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'% / * ~ * * . . ' v ' *i :'N^ * * > C ^ ? < ' - * ; g i ' - - ? ? m i P. ' [NEWSERIES.] VOL. 1. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, IVOVEitf&ER 5, 1819. N048. - ?* " ??? ???? - POETRY. FOR THE JOURNAL. TO CHERRY. Veil, Cherry, vol's the matter now? I vish I could hadmirc. To sec the hoavens of your brow, All kiver'd o'or vith hire Vero is them little loves cud grace, Vich us'd to s.nilo so nice; And make that pretty little face, A cupid'd paradise? You's put them all to flight, just so; And himps of darkness hie To cut their shines, and jump Jim Crow, The Lord knows vera and vy! Yen lovoly voman, in a pot, begins to vcop in wain, Von does not think of lillics vet Vith dew or showr's of rain. No matter vot the young* ur.p Bay Boot poetry and book". You may bo sure that's not the vey * To beautify her looke. Come! vot'a the use vith grief and care Vons life to be a mixin? Be vot you is an angel fuir Or clso, I'll guess ?? a wixen. CHAFF. FOR THE CAMDEN' JOURNAL. TO THE DRUNKARD. Why is it you deiight to drink, The fire liquid so? And trust your soul upon tho brink Of overlasting wo? Is it to lead you on to fame, Or to increase your wealth? Is it your passions wild to tame, Or bonofit your health? Your wife's lament, your children's wail, Tho shouts at your success, The temple of your fame's the goal, Your laurel is distress. Your household's want is tho height Of wealth, by it you've gained, And hunger, wretchedness, and blight, The hoards by you retained. Your passions will be tamed by death, Which thus you'll haston on? For though they're worse while you have broath, Then they will all bo gone. Your health once good, is now destroyed, Or why that bloated face? And peace of mind you onco enjoyed, Is lost?anguish fills its place. Sure then, 'tis not for those you drink, Or quaff tho flowing bowl, And trust on deep perdition's brink, Your never dying soul. Then heodlcss man, what is your aim? To be beloved by all? Live with God's blessing on your name? Then taste not Alcohol. But if you wish to shorten life, Draw on your name God's ire, And live with oll.in hellish strife, Drink, Drink, the Liquid Fire. A. G. Camdon, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS. THE HAPPY MAN. In walking down Second street on Friday afternoon, on my way to the arsenal, 1 found a crack in my boot; and recollecting the old adage, that "a stitch in time saves nine," ] popped into the first cobbler's shop I met to get it mend ed. uniooKea ior pleasures are generally most relished, and I had 110 expectation of meeting with a philosophical cobbler?Pulling off my boot, I looked at the man. What an expansive ^forehead! What an intelligent countenance! What an expressive eye! There is truth in, physiology, exclaimed I to myself-?that fellow's brains are not made of green peas! he was fixing' the boot, I then rthottght of a man born with capacities for intellectual pleasure and improvement? ijofty, lordly man!?wasting his whole cx, istencc pent up in a small room, knock*ing.Jaway with his hammer, and bending .from morning till night over a lapstone ;and a piece of leathei. I look another :look of the man; and, while tlie glorious r sun was rolling on in his golden course, ;and all .Nature smiling in ner most gorge,ous and superb scenery, wooing the gaze, ..end filling the gazer with sublime feelings, ;here, said I to myself, sits a man-perpetually straining his eyes to poke a hog's bristle through a little hole. What an employment for a man capable, if properly (instructed, of measuring the distance jfrorp this to Mercuiy! It is impossible he (yan be happy-; he is out of his sphere.? Just as he had got the thread through the third hole, I spoke to him and said, 44 Your room is very small; are you happy here?" He answered with some enerS, * Happy? yes; as happy as the day is ig, and would not exchange situations witn General Harrison, though I am cer^in he will be our President. I don't in |tcrfcrc with politics, but 1 know all aboi I it." " But arc you happy in your employ mcnt, confined all day in this small room! " Yes, certainly; the fact is, the ha of the world don't know the way to b happy. 1 was for a while myself huir bugged about happiness; but, sitting o my stool and seriously reflecting one da) I got the secret. I thought to be happ you must be rich and great, have an in conveniently large house, more furnitur by fa/" than necessary, a tabic groanin, with every thing; bui I soon found out a that was stuff*. I am happier here wit my last and hammer than thousands wit their fine houses, and splendid equipagt and have a great deal of enjoyment i looking out of my little cabin and laugii ing at the follies of the world. The don't see inc; and it docs them no harrr and, between you and me, the world ar busy pursuing mere shadows. One want to be rich, another to get into othcc?nc ver satisfied; but here am I, mcniirg ol shoes, contented with my lot and situatior and happier by far than a King indeed, am thankful that Heaven in its wrath nc ver made me a King, for it's a poor bus: acss." By this time my boot was ready, an wishing to prolong the conversation with man who displayed so much real practici philosophy, I said, " Have you no di: tressing cares to vex you, no anxieties, 11 sleepless nights, no bills to meet, no pan?] for yesterday, no fears for to morrow! ?He stared at me a moment, and sai? " No, none.?Tlic only cares which have are comforts; I have a wife, th hest in the world, and two children, an that is enough of comfort for any on man to enjoy. As to bills, I have nor to meet, and never buy on credit, an never buy what I do not really want. A for the fears of to-morrow, I have n fear, but trust in a kind and ever watel ful Providence, believing that 'sufiicici unto the day is the evil thereof,' and r< signation to Providence to he the true: philosophy." What a noble fellow, sai I, to mend a crack in a boot! Himself piece of noble workmanship! I felt ir wardlv the truth of the saying, "coutcn ment is a kingdom;" and after I left m philosophicarcobler, I thought much aboi him, and am satisfied that his philosoph was sound, and that mankind in gener; have yet to learn the secret to be happj His situation in life is obscure, but? " Honor and fame from no condition rise; "Act well your part, thcro all the honor lies." St. Louis Bulletin. From the Picai/iinc. IMPORTANT LEGAL CASE. KV..J ? ' TL.v, o ? r llllgU.lt C'O. U! uuy. was u v, vil suit tried in Judge Prcval's court yet tcrday to which these parties were respec tivcly plaintiff and defendant. The sur sued for was SI30, and though compara tivcly small the amount, we doubt much i there was a greater display of forensi eloquence in the late celebrated crim. cor, case, Ileaviside vs. Lardner, which cam lately before the English courts. 'When Greek meets Greek, then come the tug of war,' and when Finigan come tilt against Brady, then comes an earth 3uake of eloquence. Each party con ucted his own case, and the coruscation ! of the wit of cither became more brigh ' and vivid as it flashed on the argument of the other. May it please the court,' said Mr. Fin igan, 'consequences are involved in til ! result of this trial which are not to be oh served at a superficial glance. We nomi nally sue for ?150, if you raise the vei ' from the surface of the case, if you viev it with a microscopic eye, if you lool (through the vista that led to this suit, yoi I will find, sir, that the paltry sum of $151 I is not the only thing to be gained; yoi will find, sir, that in this case my probity ' my honor, and my inlegrity arc at stake and have to stand the hazzard of the die 'What, sir,' he said, slapping the tabl< with his open hand and making it rcsount as if a rock fell on a coffin?'doyou?cat you for a moment imagine that I woult , subject myself to the petty annoyances o I which the law's delay is the parent, tha I would come publicly before this court i the question was the petty payment o $150; away with the insinuation! perisl the thought. No .sir, I am actuated b; higher motives; I am urged on by noble principles; I am propelled bv a sense o duty above and beyond afl mercenary pon?irWafions. mv honor, sir, mv honor my JionQi't (and lie slapped his breast ve hemcntly at each repetition of the won honor,) 'my honor is the fulcrum whicl moves me to action in this case." During this grandiloquent 'opening,' th< judge was seen to shrug his shoulders se veral times; lie took oli his spectacles wiped them carefully with the corner o his pocket handkerchief, put them 01 again, looked through at the speaker am * then at the people in the court, and seem ed to conclude that Mr. Finignn was 'on it very clever fellow. J- i ft now came Mr. Brady's tarn to address his honor. He commenced: If 'Stop, stop, now, aisy gentlemen of the e jury; will yes whist till I tell his anar all i- about it.' . nj 'There's no jury here,' said the clerk r, gruffly to Mr. Brady, y *0 well, araghma/ireel said Mr. Brady, i-:'what difference does it make whether e' there is ornot; none in life; it's all the shine g; in the Greek, as Nancy Daly said when II | she offered two herrings for three lialfh pence, or four for three-pence, h ; 4 What one woman what you call Nanv, \cy Daly said has nothing to do with this n case,' said the judge, apparently becorni ing ill-tempered circumlocutious manner y in which Mr. Brady was making his dei; fence. cj ^Mr. Brady continued. 'O well since s you say so, let's drop Nancy Daly like a hot praytcc and proceed. J\ow, as 1 was ^ sayin' what has Mr. Finigan's anar.todo 1, With the 8150 he ows inc? Jist as much l as I have with the Chinasc tay question, and the divil a haporth more; he me sowl i- he had as much to say about his anar as if he was a born gentleman. I ask the d koort, did iuiver hare such assurance bea fore? I should like the koort to ask Mr. d Finigan where he got his larnin'; a body 3- would supposed from his big words that 0 he had read navigation and the rest of the fs classics. Thunder'n and turf, can't lie "' pay 8150 and settle the thing quiet and 1, dayccnt, and not to be makin' a Judy 1 Filzsimmons of himself." ie I " Have you done?'' said the court, d "Why thin, be me sowl, I'm not well e begun; can't lie pay me the 8150 or give le'me his I. 0. and settle the matter at d wonst. No, he wont do that; but when is I ask him for me money he flings his rocks o of English?throws the whole dictionary 1- in me face, and faix bstune you and me I it think the worst shin-plasters are the bct2 j ter currency." 3t j Here the Judge told Mr. Brady that d the time of the court could not be trifled a with in this manner: all that he said had l- nothing to do with the question at issue, t- lie would have no more of it; but if the y parties had any evidence to call he was it prepared to hear them. y The orators on both sides begins thus il gagged, a proceeding by the way, which jr. Mr. Finigan emphatically pronounced ^'unconstitutional," the witnesses were brought forward. Mr. Finigan's tact at cross questioning would have done honor to an Old Baily lawyer, and Mr Brady, in his own peculiar wa*. often poked a stumper at the . witnesses. The whole of the important case of Brady vs. Finigan having been gone thro', the court took time to consider the evi11 dencc and reserve his judgment for a future occasion. ' ! Great Yield.?Mr. John II. Tyrec, at c his Golgotha farm, near Lynchburg, Va. * has this season raised 603 potatoes, meae suring five bushels, from the planting of three potatoes of the long red variety. s | s I Good Nutnrc.?Dame Grundv was the " \ most good natured woman alive. Come ' 'what would, evTtry thing was right, 110s thing was wrong.?One day farmer Grun;t. dy told a neighbor that he believed that s his wife was one of the most even tempered women in the world, for tie never l"! saw her cross in his life; and that for once ejhe should like to see her so. "Well," | said his neighbor, " go into the woods ; and bring her a load of the crookedest ''! wood you can find, and if it does not VTjmake her cross, nothing will." Accor^! dingly, to try tiie experiment, he teamed 11 home a load of wood every way calcula^ ted to make a woman fret. For a week J 'or m -re she used the wood copiously, but ' not a word escaped her lips. So one day the husband ventured to inquire of her how she liked the wood. "Oil, ilisbeau3 tiful wood," says she, '"I wish you'd get 1 another load, for it toys around the pot so 3 complete." f Singular Jewish Custom.?Burkhardt, t in his "Travels through Syria," <fcc. in1 forms us that at Tiberias, otic of the four f holy cities of that Talmud, the Jews ob1 serve a singular custom in praying.? f Wiiile the ltabbi recites the Psalms of r David, or the prayers extracted from/ f thein, the congregation frequently imitate i by their voices or gestures the meaning of snmn r?marknblo nnssa/res: for nxamnie. - when the Ilabbi pronounces the words 1 "Praise the Lord with the sound of the 1 trumpet," they imitate the trumpet's blast through their closed fists. When "a hor2 rible tempest" occurs, they puff and blow - to represent a storm; or, should be mcntion " the cries of the righteous in disf tress," they all set up a loud screaming; n and it not unfrequcntly happens that while il some arc still blowing the storm, others i- have alraady begun the cries of the rightee ous. thus form a concert which it is difli0 cult for any but a zealous Hebrew to hear with gravity. Remedy for Lice in Cattle.?We havs been informed by a gentleman who has for many years kept a large stock of cattle, that fine dry sand scattered on the back, neck, and sides of the animals is an effectual remedy against these vermin. He collects dry sand, and puts it in a box or tub in the barn, and occasionally applies it during the winter by sifting or strewing it over the body of each creature with complete success in ridding it of its troublesome, onipsfs. 0 1 . - " Good morning' Uncle Zekel." "Good [ morning Tommy; how'a all your folks?" " Ali's well, 'cept Jake." " What's the matter with him?" " Oh, lie's dead." A Quandary.?" 1 know well enough,' 1 said a fellow, " where fresh fish comes i from " hut where they catch these'ere salt i fish, I'll be hanged if I can tell." \ [From the New Orleans Picayune.] I " You're a nice young man, but you can't come in!"?"Hallo there, friend, I you can t come inr said a laitiiiui <ioor keeper yesterday to a tall, eccentric looking individual, who was* hurrying, with jlong strides, into the new Ammerican i Theatre. " Oh, just allow me to take a peep " i said the tall customer, stopping and turning abruptly. "Can't do it, sir. My orders are to let no person in but the owners and lessees." " Is liolla, the Peruvian prisoner, conconfined here!" said the intruder. " What!'' said the honest door-keeper, j opening his eyes, with a bewildered cx pression, at the question, j "Tell me, soldier, hast thou a wife?" said the stranger, grasping the poor doorkeeper's arm. j " Well, I reckon," said the man, while the blood flew from his cheek, and lie looked into the tall gentleman's eyes, expecting to detect some symptom of insa! nity. j " And children?" said the enquirer, with : a tragic start. | "Well, Mister," replied the door-keeper, " I don't know how its any of your business, but I reckon I is got a small chance of a family.'' j "Ilcre, take this wedge of massive gold!" exclaimed the stranger, picking up a block oi wood that was lying at his feet, and thrusting it into thedoor-keeper's hand. The man looked at the wood, and then ; at the stranger, with a great deal of astonishment, and then said, with very sudden deliberation, " Look here, now, my good man, it's pretty clear to me, your mother don't kimv you're out, but it wont do for you to come fooling in this way' round me. You nay be a very nice young man, bet you cant come in!" "Well, well,'' said the stranger, laugh1 'n?' " you,re a trusty, honest fellow, and you'il find I'll like you the better for it hereafter. So let me pass, for I'm m some' what of a hurry." 1 "You can't ccjjne in, friend, I tell you. i Who are you, any how?" "You don't know mc, mv good man?" "Well, I don't." " My name is Smith." "Y ;u don't say so! IIow is Mrs. Smith arid the family? and what has become of JohnV' The stranger gave vent to a hearty laugh. ! "You may laugh,'neighbor, as much as you please, but you can't come in!" ' "My name is Sol Smith" said the individual, changing his tone, and assuming that dignified manner and graceful' attitude peculiar to him; "I have just got here from the Gen. Pratte, which issriil aground five hundred and seventy 1 miics above Vieksburg. I am the lesec of j this establishment, and I like your nttcni tion to business. You shall retain your I situation as one of my door-keepers as long as you please; and now, sir, please allow me the favor of passing in for a few moments." The man fell upon his knees, just as Triptolimus Muddle work did before Charles XII. and Sol, waving his hand gracefully, Walked in. The Millenivm.?In listening the other evening to a scrumn in behalf of the Female Education Society of New Haven, by Rev. Dr Boeohor, wo were particular- | ly struck with a remark of that distin- j guished preacher in reference to the millcnium. lie was numerating some of the obstacles that must be moved out of the j, way, before the universal peace and pros- , perity of the human family could usher in the full splendor of the millcnium; and ( among ollter things he remarked, that the interests of agriculture must be more highly appreciated?that the odious sys- , tern of monopoly and oppression, which , manifests itself in ?ihc condition of lords and serfs, must be exploded?that the rfarmers, the tillers of the land, the substantial portion of human society, must walk erect as the lords of the soil, and feel the true dignity of their important station, before this dark world can 3&e lighted up with the full meridian blaze, -?f millenial glory. " . Unreasonable Fear from Thunder.?X young man who for some years.was so terrified by thunder and lightning, .as to be on the point of falling into fits at their approach, found ve ry great benefit 'from the following reflections, which a friend sent him for his most serious and frequent consideration. ' Unreasonable and excessive apprehensions caused by thunder and lightning, chiefly originate in prejudice, or in an.er roneous idea that they are constantly the effect of God's displeasure and ministers of his wrath. Were men to consider that this phenomenon, so alarming in appearance, is the effect of natural causes, that it contributes to the welfare of mankind in purifying the atmosphere, charged with noxious exhalations, removing the danger of pestilence, reason and gratis tudes would cause them to rank them among the many other favors of Heaven, ' To diminish these*ungrounded apprehensions, the timid should be informed that of 750,000 persons that have died in London, within a space of thirty years two only tell victims to lightning. They should also be informed that they unreasonably prolong their fears ut each shock. He wlio has time to dread the consequences of a flash of lightning, is already out \ji no iv,aui. It is the lightning alone that can hqrt us, and if we have seen it, it is folly to grow pale, and tremble at the clap of thunder, and to stop our ears against the noise, which announces all danger to be past. The greater the interval between the thunder and lightning, the more removed is the danger. . - If with our finger to the pulse, we can count in the time, twelve or thirteen pulsations, we calculate that the storm must be three miles distant. But the very best preventative against this or*any other alarm, is the testimony of a good conscience.?Tranquil and firm, the just man fears not unreasonably the judgments of Heaven.?He knows that at the order of God, all nature flies to arms againstrthe sinner, and at the same time feels that-the just man is under the safeguard of Heaven. His Creator, the God whom he loves, is the Master of the Universe, and rides on the wings of lightning! He has his 'time ' ' for threatening, and his time for punishing. Fear should be a stranger to-those whose glory is to love God, and to confide in Him even when the earth -shakes to its very centre with his thunder, and appears to be groaning in the agonies of dissolution.?Pou^hliecpsie Journal. GEN. PUTNAM. Is known to have been decidedly opposed to duelling, on principle. It one? happened that he grossly affronted a brother officer.?The dispute arose at a wine tabic, and the officer demanded instant reparation. Putnam, being a little elevated, expressed his willingness'to accomodate the gentleman with a fight;.and it Was stipulated that the duel-should tak? place on the following morning, and that they should fight without seconds. At . i . .1 rr j 1 tlic appointed time, ine omcer auvanceu. to liie ground armed with sword and pistols'. On entering the field, Putnam, wjjp had taken a stand at the opposite extreme lv, and at a distance of anout thirty rods, leveled hi? musket and fired at him. The gentleman now ran towards his antagonist, who deliberately proceeded to reload his gun. " What are you about to do?" exelaimcd he:?"is this the conduct of an American officer, and a man of honor?" "What arc you about to do?" exclaimed the General attending only to the first question: "a pretty question,to put to a man whom you intended to murder. I'm about to kill you; and if you don't beat a retreat in less time than it would take old Heath to hang a tory, you are a gone dog:'' at the same time returning his ram* rod to its place, and throwing the breech ?f iiis gun into the hollow of his shoulder. This intimation was too unequivocal to ae misunderstood; and our valorous duelist turned and fled : life. Not so bad.?A young lady being dreadr fully frightened at a bull that haa booken from his pasture, called to some men who r-.ei?i 1 were in me neiguuuinuuu iu unve away Llmt gentleman cowT Egotism.?Those people who have nothing in them are, generally, full of tliera=.C1V5?.