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4 , | - ipB ) ^ g mm VOL. XXXIII. CAMDEN, S. O., DECEMBER IS, 1873. IVO. 16. 1 i_ . W CAMDEN JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT EASILY PAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TSAVTHA1 4t HAY. - SUBSCRIPTION RATE? One year, in advance.... . $2 60 Six months 1 50 Three months........ 75' ggp Transient Advertisements mnst be paid n advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Space 1 M. j 2 M. 3 M. 6 M. 1 T. 1 square 3 00; 6 00 8 00 12 00 16 00 2 squares G 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 8 squares ? OOi 18 00 16 Ott 24 00 85 00 ' 4 squares 12 OOj 16 00i 20 00 80 00 48 00 " m ?w 00 84 00 60 00 J column i iu w| av w?i ?- ... __ i column 20 00 30 00( 40 00 65 00{ 80 00 I 1 column ( 30 OOj 50 00( 60 00] 90 00J150 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged J Oxk Dollar per Square for the first and Sbtbx- i . ty-fiyi Cents per Square for each subsequent I insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per square. I T jT A I AND < 11 Winter Goods! S J. A T. I. JOA?S< " CHEAP CASH STORE. SSbmmsm Out Stock of General Merchandize, Consisting in part, of id:r,it goods, Groceries, Hardware, Cutlery, Boots, and Shoes, - Notions, Ha to, &o, Will be sold at the very lowest prices for cash or its eqnivalcnt in barter. All Goods sold by us are warranted as represented. J W e 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 Produce. Agents for Neblett <fc 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. , I J. & T. I JONES. Camden, Sept. 25. tf. Fall and Winter. i 1873. * k Dry Goods, n Clothing, W Boots and Shoes. Hats, Groceries, Crockery and Hardware, ^ AT W. L. AltTIII lt',S. I am offering extra inducements to pur chasers from iuy LABCfK STOCK, j and would respectfully solicit a call, W. L ARTHUR. September 25. BININCER'S I nu Tnunnu TlflPF P.nr Uliil JjUIIUUII uuuil uui Especially designed for the use of the Muhcil Profemon and the Family, possessing thos. in trinti* medicinal properties which belong to an Old and Pure (Jin. Indispensable to Females. Good for Kidney Complaint!. A delictous Tonic. Put up in cases containing one doxen bottles each, nnd sod by all druggists, grocers. Ac. A. M. Rinninger & Co.. established in 1778, No. 16, Rearer stjeet, New York. October 28?I>m OATS. 600 bushels OATS. For sale by BAUM BBO. PHOTOGRAPHS, j The undersigned having returned and opeued a gallery will be pleased to sae his friends. With more experience and IMPROVED APPARATUS he feels I more capable than ever before of pleasing tie people. Oome and have your pictures made before grim winter with his frost and i cows pounces upon us. Gallery in Workman House. A* B* TiKK* Camden, S. C., Sept. 11,1873. FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY ?A.Si)? FANOY GOODS, if"RS. T. B. VALUER has opened at her Ltx establish: leat on Broad Street, a handome assortment of Milline %v and Fancy Goodsy Of the latest styles, selected with great care, o suit the tast s of her customers and the pubic generally. The Ladies ire respectfully invited to call nd examine h' r jtook of t*imm Unfa Oooli QTlfl MopV DijllflTl? |U(IV 1IQ10, iOOil UiiU I11AJA. U1UUUUU. Together wit ? every article to be found in ell supplied A illinery establishment. October 28. tf THE iATlST! ' - i 1 j I HA V .3 OPENED THE i Most Complete Stock of DRY GOODS, j BEAOT MtAtMH : CLOTHING, , ( 500KI and SHOES, 1 To which 1 give my special attentioo, i i Hats and Caps, I Saddles, &c., I ilrer offer.in this Market. B&*Speci il care and attention having een given to tie selection and manufactring of fab. im for my sales, of the presnt season, a si Jinrrs icill find an vnusully full, chue, and attractive assort lejit purchat tince the decline inprices. .ICS. 8. CLOU IK October 9. tf. 1NEW AND A.TT jiuACTIVE!! The attenti n of customers is called to my LARGE AND C arefull ; Nclectod Stock of JRY GOODS, u /kTinvr in in v | BOOTS and SHOES, HATS and CAPS, flARDWAI F, CROCKERY. A Large Stock of GROCERIES. I have als< oo hand, an assortment uf Furniture, With a va ?cry of other articles. All of which are offt rt 1 upon the most reasonable terms. J. \l McCUBRY. Apt. Octobtr 9. tf America Previous to its Discovery by Christopher Columbus. Hod Georgo S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, in a lecture, began by stating that America must have been known to the ancients, but that, on account of the difficulties which then existed of interchanging ideas and preserving them, a link had evidently been dropped in the great chain of evidence which has since been taken up, a .* a without, however, enecuog a sausiacwry oonnectioa. From evidence which lias been collated and examined by scientific men, we can safely affirm that all parts of the world were populated as soon as they became inhabitable. After giving some theories about the divisions of the human family based on the color of the complexion, the formation of the body and the growth of the hair, the speaker proceeded to prove that from the specimens of architecture and raining which have been ' discovered on this continent we can naturally 1 infer that tho civilization of the old countries 1 was transplanted here at an early date. In the vicinity of Vera Cruz, in Mexico, there 1 arc to be found the ruins of cities and towns 1 buried beneath the earth which gives evi. 1 dences of an enlightened civilization and J which silently wait for an interpreter to 1 chronicle their history. In California there ( aro extensive mines, at the bottom of which 1 ' ? | have been found specimens of human bones and altars for worship, whose formation plain ! ly indicate that they were erected by 1 T? flta T ?La QnnapiAv varyinno ^ UUIUpCailO. xu DUO UUAV UU^/WUVl ivgivu*! too, mines have been discovered which show c unmistakably signs of European skill, eqanl if not superior to|that which now exists. ^ Mr. Boutweli gave throe reasons for the belief that tho population of America was not indigenous, and that this continent was visited by Eastern mariners at an early age * of the world's history. The sphericity of the ^ Barth was known io the time of Herodotus, 7 ? ind was taught by his disciples ; it was hand ^ ed down from generation to generation, so ^ that Columbus made it the basis of his theory. The mariner's compass is not a new ^ invention, but belongs also to the ancients. [In i nisi it) 1 " " T"***1??? jtmrnent tn the possession of tho Indians, which always pointed due north, and it is a ^ matter of history that in the fourth century ^ rf our era the Chinese mariners used the A magnetic needle. Then, again, the enterprises of the,.aucient mariners was equal to a passage over the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. In the sixth century, the Phoenicians had so far progressed in the knowledge of naviga. tion that they occupied the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and even as far as tho Baltic Sea; they had become familiar with the passages into the Indian Ocean, had obtain- . ud possession of ports along the coast, and were familiar with the tides and changes of fi the sea. Their ships were known to be awny 8 for three years at a time, and as they had so L far perfected navigation aa to be able to sail 150 miles per day, the distance which they coold travel in a threa-years' cruiso must have been considerable. Their groat success , was in voyages after silvor and gold, mid as j, the mines of Spain and England could not ( possibly yield the large supply which they ^ constantly exhibited, wc can easily infer that another and a more prolific land had been ( discovered, whose existence they were tin- j willing to disclose, lest its treasures should ^ be utilized by their neighbors. It is well known that th$y made their ordinary drink ing-vessols, and even the anchors of their ships from silver, and this further proves that they had more extensive mines than those which existed in Spain and Africa. He further proved the possibility of these 1 hardy mariners having reached the American 1 coast, from the fact that various instances of ' sea-faring men having been carried by the ' currents and doposited on islands in the ' Pacific Ocean existed. We are also led to ' believe that the Old World contributed the inhabitants of the western hemisphere, from 1 the fact that there is a striking similarity be- 1 tween the Asiatic and the American aborigines The southern portion of Asia is thickly populatod by an industrious people, ' whiluthe north is overrun by savage hordes, " _i:.t 1.1 who live in a nomadic me, wmon wouiu indicate that emigration prevailed in that see- 1 tion; and. as the distance to tho northern shores of the Auiorican continent is but short, it is clear that the exodus was in that direction. The inhabitants of the same degrees of latitude in both continents have the saino customs and manners, and are consequently of the same extraction. A gentle hint: A youth and maiden were walking beneath the blue canopy of tho firmament "fretted with golden fires," and the maiden, moved by the sublimity of the scene, pointed a taper finger?tho one on which the engagement ring is worn?towards the zenith and exclaimed: "Oh, Adolphus, isn't jewelry beautiful." J WHITE IMMIGRATION. THE WAY TO DEVELOP THE STATE. The Rev. Robert Neumann, missionary to Castle Garden, New York, who recently arrived iu this city to ascertain the wants of the nit* and State in the matter of immigration. met numbers of gentlemen who are members of the GermanHmmigration Society, at the hall oftheJFrcundschaftsbund yesterday after-noon. No formal meeting was held, nor did the reverend gentleman make a set address, bat he made [interesting statements on the subject of immigration, and TIIE OBJECT OP HIS VISIT to thiri city and State. He said, substantially, that in consequence of the distress in the North rnd Northwest, caused by the recent Gnancial crisis, which had curtailed the means of livelihood for immigrants, and of the dearth of employment in Northern cities at this time generally, there was a large number of very desirable German, Irish and Italian immigrants, who could be secured to the fields and industries of the South, if the proper oteps were taken. It was tbo uninviting condition of things at the North and Northwest which induced him to make a visit to this section, to sec what could be lone to find homes and employment for the : nany immigrants who arc now seeking places i c settle. These immigrants were all hardy, i ind would make good citizens, aud would, n his opinion, be a sure means of developing i he materia] prosperity of the South, if they i (ould be brought hither. all that was necessary ras to know how many immigrants were ieeded and the nationality desired, and they ould readily be had. If the opportunity to >rocure these immigrants were not availed iow, it might not present itself in ho praetica>le a form again, as they would be compelled to go to other parts of the country, even hough it might not be advantageous for hem to do so at present. One thing was lecessary; something had to be done in tho natter of distributing the immigrants on nnd Aflc* answering qucatiooa propoundd byline gentlemen prr-mthe subject under consideration, lu tha^bst atisfactory manner, it was dotermincdjby hose assembled to call upon tho planters nd formers and everybody iri need of 4^.elp o till the fields or engage in some <jther nethod of labor, through The News and Courier, to hear from them at once. how many laborers they need, ind the kind desired, so that timely action ould be takon. It was also determined to eqnest all papers in the State favorable to mtnitrvatinn 1a mnv f?nll Rn t.hnt CVeTV fc"?- , ? J ection of the State might be reached. Beides, it was thought advisable to iuvito the itisensof this city, generally, to HOLl) A I'CBLIO MEETING 9 t an early day to further the object and enourage the movement as much as possible, dr. Neumann, who is a gentleman well inormed on the subject of immigration, loaves 'hnrlcaion today or to-iimrrow for Newberry o see what has become of a number of imnigrnnts sent there some time ago, and how hey ar< prospering and arc pleased with ! heir new homes. It is proposed to hold i he ptiLaic meeting referred to as soon as he eturm, which will be in a few days. A ?HRiiiLiNG Saloon Episode.?The now Aork Tribune tolls the following story: A nau named Wiobold, entered a saloon ii Indu street, Brooklyn. II. I)., last Saturlay. aid called for a glass of beor. After ' Ii*inlr\iir lw> confi.il a chair in the 1 rent roof tho room, and soon after began to 1 stare .t the proprietor, who imagined the 1 nistuser to be deeply engaged in thought. | I'he aloon keeper desiring to go out, asked J the vsilor to atteud to his affairs in his : vbscnc, and although there was no reply, 1 he tok it for granted that his request would ' be couplied with, and immediately left the 1 saloui A fytle while afterwards ho re- 1 turnc., and the visitor still sat upright and i motialoss near the table. The brewer who 5 suppbd tho restaurant keeper with beer ' soon fterward came in and invited all hands ' to d;nk. The man ut the table fuiicd to respod, and the saloon kocpor, becoming < enrapd at his indifference, cauie from be- i hind.he counter, pulled hioi out of his chair, < diaged him up to the bar. and shoved a ! glus- of beer toward him. As the propric- j tor Uhdrew his hand from the collar of the ] viritr, tho latter sank to the floor, and the t .nou .....rt.. iksf W'nihnld i i CH.ilLli^ UlOVVt^lJ nu-t umuu < , was end. lie had probably expired inmie- i dinhy after driukin^ the beer, aud had been t a co>9c more than an hour. Coroner "White- ( hallield an inquest in the cape yesterday, ( and, was ascertained that Weibold had died \ of hut disease. i - . 1 . UWI Early Day Journalists.?The journalists in the reign of Louis XV. ware queer souls, who lived in garrets and dined chiefly off fried potoes, served in a by paper the storewoman round the corner. Almost every big street had its journalist, and an own particlar printer, which indefatigable being published on candle paper once a week. The man was known down the thoroughfare.? lie chronicled the'marriages, births, or connubial woes of his neighbors; lie was welcome to a dinner now and then, and it was always remembered that he ate much. It was no groat matter to him, if he were paid for tbo copies of his journal, which he personally huwked about, in cash or kind, and a pound of sausages for three copies, two rush-dips f.r a single number, or a pair of breeches for a half year's subscription, were remunerations he could not afford to despise. i) i. i it. : 1 i eupiu cuijuueu tu inui iuen miuco, ?uu besought him to libel their neighbors, which ho did obligingly enough, if he hud no special reason for refusing; and, as a naturai consequence, he had nlways a few grudges stalking after him, though these desisted in time, for the jouralist had a soothing tongue, i Some morning the wholo street would btf thrown into a state of commotion, and the inhabitants would troop out of their doors to see their domestic chronicler marched away ( solemnly between two tipstaffs, aud in a 1 somewhat hang-dog mood, to the Bastile. 1 Perhaps it was debt; perhaps a too bold * shot at some one in place?clerk, beadle, rc- 1 cruiting sergeant, or what not. "Theti there 1 would be much cackling in the street and 1 cries of compassion, and the rancor for past 1 libel, if any survived, would melt away; 1 ind the apple-woman, the stove-woman, the ( tailor's wife, and the cobbler's niece would 1 take the turns at goiog to the prison and * passing the poor journalist a few delicacies through the irou bars. But he was not an important bird enough to be caged for any I length of time, and it was never very long ? belore the sun suone again upon him, as lie i was released from durance and cautioned not 1 to come there aguin. Tlicu he would find a 1 bouquet on his garret still when lie returned < borne j and the neighbors would treat him to i roast real; -and broach a cheap bottle of ? rin d' Argcnteuil in his honor. Sadness < bad reigned while he was away, mirth and 1 joy had attended the resumption of his duties i ?s a censor of State polity and apurchaser ( )f fried potatoes. The journalisWvas never 8 rich, for money melted in his fingers, and he 8 seldom married, because marriage was in- 1 :ompatible with the pursuit, of literature c md gallantry, which should go hand in c band. The customary end of the journalist 1 gas the hospital and a deal coffin. A Very Snaky Story.?Mr. J. C. Bee- ^ iier, near Coieville, Orange Couuty N. Y., j while out hucklcberrying, one day, discover- j :d a worm snake, crossing the road, about g ;hree l'cet in length. lie assaulted his snake- ^ ihin with a billet of wood, struck two or ( ihrce blows, when the reptile began to spread p >ut. crawling in all directions. Mr. Beeiner vas greatly astonished, took a closer view of lis victim, when he discovered that it was :ouiposcd of thousands of little reptiles, va ying in length from an inch to three inches. ibi?ut the size of a hair, all linked in togcth- j :r in such a manner as to form a complete ( make throe lect in longtli. Un being struck vitli tho dub they all became alarmed, and ^ indenvored to escape, crawling and wrig- , tliiig in every direction. Mr. Hecnier con- ^ duded t<? investigate the phenomena, and tccordingly retired a few rods frout the t iccnc of battle, to watch these peculiar rep- t ilea. In about half an hour the littlo snakes ^ tad collected en niasso into the condition rj ivhen first discovered, when the mass coin- j noticed to move with all the likeness and ^ iharacterietics of a black snake, towards a f argo anthill, near by. On gaining the ob- | ect of their search, these seemingly thous- j tnds of little reptiles disbanded and comnenceJnr furious assault on the occupants >f the hill, where a spirited battle was | [vnged against tho nuts for about fifteen ninutes, for the possession of the ant-eggs >torcd. The snakes came off victorious, and ^ ?oon collected again en masse, resembling a ( argc snake as before, but twice its original t bzc, gorgeil with ant eggs. t A curious circumstance is mentioned in a ' Canadian paper of a boy named Kingston, ' ,vho recently lost his arm by a tlirashing-ma- v jliinc at Adelaide. After the liuib had a ?cen amputated and buried, the boy comtlnincd that the hand was cramped, causing s iiin extreme pain, and that if it was not I iisinterred he could not recover. The limb 11 vns accordingly disinterred, and the hand a bund to be (irmly shut together. During t ho operation of opening the linnd the patient ] ivinced groat agony, and [afterward declared hat ho felt relieved from the sensation of sranip. The case is a strange one, but we 1 itlievc it is not without precedent in medical ' lunals. I Tho Pall Mall Gazette thinks it is timer for. us to improve onr present methods of putting criminals out the world: " The aiost memorable death scene known to secular history had for ite theatre the prison of the Athenian commonwealth, and the most touching incident in that drama ia the bringing in the cup of hemlock by the weeping executioner. So much of modern civilization runs up to Athenian civilization that there is something remarkable in finding Englishmen and Frenchmen executing their criminals by the rope and tho guillotine, and remembering that the Athenians execu ted theirs with a vegetable poison. The difference is the more curious because, among the many scientific discoveries which constitute the real title of the modern world to take a precedence over the ancient which m otherwise could not bo unhesitatingly conceded to it, there are few more striking than discoveries in toxicology. If a chemist of the present day were asked for the means of putting a man out of the world without pain on this side of death, his only difficulty would arise out of the abundance of his resources. Important Decision in FAVoit or fV.AVKLr.Ens.?Several weeke ago a brokeman >n the the Chicago and Northwestern rail oad refused S. J MoKinlay, of Mitchell county, admission to the ladies' ear, and used brce to keep him out of it, aeriously injuring lirn. Mr. McKiulay" thereupon sued the *oad for damages. The trial closed a few lays ago The jury returned a verdict for he plaintiff for'$12,000. The ruling was hat having paid for a scat, and the other :ars boing full, he was entitled to a seat n the ladies' car or any other wbere the 'are was not different. 1 Captain Jack's Gun.?The gun which Daptain Jack fired during the late unpleasmfness between him and the government is iow in the office occupied by Gen. Davis as ?X3 headquarters. It shows the effect of J i xi_ .A. iui u ncrvjue, ?uv apporuuwy uiwju caine in lontact with hard rocks, for it ii scratched u every pert, scarcely a fpot an eighth of in inch in sxtent being untouched. It is one )f the muzzle loading riflss of the pattern of L8C3. The lock-plate ?o?tainsthe following nscription : "U. S. Colt's Pt. & F. A. Mfg. Jo., Hartford, Conn., 1862." It is rather m unwieldy weapon, and is very long? ibout four and a half feet. The barrel alone s forty inches in length. It has three sights, ino being marked for a hundred yards, anit her for three, and the third for five bunh od yards. The sling is made of a piece of cather, which was apparently broken in the ientre, for at that point it is kept together >v two copper-rivets, and it is fastened in the lands by pieces of buckskin. The upper mid is made of tin, and is fastened to the took with four small, headless nails. This ilerc of mechanism is apparently the work of ho hero of the lava beds, and it ehows that >e prided himself on how neatly it was done. Portland Bulletin. ? 1 1 1 ' ' Governor Letcher, the other day, related in incident of the war. He said that in ono if the battles before Richmond, four tiaglearers Irani beeu shot down, and a call was nado for a volunteer to carry the colors. A tripling took thf torn standard. In a few ninutcs the staff was snapped by a shot. I'he hoy sat down, unloosed a shoe string, nid tied it. He started in front again. Anithcr bullet splintered the staff. Is was i i i ii . ii -i - ** iicu iasiencu oy me oincr snoc-smng. no hen hardly shook the folds out a second time, vhen down fell the flag, struck by a ball, rhe shoe strings gave out. ITe unbuttoned ?is jacket, ripped his shirt to ribbons, and vrnppcd the broken rod aud carried the shatered ensign through the fight. Governor Letcher said : "When they brought me tho )oy with the shattered staff patched up with hoe-strings and shirt tails, I made him an fliccr, and gave him the best sword Virginia lad." Makf. tiif. Best of Yourselves-?Are ,-ou making the best of yourself ? Are you i?ing to tho best advantage the natural powsrs of body and mind given by your Creaor??or arc you droning through life in lalf efforts, and steadily drifting behind iien of less ability than yourself; men who, nth even fewer talents than you possess, to making the be3t of themselves. fl In til' nfll. Pilf llin fiima+mrt ?*oim Aiuun vi viiiui * uv vhv VJU^.tvivu IV JVUI" elf as we put it to you?and do it honestly. ,onk the matter right in the fare. Are you unking the best of yourself? If not, begin new life at once. Do your best in cveryhing. Tn your thinking and in your doing. ?e a man in self compulsion. Rise out of ndolonoe and sclf-indulgcnce. And not nly will the world be better for your havng lived in it, but you will be better for laving lived in the world.