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: a I" VOLUME XXVI. CAMDEN,S.C., THURSDAY MORKIKG FEBKUAKY 6, 1868. NUMBER 30. L -LIft W x PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY I THOMAS W. PEGUES. , ;TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TLfee Dollars , a year Cash?Four Dollars 4f payment is delayed three months. RATES OF AhVliRTIMSO, I'ER SQt'ARE. For the first insertion. $1.50: for the second, $1.06: for the third,:75 cents; for each sub- ; ?eq.^pntjnsert:on, 50 cents. - Semi-monthly, Monthly ana yuarteny nu- j vertreements, $1.50 each insertion. J'" The spuco occupied by ten lines (solid, of j 'this sjze typo) constitutes a squarel> Payment is required in advance from tran- | sient advertisers, and as soon as the work is j done, from regular customers Contracts made for yearly and half-yearly j advertising (payable quarterly) made on I moderate terms. MISCELL ANJE OUST^ From the Charleston Daily News. A ROYAL ROW. TIIE CONVENTION IN A FERMENT? ..t tj BLOWS AND BLOODY TIIKBATS. The convention yesterday had scarcely adjourned before the hall was a scene of wild excitement, resulting from an assault by E. W. M. Mackey upon Roswell T. Logan, Esq., assistant Editor of the Charlestop Mercury. As the event transpired in the presence of the writer of these paragraphs we speak of what wo know, and not from information of any other person. Mr. Logan was in conversation with the reporter of the News, relating the action of the convention'on the report of the Finance Committee, wrtd inthc act of rolling up his papers, when Mackey approached and inquired : UAre you the author of the article in the Charleston Mercury concerning my father ?" Mr. Logan replied: "lam." Then, said Mackey, drawing back with a curse, "take that," and delivered a blow. Mr. Logan threw up ins arm as a fence and struck back, and at the same moment was seized by one or two persons nearest to him. Mackey, being more powerful*1 although the attempt was also made to hold him by Mr. Whittemore and ethers, was not so easily restrained, a/1 in o t r i lr i! nr firifl anu nv; fuuwi;citv;<i m onu???.^ .... . kicking once or twice, but only one ? 7 ? blow took effect, and that was upon the forehead of the assaulted party. By this time?in less than a minute ?delegates, white and black, were pitchiug frantically forward towards the reporters' table, and scenc of affray, a;id in the pressure of the crowd which followed Mr. Logan, held in the arms of Mr. Moses, (white), of Sumter, was, forced down the hall, nearly to the middle, and against one of the windows. The excitement now became intense. Cries were heard, "kOl him"?"cut the vidians throat" ?"throw him out of the window."?' "So ! let him alone"?"the dignity of the convention isatstake"?"don't let him be hurt"?"keep back"? "keepback"?"order"?"hands off" &c. Mr. Moses meanwhile still clasped Mr. Logan, and declared that "if O 1 any man struck the reporter, they would have to strike him," doing all that lay in his power to quell the now fairly aroused passions of the crowd. At this juncture, the president of the convention pushed his way through the crowd?(it is said with a horsewhip in his hand, which was taken from him by some of the colored delegrates, but the writer saw nothing of this)?and while Logan was thus surrounded by forty or fifty persons, standing on tables, chairs, and filling every space that could he occupied i by a human body, Dr. Mackey opened "battery" on him, and as an old ; lady would say, gave him "a piece of: his mind." lie said that he did not j Lold him responsible for his abuse so | much as the persons who employed | him; that he was engaged in a mean contemptible and dirty business, and ! fjaat jif any retribution was to be tnetca out, it belonged to those who paid jiim his salary to come there and de- j fame the characters of members of the j convention, &c., &c., &c. Wa /l/\ nnt- nf nrokf?nd tf? 1 give the exact language, but the; above, strongly infused with adjectives and expletives, expresses the opinion of the ebullition of Dr. Mackey Do ying this address, which occupied perhaps two minutes, the excitement jvithin the bar among the members of the convention and without among the coloured spectators, mariv of whom plimbcd over the bar, reached a dangerous pitch. Cries were heard of t4throw him out of the window"? J'cut his heart out"?kill him, it l serves him right," and the most bitter and vengeful threats, indicaed a g disposition to commit murder on the o spot. ' c The behavior of Mr. Logan, thus ii surrounded, was most commeudabl . c Calm, cool, and pcrfectiy unquenched, \ lie held his tongue and waited for the | c . T I excitement to subside. During this a period, it is but just to say, the lead- j h ers of the convention of botli races S did all in Micir power to preserve order and prevent, what wa/t most feared j' ?bloodshed. Among tficse may be t] mentioned C. C. Bowen, who like Dr. s Mackey, was the subject, of dcscrip- p tion in the Mercury of yesterday; p B. F. Whittcmorc, Dr. Newell, R. C. e DeLarge, W. J. Wuipper, J. J. n Wright, W. E. Johnson. C. M. Wil- y der, T. Hurley, and others. t The counsel of these parties and it their associates finally prevailed. It w gradually stole over the minds of ii members that the "dignity of the y convention" was at stake, and Mr. n Logan was permitted to retire again t< to the vicinity of the reporters' table. Here a policeman made his appear- p ance. Mr, Logan requested his*company to the office of The Mercury and protection from' the mob. At this point Dr. Mackey again came up, and, hearing the request of the representative of the Mercury, u said that he himself would accompany Mr. Logan from the hall, and afford P him protection. I>. F. Whittemore, P Ilurlev, J. J. Wright, Randolph, and a others, likewise offered their escort, u whereupon the parties left the hall. * SCENES WITJIOfT. J There is no doubt that had not the a temporizing measures of a few of the a calmer and more sensible men in the :i 1 -1 tr..? I convention prcvamcu, iiil-itui.iy numu have resulted iu u serious manner.? Only the presence and counsels of delegates possessing the confidence of ? the outside throng prevented bloodshed. The threats made were loud f. ajid sanguinary, and a spark onl^ t| would have- ignited a spirit ripe for j; any evil. Dr. Markov, however, ? took occasion to say to a crowd out- ? siile that lie did not hold MrMr gan j; at all respotisihle for the publication, 'j and in vituperative language charged 0 it upon Mr. Rhett, the editor of the j| Mercury. c Mr. Logan has but a single bruise, s and that is on his forehead. The s only wonder is that, under the cir t eutiistiinccs, first of being assaulte by a much larger man than himself' c and secondly of being threatened with still more severe punishment by all excited crowd, he escaped so well. >' The above facts are written in the w same fair and candid spirit that has p prompted all the reports concerning ], the convention in this paper. They are the observations of an ovo-witncss, and therefore?truth. j. # t] Ax Itkm fou 1?a Hi:lors.?A ju- c dicious wife is always chipping off ? from her husband's moral nature lit- f( tie twigs that me growing in wrong ( direction. She keeps him in shape by _ nvimltiir 1 f'Vnil H:iV MtlV- .. ! <>.. fF. , thing silly, she will affectionately tell S( you so. If you declare that you will do |, some absurd thing, she will find |] means of preventing your doing |. it. And by far the chief part of all a the common sense there is in this u world belongs unquestionably to wo- |, man. The wisest things a man com- p monly does are those which his wife a counsels him to do. A wife is the t! grand wielder of the moral pruning p knife. If Johnson's wife had lived. ,} there would have been no boarding i ,| up of orange peel?no touching all I f, the posts in walking along the streets p ?no eating and drinking with a dis- t gusting voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married, ho would ! j never have worn that memorable and i ? ridiculous coat. Whenever you find | e a man whom you know littlo about, j () oddly dressed, or talking absurdly,j 0 or exhibiting any eccentricity of man-! (] ner, you may be tolerably sum that j ? he is not a married man ; for the cor- j ners are rounded off, the little shoots |; are pruned away in married men.? j; Wives generally have much more ^ sense than their husbands?especially when their hnsbands arc clever t men. The wife's advices are like the fJ ballast that keeps the ship steady ; they are the wholesome, though pain- {l ful, sheers, clipping off little growths j of self-conceit. i c The Maine Legislature tloes not t receive the proposal to abolish its t prohibitory liquor law with favour, j i - - T . . Wit at Shall We Plant??Fin--jFi rrs that have been twice burnt/l w< ught to lie kept, from the lire. Th%te r? ps of 1806 and 1867, have 1 eIt. a debt, and with nothing to cat. Ije :.aan't help being starved to dea^u jt VliicU.is best, to plant.largely,0* hi otton, and then spend it all for corn, nd meat, and still be in.debt, or to ivc plenty ' to cat, iri' spite of the *M 1'ierifT? 1?1 The people of Marlborough, are list one year, behind their business? to liey arc attempting to work, upon* j?Q tarved horses, because they have wi referred to buy corn, instead of' frc lanting it. Profiting by our hard $< xperiencc, would it not be well, to th lake a bountiful provision crop this jg< ear? Plant entirely for something rb > eat, and run the risk of your crcik jlj :ors for one rear. Those of tnom It ho are sensible, will see you are all Vi i the right trnek, and will wait with w ou, for we arc all behind, and will i fa ever catch up, until there is plenty cr 3 cat, on every man's premises. c;i 1st. Plant Irish potatoes, and Sweet or ota toes. Ip 2d. All the oats you can. * te 3rd. Garden vegetables. N 4th. Corn, except about five acres fr > the horse, v. . -gj? 5th. Cotton, to that extqnt and no of lore. ctf .Glli. Don't forget your orchards, fii lant grape vines?apple,peach, pear, hi lum, and fig trees?strawberries "j rid raspberries?make a beginning tli pon this plan, and all will yet be \\ c!I- The less cotton you can make, at le liigW will lie the price you. will n et f)r it, so you will lose nothing-co fter all, by producing less cotton, if nil more provisions. ''FATHER.MATTHEW." Bennett sville Journal. An Excellent Suggestion*.?A m pod suggestion is made by tbeSouthr i cc ni Cultivator that our planters and * irmcrs should plant a portioy of <? lieir fields with early rrorHierrrcomr Lipening two or three months before i a dutlieni varieties in present Oeld \ In se, it would enable us to have food J r< ?r tnan and beast so much sooner.? In bough especially advisable in a year ci f scarcity, it would be wise at all T itnes, as it gives that constant sue- j R cssion of crops for sale, which is the it, nunc of all successful farming, be- d; !des availing ourselves of the advan- c; igeof our longer growing Season. tr W; recollect copying from the Lan- ni aster Ledger, a paragraph giving 1,1 vnculf fS uri ?Yt>f>riini?iit mailt* last l.W . w. .... ,,w - )(| ear by Mr. Goocil, of that District, ? itli early Northern corn ; it was h hinted at the usual time, and in Ju- d f he had corn ready for the mill. f' Exkkcisk.?The development of rawn is the muscular Christianity of liesc modern times. Few men acustomed to out-door labor know w inch of the pains and aches incident ? ) men of letters. You farmer men, r( rod gives you the sleep of the child tc -sound, sonorous sleep. You men tc f the anvil and the lathe, you too tc eck tired nature's sweet restorer, si ahnv sleep, with a will. l?ut ah, h< ow different with the merchant, the b ? ' 11 r iwyer, the clergyman; an proiession- ui I men, and to a large extent com- ol lereial men and mechanics. It is ard enough for the editor, for exam- hi lo, to work over paper, pen in hand m II day and into night, and then when w lie flickering lamp of night grows ale and sick, to drag himself off to oze, to dream of his task not yet hi one, to hear the clamor of printers ol rtr more copy, to ransack papers and tl icriodicals all night, -to stoop over tl he forms, to deal a blow at that evil, ol o receive and parry a thrust from cl his quarter, and then rise in the pi ;ray dawn to jade one's life or to the w nd. Now, just so it is in business cf f every kind. Sleep is the restorer c< f nature, worth more than all the w toe tors of Christendom. How to ! t*. ;et it is the question. How to get! al t? Nothing easier; get weary in i c; ?-i- ? it mi.:.. ?i. ! c iuuj as ?un an 111 uiiiki. a ins inun : n< s our law. No sane man, who ox-1 oi >ects to remain zona menu in corporc 1 ti ann, ought to forget that he has two ' tl icings, a natural and a spiritual one. I tl L'he mind and the body ; weary one, a: inrl it nevor rests; weary the other, a; irul it drags down into a sort of com- r< mlsivo slumber the wholo man. A tt nan of letters ought to be in some j >ut-door employment six hours out of welve. Seven to exercise, seven to {| lie mind, seven to sleep, threo to / neals, and all to God, ia a gjood rule. s< l lurteen hours at mental labor bring 3cs unutterable. Are you a minisr? Keep your study full of fresh r, work while you work, seven hours day. Don't let man or woman see >u then. After that, collect your 1 Is.-? Church Union. X v .s.K, Very Wicked.?Mr. Wilson, of assachusetts, said in the United fates Senate on Monday that Senaj* Doolittle's speech was more "wicki" than any he had c *er heard from utbern congressmen. Of course it as, since it was against the Radical construction which is to bring the juth under the Radical yoke, and rough the negro supremacy hi the mth to hold the North likewise in e chains of one of the irlost odious rannies that ever cursed mankind, is one of the tricks of such men as rilson to denounce other people as icked. The disguise of a saint is a vorite one with the devil; and it is jually popular with the ultra Radil!s, except Thad. Stevens and one ' two others. Wilson is a patent fpocrite. He has as smooth an exrior as a finely-polished shoe from atic or Lynn, whose "sole" is a aud?a collection of bits of leather, td sometimes, for greater economy, 'chips; the outer and thin covering 'which is sometimes wiped off at the *st "scraper" with which it is ought into contact, showing the swindle" it had concealed ! Such is 10 soul of the shoemaker of Natick ! 'o have had hitn at the South, id heard him. The devil himself e'er had a fairer outside; and he irtainly will he "put to his trumps" he can excel Mr. Wilson interiorly. Richmond Dispatch. ? ? A Boston newspaper mentions a ;ry delicate, ingenious and beautiful itehine, which has recently been instructed. Tins machine will *ake .portion of a tree, after it has been fcVthe right length attili width-, and iftvc Tt TritiTthtr ribbons as w-ide as roll of house paper, making one undred and fifty to the inch. These ills arc placed on walls by paper mgers with paste and brush, prcsely in the same manner as paper, he wood is wet when used, and rcal works easier than paper, because is more tough and pliable. In tlie.se iys, when variety is sought for, one in finish a house in different woods i suit his taste. One room can he uislicd in bird's eye maple, another i cherry, another in chestnut, anoter in white wood. Thus there is no - .1 - i.. mtaiiori, Dili rue genuine* arum- I.> pon t!ic walls. The longer the wood unking remains ori the v.all the more p O istinct will be the grain and color of ic wood. ?* # Mr. Davis in Mississippi.?The icksbuag Times says: Long absent, but warmly loved, as ell in the day of his power as when shackled prisoner in Fortress Motile, the hearts of our people yearn wards President Davis with unut rable affection. For what he tried do?for what ho has borne and tffered in the cause of the people, s will always be honored and rein entered. We cannot greet him, as in her days, with public manifestations respect and gratitude, but when L-fferson Davis again stands amongst is old friends, though their voices ay be mute, their hearts will throb ith a wild tumultuous joy. Perpetual Motion.?The Petcrsurg Express says Mr. W. D. \Vright, f that city, has invented a machine nit comes nearer perpetual motion " i* u-A K.I CO ro.w] nr KiV*r>/l Mill UIIJ tiling iio^viuviiwj uvuiu *, and all it lacks is the proper tnalinerv to make it perfect, for which urpo.-c lie will visit; Baltimora next eek. Ilis model consists of two boxi about four inches apart, which mtain the machinery, connected ith two tracks, one with a grade of ro and a half inches, and the other bout an inch. The ball used is a Minister shot found on the battlceld, April 2, 18G5. and weighs six unces, which is placed upon the top nek and started. It passes through ic box down on the lower track into le other box, causing a bell to strike ? it passes through to the top track. rid continues on as long as the ball jmains on the track. This is ccrlinly a curious invention. The Unchangeable Land.?In iic East, things do not change. Ab l bra ham pitched his tent in Bethel, o does an Arab Sheik now ffcrt up his 4 camp; as David bnilt his palace on ' Mount Sion, so would a Turkish 1 Pasha now arrange his house. In ? every street may be seen the hairy 1 children of Esau, squatting on the j ! ground, devouring a mess of lentils ] like that for which the rough hunter j1 sold-his birth-right. Along every road 'i plod the sons of Rachel, whose fathers, \ thousands of years ago, bound them- i selves and theirs to drink no.wine, plant no tree, enter within no door, and they have kept the oath; and at every khan are young men around the pan of parched corn, dipping their morsel into the dish. Job's plow is still used, and the seed is still trodden into the ground by asses and kin?. Olives are shaken from the boughs as directed Isaiah, and the grafting of trees is unchanged since the days of Saul. The Syrian house is still, as formerly, only a stone tent, as a temple was but a marble tent. What is now seen in Bethany may be taken as the exact house of Lazarus, where Mary listened and Murtha toiled, or as the house of Simon the leper, where the box of precious ointment was broken and whence Judas set out to betray his master. Beautifully Expressed.?The Memphis Avalanche of a late date, thus closes an editorial upon the character, intelligence, courage and ! patriotism of the soldiers that comi posed the Southern army: J Surely no army ever had in it j such soldiers as tvere those of our ! Southern army. The pulpit sent its ministers, great and good. The bar sent its lawyers in troops. The press sent its editors, publishers and printers. The colleges sent out its professors and students by the hundreds. The morals and intelligence, the cour age, the. purity of the Southern soldier, hap hardly been equalled in ibe annals of war*- No power can ever compel the Southern people to forget their virtues or ignore their' patriot' ism. The heel of the despot can i never crush out the feeling of devo, tion to the memory of our glorious dead. The military satrap may pro' vent our following the exhumed dead n to their last resting place, but we cannot be prevented from embalming rlicin in our memory, and enshrining them in our hearts. As long as earth hears a flower, or the sea rolls a wave, so long will heart and memory cling to those who fell in the lost cause! The name of the humblest private shall live in amaranthine beauty, when prouder names shall have gone down to infamy. Washington, Jan.* 27.?The new treaty between the United States and the Fecjee Islands has just been received at the State Department. It i is rather vague in point of stipulations and eccentric in form, consisting of an immense tooth of a whale, vir-lilv riniTfited Jh erder ntid tn the v. .... ... ? side of which is attached a strongly, I twisted grass cord, which serves as a handle or as a binding to the treaty. The i aval agent, who delivered the tooth, was instructed to say to the i President that it was a treaty by which the King of the Fccjces mortgaged his Islands to the U. Slates for the payment of the instalment or ! indemnity due the United States to continue for three years; the Presij dent, on his part, to agree to prevent j the rival Feejee King from levying : war against the legitimate sovereign ! I ? ? t ; during the continuance of the mort-! : gage. On being asked bow the trcao C n ty was to be ratified and exchanged, j tiic agent said his instructions were ! that if the President accepts the tooth the treaty is established. If he declines the treaty, lie is to return the tooth to the King of the Fcejees.? The tooth was wrapped in a rude cloth made from the inner bark of a tree, without spinning or weaving. It is - >? iioc Known miicuicj wn? ninguiai uc.?ty will be sent to the Senate for ratification.?Cor. Bait. Gazette. Patronize Advertising Houses. ?One who knows what he is talking about, discourses after the following fashion. Hear him : When we sec a business firm giving publicity to the particular branch of j trade, we argue that such a house is ; alive to the requirements of the time. It implies not only keen sagacity, but likewise that sort of liberality which is sure to attract the attention of the trade. Many establishments forego the benefits of advertising 1 from a spirit of more- pen uriou anew. They reason in this way: "Should we incur an outlay of $50 or $100 or ^500. possibly we never get it back? then it would ho so much thrown iway." These timid men always, and . properly belong to a past generation, The true man of business, apprecia? . ting the fair advantages of being r?K. j resented in newspaper columnsjooks upon advertising as "bread cast Upon , the waters"?jy^L, should he find no V immediate fruits of his expenditure, he rests n't ease, being fully satisfied that it "will return after many days." ... Prevelncf op Famine in Europe.?The extent to which famine i>' prevails in various parts of Europe- t and on the southern shore of tne -;i> Mediterranean, is somewhat remark^ able. - , The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Morning Herald states that the distress amongst the poorer classes in Russia, owing to the bad < harvest, is in many Darts of the cnun try very severe. Atrtlie opening of the Provincial Assembly of Novgorod, the governor recommended a liberal vote of money to supply the feasants with the means of subsistence. The governor of Olonetz opened the Provisional Assmbly of that government with a similar address. / With the accounts of suffering .in Sweden we are already familiar. In. r Eastern Prussia the destitution is so . severe that members of the royal * family have volunteered to obtain contributions, ai d Parliament has appropriated considerable sums, which thus far prove inadequate. Not only in France but along the : coast of Africa the lack of food ip general. According to a recent let- / ter from Paris, the number of deaths t in Algeria within the last si* months, from starvation, exceeds 100,000.? Tliis the correspondent asserts, is no exaggeration. In the adjoining government of Tunis, from the scaco^^r , to the interior, there ore numerous . dehths from starvation: Last year complaints of the scarcity of food were seldom heard outside of India. . Two darkeys had bought a mess of ' pork in partnership, but Sam, having no place to put his portion in consented to entrust the whole to Julius'i keeping. The next morning they met, when Sam said: "Good mornin' Julius; anything happen strange or mysterious down in vour wvcinity, lately?" ^ W ? r ' r t "Yaas. Sam, most strange thing ? happen at my house yesterday nighty All mystery to me." "Ah! Julius, what was dat?" "Well, Sam, I tole you now: Dis mornin' I went down in de cellar for to get a piece ob hog for dis darkey's breakfast, and I put my hand down into de brine an' felt round; but no1 pork dere?all gone?could'nt tell; what bewenf with it; so I turned up',dc bar'l, an', Sam, true as preach en, > de rats had eat a hole clear froo d&. bottom of de bar'l and dragged de pork all out!" . Sam was petrified with astonishment. hut presently said: "Why didn't the brine run out de same bole?" "Ah ! Sam, dats de mystery?data de mystery!" r' .-.-t Just So.?Warwick, the Washing-': ton correspondent ot the i\lacon Telegraph, says: with much truth , "Let the Southern people resolutely set about the cultivation of grain and the raising of cattle-; and in so doing, while securing their own prosperity, will strike the deadliest blow at their Radical enemies at the North." A waggish journalist, who is often merry over his personal plainness, tells the following story of himself: " I went to a chemist the ether day for a dose of morphine for a friend;? The assistant objected.to give it to me without a prescription, evidently fearing that I intended to commit suicide. 'Pshaw!' said I; 'do I look like a man that would kill himself?' Gazing steadily at me a moment, ho ? 1- 3 ' T J ' i. 1.- - Tf 0AAIYIQ f A repiieu, j. uun i ivm/ M>? JLC OVpuio vvr me, if I looked like you, I should be o, A greatly tempted to kill myself.' " ?^ At Vicksburg, Mississippi, fires have become so frequent that the insu* ranee companies are cancelling their policies. The City Council passed an ordinance enrolling all the able bo* died citizens in a body to be known as special city police, to look after the incendiaries and otherwise pre* serve order: