The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, February 08, 1867, Image 1
v'\ . . p ^
. % * - i - '- " s I fc _ # ..
, . . . *. . ;c . ' >* ?. ,* .,. ' : - >
% : ... . , -mmm ; . s
fa? :' * - * '' , ' M :. y
| AV ? - * ? + . 5-- v ' * . .... . ?r .- ;
*; jjj : |' 8
volume xxv, number 30'. ji
, 'T. - ,, |f | :
PUBLISHED WEEKLYBY -V , .
THOMAS W. PEGUEg
> -j
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Three Dollars a year Casii?Four Dollars-'
^ If payment is delayed three months.'
B RATER OF ADVERTISIKjJj- l'F.n SqC^ITK.
For the first insertion, SI.50; for the second,
$1 .00; for the third, 75 cents; for each subsequent
insertion, 50 conts.
Semi-monthly, Monthly and Quarterly advertisements,
$lj.50 each insertion.
The snaqe oodnpied by ten lines (solid, of
Ihis size JJpe) constitutes a square.
PayTqentr i^.rtmij^'eddn advance frpm ti-ani:rsi>T;n
a>* the -mirfc"Lbt"
.. -done, fro^t re^idur V N
"linSCELLANEOUS.
finance: and currency.
Under the above beading the New
York Tribune, has some pertinent reT
marks which we present to our readers
that they may. see for themselves
tbe evidences of the financial storm
which is now brewing. That paper
O Of J o
"As to the prospective action of
Congress on finance and currency,
- our guess'may prove quite erroneous;
bnt it is our impression that the sum
total of the doings of this session will
be just about nothing at all. We
judge that there is a majority in the
House who would be gratified if further
inflation and debasement could
be covered by any decent pretext; wc
trust that there is no majority in either
House ready to venture upon it
without a pretext. The Senate, we
hope, would not vote to inflate whether
with or without a pretext, but it
lias yet not broken ground for prompt
resumption; and does not allow us to
forget that it originated the provision
of last session whereby the Secretary
of the Treasury was forbidden to
make good the Government's greenback
promises to pay. Until further
developments, wc shall presume that
proximity of the-4th of March and
ur^enev of other business will Dre
j ? b x -M
elude decisive action on the currency
^ , ajtthis session, , Meantime.-Scp.itU- ,.
t*~ ' ry McCo.locIi win go on wi.th his
regular withdrawal and destruction
of greenbacks at the rate of $4,000,000
per month. Thatisnotinuch,but it
is better than nothing.
"As to the various projects which
look to the wholesale withdrawal of
\ the notes of our-_national banks and
h their replacement by greenbacks, wc
regard them all with complacency, if
not with positive favor; butwe insist
that resumption shall be"thc h;\st step.
Let us have no more systematic national
falsehood. When our greenbacks
were first authorized and issued,
it was a distinct understanding that
they should be convertible into inter*
est-bearing bonds, at the option of
the holder, and that they should be
redeemed in coin at the earliest possible
day. They were issued as-a gi
a: . r*L i i
lurucu lUciu, in fctuisnauuvn vi
our imperiled Union's urgent imperious
needs. The expedient scarcely
differed, little in principle from, *uit
was an improvement upon, that debasement
ofcthc coinage so familiar to
the despotic rulers of the middle ages.
Its justification is Found in the national
peril -wherein it originated, and
which it powerfully aided to overcome.
But, though a weary army may he
marched five miles further on the
stimulus of a gill of whiskey per man-,
it by no means follows tliat its efficiency
would be increased by keeping
it drunk evermore. It is high time
that we began to taper off for, though
getting sober is a less delicious experience
than that of getting drunk, it
is decidedly more wholesome, and
the lapse of time renders it indispensable.
""When the greenbacks were first
issued, they were tacitly regarded as
promises to pay asspon as we could?
so soon, at least, as the stress of war
should have passed away. Now that
we have peace and are are paying off
fhe national debt rather than incurring
it, let us resume payment; at all
.events, let us not multiply falsehoods
-which have not even the doubtful
merit of deceiving. Only let the
. Treasury resume payment in coin,
.-and then if there be an equitable
<jnode of replacing our bank note currency
by greenbacks, we have not
?he slightest objection.
He who waits to do a great, deal of
.good at qnco, will never do any. Boys,
%jf you would be .honored men, take
care of your conduct now.
"Where is the east?" asked a
> teacher of a very little scholar.?-!
"Where the morning comes from," I
-was. the prompt and pleasant answer. I
r"
k
>
afto? in? iwm i Tj
:-gf N^icfe PAHSON'8 SPSECH^V
Senator Parsons, of Alabama, delivered
an address before the State
Legislature on Friday last, in accordance'
'with a joint resolution of that
body. .
The Montgomery Advertiser says:
The sppcch was a thorough dissection'of
the*constitutional amendment.
It was shown that ot;e .<eflfcct -of tllis
measure-would be to day. the cohstitutonal
foundation to.fiuthorize CongresTali'S
^ae'^-to^sXto re-iueethe r<?presehtatibnof
Alabama from six to
three members of Congress, and- operate
in like manner on all the other
States ; to elevate the inferior at the
expense of the more intelligent and
superior race ; and to produce a war
cf races, and re-enact the horrors of
San Domingo in thc?South.
Much had been said about the Radical
enabling act or tcrritorialization.
This and its effects may pass away,
but the constitutional amendment,
with its obnoxious sections would be
engrafted on the Constitution and
would bind us and our children forever.
. It was concocted in secret,
and the gravest consequences depend
upon the action of the South. It had
been said that the amendment once
accepted, the disabilities imposed by
the third section would be rqjooved.
Was a political party ever knpwn to
exist that pardoned and admitted to
his place, a member of any legislative
body, who it is known would turn
and vote against the party that admitted
him? The third section of I
the amendment, obnoxious as it is, {
cannot be compared in its consequences
to the first and fifth.
Tho enabling hct, would not, as is
supposed, reduce us to a territorial
condition, but would admit the African
with a few whites, to the privilege
of suffrage, reorganize the governments
of thft States and.elevate
the colored to the degradation of the
white race. In this case Congress
be accomplished, whereas in the case
of the amendment, the States themselves
would be the .instruments of
their own disfranchisement and degradation.
Senator Parsons did not believe
the amendment affected the result of I
the Northern elections; it and kind- J
red measures was not discussed 'in
the papers of that section, lie attributed
that result more-to the fact
that the public mind iiad not time to
rc-act from the passions and excitement-engendered
by the war. The j
great desire of the President is to sus- i
tain himseif, on the Constitution, un-j
til there should be a returning sense '
of justice in the minds of tie N^th- j
crn people; and he believed the Pros-!
ident would be able to sustain him- j
self and friends, and that some ad-'
justment would finally end the coir-!
test. The great desire of the Presi-j
dcut is to adhere to the Constitution ;
as it now is in letter and spirit.^
In conclusion, Senator Parsons exhorted
to patience and perseverance,
tlic repression of imprudent and ill?
time speeches and expressions, justice :
to the frecdmcn under tlic laws, and j
kindness a^id forbearance towards [
them in'their new relations. As a'
citizen of Alabama lie was proud that j
her laws are right, hut human laws
are not self-executing, and the people
owed it to themselves to sec that
they are always enforced. We should
do our duty fearlessly and conscientiously.
If our position be correct,
no amount of traduction can make it
false; and if it be wrong, no amount
of assertion can make it true, '
t>?
The Plue Ridge Railroad.?It
will be interesting to our readers to
learn that there is a probability that
that portion of the Road in Tennessee
will bo placed under contract in a
short time. When the charter was
obtained, the State of Tennessee subscribed
$10,000 per mile, with $100,000
for the ^bridge at Knoxvjlle;
.amounting, in the aggregate, to
TA.. v-. / ? li A Irt of IAAOI An nf
(JUW,VW. X/millg IJIW laon owoiuu ui
the Legislature of Tennessee, $300,000
was given by the State, in addition
to her former subscription. Besides,
Blount County also made a
liberal subscription, which is now
available.
The authority is good for saying
that operations will bo commenced
at ICnoxvillo, at an early day, for the
completion of the Road in Tennessee
?a distance of fifty miles. And
that it is confidently believed that the
means will be obtained, ore long, to
complete the whole Road.
Pickens Courier.
| 'JJ' | *
--AMIIXIO^PERSONS StART?}^TO*f
Death.?A Calcutta correspondent'
of the London Times, December Jh
givos sonrc pamful details of the recent!
famine in the district of Griss.vfflrIndia.
A Government commissione|j:
has prepared' a report, of^wliich it isSfc
said;
A picture more heart-rend in
more hideous, could not be, g^ecU'!
The comrrsissionerestimatefe tKed^iw
in Drissa 4lbn#?a$' 50.0]4A0jOOO^ondfoift,
'
tliatr three-fourths of the population
have been carried off. Orissa had
5,000,000. And the mortality of
Midnaporc, which was as severely
visifed ; of Ganjam afid 'Chota Nagpore,
which were terribly, yet more
mildly dealt with; of Calcutta, whose
hospitals still tell so sad a tale, and
of the other districts, where the serjueJce,
at least of starvation, carried .
off many, and remember that the
deaths are still <roinrr on at the rate
v o u
of 100 a day, and you will agree,
with the rough estimate generally accepted
here, that the number of victims
will-not he under 1,000,000.
Long ago in Massachusetts, it was
the custom for a person to go about
the meeting houses during divine service
and wake the sleepers. "He bore
a long wand, on one end of which was
a ball, and on the other a fox tail.
When he observed the men asleep, lie
rapped them on the head with a knob,
and roused the slumbering sensibilities
of the ladies by drawing the brush
lightly across their faces.
D > Castle
Thundeji.?Of this celebrated
"institution," the Richmond
Dispatch says:
This famous old prison for Confederate
deserters, etc., is rapidly being
fitted up by Capt. John II. Grcanor
for the manufacture of tobScco?thesame
purpose for which it was used
before the war. It is an immense
n?
p:u'n:'g liluuIi 11iOry aTxH iiliiKiTtg CTn?s >
arrangements which will enable him,
if necessary, to turn out 1,000 pounds
manufactured tobacco per day. A
walk over the old factory brings to
mind many recollections of Confederate
times. Here, in the fourth story
is the gable window from which leaped
the spy Webster, with his irons
on; there the steps on which he was
borne on his-way to execution; there,,
on the lower floor, arc'the apartments
of his wife and-Dr. Mary Walker,
and other females whose name became
notorious during the war. The dungeons,
which used to be tobacco sweat
houses before the war, remain as they
were left by the authorities, and one
of them lias a hole cut through the
eighteen inch brick wall by some enterprising
Conferatc. Every part of
the building has some incident connr^tnd
with it. At this window, a
prisoner was shot dead for putting
his head out against orders ; in this
alley, a petty officer of the Confederate
navy was instantly killed by the
(guard for fooling with him; and in
that dark underground place, the prisoners
used to tunnel themselves out
into open air, or into a'close dungeon"
if caught. Lying dismantled in a
loft formerly used as a hospital is the
old flag-staff from which floated the
O .4
colors that were followed hv so many
brave, men during the four long years
and which now lies furled forever.
Sensible.?The Augusta (Georgia)
Constitutionalist very wisely j
discourages the Southern passion for
emigration as follows:
"To those who search abroad for
the liberty, happiness or sustenance
tliov deem impossible at home, we
wish God-speed. For the industrious,
hopeful and courageous, who
perfer, or are compelled, to cling to
their country, we have ineffable sympathy.
Loth have rugged paths to
travel, and to both, we trust, a noble
destiny will be given. We are asked
in what respect can the prospect be
more gloomy abroad than at home.
Isolation, separation from friends,
, uncertainty, lack of sympathy.?-these
arc some arguments for the wanderer's
reflection. Fanaticism cannot
last forever. 'Reaction is bound to
eventuate. The radical party perforce
go the full length of anarchy,
or die; and the end of anarchy is political
death for the disturbers ' of
public order."
Southern Relief Fair in St.
Louis.?The treasurer of the late
Southern Relief Fair at St. Louis,
publishes a statement, from which it
'-''.'-i..'-? -JJ?
ajpjjeswHfotfr the total receiptB5&ffae:grand
fair amounted to $,136,756.66;
expenses to $10,643.58. .-balance.
'#be credited to the charity, $126*;.
^8.88. .Of this, $124,^43,63 warrand
to the. distributing'commit^,
i|ifir'uraa4ndcr"-being applied to th?
rblief of-applicants,, or sent in goods
|^k^Sthr . ' . ' 'v.
a rv fd
aks'srted this before, and it is, as most
meft admit, only a question of time
for fulfillment. While we do not hesitate
to make declaration of an evita'ole
fact, it is but'fair to qualify
what might otherwise.seem too general
an opinion. The division of large
estates Tvill not, of necessity, compel
planters to turn market gardincrs.?
On the contrary, we believethatplanting
on a largo scale will and ought
to be pursued by those who can afford
it. Numbers, possessed of the
requisite means and ability, will thus
cultivate broarf acres, but not in the
same profusion as of yore. Superior
energy and talent must accumulate
landed property, just as the same
qualifications gather merchandise or
gold. Hue the number of these great
D ^ O
proprietors cannot he so formidable
as under tbc slave system. Laborsaving
machines, such as steam or
buggy, ploughs, reapers, threshers,
cct.,-render immense estates still
possible. It is well that they should
not b? wholly annihilated, for there
are..no better schools for enlarged
ideas of state craft or private enterprise.
Administrative ability o'f a
high order is requisite. The common
slang about, "keeping a hotel,"
as-evidencing peculiar traits of. governing,
apply with tenfold force to the
management of a fine estate. Much
of their eminence as the breeders of
statesmen or politicians has sprupg
from these habits of the Southern
^jThOi S^^Si^er^i^^^^stsyslcSf
it? labor. It is objected to the division
of large plantations that this
eminence may be surrendered. We
think not. There "will be a sufficiency
of plantations to create a superabundance
of statesmen, and it may
be matter for congratulation that the
supply is necessarily limited.?Thus,
too, there may be just as much force
of character necessary to regulate
matters on a modest farm. We feci
assured that poverty will compel the
great body of Southern youth to manifest
the noble qualities of courage,
fortitude, patience and industry which,
ranning in a different grove, made
them splendid gentlemen and incomparable,
heroes. " The South has much
to learn, and she knows it% Experience
may he a fool's teacher, but
it frequently transforms felly into
wisdom.?Constitutionalist.
The oldest stove in the United
States, if not in the world, is. that
which warms the hall of the capitol
of Virginia, irr Hiclimond. It was
made in England, and sent to Virgiin
1777, and warmed the house
of the Burgesses and the General Assembly
for sixty years before it was
removed to its present location,
where it has been upwards of thirty
years. It has survived three British
Kings, and has been cotcmporaneous
with four monarchies, two republics
and two imperial Governments of
France. The great republic of America
lias been torn by civil war, the
breaches partly healed, and still the
old stove has remained unmoved in
the midst-of all.
Woman's Part in tiie World.?
It is the keeping alive for men certain
ideas-, and ideals, too, which
would soon pass out of the world in
the push and hurry of material existence,
if they were not fed and replenished
by those who arc able to
stand aloof from the worry anU vexations
of active life. "When .society
ceases to have the means of creating
its own ideas, it must decay. Civilization
is nourished by imaginativewealth
that the world possesses and
renews for itself from time to time;
and those treasures of imagination
which we-call ideas arc mainly dependent
on the social position occupied
by. women. Ideas of purity,
unselfishness and devotion, in the
words of the poet, are tho--. hinges *of
tl^p gate cf life; and, if women were
to become as men, the sacred firo
would soon become extinct. The heathens
of old fitly expressed this truth
by the image of the eternal flame of
I
I .
Vesta, "which the -duty of her
priestesses tovmaintam .'unimpaired'^
and oh the /M^rvation. of "which' <
the welfare of iiome herselff depen-- ;
ded.
H 11 ' ' , I
! .'* Counsel FOR .-TALE-B^$ERS-.?
jffevei|repeat-a story .utileesrypii'; are
/certa^pit" is corrupt, and eve#' hot
then- unless sotaethihg is to he gained,
jpipor tan|
tice, and he who indulges'hi it' .grows
fonder of it in proportion as he is successful.
If you have no good to say
of your neighbor, rfever reproach his
character by telling that which is
false. He who tells you of the faults
of others, intends to tell others of your
faults, and so the dish of newf is
handed- from one to another, until the
tale becomes enormous. A story never
loses anything," it is wisely, remark
cd; but on the contrary, gains in proportion
as it is repeated by those who
have not a very strict regard for truth-. '
Truely, "the tongue is? an unruly
member, full of deadly poison."
Farmer.Not
to . ee Trusted.?A distinguished-merchant,
a great judge of
character, once said, "When I see
one of my apprentices or clerks riding
out on the Sabbath, on Monday. I
dissmiss him "such a one cannot .be
trusted." Remember this boys, and
from the habit of keeping the Sabbath,
not only because God commands
it?which indeed should be the. chief
reason?but also because -it will be
j for your best temporal interest.' ?
Bill Simpson's Lecal Experience.?Many
years ago the Legislature
of Tennessee passed an act to
organize the county of McNairyj '
alias Snake. 'v At that time the country
embraced in the limits of Snake
occupied fry jLgturd^j i
F , . >,
courts, jails, uuuuty-assembled
at the appointed site for the purpose
of cutting logs, making boards, <
etc'., to build a court house and
The only theme of conversation, when
the men- were assembled; was the
court, etc. None of tlierii "had ever
seen a court in session, as yet develoned.
Each one would give what1
* i n
his idea was of a court, etc.
None, however, were entirely satfactbry,
until Bill Simpson was called
on to give his ideas. He said lie
knew all about a court?that he'had
a law suit in North Carolina. One
of his neighbor's hogs kept* coming
whefc he-fed his hogs until it got fat.
One morning he got so mad. that
lie shot the hog. lie thought it
would not do to throw it away, so he
cleaned and salted it. Shortly afterwards
his neighbor and a man came
to his house, examined the smoke
| house, and took him to town and put
i him in a. little office. About threemonths
after that, this man came and
took him up to a large room. A large
man sat upon a high bench?a man
was sitting at a desk?about a dozen
fine dressed men sat in a place that
was puled around. The man put me
in a pen just behind them.
He then called in twelve men, they
took seats in a box in front of the fine
dressed men. The man that was writing
gave the twelve men a book and
said something about Bill Simpson
and State. -Then one of the fine men
read something about Bill Simpson
and the hog, and he and another one
of tlhi fine dressed men had the biggest
quarrel you ever heard?I thought
tfiey would fight every minute, but
thcydid'nt. It was Bill Simpson and
the hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson;
and sometimes Mr. Simpson, but
seldom. After they quit quarreling,
tho big man talked a while to
the twelve men, and they Trent out
and staid a short time, and came oacK j
-.ind said something to the man at the j
desk. The man on'the bench said
something to the man that put me in
office, and he took me out and tied
me to a persimmon tree and commenced
fighting me with a cowhide, and it
made me so mad that I shook all
the persimmons off the tree.
Winchester Home Journal,
|
In a Hurry.?A curious wedding
is reported to have taken place some j
days since, near Bay City, Michigan,
which reads like this: It seems that a !
father lost his wife by death, and'
that said wife died early in the morning.
The father did not appreciate
being left alone in the w.ovid, and ere .
jiis wife's cye3had closed in the. sleep j
r
.j
I 11 " I '
that kno^ norwaking, he-^terinined
to marry again... pitching-' up; his
tfem, he takes his 9eira|[|;:girl and . ,
goea'l^Ba^CitytoJ^y garments'for
the|death. WhiiejKm^ fie .married
fthe*giri;%n<f >e|^^F%:^is;:lt<n^|ry v
the same night vrfth hig second w?fe>
so,.- by Actual count, he -was
widowerHwelve'bouts. The new
appeared^at the funeral rie^ft dfcynh 7'
d^/bbfci^and was oneT'of the yrin- .?- ?
. gg
Another Cotton Fire in New
York.?A disastrous fire occurred in
the cotton warehouse No. 17, Albany
street," New York, on. Saturday evening,
the building being completely
burned out from the ground floor to
the roof. -There were fifteen hundred
bales of cotton stored in the place at
the time of the fire, which were total- <
ly .consumed, causing a loss of about
fifty thousand dollars. The building
was owned by Mr. Charles Nayior,
on/1 WOO /loTYin **A/1 +A +ll A Avf AT** 4* '
c"javt w ci/o tu calciib vjl tv/ll
thousand dollars. .
A gentleman from Northern Ohio,
always regraded as a spleudid busi- .
ness, manager tried a plantation in
Mississippi this season, and reportsthat
licis. out ofpoclcet about $12,000over
his crop, and to use his own language
has "letout." He says the "colored
men may fight nobly, but they .jdon'fc
work worth a?bad word-."
? --.<? ?- ??.? , i
Maryland.?The Lower. House of the
Maryland Legislature has passed .
the enfranchisement bill which restores
to full rights of citizenship thoso
who have been disfranchised for disloyalty
of participation inthcrebelion
A .Menagrie .of Topers.?Tfio.
following homily we give as we found
it, leaving our sober fellow-citizens to <
warrant fort-fafnith
man can cot into is to cet drunk.-In
O ? - O . "
drunkenness every man shows his
Stongcst arid most ardenf passion.?r
There are six kinds of drunkards, and
if you will go into a city drjnkingplacc
where there are a dozeir men
under the influence of liquor, you will.
be sure to find these six different
characters representing different animals.
.
The first is ape-drunk. He leaps,"
and sings, and yells, and dances, making
all sorts of grimaces and cutting
up all sorts of "monkey shines" to
excite the laughter of his tellows!?*
Terribly silly is the drunken clown.
The second is- tiger-drunk.-. He
breaks the bottles, breaks the chairs,
breaks the heads of his fellow-carousers,
and is full of blood and thunder. ' '
His eyes arc fired with vengeance, *
and his soul raves with fury. Of this
sort are those who abus\thcir famiilics
The third is hog drunk. He rolls
in the dirt, on the floor, slobbers and
. X ? n v. 1-1 /.A! M rtl 1 n +1 1 A f ! Artffl
gl'UIllS, UUU ?Ullig 1"uv: OMVCH
makes bis bed in tbe first ditch or filthy
-corner he may happen to fall into.
He is hca'vy^ lumpish and sleepy, and
cries in a grunting way for a lit>
tie more to drink.
The fourth is puppy drunk. Ho
will weep for kindness, and whine his
love, and hug you in his arms, and
kiss you with his slobbery lips and
proclaim how much Jie loves you.^ .
You are the best man he* ever saw,
and he will lay down his money or his
life for you. ?
The fifth is owl drunk. He is wise
in his own conceit. No man must
differ with himj for his word is law.
He is true in^politics, and all matter
must be taken as. authority. His arm
is the strongest, his voice the sweetest,
his horse the fleetest, his turnips thft:
largest, his town the finest of all in.
the room or land.
The sixth and last animal in the
menagerie is the fox drunk man. Hs
is crafty, ready to trade hprses ana
cheat if he can... Keen to strike a
bargain, leering around with low cun-'
liing, peeping through'cracks, listening
under the caves, watching for
some suspicious thing, sly as a fox,
creaking as a wolf. He is the^meancst
drunkard of them all.
Through Freight.?A train of
cars came through on the Virginia and
Tennessee airline on Saturday, carrying
six hundred and fifty bales of
(jotton; It went through to Norfolk
We learn that there are sixteen thousand
bales at KnoxVillc, ywhich have
been receipted for, and arc now waiting
for transportation over this line.
Petersburg Index.
* . . s
i