The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-02-15
From tue Southern Christian Advocate.

beautiful city to Charlotte the traveller passes
through country exceedingly uninteresting in
point of scenery, but rich in historical associa-
tons. The whole ronte is over classic ground;
over a soil consecrated by the blood of the rero-
luton, and hailowed by "reminiscences Of that
cyentIGl epoch. Trae there is little to please
the eyc---and vet what American, we will not
say what Southerner, can look with Indifference
even upon DIR swamps and barrens, when with
them are associated the names and exploits OF
Marion and Sumter, and their compatriots i'll
arms. At Camden is pointed out the house
where Cornwallis established his headquarters;
and granite monument in front of the Prcsby-
terian church marks the spot where sleeps the
Gallant soldier the Baron Dekalb, who fell near
this place while fighting bravely at the head OF
his command. One mile from Camden is Hob
kinks Hill, where the skirmish commenced be-
tween the retreating Americans and the
English troops. The place is now called Kirk
wood. and is covered with handsome residences
which spacious grounds attached, and beautified
with ornamental shrubbery, giving evidence of
that refined and cultivated taste which belongs
to the Southern character. Judging from its
external appearance, and especially frop the
peep into its society with which we were favor
cd. il must be a most delightful neighborhood.
Some miles further on, near Gum Swamp, VIC
pass the battlefield, the scene ofthe grandstrug
ole and disastrous defeat of Gatcs, of which
some of the people still possess relies in the
shape of bayoncts, balls and the like.
About midway between Lancaster c. H., and
Charlotte \. G, within short distance OF the
road is the spot where President Jackson first
saw the Enht and II miles further OH bring us
fairly within the "Old North State" and OH the
left is a delapidated cabin where James X. Polk
was born. Strange that two such men should
have sprung into existence so near each other,
and that both should have chosen the same
State Tennessee, as the repository of their dust.
They are gone; the honors of the world no lon
ger engage their attention. They have laid aside
the regala of power and the emblem of office
and put on the black vestments o.! death. Six
transit gloria mundi.
The road from Camden to Charlotte is by no
means pleasant one during the winter. The
distance is about rs miles, and two days are
consumed in making it. This however, in time
will be corrected by the iiailror,l now i'll pro-
cess of construction, which is to connect this
place with Columbia. Aud that is Charlotte!
An inland town OF some note, containiEga Bank,
q. S. Mint, a spacous Court House, and four
Churches, three excellent Hotels, Male and
Female Academies, and children without num-
her, aud remarkable fine looking children too.
Keeping before lis the truth that the children
of the present arg the hopc of the age to come"
Charlotte promises more than any town of its
size we have ever visited. The Sabbath-schools
are well attended, and well conducted.
Charlotte claims the honor of having issued
the first Declaration of Independence, called
the Meckenburg Declaration. 1t was read
here in the public square some time before Con.
rrcss declared these colonies "iree, sovereign
and independent States" Here also are still to
be seen the entertainments which the British
constructed around their camp. So warm was
their reception in this ncig ghborhood that Corn.
wallis called the place the "llorncts' Nest," a
name of which the inhabitants are still proud.
BY the way, there are two wccklics here, the
Charlotte Journal, and the Hornets Nest, the
latter deriving its name from the above cir
cumstance.
A very interesting Railroad meating was
held in the Court House some days slncc' IL
was addressed to Ex-Governor More!ead, ana
Hon. Calvin Graves, late Speaker of the n. Z.
Senate, whose ''immortal casting vote" gave
the road its. charter. The object was to obtain
subscriptions to the stock of the Central Road
They met with but little, if any success, howev-
or, as it is the policy Of Charlotte to oppose
the extension of the Railroad beyond the point
This great Central Road is elsewhere very
popular throughout the State. 1t is to form
the connecting link between the Raleigh and
CASTOR, and Charlotte and Columbia roads, and
when finished will perhaps be the great tho.
roughfare North and South.
These Roads, already chartered and in course
of construction, give Charlotte an Importance
in Il political, agricultural, commercial, and re.
ligious point of view, which otherwise it might
never have possessed. But of this more anon.
LoUIs1ANA.-Thc New Orleans Crescent, in
commenting upon Governor Walkers inaugu-
raj and his recommendations upon the Southern
question says:
"lt is the calm and charitable man who re-
ssts most powerfully any serious aggressions
on his rights and honor Louisiana has not
made any great noise about the course of North
ern agitators, nor has she taken much notice of
abolitionists cxtravigsnces. But when she ap-
pears at the Nashville Convention, her voice
will be that ofonc who knows her privileges and
intend to maintain them Then she will exer-
else the influence which cool determination