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v H ' 1 1 v ; VOLUME 28. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, MAY 27, 1869. NUMBER 41. MISCELLANY. \VATfcREE AND NORTH. CAROLINj RAIL ROAD. *4n Act to incorporate the Wateree am yirrd North Carolina Rail Road Com panySficnoN 1. Be it enacted by th< Senate and House of Representative: xt the State of South Carolina, nov 'Bitting in General Assembly, and bj the authority of the same, That Wil lliam M. Shannon, Joseph B. Kershaw John M. DeSaussure, James Dunlap James A. Young, James M. Davis, anc their associates and successors, are^herc by constituted a body politic anc corporate, by the name and style o! the Waterce and North Carolina Rai Road Company. Stc. 2. That the said Company if ^hereby authorized to construct a rail road from the town of Camdcnt to some point on the North Carolina line, as nearly on a line between the town ol 'Camden and the town of Goldsborough, North Caroliua, as may be practical lc; and also a railroad from the town o! Camden to the North Carolina lino in /ilt-asttirtn iif flrnp'nshnrotio'h- North Carolina, as may be piact'cable; and also a railroad from the town of Camden to the North Carolina line, in the direction of Charlotte, North Carolina. Sf.c. That for the purpose of raising the capital stock of the said company, ?it shall be lawful to open books in the towu of Ca uden, under the direction of Jjuics DunUp, Jam<\s A. Voting and James M. Davis; at Lyuuhwood, Ker'dhaw 'Conniy. under the direction ofL. W. R. Blair, Johu It. Shnw, R. S. Lu eas and Daniel Bethune; at Chf?raw. tinder the direction of Henry Mclver. Alexander M?-Quocn, L. S Prince and 'Thomas E Powc; at Flat Rock, Kershaw County, under the direction of J. Stoss Dye and Lemuel B. Stephenson; vat Lancaster, under the direction of James L. Reed, Jno. 1) Wylic, William A. Moore and W. M. Connors, for the purpose of receiving subscrip lions to an amount not cxcccdine two millions of dollars, in ?-harcs of one hundred dollars each, for tlie purpose of cos structing the railroads provided for hy this Act. Ss:c. 4. That the amounts subscribed at the places at which books are opened along the proposed lines towards Guld>borongh and Charlotte, respcc tivtdy, shall only be called ia, the parlies required to pay the same or regarded ia any way as stockholders in the said company for the purpose of building, aod in connection with the Rail "Road along the liue where such subscriptions are uiade.. Sec. 5. That the times and places for receiving such subscriptions shull be ?xed by the Commissioners in the town of Camden, or a majority of them, and shall be advertised for thirty days in one or more newspapers in this State, and the books for receiving such subscriptions shall bo kept open for sixty days at each of the places where the intne shall'be -opened. Sec. 6. That on each share of the stock subscribed, the subscriber shall pay to the Commissioner receiving such subscription the sum of five dollars, and uo subscription shall be valid without such payment, and at the expiraiion of the time here prescribed for keeping open the books, the said Commissioner shall make* return of the subscription" taken by them, and the sums paid thereon, to the Commissioners in the town of Camden. Sec. 7. That when the sum of three hundred thousand dollars shall be subscribed in the manner herein prescribed the said -company may meet and organize at such time and place as may be desierhated bv a maiority of the Cora Imissiooers herein named for the town of Camden, due notice having first been been given. Sec. 8. That for the purpose or organizing and forming this company, all the powere oonferred by the charter of the North-eastern Railroad Company on the Commissioners therein named shall be vested in the Commissioners Darned in this Act: Provided, The Commissioners named at any point shall ft only have aby power or be called in'.i = the exercise of any such power in th? event jof subscriptions taken and step: ^ instituted towards building the roac along the route whero such Commis sioners were required to open books and all tho powers, rights and privil eges granted by the charter, and the amendments thereto, of the North-eas r . tern Railroad Company, to that com. dany, shall be, and the same areherebj granted to the Wateree and North Carolina Railroad Company, subject to the I conditions therein named, except as to the amount of capital stock, the sum I necessary to authorize organization, and I except to far as the special provisions I of the Act may otherwise require the same to be modified or varied : Provi 'J HTKo#. nAlkinnr korni n nnnfiiinorl XUUb UVIUIIJ^ IIVIWIU VVUiUiilVU I shall be construed so as to exempt the said company from the payment of tax( es: Provided, further, That said road , shall be subject to the provisions of nn Act entitled " An Act to declare the manner by which the lands, or the right o': way over the lands, of persons or corporations may be taken for the construotion and uies of railways and other j works of internal improvement,/ ratified September 22, A. D. 18C8. Sec. 9. That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and continue in force fifty years: Provided, That the work for the execution whereof the said company is incorporated shall be commenced . within one year from the first day of I January next, and bo completed within fire years after its eoiiinienecment. j Approved March 26, 1809. I THE DOWNFALL OF RADICALISM AT HAND. The Grant Administration has been in power but ten weeks; yet it has managed in that time to accomplish the destruction of the socalled^rcpublican party. Few at the South are aware of the trcmendrous revulsion in feeling throughout the North, caused by the policy and appointment of the new President. In Washington, a few days ago, a promi dent Radical said to th? writer : "You Democrats used to say that the circumstance that Grant happened to bo no politician proved the salvation of the republican cause in the canvass. However rlint nrty be, the same circumstance lias certainly bromrht about the ruin of our party, now that wcare in power." This is the key-note to the conviction that universally prevails at this time among politicians-of every stripe at the North. It would have been almost impossible for any mere military leader, like Grant, utterly without politi? al training, to have run the vast Federal machine satisI faetorily in the interests of a party, even had he seem fit to avail himself of the aid of a strong party ^Cabinet. But Grant has coolly rejected all such aid. Excepting, perhaps, Boutwell, there is not a member of his Cabinet that is not an object either-of hatred or eontempt to the ruling spirits of lladicalistn. Nor is the enmity of the parcy leaders the most serious misfortune which the new administration has incurred. The small politicians of every state and county of the North?the men who bore the heat and the burden ol the conflict in November, and who feel conscious that bv their money and i xcr tions the battle was won, have swarmed to Washintoa only to get the cold shoulder from the President they have helped to make, and sec their own local "slate" contemptuously thrust aside, and the spoils, of which they had well earned the disposal, given away to pers.ma' favorites, or to those who could claim kinship, more or less remote, to the oc cupants of the White House. Stung and mortified to the last degree, these men have gone back to the communities they control, with curses upon their lips and wrath in their hearts. The local elections will soon begin to tell the talc of their treatment and its result. Especilly in the Northwest is the breakup of the Republican organization surely and swittly progressing. senator Trumbull openly says that the mission of that party is fulfilled. The Chicago i Tribune, the gaint of the Radicd press i in the West, denounces Grant in unmeasured terms, and calls for the im 3 mediate formation of a new party; and 2 the cry has been promptly caught up 3 and re-echoed in almost every Congrcss1 ional District of the Northwest. In . Washington, it is already conceded that ; the Democrats will control the next . House of Representative, beyond per. adventure, beside largely increasing . their strength in the Senate; and the . sbrewd Congressional hangers-on, the , party rats who have hitherto clung so tenaciously to the timbers of the Radical , craft, are getting ready to leave the , sinking ship. A party which is thus in extremis at the North seeks with the desperation , of despair to gain a new lease of life at , the South. Conscious that without assistance it cannot much longer delude the ignorant negro masses on whose votes it relies for support, it is striving by moderate professions, fair promises and the bribes of office, to win over enough of our people to give a show of , respectability and a hope of permanence to its organization. The effort will fail. . In spite of the complete control which the party has had of the State government, there is not to day, in the State of South Carolina, a corporal's guard of respectable white men who would doi resent as an insult the imputation of Radicalism. How hopeless, then must be every attempt, in the future, to drum up decent recruits for a cense, which is already admitcd by its great lights to be practically defunct!?Charleston News. A Woman's Friendship.?It is a wondcrousadvantage to a man, in every pursuit or vocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtile delicacy, of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement. which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for character, honor, and repute. She will seldom counsel you to do shabby things, for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you. At the same time her constitutional timidity makes her more cautious than your male friends. She, therefore, selcLiu counsels you to au imprudent thing. A man's best female friend is a wife of go-id sense and heart, whom he loves, and who love* him. Hut, supposing the man to he without such female help mate female friendship lie must still have, or his intellect will be without a garden, and there will be many an tin neoueu gup, evuinii 113 siruugesi. iuukc. 1 Jcttcr and safer, of con-se, are such friendship where disparity of years, or circumstances, puts the idea of love out of the question. Middle life has rarely this advantage; youth and old age have We may have female friendship with those much older, and those much younger, than ourselves. Female friendship is to maw, the bulwark, sweetness, ornumcnt, of his existence. The total eclipse of the sun on the 7th of August next is the only one that will be visible in North America du ring the present ccntary. '.the centre of the line of totality will pass through Springfield, Illinois and near Des Moitics Iowa. Both of these stations, as well as many others, will be occupied by coa*t survey parties. Congress has appriated $5,000 to defray the expense of observations. Professor Winlock, direct, or of Harvard Observutory, is making arrogcraents for viewing the eclipse, and noting its features, at Shelbyvilie, Ky. The observation will last between two and three minutes. An ovciturc sent up from the New Bethany church session, asking a deliverance b) Presbytery on the subject of Life Insurance, was answered in the following manner: "Tie question involved is one which is of such a characttr, that Presbytery does not feel at liberty to pronounce dogmatic opinionj but would recommend to the people the injunction of the ajostle, " Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."?Rom. xiv : 5.?Presbyterian arid Index. I ____________ 1 The person who cannot keep hie own secret ought not to complain if another tells it. A I A SCOUNDREL ADVENTURER, i Some time during the war a man . named Edwin D. Boone, who had served in the Confederate army as captain in Wheat's battalion of Louisana rifles, cs- ^ tablislied himself in this city and being of rather pre-possessing manners, and j person, succeeded in marrying a young lady of the city of respectable family connexipns. Boone did not enjoy the best reputation, and a number of reports were circulated to the disparagement of C his character; but he pretended to be- j come converted at a revival of religion v at the Centenary church, and to seem very piously inclined?by which means q he built up his damaged reputation, and ? was regarded by some credulous breth- t ren as a young man of very lovely dis- ? Dosition ard exemplary habits. His ? married life, so far as any one knows^ J" was exemplary and happy. He became ? the father of three children, all of whom died while mere infants. i Some twelve months ago Booms was arrested at the instance of a Federal d commissioner on the charge of having 31 murdered a Methodist preacher in Scott county during the war. He was^afew days confined in the city jail, but was released without being put to trial, by ? an or'cr of General Wilcox. After al 8( this adventure Boone went to England, but returned after a brief stay, aod again took up his residence with his wife in this city. pi It appears, however, that he was always uneasy, lest the authorities should sc cause him trouble about the allcd^ed 'j ? m murder in Scott county. About five in 1 T.L_ weeks ago tsumi uuuiusuu o uuw ? iaitcd the city, when Boone, on the pre- th text of absenting himself tiU all danger of his re-arrest had paoscd, joined the j>j company, and left his wifo here not be- th ing liblc to remove her with him, and ^ lie directing bar not to write to hira until ti was finally established and wrote or came ^ for her. >'( Boone next comes to the surface in , the town of Williimsburg, Ohio, where ?| he palmed himsclfuff on a girl named McLairi ofjrcspcctable standing and married her. After remaiuing with her six weeks Ei he went with the circus to Cincinnati, * being desired to assist with the horses, although lie had left the show, when he g married, as required by his bride. For several days she heard nothing of the truant, till the 1st of April, when he wrote from New Orleans that he was ?? preparing bis home for her in North Louisana, and would come back to get her when bis preparations were coinple- 1 ted. About this timeone of the cirus men passing through this city told Mrs. Boone here of what her husband bad done in Ohio, when she to make inquiry, broke Ins injunction ot not writing, ana addressed hiim a letter which was directed ^ to Williamsburg. When it came, Boone ,c was gone, and it fell iuto the hands of 01 Mrs. Boone No. 2, who read jt, and dis- ir covered the shame and misery of her 81 betrayal. This circumstance leading to oilier investigations, letters were found in Boone's trunk from one Mattic in Lou'sana, referring to "Eliza" and "Willie" as if little children of Boone and q the writer. Also about the same time d Mr. McLain, the deceived woman's fa- S tlier, learned through a circus man that Boone once kept a bar at Middleburg, E Ohio, and had a wife there, and went by the name of Blonden. We learn these particulars by means of a letter written to Mrs. Boone of this place, by the Mrs. Boone of Williamsburg. Mrs. Boone, of our city desires this exposure to be made to the public, in the hope that the scoundrel whose lawful wife she believed herself to be, may not be able to impose on any other unsusDectins woman. Where Boone is. * u "" * ' 7 no one can know, though when last heard from he was in New Orleans. Lynchburg Republican 22d. A Turk, it is stated, does not really J possess more than one wife at a time, j He may be the owner of a whole harem 1 of women, but they are not his wives in ] a legal sense. He may marry a second * when he ceases to love the first; but the first one then becomes a widow and is ntitlcd to receive her dower. c : I SOUTHERN STOCK ! AND Mutual Life Insurance Co. Capital stock 1st January, 1869, $289,100.00 Assets over 400,000.00 PRINCIPAL OFFICES. Louisville, Ky. \ Memphis, Tenn. Atlantt, Geo. 1 OFFICES ATLANTA DEPARTMENT. Jen. J. B. GORDON, President. "fan. B.' H.'CH?LLUITT' I Vic" Pre,id<n" : V. C. MORRIS, Secretary. REFERENCES. fessra. John Frazcr &. Co., Charleston, S. C. Jen. Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. C. Jen. J. B. Kershuw, Cumden, S. C. Jen. S. McGowan, Abbeville, S. C. Ion. H. V. Johnson, Augusta, Ga. Ion. Robert Toombs, Washington, Ga. Jen. John S. Presion, Columbia, S. C. lessrs. Willis & Chisolm, Charleston, S. C. !ol. N. G. W. Walker, Sheriff, Barnwell S. C. . N. Teague, Judge Probate, Barnwell, S. C. fora A p A Uri/?h RnrnwplL S. H. !ol. James Patterson, late Commissioner in Equity, Barnwell, S. C. limit of Policies issued by this Com pa- ( ny. To any on" on his or her life, payable at ( eath to tho legal representative of the usitred. To a wife on the life of a husband. J To a husband on the life of a wife, payable > him at her death. i To creditors on the lives of debtors. i To Churches on the lives of their Ministers. Also, ENDOWMENT POLICIES, secung to the party insured the amount payable t daath, or at any age between forty and J ;venty-five. Also, Children's Endowment Policies, se- ? jring to a child the sum assured, upon arri n ino- n certain nee?18. 21 or 25 4 Also, non-forleiting Life Policies. All " reniiums toecase after five or ten payments. PREMIUMS May be paid on Life Policies annually or mi-annually or the premiums for the whole fe may be paid in five or ten annual payants, or all premiums may cease on reachg 45, 50, 56, 60. 65. "0 or 75 years of age. I WHO SHOULD INSURE? fc The rich and the poor; the clergyman and le laymen; the physician, the lawyer, the erchant, the mechanic and the laborer.? ve?-y one having a family dependent upon m for support should effect an insurance on is life for their benelit in case of his decease; le rich, because they have the means to prode against the chances of fortune; the poor ian can spare a little every year for the fu- i ire wants of those who may, be leftdestitute, ? le professional man, while in life and health, 1 ads a sure means of support for his family, 9 st he rarely accumulates a fortuno: thesalied man, because none are more exposed to c te changes and vicissitudes of fortune. In S lort. Life Assurance is applicable to all cirlmstances in life. AN EXCELLENT FEATCHE. The character of this company specially ovides that a wife can insure the life of the asband for the benefit of herself and children, ce from an^clnims, dues or demands of his -editors in case her husband should die in ibt or the estate become insolvent. J II- M. MYERS, Jr., Attorney at Law, ] arnwell, S. C.. Special Agent. J. II. MILLER, No. 207$ Broad Street, ugusta, Ga.. General Agent. Dr. S. BPRUCH, Examining Physician. May 6. 3m Save your Family from want by , Insuring your Life," ' THE LOUISIANA EQUITABLE LIFE LMCE COMPAW, ? OF NEW ORLEANS, < HAVING A CASH CAPITAL OF 500.000 DOLLARS. ""kFFERS to its Southern patrons a reliable i f Home Company, in which can be efiVc- ] id every species of Life Insurance at the ^ t the most reasonable rate All policies non forfeitable, and the earnigs of the Company annually divided on the rictly mutual plan. 0FFICER8. < JOSEFII ELLISON. President. j W. S. DIKE, Vice Pre?ideut. . ( W. P. HARPER, Secretary. ' S. C. DEARING, Goneral Agent. G. A. BREAUX, Attorney. Directors?John Pemberton. E. A. Tyler, I. H. Slocumb. F. Dclbordis, George A. Fosick, W. S. Pike, J. W. Stone, A Thompun, I). B. Penn, Edward Ripney W. B. < chmidt, Alexander Marks, C. E. Ripucy, A. M. KENNEDY, Agent for Kershaw District. )r. A. A. MOORE, Medical Examiner, e c. 24. tf* P. P. TOALE, Charleston, S. C., Manufacturer of DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, i Note.?We would call tlie particular atention of our friends to the above caul. P. \ Toale has a large Factory, and such facil. tics as enable him to supply the best work of lis own make at low prices. A very largo und , ompleto assortment always on hand at his factory, HORLBKCK'S WHARF, near tho forth Eastern Rail Road Depot, CHARLESTON,] S. C. N. B.?Orders from the country solicited, ind strict attention paid to shipping in good ?rdcr. Aprils? ly. SUUTUIAUUL1M KAIL KUAIJ* Gen'l. Supt's. Office, Charleston, Feb. 13,1869. ON and after SUNDAY, February 14, the Trains of the Camden Branch of the South Carolina Railroad trill run as follows: l)n Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur' * ' days. Leave Kingvillo 4.20 p. ro. Arrive at Camden 7.00 p. m, Leave Camden .6.35 a. m. Arrive at Kingvillc 9.20 a. m. H. T. PEAKE, : General Superintendent. Feb 18. , t\t7?atmi orntjtt JLACJll IIOIIII, I. H. ALEXANDER. DENTIST. TEETH Cleaned, Filled, Extracted, tnd Artificial Teeth, inserted in the LATEST IMPROVED STYLE, for he LOWEST CASH PRICES. ;, . Patients waited upon at their retrir lence if requeted. Office, on Broad Street, above J. M. Lccrand's Jewelry shoD. Office hours, from 9 A. M., to 2 P. VI., and from 3 to 6 P. M. PARKER'S BREECH.LOADING HIIBLE BARRELED SHOT GUNS. rhe latest, beat and cheapest made. Uses iny ammunition. Prices, compk'e, #70 Jto 195. Address W. H. GIBBES; Columbia, or B1SSEL & CO., Charleston. Feb. 25. 3m Whiskey, &c. HNE old WHISKEY, of various irands, at wholesale. PORTER, ALE &c. For sale by DOBY& BALLARD. April 22. Condition Powders, I'HKSE Powders will cure most of the liseases to which Dorses and Cattle aro iablc, also improve the appetite and pirits. They are much superior to any ither in use. No Planter or Fanner hould be without them. Prepared and sold by HODGSON & DUNLAP. IIOSTETTERS And Plantation Bitters \ND all of the most popular PATENT MEDICINES. For Sale by HODGSON & DUNLAP. DURHAM'S Smoking Tobacco. IUST received a large lot of this popalar Smoking Tobacco. HODGSON & DUNLAP. Sweet Oil, STARCH, PEPPER and SPICES, jf all sorts. For Sale by HODGSON & DUNLAP. Stationary, &c. [NK, Paper, Pens, Pencils, Mucilage fee. For Sale by HODGSON & DUNLAP. * Perfumery, X)LOGNES, Extracts, Fine Toilet Soaps and Brushes in large variety and Styles. For Sale by HODGSON & DUNLAP. Quinine. f?.-,m " J _ 1 Ut J I'O'l' recuivcu U lUIgU 1UL Ul yuiuius) which wc will sell cheap for CcuA.? Persons wanting this article had better layjin a supply for the summer, as it is likely to be higher HODGSON & DUNLAP. NON-EXPLOSIVE KEROSENE OIL, THIS is the best Oil made, and by the 5 or 10 Gallons, or by the Barrel we will sell ns cheap as it can be bought in Charleston. Also a large supply of LAMPS, &C. HODGSON & DUNLAP. notice! HAVING rented the plantation of Juhn A. Peay, I strictly forbid all persons from huntiug or fishing on any portion of said plantation from this date, without my permission, JOHN JACKSON. Vupont's Powder. THE subscriber having been appointed agent for the sale of the above Powder, will supply merchants and others at manufacturer's prices, with expenses added. JAMES JONES. Feb. 11. tf