Camden commercial courier. (Camden, S.C.) 1837-1838, August 12, 1837, Image 2

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J&*' sffl the. glowing piciorei lie gould filld, |f end conveyed them to the kitchen Are, r' end In re w them into it, one after another, [end stood with a vacant stare as the fla.nes arose with a pitiful fury, as If the demons the 6|>leiidid pages contained were angry at going back to their infernal abodes from whepce they sprang. 3* Year after vnar has the writer of this / sketch seen the grief-striken pair, the paj vents of Hyaeinthia Zone, going to church k.r'-. ^Tery Sunday, bearing deep tioces of ( auflffering and penitence. But of late, \ their countenance seem more serene: a religious composure has settled on tlirir minds, and if they are not. happy, the hi iiihii ir' ? Mrs. Zone never hears of beauty among \ lier grandchildren, but she shudders at the remembrance of her favorite Hyacinthia, and makes no reply. The good Mrs. Z i no has often said that slut would sacrifice her life to benefit the rising generation?to teach mothers their duties.? She may sign over her follies for years? the world is hard to teach, for all the apt scholars are on the side of opposition. Indiscriminate reading is a vice, and should be no more considered as a venial error. The person who has lived among bad books is more likely to he corrupted than he who lives in bad company. There is a nausea in had company that does not el...... :ir .,:i? .1 . oiawn iiorn tia w ur i>iit ill ivit'lll 19 hid bv pupe", type, binding, and all thai delights the eye. From the cradle to the grave, the food of the mind should be prepared with caution, and administered with still greater. Females are more in danger than males from this evil; Air as exercise is, in some measure, a cure for gross food, so is an acquaintance with the world, in no small degree, an antidote against had books. The greater portion of me * set their faces against these moral poisons, and but few young men have the hardihood to make allusions to, or quotations from, proscribed works. But, when they arc read in private, among females, there is no common atmosphere to blow away the pestilential fumes which I arien fr/i rvi not* t>n t ! - ? C ?ll I- ? U1 in\- II <'111 llfl I ll|ll Ulllinoa \/l UK lilt* I I'forms in the world, why not reform the reading of the age? When the taste is purified, the morals are not easily corrupted. JVeirs! Scenes in Camden. Finding out Matters.?A country-'J man came in town a few days ago with a ! live hog. While passing through the town, a highly respectable merchant hails j him, with, 44 1 say my friend, what will 1 yon take for your h<?g?" 44I dont known I yet,*' says the countryman, "The. hog i is like you Cotton merchants, you never know what they are worth 'till they're dead." 44 I'll kill the hog and then we'll 1 know how to come at it." I A Flat.?A countrvman the oilier dnv ^ J stepped into the Co flee TFc.ise, and ob-j Jtr eh wirjin the door, imme- ! diately commenced looking and fingering a round it, as if lie was at a loss for its j name. !!c than said to the proprietor,*4!; sayMistcr an't tl.is a pianoe?" 4* No sir, it i is not" 4* I have heard that there is some of them are things in this place, and it is mighty pretty, that's why I thought it would make good music." i Very Funny.?A mcthodist parson one ' day was eonvc sing with an old lady, when he said, '* No person on this earth has ever committed a crime Imt it was found out before they died." To which t the old lady very knowingly replied; i 44 Ah, sire, I knows better dan dat, vor I've stoled a hog 20 years ago from mine nabor, and nobody nose it yet?dare now, your argement caint doo." Advertistno*?The Now York News says: "A wealthy merchant of that city, who has given more advertising to the press than any other in the city, once 1 told the editor of that paper he commen* 1 ced business with a determination to expend, in advertising all his profits for the first two years, but that he soon found it impossible to do so. The faster he paid out the more he received; and could he have monopolized all the advertising columns of all the papers in the city, he would heve been repaid fourfold." i A Distinction.?441 say Pomp, wot distinction between poetry and what they call p^tnk worse?" 44 Wy, I tell ye, Nebucknczzar, wen I say, 44 Tumble over mill dam, \ Come down slam."? dat*s poetry; but when I say, 4 Tumble ober mill dam; Come down k-slash. dat's plank worse,'* / Were you wounded in the wars," asked a man of a little drummer. "Oh yes, badly'* he replied. " In what part were you shot." ' O, sir, I was snot in llic drum." A person meeting another to whom in an affair of business lie had made a very| ridiculous offer, said to him: " Well sir, do you entertain my proposition?" "No sir," replied the other, "but your proposition cnteitain me," I politesse Militairb.?At a Military Ball given on a certain occasion in the interior of Alabama, the gentlemen?all officers of course?General sticii-a-onc? Colonel such-a-onc?Maj. such-a-onr. and 00 forth and so on?were marvellously polite. Porcxumple: | Gen. B.? Ah, my dear Colonel how do yon do?M (shaking his hand until the' ' epauletU on all four of their shoulders' shook lively,) "Come," (stepping up to a t<*hie) 44 let us wine." Col. Z.?44 Thank you, thank you, General; 1 have just wound. The New Orleans papers brings news of the decease'of the Hon. Samuel H. Harper, District Judge of the United States for the District of Louisiana. Fatal Accident*?We learn by the Abingdon, Va. Statesman, that a gentleman by the name of Pointer, from North Carolina, was thrown from his gig at Wythe Court House, a few days since, and so injured that he died in a about an hour. Ninety-one thousand dollarsjn j money and drafts, were found in his nne. session. He was an entire stranger at Wythe Court House, and his name and ! residence were ascertained by letters, found upon his person. A Hor Story.?The New York Sun says a shed has been consumed in that; city from the spontaneous combustion of Virginia Coal. Who doubts it? Reign of Women.?This is truly the ore of female rule! England, Spain, and ; Portugal, are all governed by a young Queen.?New York Times. The coincidence would have been still more singular had Harrison been elected President of the United Slates.?Troy Budget. Wiiy Men Marry?One man marries a woman because she looks well when she dances?she never dances afterwards.? Another man marries because she has a handsome foot and ancle which, after marriage, he never takes the trouble to admire. A third marries for love, which wanes with the honey-moon. A fourth for money. and finds that his wife does not choose j to die, to complete his satisfaction. Ami j a fifth being old in wisdom and years, < marries a young woman, who soon be comes a suitable match for him* by grow-: | ing old with grief.?N. Y. Era. ^ 44 Six slim slick saiti.ings."?It is gravely asserted by some folks, that there ' is no Yankee in the land that can upon ! the first trial, 44 of a cold frosty morning," ' pionounce these words in *)iiick succes- ' sion, without making a blunder?44 Six 1 Slim Slick Sapplings." Try it, Jonathan. * 44 The evils of a depreciated currency s ran he remei ied at once by sweeping all 1 j banks out of existence. Who ever beard t i?f a depreciation of gold and silver?"? <; N. Y. Examiner* x A _ 1 - -1 " - S /win we suppose mat tnc evils ot corns ~ upon the toes may be remedied at once by the amputation of the legs. W ho ever ! heard of corns upon the toes of a timber- , legged gentleman?"?Louisville Journal. ) ' Odd Enough.?It was reported in1 s Portsmouth, England, that Mr. Vq? | ten had made proposals r.C marriage to < Victoria, the r.ew Quern of England, 1 j through Mr. Stevenson, his minister! t What next? t I cannot imagine" said an Alderman, ( ' why my whiskers should turn grev so much sooner than the hair on my head." r "Because," observed a wag, "you have worked so much more with your jaws . than with your brains." The ape, boasting of his talents, said, "I v ran imitate any animal." "Aye," said the li fox, "hut is there any that imitates you?" I A young couple met a few dayssinec, at the altar of a parish el urch in the Pas de . n. lais, to receive the nuptial benediction. 11 When the priest enquired of the bride, " Do you vow to be faithful to N?as v long as it shall please God to lei.ve you to- ? gether?" the girl suffered a smile to ap- 1 pear on her countenance, when a smart a box on the car, from the indignant priest 'j brjucrht the blood into her face, in which state he left her, shutting the bowk, nnrl 1 declaring that he would not complete the ( ceremony till she had expiated her fault c by penance! A Goon One.?The Concord Statesman i has the following. ' i "One day last week, a Jonathan, who c had lately arrived from Upper Coos, hap- \ pened to be passing the Stall-House just i as the House adjourned, and not being | u-ed to tuch sights, he accosted, one of ] the Representatives with, " I say Mister, h what is that are great stone building yon- ] der?" " Why Sir," replied the Kepiesen- ] tative, "That is Noah's Ark, what did i you think it was?" " Why I had a kind of i notion of that sort, for lew all manner! of LIVING ANIMALS coming out OF it." ! ? 1 Question and Answer.?"Why is it,' that gold and silver, the Jackson money, command 10 per cent, premium??"?Bait. Republican. Answer.?Because gold and silver are 10 per cent, harden to get now than thev were before the administration began its j miserable tinkerings with the best cur-, rency in the world.?Louisville Jour. A good joke.?For some months past a person residing in the town of Armagh contrived to do an extensive business with the Agricultural bank, but finding tluit the firm proposed coming down on him tliA O rn /Hint JiT CAnrui K.llo l?a !? ?*! ' " ! ?! tiiv UUMMIUV *? owinv I'liia nr iitlll ^ Ul cashed, he and his wife adopted a novel! plan for settin g his affairs. They gave otu that he had a malignant fever, and in three days after he expired. A eoffin was procured, and filled not with the remains of poor John, hut with mother earth; and word being sent to the priest that he would j be interred at two o'clock, his reverence * attended, and having to all appearance I buried poor John, collected ?7 of offer-, ings. The disconsolate widow, having a little proprety left belonging to her greatly regretted husband, actually administered, and from the pitiful story she made, the gentlemen concerned in executing the administration not only gave theii services gratis, but also raised some money for her, as poor John was a general favorite. A gentleman belonging to Armagh happened to be in Liverpool about three weeks after, and, to his great surprise and terror, observed poor John a short distance before him. Having summoned up sufficient courage, he went up to hiin. John at first denied he was the person, but finding tbc gentleman would not be further imposed upon, he coufrssed all, and promised to pay as soon as able. When the gentleman came home, he went to the widow and asked if lie hud returned from Liverpool, on which she got very angry, asserting that her poor husband had died of two days illness. The gentleman persevering in his assertion, the widow said if he was seen, it must have been his ghost. Ilowevr, to settle the dispute, the grave was opened, when it was discovered that the coffin was 1 /? I I _l _ .! I 1. oniy uiicu wan nay. Mis creditors, we understand, purposed giving Mm a clear j receipt for his cleverness, and hetlirea-j lened to prosecute the priest unless lie < qive up the offerings, his soul or hodv not j being benefitted by him ? Dub. Pilot. i From New.Orleans. | The following is copied from the Ex- ^ press slip of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. The Siller?Verily we arc bound to , l have oceans of this commodity shortly,1 j in the United States. Since our last, the 1 < Sarah Ann, whi'-h vessel sailed from i T-impico on the 23d ult, has arrived in I ibis port bringing the small amount of J ?$313,000, regular white jackets every \ one, consigned to different houses in this t citv. We may look for another arrival of i 8118,000 to the Messrs. Lizardi, in a few | j days; as another Conducta bearing tliat^ imoiint for the. house, was expected on i I lie first inst. ( This is good, but scarcely a bit belter s ban wat is going on in New York, where I ?y the sip Norms, the .lespectable acres?ion cf 8150,000 has been received from ; f Havana. It bad also been celculated, a bat 7000 sovereigns, or something above t ^30,000 had arrived in that city in one1 d veek by the emigrants. When England c diall be gorged with the precious metals, t is it is now evident she will be shortly by i lie immense Hood which is rolling in on 1 icr from all parts of the world, as well t is from America, the tide will immedi- i itcly beoin to ebb, and return our own i ,K: ._ .i /* ii _ - .i mii)> iit:iiis ni'c*? nun, so more is every \ ikciyhoou, snould 1'resmeru Van Buren i jet the young Queen, of which we hove if jretty considerable doubt, we will he able, i\ is ere now did the inhabitants of Luna r 0 their Spanish Viceroy, to give her rolls j )f dollars for a pavement. ? Velasco, (Texas) July 19. v ro the Editor of the N. O. Bi llktin a SIR?Knowing the present hard times fj n your country, that any thing new would , r >e welcome, [leaving out money matters I ihich, by the way are very hard here,] las prompted me to write. In doing so take the greater pleasure, as I have good ], ews to tell. A few days hack Captain 0 .'hompson, of the Mexican Navv, landed |, 1 an open boat at .Matagorda. He sta-! w lm! that he had deserted the Mexican Na-||, y, and was now willing to fight against u hem. lie proceeded to Velasco f.oin |, datagorda, where he is now at libertv.L j f r> ,nd tolerably well treated. Since lie has |, irrived, Capt. Wheelwright, and Doctor ,, ^evy of the Independence, have made a heir escape. 'I'hey came lound in an ipen boat from the Brazos Santiago; lwol8 >r three days out. The President has c rone up to Nacogdoches, for the purpose | if treating with the Cherokees anil Creeks, ,, mil through them, with the Cuniaoches | tnd other tribes. lie possesses nnbound-t( ?d power over these Indians; they think ] hat no one is equal to him. A systemat-L c and violent opposition to the execution j s las sprung up amongst some of the pen- , jde of this and the low country; they arejj, "lot content with giving false coloring to 1 j liis acts, but descent' to low abuse and j | blackguardism. None hut simpletons, 1 , may say fools, would he guilty of such j j means of opposing any administration, as, j they must know '.'.at : uch a course niust'j recoil oil tluir own heads. I am happy ] to say. however, so I ng as be acts as he | has lone, that a lnr_e majority will sup- , port him. Indeed he is the most popular < man now in the country, and it is not tincommon t > licar j he poor soldier tsav'j when 'illusion's name is mentioned, that , lie is tin true (rierid to Texas, and the , volunteer; and, Mr F itor, it is his course | to these volunteers .it ha- endered him | unpopular, when he is so, the interest of , the eiiizen is to have the I.and Ofl ipp nnm , different it is with the volu' tcrr, and so j IloustuH has acted and thought. I have { lately been t?? Houston, it is a nourishing < place; it lias from three to four hundred houses in it, and many more daily commencing. The capital is nearly finished, and presents a handsome appearance, indeed it would do honor to some of the 2(i States, and certainly to Florida, if her census shows strong enough to boast of one. San Antonio is at present in Texns what the W liite Sulphur Springs are in t Virginia; upwards of 1500 citizens hav-ii ing gone there to spend the hot month?, i Our crops arc truly splendid, corn partic- < ularly ; (here has been an unusual quanti- i ty of corn planted this season, and we < shall now have no occasion to send to i the States for that article. A plentiful I crop o( cotton may also be anticipated; I indeed, I see no difference between Texas i as it is, and Virginia or Kentucky, ex- i cept that one# acre of ground here, pro- ] duces three limes as much as there, and i it is a little warmer. Notwithstanding the i plenty in the ground, old corn yet sells ' well, bringing 95 a sack, and flour 15 a i 920 per bbl. The candidates are slowly coining out, and from tlmse who are out we may expect u more talented House of. i Representatives, a thing most devoutly to be wished for. Col. Coleman was drown- | ed a few days since together with a Mex < ican. There were also live persons drowned in attempting to come ashore from a hrig outside?two Indies and three children amongst them. Emigration still (lows in : anion<rst the vessels latelv in. i r>" ^ '* "i "' ! there were eight families, averaging eight, children a family ; several others of less number also on the same vessel. Bui no more at present. Respectfully, J. W. N. B.?Since writing, Capt. Thompson illuded to, has been arrested by Major J. \V. Scott, and Capt. 1*. iiumpreys; they lesrrve credit for their gentlemanly deportment toward him; they have exam-1 i tied his papers and state that no doubt < rxists of bis being set at liberty, and com- ] Missioned in oi.r Navy, as he wishes to i >e ; tlmy started for Houston to-day, via t Diazoria. j 1 From t.lir New Orleans bulletin. I Some lime ago a poor woman came to :l bis city in the steamer Liitlo Rock, , \ik. She brought with her two children, >nc a boy about seven years of age, named . Mexauder Hill, the other n little girl four years old, named Ellen Eliza Hill, ^hc ariived here on Sunday morning, the 2d day of July last, and bring inhumed i bat the Far West would remain a very , . . . I short time at the Levee, she immediately j tut her children on shore and had her j roods landed?among which* was a trunk ontaining two hundred and seventy-live i lollars. She left them on the levee for a i i short tme. until she could go and seek a j olging. Wl at was In r surprise and i iffonv on returning in an hour or two, to i o ? s ind that the steamer hail gone somewhere I long the coast anil that her cirldren anil | runk had heen taken away. She imioe- i i liately commenced a starch after the? hildron, and was advised to enquire at I he different orphan asylums for them. 1 she did so, hut unwittingly offended ai< ady who had the supcrinduncc of one of he asylums, and w ho, doubting her state* j nent, caused her to he arrested and earned before the mayor, by whom, as she i vas a stranger and had no person to < ouch for her, she was committed to pri- i on for one month. On Sunday last she i vas released. She immediately rccom- i ncnccd her search lor her children and < iroperty, but to no purpose hitherto, i >he takes this method therefore of cn- < renting the humane to aid her in disco- j i ering her children. Whoever will leave " nv information on the matter at this of- i ire, addressed to Mary Jane Hill, shall I eceive the grateful thanks of a bereaved 1 American mother. i Case of extreme suffering.?The fol- 1 owing ease of' extreme suffering lately s ocurred to a hoy of the name of Cope I1 dunging to ||. M S. Revenge, hut who ' 1 as elriiieel out of Malta harbor in a small 1 oat with an artilleryman, both in a state 1 f drunkenness. The boy is now on 1 onrd the Carysfoit, Capt. Martin at Con lantinople. Cope and the artilleryman 1 aving fallen asleep in a boat were drifted ' ut to sea before they were awakened, ltd for five days continued without seerig a sail or getting assistance in any hape. About the filth day they held a onsuhation on their prospects, and de- 1 ermined to wait resignedly the approach if death. Soon after they seemed to rave resolved to die together, ami to this ml took (lie plug out of ti e boat, and ockeil in each others arms ami tied together laid down to drown. The boat iwampcd but would not sink. Cope got ip and said be had thus offered to do, but is it seemed God bad willed otherw ise, be -> 111 in the plug and bailed out the boat with lis bat. The artillery man said be would tot live any longer, bis legs were swollen o the size of bis thighs, bis belly drawn o nothing, bis face inflamed, mouth loaning. speech nearly gone and eye-sight dim; liis conversation, when speaking of bis Iriends, was intelligible, but he showed ?vident symptoms of insanity, and on the rnghth day jumped overboard and was ; frowned. On the following dav, 2?"> hours ifter Chambers bad drow ned himself, a ressel hove in sight; be bad scarce strength to hold his bat tip on a pole, but io was seen and piekid tip by an Ionian tark, bound to Constantinople, after ha- I ring been front the night of the !5lh of \pril to the 24th. without a morsel of *ood or a drop of liquid, pave sail water1 ind It is own urine, neither of which he 1 jould resist drinking. < From the New York Gazette. Copy of a letter to the Mayor of this J lity, from a gentleman at Amhoy. Pf.kth Amroy. > July 29th 1837. $ Dear Sir : The Ilritish brig Rosebank, Captain Montgomery, from Belfast* has Arrived liere with 123 passengers, consigned to the Shaws. They hove brought "4 ' the small pox witli. There wax one death si few.days before their arrival, and ten cases now on board. They are now lying at the Quarantine Ground of Perth Amboy. Their destination is New York, but in consequence of the sickness among litem, the authorities here are at a loss to know what to do with them. The Inspector says it will not do to send them to Harkensnrk Bridge, it will he risking the health and good favor of that place ! The Board of Health met this (Saturday) afternoon, to adopt some plan. Mr. Shaw is here. The consignee of the Jacob Pennel is Mr. Keenan of the firm of Herdman. Kecnan &. Co. of New York." Of all the patient and unresisting peo.^1^ ^C T^T ir i |m<-, we ui oew iorn surpass ail others. Of the foreign and Ameiican vessels that have gone to Perth Amboy during the last three months, the passengers of nearly or quite eve^' one of them being 3,293, have been consigned to Kawson & Mc- : Murray, Ilerdman & Kocnan, Douglass, Robinson, &, Co.; or some other Rritish firm resident in New York; and the passc?ngers have accordingly been fraudulent* ly forced upon New York. Now let us ask, would such base conduct be borne in any other country ? We fearlessly answer no. Our city is daily in danger of plague and pestilence from the hordes of unfortunate creatures who are dragged into it by those sharing its protection and comforts. And the city is thus defrauded of her security against their becoming a public charge. Is this to be quietly subintitedto? Why do not the authorities station officers along shore to prevent them from landing on our Island ? Let means be taken to protect us Irom these worse lhan slave smugglers. Let those means be ub it ihey may.?[N. Y. Gaz. (ioiiimiiiiicatioiip. for the courier. Mr. Fditoi; ? In your Courier of 22<l tilt. I saw sonic strictures on my remarks on "Urtsts i\o. I." over the si* nature of "A Young PI utter." The tenacity with which he adheres, to his first position, is only equaled by by the gentlemanly manner in which those strictures are made. Anomalous as it , may seem, he makes me both sorry and glad; sorry to widely differ with a man of improved mind, and glad, notwithstanding, to find him a man of chaste and refined feelings: but to my subject. The Young Planter says, "Now unless I have been grossly misinformed through the medium of the public prints, titer# has been a large amount of coin imported, which, considering our great indebtedness, might have contributed to shake the basis of the currency in England, and thereby cause a demand on us for specie, lint to produce a result of sueli startling inagnitudeaslhe present calamity,there arc doubtless various causes." Now, I positively deny, that our government imported any specie directly from England, or that it was in debt to that nation; and if the government or people of that country suffered our citizens to leather their eyes, uid drean the specie from them, our government is not to he charged with it, or "rcspossihle for it;" and the "startling magnitude of our present calamity" has been caused by our own people, and not by the government. If I am mistaken in iliis assertion, adduced farts to the contrary will shew it, but there must be facts, tnd not guess-work. Again he says, "It strikes tny mind forcibly, that the removal j( the depositcs was the most potcnl first :ause." Cause of what? of the larrre im - - (""" c " portations of coin? or the present indebtedness and distress in our country? To my mind; it caused ne ither one or the other, uny more than it could produce a volcanic eruption in Mount Etna; and facts must be adduced to sustain such premises, or 1 nevi r can b< lievc it; and 1 am so ineffably stupid as to think it very strange that any man of unprejudiced mind, could bring himself to believe it: Again he say*, '"the deposite of the public funds in ihe pet Ranks, and their subsequent transfer and dcvMnn among the different Slates, led to a state of things which the "Old Farmer" so inneh deprecates, to wit: inordinate Bank issues, and the great expansion of the credit system without an adequate sperie basis." As to there bring any such things a? "pet Banks" 1 unhesitatingly deny. The Banks that received the public deposite.s in the different States, were first inquired into, and considered solvent and safe, then the deposites weve offered on condi lion that they made the govej nincnl serine in the return of the money when required, or that they disburse it under the direction of the government, and without charge or expense. Now, if I deposite money with a merchant or other citizen, and require his bond and#ecnrity, that he will pay my debts according to my orders, to the amount deposited, is he to be considered as my "pet?" I think not. The "inordinate Dank issues and jreat expansion of the < redit svstem" was pot authorized by the government, and Heaven forbid it should ever have power to do acts of that kind. The dread of such power, in an unconstitutional Bank nf the United States, cannot be viewed ivith too much jealousy, or we may yet l)e governed by a monied obligatory: then farewell to* liberty and our Republican institutions. "Ag? in, he says, speaking of the four millions." He here alludes to me; my memory is bad, but I certainly think I never heard any thing about the "four millions'* before, or how it was "invested in unhallowed speculations in the West." If the people of the West enter into "im?