The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-02-07
Editorial Correspondence.


mills Her factories ve'y extensive, and sell col
Ion cloth from 81 10 cents per yard. cheaper, il is
said than il can lie bought at the doors o Lowell.
While other portions Of the South, have hcen wasting
their time AMI means, in considering what ought 10 be
done 10 tevcope her strength and resources. Augusta
has gone 10 work, and her factories, her flour mills.
and her workshops for making Railroad machinery,
wheels and springs. &C., manifest her foresight and
wisdom as much by the ready market found for what
is made US by the large dividend upon capital, real
lied by the Stockholders.
Sunday C4h insi.) was pleasant day 10 spcEd in
Augusta. The Georgia Conference of NJ. E. Church
was in Session, and the Ordination of Dcacons and
Elders by Bishop Capcrs was most interesting. DR..
Loyick Prarcc preached in tie morning, and his son
George F. Pcurcc in the evening. both men Of ability
and eIoqucncc. DR.. Ellison President Of Emory Col.
lego. also preached in the evening in another Church.
During The Morning Service, tho Bishop ordancd II
Dcacons, uficr which, assisted BY Reverend McsHs.
Pearcc, Longs,rcet Dunwoodc, Parks and E, ans. he
ordained by tho imposition Of hands Elders. The
Bishops health very feeble. ond Rev. Parks pre-
sided uycr the deliberations Of Conference.
Georgia is grca, State, and her people are ipdusr
ous and en,crprsing Her population increased from
1889 10 40 l7i.5G9. while that Of South Carolina.
only increase 1928 In 1880. South Carolina was
ahead by 64 36o inlabiianis,-in 1910 Georgia out
numbered her by 96s94. Between 1880 and 40. Sa
yannah increased 39il. while Charleston, III the
same time decreased l03G. !, is probable, that the
Censps of 1850 will show a different result Gemgia
is enplaticay the Railroad State Of The soui', aud
her Roads arc the best con>irnc'ed thr sabs OF the
North probably unsurpassed BY any IN ''e Union.
They r. smoothly aud rnpidy. und scldon or never
meet with arcidcn,s. The Georgia Road runs from
Augusta ITO miles 10 Atlanta, through in nnc night.
where the Central Road via Macon. and Griffin oms il.
IL will DO continued 10 the Tennessee RIVER and
has already reached Dal:on, 2s miles from Cha,,anoo
%, Col. Mitchell. the Engineer says that tho upper
end " III be finished by the first Of October and that
in week or two, freight trains will run In the Great
Tunnel where there is cut through l4m iert long.
Atlanta is a newly erected, but aonrshng vlIlagn
conlainng is sAid about 2D0O Inhabitants. aud owes
its existence and prosperity merely TO the junction o
the two Roads II will eventually brconc the PsHrc
where the L. gislnture will hold its sessions. At the
lnsl sitting il was made question, bni was ln~i ny
very small mnjor,y. Milloigerillc, the present CaPi
tai is difficult Of access and fast declining.
This State, moi satisfied with what has bccn done,
BY way Of mprov mcns for il'e people, has the ng'
spirit, and determination 10 do more. Four other
Roads arc in contemplation, and some OF them will
certainly be built The one from Warrnion. near the
Gcorgia Road via fillcdgvic 10 Macon. will connect
the two Roads, and this continued on to Pensacola. Fa
will greatly benefit the Southern portion OF the St:tr
and South AIbama, but tho routes chiefly interesting
to Caronians, travelling S"ulh West, will run from
GAINESVILLE or Griffin OIL tho Macon Road TO Columbus
Ga, or from Atlanta or Griffin 10 West Point, on the
Cha,,uhoochec River, to meet tho Alabama Road,
which is now completed 10 Opcl'ka.
The present mode Of travelling from Griffin TO Opc.
lika is most rough and dsagrccablc The distance IS
90 miles by stages, which drive through in mo night
and morning over tho very worst ct roads, muddy
rocky and hilly-Kng horses, and turning over sta.
pea, to the great Inconvenience and sometimes 70
tho damage Of passengers have laa'y ceased to excite
wonder, or much attention.
Tho Georgia Road on ses near Emory College at
Oxford. which is now in q hourishing condition.
The Students number about the arc at Athens
The Trustees gave up reluctantly their late rresden',
Judge Lopgsrcct, who has accepted the Presidency o'
,bc Centenary Institute in Lousanu but are gralticd
in securing as his SUCCESSOR Dr. Ellison, gentleman
Of ability and piety.
Emory College no, long since was involved in
debt Of about S45,O00. but DR.. Means ono OF tho
Professors and Member Of the Faculty OF the Medical
College at Augusta states. that i, has boon reduced to
about SC GOGO; nnd hut tho Trustees sec their way 10
farther reduction.
THE CASE OF THE HENDERSONS.
The abuse of the pardoning power on the
part of the Chief Magistrates of many States,
has long been matter of just complaint; Tor
in MANY instances they have rendered the in.
termediatc agency of Judge and Jury totally
unnecessary, by pardonng every convicted
criminal without the production of any excu.
patory matter.
Governor Seabrook in his inaugural Ad.
dress, very distinctly declared his fixed intention
of not interfering with the regular ad'nlnistra.
ton of Justice in this way, and of exercising
sound discretion only. based upon the Produc.
,on Of new matter or new facts subsequent to
the tral-and has so far adhered to his express
ed resolve.
4 case Of very painful character has re
Gently been submitted 10 him, which as mai.
ter of public interest, we desire TO lay before
the public.
Our readers probably are all aware, that two
brothers. Carol and Thomas Henderson, were
tried and convicted at Pickens, for the murder
of - Wilson. and %ere sentenced to be hung
on the first Friday in January. A. The urgent
solicitation and en,reaty of their aged mother.
the Governor granted them respite of one
month, as no extenuatiug circumstances 10 vary
the verdict had been brought to his notice, to
induce him to set asidc the solemn verdict Of
the Court, before which they had been tried.
They we're, therefore, both to have been execu.
I'D -, tho 6rst Friday in February next, but the