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* Vk v| I VOLUMES CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JUNE 14, 1850. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. FURLISHKD BY THO. J. WARREN A C. A. PRICE, editors and propriktoks. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL b published at Three Dollar* and Fifty Cento, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment in delayed for three months. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL b published at Two Dollars and Fifty Cento, if paid in advance, Three Ifollar* if payment is delayed for three montlau Any persou procuring five responsible subscribers shall lie entitled to the sixth copy (of the edition subscribed for) one vear. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following tatoa: For one square (14 lines or less) in the semi-weekly, tut* dollar for the first, and twenty-five cento for each ^subsequent Insertion. <n the weekly, seventr-five cents per square for tl?e first, "and thirty-seven and a naif rents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar per square. The number of insertions desired, and the edition to Ihe published in, must be noted on the margin of all advertisements. or they' will be inserted semi-weekly until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. Liberal dacouot* allowed to those who advertise for three, six, or twelve muntlu*. ?KT"Afl coramnnicauon* by mail rauot be poei-paia 10 wrnw attention. Ipoefiral JDepartmcnt. LONG I LOVED HEB. I loved her when the sunny light Of youth was on her brow, And not a trace of care was seen, Which shades so darkly now. When wreathed arouud those rosy lips, Lay smiles in beauty rare, It seemed that naught could ever harm A loveliness so fair. I loved her, when in after years A change came o'er her heart, Yet knew that earth could never more One ray of joy impart The rose upon that fodiug cheek, I saw, must soon decay, Twas marked by earth's corroding care, To early pass away. I loved her, when that marble brow Lay cold in Death's embrace, When the sweet smile could play no more Upon her angel face. I mourn for her so early lost, Yet still the hope is given, That we shall meet iu heaven above, Where friehds no more are riven. $l)f ?lit). Gb*8 of u Poor Richard."?God heals and the doctor takes the fees. Mary's month coats her nothing, for she never opens it at other's expense. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most now. r- - 1: Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of hone? will Catch more flies than a gallon ol vinegar. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no Wains. * Nothing humbler than ambition when it is aboutto climb. When prosperity wns well mounted, she let go the bridle and soon came tumbling out of the saddle. A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change iii the moon. A false friend and a shadow attend only -while the sun shines. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do something worth writing. Nothing dies sooner than a tear. Kings and bears often worry their keepers. He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir. Hunger never saw bad bread. Great talkers, little doers. The poor have little?beggars none?the rich too much?enough, not one. > 1 1 1 1 Schoolmaster abroau aoain !?In a certain bathing house, not more than a thousand miles from Phillips' beach is this notice: V M People are requested not to nse anything that is in the bathing house, except the boardThe grammar of the above is equal to that Vft wo fuciio^vriv man b. "This, ladies and gentlemen, is the celebrated habboon, which picks nuts with his tail, which is its naturalfood." 'Thesis a pleasant anecdote in a little brochare just published, entitled " The Cradities of the Code and the Codifiers/ of a tall, raw-boned , recruit, who was pot on a drill by a little cocksparrow of an officer: as every command was " given to him, he would look down to see his commander, and was often admonished to hold up his head. Repeated admonitions of the kind rat length had the effect to induce the recruit to jaise his head at least to a level with the setting J Jl IT f Jt! i. 1 .1 .still, ana me pmcer uruereu mai ut Beep 11 uiere. * Whet, always ?' was the iuquiry. ' Yes, always!'was the stern reply. 'Then good by, leftraant: I shall neversee pou again!'?Knicki botktr. The anecdote of big feet, in your last' Ooswrites a friend,' reminds me of the lobby member who went before a committee of the legislature to get them to divide the town where he lived. He got the ' committee on the division of towns and counties' together, read bis petition, and proceeded to illustrate the matter. .As be had no map, he said, putting ont one of feet, ' Let this represent oar town.' 1 Stop P says tbo chairman,.' if the town covert as much ground as your foot, we shall report unanimously in favor of its division!'?lb. The following inscription may be seen on a grave-stone in the county- of Greene, in this State: ' Here lies the body of Johannes Smith, aged sixty-fourvears and two months. Go Ihnu and do likewise V Comprehensive, that?lb. Be a Good Neighbor.?Some men are always in hot water and are never on good terms with their neighbors. What is worse than to quarrel with a next door neighbor ? The toothache is nothing to it. You cannot bear anything from one of his family. If his children are in your yard, or on your fence, they must be driven away with harsh words?poor innocent thiug&l who have not learned the ways of the ?vrw-H You forbid your wife, who is perh . Dsed to forgive and forget, ever to bor' o;. or lend to the adversary?not to speak to tiis children, or have anything whatsoever to - " - - ^ " - r _l i i | do with the family, Lfoes not a man leei uuuly who has such a disposition and quarrels with liis neighbors? We pray }'ou to be a good neighbor. Overlook the faults and foibles of your friend. If he is morose and sour in his disposition, there is more necessity for you to be forbearing, mild and persuasive, you have but a short time to live; Oh, spend your days in peace. ^ Selected Sale. THE VILLAGE PRIZEA TALE OF WASHINGTON. In one of the loveliest villages of old Viiginia there lived in the year '75--, an old man, whose daughter was declared, by universal consent, to be the lovliest maiden in all the country round. The veteran in his youth linu neeu amletic and muscular above all his fellows; and his breast, where he always wore them, could show the adornment of three medals, received for his victories in gymnastic feats when a young man. His daughter was now eighteen, and had been sought in marriage by many suitors. One brought wealth?another a fine person another this, another that But they were all refused by the old man, who became at last a by-word for his obstinacy among the young men of the village and neighborhood. At length the nineteenth birthday of Annette, his charming daughter, who was as amiable and modest as she was beautiful, arrived. The morning of that day her father invited all the youth of the country to a hay-making frolic. Seventeen handsome and industrious young incn assembled. They came not only to make 1 *?4 Info tn flm fnir X nnpftp illvy, uul iudu iu uaanu iuiv 11/ miv In three hours they hud filled the father's burns with the newly dried grass and their own hearts with love. Annette, by her rattler's command, had brought the malt liquor of her own brewing, which she presented to each enamored swain with her own hands. " Now, my boys," said the old keeper of the jewel they nil coveted, as leaning on their pitchf irks they assembled round the door in the cool of the evening?"Now, my lads you have lioarly all of you made proposals for mv Annette. Now, yon see, 1 don't care anything about money or talents; book learning nor soldier learning?I can do as well by my gal as any man in the country. But I want her to marry a man of my own grit. Now you know, or ought to know, when I war a youngster I could . . _ _n v.? ne Deal anyinmg in UII > irgiuuy mi? my v/i leaping. I got my old woman by beating tlie smartest man on the Eiistern Shore, and 1 have took the oath and sworn it, that no man shall marry my daughter without jumping for it You understand me, boys. There's, the green, and here's Annette, he added, taking his daughter, who stood timidly behind him, by the hand.? "Now the one that jumps, the furthest 011 a dead level' shall marry Annette this very night This unique address was received by the young men with applause. And many a youth as he bounded gaily* forward to the arena of trial, cast u glance of anticipated victory back upon the lovely object of village chivalry. The maidens lett their looms aud the quilting frames, the children their noisy sports, the slaves their labors, and the old men their arm-chairs and long pipes, to witness and triumph in the success of the victor. All prophesied and many wished that it would be young Caroll. He was the handsomest and best humored youth in the country and all knew that a strong mu* tuai attachment existed between him and the fair Annette. Carroll had won tho reputation ofbeing the 'best leaper/and in a country where such athletic achievements whre the sine qua none of a man's cleverness; this was no ordinary honor. In a contest like tho present he had therefore every advantage over his fellow alhleia. The arena allotted for this hymeuial contest was a level space in front of a grass plat, reserved in the midst of the village, denominated the'green.' The verdure was quite worn off at this place by previous exercises of a similar kind, and a hard surface of sand, more befitting for the purposo to which it was to be used, supplied its place. Tho father of the lovely, blushing and withal happy prize, (for she well knew who would win,) with three other patriarchal villagers were the Judges appointed to decide upon the claims of the several competitors. The last time Car. roll tried his skill intnisexcrcise, ho "cleared, to use the leapers phraseology twenty-one feet and one inch. Tho signal was given, and by lot the young men stepped into the arena. "Edward Grayson, seventeen! feet/ cried one of the judges. Tho youth had done his utmost. He was a pale intellectual student. But what had intellect to do in such an arena ? Without a look at the maiden "he left the ground. ', Dick Boulden, nineteen feet," Dick with a laugh turned away ami replaced his coat. "Harry Preston, nineteen feet and three inches." " Well done, Harry Preston," shouted the spectators, "you have [tried hard for the acres and homestead." Harry also, laughed, and swore he only jumped for the fun of the thing. Harry was a rattle-brained fellow, but never thought of matrimony. He loved to walk and laugh and romp with Annette, but sober marriage never came into his head. He only jumped for the fun of the thing. He would not have said, so if he was sure of winning. "Charly Simms, fifteen feet and a half.? "jHurrah for Charley! CharleyH win!" cried the crowd good humoredly. Charley Simms was the cleverest fellow in the world. His mother advised him to. stay at home, and told him if he ever won a wife, she would fall in lnvo until hia rrnnil tomnpr rathAr than his legs. Charley, however made the trial of the latteris capabilities and lost Many refused to > enter the lists altogether. Othere made the trial, and only one of the leapcrs had yet cleared twenty feet " Now," cried the villagers, " lets see Henry Carroll. He ought to beat this, and every one appeared as they called to mind the mutual love of the last competitor and the sweet Annette, as if they heartily wished his success. Henry stepped to his post with a firm tread. His eye glanced with confidence around upon the villagers and rested, before he bounded forward, upon the face of Annette, as if to catch therefrom that spirit and assurance which the occasion called for. Returning the encouraging glance which she met his own with a proud smile upon his lip, he bounded forward. "Twenty-one feet and a half!' Bhouted the multitude, repeating the anounceinent of one of the judges, " twenty-one feet and a half.? Harry Carroll forever. Annette and Harry!" Hands, caps and handkerchiefs waved over the heads of the spectators, and the eyes of the delighted Annette sparkled with joy. When Henry Carroll moved to his station to strive for the prize a tall gentlemanly young man, J e 1 4. ...|? in a military unurew irovK cuut, wnu uau ivuc up to the inn, dismounted and joined the spectators, unperceived, while the contest, was going on, stepped suddenly forward and with a knowing eye measured deliberately the space accomplished by the last leaper. His handsome face and easy address attracted the eyes of the village maidens, and his manly and sinewy frame, in which symmetry and strength were happily united, called forth the admiration of the young men. " Mayhap, sir stranger, you think you can lieat that," said one of the bystanders, remar king the manner in which the eye ot the stranger scanned the arena. " If you can leap beyond Harry Carroll, you'll bent the best man in the colonies." The truth of this observation was assented to by a general murmur. " Is it for mere amusement you are pursuing this |mstime?" inquired the youthful stranger, " or is there a prize for the winner?" " Annette, the loveliest and wealthiest of our village maidens, is to be the reward of the victor,'" cried one of the judges. " Is the list open to all t" " All young sir!" replied the father of Annette with interest, his youthful ardor rising as he surveyed the proportions of the straight limbed young stranger. She is the bride of him who outleaps >Henrv Carroll. If you will try you are free to do ~o. But let ine tell you, Harry Carroll has ..o wife in Virginia. Here is my daughter sir look at her and make your trial." The officer glanced upon the trembling maiden about to be offered on the altar of her father's unconquerable monomania with an admiring eye. The poor girl looked at Harry, who stood near with a troubled brow and angry eye, and she cast upon the competitor an imploring glance. Placing his coat in the hands of one of the judges, he drew a sash he wore beneath it tighter around his waist and taking the appointed stand, made apparently without effort the bound that was to decide the happiness or misery of Harry and Annette. "Twenty-two feet and an inch!" shouted the judge. The announcement was repeated with surprise by the spectators, who crowded a* round the victor, filling the air with congratulutimiu unt miiiiimrlmi linwovpr with loud IllUT murs from those who were more nearly interested in the happiness of the lovers. The old man approached, and grasping his hand exultiugly called him his son and said he felt prouder of him tlian if he wore a prince. Physical activity and strength were the old leaper's true patterns of nobility. Resuming his coat, the victor sought with his eye the fair prize he had, although nameless and unknown, so fairly won. She leaned upon her father's arm pale and distressed. Her lover stood aloof, gloomy and mortified, admiring the superiority of the stranger in an exercise in which he prided himself as unrivalled, while he hated him for his success. " Annette, my pretty prize," said the victor, taking her passive hand. " 1 have won you fair lv." Annette's clieek became nalerthan mar ble ; she trembled like au aspen leaf, and clung eloser to her father, while the drooping eye sought the form of her lover. Ilis brow grew dark at the stranger's language. " I have won you, my pretty flowor, to make you a bride!?tremble not so violently?I mean not for myself, however proud I might be," he added with gallantry," to wear 60 fair and a gem to my heart Perhaps," and ho cast his eyes inquiringly, while the current of life leaped joyfully to her brow, and a murmur of surprise ran through the crowd, "perhaps there is some favored youth among the competitors who has a higher claim to this jewel. Young sir," he continued turning to the suprised Harry, "mcthinksyou wero victor on the list before me; I strovo not for thomai den, though one could not well strive for a fairer?but from love for the manly sport in which I saw vou engaged- You are the victor, and as such with the permission of this worthy Assembly you receive from my hand the prize you have so well and so honorably won." The youth sprang forward and grasped hiu hand with gratitude, and the next moment Annette was weeping from pure joy upon his shoulders. The welkin rung with the acclamations of the delighted villagers and amid the temporary excitement produced by this act, the stranger withdrew from the crowd, mounted his horse, and spurred at a brisk trot through the village. That night Harry and Annette were married, and the health of the mysterious and noblehearted stanger was drunk in overflowing bumpers of rustic beverage. * '?- i.1 1 Ill process OI UHie, inert) weie uum unit/ uic married pair, sons and daughters, and Harry Caroll had become Col. Henry Caroll of the revolutionary army. One evening, having just returned home after a hard campaign he was sitting with his family on the gaily of his handsome country-house, when, an advance courier rode up and announced the approach of General Washington and suite, informing him that he should crave his hospitality for the night? The necessary direotions were given in reverance to the household preparations, and Col. Caroll, ordering his horse, rode forward to meet and escort to his house the distinguished guest whom he had never yet seen although serving in the same widely extended army. That evening, at the table, Annette?now become the dignified, matronly, and still handsome Mrs. Carroll, could not keep her eyes from the face of her visitor. Every moment or two she would steal a glance at his commanding features and half doubtingly, half-assuredly, chnlro Kor Kp?H and look Affain. to be still more puzzled. Her absence of mind and embarrasment at length became evident to her husband, who inquired affectionately if she were ill ? " I suspect, Colonel," said the general who had been some time, with a quiet, meaning smile, observing the lady's curious and puzzled survey of his features?that Mrs. Carroll thinks she recognizes in me an old acquaintance."? And he smiled with a mysterious air as he gazed upon both alternately. The Colonel started and in a faint memory of the past seemed to be revived as he gazed, while the lady rose impulsively from her chair, bending eagerly forward over the tea-urn, with clasped hands, and an eye of intense eager in quiry, fixed still upon him, stood tor a moment with her lips parted as if she would speak. " Pardon me, dear madam?pardon me Colonel, 1 must pot an end to this scene. I have become by dint of camp-fare and hard usage, too'unwieldlv to leap again twenty-two feet one inch, even for bo fair a bride as onel wot of." The recognition, with the surprise, delight and hapiness that followed, arc left to the imagination of the reader. General Washington was indeed the handsome young "leaper" whose notorious appearance and disappearance in the native village of the lovers, is still traditionary?and whose claim to a substantial body of bona Jide ^?tno fthMitlir onnfoofofj Kv tlirt IICSII ftliu JJIUUU, WOO OIVUMJ vvim-vwvi *..? vilhigo story tellers, until the happy denouement which took place at the hospitable mansion of CoL Carroll. JUisrcIlatuous Department. EXCITEMENT IN CINCINNATI. There is a substantial and solid argument as well as a recital of stirring facts, in the following text from the Cincinnati Atlas and the comment from die Memphis Enquirer: Runaway Negko Caituueo?Grkat Excitement.?Yesterday afternoon, Walnut st., was the scene of an unusual excitement Passing diere about one o'clock, wo saw two men armor! with nistols and bowie knives, hurrying a negro towards the river. Two othdrs followed? like wise artned?brandishing their weapons and bidding defiance to the crowd. A large mass of people, attracted by the unusual sight, followed in the rear. The negro was resisting and calling for help, but his captors hurried him on, without interference to the river. At the foot of Walnut street, the Ferry Boat, which had been waiting loosed her fastenings as the captors approached, and, as soon as they were on board, pushed into the river. Whon fairly under way, those 011 board gave three cheers, and the boat and her passengers with the negro and his captors, passed over to the Kentucky side; all this took place in broad daylight in one of tli e most thronged streets of the largest city in the west! We understand the negro's name is George Jackson. It is said he has resided here some three or tour years. He worked as a oaroer at Cousin's, on Water street, between Walnut and Main. He had also been employed at La Belle Restaurat, on Broadway. We presume that the civil authorities of Covington will at least allow him the benefit of a legal investigation, for it must not be assumed that every colored man is a slave, whenever any one sees tit to call him so. Cincinnati Chronicle 6c Atlas, 1 Ith. Commrnt (by the Memphis Enquirer, a whig paper.) We have received a very different account of the above uffair. Mr. J. V. Baugh went from this city with the fixed purpose to arrest and bring home a slave, who had runaway from Memphis, and was known to be in Cincinnati, (that most respectablo city, where negroos are protected and white men mobbed.) ~ *- i He stopped at uovington, on me ivemuun^ auv of the river, and procured the assistaueu of Messrs. Ilenham, Stroud and McBride. On their arrival in Cincinnati, the negro was found to bo on Sixth street. Fie was arrested, as a fugitivo slave, but instantly a mob was raised, amounting to many hundreds, with the view of a rescue. Bricks were used, knives drawn and presented, and pistols and other weapons freely displayed. This immense mob consisted* of free negroes, and white men who consort with them. But they missed their card. The four boys drew their weapons of defence, and in defiance of the infuriated and excited mob oi abolitionists and vagabond negroes, they took the slave to the river, and safely conveyed him in the ferry boat to the Kentucky'side. Measures were immediately taken on the Ohio side to arrest the " kidnappers"?(this is what honest men, who unly claim their own property, are called in Ohio)?a large reward was offered, and bribery attempted, to get hold of Baugh and his stray bird; but all failed, when tire Ohio officers visited the St Cloud, expecting to find him on board, they were sadly disappointed? he was on the Cambria, and many miles on his way home. The officers of the several boats are entitled to the thanks of all honest men for their aid in this matter, and for declining- to facilitate the efforts made to keep the property of one of our citizens, when they knew justice and the law demanded the delivery of the slave. Kentucky seconded Tennessee nobly in this affair?and if the owners of fugitive slaves will send such men as Baugh after them, and let him pick up his assistance from old Kentucky, all the negroes of Cincinnati (whether white or black) will not be able to retain them. After a detail of such facts as these, how cau any man say that the time has not arrived for the South to tike a firm and determined stand in defence of her constitutional rights? Do we live in a land of law and justice, or do we live in a land of wrong and oppression ?? Have we laws or must we be forever forced to preserve what is our own by a resistance to mobs of vagabonds and scamps, who have no regard to law or the rights of property !? These are the men we are told we mast compromise with and surrender more of our dearly bought rights, in order to gratify their propensity to harbor fumtive negroes, and wrong white owners. We have no compromise to make with them?had we a say in the matter, we would make only the child's bargin, "let us alone and we will let yon alone." With the system of protecting rnnnway negroes by mobs, we do not know but one way to act?and that is that the Sooth should distinctly and decisively assume the position that nothing short of a fulfilment of the principles of the constitution will satisfy the people. If the States north refuse to surrender fugitive slaves, and mobs of negroes and abolitionists prevent the owners* or their agents from arresting them we should suppose it was time for slave owners to. begin to think of the value of such a connexion. With these rowdy mobs, constitutions, laws, justice, are no more regarded than the wind that blows ?they steal and hide negroes, aud consort with them regardless of the laws of the land-* even the decencies of society are contemned, and-the African race is endeavoring to establish an equality with the Caucasian race? an absurdity too ooiaanu piain to meet wiin uie upprvuMiuu of intelligent and right-thinking men anywhere. Such are the scenes we are to anticipate continually, unless we can establish a rule that the constitution shall govern. If we are willing to surrender everything, and take Union without a constitution, of course we cannot help it: but we do hope the southern people will insist upon a constitutional Union, and never consent to a further surrender of their political, personal and property rights, to gratify fanaticism and dishonesty. The people of the South owe Mr. Baugh thanks for setting an example which teaches the abolitionists and free negroes of the North that Southern owners will have their slaves, in defiance to the mobs. -; Importance to Health of Regular Men tal Exercise.?The following advice is contained in a letter addressed by Dr. A. Combe to a lady who had long suffered under a complication of distressing, although not dangerous maladies. " The nervous system, like all other parts, is most directly strengthened by exercise of its own functions. It is, therefore, of much consequence to keep the mind and feelings as fully employed, and as regularly exercised as possible, aud never yield to the dislike for mental exertion which nervous debility generally brings ~ inj ir. llio? Otata tha host thine UJUMg WIUI ?U iftiiu an wiuv uvnwv) m.v 0 we cau do, is to invite and encourage others to stir us up even against our will at the time, particularly as the feeling of inability is always much greater than the reality; and if we act upon the feeling, we are apt to allow our whole faculties of mind and body to become weakened from a mistaken belief of their unfituess for exercise. So sensible of this am 1 in my own experience, that scarcely a day passes in which 1 do not feel positively grateful for being obliged to exert myself, and to do many things t and to sec many people, that, were I left to inclination, I fear i should often neglect; and, the consequence is, that the more 1 have to do, and the greater exertion I am making, more I am able to do, and the happier I be<j0me> Your system oueys tne same laws; an-j therefore the more ycu force yourself to acytjVe communication with others, and the r4lore yon exercise your mind and encourage your friends to rouse you up, the more certa jtily aud speedily will you acquire strength cf mind aud health of body. Plank Roads.?T'^e people of Western North Pat?Alino Q nn^io V frt t- - * * *? ? 1 * " vmwiiia oe watting up 10 me advantages of this mode of improvement A meeting was held at Linr .olnton on the 11th ult., and another at Chariot & 0n the 15tit, to promote the construction of a ' ;oad between those two towns, and a third was h ^id at Newton, Catawha county, in lavor of a road 4 from that place to Yorkvjllc, S. C. "Advic o,' " says Coleridge, is like suow?" the softer it fp Jls, the longe^ it dwells upon and the deeper ii: jinks upon the mind."