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C{j dGE 3. / CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JULY 2, 1852. NUMBER 53. I 11 ?? P THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, published semi-weekly and weekly by / | THOMAS J. WARREN. | ~ ir E R m s. ~i a 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 nublished at Two Dollars I If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay^nent be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the oxpiration of the year. ( " ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the follow LPg terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the ^semi-weekly, one dollar for tho first, and twenty-five I cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, || sevonty-flve cents per square for tho first, and thirty-so[; ven and a half ccnta for each subsequent insertion. Sin(j gle insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and ;i quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin/ gle insertion. ygfTho number of insertions desired, and the edition to be published in most bo noted on tho margin of : all advertisements, or they will bo published somi-wecki ly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly ! jfig THE OLD TURNPIKE. K We hear no more-of the clanging hoof, And the stage coach rattling by; -For the steam king rules the travelled world, r_.And the old Pike'6 left to die. Krhe grass creeps o'er the flinty path, W:_ And the stealthy daises steal, r Where the stage-horse, day by day, a Lifted his iron heel. SNomore the weary stager dreads The toil ol the coming morn; V No more the bustling landlord runs > At the sound of the echoing horn: ;; For the dust lies still upon the road, And bright-eyed children play Where once the clattering hoof and wheel i Rattled along the way. 1 v B/O more we hear the cracking whip, Or the strong wheels rumbling sound; JTAnd ah! the water drives us on, And an iion horse is found! It The coach stands rusting in the yard, p And the horse bas sought the plough; f We havespanned the world with an iron rail, And the steam-king rules us now! The old turnpike is a pike no more, Wide open stands the gate; 'We have made us a road for our horse to stride, Which we ride at a flying rate. We have filled the valleys and levelled the hills, Aud tunnelled the mountain side; And round the rough crag's dizzy verge, Fearlessly now we ride ! On?on?on?with a haughty front! A puff, a shriek, aad a bound; tardy echoes wake too late, To babble back the suui.<l, And the old pike road is left alone, rAnd the stagers seek the plough; We have circled tbe earth with an iron rail, And the steam-king rules us now! WHEN SOME WRONG OR ENVY'S STEEPING. When the heart, with the strong endeavor, Puts away unkindly feeling, Trusting it again may never Come, its bitter fruits revealing ; When it chasteneth its longing r Unto that the pure might see, And desires unbidden, thronging, Spurns aside if wrong they be. ^ When it ceases to do evil, And is striving to do well, r . Ob, how hard that taint primeval I presses 10 reoei; When some wrong of envy's steeping, Rudelv, with envenomed sting, ? Wakes those passions that were sleeping, Under penitential wing, * And demands the stern denial Which forbids them to give way In this hour of hardest trial!? Hard the spint to obey ! When some stroke of malice, blinded, Unexpected, makes us bleed, Not to hate the evil-minded Who hath darkly done the deed. Hate, that guest that ever paineth While it lingers in the breast, Y And no ray of comfort gaineth To the spirit's wounded rest; Yet will come against our willing, We may lorce it hence again. And the radiance of love streaming Back again into the breast, Like seme starlight's peaceful gleaming From its high serene of rest; FiUing-bp-ourTJOuis W'itb~g}aduess, _ eirongsr in uacn vnaory won K t'Over Envy's pitied madness, And the evil it hath done! W^' From the American Courier. I CAN'T GET ALOjVG. K BYT. 8. (ARTHUR. JgT ?I don't know how it is,' said Felix Hall,' that Hpom^ people can get along so comfortably on a Khousand dollars a year. We can't do it.' ST 'Tm sure I try to economize all I can,' rcturnHpd l!rs. Hall, sadly, forshe felt that her husband's ^Jerfairk was more than half intended as a reflecjHioi iipon her. 41 only keep one girl, and do oil mp rtwn R^winor' I'Jdon't blame you, Harriet,' said Mr. Hall, ^sure I don't. I know you work bard?too B I often wish it was easier for you. But can I do ? My salary is only a thousand Bs. And yet, that is all Hawkins receives, Be seems to get along so smoothly, and even By, he tells me, a hundred dollars a year.' don't know how they do it,' replied Mrs. 4 I know that Mrs. Hawkins doesn't work Bs hard as I do, though her house always Bin better order than mine. They have betBmiture than wo have, and I am sure Mrs. Blins' clothes cost double what mine do. I I think it is my fault.7 ion't say it is, Harriet. I believe you do >art the best you know how. But somemust be wrong somewhere. Other people v fek*.-- .. . ' .*? 11" I can live very wel 1 on a thousand dollars, while we are always owing bills to this, that, and the other one. Ilere is the quarter's bill for groceries amounting to sixty-five dollars, and I owe seventy to my tailor besides. Then there is an unsettled bill at the provision store of fifteen or twenty dollars, besides the rent, bread bill, the milk bill, and I don't know how many other bills.' ' I wish these bills were not allowed to run on,' remarked Mrs. Hail: * I am sure it wouiu oc a great deal better topay for everything as we go along.' ' So it would, but wc havn't the money to do it with.' ' It takes nearly my whole quarter's salary, regularly, to pay off the bills of three months : and then there is no way to live but to go on trust for almost everything for three months louger. It's a bad system I know, but there appeal's to be no help for it just now.' And in the full conviction that there was no help for it, Mr. Hall drew his quarter's salary of two hundred and fifty dollars, and went and paid - t_:n .1 1 , OU UJIKS itllU UUJTUWUU IllUllO^ uvuuaniuuuuii^ to two hundred dollars. Then giving his wife ten dollars to get little things with, he started, under a feeling of discouragement, ou a new quarter with but forty dollars in his pocket. Although be had paid two hundred dollars of debts, there was almost an equal amount still hanging over him. Mr. Hall was a clerk in a bank, where he was engaged, regularly, from eight o'clock in the morning until about four o'clock and sometimes five in the afternoon. He lived in a house for which he paid two hundred dollars a year, and paid his tailor from a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars annuaily. lie carried a gold lever watch that had cost eighty dollars, and wore a chain for which ho had paid forty, lie also indulged in one or two expensive breast-pins, and before his family had become as large as at present, had spent a good deal of money in jewelry for his wife. But the dropping in of one child after another, until the number grew to five, interfered with these little indigencies very materially, and called so loudly for self-denial that the appeal could not be entirely disregarded. But the self denial was practiced more by Mrs. Hall?much more than by her husband. She denied herself almost everything, even sufficient rest f-T her overwearied body, while she went on in most things about the same as he did when he and his wife paid eight dollars a week for their boarding, and ha^just the same income they had at present. But let us look a little more closely into his way of doing things, and see if it is not possible to discover what appeared so great a mystery to him. un the day after Mr. Hall had spoken to his wife so despondingly, he spent for tobacco and cigars eighteen and three-quarter cents; for a luncheon and a glass of wine sangaree, twelve and a half cents more; and in toys for the children, fifty cents. He also bought a bottle of wine, for which he paid seventy-live cents. These items amounted to one dollar and fifty-six and a quarter cents, m a single day. On the next day, he paid his barber's bill for three months, which was three dollars and a half, and his boot black's bill, which was two dollars.?Luncheon, and some cakes and candies for the childjen, cost twenty-five cents, and a very pretty paper toidcr that struck' 1113 fancy, a trifle of twenty-five cents more. Here were six dollars for the second day, nearly all of which might have been saved if he had shaved himself and brushed his own boots, to do either of which would have been far more honorable, genteel and praiseworthy, than to indulge in the luxury of a barber and a boot-black and let his wife work herself half to death. On the third day he hired a chaise and rode out with his family after he had loft the bank in the afternoon. The chaise hire was a dollar and a half, and the toll-gates and refreshments for all, fifty cents more. Alr.-ady, in hmcioon, cigars, and one or ttfo little matters, a half dollar had been expended by Mr. Ilall in the fore part of the day, so that on the third day of the week, three dollars were expended unnecessarily. During this time, for marketing, shoes for one or two of the children, and sundry expenses incident to a large family, six dollars melted from the hands of Mi-s. TT..11 JJLUil* On the evening after the ride, Mr. Hall took out his pocket-book and counted his money. To his utter astonishment, and almost dismay, he found that he had only about twenty-three dollars and a half. He counted over and over again, but could not nia^ itf t Trent more. Three days before he had fmlj ill 11 n " Tf"i * omild ni|(|^ teen and a half have flown to ? He had never spent it; that to his mind was perfectly clear. 4 Have you taken any money out of my pocket-book ?' lie asked his wife. 'No, certainly not,' she replied ; 'what should I take money out of your ] >ocket-hook for 1 You gave mo ten dollars, and 1 have eight and a half of it left.' ' Well, something's gone with about ten dollars. I have but twenty-three and a half, and I had forty, two or three days ago. Of course, I havn't spent sixteen dollars and over in three days.' ' Certainly not. But where can it have gone ? Have vou counted right?' 'Oh,yes 1' and Mr. Ilall went over the money again to sec if there was no mistake. ' It's too true. I have but twenty-three dollars and a half.' 'Arc you sure you havn't spent it for something?' suggested Mrs. Ilall, ' How else could it have gone ?' ' Some one must have given me wrong change. I gavo the carriage driver a five dollar bill. Let mo see. What cliango did he give ? It was a . note, and I took it for three dollars.' Mr. Hall ran over the money in his pocketbook. ' Yes, here's a three dollar bill. Ho gavo mo I rinrlif nlmrHT/v' Mr. Ilall's mind was in groat perplexity. His income was small enough compared with his ex. .'r *W pcnses, and, therefore, to Jose eight or ten dollars lie felt to ho no trifling matter. 1 Suppose you count up what }rou have spent ?' suggested Mrs. Hall,' and see how much it is exactly. Perhaps you have laid out more than you think for.' 'I've not laid out half of sixteen dollars. But we will count up.' In the first place the spendings for marketing, shoes and the sundries that went into the family were recalled with some effort, and the snm of six dollars finally made out. ' That's only six dollars, you see,' remarked Mr. Ilall, 1 leaving a deficiency of ten dollars and a half.' But you forgot the carriage hire.'' I ' True. That was two dollars?making eight dollars.' 'And you know you bought milk and cakes for the children, and paid the toll-keeper.' 'So I did. Let me see how much I paid exactly. Just fifty cents to a fraction.' 'Then we have eight dollars and fifty cents accounted for, which leaves eight dollars deficient. Thiuk, now, what you spent for yourself, yesterday and the day before.' 'Not eight dollars nor eight cents. But let me see. There Is my luncheon every day, for three days?-just thirty-seven and a half cents.? True! And there i< a a bottle of wine. I'd f rgotteu that?seventy-five tents. V- r. and now I remember I paid l..'i . .V 'hi ! : J >ys I brought the bhildru:.' 'So much?' 'Yes. I had to bay hr ah r,{ them, and even cheap toys, where yow 1. ^t ?o many of them, count up. But we musi indulge the children sometimes. I have spent, also, for cigars and tobacco, the trifle of thirty-one cents; and for a paper folder a quarter. And in cakes and candies for the children, I may have spent, may be, a shilling. Let me see how much all these amount to.' mi .1 ? J liie iiems were soon surmneu up, <iuu tw pivduct was two dollars and nearly a half. 'That, you see, reduces it to five dollars and a half,' said .Mrs. Hall. 'So it does,' remarked the husband. 'How money does slip through one's fingers^ ' I would not have believed it. But where is the balance? Where are the five dollars and a half' Even that is too much to lose. Let me see.' Mr. Ilall thought for a moment, and then his thumb mul finger gave a sharp crack, and he exclaimed? 'Yes! That's it! I paid my barber's and my boot black's bills, which added together, make just five dollars and a half. Well, I declare! It is astonishing! Would any one have thought it ? ITow -dn*n. pfa>-[ could no"?r see a dollar. Money melts out of my pockets like snow before the fire. I wish in my heart, you would take it and see, if you can make it go any further than I do.' M^s. Hall did not reply for some moments, and then she said? 'I will do so, provided you let mo manage in in;' nu'n w?iv fnr -i ViVii" and also imv "I.'I.V "V "'V " J~?1 > vided that you will bo content with live dollars a quarter for your tobacco and cigars; also pro vided that you will shave yourself, and black your own boots, or let me do it for you; and also take your luncheon from home instead of buying it, by all which about sixty dollars a year can be saved.' 'Sixty dollars! It don't cost half of that sum, Harriet.' 'Count for yourself, Felix. "Why a shilling a day for lunch amounts to thirty-seven dollars a year.' 'So it does? IIow little things do count up. Well, wife, if you'll Lake hold in good earnest, I'll do just as you say for one year, and if you bring down the cost of living as much as a hundred dollars, I will let you manage money matters ever after.' j If I don't bring it down three hundred dollars, I am mistaken,' replied Mrs. Hall, in a confident tone; for light had suddenly broken into her mind. The account which her husband had given of three day's dispensation of money, under his system, showed her where the leak was. 'Here arc twenty dollars to begin with, all that I have left from my last quarter's salary, af tor keeping three dollars and a halffor my tobacco and cigars during the next three months.? When it is gone, I will borrow as much as you want to carry you on until I can draw more money.' At the rate Hall was going on, it would have taken little over a week to have entirely emptied his pocket-book; but it was a mouth before his wife asked him for a lresh supply. fc^Qljeof Mrs. Hall's first acts was to buyblackj n the bootblack.? For a week, she brushed her hu*??rrfcr?j>ooL?. every morning, before lie discovered that the bootblack had been ; !; i n It; icvl ?>( dly -1 x I , 1 . . " caugni ll'M" i ; " > 1 1 understandii i - :ter that, he siia*. i boots without . ' i' : ,;uded thereby. Five dollars a qua . i baccy, cigara, and other lilttlc nick-uackcries, .Mr. Hall found to be rather n limited income; but as he had agreed to meet his extra expenses with this sum, ho felt some pride in doing so. Iu order to acomplsh it, however, he had to abate many glasses of wine and mineral water, and limit himself to a certain number of cigars daily. At the end of the first quarter, Mrs. Hall received one hundred and seventy dollars from her husband. Eighty dollars sho had received before, and as this had been borrowed by her husband ho kept that amount from his three months salary in order to pay it back. 1W nvfrn avnrfinni! nti 1 fl evefom flf .llniO?t. pinching economy, Mrs. Hall managed during the second quarter, to pay the rent, and a few small, bills, and got through without asking her husband for a cent more; so that when the salary became duo again, she had a much larger sum to start 'with. From that timo not even a ba? I kcr's bill was permitted to accumulate; and even her milk bill was settled oucc a week. Mr. ITall sometimes complained a little at his wife's 'short commons,' as he called them, and at being cut off from all pleasure-taking, but she consoled him by telling him, good humorcdly, to wait awhile, that there was a better time coniing. The year for which Mrs. ITall had u' dertaken to manage affairs at last came to a close, and one evening she said to her husband? 'Here are my accounts for the year. They are not very neatly kept, but I presume you will find all correct.' 'Accounts! Have you kept accounts?' asked Mr. TTnll. 'Oh, yes; to a penny.' 'Well, how stands the balance!' 'Something in our favor, I think. There isn't a cent owed anywhere, except the balance ofyour tailor's bill, and you know I had over a hundred and fifty dollars to pay when I took the management of things.' 'Possible!' said Mr. Hall, opening his eyes. 'Yes; and what is better, I have about fifty dollars on hand.' 'Incredible!' 'It is true.' 'But how in the world did you do it!' 'Not bv starving you all, you will admit.' 'No, certainly?we have had plenty of good wholesome food to cat; though I must own to thinking, soinetiilies, that you indulged us in little seasonable delicacies rather sparingly.' ' It had to be done, or else I could not have got along on the reduced income of this year? reduced by the necessity of paying off so many little old bills.' 'But bow have you done it, Harriet? You havn't given me the affirmative yet.' ' By following this simple rule, Felix, never to buy anything that was not wanted, and being very careful when a want presented itself, to see whether it icas real or imaginary. Hereafter, I hope you will follow the same rule, and if you do, you can keep tho family on as little as I have done.' 'Thank you, Harriet! returned Mr. Hall, smiling; ' but I believe I won't supersede your administration of affairs; although, I shall insist upon one thing; and it is that you get a stout girl of thirteen or fourteen to assist you. You are working too hard.' ' Wait until next year.' 'No. It must be done now. We can afford it. But, if you think we can't, I will give up my tobacco and cigars in order to help meet the extra expense.' ' Oh, no. I won't ask that of you,' said Mrs. TTnl]. ~ ' Then you must get the extra help.' ' Very well, if you iasist so strongly upon it, T enrm/v-n it mnet Kn /InriA ' And it was done. Three or four years have "passed. Air. Hall is quite as well dressed as before, and his wife much better. Several articles of new furniture have been added to their house. Airs. Hall keeps a cook and a girl to help about, and has a much more cheerful and less broken down appearance. She doesn't work half .as hard as she did. Add to all this the fact, that there is not a cent owed anywhere, and from one to two hundred dollars always lying by, and the reader will agree with Mr. Hall, who has quite changed his mind on the subject, that a man can* get along on a thousand dollars: that is, if ho have the right kind of a wife; and is willing to let her manage things with prudence and economy m Genuine Foetrv.?There is so little genuine poetry now-a-days, that it is quite refreshing to meet with so beautiful a gem as the following. iNonc but tuose who nave icit iuc u-iiucr p;i?sion," can fully appreciate the intensity of the poet's " phclings." It of course must be surmised that Miss Elizobcth?endearingly called Betsey?was a charming girl, and well worth the poet's adoration. Notice the beauty and sublimity of the following lines: " My love she is my heart's delight, Her name it is Miss Betsey: I'll go and see her this very night, If heaven and mothcr'll let mo." But, alas! for the mortifications and disappointments that poets arc doomed to suffer. On the headboard of the young man's bed, the chamber-maid found, written in chalk, the next morning: '" I loved Miss Betsey, well I did, And I went there for to toll her; But like to goose-grncso quick I slid, For sho had another fcllon The best anecdote of Lorenzo Dow is, that being one evening at the hotel kept by one Bush, Mn Dolhl, New York, the residence of the colcbra' t?d (teneral Tlo'oi-, he was importuned by the i ?i ? f.%~4irojsonon of fho landlord i."W rgi'iiiiciiuui, in liiv ?-?^r?? ? describe Heaven. "You fcsiy ft great deal of ! that place," said the general, "tell ifchovv it looks, j Lorenzo turned his graved face and loth: waving Ijcnrd towards tho general and Mr. Bush,wind replied, with imperturbable gravity, "Heaven,"Tfty friends, is a vast extent of smooth, rich territory."' There is not a rool nor a busk in it and there never will be." i IIaii.road Dialogue.?Railroad Official? "You'd better not smoke, sir!" Traveler?That's what my friends say ?" Railroad Official?But you mnsn't smoke, sir!" Traveler?So my doctor tolls me." Railroad Official?(indignant)?butyotishan't smoke, sir!" Traveler?"Ah! just what my wife says." A testv old gentleman was incessantly pes tered by his neighbours witJi inquires after his health; at last losing all patience with the most assiduous of these inquirres, "Tell your master," said he to the servant, "with my compliments, that I am pretty well this morning, and shall continue so for 21 mornings to come." Incidental Influence. The following incident serves to show, that the instruction imparted by Sunday school teachers sometimes exorcises an influence beyond the sphere of their own classes. There was a girl in one of the Metropolitan Sunday schools whose father was a printer. The * character of his business required that certain parts of his work should be issued early on each Monday morning, and 011 this account he was in the habit of working during the whole of Snn j day. It appears that one Sabbath day, upon the family sitting down to dinner, the father, as i was his custom, called upon his child "to ask the blessingthe girl at first seemed to hesitate, but afterwards complied with his request; he asked her however, why she had not asked the blessing at once; to which she replied, "I. was thinking of what the Teacher said this morning." *5 "What was that?" inquired the father. "Why, that we could not expect God's blessing if wo wilfully brofch his commandments; and just as '* I was about saying grace I heard the men at work down stairs, and could not help thinking ice were breaking the fourth commandment, and so had no right to expect Godjs blessing." The parent was unable to reply to tire remark. . ^ "i It may be that the circumstance of its coming 'J . > from his own child helped to sharpen "the., arrow " of conviction," but at any rate, his daughter's answer was frequently in his thoughts, and he at length determined to discontinue Sunday labor; he carried out this resolution, and lias never had ' nfvnsinn fy? rnrrrnt if ovnn in a vwa? ?v? >U) VIVU lit t* j^VXUUiaiJ J^UiUll VI ^ view, lie soon began to value his Sabbaths, and as his thoughts very naturally recurred to the - , means by which lie had been first led to do soj he felt that, next to God, his thanks were due to ' ; the Sunday school, as the place at which his child had learnt that lesson, the repetition of which had produced so powerful an effect on hi3 mind. This led him to feel that it was his duty . ; . to give his exertions to the same system, in thie % hope that he might be the instrument of sending . : a similar message to some Either parent; the _ consequence was, that he joined a Sunday school, , and now, instead of being an habitual desecra- ^ tor of God's holy day, he has beeotnfitnn active, zealous teacher. The Jerusalem Above^?It is in heaven? God's peculiar dwelling place. And being . ^ above and heavenly, it partakes of the nature of 3 heavenly things. Its unity is the unity of the' ' -^7 ^ spirit. The bond which holds all its children to- , -1 gcthcr in the membership of faith, is the bond - -'3 of peace. They arc all brethren, dwelling har- . . moniousjy in the light of God's countenance and j in his quickeniug presence and ioinirfr to ... gioiy Honor ana majesty afid powfr to Hun . .ciffA+li nrvrvr* liuto U|>VII UUV U1IV11V uuu IV LHV JLiCkiklU forever and ever. Being abovo and heavenly and spiritual, it is ' V also everlasting. Its foundation stone is the J promise of the spirit. Built upon that foundation, the changes and adversities by which all things human and earthly are overturned and made to pass away, cannot affect it. It stands safely upon the Kock of Ages. The offspring '% of grace, by grace it is perpetually preserved. Of it, the heavenly city, David declared tin spirit, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." It is also free. There the Lord who is spirit is ever present and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. It is free from all sin and death free to righteousness and life; and without fear, is made perfect in love. The freedom it enjoys is that which flows from security from all diaster and safety from all enemies and which the blessed favor of God affords, where there is "no more death, neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain." ' ? . J A Glorious Liberty by Christ.?We think it is an easy matter to believe; but it is not.? Indeed it is easy to presume; but for the soul, in time of temptation and in the hour of death, for fhe guilty soul to go out itself, and cast itself upon the mercy of God, and to believe thqt tho obedience of Christ is mine as verily as if I had obeyed myself?there must be a strong sanctified judgement, and a mighty power to raise the soul, to cast itself so upon God's mercy in Christ.?This faith does. Faith is said to savo us; yet it is Christ that saves us. This faith frees from the guilt of sin, because my sins were laid upon Christ. Ilis death was the death of a surety ; thus I come to be free in justification. Again tKnvn ic froivlnm in cnnrtilinntinn flmf io wIlATl a man believes that Christ is his he receives the Spirit that works an alteration in his nature. The obedience of Christ frees from the condemnation of sin, and the spirit of sanctitication frees from the dominion of sin. From Christ, as my head, T derive the Holy Spirit to sanctify my nature.?Br. R. Sibbs. Don't moralize to a man who is on his back.? Help him up, set him firmly on his feet, and then give him advice and means. J Answering Advertisements.?Mr. Jenkins "I saw an edvcrtjscment in to-day's Herald, stating that if Mr. 0. P. Jenkins, of Brooklin, would call on you ho would hoar something to his advantage. I am the person!" Lawyer.?"Ah, yes; I have a tailor's bill of three years standing against you, and if it is not paid immediately, I shall commence proceedings to recover it" ? - , Out west there has been on a certain hill sido cV IIU1V) uiuuil l? nut uuwiuiiji/u Limit; 111 tint section of the country. The bank is said to have recently caved off, and left the holo stick- " ingr out about ten feet. o * ? j /it .