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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. - -r ? .M ft , -r. _ VOL. 1 Q~ ~ ~ CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBEK 24, 1849. NUMBER 43. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. rURLISHKl) WKKKLV, RV T. VV. PEGUKS. ?-XiJ Goods In Charleston, For Spring of 18-19. K. \V. BANCROFT, ixvrrrs the attention of Plantees and their familiks.wiio visit the ClTV.to his Extensive Stock. tie has now received his Spring Stuck, which consist" e?f every variety of rich and elegant Fabrics, for Ludie? dress?such as Silks. Grenadines, Twite Silks. Bareges, Muslins, Sewing Silks, Ginghams, Prints, Lawns, Uoinbastines, Challys, Alpaccas, &c. Shawls of eceri/ Style. ? ? - nc: 1 t*_l :.l 1 / hUCft A* Wfyini rmm anu Diuinuiucicu vamuii Crape, Caxlnnere dewing Silk, Silk Muslin, Borage and Plain Silk Shawls. Linens. Damasks, Long lawns, Linen Sheetings, and Linen Good* in great variety. I fosiery. White Goods, goods for Gentlemen's Wear, <jr. Qr*. ALSO In hi* Domestic Goods Rooms will be found as usual.a roinplete assortment of all the leading Styles of Domestic Goods, such as arc adajMed to Servants wear and faniil; tier. He confidently invites attention to the Stock as one ?fth Largest and most Extcnsice in the Southern Country und the prices always tiie lowest possible. 253 King Street, Charleston, S C. April 4th, 1849. tf 14 The Subscriber is now receiving a large and well selected Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES,, of every description, and latest fashions, ? ' also : Traveling Trunks, Carpet Bags, Valices, Hen's and Boys' Fine Caps, be. All of which I offer at eery low prices, and respectfully invite the public t? examine the same. GEORGE ALDEN. August 29 33 tf DeKalb Factory. 7)1 and 33 inch Cotton Osnsbutgs, 4-4 36 " Osnaburgs, made expressly to order for Cotton Picking Sheets. SPUN YARN, of all numbers, and warranted of excellent quality. For sale wholesale and retail by W. ANDERSON CO. September 5 3 5 tf Notice. The subscriber having remnvcd from Columbia to Charleston, l?e offers his services as a F. ctor and Commission Merchant, and pie ges himself to use his best exertions to satisfy those of his friends whomiy employ him Advances will be made on Cotton and other Produce JAMES MARTIN, Office3 Boyce &. Co, Wharf. Charleston, Sept. 14.1849. 38 6in Sheriff* Sale. By Virtue of Sundry Writs of Fi. Fa, to me directed I will sell on the first Monday in November next, before the Court Ilouse door in the town of Camden, between the legal hours of sale the following property to wit: All the right, title and interest, of the defendant in and to Lots No. 1035 and 10G6 with the improvements thereon in the town of Camden. Isit No. 1035 fronts west on Broad Street, I?t No. 1006 fronts East on Market Street, each measuring (56 feet wide by 264 feet deep, Levied on and to be sold as the property of [.ewis Johnson, at the suit of Robinson &. Caldwell, One Bale cotton, levied on and to be sold as the property of Roland Reynolds at the s it o! John N. Bojrles. All the defendants Right and Interest of the defendant in and to 500 acres of Land more or less with the improvements thereon lying on the waters of Saundcr's creek adjoining Lauds of Dr. Milling and J. B. < 'ureton and others, 1 Vegro Woman named Lucy, also 2 mules 1 mare, a two horse waggon and a Buggie, 20 head of cattle, 50 head of hogs, levied on and to be sold na fHo nmnnrlv nf Win. NnlsOll at tlie Suit of *>?V V - MI D. Wood and others vs Win. Nelson. Terms cash. I'urshaserts to pay for papers. TllOS. J. WARREN,?. k. i?. OcL 15,1*49. 42 3i Lands for Sale. IXEQUITY?LANCASTER DISTRICT. John Massev, Adtti'r. de bonis nnn of John T. lieSin* dee'd. vs Jane Hagins and others, fnder the decree of the Court of Equity in the above case, I u-ill soli at Lancaster court house on the first Monday (5th day) of November, 1849, the following Real Estate, belonging to the estate of John T. Hagins, dee'd. viz: 1 Tract containing 226 Acre', known as the "Barnett Tract," lying on both sides of the Charlotte road, near the town of Bell Air, adjoining lands of John M. Doby, Allen Morrow and the Bell Air tracu A LSO 1 other Tract, containing 627 acres lying on t! e Catawba river, adjoining lands of Adam Ivey, Allen A'orrow and John M. Doby and the Barnett Tract- This contains some valuable "Bottoms." Terms?A credi' of six and twelve months; the purchasers giving bonds with gcod security, and a mortgage of the property and to pay for the necessary papers. J. II. WITHERSPOO.V, C. E. L. D. Sept. 21. (525) fit OCrTlie Kail Koad Blacksmitli_?0 Most respectfully returns his best respects to his friends and cttsiw'ttiers for past favors, and begs their continuation for the p?"fc*ei't year; lie request those who have so liberally patronized hip to call and settle their past year's accounts, as lie is poor and wishes to pay his accounts so as to prevent fiis losing time in loafing about the streets to col* Ject his accounts, for unless he pays he cannot expect to get credit, which is the only capital he has to carry on his business upon. His customers may expect to find him. as ever, at his post, to wait on ^ them, (fork of all kind is to be found at his shop, such as Ploughs of all sorts?that is, good ones? together with Plantation Tools: indeed, he is prepared to do all sorts of Blacksmithing, including carriages, wagons, mill work, cranks, &c?and rail road work, especially the repairing of Engines Jcc. &c. Jauary 8. Shoemakers Wanted. Three or four good SHOEMAKERS can find constant employment, at good wages, from after the first of October next, by applying to WORKMAN & BOONE. ..i? * 1HAU an if vaiiiuciif ucpi* ?yi I'AIV wv/ Copartnership Notice. The undersigned have associated themselves together under the firm of walk Kit waltbr. for the transaction of a "Factorage and General Commission Business." From their long experience in the selling of Produce, hope to merit a share of patronage, and will make liberal advances on Cotton and other produce sent to them. All consignments will he attended 10 with promptness and despatch. rich'd t. walk Kit. (jborgb. h. waltbr, Charleston, <Sop' 1st. 1849 3(5 tf C. WATHESON, B A N K A (i E X T. At iirs ot.d staxd orpcsui: Davis' Hotel ffpsrrf!^ THE INFANTICIDE. Translated for the Journal from the German of Schiller. Hark ! the bells are lolling slow and solemn ! And Time's finger hath the hour proclaimed ! Be it so; now let the funeral column In God's name, my gentle friends, be framed ! , Take, oh world, these last these parting kisses, Oh, accept these hot tears falling fust; Sweetly taste oh world, thy poisoned blisses, Heart cornipler, we arc quits at last. Sunny joys, farewell! exchanged in sadness For dark mourning, fading ye depart; Oh, farewell ! thou rosy time of gladness, Which intoxicated girlhood's heart, Fare ye well! yo dreants of tissue golden, Born in Paradise, yc fantasies. Ah, they vanished in the germ infoldcn, Wi-r to lilnnrn nnnn mi? ffl:ulr)ntV] nt'Afl. L , J b J - , Once iny form the scarlet scarf entwining, The pure dress of innocence enclosed, | In the tressoa of my blonde hair shining, Sweet young roses lovingly reposed. Woe! tlie wretched victim of damnation, Folds the white dress o'er her bosom still j But slaw ! the scarf has lost its station, Death's black bandage dolli its office fill. Weep for me, ye who are still untainted, Ye for whom the stainless lily blows ; Ye whom God with strength sublime nnd sainted II a til endowed, to stay love's tender throes ! All ! this heart hatli felt hut human feeling. And for human feeling 1 must die. Woe ! the false man's arm around her stealing, Lulled to sleep LouisA chastity. Ah ! perhaps that reptile heart now flutters Round another with its fond c.rcss, While I seek tho grave, it utters i A* her pido it# om'rnus pi iyfulncss ; Toy# forgetful with his maiden's tresses, And devours lite lender kimsho brings. Wlion my head upon the death block presses, And my lifo blood frotn my hosom epiing* ! Joseph I Joseph! may my death chant rolling, Follow thee through many distant years; May the church-hell with its gloomy lolling, Sound with fearful warn ng in thy cars; When love's whisper on thy car is falling, Frotn some maiden's lip with passion warm, May that whisper strike n wound appalling, Deeply in delight's enchanting form. Ah ! false man ! could nrt Louisa's weepingWoman's shaine and sorrow make thee ll-el 7 Nor the babe upon tny bosom sleeping ? That which melts the Tiger"* heart of steel! Pioudly fly his sails from land rel.;...g ; Tremblingly I trace them o'er the main ; ? Now he whispcts fondly, and admiring Love's falso sigh beside the distant Seine ! And the babe; upon the mother's bosom, It r?p??sod in sweet and golden rest : In the beauty of the morning blossom j Laughed the little one upon my broa t. | Ah, with fatal loveliness addressed me, 1 His dear image in the gentle child ; | Lone and furious despair oppressed rnc, To-seel my heart with palpitation wild. | Woman, whore's my fithcr ? spoke astounding, The stern language of its sinlcssncss ; ? Woman, whero thy husband ? comes resounding Through iny heart from every dark recess Vainly child thou wouldst have sought his kindness, Which perhaps some dearer c'uldrcn claim ; Wouldst hove cursed our hour of blissful blindness, When the fuluro spoko thy bastard name. In thy mother's bosom hell is burning ; Lonely sits she in the midst of ail ; To the fount of bliss forever turning, Which that look of thine hath changed to gall. Ah, with every sound from thee arises Painful memory of past delight, And death's arrows clothed in soft disgnis. s, From thy smiles transfix my tortured sight. Hell?whene'er my eye thy presence misses. Hell?whene'er it rests upon thy face. Rods of Ruminedes are thy kisses, Which from " hint" could every grief craeo ! From my grave his oaths urc thundering round me, Oh ! his perjury chokes me in despair; Then the hydra.headed falsehood bound me, And the murder was perfected there ! Joseph ! Joseph 1 through thy distant straying, May the shadow grim, with ghastly arms, Chase and grasp thee, those cold arms displaying, Haunt thy blissful dreams with dire alarms ! Through the gleaming of the starlight gentle, May its look of anguish meet thy eyes? May it meet thee in its bloody niaullo? May it scourge thee back from Paradise, At my feet it lay?in death reposing, Cold ond starving?sojI confused and senso I beheld its crimson life blood oozing, And my lifo flowed with the curront thence ! H.i! already on its fearful mission, I T.??aL n/wtlr* I mnra r.tnrfntlu rn o lirfirl ! *f usiili; nin/vnn . ntuiv iv?i ih..^ mmmj ...... . Joyfully I hasten to perdition, And to drown my raging grief, depart. Joseph ! mercy's throne is sti'l in Heaven, I a sinner pardon thee front blame ; All nty wrongs I leave on cnrlh, forgiven? Pierce the faggot thou devouring flame ! I Happy ! happy ! see his letters glowing ! J From his oaths the fire now makes him free ! ilow his kisses in the flames arc glowing [ What on earth was once so dear to me! Trust not, sisters, girlhood's precious flower, Never tru?t man's oaths, foigot tor, soon; Beaury was my snare, and in this hour, On the scaffold do I curse tho boon. Tears ? what! toars upon the hangman's features 7 Quick?the bandage for my eyes be brought. Canst thou not pluck lilies?lender creatures 7 Executioner?nay, tremble not. Charleston, Oct. 9, 1619. Gutta Pebcha Solutions.?Gutla Perclia readily dissolves in a solution of chloroform without the aid of heat. The solution thus formed makes a capital varnish, for if it is brushed on any object, the chloroform evanorates with croat rapidity, and leaves a thin skin of the mitt a pcrcha, which thus acts as a preservative against the influence of air and water. It is "therefore excellent as a plaster for cuts. This solution is excellent to preserve fruit in a collection of natural history. Heretofore wax has been used for this purpose, but it is not so good as this, for this solution prevents the fruit frotn drying. This solution is the best and most delicate varnish for paintings and drawings on paper. STRAITS OF MAGELLAN. The passage of the Straits of Magellan is likely to become an event of quite common occurrence, by reason of the active intercourse by sea which will be maintained with California and Oregon. The following letter from the pen of a California adventurer who made a passage in April last in a vessel from New York, will be read with interest. Wc copy it from the Journal of Com mcrce. Sixty Hays of pleasant sailing,the last three weeks of fighting, with pamperos and heavy gales excepted, found us in sight of the cpstelated height of Cape Virgins the eastern en. | trance to the far famed Strait* of if/agcllan. These are classic waters. Through tins narrow cut in land, scarcely throe hundred miles in all its tortuous course, hold Fernando dcMagalhaen steered, and despite of unfitness of vessels and treachery of officers, accomplished that wherein Columbus failed, and opened a new highway to the Indies. For many years afterwards, this was supposed to be the only channel for ships, and many were the rich argosies that passed here with the fruits of sunnier climes: many too, ' Which strurk where the white and fleecy wave8 Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gorged their sides, Like the horns of a hungry bull Then Cape Horn was found to terminate the American Continent, and lew vessels, except those of simplest rig and small size, have since dared to attempt a passage from east to west through iMagalhaen's Straits. You will best understand the peculiar nature of this corner of the earth by the following as from Cape Virgins to Cape Pillar. The first day was spent in painfully beat, ing op m the first anchorage in Possession Bay, against violent gusts of wind, which li ted the tops from those deep green fur rows, and drenched us with showers of inexpressible saltncss. We anchored with our consort, the Sea Witch of Mystic, the pilot boat Anonym a, s venty-lwo days from Boston, ami the clipper of Eclipse, eighty days from Baltimore. Though thousands of miles from home, at a distance where the distinction between states should be lost, and nil viewed as a single nation, I was never more forcibly struck with sectional peculiarities than when contrasting the slow drawling reply of the Baltiinorean, with the hearty shout of the Bostonian, and the bluff, independent bail of the Yankee smackman. The little fleet which bad thus gathered in a single day, determined to sail in company, through the Slra ts, and it may safely be said that f?ur swifter vessels were never yet seen together in these waters. , At the second trial we succeeded in pas- I sing the first and second Narrows. These i are eaeh about ten nvles in length and nearly two in width, the li :c running through them full ten or twelve miles an hour. Unseizing it at the favorable time, no danger need he apprehended, except from the heavy ripplings in which many vessels have been lost. In three days we had passed the first of the three great divisions which nature has marked in the Straits. The region of sand hills and granite cliffs yields to one which appears almost delightful in comparison with what prcecds and follows it. lleic the oast suddenly tends southward, and the Straits expand in a broad sheet of water, tliTty miles in width and three hundred fathoms in depth. The lulls are thickly clothed : with trees to the water's edge, and were it | not for the humid climate and boggy soil, j man could gain his livelihood from llie earth. . As it is, Chilian colonics of convicts at Sandy Point and Port Famine, are supported from home. Ilaiu fell every day while we were there, and in a continual flood for a full third | of the time. In this kind of experience wc can fully equal even our brother hunters for gold who trudged across to Panama. n c Port Famine, the capital of semi civi'ization in this quarter of the globe, consists of a few houses, enclosing a wooden fort, m ; which lie umiiounted two honev combed j twelve pounders anil a brass field piece , tightly spiked! Jiucnos Ay res also claims j tins country, and Chili thus arms herself against Iter rival imbecility. There is a rickety apology for a fence?a stout cat might paw it down; running aroun l thirty or forty cells four large styes, between which arc ; gutters for streets, little stone islands for a . side walk, and eighteen inches of mud for a | pavement. I thought of New York! In | each of these six by eight boxes, windowlcss j and chiinneyless. exists a family of convicts, j About seventy from the fleet went ashore one evening, and saw a fandango. In Spain the dance may be graceful. Here no won. dcr that the wretches pay one dollar a pound for soap, and they make a good bargain at that. If? ? "torv rtAn/llnnoln UfAnrl Ul"Sl YUDSUia 3LUJI Iicivuci;uiv;nffiv ?# w ???#? and water. Both can be procured as well, if not belter, in most harbors farther on, and time spent here is lost; for there is always a fair wind in this portion of the Straits, and many days must be spent at anchor before the Pacific is reached. Yet the water at Port Famine cannot be surpassed. Men of experience say that months at sea do not alter its taste. At San Nicholas's Bay we saw a fair specimen of the Patagouians. This is that singular race of men which have so inexplicably lost half their stature in the last two hundred years! Magalhaen affirmed them to be nearly twelve feet high, Cordova and Sarmicnto at least nine, Anson about eight, and are very strongly built. Whether time tears down tnllncss from men or from fables, is a point for conjecture. These Horse Indians, as they arc commonly called, from their equestrian life, ore friendly and very stupid. The Tierra del Fuegian. or ('anon Indians, arc of the ordinary height, magpies in tongue, baboons in countenance, and imps - ? - rt I - I iii treachery. Many conflicts nave mum place bclwcen thern and sealing vessels. They arc best seen at a distance. At Cape Howard the main channel turns sharply to the northwest. Here end the first two sections of I lie Straits, and all plain sailing. The whole body of water is here divided into a thousand little channels to the Pacific {of which the best known are the C'ockbnrn. Barbara, Gabriel, and Main Channels. The labyrinth of islands and sounds is so perfect, that a good chart is indispensable. Unfortunate indeed is the vessel in Crooked Reach, which has saved an unlucky sixpence in not providing several stout anehors and the best of cables, at home or at the hall-supplied depot at Port Famine. Here the navigation assumes a new character Nine days in ten, gales of westerly wind prevail, and beat fiercely upon the ad. venturous vessel which dares to struggle with their power. Rain falls .several times each day, and when that fails, showers of thick snow or stinging hail supply it place. There is a very singular gust of wind very prevalent here which the sailors have termed "wQoliewaws.* When a vessel is caught at night out of the harbor by rain, snow, hail, gales, thick darkness and wooliewnws, there will he little sleep on board. We were twice trapped in this manner, and always afterwards saved time and labor by seeking ?i Imrliiir ni Ilitv?o nVliir-L- in th?> aftrrnnnn. Si range enough, the thermometer in these high latitudes is equable, and not very r.old. The thermometer ranges from 40 to 50 dogrces Fahr. throughout the year. Decreased strength of winds alotie marks the Winter season In one Hay we sailed from San Nicholas' Bay to ! orjv Bay; leaving the thick region of thick verdure, passing grim Mount Sar miento, seven thousand feet above us, and struggling through a narrow island-spotted ribon of water, with gigantic walls of granite overshadowing tisfrom their immovable rest, ing place. Cordova said that the mountain west of Cape Quod gave this portion of the Straits a "most horrible appearance." They do indeed seem very desolate and uninviting, almost all terminating in sharply serrated peaks, or slightly rounding knobs of bare granite, hut there is a savage grandeur, a wild glory, upon their lofty summits, which far excels the 3tnilcs of the softest landscapes. AI Pnria Tlnv wo futinrt llip brier Sn It il In. ... ..w - T which had sailed from Boston some lime last year, and had already spent five Sundays in the Straits. We also received New York papers to February the 17th, from the steamer Panama. She reported several vessels at the entrance of tlie Straits, and among them the well known New York pilot boat Win. G. Ilackstaff, which sailed one day before us. At Swallow Ilathor lay the Velasco, of Groton, and Iowa, of Sag-harbor. Thus our fleet was increased to six schooners. Both harbors arc most secure and picturesque, locked in, as they arc, bv lofty mountains. Right at the bottom of each, a magnificent cascade rustles down the side of broad brown mountain. '".Villi the foamy slionf of fountain*, falling through tiio painter! air." Few things ran lie more lovely than these harbors, inclosed by bare ehll's, like gems set in granite. The wearv sailor who looks lor no beauiv, can never deny that comfort.? The inilv objection to them ts Irom the terrific wooliewaws that rush IVom the surrounding heights without a second's warning, and pounce upon the waters, gathering them into a narrow but boiling circle of loam, ihenskurry around, fan shaped in every di. reel ion, and with resist l-ss lory. "These woolics arc queer tilings!" exclaimed our skipper. ' See how tliey tie the water all up in a little heap, and then throw it every whicli-way !" Even al anchor, the whole fleet roll-: down in abject submission before litem. Once, the Aimnyma's clinker boat torn from the s'ern. whirled over in the air, and sunk in a single second. It is (ordinate that lliay iasl lute longer. It was only by very painful beating that we passed English Reach. Crooked (leach. Long Reach, ami S< a Reach. The gale was only diversified with woojiowaw, the rain with hail arid snow. Sometimes we are sailing along in inrc sunshine, when a woolicwaw whirls a storm of sharp diamond hail into our faces, or a column of spray, beads to the very truck: forces our little craft down into the water, till a rushing flood washes along her decks, then moves leeward in a brown and distinct whirlwind, till it hides one end of a lustrous rainbow, whose other extremity is splendidly defined against some rough mountain. Meanwhile the glorious sunlight is over nil. From Fort Famine to the Harbor of Mercy, near Cape Pillar, they continually increased in tnry.? The day before we left this latter harbor, I he: c was a grand display of their impotent rage. Our passage consumed twenty days, thirteen of which found us closely shut up in harbors. We overtook and passed squarerigged vessels, which had been weeks in the Straits, unwilling to return and not able 1o proceed. Few square-riggers can hope for a short passage: the difficulties in managing them in a channel, barely a mile wide in i some places, ire too great. The passage from the Atlantic is tints mostly confined to small vessels. From the Pacific, passages arc often made by ships in two or three clays, and the only wonder is why more do not save the distance around Cape Horn. There are scarcely any dangers which are not visible, so hold is the coast arid deep the sounding? throughout the Strait. Few portions of the earth can surpass this so wonderful in the grandeur of its scenery. Here let the painter come, the poet too? all who love nature in het wildest moods, and can discern a mystic loveliness behind her frowns. Only the inonomanic gold hun tor views it with an indifferent eve. We have left the straits of Magellan.? Cape Pillar grows dim ; Westminister Hall lowers faintly alar; the son-beaten Evango! ists begin to loom in the skv. and Cape Vtctorv, like a grim old warder, wntrhos onr departure in "denee. On one ?-ide ??f us is the mighty group of Terra del Fuegojon diflc the other begins an immense continent, mod whose oilier extremity is near the North the Pole. 13cfore us lie the great Pacific. ing 1 of ai Weeding among the Friends.?A cor- fane respondent of ihe Newark Daily Advertiser in tl gives the following account of a public mar- an n riage somewhere in New Jersey, at which erat he was present : cluu The room was crowded with a very pro- is th miscuous audience At the appointed time on ? the benches of the elders were filled with a cont score of venerable men, "on whose calm face who the dove sat visibly brooding." Their eyes bclv wandered occasionally, to "behold the vani- grcs: ty" of the young people who thronged the the body of the house. It was far from being tract what dear Charles I.amb describes as "a purp silence deep as that before the wind was ma !e," for the irreverent intruders kept up a T constant buz. cock Presently the staid, dignified couple en- roin lercd, (Ihey were both quite aged,) with that mine quiet gravity that always rests so gracefully thril on a Quaker's face. She was attired in im- "/ maculate satin, and his straight coat would folio have gladdened the eves of Penn himself.? dow There was something a little strange and yet ing impressive exceedingly in the sight of this dow venerable pair vowing thcii perpetual fel- the lowship for the short remnant of their lives, scim After waiting a long time for the motion if he of the inward monitor, the bridegroom slow- drcd drew off his glove and gave his hand to his rock meek companion; they rose up in their places gain and I could barely hear him say "I.Geoffry fello Crayon, do in the presence of this assemblv bour I TV 1 * I .1 I *| ! I lake Bridget J.nmn, in ne my loving ann migi Inwful wife until death shall separate us." no v The lady repealed faintly another sentence whis of the same import, and they took their pla- his I ces again, and tiie simple ceremony was en- sirer fled. Nothing was wanting bat for another of hi placid member of the fretcrnity to rise up awfi and read a parchment certificate of the mar- neve riage to which the particsaffixcd their names, bew One of the oldest Friends present then he w moved to the front and said?''The audience er, n may now retire." The whole ceremony the e was most primitive and beautiful. Aaam must have been married pretty much in the A: same way-bating the certificate?which heii.j somewhat inars the solemnity ol the proceed, rcpli ing now, with its " know all men by these nine, presents," its "aforcsaids," and other surf"- now gate's office terms and phraseologies.? the f Though this letter tony never reach the ven- old I crated pair in their far-off* homo, yet as their entree in'o matrimonial li'e was so publickly Ai made, they will permit us thus publicly to marl wish them lengthy davs, prosperity and proc honor. ' " scrib PERSONAL TRAITS OF CALHOUN. T, Less is probably known to the public of !ias ' the personate ol the great exponent of South in= 1 Carolina opinion, than of any other of our >'ou" eminent statesmen. A number of facts in '?wii reference to Ins personal habits, etc, have onc recently been disclosed, which will prove of lo" ' interest to our readers. The family of the w'ie] Senator consists of Mrs. Calhoun and sev- ^as'u en children. Of these, one son is a planter suc'' in Alabama, next a captain 111 the army at a" cl New Orleans; the eldest daughter is in Eu- "J rope, wife of our charge at Belgium. Of '',ev 1 ho three sons at home one is a physician, a c'1 the others are young men of twenty and ln,?r eighteen. Mr. Calhoun has upon his table everything of southern production, but is sc"himself a spare cater. The view from his house commands distant mountain ranges, cam( forty and sixty miles away. Ilis study is arm' is twenty feet south of his mansion, whih has but one room and one door. His library is not largo, but choice and most ol the " ^ books relate to the Union and her interest. any t The key of this building he always keeps under his immediate control when nt home. No one enters it but himself, unless he is " J there. His house Mauds on the Seneca riv- " 1 er one thousand foot above the level of the 'lor 1 sea. and two hundred feet above the river, ' There are perhaps, seventy or eighty nc- (lnnt groes on and about the place. The lar. " ' ges' part of hi- negroes are in Alabama, turn; where he owns u large cotton planta "' tion, under the management of his eldest l',cy son. Mr. t alhoun has a peculiar mann- r '^ev of ditching, draining, and planting, of such utility that h;s neighbors regard his as a mod- l',c N el (arm. 11 is crops are represented as far clcnl before those of anv other crop cultivator was in that region of country. His farm is known lovva as Fort Hill, from a fort wh cli once stood ''|c " there in the lime of the revolutionary war. Jllfns Mr. Calhoun's habits arc very regular. He in thi rises at four or five o'clock, exercises on So horseback, or in a long walk over the farm W|('? for an hour; writes until breakfast, is busy s'10 P ut his library until one or two. Un 1'Tiday 1 which i9 mail (lav, he rides to the village. w'" His newspapers, of which large numbers on'y are sent to him, are spread in the hall lor l'U! 1 the use of his visitors, lie is very hospitable, ^ is a great lion even in the very neighbor. w'"? hood of his own house, and in all the relations of private life, is a most estimable, 4 f*1 ui right, and honorable man. ''^n' ' ? inrar LAiton of Nations.?The following sound and eloquent remarks ate taken from >jacr the Washington Union : ?\y0 Tim labor of nations cannot by the wit of rauo< man be so regulated as to prevent the pro- John duction or surpluses which must perish, or be exchanged with other nations for the sur. Ni pins productions which their labor creates, in a And as if to make the hand of Providence t!^,0P more visible in this matter, and to proclaim ''igt t > mankind that they shall trade with each other, mingle together, exchange ideas as ^nfK' well as the products of their labor, and thus ,IMI1 advance the progress of civilization, nations 'Joa.r have been placed in different localities en ' e " the globe, with different climates, producing .'1,1 different products, all of which products jn | minister to the comforts mid luxuries of all I uniions, and are therefore desired l?v all,? Ilcncc the oxchangn by ?>no nation of ilic ?;A surplus products of Ms ??\vn labor, which it i,.ivo lines not wnnt, Tor I ho Hiirplus products of r?r another nation which it does want. These ,i?iis?j ijrnt localities and clitnates also produce lifications of the person, the color, and mental constitution of men, also modify Iteir skill in the arts, and the productions rt. Hence one nation cucels another in ifulTnhrirp, while it is excelled by others ie more substantial) thus creating almost nfiniln .variety of manufactures, and gen* ing the^satpe necessity or desire nfexlge, trade,;?pd intercourse. And thus c great machinery of the .world carried -not upon the "contracted, and cmptiblc theories of Tariff rcstrictionsts woold abolish ali trade and intercourse rccn nations, and put an end tn ifa?pros of civilization, but in-conformity with laws of Providence ilsplf, wliich con: and defeat The seffiish and tnisdhievous oscs of ignorant or wicked men. iirilmno Incident.?Professor Hitch* . in a letter to the Amherst Express. Virginia, describing some of the coil ?s in that State, relates the following Img incident: V hunter, one autumnal evening, eagerly wing the chase, found himself sliding n into an abandoned coal pit; but scizupon the top of a bush as lie slipped n the craggy side, he hung dangling in air over the black gulf, and fell con is, from his knowledge.of tlte place, that fell he would dron at least two hun* ? ? ? feet, nnrl be dashed to pieces by the s beneath. He struggled In vain to rea footholds He heard Iho cry of hi* iv hunters and of Ihe hounds as they ided past. 11c shouted with all Ins it, ami the forest returned his echo, but oicc of rescue came with it. The winds lied around him, and rnoon shone upon "ace, but that brought no" relief. JIis; lgtli rapidly failed; he thought in agony s family and friends, hut he must die an il death, and even his mangled body r bo discovered. His mind became ildcred, his muscles gave out, and down rent?down?down?swifter, and swiftor struck the bottom till he had reachedmormous depth of?six isciiesP * 11 bout Right.?A prococious youngster t asked how many genders there are ed, "Three sir?the masculine, the femi, and neutral." "Well done my son:; define them." "The masculine is men,eminine is woman, and the neutral is* achelars* t a Temperance celebration at Newcet, Tcun., a little lad appeared in the* cssion, bearing a dag, on which was incd,"AITs Right iclicn Duddt/s Sobei ^king Toll?Tl-c St. Louis Reveille icon publishing a talc recently, purporto give some adventures in the life of a ig physician, from which we clip the folng unique passage. Generally speaking is apt to grumble when he comes to a iritlge; but it must be positively delicious, e the toll is taken aftei the following on. Indeed, we should prefer, under regime, logo sleigh-riding in a country' it up by rivers : \ snow having fallen, the young folks of illnge got up a grand sleighing party to' jntry tavern at some distance, and the esting Widow Lambkin sat in the same li, under the same buffalo robe with my3h, oh?don't r she exclaimed, ns wo : to the first bridge, catching me by the and turning her veiled face towards me, ; her little eves twinkled through thc: e, in the moonlight." Don't what V I asked, "I'm not dooing; hing.H Well, but I thought you were going totoll,' replied Mrs. Lambkin, foil?" I rejoined ; "What's that V Vow, do tell !" exclaimed the widow. :lcnr laugh ringing above the music of jells. Dr. Mellows pretends that he know what loll is ?" ndced, I dor.'t then,' I said, laughing it* Don't know that the gentlemen, wlienr go a sleighing, claim a kiss as toll when cross a bridge? Well, 1 neverP it shall 1 tell il all? The struggle of vidow to hold the veil were not suffi4 ? "4 1 ? *? l\rt I Lo tfAll Id lear il,auu soiuviiuvr. miui HIV it removed, !ier face was turned directly tds my own, and the snow glistening in noonlignt. and lie horse trotting on of elf. the loll was taken for the first time o life of Dr. Mellows; >on wc mine to a long bridge, but the w said it was "no use to resist," and aid up as soon as we readied if. Jut you won't take toll for every span you doctor?" she asked. To which the reply was, a practical affirmative to jucstion. d you ever, rocder, sleigh-ride with a w and lake toll at the bridges. vf. IIim Ur.?"Are you an Odd Fellow?" sir, I've hern married for a week!" "I i, do you belong to the order of Odd Pel!" "No, no 1 belong to the order of marine n." "Mercy *liow dumb. Are you a hi?" "No, I am a carpenter by trade." rso and worse; nr? you a Son of Tempo. ??" "Bother you, rfr>; I am a son of Mr. Gosling " The nucrist went away. scuo Kt.ouukncr. ? A dandy black stepped provision store in litis city to buy some po. s; before purchasing, ho gave the follow, rulv eloquent description of its nature: )o titter is inevitably bad or iriwarinbly Dare is no mediocrity in do combinaob do later. Do exterior may indeed np. remarkably exemplary and bitesome, while ' - i ... . _ lienor is totally negative; mn, sir, u jmi Js do nrlivlf*'|)on your own recommenda. , knowing you to l?e a man of piohaiiilily I your transaction*, why. sir. widout furder imlociitjun, 1 take a liushel.^ ,mp 1.1 no in Stkamb04TS.??Tlio owners of several been indicted by tire (Ir.ir.d Jury at (hirroUnn, Kv., Ilmviiig gqinino on board their boat", within the lirliui! o! I lie <0:U