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camden Journal. SERIES.] VOL. 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVExMBER 16, 1842. NO. 50. iv r: v*ir>s\ jottrwl PVBf.ISHEO EVERY WEDNESDAY" MORNING, BY T'iOMAS W. PKGUttS. TKRMS~~ T^re.e Dollars per annum in advance, Three Do'l irs ami Fifty Cents within six months, or Four Dollars at the expiration of the year. Advertisements inserted alio cents per square, (fourteen liiiss or less,) for the first and 37 h cents for each subsequent insertion. The number of insertions to be noted on all advertisements, or they wiU be published until ordered to be discontinued, Qnd charged accordingly. One Dollar per square for a single insertion.? Quarterly and Mon'hlij advertisements will be charge I the same as a single insertion and Scmi-monthf!.y the same as new ones. For publishing Citations as the laic directs three dollars will he charged. All Obituary Xotices exceeding sir lines, and (y./nmunica'ions recommending^ Candidates for public o?tr-s ?.f profit or trust?or puffing Exhibition will be ch y?ed as advertisements. n* Accounts f>,:' Advertising and Job IVorkwill be presented fir pa'/mciu onartcrly. Ill fetes by mai! mils:post paid to insure npactual attention. M1SCELL I'uSnRi - 'Fit!' Next Session, the Ex chrari- ~. &-; ?!' little more ihaii a fr-?tii ::.*nr '.'o i^rcss will he again in sp>;?i .m, an*l auaiu -vi 11 **n 11 evs" he tnrne;! : ? W ishi -ji :! a< ii?ial. Snine will I)*looking (nr "relief" which Cmigres* ran. an.! others for lliat which it callllui givejs one will serK I<> discover in us proceedings signs and t ikens touching lie next Presidential election, the prospects of candidates, the future state of parties, and the probable fate of disting!ish?-d partv leaders, and of political schemes either <!< viscil or expected to be devised. These party looking*, longings. hopes hiwI fears, are not legitimate, bin they will be entertained nevertheless. Congress has of late years been in the habit of ''doing up" so much pttlv business at Washington, t<> the neglect of ib" public flairs, and to ilie i ipiryof i lie c-? tin try's interests an I .,f publie nioraliiv, that those who feel t'? ir own or lb"ir party's interest t.. he involve*) in the d.dngs of llie sessim, very naturally entertain those expectations g< nerated hy a rem inbraorp of i!,e past. It is, however, to hp li.p-d ih <t they o'ill lie disappointed. The :ip;ir<iiieuing session is thai which is usually tertifd "the short session," termi"n<ing in ab nit ihree months irom its commenee'nent. and being the last of ilr'e present Congress. S!i ?rt as this same session necessarily is, it has often occurred to the mimls of many persons, thai it i? always long enough to admit of the perf irutance 'f as tnitcli useful work ;s is usually accomplished at a long ses-imi.? Of the truth of this conception there can be b it little doubt, on the supposition, however. tb it th" members should leave parly - ?- i i...; ..ill. .I...... i,, p'Mliirs ai lining, jinn ..i... ~ XV ishingion, each an honest and lull purpose of heart to attend faithfully to business?b'sjiliuiat" business ami to spend no more of tli public lime in its perforin anre than what should he found absolutely necessary. We would fain hope that they will approach the metropolis in such !?m of mind next December; and that having met, thev will eschew all party and personal quarrels President-making, slrife and coiiietiliou, and redeem at once the time and their character, f ?r the days are somewhat evil, am! their reputation ought to be precious to thetn. The most important public business will not, we apprehend, be found large in umount. The first in importance is undoubtedly that referred to bv Mr. Webster, in his recent Faneuil Hall speech, viz: the Exchequer plan prepared and agreed upon by the President and his cabinet. This plan, according to our general recollection of it, so far as it regards the safe-keeping of the public moneys, has some resemblance to the sub-treasury system. Indeed, while some of its opponents called ' - . 1 _ll it the sut)-treasury in disguise, omers cawed it a national bank in disguise, but as it conld not be both, the inference seems fair ihat it was neither, though it may hav some of the features of each. At any rate it has since the adjournment of Congress, receive*! but little, if indeed any notice, at the hand of either party, and was not put in issue by either the Whig, or the Democrats at any of the fall elections hewl since. It seems to have been, a? if t?y common consent, passed over i;i silence by both parties; a circumstance which would see o to indicate the lion existence of any deep rooted hostility towards it on the paal of either. Il this inference be correct, it affords a ground of hope that the subject will be taken up prnmplh at the coming session, and examined in nspirit of candor. About the condition of our currency iliere is, we believe, but little diff rence of opinion.? it needs imnrovemeni sorely. Will this plan effect that object? And if an honest examination <?f j-s ptiuriples umJ pro visions ?jive an iiHirnialive answer, why not then a lopt it/ It' it aff >rd in the nation a sound currency based upon the public revenues, anil give assurance for the safekeeping of the public money, leaving the Slate batiks free ami unrestricted, and ?:?eujiijf a saf" m* diurn ??f domestic exchanges, why reject ii? Its constitutional!. , tv, wp believe, his not been questioned ;it least, not that we rent mbcr. If adopt (I, ihen it would need n<? censor nor require any enlogisl. A fair trial would tes its merits, and if found to work well it woulc become p< pillar; if not, it would work oil its own condemnation. As a nationa bank is out of the question, it having become, according to pretty good authoritli "an obsolete idea"<kve ought to have as good an ''idea" in its place as the collective wisdom of the nation can devise. Attempts will probably be made to repeal the bankrupt law and the tariff art. The former may perhaps succeed, but the sue cess of the latter is to our mind raiher more than doubtful. In fact neither of those laws is of a kind* that ought to be treated as a temporary enactment.. They so deeply affect the business of the country and the general morality, that they ought not to be considered as intended merely to serve an ocrassion, ami then to he thrown aside until again wanted lor a similar purj nse.-Stich legislation is special in its character, and as mischievous as it is fluctuating, unsettling the minds, the morals, and llm hojsiliCSS of men, and deranging one year tin calculations which it had encouraged them in make the vear before. Would it no: he better, then, to revise and an.em! if fo'.'ud necessary, titan to nholi-h? Let them work, and if found imperfect, repair then-; lint do not break them into pieces, until they prove either worthless or worse. Several other matters will claim attention, such as post ofli *e reform, itiiineroiisI private claims long delay, d, <fcc &c. I * J short the members will find business cnotiglt to do, bill unite to* much if they approach it in th" right spirit, and make a summary disposal of?uc'i political or nth-1 er fir.-.brands as may be cast among them. J Let litem work with a good will, and lltey will lie al?le to retire from the set tie of their labors next March with more of public up probation than was b'*stoweil oil them at the cb'se of the last session. From ihc iY'10 York Pl'bcian. COa.\D COONi.s.M. The Conns have herrtof >ro sailed under colors belying iln-ir principles. Tltey are tow going on the other lack, with llteii i-xpr-ssive eit-igu nailed to the mast.? I'ltey have tried deception without success; and to.vv int. itd to lie honest in this respect, for a while to see which is the best policy. The name of Coon is the first truly descriptive name our opponents ever assumed. It is one impossible to disgrace, and, therefore, unlike the others, it can suffer no dishonor or degradation at their hands. I'lie natural racoon and the political I co.hi, in their respective worlds, tire prototypes, or reflections, of each other.? N liiralists describe the racoon as an amalgamation of many animals in one?"Multiij&nctu in no.u In that famous work on New York z ?o|ogv, bearing the imprint of Tliurlow Weed, and published by authority ol the 8.ate, the animal in question is "quaii.tly described" ?? having the limbs of a bear, the body of a badger, the head of a fox, the nose of a dog, the tail of a eat, the paws of a monkey, and theflivor of a skunk; it has, besidps, a broad black patch across both eyes, and its tail is annulate.! with alternate rings of black and white; it is a restless, mi?chievotts animal, occassionally committing great ravages in barn-yards.* 11 ? 1..#** ?? P.nillfl lluxr appropriate ail tinuir'Ui. *>?...? there be anything more graphically ties, criptire oflhcjarring incongruous elements of the late Whig and now Coon party7? Who can mistake the political coon after this? See what a faithful picture of a coongress that same old coon embodies; cats and dogs, bears and badgers, monkeys and skunks, mewing, barking, growling, snarling, chattering, and fuming, altogether ill one indescribable union for the sake of it, Banks, abolition, assumption, debt, distri billion, protection, anti-masonry, amalgamation, and free trade, till mixed up in to entire animal, with head, body, limbs, nose tail, tooth and toenails, all complete, flow delightfully that same old coon indicates t the versatile and congenial cnnducl of thai party, which.approaches its opponents witl the sneaking pipelaying propensities of ? ha dyer; which whines like a cat over A m. lican victories, and becomes as lively as a monkey at the triumph of Iter eniinies which, while it puts on the surliness ..f a bear toward* the President, sinks to tht servility of a dog towards a foreign Queen: and resorts to the cunning of a fox to invent a fiscality, relying on its faculties as a skunk in give it an odor of nationality. The black patch over both eyes indicates an uncommon degree of generous miilideuce; the whileyblack tail is admirably calculated to keep the abolitionists in court lenance in the North; while the fox-head expressively winks unutterable things foi the South. Tliis unique animal, it must *lso he observ. il, has little i egard for agrit.. > <> ...; 11 kn jinllv disM miiiiiiteil if ive look fur very thriving burn-y.iriU uii. der ille Conn sysU'in of protection. It commerce thrives at the flirt of his hiiiiiilai' tl tail, it ?vi 11 little profit the uiercuutih Sue page 26. vol. 1. Natural History of tl.e Slate o| New York, published *y Touriovv Ww-U, | printer to tho State and ottiers, 1842. interest. Even the manufacturers are sig nificanily cautioned not to rely too much - upon his profession, for with that eye-patch i he can he excused for "going it blind" in I any kind of mischief. i As the natural coon tini'es all I ho sneakI ing nocturnal beasts or prey in one unique animal, so the political world. The selcc. i lion of this new cognomen reflects great i credit on the candor and taste of the party i that bears it. Who is the man entitled to the credit? Don't all the underwoods speak at once. How clearly it shadows forth the undefiriiible principles of the parly. ASam VVellersays, "The coincidence is we. ry remarksble." GRAPHIC PICTURE OF AN OLD DRUNKARD. Here is a picture, painted by the hand of 1 master, (Professor Wilson.) that is worth a thousand sermons or lectures a ch insl the si 11 of .trnii L ct nrSS. ? , ? "L ok at that grey-headed man of three score and upwards, sitti>>Lr by the way-side. He was unce an elder of the kii k; and a pious man he was, if ever piety adorned the temples?"th?-lyart haffets, wearing thin and hare"?of a Scottish peasant.? What eye beheld the many hundred steps that, one by one, with imperceptible gradation, led him down, down, down, to liie lowest depths of shame, suffering, and ruin? For years before it was bruited about that Gabriel Mason was addicted to drink, bis wife used to sit weeping in the speiice, when her sons and daughters were out at their work in the field.-; and the infatuated mail, fierce in the exrit?-ment of saw spirits, kept causelessly racing and | stor . ing through every nook of that mice j s > peaceful tenement, which for many hap-! py years, hud never been disturbed by ihej loud voice of anger or reproach. His j eyes were seldom turned on his unhappy | wife, except with u sullen scowl or fiery wrath: hut, -then they did look on her with kimliiiss, there was also a rueful Self upbraiding in .their expression, on j account of hi- cruelly, and, at sight ofj such transitory tenderness, her heart' would overflow with lor forgiving aflTecti n, and her eyes with unendurable tears. But neither domestic sin nor domestic sonrow. will conceal from the eyes and ears of rn 11; and at last Gabriel Mason's name w as a by-w.I'd in the mouth of the scoffer. One Sabbath he entered the kirk in a stale t uf miiierjihi*! at?ainlunmP"t?**0' from ihnu day he was no longer an elder. To re-i gain his character, seemed to ^irn, in his desperation, beyond the power of man, ! and against the decree- of God. So he de-' livered himself up, like u slave, to that neappelite; ami in a few years his whole j iiouseh-Id bail gone to destruction. His wife was a matr n, almost in the prime in i life, wile it she died; but as she kept wear-t i 11 cr away to the oilier world, her face io|d | that she fell her yeHis had been loo many! in this world. Her eldest son, unable,' in pride and shame, to lift up his eyes al kirk or market, went away to the city, and' en listed inlo a regiment about to embark on foreign seme*. His two sisters went to take farewellof him, but never return ed; one, it is said, having died of a fever in the itffirmary, just as if she had been a pauper; and the other?for the thought of j sin, and sorrow, and shame, and suffering is ruinous to the soul?gave herself up, in her beauty, an easy prey to a destroyer, and doubtless bus run her course of agony, | and is now al peace. The rest of the i family dropped down, one by one, out of ; sight, into inferior situations in far-off; places; but there was a curse, it was ihought, j ' hanging over ill" family, and of none ofi them did u favorable report ever come to ; their native parish; while he, the infatuaI ted sinner, whose vice seemed to have worked all the wo, remained in the chains 1 of his tyranical passion, nor seemed ever, for more than the short term of a day, to cease hugging them to his heart. Sern blance of all that is most vpnerable in the character of Scotland's peasantry: image of a perfect patriarch, walking out to ' meditate at eventide! What a noble f ?re > head! f eamres now nign, utgnthed, coml posed! There, sitting in the shade of that old way side tree, he seems some re. ligious missionary, travelling to and fro over the face of the earth, seaking out sin ami s -rrow, that he may lame them under the word nf God, jnd change their very being into piety aiid peace. Call him not a hoary hypocrite; for he cannot help that noole, that venerable, that apostolic aspect, that dignified figure, as if bent gently by time, loath to touch it with too heavy a hand; that h"ly sprinkling over ! his furrowed temples of the silver-soft and the snow-while hair?these are the gills ofi gracious Nature all, and Nature will not reclaim tliem but in the tomb. That is Gabriel Mas,,n, the drunkard! Ami in an hniir you may, if your eyes ran bear the sight, set and hear liirn staggering up audi iown the village, cursing, swearing, pie.idling, praying?stoned by blackguard Inns ' anil girls, who bound all ilit dog- ami cms at his heels, till, taking refuge in the smiihy, or the p.>i-h nite, lie becomes the sport o| grown rlownp, and, alter much diot laughter, ruefully, mingled with sighs, i in 1 groans, ami tears, lie is S' fh rril , onmnl a in hie. anil u g'd, I erluips hy j reckless fully, to give out u text from the! Bible, which is nearly engraven on his memory?so much ami so many oilier things effaced forever?and there, lilte a wild itinerant, he stammers forth unintentional blasphemy, till the liquor he has been allowed or instigated to swallow smites him suddenly senseless, and, falling down, hi- U hudd.cd off into a corner of some lumber room, and left to sleep?better furfur such a wretch were it to death." Scottish Temp. In. PEW TALK AND CHURCH SCANDAL. That tal! young fellow's here to-day! r wonder what's his name? ir:i c:.-j 4xio cjrco tirciiAUU upun uui ^rv ? Do look at Sally Dame. Who is that lady dressed in green? It can't be Mrs. Leach; There's Mr. Jones with Deacon Giles! I wonder if he'll preach. Lend me your fan, it is so warm, We both will sit to prayers; Mourning becomes the widow AmesHow Mary's bonnet flares. Do look at Nancy Sloper's veil! It's full a breadth too wide; I wonder if Susannah Ayres, Appears to-day as bride? Lord! what a voice Jane Rice has got! Oh, how that organ roars; I'm glad we've left the singer's seatHow hard Miss Johnson snores. What shawls are these in front? Did you observe Ann Wild; Her new straw bonnet's trimmed with black, I guess she's lost a child. I'm half asleep?that Mr. Jones! His sermons are so long; This afternoon we'll stay at home, And practice that new song. [Sent, and Pall. From the Spectator. ENGLISH TORIES AND AMERICAN WHIGS. We find in an English caper, of ultra liberal politics, and therefore hostile to the Tory principles and parly, the followi.tg candid tribute to the tendency of Sir Robert Peel's administration towards a liberal, economical policy. How humiliating iiiat wiieii even tiiefory panjrindBngland is ad\anring towards more just and enlightened principles of government, the Whig party in this free country should be retrograding to the semi-barbarous policy of monopoly and prohibitory protection: 4*If .Sir Robert Peel has not advanced beyond the principles upon which, since the reform hill, every Government in this country must act, neither has he shown any inrlainaiion to retrograde. His movement in commercial policy his whatall the disciples of free-trade principles conceive to be in the right direction. Nay, more than thai; let Whig cavillers say what they will, it is the largest measure of fiscal re-, form ever brought forward in this country. ? - - r _L!.f I for rili'8 great customs reiorm was cmei-i Iy administrative, reducing; to order a' chaos of duties, and modes of levying lhi-m; but Peel's tariff has embraced large economical principles, (not yet carried out to iheir full extent,) the abolition of prohibitions, the approximation of the colonial to the coasting trade, the abandonment of trival or vexatious duties, and a step towards the remission of duties, on raw materials. Even his disagreeable income tax?forced upon him by the wars and mismanagement of his predecessors? evinces the prudent statesman, who, wish-; ing to improve the economical condition! of the country, yet seeing its critical po*| sition in relation to foieign powers, assures to himself beforehand the possession of adequate means to carry his inten /v * 1 i . L - lions lllio eneci, aim iius mc uuuiago ?? brave a passing odium. What Sir Hobert Peel has done since he came inlo office is fully more lhan we were entitled to expect at his hands. Why should not the truth be told/ And why, because we have ad vocated measures with the Whigs, should we expect to follow them in assailing men, for party ends, an<J without regard to fair-1 ness, change of circumstances, public] utility, or eventual gain to the measures' themselves/" From the New England Farmer. The White Asii a remedy for Poison. ? In a communication in the New England Farmer a few months ago, I endeav. ored to call public attention to the While Ash. Whether any person had been induced to try experiments with it, I am not informed, but I have extended my inquiries, and obtained my important facts. I lately conversed with a Baptist minister who truvelsmuch in Virginia and North i 'urnlina. He assured me that many peo pie in these States well knew that the rattle snakes an<l mocasin snakes have the utmost dread of ihe White Ash, and tha' it will cure those wit" are bitten by these, snakes. He related many facts proving thin persons had been cured when the effects of the poison had rendered them help, less, -0'hai others had to apply the remedy. The bark or leaees is chewed nud the juice swallowed, and also applied lo ihe wound; or if there is time, a tea may he made of the harU or leaves and drank freely, and also used externally. I have obtained other proofs of its efficacy in curing the bite of serpents, and of its preventing their biting. 1 am now con* fident that inany in all parts nf our conn* try have some knowledge of its virtues; and it seems surprising that they have not been more regarded by our physicians.? In several medical works the subject is mentioned; but 1 have found no physician or botanist who has devoted much alien* lion to it. One in Lowell and one in Boston have promised to prepare medicines from the White Ash, and to use them when they have an opportunity. I have recently had a case of poison from ivy. I took a little branch of this valuable tree, and cut up wood, bark, and leaves into small pieces, and poured half a pint of hot water upon them, anJsoon made a hot tea. I caused the patient (o drink about a wine glass full of this lea, and to bathe the poisoned limbs. The cure was nearly complete; but the dose ought to have been repeated after an hour or less. I am satisfied that we can, by this mode, control this species of poison; but I am not able to say, how it would effect cases of poison from dogwood. In this and my former communications I have been careful to avoid expressing more confidence in the virtues of the White Ash, than the facts which have been collected will justify. And,- even, if I have erred in any case, I see not that any can be injured by such experiments as will lead 10 the whole truth. I have never heard that any lad qualities belonged to this tree. I have often swallowed the juice1 of its leaves and bark after chewing them, and no unpleasant effects have resulted.? Suit against Nicholas Biddle.?The assignees of the Bank of the United States have filed a bill of discovery, in the nature of an equity proceeding, in the District Court, against Nicholas Biddle, Esq., asking that he may be called uport to answer, under oath, how and for what purposes he expended large sums of money belonging to the late Bank, obtained by hiro, upon. i 1 I certain ctiecKs, liCKeis, receipts biiu uruers passed between him and John Andrew*. First Assistant Cashier of the Bank. The sums which the plaintiffs say Mr. Biddle lhiie draw from the Bank amount* to 396,OOO, the whole of which, they say, was ap.1 plied to unlawful purposes, and to promote Mr. Riddle's own private view3. They also state that these sums were drawn from the Bank without any authority, and by collusion between the defendant and Mr, Andrews. The tickets, orders, &,c., are set forth in the bill, and are the same as those exhibited before the Recorder when Mr. Biddle was under examination with others, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Bank. On Monday, the trustees of the Bank commenced an action against Thomas Duiilap, but have not yet filed a claim in that case. Philadelphia Ledger. Singular Affair.?Mr. Eugene Clifford who resided at Fairfield, Vt., has been arrested for the supposed murder of his wife and child under very unusual cirmmtianrps. It annears that on the 16lh *ilt. he requested his wife to accompany him on a visit to a friend on the opposite side of the pond, asserting at the same time, (what is reported not to be true,) that they had been specially invited so to do. The day was rather cold and unpleasant, and Mrs C. made many objections, but at the urgent solicitations of her husband, she finally consented, and taking an infant child, they left home, and in crossing the water the boat was upset and the mother and child were drowned, while the husband artd lather escaped. Clifford's story ! is, that in consequence of a strong wind, that his wife and child fell into the water and drowned; and that in trying to recover them, he also fell in, and in falling upset the boat. The bodies were found on thn same day, and the following day a coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict given i of "accidentally drowned." Some suspicious circumstances coming to light a I second inquest was called nn I nursaay, and a verdict given of "wilful murder." C. was accordingly arrested, and a court of examination held, which resulted in his committal to jail for further trial. An Illinois Wedding.?"Will you take this woman to be your wedded wife/" said a magistrate who was placing the indissoluble knot of matrimony on a couple mutually attached to one another, in Illinois. "Well, I swar, squire," said the malo partner to the contract?a wolfish looking customer, by the way?"Well, I swar, squire," you must be a green one to ask such a question ns that ar. Do you think I'd be such a plaguey fool, old feller, as lose the sport of the bar hunt, and take this gal off from the quilting frolic, if I was'nt conscriptimisly sartin and determined to hitch on h? r? Prire on now with the business, squire, and ask me no more suchdarn'd foolish questions as that."