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i VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA NOVEMBER 26, 1852. NUMBER 95
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL
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NEW CASH-STORE.
\ vA FTER returning my thanks to my friends, acquaiuA
A ces and the public generally, for their former liberal
patroi ago, I offer to them a variety of
Groceries, Dry-Goods, Crockery aud
Hardware,
At wholesale and retail, consisting in part as follows
rtPtoCERIES. , |
SUGARS? Muscovado, New Orleans, St. Croix, Loafj
r Crushed aud Powdered I
* COFFEES?Java and Rio
AfOLtlSSES?N. Orleans, Muscovado and West India
SALT?Constantly on hand
TOBACCO?Yellow Bank, Ellis, and a variety of
*' common, at prices from 12 to 75c. per pound
TEAS?Gunpowder, Green, Hyson and Black
SEGABS?ltio Honda Gold Leaf, Sylva, Palmetto,
and a variety of coinn.'n, prices from G to $10 per M.
i CANDLES?Spenu. Adamantine and Tallow
CHEESE?Goshen and English
BA CON?Sides, Shoulders aud Hams
LARD?Constantly on hand
-FAS#?Salmon, Herring and all numbers of Mackarcl
FliWPS?Figs, Raisins, Almonds, Currants, English
Walnutjs, 5c.
SPICES?Allspice, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Ginger,
Mustard and Pepper
PICKLES?English and American, a variety
KETCHUPS?Musliroon, Walnut and Tomato
PRESERVES?Citron, Orange, Lemon. Pine Apple
and Ginger
BRAND Y-FRUITS?Peaches, Cherries and Limes
JELLIES and JAMS?A variety
LOBSTERS and SARDINES?Hermetically Sealed
CANDIES?Or nil kinds
CRACKERS?Pic Nie, Soda, Butter, Wine, "Waterand
Sugar
CROCKERY Assorted,
SADDLES?Riding and Wagon
WEI IPS?Carriage, Buggy, Driver's and Wagon
CARDS?Cotton and Wool . ?
POWDER and SHOT
ALSO
A new and complete stock of DRY-GCODS, consis
in part as follows:
">nn nioftfes Prints, at prices from 5 to 15c. per pard
75 do Long1 Cloths from G to 18c.
300 do Brown Homespuu, from 5 to 12c.
250 pair Negro Blankets from $1.50 to $2 25 pcrpair
100 pieces Kerseys, from 12 to 18c.
Oznaburgs?DeKalb always on hand
ALSO?A VARIETY OF
Muslins, Alpaccas. Irish Linens, Tickings, Apron
Checks, Sliirtiugs, Drillings, Ginghams, Linseys, Flannels,
Salicia, Serge, Cashmeres, Pocket Handkerchiefs,
Cravats, Suspenders, Hosiery, of all kinds; Gloves of
all kinds; Linen Shirts, Merino Shirts, Cloths, Cassinicres,
Satinets, Tweeds, &c. Together with a large
assortment of
Ileady-Hsule Clothing.
ALSO
Violins, Double barrel Shot Guns, from $11 to $15,
Rifles, flint and Percussion locks $9 to $12
And a great variety of articles, both in GROCERIES
and DRY-GOODS\ too tedious to mention.
?jgri will attend to the Receiving and Forwarding
Business 03 heretofore, and I am prepared to make liber
. -j ? rwrnn Rhinned to Messrs Chambers, |
ill auvuuwa uu ~ rl JcfTcrs
& Co., Charleston.
I intend selling exclusively for Cash, and most rcspectfblly
invite any who wish Bargains, to give me a
call, and they will find the cash system decidedly preferable.
E2T"Call at his Old Stand on the corner.
B. W. CHAMBERS.
Camden, Oct. 5. 80 tf
FRESH Solar Oil?Received yesterday by
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN.
SPERM and Lard Oil?For sale by
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN.
QAA LBS. of the handsomest Candies ever ofl'ered
Ovv in this market. W. C MOORE.
Mexican Mustang Liniment,
IN Bottles at Filly Cents and One Dollar. For sale
at Z. J. DkHAY'S.
Mexican Mustang Liniment,
IN bottles at 25, 50c. and $100. Received to day by
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN,
T KiTHER AND SHOE FINDING
I J Of every kind, viz:
^ Best Hemlock Sole; best Baltimore Oak Sole
" Harness and Band?extra
" French and American CalfSkins
f " Lining and Binding Skins
" Sadler's Calf and Pad Skins
Shoe Knives, Pincers, Rasps, Files, llammers, Awl
Blades, Shoo Nails, Tacks, Thread, Sand Stones, Heel
Balls, Blacking, and Shoemaker's Tools of every de?Qt?i
?),? v?rv best oualitv. Just received
mid^for'aaic'by' WORKMAN & BOONE.
LEATHER! LEATHER!!
ALDEN & MURRAY have now on hand. a choice
lot of BAND, HARNESS and UPPER LEATHER,
of their own tanning, which will ~o sold low.
ALSO
A superior lot of NEGRO SHOES, of their own
manufacture, very heavy and warranted good, at prices
from 50c. to ?1.
ALSO
E vnectcd in a few days a choice lot of FINE SIIO ES,
of every description, comprising many new and beau
tiful styles. Sept. 28.
Woollen Goods.
An assortment of
'ALL-WOOL PLAINS
KERSEYS, LJNSEYS
. SATTLVETTS, TWEEDS
JEANS, &c. d'c. dec. dec.
For the Plantation and House Servants. Purchasers
will ploase call, as they will be sold cheap, by
? Oct. 21. W. ANDERSON.
AN HOUR BEFORE THE SUNSET.
BY CHARLES SWAIN.
An hour before the sunset,
Upon a summer eve,
I heard a mother answer,
"You should not mm believe !
'Tis easv to make nromises.
And that the thoughtless find?
But truthfulness and giddiness
Are never long combined ;
Ifyou'd have lovers tvoo you,
For neither land nor pelf?'
If you'd have men respect you,
You must respect yourself!
"Men care not for the maiden
That any glance can strike ;
Men care not for the sweet looks
Bestowed on all alike!
But there's a maiden dignity
Which no one can deride ;
A sanctity of soul that makes
The ribald tutu aside !
If you'd have lovers woo you,
ror neither land nor pell?
If you'd have men respect you,
You must respect yourself.
"No charm nioro sxveet than innocence
From angels could he brought;
No shield so strong as modesty
And purity of thought!
The heart is jealous ofits own,
And would not even prize
A hundred graces, it displayed
Before a hundred eyes!
If vou'd have lovers woo you,
J?or neither land nor pelt?
If you'd have men respect you,
You mutt respect yourself!"
Jessie, the Flotver of Duublaue.
The following sketch forms an interesting episode
in the life of the talented, but unfortunate,
Scottish poet, Tannahill. There are few of our
readers, we suppose, but are familiar with the
beautiful poem, and the delightful music, of "Jessie,
the flower of Dunblane."
The fair object of this song was a bonnic lassie
in Dunblane. Her family were of poor extraction,
and Jessie herself was contented with
a peasant's lot. When Tannahill became acquainted
with her, she was in her ' teens,' a slight,
dimple-cheeked, happy lassie; her hair yellow
colored and luxuriant; her eyes large and full,
overflowing with the voluptuous langour which
is so becoming in young blue eyes with golden
lashes. Tannahill was struck with her heautv.
and as in all things lie was entliusiustica), became
forthwith her ardent worshipper. l>ut her heart
was not to be won. Young, thoughtless, and
punting to know and see the world, she lefc her
poor nmonrnnt_lla.il"' ^-vtoriiis mistress' cye"brows,'
\v7nTeThc recklessly rambled, aloigr the
flowery meads of Dunblane, or of an cveuing
sang liis inspired verses to him with the mo-t
mortifying non-ehalance. This was a two fold
misery to the sensitive poet. A creature so
sweetly elegant, so dear to him, so very lovely
and innocent, and yet, withal so encased in insensibility,
as apparently to be neither conscious
of the beauty of the verses trembling on her dulcet
tongue, no caresses of her lover; 'twas too
much; to mark all this, and feel it with the feeling
of a poet was the acme of misery. l?ut the
Klmvcr of Dunblane, was not that tin feel inir,
unimaginative being which Tannahilf pictured
her. She was a creature all feeling, all imagination,
although the bard had not that in person
or manners to engage her attention or to arrest
her fancy. The young affections are not to he
controlled. Love?almighty love?must be five,
else it ceases to be love.
Tannahill was plain in his person and uncouth
in his manners, and felt and expressed discontent
as the cruel disappointment which it had been
his unhappy fate almost invariably to encounter.
Jessie, looked upon the world as a brilliant spectacle
vet to be seen and enioved?as a vast para
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dise full of the beauty of heaven and of earth,
where mem walked forth in the image of th'ir
creator, invested with his attributes, and woman
trod proudly amidst the lovely creation, an angel
venerated and adored. To express dissatisfaction
under all these circumstances was, to her mind,
the extravagance of a misanthrope, the madness
of a real lover of misery, and sufficient cause for
her not to respect him. Both viewed the world
thro' a false medium, and their deductions, although
at variance, gave color to their minds
and accelerated their fate. Jessie could not comprehend
what appeared to her the folly of her
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SUllor. cue reusncu uoi ms siciwv scuiiiuviu,
and ;ts all womankind ever did and do, she scorned
a cooing lover. The bard was driven to ties
pair, and summoning; up an unwonted energy of
mind, departed, and'left his adored to her youthful
alterations. Soon after this period the song
of "Jessie, the Flower of Dunblane," together
with the music was published and became a public
favorite ; it was sung everywhere, in theatres
and at parties; a world of praise was showered
upon it from woman's flattering lips, and men
became m d to know the lady. In a short period
it was discovered. Jessie Montoith, the pretty
peasant of Dunblane, was the favored uiio.
From all quarters young men and bachelors
flocked to see her, and her own sex were curious
and critical. Many promising youths paid their
addresses to her, and experienced the same rcccp
tion as nornrst lover. i\ overinciess, poor .1 essie
bocaine really enamored. A rakish spark from
Midlothians, adorned with education, being of
polished manners and confident from wealth and
superiority of rank, gained her young affections.
She too credulously trusted in his unhallowed
professions. The ardor of first love overcame
her better judgment, and abandoning herself to
her lovc-passion, she made an imprudent escape
from the protection of her parents, and soon
tound herself in elegant apartments near the city
of Edinburgh. The song of nelccted Tannahill
w;us to his Jessie both a glory and a curse ; while
it brought her into notice and enhanced her
beauty, it laid the foundation of her final destruction.
Popularity is a dangerous elevation,
whether the object of it be a peasant or prince;
temptations around it, and snares are laid on
every Land. "Who would be eminent," and a
distinguished child of popularity, "if they knew ;
the peril, the maduess, and distraction of mind i
to which the creature of thq popular breath is i
exposed V When the poet heard the fate of j
his beloved Jessie, his heart almost burst with
* i - i : w_ i
mental agon}', ana wonting uunseii imo me en
thnsiastic frenzy of inspiration, poured forth a 1
torrent of song, more glowing and energetic than !
ever before dropt in burning accents from his !
tongue. It is to be lamented, that in a fit of
disgust he afterwards destroyed those poetic re- !
cords of his passion and resentment.
Ere three years had revolved their tripple cir- {
euit after Jessie left her father's home, she was a j
changed woman. She was destitute in her
splendid habitation. Her blue eyes looked pitiful
on all things around her; the oval cheeks
were indented by the hand of his misery, and (
the face and person presented the picture of an }
unhappy, but amiable being. IIow changed was j
the figure clothed in silk, which moved on the.
banks of the Forth, from the happy, lively girl
in Dunblane, dressed in the rustic garb of a peasant
! Hut this is a subject too painful to dwell
on: let us hasten to the catastrophe. It was on
an afternoon in July, a beautiful sunny afternoon, |
the air was calm and pure. The twin islands of
the Foith, like vast emeralds set in a lake of silver,
rose splendidly o'er the shining water, which
now and then gurgled and mantled their bases.
Fifeshire was spread forth like a man, her hundreds
of inland villages and cots tranquilly sleep- ,
ing in the sunshine. The din of the artizan's
hammers in Kirkaldy and Qucensterry smote the
still air; and Duntermline's aproned inhabitants
scattered forth their whitened webs beneath the
.:.i- ?i a:?
kuuiuhiu sun. vu uiu JIII vimgorged
her black smoke, which rolled slowly in <
volumes to the sea. Edinburgh castle, like a j
mighty sj.irit from the "vasty deep," reared her i
gray bulwarks high in air; and Arthur's scat j
rose hugely and darkly in the back ground. The !
choiusses of fishermen, like hymns to the great
spirit of the waters, ascended over Newhaven ; <
and down from Grangemouth, lightly booming 1
o'er the tide, floated the tall bark. The world
seemed steeped in happiness. I
lJut there was one?a wandering one ; an out- ?
cast?wretched and despairing, amidst all its i
loveliness; her bosom was cold and dark?no ;
ray could penetrate its depths; the sun shone not ]
for her, uor did nature smile around but to in- ;
diet a more exquisite pang on the unfortunate. ]
Her stops wore broken and hurried. She now i
approach'd the water's edge, and then receded. <
No human creature was near to disturb her pur- i
pose?all was quietness and privacy; hut there
was an eye from above thilt watolled all.?Jca-ic. '
such a crisis. Hut Jessie se t herself down, and i
removing a shawl and bonnet from her person,
and taking a string of pearl from her marbleseeming
neck, and a gold ring, which she kissed |
eagerly, from her taper finger, she cast up her j
steaming eyes meekly imploring the forgiveness
of heaven on him, the cause of her shame and
death. Scarce offering a prayer for herself, she i
breathed forth the names of her disconsolate parents,
and, ore the eyes could follow her,she disappeared
in the pure stream. The sun shone on,
the green of the earth stirred not a leaf: a bell
did not toll; nor did a sigh escajie the lips of
one human being, and yet the spirit of the lovlicst
of women passed (may we not hope ?) to heaven.
A Sketch.?A mother was kneeling in the j
hush of evening, at the couch of two infants, |
whose rosy arms were twined in a mutual em- j
brace. A slumber, soft as the moonlight that I
fell through the lattice over thrui, like a silvery
veil, lay on their delicate lip?ihe soft bright
curls that clu-tcivd oil their piiluw w?rc slightlv
stirred by their gentle and healthy breathings,
and that smile, which beams from the pure :
depths of the fresh glad spirit, yet rOstcd on their
red lips. The mother looked upon their exceeding
beauty with a momentary pride?and then,
as she continued to gaze on the lovely slumber<1.iiL
f.vn (Wiir-iicd with an intense and
unutterable fondness, and a coM shuddering fear
came over her, lest those buds of life, so fair, so
glowing, might he touched with sudden decay
and gather back in their brightness to the dust.
And she lifted her voice in prayer, solemnly, passionately,
earnestly, that the (Jivcr of J.ife would i
still spare to her those blossoms of love, over
whom her soul thus Yearned.
Ami as the low-breathed accents rose on tlie
still air, a deepened thought came over her, and
her spirit went out with her loved and pure ones
into the strange wild paths of life, and a strong
horror chilled her frame as she beheld mildew
and blight settling on the fair and lovely of the
earth, and high and n'ch hearts scathed with des- 1
olating and guilty passions. And the prayer '
she was breathing grew yet more fervent, even
to agony that He who was the fountain of all
purity, would preserve these whom lie had given 1
her in their perfect innocence, permitting neither i
shame nor crime, nor follv, to cast a stain on the
brightness with which site had received them invested
from llis hand as with a mantle. ;
As the prayer died away in the weakness of I
the spent spirit, ;i pate snauowy iuuh mwUU
side the infant sleepers. "I am Death,"said the i
spectre, "and I am come for thy babes, I am '
commissioned to bear them where the perils you <
deprecate are unknown ; where neither stain, dust :
nor shadow can reach the rejoicing spirit. It is I
only l?y yielding them to me you can preserve
them forever from contamination and decay."? i
A wild conflict, a struggle as of the soul panting
in strong agony, shook the mother's frame, but i
faith, and the love which hath a purer fount than 1
that of earthly passions, triumphed, and she 1
yielded up her babes to the spectre. 'Heboid !'
said Death, as he touched the fair forms, and the
beauty of life gave jdnco to a holier and yet
deeper loveliness, 'behold the smile of innocence
is forever sealed. They will awake w here there i
i;s neither blight, nor tempest.' And the benign
power, whom we call the Spoiler, bore away the
now perfected blossoms of immortality to the
far-off sky.
Tiie Oratok and tiie Newspaper.?Compare
the orator, one of the noblest vehicles for
the diffusion of thought, with the Newspaper,
and we may gain a faint glimpse of the ubiquitious
power of the latter. The orator speaks to a
few hundred, the newspaper addresses millions.
The words of the orator may die in the air; the
language of the newspaper is stamped on tables
imperishable. The arguments of the orator may
follow each other so tapidly that the majority of
the audience may struggle in a net of ratiocination
; the reasonings of the newspaper maybe
scanned at leisure, without a fear of perplexity.
The passion of an orator inflames an assembly;
the feeling of a newspaper electrifies a continent.
The orator is for an edifice ; the newspaper for a
world; the one shines for an hour; the other for
all time. The orator may be compared to the
lightning, which flashes over a valley for a moment,
but to leave it again in darkne*; the
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UCWSpajKT 10 U SU'I UlUZIlJg SieaUIiy UVtTH WIIOIC
earth, and "fixed on the basis of its own eternity."
Printing has been happily defined "the art
preservative of all arts." Printing makes the
orator himself more than an orator. It catches
up his dying wolds, and breathes into them the
breath of life. It is the speaking gallery through
which the orator thunders in the ears of ages,
lie leans from the tomb over the cradle of rising
generations.? William Wallace,
0! King, Live Forever!?Such was the
form of the old Eastern salutation. It inav have
been, as comingevents cast their shadows before,
that this apparently absurd wish was but a precursor
of what will become a common and not J
nt all unnatural form of expression. A gentle- j
man has appeared in our midst who tells us
gravely and in perfect faith, that we may as well
ii?'o a-tew hundred years (if we want to) as not.
Ihat he lias in his possession a wondrous fluid
which one imbibes, and lo ! the magic restora
lion ! health succeeds instanter.
"What wonderful revolutions in trade and customs
this new wrinkle will make, remains to be
>een. At any rate we may rest assured that the
nineteenth century will go down to future ages,
as abounding with the strangest, most incomprehensible
isms, ogios, and pathies. The spirits
ire opening a regular communication with earth;
lumiceopathists are gaining regular armies to
their stand, and here comes the elixir of life to
. lose up the rear with a regular certificate that
men needn't die if they don't want lo.
All hail, novelty ! What would the world do
without thee ? Curiosity would go pining up
"ng1 w hat slie might lievour, and iiiHiiiig lioiiVili^
All hail, novelty! From henceforth wonders
will never cease?or life either. When a man
hires his house, it will be on a lease perchance of
1 hundred wars or so?if the locality suits him.
We shall plant orchards, and cat of their fruit
with our great, great, great, great-small grandchildren
; and we hale, hearty old-young men
still. Only think of it!
Go on crying Excelsior. Progression is the
order of the day; our country is enlarging its
bounds, and if somebody don't stop it, it will go
beyond them. Who will see that it is speedily
and properly fenced in ??Olive Branch.
A Domestic Sketch.?We arc indebted to
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a correspondent tor tlie fallowing siieicn 01 a uomcstic
scene that cannot fail to touch a cord in
every heart:
44 One market day, we saw a wagon loaded
with wheat coming into town?nothing .strange
in that, certainly. And a man driving the team,
and a woman perched on the load beside, and a
child throned in the woman's lap?nothing
strange in that either. And it required no particular
shrewdness that the woman was the property?personal
of course?of the man, and that
the black-eyed, round faced child was the proper
ty of both of them. So much we saw, so much
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we suppose every iiooy saw, who iookpu. n is a
fair inference that the wife came in to help her
husband "trade out" a portion of the proceeds of
the wheat, t lie product of so much labor, and so
many sunshines aud rains. The pair were somewhere
(a line point of observation, isn't it?) this
side of forty, and it is presumptive, if blessed like
tin ir neighbors, they left two or three children at
home "to keep house" while they came to town
?perhaps two girls and a boy. or as it is immaterial
to lis, two boys and a girl. Well, we followed
the pair, in and through until the wheat
was sold, the money was paid, and then for the
trade. The baby was shifted from shoulder to
to shoulder, or sat down upon the floor to run
off into mischief like asparkling globule of quicksilver
on a marble table, while calicoes were
priced, sugar and tea tested, and plates 'rung.'
The good wife looks askance at a large mirror
ii...? .t-.nl,) lust l.o ill,, tliimr for the best room.
J"| v "" n ? >
ami tlii! roll of carpeting, of the most becoming
pattern?but it won't do, they must wait till
next year. Ah! there is music in those next
rears that orchestras cannot make. And so
they look and price and purchase the summer
supplies, the husband the while eyeing the little
roll of bank notes growing small by degrees and
beautifully less. Then comes an aside conter?ncc
jiariicularly confidential. She takes liini
fill'-ctionately by the button and looks up in his
face?she has line eyes by-the-by?with an ex
prossion eloquent of "do now, it will please them
50." And what do you suppose they talk of?
Toys for the children ! Johnny wants a drum
and Jane a doll, and Jenny a book all pictures,
"just like Susan so-and-so's." The father looks
'nonsense," but feels in his pocket for the required
silver; and the mother, having gained
the point, hastens away, baby and all, for the
toys. There acts the mother; she had half
promised?not all?that she would bring them
Komothincr and she is hftnnv all the way home?
not for tho bargains slie mis made, but for the
pleasant surprise in those three brown parcelsAnd
you ought to have been there when she?.
got home, when the drum and the doll and book
were produced?and thumbed and cradled and
thumped?wasn't k a great house! Happiness
is so cheap, what a wonder there is no more of
it in this world !"
Siamese Twins.?Many of our readers, (and
particularly our distant readers) are unacquainted
with the fact that these interesting brothers now
live near Mount Airy, Surry County, N. C. We
lately visited them at their residence, and was
pleased to find them very intelligent and hospitable.?They
were born in May, 1811, of Chinese
parents, at the city of Maklong. They have
travelled very extensively throughout Europe,
and have visited all the United States except Illinois
and Missouri. They have a very letentive
memory of things and persons, and are free to
wtiiujuiuc.iiA; uuy iiiiuriuauon iney pOSSCSS. 1??dued
with fine common sense, they exhibit a .
great (leal of fact in their business transactions,
and have the reputation among their neighbors
of being strictly honest
We learned that they were very expert in the
use of a gun, and take great pleasure in hunting.
They run fast, and walk sometime worTif nr for.
miles a -Jay. They stand close together, yet are
never in each other's way, and whatever movement
is made by one is responded to immediate
ly by the other. They seldom speak one to the
other, but their perception is very quick, and
they seem moved by the same impulse when engaged
in conversation.
Their wives have blessed them with eleven
children. Thev ceem affectionate and happy in
their domestic relations.?Rowan Whig.
Franklin Pierce is the youngest man who has
ever been elected President of the United States.
He is 43 years of age. Washington, John
Adams, Jeffersou, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams and Van Buren were each 58; Jackson,
U'i ; Harrison, 6b; Taylor, 06; and Polk, 49.
New-Hampshire U. S. Senator.?The Boston
Pout suggests that Hon. Charles G. Atherton
will be likely to be selected by the Legislature as
the successor of Hon J. P. Hale, in the Senate r*
of the United States.
'
C'cda and France.?The correspondence of
the Kocuische Zeitung, (Cologne Gazette,) writes .
from Madrid, under date of the 20th October:
"I can inform you on tbe authority of an au
thontic source, that a secret treaty has been concluded
with France, according to which that
power has pledged herself to protect Spaiain4h?
of French vessels of war at present on Transat- .
lautic stations have received orders from their
government to place themselves under the orders
of the Captain General of Cuba. Three
French \essels of war have been already for some
time in Cuban ports, and to our squadron on
that statiou the St. Edward, of 80 guns, will
shortly be added. She is quite a new vessel, and
was only launched on the 16th inst."
In connection with this we quote the following
news brought from Cuba by the Black Warrior
:
' The English steam frigate Highflyer, and
two sloops of war, were in the port of Havana;
also several French vessels of war, but no American
man-of-war."
The Governor General received on Sunday a^
his table the senior commanders of the four English
and French steamers in the port?not on
O , a ^ , /
ly to express the kiud feelings the Spanish sovereignty
feels for their illustrious nations, but
also to express the cordiality with which the
Governor General welcomes the society of such
accomplished officers.
Ancient Ruins.?The ruins of ancient cities
of immense magnitude and extent, have long
been kr own to exist in- several islands of the Pacific
ocean, the origin and existence of which,
history furnishes no account. In oneof the Ladrone
islands, a groupe lying in latitude 16 deg.
north, and longitude 170 deg. east, some two
thousand miles from the coast of China, are the
stupendous ruins of one of these aucient cities.
i lic v ineyard unzette, puonsnea at Jttoartown,
gives an account of a visit to these ruins by Captain
Alfred K. Fisher, of the Nantucket whale
ship America. The principal street was three ;
miles long, and the buildings all of stone of a
dark color, and of the finest material. Near tho
centre of the street were twelve solid stone coluinns,
near fifty feet in height, and ten in diameter
at the base, surmounted by stone caps of
immense weight. From the principal avenue
other streets diverge at regular intervals and at
right angles. The ruins of the whole city were
overgrown with trees of ancient gigantic growth.
The native inhabitants, nor the Spaniards, in
whose possession the island is at present, could
give no account of the founders of the city. It
seems to be a counterpart of those Central American
cities, the record of whose people is blotted
from the memories of men."
The Maine Law.?A memorial is in circulation
for signatures in Washington, to be present
eel to Congress, asking such an amendment of
the city charter as will empower the corporate
authorities " to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquors, except for mechanical and
medicinal purposes, within the limits of the corporation."
North-Carolina.?Theofficial vote of NorthCarolina
for President is?Scott, 39,058 ; Pierce,
39,744 ; Pierce's majority, 686. The vote falls
12,675 below that polled at the previous Gubcrnational
election. The electors have been summoned
by Gov. Reid to meet at Raleigh, on the
first Wednesday in December, to cast the vote of
the State.