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mrmarrmm 11. ii im- i?u?B? ??1 THE CAMDEN JOURNAL Published every Saturday Morning, BV THOMAS W. PCfil/^t Publisher of the Laws of the Union. At three dollars in bdvahvi-, ll.rec dollars and fifty cents in six uniiths; or tour dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements insortod at 75 cents por square for the first, and 37 1*2 for each subsequent insertion.? The number of insertions io bo noted on all advertiso nionts, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. One dollar per square will be charged for a single insortion. Semi-mo..mly. Monthly and Qurlorly advertise, will ho ohnnrnd the same as new ones each in UlUlIbO IIM. ? ? ^ Bcrtion. . All Obituary Noticos exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Candidates for pub. ic Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, will be charged as advertisements. Accounts for Advertising and Job Work will be presented for payment, quarterly. 0*A11 Letters by mail must be post paid to insure upnetual attention. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. Washington, April 22. The JIoDse was disgraced yesterday, by a scene of disorder and personal violence, such has been rarely witnessed even in that body. Mr. Saltonstall had the floor, i i committee of the whole, and was speaking ol the attempt of the Globe, to discredit some *** 1 * * ? * r\AnrlihlfOC official statements as iu wiu ?|icuui?ii>vv of the Government. The Globe, iu an article headed "federal tricks, people ol Virginia be on your guard," stales that a handbill, signed by seven or eight members of the House, containing a statement of public accounts that, without explanation, was calculated to make "a most false and foul impression on the public mind," had been extensively circulated in Virginia. The Globe explains the matter so as to shew that the "items are not made up in such a manner as to present a true state of the public expenses," though it was circulated as an official document. Among the signers of the handbill were Mr. Rice Garland, Mr. Saltonstall, and Mr. Botts* Mr. Wise rase to make some further explanation on the subject, as his colleague (Mr. Botts) was absent. Ho ?n.i <11,>l rrwnnnrpil the handbill and ibIIU ? the official document to which it refers, and challenged any one to point out any variation, except in the statements marked "unofficial.'' While Mr. Wise was speaking on the subject, an outcry and noise suddenly arose on the left of the Chair, and two of the members, Rice Garland of Louisiana, and Jesse A. Bvnuji of North Carolina, were observed in close and violent conllict. There was a rush to the spot. Mr. Evans seized Mr I3yncji, and .Mr. Banks and others laid hold of Mr. Garland, and other persons crowding between them, the combatan's were separated. The Chairman, in the mean time, implored the members, f-n the sake of their own characters?for the sake of the country, to preserve order.? The speaker was called for and some call ed for the Sergeant at Arms. Some few were opposed to any attempt to separate the parties?declaring that, as they could not light as gentlemen, they ought to fight in some other way. The speaker took the Chair and endeavored to bring the House to order Mr. Bynim, after being dragged away, continued to menace anti dare his antagonist. At length, order was restored, and Mr. Dromooole said he was an advocate of order, and he hoped the matter would have an immediate investigation, and thai ^itcharacter of the House would be supported, regardless of consequences to individuals. Mr. Bricgs said, it had long been remarked, that something murt be done to change the manners of this Mouse, or that it must be dissolved. We had now come to a point in which personal abuse must cease or the Mouse be broken up. Mr. Banks said the character of to is body had undergone a melancholy change. Gross vulgarity, and personal violence were as common here, every day, as 011 the muster ground or the race field. If this state of things continued, we must go home and tell the people, that party spirit or some snirit had seized upon this body and utterly destroyed its character and utility. Other members spoke, in the same strain. At length a resolution was . adopted for the appointment of u committee of five members to investigate the facts of the disorder and personal violence oc curring this day, in the House, between two of i:s members, with power to send for persons, and directions to report with all proper dispatch. The Committee were directed to go into session immediately. Mr. Wise expressed the hope that the matter would not be suffered to go over to another day. It was supposed that the committee would soon report; but they did not report, though they went out at two o'clock, and the House was in session till eleven o'clock at night. It appears that while Mr. Wise was speaking on the subject of the handbill, many members were conversing about it in an excited^nunner. Mr. Cyspm, who. by the way, is out of health, and is seldom in the House, was passing between the desks, near Mr. K. Garland's seat, and remarked, in allusion to the circular, "it looks very suspicious, coming out ns it did on the eve of the Virginia election." M-. Garland turned tn him, saving. "you are a d 1 liar;" "villain" "tkiej," OC.C. was quirKiy rnorieu. .?ir. Garland collareil Mr. Bv.vu.n, arid blows were interchanged. Mr. Bynvm endeavored to get out his penknife, but did not succeed in time to use it. Neither party , was-hurt. 1 presume the House will drop the matter. It will not serve as an admonition of the necessity o( preserving personal decorum; for, in the course of the same day, - 1 .-?? r% rro n rocnrfp/1 in personal nuusc ?v?ia u^nu ??>...- -- ? . the course of the debate. The discussion was continued in committee by Mr. Saltonstall. Mr. Jameson, Mr Ogle, and Mr. Davis of Kv., till eleven o'clock, when the committee rose and the House adjourned. | From the Charleston Mercury. I THE NEW TARIFF MOVEMENT. The intimate relation which Mr. Cal[ houn demonstrated in his late speech, to exist between the assumption of the State Debts, and the renewal of the Tariff seems I to have been understood though denied or i! evaded, by the friends of that monstrous ' proposition. It is a connection, now, not i. more established by logic than by fact, i and evety day is accumulating the evidence. ,!Mr. Clay, the great champion of thcTajriff, is also the projector of the measure for paying the State Debts by the proceeds of the public lands. Tariff Conventions have been held in Massachusetts, in Connecticut, in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. In the same presses throughout the North, we find the two topics of distribu4 ~ nnnoco/] twilli nnun 1 arrlor r (Kill 3 UU 1 at ill |/i Qoauu vr ? | They are nearest to kin, and not more re, markable for their direct affinity, than for the injustice and oppression which they equally threaten to the producing region of the South. The operation of the Tariff has been often pointed out. The States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, furnish about tivo thirds of the exports, oil the produce of which the duties are levied. The only part of the revenues of the Government which are not raised from them in that proportion, arise from the public lands. It is now proposed, at a time when, with its utmost means the Government can hardly pay its expenditures, to take away the revenue arising from the public lands and distribute a among the States. The entire expenditure of the Government must then be provided for out of the duties levied imported goods, the exchanges for our cotton.? The distribution of the puslic lands is proposed to be made according to the ratio of representation in Congress. Lei us see how that would affect the cotton growing Slates. The six States above enumerated, have 29 Representatives in Congiess, out of 243?less than one eighth of the whole. While they would pay, therefore, two thirds of the additional duties to replace the revenue from the public lands, they would receive bv the distribution scheme, less than one eighth of that revenue. The justice and equality of that scheme has been laude ! by its author and his partizans ?by the !*?tate Legislatures and grave assemblies?the justice "f pi inhering one section fir the benefit of another! the equality of the lion and the fox! But the scheme does not end here. The movement at the North is directed not merely t<> an inrrease of duties,"but to the restoration of a Ta riff of protection. We find revived aim cherished by Conventions, petitions to Congress and the newspappr press, all the rankest doctrines of the old Tariff school. Not long since, a Senator from New Jerscy presented a petition from certain manufacturers (of lace we believe) praying an increase of duty on their branch, and staling as their grievance, that under the preseni duties, fo-eign lace of the very best quality could be imported and sold for less than their own, which was of the coarsest! Congress was asked to exclude a valuable fabric, to encourage the manufacture of a miserable and worthless counterfeit. The impudence of this reason could only be equalled by a petition from the late Cashier of the Schuylkill Bank, praying for a heavy penalty to be laid on all kinds of hon*sty, on the ground that a* things arc: going, ilu* rascals found serious obstacles in the way of their monopolising ever) profitable offi"e in the country! Yet the petition of the Newark, lacemakers, with I its barefaced and solid impudence, embodies the very essence of the protective system. Have these people of the North really no honest occupation they can take to? Must the Union be forever harrassed by their schemes for making money, not only at the expense of their neighbors, but of the constitution and every principle of republicanism? Do they wish to make the Federal Union a perpetual ana grinding tyranny upon the South? Do they not see that the nerseverina obstinacy with which they burden the Union, not only with all their selfishness, but all their fanaticism?insisting that one half its time shall be given to filling their purses, and the other half to gratifying their passions, perfectly reckless that the first is to be attained only by legalized robbery, and the second only by sanctioning murder, insurrection and the utter destruction of one half the confederacy?do they not sec that by this incessant warfare upon every principle of justice, equality, tolerntion and brotherly kindness, they are daily dgging down the foundations of this no: bin Union, and making its continuance j impossible.' that so sure as we have loved I it us ilu? cruHi-dian of neaee. liberty and justice, so sure shall we hate and renounce it, if it is to be turned into a rod tu scourge, or a serpent to sling us? [Correspondence of the Army and Navy Chronicle.] Havana, March?, 1840. The frigate Macedonian, Captain Ken-| non, with the flag of Commodore 8hu brick, and the sloop of war Levant, Com-. mander Smoot, arrived in this harbor on ; tlie 17ih, from a cruise to windward of: three and a half months, during which se-1 veral ports were visited, at which no Ame-, rican frigate had ever before anchored. | The Commodore and his officers were i received with the greatest kindness and! hospitality everywhere almost; but especially at St Pierre's Martinique, were they welcomed with fraternal ardor?every house was thrown open to them?no olii* ccr was permitted to go to a hole!? , parlies were made every morning, and horses provided for them to ride into the country?breakfasts, and such breakfasts!!!! sumptuous as the feastings at Camancho's wedding?dinners and balls followed in quick succession. On the other hand, the two ships were thrown open to all visiters?cake and wine provided in the Commodore's cabin?and the fine little band of the Macedonian kept constantly in requisition, for scarcely a^air Martiniquean left the ship without having whirled more than once around the deck in the giddy waltz with some of the gallant young A merirnns. The ships went as far to windward as Barbadoes, at which place, there being a good deal of small-pox 011 the island, the Commodore did not deem it prudent to remain more than twenty-four hours. No officer visited the shore, and there was no communication with any of the authorities of the island except the health officer; the usual salute of twenty-one guns was tired by the Macedonian, and immediately returned by the fort. Vicc-Admiral Sir Thomas Marvej, Commander-in-Chief on the North American station, was at Barbadoes, with his flag on the Winchester frigate. When our ships anchored he sent a lieutenant on board the Macedonian with the customary offer of services, &c. but did not call on o,ur Commodore, or show any disposition to be civil. Was it that the names of the ships sounded unpleasantly in his ears? Or is it that all foreign officers of rank ere determined to make our officers feci, and feel to the heart's core, too, the anomalous situation in which they are kept? with high and important commands, but without the rank which would give them a right to meet officers of other navies, holding similar and not more important commands, on nn equal fooling. They must now receive that as a concession, when they receive it at all, to which a just government would give them a right; but! this is a subject for those to discuss who arc immediately concerned in it, and 1 have something more to say about our cruise. The commerce of the United States with the West India islands has evidently tiecreased since I was in these seas, some ten years since. Even at the free port of St. Thomas's, now more frequented than any other port of the islands, except Ha vana, we found but 30 American vessels; at St. Job's Porto Rico, only seven; and a: Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, only one I state the fact, and leave it to politibians to trace the effect to its cause. France does not allow su?ar to be taken \ irom her islands in any other than French bottoms. The absurd system pursued by England with her black population has ruined her colonies: and the two Spanish islands, Cuba and Porto Rico, will in a few jears, if they do not already, produce more than all the other islands together. It is to be observed, however, that on the latter island the slave population is small being only about 60,000 to 400,000 whites. The island is very fertile, is divided into small plantations and cultivated principally by whites of the same manners ami habits as the peasantry of old Spain. We go from this in a few days for Pensacola; but all is dark as to where we arc tit go from thence?whether down the Gulf, or as some of us fondly hope, to the north, nr one knows, except perhaps the Commodore, and these Commodores have an ugly fashion of keeping their own counsel. You will hardly believe it when 1 tell .you, but i> is a fact, that the Ontario went to sea last summer, and even her j own officers did not know where she was : bound until they had been some da3's out. j Ti.:_ V,,- ,1C anVinrrlina vc- J A JU3 13 UUil^lUUI V/U u-i uw u..n. . , ( ry anti-rcpublican. Think of sending ;i number of freemen to sea without letting, them know whether they are going to j England or Africa! It is truly aristocratic j 'and oppressive; besides, how are the I I young officers to keep the gentlemen of\ the press informed of the intended move-; ' toe ts,of the ships? Would it not be well if Congress should pass a law that the offi- j cers and men too shall be consulted as to their destination? As you hold the pen of a ready writer, and are the son of a true democrat, your readers, and especially us; youngsters of the West India squadron,' would like to know what are your opin- \ ions on this subject. You shall hear from ' me again fiom Pensacola. Mc. ' INVASION OF TEXAS. j I New-Orleans, April 17. ; The arrival from TexaB yesterday of the steampacket Neptune, brings intelligence j of the defeat of the Federalists near Nice * *"* ' r>a t ran t will* on trie mo uraiiuui ww., .......... great loss to San Antonio, in Texas, anil | the pursuit by an army of fifteen hundred j Centralists, supposed to be within a day's j march of San Antonio. Whether the Centralists tinder Arista, contemplate an invasion ol Texas, is not yet ascertained. The impression is, the pursuing will stop within a short distance of San Antonio, and demand the surrender of Canalcs and [his troops. The smauness ox ine cnc-i | my's force contradicts the supposition that tlioy meditate an inroad upon Texas. It' is also staled that a Irnce had been enter-! ed into between the Mexican and Texianj Governments, which would prohibit any movement of the kind. However this' may be, the news has created no little; alarm in Texas, and the population are; arming to meet the invader, if such should ^ be his character. The sudden approach: of the Mexicans, seem to have taken the TSxian Government by surprise. No preparations had been made to receive them. The force at Sail Antonio consisted only of three companies. The nearest re-iuforcement was a detachment of of three hundred men, under General Burleson, at the city of Austin, whose arrival was expected in two or three days. It was thought that this small body of Texians aided by the fugitive Federalists, would present a front formidable enough to stop the progress of Arista. The Houston papers express the opinion that the only object of the movement was the capture of the defeated enemy, and that no idea of taking possession of , any part of Texas ever entered into the I plans of the Centralist Generad. The j ever.t which occurred was to be expected. ! For in case of defeat, the Federalists have I no place of refuge but Texas; whither of I course, the victorious enemy would pur| sue them. In such a state of things, the I nublic authorities of Texas are deservedly censured for neglect, in not keeping a well | equipped military force near the frontier, i to keep in check the successful party.? (The inhabitants, however, are used to arms and lighting, and if time enough is allowed to gather them, an army will soon be raised that can soon drive back Arista and his fifteen hundred men. The next news from Texas may be awaited with deepest interest, as we shall then learn whether the advance of Arista is a merepursuit of the Hying Federalists *or an invasion of Texas. If the latter should turn out to he the plan of the Mexican General, the event may be deemed important. The Texians will not rest content this time in repelling the foe. They will pursue the I retreating invader, preach tip a crusade against the fertile and tempting provinces ! of the interior, and gathering around them the adventurous, daring and ambitious spirits that now throng the United Stalesmarch an army of ten thousand men across the Rio Grande, and begin an invasion that must end, no doubt, in the conquest and entire subjugation of Mexico. The same result, in the ordinary course of things, may be counted on as certain; but the event would be greatly accellerated, should the movement of Aiista prove an actual invasion, [From the Boston Journal Appril 1-1.] Attempt at Murder and Suicide.?We publish below a letter from North Rrook| (ieltl, detailing- one of the most singular cases of crime, which our columns hare chronicled for a long time: Brookiim.n, April II, 1S10. Whipple iiartlett, a man about 23 years old, committed suicide last Thursday [ night under the following circumstances. I Mr. Nathaniel Snow owed him about twenI ty-fivc dollars, which he was unable to j pay, and as Bartlett was a miser in bis disi position, it was a source of great vexation | to him, and he had intimated to S.;ow that i if he did not pay him, he would get satis'faction in some other way. Mr* Ashcr i Rice also owed him three or four dollars, i -1- i> r i WHICH Liurucil 1CII11U II uuiiuuit IU kUHtki of him. Under these circumstances, lie came to the conclusion to seek revenge by taking their lives and then destroying his own. To carry out this plan, he went to New Braintrec and bought a load of dry wood, and got the privilege of laying the same in a pasture in Brookfield. j lie then collected all his property of every kind?packed his clothes in a trunk, and carried the trunk to a house near the j place where he had left the wood, and told the people he would call for it on Thursday, or some time in the night.? On Thursday afternoon he hired a horse and wagon, and started for North Brook1 field. i On the way he met his brother, and told him he wanted to sell him his axe and - - - i -i- i - i; .1 I j fishing spear, which ne cuu, anu iiisisicu upon having the pay for them on the spot, as lie sai'l he wanted every cent that was due to him. He was next heard of at Asher Rice's,! where lie called and asked Rice if he could pay him what he owed him. Rice told him he could not. " That is very strange," said Barllctt, "you said you would pay me by the 1st of April." And upon that he drew, a pistol and was about to tire at Rice, which he discovering, pushed him out of the door, lie then went to Nathaniel Snow's, and arrived there aboyt 10 o'clock. He knocked at the door, and Mr. Snow opened it, and asked him to walk in. lie again drew a pistol, and tired at Snow, and hit him on his breast bone?the force of the ball being broken hv strikino airainst a metal button 011 his O D vest. lie then drove to the house where he had left his trunk, took it and drove to the place where he had left the load of wood. There he deposited his trunk and other effects, and look his horse out into the road?took his horse out of the shafts, and hitched him to the fence, put a buffalo skin on him, and returned to his funeral pile. He placet! himself in such a position that he thought he would fall on the wood, which he had previously set on tire, and on wmcn tic nan inrown ait fus propert}*. lie then blew bis brains out with a pistol, but when he fell he did not f, II on the wood, as lie intended, but fell down j by the side of it. In this situation lie was found next day. with one hand burn'.' off and one side of Ills face burnt (o a coal. It appears that his intention was to destroy himself and all his property, even to the last cent. And as his axe and spear would not burn, he sold them for money. In the ashes of the fire was found about 41 oz. of melted silver, and in his pocket' 70 or SO dollars in bills, and his two watches. 'Three pistols lay by his side, provided, one for Rice, one for Snow, and one for himself. Snow was not much hurt by the ball, and was able to attend the funeral of Bart/ let yesterday. Iiartlctt was a very singular man. The only object that he was known to love was money?and he has said that he would not outlive his property. From a child he was remarkably taciturn, and was scarcely ever known to smile. (DAmtUBsr h* CAJWMIT, S. CAROLINA. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2,1310. The Robbers Again.?On Wednesday night last, or rather on Thursday mcrning. about four o'clock, an ur.succesful attempt was made to force the brick fire proof safe of Messrs. C. & F. Matheson, attachcd to their counting room. One of the young I men who sleep in the store was aroused by the noiso j of the villains, and on making his appearance at the door, thry fled towards the hack lot; ho then rcturnI ed. nut oil his cloak and took a ni?tol with him: oil reaching Ihc back lot, he discovered two persons whom he took to be negroes, secreted in a corner formed by tho fence and the back store. They immediately fled on his approach, when he fired 011 I them, but with what effect; if any, is not known.? jOnc of them appeared to be a tall fellow dressed in a round jacket. UTWc publish the communication of our correspondent " Aquarius," more for its fine vein of humour, than to give the desired hint to our " town authoii'.ies," (though we have no objection to their taking it) for we scarcely think it their duty to furnish buckets to private wells; ar.d if we mistake not, the one alluded to is of that character. BjTTIic Charleston Mercury has laid us under obligations for the corrections which it has been kind enough to make in relation to an article in this paper; if however the Editor intended to do rs justice, hehas not gone far enough. When he says "we only meant that it (\\\e/Journal) did speak by tho authority of the Camden Bank," he should havo added that we denied that assertion; with this we should have been content, leaving the question of veracity to bo settled by our respective readers. The Mercury says otir article bears a " curious resemblance to the private answer to the Bank of tho State, inquiring whether" the Bank of Camden " were prepared to redeem either at their (its) counter or in Charleston, such of their (its) notes as should be received for taxes" and add: ; ' the Journal says nothing to l this point." IIow could it? We had not before heard \ that such a point had been made. We will now say, | however, that since our attention has been called to the sul'ji-ct, we have been politely permitted to see the "private answer" referred to by the Mercury, and have r.ot been able to detect the " curious resemblancc" of which it speaks?the fact is, we cannot say that we feel greatly complimented by the comparison, though this i t a point upon which we hope tiiat paper will maintain the most profound silence, as it is only our private opinion.'.' Steam Boat Accident.?The Steamer Camden. Capt. Donxkix, which had been detained here for several days, in consequence of low water, got off on Thursday last with the aid of the slight swell in the river, caused by the rain of the previous day.? She had proceeded but a very short distance below Mrs. McRa's plantation when, in turning a point, she struck a snag and went down in a few minutes. \Vc learn from a gentleman who has been to the boat since the accident, that her hull is full of water, up to the hatches, and that her position was such as to lead to the presumption that she had broken in the centre, and will probably be a total loss, She had 011 board 233 hales of cotton, and a quantity of yarn, and oznaburgs, from the DcKa'b Factory.? The yarn must bo a total loss, and the cotton and < saalu-gs, must l? greatly damaged and perhaps a ; large portion of it entirely lost. The Camden has S been peculiarly unfortunate in her navigation of tho Watercc; on her previous trip, she was snagged and sunk near Bcntly. The frequent occurrence of these accidents will, we fear, have the edict of putting an cna 10 steam ooat navigation on our river. April Shown*.?The past month has not been fo prolific of these Spring visitors, as in former years; but on Wednesday last all arrears were brought up. i On that day in the afternoon, we scarcely ever remember to have seen as much water fall in the same time as did then in the course of an hour. In the spring of 1S3(1, we had a visitation somewhat similar, but witli?that exception, wo have never seen tho streets of Camden so completely flooded with water. The flood rose to the height of several inches in all our principal streets, and in some of these that were low, the water was from two to three feet deep. It rose so high as to run into some of the stores on Broad Street, but we have heard of no damage being done I except the washing away of tho garden fences in seI vcral parts of the town, and giving of our town au' tllrt.il'ac aa .ni.ll iaU hi kiinifinff ("a cI.aa.a .-lil.K | mvm.vj iiu i'JWU.i hi ivjiuwiiig wiv ctivcva U1UVU I have been dreadfully washed up. We heard one ! gentleman say that in reaching his house (boing out i when the rain commenced) he had to wade through 1 one of our principal streets at least three hundred j yards, and in no place was the water less than knee j deep, and his iral/.rrs. as the ladies call them, are ' none of the shortest. I Ci.eaximis ok IlrsDAXimv.?We have received the first number of this publication, which we no! tiecd some time since as soon to appear. It is pubi lished monthly, at Augusta Georgia, in quarto form, coataining eight pages, and edited by Moses Holi droik M. D. formerly a resident of this place. Tho * subscription price is onr dollar per annum, payable in advance. The title oi' the publication, indicates its o??irct. The Kditor in his opening address savs