The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-08-15


open than they are to the severest retail
alton.
What a picture for instance, might be
exhibited Of their hero, and the proceed
ings under his selling and whipping laws.
For the sale, let woman be exhibited
in crowd of buyers Of all colors; the
auctioneer calling out for bidders on one
side, her husband and crying children,
and the General confronting her, by say
ing she will be taken "to hosPitable
mansion Of virluous Citizen" and be re-
claimed from "her vicious propenslties,"
and advising her not to abscond from her
master or mislress's service, and she will
not be whipped. This would make a
good picture. The whipping process
would make still better. There would
be the public ,Ohipping post, with q wo'
man tied to it, and the constable flour.
ishing his cowhide. In the crowd are
seen her little children, and the General,
with the volume Of Indiana laws in his
hand, giving directions TO the constable.
He reads: Son her bare back;" and she is
lstppped-" Well laid on" and slash goes
tbs cowhide.
Whai interesting ornaments those pic
tqres would make, hung up sin the hos.
piiablc mansions of these virtuous citi-
zehs," who buy their servants at these
sales; and how they would help to keep
these servants in order, and reclaim them
from "their vicious propensities!"
In Gov. Cass's work on France is the
the following description Of the caiacombs
under the city Of Paris. The author had
been speaking of the frequency with
which Marie Antoine,te, in her earlier
days, visited these dismal regions of the
lead.
But must confess, that surveyed
with surprise one place associated by ira
dition with her name, and which assured.
ly should have thought presented the
last scene young, beautiful and accom-
plished woman would desire to visit
This was stone bench in the catacombs
under. the city Of Paris, which our guide
told US had been constructed for the tenn
porary repose Of the Queen and the gay
and gallant Count d'Ariois, when examin-
ing that impressive repository Of the NOR
tai remains Of many generations which
have died in this great city. You know
these immense excavations extend under
considerable part of the capital, and that
they have no doubt furnished its building
materials, since The earliest times. They
are no longer worked, because the streets
and many of the houses having been un-
dermined the surface Of the ground, as
we'll as buildings, occasionally fell in,
and the government felt it necessary to
check the farther progress Of the evil
Pillars have been constructed in the most
exposed situations, and as iii is some time
since I have heard Of any accidents, !
presume there are no farther apprehen.
sions. The entrance is secured, and ad-
mittance is obtsined with some difficulty,
for in Europe, the public authorities are
more careful of life than we are, and per.
sons having been separated from the
guides haye become lost and perished in
this vast field of the dead. What end can
be more frightful! To wander in this i'm
mense charnel-house surrounded by the
most revolving emblems of mortality, to
perish in the midst of departed genera
tions, Is terrible indeed. The. bones are
all arranged with horrible symmetry. Pill
lar after pillar, and wall after wall, Of
arms and legs and ribs hedge in the visiter
and form narrow path along which he
follows the guide in an impressive silence.
And as the torches which are carried, and
which alone light up these regions impen.
etrablc to day, shed their feeble and flick
ering rays upon these sad memorials of
humanity, the scene is painful bsyond des-
cription. And then come 10 the columns
Of sculls, and you may almost fancy, as
the fitful light strikes them that they are
grinning upon you with diab olical malice.
The whole cavern does resemble the Val.
ley Of the Shadow Of Death so powerful
Iy described by the prophet, rendered still
more strange by the display Of kind Of
taste in the arrangement Of the materials.
~ breaahed freer when the portal OF
this great tomb closed behind me-"
The Albert Bonaet.--Last autumn,
when Prince Albert was on visit preli-
minary to the British Court, the young
| Queen and he. used frequently 10 wander