She braid-1' :d back her hair with both hands, arrang- ! :d the red ribbon, that confined its luxurimcc, in the little glass that hung upon a | lail on the dresser, and, after composing!i ler arch laughing features into an expres- < ;ion of great gravity, sat down, and apilied herself with singular industry' to take jj lp the stitches her brother had dropped, ; md put on a look of right maidenly aston-;; shnient when the door opened, and Lar- ; y's good-humored face entered witii the : salutation of "God save all here!" lie >oppcd iiis head in first, and, after gazing i ound, he presented his goodly pers .n to : heir view; and a pleasant view it was, for i ie was of genuine Irish beauty and bear- j r.g?frank and manly, and fearless-look- i ng. Ellen, the wicked one, looked up; j villi wcil-feigncd astoiii^Iiaicnt, and cx-i da lined, "Oli, Larry, is it you, and who' vould have thought of seeing you this )!cssed night? ?ye're lucky, just in time or a bit of supper afthcr your walk acros3 he moor. 1 cannot think what in the vorld makes you walk over that moor so iften; you'll get wet feet, arid yer mother ill be forced to nurse you. Of all the , valks in the county, the walk across that. i noor is the dreariest, and yet ye're always' joiiig it! I wonder you hav'nt better sense; re're not such a chicken now." "Well," interrupted Mike, "itsthe wonen that bates the work', for de-avieg. Sure s'nc heard yer step when nobody else sould; its echo struck on her heart, Lar-' y?let her deny it; shc'il make a shove >tf if she can; she'll twist you, and twirl rou, and turn you about, so that you won't mow whether it's 011 your head or your icels ye're standing. She'll tossicate yer wains in no time, and be as composed herielf as a dove 011 her nest in a storm. But isk her, Larry, the straight-forward quesion, whether she heard you or not. She'll ell no lie; she never does." Ellen shook her head at her brother, and auuhed. And immediately after, the hap >y trio sat down to a cheerful supper. Larry was a good tradesman, blythc md "well to do" in the world; and had t not been for the one great fault; an inclination to take the "least taste in life nore" when he had already taken quite enough, there could not have been found i better match for good, excellent Ellen Murphy, in the whole kingdom of Ireland. When supper was finished, the everlasting vhiskey bottle was.produced, and Ellen esumed her knitting. After a lime, Lary pressed his suit to Michael for the indusrious hand of his sister, thinking, doubtess, with the natural self-conceit of all wrwkind, that he was perfectly secure with Sllen; but though Ellen loved, like all my air countrywomen, icrll, she loved, I am iorry to say, unlike the generality of my air countrywomen, wisely, and reminded id* lover that she lmd scon him intoxicated it the last fair of Jlathcoolin. "Dear Elleni" he exolauned. "it was only a drop,' the lea. t las?-'in life that o ercanic rue. It overtook 1110 unknown, juite against my will." " Who poured it down yer throat, Lary?? " Who poured it down my throat is it ? vhy, myself, to be sure; but arc you going o put mo to a three months' permaiice for hat?" . I "Larry, will you listen to me, and rcnember that the man I marry must be :onvertcd before we stand before the >riest. I have no faith whatever in con- , versions after." i " Oh Ellen!" interrupted her lover. " It's no use oh Ellening mc," she an-! wcred quickly; " I have made my rcso-! ulion, and I'll stick to it." I, " She's as obstinate as ten women V said j icr brother. , ' There's no use in attemptiug to contra- j lict her; she always has had her own i vay." _ j " It's very cruel of you, Ellen, not to lis- i en to reason. I tell you a tablespoonful i vill often upset me." "If you know that, Larry, why do you , ake the tablespoonful?" i Larry could not reply to this question. < le could only plead that the drop got the , >etter of him, and the temptation, and the ; wercomingncss of the thing, and it was ( rery hard to be at him so about a trifle. "I can never think a thing a trifle," she self; I should wish to respect you always. Larry,and in my heart I believe no woman ever could respect a drunkard. I don': want to make you angry; God forbid y<?t should ever be cue, and I J.n/yc you ar not one yet; but sin grows mighty strong upon us without our knowledge. And no matter what indulgence leads to bad; we've a right to think any thing that docs lead to it sinful in the prospect, if not lithe present." "You'd have made a fine priest, Ellen," ;aid the young man, determined, if lie could not reason, to laugh lier out of her resolve. "I don't think." she replied, archly, "if l was priest, that c.ther >t yon would iiavc liked to come to me to confession." " Bet Ellen, dear Ellen, sure it's not in positive downright earnest you are; you can't think of puiting me off on account of that unlucky drop, the least taste in life. I took at tiie fair. Yo:rcouid not find it in your heart. Sneak for :n?'. Michael, speak for me. But I see it's j dcinjr y>u arc. Why, Lent, 'ilbe on us in no time, and then we must wait till Easter; it's easy talking." "Leery," interrupted Ellen, "do not you talk yourself into a pass': >n: it will do no good: n .ue 1-i ?'io w.ul L I am sure you love mo, a!,d I eoufe?s bef >re my brother it will be the delight of my heart to return flint Inviv nnrl irr.-a.' !;' wnrtliv ftf vnn. if you will only break yourself of t hat one habit, which you qualify to your own undoing, by fancying, because the least drop i i life, makes you what you ought not to be, thai, you may stii! take it." " I'll take an oath against the whiskey, if that will p'ase ye, til! Christmas." "And when Chrrstmas comes, get twice as tipsy as ever, with joy to think your oatii is out: no!" "I'll sware any thing you plase." "Id aft want v>u to sware at all; there is no use in a man's taking an oath he is anxious to have a chance of breaking. I want your reas >n to be convinced." "?.Iy darling Ellen, all the reason Icvci had in my liib is c mvinced." "Prove it. by abstaining from taking ever a drop, even the fr-ud drop in life, if thai drop can make you a named to look your poor Ellen in the face." "PI!give it up altogether." " I hope you will 0113 of these days, from a conviction that it is really bad in every way; but not from cowardice, not because you dar'nt trust yourself." " Ellen, I'm sure ye've some English blood in yer veins, ye're such a rcasoncr, Irish women don't often throw a boy ofl because ol a drop; if thev did, it's not many marriage dues his Reverence would have, winter or summer." t; Listen to me, Larry, and believe, that though I spake this way, I regard you truly; and if I did not, I'd not take the throublc to tell you my mind." " Like Mick Brady's wife, who, whenever she thrashed h:m, cried over the blows, and said they were all for his good," observed her brother slyly. " Nonsense!" listen to me, I say, and I'll tell you why I am so resolute. It's many a long day since, going to school, I used tc meet. Michael minds her, too, I'm sure, an old bent woman; they used to call hei the Witch of Ballaghton. Stacy was, as I have said, very old entirely, withered and white headed, bent nearly double with age, and she used to he always muddling about the streams and ditches, gathering herbs and plants, the girls said to work charms with; and at first they used to wiiiri:, rather far off. and if they thought they h:i I a good chance of, escaping her totigu in*'! Mi? stones sue iiung ar mem, ill -y\l ' a!i 11- r an iii name ??r two and e" Hnot:'.'id as she wtu, she'd make a spring at 'hem side-ways like a rn!>. and liowl, and it) <t, ana set: an), a., 1 then they'd be ..ii' like a flock of pigeons fr-m a hawk, a: d she'd ?0 on disturbing the grccn-coaied waters with her c-\...!;ed stick, and muttering words which unie, it tiiey h.ard, could iiiiuoivtand. Sraey had been a vv-'l-mred woman, and knew a dale trior than any of us; when n ?f tormented by the children, she was nighty well spoken, ami the gentry thought a dale aboui. her more than she did about them ; for she'd say there was'ot one in the coun try Tit to tic her shoe, and tell tnem so, 100, if they'd cail her any thing hut Lady Stacy, which t!ic rule gentry of the place ail humored her in; but the upstarts, who think every civil word to an inferior is a pulling down of their own dignity, would turn up their noses as they passed her, and n ay be she did'nt bless them for it. One day Mike had gone home before ne, and, coming down the back bohrcen. tvho should I see moving along it but Laly Stacy; and on she came muttering and numbling to herself till she got near me, ind as she did, I heard Master Nixan (t lie Jog man*'s) hound in lull cry, and seen * Tax-gathcrors were so called some time ago in [reland, because they collected the duty on doge. 'i- \ J..-,.;,-. him at her heels, and he over the hedge encouraging ihe haste to tear her in pieces; The dog soon was up with her, and then .she kept him off as well as she could with her crutch, cursing the entire time, and I was very frightened, hut I darted to her sice, and, with a wattle I pulled out of the hedge, did rnv best to keep him off her. Master Nixon cursed at me with all his ' heart, hut i w.fi'nt to he turned off that way. y.acy, hcrselt, laid about Witt* ner 5? Alt', but the ugly brute would have finished her, only for me. I don't suppose Xhern -want that, but the dog was savage, and some men like him, delight in cruelty. . Well, I beat the dog off; and then I had to help the poor fainting woman, for she was both faint and hurt. I did'nt much like bringing her here, for the people said she was'nt lucky; however, she wanted help, and I gave it. When I got her on the floor.f I thought a drop of whiskey would revive her, and, accordingly,I ofterjed her a glass. I shall never forget the j venom with which she dashed^it on the ' grou nd. 'Do yon want to poison me,' she shouted, 'alther saving my life?' When she came to herself a little, she made me sit down by her side, and fixing her large grey eyes upon my face, she kept rocking her | body backwards ana forwards, wnne sne spoke, as well as I can remember?what j I'll try to loll you?but I can't tell it as she j did?that would'nt be in nature. 'Ellen,' she said, and her eyes fixed in my face, 'I was'nt always a poor lone creature, that ' every ruffian who walks the country dare set his cur at. There was full and plenty in my lather's house when I was young, but before I grew to womanly estate, its walls were bare and roofless. What made them so? drink! whiskey! My father was in debt; to kill thought, he tried to keep himself so that he could not think: he ! wanted the courace of a man to look his " " o - i danger and difficulty in the face, and overcome it; for, Ellen, mind my word ?, the man that will look debt and danger steadi ly :n the face, and resolve to overcome i them, can do so. lie had not means, he 11 said, to educate his children as became : them : he grew not to have means to find them or their poor patient mother the proper necessaries of life, yet he found the means to keep the whiskey cask flowing, i and to answer the bailiffs' knocks for ad' mission by the loud roar of drunkenness, f mad, as it was wicked. They got in at las% in spite of the care taken to keep them t out, and there was much fighting, ay, and . blood spilt, but not to death; and while F the riot was a-foot, and we were crying :j round the death-bed of a dying mother, 1: where was he ??they had raised a tenI gallon cask of whiskey on the table in the ! parlour, and astride on it sat my father, . _ riourisnmg ine nuge pewter lunuei m unc I hand, and the black jack streaming with whiskey in the other; and amid the fumes of hot punch that flowed over the room, , and the cries and oaths of the fighting drunken company, his voice was heard swearing " he had lived like a lung, and 1 would die like a king!"' 4 Thank God! she died that night?she > died before worse came; she died on the i bed that, before her corpse was cold, was dragged from under her?through the > strong drink?through the badness of him [ who ought to have saved her; not that he was a bad man cither, when the whiskey ; had no power over him, but he could not ; bear his own reflections. And his end soon came. He did'nt die like a king; he died smothered in a ditch, where he fell; lie died, and was in the presence of God ?how? Oh, there are tilings that have had whiskey as their beginning and their j end, that make me as mad as ever it made I him ! The man takes a drop, and forgets 'his starving family; the woman lakes it, : and forgets she is a mother and a wife. | It's the curse of Ireland?a bitterer, blacki cr, deeper curse than ever was put on it l by foreign power or hard-made laws T " ' liod bless us!' was carry's nau-Dreamed ejaculation. "I only repeat ould Stacy's words," said I Ellon; "you see I never forgot them, j' You might think/ she continued, 'that I had warning enough to keep mc from having any thing to say to those who war too fond of drink, and I thought I had; but, somehow, Edward Lambert got round me with his sweet words, and I was lone and unprotected. I knew he had a little fondness for the drop; but in him, young, handsome, and gay-hcartcd, with bright eyes and sunny hair, it did not seem like "the horrid thing which had made me shed no tears over my fathers grave. Think of that, young girl: the drink dos'nt make a man a beast at first, but it will do so before it'sdonc with him?it will do so before it's done with him. I had enough power over Edward, and enough memory of the past, to make him swear against it, except so much at such and such a time, and for a while lie was very particular; but on t 111 the house. - V- . .