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[j\*jnn* SJE1SIJES.] VOL. 3. CA3IDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1842. ^TT? I Ml III .. . I.H THE CUIOEX JOURNAL PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY TtfOMAS W. PEGUES. TERMS. Three Dollars per annum in advance, Three Dollars and Fifty Cents within six months, or Four Dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted at 7"> cents per square, ^fourteen lines or less,) for the first and 'i7\ cents for each subsequent.insertion. Tli< number of insertions to he noted on all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, und charged accordingly. One Dollar per square for a single insertion.? 'Quarterly and Monthly advertisements will be charged the same as a single insertion, and Semi-month ly ifie surnr. u.> /??: v. For publishing Ci/atinns as the laic directs &ree dollars will he charged. All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Candidates for public offices of profit or trust?or puffing Exhibition will be charged as advertisement >. O* Accounts for Advertising and Job Work will be presented for payment quarterly. All letters by mail must be post paid to insure idunctual attention. \ "poetry. For the Camden Jnurnafc On rending in the papers, accounts of the progress of the Temperance Cause in different parts of the country. The cause it advances! The flag is still o'er us, Triumph's peal is behind us and victory before us; From the oast to the west, comes the news all consoling, , "Lo! backward the tide of Intemperance is rolling? The pledge is swift reaching he drunkard's lone dwelling, Our rar.ks nro fast filling?the chorus is swelling." O soon tnay our country, whore freedom was nursed, Be freed from this tyrant, this monster accursed; May the car of his triumph roll rapidly back, In shame and dismay o'er his slaughter-piled track. And soon may it echo from ti ountain to sea; 14This monster is vanquished?again wo arc free." Then up, friends of Temperance, neither waver nor pause, The prospects are cheering?Success to the cause. \\r ? >1. From the North Carolina Standard. DEATH OF JASPER. Along Savannah's flowery height, ^ The gathering legions swe!. oie fight And charge with loud acclaim. And Jasper's stalwart r.s*h is there, While mund him wj?V?s and streams afar, The pride of all?the battle star, The guerdcon of the bright arid fair,* To mark his way to fame. . Tlie combat deepens. Iligh and strong, The embattled hosts of Britain come, Sweeping in haughty power along With music of the trump and drum. Dnquailing Jasper marks the road By brave Pulaski's charger trod, His rider, Poland's battle-god, In thunder rushing 011; And burns with generous zeal to lead Where hostile legions faint and bleed 'Neath Poland's noble son. The charge is sounded! On they dash Through routed hosts?and trophies flash In triumph's burning eye. Charge Jasper! That was bravely done! The lines are rent?the heights are won, And victory owns her favorite son, And waves her flag on high. And still through "life-blood warm and wet" Is plied the glistening bayonet, And round each host the clouds war, Bear downward, on his flaming car, The baleful battle-god! Strike! for the years to he! For household blessings pure and free! For all your hills from sea to sea! For plain and rolling flood! The strife is past, and many an eye Is closed in sleep to wake no more; And many a glance is sent on high, To meet the flag which Jasper bore. But Jasper comes not! Death has spread His shadows o'er his eagle eye! And Maricn bows his war worn head. To mark this matchless chieftain die! His manly heart is breaking fas ! He heaves a deep and parting groan! And now his chainless spirit passed In blood to seek its Father's throne. Rest, warrior rest! The clarion tongue Of deathless fame shall speak to thee; And hence, thy name among The brightest of the earth shall be! AtPHit *A banner presented by a lady to Jasper's regiment MISCELLA X Em From the N- 0. Picayune, Julv 21. A MURDERER'S ARREST. Under this caption in our paper of Tuesday we briefly noticed ihe arrest of one Wiley Freeman, fur the murder of his wife. The particulars we received at too late an hour on the previous evening to give them in full. Thev were yesterday "crowded out," to use a technical phrase, by news trotn Mexico, I exas, &,c.? I hoy are ol an extraordinary character, and inasmuch as they show that the Omniscient eye is ever on the murderer, they point a moral on which it is well to rrflect. Freeman is about f rty-eight years of age; his countenance bespeaks shrewdness and intelligence, and it also plainly tells ~ of a rnind harrowed up with feelings of intense agony and hitter, biting remorse.? He was raised in Edgefi-hl, South ('umlina, and was married at the early u?e ol 21J or 22 years. His wife he had hue wn from early infancy?tltey went to school logcihor and together participated in tlic village sports. Their union seemed to he such a one as would insure perpetual happiness ?undying love. The poet says? "But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate, Their hearts, their fortunes and their beings blend!' But, alas! though early association and similarity of tastes and ages would seem to have combined to render Mr. Freeman arid his wife blissful and happy, feelings apparently at war with nature rose up and made them miserable. After having lived together for some 22 years, and alter hav ing given to the world eleven children, the j marriage vow, mutually taken, was broken, and the parties who pledged them 3i*lres to live* id love together in sickliesI anil in health?-through good anil evil fur! tu?c--bccame severed, disunited, j Freeman, it appears, became the sottish I slave of iiilemperance, and, as a necessary I consequence, failed to discharge the duties 'incumbent on every husband?on every father. The mother (Mrs. Freeman) ? as moihers ever do?clung to her children, and used her every exertion to supply them with those necessities and that education and protection which it was the duty of a father to provide. Freeman would sometimes come anil take from his wife the youngest members of the family; anil this would seem to have been done more with a viiw of harrowing the mother's feelings than fur any pater| nal affection which he fell for his children. On one occasion he took off the two younger children and placed them at the house of a sister of his. Their mother let ling solicitous for ilieir welfare, sent one of her sons, a young man 17 yeais old, after them who hroi gia them back to their mother. They had not long left when Freeman returned to his sister's and found them gone?his mind dethroned by runt and his soul fired by an unfounded jealousy, (for this cursed passion, too, j preyed on him) lie hastily seized his rifle, swearing that lie would lake the life of his o? u son! He loaded his piece wiih two h ills, hurried after his children with the design of spilling their blood, but failed to overtake them. Having so failed, and having determined to do a tool and bloody d id, lie went mi to the house of his wile, whom lie found engaged ?t her domestic duties?if leveled his rifle at her, and ere she lir.d time to say, "tiod have mercy on ine!" he lodged the fatal bullets in her body. She lived but a few hours afte wards. This, as we said on Tuesday, was on the 10th of June, 1S37. He fled. The authorities of the state offered a reward for him, and he was taken in the state ol Alabama. He was sent back and imprisoned in the district jail of Edgefield. From this he managed to escape before the time for his trial came on, and made his way through Tennessee and Mississippi to this city ? Here, being an active mechanic, he worked for a considerable time with Mr. Sewed, the builder, ami in the construction of the Nashville Railroad. Dm though he found employment, he found no peace? tin- canker-norm of guilt gnawed nl his heart, and the spirit of a murdered wife haunted his working thoughts and sleeping hours. Urgtd on, therefore, by a spirit of disquietude, he went to Texas; from thence he travelled nith a caravan to Mexico?worked at various employments there, but still so perturbed was his mind that the labor ol the day brought not bleep to his eyelids. In endeavoring to fly, as it were, from his own infamy, he came back to this city ? remained here we know not how lull!? ? left and was making his way through the interior of the stale, when he was arrested in the parish of Rapides on the loth instant! And here a new feature in this extraordinary story presents itself in the reflerlive mind, and one showing forth, in colors too perceptible to be mistaken, the ren ibutivc justice that belongs to Omnipotence. At the time that Freeman murdered his wife, she had an only brother, named John Craw ford, residing in the slate of Alabama, some five hundred miles distant from Edgefield.?Having beard of tfie fatal affair and of Freeman's escape fi rn prison lie left bis boine, resolved to pursue hi in uiiIn death, and avenge a sisier's blood, lie lull iwed in hi< wake in this city, T- xas uittl iilcn u'lmri>' hut tif*vi*r rnnlf! In* Int.* 111-? u"" ' - -/ eyes on liiin. Alter u four years' crusade of this kind ?ami a holy one it was ? lie became broken in spirit and bankrupt in means, and with a view of recruiting both lie offered bis services to Mr. Tanner, ol Rapides, as an assistant overseer, and in litis capacity be was when a providential fate? "That shapes our ends, Rough hew then how we will"? lN'ow we come to a close. Crawford saw Freeman pass, but had some doubt of his identity. They soon vanished, however; >ind inking down his gun, and requesting Mr. T.inner to neronijutuv hiin, lie followed slier Freeman, and ordering him to stand he added?"Well Wiley Freeman, 1 have c ine up with you at last!" Tin other, apparently in a state, of paralysis, replied?-"Don't kill me Jack!?I give up. I did kill your sisler, but it was all Tompkins' fauli!" He was arrested-, and is no*v on bis way i to South Carolina, to make reparation to the laws of his country for his bloody and inhuman deeds. We wish him a just deliverance. A Word to Young Ladies.?Fair readcr when, yon have perused the sad narrative above, of crime resulting from intern perancc, and the terrible retribution which pursues the murderer, through every lane of life, let not the impression pass away with the tear ol sympathy which may fall to the memory of the murdered wife N"! There isa solemn, impressive lesson taught in that nnirative, which should sink deep | into the heart of every young woman in | our country. It is this?Beware of the I young man who indulges freely in inloxi -I ?- -- I- ? !!..?? i II Hnt il iu triit* Kp. I rillius: (inn k*. iic w?y ' '"n * ii ?m f wx | come a drunkud. ami. even if lie does, his j | hands iti'ty not become imbrued vviih tin*! blood i I a murdered wife; lint rn ?st certain j iisil, licit lie runs a fearful risk of the forj mer, and yon, if not ol tlm bloody fate of j jMrs. Freeman, of that w hich falls hut lit-j ; tie short of it: for there is such a thing as ' the murder of the heart's dearest hop?s, of all its young joys, and bright anticipations j of wedded bliss1 And she who weds a' drunkard, Is the victim whose heart must1 I bleed from this unseen wound, until the' J cold grave covers from mortal gaze, her! I shame and her sorrow. Oh, it is a fearful sight, to see a young confining girl, approach the alter with one, who loves to lit ger around life wine cup. j He may pass unscathed through the fi- ry ordeal, ind the bright hopes of the bride may ripen into fmilition. But, frtir reader I let not ttie splendors of wealth, nor the j allurements of pleasure, nnr the promised ; triumphs of ambition, teiflpt you to a lisk J so fraught with danger to all you hold clear. | Ilonestindustry,joined with Temperance, I may carve out a fortune, and all that am[ lotion should covet; but wealth, talents, ] f-iioe, can ni ver gild the Drunkard's home, ; nor soothe the sorrows of a Drunkard's j wife.? Temp. Advocate. A shrewd and lively young belle was i iiifeiiilnpi.fi u fnur fivoiiinna < i urn In n ho in. I fS" * ; j bastir little youth, al>??ut its diminutive in | his personal appearance as a man "rver | gets to bo." Alter conversing with her I lor some minutes, he turned to leave the j room, when hj he was on iTi'e point nl opening the door, the y-Ming lade innocent' lif observed, "Pray don't trouble yourself, there is the key hole ____ I Irish Fun. ? .4 New Idea.?"Hallo, Michael, is it yourself I see before me!" said one Irishman to another, on the even| iiig of the fourth. i I "Troth then, and it's mesplf." "Ami how are von now? and how have you spint our national birth-day?" "Haven't I been ohrinkin' and rejoicing the entire day, and marching about in a sun hot enough to roast praties. Have you been doing the same, Jimmy?" "W? II, I have. The reinimbrar.ee of what our forefathers?ill tsp gint lemon that | signed the declaiation?have done for us, I .Michael, combined with a few dhrops of the 'rrator,' has kept me as drunk ami as joyful as a piper the day long. I say, Michael, isn't it a remarkable fact they i don't ha ve any "f these Fourth of July celebrations in ould Ireland?" "lint they do, to be sure." "I)?I the bit. When does the Fourth of July come in Tipperary? Tell me that with your ugly mouth." "Why, 011 the uvniy-fourlh of June, . ...... - > I ? .? H/iii't t.*nli rii/*iil lo/if f 11 | v?ui ?|iai|irru uwn ? jr ?.. I*i olicks, bonfires, and ipjnirings, ive used to have on that day. The tweriy-fowrlh of ! June is the Fourth of July in Ireland, to be sure." I tVHOi PING C UGH. Mr Editor:?As I understand the whoopjug-rough is very prevalent in the village, I will give the following as an ubsolule, . rurp: Take 3 rents worth of liquorice, 3 ofj , rock candy, 3 of g'lin arahic, and put them | i in a pint of water, jiniiner lliein till nearly. I dissolved, ilieu inld3 cenis worth of pare-i i gurir. and a like quantity of antimouialj | wine. Let it cool, and sip whenever the | 1 cough is troublesome. It is pleasant ant! infallible.? Yorlvillc Compiler. CURE FOR WORM* IN CHILDREN.?A wriI It-rin ilu- F ii hut's Register, who being a slave holder has a large family under his 1 I care, says thai lor nearly 30 years he has ' found the following preparation a certain cure for worms, '-Take ihe fat of old ha con, sliced and fried in a pan until the es- ; settee is ail out the rind first, then put in 1 as much worm seed (vulgarly called Jem- 1 salem Oak.) as is necessary, as much su ' gar or molasses a? will make it palatable, 1 and give it three m;?rni gs in succession. ' The children will eat it treely, gome you will have to restrain from eating too much. Incredible as it may appear, I have known I u" ???? i?n? hmiflr<*il and tivpnfv nr an i u (i ii j in \, || v * ...... v flirty large worms come from u child lirec or four rears "Id. 1 usually give ilie medicine spring ami fall. Postmasters' Commissions.?We are glad to have it iu our power to announce ? I ha t the Postmaster General lias rescinded the order readjusting and reducing the commissions of Deputy Postmasters.? This order, originally made with great reluctance by him, was precautionary- lie bad just grounds to apprehend a deficiency in the revenue of the Department to meet its current obligations. The economy whic h lie has been enabled to introduce into iIip service, and the increased vigilance i of the Deputy Postmasters in the exgjgjttion and enforcement of the laws regulating their duties, have satisfied him that, with a continuation of a like service by all the agents of the Department, its obligations may be raipl by its income dutiogi the present yearMadisoninn. REMARKABLE CfMETERY AT JE-j It US'A LEM. Having heard a rumour of a tomb that: had lately been discovered and opened In the Arabs in ibis vicinity, it being report rd that some Jitiiuan remains were lountn in it, I rode ont one evening during our sojourn in Jerusalem, tn examine the place, accompanied l?y two of tnv companions, Mr. VV. Meiklam and Mr. Fiiilay. A little higher up in the cliff that rises from the cavern erected by the Roman empress, within the ground denominated Aceldama, and in the neighbourhood of the painted chambers, and that excavation called the tomb of Isaiah, some Arabs, when at work in that place accidentally discovered thej door way of a tomb, carved out of a solid i rock, which had been concealed by a heap! of rubbish, over which the soil had accumulated so as to completely conceal the entrance. This entrance at the time of onr visit was partly concealed by brantIdes, stones, and dirt, so that but one half of the door way visible. ? The most remarkable circumstances connected with this facade was its door, which struck me the moment I saw it as being totally different from that of any other tomb that I had ever seen or read ot, except tine at Petra. It is formed of a simple slab of stone, and moves on horizontal pivots that run into sockets rut in the pilasters at the top, in the manner of n !,,niI,,r I:iiiiip. similar to that which is u 01. ...s. 0 - , - . . - _ _ - ^ . seen iii th?* Honrs of cottages in this country. The lower part of it hail been, I was informed, broken off by the Ar?i?^4w-?rr?ler nn cruTaTiite. Tt is the only outside door of a t >mb that 1 had ever seen, and it differs from a 11 others in not having been formed for concealment, or for being completely closed when the body was deposited within; but was evidently made for the purpose of being opened occasionally. Having entered beneath this ponderous porlal and lighted our candles, we j were greatly surprized to find ourselves within a tolerably sized ball of an oblong i shape, cut with great precision out of the rock, hut without ornament or adornment I of any kind whatever. Curious to relate, the whole o( this tomb afforded a most striking illustration of appropriateness to describe ine character of the self-righteous Scribes and Pharisees: and showed the: forcible application of the language used by our Saviour when denouncing their j hypocrisy; "Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees! for ye are like unto wliited se. pulclires, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men's bones, and ofall uncleanliness." At the end and other side of the hall, a number of doors led into the inner apartments. Each of these chambers was a.small oblong crypt, about seven feet long; on either side of which was a trough or sarcophagus, hewn like all the rest of the tombs, out of the solid rock, and raised about three feet from ibe floor, and on all of them were quantities of human bones lying without order or regularity, hut in a state of the most astonishing preservation. J lie P'liiI'S I llli'Se troilgiiu ivni- III iimny places chippfd or broken, as if from l??ti{r ?se; an l the whitewash had not only Coated these parts, but had actually spotted several of the bones that lay down in the bottom of the troughs. These bones were piled in layers, and as each trough contained several, the whitewash must have been used subsequently to some of the bibles being pluced within them. The whitewash (which was the only instance of the kind that has yet been discovered of that ancient Jewish custom) was in the most extraordinary slate of pet fection; and from the number of layers that could bp seen on picking it off the wall, it was evi. rJenl that it bad bet-o frequently rent-wed. , Such was the appearance that this tomb presented when we examined it; and such, , I was informed, was its state when discovered. Bnt the most remarkable feature j in this catacomb was, that each set of | crypts, that is, those on the three different titles, containing the remains of distinct | tnd seperate races of mankind, as shown ? .?... ^L-..tic t,,mid in the tromxh of each. ty Kic ?nuiiw ... 0__ __ * #?! But although I searched with some care, a [ could not find a single instance of the ) ;colls of one side being mixed up with I hose of the other. N?w none of these \ m inus heads belonged to the Jewish n;i- v ion, for not one single European or ivell \ narked Caucasian head could {find among 1 nr.r*>,I in llift chambers: I lie IIUUIUUO ... - '| md ali whu did nol belongWtuat family i must have been strangers in Jerusalem. V"?^S mill as these heads belonged to races, of " ' ^ mankind that we know did not inhabit dew for the last two thousand years.- they " must have been foreigners, and litis haa^-;8^'' led me to conjecture that this fo-tnb- ifhicTr 4 ^ is situated in the acknnfrlcdgom^eld of ? blood, may he o"ne t>f the sepulchres of tfejm ^ actual Acclavia that was purchased by tne v priests Ho bury strangers in. Wild's Narrative. ll A Scene.?'The artilbry lH?arett^3nK^-^ pp tlinu away along tlu* vaults of etnerial^* s ac ?the forked lightnings were playnig ? ' ' '# in tic wild spare of Elysian fields;' the wind- were blowing with mighty fyrcy %r: through nature's boundless possession*?the hail was railing away upon cvprytyf* thing outdoors?the poor printer had just set down alter a hart! day's toil, withofljfcjfl^ money, but little bread and meat, ahdjjfcij^' knew not where to obtain it on a credit: tsjk-J all was drear without and dark w ithin; when |o! there sat a penurious cit in a cornef reading a borrowed newspaper, and col* M h rting a few far fetched ideas, to sustain ^jS criticism on the paper the next dtfy. And- a more than all this, a bug was running up Jf a id down his arm with a soul letj?4i,mes as big as this poor mam [Hamburg Journal. * jjggj A Bashful Man*.?The following po* lire report tr- m a Dublin paper, is done up in a style of excellence that shows the author, when writing it, knew what he was , j about: ? j Our College street policp court was yes. jerday enlivened by the following some* *j j what whimsical rase:?A tall, athletic gen* ' ileum 11, connected with one of the learned J professions, was brought by two constables of the E. division, in company with some of bis friends, before their worships and charged with having outraged public de* 1 ~ ?... I... Im hi n.t mil I aft liie lnstV fmUlfl I'Clli;) I ?> l?"aiilliu>vu I.,w -- j t?? the waves which "gently swell and soft* j ly flow'* it poll the strand of Kingstotvn. i Now, the generous minded 158 had not j the slightest objection that Mr. H. should pursue the healthful exercise of bathing or .^if swimming front the ' morn to dewy eve," provided that he did so in some sequester* I etl cove, unexposed to public views; bulite | had a derided objection to his exhibiting h. nisei I' within the observance of Kingstown's modest maids, anil with this grave oflVnrc hc-no-n ?(i|n.nnil to charge him. The prisoner denied the accusation alto* ^Sjj gether. fie hadJieen very particular, he ~ said, in selecting a secluded nook, but the fact was, that the confounded constables, ,f. not content willi worrying her majesti *a * liege subjects upon terra firma, pursu. d and persecuted them even to the "free ui:* bounded ocean.'' Magistrate"*?*'Bnt, sir, the constable was perfectly right in apprehending you, if he conceived you were outraging public decency." Prisoner.?"How could he conceive so.7 ?Ah, sir, 'conception is a blessing'?but notasa policeconslablecnnreivcs. [Laugh* ter.] I am a peculiarly bashful man?modest even to a fault; and I do assure you, sir, that (am the last man in the world that would outrage decency, either publicly or privately. Mad I spen a lady coming I do verilv helieve that, like the heroic vouth who diil the same in the waters 'if the Ohio, I also would have drowned myself, and died in the cause of extreme delicacy oil the instant. [Great laughter.] Magistrate.?"It w >nld be a little too much to expect you logo to such lengths; hut you might have selected some retired locality." Prisoner.?And so I did, your worship* and so I did. Come down with me now * , on the train. (I'll pay your fare.) and judge for yourself. Why, Zimmerman might have written upon solitude on the book where I sprang into the deep. It is really ' too hard that a gentleman <ain< t refresh himself with a tumble into the salt sea without being molested by those greatest enemies of the human race, the police,.? Ah, my beautiful Naples! how often have $y;1 stood in the pelucid waters of ttyy enchanting bay?unencumbered by liabilimentsofany sort?abandoning myself to the easy and graceful movements of unfettered nature, ami nobody ihere found fa-ulfr.v^ with me, or sought to infringe my libertyf*jjfc^ The prisoner was proceeding in a straftteiPr1' highly Bnlweric, when he was interupted ^ by the magistrate, who told him that they ^ would not enforce the penally this time, if * he would promise never again to offend in '-'"'A ? similar innnner. Prisoner.?''The next time I bathe, your worships, it shall be in a little ci eek on the Wicklow shore, where I verily believu '>'""inlo huoo nut Iwon cinrp 1 hp flood.*' .... t v.. Laughter.].. The prisoner then bowed gracefully and eft the office. 'Gentlemen of the Jury,' snida westeriK.^jpf awyer, 'would you set a rat trap to catch i bar? Would you make d?d fools of 'ourselves by endeavoring to spear a Buf- >" ulo with a knitting needle? Qf would ?' "? mi.tt' nut llin (ItJuriedr>n! mi uiii'mjM u/ vui|'7 " ? ?-*fr" villi a g?ntl?n?Pii, I know on wo tiki not; then hi't^can you be guilty if the absurdity of findffyprtiy client guily of man slaughter for takicqjlhc life of a comanV i- * * -v * -* i m? 1 -3 ii$&