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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. [IVEIV SERIES-] VOE. II. GARDEN, SOI/TIS * Hi-2JSN A, IVEDNESDAY, DECERBER 30, 1840. N0.4. - ??????UUWilWll If 11 Published every Wednesday Morning, by THOMAS W. PEGUES, Publieber of the hales of tie VideoAt throe dollars id adfa*.oe; tnree pollers and fifty -coats in six months; or four dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square for is first, and 37 1 *3 for each sulnoquent insertion.? The number of insertions to be noted on all advertiso meets, or thev will be pnblished antil ordered to bo discontinued, and charged accordingly. One dollar per square will be charged for a single insertion. Semi-mo.unly, Monthly and Qurterly advertise--roonts will be charged the same as new ones each in. -section. All Obituary Notices exceeding eix lines, and "Communications recommending Candidates for pubic Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, will be charged as advertisements. Acoounts for Advertising and Job Work will be presented for payment, quarterly. BIT*All tetters by mail must be past paid to insure punctual attention. Soalh-Caroliua?Lancafttor d it ri In the Common Picas. > John A. Ingram, } ? Peckration in Atlacaraent. William Thompson. ^ D.C.Jonre, } vs > Declaration in Attachment. William Thompson. y John A. l.igrem, i v? > Declaration in AttachmentWilliam Thompsou.y Thomas J. Wright, i vs > Declaration in Attachment. William Thompson. y WHEREAS, tho Plaintiffs in tbe'above stated esses did, on theiilh of November, instant, file their declarations in the oflico of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said District, against tee defendant, who is absent from, and with out the limits of the said State, and having neither wile nor attorney within the same, on whom to serve a copy of the said declaration, with a rule to plead thereto; It is O.dered, That the said Dofhndant do appear and plead to the said declaration on or bctore the (5th aay of November, Anno Dou.ini IBdl^oran or<f:er will be ganted by default. 8. BR.TKHAM, Clerk. Clerk's Office. Nov. 8.1810. pr. adv. $0 TO THE PUBLIC. A CARD. flMIE Subscriber having purchased the well known, extensive and varied assortment of BOOKS, Stationary and Fancy articles, belonging to the estate of the late Mr. John P. Beile, will re-open the establishment on Monday the 14th inst. when he trusts, he will by his attention and courtesy., merit that liberal support that has heretofore been extended to the late proprietor. . SAMUEL HART, Sen. Successor to the late J. P. Beile. Charleston, Drc. 10. ATTENTION BEAT HO 2 ^ATURDAY next, being a holiday, O you ore ordered to parade in front' of the Court House on the first Saturday in January next at 10 o'clock. By order of Capt. Abbott. Dec. 23. F. HUBERT, O. 8. a*?,. (jNONSlSTING of Pomatum, Hair Powder, Cologne, Lavender, Rose, and Orange dower Waters, Wash Balls, Soaps, &c. <fcc. ALSO. Freneh Quinine, (from Pillitier.) " Acetate Morphia, " " Sulphate With a supply on hand, of f, esh Drtigp, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Dye-Stuffs, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, with nil articles usually found in Drug establishments, all of which will be warrautcd as to (jaality ami furnished on moderate ternw. DELEON & LEVY. Sign of the Mortar, Camden. Dec. 23. 8i3 I will sell on the first Monday in January next, at tho Court House, at 12 o'clock, M. the following NEGROES to wit: ANTHONY n likely young fellow, and BILLY, a fitto young fellow, well known in this place ns a first rate Cook; to foreclose two Mortgages on said negroes, executed by A. R. Ruffin to C. J. Shannon and John M. Dcsnussure jointly, and to C. J. Shannon separately, and sold finder said mortgages as his property. TormsCash nurrhasers to nav for bills of sale. B. GASS, 'Agent. Dec. 19. " LOST ON Thursday last, either in Camden, or between that place, end Carter's Creek on the Stage Road, a small Leather POCKET BOOK, containing one hundred and thirty-nine dollars in Cash, believed to be in five and ten dollar Bills on one of the Charleston Banks, a three .dollar bill, on a N. C. Bank, and two half dollars in Silver. One due bill, payable to Mrs. Catharine McKinnon, signed by C. & F. MatUeson, dated Dec. 8d 1840. Also a bill of four round bales of cotton sold to W. Anderson & Co. A reasonable reward will be paid for the delivery of said pocket book and contents to the Post Master in Camden, or to the subscri;JOHN M. SHA"V. ADDRESS A OF THE CARRIER OF . . THB CAMDB17 JOTJP.XTAL W TO HIS PATRONS. y fllerry Christmas! kind friends, and happy New Year To-day is the season for mirth and good cheer; And amidst all the mercies of life you possess, M Give heed to the claimB of the Carrier's Address. Thm humble petition you will not refuse, jy To remember the sourco of much pleasant news. Tho' cold blows the wind, pr torrents may pour, The Journal is left every week at your door: . A Whatever mishap life's views may defeat, The Newspaper fails not its usnal treat. Pray think for a moment, of all the array Of wisdom and talent its columns display, I In all kinds of style, both of pro6e and in verse, y( Didactio and moral, facetious and tone; On Dits of rumor, some of which were quite new; And some (as tho Editor says,) almost true! Politics, fashions and crops altogether, Mia'd up with accounts of time and the weather, The sad rumors of war, disatcr and strife, ^ And various et cet'ras of poor human life. To whom, if nottto the Carrier, in measure, Owe you this debt of literary pleasure? a As vheu Clio fam'd Preacher his people pleas'd well, ^ "Ah," then said the Bellman, "Pray, who rang the Bell? n< But as the past year in an eddy seems hurl'd, of It is fair to recount some nows of the world. W From England, the statements wo lately have learn'd, ge As much to her honor as profit have tum'd ^ Who kindly has poss'd the royal decree, That the Chinese prefer opium to tea; te And as they demur, do her favore afford or Tho gentler substitute of the fire and sword. n( fllorciful acts for a great Christian Nation, And tho Christian Queen who respects her station. a v Egypt, has tbandcr'd bis warliko dofiance, At the array of the fourfold alliance, to lie swears that all Europo shall never, per force, j| Compel him to yield np, or altor his course: His cities shall first lie in ashes around And ho in tho dust o'er he yield op his ground. 8* A noble reply, and ono full of sense, re If he only possess'd tho means of defence. C( But then after all ho may lcamin the fight That justice moans power and that might makes right, 7 At homo, good friends, dont you think it was JO shameful C( To sco our people se ficklo and gameful? Outvote us at ballot, overturn our schemes g And lay by our Statesmen as Raw Johnny dreams. By the way, you've heard the wonderful story That covered its aotors with pow'r and glory to How Tippecanoe in old age grown bolder hi From Log Cabin crept with rifle on shoulder ai ? * . L In searcn 01 a mamn who prowicu tut Round Barn yards (thoy said) to oat up the chickens, The chase it was long, and the conquest dear bought, f 1 At lost the poor fellow was penn'd up and caught. tr Fortuno would have it eo (what ills betide her!) pj Martin was drown'd in a barrel of cider. ^ In the course of affairs in our own good State, We had not much news thro' the year to relate, But midst all the strifes of political sin, ai We stuck to oiir Banner thro1 thick and thro* thin, at Tho verdant Palmetto tho' lono it may stand, Cl Is the way mark to right thro' our wide spread land, Implanted in mercy and juBtico combin'd, 'Tis the sign of true freedom to all mankind, Long long wave thy branches fair Liberty's Tree 01 O'er the land of tho brave and home of the Free. w Thro' tho course of tho year, whose pinions now soar n( With ages long past, to eternity's shore Our good town was blest with measure of wealth, 1(1 Or what is much better most excellent health, h< Whilst shadows of death fell on all sides around, a Our houses with life and its comforts were crown'd, |J( In view of those morcies and contrast of ill, That tlio chaptor and page of human life fill? Whilst your Egg Nog you quaff and think of your e joy, 0' Remember a Christmas for the Carrier Boy. " Long life to you patronB and may timea' coroor (l} Return with now blessings to gladden each year, ^ Encircl'd with mercies in basket and store, Thattko heart may have often dosir'd beforo; ^ Till gently rcleas'd from eartli's feelings and ties, C< You aro call'd to happy New Years in the skies. e< THE CARRIER. T niSCELfiAIVEOUS si ? ??? hi The following is the solution of James's, ci Enigma, published a week or two ago: ai "Wasa; Irwin; Lasha; Lee; Irish; Arna; hi May; Henry; Early; Nain; Rait.y; Yemana; Harmin; Ashe; Rhine; Rome; Illi- P1 nois; Salem; Orleans; Norway." Wil- di liam Henry Harrison. sc FOR THE JOURNAL. gj GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. lfl FOR YOUNG STUDENTS IN GEOGRAPHY. lo 1 am a woru 01 nint'ieeu idlers. Cl My 1, 10, 4, 0, is a scene of one ofNapo- s\ Icon's celebrated batlleB. tj, My 3, 6, 11, 12, 10, is a city in Europe fa- jt moos for its University. je My 15,17, 0, 10,11, is a celebrated manu- w facturing town in New England. j0 My 16, 14, 9, is a river in North Carolina, -j My 19, 10, 9, is a river in Virginia. a| My 7, 17, 4, 8, 4, 19, is a city in England. p| My 3, 14, 7, 11, 2, 9, 10,12,11, is a town g in Maine. My 10, 2, 15, 12, 6, 19,8, is a courilry in tt Europe. e [y 8, 18, 4, b, \>i. 10, is a town in Scotland. ly 4. 10. 0, 3. i? 15, 6, 19,8, is alarge Island. ly 19, IT-. 9, 15. 2, 19, 8, 17,4, is a town in Connecticut [y 15, 18, 13, 5, 14 is ?? ,mall State in Italy. [y 1, 8, 4, is a < ? j.-hf ntod chain of Mountains in Asia, ' f nd my whole is the name of a distinguish ed American Siatrsman. A Ridllb.?Says a lady to her sofror, will comply with your wishes, provided du will give me what you have not, what 3U cannot have, what you never will lve, but what you can give me . From the Boston Transcript. : .J. DVENTURES'AT A DINNER-PARTY. It has sometimes been our fortune to be guest at a dinner ; arty, where ludicrous rents occasionally occured?having had j inconsiderable experience in the way carving and helping our fellow-jfeeders, e have the vanity to boast ihat'^tve can rve out a plate of the good things placed :fore the guesis as well, and a little betr than som< folks. Not so wijKevery te. A gentleman, whom we will<lesigite as a friend, was once placed in a most vkward pre dicament. He hated carving i he did the evil one; and he happened be placed in ? situation just where he d not want u> he- He was invited to a nner party, at which a distinguished jntleman was t?? be present. His mind coiled at the proximity of a dish, the >ntents of which ji? might be called to lerate upon, and he avoided any thing hich might be supposed to contain a int. In fact he always shirked a large iver, as though a living tiger crouched ;neath it, ready to spring upon hira.? ut the day arrived on which he was call* 1 upon to exercise h s faculties at "the fernal art," ?s h? used to caU it. He id anticiftetec something of the kind, id he had been looking through, the 3oks on cookery, which contained caing instruments. One, which he read, euted i-trgel\ < ( litis iufrrnal art, and -esented pictures of birds and beasts, ith lines drawn, indicating the coursei ie knife was to take. He studied hard, id got, as he thought all the windings id sinuosities ?f the art by heart. He - II - P it up?in imagination?an sorts 01 am* als?common and uncommon. And hi' thus theoretically prepared he still ade his appearance at the dinner party ilh a fluttering heart. Dinner ?as announced, and he, being rarer the lady of I he house, felt obliged ? offer her his arm, though he would ive gladly exchanged his distinction for howling wilderness, since it seemed to rspeak the probability of his sitting next ?r. and. if so he knew too well, though ie did not. \viiat would follow. As he titled so he approved. She assigned the interesting stranger" on her right, and id placed our friend on the JeJt?? post f honor, it might be; but to him, a pil? try would have been a sort of paradise, nnpared to it. The cover being removj, * big salmon whs exhibited to view, he lady turned to him requesting his as* star r. His l< st hope, flimsy as it was, uiijr upoj. ih.e ' interesting str?nger' soli? ' * JD<?# ho not ?r?rt ung l 'h ui&iiut.utfu. uut mi. v. w. id mute; und when 6h? politely handed in the fis sdice and knife, he felt about i rnucf. obliged to her as though she had! resented to him a poisoned goblet aad a| igger. But there was no retreating. Being m> gourmand, he did not for his >ul know whv one part of a creature degned for eating was not as good as anoier. Moreover the tail of the fish was iwards him, and he judged from that cirlmstance thai it was designed that he tould commence there. He begao. lercfore, and insinuating the fish-slice at s very e\t*erait?, turned over a thin fines morsel, t<? ihr- distinguished guests, hose plate was first at his elbow. He oked sour as it was placed before him. 'he laclya jon perceived our friends error, ad before he had despatched another late, pointed to the upper part of the ch U.. ('sshi'rf in the slice under the >perint.end?M>re of her finger, and deiched a portion for the other gueste; for eery one, as fate would hare it, would eat fish and no one would taste soup, < sound which he eagerly longed to catch as a remission of at least a part of hi sentence. Unceasing demands made hin desperate, and he .'aid about him knifi and slice, which so little address that be fore half the company were supplied, tlw salmon lay an unsightly heap of ruins, ant the most experienced might have beer puzzled to determine what in reality it hac originally been. This achieved, he waited in grim depaii -... i. .1. . J:_V. A a second awac* upon me nexi maw. n. last a servant appeared with nn enormous dish and cover, which he placed in the situation the helpless salmon had so recently occupied. The cover being taken off, s turkey was exposed. He would as soor it had been a rhinoceros. However, he chanced to know that the breast was a favorite part and desirous to atone to the distinguished guest for his late infractior of the law of gulosity, and considering that he could not do too much to repaii his error, he sent him a junk in the fornr of a wedge, that might have puzzled the capacity of in alderman. Here again, he was set right by his fair and unoffending auxiliary, who in evident purturbation audibly whispered, "thin, sir, if you please, thin." He took her at her word, and despatched slices to the others that would have rivalled Vauxhall. "The cry wat still they come;' turkey, nothing but torkey, would go down.?A legion of plalet were at histe!bow, and it was necessarj to disengage some of the limb6. His fat< had reached its crisis. In endeavoring tc cutoff one of the legs, he suddenly drovt the ill fated bird to the edge of the dish and sent the gravy it contained, like a je d'eau, over the dress and face of the dis tinguished guest, who, in consequence was obliged to be cleansed. Our friend had risen from his chair whet he undertook to disjoint the fowl; the per spiration stood in drops in his forehead at large as bullets, and the servant thinking the chair was in his way, removed it on< side. Having the fork still stuck intc the breast bone, he concluded to si down again, but not being aware thathii chair had been shoved one side, insteac of lighting into it, he came plump upot tho floor. He held on upon the fork a6 < support, and the consequence was, tha I?i-- ......a nf ihn ill f?t?d turkev flev j Hio uaivtxov V* ? ?- / over his head struck against the wall o the room. No trap door opened ande jhis feet, as he heartiiy prayed for in vain He therefore made an abruptexit, trippe< in the mat on leaving the dinner room made a battering ram of his head agains the door, and being partially stunned bj the encounter between his skull and thi mahogany, he made the best way out hi could. ATbavblleso Companion.?Two gen tlemen travelling inside the stage-coacl together, one being rather asthmatic, in sisted on his right as the senior passenge of keeping the windows close down.? The younger traveller, not being maste of verbal argument to beat his antagonis from his position, and besides most Tikel; perceiving the extreme reasonableness o the thing, acquiesced, but stipulated tha as he could not possibly ride in the dark to be allowed to call for candles at th< next inn. This was agreed to, and on i pair of tallow dips being procured, h< commenced blowing out alternately oik and the other, leaving the snutis smout dering till his obstinase neighbor was fair to take refuge on the roof of the vehicle and having taken his seat was politely of fered the pair of candles to see to cougli by From Wellated's Travels to the City of the Caliphs ARAB CUSTOMS. One intensely hot day I was strolling along the beach, when my attention was arrested by . perceiving something lying there, which an Arab was just leaving, It was an old man stretched on his back, in a hollow scooped out of the 6and; nothing but a tattered thin piece of cloth protected him from the fiery heat of the sun's rays; bofore him were some grain and fragments of half boild fish; but he * *1 4' aP Avin was evidently in ine msi aio^ ^AIOtancc. His companion told me, thai when a man or woman became unable tc work, it was customaiy thus to expose them; food, however, being brought until they expire, when a little earth throwr over them completes their half formec grave. Such is custom 1 Yet even this barbarous as it is, is an improvement or that which formerly was practiced. Ar t i old writer, speaking of the inhabitants of Socotra, says tliat "they generally bury 'a their sick before they breathe their last, making no distinction between a dying 1 and a dead person. They egteecn it a dfle ty to put the patient as "soon aspoastbie - out ot pain, and make the request oft heir; friends when they are on a sick bed which all acute diseases, may be called their death bed. When the father of a family finds himself thus circumstanced, anil has reason to believe his dissolution is approaching, he assembles his children rouud him, whether natural or adopted, his parents, wives, servants, and all his acquaintances, whom he strongly exhorts to a compliance with the following articles of his last will?'never to admit any alteration in the customs or doctrines of their ancestors, never to intermarry with foreigners never to permit an affront done them ! or their predecessors, or a beast stolen m aUUam /%f tbntvi /% jvrv iinntinioKa/l? "> IIUILI CllUCr \Jl Ul^ui) iv gv uupuuioiivu^ ' and, lastly, never to suffer a friend to lie i in pain, when they can relieve him by t death/ They commonly perform the ' last request of the dying man by means of a white liquor, of a strong poisonous ' quality which oozes from a tree peculiar ' to this island. Hence it is that legal mur) ders are more common here than in any r other country in the world* for, besides [ the inhuman custom last mentioned, the other requests of dying men produce ' numberless quarrels, ana, by taking revenge of the injuries done to their ances' tors, entail family feuds and bloodshed ' upon their posterity for a long series of . years: They have preserved the remem, brance of a singular trial by ordeal, for, merly practised. An individual supposed to have been guilty of any heinous crime 5 was placed, bound hand and foot, on the ' summit of some eminence, and there * compelled to remain three days. If ram , fell during that period on or near him, he t was considered guilty, and punished by being stoned to death; but if the weather, on the contrary, continued fair, he was ' acquitted. They are, in the more re mote parts of the island, said to still re' main the custom of transferring their own progeny to another person. It is j left at the will of the mother, that the r father may give the child away as soon as | it makes its appearance in the world. If her consent is obtained, a fire is lighted * before the door of their cave, to denote 1 his intention, and the child, as soon as it ? is born, is sent to another family, in 1 which it is brought up with every teuder, ness and attention. Children reared unj der this singular custom, retain through life the title of "children of smoke." It is common for a father who thus exposes 7 his own, to receive in a similar marine- the f offspring of another of his iribct. Buckr hardt tells us that the scheriffsofthe Hed. jas have a nearly similar custom. After j the first five or six days, the child, if a boy, is transferred to another tribe, and the ' mother is not permitted again to see him * until he attains to man's estate. In this f manner ahommed their prophet was e reared. Some other popular traditions b were related to me, but they appeared so little peculiar or characteristic as scarcely a? ? ? to oe worm iranacnpuun. 4 i , 1 Length of Days.?A memoir addres sed to the Academy of Sciences *t Mur nich, by Dr. Tenzen, contains the fol lowing notice of the length of days in the r principal cities of Europe. At Berlin and t London, the longest day has sixteen and / a half hours, and the shortest seven and a f half hours. At Stockholm and Upsal, t the longest has eighteen and a half , hours, and the shortest five and a half.? 2 At Hamburg, Dantzic, and Setting, the 1 longest day has seventeen hours, and the 2 shortest seven. At St. Petersburg and ; Tobolsk, the longest has nineteen and the - shortest five hours. At Tornea, in Fini land the longest day has 21 hours and , a half At Wordorbus. in Norway the - day last from May 21st to July 22d with-' i out interuption; and in Spitsbergen the longest day last three months and a half. Miseries of indolence.?None so nine enjoy life, and are such burdens to them' selves as those who have nothing to do. i The active only have the trtte relish of : life. He who knows not what it is to la, bor knows not what it is to enjoy. Ke, creation is only valuable 86 it unbends ns . The idle know nothing of it It is exi erlion that rendors rest delightful, and , sleep sweet end undisturbed. That the ! happiness of life depends on the regular , prosecution of some laudable purpose or calling which engages, helps ami enlivens all onr power#, let those hear witness, who after spending years in active ' usefulness, jetire to cnj<?y themselves.? ! Tu.f nm n hurdmi to theniselvos. | There's a man out east who is so small ? that he frequently gets lost, atul is obiil ged to go about with a candle and ring a, i belt to find what's become of himself.