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From the Southern Press, -\ ;
J3T It seems from the following communication,
that the people of South CaroGna- are 60
old-fashioned as to be disgusted at the difference
between -modern professional and practical philanthropy.
They are not keeping Up with the
inarch of mind :
Messrs. Editors *?1 hat yonr readers may
know the baseless pretensions and pseudo philanthropy
of some of those who would wage an
* exterminating war against the institutions of the
South, it becomes fnv duty to request, in behalf
of the board of commissioners of the poor for
Kershaw district, South Carolina, a place in yonr
columns for the following:
John C. Vaughan, who has of late become
conspicuous as the mouthpiece of Abolitionism
and Kossuthism, was once a resident of our
town, (Camden) and the owner of some thirty
or forty negro slaves. He sold them probably
in the West, put the money in his pocket, and
moved to Ohio. He then became a rabid Abo
litionist, and an editor ot an Aoonuomsi paper.
His mother owned a negro woman in this place,
who hired out herself and became responsible
to the mistress for the money. After Mrs. Vaughan
moved to Ohio to live with her son John,
from thirty to fifty dollars per year, for many
years, were regularly remitted to her by the negro
woman, (or the agent,) as her wages. The
old woman became at length very infirm and
helpless, which e\entually terminated in mental
derangement. The old creature was reduced to
extreme destitution, and much physical suffering.
Her mistress, about two years ago, was
lost on the ill-fated steamer Orlinc St. John,
which was burnt up on the Alabama river. With
that unfortunate boat disappeared, it seems, the
last hope of help for old Cilia, from her owners.
Such was her pitiable condition about this time,
that the municipal authorities of Camden, placed
her in jail, as well to prevent her from doing
sotoe injury to herself and others, as for support.
At a meeting of the commissioners of the
poor, held in November, 1850, the following resolution
was adopted:
u Resolved, That the Secretary be diredted to
address a letter to J. C. Vaughan, Esq., informing
him that his negro woman Cilia, has from
anre and other causes become unable to support
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herself and for some months past, has lived on I
the charities of the community; and request
him to attend to her wants, or arrangements
would be made to ^Ind her on to him, where
he could give her his personal attention."
The secretary communicated the resolution to
Mr. V., but no reply was ever received. At the
meeting of the commissioners held the next j
month, (December) the secretary was directed to '
address him another letter, informing him again,
that the above resolution had been adopted
by the board, and that unless be replied by the
20th day of January ensuing, it would be carried
into effect, and the circvmstances published
in the papers. At a meeting held in February,
1851, the secretary reported that he had received
a letter from J. C. Vaughan, requesting him
to employ some one to take eharge of his wo- I
man Cilia, and upon ascertaining the expense, he i
would remit the money forthwith. After con- '
siderable effort to procure for her a comfortable 1
home, the secretary succeeded in making arrange- j
ments with the Lunatic Asylum of Columbia, !
to keep her for $100 per annum, in advance. <
Mr. V. was informed of the arrangement, and ! i
was requested to forward the money. No reply 1
was received, and after the lapse of some months 1
another letter was written to him. Up to this
time Mr. V. has not thought proper to answer.
The woman is still in the Camden jail, infirm 1
and deranged, at a cost to the town of seventy- j
five dollars per year. At the Last meeting of j
the board, held in February 1852, it was unan
iraously resolved to publish a statement of these :
facts in the Southern Press at Washington city,
and the New York Herald.
The gentlemen who compose this board are
responsible men, and some of them are personally
acquainted with Mr. V. The commissioners '
think it due to this community, to the Southern
States, and to the institution of slavery, to ex-:
pose to the world the bold pretence and shameful
recreancy to duty of one who has made " no |
small stir," as a philanthropist, elsewhere, with j
his matricidal arm raised to thrust the deadly
blow to the institutions of his native State. He 1
may be rioting in means, the proceeds of the ,
sale of negroes inherited from others, while all
his pecuniary consequence, so far as known here, :
was derived from African slavery. He has turn- j
ed a bitter enemy to the institution, a wild fanat-1
ic, with the " price of blood in his pocket."
If he is honest in his late conversion to the
cause of human liberty, let him disgorge the
funds taken from the South, at least so much as
will pay the necessary expenses of old Cilia It j
is hard, very hard, for the South to bear all the |
taunts and insults heaped upon her by the un- I
principled Abolitionists of the North and North- i
west; but it is insupportable, indeed?'the most
unkind cut of all,' for the oppressed South? j
to be taxed with the support of the old, abandoned, '
worn-out Rlaves of those who in their zeal to i
abuse us, forget their own duties and moral obligations.
Old Cilia has ceased to remit annually from
thirty to fifty dollars, the proceeds of her hire, i
And this philanthropist of a hot-bed growth is
very dull to hear the calls of charity and of du- j
tv in this direction, when $100 i>er year are re-1
quired to keep comfortable a helpless negro woman,
worn out in the service of his family.
The coldest stoic recognizes the obligation to
maintain and render comfortable a horse, even a
dog, grown old under his father's or mother's
care, much more a favorite domestic.
It is sincerely hoped, that amid the important
engagements of Mr. V. in connection with political
conventions, Abolitionism and Kossuthismt
he may findjiine to recall to mind a lesson
rhe must have learned, in his youth in South Carolina,
that "charity begins at home."
To prevent any imputation being laid to the
generally esteemed and much lamented mother
of Mr. V., who was on her way to this place to
spend the remnant of her days, when the dreadful
catastrophe occurred, it is but justice to say
that she had not imbibed the feelings of her son,
but, notwithstanding, possessed more real philanthropy,
and always treated her servant Cilia
with great kindness; and had she lived, an exposition
of these facts would not have been necessary.
\VM. E. HUGHSON,
Secretary to Commissioners
of the Poor, for Kershaw dis't.S. C.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Tuesday Evening, march 30, 1893.
tho. St Warren, Editor.
The cotton market remains unchanged since
our last, and we continue the quotations of Friday?5
to 7 1-2.
Charleston quctatfons, 0 1-2 to 8 3-8.
Temperance Meeting.
Post Omcz EstabUshment.?The first mail
route on this side of the Adlantie was put in
operation by the colony of New York/ Governor
Lovelace having established, in 1672, *4 post to
go monthly between New York city and Boston
and back."
The colony of Massachusetts created the first
post office, the General Court having, in 1677,
appointed John Hay ward, " the scrivener," at
Boston, " to take in letters and convey them ac
cording to their direction." In 1711, the mails
ran between Boston and Maine once a week, and
once a fornight from Connecticut and New York.
In 1717, there was a weekly route from Boston
as far South as Williamsburg, Virginia, and in
1727, a fortnightly one between Philadelphia
and Annapolis.
Sixty-three years later, in 1790, "the post
roads in the United States did not exceed in
length one thousand miles, consisting of a long
zig zag route from Wiseassct in Maine, via. the
principal towns on the Atlantic sea-board, to
Savannah, in Georgia, with a few connecting
cross posts, on no portion of which was the mail
conveyed oftener than tri-weekly, and on pait of
it but once a fortnight. The entire annual cost
of the service was $22,702. The number of
post offices was seventy-five, and theirgross yield
$37,395 per annum."
At the |>eriod referred to, there were but ten
offices yielding a revenue of over $1,000 per annum,
viz: Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, Baltimore,
Richmond, Petersburg, Alexandria, Fredericksburgh,
Norfolk and Charleston. The amazing
rapidity with which the post office system
has advanced to its present state, is shown by
the fact that in 1851, or only about sixty years
subsequent to the date last mentioned, the length
of routes in operation was 166,290 miles, the annual
cost of transportation thereon, $3,421,754;
the revenue of the Department, $0,785,498;
and the number of officers, $19,604. The department
has on its registers over 6,000 mail
routes and nearly as many mail contractors.
Only twenty-five years ago the boot of a single
coach sufficed for any mail leaving our principal
cities. Now, at New York, Washington,
and other of our commercial towns, they amount
to several tons each day.
Hokridlf Destruction of two Children bt
their Mother?Thomaston, Ga., March 12.?
On Saturday last the citizens of Upson county
had a forcible illustration of the indispensable
necessity of well-endowed Lunatic Asylums. A
respectable lady, by the name of Magnan, about
two months ago attempted to commit suicide, in
a fit of insanity, by cutting her throat; but recovering
from the effects of tiie wound, she remained
in a mental condition, sometimes better, and
* ' ? Cnfnr/lor l?icf cIlA
KUIIJfLI IIltT?) uuiii uatuiuar nK-v, w..v
was supposed to be better than usual. On that
day taking her four little children, the eldest being
about live or six years of age, she went to
Potter's Mill-pond, about three miles distant, and
plunged them all in, intending to drown herself.
Fortunately, a young man by the name of Alfred
Wilson, (who deserves a great deal of credit,)
was fishing at a considerable distance, and
w a attracted bv the cries of the children. lie
hastened to their assistance, and heroically plunged
into the water, which was very deep, and
succeeded in saving the lives of two of the cliilJren,
recovering the dead body of the third, and
rescuing the unhappy woman. All attempts to
find the body of the smallest child were fruitless.?Macoii
Telegraph.
Oi'r California "Boys."?A letter has been
received in this place, we understand, from Mr.
Richard Saultcr. who in company with some
twenty others, left this place for the land of gold
?oine weeks since. Mr. S. stat** that "the boys''
are all welL, awaiting transportation from the
Isthmus to San Francisco. There are 4 or 5000
others in the same predicament. He winds up
with the remark that if he was in Athens again
he would not start to California for ten thousand
dollars!
The Cassvillc Standard of last week eon tains
an extract of a letter from a young man formerly
of that place, saying "for Cod's sake, tell the
people of Georgia not to come here."
The Mountain Signal of a late date has a letter
from Mr. Whclchel, a gentleman of the strictest
integrity, beseeching his countrymen to remain
at home.
And yet, in view of all this and a thousand
other reasons that might be mentioned, there arc
hundreds ol young men, who are at.d might continue
useful members of society at home, dissatisfied
with their lot, and anxiously watching for
an opportunity to go to California! It seems
they will not bo warned "even though one should
rise from the dead."?Aiken* Go. Jferohl.
Bloody Affray in Kkstocky?Bcvkiiai.
Persons Killkd.?The Louisville Courier gives
an account of a bloody affray w hich occurred
near Lancaster, Ky. on tin- I fill inst. between
Russell, Isaiah and Frederick Hill, hik! two or
three of their wins, on one side and a party who
had fortified themselves in a tobacco house on
the other. Nothing is said as to the origin of
the affray, excejit that as the IfilIn arrived opposite
the house, they were fired on and Itiissell
Ilill killed. The account in the Courier then
gfx!s on and to say:
"The Hills then charged upon the house ,and
Isaiah Ilill was killed juntas lie was getting over
the fence. The door of the house was forced hy
the remaining Hitls, and the fight continued with
short arms, and bowio knives. John Kellers
was shot hy a son of Isaiah Hills, (twelve or
fourteen years of age,) and fell and expired after
having received five other shots through the
head. Wm. Crisman was shothy the same Ih ?y,
when in the act of stabbing Fredrick Hill with a
bowie knife. Crisman died, having on his bohy
one pistol shot and fifty-three wounds inflicted
until a knife. A man by the name of Alverson,
ana another by the name.of Samuel Sellers, (of
the house party,) were slightly wounded. Two
of the lioys (Hills) wore wounded with rille shots
and one of tlicm, a mere boy, lies in a very criti
i i:i!
Lrtl I'UIIUIUUII.
VIROINIA AND THE PRESIDENCY.?The whigs
of Richmond, Va., on Tuesday evening, adopted
resolutions in favor of Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency,
and expressing the hoj>e that the Whig
National Convention will present for their acceptance
a candidate whose fidelity to the constitution
and the measures of adjustment known
as the " Compromise Measures," shall he beyond
all question.
A public meeting will be held at Temperance Hall
this Evening, when an Address' will be delivered by
His Honor J. Belton* O'Neall.
The public are respectfully invited to attend. Seats
will be provided specially for the Ladies.
The members of Wateree Division No. 9, and all
transient brethren are requested to meet at the Hall at
7 o'clock.
Jtg^Tho Hon. J. A. Woodward, we learn, by a letter
in the Winnsboro' Herald, will decline a re-election
to Congress from this Congressional District
Our Court
Commenced on Monday, His Honor Judge O'Neall
presiding.
The Dockets are small, and we are glad to learn
that on the Sessions side there are but few cases, and
consequently but littlo work for Solicitor Fair at this
Term.
nis nonor, in addressing the Grand Jury, very
properly and forcibly brought to their notice, the absolute
necessity of attention being paid to the Roads
in our District, and appropriately touched upon the
importance of good Market Roads, and of public spirit
being manifested by the citizens of Camden and vicinity,
otherwise our town would suffer, which we are all
prepared to admit
His remarks to the Jury on some of the unlawtui
practices of the present day, were well timed and forcible,
and we wish his suggestions may be carried out
From Messrs. Walker, Richards & Co., we have
received a copy of Miss Bates' Letter, on the "Private
Life and Character of John C. Calhoun." It is printed
very neatly in pamphlet form, and is a just tribute to
the memory of Carolina's cherished son.
The price of single copies is 12 1-2 cents, or ten
copies will be sent post-paid, for one dollar.
Interest Tables.
e nave received iroiu air. ?>m. xi. v/uuuu>>, w
Sumter District, (formerly of Camden,) several copies of
his Interest and Time Tables, which wo have examined,
and found to be simple and convenient for use. The
interest may bo found on any sum of money, from one
cent to five thousand dollars, for any length of time,
from one day to five years, at the rate of seven per
cent. The Time Tables tell the number of days, or
months and days, for any length of time, within a
twelve-month.
They are for sale at Z. J. DeIIay, and Thomas J.
Workman's Drug-Store. Price 25 cents.
Direct Trade.
Propositions have been made for holding a general
Southern Convention of Farmers, Merchants and Planters,
for the purpose of hastening the accomplishment
of Direct Trade with foreign couniries, by the people
of the South.
We acknowledge a perfect abhorrence for all Southem
Conventions, for the term is only indicative of humbugging,
since the general caving in of the South. We
are, nevertheless, ready to advocate any measure having
the least semblance of feasibility, which is likely
to awaken interest upon this important subject. If
such a Southern Commercial Convention as is urged
can do any good, let it be held, and let all classes,
trades and professions be represented therein.
Non-Intercourse with the Northern States would
Yr um'ianm if imnnimitv nt the Soiltll IIfC
uui uu ) neon iuuu?u*V| ? g - vailed
to any extent. Unfortunately there is no concert
of action, und co-operative aid is Utopian from beginning
to end. The patriotism of Southern, as well
as Northern men, lie in thoir pockets, and to move the
one, you must touch the other. If schemes can be invented
by which tuen may bo convinced that it is to
their irUere.it to support Southern eo'tnraerco and enterprise,
there will be fouud no difficulty in effecting all
which may be desired. We have littlo confidence in
patriotism. As an abstract proposition now-a-days, it
implies but littlo, and is one of those things we reud
of hear of, but seldom see. Where ono man is found
who is really willing to pay a fraction higher for Southern
productions, a thousand may bo found who regard
such an individual as mad?a fanatic. This is patriotism,
with a vengeauce!
Wo subjoin the following extracts found in our oxchanges,
on the subject of tho proposed Convention,
which wo take pleasure in placing before our readers:
Such an assemblage we believe would do more
i towards hastening the accomplishment of this
| great purjmHO than any thing else that could be
conceived of. It is a scheme too gigantic to bo
effected now by a few mercantile leagues, or by
t lie single arm of either one of our seaport cities.
The Northern competition would moat
surely crush audi an unsupported effort. If
effected at all it must l?o done through the united
effort of the entire South.
From the tone of the press and the general
interest every where manifested on the subject,
we Itclieve that such a combination of strength
can be secured and the Southern States be
brought into the adoption of some definite plan
of action. By bringing the producer in half the
battle is fought, and a closer feeling is esiablished
iM'twccn these two great classes of community.
The farmer and planter will go home with a
more t horough knowledge of the subject and a
more perfect view of its importance, and will
diffuse it. through his neighbors, and thus the
merchant and capitalist will be encouraged and
the people every where committed in truth to
the great question of direct trade."
Nothing cun Ixi clearer than that "the intervention
of a third party" in carrying between
two nations their resju'etive productions "must
operate a tax upon the exchanges between them."
How or in what way the means could best bo
raised and the efforts of interested parties most
effectively concentrated to bring alx>ut an extensive
and lucrative direct trade with other nations,
wo do not. propose to show. That would be a
part of the legitimate business of the Convention
should one lxdiold. We may warmly iu favor of
the proposition to hold it believing as we do that
such direct trade would tend vastly to dovelope
the resources of tho South and accumulate and
retain wealth in our section of tho Union.
We doubt whether merchants in flje interior,
would confine their purchases to Southern ports
until they could make them?all things considered
as cheap as in Northern ports. The object of
a direct trade would be to confine as much trade
at the South as possible. Doubtless, patriotism
would impel many, if not all Southern merchants
in the outset of this great scheme, to pay a little |
more for their supplies than they would have to
pay in New York and other Northern cities.?
It would certainly be good policy to do so if the
result in a reasonable time would be the substitution
in the South of as good and cheap markets
as could be found in other sections.
The incidental advantages of a direct trade
would be immense. The shipping necessary for
it would be built at the South. Machine shops,
foundaries and ship yards would be established
on a large scale at appropriate places and call inthorn
mfltoriftls and mechanical
skill. The existence of wealth tends to create it
and every dollar kept in our midst by the direct
interchange of our productions for those of other
countries, would be that much added to our permanent
wealth. We would be less prosperous
to the amouut paid a third party to convey them
between us.
Independent of the ordinary advantages of a
direct trade under existing circumstances, we
must look to the opening iumre. mat mvues
to energy and activity in the business of direct
exportation and importation. In a few years
the trade across the Isthmus, will be of a magnitude
scarcely dreamed of now. Nature seems
to have united the Northern and Southern con
tinents by a narrow strip of land as if for the
express purpose of permitting a convenient cross
ing place from ocean to ocean. It would bo a
reproach to Southern cities to permit trade from
the Pacific to pass by them to great distauces
for want of suitable and accommodating markets
in them.
The South is not altogether depandent upon
Europe for its foreign trade. The whole of
South America, besides the Pacific trade, is open
to her enterprise. Some of the countries of
America arc blessed by nature with the most
magnificent rivers, which flow for thousands of
miles through land whose fertility is not equaled
by that of the Valley of the Nile. Millions of
in Rnizil and in other countries of that sec
tiou, not even yet explored, are equal to the
best lands in the Valley of the Mississippi, and
much of it is far superior. The richest products
of the soil are obtained there with but little labor,
nature having endowed it with a fruitfulncss
a true account of which seems to border on the
extravagancies of fiction. In many parts within
the tropics, and particularly under the Equatorial
line, perpetual summer reigns with its ever
producing and genial power. There the leaves
never fall, and fruits grow and ripen upon trees
whose foliage never change its beautiful hues.
It is better for the South to arouse at a late
period than not at all. With the bright prospects
before her, there is every reason for her to
act promptly and vigorously on this important
question. We hope the press generally will favor
the proposition to hold a Southern Commercial
Convention.
Lying.
This is one of the most detestable of vices, and tends
to disturb the very foundation on which society is based.
It destroys confidence, without which, there can
be no social intercourse on terras affording any satisfaction,
or productive of any good. It is a vice from
which every noble mind instinctively recoils; and
whero it exists, it demonstrates a most lamentable
want of moral rectitude, and tends to put an end to
all confidence in the individual who is the subject Of
so gross a vice. This sad moral stain, begins like other
sins, and like thera increases by repetition, grows by
indulgence, strengthens with its growth, and finally
ends in making a most hateful character.
Persons guilty of this vile habit, are oftentimes not
aware to what extent they indulge in it; they have
been so long in the habit of distorting trut h, of embellishing
their narratives with the production of their
fincy, of "drawing upon their imagination for facts,1'
that it has become second nature, and they are unconscious
to what a degree tlicy are deviating from truth.
This makes it so much the worse and renders all expectation
of amendment in such cases, altogether hopeless.
How wise is the admonition, "let your yea be
yea, and your nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than
these, comctli of evil."
Washington was never greater, than on one occasion,
when a disobedience to the commands of his mother
had caused tho death of a favorite young horse, be frankly
confessed his fault. How docs it raako the bosom
thrill, to witness the frank confession of a fault, while
the countenanco is an index to tho honesty of tho
soul.
No mntter how brilliant tho talents, how improved
tho intellect, whero a lovo of truth does not characterize
tho individual.
A lovo of Truth lies at the loundation ot all excellence?there
can be no virtuo in any character whore
thin priceless gem is wanting. * *
Ono effect of Kosuth's "starring," says a Vienna letter
of the 11th ult, is that Hungary is almost hermetically
scaled against Kuglish and Americans. Two
peaceably disposed travellers, ono of whom belonged
to tho Unitod States, havo just been reftised the vise
for that country; and tho Hungarians thcmsolvos dad
it equully difficult to obtain a passport.
Expulsion ok Missionaries.?A treaty has been
ontoredinto with the Indian tribes of tho Middle District
of Oregon, which coulains tho extraordinary orovision
that no American missionary shall be allowed
over again to enter their couutry.
A correspondent writing us from New-Qrloaas un.
der date of the 20th inst., says that tho rapid increase
in tho receipts of Cotton, has quito excitod tho "Long
Crop" mon, and tlioy arc moro sanguine than ever in
their estimates of tho yield being at least two millions
eight hunred thousand bales.?Cliar. Courier.
A Heavy Day's Work.?Ono million and a quarter
of gold, from California, was melted on the 18th inst.,
between tho hours of 7 and 3 o'clock, in tho molting
department of tho Mint, in Philadelphia. This is tho
largest amount ever mehod in ono day since tho estab
lmfimont or in? Mini.
Hard Work.?Tho Judiciary act of Mississippi has
boeu changed so that tho Judges are now required to
sit nine months during tho yoar; they not being entitled
to draw tho last quarter of their salary unless they
produco to the Auditor the certificate in writing of tho
Clork of tho Court, that they have not failed to sit it out
during the uino months.
MoHTJirrr axong Generals.?Within the fivo ^
years which have oiapeed since tho commencement of
the war with Mexico, no less than thirteen American
Generals have departed this life, viz:?Taylor, Worth,
Mason, Brady, Kearney, Hamer, Hopping, Belknap,Duncan,
Croghan, Brooke, Arbnckle and Whiting.
Kossuth consented to receive the money raised at
the grand Pittsburg entertainment, before leaving Chi'
cinnati, and what he reAised at Pittsburg. Some $2,600
were raised at this entertainment, and the expen- i
sea ofKossuth amounted to $800. The Magyar went iff I
for " the whole or none," and because lie did not get I
the whole, declared that he had to pay for the expenses
of himself and suite, committees, and every thing
else connected with his visit to Pittsburg.
A Monument to the Pilgrim Fathers is proposed is
Massachusetts, to be erected at Province town, to commemorate
the fact that the Mayflower was in harborr
I and our present Constitutional Government was ger
roinated in her cabin while there.
Two hundred and twenty-eight graduates left Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, at the late Commcncement,
with licenses of M. D.
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE: ]
Arrival of the Earopa. "/
New York, March 25.?The steamship Effro* J
pa has arrived from Liverpool with aufes to ther
13' 1
Cotton has declined an eighth, (l-8d.) and tb 1
some cases one-fourth, principally in the lower"
gardens and Middling qualities. The sales of
the week were 56,000 bales, of which speculators
took 17,000 and exporters 4000. Fair Orleans,
5 5-8; Middling, 5 1-16; Fair Uplands, b
1-4; Middling, 4 7-8.
No steamer had arrived at Liverpool since the
departure of the Pacific.
The Kaffir war has been terminated by the unconditional
submission of the Kaffirs.
Parliament re-assembled on the 12th, and the
Free Trade question was broached in the House. '
Lord Lyndhurst denounced the efforts of the
Anti Corn law league to compel the dissolution
of Parliament. Hie opposition, headed by Lord
John Russell had resolved to vote supplies for
three months only, and then force Miniftcw to
dissolve Parliament.
France.?Decrees have been published declaring
the prescribed oath to support the Constitution
and the President indisj>ensible, and
any Representative who refuses to subscribe to it
a - * ? I 1 T. 1
will torteit ins seat in tne Assemoiy. u b De
lieved that Gen. Cavaignac will enter the Cham- J
ber, and protest against the action of the Presi- fl
dent, and then retire. The exclusive control of JJ
education will hereafter be exercised by Church JJ
and State. The chairs of the Professors in the 1
University have been abolished. The number 11
of the army in Paris is increasing. More of the
political prisoners have been transported to Cayenno.
It was believed that Napoleon would assume
the title of Emperor on the opening of tqe
Chambers on the 99th.
Washington, March 25.?A difficulty is said
to have occurred in the Cabinet on Tuesday between
Postmaster General Hall and Mr. Corwin,
Secretary of the Treasury. The President decided
in favor of Hall, and desires Corwin's resignation.
A Clock on the Cathedral at New Orleans is jl
pronounced to be a mechanical wonder. It Is an
eight-day clock, and has three dials?one of six
feet diameter in front of the edifice over a hundred
feet from the ground; another of the samo
size on the rear; and a third of small size in the
interior?all moved by the same machinery.
The large dials are of transparent glass, the figures
and the hands being painted white; and at
the back of the glass is a cloth of black velvet,
making the surface of the dials to appear black, j
These dials are lighted at night by gas burners, ,
which, by an ingenious arrangement of the I
clockwork itself, are extinguished daily at a 'j
change of time conforming to the length of the I
I niorbt. This clock occupies but a small Rpace; J
? 4 a strikes
the hours oil a deep-toned bell; and the
quarters of an hour on two smaller bells; and 5
is furnished with a regular compensation pendulum,
and, besides its regular weight, a small
weight acting solely on the escapement, which
together render it an almost infallible timepiece.
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IMPORTANT TO CONSUMPTIVES.
In looking over the pamphlet issued by the propritors
of Dr. Rogers's Syrup of Liverwort and Tar, we
have been forcibly struck with tl?o high public and
private character of those who vouch for its efficacy.
Among them we notice the name of our old acquaintance
and quondam friend, Hon. Judge W. Burke. "We
also see the names of W. J. Richards, Rev. H. Wiseman
and Dr. Hiram Cox, late Professor in tho Cincin*
; nati Medical College, and many others of like character
and standing. If suoh men are willing, over their
own signatures, to testify thus strongly in its favor, it
must be tho most remarkable medicine of the ago, and
wo advise all our invalid readers to try it forthwith.
For sale at the Drug-Stores of Z. J. DeHat and
Tuoma8 J. Workman, Camden, S. C.
Soo advertisement on 4th page.
MARRIED,?on the 28th iostM by Rev. H.
C. Parsons, Mr John C. Mangum, of Chesterfield
Dist. S. C. to Misa Dorcas A. Cotton, of
! Kershaw, Dist. S. C.
On Thursday evening last, by Rev. Mr. Hoyt, flj
Mr. Joel A. Schrock, of this place, to Miss Jfl
Sarau hL, daughter of Mr. Thomas Stover, Sr., B
of this District. < I
SOUS OF TEMPERANCE. 1
WATEREK DIVISION NO. 9. X
The regular meeting of this Di\ision will be jj
held on Thuwday evening, at your new Hall over |
A. M. <k R. Kennedy's Store, at 7 o'clock. X
By order of the W. P. I
TIIO. J. WARREN. R. S. g
CADETS OF TEMPERANCE*. " M
Kershaw Section No. 4. jM
THE regular Meeting of this Section wijj, bo held at XB
their Hall on Friday next, at 7 o'clock. By order !
of the W. A. T. G. PEGUES, Secr'y. J
COMPLETE ll I
HPHE undcreijnwd hu now reoeivod his flill snnnlw I
X of SWING AND SUMMER GOODS As'it j
regards style and beauty, h.0 thinks thoy will comp^e- |
favorably with any thing that has been offered in this, 1
market Having purchased very largely, and not being I
at all anxious to lay any of them " on the shelf" they I
will be sold AS liOW, either for cash, or on time, to,
good customers, as they oau bo bought at any other
Store ih the plq.ee, or iu the City of Charleston.
save but one price, at that a vert low one, /j
March 20. E. W. ROXNEY. ?"