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_ ^saacKBiBcioiisL (DCDH^X^IB^ L.li.fONEa.4pbo. Jfc T ai *** " ^ ?p?i? > ^ ^ "4t t1ie '""he wood we aim." 1 ... ' hi.. Tn| -, "~ " Bgg???? ' ?' M. LEW. Editor. f Ct"Pt!>' SO t i ll C4tt?U.\A, HATI'KUAY MTESBER li. IW ^?i | * HO, 98* TERMS *' OF THE O0MMBR0IA.L OOTraXSRt Punished treeklyly every Saturday morning at $3 per annum if paid in advanco, or $-4 if not paid until tko oxpiration of tlio yoar. Persons subscribing out of tho State, aro required to pay in advance. No subscription received fur a less term than one year. Advertisements will be insortod at One Dollar poi square for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents tor ovory continuance. Those Advoi tisonionts that do not have the numbor of insertions marked on Hie margin will be published until forbid, and charged accordingly. QjT All Lottore addressed to this O.Tice, must bo post paid. BOUTS 8UOE4. * AT the store heretofore occupied by J. Pishop 4l Co., the subscriber lias opened a large end extensive assortment of Hoots and Shnrjr, which were selected particularly lor the retail trade 1'rom the most approved manufactories?to wit. Gentlemens fine Calf .pools. " Waterproof " " Stout Calf sewed " ?? i; <i petrgred " *' fine" Bootees " Stout 44 44 u Fine Shoes and Pumps " India Kubl>er over-shoes Ladies French and Morocco Slippers " Gater Boots u Black and White Sattin Slippers " New style over shoes " 44 44 Rubber 14 Buckskin and Velvet 14 Seal Slippers and walking shoes Misses Seal and Prunella walking 44 44 44 Slippeis 44 Leather Boots and Shoes 44 New style Rubber 44 Eoy3 Fine and stout Boots 44 44 44 44 Bootees it ii << it Shoes 14 44 Dancing Pumps Childrens black and colored Prunella Boots it n i? ?| || Slioes 44 Seal and Morocco Boots and 44 44 Leather Boots and >hoes. A large stock of Mens stout shoes and brogans suitable for plantations, and 6000 n. i? ^ 1 i airs 01 i>egro shops, ^ainaen make, superior to .-.any others in the district. ai.so Northern and Southern Sole leather, ITppei * leather, French and Northern < 'nlf skins. Lining and Binding skins, various colored Morocco skins for Coach trimming. Shoe knives, pincers, kit files, punches, awl Mades and halls, boot webbing, heel ball, shoe tackr, bristles sparables, peg cutlers, sand stones, jiggers, shoulder sticks, sine lasts nnd all other articles generally in use with shoema eis? also every description of imported shoe thread, shoe blacking and varnish Dry liides received in exchange. GEO. ALDEN. Sept 30 22 tf \dV DOLLARS 11fiWA?!>.?Abscon\^ded Jrom the subscriber in llarnwell L)ist. S. ? \, on the night of the 15tli inst. a negro man named R RUB FN, he also took v\ith him a dark sorrel Mare about 13 hands high, said mare has a small star in her face, aud Iras two saddle minks on her back. Reuben is about 25 or 30 years of age. f> feet high, dark complected, speakr quick when spoken to, nnd when lie left, had on a blue cloth coat. and a black lint with crape around it. The subscriber bought said negro from a man who said his name was JOHN EDWARDS, an I that lie lived in about 6 miles of Camden, lie was travelling to Alabama, and had four siaves in coin any with Inn, of which Reuben was one, lie in also of opinion, tliat said boy has by an.iip hip.his came up with ins former master, and that will endeavor to get him out ot the state for the purpose 01 re-seling him. Any person taking up said negro, and Induing him in jail, and giving information thereof to ine, at il|ackvilh* Post-office, Barnwell District, 3. C., shall receive the above reward. SAMUEL REED. Oct. 21 25 4t* A CARD.?The subscribers having opened a Taylor and Drapers business 2 doors -south of iiolleytnan G.iss' store, on Main-slrei l, beg leave to lender their services to the citizens oi Camden and its vicinity, in cutting and making up cloth in tlte latest and inost fnsluonab e styles^ They will receive the New loik and I'luludel_i.:~ i* .L: - .? i.. puiuL iiiuinuii3 ijuuiirny. They will execute all orders that may he entrusted to their care, with neatness and despatch?and hope by close and unremitting attention to busirtess, to merit a share of pnbhc patrunag. SFVKKNS SMITH. Camden, S. C Sep. 2:\ 21 Ut AtJAItD.? The undersigned having formed a coparlneisliip 111 the Mercantile business, would respectfully solicit Irom their liiends and the public, a share of patronage. intend keeping a full assortment of Fancy ? .** ele Dry Guods, ol the latest fashions: a i. s o ; of the choicest kind, all ol which they vin impose of on the most accommodating terms. R. L VVlhsiOiN, J. L JOiNES. Camden, Aug. 30, 1837. 18 tf Will. R1KCLA1, Mrovtralt M'aintcr, HAS arrived in Camden, mid bus taken rooms over Mr. Alex. Young's store, where lie will be pleased to attend to all orders ho may bo favored with. Specimens of his Painting can be seen at Mr. Young's SSepti 30 22 4 I# ||AlLORJNG.?The undersigned beg leave to inform their friends and the public generally that they have entered into copartnership in carrying on the Tailoring business, and by close attention and a disposition to please, will endeavor to merit a sharo of public patronage. , .M DONALD&BRAS1NGTON. Mar f, 1*37. M op, tf BY ^kUTIlORITv! Laws of hf. United Staves passed at the fist session iifthe twenty-fifth C'ongiu.ss. Public?ino. 7. _ -AN ACT mukinir an additional npnropriHllun for ilie supnression of Indian hostilities for llie year one thousand eight!; hundred and thirtt -seven. Br it enacted by the Senate and Ifouse 1 oj Representatives of the United States ii \q?^imcrica in Congress assembled, Thai | line lather hum of one million six hun-ji TiiousaiMi tiollors shall be, and th?- I suTtflfcis liercby impropriated, ?>ut of any i mtjney in the T^msnry not otherwise ap < propriuted, to d?lr?y^iny expenses which i have been or ina^ be incurred, in pre- i venting or suppre^ng the hostilities of any Indians; to be expended under the i direction of the^Secreiary of War, con- i fortnably to tl (Joitgress of the !j nineteenth ??f eighteen hui dred and thirty-six. and of the second of Inly eigh- i teen hundred unr'1 thirty-six, and of the i acts therein referred,to. J A M lis K. POLK, Speaker of the House of lit-presentativds: Hi I. Al. JOHN O s President of the Senate. < ArrnovED, October 10, 1^37. I M. VAN bUREN. Pitni tf?1VI? 5 AN ACT authorizing :? further postponement payment upon ?lut\ iioiuls. lie if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the baited State s of Americam (Jonpress assemb/ed, 'Foal th?' Secretary of the Treasury be, ami he hereby is, authorized to gram such further extension of cedit upon all bonds lor du- I lies now outstanding us shall make the I whole exietisi ni of credit upon each b nd ? nine months Irom the time when the ??ri- I ginal bond became due and payable; mi- t king tlie extension in each cas?- to depend I upon the same conditions as to addilion h 1 security, the pavmem of interest, and < other t? rms, which have been prescribed i by the Treasury Department, to the exit nsi n of cveitue bonds since May last: , l*K"Vii>r.n, That nothing herein contained , shall he construed to include any existing bonds where the parlies to the same hav not, since the bonds became payable, giv en additional security, or made part payment, aud are by the proper officers of the (Jovernment, considered insolvent, or unsafe securifies for the payment of their honds. Skc. 2. And be it fuYther enacted, That a credit ?rf three and six months shall be allowed on the do y on all merchandise which shall have heeit or may be imported on or before the first day of November next, upon which the duties are payable I 1 II P'icli o i.il t l?ot fit** I * i* ? ... ...... u.'.i me linn ICO'IVL'II 111 r , such duties shall !? payable in eqmil in- , stalmenls bearing interest nt the rate of six per cent, per uiuuin, and shall be in | the Inrin and upon the conditions prescri- . b? <l l>\ existing laws a id by this act. , i e II And be it further enacted. That | where the security in any bond which lias j been, or in iy hereaf er be postponed, is | entile y satisfactory, the principal or sure- | ties in the Mime shah not be disabled from | being in the meantime, till the period of , postponement provided for by this act expin s, received as principal or sureties in other bonds for duties, notwithstanding t < bond lirst jjtven may not have licen actually | aid, discharged, or xtended before or on the day it fell due : Provided, i That such pr'ncipal and sureties shall be I found, in al! o her respects, safe and sat- i isfactoiy secnritN fir tlie funds to which ? ihev tnnv he proposed as parties. * Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That ? ihe operation of all prior laws, and parts ? ,.f .... r.- .... : : - - in n> ii n, n" 1.1 an 11 It" 1111 > " I Sit' I > I Will) IIIIS f net, 1)0 suspended in the particulars in r which they n ay conflict with, or difloi 11 from, its provisions until this act shall i cease by its own limitations. 7 Approved, Ociobt r lOtli, lb37. c ( Public?No 0. ( AN ACT for adjusting the remaining v claims upon the late d?posiie hanks. t Br it enacted by the Senate and House t f O--' - ' 11. . ' ' ytl in jn cm IllUdfi ? III IIIC U II11 I'd i>lCLlt'S (if I Awrrii a in ( on gross assembled, That i the Secretary of the Treasury be, ami he t is hereby autlmiized to continue to with- c draw the public moneys now remaining in \ any of the former depotuic hanka, iri a t manner as gradual and convenient to ?lie c institutions as shall be consistent with the* pecuniary wants of the Government, and v the safety of the funds thus to be drawn; a and that no further interest than that re- s quired by the depositc act of the twenty- h third of June, one thousand eight hundred i and thirty-six, under which those deposites i were made, shall be demanded of any f ibauk which has met, and shall hereafter meet, the requisitions of the Department, r w * # v , This provision shall also extend to such public myneys ns may remain in any of the said banks, whether standing to the credit of the Treasurer of ;'ie United Slates, <*r of any disbursing or other public officer of the Government. *ec. 2. And be it further fnactcd, That in case of npglect or refund by any of the said hunks to comply with the requisi-, tions of the Secretary of the Treasury, a* he shall make them, in conformity with the first section of this act. suits snail he instituted, where that has not al-eady b".en done, to recover, the amounts due to the United States, unless the defaulting bank shall loith \ itti cause to be executed unit delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury, a bond, with security to he appr ?ved by ! the Soliei'or of the Treasury, to pay t ?tiie ! United Slates the whole moneys due from it in three instalments. The first to be paid to the first day of July next, the ?e- ; cotid on tile lirst 'lav of January, eighteen hundred nn i 'hirty-uine, and the remaining instalment on the first day of July, pighieen hundred and thirty-nine; and the default mentioned in this art on whieh interest is to eommenee at the rate of six per rent, shall be understood to he the neglect or omission of said hatik^, or any nl them, to answer ihe d alts .ir?requisilion of lite Secretary ofethe rretsury, made on them arc inline to the provisions of the first section of this art; and interest thereon at the rate of six p? r centum per annum, from the time of default, to-] gethcr with any damages which may have | accrued to the United States from protests of diafts drawn upon .t, or from any other! consequence of its failure to fulfil Us obligations to the public Treastu ?. Ai'pr ivi:r?, October U'ub. Is37. REsoLUTlO* Alo. 1. I um.ie. A RES<>LU I'lON directing the postage on letters sent by the Express Mail t-> he paid in advanre. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States if America in us*e mbied^ Thai the Postmaster General he, and lit; is lierehy, directed lo cause the p stage 011 ill letters neiii by tin Express .Mail ?l the Juited States to be pan! in advance at the tine of dep teiting them for tiansportution >y said mail. Approved, Oct. 16th. 1S37. Rodbi.ry. ? A man by the ntt nc ot| Dupe, was found on Monday evening last seven miles nl?o\e Defiance, mangled in a most horrible manner. Several larae g.tshos were inflicted upon iannus parts >f his head and mouth, and at the lime lie ivas discovered were filled with riiit{rj;nt8. He was alive when we rereiied our infor nation, hut unable to speak. Ills saddle>ags were found about twenty feet from us body, cut open at both ends, and the lothes in them of the best quality. Paicrs were fount! on him, by which it was hscove ed that he was from Ontario cotinV, New York, that his father resides in I ennesser, ami mat he lias* other friends iving in Indiana. In a hel around Inlody, tlir<??* humlr< d ?ml liItV dollars in Told an I silver was found, which had es* 'aped the eyes of the robbers. The ;round was trodden np very much, and from appearances n hard strut; le bad enwed between the parties. .\o money ivas found in his poekels. and his horse if lie had one was taken by the robbers. It s the opinion of the physician attending 'tiin, that he will survive, and as soon as lie is able to speak, some clue may by lad whereby the perpetrators of this ' or* ibleaet can be discovered.--Maumcc Kxorcss. THE PI \S\. Art Indian Tradition of Illinois. No part of the United Slates can' vie, ti wild and romantic scenery, with the >1 ulis of Illinois. On one side of the iver, often at the water's edge, a perpen- ' fibular wall of rock rises to ihe height of , tome hundred feet. (Scnerally on the , ipposiie shore is a level bottom or prairie, ( I several mile's width; extending i?> a ; iimilar bluff that rises parallel with the iver. One of these ranges commences it Alton, and extends, with a few intervals, i 'or many miles along the left hank of ilie Mississippi and Illinois rivers. In rlesren- , ling the river to Alton, the traveller will . ihserve between that town and the mouth j ?f the Illinois, an arrow ravine, through vhich a small stream discharges its w aers into the Mississippi. That stream is he Piasa, its name is Indian, and signifies | n the language of the Illinois, *'The h.rd hat devours men." Near the mouth of , hat stream, on life smooth and perpendi- ! :ular fare of the blntr, at an elevation j vhich no human art can reach, is cut I lie 1 igure of an enormous bird, with its wings | 'Ylntidfwl. The bird which this figure represents, i vas called by the Indians. " I he Pias.i/'? md from this is derived the n.?ine of tin- ( trcam. The tradition of the Piasa is (ill current among all the tribes of the ( ipper 1tois*issippi, and those who have i nlmbited the valley of the Illinois and is < >rielly this : Many thousand moons before the ar ival of the pale faces, when the great . * v r' s Mugulonix and Mastodon, whose hone are now dug up, were still living ir. 'the Ian I of the green prairies, there exist* '1 abirl of such dimension:*, that he ronl easily carry off in his talons, n full grown deer. Having obtai ted a taste of human flesh, from that time he would prey upo nothing else, lie was as artful as he \vhpowerful?would dart suddenly and tin expectedly upon an Intltuu, bear liiin off to one of the raves in the b'utf an I devoirhim. . Hundreds of warriors attempted for y?ars t?? destroy him, but without success. Who If) vil'ages were nearly depopulate I, and e >nstertialion spread thr ' all the tribes of the I'linois. At length, Owatoga. a Chief whose feme extended as a warrior, even beyond the* gr<'at lakes, J separating himself from the rest of bis tribe, fasted in solitude for the sp?ce of a whole moon, and putyed to the great spirit, the master of life, that be would protect bis children from the Pin-a On the last night of his fust the great spirit appeared to him in. .1 dream, and1 directed him'fb s- lect twenty ??f tiis war riors, each armed with a bow and (minted! arrows, auft conceal them I t a d.si Minted spot. Near the place of their concealment another warrior was |?> s: n I in pen view, as a?vic:im for the Pia.-a, which tl?e\ must sh ot the instant that he p un-i c.mI upon his prey. When the chief! awoke in the fnor iug, he thanked the Ureal Spirit, returned to his irihe, and told tliem his dream. The warriors w?*re quickly selected, and place d in ambush is directed. Owatoga offered himself a> the j'ictim. lie was willing to d.e for his tribe. Placing himself in open, view oi the bluff, he soon saw the Piasa perched i on the cliff eyeing his prey. Owatonal drew up Ins manly form lo i's utmost height, and placing his fret fi inly up-m the earth, began to chauut the death song of u waiiior. A moment alter, ihe Piasa rose into the air, and sw ift as the thiio < r ' I ho!i darted down upon the chief. Scarce-1 l\ had lu reached lis victim, wlun ever} how was sprung and every arrow sent to the feather into his body. The Piasa uttered h wild, fearful scream, that ie-i sounded far over the opp>si?e side ot ihej rnei,a id expired. Owafoga was saf? ; not an arrow, not even the talons of the! !):rd had touched liiiu. The M ister ofj lift , in ado irati o of the nohto deed of. O watogn, had held over him an i visihl 1 shield In memory of litis event, tins' intake of the Piasa was engraved in the tare of the bluff". Such is the Indian tradition, of course I do not vouch for its iruth. This much however, is certain, 'lie figure of a lart?e hird, cut into the solid rock, is s'ill there, and at a height ( that is perfectly inaccessible. II w, amlj f?r what purpose ii was uta le, I ieuve u?r tuners in ni'icrmine. I'jVcn at 111 is day, an Indian never passes that spot in his canoe, without firing his jiti i at the figure it the bird. Tin marks' of balls on the rock" are almost innuincra- < hie. Not a gn at while sinee, I was in-1 ilured to visit the bluffs below the mouth' f the Illinois river, ami above that of the Piasa. My curios ty was principally directed to the examination of the rave connected with the above tradition, as one J >f those t ? which tin bird had carried its tuirna victims. Preceded by an intelli-j gent guide who carried a spade, I set out on mv excursion. The cave was extreme-1 ly ditlicult ot access, and at one point of our progress, I stood at an elevation of more than 150 feet on the face ol the, hi till*, with barely r ><.rn to sostatn one loot, tile unbroken wall towered above inc, while below was the river. After a long uml perilous clambering1 we reached the cave, which was about 50 feet above the! surface of til river. Rv the nirl of n I.our 11 pole, placed on the projecting rock, ami I the upper cud touching the uiouth of the 11 ilie cave, \vc succeeded in entering it. Notliino could he moie impressive than the view from the entrance of the cavern, h The Missi-sippi was rolling in silent grandeur htnenth us?high over- our heads, n single c< dar hung its I ra tches over the j i cliff- 011 the blasted top of which, was 1 seated a haul lv?g'e. No other sound or i -igu of life was near us- a sahluith still- i ness rested upon the scene?not a cloud I in the Heavens - not n breath of air stir- I liny ? ill- broad Mississippi lay before us, i calm and smooth as a lake The land- | scape presented the same will aspect as t it did b< fore it had yet met the eye of I the white man. 'I he roof f the rnvcrn was vaulted, I l ie top of which was hardly less than ' twenty-five feel in heigh'? the sh.ip? of the tare was irregular, but so fai as 1 could judge, the bottom would av<rage ;?0 hy 3<) feet. The flo.?r of the < ave throng h its u hole extent was a muss of human hones, skulls i.ml other nones were mingled together in the uttermost confusion. In what deptii they i xiend, I am unubh lo decide?hut we dug to the depth ot three or four feet in every quarter of the tavern, and still we foil ul only hone-. The remains of thousands must have beer deposited here. How, and by whom and lor what purpose, it is impossible i conjecture. The ' Home."?Wu have been mm-' , gratified to find, from the Cards of the nassengors of this ill-fated vegexperienced the most kind 4?VNMpUpT[ie attentions from many cijti7fcfW odir Vjtate in every town which they vh|itR,l srfier that misfortune?Ocrac?k??,"Newborn, Washington, Trenton and Wilmington? all seemed to vie in efforts n? < xiiidii meir svmpatny in tlie mos? substantial modes. What is our regret. therefore, to find* the following account of the hrutal rood net of some monsters who infest the roust Opon which t!jo nccidert happened ! We trust that justice will overtake them, even in this world. STEAM PACKET HOME?Brutal conduct. " The schooner A'las. Captain Curtis, rom Washington, N. C. arrived at New Yo k on Monday, having on board Mr._ John Mather, of New York, a passenger on board the Home, and Conrad Hilton, of Alabama, a waiter on board that unfortii ate vessel. These persons state that the passengers saved were robbed of every thing ihev had by the people on shore. Upwards of an hundred trunks were driven on shore, broken open and rifled of their contents?even the dead bodies were plundered; five sovereigns and a gold watch were taken from one ~f them, tine of the Indies saved, accompanied by a g nilemun, went to a house and claimed (4lgirAJ.*|,uks, but were driven away with thrests aod oaths. The lady begged for her.(follies, she having none but what she CHiny ashore in, hut they were deaf to her entreaties, and drove her away.?Fayettetitle Observer. Captain B iggs, of.ihe steamboat Ccn. Gaines, who left New Orleans just before* the storm of the 7th instant, informs the editor ?>f tiie L 'liistilie Journal, that the gal" siruck hi til near Pla^ucmine, and that ii blew subsequently with immense v 1 (I i (Ml P. Tf? t's; it'#!'!! n urii.itP'l a riil ? ~ - - . - .T ? XI V U|f| w.riv<l U \ I 171 V ken, and flat b "n?? destroyed in great number*. . ap:ain Bo.*!* remained over niglit a litih-h< i w the mouth of Red River, where lie saw the air whitened with cotton, which was blown from the fields half arrow the Mi?issippi The opinion w ns thai at least one-third of the whole cotton crop \? as blow n away The condition of the sngii crop was sucli that the injury done to it can not but have been immense. Ai Natchez several small houses were swept iw.t\. The gate was not less furious tin re, than in tin region farther South. The eaUmity is probably the greatest that bas befallen the Southern country for several years. The Real F.state Rank at Columbus (Miss.) wis robbed on the 3d instant, of *5,600 in notes. The bank is on the second lloor, and the rogues gained admittance by means of a ladder placed at a window. KNOWLEDGE. Extract from Professor Lindsley's Sermon on tin: " 1/npi ovt ment of Time." "Knowledge is power?is wealth?is honor. It raises the savage abijve the brute; atid the peasant in civilized socieIV* 1*111 11 Itlinvn <h.? caniiira WIiSIa !? . , | ? ? ?? ow ?^\ ? VT IIIIC lb rxait*. llit* tc%% who j>oks? hs its richest stores, as tar above the mass of the unit nrned, as they transcend the brute creation. Knowledge opens the surest path to usefulness and eminence. It confers a nobility which no hereditary rank can equal, nnd which kings and princes cannot bestow. Knowledge, consecrated to its legitimate end, "onstitutes the brightest ornaine it of human nature. It is, nnd must he, the main pillar of our republican institutions?of all civil nnd religious liberie?of all that the patriot and the chris ; i. . i i -i - - * ikiii mimii unifsi near 11[???ri rami. ll is Si treasure of which no adverse forn.n , or persecuting power, no malignant iiend, ran deprive its possessor. In poverty? in exile?at home?abroad?in the wilderness?on the ocean ? in prison?in bonds, it is his companion and solace: like Cicero, and Luther, and Knox, and Milion. and Locke and a thousand others unfortunate and more oppressed than they, lie ear. ever turn to a profitable account. So far as this world merely is in question, it is more d< sirahle than any or all other possessi- ns. \N ith what invincible, per sevt ring ardor, then, ought its acquisition lo he prosecuted by every ingenious vontli, who aspires to the perfection of Ins nature, and to the most commanding <1 here of * u nan anion ! N.'U i* your tin e to lay up treasures ?f knowledge?iii w perhaps or never. Now \ou commence your labors irr that c\huusiless mine which will aflord you employ menl and delight through the longest life, or you set the seal to your ?wn voluntary degradation and insignifi nce while you live. Here you will refully and diligently lay that solid and ad foundation, upon which the loftiest .porstruetiirc may he raised by future diistry ; or you will trifle away the premis moments till you despair of being Me to redeem; and then mingle with e common herd of the idle, the abandond, and the worthless?the objects of the v, me contempt and the worn 01 mankind. ' t