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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. J. VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 23, 1852. NUMBER 33. "" THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, published semi-weekly and weekly by THOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. The Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid mi mo cxpiruuun 01 toe ytstu. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inecrted at tho following terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in tho I semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five vents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-seVen and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged tho same as for a single insertion. ggThe number of insertions desired, and the edi tion to bo published in must be noted on the margin o all advertisements, or they will bo published semi-week ly until ordered discontinued and cliargcd accordingly To a Violet growing on a Grave. Meek, lovely, unobtrusive flower, Why art thou doom'd to those daik shades ! Could earth afford no fairer flower, Than that the gloomy cypress spreads ? And fragrant violet, must thou bloom And waste on Death thy sweet perfume? Here breathe thy loveliness away O'er reck less dust, and cold decay? How oft its diffidence like thee A violet in obscurity ? A flower that blossoms in the shade, Unknown, unnoticed, thereto fade 1 Ah! I have felt thy hapless doom In travelling to the lonely tomb; But?PI! not pluck thee, lovely flower, Though gloomy be thy cypress bower: Shortly to live?or rather die? The gaze of Admiration's eye. This shade, so mournful unto me, To thee, thy fav'rite one may be, For how know I what sacred ties May bind thee to this native scene, Of mortal dust, that 'neath thee lies. Perhaps thou hast a portion been; Thou wer't perhaps, a Violet vein, Where life's warm blood was want to flow ; As such, ha-t throbbed along the j 1 in, And rushed to meet thy country's foe; Or gently heav'd in placid breast, Or burned where inspiration blest, Or o'er the brow of beauty strayed, Or in a lover's bosom played. My fancy does iu thee descry, The azure of a dark blue eye, , A substance which could once absorb, Infinity within its orb. ? Grasp space, and heaven and earth survey, < And scenes forever passed away ; A substance which, perchance, has been A gazer on this lovely scene. This scene, this very spot might be The haunt of thy mortality, And thou perhaps didst fondly choose This oft, Ihe bed of thy repose. Then unmolested, lovely flower, , I'll leave thee in thy cypress bower; With kindred atoms still remain, And "dust to dust" compound again. Early Rising.?Happy the man who is an early riser. Every morning day comes to him with a virgin love, full of bloom, and purity, and J freshness. The* joy of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. I doubt if ' any man can be called "old," so long as he is an early riser and an early walker. And a youth! ' ?take my word for it?a youth in dressing ( grown and slippers, dawling over breakfast at ' noon, is a very decrepid, ghastly image of that youth which sees the sun blush over the mountain, and the dews sparkle upon blossoming ; hedge-rows.?Bulvotr. Marks of the Gextlemax.?No man is a gentleman who, without provocation, would treat with incivility the humblest of his species. It is vulgarity for which no accomplishments of dress or address can ever atone. Show me the man who desires to make every one happy around him, and whose greatest solicitude is never to give just cause of offence to any one, and I will show you a gentleman by nature and by practice, though he may never have worn a suit of broadcloth, nor even heard of a lexicon. I am proud to say for the honor of our species, there are men, in every throb of whose heart there is a solicitude for the welfare of mankind, \ and wb?ee uYPty bwafch is perfumed with kindy nee*. The prettiest design we ever saw on the tombatone of a child was a lark soaring upward with .a rosebud in its mouth. What could be more sweetly emblematic of innocence winging its m,av liMwn iimlpr tKfl caiv, of its miardian an geH <t> In marriage, prefer the person before wealth, virtue'before beauty, and the mind before the tfaee; then you "have a friend and companion. The old darkey's definition of perseverance was not a bad one, and will do for a life motto. Here it is : " Catch hold?hold fast?and nebber let go !" A minister approached a mischievous urchin, about twelve years old, and laying his hand upon his shoulder, thus addressed him: u My son, I believe the devil has got hold of yOU." M I believe he has too," was the significant re j>\y of the urchin, For the Camden Journal. 0 Internal Resources of Sonth Carolina al Love of country, patriotism, and public spirit, S so commendable and manly, are but other terms ai for that divine injunction, " Love thy neighbor t\ as thyself." And though so liberally professed in every day life among men as right and proper, w is not practised yet more than it ought to be. sc And while it affords an excuse for so many of w our actions that a mere superficial observer might fr suppose its influence almost universal, candor com- al pels us to admit that there are occasional instances T of naked, undisguised selfishness, and yet we cc must believe in charity, that the majority of men fo aim, witn more or less earnestness, at tne com- u' mon good. All those who devote their time to it religion, politics, literature or professional call- n< ings, obviously tend that way. si: At the public good we aim, is so frequent an expression, that we may consider it almost every tb man's motto. Therefore, when we speak out our di reflections and call upon all concerned for a n< hearing, respectful attention at least, is due. te Ideas and opinions are as much and as naturally y< the forerunners of expression, as seed time is of T] harvest, and humble as the pretensions of the w author may be, some thought might escape him, pi that others of more ability than himself, could take up, unfold and improve upon resulting fi- m nallv, in great benefit to mankind. m T> II II 1 1 f-. ueginitigs are usuauy sraau; inueeu, we may i i" say in every tiling that is or has been, there was I of a feebleness in its beginning, which should teach as us to examine closely any new project before we or reject or condemn it. gr Every good citizen is in a measure, bound by on his relations to society to exercise his mind in th looking out for the ways and means of bettering wi himself, his family, and his fellow men. Though his tribute be but a mite, let him throw it into ad the common stock of a progressive age. When at chance offers great things to attempt, we should it not let them pass, but lay hold of them vigorous- th ly?but they are rare, while less things are often wl seen and and as much required as the greater, ba to make up the whole. m< With this preface, and with a sincere desire to to l>e useful, I submit what follows to my fel- be low citizens, asking them to discuss the matter nu for themselves, and consider it kindly towards to me. wc Ours is a small state compound with other so Southern States, but our bounds are fixed, and, it as was once observed in Congress by a member c? from this state. " We occunv a surface nro- as digiously large compare with our numbers." wl The area of South Carolina in round numbers, wc is nineteen millions of acres and the population thi under ri'x hundred thousand, giving over thirty mi acres of land to every individual, old and young, a*l black and white, and I think we may safely say ter there is one hundred acres of land for every per- pri son engaged in its tillage. If then, we esti- ?e, mate that by anv means, one half of the land, un or nine and a half millions of acres is capable pe< of culture, there is room enough in our borders to yet, to plant ten times as much more as we now no plant. thi Admitting then, that wo have nine and a no half millions of acres of tillable land, of which allow one half for grain and pasturage and plant only the balance, four and three quarters mil- 001 lions of acres or one fourth of all our surface, and were to make no more than half a bale of jcc cotton to the acre, it would give us a crop of 'y nearly twenty four hundred thousand bales equal to the present whole crop of the United States. v'8 This is startling, and some of my readers may Pe throw back their heads and raise up their hands gr< in amazement. At first, it does look incredible, that so small a territory and but one fourth of un it employed making only half a crop should wc turn out so much,?but here are the figures and <>n competent calculators say we have the land, so' [ feel that this is a sort of now idea and some te* one may say if South Carolina can do so much, the other cotton states can do it too, or that South Carolina is looking ahead to making all is the cotton wanted. But observe, I am not tell- ?n in{* what wc are trying to do, or what we are ?n going to do but what we could do if we would, and th? what duty to ourselves requires that we should boldly attempt for our sake and the sake of wh those who are to come after us, if wc wish to by improve our condition by using our resources or th< even maintain our present standing before the pr? world. CI Union or disunion, secession or submission, ?tt this is our present home; here we find our lots Li cast; here our abiding place. And the Mighty bn Maker's command to Adam in Eden to subdue, on to dress and to keep it is a command to us. If re< not so audible from Deity, we hear it from in- evi terest, from nature's first law from the desire to be provide for those dependent upon us, and to en- m< large our blessings. tei Let our rivers be straighlened?throw all the it water into one straight channel, that it may run th off quick and wash out deep?thus securing their an deltas free from freshets, and you open up an Th immense mine of agricultural wealth, which eff must add to your capital, increase your produc- sh tions and comforts, employ your labor and skill wi to greater advantage, invite an increase and re- Sh tain your present numbers?which if something sh is not done, must look out for other fields to op- gk ernte in. To effect this purpose, is worth an ef- se; fort?for if we lose them, we lose the essentials su of strength, capital and population?when the th opposite course will encourage them to remain se with their energies, means and productions. sc Small streams are ditched drained and re- th drained, as we will see on almost every planta- is tion?then why not the rivers that are worth so th much more ? vi From Camden falls to Santee is about 40 ai miles?the swamp will average at least two vi miles?many places it is four miles across?but cc say two miles all the way and you have eighty squaro miles or upwards, fifty one thousand pi acres of land, of which there is not now under cul- ai ture above 15,000 acres, thus adding 36,000 tc acres of new land ; or say an increase of value w on the wholo of $20 per acre, gives us 1,000,- p 00. And this in a short distance of "Wateree lone, in the centre of the State, while there is t antee Congaree, the Pec Dees, Lynches Creek, ij nd several other streams adding in all, ten or o venty times more. Ii As we know more about Wateree River, and e believe that no other would yield so much at i si > little expense, we can say more about it, and i{ ould respectfully ask particular attention to it, ri om Camden to Santee. In a straight line, it is p bout forty miles?as it runs, 125 miles or more, w he fall 18 inches or more to the mile, as it n )uld not run with less. Reduce the lengtli to it rty miles, and concentrate the fall, gives us w re feet, and if the flow increases in proportion, U would run off in one day as much as it runs h iw in one neck, and the single channel give w ifficicnt vent for all the water. nr The old river beds could soon be planted,? le creeks, lakes, and ponds could be drained by al tches into the deepened channel, and all or tl jarly all rendered secure from overflow of wa- tl r, which has been so frequent the last few m ;ars as to discourage the few that plant them, pi be crops and stock lost in the last ten years o! ould be a sufficient sum to pay for the work I si opose. pi These lands arc greatly needed, for what was fx iturally fertile of the high lauds, has become er uch worn, while these lands once made free p< >m freshets, are almost invaluable, the quality in the soil being the very richest, and lying so el; never to wear out. Producing cotton, corn, te small grain equal to any lands on earth. These ar eat advantages would not be for a few years tr ily, or require a periodical expense to keep lb 4 ! A- J- 1...1 .1 A.. em up, as most improvements uo, dui mey tu 11 tell and tell well for all time to come. th An expenditure of $100,000 by the State will sli !d one million to its wealth. Lands now valued th five dollars, will be worth fifty dollars peracre; co is too large an undertaking for individuals, ra ough they have douc much in banking out, ne licit does not answer the purpose. To em- w< nk all the way would cost three times the mey that straightening it would, and then co the embankments are always liable to break or th undermined, while the water outside of them ha 1st lie on the ground which is often an injury co crops, to the ground, and a hiudrancc from Sc >rk. The enterprise is so inviting to the State, tic much can be done with so little money. Let lei be surveyed by a competent man,?count the do it, make all the calculations, and go to work an soon as possible. Here we have rich mines go iich are certain never to fail. They cannot bo irked too soon ; objection might be made to is magnificent improvement as redounding too ich to the benefit of a few, which I answer by cing what work of its kind has not the same be idency? Where a railroad passes land rises in ov ce. Town property and rents increase in valwhere the facilities of trade and travel are larged ; and what is good for a part of the 11 ople is good for the whole. The State belongs the people, and without the people it could t go on. We insist with great confidence,that ha s enterprise is practicable, and that it could pu t fail to result in eminent good to all. It looks like this acquisition had been reserv- lik for a later day,?a day when necessity would 11 pel a movement towards it. To the writer, it io must confess himself sanguine on the sub- co t, it presents itself as n cheap means of near- hu doubling the wealth of the State. ne It may meet the common cry of humbug or en ionary scheme; may be denounced as too ex- lei nsive or impracticable ; and so it may be, for It ;at allowances are to Ixi made in exploring Sii w grounds. We are liable to make over and wt der estimates, but let it bo looked into; if to irthy of the trial, let the Legislature move as the subject, and move earnestly; here is nething worthy of its aid, and just in chaiac- "sj with the enterprise of our people when they dv ive at all, and in which our public men have ? vays been disposed to join. Our State pride ev proverbial. See how much has been spent in ap proving the navigation of our rivers, by canals ne d clearing out obstructions. And now when ch ey are mado safer and better than they ever foi re before, is nearly superseded by railroads, foi lich have also been cherished into usefulness the aid of public money. Besides, see what b State has done to preserve and promote the wi Dsperity of her citizens; rebuilt the city of nnrleston; built Hamburg; see her Atlantic be am navigation company; her College, her to matic Asylum, her Bank of the State and its inches; indeed her munificence has been ever w< a liberal scale. No sectional interests are se? :ognized. A long pursuit of this policy may to entually burthen posterity with our debts, and bo it so, if we put them in possession of ample jans of payment, to which we arc prornp- he 1 by every duty and worthy motive. Can be possible that the great author of all hi ings who placed these fertile lands where they m did not intend them for the use of man ? th ley can be used and it becomes us to make an sli brt to appropriate them to our benefit; or en all they remain a wilderness or worse than a Sb lderness in our midst as it were to taunt us? sc tall we fold our arms and remain as we are; sp oil .i-o imn nn oflTurt f.i in.ilfft the waste nlaeps til ad, the crooked paths straight, to set our hou- fo 3 in order, not to die but to live? Should I ba cceed in waking up my fellow citizens from co eir apparent apathy, to investigate my premi- to s and push their enquiries in search of new ev hemes of utility, I shall feel that I have been cl e humble instrument of doing great good. It m no labor, trouble, or expense, to join me in G ie project thus stated. These lands of so little ro due now, should be rescued; it is desirable, ai id it is practicable. Take a oonnnon sense a cw or any other view of it, and I fancy you will E >ncur with me. w Much has been written and said, and many w ians and propositions offered and tried, of cheap m id easy means of transportation of our staple h > market. What I bring before you is of high- tl consideration, thnt is, increasing the great sta- t< lc itself. The work can be done by the planters along he river and not by northern contractors or emQp-ant laborers. It will not require the outlay t a dollar, or employment of a man beyond the mits of the State. On looking round for objections, but two preen t th< mselves. It may interfere with the navigation of the river, which is so slight now that iver navigation is nearly abandoned, that no oposer wculd resort to that plea. The other, it ould interfere with individual boundaries, and. light cause confusion. There is some weight I this, but second reflection blows it to the 'inds; for where is the man who would object > having the value of his property increased five undred percent ? If sucn an one can be found e would esteem him a brilliant sjiecimen of the lodern eccentric. The great interest of South Carolina to whicl II others arc at present merely subordinate, is le planting interest; that is the head spring, le main fountain of our strength ; and here, it lay be, we have committed an error in having [anted too much, and pursued it to the exclusion ' other callings. To trade and commerce, to lips and steamboats, to banks, railroads, turnkes and lately to plank roads, we have not ;en inert; and in politics, State and national itirely too much time and talent have been exmded, which has had the effect to put us ahead politics and behind in almost every thing se, but especially in domestic industry and cnrprise, in which we humbly confess that other id apparently less favored portions of our couny have gained the advance on us. We have ed too easy in the past for cur present or fare good; wc have not used our birth-right to e greatest advantage, and have most unwisely O ' ?r ghted the gifts of nature. Other quarters of e country have raised our food for us, when we uld as well have raised it ourselves, while our w cotton has been sent off to enrich old and tw England and other sections, many of whom ; see now only as foes instead of friends. In the retrospect there is but little to flatter or nsole us ; the present only is ours, and may e future historian, in making a true record, ivc it to say, that in the beginning of the send half of the nineteenth century, the sunny iuth was born again, her people became pracal, they were struck with new views, and irnt their duty, and like enlgihtoned men they me it, the result of which was they prospered d went on to prosper, had plenty of earth's od things and were happy RICHLAND. Where is the Shovel ? "Nathan, where is the shovel! Here I've en hunting long enough to do my work twice er, and can't find the shoveL" The farmer was wroth. "I don't know where 'tis father, summers about juppose." The two joined in the search. "Nathan, you have left the shovel where you ive worked, I know. Why don't yoc always it the tools in their places?" "Where is the place for the shovel, I should e to know, father?" He could't tell. It had no place. Sometimes was laid in the wagon, and occasionally acmpanied that vehicle when harnessed in a irry. Sometimes it was hung up with the barss, to fall down when not wanted, or get cov?d up where it was. A great deal of .?hoeither had come to naught by that shovel.? had at times more than the obliviousness of r John Franklin, and detied discovery. So it ? with all the other tools. They would seem vanish at times, and then come to light rusty old anchors. The farmer's barn was crowded. He had no pare room" there. There were several in his veiling. But the barn was always crammed it was a kind of mammoth sausage?stuffed erv year. So there was no room for a special artment for the tools. In his imagination he ver saw his hoes hung on a long cleat, his ains all regular in a row, his rakes and his long rks overhead; certainly he was never anxious r such a convenient room. Why? His father never had a tool-house, and his father is called a pood farmer. So he was, then?in his day?but there are . I T 1 tter husbandmen now, let me say ana 1 aesire shock no one's veneration. Did they find the shovel? No! they might as all have searched for the philosopher's stone, emingly. Nathan started for Mr. Goodman's borrow one. Their work must be done, and rrow he must. "I don't know as you can find, one in my tool>use," replied Mr. Goodman. Nathan noticed that he bore down on some of s words like a man 011 a plow beam. Didn't he ean something! Nathan went to the tool-room oughtfully. A door on wheels opened with a ght push,and there was Goodman's tools? lough Nathan thought to equip a company of ippers and Miners! Hatchets, axes, saws, trecrapers, grafting tools, hoes, diggers, shovels, ades, pick-axes, crow-bars, plows, harrows, cul ators, seed-sowers, seives, trowels, rakes, pitchrks, flails, chains, yokes, muzzles, crowtwine, iskets, measures.?all were there, neatly and mpactly arranged. It was Goodman's ark? save him from tho deluge of unthrift! Here ery night the tools wore brought in and wiped sail and hung up in their places. The next orning a job could be commenced at once.? oodman knew. He partitioned off a large orn in his new barn for tools. It was central - J ..A.M., T? ?to? o nlnnannt nlaen fr,r iu uasy ui .v. visitor, the tools were the best of their kind.? very new shovel or rake, or fork, beforo used as well oiled with linseed oil, which left the ood smooth and impervions to water. Goodlan frequently says, "I had rather have the few undred dollars I have spent for tools so invested lan the same in rail-road stock. It pap bet;r." Now there is no patent on Goodmau'splan, and I hope many will go into it:?the more 44 successful imitations" the better. ^ 0 m Benefits of Draining.?Professor Norton thus describes the benefits of draining wet lands an operation too much neglected among us:? "When a drain is made and covered, (for I mean here covered drains,) the water which fells upon the ground does not remain to stagnate, and does not run away over the surface, washing off" the best of the soil, but sinks gradually down, yielding to the plants any fertilizing matter which it may contain, and often washing out some hurtful substances; as it descends, air, and consequently warmth, follow it. Under these new influences the proper decompositions and preparation of compounds fit for the sustenance of plants go on, the soil is warm and sufficiently dry, and plants flourish which formerly never would grow on it to perfection, if at all. It is a curious fact, too, that such soils, resist drought better thau ever before. The reason is, that the plants are able to send their roots much farther down t.h#n in sao mil r>f fnrvrl aitav ?^vw.vu VI tvvuj rr IVUVUV V*VI UUVUU^ any thing hurtful. Every part being penetrated with air, and consequently dryer and lighter, these soils do not bake in summer, but remain mellow and porous. Such effects cannot, in their full extent, be looked for in a stiff clay, during the season; the change must be gradual, but it is sure." Culture of the Tomato.?This most excellent vegetable is fast becoming an indispensable article cf diet with the rich and the poor and k I !. ^ ? ? .1 . * is ionunaie tuai it is so?for witn its peculiar flavor raw, and the innumerable ways m which it can be cooked it ranks high in the catalogue of dainties, and is, withal, one of the very best vermifuges that can be taken into the stomach. Negroes and children should have free aceess to the Tomato vines. Who would not prefer taking Tomatoes, nicely sliced, with a little pepper, salt and vinegar over them, to Calomel I or even who would not prefer them stewed, with a little sugar, butter, and some greated bread, to a blue pill) Tomatoes are exceedingly easy of culture?growing in almost any soil; but like almost every other plant, are immensely improved when cultivated in rich soiL Tomatoes, to be grown in their greatest perfection, should not be allowed to ripen their fruit on the ground. The fruit is inclined to rot, and even the sound ones have an earthy taste. When the plant is six inches high, it should be trained to bashes; or what is better still, make a frame work of laths, placing the laths some six inches apart, and place the frame each side of the vines with leaves or straw, and they will grow five feet high, loading each side the lathe with their beautiful fruit, and affording every facility to.the picker. Vines cultivated in this way, wiH continue bearing until frost. Young Tomato plants are easily transplanted. Thev mav be set out anv ^ r " ^ ?: / - "?4 time when the ground is moderately moist, by shading the plants from the sun for a few days. Soil of the South. The Ungrateful Son.?"The eye that mocketh at his father, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out" Prov. 30,17. This is a terrible denunciation against ingratitude to parents, and even in the present day is sometimes virtually fulfiled, "Someyears ago, an Irish gentleman, who was an eitensire contractor on our public works, was reduced to poverty by the profligacy and dishonesty of an ungrateful son. The ola man lost his wife, and to add to his calamity, his health failed; and, to fill the enp of his sorrow, he lost his sight Thus, poor, friendless, blind and forsaken, he found an asylum in the Franklin county alms-house, Pennsylvania. "While an inmate of this refuge for the afflicted his wicked and ungrateful son travelled that way; he was informed of his father's situation, . ? i . 1 a _t and that his parent wished to see nun; ana although he passed within two hundred yards of the alms-house, be refused to stop and see the kind father he had ruined. Now mark the result. The very day he passed the alms-house on his way to Gettysburg, in an open carriage, he was overtaken by a storm and took a severe cold which resulted in the destruction of his eyes. He lay in Gettysburg in a critical situation until his funds were exhausted, and those who had him in charge took him to the Frankln county alms-house. "The very day he was brought in, his father, having died the day before, was carried out? He was put in the same room, and occupied the same bed, and in a short time followed his neglected and heart-broken father to the judgement seat of Christ. It is a fearful thing to M into tho hands of an angry God. Mas. Gaines' Case.?The U. S. Supreme Court, which recommenced its session in Washington last week, it is stated has refused a rehearing to Mrs. Gaines, widow of Gen. Gainea, by a vote of 4 to 2. This we suppose ends the chapter. Mad her claims oeen sustained, one would have been probably the wealthiest person in the United States. There have been times, during the progress of the suit, when, it is said, she might have compromised for a half a million of dollars. A laughable story is told of an old miser, who, being at the point of death, resolved to give all his money to a nephew, at whose hands he had experienced soros littie kindness. "Sam said he?for that was his sephew's name?" Sam, I am about to leave the world, and to leave you all my money. You will then have $50,000?only think! Yes, I feel weaker and weaker. I think I shall die in two hours. Oh, yes, Sam, I'm going I give me two per cent, and you may take the money now !* tmt ;< To make a man happy all that is required is, a pVetty little wife and a big plantation.