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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL
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VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA DECEMBER 24, 1&52. NUMBER 103.
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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
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THOMAS J. WARREN.
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NEW CASH-STORE.
A returning my thanks to my friends, acquain*
1X ces and the public generally, for their former liberal
patronage, 1 offer to them a variety of
Groceries, Dry-Good?, Crockery and
At wholesale and retail, consisting in pari, as follows
GROCERIES.
SUGARS?Muscovado, New Orleans, St Croix, Loaf,
Crushed and Powdered
COFFEES?Java and Itio
MOLASSES?N. Orleans, Muscovado and West India
SALT?Constantly on hand
TOBACCO?Yellow Bank, Ellis, and a variety of
common, at prices from 12 to 75a per pound
TEAS?Gunpowder, Green, Hyson and Black
SEGARS?Bio Hondo, Gold Leaf, Sylva, Palmetto,
and a variety of common, prices from 6 to $40 per M.
CANDLES?Sperm. Adamantine and Tallow
CREESE?Goslien and English
BA CON?Sides, Shoulders and Hams
LARD?Constantly ou hand
FISH?Salmon, Herring and all numbers of Mackarel
FRUITS?Figs, Raisins, Almonds, Currants, English
Walnuts, Ac.
SPICES?Allspice, Nutmegs, Cloves. Cinnamon, Ginger,
Mustard and Pepper
PICKLES?English and American, a variety
KETCIlUPS?Mushroon, Walnut and Tomato
PRESERVES?Citron, Orange, Lemon, Pino Apple
and Ginger
BRANDT-FRUITS?Peaches, Cherries and Limes
JELLIES and, JAMS?A variety
LOBSTERS and SARDINES?UermelicaHy Sealed
CANDIES?Otall kinds
CRACKERS?Y\q Nic, Soda, Buiter, Wine, Water and
Sugar
CROCKERY Assorted,
SADDLES?Biding and Wagon
WHIPS?Carriage, Buggy, Driver's and Wagon
CARDS?Cotton and Wool
POWDER and SHOT
ALSO
A new and complete stock of DRY-GOODS, consis
in part as follows
200 pieces Prints, nt prices from 5 to 15c. per pard
75 do Long Cloths from 6 to 18c.
300 do Brown Homespun, from 5 to 12c.
250 pair Negro Blankets lrora $1.50 to $2 25 pcrpair
100 pieces Kerseys, from 12 to 18c.
Oznaburgs?DeKalb always on hand
ALSO?A VARIETY OK
Muslins, Alpaccas. Irish Linens, Tickings, Apron
Checks, Shirtings, Drillings, Ginghams, Linseys, Flannels,
Salicia, Serge, Cashmeres, Pocket Handkerchiefs,
ll/k?lnrtr nf nil Lrirtria* (JlnvOH ?f
viavous, ouopvuuvio, AVBiviji v* ?? . ? ?
all kinds; Linen Shirts, Merino Shirts, Cloths, Cassimeres,
Satinets, Tweeds, Ac. Together with a large
assortment of
Keady-ZVIade Clothiug.
ALSO
Violins, Double barrel Shot Guns, from $11 to $15,
Rifles, flint and Percussion locks $9 to $12
And a groat variety of articles, both in GROCERIES
and LRY'GOODS, too tedious to mention.
ES-I will attend to the Receiving and Forwarding
Business as heretofore, and I am prepared to make liberal
advances on Cotton shipped to Messrs Chambers,
Jeffere <fe Co., Cliarleston.
I intend selling exclusively for Cash, and most respectfully
invite any who wish Bargains, to give me a
call, and they will find the cash system decidedly pre*
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lerauiu.
ryCall at his Old Stand on the corner.
B. W. CHAMBERS.
Camden, Oct. 5. 80 tf
FRESH Solaf Oil?Received yesterday by
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN.
SPERM and Lard Oil?For sale by
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN.
Mexican Mustang Liniment,
IN Bottles at Fifty Cents and One Dollar. For sale
at Z. J. DeIIAY'S.
Mexican Mustang Liniment,
IN bottles at 25, 50c. and $100. Received toby
Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN,
WoollenGoods.
A ?, noonrtmont r\f
Ail WOVHil'VUtl V*
ALL-WOOL PLAINS
KERSEYS; LINSEYS
SATTINETTS, TWEEDS
JEANS, Ac. Ac. Ac. Ac.
For the Plantation and House Servants. Purchasers
will please call, as they will be sold cheap, by
Oct. 21. W. ANDERSON.
QARrgr'xu,
LEATHER! LEATHER!!
ALDEN & MURRAY have now on hand, a choice
Jot of BAND, UAliNESS and UPPER LEATHER;
of their own tanning, whicli will -e sold }pff.
also
A superior lot of NEGRO SHOES, of their own
manufacture, very heavy and warranted good, at prices
from 50c. to $J.
also
Expected in a few days a choice lot of PINE SHOES,
pf every description, comprising many new and beautllul
styles. Sept. 28.
QAA LBS. of the handsomest Candies ever offered
OvV in this market. W. C. MOORE.
Charleston Prices.
HARNESS, Saddlory, Trunks, Military Work, Ac.
manufactured to order, and warranted, at Charles,
ton prices.
j3?"Tc;n per cent, discount for cash within 30 days.
LUKE ARMSTRONG.
Camden, April23. 23 sw2wt
TRUTH IN A WELL.
The following pleasant and spicy reading is cut
from the Knickerbocker Magazine for November
Once at mid-day toiled a youth
In the bottom of a well,
Delving for i.o mystic truth
Down whne sun-light never fell.
All he sought was the revealing
Of some stream from living fountain,
Through earth's hidden arteries stealing
From the heart offender mountain.
Which should spring, a well of joy,
To the sacred homestead ever;
Sweet and pure without alloy,
And bounteous as the all-bounteous Giver.
Upward looked he to the light
And the span of sky afar,
And behold, as at midnight,
Shone at noon a sparkling star!
Then first learned he that the sun
And the glare and stir of day,
Were but shrouds and darkness dun
To the high and far away:
That the light, so prized, which made
The near palpable around us,
But the tyrant with us played,
And to dust with short chain bounJ us.
Only when the darkness falls,
Veiling all the objects nigh,
Look we treely o'er these walls
To the glorious spheres on high!
P -1. _ T 1 C.._ ,
rruin me iauiuuii cuii.
Tax on Knowledge?American and <
English Newspapers. <
The taxes on knowledge must be repealed ere 1
Lng; no one doubts it. Argument has settled i
the question in every mind acquainted with the '
subject, and it only remains for an adequate i
number of minds to give their nttenticn to it, '
and the thing is done forever. The press in I
England once liberated?liberated not by a mob I
revolution?but by full discussion, both within |
and without the walls of Parliament, will never '
be enslaved again. Enslaved! some reader may
exclaim?yes enslaved, we repeat. The news- s
paper press works in fetters. It is chained to I
Downing street?chained to the Excise office? '
chained to the Stamp office, it is trebly chained; ]
it works under the load of a paper duty, a stamp i
duty and an advertisement duty. How it works t
at all, is the- wonder; and we doubt not that the I
lion's share of the fruits of its labor goes into <
the pocket of its oppressor. Nothing can more i
irrefutably demonstrate its bondage in England i
than the contrast with America. There the
periodical press of every cla^s is really free.? <
No dutv of any kind cllccks its-mwwiwtiu. i
What is the consequence? Take New York and
Liverpool, two great commercial neighbors, with- in
ten day's sail of each other. In New York, i
at least 100,000 copies of daily newspapers are -
circulated in the city alone. In Liverpool there >
is not one daily paper. Thecontrast with Loudon, I
the fountain of English daily papers, is almost I
as glaring. London, which numbers its popula- tion
ly millions, hasten daily papers. New York, i
which reckons its population ly hundreds of thou- '>
sands only, has fifteen. London ought, by the same I
proporti <11, to have forty or fifty. Three-fourths 1
of all th j families in America take a daily paper <
I ?every skilled operative takes one?nay, almost <
every workman enjoys the privilege of the sub- <
I ?..--I r?j? ? ?11 u:? ...... 1
SLIUliai LiUUUUU I'lLIiXIl, ituu IlitS HIS utvu uciir
paper regularly with his breakfast. s
Such unquestioned facts, as these affirm, be- <
yond the possibility of denial, the bondage of ]
the English newspaper press. Our manufactu- I
rers of the raw materials, our printers and pub- <
lishers, our editors, are no ways inferior to the i
American in skill and enterprise. We could J
boat ihpni. Wftdn beat them in ?*vorv nianu- i
facture which is free at home. We send them ]
our textile fabrics, and our hardwares, even in
spite of their high protective duties. In cheap
production of almost every kind, no country can i
surpass us, and certainly not America. There j
can ho, then but one reason for the humiliating t
disparity of our newspaper circulation, and that f
is, that our press is heavily fettered. It is to t
little purpose to begin calculations attempting to i
prove that the burdens on the newspapers arc f
not very heavy after all. That the paper duty
is only an amount per sheet which no coin will
express; that the penny stamp is but twenty
per cent, on a five penny paper, and the advertisement
duty but cightecn-pence for each inscr
tion; the broad answer is, that the working of
all three combined, is such, that Xew York takes '
100,000 copies of the daily papers, while Liver- 1
pool lias not a single daily paper of her own, and, 1
at most, takes a few scores, possibly a hundred 1
or two, of the London dailies. By a little con- 1
sideration, indeed, it is easy to see the execrable 1
working of three duties. Every man of business ^
knows that the Excise regulations and interfcr- '
encc augment the cost of paper probably as much *
as the duty does. Then the stamp and the ad- j
vertisement duties necessitate the expense of in- 1
creased capital, on the part especially of the ac- '
tual sellers of the pnper, the newsmen. Again, 1
the limitation of the sale, but the increased cost (
of the paper, re-acts upon the cost itself, since 1
every newspaper is obliged to incur preliminary 1
expenses for each impression, which, it" distribu- 1
ted over double or treble tlie number of copies, (
would lower tlio proportion of those expenses 1
which belonged to each copy. It is obvious that
in these ways, and others which might be men- 1
tioned, the three taxes enhance the cost of the 1
newspaper considerably beyond their own abso- 5
1??4a omnnnt '
llllU ftU'VM.iv.
Tiie Last Anecdote.?"Who's that ero Mr. s
Scattering, that always gets a few votes at our i
town metings ?" enquired an old lady, a fow days
since, of her spouse, as she was busily engaged in i
perusing a newspaper. I
"I do not know," said he, "nor never did though i
the people have been trying to elect. him ever {
since I began to v<>to." |
The American Character.
Europeans who have visited the United States
have given a great variety of descriptions of our
national character. In tact a description that
will aj ply to all parts of the country is impossible,
for there are as many piloses of character as
there are diversities of climate and institutions in
our country. Among the attempts to portray
the American character, the following, by a Mr.
Casey, an English traxclcr, is as discriminating
as can be expected, and is not without merit:
"Vieing with the Parisian in dress?the Englishman
in energy?cautious as a Dutchman?
impulsive as an Irishman?patriotic as Tell?
brave as Wallace?cool as Wellington?and
royal as Alexander, there he goes?the Aineri- ;
can citizen ! In answering your questions, or
speaking commonly, his style is that of the ancient
Spartan; but put him 011 a stump with an !
audience of whigs, democrats, or barnburners,
and he becomes a compound of Tom Cribb and
Demosthenes, a fountain of eloquence, passion,
sentiment, sarcasm, logic, and drollery, altogether
different from anything known or imagined in
the Old World States. Say anything?as public
men?untied with conventional phraseology, '
lie swings his rhetorical mace with a vigorous j
arm, crushing the antagonistic principle or per-j
son into a most villainous compound. See him
at dinner, he despatches his meat with a speed
which leads you 10 suppose him a ruminating
aniinal, yet enjoying his cigaiita for an hour af- j
1 M *1 ' - 1 ! . <? . CI. ... I
tor warns, witu ;ne gusto ana ennui or a ?pan- ,
iard.
"Walking right on, as if it were life against
time with the glass at fever la-at, yet taking it
cool in the most serious and pressing matter, a
compound of the Red Man, Brummel and Frank- j
lin?statesman and laborer, on he goes?divided
find sub-divided in politics and religion?professionally
opposed with a keenness of competition, ;
iu vain looked for even in England; yet let but j
the national rights or liberty, be threatened, and
that vast nation stands a pyramid of resolve, uni- j
ted as one man, with heart, head, hand and
purse, burning with a Roman's zeal to defend iuriolate
the cause of the commonwealth.
"To him who has lived among the Americans, |
.?.! II.. < l,? ?..a I
uiu ivsuiva migi'ij ni> tuc tucvsijr uuu pinwuvv vi
iieir government and its executive, there remains J
10 possible doubt that the greatest amount of |
personal security and freedom has been produced 1
"rom the least amount of cost of any nation in ,
,he world. Culling its principles and wisdom j
'rom the history of all empires, it stands the nearest
of all earthly systems to perfection, because 1
t is built on, and embodies, those principles
which God hath proclaimed in his attributes.
' ] noticed that the Americans set less value
>n life than Europeans; that is, he does not think j
lie loss of lite t.htHjronT/ESl. locc, tho tiltimutmn. [
When a man dies you sec none of that sentiment 1
?I use the best term I can think of?which sur I
ounds such an event in other countries. The |
American is silent in manner, embarrassingly so i
it first, extremely accurate in his observation of
liuman nature, and any man that cannot bear
Lo be scrutinized had better not coinc here. The
American judges much by the eye, and has a
most enviable power of estimation; your temperimeut,
looks, speech and acts, are all taken in by
l?iin ; ami if you can get a tablet of his judgment,
you will find a remarkable daguerreotype 1
if your exact worth written. They arc phrenologists
and physiognomists, not merely as philos-1
)phers, but as practical applicrs of those indue- i
:ivc sciences; and beneath a show of positive lasiness
or languor there is an amount of energy j
uul action, mental ami physical, perfectly sur- ;
prising. They arc not averse t.> the higher i
jranches of science and literature, but they bend j
ill to utility, ami are, as a nation, the best arithmeticians
in the world; and this science alone
jives a terse matter of fact to their mental working;
in fact, when a man wants to reflect on a
imposition, fieshvs?'Wait till I figure up.'"
A few days since, two little girls, one griming
an organ anil the other beating a tambourine,
were performing in front of one of the hoiels.
After the "tune was out," the tambourine
jirl stepped up to a "greeny" and held out the
.ambouriue for him to drop in some of his penlies;
but lie, thinking she wanted to make him a
i present of it very innocently said :
"I don't care anything about it?I can't play."
rrum i/ie jjusluu viivc u/unu/i.
Speaking One's IHiml.
Many a man has upset his dish by speaking
lis mind too freely, and yet there arc persons
vho take great pride in speaking out boldly all
.hat they think. "I am no hypocrite," say such
arsons, "I always speak as 1 think." And thus
.vliile priding themselves that they are no hypoMill's,
they plunge n dagger into the hearts of
valuable friends, and make many bitter enemies.
Such persons show a lack of common sense and
cllow-fculiug. Of what possible service can it be
or a man who might easily hold his tongue and
njure nobody, to set a whole neighborhood by
die ears, just for the privilege of speaking his
Bind ? There is vs isdom in the following remark ,
)f Steele: "Nothing is more silly," says he, "than
he pleasure some people take in speaking their
ninds. A man of this make will say a rude
hing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an ;
>pposite behavior, full as innocent, might have
in-served Ids friends, or made his fortune."
"Be slow to speak, but swift to hear," is good
idvice, and from the highest authority. "A fool '
lttcreth all his mind," says Solomon, But if j
iome persons know a circumstance that will bear
jgainst the reputation or the happiness of anoth- <
jr, like a boy with a copper in his pocket, it burns
io that they cannot rest till they have got rid of t
t, to sotno other person. i
You may think a man a fool or a rascal, but
t may not be good policy to tell him so. If not
.rue, you only create a difficulty where none ex- j
sted before. And if it be true, you very likely .
;et yourself into a hornet's nest, and just for the
privilege of speaking your own mind?a privi
lege which nobody doubts, but in regard to the
propriety of exercising that right, every body
would doubt.
It is always well to think twice before we
speak once, and then the words should be chosen.
"Words fitlv spoken are like apples of gold
in pictures of silver," it is said. And the man
named by Wisdom, was commended because he
"sought to find out acceptable woids." Let no
one be too fond of speaking his own mind. There
are other minds which should be consulted when
we are about to speak.
"Its an III Wind that Blows Nobody
Good."?The Worchester .dtgis states that insane
man who escaped suffocation at the recent
fire at the Worchester County House, was called
upon to testify before the Coroner's jury, and
give his evidence as intelligibly and correctly as
any witness. He wrapped himself in a blanket
and lay down on the floor, with his face to the
vintiiator, and thus saved, himself. He is not
now considered m aue, though he was before
thought to be one of the "incurables." But.for
the calmity of this fire, which afforded this poor
wretch the means of proving the possession of
his wits, ho might have lingered the remainder
of his days a prisoner in company with the out
casts of society. There is much reason to fear
that there arc inany persons lield in confinement
as insane, who are both harmless and rational.
Advice to Young Men.?Socrates did not
urge his friends to enter early upon public employments
; but first to tike pains for the attainment
of the knowledge necessary for their success
iu them.
Are you stepping on the threshold of life? ?
Secure a good moral character. Without virtue
j\.u cannot be respected ; without integrity you
can never rise to distinction and honor.
Be careful lest a too warm desire of distinction
should deceive you into pursuiis that may cover j
you with shame, t>y setting your incapacity ana
slender abilities in full light.
People who have the rashness to intrude into
stations without proper authority and the requisite
preparation for the service of the public, not
only involve others in loss, but subject themselves
to ridicule.
The tricky, deceitful, and dishonest are rarely
prosperous, for when confidence is withdrawn,
poverty is likely to follow.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor
in the world, is to be in reality what we would
appear to be.
When once a concealment or deceit has been
practised in matters where all should be fair and
open as the da}', confidence can never be restored
any more than you can restore the white bloom
(*? tLu gcuipo or Jill l 111 iliaL-jaiU Liai-o on on |irof.o4 .
in your hand.
Beautiful Contrast.? I he following happy
passage is from the pen of Mrs. Sigouracy:
"Man might be initiated into the varieties and
mysteries of needle work; taught to have patience
with the feebleness and waywardness of infancy,
and to steal with noiseless step around the chamber
of the sick; and the woman might be instructed
to contend for the palm of science ; to pour
forth eloquence in Senates, or "wade through
fields of slaughter to a throne." Yet revolting
of the soul would attend this violence to nature,
this abuse of physical and intellectual energy;
while the beauty bf social order would be defa
cod, and tlie fountain ot cartns rcncity oroKcn up.
We arrive, then, at the conclusion, that the sexes
are intended for different spheres, constructed
in conformity to their respective destinations, by
Ilim who bids the oak bravo the fury of the tempest,
and the Alpine flower lean its cheek upon
the bosom of eternal snows. But disparity does
not imply inferiority. The high places of the
earth, with all their pomp and glory, are indeed
accessible only to the inarch of ambition, or to
the grasp of power; yet those who pass with
faithful and unapplauded zeal through their humble
round of duty, are not unnoticed by the
"great task-master's eye;" and their endowments,
though accounted poverty among men, may
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prove (luraDie ncnei in meKinguom or neaveu.
How to Grow Rich.
A correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commtrce asks the editor to publish the following
for the benefit of those young men, and children
of a larger grow th, "who drink, chew, smoke,
and otherwise squander their shillings and small
change." We think it might suggest a good
idea to the temperance reformers. If they would
establish a Temperance saving fund institution
the gradual accumulation of capital would soon
hoi id of union, and prevent huti
.~ ..
dreds from violating their plighted faith. The
article reads as follows:
1st. If at the age of 21 years, a man will lay
up eighteen pence per day, and keep It at com
pound interest every six months, lie will find at
the age of sixty, or in the thirty nine years, it
amounts to sixty thousand dollars.
2d. The Island of Manhattan was originally
sold by the Indians to the Dutch for fifteen dollars.
If the fifteen dollars had been kept at compound
interest until this time, it would have amounted
to more than the whole wealth, real
.....1 .v.jnnol at fliie rimo in NV>\v YYirk.
til ill I'VIOUIHU, ??V V...W -
3d. One German banker sent to a bank in
England, a bottle of wine four hundred and thirty
years old, which originally cast fifty cents.
The English banker computed the compound
interest for the time, and found the bottle of
wine to cost more than the present national debt
cf Great Britain,
4th. If a note shaver start with a capital of
$10,000 and get one per cent, per month, (the
usual rate) in five yenre ho has $20,000; in ten
pears ?40,000; in fifteen years, $80,000; in 20
pears, ?160,000; in 25 years, $320,000. Young
men, you often ask how Jews get so rich; answer
by observing the ab .ve rules. And remember
it is what you save, not what you make,
that you have on hand.
From the N. 7 Courier & Enquirer.
The Gold Crop of 1853.
The Mint returns and the Custom House ta
bles exhibit an increase iu the quantity of gold
in the U. States without a precedent, and give
! assurance that the present cheap rate of money
! must continue, if indeed a lower rate of interest
| is not soon caused. Much as has been' said in
i rifnwo r?f fSilifnrnia irnlrl fiplHs. nnrl lnrone ns bavft
i been the profits of raining, no one who carefully
; reads the advices from the Pacific coast, can resist
the conclusion that the future will exceed the
past. The great bulk of the gold thus far sent
to market, has been the produce of surface mining,
or of such other rude processes as require
nothing but a hardy frame and habits of industry.
Quartz mining, though the results have
been as good as could have been expected from
a business in which everything had to be learned,
has yet to show its full power in extracting
from the bosom of California her golden treasures,
A few of those mining companies whteh, to
proper machinery, have added economical management,
have made returns that must satisfy
the most avaricious, and the others now preparing
to work, cannot fail of similar results, by pursu
I ing a similar policy. The company having the
largest and best equipped force, the "Grass Valley
Mining Co." under charge of Gen. Winchester,
will no doubt soon settle the question whether
the quartz has been over estimated in value.
The arrival at San Francisco of a fleet of
over due ships having an important part of its
machinery on board, will now enable it at once
to proceed with a success equal to the anticipations
of its stockholders, and other companies in
progress of formation, who can estimate their
prospects of success by the labors of this company,
which enters the field with all that makes
success probable, whether as regards its machinery,
or what is better, the intelligence and energy
of its managers. Not despising the day of
small things, the Grass Valley Company has
added to its works, a saw mill, so profitable in
its operations, that were the quartz part of its operations
totally valueless, its lumber trade will
pay a profit that would make most stockholders
I iiirlifluranf In 4Kfl npnl/t Tho oncninrr traor rrmet
IllVilUVI^lIb IV mv ^V?U? JL MV VIIWUIM^ J ***** Wmww
develop the resources of the "gold State" to an
extent now difficult to estimate oven", and unless
all the opinions of those who knpw California
best are worthless, the quartz machinery will be
the means by which the greatest progress, and
the riches proBts, will be secured.
Growth of the United States.
In a letter to the National Intelligencer, Mr.
William Darby, who has devoted much attention
to the subject of the statistical histoVy of the
-Cwittd St?tca, makes the^fbllditiri^'r'eilliifts'on
the growth of the country. He says:
These periods have been three.
First Orioriiinl rnlnnizfltinn find nrrxrroca tr?
the revolution commenced in 1775, and terminated
in 1783.
Second period. Accession of Louisiana and
Florida; which, in all statistical principles, we
may regard as enchainments of the same course
of events, and also, without any material error,
as so nearly equal to that of 1783 as to justify
the assumption of their equality.
The third and most extensive accession was
thpt by which the domain of the United States
was extended to the Pacific ocean and gave to
those States the Pacific coast of North America,
from th?j Mexican to the Russian boundaries,
completing a connected sovereignty from ocean
to ocean?a sovereignty with internal and external
advantages of position and extent never before
combined on the earth.
In a comprehensive view of the subject, we
have before us a connected part of a continent
spreading over temperate latitudes from the Atlantic
to the Pacific ocean, and comprising three
millions four hundred thousand square miles of
that continent; and in its relative position the
territory of the United States embraces the mid
die or temperate latitudes, occupying very nearly,
on North America, similar latitudes with, and
in extent not materially differing with all Europe,
and, as will be shown in these papers, with a
residtnt population amounting in 1850, to upwards
of twenty-three millions, and increasing at
a ratio of one-third decennially, or, in plainer
terms, gaining one-third in each ten jears.
The law of progressive population in the United
States of North America, which any arithmetician
can verify with the data afforded by the
several decennial enumerations from 1790 to
1850, contains, we boldly assert, one, If not the
most important fact in the history of the world.
The existing generatiou can, if it choses, glance
into futurity through the glass of experience, and
prepare iu advance for future consequences.
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without energy. It is necessary in public, bus!ness,
and domestic life. Wherever you are, or
whatever you are doing, be energetic, if you
wish to be successful. Nothiug is more painful
to look upon, than a man without energy; he- is
swayed first this way then that; in no steady
employment, incapable of holding office in put
lie or of taking tfie stand that ho should, in private
life.
It requires gre at energy to pursue the course
you have marked out for yourself, in face of the
ridicule which you must inevitably meet in *11
the paths of life. It is useless to start in any of
these paths, with hopes of success, without first
feeling the assurance of being able to withstand
the crosses and obstacles you will certainly meet,
and laying in a good stock of energy.
Olive Branch.
It is said that Barnutn has purchased a lot at
the corner of Broadway and Spring streets, New
York, on which to erect a new museum building.
The newspaper is a book for the indolent, a
sormon for the thoughtless a library for the poor,
it may stimulate the most indifferent, it may instruct
the most profound.