The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-08-23
About five hundred of all coors had by this
time assembled on the wharf.

About FIVE hundred of all colors had by this
time assembled on the wharf
Some of the coored men got on board the
steam boat, and in the French language en-.
deavored to persuade the slaves to come ashore.
They adopted all sorts of means to get their
ends answered, but all in vain. The slaves
clung to their master, one and all, and wept
bitterly at the thought of separation from him.
Finally the last bell tapped, and the captain or.
dered the lines to be cast of. Now came The
rush. Cries of "stop the oat,"-"don't let
them go;'' and mingled with curses, skipped
with all the speed the Magnetic Telegraph,
from Ii pto lip. The police, about dozen strong,
Kept the feyerish crowd back, and one or two
personal encounters took place. A large col.
ored man, having on his head "rocky noun
tain beaver" seemed to be conspicuous. He
received about halfa dozen well directed blows
over his head. about as hard as the police off.
Ger could let drive, before he desisted. The
boat finally left the wharf, much to The apparent
delight fthe slaves, and the chagrin ofthe ma.
Jor part of the crowd. Such a scene has sci.
dom been witnessed in this section ofth coun.
try, and the probability is that the owner of the
slaves, not understanding the English language,
Rl8s Rl8is considerably surprised at this demonstra.
some of the coIored pei,la y la conversation with
wharf, we learned that they were decIdedry
posed to the movements of the aboliionsts IN
the above case, and some of them would have
been willing to have exchanged situations with
slaves from Barbados. We understand that
the French gentleman is rich, and enterains
much affection for them; they having been
brought up from infancy almost under his own
eye. Several persons will probably be arrest.
ed to-day on the charge of melting to riot.
WR1r1So PAPER.-I have been asked the
derivation and application of the term cap pa.
per.
Cap, as applied to paper, is of modern use
entirely, at least to certain parts Of the United
States. Not more than thirty years since | was
so familiar with the phrase FoolscaP, that dis
tinctly recollected how cap its ahhrevlatIon'
grated on my ear, upon first hearing it, as much
as pike for turnpike does yet.
The question is thus shifted 10 what is the
origin Of the phrase foolscap, as applied to wri'
ting paper, which has horne the name so long,
that lis origin is lost to most persons: =.
The Kings of England, from Edward l., it
not earlier, granted various monoPoIies, either
for the support Of government, or to enrich Ia
vorites. One of these was the exclusive right
to manufacture paper, granted by the hrst
Charles. On the finer kinds was species OF
notice ofthe monopoly, the royal arms OF Eng
land forming the water mark. Vast sums were
of course made from this exclusive privilege to
make and vend an article in such general use.
All these monopolies were swept away by the
Parliament which brought Charles to the scat
fod, and in this peculiar case, by way OF snow
tpp iheis fapteppRt for The paapalch !heI qireet;
as they had already been from the sign posts,
publi: halls, &C., substituting fool, with cap
and BELLS as the efigy. This was done in
1649.
Most of the manuscript written between that
period and 1860. bear, accordingly, as water
mark, fool wearing the dress described as
his costume in the court OF the British monarch.
Cromwell, when made Lord Protector, chan
eed the water mark by substituting dragon
Crashing in his claws arrows Of fire, and after
wards putting bis coat of arms in its place.
This still occasionally appears.
Charles H., at the restoration, replaced the
royal arms, and enlarged the size OF the Sheet
which was much smaller than we see in mod
ern days. In England, paper ofthe size which
the rump Parliament ordered for their journals,
wearing the foolscap effigy. is still retained for
ordinary writing paper, centuries after the reas.
on for It has ceased. and now serves as it will
serve for ages, to designate all writing paper in
ordinary use, as distinguished from paper de-
signed to be folded in the form OF letters.
This last clas of writing paper has been re-
duced greatly, and widened somewhat TO adapt
it for a convenient shape in folding, and still
bears its original name Of post paper applied to
it from the mail or post by which letters were
conveyed to their address.
So recently has the United States made It's
own paper that most of our early letters, writ
ten in the West, even as late as 1900 bear the
IMPRESS of royal arms. ST. Clair, Hamer,
wilkinson and Wayne's letters are all OF this
description. .-Cist's Advertiser.
The chief organ Of the Barnburners, the N.
Y. Post, says 'the free States have the wealth.
the votes, the virtue, the intelligence and the
enterprise of the country" This IL 'n0de't'
Tho od;tur goes on as follows to say what they
intend to do with all this justice:
1--WE tell our brethren Of the South, that the
die is cast. The doom ofslavery west OF the
Rio Grande is forever sealed-the last act ol
the limited States Senate in favor oft instl.
tuition has been passed. The question now
comes 10 the peope-what they have long Pc
: titioned Congress to do-what their legislatures
have long instructed to do, it now falls TO t1e'I
lot 10 act upon themselves. lhe ballot noS
: in November will tell the tale. Inc tnree
y hundred thousand shareholders, negroes and
d all can make more resistance 10 Inc NORM a.