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r VOLUME XXXIV JTflE CAMDEN JOURNAL. AN Independent Family Paper. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TRAYTHAM ?& HAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 SO six months 1 50 Three months 75 J&-A11 Transient Advertisements will he harged One Dollar per Square for the first and Seventy-five Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion. Single insertion. $ 1 50 per square. Transient Advertisements must he paid for in advance. ~ SOUTH CAROLINA LAND AGENCY. THE undersigned otfers his services as GENERAL LAND AGENT; having established communication with persons of all classes who may he induced to buy land in South Carolina. It is of great importance that the peculiar attractions offered by our section, to those wishing to settle upon their otrn lands, be brought into notice. This can only be done by making it a specialty. The class of immigrants most needed among us, (all others, of ' otuse, are welcome.) is the one who brings with himenoughto buy?even in a small way?a certain quantity of our land; (theonly capital which we have left.) This Is easily done, by such a one, us one-fourth the estimated value paid down, will give him a ?4 1 * 1 title, and possession; wuu IB rev ui mur, iiiiu even five years, to pay the balance. This class of settlers, native or immigrant, must be dealt with personally -must be convinced that this country,with all its advantages does exist, and is within his reach. Once satisfied on this point, the rest is easy. They know nothing of our country, heretofore closed to the outside world, and it has to be told to them. The object of the AGENCY is to do this: to apptoach the man?wheresoever he may be? who has the means, and induce him by statements. MADE IN SUCH A WA1 TH AT HE IS OBLIGED TO PUT FAITH IN'THEM to invest in our land. This will give the land a commercial value, and bring the best class of settlers. Persons wishing to dispose of lands should first have them surveyed, and laid off in farms of from fifty to one hundred anil fifty acres.? Nothing can be done, under the plan proposed, with bodies of laud in block. The thing to be sold must be offered in lots to suit the purchaser. All business in this connection will receive strict attention from the undersigned. EDWARD M. BOYKIN. Camden, S. C. February 19, 1873. References.?Gen. Jns. Chcsnut, Col. W M'Shannon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw, Capt T. H. Clarke, Maj. John M. DeSaussure, Gen. John D. Kennedy, Camden, S. C Col. L. J. Patterson, Liberty Hill, Gov. John L. Manning Clarendon. 8. C FHES11 ?&& i ID^TJO-S AND MEDICINES. Our store and j.mtents bavin? been de* ' tsroyed by the la.e fire, we have opened with an ENTIRELY NEW STOCK of Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, &c. &c. &c. One Door above Mrs. Crosby's, Where we hope to sec our old friends and customeis. HOUUNOX A DIUVLAP. January 19. PALL AND WINTER MILLINERY ?AND? I^aney Goods. MRS. T. B. WALKER has opened at her establishment ou Broad Street, a handsome assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods, Of the latest styles, selected with great care, to suit the tastes of her customers and the public generally The Ladies are respectfully invited to call examine her stock of ,m Hats, Sash and Neck Ribbons. Together with every article to befound in i well supplied Millinery establishment. October 2#. Sugar: 50 bbls. different kinds. For sale by ? BAl'M BRO S. CIGARS 2 Finest FIVE CENT CIGARS, Qigare of all brands and prices, Choice Chewing aud Smoking Tobacco. KIRKLET A OAKLAND. 7 TH PRINCE AMONG THE FARM M - Just the Stove to satisfy, in every par ties needed for excellent service, is made -A-IsTlT IF^IsTC Come and look at it. Find ou\ neighbors are Every one fully warranted to work w< at any time, at my Store. For Sale Camden, September 17. M 2 <, t* 5 r s y ? I M g *N fc> H r2 O W H 00 ? M 0 t=* O P J i tJ ? h- ^ t/i g ^ s Ed ! ; w a: " I ? -8 nr S *?i a i eo ? ? 173 ^ s s- fjj CO a THE GREAT SOUTHERN Dry Goods House, FURCH60TT, BENEDICT &Co. 275 King Street, (hairiest oil S (' THE CHEAPEST DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, OTT. HT.OTHS. CARPETS, MATTINGS, RUGS, Etc., THIS K1DK OF \EU VOICK. For prices, see local. September 8. t> Siuali Profits, AND QUICK SALES, IS OUR MOTTO THOSE who don't believe it, call and examine our Goods ami (lie prices at which we are selling. KIKKLEY & GARLAND. Gins* and Crockery Ware. A large ami well-selected stock of sew and BEArnnL CLASS AN 1) 0 KOt'KKKY NY A It E, Just received and for sale ('lli'. \l', hy KIKKLEY & OAKLAND. June 1 tf 100 kegs Nails, of all sizes. For .-ale | by BAUM BRU'S. EVEIIY TII1NO T(? BE FOUND IN A First Class Grocery Store, CAN BE HAD AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES, AT KIRKLEY d GAKIiAYD N m CAMDEN, SOUTH:e ] COOK STOVES. IER COOK. j tieular. It lias all tho valuable fpiali-: to last a lon^ time, and is not sold at j PRICE. t the price, unci who of your using them. dl, and you can get any plate for tliem j GEO. ALDEN. | Hampden Sidney College.! The next session of IIAMI'UEN SIDNEV will begin September 3d, 1S74. FACULTY. Rev. J. M. I*. Atkinson, 1). D., President j and Professor of Moral Science. L. L. lltu.i.ai?.\y, A. M., Professor of Natural Science. Wai.tkis P.i.mr, A M., Professor of Latin and Instructor in Gorman. 1'kl. Kk.mikk, A. M , Professor of Mathematics. Anotsux Horn:, A. M., Professor of Greek and Instructor in French. IIAMI'JiKN" SIIiNEV OOEEKOE is siren- i led in Prince Edward county, Va., within a row hundred yards ol' I'nion Theological Semi- j nary, and seven mile- from Karinville, on the j Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad. In this institution the curriculum is retained; instruction is comprehensive and ti.or- ( uugli, and ii" student is advanced to alloth< r idass without a searching examination. Expenses are moderate, and, from the retired location of the College, temptation- to extravagance are few. Provision has been made for the establish ment of a "MESS llALL," which, to those availing themselves of its advantages, a ill materially lessen the expenses of board. Catalogues can be o itained on application to the undersigned ItEV. J. M. P. ATKINSON, President Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va August l-I ly. SHOE SHOP, lJIvVK IVA1,. nOSKIXS WILLIAMS hep leave to inform fheirJpHtrons an?l the public generilly, that they have removed their Shop to the building on LeKulb street, one door Knst of the LeKulb House, where they arc prepared to execute all work in their line with neatness and dispatch, and upon as reasonable terms as the same can he done at any other place in South Carolina. LAN I Kb 11 OS KINS. ('ATTAIN WILLIAMS. September 21. 3ni. To The Moblcy IMace, on the West side of the Wateree Kivcr, seven miles front Camden and one from Chesnut's Ferry, on the Winn.tboro' road, having about foiiror five hundred acres of cleared land, under good fence, with good Dwelling House containing six rooms, (Sin House and Screw, and all necessary Out Buildings. Possession given oil the first of .laiiuarv. Applv to KF.KSII AW \ WOHK.MAN, Agents. September 11. tf BAGGING AND TIES, 10,00(1 yards l>A(?(jJ.\<i, 30,000 lbs. T1KS. For sale by Aug. 20. BAUM BU()'?S. It u Belting. 1,000 feet W'BBKH BKI/HM}. Fur sale by BAt M liRO'S. UiKCiiitK, I5iscuit h! 30 bbls. Biscuits. For salu by BAl'M BK0U CAROLINA, THUr speech OK GEN. J. P>. KERSHAW, lleforo the Conservative State Convention, on the 8th of October, 1874. Gentlemen \>f the Convention : I have this day witnessed proceedings which hil I uiy heart with pleasure; proceedings which, | from their perfect harmony and concentrated action, surpass every work of the kind in the recent annals of the State? an assemblage composed of one of the most gallant and impulsive people upon the face of the earth, at a time and in a place which testifies to a degree of ruin and depredation unparalleled in the history of the world, meeting hero as you have this day done, and calmly and Je iiberately recording decision after deci. sion. arraying themselves solidly and with unanimity upon the only lino that is left lor the safety of the land. This. I say, is a momentous epoch in the history of the country. I feel inexpressibly pleased at this unanimity. 1 feel that the'.Irent Huler over the destinies of nations has laid His hand upon the perpetrators of these acts of fraud and rascality which have ruined and disgraced tho State of South Carolina, to hurl them from their places of power, and place in their stead uien who. from their honesty, integrity and moneyed interest, are entitled to a voice in her affairs. ' icel at this moment a degree of hope a. 1 confidence in the future, which has not inspired me for many a long day. 1 feel that in your action today you have been Divinely directed to the ouiy single avenue of escape from the accumulated evils which surround us. I feel that while we may in this action have ignored and sacrificed many of the brighthones that we have cherished, trc hun adoptcJ that which is the only wise, practical, political a,ttl safe course. If gentlemon, you cunv home with you the earnest determination to work 011 this single platform upon which we have arrayed ourselves, the plank, as it were, thrown to the shipwrecked mariner by the hand of a kind benefactor, and work with confidence and energy, victory must ami shall crown our efforts. 1 have long believed that there is but one way to meet the difficulties that surround us. 1 have considered that the one way to win once more an influence up u the destinies of our beloved mother State, is to bring about the co operation with u.i of another portion of the community, in whose hands the destinies of the State have so long been placed. We have, by stickling for absolute right and control rather than a practical and sufficient participation in the management of the State, kept in power tlte Yuwlal horut whc luive ruined and desolated the State of South Carolina.? We have assisted in erecting that platform, in the support of which many of them have sold their very souls. You have now arrayed yourselves upon a plat-1 form which it seems that some kind I'rovi- j donee has drifted within your reach. I beg that you will understand me in the J position which 1 assume 1 have heon accused of being an advocate of political' amalgamation. 1 charge the accusation rather to ignorance than design. 1 stand Here as iiriu ior too muti ny mm in?4 of in\ race, and all that is illustrious ami worthy of being cherished, as the most iiiijiractical pretended statesman in South Csruliaa. [Applause.] My pro. position is simply this: That circumstances over which we have had no control having forced South Carolina into the position which site now occupies, where tlie two races composing her people are vested with equal rights and privileges, and our race being in the minority, that it cannot fail to he the opinion of any right-minded man that we should adapt ourselves to the circumstances in which we are placed, and sagaciously endeavor to attract the confidence of the honest and well meaning colored people to assist us i in restoring good government to the State of South Carolina. 1 have laid down, it: a letter which ha- been published, that we should offer lot lie colored people of S. t'aroI lina an equal and just rharc in the political offices in the gilt of the people of the State. Hut I Leg you to understand, i gentlemen, ilia! while 1 believe that to be tlic part of v.':s;b?n? and justice, while L think any< nurse would be unwise, i mad and suit- as it has proved in the past, I am tiic last man to advocate amalgamation upon his or any other basis.? [ Yuu perceive at once that if you adopt the policy I advocated, you exclude from oflice ali corrupt office-seekers who have played the parts of demagogues to secure the votes of the colored people, and there would be uo motive for an ambitious man to seek to make an impression elsewhere. The greatest curse in this country is corrupt balloting, and in no way can you preserve the purity of the ballot box but by shutting the door against the evil influences open to corrupt aspirants for positions of powi-r and money; of tempting the ignoiant through bribes and bv working upon their prejudices to thrust themselves forward into the highest places.? i You should maintain such an organization ' as you have this day put in motion, and have fair dealing to characterize every movement which you .1 y make, and stand tirmly and truly upon the three emphatic essentials of an holiest and potent platform. 1 have through tiio kindness of the Mcophi of South Carolina become a candidate for the office of their representative in Congress. 1 I'el that I cannot justify the kind partiality which has placed me in this position; that I cannot come up to . the expectations which they may have concerning inc. Hut. gentlemen, if elected. 1 will do my whole duty. I shall do all in my power to represent truly the people who have placed me in that position, and with them to co-operate in ( promoting tlio best interests of the whole tSDAY, OCTOBER i people of the State of South Carolina.? [Applauso.] We have had, as you know, no voice in the councils of the nation, and if we had. as things have gone during the t past few years, we could hope to influence ^ hut little the measures that have taken place. But the day has passed when the s persecution of the Southern people was ' considered a characteristic of party fealty, ii and used as political capital to keep theui t from having a voice in the alTairs of the nation. 1 think that the United States [ has arrived at a crisis when a reaction has ' set in, in favor of a just administration of ' power by the chief government, without a reference to section, locality or past histo- ( ry, and, however the bitterness of the past , r : ;,lf? ' may lur a uuu; uijct-i au> ?tu?in miv v?^. T public matter, yet there is a ground swell * of public feeling which is moving on to- i wards harmony and good government, so i far as they depend upon the administra- ( tion at Washington. The Northern sentiment that the South is still lurking in ; " rebellion is. 1 feel, not yet dissipated, hut i ' if I should find that I could do nothing 'I more. T could denounce the statement as i i the vilest of libels, and, as the represcnta- | tivc of the people of South Carolina, I shall make the denial with all the vigor 1 possess; and I have always believed that ic the solid, substantial statement of a man of honor carries a conviction with it, be- j fore which the slanderous imputations of} j the base-minded flee affrighted [Applause.] If there is such a sentiment of) manhood in the breast of the great soldier | t at Washington, as I believe to exist. I f shall appeal to it. T trust that if I should s ever prove faithless to the confidence imposed in me that you will consign uic to I ( the deep damnation that belongs to the i ' man who betrays his country. I feel, after , r this manifestation of confidence, I might, t even say of affectionate regard, which you j and other representative bodies in South i Carolina have manifested for myself per-, j sonally?I feel that that manifestation tcr. j ' thousand times more than repays me for i all that I have suffered and endured in j thought or in other respects in the past, , or all that could be heaped upon mc in the future, hut I feel the conviction, and 1 it has never deceived me so far, that I s will live through all this mourning and i | corruption. The day will couie when I | hope to sec the representative people of South Carolina. issetnbled iu this very hall to rejoice rather than to redress evils.r? Let us point to the maxim on the stand, i ard of South Carolina, ''While wo breathe ! wc will hope.'' [Prolonged applause.] Tiie New Jersey Forest Fires.? The soil in some sections of New Jersey after the forest fires, a correspondent writes us, is literally baked. I have kick- j ed it up with my boot to tbc depth of a foot, as one does upon the seashore, and found it as thin as a-hes and as dry as I gunpowder. Near llauimonton much of j the vegetation turned black, and the grape3 were cooked. Streams that have never been known to fail show their dry and seamed bottoms and a few sparse blades <?f grass springing up in the hollows. The fire has burned over the harvest fields, sending men fleeing in terror, and, 1 am convinced, iu more than one easo has destroyed human life. Only a few miles from Durkevillc a man stood within his j saw-mill, a large buildintr. viewing tlio warping structure, when, before ho suspected it, he found it was on fire in several places. He had no more than time to ( escape, when the whole thing was like ' tinder. Near llnuinionton a school house was only saved by starting back-fires. When Hilly Tompkins, near Kgg Harbor city, was awakened a few night3 ago j by something rattling upon the roof, he I lay still and listened a moment, then he } ! shook his wife. "Wake up. .Jane, the j rain has come at last: thank tho Lord ! j ! Open your cars and listen." Hut it seemed to him that it was un! usually light for a rainy night, and with t some migivings he drew on his trousers and went to the window. 11 is next proceeding was to give a Comanche war , whoop that brought his wile to her feet, j The woods were ablaze, and the flames i were coining steadily down upon them.? The clearing which surrounded the house made it look as if it would escape; but, ; hastily gathering a number of valuables, ! they moved to a point beyond all peril, i where they remained until daylight, when ! they returned end found that, with the ' exception of a little sehorching, the old J home was none the worse. The fires that occurred near Matinahaw- j kin were caused by the'carelessness of tire i brush burners* Some days later the loco- | motive on the Farmingdalc and Freehold | road started the fiauies, and it was only I I by the most determined and united efforts that the former place was saved. The ! tire then began working its way in the 1 i direction of Ocean drove, and the providential interception of a stream of water was all that saved that place from being I swept out of existence. The burning of peat near Poplar caused 11,000 acres of timber to be consumed. This place, by j the way, has been burned over in whole or in part every season for the last ten years. The fires have been raging for two weeks near Ivig Hai'* -r. where the land is n?>t very valuable. great many acres of cranberries have been destroyed in At- I | luntic and Burlington counties, besides! ^ a number of dwelling houses and mills. j iii, 1874. Southern Folly. It would be difficult to name a spot on he face of the earth where the demand or political wisdom, ordinary common etise, average sagacity, or the ability to ook a mili; or two outside of one's circle, Hid a week or two beyond tho present noment, is in greater excess of the sup>ly, than in the sunny half of the T:nited States. The South is given over to folly, fiphraim is joined to his idols. The situition in Louisiana offers ample proof of lie short-sightedness of our Southern 'riends, who are stupidly making themclves our enemies. Our telcg^hic collinns, yesterday and this morrf!i?g, suffi:iently indicate the situation and substauiatc this compliment, to the Southern gentlemen who arc accredited as our alios. The condition presents several phases, I'ho martial "reformers," in the Louisiana nstancc, arc calling themselves a "White .eague." They might as well call them-' i .. uvea u uuptmv ui ?% i >r a Hottentot League, or a Uiped I .cogue, is a White League ; for the war in Louisana is not one of whites against blacks, ut of whites against whites. That is one act to bo prominently placed alongside of he declaration in the Republican platbrni that the Southern States have been splendidly reconstructed by the Rcpubli:an party, and that peaceful civil society las been restored in the Southern Statos. The character of the peaceful civil society hat has been restored, is evident from the awlcssness which is denounced in the proclamation and manifestoes of the AntiKclloggites, and in the lawlessness with which those protestants attack the usurping Government. Just here it is worth while to say to our friends down in that iropical land, that they apparently can not lllow the idea to enter heads or hearts that lawlessness can best he stopped by law and not by lawlessness. This is an., jtlier fact to make a note of. The usurpations, violations of law, political outrages, which arc named in Mr. Penn's proclamation to the people of Louisiana and the country, arc not painted in stronger colors in the proclamations of these short-sighted violators of the law who seek to enforce the law by breaking law, than] in the speech of a leading Republican Senator in tho last, session of Congress. Senator Carpenter, of the Committee to investigate the affairs of Louisiana, had pictured the condition in that State, speaking in the Senate and to the country He had portrayed the usurpation, the lawlessness, the overwhelming disregard for public order and lawful government, which make up the history of Louisiana for the hist few years in terms not less emphatic than those employed by Mr. l'enn, ' LieutenantGovernor" of Louisiana We admit tho outrages, but we denounce the methods of remedy. If the (ju^stion were based upon the low ground of policy, it would bo true that the Louisiana idiots, when they arm themselves in this cause, are arming against themselves. They are only deferring the day of good govern, mcnt. The Hold of battle lor them is the ballot-box there and in the nation. Let the misguided New Orlcanists tell the ?l,? .iKmif flu. tlim.Ts tlinv arc compelled to endure; but their excessive readiness to jump to arms in time of peace, is their formidable fuc. Their road to peace and good government lies through the success of the Democratic party. Lot not their folly make them the enemies of their friends.? Ciiicintutti Kuquinr. A Touttii Stoiiv.?< hie of the strangest stories of the day, and tlio most novel phase <>f the grasshopper (juestion tuac has yet presented itself, comes to us from Phillips county. About a year ago, a family from Georgia, of German descent, named Hoomershine, located near the west, ern line of Phillips county. The oldest daughter, aged about eighteen, was addicted to the Southern habit of clay-eating. She usually obtained the clay from the road side, where it resembled the clay in the South, of which the natives are so fond. Early this summer, the grasshoppers settled down in that region, and soon began depositing their eggs in the gardens, fields, and by the roadside. The Hoomershine girl went on with her clayeating. as usual, with no unsual c*fleet. un-1 til a short time ago. when she began complaining of an uneasy feeling in her into- ' rior, and commenced gradually swelling, like one with the dropsy. The symptoms increased, and a change began to take place in her appetite. She no longer had a last" for elay, but seemed to hanker af ter the blades of corn, leaves of trees, dog-! fennel, and other weeds ; and she said she ' irci|uciitly felt as 1! she could take wings ; and fly away . Dr. Le Due, of Phillips burg, was sent for, who said that he had never before met with a case of the kind in his practice, or read of one in the books. He decided thit sl.e must be laboring 1 NUMBER 7. under some hallucination of the aiind.? Things went on thus until recently, when one day the grasshoppers commenced rising and taking their flight. The girl looked nt them for awhile, when, unable to restrain herself longer, she rushed out of the house, flapped her arms, as if they were wings, roso about ten feet in the air, and then fell to the ground dead. Dr. Lc Due made a pout mortem examination, which revealed the wonderful fact that her insides were literally swarming with full-grown grasshoppers The theory is, thnt she ale of the clay in which the insects had deposited eggs; they were hatched out inside of her; her appetite partook of theirs; and when the time came for the grasshoppers to ungrate, instinet directed those inside of her to do the saute. An immense concourse of people attended the girl's funeral. Dr. I<o Due has preserved a jar of the grasshoppers, which he intends depositing in the Smithsonian In. stitule at Washington, and in the various medical museums throughout the country. Kansas Chief. Mark Twain's jumping frog has been out done by a huge specimen of its kind in this city. Persons in the habit of walking along Charles street kuow Snow's apothecary store with its numerous gold fish, which, with a monster frog, two alligators, and a turtle, formed what seemed to be a harmonious family. But appearances in this case, as in many others, were deceptive. The huge frog, whoso swollen figure was so conspicuous at the side of the tauk towards the window, was a most voracious monster, devouring other frogs, as well as making a dainty meal of the delicate gold fish. A few days ago, oueoHhe alligators, eleven inches long, was missing, and after search had been mado everywhere else, it occurred to the owner of the tank to examine the inside of the frog, though it hardly seemed reasonable to suppose that he hud swallowed the alligator. But on opening his mouth it was clear that this was the case, and by putting the ft .1 i.K_ I 1.. il L J.I. - . iin^ui uuwu nit; iruy a curuac, cue uuujr ul v the alligator, somewhat softened, but not decomposed, was brought up from the unbounded i toaiach of the huge croaker.? We are glad to be able to state, for the satisfaction of mothers with small children living in the neighborhood, that the frog is to bo sent away.?lioslon Glolc. "Take it out as You Did Before." ?A certain quasi-commercial "gent," traveling in tho north of England, stopped at a commercial house. He ordered dinner, and enjoyed himself after the usual manner of the craft?the "pint of port" not benig omitted. When he was about to depart lie called up mine host, and ! gravely informed him that lie was very sorry ho had no money to pay the bill, but that, if allowed to leave in peace, he would one day return and square up. Now, the landlord had been victimized in this way before, and was irate. He said that ho would take it out of his customer by kicking hiui down the steps of the hotel, aud lie did so. Some time afterward, to the landlord's intense astonishment, the "commercial" reappeared. lie waspolito and forgiving; he bore no malice, lie said, and he should ' be glad if mine host would favor him cn this improved occasion with his company | dinner. The victualler was taken aback j he felt that on the provious occasion ho i had been harsh and had misjudged his | customer, and with profuse apologies lie I consented to dine with the man he had I before so violently ejected from the house. The 'commercial' ordered a capital dinner, a bottle or so of the best wine in the cellar, and it was altogether a remarkably pleas; ant party of two. Polities were discussed, trade ventilated, and all went on merrily till the good things were exhausted. Then I the diDnor-giver rose, and in the coolest ! manner possible, addressed the landlord as follows: * ''I have very much enjoyed this enter tuintnent; but as to the bill, I am afraid I you will have to take that out as you did , before 1" From ono of Bccchcr's sermons: "When | temptations fly through tho community, they often take the best fruits that hang / upon the bough of the household, the sweet-hearted, the sympathetic, the impulsive, the beauteous; and when temptation h;i6 shaken off from the bough, it is the little surly, sour, worthless crab that, is not ripe. The men not overthrown by temptation are often those who are censorious. They are often the critics of those that do fall. They arc hard men; they are men that are cold, and that it trives one the chills to shake hands with; they are men that never feel the swell of reverberating passions themselves. They are men that go rock-ribbed and stonyhearted along through life, and talk about those who give way to their feelings and go to destruction. They never gave way to their feelings, that's sure."