The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, January 03, 1851, Image 2
Fffilllll lP?HBflg
^"? ':- '~ ' IBBB^t of that hopeful class who enteT"
BET ' IBPpJflBy expectation whatever that justuSb will
^ HP^^^ever be done to t!ie South, or that she 'will be
permitted to remain in the Union, except upon
the condition that in the eud she will give ap
her rights upon the subject of slavery. - The
spirit of hostility to oar institutions is as rife at
the North as it has ever been It is true nu*
merous professions regard for our rights have
followed the late series of Congressional measures,
as they have done in all other compro-mises
submitted to by the South, in which we
have lost a large measure of our just rights.
TLe object, and indeed the effect of these pro*
in ?-* !?/? Q/\n*k on.I tf\ ltlll hp?
It'OMUIIS, 13 IU ljUICb HIC kjuu III, nuu %vr
into a fatal security. And the North with an
eye attentive to the manifestations of public
sentiment in the South, as soon as it discovers
the South will bear another dose, get up another
difficulty upon the slavery question, and another
compromise or adjustment is made, in
which, through Northern fanaticism and Southern
treachery we are again cheated out another
large portion of onr rights. This game has
v been so succesful, that now while our vast territorial
domain is open to Northern men, we
are in effect excluded from every foot of it.
The policy of the North" now is (a late number
of the New York Tribune indicates it) to
wait awhile, to keep their hand on the pulse
* of the patient?if we may so speak?and administer
more physic until they are satisfied the
Southern patient will bear it Besides the expenditures
and disbursements of the General
Government are of immense importance to the
business community at the North. The manufacturers
of the North are also clamorous for
ruore bounties in the shape of high duties to be
levied agta-jthe returns of the industrial exports
of the South. ? Hence, as we have already remorlrorl
?Vit? Tribnno tbp mn<t nnen and Can
?..V - - -I ?- ??? "I
did of the anti-slavery papers of the North, indicates
as the true policy for the North, to
cease the agitation of the slavery question, a*
least until another division of spoils, in *he shape
of Congressional appropriation hills, shall he
made. The policy is, to let the victim have
rest until the contents of the treasury be squandered.
One thing at a time, is the game,?
After this division, the war of aggression and
agitation ean and will be resumed, and continued
so Jong as he will bear it, only to be sua
pended at those annual periods at which the
tribute exacted from the South, by high and
unjust taxation, is to be divided out among
those who live in that favored region whose
hypocritical boast is, that ''their skirts are free
from the sin of slavery."
The Tribunegives us distinctly to understand
that the North never oonsent that any
portions of California, New Mexico or Utah
shaft ever be open to the people of the slave
A w States. In tins sentiment the Trihnne exprefa.
es the oniversnl sentiment of the whole North
of xirparties. And we have to mane np our
irfHVds to submit to this degrading inequality,
and in the end to give up our property, or like I
inen determined, at once and without further
delay, to assert and mainiitin those rights and
^ tfel* ^dependence wbich are so justly ours. ^
what is the policy of the Nortk, but distinctly
intimates that the Government will make the
effort ft> coerce the obedience to its measures.
If WE deuhted before, such articles from the
ieimng papers of the North, distinctly exhibit
What they regard the condition and destiny of
the South!
For oorselves we have no hope for a better
state of things at the North. We have never
Irtrown the spirit of aggression ana ianaucism
to be satisfied and appeased by concession and
?!. submission. That good faith and brotherly
love at the North of which we now hear so
much, exists only in the throats oi the demagognes;
who want our money or our votes; and,
with however much reluctance, we shall as soon
be <Uyen to the conclusion that not being able
to (swerve our equality io the Union, it is the
ttol&fim and imperitive duty of the Sooth to seek
and maintain her indepence out of it-itfonl. Ad.
I.' ___
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING COMPETITION.
The New York Herald, which has done the
8puth much good service in a variety of ways,
thus speaks of our capacities in manufactures;
ffc The down east newspapers, particularly the
Boston daily Advertiser, are much engaged
jy*"* on the subject of Southern cotton mills and
manufactures. The object appears to be, in
some cases, to show that the south cannot competete
with the north in this business, notwith
jfe;".- standing some important advantages which the
former possesses over the latter. They acknowledge
that cotton cost the manufacturer
" *1 lL ??? --?? ./! Iaab ikun >VIA
Ol uie soma one cent per puuuu vi au ii ei<v <
manufacturer of New England has to pay for
it. Taking even this statement to he oorrect,
trhat would be the result? The mills of the
Massachusetts Company, at Lowell, consume
six million eight hundred thousand pounds per
annum. One cent per pound saved, on that
quantity, would amount fft sixty-eight thousand
dollars; and as these mills contain 45,700 spin"
dies, the aunual saving to a mill of 11,000
would be about 917,000, no mean item to deduct
from the bill of cost for one year. The
capital stock of the above company is set down
? At SOO uOO: and the above assumed differ
t*v v*!*-***; once
is equal to about three and three quarters
per centum per annum on that enormous capital.
But one cent per pound is not the real
difference. The entire addition to cotton, in
trunritu from the cotton Held to Lowell, will
average two cents per pound; and its cost at
Lowell will average two ceuts per pound; and
its cost at Lowoil is one and a half cents higher^at
the southern shipping port This difference
will amount to 9102,000 on the quantity
consumed per annum by the above mills, or
about five and a half per centum on the entire
capital. This is the real advantage which the
southern manufacturer possesses io the cost of
' ~ ootion;and which for a mill of 11,000 spindles,
would be about 925,000 per annum.
'p the second place, the cost of water power
a. "11, for 45,000 spindles, is 8228,600,
f L V the present rate. The in??>? -".
# to-est on tins ^ ttiU.,. ?
? .j .1 is 81.1,71b tier aunnm. Dcjat
-. sides these items. t?. i , .
M ' . , 'in;: ?. iccord.ii^ to tj.?;r
c". otncial ji'i'iiisbcd stati-iu , ;r i i - l
i ^ < ->' ii i, which
Wfc/tfcuv^rttl OB tao t^wtj ptt
^ '^r- . ?#.y ^...;; x'- ;??
. if .... .. .',
annum. Put *1} these items together, and we
have the aggregate of 9132,000 difference in
Cost of cotton, interest on the cost of water
power, ami the cost of:fnel?nr seven and third
.per Centum on die entire capital of 91,800,000.
Let as novC.tnm to the other side.
Manufacturing sites are abundant at the
soatb, in.tite\nidst or, and at short distances
from the cotton fields. At all of them are
large gnantitieiof fuel, at extremely , low prices,
and many\of them are directly at, and
in close proxinlty to immense deposits of
the best mineral 6oal can be bad at the mills,
at the low cost oft 60 cents per ton, and at
other places the Best of wood can be procured
at rates equ^Jy low. Allowing then,
20 tons of coal per dlyr?-a very large allowance?to
drive the 45,W0 spindles in the mills I
ollnrior) tn onrl Pap aIKu* nil rnncne nurl ii'O kntto
(Uiuuvu uwv*. i vi vviiv, |iui mm T? v iiu* v
6,000 tons per annum, \he cost of which, at
60 cents per ton, is S^600, the interest on
which sum would be $3,6t0. Engineers, firemen
and oil, would cost tc* dollars per day,
or three thousand dollars p* annum. These
severnlitems of cost of steam power, warming
the mill, and the like, make up the gross amount
of $10,850 per annum, o drive the 45,000
spindles. Deduct tins araotat from $132,000,
the aggregate of the cost pVwater |K>wer
er, fuel, and difference in the oost if cotton, and
you will have the aggregate of the cost water
power, fuel, und difference in the c?Bt of cotton,
and you lpave $120;H50 peranum, as
t le actual advantage which the ntyls of the
Massachusetts Compaoy would posses, if situate<l
near the southern cotton field <V>pared
with their pre-.ent locitoi. No one\an of
course doubt, all other tilings being equai that
gives to the South a tremendous advi^tage
over the North. The down east writers
ever, undertake to point out the disadvantages
to offaett this, and more too. The first of Ye
number is a supposed deficiency of capital. \
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
The Washington correspondent of the New*
York Journal of Commerce truly interprets the
present calm aspect of affairs, in the following
extract. All who dare to think for themselves
will agree with him that it is not peace, but a
hollow truce, the insincerity of which is further
proved by the attempt ot the so called Northern
"Unionists," and " friends of the Constitution,"
to take advantage of die interval to fasten
another scheme of plunder upon the South,
as abhorrent ftflhe principles of die Constitu
tion, as their late robbery of the common Ter
I IUII ICO ? |
"The calmness now prevailing in the country
was the other day noticed by Mr. Clay as
favorable to the consideration of the tariff subject.
Mr. CUv did not assort that the ealm>w?s
real and would continue, but he expressed a
hope that it may.
UX truce hns been confirmed between tbe ad*
ministration and the Seward Whigs; and Mr.j
Seward is often seen at the White House. The
Seward men keep their offices in New England
and New York, and are quietly making
their arrangements to control the Whig* in
New York and in the country generally. The ]
MiMflftHHIirtHP HillPfTompromise ndmirns'teation
show a good deal of vitality, but most ofr
their strength, such as it is, coines from the Seward
faction.
HI do not know whether in putting Scott for?
ward as a candidate tbey are sincere or not?
Perhaps he is only pat up as a deeoy. The
game is to be the same fur the Presidency as
for the governorship of New York.
"The Sewardmen will nominate a man upon
Seward anti>national principles, and the regular
Whigs will pretend to secede, only for the purpose
of falling in with the better grace. They
will be in time for a first rate thrashing. The
Hum game will never succeed again.
" The determination of the Whigs, in the
North, to adhere to their old party organization,
is now manifest, and it means nothing more
nor less than au identification oi'Whiggisin with
Abolitionism. Mr. Clay did well, therefore, to
quality with wift bis remarks upon the con
tinuancft of the present calm."
TRICKERY AND THE TARIFF.
A lew weeks since (be cotton lords at Fall
River, Massachusetts combined together to tmn
the screw a little tighter, by reducing the wages
of the operatives. Many of the workmen and
women opposed this reduction of their wages
and refused to work* By the last accounts we
preceive that capital has conquered labor, and
that those who turned out have been compelled
to resume their work at the reduced prices, and
the owners are chuckling that "their factories
are in operation again."
This is one of the mean devices resorted to,
to swindle the workingmuu. The manufacturers
rase a coneeHed cry about low duties, and
foreign competition, blame the Government for
not protecting ihtrin, and ibfcn suddenly atop,
throwing their optatives out of employment.
Theae poor people never receive more than e
trough to kei-paool and lowly together;they work
virtually fur buard ami lodging; they seldom or
never accumulate; they aie, in fact, in h state of
quHRi-alnverv, and, when out of dmployment of
absolute suffering. When the muiufacturer
has reduced them to the starving point, he says;
*'I sympathise with you, we will put uur loom*
in operation again, hut I cannot afford to pay
the former wages, tire rate riri|?l he reduced."
What can the operative)* ?;iy! They have no
roof orer their head* hut the collagen attached
to the mill, where they have no right to remain
longe;: they have no money to remove else,
wfter; there are no public land* to nettle upon
rent-Iree; they can get no employment at another
mill without credential* from their present
emulover: they see their w ives dejected; their
children Mifferin# for bread, and are forced to
accept the reduced wagea proposed In ihetn.
And then the mill driven on again??ruerrily
rung the epindlea?fa*t fliea the anowy lint?
ha'e after hale ?f "Lnwel*" i? -hipped away?
the mantilhcltirer grow* rich and richer every
day upon the tear* and wrefchrdne** wearing
labor ofhi? u-hilefellnw citizen, a free man like
h m>e|t. <n*t na fin* a mould. with a noble
tip:?r?, Injt Prn?ed poverty and thu* cum
pelted to cruilcb?ft O. Cottier
An ingenious contrivance called a " amoke
towtrntf JW*N jewed In Wew Vorfa
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TTM JTCDTEflB&AIL.
CAMDEN. 8. C.
FRIDAY EVENING/JANUARY 3, 1861.
Our Tenns for 1891. ,
As we have just entered upon the duties o*another
year, we earnestly hope and confidently expect
that our patrons will come up to our help in
the right way. The Weekly Journal enlarged
and improved will be published at Two Dollars
cash w advance. We cannot afford to publish
the paper at this low rate unless the terms are
strictly complied with; if payment be delayed
three months the price will be Two Dollars and
Fifty cents;, if not poid until six months have expired,
Three Dollars will in every instance be required.
The Semi-Weekly Journal will be pub.
iisneu ax i nree uoilars and fifty cents in advance,
after three monthB from the time of subscribing
shall have elapsed, Four Dollars will be required.
We are obliged to make these discriminations?
the Gash to newspaper publishers is a very important
consideration, and we prefer it in every
case where it is possible. We don't intend to
make personal applications to our subscribers for
advance payments, these are our Terms, and they
have it at their option to do as they like best. Our
accounts for Advertising and Job Work will be
presented quarterly for payment.
fW We shall discontinue advertising by the
year, but when an account amounts to more than
30 dollars, a discount of $0 per cent will be made
on all amounts above that sum. All yearly con*
tracts which bkve not yst expired, will be completed.
" And mowi -eternal crown their lofty heeds."
It is snowing here in the "sunny South," where
the flowers are scarcely gone from the fragrant
vales, it is snowing. It is not a frequent visitor?
and the streets ate full of men as well as boys
yowballing. It is Strange what a magic effect it
\s?every one seems to feel its influence. It may
^ery well for an hour or too, but for a month
or vo,-deliver us. How much more we like the
??nS spring,
^ere flower*. fragrant like the Angel'* breath,
light and beauty o'er the Joyou* world.
Southern Schools.
We c\ attention to the Schools advertised in
our coltukn They are Southern?and by that
we mean.Vjy.p no Northern Teachers?a 8chool
with a Norton Teacher is not a Southern School
no matter located. The able Teachers,
the healthy actions, their cheapness, die. we
hope will secuK icem an ample patronage. We
hope the Teaehk, will admit no Northern book
to be used uV pupils, such as the Child's
Book of History, rupy?8 Tales, Mandeville's Se. 1
ries, Paley's work^yayjan<j'8 &c. They are I
all poisonous spring^m which Southern pupils 1
should never drink. \ 1
- flAAAk
... ?on. i t
We $6 not i' n - WIT" t I
?fiUUUwt?ii0l0fwcession, \r we consider it too I
near an axiom. But our Q^rsa. at leaat for a i
while, is marked out Irt Member next 16 to :
ineet the Soul hero'"ongressApd South Caroli- I
na is pledged to wait her fttHaction until after ;
the adjournment of that Con^gg. That time i
should be spent in preparation K the event, be it t
what it may. Our Convention n?jg jD the Feb. t
ruary following, either to repudiatdy t0 ad0pt the i
action of that Congress, and resolve^ fina| ac. j
tion of the State. If immediate or edy co^jpera- ^
tion is sure, let us wait for it?but if it ?hope de- r
ferred," let not our hearts grow sick. Separate t
Slate action is then irur course. It a ft^Uon in ii
the minds of all, and a very grave one to what t;
will be the result ? And some, in the v%8 of h
their fancy have seen our seaboard lined w'Vj0S_ c
tile vessels, our towns depopulated?a merely c
warfare waging?our fertile fields laid wa6te,lr (j
houses burned, our families murdered, and the
selves dangling from some forest tree. Admit tbv
your furioso vision i^fttjmt, and to what does K
reduce you! To this,lhat MI will be a slave because
1 am afraid tnfi^ht fop freedom. 'Tis of no
use to mince the wordff^that is the correct phrase
What if it were the case, should South Carolinians
tamely yield! Is it half so probable as when
the Persians ordered Greece to submit! They
did not submit?but won thrir freedom, and a
Marathon beside. Another class suppose (and we
think much more correctly) that the action of the
General Government would be to blockade our
seaports and collect a revenue. This might be
attempted, but would prove a failure. In the first
place, they would have no right to do it. We
would be a free and independent people, having
resumed that sovereignty which we delegated,
with a resuming reservation to the general government,
and with as much justice might they
blockade Havre as Charleston. But it would not
be allowed by foreign powers, for vaiious reasons.
The commerce of 8. Ca. with her rice and cotton
is considerable. And England would not be disposed
to do without it. She would send her trade
ships to the port of Charleston, and pay her duties
to the S|ite authorities, and if any interference
took place on the part of the blockading ships, it
would then be an act of aggression against England,
and no one can doubt how it would be resented.
She has never yet 6buuned a war for
f?a r of crinoline her commerce. Wars seem to be
its Aim? Mat res?and Bhe would delight |in nothing
more than crippling those who are striving to
be her rivals?and aiding those who give her produce.
And as for our poettion as to the other
States, it would aid us?they would act as bulT
works all around?and proudly point to us as
their example, it their rights were further infringed
upon. Thousands of true hearted southern,
ers would flock to Palmetto?rand we would stand
out before the world a miniature Republic in which
beat not a single traitor heart, or breathed a cow.
ard soul, A vety little rise of taxation would aupr
port "the whole "'psiphernalia of govern jpent.-,We
would be the orb ground which would concentrate
the light of Huigtft Rights?uncontamimm
(*>***iofiw*
'.<> v^l. * \
revenue yeartylo feed our oppressors, and brought
directly into communication with-Europe, we
would be able to preserve and perpetuate the prin- i
ciples of Republicanism. An Athena without her ,
luxury, and her history should be ours, all except
the chapter that tells her decline. *' ' y i
< Public Enterprise.
We are not aware of any good an'5 sufficient
reason why the ancient and monumental town of
Camden should be bo far behind itscotemporaries
of later origin in improvements of every grade and
character. Aurely it if not for want ol age-and
experience on our part, or for lack of looal position,
the means to act with, or intelligence and
morality of our people; for in all these particulars
Camden is certainly not behind the age?but ill
Enterprise Camden is belo'w zero^nd not much
hope of rising, from pleseut indications, above
temperate.
The spirit of Enterprise is in too large a degree
confined to those who would ii they could. But 1
not having the rapans are obliged to substitute the I
will for the deed, and this is even more than tome \
are willing to contribute to public enterprise. We 1
are sorry that our duly obliges us to find so much '
lault with our people for their characteristic indif. I
ference upon questions of local enterprise. We 1
have again and again asked, why don't you buil&P
a Flank Road? Where are all those FactoqpsT
Where are your institutions of Learning? ;AV hy
take the initiativestepsiilL atf these ffJ^worthy
undertakings, and then rally back upon the reserve?
Onward should now be our. word. Let
South Carolina imitate Georgia in one particular
at least?her enterprise and public spirit. Let
her eschew her tame and sickly submissionism,
but Georgia will one day awake and with tho
whole South, we hope, see her ruinous condition,
for
"The South is dead,
mi- _ ^ * "?
i ue lyrani saia,
Exulting in triumph of poirtrs.
O no, she but elepps
While her genius keeps
A watch for her waking hours.
.Silent and fair
She slumbers there,
But feverish dreams disturb her,
She needs but wake
For her chains to brpak,
Not all the North can curb her."
But to indulge no longer in the rhapsodical, lit
us leave Georgia to her fate and by telegraph im- '
Sgine ourselves again in Camden. If the genius ,
of enterprise is suffered to sleep forever with us? |
then surely will we be unworthy of our high be- |
beets. The soil upon which we daily tread ie :
classic?every inch of ground about us is enrich^ <
ed by the best and purest blood of the Revolution. <
mi _ . - 1
mere is no spot nore mat is not intimately asso- J
ciated with some interesting reminiscence of the I
glorious past. On the plains of Camden lie en- (
tombed the spirits of the brave and generous who ^
have fallen martyrs in the cause?our cause of
freedom: and in later days, has the soil of old ^
L'amden rpreiv&ijtito^
rarmiy of the gallant brave who fell 6n Mexican. a
battlefields. There with numerouppther reasons j|
entitle us to a conspicuous place in the picture of t
public enterprise, among the things which have s
seen and which now are. The fear of man (says ^
t wise one) bringeth a snare. We fear that too
nany of our people fear to lean a few of their rus- H
y dollars towards the advancement of public in- a
crest in our midst. This will always operate ^
igainst Camden. "Are we able" to build a Plank t|
load is not the question to be asked and answerid,
as lately d?monstrated by our esteemed cor- ?
espondent "Blanding." Are you willing? that's d
he point. IVhen this interrogatory is answered p
n the affirmative and a corresponding" action to t>
he word is manifested, then we ma) begio to have s<
tope. We verily believe if it were not that some si
f the good old spirit is still left in Camden suffi- ?
ient to keep its dignity above a crossroad repulaon,
that the fate of Goldsmith's "sweet Auburn &
'illage" might be our history in after ages.
"One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." ^
The Spnior tried to pun upon our name last Jj*
Nnbet. but he has decidenlly got himself into buby
it?as it seems that he affords a Warren pj
^ol to burrow in. so
* foi
For the Journal.
tsume a Virtue, i f you have it not."
J ^T*very mncii amused in reading the ar- A
tide i" > |.jgt Journal, by the senior Editor, jei
under 0(- ?n(je c"]osjng year." It illus- 'bl
ted so h&jiuUy tlie little scrap which forms qu
the capttovj(jer wj,j0b this is written. An
indepenae^^ ftn(j an independent Editor,
is certainly \w^j jn any community, and our pp
senior, if he v t tbe real shnon pure, cer- bl*
tainly affects Wndpp8e,'in the article al- the
luded to, in mdT ^ One would hp nK
led to suppose of the most sto
ot?rn and UUD*
stthe-rtifiMiirrrT v
bodybuthin.?ia8.h?1?Wkt0 de,Ce',C 8U1
.l I l Pially when it is so no- *torious
roug ou whole community, that
there is no man 111 ?t? ^
trates another famili^0 SO ^orou-hly illus- ?
. ? i nge, that "every-man Bal
has his price, and, ? J . , l5ac
knows what his Price Vef8 |?.?' ever^ DO<V But
11 , fact n a paper Bra
yon may a Pnc d w|th ^ ^ ^
editor .name, Le'?s %0 more of jnde. J*
pendence. . a IS. (5
w?1p Cor
HoRRiBLE.-On Wed nest, ^n[os about
three o'clock, a woman namt^^ g!.|inmi
was found burneg to death y* ufc- *>-> .?
corner of Broad and Wintey?treetsafiTnl
evening before, the city tnare^j had'"6 ^
called there, and fouryd the dece^d, wjtlifP *
sons John And Edward, all more t [ess intoxl
cated, and the mother burning chira to i
from freizing. John was taken to>he wrf&h' ^
house. ' ? C
Edward, who slept In the b's ?
mother was, and who arouj/'1.? Be'gbbors,
told them that the laft hej/r ?( b'a ""other |
alive, she sat by the ttov/^Y a UP?" it.
When he awoke agai^ m'*ed<
searching, found hertbe door' r
When the coron^^^y m ,1? f
]
from her, and her body baked to a cinder. Tb* ": j
sight yp% horrible. In the same room lay ber <
son, a yoong man, in a state of such beastly in- '1
toxication that he could not be tronsed. 4
The family are americans, and came from
South Kingston. The woman was 62 yearsold.?Providence
Hirrort J
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Fr?m the Telegraph. . 1
Mr. Editor? The following nomination which
appears in the Winnsboro Daily Register, of
Monday last, I believe will meet with a cordial
response from the people of Richland. No
more eloquent, able and faithful delegates could
be selected" to represent our Congressional District
in the Soutl. ?rn Congress. Both these
gentlemen are well know/f to our citizens, and
need no eulogy from tve^ I trust you will give
the nomination a place in your paper, ami that
the gentlemen najrfed will have the high honor
ofnidinrr in the erfrnni-??HT?n nf il?>
?0 vv*bM",<M,|VI> Vl ww
United States op the Sorrn.'
"Cols J, S. Preston and James Chesnv'.??
The tun? for final consultation with on r sister
Statea^before we take the glorioiiR step of clis*
uniofi, having been fixed by the "Act" of on? ?
late Legislature for 2nd day of January, 1852*
it becoiuea us to look around far suitable dele*- |
gatesthe third congressional dk- * *
IrytUm that bo^^l know of none more emi- J
pently qualified byTnerojBdhts, eloquence antfc.L
sound political opinions, than the .two'rantle*men
whose names stand at the head oftftts
ticle. They are both distinguished members of
the Legislature and disuniotiists of the right
stamp?ready to peril every thing, life, fortune, x
in the good cause. *
"It is true that both voted against the Senate
hill for the call of a Convention, under the firm
UUftUt iL.t "
?tiroi wui uiav measure atone WOU1U postpone
rather than hasten the ohject we ah hare in
view. In this, I think they were right, as the
present bill to which both gave their hearty support,
is decidedly, in my humble judgmeut, the
very thing we needed. By this we show to our
sisters, that we heartily desire their co-operation,
while it the same time we give them an
earnest of our determination to act for and save
ourselves, if they refuse it. To have done less
than this, would have been unwise?to have
done more would have been folly.
X Disu.vio.nwt, per tr."
Satan in thr Grocrry Business.?'The
Philadelphia Enquirer relates, in its police re>
ports the following singular case ofMonouaania.
A hypocondrical old fellow, named .Aaron
Simrns, who was lately engaged in the grocery
liusiness, somewhere in Fill ert Street, has late*,
ly conceived the strange idee- that be is Oh|
Scratch. About two weeka ago, he fjave oe -
lers 10 a sign painter to prvngpttm WHauij
ivith the inserip^qn?wSa{an# 0t"^rawl Ttefl
Oealor," in largest letters. TTjeTrfgn was j
minted, according to direction, but the Xriouds
>f tho monomaniac interfered and prevented it
rum being put up. His customers uot liking
he idea of dealing with the devil, dropped aa{
txcept one roguish old negro, called David
" khiaiiflr humoring the lunatic, contrived
PSwinal^ niin out of goods to a coiraderahla -~*y
.mount A cousin of Mr. csimfli^ who. thought
I expedient to keep watch over the conduct of
he insane relative, was in the hack part of tba
tore on Thursday evening, while Siuyns HOat
Sfllfin cl/uwl koiltlit/l tUn uAlintA* A #
?tvw UVIIIUU ?UV VUUUbCI. All UliO U/UC|
be negro David Cautle happened to eoote jtop
nd not being perceived by biro, he commenced
r conversation with Simais to the following
nrport i .
' I say old boss devil, \ want a few -more
bings on that account, yon know.** ^ >
" It's all squared op, Dave," answered Siqawi
here it is posted in my ledger, ' "Dave Caotle^
ebtor, to six ponnds of sugar, 48 cent*; %nr
ounds coffee 64 cents; two gallons molasse^. <
0 cents," and so on, about forty different ite*^
urn total just 25 dollars. And here on this
ao is crecueu L/ave t^anue, uy oue eou^,
25 to he taken out in trade. 1
That account is olosed old fellow :yoa,<*n't
at any more goods here, unless you've got
iother soul to trade away ou the same terms*' ' j
" Look a here, boss/ answered Dave. to a
ne of expostulation. "I often boar datde del^.
1 had no conscience, and now i begin to bewe
it. You gtfine to allow me only twenty* '*
ro dollars fordat soul, and it wof?fty?"^;
" 1 have given you what wo agreed fotv'l?*:
ied Simms, "and I don't think any negroJn
ul worth more. 1 can buy lots of white. j
r half the money."
" But, Mr. debbil, you must considered# I
r>k it out in trade, dat makes de difference. ji
nigger's soul is a cash article, boss; and 1 J
it want what's right, I does; so you jugk
ege me with two gallons more 'lasses and 4
arts black-eyed peas and I trow in de soul-of - Jj
* wife, dea.you git a fast rate bargain^* '
At this junctnre, Mr. Simms' cousin thought
iper to interfere; be sprang out and seised the . ]
tck swindler, who was soon handed over-to
i agents of the law. The relatives of the
mroaniao deemed it expedient to shut ujfcthe
re, and they have taken legal measures, for
tting the imaginary Satan under, prompt
irdiansliip.
CAMDEN PRICES CURRENT- *
Xing, porya. io 10 jam, lb B-toW
e Hope lb to 12 Lead, Jb ( p 7 I
?n, lb 71 to 8 Molasses, rail Si t? H
ter, lb 18 to 90 Mackerel, T>bl ? ?lfl f1
ndy, gall 28 to 35 iNails, - - it 6 to 7
fWM, lb 18 to 22 Oats, sheaf. o?n 40 -J
f lb 1 t? i Peas, ' busM "fe v
?ese, lb 19 IS Potatoes,swsst,N 5#
ton, lb 104.u? 131 Irish hn
n, bushel 90 to 95, Rye, bushel 95 to I
tr. hbf 61 to 7> Rice. bushel ^ V i
der, cwt 1} toll,Sugar, U> 7 Jo 1A
evury lb 8 to 9 JSeJt. ?|?k .e Ik
i, lb 5 to 61 shot. * l3s ;* r*
e, bbl 9 to 81 Tobacco, IbM tsil
ther, sole, lb 19 ?9i I Wheat, basil v
JLST RECEIVED,
A supply of J. Duraod & Co's. M
CELEBRATED FR2JNOH j |
ttrs S&s&an* 'I
> n|d " Fever and Ague." U it abat mjUaSk I
*P??< it? pqre ?t*?e, and may beAtok with WW,
May be Hunt at all impairtnjr Ita tnMldnai ona^MhA ^
v the bottle, of fl
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