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:tV v*' " - *~v '.. : :; -w; THE CAMDEN" JOURKAL ; .; t ' > :. - -..' ? " - Vr'l Siggggg ggj "" ' \ 1 [HBW SERIES ] VOL. 1. CAMDEW, SOlTOCIiBOljjil**, SATURDAY, AEfiCSI ??, *840. No. ##.' * 1 " 1 1 ; iv ' 11 1 1 " ' 11 i in' . '. *' I YTJ^ The Sntoscribcr having I ' returned to Camden, will attend to ny work in the TAILORING line with promptness and dispatch. Any orders left with Messrs. Jones & Hughson, corner of Broad and Rutledge Streets, will meet with immediate attention. J. L. BRASINGTON. - MORE KEW GOODS JTST P.E0BIV2B, BY JONES & HUGHSON, A NOTHER SUPPLY of Gentlemen's ? ~MT??? "'(lich will be summer wl-?u, ....? sold at their usual low rates. ?3"They have, also, a handsome article of Mouslin de Lains, at 31 cents per yard ALSO?A few casks first rate LONDO.' PORTER. May 9. For sale at the post-office Stationery & School-BDok* Among1 which are the following: Woodbridge's Geography, with Atlas, Smith's do do Willis' ' do do Greenleafs English Grammar, Kirkham's do do Murray's do ' do Adam's Arithmetic, Smith's do Pike's do ^ Key to do Walker's School Dictionary, Columbian Orator, National Reader, Murray's Reader, ? - ? A I O New York Reader, inos. i, x anu o, Cabb's Juvenile Reader, Nos. 1, 2, &- 3, Parley's Little Reader, Parley's Tales of Europe, Africa, Asia and America, Child's first Book of History, do second do do do first reading Lessons, Pocket Expositors, do juvenile Instructor, Popular Lessons, Child's Instructor, N. York Spelling Book, Elementary do Alphabet of Natural History, do of different nations, Rnnlc Klatns. of various sizes, liCWIj'l ? - - Copy Books, Quills and Ink Steel Pens, by the card, Paint Boxes, pAowtnacs, of different kinds, for 1840, Blank Books of rarious sizes, Memorandum Books, Wafers, black and red, I Lucifer Matches, low by the dozen. I .. Lamp Oil, &c. THE Subscriber has just received a sup"ply of Superior Winter and Fall Strained Sperm Oil. Also, old North Ca rolina Linseed Oil on hand, together with White Lead, Spirits Turpentine, Train Oil, &c. &c. All of which will be sold very low for the money. JAMES R. McKAIN. March 28. For Rent. THE store next door south of the subscriber's Drug Store. JAMES R. McKAIN March 21. FOR SALE. THE House and Lot in the town of Camden, formerly the residence of Col. John Boykin. The house is commodious and comfortable, the grounds extensive, and the situation ngreeable. The erms will be mate to suit the purchaser. JOHN A. BOYKIN, AdmW. ~ schoolWks.~ Jacob's Greek Reader, Grove's Greek Lexicon, Anthon'sLHorace, " Caesar, " Cicero, Mitchell's Geogrphy and Atlas, Onley's 11 " Emerson's Arithmetic, 1st, 2d, and 3d par's with the Key, Abercrombie's Moral Philosophy, Parker's Exercise in English CompoV sition, American Instructor, Grimshaw's England, with Questions, Goodrich's History of the U. Slates with Questions, ?? * WT. . 1 r?L!l 1 matte's i^aiurai riwusupny, Just received, for sale by ALEXANDER YOUNGJuly 11 For Sale by the Subscriber, A CASK OF PURE ILAKttP A. M. KENNEDY. Aug. 8. White Havana Sugar, I ' - / AND White Wine Vinegar, For sale by A. M. KENNEDY. Aug* 8. 3t . ^ % % f ; I Moffat's Life Pills. . THESE medicines are indebted for their name to their manifest and sensible action in purifying the springs and chan nels of life, and enduing them with re newed tone and vigor. In many hundred certified cases which have been made public. and in almost every species of disease to which the human frame is liable, the happy effects of MOFFAT'S LIFE PILLS AND PHENIX BITTERS hare beqn gratefully and publicly acknowledged by the persons benefitted, and who were previously unacquainted with the beautifully philosophical principles upon which they are compounded, and upon which they consequently act. The LIFE MEDICINES recommend themselves in diseases of every description. Their first operation is to loosen mm the coats of the stomach and bowels, ihe various impurilies and crudities conitantly settling around them; and to re-, move the hardened faeces which'collect in the convolution of the small intestines. Other medicines only partially cleanse! these, and leave 6tich collected masses behind as to produce habitual costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sudden diarrhea, with its imminent dangers. This fact is well known to all regular anatomists, who examine the human bowels after death : and hence the prejudice of these well informed men against quack medicines, or medicines prepared and heralded to the public by ignorant persons. The second effect of the Life Medicines is j to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder, and by this means, the liver and the lungs, the healthful action of which entirely depends upon the regularity of the urinary organs. The blood, which takes its red color from the agency of the liver and the lungs before it passes into the heart, being thus purified by tbem, and nourished by food coming from a clean stomach, courses freely through the veins, renews every part of the system, and triumphantly mounts the bannef of health in the blooming cheek. Moffat's .Vegetable Life Medicines have been thoroughly tested, and pronounced a sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia, Fia-1 tulency, Palpitation of the Heart, Loss of Appetite, Heart-burn and Headache, Restlessness, 111 temper, Anxiety, LanMolaiiphnlv. Coslivcnees. Diar rhoea, Cholera, Fevers of all kinds, Rhu-. matism, Gout, Dropsies of all kinds, Gravel, Worms, Asthma and Consumption, Scurvy, Ulcers, Inveterate Sores, Scorbutic Eruptions and Bad Complexion, Eruptive complaints, Sallow, Cloudy, and other disagreeable Complexions, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas,. Common Calds and Influenza, and various other complaints' which afflict the humam frame In Fe-' ver and Ague, particularly, the Life Me-1 dicines have been most eminently successful; so much sty that in tho Fever and Ague Districts, ^iysici?ns almost universally prescribe tnem. 4 All that Mr. Moffat requires of his patients is to be particular in taking the Life Medicines strictly according to the directions. It is not by a newspaper notice, or by any thing that he himself may say in their favor, that he hopes to gain credit. It is alone by the results of a fair .-i-i n i-L? i r> *l_i/ a TM trim, x' or sine uy >. xv. iv>ixx.nxx^. Notice. rglHE subscriber will rent a Store House at Russel Place, suitable for a Store or Dwelling House. Also, another House, suitable for a small family, with Barn, Stable, Shop and Kitchen. Any person wishing to rent,"will do well to apply previous to the first of October next. The buildings are situated in Kershaw District. SAML. B. HAMMOND. July 25. tf34 ?DTQnav?/i\/^im A TOilT>WO u. 9 THOSE wishing to learn Short Hand, by writing to F. F. Fonville, (Shelbyville, Bedford county, Tenn.) and for wording only one dollar in current money in the letter, can get Tables and Extracts in one letter, so plain that those of limited education may get, not a superficial, buta thorough knowledge of it in a few hours. ?Applicants must pay all postage, state where and to whom their TableB &c. must be sent. Such calls answered during 1840. Aug. 1. 4t35. JUST RECEIVED, A lot of Boykin's Mills StTFBRFXlTB FLOUR. ALSO?A small lot from White's Mills York District, all of which is equal to Northern. For sale by M7 TV \r .now ATT At CCi IT. U. IHCLfV II AUU w ww. Aug. 1. 4t JYotice. ALL persons are hereby notified, that I will not be responsible for any contracts made by my wife Harriet Andrews, or for any services rendered to her, unless specially authorized by me. ROBERT W. ANDREWS. 1 June 37. 30 3t Miscellaneous. . ?. r- - ?? r " * From the Temperance Advocate. A CHAPTER ON1 BED BUGS. "And conscious nature shuddered at the" bite. Bed Bugs are a standing and inexhaustible topic in the periodical literature of our rmmtrv. Like the Florida war. ail sorts of schemes are tried to expel these Red Skins from their cntnnies and cracks, but all in vain; Eveiy now and then we see a flaming article in some newspaper, that the war is ended. ~ Doctor somebody's celebrated Bed Bug poison has utterly exterminated the Wpole blood thirsty tribe in every house in which it has been tried. All the rest of ur take it up and it goes the rounds: the good old ladies throw down their knitting Woii and try the "experiment" and chuckle over fancied victory?the whole family retire to rest and cannot sleep for the delight of thinking what a fine sleep they shall have, until at last when through pure exhaustion from the anticipate d Bliss, they are just falling into dreamy unconsciousness, forth marches some sturdy Sam Jones or Tiger-tail-of a Bed Bug, with a scoreof hungry wretches at his heels, "right out of the Doctor's celebrated compound, and falling, upon their unconscious victims,"they drive sleep from their eyes and joy from their hearts. Our good old grandmothers, peace be to their ashes, tried hot-scalding water and endeavored to bum the fellows into sufimission, but they went down to their craves under the full consciousness that o " " - - ' the war was not ended, leaving as a dying injuction to their daughters to "scald the bed-steads." And our mpthers with commendable reverence for the maxims of antiquity and a praiseworthy zeal did scald the bed-steads, until a cunning Yankee rose and promulged a new system of operations against the enemy, videlecit, light steamers, to navigate the little inlets and thus carry the war into the very heart of the enemy's hiding places. He declared the old hot water system hatched the eggs and multiplied bugs instead of destroying. Soon, there came a little yellow i and red painted pedler wagon into the little town we lived in, with lots of little tin Bed Bug steamers, with sharp noses to run into all sorts of cracks and crevices. The ladies were delighted,, for, said they,, it stands to reason that a Bed Bug cannot out Wil a xannec, auu ogam u was piuuaiur ed "The war is ended," the newspapers echoed and re-echoed the cry "the war is 'ended," and the little tin steamers were heard puffing and wheezing in every house and around every bed-stead, and the poor Bugs began to conclude it was useless to hold out any longer, that they were caught this time, and a good many gave up and consented to-emigrate. But at length they discovered that the little tin steamers were not 60 formidable as they thought, and headed by some formidable Uchee Billy, they again sallied forth to the great annoyance of the house-keepers. By this time Brussais' anti-calomel system began to get into disrepute among the Doctors, ana some one again proclaimed that he could end the war by 'Mercury. Again the house keepers were thrown into ecstacies, and they did succeed in salivating a few Bugs who perhaps imprudently drank cold water after being dosed, but it is thought a laige number were cur_J -r i: k,r ? CU U1 livci CVIlJpiaimo uj aiyuuisc VI met* cury, and that this system did not diminish their number much. Since then Dr. Miles has discovered that the "Extract of Tomato" is a good substitute for Calomel for the human race, and the Bed Bug doctors by a very ingenious process of reasoning have discovered, that what will cure a man will kill a Bed Bug, and for sometime past it has been proclaimed from Maine to N. Orleans, that if you will anoint your bedsteads with the juice of the Tomato-vine, the war will come to a close, and the Red Skins will emigrate; but until the Florida war is ended, we shall lie down every night under the expectation of losing blood and of seeing some fat Micanopy rendered "hors du combat" by his gluttony, waddling slowly off every morning to his h iding place with liis booty. We subjoin a very comforting view of the prospects of posterity in this matter^ taken from the Southern Banner. " #?"// Rn.crx.?The following fact in Na tural history from the New fork Sun, is worthy the attention of all who wish to study cleanliness and comfort. This disgusting and very annoying insect, the bed bug, is one of thd most prolific in existence. The female lays about fifty eggs at a time. The eggs are white, and are covered at first with a viscous matter, which afterwards hardens, and fixes them whereever they are laid. The young bugs come forth in-about three weeks. The usual times that the females lay their eggs are March, May, July and September. Two hundred young ones are produced from every female every year. Thus it may De seen wnai a numerous increase mere is : * : of these disgusting vermin, if proper care I is not taken to destroy them." P. S.?Since writing the article above, a friend, has who spent the last winter in Florida, has informed us of a new plan for killing Bed Bugs, very similar to that now in operation upon the Seminoles. He says that if house keepers will take their bedsteads to pieces and place them around an ant's nest, that the little fellows will nozle out the Bed Bujgs, no matter how snugly they may lie hid, and not only kill them, but eat up tlieir eggs, l'tna loofcs a gooa deal like bringing Blood Bounds 'Ho end the war" and may possibly horrify some of our exquisitely tender hearted brethren, north of Mason and Dixon, who have begged Congress not to let "the dogs" bite the Indians. However, as we think it quite as well to leta dog-bite an indian as to let the 1 Indian bury his tomahawk in the bosoms of our suffering neighbors' wives and chil- j j dren, so by parity of reasoning we shall1 I not scruple to use our little blooa hounds in! this domestic war. For, however the [hearts of others may bleed at such cruel-j l*.T an no nra TmoIv nnnfpgg fhfll wp rfl IVj OOAV/1 lU7f flU nvvy VVM?W^ ? .. ? thcr a pismire bite a Bed-bug than let a Bed-bug bite an Editor?especially the Editor of the Temperance Advocate. ARTICHOKES FOR HOGS. A correspondent in the Mississippi Farmer, says: "One of the cheapest articles which can be raised, as food, for hogs, a little , eiperience has proved to me. to be the', common ground artichoke. This sweet and nutricious root is so thrifty in our climate that it may be produced, abundantly with no other trouble than that of planting it. Indeed so thrifty and hardy is it known to be, that I have heard several farmers insist that it yielded better without, than with cultivation. It may be propagated either by the seed or the root, though by the root the most speedily and safely. On the examination of one of the Toots, it will be found covered with germs, or 'eyes,' and from each, if planted separately, there will spring a stalk.? Hence one of the roots may De cut into a great number of small pieces for plan-( ting; and from the rind paited off by the cook when the article is used for the table, (where it is veiy fine) the plant will spring, as well as from the whole root. The manner of producing the artichoke which I would recommend?although a very slovenly one?is that the farmer would- in the spring, plant the corners of his fences and the waste spots through his fields with it. By this means, with no further pains whatever, except (of course) to keep his j fields closed there will be produced by the fall, whence opens his farm to his stock, enough of these roots to keep his hogs in food during the winter. Nor would there be a necessity for replanting in the sue-1 ceediag spring; for though hogs are remarkably fona of the artichoke, and will. root to a considerable depth for them, yet they seldom exterminate them from a spot on which they have once taken hold; and the young plants often spring after all their i depredations, thicker than ever. The ar-' ticnoke is so productive that nearly half a bushel of roots may sometimes be gathered from a single stalk. Another excellent plant for hogs, and one easily cultivated, is the pindar ori gou-' berpea* The yield of this pea is most astonishing, being at the rate of from six to eight hundred bushels to the acre, if j properly ~ cultivated. A venerable and j experienced planter ot Madison couniy, j Maj. Vick, as I have understood, has j been for a number of years practising what j cannot but be an excellent system in! the cultivation of this plant. He plants it with his corn between the hills, ana after the same cultivation, leaves it untroubled to turn his hogs upon in the fall. General Maxims For Health.? ! "Rise early. Eat simple food. Take sufficient exercise. Never fear a little fatigue. Let no children be dressed in tight clothes; it is necessary that their limbs and muscles should have full play, if you wish for cither their health or their beauty. Avoid the necessity of a nlwcioijin if \mti Mn hv rnrpful atten ? r'V ? - J -J tion to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A day's abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many ] an approaching disease. Wear shoes or j boots that are large enough; it not only produces corns, but makes the feet misshapen to cramp them. Wash or bathe very often, and rub the skin thoroughly ? with a cloth or brush. As far as possible, s eat and sleep at regular hours. Wash the eyes tnorougniy in cum >viu?i c?u^ moining. Do not read or sew at twilight, or by too dazzling a light. Clean the teeth in pure water two or three times a day; but above all, be sure to have them clean before you go to bed. Have your I bed-chamber well aired, and have fresh c . ff'y ?^ ^ f _ ' bed linen every week, It is not health .'to sleep in heated rooms. Let cb3drc'?f have their bread and milk before they have been long up. Cold water, and 3. run in the fresh air before breakfast IIospitauty.?The subjo'tocdU aiteK^ tract of a letter from Gen. Washington i> >: Lund Washington, at Mount Vernon* i;> 1775. ** Let the hospitality of the hoose^ tytit'i; v respect to the promybe kept up, Let n ?:vi. one no awav hunmv. If any of thifcktni of people should lie In want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not er.courage them in idleness; and"1!-1 have.fto objection to yourgivingjpy money in cftinf-' ; ity, to the amount of forty or fifty poemds a year, when you think it wedbeaitower. What I mean by having no objection, it, I that it is my doare that it shoowfce door. You, are to consider, that neither myself nor wife are in the" way to do these good offices. . In all other respects I. recon> ( mend to you, and have no doubt of yqur observing the greatest economy and for ; gality; as I suppose you know that ^do not get a farthing for my services here, more than ray expenses; It becomesnecessary therefore, for me to bo saving ' " at home." ' *" * * A Real Freak of Fobtchb.?-?"Tw.") days ago, says the Audience," a country' ? , girl, who had spent all her money at a lot-' tery of handkerchiefs, collars, and othc"'' articles, on a public promenade at Ver; i sailles, offered her umbrella to the koep* -**' ? of the stair as secuiity for some more ti< kets. The man refused to comply wifU-; her request, but told hot that if sue wouk" v allow him to cut off her hair, be would * give her, in exchange for it, twenty ticketf. ? . The poor girl, in the hope of redeeming > her fortune, consented, and is a nuonfc* the scissors of the despoilw had deprived her of this ornament of her sex. Tne girl' played on until nineteen of her tickets- U came up blank. The twentieth was a * prize. On opening the paper the lottery keeper read it* aloud to the persons who were convulsed with laughter-?It wis a comb."?Paris paper. x PERSECUTION OF THE3 JEWS AT* DAMASCUS. v . . .> U"T - Damascus,' Jonv 4i 1840. " Last week the wicked entered the 8ynsgogue at Djobar, and pillaged th^ whole' . edifice. The holy Scrolls they have loru into pieces; they even look some of thosn holy coverings of the scrolls, and other' sacred writings, and used them most-con-' temptuously. , . ? - ' & [ The community prepared a petition l ? / \ the Governor, Sheriff Pacha, hot hd^ . I would not receive it, oh account of'{ftp quarantine. . -' j I have before stated to yon that on.* enemies digged a burial ground, where the most distinguished of our bpetherui have been buried for two hundred years. . They have thrown the bones of our ancestors and friends in to the open roads, and have buried in our sepulchres their own dead. 1 Wo to the ears that Hear these thiftgs, and to the eyes which behold such horrid deeds! Our enemies are now building a placo of worship, and 4hey seize any Israelite* they meet in the streets, make them ear* ry most heavy loads, indict the most erne!' blows upon them, and make them suffer hunger and thirst. From the very day that Signor Sasun and Signor Briggs spoke to SheridTPacha . in favor of the Israelites, instead of re*, ceiving favor, were put into separate dun- \ geons, and ate not allowed to receive fodtT , from their friends, unless each tttn* the food is brought, (hey pay from 60 to 100 piastres; they are not allowed any change . of dress, so that they are covered with insects. Wo to us! What is to become of us? The mouth is not capable of expressing our sufferings; we otily have our trust in the Almighty, our father in heaven, who, we hope, will speedily deliver us. Extract of a letter from Constantinople, (Intuit tlin 9t)ih nf .Tune. 1840; Og the seventh day of Passover (84th of April) the firman from Mehemet Ali reached Damuscus, whereby great help was rendered to our brethren, as they were immediately relieved from all cruel tor* ture, but our enemies still seek the undoing of the Israelites. " Comparisons are odious," as the baboon said ven they told him he looked like a dandy. - -- - - v " Your'c a gone sucker," as the bar. ceeper said of a loafer who fell a sleep lucking juleps through a straw. " You can't shine," as the boots said to lie moccasins. " This is a sweeping catastrophe," as he man said when his wife knocked him lown with a broomstick, %