Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, March 19, 1852, Image 2
From the Charleston Mercury.
The Presidency.
We copy below the Resolutions adopted by
the recent Democratic State Convention of Pen it- J
sylvan ia, which by a very large majority nomi- !
nated Mr. Buchanan for the next Presidency.? i
We take no part in the approaching struggle, '
and devoutly hope that South Carolina will allow
no solicitations or blandishments to seduce
her to depart from neutrality. The United
States can be misgoverned without her help, and ,
there is no ground of hope that any exeitions j
on her part, however ardent and untiring, can I
save them from being misgoverned, it is is
spectators only that we remark upon the aspect
of the Presidential question.
Mr. Buchanan starts with a strong support.? '
lie is the choice of the Democracy in his own j
State, in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and we i
tnink, in Florida and North Carolina. The !
great prominence which the Pennsylvania ltcsolu- j
tions give to the doctrine of State Rights and
strict construction, and the strong pledge they j
give of respecting the rights of the South, will
tend to strengthen Mr. Buchanan's party
throughout the South, and the more, because
these doctrines and pledges are in harmony with
the principles he ha" always maintained through- 1
out his long public career. Ilis high ability, abundant
experience, and his moderation of char?
ori^
acter, are au strong argumcms m ma ?..?
increase the chances that time and examination will
rather enlarge than diminish the number of his
friends. Still, such is the |>erversity and crookedness
of party politics that it by no means follows
that the candidate in favor of whom the most
and the strongest arguments can be fairly urged,
will win the game. So much dej?ends on adroit
management and bargaining that the considerations
which naturally would decide the matter,
have a chance of being overlooked, and a choice
made, not because any man thinks it will be the
best for the country, but because a sufficient
number of crafty wire pullers believe it will be
the most profitable for themselves.
Apparently, the most formidable competitor
of Mr. Buchanan, will be Senator Douglas of
Illinois. We cannot suppose that Sam Houston
and Gen. Cass will be much in the way.?
The former has neither respectability as a man,
nor weight as a politican, and the latter very
greatly undermined the confidence of his former
friends, by the strangely unwise course lie has
pursued in regard to the foreign relations of the
country. He has not only made very foolish
movements, but he has failed in getting even
fools to follow him. His statesmanship has been
an abortion, and his candidacy, if the party
should be weak enough to select him, will prove
a still greater abortion.
But Douglas is another sort of man. Really
superior in talents, he has the secret of ma
king all his powers available for popularity and
influence. In the Northewest, he woulc have a
very cordial and general support, and has not a
fanr oiinnnrfpro in VirrrinisL The (Treat danger
*v-" ?rr?? -o ; o ?=>
to the party is that the claims of candidates will
be pressed with a zeal that will degenerate into
acrimony and that when the choice is finally made
there will be no general concurrence in sustaining
it. If Buchanan and Douglas could be agreed
upon as the Democratic ticket for President and
Vice-President, we do not believe that the Whigs
could make a respectable showing in opposition.
But it is probably expecting too mu?h medemtion
in the candidates, and too much common sense in
party, to look for such a combination. But we
leave the subject and quote the Resolutions of the
Pennsylvania Convention:
Resolved That this Convention cordially approve
and endorse the great Democratic political principles
embodied in the resolutions adopted by
the last two National Democratic Conventions,
held at Baltimore in 1844 and 1848, and believe
their strict observance to be not only conducive
.o the prosperity, but essential to the preservation
of the Union.
Resolved, That the Democratic party, in view
of the present critical condition of the country,
should now, more than ever, resort to the principles
of its glorious founders, as furnishing the
safest and surest guides and landmarks; and that
among those of primary importance in the existing
position of public affairs, we may enumerate:
a strict conssruction of the powers granted by the
several States to the Federal Government under
the Constitution of the U. States, and a denial
to Congress of all doubtful powers; a sacred regard
for the rights reserved to the States respectively,
and to the people; an absolute non-interference
by the several States and their citizens with
the domestic institutions of each other; and a
rigid economy and strict accountability in the
expenditure of the public money drawn from the
pockets of the people by taxation, confining the
appropriations made by Congress to national subjects
plainly authorized by the Constitution.
Resolved, That the coner stones of the Democratic
party were securely and deeply laid during
the "reign of terror," by the immortal
patriots and statesmen, Jefferson and Madison,
in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, and in
Mr. Madison's report; and that whenever the
government departed from the spirit of these resolutions
and this report, dangerous dissensions
aud injuiious con-eqnences to the country were
the results,
Resolved, That the Democratic party is the
true Union party of the whole country, and we
recognize no other. We rejoice to witness that
the Democrats in other States, who disapprove
the Compromise measures of the last Congress,
have, for the sake of the Union resolved to acquiesce
in them as a final settlement of the
vexed and dangerous questions arising out of
demestic slavery; and that the Democratic party
throughout all the States, are now re-uniting in
solid phalanx upon the principle that the meatures
must and shall be maintained and executed
and with the firm determination that the party,
shall be restored to its former ascendancy and
power in the administration of the Federal Government.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Pennsylvania
will maintain with fidelity and energy the faithful
execution of the fugitive slave law; and that
we pledge ourselves to exert our best efforts to
secure the SDeedv repeal of such portions of the
"State Obstruction Law" as deny the use of our
jails for the detention of fugitives from labor
while awaiting their trial, or in any other manner
interfere with the constitutional rights of citizens
of our sister States in reclaiming their
property.
Resolved, fhat the Democracy of the old
Keystone Commonwealth, having deferred their
claims to a Presidential candidate to the appeal
of her sister States for more than half a century,
do now by an unprecedented majority, earnestly
and energetically assetr their strong and long-deferred
right to the honor of furnishing a President
for the Union in the person of their fellow-citizen,
James Buchanan. They have no second choice,
and they firmly believe that should he be nominated
bv the Democratic National Convention
ho will receive a triumphant, old-fashioned Jackson
majority in the Keystone State.
Resolved, That we present James Buchanan
as our candidate for the Presidency, with the
full confidence that the Democracy of our sister
States will concede to the Keystone State the
honor to which she has been so loner entitled,
and which she has so loner generously yielded.
That the fame of our candidate, as a sound
statesman, and zealous advocate of republican
principles is not surpassed. He is a consistent
and uncompromising Democrat, an able defender
of the Jeffersonian doctrine of State rights, a
foe to the unconstitutional doctrine of centralization
; the advocate of universal suffrage?the
early, tried and confidential friend and adv >c;.te
of the immortal Jackson?the leading and successful
opponent of dangerous national monied
! monopolies?the supporter of an economical administration
of government, the friend and promoter
of agriculture and commerce, of domestic
manufactures and mechanics. The services of
Mr. Buchanan, in the cause of the party and of
! the country, are recorded in the hearts of the
people, and we believe that, in his hands equal
justice would be awarded to all the great inter
ests of the country, and our beloved Union be
safe against the inroads of foreign aggression,
and the dangers of intestine commotion.
Resolved, That the delegates elected by this
Con\*ention be and they are hereby instructed to
vote for him from first "to last, and to use all fair
and honorable means to secure his nomination.
Resolved, That we congratulate our fellow/tifivAne
nrmn flio cii/i/>Accfitl fnpminflfinn nf fliA I
late Gubernatorial contest; the election of his
Excellency William Bigler, as the Chief Magistrate
of the Commonwealth, has secured to the
people an able, enlightened, honest, and economical
administration of the government, and redeems
our glorious old Commonwealth from the
disgrace which has Ixx-n brought upon her by
! the late extravagant administration; that for
the personal and untiring exertions of Gov. Bigler
to secure the ascendencv of Democratic principles
during the late canvass : ' ~ eloquent
and statesman-like di?cussior ? the people,
j of the great national issues, v made the late
| contest memorable and critical tor the country,
and which conducted to the glorious result, the
Democrats of Pennsylvania and of the United
States owe him a debt of gratitude equally difficult
to be estimated or discharged.
The disgraceful fight that took place last Friday
in the House of Representatives, forms a natural
supplement to the character of the proceedings
since the commencement of the session. The
public business has given place to personal squabbles.
The national faith has been tarnished in
the prolongation of debates that involved no
public principle. The n- cessnry appropriations
of the government, have been postponed, that
partisans may engage in t1"- undignified pursuit
of President-making. Can anything be imagined
more disreputable to republican legislation?
Where this evil is to end no one can foresee, and
what may be the lowest stage of degeneracy in
our national representatives is fearful in the contemplation.
It appears that demagogues are in
the almost exclusive possession of the House.?
T. -1 . .1 A. 1 1 .. .1 L 1 --
it seems mat tne respecunue portion 01 mat rxxiy
who wish to see the public business put in progress
are constantly outvoted by men who alone
possess its ear and shape its action.
When retrospection carries us back some thirty
years the mind can scarcely realize the contrast
between the present and the past, in the composition
of Congress, especially the more democratic
branch. The more intimate relatiou between
the representative and constituent bodies has
certainly not improved the character of the
House of Representatives. The closer decadence
of the National legislator on his electors has
not rendered him more efficient or dignified.?
The theory of the National Constitution is
unchanged, but practically great changes have
been wrought. If we had made the Congressional
elections annual, instead of biennial, we
would not have produced a more radical alteration
in the composition of that body than we
have effected by simply extending the suffrage
under the State constitutions. If the former system
of suffrage, qualified by property, had representation,
for able and respectable men would
have been re-elected who have been driven into
retirement, because they refused to enter into
political rivalry with demagogues, for the suffrages
of the people. An animal election by an amendment
of the Constitution would not have
cairied into the House of Representatives a larger,
if as large a number of demagogues as find
their way into it, under the system of universal
suffrage. There is no remedy, apparently, for
this state of things. We are apprehensive that
we have not arrived at the lowest stage of national
degredation when the representative body is
determined in its complexion by such qualifications
for the electors to it as State Conventions
choose to im[>ose.
In connection with the mischief of this closeness
of political intimacy between the people and
their National Representatives, is the short term
of the Presidency. The evil tendency of a quadrennial
election to this office, like a biennial
election to the House of Represcnsativcs, was
mitigated in practice by the fact that we had, in
reality, no struggle for the Executive chair, with
one exception, until Mr. Van Huren succeeded to
office. VVe have had a hot canvass and an ear
nest struggle every fourth year since. This must
disfigure the legislation of Congress with party
squabbles, at every shoit interval that the contest
is renewed. The greatnese of the prize, the
z?>al of partizans, carries their contentions for
their favorite candidate almost necessarily into
that body, which is thoroughly identified in political
sympathy wiih the people. The battle is
fought within the House as well as without?as
earnestly on the theatre of legislation as on the
j>olitical platform. Can it be otherwise than fatal
to the public service when the combatants
meet on this field, their appetites for offices of
profit and distinction, sharpened by the rivalry of
opposing partizans ?
What then is to be the issue? Shall we have
every fourth year, in addition to the ordinary causes
of conflict for party ends, at every session,
the Presidential controversy thrown into the
arena ? Where is the remedy ? It is to be found =
only in the self-denial of the people?in rejecting
the flattery of demagogues who persuade them
that the frequent exercise of popular power is es- 8
sential to public liberty and efficient political con- t
trol. It is not so. The perfection of supervision
over the representative by the constituent body t
consists not in frequent exercise of power, but in t
the check which the power confers to displace
tlmse who abuse the agency with which they
are entrusted. When the people keep in view,
and act in conformity with this maxim, a theo- 1
rctical alteration, or constitutional amendment g
may be foregone, for sound practice will correct j t
or modify the errors of theory, as it did under j ^
our first Presidents; but without such self dcni- j
al as rejects the blandishments of the demagogue,! (
in alteration of the Constitution, prolonging the i .
terms of President, as well as National Represen
tatives, to four and eight years respectively, will
become essential, or we shall proceed from bad
to worse, in inevitable progression.
Charleston Eve. News. i
Anson Pank Road. J
We merely mentioned the fact last week that 1
the contract for the construction of the above road . <
had been closed, not having time then for a sin-J
gle remark upon the great influence that impor- ]
tant improvement, when completed, will exert1
upon the prosperity of our town; nor of its incal-;
culable value as a feeder of the Cheraw and Darlington
Rail Road. Since then, we have seen the .
proceedings of a respectable meeting of the cit- j
izens of Concord, North Carolina, called to con-,
sider the necessity of a continuation of the road .
from Centre to the latter place. These proceed- 1
ings will be found in this days paper, from which 1
it will be seen that a resolution was adopted in 1
favor of the project. We thus have under con- 1
tract and in co.irse of construction, forty miles of 1
plank road directly through the centre of the 1
voIIavt r\f tKo Pua TW tir%A in norcrvo^tu'A fl pnn- 1
.c.vj v.. wv. ^ ..v. ... -
tinuation to Concord of 35 miles more, which i
upon every human probability will be built in <
les9 than two years. With this main stem com- i
pleted to Concord, with such lateral branches as I
the resources of the adjacent country requires, <
we need nothing but the connecting link of Rail ;,
road from Cheraw to the Wilmington and Manchester
Road, to command the whole trade of
the Pee Dee vallev. With such inducements, j
shall not that connection be at once built?
A c.asual glance at the map of the country, j
will satisfy the most doubting, that no other out- :
let to the seaboard can at all compete with this.
In every other direction nature's bariers interpose
to prevent an easy ingress and egress. And
shall we nor profit hv her promptings and aid? I
But the road once completed to Concord, would :
it step there? By no means. Beyond that place j
into Tennessee and Virginia it must go. The to-!
bacco, corn, flour, beef, butter, flax seed, whiskey,
and the thousand other productions of that fertile
region, which now will hardly bear the expense
of transportation to market, would find a
cheap outlet to the seaboard over our roads.?
We receive samples only annually now, of the
products of this almost inaccessible region; but
provide, a cheap transj>ortation, and who can es
timate the produce that would passover it to enrich
those who may make the expenditure. We
know that but little is known abroad of the vast,
almost dormant resources of the region of country
to which we allude, it being only occasionally
that a solitary wagon emerges therefrom to
seek the seal>oard for a few of the commonest necessaries
of life, for luxuries in the common acceptation
of that term they wot not of. If we had
had a De Witt Clinton this would not now be so.
Indeed, his enlightened mind saw little more in
prospective when he planted the great works of
improvement in New York, which will immortalize
his name forever, than the I\?e Dee valley
( presents to the vision of those who know the ex
tent, the fertility, and its resources.
Chcraw Gazette.
Indian ITosTiLniEs.?The Indians continue
their depredations along the Rio Graude and
Nueces, even within fifty miles of San Antonio.
On the evening of the 21st ult., a party of them,
fifteen in number, charged on some fourteen
Mexicans and Americans who were out running
wild horses, near San Antonia, killed Ronaldo !
Navarra, a citizen of that place, wounded anoth- i
or, and drove off all but six of their horses. The j
last courier in from Laredo rejtorted several Mex-1
icans killed by Indians. Two hundred of the
latter, warriors, are reported as encamped at j
Lake Efpantoza, near the junction of the Leona
and Nueces rivers, and about twenty-five miles 1,
above the station, where the six companies of
mounted riflemen are to be stationed. The In-:
dians design making the above |>oint their head- J J
quarters for some time, and small parties are con-;
tinually sallying forth for the purpose of rapine '
and murder.
On the 16th ult., the Mexican who had been
for six years a prisoner with the Camanches came 1
into Belleville, opposite Guerrero, and r? i?orted a
party of Indians from whom he had e.^a,. J, in
the neighborhood. In twenty minutes the ac-,
tive and efficient commanding officer, Lieut. C.
II. Tyler, company C., 2d Dragoons started a i i
party under an old and well-tried soldier, Corpo- j i
ral Stranger. They struck the trail, following it!
until dark, when they came on the Indians, thir
I teen in number, entrenched in a ravine in front i
of a chaparal. The corporal instantly ordered ;
and led the charge, which was done gallantly,
killing four of the Indians, the others escaping
in the chaparal, and from the darkness could not
lie taken. The troops also captured thirteen
horses and two shields.?JV. 0. Crescent.
m9m j;
The accounts from Spain, to the 25th ultimo, 1
state that the Government has ordered a sum of i
6,500 reals to be invested on behalf of ever}- ,
1 ' ' ** ?? k/?iin nn fVm como Aq\r qc '
cmia 01 poor I'rtirutn ,rui i. ?i. wjvp *..v .... .
the Infanta. The money, with interest, is to be j
presented to the recipients on their coming of
age
A merchant in Indiana offers to make a bot 1
of ?5,000 tkat he will swim from Cincinnati t? '
Madison, in the Ohio River, upward of 80 miles, 1
in the month of August next, without sleep and '
with only fifteen minutes rest and refreshments j 1
every six hour?. 1 ]
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 10, 1852.
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
Our Market
There has been no change in the price of Cotton
ince our last, though the market has been more acive,
and the receipts larger. We qnote at 6 to 7 7-8,
Charleston quotations 6 3-4 to 8 1-2. A lot of 50
tales only brought the highest figures?the bulk of
he sales being at 8 to 8 1-4.
New Mail Arrangements.
We learn from our Postmaster that on the first of
\.pril the Mail Route from Camden to Cheraw will be
o changed as to make May's Depot on the Wilmingon
and Manchester Railroad instead of Camden the
>eginning of the route. This change it is said, will
lave a distance of twelve miles of staging, but it will
lelay our Northern mails twelve hours, without expeliting
their delivery at the offices beyond Camden.
Our Postmaster informs us that we are to have a
nail twice a week between this place and Yorkville.
By the change of the Cheraw Stage, a dozen miles
will be saved in the running; but those who desire to
jo to Darlington from Camden by public conveyance,
will find tho route considerably increased?say about
thirty miles. It will be necessary to go as tar as the
function of tho W. and M. Rail Road, and S. C. Rail
Road, below Middleton, a distance of nearly thirty
miles; thence to Mays Depot via Suraterville, and from
Mays to Darlington?a perfect wild goose's chase. We
ire inclined to think that an easier, better, and shorter
way will be discovered by those who desire to visit
Darlington frora this vicinity.
So far as the stopping of the Stage is concerned, if
will be a matter of no great moment with us in CamJen
; we are not aware that its coming to our town if
any great advantage to us; yet, we have always been sc
accustomed to seeing "the Stage" come in and go out,
that we shall feel somewhat at a loss, when it comes up
among the missing. This is only what may be regarded
as the beginning of the end, and is but reasonable
to suppose that the days of "Auld Lang Syne" are
numbered, and that ''Ichabod" is written already upor
our door-posts. Unless the people of Camden deter
mine to avert this calamity, by doing something, out
fate is inevitably sealed. We shall become so much
out of the wag, that the people will forget where Cam
den is! The local trade is not sufficient to support the
place, and we opine that ono Hotel on the principal
cross streets running through, and a few stores, will b<
sufficient to supply the home demand. Have we, fel,
low-citbens, deliberately concluded to fold our arms
and await the coming evil ? Can we do nothing t<
better our condition ? We think we can!?you know
our remedy!
South-Carolina Hail Road.
We are glad to learn, as we do from the Southeri
Standard that the prosj/ccts of this Company continue
very favorably " The receipts for February exceoc
$104,000, those of the corresponding month last yeai
being a little over $80,000. The increase thus far foi
the month of March has been equally favorable."
Sheriff of Sumter.
CoL Jons C. Riiahe has been elected Sheriff o
Sumter District, by a majority of 46 votes over Wit. A
Colclough, Esq. The vote was, for Rhame 718; foi
Colclough 672.
ty The Rev. WJI LEWIS, urainary 01 ouimcr u\a
trict, in a card in the last Sumter Banner announce!
his determination to decline a re-election, and bid!
farewell to his fellow citizens as a candidate for office
In his card ho says: " You have been pleased to elecl
me ever}* four years to a District office by overwhelm
ing majorities, and I have, as you are well aware, jusi
entered upon another term of office, which, if I shoulc
live to its expiration, will make 20 years that I hav<
held office, a term sufficiently long to satisfy any rea
sonable man, at least I so feel it."
The frequent re-elections of Mr. Lewis afford ampk
evidence that he has discharged his duties to the satis
faction of tho People of Sumter, and we are sure all o
other Districts, who have had business transaction!
with him will regret the retirement of so urbane anc
competent a public officer.
Cuban Prisoner*.
Ninety-five of the Cuban Prisoners released by the
Queen of Spain have arrived at Boston in the ship
Prentice, from Cadiz. They are represented to be in
good health and spirits, and speak in very favorable
terms of their treatment while in Spain.
"Let your words be seasoned with salt." This is a
divine injunction, and if followed by those of the present
day, would prevent a great deal of surplus talking,
which, many times, has no point or force; and in place
of doing gooc , does evil. Virgil, it is said, was so fond
of salt, that he seldom wont without a box-full in hu
pocket, which he mado use of from timo to time, as
men of the present day use tobacco. Virgil usually
spoke to the point, and bis words were well seasoned!
We understand, says the Daily Wilmington Journal,
that the two men who pretended to lecture here last
Tuesday night, on Psychology, and to play the violin,
left without paying any of their bills. They stopped
for some five days at a private boarding house, kept by
a widow lady, and did not settle with her. Other
things which we forbear to mention, are laid to their
charge. The names on the handbill were Dr. Parks,
and Marquis La Fayette. No doubt they are arrant
humbugs, and should be passed round. They can neither
lecture, perform, nor pay their bills.
Wo regret to learn, says the Charleston Courier, of
WorinnaHnv that a toleoxaDhic disDatch was received
in this city, yesterday, announcing that Mrs. Eliza
Kohne, a lady endeared to this community by a long
life of charity and benevolence, bad paid the debt ol
nature at Philadelphia, on the morning of the 15th inst.
She had reached her 85th year, and has left behind hex
the memory of a life devoted to the exercise of every
Christian virtue. In her the poor have lost a friend,
and society an example of an illustrious matron, who
made her wealth the auxiliary of piety and benevolence.
TvmvrTinv o\- the Art Union Lottery.?The New
York Herald says: "In a few days we expect to an ounce
the issue of an injunction on the fhrther proceedings
of the Art Union Lottery, with a view to
compel that corporation to come into court, open thair
books, reveal their doings, and account for the hall
million of dollars which they have received from the
public during the last eight or nine years."
?
United States Bank.?In the Court of Common
Pleas at Philadelphia, on Thursday, it was decided
that not only the assets in the hands of the several
trusts created by the Bank of the United States, amounting
to some $15,000,000, but all property what,
ever, assigned for the benefit of creditors, is liable to
taxation ror state and county purposes.
A challenge passed between Messrs. Wilcox and
Brown, (of Miss.) in consequence of their altercation in
| the House of Representatives, but the dispute was ad- /
justed without recourse to a duel, by Messrs. Johnston /
and Polk, the friends of the parties.
Mr. Buchanan baa been nominated by a Democratic J
Convention of Accomac county, Virginia, for the Presidency.
A err v it r a Cube fob the Blues.?Poor Luther exclaims?"When
I am assailed with heavy tribulations,
I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by
myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a miB;
when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and
bruises the wheat to flour; If yon put no wheat, it stflj
grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds and wears
away."
The experiment of cultivating rice in France lustraeceeded
perfectly.
- -I - - t
A Senor Quesada, a Creole of Havana, fe said ^
to have invented a varnish for the protection of
houses from fire. - Y .
On the 8th inst for the edification of the scientific,
two houses were burned upon the "Oam1
po Mars," while one between them, and distant
' two or three feet, covered with a newly invented
; varnish, was proved non-combustible, and saved
from destruction, although filled with material
; which was consumed by the flames, and the exterior
enveloped during the conflagration of
i some twenty minutes with an, unbroken sheet
, of fire.
Senor Quesada, has obtained considerable*e- %
nntat'nn frnin hk results. but be has com
, bined the discoveries of two other persons, is- r;
( volving the material in varnish instead of paint,
, thereby making a decided iraprovemet, as it can
t be brought to the protection of almost any article
in a household without imparing beauty or
. utility. t '/ '
The experiment was on a scale sufficient to
prove that, for the safety of property from a
thousand casualties of negligence or improvidence
in the use of lamps, candles, matches or
fires, the varuish is valuable, while in commtrai*
nities where it might be generally adopted, it
would certainly materially retard the progress of
' the destroying element.
r Marlborough Court.?The Spring Term of
this Court was held last week, his honor Judge
Whitner presiding. The most important ea?
on the Se^ions Docket, that of the State vs.
1 Barantyne, was saken up on Tuesday evening,
> and occupied the Court until 12'o'clock on Thurs1
day, when it was given to the Jury, who remainr
ed in their room until Saturday, being unable to
' agree on a verdict, when they were called into
Court and discharged; after which the Solicitor
Nol Prosed the case, it being the second time
that a mis trial had been made,
f We were not present on sentence day, bat
learn his Honor f it called upon to mete out jusr
tice in pretty heavy doses, in the way of fines,
imprisonment and the lash, remedies the most
likely to correct the evil habits of the vicious. '
We learned last week much to our surprise,
i that since Marlborough was made a judicial Disi
trict, there has never been bat oue execution in J
. the District, and that was of a man innocent of
I the offence for which he suffered. This was &
Mr. Hodditord, who under the ganows protested
t his innocence, which was confirmed many year*
I afterwards, by the confession under the gallows
> of the principal witness against hitn. Since then
. whenever a culprit is brought to the bar of justice,
poor Boddiford's ghost is always conjured
5 up to frighten the Jury out of a verdict of guib
. ty, with what success the fact above stated is
f conclusive.?Cheraw Gazelle.
j
i Counterfeiters Arrested.?Some weeks ago
a caravan of North Carolinians passed through
Columbia, offering for sale various articles of
produce, and purchasing clothing and other arti,
cles, for which they offered in payment paper
( money. This was afterwards found to be counterfeit.
After leaving us they proceeded down
as far as Orangeburg, where the wagons and a
portion of the party remained, while two of them
proceeded to Charleston to prosecute operations
in the main branch of their business?the passing
of counterfeit bills. They re-appeared in
our vicinity on Saturday, when our indefatigaKlo
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1 Miller esq., made a descent on the camp, about
' four miles from Columbia, in Lexington district
1 at six o'clock on Sunday morning, bringing the
1 whole party to town where they were safely lod- ^
ged till j'esterday morning, at which time they
had a hearing.
The investigation resulted in the committal of
two of the party, and the examination of the
balance is reserved for to-day. The following are
the names of those on whom counterfeit money
was found :
John D. Nelson, A. N. Dixson and Geo. W.
Ray, of Ashe county, N. C., and Thomas Jefferson
Reins, alias Johnson, of Carroll county, Va,
late of Ashe county, N. C.
The counterfeits were of the denominations of
12, $10, $20, and $100 bills on banks in South
Carolina, Iouisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Georgia They were also provided with a few
copper dollars of the Bogus stamp.
The parties who were swindled in this place
were reimbursed in good funds.?Carolinian.
A letter from Havana to the New York Her
aid says: "I have heard that a new theory has
sprung up among the wealthy classes, and that
is, that they will strive, by every means in their
power, to induce the American government to
i purchase the island. T1 ey have come to the
conclusion that more expeditions would only
lead to a civil war which the negroes would be
the most likely parties to derive advantage from,
and so they are all now for the sale of Cuba to
the United States."
A terrible accident lately occurred at Insterburg,
in Prussia. Seventeen children returnig home
from scnool were passing over the ice ot tne nv?r
Inster, to shorten their way, when the ice broke
and they were all drowned.