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* ' VOL. XXXIII. CAMDEN, S. C., NOVEMBER 20, 1873. IVO. 12.^ THE CUM JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLI8HEP WEEKLY BY TBAHTHAH & HAT. *ii. I,.. _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ob* je*r, in advance.... *.$2 80 os .1? 1 50 OiA WUUkM*. ...... ... Three months 75 BSF1 Transient Advertisements must b? paid I in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. sfaob JIM. 2 M. IM. e M IT. 1 squars 3 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 16 00 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 squares 9 001 IS 00 16 00 24 OOt 85 00 4 squares 12 00t 16 OOf 20 00 80 00 48 00 I column 15 001 19 00] 24 00 84 00 50 00 < i column j 20 00! 80 00i 40 00 55 00 80 00 1 column [ 80 OOl 50 00 60 00 90 OOjlSO 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged Osra Dollar per Square for the first and SbvinTY-vnra C?*ts per Squars for each subsequent insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. FAT jT i = AXD Winter Goods! A T Jk T. I. JOXJES' CHEAP CASH STORE. & J Our Stock of General Merchandize, Consisting in part, of ID-RTF GOODS, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Boots, and Siioes, "M/^ti/^nc Hflts &CI. Will be sold at the very lowest prices for cash or its equivalent in barter. ill Goods sold by us are warranted as represented. We have a large and well selected stock of North Carolina Shoes, Which we offer at low figures. We pay the highest market prices for Cotton and other Country PnfSucc. Agents for Neblett A Goodrich's Cotton Gins, which we offer at Manufacturer's prices. Goods purchased by parties resi% ding within the corporate limits of the town, will be delivered by us free of charge. J. & T. I. JONES. Camden, Sept. 2^ tf. Fall and Winter. 1873. Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes. Hats, Groceries, Crockery and Hardware, AT W. L ARTHUR'S. I aui offering extra inducements to pur chasers from uiy LARGE STOCK, and would respectfully solicit a call. W. L ARTHUR. September 25. BINNINCER'S OLD LONDON DOCK GIN Especially designed for the use of the Medical Pro/uuon and the Family, possessing those in trifuic medicinal properties which belong to an Old and 1'ure Oih. Indispensable to Females. Qoo<l for Kidney Complainti. A delicious Tonic. Put up in cases containing one doien bottles each, and sod "by all druggists, grocers. Ae. A. M. Ttinninger Si Co., established in 1778, No. lf>, Bearer stjeet, New York. October^?9m Flour! Flour!! 100 barrels, different grades, For aale by BAUM BRO. PHOTOGRAPHS. The undersigned having returned and opened a gallery will be j pleased to see his friends. , With more experience and IMPROVED APPARATUS he feels < more capable than ever before of ' pleasing tbe people. Oome and have your pictures ' made before grim winter with his 1 frost and snows pounces upon us. ] Gallery in Workman House. ( A* B. L?E. | Camden, S. 0., Sept. 11,1873. I FALL AND "WINTER MILLINERY ?AMD? [ FANCY GOODS. 1 t MRS. T. B. WALKER lias opened at her C establishment on Broad Street, a hand- * oment of ' Millinery and Fancy Goods, J Of the lateet styles, selected with great cafe, ^ to enit the tastes of her customers and the pub- E lie generally The Ladies are respectfully invited to call ?a ?.mina bar atnftlr of Strar Hals, M,aii!.MiRit)te. J Together with every artiole to be found in well aupplied Millinery establishment. October 28. tf c THE LATEST! P a ? o tl h I HAVE OPENED THE u c: ai Most Complete Stock of ? DRY GOODS, READY MADE CLOTHING, ? BOOTS and SHOES, j g To which 1 ^ive my special attention, n si a Hats and Caps, II b SaddleN, &c., I E 0 Ever offered iu this Market. d rJ f, d $&~Speeiaf care and attention having t been given to the selection and manufac- !i turing of fabric* for my tain, of the pre*- 11 ent teuton, customert will find an unusually fully choice, and attractive attort ment purchased since the decline inprices. J03. S. CLOU). October 9. tf. I NEW ; AXD I ATTRACTIVE!! I 1 i I Th^ttentio-i of customers is called to uiy I LARGE AND ; Careftillj l< <1 stock or DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, ROOTS and SHOES, HATS and CAPS, HARDWARE, ! CROCKERY. A Large Stock of GROCERIES. I have also >d hand, an assortment of Fnrnitiire, With a vari tv of other articles. All of which arc offered upon the most reasonable terms. J. 1. McCORRY, Apt. October 9. ti Terrible Predictions of the American Scientific Association. ^ ? Few know the terrible import of the recent meeting of the American Scientific Association at Portland. In its development of new horrors in store for poor humanity it was awfully prolific. Its members vied with each othor in predictions of coming convulsions of nature, and sustained their arguguments with truths brought to light from tho deepest and darkest wells of science.? That humanity was to be obliterated was the gist of five papers read by five of the most scientific, trusted and celebrated members of the association. A terrible and total extinction df animal life was foretold by all, the only question being which of the five horrors shall first devclope itself, and perform the work of universal destruction. THE SUN TO BE EXTINGUISHED. Professor Young, the mo9t eminent living Jtudent of solar physics, read a paper on the tun. That body, he argued, is a gigantic )ubble, whose crust is gradually thickening tnd whose size is diminishing. There is a ;onstant loss of heat, which will eird in its ixtinction as a producer of warmth and light. To quoted Faye. Secchi and others to prove hat the material of the sun is gaseous, and hat these gases are retained by some kind if a crust. Through this surface the tuaultuous inner composition is constantly purling and outbreaking with great vioence. He thinks that this crust "may conist of a sheet of descending rain?not of rater, of course, but of the materials whose apore are known to exist in the solar ataosphere, and whose condensation and comination are supposed to furnish the solar eat." As this peculiar rain meets the gaseus substance of the sun it coalesces into a ontinuous sheet, forming "a sort of bottoro>ss ocean, resting upon the condensed vaors underneath, and pierced by innumerable soending jets and bubbles." This action fthe sun's envelope will be a quenching of ae great orb upon which we depend for eat and light. It will grow smaller, and ioro comnressed and surrounded bv this mat, until it will be so hidden and muffled s to be practically excluded from the ccotioly of the universe. The result will he in;nse cold and darkness, a cessation of all nimal life, and an immediate return to rignal chaos. THE BUBBLE EARTH TO BURST. Gen. J. G. Barnard described the interior f the earth as a molten fluid.. Previous no- , ons had giveu the earth, however, u rigid' xtcrior surface from one to two thousand jet d<?p. He refuted this theory, arid laimed for the globe upon which we live )mewhat the construction of a rubber ball lied with melted lead. The sttnface is. ho links, a pliable coating that ha- been grudully formed over the fiery mass inside A lobular form is maintained by rapid intarv lotion, tho inner fluid sustaining the s ft bell in its position, so that the uuJnlatiov.s re imperceptible to us. Thus we are luring hirled through space on a huge globule, be surface ol which float* *011 an interior of quid fire. Only the rotary speed of this ubble keeps it together, and any disarrangelent or change in terrestrial phenomena ould resolve itself into vapor. General laniard does not believe (.hat the surface is C nn i 1 1 (Tf? fn 11 f *?, tmrWiC I t 1,111 fYillll i an u^aniiiaii^ uiiiwivik wui^wuhivh .. ... lie liquid interior?it lias only been e<uienscd sufficiently to form a sort of capsule, 'he tenure of the world's existence, thereore, is exceedingly uncertain. Any great isturbing influence?the breaking out of a luge volcano, any change in the surface hat would render it brittle, the impact of a ieavy meteor or comet?may, in a moment, mmolate it, leaving humanity to whirling leath amid the horrors of inorganic space. DARKNESS, SILENCE AND DEATH. Mr. H. P. Walling began an essay on 1 The Dissipation of Energy," by saying: 'Since the days of the ancients it has been mown that all motion is gradually developed ? ? ?j ? JV inuiiuu, iiliu 111UOt iiii.mjf licilflu uiiiwoo , naintaincd by external power." The heat j jowcr of the sun, which he regarded as the j notive power of the earth, is beiiif^ exhaust- j sd by the prodigious lavishncss of its expenliture. It is supposed, he said, that the j lutellite will fall into planets, planets into 1 tuns, and suns into a common centre, afte r j ffhich "darkness, silence and death will reign." He was not without a shadow ( f hope, however. He saw two possible chances | lor a postponement, at least, of the dreadful eatastropho : First, r series of natural chemical evolutions attracting to the sun a vast amount of combustible material: and. see ond, the infinite magnitude of thu universe being sufficient to permit a never ending concentration of masses. Cue <hv .!? ! cf i fect of n loss of son iiowcr 1 snol i . a ! * placement of atmospheric forces '! idal in tlueiices or planetary colli-:;s mnv liasten the final dreadful catastrophe, which will he a slowing of the machinery < i' th > nnivcrst. until growing stagnation culminates in a t> tal extinction of life forces. I'NIVERSAL T?Rui;i!UT A.N'n T.Ut V.V: H>.\. Professor Franklin H. ITnu :h foretold a perpetual drought?the result of a clearing off of the forests.? "The contrast,'.' he said, "between an open and sunburnt pasture, ami one interspersed with clump-"f trees, iiiu-t have heen noticed hy every careful ob-ervcr. The Taet that furniture in h -use. too much shaded will mould is an instance of the hu mid influence of trees, and the results t woodland shade explain the fullness of springs and streams in the forest, which drv uj? and disappear when the tree? aic removed. "The rapidity with which forests are disappearing has already heen a mfllter of alarm ; but when we consider the effoet upon streams ?practical illustrations of large ones being lessenecPand small ones extinguished?there is cause for fright. Land will become unwateved. and consequently sterile; crops will lessen in volume until the arid and treeless plains refuse to respond to the incitement of the farmer; universal famine will ensue, and the world, entirely depopulated by starvation, will sink into uninhaiitativeneas, until some new change calls another form of life into existence. INSECTS TO END TIIE HUMAN . RACE. Dr. lie Conte, the new president of the .association, read a naner on the enormous in crease anil drstructiveness of insects. The present actual annual damage done by insects to crops in the United States is over three millions of dollars, yet these figures give hut an inkling of what the increase promises for tho future. "Just now," says Dr Le Conte, ;'a portion of the insect tribes are sufficiently numerously nature to inflict injury upon man and his possessions; ^Jjut civilization destroys the balance of life which naturally keep down increase, and permits in tho case of insects?those previously insignificant in numbers?to become prominent actors in a work of destruction." The only methods suggested by this scientist to avert a calamitous plague were "?o abandon the crops and starve out the noxious insects," or to establish "a system of checks on their increase equivalent to these existing before civilization interfered." Kithor of these plans are, of course, impracticable. The impending dilemma seems to be an increase of insects so vast that the plagues of Egypt will be more than produced, and that all vegetation, and finally starving and helpless man will be eaten. All of which argue an early dropping of the curtain upon the fleeting show 01 life. We quote : "I would not live nlway; 1 ask not to stay Whore storm nfLer stotn rises 'lark o'er the wav : The few lurid moruings that dawn on us here Are enough for life's w oes?full enough for its cheer.'' Fatrons of Husbandry?History of the t OrganizationIn view or the rapidly increasing interest j in this order, the following from tho Missou- i ri Republican will prove acceptable to our | readers. There is much apprehension ex-1 isting in the public uiind iu regard to its objects and purposes. Because of its secrecy it is looked upon as dangerous. If it bo for a moment considered that among the pembers there are ladies, and that each member is pledged to -mrta of honrvoUnee and love towarefhis associates and neighbors, ' the danger is so threatening. The idea was originally borrowed from an association ! which has existed Ibr many years in a com-! munity of Scotch fanners in North Carolina, i This Scotch society seems to have had for j its object the purchase of all needed supplies j from first hands, and at wholesale rates, and ; the cultivation of more intimate social rela- ! tions among its members. It was really ! nothing more than a secret co-operative, in-; dustrial and literary association. The numbers composing it were few and its influence small. Indeed,the fact that such a society had an existence was a >t known beyond the i ,.crt.iiiminr''- -iflViptrvl bv ifxinsti IllllftlO VI UIVVVUIU.UH.. , -V I tutions. It was not until the spring ot' 1868 ; that the order <>f the patrons of husbandry became known to the people of tlie West. Paring the preceding winter, Mr. II* P. Kelley, of Itasca. Minnesota, and several other loading agriculturists of the West, happening to be in Washington, had fro- ; qucnt interviews in relation to the interests of the farming population of the great West. : It was about that period that the character j and workings of the Scotch society of North ! Carolina became known to them. The idea J was seized, elaborated and matured to adapt it to more general purposes of a natioual order. In the beginning of 18G8, the order was introduced int" the West by the organization of a Grange at itasea, Minnesota. In a short time another Grange was organized in Jasper couuty, Iowa; a third Grange soon came into existence at Waukon. Aluiakee county, in the same 8tate. From the year 1868 the order made little progress until the past twelve months. A few Granges were organized in Iowa, Minnesota. Wisconsin and Illinois, but up to the year 187 it is estimated that t ho jvhole rummer or members in the four States did not exceed seventy-five thousand. It is clniuiod t!;at in the same States intv there are at least four hun I red and fifty thousand patrons The order seems to t>e Intended to Cxcrei- " a uioral supervision over jts members, and pro-, vides for the rare of such as may bo i*nf??rtiinalc. The social character of the order is made prominent, hut tlie material interests of the class exelnsivcly represented in its secret conclaves no, it is said, most : siduously <ruardcd. it will ho seen Ir un to particulars ^Iveii above that tls.a order i' very coumacth mj uized, and. when tal.f-a in e-iimeetioil \\:'!l '(- Vast increase 111 iiiii> ; >, its cnei .1! d.Ta-ii.n i ver t!iv whole ? untry :tnd its tnaiiil- stations ofpower and <!c- , -tciiro constitutes ii UH'^t infer ostin^ ' udy for the socio!- _i-t, :i> well as flu; j??> l? iif >t. The tti>-r:> 1 ami intellectual welfare I??*" it.- members. tli' iil'Ii strictly attend '1 t", , <i -os not reveal tlie I r ni:'l r i. ti' rineo of the on >t< nee of this ijMiii: iti. ii. Alreailv in man* localities has tlie ci ion of the a;'.'lit- or "middle men." v ' ig,'.il in mannl'i tuivd wares eonsun "d ' I ii mors. heeonio i 1 Vte. The (iran/ics have a] pointed middle-inon of their own, tliioin h whom nil ill!-*i Ii.-Iiiire* of products is II > fed at the minimum cost. in some | 1 thev have piuclui-a'd or leased jrrain elevators. At othet places they have etnp'.-yi I firwardinu' "fthcir own order. 1 in Iowa tliry havo i! idy built an llfrrieultnr il iiiiidemeiit lartorj' of ext%psivo capacity 'I'llus far they claim that those cuter* prises have proven profitable to them in the great reduction in the expense of doing business and lessened*cost of manufactured implements. But what is most significant in this movement is thc^rapid [advance it has made. In Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and especially Georgia, the people are organizing Granges with the same avidity which characterizes the progress of the order in the northwest. New Orleans, November 1.?A letter from ex-Judge Merril, dated Colfax, Grant Parish, October 20th, says: "In haste, and with feelings of horror, I write to inform the public of the actiou of the Metropolitan police, sent hero by Lieutenant-Governor Antmnn rlitrinr' tliA nticonoo nf t4nc<?rnnr Kellogg. On .Saturday night Ixst. the house of a most respectable widow lady, on Red River, was fired into, near this place; doors were broken open, and tho unfortunate lady and her daughter, of seventeen years, taken out, and, horrible to relate, violated. Neither of the ladies could be found until late Sunday afternoon. An infant, eighteen months 9ld. and a grand- child of ex-Governor Wells, was found out in the woods, some half mile from tho house, and near the spot where the foul deed was perpetrated. The infant was a uiece of the lady and child of Mumford Wells, oldest son of ex-Governor Wells. The negroes up here all say that it , was the soldiers, and we all believe^that iT they were not the perpetrators, they instigated the negroes to the horrid deed of infamy. It is said here that when Col. DeKline was informed of the outrage, he! smiled, and , said his troops were up hero for a higher purpose thau arresting men for such petty offences. Antoine is believed to have sent these creatures up here to give the negroes a ; chance for revenge, and one of them told tho writer that he had a right now, under 1 the protection of the United States, to shoot any white man he wanted to shoot, and violate any woman he met. He said to him, that these wero State troops and not United States troops, and he replied, that the Colonel hud said, at a negro ball, the night be fore, that he wanted all the coiored people to come and see hiin ; that now they could do as they pleased, ns they were under the protection of his soldiers. First Frost?A Touching Scene at Memphis.?The Memphis Appeal thus describes the coming of the frost at Memphis : ' While it was yet twilight, aud ere the | J. h id yt opened the gates ef day 1 to the rising sun, hastily attired men ana women, with semi-nude children in their arms, were out in the streets breathing the ' precious air of the purifying frost. Here, stoopping down one gathered a handful of the glittering hoar-frost, which, pure aud beautiful, lay upon the earth, and gazing on it with somewhat of the gladdening spirit with which the Israelites gathered the manna in j the desert of Arabia, cxcaimed: '0, God ! we thank Thee for this blessing!' Others came and touched with reverential fingers the pure, cold messenger of health, as if to satisfy themselves, like the half believing Thomas of old. that the saviour of the city had not risen but descended from heaven, to save the people trom the destroying angel of the pestilence. Groups of men and women moved from place to place to prove by cumu lative evidence that indeed it was frost-, and nut some optical delusion; that the wished for guest had not merely confined its visita tions to one locality, but enjoyed the freedom of the city. Here a pale-facc, once a hnndsome woman, with a tender babe at her breast, knelt down on the cold ground to thank God that the frost had come! Poor, stricken heart! she and her orphaD boy were all that the pestilence had spared out of a onco happy family. Strong men, bare-headed and bare-armed, walked excitedly hither and thither rejoicing in the fact that a physi cian had come to whose nostrums the whole faculty must yield precedence as the ouly true panacea for the terrible yellow fever. Windows and doors were thrown open, woollen and cotton garments were exposed to the disinfecting agency of the cold and rarefied air. and everywhere in the city a.? well as in ; the vicinity of the infected region the enthusiasm was as marked, if not as fervent and 1 joyous." n fM." . rAUIOUN > l.AST M'EECll.? l uu ik'SH-H ! Comm>rcittl Bulletin gives this account of the last speech of John C. Cnlhoun in the l"nitc-d States Senate. Calhoun came into J the St mate Chamber, supported on one side ( by his venerable and chivulric Colleague, A. I'. 15utier, and <>n the other by dames M. Mason, then Senator from Virginia. subse1 ?|uentlv the emissary of Jefferson Pavis at lioinl ii. He had been rtnable to attend bis in the Senate for several weeks, but had d< voted lii~ expiring energies to the prcI'U .it ion of a great speech hi opposition to : the adi nssion of t'aiiiornia into the 1'nion i is a free State, by which the equilibrium, , r. as lie termed it. the equality offhe slave holding and lion slaveholding States would he destroyed. He was unable to stand without support, and unable to utter even a few ! short sentences without great difficulty.? 1 I lis large, clear eyes shone with supernatural lustre, hi I tig white hair brftshed hack ' over hi: head f!? wed lightly in the air. llis IH o was pale and en.a> ailed, so that the Coi h>rle<s skin seemed to adhere to tin* osseous j framework. The day had been assigned for this speech, which, it was evident, would be his last. The seats and galleries were filled to. the utmost capacity, and y t the silence was opi pressive, as if in the actual presence of the grim messenger. He calmly and delibei| atcly surveyed the eager faces before and around him. mid before assisted to rise, sunt* rnoned strength to address the chair, and request that the speech that he had intend* cd to deliver might be read by his friend from Vermont, Mr. Mason. After the conclusion of the reading, many Senators gatherod around the dying Senator to give expression to their respect and sympathy. He left the Senate Chamber for the last time, af lie cntored, supported by the arms of his two friends. Tie was taken to the "Old Capital," and in a few days passed #o "that undiscovered country, from whose borne no traveler returns." Counterfeit Money.?United States detectives have succeeded in unearthing a large counterfeiting ring that has been operating for years in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. The counterfeits dealt in by them are not confined to any particular currency of the government. Gold, silver and greeu backs have all been counterfeited and put afloat. Of the first gold, the most of the counterfeits detected are half eagles, or two dollars and a half pieces, of the date hi IXol. I his com u said to be an almost parfect imitation of the genuine, being well executed and having nearly the ring of the true metal. It is lacking, however, in weight, and can bo detected by being placed in the scales. Among the parties arrested are some of the most reputable farmers and business men in their respective sections of Tennessee and North Carolina. Among others the foreman of the grand jury of Kowan County was arrested at Salisbury on Wednesday of last week, while'the court was in session, and carried of to Greensboro to be examined before the Fnited States Commissioner. On Saturday last, as we learn from the Observer, Mr. William Bryant was arrested in Oharlottte and taken to Greensboro charged with being implicated in the operations of counterfeit money. Parties arrested in Tennessee are taken to Knoxville for examination. The number already arrested exceeds one hundred, and the officers aro in pursuit of others who are implicated. ? - V ' Skepticism.?The Cumberland (Md.) Weirs relates the following amusing incident^ which occurred at'a camp-mecting last sumnior An eloquent divine?whom wo will designate as well as the Rev. Mr. W., was addressing the boys, and sought to impress upon them the idea that each one of them was capable of accomplishing some great or good act. To illustrate his proposition, he related the story of Jack, the youth who killed the giant on the bean stalk, and made Jack out quite a h<jro. evidently deeply- interesting The interest, however, was dashed when the minister remarietrcinrc the only drawback to the story was that it was not true. He then asked : '"Boys, do you believe the story ?" With one accord the lads cried out, ''No, sir! no, sir!" The minister then said he would illustrate his idea with another story?from the Bible this time?and related, with all the embellishments of detail, the remakable account of how the youth David slew the giant Goliath with a sling, and thereby assisted in * vanquishing a hostile army. The boys were again deeply interested, and listened patiently through the recital. When he had concluded it. the minister again inquired. Now, boys, do you believe that story V* With one accord the lads again shouted, 'No, sir! no sir!" The apparent discomfiture of t he reverend gentleman did uot detract a bit from the amusement with which the incident'was received by the older persons present. Although "Hi quickly and neatly escaped from his embarrassment, we concluded that when he wants to "illustrate" any more to the boys the Rev. Mr. W., will not connect the marvelous iu fact and fiction so closely together. Let Your Wife Know.?Tt is a custom too common with the uieu of the world to !'?.>? r.miliac in nOnr itvnnrflnrw nf thft M'tp IIICII lauillico III UVWI iguvtoMv, V. w ? w situation of their business. The wife knows nothing, has not even an idea of the amount of her hu.Jband's fortune, whether it is to be counted by hundreds of thousands. What can a woman kept in such ignoranco learn f Phe spends as a matter of course, all he gives her to spend, with the full confidence thatwhen it is gone, and she asks for it, he will give her more. If an unmarried woman works, she may go with a bold unblushing face, and demand her wages: but a wife can demand nothing, her claim is onlv f>r bare necessity ; and generous men. on that account, are too often indulgent, too fearful of lotting a wife know the exact state of thoir finances. ''Tis all wrong. Husband and wife have a mutual interest; every women should know the exact state of her husband's finances, understand his plans, and aid hint, if possible, with her counsels, i -i ? ,i ,?:i.i. ??..u HUM IIlvii UirM* K'niKUU vaittniivpuco wvuiu not so often happen. Many a wife who is plunging her husband deeper and deeper in,d debt through ignorar.ee, would, if she knew his embarrassments, be the first to save, and with true womanly sympathy and generosity, help him to reinstate his fallen fortunes. As an illustration of the wide-spread uso of a certain popular title, it is related that a gentleman recently stepped into a n in l>euvor. nnd cried out in a loud cheery tone, ' Hello! come, professor, take a drink." Six men silting in the saloon at once arose and . . J 1*1- _ I iLl. _L . 1 came inrwara, ^wnnn a oooidiuck, venose stand was just outside the door, and a passiiur corn doctor smilingly accepted the invitation, and Stepped in. C wpnlsorr education?Heing forced to learn a trade in.the penitentiary Nine Chinese students are in attendance at Michigan Univeraity.