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VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, AUGUST 3, 1852. ' NUMBER 62. ibihhi U'u?iWiiimiiBi III IITIIII T in I ?-ir~ I iim-Tmn ill irr-rr i mini I iibi III I ?mrwMrm-in inn innii mm w?iria ' 'SxB I > n??i p?i 1 M ? [ THE CA.MDEX JOURNAL. published semi-weekly and weekly by 1 THOMAS J. WARREN. | TERMS. h^the sewi-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 pay mentbe delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not twiil till the expiration of the year. H ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the follow- I Bkjgterms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the ^Bemi-wcekly, ono dollar for the first, and twenty-five IBents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, j^Beventy-five cents per square for the first, and ihirty-se^Ben and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Sin^ to insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and aiBuartorly advertisements charged the same as for a sinHgl^inseition. '"ESThe nuraberof insertions desired, and the edi- j I tion to bo published in must bo noted on the margin of I all advertisements, or they will be published seini-wcckB~ly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly I * PEACE IN BELIEVING. BY HANNAH F. GOULD. I "Take head, brethren, lest there be in any of you l?an evil heart of unbelief."?Hebrews, in 12. I The tree that yelds our cares and grief, t..-- Is from the root of unbelief; nript-intr thnmc. tbe arrows fierce. BK^Our spirit and our flesh to pierce? I The grafts that spoil our vineyardfe fruit, [ Are from that bitter evil root, PC. The branch that hangs with clustering woes? The flag-staff of the prince of foes? The tares that mar our golden sheaf, r -All, all spring up from unbelief; And Hope, the victim of Despair, Poinls, dying, to the poison there, But in Belief we've joy and peace, ^ Of faith and power a'sweet increase; From burning skies a safejretreat, A shelter safe from tempest's beat? P Fresh balm of Gilead for our grief? For every wound a healing leaf. V "Belief smooths down our thorny cares, With shooting grains uproots the tares, [ Our harp from off the willow takes, I And every chord to music wakes, No Till Hope, laid icy in the tomb, , 7 Springs up with life and beauty's bloom. ' .- When night comes murky, drear and damp, ^ ' Belief will screen and feed our lamp, ; Upon our feet her sandals bind, Hf" About our waist her girdle wind, T . Then, lend a staff, and lead the way, 'Till we walk forth to beaming day. Jj^ When all the fountains of the deep ^ Seem-broken up o'er earth to sweep; r. While billowy mountains toss our bark, f.' Belief's the dove, from out the ark, Across the flood to stretch her wing, And home the branch of olive bring. [ V. [ Belief hath eyes so heavenly bright, ^ As on the cloud to cast their light, Till fair and glorious hues shall form ~ From drops and shades that robed the storm, : Bent o'er our world in peace to show, 1 God's covenant sign, his unstrung bow. When through a dry and thirsty iand, r " The oilcrim treads a desert sand, f Belief brings distant prospects near, With fruit, and bowers, and fountains clear, Where, when he strikes his teht, he'll be An heir of immortality. While Unbelief would ever bring A chain about our spirit's ring, ' Belief will plume it o'er the grave? Above the swell of Jordan's wave? To fly nor droop'till gently furled In that sweet homo, the spirit world! AFFECTION RESTORED. A BY MIIS. M. A. DEX.VISON. u You don't love my mother," said little ElCrosby, slowly retreating from her father, E^Bth her hands behind her, and her lips quivered What do you mean pet?" he exclaimed, Bffpringing after, her and drawing her resisting form Howards him ; " that is a very strange thing for f a little girl t<? say ; what put it into your head K that father don't love mother ?" he continued, smoothing back her soft hair, from her white forehead, and looking earnestly into her downBecause when mamma went away from the ^H&ble you spoke cross, aud said she was always j^pick and she has .got a headache," added the p^child earnestly, while the tears trickled down Lher cheeks. "I have been sitting beside her all the afternoon, and rubbing her forehead; and she is sick and tire?l very often, and you never FT tell her you are sorry, nor kiss her as you do Charles Crosby drew his little girl closer to Lhis bosom. Her artless words had fallen like liie linnrt Tin fnlf. inctnnflv flint, lm I I1IIX3 ujyv/A* ?v .v.v.... j ...... [had spoken harshly more than once to the gen60 being who had never given him .an unkind word. Seven years of his wedded life had passed calmly and fleetly. Being young and a most impulsive creature when he married, he could hardly appreciate the deep, holy love which his sweet bride treasured for him and him only. After the romance of the affair, as it seemed to him, had settled into a quiet, perhaps, monotonous reality, his-tCstless spirit yearned for some fresh novelty^^fo work through the day, to come hom&at'-riight and spend the evening * hours, by the side of his wife and infant child, whose beautiful face gleamed like a< rosebud upon the' white pillow in her little wicker basket cradle, became tiresome to him. He wished his Ellen had more vivacity, more brilliancy, forgetting that these might accompany a variableness of temperament that would truly have made his home unhappy. Ellen was a most excellent wife ; her's was that inward purity which stamps upon the features a loveliness far beyond mere beauty; nobody hesitated to call her handsome ; her ways were winning, her form slightly and fragile; withal she hail so much prudence and was so good a manager, that from the time of his marriage, Charles Crosby had been accumulating riches. Rut she needed affection and much aire ; she was delicate, and so sensitive that a word of reproach from one she esteemed, would cause almost a serious illness. The language of her full blue eyes, as they were sometimes fixed upon the noble face of her husband was, love me; oh! how I yearn for your full, unrestrained love ! then they would fall to the floor while the consciousness that he was not towards her in manners as he had once been, and oh, she feared, not in heart?would send an icy thrill through every fibre of her frame. Of late, Charles Crosby had often become an alien to his home, until the midnight hour; he had found, as he thought, choice and congenial spirits, and with them " the spirit of wo," that is " the spirit of wine." But alas! his fine manners were disappearing; his home was not an earthly paradise to him now? 1. ~ Jl .J 1 1.11.. . 1 _ . 1 V . jit! imu grown very com ana wonuty ; inueca ne knew not the extent of the change in himself. He worshipped his lovely child; and called her by the swec-t names of " fairy," and "pet," and "darling," she was in truth such an one as few, very few parents are blessed with ; a child of neither ordinary beauty or intellect; and but for her mothers judicious care and teaching, her powerful mind might have too swiftly expanded, and ripened quicker than the growth of this world will allow, unless the rare exotic is to be transplanted into heaven. Charles Crosby sat with his cheek resting upon little Ellen's head ; the dear child once or twice unconsciously sighed, and these sighs were arrows to the wounded spirit of the father. " Darling, you speak strangely," ho said after a long pause, during which conscience had been busy ; " father has a great deal of hard work to do, and comes home tired and perhaps a little fretful sometimes but then?he?he does?love your mother," ho said slowly and wondering what become of the glowing delight he had once icit at the mere mention ot licr name. " Do you, do you really love her then ?"' asked the child, sitting upright 011 his knee, and fixing her full, beautiful eyes upon him, " how strange; I liy ^wIaaa* mrnnmu nfmt her almost." "Bv what mamma saidexclaimed herfath er hastily, while a feeling of anger shot, through his heart the sudden surmise that his wife had been striving to alienate the child's affections from him " what did mamma say Ellen T he demanded sternly. " Don't look so hard at me, father," she replied, pressing her snowy hands over his eyes, "mamma didn't tell me, but she told God." More and more astonished, Charles gazed upon the child without speaking, and after a moment's pause, sho continued, " I went into mamma's room this afternoon, before I knew she was sick, but I'heard her talking, so T went on tiptoe. She was kneeling down by the bed and praying to our Father in Heaven ; and she cried and sobbed its I do sometimes when I am naughty, but I knew she was never naughty, good, dear mamma, was she ever naughty, papa ?" she asked artlessly, and waiting for a reply. "She never was?to yon or me:" answered the father, choking down his emotion. " Well, then I hoard her pray; I know she wouldn't care if I did, because she takes me with her sometimes; and she asked the dear God if he would make her husband love her: and said that ho went away from his home and liked other people better: and she said her heart was breaking too ; and oh! she cried so bad,"?continued the child, giving such a mournful emphasis to the hist two words that the father's lip trembled and the tears came into his eyes. " And then she turned round and saw mc; and she called me to her and hugged me tight, a.id said 1 was a precious child, and kept asking mc if I was sure 1 loved her?very, very sure till the wild light in her ayes almost frightened me. I kept telling her she was my blessed mother, and I loved her better than any body in the whole world except my father; and then she told me that I must love you dearly, for you were a kind father to me and perhaps she would not live long; and if they did put her into the cold ground, I must make you forget it by my goodness and affection; but I never could forget it, could you father, if they put my own sweet mother into the cold ground ?" rt>1 , - 1 fit ...?. n 1 . < J . 1 i ins was 100 inucn ; unaries enosoy siuneu from his chair, ;ind placing Ellen on a low scat, strode rapidly through the room. The tears were raining down his face, but he kept them hidden from the little one, who sat timidly still on her cricket, almost afraid to move for fear she had angered her father. Not so. A flood of the old tenderness had rushed back upon his heart; instead of the demure and gentle Alice, his memory pictured an angel of whom he had ! been all unworthy; a pure, radiant, spirit, who had sat by her household hearth in loneliness and sadness; with a slowly, surely breaking heart?a heart yearning and dying for lovo; unappreciated. lightly esteemed, seldom addressed in the language of affection, and yet returning smiles for cold looks; never complaining. Oh! had such ait one blpsscd his dwelling and he had not drcanieiHiow priceless a treasure ho pos sessed ? Bitter\\^kl?i> self-accusation, hot and copious his tears. Suddenly Jio paused before her portrait, the young wife in the rohe!T^f^tho__ bridal seemed so joyous, yet subdued; just as j perfectly happy as she had appeared on the day he could first call her his own. Now, only one thought echoed and re-cchoed through his brain. " Should she die?oh ! should she die." For sometime he stood transfixed, striving to i check the bursting sob that was almost stilling I him, when he felt a slight pull at his coat by j Ellen, with her pretty lips half parted. " Papa" she half whispered, " mayn't I go up stairs and tell mamma you do love her dearly V lie caught her to his breast and clasped her with the warmth of his new love close in his arm ; he kissed her again and again, blessing his Male or thsit. r>t' the months of babes and stink lilies he has ordained praise :"then releasing the | oelightcd child he said, " yes, darling, you .may if you wish to." The child fltnv up stairs, while her father followed more slowly, "mamma," she screamed, bounding into the room, "you won't cry any j more, nor have a headache now, father says he i loves you dearly, my own dear mamma." The poor woman sprang to her feet; she could not comprehend the scene; she was bewildered ; her pale cheeks flushed and grew pal lid by turns. She looked first at her husband, and then at little Ellen, who had expected her mother to laugh out-right, and appearc as gleeful as she; little innocent being. "Alice," said her husband in faltering tones " our child is our peacemaker; she has made me a better man ; I do love you, Alice, will you forgive me for my coldness and neglect ?" With a low, thrilling cry of delight the wife fell within her husband's arms. " He was forgiven" she was happy; in that moment old barriers were broken down, old associations forgotten, and lie solemnly resolved, with the help of God, to bo no more an alien from home ; to remember the vows lie had taken, and become worthy of the confidence reposed in him. Little Ellen danced around the room, tossing her yellow curls and clapping her hands as she shouted,il oh ! I am so happy, I'm so happy, mother won't cry any more,"?then under a childish yet holy impulse, she knelt reverently down and lisped the Jittle prayer she had repeated every night since she was about two years old: God bless my darling mother, My darling father too, And may we lore each other, As Christ's dear flock should do. Think you there were no blissful tears shed in the little chamber, as they listened to the petition of the artless babe ? The parlor was a right cherry place that evening ; little Ellen sat up later than usual, because she was too happy to sleep; the astral shed a flood of rod light over the neat, well-ordered room : the table was filled with books; the piano .forte, opened and giving forth sweet sounds as wife; and a* note was sent to the old rendezvous, in which Charles Crosby declined the honor of beiiiir made President of the L Club. He never met with his old companions again, nor did he, fiom that time, quaff the soul destroyer, ' sparking wine." Littie Ellen is now large Ellen but as happy and bright and beautiful as ever. She will soon criva bar band to one worthv of her: and she remembers, as if it were but yesterday, the darkhour when she found courage to tell her father that "he did not love her mother." Still vividly does she recollect the wild and joyful feeling with which she ran up stairs," father says he loves you dearly, mamma, you won't cry any more!" Maxims or D?. Fiianklin*.?If pride leads the van. beggary brings up the rear. Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Mary's mouth cost her nothing, for she never opens it but at other's expense. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. Tarts-words makes no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. f Beware of little expences, a small leak will sink a ship. A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no brains. . Nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb. When prosperity was well mounted, she let go of the bridle, and soon come tumbling out of the saddle. A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. If you would not l>e forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing. Nothing dries sooner than a tear. Kings and bears often worry their keepers. lie's a fool that makes his doctor his heir. Hunger never saw had bread. Great talkers are lille doers. The poor have little?beggars none?thft rich ?. ? -i. ?.? : iuu iiiUL'ii?niv^ii-u, ituw wiiui Mankind are very odd creatures. One-halt" censure what they practice, and the oilier half practice what they censure. The rest always say 1 and d<? as they ought. Old buys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the "price." Tut Ci.ock at Lt'nden.?'J'lie Cathedral at I Lurtdcn, in Sweden, is a inagnificient structure i and has a very lofty spire which serves as a mark j for sailors, being sec at a considerable distance, i The altar of this church is a vcrv beautiful piece of work; but what most engages the atttcntion of strangers, is its curious c.'oclc, which from the number of its movements and figures, may vie with those of Lyons and Strasbourg. Every liour two horsemen came out and encounter and a door opens with discovers the Virgin Mary sitting on a throne with her divine infant in her farms and the magi with their retinuo marching X / ' iii order and presenting their gifts, two trumpets sounding all the time of the procession. The clock, besides the hour shows the month and day and every festival throughout the year. From the Southern rrcss. Recognition of Hayti. A memorial was prcescnted the other day to the Senate by the Hon. John Davis, of Massachusetts, which will be found in another column, from about fifty merchants of Boston, praying the recognization of Hayti. We predicted soon after the Compromise measure passed, that this would be one of the next steiw of the North. It is now about fifty years since the actual independence of Ilayti, .and about twenty since it was recognized by France, the previous ruler. Within that period it has for the greater part of the time been a republic nominally. But it has been governed by such men as Toussaint, Pction and Boycr who had considerable claims to public respect. In all that period, however, it has never been recognized by us. I3ut now when it has become an avowed despotism by the usurpation of Solouque, it is thought to be an appropriate time for us to acknowledge its independence, and establish diplomatic relations with it. This presents the question whether Ilayti is entitled to the rank of an equal and independent nation among the civilised States of the world. It never has been the principle or practice of the civilized nations of Christendom, to recognize the equality or independence of inferior or barbarous races. England has not so treated the nations of Asia, although the East Indian people and governments are far higher in the scale of civilization, than the Hytiens. There are no English ministers at the Ea?t Indian courts.? Russia has not so regarded the Tartar tribes of Western and Northern Asia. American has not so considered any of the Aboriginal races on this continent. Spain never admitted the national equality even of the partially civillized States of Mexico and Peru, on their discovery. And when France held nearly all of North America comprised in the valleys ot the bt. Laurence and Mississippi, she never pretended to recognize any rights of sovereignty among the Aborigines. Turkey and China have been treated otherwise ?but they have been among the most powerful States of the world, and have attained a considerable degree of civilization. No community of tho Negro race, has ever been recognized as a sovereign State, by any enlightened nation, before Hayti and Liberia. The custom of recognizing States, and of keeping ministers resident at their courts, is of modern origin. It was adopted to promote international friendship and peace, and to protect the commerce property and persons of their peoplo respectively. But the usage has been almost in.. . V!. .p._ v_ . .1.,. ? '' . -T~~ cos from this association. Tlie proposition now made is to change that usage and policy. Nations have hitherto by common consent, or a sense of obvious propriety, thus recognized the moral distinctions of races and communities: and have asserted no!* only an exclusive social system, but a right to rule, in the superior over the inferior. It is true the distinctions between them are not always clear or easily defined?but nei ther are those between vice and virtue, between respectability and disgrace. But the universal equality of men is now contended for: and if that be right, the equality of all nations follows of course. The proposition to recognize Uayti proceeds on the doctrine of the solidarity of human rights. If we begin with this jicw system we shall have uuiqji to do. We ought at once to recognize the independence of every Indian tribe, not only without but within our limits. Wo ought to renounce the claim we have hitherto asserted of being the exclusive purchaser of their lands, they ought to be at liberty to sell to any body.? In the several acquisitions of territory we have made, we have been guilty of assuming control over a hundred tribes without their consent, and of prohibititing them from selling these lands to any bod) but us, which means that we take it at our own price.' All this is in violation of the new principles of the universal equality of men and of races. Why have not the Abolitionists turned their attention to this outrage? Why lmvn Uinv iXMifinm] tlinir l.nvi llir> Xfrril 1-.'UV? Even John Quiney Adams liimsolf argued tliat the Indians had no good title to this county against the whites, because the Indians were not civilized?because they hunted for a living, and did not plant or spin. If we are to admit all the various nations, tribes, and races to a national equality with us, and receive their ministers and ambassadors, wo shall have a great increase of our population at Washington, and a great change in its fashions and customs. For the minister of every people will have the rntrcc of society here. Foreign ministers were expected to attend the President's levees, where all the society of the city, resident and visitant, appears. Foreign negroes and attaches are invited of course to the parties of all the cabinet officers : and also, to all the public assemblies. Now, if Havti is recognized, and Liberia, (for Liberia is better entitled than llayti,) then we are to see the wives and daughters of Secretaries, Senators, and Representatives, conversing, and dancing, and waltzing and polking with negroes ! Will Southern gentlemen and ladies unite in such parties? If not, there will be a sectional disunion of society here at the scat of the Federal Government. Tho South will l?c excluded. The Ab"litionbts, the federal functionaries, and the whole diplomatic corps, will constitute the mixed and motley crowds that till the cast, room of the White House, and the fashionable saloons and boudoirs of the metropolis. The South?the people who have achiever some rcpatntion both at home and abroad, foi elegance of manner* and social superiority, wil have to isolate itself. Well perhaps the Soutl deserves it. The people who consent to be ex eluded from their own ternary on account o r ' ' / their institutions, deserve 011 the account to be - V excluded from society. AVe told them that if ' they commenced the career of submission there. was not only no end, but no interval, no re- * As for tlie Abolitionists., we admire their consistency. They are distressed and mortified at the admission of slave States into this Union; at i the presence of slaveholders in Congress; at the ' - '^Ila election of slaveholders for President.. So tliev , want to purify and dignify the court of Washington, by the presence of a gang of negroes, the " ' ' WiSj , representatives of the august despotism of a stuI pid negro usurper. g The argument on which they rely is, however ' <??[ : rather too jocular. It ought to have been spared us. We are told in the memorial of the Yani kecs that the exports of United States to .Hayti ' ! amount to the enormous sum of not two million ! per annum. Less than two millions out of an j aggregate export of nearly two hundred millions, is the iciii]-t;itiuii these Yankee traders suggest ? : to us, besides that of decorating our society with ' W a dozen or so of blacks ? i Bat if Hayti is recognized, Washington is / not the only place to be blest with negro digni; taries. Consuls must be received at all our sea a ports. And the moment we have a commercial ;vy. ' ffjg I treaty, for that is to follow, then we are to re- dfl ceive free negro merchants, sailors, pedlars, and ? travellers an over ine country on tne looting 01 '--3I , the most favored nations. Then comes the con flict between federal treaties, the supreme laws *-j| of the land, and the police laws of the Southern ' XjfS States concerning free negroes?laws essential to the safety of their firesides. ,; Now we know that diplomatic relations, and . treaties of commerce and atnity are usually re! garded as great contrivances to promote the .< J peace of the parties. Let the experiment be ! tried with Hayti and it will not only produee ' . i war with her, but additional discord among our- t j selves. 31 However, according to the prevalent theory of :B ! liberty, ot the Constitution, and of human na- ; ; ture, Ilayti must be admitted. "We only feel bound to make our incidental protest.' We don't ' ' * i expect to arrest tlie foolery of the times. PerI haps it is not better to retard it The sooner it ' , runs its course the better. Besides, we are real- ly curious to sec what length the North will go, | and how much the South will stand. After Futexdsiiip.?Cold indeed would the world be, and solitary our position, if it were not for the sweet delights of friendship. Man must live; he must link himself to some being, for his . . v" own happiness depends upon it; otherwise he .4 \ grows sordid and selfish, and tastes not the joys ' b ' " ' J*'. j of life. It is true that we have misapplied the ' wi . ! f' i'.rdslnp. for v^^ t.C.'?i F' j thus applying the idea and deceiving ourselves, 1 as we have not yet proved him as a friend. Wei avvart kr- rtUf r\wr\ r\? irm ora/1 I UlV.(llV 11 VV< > VUl UTl li UVM VI lliuicviviivtlj uuu then assign to others the cause. True friendship is built upon the highest powers of nature; there exists between two hands " ' /f j joined together in honest friendship an indisso- v j iuble attachment, that neither time, place, nor j circumstances can destroy. How noble is that ! friendship that seeks the elevation of its object, | and how poor must that heart be that never exI panded beneath the rays of that genial sun ; that 1 never let an act of pure disinterestedness animate its cold and icy soul! Friendship hath greatness in it, and great is he who hath so curbed the workings of his selfish nature as to" become a friend to his fellow-man, and he who hath battled gloriously against the obloquy and contempt of the world, as to be worthy of the laurel wreath. But, alas! how- seldom do we find true friendship in this world. Goon Manners,?It has been said that "a man's manners form his fortune." Whether this ' be really so or not, it is certain that his manners form his reputation, stamp upon him, as it were, his current worth in the circles where he moves. If his manners are the products of a kind heart they will please, though they may bo destitute of graceful polish. There is scarcely anything of more importance to a child of either sex, than good breeding. If parents aud teachers perforin their duties to the young faithfully, there will be comparatively few destitute of gqpd manners. v Go into a family where the parents arc civil and courteous toward each other and toward all within their household, whether as dwellers or guests, and their children will learn to talk, from imitation. But reverse things order of this concerning parents, and the children learned manners just as in the former ease, they learned good * . manners by imitation. Train children to behave at home as you would have them act when abroad. It is almost certain that they will while children, conduct themselves when abroad, as they have been in the habit of doing under like circumstances, when ; at home. "Be courteous," is an apostolic iniunetion which all should ever remember and obey. Then would good manners be the com' moii inheritance of mankind. ! _ ISFLTTEKCE OF TIIF. MoON* UPON* THE WEATHER. ?A Paris astronomer has published the results of twenty years observation upon tho influence of the moon upon the weather. From tho new moon to the first quarter it rained (during the period of twenty years embraced iiwtho calculations) 704 days; from the first quarter to tho full moon 1 it rained 815 days; from the full moon to tho last vi quarter it rained TO 1 days; and from the last llm imiB mnnn if. rsiiiififl HOfi rlfivc ?1 ^ l l.iv ..v... .? . So that during the moon's increase.there were L I.G09 rainy tlays, and during her decease only r 1,457?a difference of 152 days. The difference 1 is more likely to have been accidental than the i result of any natural cause, and the conclusion - which wo derive from the statement is, that' the f moon has no influence upon the weather.