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THE CAMDEN' JOURNAL.
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[HEW SERIES.] VOL.1. CAMDEN, SOITII CAROLWA, SATURDAY, U61ST 22, 1840. ~ . No. 38."
L By Authority.
Laws of the United States,
Passed at the first Session of the twenty
sixth Congress.
[Public?No 27,]
AM A nT i. fnr the PYneilRflg of
fill ftVl W |JlU>luv ?- ---- ,
making an exploration and surrey of
that part of the Northeastern Boundary
line of the United States which separates
the States of Maiqp and NewHampshire
from the British Provinces.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Lnited States of
America in Congress assembled, That
the sum of twenty five thousand dollars
" be, and the same is hereby, appropriated,
to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to enable
the President of the United States to
cause to be made an exploration and surtey
of that part of the Northeastern boundary
line of the United States (and the
adjacent country) which separates the
States of Maine and New Hampshire from
the British Provinces
R. M. T. HUNTER, N
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
1UI. M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
, Approved, July 20th, 1840.
M. VAN BUREN.
[Public?No. 28.]
AN ACT to provide for the support of
the Military Academy for the year
eighteen hundred and forty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the support of the Military
Academy for the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty, viz:
For pay of officers, cadets, and musicians,
fifty-nine thousand two hundred and
twenty-eight dollars;
. For subsistence of officers and cadets,
forty thousand and four dollars;
For forage of officers' horses, three
thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars;
For clothing of officers' servants, three
hundred and ninety dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the Board
of Visiters at West Point, two thousand
dollars;
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing,
transportation and poslagp, twelve thousand
nine hundred and thirty-one dollars
and forty-five cents;
For repairs, improvements, and expenses
of buildings, grounds, roads,
wharves, boats, and fences, seven thousand
seven hundred and fifty seven dollars end
fifty cents;
For pay of adjutants and disbursing
officer's clerks, nine hundred and fifty
dollars;
For increase and expenses of the library,
one thousand dollars;
For hindinor hooks, iniured at the fire
in February, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight,
and imported stitched, three hundred
dollars;
For tiiscellaneous items and incidental
expenses, seven hundred and twenty-six
dollars and twenty-five cents;
For the department of engineering, fire
hundred dollars;
For the department of philosophy, seven
hundred and fifteen dollars and twentyfive
cents;
For the department of chemistry, seven
hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-five
cents;
For the department of drawing, three
hundred and thirty-eight dollars and serenty-five
cents.
For the department of tactics, two hundred
and forty dollars;
For the deoartment of irtillenr. three
Jiandrcd and ten dollars:
Sbc. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the commander of the corps of cadets at
the Military Academy* shall be either the
instructor of infantry tactics, of cavalry
and artillery tactics, or of practical engineering
and that his pay and emoluments
shall in no case be less'than the compensation
allowed by law to the professor of
mathematics; aud that the pay and emoluments
of the instructors in these branches
shall in no case be less than is allowed by
law to the assistant professor of mathematics.
Sec. 3. And bf it further enacted, That
the assistant professors of ethics shall be
allowed the same compensation as is now
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Biioweu oy jaw iu tuu tuner assistant professors
in the institution.
Approved July 20th, 1840.
[Public?No. 29.]
AN ACT making appropriations for the
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thousand eight hundred and forty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
for the support of the army
j during the year one thousand eight hun
larea ana torty, vjz:
For the pay of the army one million one
hundred and seventy two thousand and
twenty eight dollars;
For subsistence of officers, five hundred
and fourteen thousand four hundred and
eighty nine dollars;
For forage of officers horses, one hun-|
dred and fourteen thousand five hundred
and seventy one dollars;
For payments in lien of elolhing not,
drawn in kind eighty thousand and thirty [
dollars;
For subsistence, exclusive of that of
officers, five hundred and fifteen thousand j
four hundred and ninety-two dollars;
For clothing of the army, camp and
garrison equipage, cooking utensils and |
hospital furniture, Tour hundred and lwen-1
ty-five thousand, six hundred and thirty-1
five dollars and sixty-seven cents;
For the medical and hospital department,
thirty-eight thousand dollars;
For the regular supplies furnished by I
the Quartermaster's department, consisting
of tuel, forage, straw, stationery,
and printing, two hundred and seventyone
thousand dollars;
For barracks, quarters, and storehouses,
embracing the repairs and enlargement of
barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hos-1
pitals at the several posts; the erection of
temporary cantonments and gun-houses
for the protection of the cannon at the
forts on the sea-board; for the purchase of
necessary tools and materials, and ol the
authorized furniture for the barrack rooms;
rent of quarters for officers; of barracks
for troops where there are no public buildings
for their accommodation; of store
houses for the safekeeping of subsistence, |
! clothing, and other military supplies, and
I of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments,
and military practice, one
hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars;
: For transportation of officers baggage
when travelling on duty without troops,
sixty-five thousand dollars;
For transportation of troops and supplies,
viz. transportation of the Army,
i including the baggage of troops; freight
and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses,
mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats
for the purpose of transportation or for
J garrison use; drayage and cartage at the
; several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation
of funds for the pay department;
expense of transport vessels, and of pro- j
curing water ai sucn posts as irom iucir
'situation require it; transportation of
clothing from the depot at Philadelphia
, to the stations of the troops, of subsistence
from the places of purchase and delivery
under contracts to sucl) points as
the circumstances of the service may require;
of ordnance, ordnance stores, and
; arms, from the foundries and arsenals to
the fortifications and frontier posts, and
of lead from the mines to the several ar'senals,
two hundred and eighty-seven
thousand dollars;
For the incidental expenses of the
Quartermaster's Department, consisting of
postage on public letters and packets, expenses
of courts martial and courts of inquiry,
and judges-advocate, members and
witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under act
nf Mnrrh aennnd eitrhlAnn hundred And
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nineteen, expenses of expresses from the
frontier posts; of the necessary articles
for the interment of non-commissioned
officers and soldiers; hire of laborers,
compensation of clerks in the offices of
quartermasters and assistant quartermasters
at posts where their duties cannot be
performed without such aid, and to temporary
agents in charge of dismantled
works, and in the performance oI other
duties; expenditures necessary to keep the
two regiments of dragoons complete, in
eluding tne purchase ot horses, to supply
;he place of those which may be lost and
become unfit for serrice, and the erection
of the necessary stables, one hundred
and twenty one thousand dollars;
For contingencies of the army, seven
thousand dollars;
For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers,
and for contingent expenses of the recruiting
service, forty seven thousand one
hundred and sixty three dollars and twenty
seven cents;
For the national armories, three hun
area ana sixty thousand dollars;
For the armament of the fortifications,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For the current expenses of the ordnance
service, one hundred thousand dollars;
For
ordnance, ordnance stores and sup
plies* one hundred thousand dollars;
For arsenals one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars;*
For repairs and improvements at the
Springfield armory, ten thousand five
hundred dollars;
For repairs and improvements atHar-'
pers' Ferry armory, fifty thousand dollars;
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For the purchase of saltpetre and brimstone,
forty thousand dollars;
For the expense of preparing drawings
of a uniform system of ariilery, and for
other supplies in the ordnance department,
three thousand dollars;
For co ntinuing the barracks, quarters,
<fcc. at,Fort Levenworth, thirty thousand
dollars;
For continuing the barracks, quarters,
&c. at Fort Wayne, twenty thousand dollars;
For continuing the barracks, quarters,
&c. at Fort Smith, fifty thousand dollars;
For continuing the barracks, quarters,
&c. at Plattsburg, twenty thousand dolI
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i'ui ut<iikiiiuiug uic uarracKS, quarters,
&c. at Furt Jesup, ten thousand dollars;
j For repairs of arsenals damaged by
ftorms and fire, the'sum of nineteen thousand
seven hundred and sixty-five dollars;
For preventing and suppressing hostilities
in Florida, to be expended under the direction
of the Secretary of War, conformably
to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth
of March, and the second of July,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the
I acts therein referred to, vix: For forage
for the horses of the mounted volunteers
'and militia, and for the horses, mules, and
oxen in the service of the trains; for freight
or transportation of military supplies of
every description, from the places of purchase
to Florida; for the purchase of
wagons, harness, boats, and lighters, and
other vessels, of horses, mules, and oxen,
' to keep up the trains, tools, leather, and
other materials for repairs, transportation
within Florida, including the hire of
steamboats and other vessels for service
in the rivers and on the coasts, and the
p Yiipnct-c rtf '
..|>v.v?m ?? uiuiuMiiiiiig me ocvciai Dreaiuboats
and transport schooners connected
with the operations of the army, hire of
mechanics, laborers, mule drivers, teamsters,
and other assistants including their
subsistence; for miscellaneous and contingent
charges, and for arrearages in
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred
and thirty seven, eighteen hundred and
thirty eight, eighteen hundred and thirty
nine, and eighteen hundred and forty,
three hundred thousand dollars. For an
outfit for a Charge d'Affaires to the Republic
of Texas, four thousand five hundred
dollars; For repairing the roof to the
public store at the custom house in the
'city of Philadelphia,-or for new roofing
! the same with copper, as shall be directed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, after
causing careful surveys of the condition
of the said building to be made, a sum
not to exceed three thousand two hundred
dollars. For the pay of the commissioner
appointed by the Governor of the Territoryof
Iowa to act on the Dart of that
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Territory, in conjunction with the comuiissioner
appointed by the United States,
j in ascertaining, running and marking, the
southern boundary line of the said Territory,
in conformity with the act of Congress
of the eighteenth of June, eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, the sum of one
thousand and ninety six dollars; For the
payment of expenses incurred under the
direction of the Joint Committee on the
Library, in the erection of shelves and
book cases in the committee rooms of the
Capitol, for the reception of books and
documents to be transferred from the Library
to the several committee rooms, a
sum not to exceed one thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars. For the purpose of
enabling the Secretaries of the War and
Navy Departments to place in a slate of
safe preservation the specimens of natural
histoiy which are now deposited in their
respective offices, or which mav be bronirht
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there, resulting from surveys of the unexplored
portions of our own country,
or from the exploring expedition n?w in
the South Seas, by the authority, and at
the expense of the United States, or otherwise,
a sum not to exceed five hundred
dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the sum of three thousand dollars, appropriated
by the act of Congress of the
twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, to ascertain and designate the
boundary line between the Slate of Michi-,
gan, and the Territory of Wisconsin be,]
and the same is hereby, reappropriated i
to be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of War for the accomplishment
of the same object.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
in case of a deficiency of receipts of
revenue from customs, or lands, or other
sources, or of a failure on the part of the]
late deposite banks or of the Bank of the
United States of Pennsylvania to pay the
debts due from them, or to become due in
the course of the present year, or if, from
any other cause, the means of the Treasury
shall not be sufficient to meet all the
appropriations made by Congress, the
President of the United States shall be,
ana ne is hereby, authorized to postpone
the expenditures under the following heads
of appropriation embraced in this act, viz:
"for barracks,quarters, and storehouses,"
&c.; 44 for the national armories;" "for armament
of fortifications;"^41 for the current
expenses of the ordnance service;"
41 for ordnance, stores, and supplies;"
*' for arsenals;" " for repairs and improve
Iment9 at the Springfield armory;'' " f?r|
repairs and improvements at the Harpers i
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r erry armory; " tor me purcnase ui
saltpetre and brimstone;" " for continuing
the barracks, quarters, &c. at Fort Leavenworth;"
"at-Fort Wayne;" "at Fort
Smith;" "at Plattsburg;" and "at Fort
Jesup;" or such and so many of them, or
such proportions of each, as in his judgment,
after careful examination and inquiry,
the condition of the Treasury shall
demand, and the public interests will best
permit; such postponements in each case,
to be merely temporary, or until the close
of the next session of Congress, as the
means of the Treasury and the prospect
of accruing revenue shall warrant, and as
shall be most in accordance with the public
interests involved.
Approved, July 20ih, 1840.
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FOR THE JOURNAL- ?
TO THE DEKALB RIFLE GUARDS.
C'est pour vous, zelcs voluntaires,
Qu* Apollon ranime mes chants,
Pour vous, aais comme des freres
Par le plus pur des sentimens;
Le noble amour do la patrie
Est le puissant noeud qui vous lie,
La loi do voe vos cceurs genereux,
Cest cet amour qui dans l'hristoire
Nous fait reverer la memoire
Des patriotos vertueux.
Vous fuycz la gloire inhumaino
Dee conquerans dont la valeur,
Dans la fougue qui les entraine,
Seme le trouble et la terreur;
Mais cette gloire legitime,
Dont le gout est pur et sublime,
Qui donno au monde lc ropos,
Est celle ou votre ardeur aspire,
Celle que le ciel meme inspire,
Et qui forme les vrais beros.
Lorsquc vos mains seront arme'es
Pour la defence de nos droits,
Sous l'ailc du Dieu des Arme'es
Signalez?vous par vos exploits.
Dans votre honorable carriere,
En contemplaot cette Aigle alticre,
Symbole des coeurs courageux,
Songez au civisimo beroique
Des percs de la Republique,
Soyez digncs de vos ayeux.
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vjoruez 10 buuvouit iiuuiu,
De l'illustre liberateur,
.Qui Ait un eclatunt module
Pons lea conseila au champ tThonneur,
Admirant le heroe, le sage,
Le genre humain lui rend l'hommage
Qu'il reserve a sea bienfaiteurs;
En pronon,cant le nom auguate
De Washington puissant et juste,
Quo sa gloire enflamme vos coeura.
De DeKalb et de Lifayotte,
Vraia amis des Rcpublicains,
Qui brulant dune ardeur secrete,
Vinrent seconder vos deatins,
Honorez les faits memorablos,
Imitez lea vertuS oimables
Dont les avaient ornes lea cieux,
Lea lauriers ceignirent leura tetcs:
Que lean noma conaacrent tos fetea
Et vou8 soient toujours precious. P. M.
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THE BIBBLE.
We do not know where there is so
good a description of the Bible, in so
! small a compass, as to be found in the arj
tide below from the Hartford Courier:
A nation must be truly blessed, if it
(were governed by no other laws than
those of this blessed book; it is so complete
a system that nothing can be added
to or taken from it; it contains every thing
needful to be known or done; it affords a
a copy for a king and a rule for a subject;
it gives instruction and coucil to a senate,
authority and direction to a magistrate;
it cautions a witness, requir6s an impartial
verdict of a jury, and furnishes a
judge with his sentence; it sets the husband
as lord of the household, and the
wife as mistress of the table, tells him
; how to rule, and her how to manage. It
| entails honor to parents and enjoins obei
dience upon children; it prescribes and
limits the sway of sovereigns, the rule of
the ruler ana authority of the master;
| commands the subjects to honor and the
servant to obey; and promises the protection
of its author to all who walk by its
rules. It gives directions for weddings
and for burials; it promises food and raiment,
and limits the use of both; it points
out a faithful and eternal guardian to the
departing husband and Father; tells him
with whom to leave his fatherless children
and in whom his widow is to trust, and
Eromises a father to the former and a husand
to the latter. Ii teaches a man how
he ought to set his house in order, and
how to make his will; it appoints a dowry
for the wife, and entails a right for the
first born; and shows how the younger,
branches shall be left. It defends the
right of all and reveals vengeance to the
defrauder overreacher and oppressor. It
is the first book and the oldest book in the
world. It contains the choicest matter,
gives the best instruction, and affords the I
greatest pleasure and satisfaction that ever
were revealed. It contains the best laws
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and profoundcst mysteries that ever were
penned. It brings the best tidings, and
affords the best of comforts to theinqui-..
ring and disconsolate. It exhibits life and
immortality and shows the way to everlasting
glory. It is a brief recit&l of all
that itfto come. It settles all matters in
debate, Resolves all doubts, and eases the
mind and conscience of all their scruples.
It reveals the only living and true God,
and shows the way to him, and sets aside
all other gods and describes the vanity of'
them, and of all that put their trust on
them.
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' Melancholy Casualty,?On Tuesday:
night last, as Mr. Douglass Honeycut of
this . county was returning home from
town, whither he had come to attend the
Superior Court then in session as a* juror,
when about two miles from towri his horeO t
stumbled and threw him. As he-fel^ lP ?
is supposed his head struck against a
stump, as when found his skull was found
extensively fractured, blood running from
his mouth, nose and ears. He wrtftrst > ^
discovered by the negroes belonging^ to.
Col. I. B. Rowland, near whose house
the awful accident took place, who gave
information to their master, who baa him :
immediately carried into his house,-a
physician sent for, and every thing done
for him that humanity and benevolence
could dictate; but all m vain. He lived
j till 8 o'clock v next morning, but never
spoke or regained his consciousness again.
Mr. H. was an honest hard working man;
ond Kio cnddon dogth will fv> 11 OTPftt loSS ' '
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to a large family and numerous friends.
A Coroner's Inquest was held over bis
body: but the Jury was satisfied, that he
came to his untimely death by accident ? 1 .
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A hint touching Love Letters.'-The
French hare completely; of lat,e excelled
themselves in the extreme beauty of their
note paper, and the tender and appropriate
mottos by which it is embellished; but
there is a description of paper of which, I ?
believe, they know the secret, which Y
| think far more desirable for lore letters
, than the most exquisite of their brightly ,
I sheets embellished with laced borders or
I nrinlod wrpnlhn. A flrflntleman of distiUC
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lion; in France, once received a letter*
yarning him of some injuries intended towards
him and his family; he placed itin
his writing desk, and the day after wished *
to recure to it, when to his great astonishment,
he found it crumbled to atom*.-?
The paper had been steeped in some die- *
mica! preparation that, in a few hours, had -corroded
and destroyed it. Now; if love
letters were always written on this paper,
how much lime would be saved! for young
ladies must per force compress their studies
of these precious productions in to a short
space of time. How many reputations
would be saved! for destroyed letters libe<
dead men, can tell no tales. How taany
lawyers' fees would be saved! for the
most skillful counsellors could not torture
a heap of ashes into what they call "do- '
cuments." How mnch patience would be
saved! for, although it is very delightful *
to read love letters addressed to one's self,
it is a painlul eliort ot menasnip to oa
obliged to listen to those addressed to
other people. How unnecessary, too,
would be the postscript, which is never
attended to: " Burn this as soon as*yon
hare read it!'* The "chemist's magic art" *
would make the request equal to a command
sure to be obeyed.?Metropolitan
Mag. > *
From the Temperance Advocate.
The following harrowing illustration of
the evils of our Retail system, we are permitted
to extract, from a letter received
by a highly respectable gentleman in this
Town, last week. The occurence took
place in Spartanburg District, in this State.
" On Saturday, the 20th June, a horrid
murder was committed, immediately at
the Sutler's stand, near tne store 01 r ranjc
Bates, by Mabury Mitchell, on the body
of Henry Stone; with one blow of the
fist, Mitchell, sent him at least three yards
?he then sprung upon the prostrate body,
and inflicted upon it two blows wbieb laid
bare the face and skull: then rose up, and
said (*This is the way to fight."
"In the morning, the Sabbath, a respectable
Magistrate, Mr. Copper, was sent ?
for, who promptly repaired to the awful
scene. He found the uhfortnnate Stone
lying in his clotted1 gore ; the whiskey
jug left at the stand ; Stone's brothers,
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Mitchell s wite ana inree cnuuren, u&u arrived
at the spot, making a grievous 1&mentnion.
The Jury's verdict was MurderMitchell
was accordingly sent to
jail, there to await ' s " i < at ihe ensuing
Court of sessions. This awful occurrence
look place at the Muster-field near Bates'
on a regular Muster day. The company
was under the command of Capt. J. Barnet,
a citizen universally esteemed ; at the
mnmfinL he was not nresent.
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having retired home at an early hour, after
performing the duties assigned him.?
It is greatly to be lamented that the sutler's
office should be continued after the
company is discharged."
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