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3S& Jwriwlj O.G.ALEXANDER, Proprietor. * CAMDEN, S. C.T NOVEMBER 7,18787" Enough Joy for One Day. On Tuesday evening last the glorious sun of heaven threw its last rays upon us as a redeemed, a disenthralled and happy people. The wann and impulsive hearts that had so enthusiastically beat for weeks, and which on that day moves higher and higher as the pulse of the patient does when his fever is culminating, rests easy now iu its victory, and so joyous do we all feel that in this bright hour we can truly .proclaim, "peace on earth, good will toward men." As we go to press the full returns are not to hand, but wc know enough to know that all is well, and Kershaw, our home, is once more our own, for the first time since our brave Poidiers turned their swords into plow hares. Thank heaven for all of this. May the despoiler's foot never again press upon our necks; may home rule give us prosperity, and may a new fus ture be ours. Let us in this hour of joy be as all brave people arc?tolerant and forbearing. It is true that we Lave stood much, but as wo arc conquorors to-day we can afford to be charitable, and when we look upon our defeated enemies, we can with mercy repeat those sublime words of Pope: "Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the faults I see: That mercy 1 to others show, That mercy show to me." The Acquittal of Oliver. We see from our Fairfield exchanges that E. W. Oliver, the murderer of Carl Schultzit, bos been acquitted. It is seldom that we ever comment upon the verdict of petit juries, but we as journalists have a right to our opinion, and we will not at an; and all times hesitate to express them. We were thoroughly conversant with this case. We knew ail anout K, ana, in our juaginent a more diabolical murder has never darkened the annals of South Carolina's history. A weak, poor, defenseless man in the peaceful walks of bis daily pursuits sits quietly under his own roof, and there, with his needle in hand ii shot down like a wild beast, by a man, whose reason is [drowned by passion, and whose every impulse springs from the devil alone. A little over a year ago in the courts of this place a crimU nal by the name of Isaac Turnage was indicted for and convicted of murder. "We knew all about this case and ia this community the verdict was regarded as righteous. In our opinion there is no comparison in the two cases?Oliver's being so much tho more heinous. Turnage. poor uuhappy wretob ek-c's out a miser-! able existence with ball and chain in a ? dungeon in the Penitentiary, while j Oliver basks in the sunlight of freedom, awaiting, a9 surety he does, the avenging wrath of an angry God. What a commentary upon juries. They are the safeguards of our society. To them we look to stop this tidal wave of crime which for ten years has blackeoed this aod; Such verdicts give a premium to uiurder, makes home with all of its endearments unsafe, aud tears into a thousand atoms the safeguards that should be thrown around human life, lit is our duty to speak when we see such dangers around us, and we shall not hesitate to do so. Iu heaven's name, we ask for the common good of our country that our jurymen will reflect in future when criminals are brought before them. ' The Almighty Dollar." J The casual observer of history will j not fail to notice the yet uncontradicted i fact that nations have flourished, conquerors have flashed their swords in royal splendor, and human life has been as ashes when government, power: and existence have had the ''almighty dollar" as the pivot upon which to turn. The student of religion, when be reflects upon its gigantic strength, must, for a -time, stand amazed and look deep into tho solemn research of his studies before he can with implicit faith believe that God's word is above all things else, and that that word is the rock which no storm or tempest can reach. It is a serious question for reflection, and when St. Paul said that "tho love of money is the root of all evil," he so condensed this powerful passage of Holy Writ, that to a thoughtless reader it falls as a as tho eye would upon the terrific gal1 " ^ 4 ?A?/V?ln VSD1C DfttWry. ror us naui guwiu" ments and monarchies, whose very corner stone were virtue, liberty and public weal, have crumbled and fallen into dust. Lowd kings, harlots and oligarchies, whoso only claim to authority was their licentious and blighting influence, by this (/o<l have flourished like a widespreadingbay tree,and as they threw out their great limbs, brought under their "Upas" shadows the damning blast of disease and corruption. WheD we take into consideration all of these j facts, sometimes wc are forced to ask ourselves whether or not more of human nature has not been typified in the bttfityl'l Of Out bfd^d Sfavitftfr tfy JutfSi Iscariot, for silver, than was ever shown iu the meekness of Moses, the longevity of Methuselah, the faith of Abraham, 1 or the patience of Job himself; aod as we a look over the field, we are forced to in- 1 quire if that passion that governed the 1 betrayer is not even stronger to day than I it was then. That sin, like the diamond, J seems to have improved upon age. It is a melancholy fact that these truths j cannot be contradicted; and the careful , philosopher of to-day could, with propriety, without exageration, truthfully say, the dollar is king and "Lord of all." , To its behests, the mightv force of this . broad innd bows. Its churches, schools, and society?even the very foundation upon which we live and move?all, with one voice cry, "Thou art master !" These rude ideas may appear soar and ill-timed: but truth is like gold?it grows brighter aa it passes through the refining process, and like the Damascus . blade, must cut as its glittering and : polished edge coufronts what opposes it. j 'Magna est Veritas et prevalibit,' There| fore, are we not right in calling the at* tention of the pulpit, the moralist and the patriot to scenes being enacted to* day in this, the nineteenth century, ' which are so grandly portrayed in Gib: bon's "Rise and Fall of the Roman Em* J pire ?" Have tho telegraph, the news i press, the iron car done nothing? Is j religion stagnunt and all of its doctrines | or no avail r vo we stiu grope id ine dark ? Are virtue and truth no longer symbols of a country's standing when the "almighty dollar" is at Btnke ? Must the finer feelings of godliness be sub* I ordiDated to it ? In fine, is its rever!enco "vox Dei" and sacred? Though ; it looks so, God forbid. For a moment 1 I look to-day at our country, just emergI ing from one of the most gigantic strug- ( j gles that has ever dotted earth's page? . forgetting the grand landmarks that have made her honored and respected ^ upon the globe?threatening her very , vitality in the polluted pool of money. ( ' Then leave the colossal government for , ! a moment and see the common walks of ] life, as they, too, come under its bane' , j ful influence. Society bends to it. Pro* j j fessions yield to it, and, worse than all, , i rind'a ftron tomnlf* hppomps little less ; than a place for money changers; and I into this the ties of family, love and * ' affection, which should be as indissoluble 1 | as tho earth is from the heavens?or as J I fixed as the north star?all, with one ] accord, yield to it. It is a plane for the scholar and student to think and nioye upon, and he 1 who supercedes the age of corruption with honor, and plants upon our coun- y ! try's emblem love and country?not c j dollars and tents?will be as sacred to , j the hearts of our people as the very life j blood is to their existence. - ? f NfiWS ITEMS. " = Thk American Baptists opened a j new church in Rome on the 3rd in- c stant. r Tns failures of business houses in Scotland, on account of tho Glasgow 1 Bank failure, continue. Tiie Russian journals report a large ? n J _4A DUtnDer or SUlClues anil uuempia m eui- j cide in the Russian army in Bulgaria. } The minister of tie Italian war office recently resigned because the King re- , fused to have a soldier shot after con- j | viction of criminal insubordination. ( The yellow fever in New Orleans is t very near the end. Nine deaths are r re ported for the 4th inst. There have G been 13,296 cases and 3,967 deaths. g Forty-nine Tndian children from a the different agencies in the West have t been sent Jo Hampton, Va., to be edu- c cated at tho expense of the Govern^ I ment. f Quarantine against the cities that s were infected with the yellow fever has t been reised since November 2, and all = lines of travel between them and other J cities have been re-established. Western, the great American pedes- s trian, who started last week in the great ] international walking match in London, I left the track with a sprained ankle, j Oorkev won the race, scoring 521 miles in six days. There were nine competitors. The London Of/server's dispatch from Paris says that James 0. Bennett left Paris Friday night, for St. Poters. burg, en route for Afghanistan, taking 1 with him Juan Woistyue, who will be < the Herald's correspondent in the event of war. j It i9 officially denied that Russian 1 officials are participating in or conniving ] at the Bulgarian insurrection. Gen. Todleben has issued fresh orders to ' Russian commanders on the East Ron- ] melian frontier to prevent the organira- 1 tion of insurgent bands aud watch the J raovemens otinsurgent comumieeb. > The Count of Bismarrck Bohlen, f cousin of Prince Bismarck, committed suicide lately in Venice. He seemed r determined that his work should be t thorough, as ten razor cuts wcro found upon his limbs, two npon his arms, and c A- * n 1 ~:.k I two upon '1118 lliroat. luvcrcu niiui> bloo'j, and leaving a trail of it upon the * floor, ho dragged himself to his bed, [tl and, after Jjing down. shot himself in |v bVad. Hfs agtf was forty-six. I Mr. and Mrs. Terrell, of IIouson, Texas, like 1 an orphan girl so weL bat they decided legally to adopt a their daughter; but just as the pape^B vere ready 1 i signing Mr. TerrJM uade up his mind that he woij^ i ler as his wife. Bbm The Russia t Government is making . r A i A XT*11 Mr_i^ preparations lor trymg 34u jmiumibib who are now confined in prison at Odessa. Many of them have been in prison since . 1870, and of these sis will be tried sep- | aratcly for attempting to murder one ^ of their associates whotn they suspected of being in ti e pay of the police. Du? I ring the course of the examination the ^ garrison will he increased aud the police supplied with revolvers. Toe Stain hi nV* Calcutta correspond dent says thar information has been received from S i uila to the effect that the ] Ameer in his receut reply said he had been anxiou. for British friendship, but that the British policy changed with each new viceroy. The Ameer declared that he is opcu to make a new treaty, that he is not bound by any Russian alliance, and did not invite the Russian embassy to Cabul. It seems that the steamer Georgia, recently wrecked off the Pacific coast, was lost through the inefficiency of the captain, who was in ihe cabin with two women of doubtful reputation when the ship struck. W hen he came on deck and saw the condition of affairs lie cried out in a maudlin manner: "Lower the life-boats, saw the passengers, ami then pitch me overboard." It is a pity his ' last injunction was not promptly ! obeyed. Tni: unveiling of (he monument erected to the memory of the Confederate dead at Augusta, Ga., on Thursday j last, was a splendid affair. Fully 15.000 persons were on the ground. Addresses, were delivcre 1 by Governor Colquitt of Goorgia, Governor Yance, of North , ami many o-her prominent men. Thg ' monument u seventy-six feet high over all. A status ten feet high, representing a Confederate soldier, surmounts j the top. | DfSPATcnRS from Sedalia, Mo , say ^ that Thoma- G. Cockrcll, a nephew of of United St itcs Senator Cockrell, was i lining mtif/Tr fofl Inst. Fridav inorninz I in the store of M. F. Stolls, at Ridge Prairie, Sulit.-i County His skull was "ractured nnd his throat cut. The supoosition is that he wus murdered by -ramps during Thursday night, as the tijtitn's pocket aud the moucy drawer )f the store were riflod. Mr. Coekrell vas a clerk in the store and slept here. In view of the general destitution in ?ension of business eaubcd by the ilague. the Avaktnehc of that city calls ! in the moneyed men who own the busi- JI icss buildings to cancel the rents of j he stores for the time during the epi-1 inmin Residence property, also, it | H'lievos should be exempt. This ;he Avalanche naturally considers but i comparatively slight contribution on he part of the rich citizen9 toward the illcviation of tie general distress. Even the poor printer bus had a full iharo of the yellow fever. A revised ist of those who died and are cunvales* sent from the yellow fover in each of ^ t.- - nfficM in Mfltlinhis. rllU UCWCJMI^VI ... ... r f TeDn., has boon prepared, and shows a iad record. In the Appeal office nine, ecn died, Iwcnlv.one are convalescent ind two escaped. In the Avalanche here has bee:! thirteen deaths, tea are " ionvalescent and five were uot attacked* n the Ledger office but ono escaped, our deaths occurred and uine employees urvived the attack and are again at c he case, c iidiiiiiiistrator's Sale. _ L On the 25lli of November, 1878. I will ^ ell on the plantation of the late Emanuel 'arker, on Western Wateree, all the perional property of decesased, consisting of dorses, Mules. Cattle. Sheep, Hogs, Corn, ?ea8, Fodder, wagons, carts, Faming Jtensils etc., Terms made known on day of sale, E. W. PARKER, Adin'r. The Burlington WEEKLY HAWKEYE. ! This paper, which is univearsally quoted, i] nay be had at any News Depot at 5 cents t copy. Annual subscription, post pnid. *2.00 r * 1 ? ? ? - nvAwiMvlinrn t fi fftkp 1 Agents iirv iiimiiu .. ? subscriptions, and retain 50 cents in cash m each annua! subscriber. General agents nay send $1 05 per year. 1,000 IX THREE PREMIUMS. 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