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9 ^ ,* " V * r . % ? - % ? THE CAMDEI JOURNAL. : [NEW SERIES.] VOL. I. CA1UDEN,. SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 97, 1840. '^^SHH^=SBBSB^11^1 i ; . ; ' "' ' ' " *-'" ?' .- ." . " r Published every Saturday Morning, TIIOMAS W. PEGUES, Publisher of the Laws of the Union. At three dollars in ad vatce; tf.rec dollars and fill) cents in six months; or four dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square foi the first, and 37 1-2 for each subsequent insertion.? Tiic number of insertions to bo noted on all advertiso ments, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. Onedollai per square will be chargod for a single insertion. Semi-mo..tnIy, Monthly and Qurtorly advertise, ments will be charged tho same as new ones each in. scrtion. All Obituary Noticos exceeding 6ix lines, and Communications recommending Candidates for pub. ic Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, Will bo charged as advertisements. 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"We have been urged on to the adoption of this undertaking, by many of our political friends, Mho have seen as well as ourselves, the unscrupulous and highly censurable course pursued by our opponents, which, instead of being marked by honorably and just feelings, is characterised by a perversion and distortion of well authenticated farts, and a leeltog oi hatred degrading to human nature, and to the respect which should he entertained by citizens of the same country, however wide may be the difference in their political opinions. -Khis paper will not be betrayed into a like course towards our op. ponents; but it will expose, in strong liuguage and with undoubted proofs, tlie misrepresentations and falsifications which maybe resorted to, in order to prejudice the sensitive mind, to deceive the unwary, and to lead astray the unsuspecting. In this undertaking, wc hope to receive a suppprt adequate to lite object in view, lly the dissemination of this sheet, much and useful information will be imparted to those who wish to act, in the present contest, with impartiality and with an eye single to the public good. With these few remarks, we place the undertaking under the care of our political friends, to whatever party denomination they ma}have heretofore belonged, for we consider as political friends all those citizens who, governed by patnclism aione, support men only for tlo sake of principle, and the welfare of the country. Wc must show to the people of the United States the danger of the Rights of the States, and of the State Institutions, protected by the Constitution, threatened as they are by a party which, disregarding honest and fair means to obtain power, employ the basest expedients to rally around its standard, men of all political descriptions, o( all political hues, and of all degrees of political degeneracy. Id3 The Southerner will be printed on a large sheet, every Saturday, from the Cth June, to the 31st October, for One Dollar, payable in advance. As postmasters are authorized to transmit money foi subscriptions to newspapers, persons wishing to subscribe to the Southerner can re quest their respective postmasters to trans mit to us the amount of subscription. GUIEU & 1 HOMrSUiM. Augusta, may 11, 1840. Sale of Steam Engine. ON the first Monday in July next, wil be sold before the Court House dooi in Camden, at 12 o'clock, M., the Engine of the Steamer Camden, on a credit til first of January next. The purchaser ti give a note with good security, to be op proved by the Agent. This Engine was made by Watchmar & Bratt, of Baltimore, and is said byjudg es to be an excellent one, and is now ir good order. The Furniture belonging to the Boal will be sold at the same time and place, and on the same terms. The Engine may be treated for at private sale. JOHN ROSSER, Agent. Camden, May 28. 6t2G Sperm Oil, THE subscribers have just received a sup ply of superior Sperm Oil. JONES & HUGHSON. April 10. THE CASKET, AND Philadelphia monthly IWagaziuc. waaaa?3>2.3s 8 Prospectus for n New Volume. THE great increase in the subscription list of the Casket, which lias nearly doubled since the commencement of the last volume, warrants the most extensive improvements on the first of i July, 1810?at which time a new volume will be i commenced with increased vigor. Nothing need be said of the firm basis on which the Casket stands, it being already the oldest magazine in the country, and has maintained its popularity in the . face of all opposition. It is lobe found upon the centre table of families making literary pretensions, from Maine to Georgia. ! TYPE?EMBELLISHMENTS. The Casket is printed with a clear and heauti" ful type, upon the whitest paper. The illustrations i are sot surpassed ev those of asv periodical at home or abroad; and besides the montly steel i n, gravings, a quarterly plate of colored fashions has lately been added. The style of these embellish merits is imequaucu, uuu uiej u.ic <iccuuj}mmej ! with an appropriate sketch. Xs'o wood cuts disgrace the work. Whatever appears ix the Casket is of the first order of art. The volume will be opened with th.e first of a spries of Mezzotint engravings, prepared expressly for the work, by the burin of fcartain, who deservedly stands as the best engraver of the kind in the United States. * LITERARY CHARACTER. The literary character of the Cnskht is well well known. I is wholly original, of the highest order and sustained by writers of the FIRST 'RANK. Essays; Tales; Sketches, and Travels, compose its prominent prose articles; while the poetry is equalled by that of no other magazine of | like character. The variety for which the Casket | is celebrated, shall sutler no diminution; hut on the contrary, every exertion shall be made J,o increase its interest. j SEVERAL SKETCHES OF THE REVOLUTION have already appeared, and others shall (ol1 low in the course of the volume, presenting when finished a complete picture of the manners, and a historical account ot the great battles of that time. I Thus, the Casket, instead of being filled with sick . ly sentimentalities, nuns at a true delineation ot human nature in every variety of character. | The series of thrilling: Nautical Sketches, enti| tied "CRUIZING IN THE LAST WAR," and i wnich are rated by the cotemporary press equal to the celebinted Sketches from '-TOM CRINGLES ! LOG," and the "Leaves from a Lawyer's Port Fo; lio," which have attained a deserved selebrity will still furnish attractions to the Magazine, i We shall turnisli the readers o? the Casket with some valuable pap.-rs from entirely new contribu tors, "The Author of "OLD IRON SIDES OFF A LEE SHORE," will give the first of a number of Sketches in the July number. We count upon his prolific and graceful pen to do much in maintaining the great popularity of the Magazine, in addition to tnc variety alrcndy embraced in the pages of the Magazine, our ASSYRIAN LETTERS the first of which app. ared in the June number as introductory, will interest and add worth to its pages. They ure from no unpractised pen. FASHIONS. ! The fashions arc published in the Casket quarterlyioras often as any really new styles arrive I from Peris. The Engravings are all colored, and 1 executed from original designs. No old worn out phtes are re touched, an I then published as the latest fashions The truth of our designs may be tested by comparing them v* ith the latest description of dresses from London and Paris. They are universally admitted to be the finest specimen of j engraviri<*nnd coloring afforded by any Magazine j in Miis country. The evnense of irettinrr them ud 'is great, but we shall in no-wise abate the quality. Remember! The rrndes of the Casket are furnished with these faohion plates as AN EXTRA.? j They do not interfere with the regular and choice engravings which always accomplish the work. TIME OF PUBLICATION. The Casket is published on the first of every month, in every quarter of the Union. The most dislant subscriber consequently receives iton that <lnv, as well as those who reside in Philadelphia.? In all the principal cities agei.ts have been established, by which means subscribers in the vicinity can obtain their copies free ot Postage. TERMS?THREE DOLLARS per annum. Or two copies yearly for FIVE DOLLARS. (Jj*No new subscriber received without the money, or the name of a responsible agent. ! Pubhshedby GEORGE GRAHAM, 3G, Carter's Alley, Philadelphia. June 20th 1810. J THE EVERGREEN; A monthly Magazine of New and Popular Tales, Poetry and Engratwgs. I (jTI^HE characteristic feature of this work is sigI ^ nified and portrayed in its title. The month ly wreath we intend offering to our readers shall be ! literally composed of " Evergreens." Our design , is to collect into a shape at once m;at and suitable , for preservation, the best and mo* interesting specimens of periodical and fugitive li'eratnre of the day; to carefully separate the chaff from the wheat, the dross froin the tine gold, and to present a com.' pendium, which, like good wine, shall be heightened in value by age, and be, in the language of our motto, " perennial and llagranl." Of course it will but require a proper exercise of taste to render a magazine, formed on this plan, the . richest depository of elegant and entertaining literature ever published, and this wc seriously mean tho "Evergreen" shall be; for wc are quite sure we have . the materials to render it so. Wc can boast of a more brilliant list of contributors than any content! poraneous periodical, as may be seen by glancing at the contents of our present number. Indeed, there is no author honorably known to fame in these or any former times, to whose productions wc do not have access. Wc shall always aim, however, at presenting what is new and comparatively original to the readers of this country; believing at the same time, that an old familiar piece, so it be excellent in itself is far preferable to an original article having ' | no claim upon the attention of persons, of refined I literary taste. A portion of the talent of the age, in this coon^ try and in Great Biitain, has been exercised in the periodical department of literature. We need not; > mention the names of Campbell, Wilson. Jtulwer, Washiggton Irving, Jeffreys, Lockhart, Knnwles, > Moore, Marry att, Ainsworth, Miss Mitford, Praed, Mrs. Ilemans, T. K. Hervey, Bairy Cornwall, T. Hood, Poole, Leigh Hunt, and hundreds of other distinguished and agreeable writers, to prove this fact. These and many others of cmincnco have . given brilliancy to the magazine literature of the last ten years; and such of the productions of these as may be new and uncollected, shall find a "loca habitation" in the Evergreen, i Our work will be embellished with engravings on wood or on steel, and each number will contain 56 pages neatly printed. Terms. $'Jin advance. Published by J. Winchester, 23. Ann-Street, New York, POETRY. FOR THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. IIAGAR IN THE WILDERNES8. The fading moonlight silvoreth Canaan's hills, Far compass' mg the patriarch's domain; And faintly breaketh through the eastern clouds The grey of morning dawn. Forth from her tent The trembling Hag&r came: and paused to hear, If those low breathings were'indeed the sounds Of Abram and his Bpouse on secret watch; Or else the etifled throbs of her own heart, Distinctly audible- Life's crimson tide Was at the flood, and Fear was bursting through , Tho narrow bounds of self control: again Her tears fast fell, as would the melting hail On ./Etna's (jrcs. llagar was deeply moved! aiiu buc wuuiu nave oaroies nara dealing Dome, Tiian rather tempt the howling wilderness, A friendless outcast, mong thcbeasts of prey. But from her turned was Abrom's countenance; And then the iron entered in her soul? Shame added pinions to her feet, and hope, * -Too vague and dreamy, led her on to wish For Liberty in Shur. All nature slept, Tiie Fan Palm moved not; and the drowsy fly, t That 6tunned the ear of night with ceaseless hum, In common with the Adder and the toad, Laid still upon the leafy fig: and slocp Ilung o'er them, as the clammy air of death On nature's corpse! There came a sigh, Forth from the Pines, whose lengthened shadows seemed, Dark phantoms utterring through the wilderness, Sad voices of the tomb8. Then nn her view. Lining the dim horizon, through the dust, A caravan appeared. It was a troop Of travelling merchants, with (heir camels bound, For gums and spices to Arabias coast? Them Hagar fancied to pn armed train Of Abram's hosts; nor tarried sho to learn Their object and their way. Fast on she sped. Till where the corn-flag and the mandrake grew, In fresher verdure by the Fount of Shur. O'er arched with Elms, and stately sycamores, Deep through the glen, there bubbled by a stream, In which the famished Lion slaked his thirst, And Bird of paradise. There Hagar fell: And would have raised, with burning hands, some drops . Of those sweet waters to her fainting lips, When camo a voice?an Angel's voice, which said. Ha gar, "What doest thou here?" Twas the voice Of Pity, that she had not often heard: 'Twas music, such as when the stars first saw This round world rising from eternal night, And all the suns of God sung loud for joy; Such music, as the morning hymn of flowers Breathes on the lovers of creation's works; Suoh music, as the rippling ocean gives The wearied seaman on the Sabbath eve. It seemed to ask, where, mortal, canst thou hide From God? Where lurk from, his all-seeing eye? It was the voice of Mercy; and it showed IIow little suited to a fallen state, Arc human wrath, and envyy, and revenge, The daily gift of man to man?It spoke Of him who guides life's, wanderer on his way; And fills the soul with peace, when all the world Is dark and sad beside. Hagar adored Before the Angel; and exclaimed, "thou God, Who rulest over all things, seest me." * * * * * She knew that God was with her, and for joy, Knelt down, and lifted up her voice, and wept. P. Miscellaneous. From the Jour, of the American Silk Society. The Grape Vine.?There are few things that afford more pleasure for the expense of time and trouble, than a good and well managed grape vine. From considerable observation, (He editor of this Journal was led to conclude, that a very erroneous practice was generally pursued in relation to grape vines; and three years ago, determined to try an experiment. The error in practice alluded to, is this; the vine is permitted to grow to the full extent .of its ability, and thus every season a large portion of wood has to be cut off, and thrown away. It occurred to the writer, that this waste of the power of the plant, might, and ought to be prevented. Accordingly in the spring of 1837, he obtained an Isabella vine, one year old from | the layer, having a very good root, and i planted it in an ordmaty soil, of rather a sandy quality, putting a wheel-barrow load of wood-vard manure and old lime mortar about the root. As soon as it began to grow, he rubbed off all the buds but one, and trained that perpendicularly, rubbing oft* during the season all side shoots; and when it had reached to the top of a second story balcony, nipped the end off, thus stopping its further growth. In the spring of 1838, he rubbed off every bud but two at the top of the vine, and trained these two along the front of the balcony, having stretched a large, wire along the posts for their support. He rubbed off every side bud, during the season, as at first. Both shoots made about thirty-five feet of growth this soason. In the spring of 1839, every joint on the horizontal wae nomiiftoft tr? SPTlfl fbrth i(o Hli/ta JIIUVIH VTUO j/Vl IlllliVV* "V ?" vil IVU L/UUi]| and to grow unmolested, tijl tlie branches had fairly set fruit, generally until they were about 19 inches long." Then the end of each branch was nipped off, and its fitrther growth prevented. The perpendicular stem was carefully prevented from sending out buds. The whole plant was carefully watched that no more buds might be permitted to grow?each one being rubbed off as soon . as it appeared. Thus from about the middle of June, the vine was not permitted to form any new wood. During the season the grapes grew uncommonly well, and every one ripened in good season, and was very fine, as was proved by the numerous company at the Horticultural Society exhibition, who unanimously pronounced them the finest grapes there. The produce of the vine was three hundreed and fifteen bunches, all very large, and the berries of uncommon size. The society awarded to them its first premium for native grapes. Almost every body, however, doubted whether the plant had not been injured by this excessive bearing of fruit; and many old gardeners considered that it would be killed by, it. The writer never doubted on this score. He had only compelled the plant to make fruit, instead of wood, to be cut off and thrown away, and has no doubt that if he had been able to get the season before a greater length of wood for fruit branches, tne plant have supported a much larger quantity of fruit On trimming the vine preparatory to its bearing in -1840, there was very little wood to be cut off. Only two buds were left on each branch of last year's growth, and these are now growing, and showing fruit buds very finely. The vine is not dead, nor does it appear to hatfe been injured in the least by last year's hard work. So far, the experiment is beautifully successful, and we now feel authorized to recommend this plan, to all who love fine fruit. It must be borne in mind that the experiment was made with the Isabella grape; we of course cannot say any thing about ittf applicability to other kinds from experience) but the same reasoning applies with equal force to all kinds. If the powers of & plant can be turned from the formation of wood, to that of making fruit, as we have Eroved it can be, in the case of the Isaclla grape, we do not see any reason why the experiment may not be successful with all kinds of grapes and fruit. One .thing we. do know, that a plant that bears fritit does not gfow as much as one that docs not; and we are hence authorized to infer, that the power of the plant may be directed at pleasure, either to the growth of fruit or of wood?that by suppressing the one, you may increase the other, to a very great extent. The vine above described has attracted the attention of numerous persons, and many have determined to follow the example. It may be observed that this vine occupies no room at all in the garden. It grows close in the corner ot the house,, a single stem ascending fourteen feet to the balcony, when it starts off horizontally as above discribed, along the balcony. Thus every house in any city that has a yard at all, so that the vine may be set in the earth, may have just such a supply of delicious grapes as the writer of this had last fall. A youth in Tuscaloosa, by the name ol William Hart, has invented and construe* ted a Miniature Steam Engine, which is tlie wonder and admiration of the city, The Monitor says; "The steam is generated in 3 boilers,- 22 inches long, and ? in diameter?it is condensed into a single pipe about on 3 inch in diameter, and 3 1-5 m circumference. This propels the piston-rod, which unites the pitman 27 incne< long, to a crank on an iron wheel 2S inchcsin diameter. An experienced Steamboat Captain, who saw the little Engine in onoratinn. stated that the same veloci I ty would propel a boat forty miles an hour. It has a suction pump, which sup. plies the boilers with water?safety valve, carrying 13 lbs. of steam, equal to a single norsc power, &c." He is a caution, and will yet shine in the growing galaxy of inventive genius. The best of it is, he made the whole of it secretly of nights ana without the knowledge of any one. The Sabbath in New Orleans.? The New Orleans papers give a gloomy picture of the immorality of that city. Acttnrr An fVid korkomuo anH Knitnl CJlStOITlS l"*^ VII UIVs UaiUOl UUO Ulivi wa of half-civilized Mexico, and despotic, bull baiting Havana, some demi-savages have introduced the degrading and barbarous practice of bear Daiting, dog fighting, &c., as a Sunday amusement, with the tacit sanction of the authorities. In the very heart of the city proper, and not in its suburban precincts, exists an arena for such disgraceful shows. It was shameful, says the Advertiser, to witness or Sunday last, dogs, led through the street' by their unfeeling owners, bleeding anc lacerated?-to look on the motley, group! collected within and around the arena o i blood?yet know that New Orleans ' where such scenes were enacting?claim ed credit for being a cliristian city. A GOOD ONE. 'J * A Very good Widow lady, who was look* ed up to by the congregation to which she belonged as an example ft piety, contrived to bring her conscience to terms for one little indulgence. She loved porter, and one day just as she wns receiving a. half dozen bottles fronr the man who usually brought her the comforting beverage, she perceived (O horror 1) two of the grave elders of the church approach heir door. She ran the man put the back way, and put the. bottles under the bed. The weather was hot, and while conversing with h?r sage friends pop went one of the corks. 'Dear me," exclaimed; the.good lady, "there goes that bed cord; it snapped yesterday just the same wayj I must have % new rope provided." . In a few moments, pop went another, folowed by the pecoliar hiss of the eseap* : 1: mi i.!_ti ...! nig iiquur. Aim rupe wvuiuii i uw but the good lady was not gt a loss. "Dear me," says she, "that black cat of mine must be at some mischief there.? S'cat!" Another bottle popped off, and the pnr-. ter came stealing out from under the bed curtain?. "O, dear me," said she," I had forgot,; it's the yeast! Here Prudence 1 come take atvay these bottles cf yeast N. 0. Picayune. > - V A Story of Crime?Six Persons Mur^. . dered.?We hare a tale of'horror to cord this morning. Six of the members-' of a family residing in Cromwell Township, Huntingdon,County, Fa. were re- ? centlv murdered. The circumstances are thus detailed in the Huntingdon Journal. Some of the neighbors not haying obser*^ ed any of the family of Mr. William Brown, the owner of a small farm in the place just mentioned, were induced to visit. . the house to ascertain the cause. The (result was the discovery of the dead bodiesof his wife, daughter, .and four sops?the oldest of the children 21, the youngest 10 years of age. The wife and one son werefound in the house?the wife's throat cut from ear to ear, atid the son shot ihrqKgh ' the body; at some distance from the hjrase were found two other children, one of them shot, and the other kilTeiS with a club or some other insy-ument?and in another direction in the woods the two ?. . others were found, one shot and theoihsfr . " V> killed with a rlnh. Mr. Rrown fiaf bceil. arrested, also M'Coneghy, his son-in-law. and M'Coneghy's brother. Brown denies, ?says he was from home, and on his re-. r turn found the door of his house fastened; whilst standing there he was shot at and narrowly missed; another gun wasdiseharged, which grazed his cheek and perforated ' the lower part of his ear* and passed 1 through bis hat. ? 4 A correspondent of the Journal says:-!-1' > ,4A jury of inquest has been vigilantly en-t i gaged part of last night, and this day,,e&, , i amining the dead bodies, and endeavoring > to ferret out the perpetrator or perpetra- v i tors. Suspicion at first was strong agatpst Brown himself, but the jury are of opinion , that it is almost impossible that he cojild , have participated in the murder, from the i circumstances of his having returned hoiHe that evening, (being absent at Work all'iffo- mweek) and iq less than an hour from the time he was seen going, he came tifnning [ to his nearest neighbours, alarming them ' of his own situation, and that of his family, ? There are circumstances coming to lights / . which go far to settle the guilt on Robert i , ? i i. n... L 01 uonegny, wno is marneu iu muwxt I (laughter, the only child now living, antf 5 John M'Coneghy, who it is supposed was { an accomplice of Robert's, and are now' . in custody, and presume they will both - . 5 be committed, at least Robert will. Brown' I is also in custody, and will, we believe* also be committed. Brown is the. owner , of a small farm, the possessing of which,| could have been the only motive!$f the > M'Coneghy's murdering BroWnV family. The bodies were, this day," si* in number, deposited together In the earth, on Brown.'* > premises. The scene presented an ipstance of the most reckless depravity > which can possibly befall the lot of human ' nature."?Phil. Inq. A professor in one of our Universities was lately engaged ift a course of botanical lectures. Amon* other things he ' prided himself upon having discovered a. very uncommon species of the nettle. This he produced, and informed his auditory that it possessed every other proper1 ty of the common nettle, but that it did not stin^. A wag in the secret had un luckily cnangea tne specimen; ana introduced the common nettle in its room.? "You see, gentlemen" said the Professor* that it does not sting. lie then applied it to his hand, and with eager astonishment* added, "D?n it, but it does? i ? i The Taunton and New Bedford Rail I Road will be open for pulJio travel on the 3 'firs* of July. The road is twenty miles f long, and hs actual cost will be within the i, original estimate of four hundred thousand - dollars. * Baltimore Republican*