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* THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 6,1852. NUMBER 28. k THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ? published semi-weekly and weekly by b?1 ygoaaa i. mmm. s " "Bus. ?h, i The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three th, I Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. Tiie Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars W<1 If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay- di< ment be delayed three months, and Threo Dollars if not rei paid til! the expiration of the year. j.. ADVERTISEMENTS will bo inserted at the following terms For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five ?b cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, be L seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-se- wa 9*-. ven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Sin- CO] gle insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin- 110 gle insertion. an' ?"Tho number of insertions desired, and the edition to bo published in must be noted on the margin of he all advertisements, or they will bo published semi-weekly until ordered discontiued and charged accordingly. ^ From Geo. TV. Bethune's Lays of Love and Faith. ^ 0 I LOVE TO SINO. ^ I love to sing when I am glad ; be< Song is the echo of my gladness; we I love to sing when I am sad, ba; Till song makes sweet my very sadness. gl* Tis pleasant when voices chime, To 6ome sweet rhyme in concert onl v; ^ei * WFi And song to me is company? Good company, when I am lonely. Whene'er I greet the morning light, My song goes forth in thankful numbers, ^ei And 'mid the shadows of the night, wa I sing me to my welcome slumbers. 8er My heart is stirred by each glad bird, un] Whose note is heard in Summer bowers; 10\ And song gives birth to friendly mirth but Around the hearth, in wintry hours. ter i a 1 Man first learned song in Paradise, \V From the bright angels o'er him singing, det And in our home above the skies, cot Glad anthems are forever ringing. apj God lends his ear, well pleased to hear f?r The songs that cheer His children's sorrow; Till day shall break, and we shall wake Where love will make unfading morrow. Then let me sing while yet I may, l^e Like him God loved, the sweet-tongu'd Psal- Pu S, Who found in barp and holy lay, * The charm that keeps the spirit calmest tor For sadly here we need the cheer ant While sinful fear with pleasure blendeth; vec Oh! how I long to join the throng litt Who sing the song that never endeth. bor < r dei 'i SOUNDS OF LABOR We love the banging hammer, The whirring of the plane, ?ei The crashing of the busy saw, ' I The creaking of the crane; am The ringing of the anvil, wo The grating of the drill, s]1 The clattering of the turning-lathe, The whirring of the mill; The buzzing of the spindle, aPl The rattling of the loom, fbt The puffing of the engine, by And the fan's continual boom ; Th The clipping of the tailor's shears, sur The driving of the awl, cor The sound of busy labor? ^ We love, we love them all. neJ stn "I>eal Gently with the Erring." ma Aunt Lizzy sat knitting in her high-backed y0l chair, glancing over her spectacles from time to ruj time, at the figures moving in the street without < A projecting little mirror enabled her to com- ?uj mand a full view of the busy scene; and it was rea her pleasure mus, 01 an evening, io wuue away ^ the hours in pleasant converse with a friend. ?aj When other subjects failed, a topic was usually .,je suggested by some passing face?most of the jje town's folk being well known to my aunt. ^ As we were seated there in the twilight, a ve- caj, hide drove rapidly along the street. " It's the vjjj > doctor," observed Aunt Lizzy; "where can he an( ^ be called on such emergency to-night ?" y0l The carriage stopped at the end of the street, car opposite ang entry leading into a mean close of hjn houses, inhabited by many poor and by some < disreputable characters. < " He has stopped at Waidy's Close," I observI ed. " He is doubtless going to see the wretched n onrl who attempted to destroy herself this morn- 110 P ? r J son ing. , " I have not heard of the circumstance," said re Aunt Lizzy. " It is only one of those bad girls down there? e a wretched creature, who in her despair, or in sanity, as some say, threw herself over the bal- l. ustrade of the bridge; but she fell into a shallow , ' ^ part of the river, and was taken up terribly in- ^ rjured?so much so, that she cannot possibly sur- ^ vive." "Poor thing! What she must have suffered, was driven to that terrible attemDt . . against herself! How little do we know of the secret sorrows which wring the hearts of our c{ kind! what agony it would cause us, did we kn<gff a thousandth part of them?" a uJ3ut your sympathy would be quite out of fee place here, dear aunt This woman is quite an n( ffr infamous person?not worthy of your considers- m tion, I assure you." " j?nc "Infamous! and unworthy of consideration! ?r< Not worthy of consideration! The most misgui- l. ded human being is worthy of sympathy, and ., none are utterly infamous. Let us take care ? how wo cast stones about us. Who knows the sin-< heavy temptations of the poor, except themaclves ? And if girls?who are born weak and J are educated into exaggerated weakness?who to ( aro taught to set the higl>est value on things ox- pre nsic, and to pride themselves upon beauty, jss and ornament, without the benefit of any tter guidance; i? when thus sent into the rid, they fall before temptation, against which ey have never been protected and fortified, ght they not to be pitied quite as much as iy are condemned? Were we to know all ? circumstauces attendant upon the downward reer of these poor creatures, we should not be thout some sympathy for them, which, if it 1 not restore them to society, would at least ider their state less wretched and intolerable an it is." "I wonder to hear you talk in such a way!" I served. "Why should a state of wickedness rendered any thing but intolerable ? Why ste sympathy on those who set all virtuous nduct at defiance ? How do you reconcile those tions of yours, with a due sense of propriety d morality ?" "My dear girl," said Aunt Lizzy, "I cannot Ip remembering how tenderly and lovingly one ioso example I would humbly follow, dealt with 3 erring and sinful. Were not the sternest rds he said, "Go, and sin no more." And are , who are well brought up; who love virtue jause we have been trained to do so, and have ?n kept out of the way of all temptation?are : to judge harshly our erring sister, whose life 3, perhaps, been one long and desperate strug! against poverty, adversity, and temptation !" "Well, you are the only one whom I have ever ard attempt to say a word in palliation of the etched life of Grace Walters." "Grace Walters! And is it she ? Spare her, )r girl." "What! you know her, then ?" "I knew her when a child, and have fondled on my lap for hours together, ller mother s married from our house. She was a tidy vant, and a good woman, though she proved fortunate in her husband. He was a devoted er, a handsome fellow, and a good workman; t he was a drunkard. That, however, was aftheir marriage. Drink is the curse of many iiomc, which, but for it, would be happy.? hile the mother lived, her children were ten ly cared for; but she died of a fever, in a poor tage, from which nearly all comfort had dispeared; and then the children were not cared nt. nil Wh<>n tlio m in nnmo Knmo at nii^l ink, the children were often cruelly beaten, beise they cried for food. Little Grace, who was s oldest, would be sent out to haggle at the lis on Saturday night for cheap bits of meat, ! father spending his earnings mainly at the blic house. Could the poor thing learn virtue that home ? But the man got mated again some woman of kindred nature to his own; and he family were in misery before, they were in ture now. The girl was used as a drudge, and 1 as an object on which husband and wife alike ited their fury in their domestic quarrels. Ah! le do we know of the hardships and sorrows ne by those whom we are so ready to connn, because their lot has not been so happy our own!" 'But the girl?poor thing?what became of r She grew up, half fed, half clothed, untrained; 1 when she was old enough, she was sent to a rkshop, to earn money for her parents. There i toiled for years, till she grew a young worn I have seen her there. She had a fine >earanco for a girl of her station?dressed >wilv, and had admirers. She was followed young men of higher station than her own. ev tempted her with visions of ease and pleae, which were all the more seductive when itrasted with her daily routide of toil, and her >erable life at home. No kind mother was ir to whisDer counsel and <riv? hor virfim -?f - O* " """ ' "" *"*v jngth; but a drunken, screeching virago, who de her domestic life hideous. She fled?do 1 wonder? But alas! poor girl?it was to her 11. 'The betrayer, as usual, came to her in the ise of love. She knew not the false from the 1, and she believed the betrayer's tale. But y her! Are not the wisest baffled at this ne ? What stratagems will not the unprincid and selfish employ to effect their purpose ? was of a higher rank than her own, and lied in all such powers of gallantry as were culated to win a weak woman's heart. A ain, wbo can practice such acts is often loved 1 preferred to better men, This man, tl ough ing, had already distinguished himself by his eer of vice; aud yet she loved him?believed l to be sincere, and fled with him." 'Alas, poor girl! it was a pitiable fate." 'You may truly say so. You see what her iptations and trials were, but you can form conception of her sufferings. There Aias poi, in the chalice of love which she quaffed; her am of happiness was short?it was but a flash, 1 then all was darkness and desolation. He , her?a broken playthiner: she became? d I say what??a weed tossed about amid : mire of the streets. And now, as you have i me, her world-wearied heart has thirsted for ith!" 'what a pitiable history- you have told mo, ir Aunt Lizzy ! I sec now, that in the career the most vicious, there may be circumstances mitigate the condemnation with which we it it, though not to diminish our aversion to i career itself." 'There is every rearon why we should deal ltly with the erring," said Aunt Lizzy. "We the temptations they have fallen under, but )w not what they have resisted. It is not for to anticipate the judgment of the Almighty, I to make a hell for these unhappy beings be; their time, in addition to the horrors which ir own course has already plunged them in. d may He deal mercifully with that wretched 1 whom we have spoken of; for though her \ have been great, so have her temptations." rhc Whigs of Galveston, Texas, have resolved sndorse President Fillmore and the Commisc. Millard Fillmore. The efforts of a few interested partizans to bolster the pretensions of Millard Fillmore to a re-election to the Presidency, are truly ridiculous. They have been indulging in paroxysms of patriotic admiration for the chief who has exhalted them, and we anticipate an explosion shortly, of this over-abundance of semi-official furore. What has Millard Fillmore done to deserve this fulsome praise ? His accidental administration has accomplished no great political deed.?He has suggested no project of public policy, neither has he or his cabinet established a system in any way national, or in any particular conductive to general prosperity. Sycophancy, and degrading humiliation to tyrants, have been the distinguished features of his administration. He quailed before the blusterings of Spain and winked at I theinfrmyof the bastard Napoleon.?His course in relation to the Irish patriots has been as hu- ' miliating to the country as has been the conduct J T?nrr\on/l AttAflvininnr* nnrl trvnninnl wi uii^iunu VTW auu \?j i aiiiV/Uit u?Cl J ~ where the democratic press are out in loud de- 1 nunciation of his course. All blend their voices ' to crush him with just censure, and the Vicks- 1 burg Sentinel says truly, when it declares that, although possessing no national reputation previous to his having been put on the whig ticket for Vice President in 1848, after he was invested with the presidential robes, every blind support- * er of the administration, simply because it was ] whig, seemed or at least professed to know much ] about him, and all to the effect that he was a 1 very great man. Ilis name has almost invaria- ( bly been coupled with a prediction to the effect, that during the remainder of the presidential i term that he would render himself no less illus- ] trious than the most renowned men that had preceded him in that dignified and exhalted station. He has now filled that station for nearly two years. The presidential term is drawing to a close, he has had opportunities, perhaps equal j to those of any former president, to immortalise I himself by some master stroke of policy, or by i prompt and efficient action in a trying crisis. : But has he done this ? No?emphatically NO 1 must be the prompt answer. Corruption and < anti-republican sympathy for tyrants have been \ the main characteristics of his contemptible and * and disreputable conduct. Infamy such as should render any man odious through all coming times, has attached itself to his almost every j act Only his own party, and those who held * office under him by special appointment, find it j in their hearts to laud him, or enter into a de- , fence of his equivocal and corrupt conduct. The i high-sounding phrase in which he threatened to < call out the army and navy to enforce the exe- < cution of the fugitive slave law, and his timid , and dillitory movements when decision and i prompt action was needed, all go to show that j -he was a man afraid of his own shadow, and utterly unfit for the station he occupies. The i praises of his talents that were sung so early have proven to be in advance of the music, and the poor aspirant finds that those among whom i he distributed the loaves and fishes, only urge ] his claims for a second election. He can rest iti | peace after his present term has expired, the re- i niainder of his days.?Pennsylvaniav. , Centralization. In the adoption of the Constitution, it was , apprehended by the most liberal friends of re- j publicanism, that the general government would | overshadow, and ultimately destroy, the sovreignty of the States. The federal party, on the other hand, captivated with the idea of a ( great central power, predicted most danger from what was called the centrifugal force of the confederacy?that is, the tendency to dismemberment by the encroachment of State authority. The lapse of half a century has verified the apprehensions of the republican or State rights party. Geologians say that the earth in its creation was a fluid body, and that in its revolution upon its axis there was a constant tendency to an agglomeration of its particles about the centre, by means of which, in process of time, it was gradually compacted until it assumed its present form and tenacity. So in the operation of our government ; when established there were fewer cohesive elements in its nature, but by the gradual accumulation of power, it has, in a comparatively brief natural existence, become, in all but its uame, a centralism instead of a confederacy. The Constitution, which was designed by its framers as a measure of the power ceded by the s States to the General Government, has Wen con- f verted into a mere outline of restrictions upon 0 the States themselves. Politicians now consult ^ its nro visions to ascertain, not. what th? tranpral f government may do, but what the States may a not do. Men gravely argue that there are no c such things as State Rights, because they cannot } be found in the Constitution ; and very sagely J' contend for the constitutionality of an act of the a general government because the clause of the i Constitution denying the authority of Congress e in the premises cannot be cited. * The day was 1 when federalism condescended to attempt to show the grant of a right in that instrument before it sought to exercise it, now, forsooth, the s onus is shifted, and if asked for its authority to e do certain things, it triumphantly defies op) ii position to show whereiu the Constitution gain- ii says the right. t This acquisition of power in the general gov- b eminent has been gradual?so gradual, indeed, n as 10 be almost imperceptible. The exactions of t: federalism have been iu many instances of so n little practical importance, that thoso.who have o opposed its movements have been ridiculed as y hair splitters, cavilere, and abstractionists. By h degrees the people have been accustomed to the v exerciso of undelegated authority, until they havo ceased to measure the power of Con- b gross by the groat charter of its powers, substi- c tuting it for the uncertain and constantly chang- tl ing test of precedent. Thus trifling usurpations p in the aggregato constitute oppression. Each a grain of sand of which the islands of the ocean a aro made, is by itself a trifle, and yet these I grains of sand make the island. Congress ap propriates a few thousand dollars to tit out i ship to send to the frozen regions in search o Sir John Franklin, and no objection is made. Ii a short time another appropriation is made fo sending after Louis Kossuth, and if opposition i expressed, humph! is the reply ; if it was righ to spend money hunting Sir John, it certainly i: not wrong to send after Govenor Louis. An< bo we go ; one transgression of the line of righ furnishes a precedent for another, and these tw< for another, until finally by imperceptible degrees we find that the national legislature can furnisl a precedent for doing a thousand things not on< " 1 ' ' * 1 1 .1 - a . 01 wnicn can dc sustained Dy me \jousihuuoh One of the wildest progressionists of the daj has actually introduced a bill into Congress t< jive every man in the Union a home; anothe: has proposed to donate the public lands to th< State for the erection of the insane asylums: and still another proposes to establish a nationa farm and workshop at Washington. The con fcientious representative who has the honesty t< oppose those insidious aggressions, is ridiculed a a crazy theorist, and jeered with the taunt o tilting against windmills. And yet these things trifling though they appear, are but different ex hibitions of precisely the same principle whicl would plunder one-half of the country for tb< emolument of the other, and bankrupt the treas ury with lavish expenditures for the purposes o internal improvement. They are all the fruits o federalism ; all indications of the centralizatior of the government. At this point, more than from all the seces ?ionists and nullifiers in the in the country, is re publicanism in in danger. The doctrine of Stah sovereignty instead of being an element of dis anion and discord, is the only hope of the Unioi apon terms of equality and honor. A confede racy can only be maintained in its purity bj jealous watchfulness over the rights of its mem bers. No individual State, no particular section is interested in this doctrine. If each recogni scs and each defends it, the Constitution an< the Union may?nay, must stand. If it is dis warded, the Union may survive the Constitutior through a few years, but sooner or later it musl share its destruction.?Columbus Ga. Sentinel Land "Warrants.?It has been well observet that Congress having made Land Warrants as jignable, the act which was intended to be ex tensively beneficial is likely to be defeated in it design, at least to one class of beneficiaries, whicl require in the greatest degree the benefits of it aperation. We allude to the widows of deceasec soldiers. The law requires, to sustain the claiu Df a widow, for bounty land, 1. Proof of mar riage with the deceased soldier. 2. His death 3. His service. But according to the construe Lion of tho statute by the Department of the In terior, those points may be established satisfac torily, according to rational evidence, and th widow fail to obtain her land. It not sufficien that verbal testimony is offered to prove the mar riage of the parties. It is not deemed satisfac tory that persons testify that they witnessed th< marriage of the parties?record evidence is re quired, public or private. The parties applyini p-_ i i ._ i x _ .T i _ j .r* iL ror Douniy tanu 11111*1 a?iuucu a rwura ui im marriage in the family Bible. But not only this :he party claiming must also prove that the en ;ry was made at the time the marriage was ef fected. It has been said very properly, that in many yises such record does not exist of perfectly le jal marriages. The parties may be at a distance "rom the place where the marriage has been re ;orde<l in the Church or Parish Register, or th< Family Bible may have been lost. The rejec ion of oral testimony would amount, in man) :ases, to a denial of the claim of the poor widow It throws unnecessary and unreasonable discred t on the oaths of parties whom it presupposei vould commit perjury to defraud the Govern lient. If such a principle of evidence were es ablished as the rejection of verbal proof, how nany private claims that are granted by Congress would receive attention ? We hope thai he Department will modify this rule of inter jretation for an act of Congress which is intended o be comprehensively beneficial. It has been well observed o"i this subject thai vhile Congress is disposing of millions of acres >t' the public domain, in pursuit of the policy hat every individual should possess a ilometead?when gratuitous distribution of land by rovernment for all comers and occupiers, is the irder of the day?the poor widow, whose hus>and has been, perhaps, killed or maimed, in the >ublic service, is hedged round with regulations, ittended with trouble and expense, which may lefeat her claim to a miserable pittance of pubic land. Is there any thing like distributive ustiee in land gratuities, without price or effort, ,nd a modicum doled out, according to nicely graduated terms of military service, and weighd in nicely poised scales of proof.?Char. Eve. Vews. Keep out of Debt.?If there is any galling lavery, it is being in debt. A man may be honst and true ; but when he gets "heel over head" a debt, then woe to him. Woe to you, man, fyou get into debt so deep, there is no seeing hrough. You will be derided to your face and ehind your back. The rascals will try every neans in their power to give you a bad reputa ion ; and if they succeed in t' eir machinations, lake up your mind to receive a goodly number f kicks. Such is the custom; and "they say" ou have no business to run in debt; so you avn't, if you could liave lived and done other:ise. Woe to thee, oh man in debt! Patched 1 1 - J 1 A. It! reecnes, or a cruinpieci xiat, are noining; nor a are-worn brow, nor premature gray hairs; but be suspicions of the world, the cold distrust, the assing by on the other side, accumulating duns nd throats, sleepless nights and dark forebodings re something. These shall be your thorns.? Jut you could endure all this, if the rascals would - patronize you?give you encouragement to enai ble you to get out of the scrape. f Keep out of debt Don't run into that fire, i Don't run into debt. Go ragged?dig clams? r live on ground nuts, first Pay down, if in your s power?barter in lard, cat'3 skins, hens' eggs, t anything honorable; but don't run in debt? s Eastern Mail. L New Disease.?The Cumberland (Md.) Alle5 ganian thus describes a new disease which has > made its appearance in that neighborhood: 1 "A disease which has baffled the best medical i skill has been prevailing for some time past in the Glades, the upper part of this county. Its f approach is known by a slight pain, which soon > extends over the system, drawing the body nearr ly double, and causing the moet excruciating - pain to the person attacked, who is only relieved i by death, which usually takes place in a few 1 hours. Families have been almost entirely de " stroyed by it, and we hear of an instance where" > a widow and three children were attacked and ? died?one little child only escaping." ' An Extraordinary Deliverance.?In the " war called " Braddock's war," as a British vessel 1 of the navy was one night running close to the 5 coast of Barbary, the officers on deck heard " some one singing. In a moment they were f convinced that he was singing the Old Hunf dred psalm tune. They immediately conjec1 tured that the sinner was a Christian cantive. and determined to attempt his rescue. Twenty - stout sailors, armed with pistols and cutlasses, manned the ship's boats, and approached the ^ shore. Directed by the voice of singing and prayer, they soon reached the abode of the Christian captive. It was a little hut at the bottom of his master's garden, on the mouth of1 a small river. They burst open the door, and took him from his knees, and in a few minutes he was on the ship's deck frantic with joy. The account that he gave of himself was, thit: I his name was McDonald; that he was a native' - of Scotland, and had been a captive eighteen" 1 years. He had obtained the confidence''of t master, was chief gardener, and had the privilege . of living by himself. He said he was not'at Si surprised when they burst open his door, ibt the I Turks had often done so, and whipped him while . on his knees. s "The Rich and the Poor."?With agovfcm1 eminent, institutions, and laws essentially rtpttb* 5 lican, under which no rank, title, nor fortune can 1 render one man superior to another, we stiUHmd, i every now and then, certain persons who seem - to take it for granted that there are two distinct . classes in our country?the rich and the poor. - They even go further than this, and attempt to - fortify such a pooittion by direct appeals, dtffited - from it, to support arguments ana to establish e principles. Even our courts of justice"a*e-rtiade t the theatres for such misrepresentations df our - people and institutions; and we hear lawyers - gravely talking about the rights of the rich' and e the poor, as if they were distinctly recognized by - all. Worse than this, the purity of character of r "the poor" is impeached by those orators, ahd it i is insinuated that the ballot box was estab&hed , simply to prevent the rich from influencing the - votes of the poor, as if the latter were constantly - liable to be corrupted by the superiot fortifhes of the rich. Such a course of reasoning and misrepreSenta tion should be frowned upon by every good citi izen. For our own part we can recognize no - such distinction of classes. We are poor our3 selves, always have been, and probably shall al ways remain so. But we are just as proud of r our position as we could be if we had the fortune . of Girard or Astor, and we cannot esteem the owner of any amount of wealth more thata1 we do s the honest, hard-working laborer for his daily - bread. Men of small fortunes are more general ly men of pure, incorruptible integrity man the r millionaries, whose wealth is, nine times out of ten, earned from the toils or the losses of the boo: est laborer. Poor people themselves cannot die cover any real superiority in their wealthy neigh* [ bors, and you never find them referring to any recognised distinction of the kind. Indteed, these ; remarks about "rich and poor" are always utterj ed by some wealthy orator, who, in spite of his Democratic professions, cannot conceal1 his sria. tocratic leanings, and betrays, even before a popular audience, his own feeling that be is rather , superior to the mass of the people, who have do great fortunes to boast of. Above all letJ ua not i 1 1 i jl 1_ j: j t, . a nave our legal ixiuunais uisgrnuuu uy arguments founded upon a supposed superiority of the rich man over the poor.?Philadelphia Bulletin. < A Strange Visitor.?A veritable Seal was yesterday afternoon caught on the beach near our light house by a negro fisherman belonging to Mr. Giles. The advent of this remarkable visitor occurring at a rather utfpropitious period for novelties, it required, we must say, consider* able intrepidity in an Editor (so often have "The Fraternity" been victimised) to verify "doubtful hearsay" by personal inspection; but we went, and luckily 'twas no humbug, but a genuine inhabitant of more Northern seas, alive, and measuring in length 9 feet 4 1-2 inches, and in width between the two side fins 2 feet. It was temporarily exhibited at the comer of King and Lamboll-streetS, and we suppose will be placed in the Museum of the Coll ge. Char. Eve. News. * Counterfeit.?A five dollar note, purporting to be of the Bank of South Carolina, was presented at ohe of oat- banks the other day. Tftte appearance of the note was fair?the paper good, although the engraVih&' w? rather coarsely executed. Thte signatures of George Martin, President, ahd1 John Brown, Cashier, were engraved upon it. These are not the names of the principal officers of South Carolina. It was a coun. forfait, end a poor ono at that? Wilmington, tie raid.