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I HH I V.j I R f VOLUME XXXIV I JECAMDEN JOURNAL, j f: r- Independent Family Paper. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY TR.4VTlf.ltt & HAY. [ SUBSCRIPTION RATIOS 0 re year, in advance $2 50 | nix months 1 50 Tiiree months 75 , > ffr-jr- \11 Transient Advertisements will be harmed One Dollar per Square for the first and Seventy-five Tents per Square for eich subsequent insertion. Single insertion, $1 50 per square. i1 ..nji . A,1vf>rti?i?inonts must be 't* Dai'l fur in idmet. tp SOUTH CAROLINA F LAND AGENCY. L-'~ ^ ; THE undersigned oilers his services as " GENERAL LAND AGENT; having establish* od communication with persons of all classes who may be induced to buy land in South Carolina. It is of great importance that the peculiar attractions offered by our siction^to ^ those wishing to settle upon their own lanJtJbe W brought into notice. This can oniy he done I by niakiu; it a specialty. The class of imniigrauts most needed among us, (all others, of com se, are welcome, 1 is the ae who brings with himtnoughto buy?even in a small way?a certain (juanuty of our land; (theonly capital which we have left.) This is easily done, by such a cne, as one-fourth the estimated value paid dowt, will give him a title, and possession: with three or four, and even five years, to pay lis? balance. This class of settlers, mtivc or immigrant, must be dealt with personally--must be convinced that this country,qitli all its advantages does esist. and is witjin his reach. Once satisfied on this point, therest is easy. They know nothing of our country, heretofore closed to the outside world, utd jt has to bt. told to them. The object of the AGEXtY is to do this: to approach the man?wherofoever he may be? who has the means, and iiduee him by statements. MADE IN SUCH JWA\ THAT HE IS OBLIGED TO l'UT FAl-fl IN'TllEM to invest in our land. T This will give the land! commercial value, >^gn<l bring the bestclass >r settlers. wishing to ditposc of lan Is should first Lave them survcye't ami taut on lummis of from fifty to one hu?c.Ted and fifty acres.? Nothing can be doue,Jindcr the plan proposed, with bodies of latia in block. The thing to be sold must be offend in lots to suit the purchaser. " _ All business ir. this 'onucctiou tviil receive gfrW^^flnlion from lie undersigned. ^^^^JEDW'VKD M. BOYKIN. Camden, S. *9, life Terences.?Gen7?ntl- Chcenut, Col. IV M^Shannon, tlen. J. B. f ershaur, C?pt T. H. Clarke, Maj. John M. De?aussuf"hn D. Kennedy, Camden, S. C Col. L. J. . Corson, Liberty Hill, Gov. John L. Manning Clarendon, fi. C FRESH JDK.TJO-S AND MEDICINES. Our store and intents having been de? * tsroyed by the liuc fire, we hare opened with an ENTIRELY NEW STOCK of Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, 4c. 4c. 4c. One Door above Mrs. Crosby's, Where we hope to see our old friends ami cnstotneis. IIOOGKOX d DIXLAP. January 19. PALL AND WINTER MILLINERY ?A N l?? Fancy Goods. MRS. T. B. WALKER has opened ut her establishment on Uroad Street, a liandsome assortment of & Millinery and fancy Goods, Of the latest styles, selected with great r- car?, to unit the tastes of her customers and the public generally The Ladies are respectfully invited to call and examine her stock of Straw Hats, Sash and Neck Ribbons. a Together with every article to hefoundjn a well supplied Millinery establishment. > ber ^ Su<rar, Niijrar: 50 bbia difle.-cnt kinds. For sale by ?AUM BKO'S. OIOAR8 2 Finest FIVE CENT CIOARS, Cigars of all brands and prices, Choies Chewing and Hmokiug Tobacco. ftlBKLKY * IMRLAND. * , TI PRINCE AMONG THE FARIV Sm * Bp Just tliC Stove to satisfy, in every pa ties needed for excellent service, is madi -A-isr^r Com e and look at it. Find ok neighbors are Every one fully warranted to work w at any time, at my Store. For Sale b> CftUltk'liy^ef tcmbeFlT. f 2 ~ tp i S S ^ p 3 M & P ^ OQ k_j [H F O W H " ? H< H t=>O " ? S tJ H H K- ? E * s w V CO . W . hH / f O 2 __ ? ri Pi r ? a w ^ 3 J- H W Q ? THE GREAT SOUTHERN Dry Goods House, FURCHGOTT, BENEDICT & Co. 275 King Street, Charleston S- C TilK OFIKAl'KST DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, OIL CLOTHS, CARPETS, MATTINGS, RUGS, Etc., tiiiv vidf or xi:u youk. For prices, see local. Septembers. G Nmall IVofitK, AND QUICK S.VI,L:S9 IS OUR MOTTO. fPITOSE who don't believe it, call and exL amine our Goods and the prices at which wo arc selling. KI UK LEY k GARLAND. Glass and Crockery Ware. A large and well-selected stock of nf.w anil beact1fil GLASS AND G ROCKERY WARE, Just received und for sale (.'HEAT, by K1RKLEY & GARLAND. June I tf Nails, IVsiiIs! 100 kegs Nails, of all sizes. For sale by HA I 'M UNO'S. i:> KHYTH1NG TO BE FOUND FN A First Class Grocery Store, CAN BE HAD AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES, AT KIBKMSY * OABUXD# Ian CAMDEN, SOUTH IE I COOK STOVES. 1ER COOK. OcBt^^bStr^-l^aijW* y./JKy'SJH^H* {/A\ \^H u9S2BS!^BH9H^HfiSH v v * V wU '1/ \^l 1 \ y 1 rticular. It has all the valuable quali3 to last a long time, anil is not sold at 31Z~ PBICB. t the price, and who of your using them. ell, and you can get any plate for thcui Lj}EQ, ALIEN? ? - tf Hampden Sidney College. The next session of HAMl'DEN SIDNEY will begin September 3*1, 1874. FACULTY. Rev. J. M. P. Atkinson, I). D., President and Professor of Moral Science. L. Ij. ilnl.LADAY, A. M.t rrun-siui ui .laiurai Science. Walter Blair, A M., Professor of Latin uud Instructor in German. Del. Kemper, A. >1 . Professor of Mathematics. Addison Houe, A. M., Professor of Greek and Instructor in French. HAMPDEN SIDNEY COLLEGE is situated in Prince Edward county, Va., within n few hundred yards of I'niun Theological Seminary, and seven miles from Farmville, <>n the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad. In this institution the curriculum is retained: instruction is comprehensive and thorough, and no student is advanced to another class without a searching examination. Expenses are moderate, nnd, from the retired locution of the College, temptations to extravagance are few. Provision has been made for the establish ment of a "MESS HALL," which, to those availing themselves of its advantages, will materially lessen the expenses of board. t'ntalognes can lie obtained on application to the undersigned KEY. J. M. P. ATKINSON, President Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va August I:i ly. SHOE SHOE REMOVAL. nOSKINX & WILLIAMS beg leave to inform their'piitrons and the public getu rilly. that they have removed their Shop to the building on DeKalh street, one door East of the OeKalh House, where they are prepared to execute all work in their line with neatness ami uisputcu, ami upon as reusonultle terms as (lie r.-iiuc can lie done at any other place in South Carolina. DANIEL IIOSKINS. ('ATTAIN WILLIAMS. September 24. 3m. To Kent. Tlie Mobley Place, on the West side of the Wateree River, sevtiMiiiles from Cumden and one froiu Cbcsiiut's Kerry, on the Wiunsboro' road, having about fotiror live hundred acres of cleared land, under gohd fence, with good Dwelling House containing six rooms, Gin House and Screw, and all necessary' Out Buildings. Possession given on the first of January, 187">. Apply to KERSHAW \ WORKMAN, Agents. September 27. tf BAGGING AND TIES. lfl.OOO yordf IIACJC.INO, 30,000 ibs. TIES. For sale by Aug. 20. BAUM BUG'S. Rubber Bolting. 1,000 feet RUBBER BELTING. For sale by li.\l M BRO S. Spices. Ground Ginger, CloveH, Pepper, Cinnamon, &c . in air tight boxci, lornalo by J. W. MoCURRV. \k\\ I \ -CAROLINA, TIIUI 3 The Situation. At this present time, says the New York [ Tribune, the merchants, manufacturers and farmers of tho United States have had a hard struggle to maintain themselves. They have a fight on their bands against the evils growing out of abuses of credit and foolhardy speculations They find themselves in danger of being overcome by the demoralization begotten of war and the dishonest currency, by debts and taxes. Now, what are they to gain l.?. 111 a i p in ilm /lnrw/orc UJ ailUlllllg UIVII VTVO VIIV UUIIqVIU which surround tlicai ? They arc in the enemy's country, and it is their business to know the enemy's strength. That policy of puffery and falsehood which answered so weil two or three y?ars ago will not answer in those times. In its day it was a curse to the country, ^rmd now it is an in. suit. The truth is always salutary, und never uiorc so than when the land is covered, as with snow, with the wrecks of once successful frauds and humbugs. To tell #the truth is not to croak. Truth is the very medicine that is needed Could quackery be ever successful the country would furever be growing worse. Life, with every disease, were a thousand times worse than death itself. It does seeui to the superficial observer inexplicable that agriculture, trade, manufactures, and transportation should all be suffering at once, with apparently no tendency towards a recovery. Great forcos are at work producing a great change. The progress towards better things is none the less real because it is not instant and on the surface. The present suffering is only the measure of the disorder. Consider only the magnitude cf the evil of investing in the course of three or four years three hundred million dollars in railroads which are paying nothing on tho capital expended on them. Consider tho next link in the chain, the iron works constructed and mines opened to supply tho material for such railroads?all now prostrate together. Consider the towns and cities overloaded with debt incurred to build those railrouds. Consider the stoek-jobbci- who formerly held the seats of honor at tables where the voice of the "croaker" was not heard. Hut why go on ? Is it not plain tlf# si^h n wnstc of proJuctm?'^tt4!r^crh'Trd(^ ^departure from 1 the true course of industry, such demoralization in all classes of society, cannot be recovered from in a day? Arc we going to bed to night, fooling certain that in the morning we shall be recovered from our long debauch ? Are they all ''croakers" who refuse to believe this*? We have considered it our duty to study | and report upon the actual condition of I things; to ascertain the full strength of the enemy; to know the Weakness of our ! ' posts, and to point out the stations that j cannot, he defended. We may not have , ' pleased speculators and we may have1 ? ? & . 1 * I | tl am pencil t tic sjui its oi uic ovcrsunguinc. i j Hut wc have not exaggerated evils, arid 1 we huve not painted in stronger colors j than the reality In all that concerns the | exchange and consumption of goods, pro- j gress lias been suddenly arrested. Wc stand where we were two or three years ago. Nearly everybody has resolved, or lias been compelled, to buy and use less of the goods which his neighbor makes a j living by making or selling. Hence there seems to be a general over-production, even of the absolute necessaries of life.? This state of things, from its very nature, is temporary. Hut nothing is gained by I understating its strength or underestima- 1 ting its endurance. The great thing is to understand the one anu to wait patiently j until the other is exhausted. We are like t a ship surroundid by icebergs, and it is | sheer lun acy to pretend not to ->ec any-1 thing hut plain sailing. Kach individual has his own business, in which lie may or may not have commit ted acts of imprudence. But whether he lias or lias not. lie himself understands liis own business belter than anybody else, i and lie himself must manage it as prudently as lie can. The recovery of a healthy tono in the business world de-, pends on the sagacity, patience, economy, | and other like* virtues of individuals. Let those virtue- be practiced and the result cannot be doubtful. By cool observers j the consequences of the opposite vices J bad loii^ been foreseen. We have not , lost confidence in the character of our business men. The world is not coming to an end b? ?use speculators are at last awake to a r -izing sense ol their follies, t Nor is the p'^spect so hopeless that the truth must be coucoalod. There is need < ? I however, for other work than persistent i croaking at the croakers. Cursing Neptune has little effect on the weather, and | they in old Home who did this whenever , they lost a ship added nothing to their , reputation as merchants. A man was arrested recently for being intoxicated with delight. i tSDAY, NOYEMBEI Cotton. The South, in an article published in its last issue, has the following sensible remarks relative to the extensive culture of cotton, to the exclusion of other products, in the South. "Many papers talk wildly about the great capacity of cotton production, but that has nothing to do with the question of Southern prosperity. If every State in the North were to plant only grain, there would undoubtedly be a great deal of it in the market, but would that advance the wealth of the North in any degree ? On the same principle, if the South continues the foolish policy of spending every cent of its available capital in the production of cotton, it will drug the market and retard its progress. The South to-day has really no agricultural independence* The farmers of the coast States pay from a dollar to a dollar and a half a bushel for the grain which is destrovcd in Wisconsin and Minnesota, while the nennle of the hitter States cot the worked I ?t o cotton cheaper than the producers themselves, owing to the better facilities they po.-sess for cheap transportation. This is only one of the items that illustrates the foolish policy that has heretofore been pursued by our planters. Stat? isticians have estimated that the Southern States spend fully ?50,000,000 a year fur the cost of living, almost all of which goes to increase tho already overflowing coffers of the North. When it is taken into consideration that the cotton crop of the last two or three years has sold fur but from $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 per annum, and that fully oue-fourth of this has gone for bread, it becomes very evident that there is an important screw loose. It is positively necessary that there should bo some reform iu the matter of cotton. Georgia has raised sufficient grain this year for home consumption and wo have not words enough to express our gratification at her wise course. Every Southern State can do the same thing and more than do it. Every furmer must i not dabble in cotton. There is less mo- j nnc than trouble in its uroduction. A protracted drouth, continued rains or pes tilonlial woruis may destroy the crop, and then tliero is nothing to lull back upon; no grain, no bread. . a remedy for all this. Plant' less cotton and pay more attention to the other staples. Enhance the value of the cotton that is raised by buildiug mills to work it at home. Do not dopond on rival sections for food and force rival sections to depend upon you for clothing. This is4he true course, and we sincerely hope the South will follow it." Sunlight for the Sick.?Dr. Wui. II. Hammond, in discussing the sauitury influence of light, observes that the effects or deficient light upon the inmates of hospital wards and sick chambers have fre- , qucntly come under his special notice; that most physicians know how carefully the attendants upon the sick endeavor to exclude every ruy of light from the apartment, und even some members of the profession are singularly assiduous in this respect, but that the practice, except in some cases of actuul disorder of the hruin and other Darts of the nervous sys. ' torn, id pernicious, admits of no question. During the late civil war Dr. H. visited a camp and hospital in West Virginia, in consequcnco of information received that the sickness and mortality there prevailing were uuaccountably great, and he made a minute examination into all the circumstances connected with the situation of the camp, the food of tho men etc. Among other peculiarities, he found the sick crowded into u small rooui, from which the light was excluded by blinds of india-rubber cloth. The patients wero as effectually bleached as is celery by tho earth being heaped up around it; pale, bloodless, ghost-like looking forms, they seomedjto be scarcoly mortal. C'ouvalescncc, was, under such circumstances, according to Dr. Hammond, almost impossible, and his belief was that many of the men had died, who had they been subjected to the operation of the simplest laws of nature, would have recovered X. Tribune. Presence of Mini>.?Prof. Wilder, of Cornell Hniversity, gives these short rules for action in case of accident: Fur dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing, dash water into thorn; remove cinders, etc., with the round point of a lead pencil. Remove insects from the car by topid water; never put a hard instrument into the ear. If an arte, j ry is cut, compress above the wound; if a | vein is cut, compress below. If choked, j get upon all fours, and cough. For light burns, "dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed, cover with varnish.? Smother a fire with curpets, etc; water often spreads burning oil, and increases the danger, lloforo passing through smoke, l&ko a full brsath, uud stoop low, but if tal l 5, 1874. carbon is suspected, walk erect. Suck poison wounds, unless jour mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound, or, better, cut out the part without delay. Hold the wounded part as long as cau be borne to a hot coal or end of a cigar. In case of poisoning, excite vomiting by tickling the threat, or by water and mustard. For acid poisons, givo acids; in case of opium poisoning, give strong coffee and keep moving. If in water, float on the back, with the nose and mouth projectiag. For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the person flat. A Pennsylvania Romance.?Two farmers living on adjoining farms in Girard township, Erie couuty, have for year* been unfriendly on account of" the disagreement about the lino fences which separated their lands, both claiming the ten feet which was formerly the lane running between the two places. Their children have grown up inheriting their parents' animosity; and their eldest sons have several times been subpoenaed as witness* in lawsuit swhich have grown out of this difficulty. The case had been a sort of suit in chancery, having run on from year to year, both men spending their money in lawyer's foes without any legal conclusion. About a year ago the two farmers awoke on Moudav morning to find that each had lost a child, one his youngest son and the other his only daughter. Like the houses of Montague and Capulet, in "Romeo and Juliet," the scions of the two rival houses had secretly cherished a fondness for one another, and knowing the feud between the families, without divulging their passions or inten. tions they met clandestinely and carried into effect the elopement. A week passed, at the end of which the father of the runaway daughter was called on to go to Eric and attend again to the everlasting lawsuit. He went in early to the office of the lawyer, and, taking up one of the weekly papers, read the marriage notice of Emma. If was a terrible blow, and lie went out into the yard to try and walk off his excitement. Ail that passed through the old gentleman's mind is not known, but there seemed to be a desperate struggle within, which re-suited in hisTeturning^ftbe hiwyer's- offico and postponia^i^ business. Then he drove directly to his farm and bad ajldng private interview with his wife; then he did what he had not done for twenty years?went ovor and called on his enemy. lie was found sick, having been confined to his room since the abandonment of his favorite son. Both the two farmers met, and for a few minutes stood face to face in profound silence. At length the father of Emma spoke ; 4,I have come to settle the dispute; let the children have the lot on cither side of the lane, and I will build them a house." "And I will furnish it." So the recreaut childron were sent for and forgiven and came home to receive their parents' blessing. And now there are no more lawyers for the two farmers, but each has faithfully fulfilled his contract iu regard to his house and furniture. ? - ^ mi . The Labor question.?mere n> pi?bably no question which can interest the Southern people, of greater moment than the question of labor, present and to come. It is one with which our future prosperity us a people is intimately associated. The general public might think it one in which our farmers alone arc interested, but it has a much deoper and wider significance. The prosperity of every branch of'our industry is involved in its solution, for oYerythiug is directly or indirectly involved in the succms or failure of the farmer or planter. Under these circumstances it is one which we approach with very gront caution, and yet it is one which our puopie would do well to consider. Our farming system bus been uprooted by the results of the war, aud y?:t many of our best farmers have endeavored to carry out the same plans of agriculture which were a characteristic of Southern farming befi.ro the war. This was, among others, a plan, so to speak for devastating the country by cutting down our fore6tsj wearing out the laud, aud allowing our worn out lields to grow up into brumbies and pines* This we can afford under our old system of labor, but under the changed system of labor all must be changed. Labor is cheaper now than it was before the war, but it is almost entirely uncontrollable. What we want is labor, better, more reliable labor. This cau be properly regulated through the Grange order, and if our Grangers will take hold properly of this subject they will be surprised at the readiness with which a proper solution can be reached. Whon we liavo time wo will havo something moro to say on the subjoct.? Charlotte-Obtcrver. X; \ NUMBER 9. Spurgeon's Church in London. We got a scat in one of the galleries, aye the Danbury man writing from Spurgeon's church in London, and found ourselves in an oblong building with sev oral tiers of galleries, and a wide spread of floor, capable in all of seating 10,000 persons. It was not a particularly attractive building, being merely a succession of sittings wherever we looked. At the end opposite the front, and juat below the traileries. was a broad nUtfnrm This j - r whs tbo only semblance of a pulpit.? There were but a few hundred people present when I entered, and they looked euibarr&aaod and insignificant in the forest of scats. I imagininod there was to be a slim attendance. When the doors opened the peoplo fairly swarmed in, and for fifteen minutes they fairly piled into the aisles without cessatiou. But still the building was far from being filled. I grew discouraged*? * Still they caine floating in and filling up, but when a rather large and over fed look* iug gentleman cam* upon the platform from a door under the lowest back-gaJlery, and everybody about mo said, "There bo is," the seats were not entirely filled.? He gave out the first hycun amid the rustle of dresses, and the shuffling of feet, and it was sung with a will, but there was no interruption to the insetting i current of humsuity. I don't exactly i realize to this day how those seats were filled, because it was done as imperceptibly us a gentio full of snow hides tho earth and blocks up the ways. T?ie hymn was suug, the service read, and other siuging followed, and ail the while tho . eager admirers of Sporgeon raiocd down upon the tabernacle, and when he roso to commence his sermon every seat vrns fit. tea ana the steps which formed the pus. sago-ways between the gallery seats wero hidden beneath perspiring bat curious humanity. In every direction but tho ceiling was a sea of faces and clothing. On the platform with the cause of the great gathering were the officers and ma. ny of the prominent men ottbe church.? There was no choir. Ten thousand people quietly seated ( and filled with religious omotions and cologne, is a spectacle rarely vouchsafed ta mortal's, gars. Here tjwyjfepe, spread out before me like a~sheel offy-paper on "^^1 a druggist's show case; and all the little eccentricities of a congregation, but rare* ly noticed in the average gathering, swel* led into a volume of startling dimensions in this hugo audience. The change of position, which is but a perceptible rustle in the average body of worshippers, on tho close of a prayer or hymu, here became a rustling sonnd like I the breaking away of a great body of water, nnd the preparatory cough or hawking, as the hymn was given out, arose from ton thousand throats, and bcoame magnified into u clap of prolonged thunder. The nun who stepson the end of afootstool and tips it up, so that it frightens an entire audience, was here multiplied by thirty, with the most cheering success. And when all the ladies took out their uaijufeui vuius w nir? UJUUIUI, it seemed so much like a snow storm, that I had put on my hat and pulled it down over my eyes, before realizing my mistake. The turning of the leaves of ten thousand hymn books need not bo described. Any imagination enjoying the most moderate ! health, can depict the noise without trou. ble. The nearest thing I can liken it to, is the rolling and breaking of tho Burf upon a New Hampshire coast Mr. Spuigcon is the main object of in. ' terest. He is a large man, and a thorough , . ^ | Englishman in appearance. A broad, ! reddish face, light hair, and a squire f >rm /,1j ?too large for the length. There was , I nothing particularly attractive about his j voice. lie preached without notes. ^ One of the saddest things about the small boy of the pieoent day is the un. ! certainty which soeuis to attend bim as ^ ho bounds along through life. You can't aiways tell what he is going to B::y. ^ 6 ; At a Sunday school service held not long / / : n.rA un ninmhto .Ori'prman OlldeaVOrillf' to -f,-, "" rw 1 " - ^ illustrate the necessity of the christian profession in order rightly to enjoy the benefaction* of providence, spoke as foli lows: "For instance, I want to introduce water into my house; I hsve it pumped.? | The pipes and faucets are in good order, j but 1 get no water, Now why do I get no water?" The reason, be wished the ' young people to see, was that he had made | no communication with tho main in the i street. Hut the bojs were too iutcnt on ! plumbing and water rates. "Now, why j do I got no water ?" "I know," shrieked a litttaboy, "you don't pay!" ! A gentleman in a fit of absent-minded, ncss told another that he had two sona? both boys. i I /