The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-03-21
District Meetings,


1t is utterly impossible for US to publish the
proceedings Of sallthe District meetings held to
respond. 10 the Address Of our Representatives.
Nearly every District in the State has rheeled
into lins,r rsnd uttered deep. and loud denuncia-'
tionsagainst the aggressive spirit of the North.
The ewhole, State is moving as one man in this
matter, and lei the crisis come when it will, S.
Cswilisbe touud at her post Of duty. The last
mee,ing we noticed was held at Yorkvile, J.
Knykendall. Esq Chairman, j. +. Bell. Esq.
Secretary, and the Hon. |. Whherspoon Chair.
man. of 3the COMMITTEE. A spirited string Of
Resolutions:was adopted; among shem' was
Recommendation for c Southern Convention
Beaufort and LANCASTER, we understand, will
speak,out on the 6rst Monday in April.
or private letter from friend in Missis
sippi says that there is great inundation of the
Mississippi river, and the report is, that the su.
gar crops. so far as the water extends, have
been. ruined. The fear is expressed that if the
water remains longer, the cotton region will
suffer considerably. Our exchanges state that
low down ON the Mississippi, The levees are
breakins, and the water is pouring all over the
country. Donaldsville is completely snrroun.
ded. Immense harm has been done to planta
,iens, and in many pa places the seed cane totally
DESTROYED. d., ana ,..as, a3 ,e.. ,~
SHE Alabama Argus states that the steam
efssBfontgmnsry and Hewitt came in contact on
asIafe frip'hp from Mobile. The Montgomery
WAS severely injured, having had the wheel
house on the Iarboard side torn entirely away.
Shci was,,i'wRen the Hewitt lef,, in an almost
ssfkins condition, since which time, they had
hesadnothmg Girther. The Montgomery Jour
naIil speaking Of the accident, says that pub
iishedseard Of The passengers states that "the
eifcnHsiahcesl carry conviction 10 every mind
fiatsfhs coiiision was the result Of a deliberate
aesign6n the part Of the persons plotting the
He9iif.,'aes sl"a-..ei, 81. 0aE-a
eoasbal,Sss 14ia91e----.,n s
issGTAp, Engli.h writer, says an exchange,
bas published a hook showing the probable ef:
iect of California gold upon The trade, com.
usescs and currency Of the English Empire
Our kinsmen across the waters are certainly
early in opening their Golfers, and entertaining
eImesiags aniicipa.ions. II would be well for
sposher book 70, he written since The peremPto
r.. orders of Gen. Persifor F.. Smith, against
fafeigaets rcarrJipg of The gold dust. TO show
how itswil eser reach Europe, unless through
the usual channels Of american trade.
.The wbig presses Of Alabama are re.
com.,endiug the Hon. JAMES F.. BELsEn for
ihe no,nination as The whig candidate for Gov.
emo eSnor Of that s,atc:'
70 Jeta !aitchsli, the Irish Patriot, goes out as
a free cmigrant from Bermuda to the Cape Of
Good Hope, bypermission Of the British Gov
ernment, for the beue6tof his health.
Mr.. Evans Of Maine,. Mr.. Payne Of North
Carolina and Mr.! Caleb B..Smith Of Indiana
We're Nominated and confirmed, as the Baa'd Of
Commissioners on Mexican Claims.
aii Gs Eaqkf kfHf"t9s ~ Ro''rEr s'N ...
ferrTbe New Orleans Crescent states that
Judge Potter Of Ala. met with a severe acci,
dent recently, near Gadsden, Geo., while on his
way 10 Washington. The horses ran off with
she stage, and threw thr driver from his box
Judge p. who was inside, leaPed out and frac'
tutcd hustaigh bone.
=, The Chester Observer says, "we learn that
q large wild bear was killed some two or three
weeks since. in the neighborhood of Parson
,Lgwry's,, within seven or eight miles of this
zplacetsq~7 "f- ~7-r
: |. The Hamburg Journal has passed into the
hands OF MIR. T. c. D.GaffarciIy. Thomas G.
Key, ESD, the former proprietor, continues his
editorial connection.
GyGeneral Pillow is brought forward as the de-
,mocraiic candidate for Governor Of Tennessee.
ysHoN. J. A. WooDwARD.-Elun. J. A. Wood.
ward, our immediate Representative in Con-
srrcss, passed through this place on his way
home on Sunday night last. He was in high
health and spirits.
Mr.. Woodward has so borne himself during
nj; Congressional career as to reflect credit on
himself and his constituents, and to command
the respect of the rowdies and rasamuffins who
recently have converted the Representative
Hall into shear garden" and made it the lou.
cr house indeedl 1t may well be source Of
bride 10 our State that none Of her Representa-.
iiyes where identified with the dsgraceful
iscesies which marked the close ofIhe session,
and which Mr.. Woodward declares to have
teen worse than the worst descriptions given