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Xc* ' gajgg> ^ 4 vtl)c Camden Journal. VOLUME 11." CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA^ AP-RIL 2(j, 1850. , NUMBER 33. Poetical {Department. THE WIFE. She clung to him with woman's love, Like ivy to the oak; While o'er his head, with crushing force, Earth's chilling tempest broke. When the world look'd cold on him, And blight hung o'er his name? She sooth'd his cares with woman's love, And bade him rise again. 0 When care had furrowed o er nis lace, And clouded his young hours, She wove among hi.- crown of thorns A wreath of love's own flowers. And never did that wreath decay, Or one bright flow'ret wither; For woman's tears e'er nourished them, That they might bloom forever. ' Tis ever thus with woman's love, Tnie till lifeXstorms have passed; And, like the vine around the tree, It braves them till the last LABOK. BY FRANCES S. OSGOOD. Labor is life!?'tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaiieth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory!?the flying cloud lightens! Only the waving tving changes and brightens; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens; Play tho sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune! f Labor is rest?from the sorrows that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us; Rest from sin promptings that ever entreat us; Rest from the world-syrens that lure us to ill. Work?and pure slumber shall wait on thy pillow: W/wi-? Kon chat* ridp nrcr Care's coming billow; - Lie uot down wearied 'neaih Woe's weeping willow ; Work with a stout heart and resolute will! Labor is health!?lo! the husbandman reaping, How through his reins the life-current leaping! IIow strong his arm, iu its stalwart pride sweeping, True as the sunbeam the swift sickle guides. Labor is wealth!?in the sea the pearl growth; Rich thq queen's robe frbm the pale cocoon floweth; Fron^the fine acorn the 6trong forest bloweth; Temple and statue the marble black hides. Droop not, though shame, sin and anguish, are round thee; Bravely fling off the bold chain that hath bound ' - thee! Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee; Rest not content ill thy darkness?a clod! Work?for some good, be it ever so slowly; Cherish some flower, be it ever 60 lowly ; Labor!?all labor is noble and holy; Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. ?t)e ?Ho. A beautiful oriental proverb rnus thus: ? ".With time and patience the mulberry-leaf becomes satin." How encouraging is this lesson to the impatient and desponding!?And what difficulty is there that man should quail at, when a worm can accomplish so much from the leaf of the mulberry. Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a Milling abnegation of self, the second in a compelled recollection of others. No one cap love what is not lovely. A sense of dnty may prompt impartial justice, but affection M ill be the reward of desert alone. The instinct of self-preservation in the natural life, is fear. In the spiritual life it is hope. " We are saved by hope." T.of mil,n hws tho infhionrp whip.h 5a tV.lt while I am here, and noticed and acknowledged when I am gone. j. p. The soul, says Tertullian, is the resemblance of the divine intelligence, and the breath of the Spirit of God. t. s. In regard to misfortunes, look always below you; in regard to virtue and science, look always above you; this will be the moans of keeping you from despair and from pride. (Pensee de Saint Martin.) People of true good breeding are the most difficult to offend; the care of preserving their position in society does not oblige them to bluster at every unpleasant word. (Marquis de Outline. r> Wrbfisg Cyppess.?This splendid tree in*. .. ' ,Mced into England from fc&sbwn recently jnwvw. ?^ning wilJ&e East. In>#gfn? an evergreen 4 ?T?_ tiotnt and eloso. feathcrine , JHW, WllU " -j foilage, liko <He little cypress vine, mid you will have some exception or tne oeuuiv cm mjs uuv i na we haveaeou it described. If o.. little plant of four inches, which has just rea I us, at a cost of some ten dollars, ever maJ> itself into a tree, vvb can perhaps describe i: letter from personal knowledge. There can be little doubt however, that'it will prove one of the greatest acquisitions to our list of hardy evergreens. Tho Catholic cathedral now being erected : t Albany, will cost, it is said, when completed, ?. bo??t $ 1,000,000. A woolen factory, which turns out 150 yards cl cloth i>cr day, is i.ow in (peratiort at Staunton, Va. The razor-strop man is peddling the "few more I f." at Wilniigton, Del. A gentleman litely arrived at New York, from New Orleans, with a tooth taken from the mouih of the Mississippi.?Ex paper. Excellent Remepv fop. Rheumatism.?Prescription : Gum Guiacuni, one drachm; Sweet Spirits Nitre, ihree do.: Rhubarb powdered, two do.; Cream of Tartar, one ounce: Flour of Sulphur, tu-n nunrrs: onn Nutmeir. powdered?all powder od and mixed in one pint of clear honey. Dose: Two large table spoonfull* at night, and two in the morning, for the first two days; after that, one each day tiil the mixture is al! taken. Wills Made on Sunday.?A case was receutly decided by Judge Lewis, of Pennsylvania, which involved a question as to the validity of a will made on Sunday. The decision of the :onrt was, first, that a will made on Sunday, while the testator was in danger of immediate death, or entertained a well-grounded belief that such danger existed, is valid; and, second, '* * *" ' ^ -- cnnK mat it a wiu was mauc on aunua^, unut. D?v.. p essure, the court, would, in the .absence of I roof, presume fliat circumstances of necessity e tinted to justify the act The Days of the Sailor Numbered.? An article in the New York Courier, commenting upon certain charges in the British Navy, mainly the substitution of marines for sailors in naval gunnery, quotes from the "United States Gazette" the remark that "steam, or some other motive power doing duty for it, will supersede sails; the navigator will exist, but the sailor will be 110 more." The idea has some truth. Greater changes have been silently wrought by the progress of science. A Sclcctci ?nlc. From Knight's Quarterly Magazine. MY FIRST FOLLY. AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN*. In all the pride and condescension of an in X- -r xj T l^T.^l T IIKIUT III UHlillmil i luunwi U.IUJ Motley's "At Home." "Yes," I said, flinging away the card with a tragedy twist of the fingers?"y< s; I will be there. For one evening I will encounter the tedium and the taste of a village ball. For one evening I will doom mvs.'lf to figures that are out of date, and fiddles that are out of tune; dowagers who make embroidery by wholesole, and dmoisclles who make conquests by profession; for one evening I will endure the inquiries nbont A (mack's and St. Paul's, the tales of the weddings that have been and the weddings that are to be, the round of curtsies'in the ball-room, and the round of beef at the snpper-inbic; for one evening I will not - * ? \ 1 . 1 il complain ot ttie everlasting nostess ami me everlasting lioulingcr, of the double duty and the dou' le bass, of the great heiress, and the great plum-pudding : Come one, comi all, Come dance in Sir Roger's great hall." .'r.d t! us, by dint of civility, indolence, quotation, and antithesis, I bent up each corporal ag.-iit to the teriible feat, and "would have the ho lor of waiting upon her ladyship"?in due form. I went: turned my uncle's one-horse chaise i do the long old avenue about an hour after the time specified, and perceived by the lights ' - 1! .1 __ 1 __ 1 A|__ 1. rushing iroin an tiic wiikhiws, ami uie cm.mi ui chairs and carriages returning from the door, that the room was most punctually full, and the performers n.ost pastorallv impatient. The lirst face I encountered on my entrance was that of my old friend Villars; I was delighted to meet him, and expressed my astonishment at finding him in a situation for which his inclination, one would have supposed, was so little uv4,,i"? "Hy Mercury!" lie exclaimed,"! am metamorphosed, fairly metamorphosed, my good Y'vyaii; 1 have been detained here three months by a fall from .Sir Peter, and have amused myself most iudi '/Migably by humming tunes and reading newspapers, winding silk, and guessing conundrums. I have made myself the admiration tl... ,.,tmn tlm vfti V \"Orsllil> Ot* illl tllO coteries in ti e place: nin reckoned very clever at cross purposes,.and very apt at ' wli.:? s my thought like!' The'squires iiave discovered I can cane, and the matrons hold nic indispensable at loo. Come! 1 am of little service tonight, but my popularity may be o| use to you : you don't know a soul!?I thought so; read it in your face the moment you came in?never saw such a there, Vyvyan, look there! 1 will introduce you." And so saving, my com panion halt limped, halt danced with rue up to Miss Amelia .Mesnil, and presented me in due form. When I look back to any particular scene of my existence, I can never keep the stage clear of second-rate characters. 1 never think of .Mr. Kuan's Othello without an intrusive reflection iihnn tlm Qtiltioof nf M r ('oooer's (hissio : I nev. I * *J~ 1 er call to mind a gorgeous scattering forth of roses from Mr Canning, without a painful idea of some cotcmporary effusion of poppies from Mr. Hume. And thus, beautiful Margaret, it is in \uiii that I endeavor to separate your fascination troi.. t'l(<^rouI) which was collected around you. Perhaps tluu dominion! which at this moment I feel almost revived, recurs more vividly to my imagination when the forms and figures of afl by whom it was contested are associated in its renewal. First comes Amelia the magnificent, the acknowledged belle, of the county, very stiff and very dumb in lier unheeded and uncontested supremacy; and next, the most black-b.*owed of lbx-huiiters, Augusta, enumerating the names I of her father's stud, and dancing as if she imitated them; and then the most accomplished Jane, vowing that for the Ia6t month she had endured immense ennui, that she thinks Lady Olivia prodigiously fade, that her cousin Sophy is quite brillante to-night, and that Mr. Peters plays the violin a mcrveille. " I am bored, my dear Villars?positively bored ! the light is bad and the music abominable ! there is no spring in the boards arid less in the conversation; it is a lovely moonlight night, and there is nothing worth looking at in room." I shook hands with my friend, bowed to three or four people, and was moving off. As I passed to the door, 1 met two ladies in conversation; "Don't you dance any more, MargaretV' said one. "O no," replied the other, "i am bored, my dear Louisa?positively bored ; the light is i _ i j J.- : . _I : l.i~ . 4\ uau UllU LUC IllUMC iilMJiiJllliiuic , U1C1C 13 uu spring in the boards and Jess in the conversation; it is a lovely moonlight night, and there is nothing worth looking at in the room." 1 never was distanced in a jest. I put on the look of a ten years' acquaintance, and commenced parley. " Surely you are not going away yet; you have not danced with me, Margaret; it is impossible you can be so cruel!"? The lady behaved with wonderful intrepidity. "She would allow ine the honor, but I was very late; really, I had not deserved it!" And so we stood up together. "Are you not very impertinent ?" "Very; but you are very handsome. Nay, you are not to be angry; it was a fair challenge and fairly received." ^ Anrl tTAii nnf Ai*An oc*lr mr Yvnv/lrm J UU ?lll ^VVI! UOU t'lj JIUI UVH ? "No! it is out of my way! 1 never do those things; it would embarrass me beyond measure. Pray, let us accomplish an introduction; not altogether an usual one; but that matters little. Yyvyan Joyeuse?rather impertinent, and very fortunate?at your service." ".Margaret Orleans?very handsome, and rather foolish?at your service !" Margaret danced like an angel. I knew she would. I could not conceive by what blindness I bad passed four hours without being struck. We bilked of all things that are, and a few beside. She was something of a botanist, so we began with flowers; a digression upon China roses carried us to China?the mandarins with little brains, and the ladies with | little feet?the emperor?the Orphan of China ? Voltaire?Zayre?criticism?Dr. Johnson? the great hear?the system of .Copernicus ? stars?ribbous?garters?the order of the Bath sea bathing?Dawlish?Sidmouth?Lord Sidmouth?Cicero?Rome?Italy?Alfieri?Me tastatio?lountains?groves?gardens *-anti so, as the dancing concluded, we contrived to end as we began, with Margaret Orleans and botaII v. *) Margaret talked well 011 all subjects, and wittily 011 many. 1 had expected to find nothing but a romping girl, somewhat amusing,and very vain. Hut 1 was out of my latitude in the first five minutes, and out of my senses in the next. 1 iSlie left the room very early, and I drove home, ! more astonished than 1 had been for many years. Several weeks passed away, and I was about I to leave England, to join mv sisters 011 the Continent 1 determined to look o:icc more on that enslaving smile, whose recollection had ! haunted inc more than once. 1 had ascertained ! that ah_ redded with an old lady who took two pupils, and taught French and Italian, and music and manners, at an establishment called Vine House. Two days before 1 left the country, 1 had been till a late hour shooting at a mark with a duelling pistol?an entertainment, of which, perhaps from a lurking presentiment, I was very fond. 1 was returning alone, when 1 perceived, by the light of an enormous lamp, a board by the way-side, hearing the welcome inscription, " Vine House." " Enough, 1 exclaimed, "enough ! One more scene before the i i> i i..i: . i... i | uui lain 11. ?nuiiiuu tiiivi j uiiLi n\ liiiiijJ-iiijuu 1 roamed about the dwelling-place of all 1 held dear, till I saw a ligure at one of the windows in the back of the house, which it was quite impossible to doubt. I leaned against a tree, in i a sentimental position, and began to chant my own rhymes thus: Pretty coquette, the ceaseless play Of thine unstudied wit, And thy dark eye's remembered ray, By buoyant fancy lit, And thy young forehead's clear expanse, Where the locks slept, as through the dance, Dream-like, 1 saw thee Hit, Are far too warm, and far too lair, To mix with aught ofearthly care ; Be' the vision shall come when my day is done, A frail,Pud a fair, and a Heeting one! And if the r,;iny boldiy gaze On tlmt l?ri<T.\' brow of thine, 7. " s . And il'ihine fveVuiHiVi.'1?* raJ,fi? On countle.-s coxcombs su'll(,i And if thy wit flings out its mirth, Which echoes more of air than earth, For other ears than mine? I heed not this: ye are fickle things, | And 1 like your very wanderings! 1 gaze, ami if thousands share the bliss, l'retty capricious: I heed not this. In sooth, I am a wayward youth, As tickle as the sea, And very apt to speak the truth, Un pleasing though it be ; I ain no lover, yet, asloug A.s I have heart for jest or .song, ( An image, sweet, of thee, ( Locked in my heart's remotest treasures, Shall ever be one of its hoarded pleasures; This from the sender thou liast won? And more than this he gives to none. "Are they your own verses ?" said my idol at the window. "They are yours, Margaret! I was only the versilier; you were the niuso herself'.'' "The muse herself is obliged to you. And now. what is your errand ? for it grows late, and you must bo sensible?110, that yon never will be?but you must be aware that this is very indecorous." "i am come to see you, dear Margaret? which I cannot without candles?to see you, and to till you that it is impossible I cuu forget-" "Bless me! what a memory you have! But you must take another opportunity for your tale; for?" "Alas! Ileave England immediately!" "A pleasant voyage to you! There, not a 1 T i? MUiuiiiuii; , i ljjubt iuii uumu iu cunet?. "xNow, may I never laugh more," I said, " f I am baffled thus;" so I strolled back to the front of the house, and proceeded to reconnoitre. A bay-window was half open, and in a small, neat drawing-room, I perceived a group assembled : an old lady, with a high muslin cap and red ribbons, was pouring out the coffee; her nephew, a toll, awkward young gentleman, sitting ou one chair and resting his legs on an* other, was occupied in the study of Sir Chsrles Clrandison ; and my fair Margaret was leaning on a sofa, and laughing immoderately. "Indeed, Miss," said the matron, "you should learn to govern your mirth; People will think you came out of Bedlam." 1 lifted the window gently, and stept into the room. "Bedlam, madam!" quoth I; "I bring intelli gence trom Bedlam. I arrivea last ween. The tall, awkward young gentleman stared; and the aunt half said, half shriek, " What in the name of wonder are you ?" "Mad, madam! very particularly mad! mad as a hare in March, or a Cheapsidc blood on Sunday morning. Look at me! do I not foam? Listen to ine! do I not rave ? Coffee, iny dear madam, coffee; there is no animal so tliirsty as your madman in the dog-days." "Eh! really!" said the tall, awkward young gentleman. "My good sir," I began, but my original insanity began to fail me, and I drew forthwith upon Ossian's?"Fly! receive the wind and fly; the blasts arc in the hollow of my hand, the courso of the storm is mine!" "Eh! really!" said the tall, awkward young gentleman. "1 look on the nations and they vanish ; my nostrils pour the blast of death: 1 come abroad on the winds; the tempest is before my face; but 1113' dwelling is calm, above the clouds ; the fields of 1113' rest are pleasant." "Do you mean to insult usT' said the old lady. "A3*! do you mean to insult my aunt ? really !" said the tall, awkward young gentleman. "1 shall call in 1113- servants," said the old lady. "I am the humblest of them," said I, bowing. "I shall teach you a different tune," said the tall, awkward young gentleman, "really!" "Very well, my dear sir; my instrument'is the barrel organ;" and I cocked my sweet little pocket companion in his face. "Vanish, little Kastril; for the Hannibal, Heiiogabalus, and Holophernes, time is valuable; madness is precipitate, and hair-triggers is the word. Vanish!" "Eh! really!" said the tall, awkward young gentleman, and performed an cn'recka!, which carried him to the door. The old lady had disappeared at the iirst note of the barrel organ. I locked the door, and found Margaret 111 a paroxysm of laughter. "I wish you had shot him," she said, when she recovered; "I wish yon had shot liirn: he is a sad fool." "Do not talk of him; I am speaking to you, beautiful Margaret, possibly for the last time! Will you ever think of me ( Perhaps you will. But let me receive from you some token that I may dote upon in other years; something that may be a hope to me in my happiness, and a consolation in calamity. JSonieuiiug nay: I never could talk romance; but give me one lock of your hair, and 1 will leave England with resignation." "l'ou have earned it like a true knight," said Margaret,and she severed from her head along, glossy ringlet. ''Look," she continued, "you must to horse; the country has risen for your apprehension-" 1 turned towards the window. The country had indeed risen. Nothing was to he seen hut gossoons in the van, and gossips in the rear, red faces and white jackets, gallants in smock frocks, and gay damsels in grogram. Jlludgeons were waving, and torches were flashing, as fnr !e llin i-nnlil ff.Mi'll \ll (hp ehil'sdrv o!"the place was arming ami chafing, ami loading for a volley of pebbles ami oatiis together. I knelt ilmvn and kissed her hand. It was the happiest moment of my life! "Now," said 1, "an revoir, my sweet .Margaret," and in a moment 1 was in the lane. This was my first folly. I looked at the lock of hair often, but I never saw Margaiet again. She has become the wife of a young clergyman, rt'ul resides with him (tn j; small living in fordshirO. 1 helieve she is very happy, and T I,live forgotC'U t!ie color ofher eyes. The Kail road iO Tennessee river is in rapid progress. Cars will in; running to i\Iurfrees borough (.'W MilCS) tills lalt. ill nnuuivi- >WH llii' road will be completed, aiu t!iu cities ol Nashville, Savannah, and Charleston Ik. united. The cars are now running from Chatauoogn on the Tennessee river to the Tunnel IIill in (ieorgia. The cotton is hauled around and reshipped on the road to either of the Atlantic cities connected with the road. 1110 bales ol cotton are carried o(T every week. This trade is all lost to New Orleans. The Memphis pa persarc filled with exhortations to tiiecmzens to subscribe for stock in the road to Charleston. The shares are only 8-f> each, so that it is in the power of every man in the city to become a stockholder, (iov. Jones has published appointments to address the people along the proposed line. The citizens of Memphis voted in favor of the city taking half a million of the stock.? The vote stood 70(5 to 104.?JV. O. Crescent. CROMWELLL'S ARMY. In war, this strange force was irresistible'. - . The stubborn courage, characteristic of the English people, wasrby this system of Cromweli, at once regulated aud stimulated. Other lead shave ns J red their*followers with a zeal as ardent, but in his camp aione the most rigid discipline was found in company with-the fiercest enthusiasm. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines, while burning with the wildest fanaticism of crusaders.* rrom me lime wneu uiu army was remouerea, to tSie time when disbanded, it never found, either on the British Islands or on the continent an enemy who could stand its onset. In England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders, the Puritan warriors, often surrounded by difficulties, sometimes contending against tnree-fold odds, not only never failed to conquer, but never failed to destroy afid break in pieces whatever lorce waa opposed to them. '1 hey at length came to regard the day of battle as a day of certaiu triumph, and marched against the most renowned batallions of Europe with disdainful confidence. Turenne was startled by the shout of stern exultation with which his English allies advanced to the combat, andexpressed the delight of a true soldier, when he learned that it was ever fhp fVishinn nt' f'rnmwpll's nikpmen tn rpinipp when they beheld the enemy; and the banished cavaliers felt an emotion of national pride when they saw a biigade of their countrymen outnumbered by Joes and abandoned by allies, drive before it in headlong route the finest infantry of Spain, and force a passage iuto' a. counterscarp which had just been pronounced impregnable by the ablest of the marshails of France. But that which chiefly distinguished the army ot- Cromwell from other armies was the austere mortality and fear of God which pervaded all ranks. It is acknowledged by the most zealous royalist, that in that Singular camp, no oath was heard, no drunkeness or gambling was seen; and that during the long dominion ot the soldiery, the property of the peaceable citizen and the honor of woman was held sacred. If outrages were committed, they were outrages of a very different kind from those of which a victorious army is generally guilty. No ser vant girl complained of tlie rough gallantry of the red coats. Not an ounce of plate was taken from the shops of the gold smiths, liut a Pelagian sermon, or a window on which the Virgin and Child was painted, produced in the Puritan ranks an excitement which it required t ie ut nost exertions of the ollicers to quell.? One of Cromwell's chief difficulties was to re-tain his pikemen and dragoons from invading, by force, the pulpits of ministers whoso discourses, to use the language of that time, were not-. savory.?Macuulcy. Southern Collegiate Institutions.*-\Ve find in the New Orleans Delta, an article on this c.l.Irtnf which pitfnrcp? flip claims of oar own Colleges, Schools, &c. to home patronage and support, with some very judicious remarks. We take from ic the following extract, with, one remar!; merely to correct a common error; our own institution of which we are so justly proud ?and which no so can regard with feelings of more interest ami affection, than the writer of this, is not properly speaking a University, and does not profess to he so. It is a College, arid first appeared we believe as a University, in Woodbridge's Geography, and the error has been kept up by similar publications. This mention of errors in school books by the way, reminds us of an instance which came to our knowledge recently?a geographical woik representing a Railroad, as now in operation between Raleigh and Camden, without the slightest reference to the Camden Branch, which has really been completed for some time. Hut to return to the Delta, whose remarks are as follows:?Telegraph. " The South has been seriously injured by this dependauce upon the North for the educaIiac fAtie rnfrtm'inrr ta fka nl\ IH.HI *71 II*.i n u.tV'UV iviviiniQ IV IIIO VV" jectiona*ble constitutional principles taught from the works of Story, Kent, and others, in which respect we regret to observe the Louisiana Law School following in the wake of i ale and Cambridge, we think it is obvious that our young men return from these Northern institutions imbibed with many ideas, feelings, and tastes, quite foreign to those which prevail here, and which should characterize the sous of the South. Greece, the Latin poet has said, conquered her harbaiian victor, imperial Rome, by the inlluon on r?l" li.?r coiunoA "itii I?i?r ;ir:< \Vi> t.mcf If may not bo recorded of the Southern States, that tiny were subjugated to -Northern domination In similar influences exercised through the numerous Colleges whicli*ure crowded with the young men of the South. "It is a great error to suppose that these .Northern Colleges are in any respect superior to those of the South. On the contrary, wo i know that College honors and diplomas arc of | more easy attainment, and the course less eom| plete and extensive, at Cambridge, Vale, or I Princeton, than at the I Diversities of V irginia i . 1..1 I 11- _ II . .. i ami ot .>outn Carolina. 11 is equally true tiiat llie discipline and morals of these institutions are superior to those of the North, where the young men have the run of large towns, and are llattored and coaxed into all sorts of excesses ; and extravagance." Rkmkdy for Asthma.?Procure common blotting paper, and thoroughly saturate it in a solution oi mire, ^saltpetre,) ana ici 11 oe carein lllv dried by the fire, or by exposure to the rays of the sun. On retiring at night, ignite it, and deposit it, burning on a plate or square of sheet zinc or iron in your hod room. X".. 1 ?no r? fltrlit fit flii nc l?n nlnncne nvonut Ii^u 111*111 imau ??0?? *v ?v> I'ivu^a v^v v ^ when he pledges to do right.