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discourse delivered before
7 he g r a/) ua ting class of the
college of charleston?by
ki.v. j. ir. miles:-'
We noticed this able and eloquent produclion
when delivered in tfife .College Chapel. Its
impassioned, and, occasionally, nervous arid
glowing diction U made the vehicle of sound
opinions ideniied with judicious advice. The
theme wjfeh has been treated in the following
* passage has been iiiadn over and over again the
sunject of descant, in prose and verse; it has
lost t he attraction of novehv. whether of thouirht
^ " v ' , ^ c
or language; yet there is something in the im^
agery and diction of this extract, instinct with
eloquence, which will favorably compare with
any similar exercise in rhetoric or composition.
We possess an instructor, whose claims it
would here he impertinent to discuos; hut to
whose moral value, permit nie to direct j'our
serious attention. Let us seek it in contrast
with the hoary and venerable lore of ages;
and fqr this purpose, enter with pie, in imaginatiifk
some well stored library, and glance
arounil upon the stately array of tomes, in which
the wisdom nnt^tbe mighty thoughts of the
dead are garnered up. They are immortal.?
There they stand,*so calm and solemn, as if
conscious of their imperishable glory. Dare
we hope, that we, too, will one day be numbered
among those ranks, and leave thoughts for
which tbu wise will barter their gold ! And,
yet, what matters it ? Those creations, it is
' . j ...l'
irne, are great, nouie, ut.nu csa. uie maimctiou,
the incitement, the very ech??, of the heart
of Humanity. Rut they can tell ns nothing of
the mysteries must uecessary tp be known, and
which, curtained by death, and dreadly palled
by iiiturit$j0od retribution, agitate and oppress
the inquiring spirit They can only inform us
that those mysteries have also darkened other
spirits, awakened fears, doubts, and fruitless
speculations; and the collected wisdom of the
world, leaves us only more deeply conscious of
the.ignorance of, man. But amidst the grand
array, the eye of the weary and unsatisfied inquirer,
turns to one small and aufietit volume.
It has passed through a more fiery ordeal of
criticism, than all the writings collectively of
India, Greece, aud Rome; aud holds enthralled
the faith aryl homage of the civilized world.
Strange, Venerable, Awful, Terrible book! It
is folly to ridcule you ; it is madness to reject
you ! With all your* hard" sayings, and dark
Mfl.IlAM ahJ n ?/l if b^AwlAa
i iuuics, auu uim uauiui;tia} auu uiuuuj ow? ivo;
you have triumphed oter the literature of Greeee,
and; what is raare, over the noblest intellects
and the finest hearts which have regalized humanity*
. What a triumphant, though silent concession,
have you extorted from your enomiea,
in tliat thev have deemed you sulHciently formidable,
to elicft almost every thing which learning,
assiduity, genius, weariless research, and
the most'polished' intellectual armory, could
furnisli to combat you. Ooe book in barbarous
dialects, against the glorious language and
unrivalled .genius of a library of Grecianal?
The trUtT Olympian Eagle of Song, the Fiery
Mrw??n? nf the lyric torrent??the enthroned Tri
ad of action and passiort?the Lute-voiced old
Chronicle/;?the Promethean Thief of Clio'*
StyJus-rthe Pure-tongued. Annalis of the Immortal
Retreat?the Thunderbolt of winged eloquence.?.the
mighty genius ot that suble Encyclopedist?
the polished Censor and Panygerist
of declining Athens?the genial Essayist
and Hiogmpl Or?-fad even the sublimely attuned
soul; whose tffoughts and language roll on
like the everlasting harmony of the spheres, yes,
all ?poet, orator, historian, philosopher?you
must all tloff your starry, well-earned crowns,
before the awfn! diadem of thai authoratutive
volume.. Old Grecians, your glory is like the
glitter pf the starry firmament? your majesty
like that of "the old rolling heavens;" but the
Kiblo- is like floods of sunshine, and stormy
night, and lurid fire, and balmy morn, and life
and death, and heaven and hell, in the rapidly
shifting scenes of an universal panorama. Masters
of the'heart and intellect, as ypu"Grecians
<V-. ' ? W
are, your pages have no such pathos as the
story of Joseph?no psalms like the strains of
David?no sublime conceptions of the Omnipotent
Jehovah, like the Hebrew Prophets?no
grandeur like the empyrean-piercing flights of
Pauline eloquence?an eloquence which neither
the intricHi ies of bad Greek, nor .the peculiar
method of Rabbinic logic, can degrade or obscure;
your pages present nothing equal to the
magnificent book of Job?nothing at all comparable
to the wild sublimity of the Apocalyp*
tic epic; and your loftiest and most brilliant
conceptions fade into insignificance and the
dimmest twilight, before the divine majesty of
the simple Gospels. What is the sacrifice of a
raving Hercules, that he might speedily reach
the blessed abodes through the sharp, sel'-uidieted
agonies, which swallowed up in their
fiery haste the slow torments of the gnawing
vest; wha.^ is Agamemnon's touching compulsory
sacrifice of the self-devoted iphigeuia :
what is the affecting self-sacrifice of Alcestis
fur her husband's life; what i* the grand suffering
of Prometheus for the temporal benefit of
the^hntiinn race; what all the voluntary sacrifices
of Grecian story, compared with the overwhelming
tenderness, the unspeakable awe and
sublimity, of the loving sacrifice of the Son < f
God for J^e everlasting salvation of a sinf.l
world ? The genius and learning of the centuries
have been kindled by .and lavished upon
the literature of Greece; but-it never brought
comfort to the penitent spirit; it neversoflened
remorse into repentance, and transformed repen'ance
into tiie hope ol faith ; it never poured
halm into the broken heart, nor consolation
into the bosotu of tile afflicted and desolate ; it
never took away tlio sting of sin, or threw n
halo of triumph around the gloom of death ; it
never extorted from a glorious crowd of genius
and learning, the confession that' this is the
Word of Godas the same old Bible has
mightily done. And after concession is made
which true science and criticism can extort or
demand, the truths of that book will still shine,
a golden chain, linking the deepest and holiest
hopes of man witlkihe heavenly throne of the
eternal God.
"Are you in love, Maria?" "Yes, mn."
"How much?" "Well, I don't know exactly,
but I should think aboui live feet, or thereabouts
for I feci all oveihh like."
4
STATE RIGHTS.
T!ie following is extracted from a speech delivered
by John Randolph, in reply to Patrick
Henry on the subject of State rights. It may
be found in the first volume of Garland's recent
Life of Randolph. It must be recollected that
the speech from which this is an extract was
delivered as far back as 1800:
" Should the Federal Government, therefore,
attempt to exercise.powers that do not belong
to it?and those that do belong to it are few,
sueeified, well-defined?all others being reserv
od to the people and to the States?should it
step heyond its province, and encroach on
rights that have not been delegated, it is the duty
of the States to interpose. There is no other
power that can interpose. The counterweight,
the opposing forcfe of the state, is the
only check to overaction known to the system.
" In questions of meiun et tuum, where rights
of property are coajerneaLftud some other cases
specified in the fcbustWljOn, I grant you that
the Federal JudicrarijKmajH*pron<>unce on the
validity of the lafr. fin in questions involviug
the right to power wwRher this or that power
has been delegated or Ifeseryed, they cannot
and ought not to he the arbiter; that question
has been left, as it always was, and always
must be left, to be deteiiniued among the sovereignties
in the l?est way they can. Political
wisdom has not yet discovered ajiy infallible
| mathematical rule, by whicb to determine the
assumptions of power between those who know
' ' ' " * t' o ??n 4 U n f imnACorl
i no OIIICT lilW Ul lllllltmiv/li Oiuc Lliab lilllJuavu
j upon tliem by their own consent, and which
they can abrogate at pleasure. Pray let me
ask the gentleman?and no one knows better
than himself?who ordained this Constitution V
Who defined its powers, and said, thus far slialt
thou go, but no farther? Was it not the people
of the states in their sovereign capacity t?
Did they commit an act of suicide by so doing ?
?an act of self-annihilation ? No, thank God,
they did not; hut are still nlive, and I trust are
becoming sensible of that importance of those
rights reserved to them, and prohibited to that
government which they ordained for common
defence. Shall the creature of the states be
the sole judge of the legality or constitutionality
of its own acts, in a 'question of power between
them and the states ? Shall they who
assert a right, be the sole judgeaof their authority
to claim and to exerehe it? Does not all
power seek to enlnige itself? grow on that it
feeds upon ? Has not that been the history ot
all encroachment, all usurpation ? If this Federal
Government, in all its departments, then,
is to be the sole judge of its own usurpations,
neither the people nor the statesj in a short
time, will have any thing to contend for; this
ereatare of theirmaking will become their sov
ereign, and the only result of the labors of our
revolutionary heroes, in which patriotic band
this venerable(geutleinan was most conspicuous,
will have been a-changeof our masters?New
England for Old England?for which change
I cannot find it in my heart to thank them.'
Col Jkkfkrso* D*vis.?VVe are informed
that this distingtflshed hero, and Statesman,
will visit event ]Hirt of Mississippi, previous to
the meeting in Congress, in December next, and
address his fellow .citizens on the dangers that
surround the SdaVh. A cordraf welcome awaits
him every where. He is one of the Jewels
of Mississippi, that site delights to cherish
and honor- .He led her sons to glory and fame
that never dies, on the bloody fields of Monterey
and Bucna Vista. He is a Soldier and a States
? A - mo?? Itroll
mail, lllill nilV umvr, u> uuiiuh uiu> nm ui
proud of.? Alius. Jacksonian.
Was Washington born in England.?The
Boston Transcript publishes nn extract from a
letter dated isle worth, Middlesex, England,
Feb. 25th 1851, and addressed to Geo. Harvey,
Esq., Winthrop House Boston, Mr. Field has in
possession an original portrait of Washington's
mother, which he wishes to present to our government.
Mr. Field is 75 years old, and a gentleman
in every way to be relied J>n. He raises
the question of Washington's native land, by
the following paragraph:
"It happened when I was a boy, that being
in the neighborhood of Cookham, Berkshire,
with an uncle of mine, he pointed out n pretty
country cottage in which the parents of General
Washington resided, and from which they re
moved to America. Uur roan leu 10 a green
or common, where there resided a Mrs. Anna
Morer, whose maiden name was Taylor, who
there showed me the portrait of Mrs. Washington
and other reliques of the family, given to
her when they quitted the place for America, to
which country her aunt and mother, she told
me, 'took their son (George Washington) in her
arms.' I believe I use her own expression."
Damages against the T'legraph Company.?
Tiie proprietors of the New York Express have
recovered from Morse's Telegraph company for
tlu ir failure to deliver a despatch in New York
which had been paid for in Ihis cTty, the clerk
of the company at New York having withheld
the despatch, because payment of a previous
demand bad not been made.
1 Va.sh ington Rrpu 1)1 ic.
Mr. Whitney, despairing of Congress ever
making his railroad to the Pacific, goes out in
flm Ktpjimor hv invitation from England, it is
said to negotiate for a route through |f|?|?t-r
Canada, ami through the lands of the Hudson
Hay Compauy, above tlie United States boundary.
Tlic Sfiit.?The mean depth of the sen, according
to La Place, from three to five nrles. If
the existing waters were increased by
one-fourth, it would drown the earth, with the
exception of some high mountains. If the volume
of the ocean were augmented by only oneeighth,
considerable portions of present continents
would be changed all over the globe. Uvaporation
would be. so much extended, that
rains would continually destroy the harvest, and
fruits and flowers, and subvert, the whole ecouo'
mv of nature. There is, perhaps, nothing more
beautiful in our whole system than the process i
by which our fields are irrigated from the shirs,
the rivers fed from the mountains, and the ocean
restrained within the bounds, which it can never
I exceed so long as that process continues on the
present s^ale. The vapor rimed by the sun from
the sea floats wherever it is lighter than the
atmosphere; condensed, it falls upon the earth
in water, or attached to the mountains, dissolves
and replenishes the conduits with which, externally
or internally, they are all furnished.
By these cdnduits the fluid "is conveyed to the
rivers which flow on the surface of the earth,
and to the springs which lie deep in its hosoms,
destined to sunply man with a pure; elementIf
we suppose the sen then to be considerably
diminished, the Amazon and the Mississippi,
those inland seas ofthe Western world, would
become inconsidernhle brooks; the brooks would
wholly disappear, the atmosphere would be deprived
of its due proportion of humility; all nature
would assume the garb of desolation; tlie
birds would droop on the wing, the lower animal
would perish on the barren soil and man himself
would wither away like the sickly grass at his
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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
BKADFoRI) THK INNKF.KPEK.
Jonathan Bradford kept an inn in Oxfordshire,
on the London road to Oxford. J/e l>ore
a respectable character. Mr. flays, a gentleman
of fortune, being on his way to Oxford, on
a visit to a relation, put up at Bradford's. He
I there joined company with two gentlemen, with
whom he supped, aud in conversation unguardedly
mentioned that he had then about him a
considerable sunt oT money* In-due time they
retired to tliei^'itespeCtive chambers; the gen
llemen to a . two-bedded room, leaving as is
customary with many, a candle burning in the
chimney corner. Some hours after they were
in bed, one of the gentlemen being awake,
thought lie heard a deep groan in an adjoining
chamber, and this being repeated, be softly
awoke his friend. They listened together, and
the groans increasing, as of ouo dying, and in
nnin. tliev both instantiv arose, and uroceeded
silently to tbe door of the next chamber, from
which the groans had seemed to come. The
door being ajar, they saw a light in the room.
They entered, but it is impossible to paint their
consternation on perceiving a person weltering
in his bed, and a man standing over him with
a dark lantern in one hand and a knife in the
other! Tbe man seemed as much petrified as
themselves, bat hi* terror carried with it all the
appearance of guilt. The gentlemen soon discovered
that the murdered person was the
stranger with whaiu they had that night supped,
and that the man who was standing over
him was their host. They seized Bradford di-,
rectly, disarmed 'him of his knife, and charged
him with being the murderer. He assumed by
| this time the air.of innocence, positively denied
the crime, and asserted that he came there with
the same humane intentions as themselves: for
that hearing a noise, which was succeeded by
groaning, he got out of bed, struck a light, armed
himself with a knife for his. defence, and had
but that minute entered the room before them.
These assertions were of little availhe was
kent in close custodv till the morniiiff, and then
taken before a,neighboring justice of the peace.
Bradford-jstill denied the murder, but with such
apparent indications of guilt, that the justice
hesitated Dot to tnako use of this extraordinary
expression on writing his mittimus, "Mr. Bradford,
either you or myself committed this murder."
: > ii -3 - ~
'iliis remaritable affair became a topic of conversation
to the whole country. Bradford was
condemned by the general voice, of every company.
In the midst of all this predetermination
came on the assizes at Oxford. Bradford was
brought to trial: he plead not guilty. Nothing
could he stronger than the evidence of
the two gentlemen. They testified to finding
Mr. Hayes murdered in his bed, Bradford at the
side of the body with a light and a knife, and
the hand which held it bloody. They stated
that, on their entering the room, he betrayed
all the signs of a guilty man : and that, but a
few minutes preceding, they had heard the
groans of the deceased.
Bradford's defence on his trial was the same
as before; he had heard a noise; iie suspicioned
some villainy was transacting; he struck a
light, snatched Up the knife, the only weapon
at hand, to defend himself, and entered the room
of the deceased. He averred that the terrors
he betrayed were merely tire feeling3 natural to
innocence, as well as guilt, on beholding so horrid
a scene. The defence, however, could not
but be considered as weak contrasted with tlu?
several powerful circumstances against him.
Never was circumstantial evidence so strong,
as far as it went Tlrere was little need for
comment Irom the judge in summing up the evidence;
110 room appeared for extenuation; and
the prisoner was declared guilty by the jury
without their even leaving the box.
Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring
that he was not the murderer, nor privy
| to the murder, of Mr. Hayos; but died disbelieved
by all.
Yet were these assertions not untrue! The
murder was actually committed by the footman
of Mr. Hays; and the assassin, immediately on
stabbing -his - musfc>r, rifled his pockets of his
money, gold watch and snuff-box, and then escaped
buck to his own room. This could
scarcely have been effected, as after-circuinstances
showed, more than two seconds before
Bradford's entering the unfortunate gentleman's
chamber. The world owes this information to
remorse of conscience on the part of the lootman
(eighteen months after the execution of
Bradford) when laid on the bed of sicknoss.?
it was a death-bed repentance, and by that
death the law lo?t its victimIt
were to bo wished that this account could
close here; but there is more to be told. Bradford,
though innocent of the murder, and not
privy 10 it, was nevertheless a murderer in design.
He had heard, as well as the footman,
wliat Mr. llayes had declared at supper, as t >
die having -d a sum ol money about him; and he
went to tiic chamber ofthhe deceased with the
auiiic drcadiul intentions as the servant He
was struck wit'i amusement on beholding him
- .u~ U? 1,1
.m'H tlilUCIp?iUJU III uic tiiiiiv* no v/ouiu nui
inheve iiis at uses; and in turning back the bedciotues
to assure him.-elf of tliu fact, he in his
agitation dropped his knife on the bleeding body
by which means both his hands and the weapon
became bloody. These circumstance s
Bradford acknowledged to the clergyman who
attended him after sentence, but who, it is extreemly
probable, would not believe them at
the time. < ?}
Besides the graver lesson to be drawn from
this extraordinary case, in which we behold the
simple intention of crime so signally and wonderfully
punished, these, events furnished a siri'king
warning against the careless, and, it may
be, vain display of money or other property in
strange places. To heedles?iiess on this score
the unfortunate Mr. Hayes fell a victim. The
temptation, we have seen proved too strong
for two persons out of the few who had heard
his ill-timed disclosure.
.nanitagansbtt Tkappbr.?Some time ago
I called at the Saucatucket l iver, between Wakeheld
and Peacedale, in South Kiugtown, a great
part of whose life had been passed in trapping
and kindred pursuits, lie showed me a book
in which he had recorded the results of his exploits,
from which I made the following extracts.
Between the years 1814 and 1847 he bad
trapped 8084muskrats; 2007 minks; 1185 wood
chucks; 16,403 lbs. of turtle-meat, after being
thoroughly cleaned and prepared for food.
During the same period he had caught with
hook and line, 3734 fish; he had shot one eagle
measuring 9 feet from tip to tip of wing; had
shot nine wild geese: 1252 teal and duck, 300
crows.?for the heads of which he had received
thirty three dollars bounty.
The turtles are what are called mud, or snapping
turtles, and were taken in powerful steel
traps, which were set in the water and haited.
He showed me one of these traps; I could make
but little impression on its springs with both
hands, and jet, he assured me that in bis prime
he used to press it completely down with .one
hand, while he adjusted the fastenings with the
other. Sixteen turtles caught in Nye's pond,
in the South-western part of South Kingston,
weighed 86 pounds each, and when prepared
for food yielded iu the aggregate 086 lbs of
meat, lie stated-as a curious fact that he had
in several instances taken what appeared to he
litters of this species of turtle, each litter .from
the same pond, and that when this was the case
they were uniformly of the same individual
weight.
To visit ail his traps required a walk of about
sixty miles in eireuit. The value of the skins
and food thus procured, exceeded five lliousaiid
dollars.?Neuroorl Mercury.
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Punch saya that "Vly dear what will you
have for dinner?" is now considered the greatest
question of the day.
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL,
_ J
THO. J. WARREN A O. A. PRICE, Editor*
TUESDAY EVEYINfc, APRIL 8,. 1851.
Municipal Election.
On yesterday the following gentlemen were
elected Intendant and Wardens of the town ol
Camden, to serve for one year.
InltmLint.
James Dcjnlap.
Wardens.
K. 8. Moffat,
C. H. Davis.
C. Li- fTiiA-rrpic. '
A. AJ.KtN.NEDT. /
Our Court
Adjourned on Saturday last, having lasted longer
than is usual for our District, in consequence
of a number of cases on the Sessions side, and a
few on the other Dockets of a tedious and rather
uninteresting character.
The sentences of the Court, for Assault and
Battery or simiiar offences, were delivered by his
Honor Judge Withers, and we have never on any
similar occasion, heard or seen this unpleasant
duty, so ably and feelingly discharged. We must
think that those who listened to his charges or
admonitions, when addressing himself as the
Arbiter of the law, to the different individuals before
him for sentence, were forcibly impressed
with the truth, dignity, and elegance of his Iangu
'gPKav
TpmrtAranr? Wall
We are pleased, that the town of Camden has
a Hall sufficiently commodious to comfortably accommodate
six hundred persons, perhaps a larger
number. At a I events it will hold every person
who is in ihe. habit of visiting Concerts, Exhibitions,
&c. in this place. This is quite an accession
to our town ; and it is probable that others
may be induced to pass this way?since the advent
of the world, renowned Anna Bishop. For
our part, we should interpose no serious objection
to the more frequent occurrence of these grand
musical events; and if we cannot however, hear
M'lle Parodi or Jenny Lind; we have heard one
that sings well enough for us.
An Editor with a New Hat.
Our Iriend and cotemporary of the Carolinian
is in luck, he is congratulating himself upon having
received through the delicate attention of his
neighbours Messrs. Fullitigs &.Co, "a new beaver
ot the latest Parisian style," Thus enabled as
our friend is, from a practical observation, we are
not eurpreed that he should give a voluminous
description of the "fine and glossy texture" with
the "very desirable shape," well adapted to the
season, &c. We never think these "dtlieate at'
temions'' out of place. Who wouldn't loom out
extensively under a new Hat of a "desirable
shape" on the same terms; for ourselves, we
would feel perfectly Warren-ted in doing so at
that Price.
"Casting Pearl before Swine,"
Or laboring to adorn an object unworthy of
ones attention, or in other wo^ds, complimenting
those who are incapable of appreciating favor, is
somrlima an uphill business, and unfortunately!
too often the fate of the Corps Editorial. One
instance at least, in which this is significantly illustrated,
is that of an old "Boxer" who stands
out in "bold relief," and is to all intents and purposes,
a purty considerable specimen of the class
we allude to. This french gentleman, with Madame
Bishop, are making a "brilliant tour in the
States," and have en route visited Camden. After
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enjoying the hospitality of the Town, and having!
| demolished a considerable quantity (we judge by \ &
1 appearances) of the stores of the Mansion IIousej T
as we are inf rmed and verily believe fhee grat- \
is for KOTiit o, or next thing to it. The said V i|
"old Boxer" Attempts to abuse and vilify some of I
us, as high icnt) robbers?lie disputes with the \ m
Printer, and is unwilling to pay his Omnibus fare; . r?
Such a character ought to beheld up, to these 3rn V
and contpinpt, of every civilize^ cpinmuiiity. Wd . 1
append the following notice tafteu from the.Fay- J
etteville borlh Carolinian of Saturday last.
"The Bishops and the Bocksers gave a grand I
concert at Cheraw, but the people there, wd
learn, were 60 vulgar as not to appieciate their
extraoi'ilinnrv nntvArs. mid th(>v upro hiaai?d.
Whether it whs because they were too flat or .
too sharp, or whether the people nad found out
that they meanly refused to pay the Livery
Stable hire for carrying tbem to Cheraw, wO _
are not informed, They gftered the driverjus*
one-half the price agreed upon, which he refused
to take, and sued them spolly. They gave
bond by leaving-the full amount in the. hand*
aT limit* cooneiIir + I10# tuna nAf !?/? kumlif \r
vs? MIVII OWUIIIJ* WOI MJM^IIUHIMV IIVIqMV V*
meanness, strike me uiasicaL *'
After the grand concert hy Madame Bishop?
the citizens gave her and the Bockser, a'sPfitf^
demi-cowbellion-calithomptan serenade, dj&g*?
sisting of co\v-bells, horns, pans, and*rtharllM? '
lodious iiistrnou-nts. SeWed'ein Hgte; for
tney are a holy set; they take In all strangury
as our friend McKinhon and others eantestifo*P.
S.?The Cheraw Gazette does not mention
the serenade; and we shoold judge the
editor was not thrown into ecstacies by the
concert.
CAMDfcN PRICES CURRENt." '
tm
Baireine, per yd. 14 10 Id Laid, Jb W ]0
Bafettope- lb to 12 l-ead. Ih i iojf
Baron, lb 9 to 12i rati 31 to 40
I Butter! lb 18 to 20 Mscksret, WZ* to?.
Brandy, call 28 to 35 iNails, lb 4? to J
1 Beeswax, lb 18 to22 Oat*, (Mabel" B.,
Href, lb 4 te 5 Pea*, bushel * SO
Clieese, lb 12 15 Potatoes, ?we?t. bo 30
folton, lb 74 u? 11* L Irish b? ,, It"
Corn, bushel $1 to 106, Rye, busliel 93 to 1
I Flonr, bbl 61 to 7 ttlre. bushel 3t"to t
, Fodder. ewl ISOjSuear, Ib5;iol0
1 Hide*, dry lb 8 to 9 fSalt, seek II _
Iron, lb 5' to 61 shoe beg it
Lime, bbl 2 to 2iiTobaero, . ? 16 10'to30 -?*Leather,
*ole, lb 17 loit IWlieat, bash _ 1
Our Cotton Market.
Cotton quotations are from 7 Ivl to II1-8.
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O-We are authorized to aintonnce
JOSEPH J. MICKLE. as a Candidate for Sheriff
of Kershaw District, at the ensuiug election.
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SONS C? TS1?2PJUJT33.
Wateree Dtviiion !!*. 9.
The regular meeting of thisDjVsionwillbeheld
i on Thursday evening, at yoiir New Han btrer A.
r M. &. R. KcnredyV Store, at 8 o'clock. - ?
By order of the W. P. i
p. a. kbtxepx. *?. v
CAMDEN BERATING CLUB.
.An Extra MeetingWlff be held oqfcWednesday
Evening the 9rh met, at Library Halt, when the
following Query will be discussed.
Query.?Are the causes which tend -toperpeto* ?
ate stronger, than those which tend to dissolve the n '?
union of these States.
S. B 1?VY, Secretary.
workman & jsoone
Are now receiving large addition* to their Stock
?embracing SEVERAL-NEW STYLES* tad rendering
their Stock by far the mo?.t full and +
complete SPRING STOfcK of 79
I BOOTS AUD SHOES
i that ha* ever boon offered in this market.
In the selection of these goods, great rare fane
been taken as to style and quality. The workman
ship and materials ai% of the best description?and
the terms shall be accommodating. V
The public are respectfully'invited tn call and ?
examine their Stock, which cannot fail in quality
and price to give satisfaction to any and all. ^ ?
April 8, 28 " tf',v
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McDowall & Cooper.
TT A VP. Anano/1 our) nflor fur aa !m ihoip StAfik
|_| .1 > U ..p.n.w, .... r"7"T .
1. J. of Spring and Summer Hoods. '
April 7 28
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In the Court of Ordinary,
LANCASTER DISTRICT.
Joseph Rodgers, Applicant. * rs. Jamee Harvey Rodgers,
Defendant. . ?
Division or sale Real, Estate of James. Rodger*,
dee'd., devised to Jos. and Jas. H.ftodgers,/
IT appearing to my satisfaction that Jaiaes Hafvey
Rodgers the defendant, resides wtttomtAfce
State, It is therefore,, ordered, that he doUR1
and object to the 'e or division of the Real Estate
of James Rodgers deceased, devised io Joseph
and James Harvey Rodgers, on or be'ore the 16tb
Juiy, 1851, or his consent to the same will be entered
of record.
JAMES H. WITHERSPOON,o:t.*<<
April 5, 1051, (Fee 80.00) 14 lotw
$100 Reward, , .i
R ANA WAY in November' last?* Heck bojr
named KENT; Kent is about Sbyears old, is
slim made, black with rather long hair for so dark
a complexion an he has, he has very white tenth
rather pointed, in smart spoken, and ha* a pleasant
countenance ; his hands are small and slitu, and
he has good feet and ancles, with htgh Ihntep, and
is about 5 feet 7 inches high. -Kent was. raised
about horses, and has worked a littlest the Black*
smith trade.
The above reward will be. gud upon his safe
delivery in any Jail in tire StajyMtbat his owner
will get him, with proof to convicpM of his having
been harboured by any White person or free pertotl
of color ; or fifty dollars if his cwner getsnim.
Oil his recovery, the amount Writ twpaia oj application
to me or to my Attorneys at?SumterviJle?
Messrs r. J. & jII. Moses.
UICHARD C. RICHARDSON.
Fulton, S C., March 26, 135* 28 tf,
SPIN G, 1861^
1. M. &. R. KENNEDY, are-just vcceivirg their
In. usual supply of
SPRING GOODS,
and will be plr a^eu to receive a cat) from their 1
Friends, and all who may be in want ?fHmdsi>uje
Goods, suitable for the Season, either in
LADIES OR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
The Stock will be found complete in all if*
Branches.
April 4, 1851. 27 * ^
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