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- . f ? THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ' ^^EW SERIES.] VOL. II. CAHDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1841. NO. 26. Published every Wednesday Mornivg, by THOMAS W. PEGUES, . Publisher of the Laws of the Union. At three dollurs in advance, three dollars and fifty cents in six months; or four dollars at the expiration of l he year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square for the first, and 37 1*2 for each subsequent insertion.? The number of insertions to be noted on all advertise monts, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. One dollar per square will be charged for a single insertion. Semi-monthly, Monthly and Quarterly advertisements will be charged thosamc as new ones each in. ertion. n All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and - - - - " --v-j-i? Communications recommending isamuuauro mi puip ic Offices of profit or trust?or puffing exhibitions, will bo charged as advertisements. Accounts for Advertising and Job Work will be presented for payment quarterly. D" All Letters by mail must be post paid to insure punctual attention. ? 1 1 * LINES, Written on planting .Flowers on the Graves of Friends. IT UKS. L. H. SIGOIIXVCT. I've set the flowrets where you sleep, . Fathor and Mother dear; - Their roots are in the mould so deep, Their bosoms bear a tear; The tear-drop of the dewy morn, Their trembling casket fills, Mix'd with that essence from the heart, Which filial love distils. Above thy pillow, Mother, dear, I've placed thy favorite flower? The bright-eyed purple violet, Tiiat docked thy summer bower? Tho fragrant comomile, that spreads In verduro fresh and green, And richly broiders every niche, The velvet turf bolween. I kiss'd the tender violet That droop'd its strnnger.lioad, And call'd it blessed, thus to grow So near my precious dead; And when my venturous path shall bo Across tho deep, blue sea, - I bade it in its beauty rise, And guard that spot for mo, ^".c y ' - ' . There was no other child, my dead, To do tins deed for thee? Mother ; no other nun' .ig babe E'er sat npon thy knee? And Father! thai endearing name, No oilier lips than mine, E'er breathed, to move thy hallo w'd prayer At morn, or eve's decline. Tear not these flowers, thou idle child? Tear hot the flowers that wave In sweet and holy sanctity, Around my parent's grave, Lest guardian angels from the skies, Who watch amid the gloom, ... r .. o Should speak accusing words of those Who desocrato the tomb. And spare to pluck my sacrad plants, -Ye groups that wander nigh, When summer sunsets firo with gold, Thp glorious western sky ; So when your sleep is in the dust, Where now your footsteps tread, May kindred spirits plant the rose, ' > AWb lnirlv lip./I. - J? J From the Tennessee Farmer. THE PLEASURES OF COUNTRY LIFE. One of the most exhilerating circumstances in the Agricultural life, is the never ending succession of change and variety in the scenery and labor of the farm.? This pleasing diversity makes itself felt throughout the lapse of the seasons.? . There is some little monotony, it is true, in the bronze countenance and icy breath of surly old Winter; but even he, hard featured and cold hearted old gentleman as he is, has his freaks of fancy to beguile the .usual dulness of his presence, treats us to an occasional glance of most blessed sunshine; and now and then throws off his rusty brown coat, and puts on his robe of state so exquisitely white and cleanly, as no ermincd judge or ball-room beauty lr may ever aspire to rival. And then his jf storms and tornadoes! where is the theatrical mechanism which can ever compete with him at these? His torrents of rain and sleet, too! The magnanimous Mr. Espy may brag as he pleases about raising the Ohio at pleasure with his manufactured article, we believe he will never L- -Ll? * UC auic W UUIIIti UJJ IU IIIC viajr UUing, pf old Winter, in this line of business. ^Winter, too, witnesses many cheering changes in the arrangement of the farm. Under the magic of the woodman's axe, the tangled forest suddenly becomes the open field, and takes its place as an internal part of the regular plantation. The state fence rises up erect, in its long lines, withitsformidable appearances of strength and security; and a re-arrangement of fields and enclosures often strikes the eye ' with a sentiment of gratiliation. > But, sad as is the havoc he makes in the' vegetable world while he does stay, even stormy old Winter passes swiftly on his way; and with his departing footsteps, that famous young artist, Spring, comes forward to touch the whole scene with her tints of green, and to remodel all that rough old Winter has destioyed. Spring brings her balmy skies and fragrant breath to all; but none so sensibly as the farmer feels the exhileration of the season, the release from his Winter's inactivity, and the excitement of his rural labors; none looks forward to the prospect before him, and to its succession of changes, with more joyous expectation. The fresh soil is now upturned in every direction, a change of scene which some may regard as not very decidedly picturesque. But as a preparation for his crops, it is inexpressibly pleasing to the iarmer. AIIU ii iiic uiuua uiuuiw is, in* deed, unsightly to the eye of refinement, one might suppose that the most fastidious could not fail to be pleased with the various fancy colors which are brought to light on some of our farms by this handy work of the plough. The most brilliant hues are often exhibited?red, yellow, orange, &c. &c. This might please even the Indian taste, which delights in lively < colors, but we appeal to the farmer if he had not better go to work with the soil which show these gaudy hues, and bring i it, with all possible speed, to the color and I qualities which accord with the standard i of true agricultural taste. Very soon, however, this aspect of the j fields is succeeded by another far more vivid and pleasing. Nature's own favor- ' ??? (rroon ch<orfc ifc enft mnntlo imnn < ,lV- Wll/I, ~ ?r-? j ' the whole scene. The small grains, in < disordered array, but beautiful in their dis- i order, thrust up their bright spires in such 1 profusion that the soil is no longer visible; ; while the stately corn, marshalled in ranks like regular troops on review day, stands '] erect as a grenadier, and rustles its flags ; in the breeze with great dignity. s But another glorious change comes with I the coming of harvest. The small grains 1i have shed their verdure, and they now 1 ripple in the wind like a sea of molten ^ gold. Before the touch of the reapers s that majestic grain is cut down in a day; s and the field from which, in the morning;' the footsteps of man and beast were care- (i fully excluded, is now open and accessible .1 at all points. Your ground is your own i again; whilst the thick array of shocks i upon it, assures you that it has made a I good return for your temporary banish- i ment from its precincts. |; A similar feeling attends the mowing of 1 the luxuriant meadow, and the change of f its crowded surface to the smoothly swept ; carpeting of its embryo aftermath. tm _i 1.- ? 1 ll'JSU aisiJ wuu |iiauiiwu i;uiuu?? UK? . corn crop at the ground early in Autumn, I find the sudden change of scene inde-ji scribably pleasant and exhilerating. j I The preparation and casting of the, I Fall sown crops renews this routine of j variety; and so on throughout every re- t currence of the seasons. A benevolent 1 Providence has liberally provided for the ; indulgence of our innate fondness for novelty by vividly stamping that character- . istic upon all the successive vicissitudes of ] the circling year. I The manual occupations of husbandry 1 are change and variety, correspondent s with the varying aspects of the farm.? ; This alternation is so rapid and diversified < as forever to exclude the weariness of i monotony at least, and greatly to relieve |s the husbandmen in the fatigues of his j farm labors; no slight amelioration this,' I of the primeval doom of man, that he' 1 should "eat his bread in the sweat of his 1 face.*' ] The rigid utilitarian will doubtless re- ; gard the above reflection as altogether < superfluous and unprofitable. We do not:1 enr*r?niy-iK trv nntr cnoii i?ritiniem u? h ouv^uiiiu iv ui?? ijuvii taiiiviouji vr u ug- j lieve it to be a point of no considerable < importance that the farmer should take a ] high and exalted pleasure in his employ- i ment. We wish to see him love the agri- I cultural life because of its own intrinsic charms. To him who delves the earth | wholly and solely for the present pelf he j may be able to extract from it, farming is , a sordid and dirty business. It is indeed , an ungrateful and a ruinous business with our common mother, who is almost cer- , tain to be reduced to extreme poverty by , the unnatural practices of such a son.? From him only can improvement be expected who takes a pride in his pursuit, who is fascinated with its pure and wholesome pleasures, and the reward of whose labors is not made exclusively to consist in n ? A - ... C vl, v11wn onrl onntn Hi pi\JIU|)l rciurns Ul uuuais cuiva wmo,? "VVe would not indeed have the farmer so sublimated in his ethics as to be altogether uninfluenced by the latter consideration. His profits as constituting the means of improvement on his farm and of promoting the welfare of those who surround him, may be made largely instrumental in subserving the highest purposes of human life. Ana there is one fact, in connexion w -S ' with this subject, which would espcciall commend to those who are in such a hui ry to be rich that they cannot take tim to calculate the consequence of a ruinou system of agriculture. The farmer wh takes a proper pride in his calling, am conducts its details with an eye to pet manent improvement as well as presen profit, will always, other things beinj equal, become a rich and more prospet ous man in the end, than the greedy cul tivator who runs down his soil with ai uninterrupted series of exhausting crop in his extreme haste to make it immediate ly profitable. A DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT MIS. SOURlAN. This extraordinary zoological monu mentof former ages, arrived at Louisvill a few days since, and is about to be exh bilcd in that city. We gather from th Louisville Journal a hasty description r this mighty skeleton, which will be rea with more than ordinary interest. It measures 32 feet in length and 15 i height. The head measures, from the ti of the nose to the spine of the neck, i feet. From the edge of the upper lip measuring along the roof of the moutl to the socket of the eye is thre feet, fron the lower edge of the upper lip to th first edge of the front tooth, 20 inches.? Each jaw has four teeth, and the uppe jaw has besides two enormous tusks. The teeth are each 4 inches broad.? The nose projects 15 inches over the low 3r jaw. The tusks are 10 feet long, ex slusivc of 1 foot and 3 inches, whicl forms the root, and is hurried in the skull rhe right tusk was found firm in the head and remained fixed in its socket during thi jxcavation, and its transportation to St Louis, which for unate circumstances en ables us to know the exact position an< situation which the tusks occupied in th< lead of the animal during its life. The; were carried by him almost horizontally sending somewhat down, and then coming with their points up again, making j sweep, from extremity to extremity, in i straight line across the head of 15 feet.? The longest rib measured 5 feet 6 1-i nches in length, the shortest 2 feet I nches. The scapula, or shoulder-blade s 3 feet 1 inch in length, and 2 foot' ? ? I.I mt _ l tL _r iL ncnes in oreanin. i ne icngui 01 im lumorus, or forearm, is 3 feet 5 1-! nclies, and its greatest circumference i J feet 3 inches. The femur, or thigh aone, is 4 feet and a half inch long, am 3 1-2 inches in diameter. The feet of th< mimal appear to have been webbed.? The fore foot has 4 toes and a thumb.? The longest toe measures 1 foot 8 inches he shortest 1 foot; and the thumb ' nches. All the bones of the animal ar irm, and contain no marrow. The cavi [y of the brain is quite large. The proprietor, Mr. Koch, in his prin led description of the animal, makes th following remarks on its supposed habit md nature: The animal has been, without doubt in inhabitant of water-courses, such a arge rivers and lakes, which is proven b; he formation of the bones: 1st, his fee were webbed | 2d, all his bones wer solid, and without marrow, as the aquati inimals of the present day; 3d, his rib were too small and slender to resist th many pressures and bruises they would b subject to on land; 4th, his legs are shoi ind thick; 5th, his tail is flat and broad 5th, and last, his tusks arc so situated i ihe head that it would be utterly impossi ale for him to exist in a timbered cnuntr) His food consisted as much of vegetaoie is flesh, although he undoubtedly consunn 2d a great abundance of the latter, an was capable of feeding himself with hi Tore foot, after the manner of the beave 2r otter, and possessed, also, like the hype potamus, the faculty of walking on the boi :om of waters, and rose occasionally t Lake air. The singular position of the tusks ha been very wisely adapted by the Create for the protection of the body from tli many injuries to which it would be expos ed while swimming or walking under th water; and in addition to this, it appeal that the animal has been covered with th same armor as the alligator, or perhaps th migatherium. Never marry a woman who caxno read.?A man named Pike lately forge a check for $75 in the name of Samut Painter, upon the Bank of Chester Cour Pa Affor nrottiniT fhfi cllfifk Pflshp i J , ? ui by a merchant, rike fled to Philadelphi; from which place he wrote to his wifi promising to meet her in a wood adjacer to his house. His wife, being unable t read, got a neighbor to peruse the lette which gave information that led to his d( tection. He has since confessed to sei eral forgeries passed upon other banks. y From the JV. Y. Courier <J- Enquirer, May 18. MITCHELL, THE FORGER. e Officer Bowyer arrived last evening iir s the Albany boat, having this notorious 0 person in his custody, who is now lodged d in safe keeping. Mr. Bowyer received - Governor Seward's requisition on Lord it Sydenham on Thursday last at Montr treal, and immediately presented it to Mr. 1 Dominick Daly, the Governor's Secretawho informed Mr. Bowyer that His xcellency was too ill to attend to busis ness, but he entertained no doubt the rei quest would be complied with. Accordingly on Friday evening Mr. Bowyer received the orders for Mitchell's removal, and on Saturday at 9 A. M. left Montreal with Mitchell in irons. Cant. Comeau. of llie Montreal police, accompauicd Mr. i- Bowycr to Burlington, and as soon as they e reached American waters, formally suri rendered the prisoner in the name of Her e Britannic Majesty. if Mitchell is in good health, and appears d reckless as to his fate; avowing his determination to plead guilty of the crimes n with which he is charged, p It appears that on his flight from this 6 city he went to Philadelphia, where, after having procured a ticket at the Pittsburgh Railroad Office, (for the purpose of mis- | fj leading any who might be in pursuit,) he c disguised himself in a suit of grey clothes, 1 _ a broad brim hat with a crape band, in r which dress and green spectacles, and with a carpenter's rule in his hand, for ' _ four days openly walked the streets of , . that city, frequently meeting persons with N _ whom he was well acquainted. He left! -j Philadelphia for New York in the cars, \ l^and went up the river in the steamboat ' [ (Jtica; being all the while in company:' 3 with persons whom he knew, but none of, whom detected him through his disguise. I An incident occurred at Troy, which ' j shows the constant apprehension of dis-, < 2 covery under which he must ha\e been I 7 laboring. While purchasing a stage tick-! ct at that place, a person standing behind;' r him, read aloud from a newspaper a par-'1 1 agraph, headed "Mitchell the Forger"jI u upon which the guilty man turned sud- < denly around, under the conviction that 1 2 he was discovered; but finding such was 5 not the case, he merely said he knew him,; , and believed him to be a great rascal. i ] jr I1 B Economy in the New York Custom 1 2' House.?We Icam from DfeunettVHcr?! aid, that the new Collector, Mr. Curtis, is ? getting along quite comfortably. He has j adopted a rule, which is now inflexible, R not to give audience to applicants during _ J office hours. In this way, he manages to _ despatch the public business, and at the . 'same time to make such changes as are 7' deemed advisable. There seems to be e no doubt that the number of men employed in the Custom House has greatly exceeded the necessities of the public service. We understand that the Secretary of the Treasury has sent on peremptory e orders to Mr. Curtis to dispense with all b offices, except such as are indispensable to the administration of the revenue laws. ? The Collector has made as careful an exs amination into the matter as the circumY 'stances admitted of, and has come to the !t'conclusion that from sixty to one hundrecf e inspectors and other officers can be disc pensed with, without detriment to the s public service. This will effect a saving c,to the Government of from $60,000 td e $100,000 per annum. There may not be "t as much electioneering and loafing here 5 after, ds under the old dynasty, but it is n hoped that the interests of the people will. '* , at least be carefully looked after. r. ^ j lS Bulwer, in his work, entitled, " Night ' and Morning," makes the following just d observation on the contagiousness of j31 crime : TI *' It may be observed that there are cer! tain years in which, in a civilized country, t. some particular crime comes into vogue, o It flares its season, and then burns out.' (Thus, at orle time we have burking, at! I another swingism?now suicide is in >r vogue?now poisoning trades people in apple dumplins?now little boys cut each other with pen-knives?now common sol-j ' diers shoot at their sergeants. Almost j 0 C ,g every year there is some crime peculiar to c it; a sort of annual, which overruns the country, but does not bloom again. Unquestionably, the press has a great deal to do with these epidemics. Let a newspaI per give an account of some out-of-thet ?av ntrocitv. that has the charm of being d novel, and certain depraved minds fasten I ;J to it, like leeches. They brood over and l- resolve it; the idea grows np a horrid d phantasmalian monomania; and all of a 1, sudden, in a hundred different places, the 2, one seed sown by the leaden types, springs it up into foul flowering. But if the first reo ported aboriginal crime has been attended r, with impunity, how much more does the imitative faculty cling to it. Ill judged r.- mercy falls, not like dew, but like a great heap of manure, on the rank deed;" .V *' Y Jv . "*- . ' Our City.?Thb sound of.the .harhrterand the trowel, the busy rumbling of the * drays, and the appearance ;of sfrS^ts. crowded with produce wagbps,-'ielliHat Hamburg is doragher^hare^bf business, Day after day our warehouses are recefy- * ing a heavy supply of cotton* and the-Side walks present as much, an appearance df business almost as they do in the wintf? months. Indeed; the prospect at preseiit, is far beyond our calculation some nionths ago. We are informed, that a very large portion of trade which heretofore found " -v'.: another market, has been turned hither, and a much larger portion will be receiy^i " here next fall. Our sound currency js doing wonders for us too. If the Gepigjjf money remains in the [>ad condition, at it. now is, for one more year, we shell need ' one or more banks to suddIv ourmiYkai with funds, to pay for the staple,- Nothing like it. Our natural advantages are great"* and the changes of men. cannot affect the trade of our city. It will increase instead of decrease.?Hamburg Jow rial 20thinst> 1 '?. Extraordinary Journey and Voy-? . " age.?It is stated that an English traveller, Sir George Simpson, who recently, set out from Liverpool, and left Montreal oti " his wild route a few days since, is nowengaged in one] of the most extraordinary adventures of modern times. He is on his way round the world, and expects to travel in all,36,850 miles. Thus, he left Liverpool- V and arrived at Halifax and Boston by-: steam-packet, a distance of 35000 milel |.| i . :i u.. I IHillCU lie WU11L lu luuiiucai uy naipi^ia/- .?, distance of 370 miles. He left that city in a canoe, and intends to visit French ; .'..' '-'J river, lakes Huron, Superior, White Fish.; Lake of the Woods and Winnepeg,- untrt be reaches the Red River settlement,' being a distance of 2150 miles; all by- . :anoes. He then proposes to travel on horseback and on foot, 4o the Rocky V'l Mountains, a distance of upwarde of 1300 * miles. He will then proceed down the Columbia river, a distance of 1110 miles, y. , - * by boat, until he arrivesat Fort Vancouver. He will then travel on the Pacific.. ; Ocean by steamboat and ships upwards-of . * 15,000 miles; will visit tne Sandwit^ . Islands, Kamschatka, and various other ; places. He will proceed to Siberia; and travel 800 miles on horseback-rtheh along the Lena, a distance off2640 miles, in bo***. He will take horses and after visit .? ing various-regions of the north of Eurppe^r - : will visit Perm, Orza, Moscow, St.Peters-1 -' :Y ... ? ? A-J i -T- " burg, and proceed hopnc through JiUrt>pe*, being a distance of &500 miles itt carriages and on horseback. Mis calculation " is to be absent the whole of this and i, the greater part of next. . ' i ~w jmk 157 The Penalty of an Elopement***A year . sihce a letter was published from Mon- , .pp treal announcing the elopement-, of Mrs. r? Harris, wife of Captain Harris, 24th regt- ment, with E. D. David, Esq. of Montreal, ' v; barrister, and major in the Montreal cav- . airy. On the 6tn instant the action commenced by Captain Harris against Mr. David was tried in Montreal, and resulted in a Verdict for thirty thousand dpHaw damages. All Men are 4 led.'?Swift once attempted in a humorous mood, to prove that J all things were governed by the word led. Said he, "Our noblemen and drunkards are pirrtpZed; physicians and pulses arp... feclcd ; their patients and organs are pitZed ; a new married man ana an ass are bridied; and an old married man and pack . . horse are sa(Ued; cats and dice are rattled; cwinp n nd nobilitv are stsled; a coquette and tinder box are sparkW. . - " *" - W ; . From the Ametican Sentinel. " TOMB OF GEN. HARBISON. By the following paragraph, copied from the Shelby (Ky.) News of the 6th, , it will be seen that those with whom the decision of the question properly rests, have decided that the remains of the great and good man whose Joss a nation' mourns, are to find their permanent rest- "" ing place on the bank of the Ohio River , at North Bend. However a national op' central feeling, mingling with respect foiv. the memory of the individual, might haw favored a different disposition of-these remains, and induced the wish that they should repose in the' nation's cemetiy, none can question tlie right of those who have thus decided, on the fitness of the decision. To us, the spot designated as the final resting place of the remains of Gen. Harrison, seems peculiarly appropriate. ' v.- ; *' ? - ?* it - L:!il j We learn that Col. '1'oao, on ins way to his residence in this county last ^reel^ ; in performance of a sacred duty, called upon the venerable widow of our lamented deceased President. , Whilst thepe, he wasdnvited by that lady to consultation with herself and her only remaining son^ as to the ultimate depository of the rerjr. ' ".?.k - * i' r r 1 * 'V* ' m ^ V ^ ' </