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CAMDEN JOURNAL.,
^ [.V?H$ SJEKIES.] VOL. 3. W^- ^DAMPEN, SOirTII-CARQUyA, WEDAESPAY, JULY 27, 1842, yft 34.
THE C1MDEN JOURNAL,
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POETRY. |
For the Camden Journal.
THE QUAKER BURYING GROUND.
"They have but fallen before us; for one da)',
we must fall."?Ossian.
"Narrow is thy dwelling now, dark the place
of thine abode?with three steps can I compass
thy grave, thou who wast so great before?fond
stones with their heads of moss are the only memorial
of thee?a treearith scarce a leaf, long
. grass which whistles in the wind."?Ibid.
Within its bosom calm and deep,
Lie generations, wrapped iff-eifeep,
Tor years and years they've slumber'd on,
Nor woke they with the rising sun.
Did'st ever go there, when the day
Had westward fled in rich array,
When all is qiuet, not a sound
Is circling on the air around?
> n;i0
"JL D6re s nu wiiiuuih o uuo.., |/nvt
No long-and dim half mystic aisle,
Nor "ricfi stained oriel's shadows rare,
To fill the 60ul with holy fear;
Nor well trained walk with shrubbery lined,
Each wandering gtep by it confined;
In wild festoons, the crooked vine
j
Swings snake-like, down from yon dead pine;
" And here a mighty oak upturned,
Lies rotting on the earth it spurned;
.Beneath your foot there is a mound,
And here's another, all around
A A They scattered lie, nor is there augiit
S-.. 1 To tell the tale, if it were sought.
Those walls that mossy fronts uprear,
Keep kindr:d dust together there;
As down life's stream they once did glide,
They rest forever side by side,
So quiet is it, and so free
From earthly taint, it well might be
The Quaker's chosen spot of rest
For that long sleep, the last, the best;
Nor would it shock those men of old,
Who first made there, that bed so cold?
How oft, since then, his shadowy steed
The direful king has spurred with speed
He well may know, since it is told,
Its limits twice the living hold.
You know the earth around is teeming
With what was life, in various seeming;
And one might deem the very air,
With spirits past, was peopled there;
And that they hushed their airyiJju- m
Till vou had gone?then forth to come,
scarce can_think, that stopped for aye
bo much life?it could not die?
It has only left the human face,
And hangs above, its dwelling place.
Through sin and sorrow, woe and care,
Wc ever look on death with fear;
Yet with a firm and onward stride
He comes along?he's by our side;
AtV?nt vAnth hnc strnnfT!
/IgC Uituno n?v wvi? W?uv J vuv.. ..?.v
It cracks the voice that tuneful sung;
It bows the head, it bends the knee;
Through its thick film, we death can see.
Yet why should we with shuddering head,
Start trembling back from his sure tread!
We've lived our hour, we've laughed and
lov'd,
The root is dead, the tree is moved.
Man, beast and flower all have their day,
And all alike must pass away;
Bright, yellow fields of ripening gra n,
The reaper cuts and counts his gain,
Nature those fields the reaper gave,
And death's own harvest is the grate.
TITANIA.
SHAYS' REBELLHSNT
A parallel has frequently been drawn of
- -- a* fir
late, between me recent snnrage movement
in Rhode Island and those instigated
by the notorious Daniel Shays of Massachusetts,
shortly after the close of the
American Revolution. No just comparison
can be made between the two events,
but as such an one has been instituted,
and as the facts of the Massachusetts rebellion
are but little known and passing
away from memories of those who wit tt.nessed
the outbreak, a brief aplice of an
event which has been thought to have influenced
the formation of a National Government,
may nofc-be uninteresting or urn
mportant. A late number of tbe Salerr
r, -
| Gazette, contains a long andiucid review
(of the principal occurrences of the insurrection,
and to this article we are indebted
for some Particulars.
Daniel Shays an illiterate and low minded
man, but possessed of physical courj
age, served in our revolution with the rank
J of Captain. Some idea may be formed
of his character from the circumstance
that he sold the sword and other military
equipments, presented to him by the Marquis
de Lafayette, as a mark of honor.?
The close ol the Revolutionary war left!
llic public and private finances of Massa-|;
cliusetts in a slate of deplorable confu- |
sion. The public debt being $5,00C,000,;|
it was of course necessary to resort to ,
heavy taxation to meet the demands upon (
the Treasury. In 1782, in consequence |
of the number of debtors, the Legislature ,
passed a Relief Act, "requiring creditors N
to receive in payment for their debts, cat- .
tie and other specified articles of property
tendered by the debtors." This act was |
ineffectual, people were exasperated and |
harrassed, the relief act was suspended,
and the debtors united for the purpose of
proscribing legal officers and breaking |
down the puuer of the law. They ex- ,
eluded lawyers from a seat in the General f
Court, but finding themselves still liar- <
rassed, and laying all the blame 011 the',
Government and Judiciary, in 1786, they ! [
assembled in arms in various shire towns, ,
and prevented the sitting of the Courts. ,
Shays marched upon Springfield at the .
head ot 2000 men to prevent the silling f
of the Supreme Court, but finding the x
court house occupied by Gen. Wni. Sliep- r
hard and GOO men, retired with his troops.b
Under provision, an act passed by the 1 ^
Legislature to Mispend the wrilofj/uicas a
Corpus, and authorising Gov. Hovvdoin to f
seize and imptisun any rebel, several in- (
surgents were arrested and confined in
Boston jail.
Hampshire County was the stronghold j
of lite rebels, and here Shays rallied his!
troops, lie succeeded finally in obtaining I.
rme?f<i<iion ol the Court House at Soriinr-!
field, and holding it with 300 men. ^
The Governor then authorised the raising
of a body of -1400 men, rank and lile,
which were placed under the command oil.
General Lincoln, and a body of them ar- j
rived at Worcester to protect the Court, i*
on the 22d of January, 1787. Mean- j.
wh le, Gen. Shoppard was posted at the ^
arsenal in Springfield with a body of about f
1100 militia. Against this force, Shays, I
wiilt Luke Day and Eli I'arson, another ^
insurgent chief, marched at the head of j
nearly 5i000 men, and halting in the vi- ;
cinity of the post, sent the following rues- |r
sage to Gen. Sheppard. I<
Head Quarters, > ||
West Springfield^ Jan.'loth. $
"The body of the people assembled in;
arms, adhering to lite first principles in i
natural sell-preservation, do, in the must
peremptory manner demand, j
1. ' l hat the troops in Springfield lay (
down their arms.
54. "That their arms be deposjted in the (
public stores, under the care of the proper
ollicers, to be returned to the owners at
the termination of the present contest.
3. "That the troops return to their
homes upon parole.
To the Commanding Officer at
Spriugjicld, J an. Hot h, 1787.
Luke Day, Captain Commandant ol' this
division.''
Un the back?"By Col. Eli Parson,"
Gen. Sheppurd, on seeing the advance ;
of the insurgent force, sent an aid to dc-|
mand an explanation of the movement, I
and to warn ishays of the consequences of:
persisting. The insugenl leader replied
tie woulo have possession of the barracks.
Gen. Sheppai'd indicated a certain line,'
and told bhuys that if he passed it, he I
! should lire on him, and the guns were ucI
cord in ?1 y depressed towards the centre of
i the ad vuueing column. The rebels continued
'.o advance, and Gen. Sheppard's
pieces were discharged.
This put to flight the entire rebel force.
They fled, leaving three dead and one
wounded, for a distance of ten miles.?
The men under Shays were brave and
-?rwl C .U. 1 1 -I
itaiivosj uuu iiiuiij ui III'JIU Ililll HUMHJ UJJ
against llie hultcsi of an enemy's fire, they
were duunted not by the force of their opponents,
but by the weakness of their
cause. The following letter despatched
by Shays to Gen. Sheppard, affords a
pretty lair specimen of the literary abilities
of the rebel leader:
To Gen. Sheppard or the Commandirg
Officer in Springfield Sir I Desire you To
Send My Dead &, Wound men by My
Flagg So that I can Burye My Dead Men
' 6c Take Care of my Wounded if not my
Wounded, the Dead & the Names of the
Wounded by Lt. Williams Wljo is the bearer
of this flagg.
1 am yours Daniel Shays Capt.
The rebel forces, though dfrperseil at
first, reassembled at Peihain, where Gen.
Line >ln sent a letter to Shays, warning
him of the consequences of persisting in
his course and of the total annihilation of
his men io case of a collision. Shays in
answer, staled that his men were willing to
lay down their arms on condition of a free
pardon .:$nd guatme'e from mulestion.?
Until this was granted he proposed that
t each army should remain inactive. The
next flay, tlic 30th, Stone, Shay?, ar
Wheeler, on behalf of the insurgent
sent a letter to Gen. Lincoln, slating t!u
they had sent a petition to the Legislator
and requesting armistice till they receive
an answer. This request Gen. Lincol
detainee! as inadmissible and once nior
gave the insurgents solemn warning.The
latter, on the 3d of February, inatche
towards Petersham, and Gen. Lincol
commenced the pursuit at 8 o'clock th
same evening. By a f"rced march o
thirty miles through a deep snow, stiflei
ing from intense cold and a violent storn
he reached Petersham at 9 o'clock th
following day, and, taking the rebels lr
surprise, Completely routed them, will;
nut any loss on either side, taking on
hundred and (iflv prisoners. Shays, an;
other prominent leaders, iled from pluc;
to place, and succeeded in baflliog pur
suit.
Their followers wfre all ultimately
pardoned on making submission, and la
ting the oath of allegiance.
In 1768 Shays and Parsons presents
t humble and penitent petition to tin
egislaturc, acknowledged all their error:
ind asking for pardon. For some year:
subsequent to the insurrection, Danie
Shays was a wanderer, and almost a men
licant. He finally emigrated to N. Y
Hit in the evening of his years, lie receiv
d the means of a comfortable support, ii
he shape of the pension of twelve dollar!
i month, which was due him on nccoun
>f his services during the revolutionary
var. Up to (he time of his death, he hai
ecpived 2C00 dollars from tins source.?
^s lie liad lived without character, am
vithout respect, so lie died frieiulless am
done, though surrounded by the physica
omforts, with wliich the bounty of tin
Government had sti[)plied him.
Deplorable Accident and Loss oi
jife.?It is our painful duty to nominee t
alarnity utipreceedented in extent in Brit
sli North A rnerican. w hicli or cured on nu
vateis on Sunday last. The steamc
shamrock left the Canal Basin at Montre
il on Friday evening, and the locks at La
liine early on Saturday morning, bavin;
11 low three barges, two empty and oik
lartially laden. She carried no cargo be
ides the luggage of passengers, wbosi
lumber, wc understand, amouuti d to 12<
Jpuls. About 11 o'clock, when the steam
r bad proceeded about five miles from La
hinc, her boiler exploded, scattering deal!
uul destruction. So sudden were the e|
ec's, that in less than 5 minutes, 02 liu
nan brings were pr?*cipitate.l into eternity
The passengers were English, Irish am
scotch emigrants, but principally English
ind were distributed at tin- time of the at
;ident, nearly as follows; tho English, i
lumber about sixty-five, exclusively occu
pied the bow of the vessel, while the Iris
ind Scotch occupied the stern; in thecal
n were three English women, and tw
men; between decks, in the fore pari of tit
vessel were a number of loiterers. Tli
explosion carried away the decks, an
opt*nod the sides, so that the vessel im
mediately went down. It is easy to cor
ceivc how inevitable became the destruc
lion or irreparable injury of the majority <
such a crowd of passengers huddled o
board of a small canal boat. The loss fe
principally upon the English who were i
the bows: the three women and two men i
the cabin perished, and all who were bf
tween decks, with the exception of thre
Irishmen. The accident was clistinctl
visible from Lachine; at least a number i
persons remarked a vast irruptioivofsuiokt
and in a few seconds the disappearance c
the vessel. The steamer Dolphin was a
the time about half a mile, in the rear ?
the Shamrock) and on her board the e>
plosion was heard; and its effects perceive!
The Captain dropped two b;irges which h
had in tow, and made all haste to carr
Succour. When the U??l|>nin reartieri tn
scene of the disaster, the sight was appal
ing; the unfortunate stcamerhad disappcai
ed, and the surface of the water was cove]
cd with living and dead bodies, ?he livin
clinging to fragments of the wreck, an
to the sides of two barges which rctnaine
unimpaired. ; Bv the exertions of the ma
ter and crew of .the Dolphin, about sixt
persons of different ages and sexes wer
picked tip. Of these, about thirty ar
more or less injured, and about thirty, prit
cipally Irish, escaped unhurt.
It is now out ofotir power to paint in a
their horror, the details of this disaster.Some
instances are presented of hear
rending misery. One old lady, name
- "t
Uonsins, irom uic?? " *<',no>iuc,
found alive, floating on a feather bed, bt
Iter husband and seven children perishei
A man named Coverdale, from Daub;
Yorkshire, sank on Saturday night und<
ampuralion, leaving behind him a wife win
besides her husband, lost six cbililren*M
Y. Herald.
To the Editors of the Charleston Courier:
GENTLEMEN?The appearance of
very interesting communication of Dr. J
seph Johnson to Col. Wade Hampton,
27lh June, 1S42, in ypur columns, contai
ing reminiscences of General Moultrie
defence of Sullivan's Island, has induci
me to hand you for publication the accut
panying letter, which is now in my posst
r.
id sion. The place at which this letter was
s, written?the date?and the character of its
iii illustrious author, give a peculiar intereste,
to its perusal, while the circumstantial and
(I graphic narrative of such an eye witness
n renders'it a most valuable and authentic
e historical record.
Very respectfully yours,&c.
d C. 13. NORTHROP,
n ?
? FORT JOIINSON, June 29, 177G.
1f
1 # ####
n Yesterday about 11 o'clock, the bomb
e ketch and a ship of war came op from five
. j fathom hole, arid a signal was fired from
^ I the Commodore for the oilier ships of war
i to weigh anchor; at about half after 11 the
I ketch began to favor Sullivan's Island
| with some bombs. I could distinctly see
imanv of them burst in the ait; five fell in
the fort at Sulivan's Island, but did no other
damage than slightly wound one man. '
^ The Sob-bay of 28 guns, which was ahead
of the line received a shot from the Island,
, and immediately returned it with her whole
hroailsiilp. The enemv formed in two
g' lines toatlack the fori on Sullivan's Island, |
| in the first line the Bristol of 50 guns, the |
j I Solehay of 28. ami a 40 gnn vessel which 1 1
lam told is called the Roebuck, ([ am not
sure of her name, but certain of her.
'' strength, for 1 could plainly see her guns.)
I In the second line were the Syron of 28,
.'and two other frigates, whose names I do
| J not know, behind these were the bomb
,; ketch, and a heavy hulk of a vessel, some.'
j i thing like our Proper. A brisk and heavy
lcannonading was kept up at first from the
j! ship and the fort. Some shot from the |
I fort put their second line into disorder and
j'carried away the bowsprit of one of the
, frigates, and as they were near that bank
of sand which runs out from the fort towards
Cummin's point (called the lower !
middle) the two ships whose names I do1
F not know ran aground there. The first'
1 line ol the enemy appeared to us as lhis:
" place to be about G or 700 yards from the 1
r Island, but from thence I hear they were
r wiihin 500 yards. All the 20 pounders
" were pointed at the Drisiot, ami aoutu nvo
" hours after the cannonading bpgan, she
' received so murli damage that she was
c obliged to diaw back, but siiil continued
* to fire, though not so briskly as before; at
^ about three o'clock the fort had expended
? all its amuoitioo, (it had HO odd rounds to
'* each gun and 32 guns) the shipping still
kept up a heavy cannonade; the fort could
I1 not return it. In about 2 hours they got a
" supply of200 lbs. gunpowder from TuflVs
" and 500 lbs. from HaddrMPs Point; they J
fired again luit slowly and with great jtidg''
rnent. Night came on and the cannona-j
'? ding still continued on both sides, the great*
est number of our shot (if we may judge
n from the noise they made agnin&l the sides
of the ships) took effect, but the^anips fired ,
'' near 50 for onp. A little after 9 o'clock '
'* I the ships thought th?*y were sufficiently I
? j battered, and ceased firing, and half after!
c 9 began to work down again to their old
0 station in five fathom hole. One of the
ships which ran aground, got oif again; the
'* the other, at least a twenty gun ship, stuck
'* fast there; upon being fired at from the
Island this morning, she returned the fire, I
j the I s I a n 11 fired again, the men then that
i were on board Iter loaded all their guns,
" I set her on fire, got into her boats, leaving
n I ! 11 the cnliirs flvina- on board the ship, and;
.. o . "
rowed off 10 the rest of the fleet. When
she was burnt down to her cannon, she'
c gave a noble discharge. A boat from the
)'i Island went on board of her and brought
^ away her jack she is*" now almost burnt
down to the water's edge, end in a little
while we shall scarcely see the remains of
11 her. The ships tljafl warped off must have !
received considerable damage,as in gener-J
al the shot from the Island was exceeding'
ly well placed. (The Bristol's mizen mast1
c ha3 this moment fallen down, doubtless in J
}' consequence of the shot she got yesterday.)
e Several parts of the ships and some parts
of the cabin have floated up to town, so
"" that I believe tliey have met with a recrpr"
lion they lil'le expected. The officers
? and men at the Island I am informed, be
' haved with the. greatest bravery, and riot-j
" withstanding so heavy a cannonade for ten !
s' hours, we had but ten men killed and twen-!
y ty-two wounded. There was only Moul-i
e trie's regiment, consisting of about 350
e men, anil 30 of Roberts' artillery in the
'* fort; the officers behaved noblv and pointed
every gun themselves, and what is re"
markable, though there was not a man kill
? ed, but what was close to an officer, yet
only Lieut. Grey was slightly wounded by
'' a splinter from a carriage in his thigh, and
18 a spent hall on his breast, and Lieuls.
" M 1. :..-j ...... ?nln.;?nc
11 Mail anil UJiU)( i\ inrmu kivu
' in the face. The first man lliat was killed
Y> was a Corporal of Grenadiers, the rest of
r the men who belonged to his gun immedi?>
ately threw him off the platform '.villi their
handspikes, crying out revenge, let us revenge
our comrade's death, and immediately
returned to their gun with the greatest
eagerness. The enemy shot away the
a flag-staff with our colors, a Grenadier iino
mediately ran through a shower of grape
of shot and siuck up the colors on a pike;:
n- One McDonald, a Sergeant in CapU-Frank
i's Huger's Company being mortally wounded
ed.as thev were rarying him away, cried
n-lout' ! anj killed n?y brejtliten, but.don't let'
s- liberty expire wwU rn^^pffijiVhile this hap
pened al the end of Sullivan's Island nl9trMy
ilie fort is, the enemy, cvhose troops are ot|^ v;
' Lung Island, attempted to pnss over "to that ..
end of Sulivan's island w.bich was nearest
them, hut received so warm a reception
from Thompson's rangers, lire Virginia
Riflemen, some of tlje N. Carolina troops,
a few of the militia, and an 18 pounder, %
lhat we had there, that tiiey were oniigeu
to rptreat without \jwupding so rrnch. sjl
one _of our men. Tl.e .enemy's loss y^;
niffn must have been considerable, as our
shot were chiefly levelled at the hull of >1
the ship?. The transports lay in five fath- - ')
om hole during the whole engagements
I assure you I never saw men in higher spirits
than ours were during the whole can- ' l
nonade, and although from our station
here, wc wpre unfortunate enough to be "
oul jpf it, there was not ^ man but tfas v
wishing most earnestly to be there. s
The fort, though well* peppered with ?
shot, has received scarcely any damage,
not a single breach made in it, nowold tna
Palmetto logs of which it is built at all
splinter. The powder room on board the , *
burning frigate has this instant blown up;
you cannot conceive what a noble columu
of smoke it makes, till it looses itself among
the highest clouds.
# * - -- c *
?*cc
.;,?ont affectionate
Charles Coteswortii Pixckney.
From the New York Observer.
Two Ministers Struck by Ligiitxi&G
_ at
the Communion. x
A correspondent at North Stamford, * " i
(Conn.) gives ns the following narrative:
North Stamford, July 5.
Sabbath day, the 3d inst. was.;:a solemn : jhs
day to the people in this, parish. The.^.
morning devotions in the house of Gojj"
weroended, the exercises ofthe sacramental
feast had commenced, the bread broken
and dislirhuted, the cup taken, when tjie
house in which we were assembled was
struck with lightning. The venerable
Piatt Bnfl'ett, of Matiwich, was present,
and assisted the pastor, Rev. Henry Fuller,
in the exercises. He had poured out the
wine, taken the cup, and was giving thanks
to God, when he and Mr. Fuller were instantaneously
prostrated to the earth.?
The groans and shrieks which instantly
broke from the congregation it is utterly
impossible for me to describe; and yet '
there seemed to pervade the assembly the
most solemn awe: all appeared La-CafiLasaT?
standing on the very verge of deathly.The
bursting thunder, the livid lightning without,
the thrilling scene within, contributed
to render the gloom most terrific.
Mr. Fuller was not so seriously injured,
through feeling considerably attested in *
his limbs. Mr. Buttett is very seriously
injured; wc supposed him dead for iome . *
ten minutes; no signs of life were apparcfi^p
until water was procured and thrown
him. He still suffers great distress at the
stomach, takes no food, but is perfectly
rational.
The electric fluid entered the chimney
top, descended to the stove-pipe, and exploded
immediately over the communion
table, where those servants of God were .
standing. Some others were slightly af?
fofii.rt iliroiiffli not seriouslv.
" ~ ? ? > , ,
The Congregational meeting house in
New Cana;?n whs struck ahout thfea'ame
time, anil several knocked down. An aca* '
demy and dwelling house in th.e samd*^,y^^
to wn, and a dwelling in this parish were ' ;
considerably injured.
Absurdities.?For a dandy to wearhis
pantaloons so light thathe is obliged to take
a portion of Brandrcth's pills to 'w,ork
them off.'
Fur people to look into an almanac to
see if there is to be a snowstorm on the
coming Fourth of Jul)*.
To suppose thai ducks and geese are in
favor of overshoes, or that poultry can be
fattened 011 hickory shoe^pegs.
To suppose that any common man can
swallow the granite hills of New Hampshire
without their being thoroughly greased
' 5B>
n __<lUut1r. krwrf
V{IJAI.M UUAVC.Hsnnuji. iiuiiv wv^ .
have yon any father?" jijgfc %*fc
' No, I have none, buf my brothers hare
two or three."
"What are vour brothers names?"
"All named Bill* 'cept Sam, and his
name is Bob?"
"What's your name?" v
Another New Work! - ^
^ THE UNITED IRISHMEN:
Their Lives and Times.
BY DR. MADBEX.
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I Agont for tlic New World*
July, 13.
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