The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-12-13
Gsk HAIRLESS ADDREss:-Geu.' Hairless

GKs, HARLEE's ADDRrss:-Gen., Hairless
address to the members of The Legislature. and
Others in the Commons Hall, on Saturday eve.
ming. in behalf Of the Wilmington aad Man
chester Railroad, of which he is President, gave
universal satisfaction. He earnestly. insisted
that all that the section of, South Carolina,
which he represented, desired, was an outlet
for the products of their land hbw tied up at
horne for want of means of transportation to
market. and that end gained, there was 20
doubt but that North Carolina would reap all
the commercial advantages, which must neces-
sarily accrue from having SO heavy an amount
of foreign and domestic produce poured into
Che port of Wilmington, over and above its pre-
sent trade. Gen. H. showed eonclusively, that
while this road could not BY any possibility,
infict any injury upon us, it must necessarily
: he productive OF much benefit, by enhancing
the value of the State works, already built, and
in progress and also by the increased value,
both in price and productiveness, OF the lauds
>ofthe counties through which it will pass, on
this side of the line. His remarks were AL oas'
ed upon calculations, made apparently with
srreat care and accuracy, and in the impressive,
aaasuage of figures, appealed strongly and con-
''vincingly to the minds of his audience Gen.
H. presented it farther as Southern measure,
touching lightly, but impressively, upon the
point, that however matters might hereafter
eventuate, it behooved us all, as bound by one
common tie, one distinctive interest, to see that
we were in position to command our entire
resources.
After gracefully returning thanks for the
kindness and attention shown him, with express
sions of regard and good will, both for himself
and those he represented, Gen. h. retired amid
the applause of the audience.-Raleigh Reg.
NORTHERN LETrER.wRITERs At THESoUrH.
There is nothing so well calculated to de-
ceive the people Of the North into the belief OF
a want of unanimity and of strength which that
unanimity gives in the South, as the nefarious
representations of northern men with northern
PRINCIPLES and northern feelings, who live at the
South and make all their money at the South,
yet are continually sending home letters which
paint the distractions of Southern politics in
exaggerated terms, and falsely announce a state
of peace and harmony with the North and viii.
ling submission to Northern oppression which
does not exist among US, and which never can
while we have one particle Of honest pride or
patriotism, left US US the bequest ofo ances-
try.
eknow that there are many--very many
Northern men engaged in business at the South
having their interests, their families and their
homes among us, who are as firmly devoted to
the great Southern cause as any man can be
who was born on this side Of Mason and Dix.
on's line. These men we love and honor for
their gratitude to the soil which gives them their
bread. Butthereare others, moving in our very
midst; wolves in sleeps clothing; who are not
to be trusted, and who, by the epstles which
they write home, and which are published and
circulated in the Northern papers, are lulling
the people of the North into fatal belief that
our threats are mere braggadocio Hour com.
plants but fretful murmurs, and that we our.
selves could not be forced to leave the Union at
any hazard, which showers upon us SO many
blessings. Let ouch men be marked, and we
heartily join the Savannah Georgian in clubbing
them as "The Independent Order of Northern
Letter Writers"
PUBLIC LASDs.-The Report ofthe Commits.
sioners Of the General Land Office, not yet pub
lished, contains full and interesting details re-.
specting the public domain We learn from
the Washington Republic that the whole guam.
tity of lands sold aad disposed of during the
year lS4s, including that located by military
bounties, State Selections, &C., was 1895, ,009
acres, amounting, a 81 ,25 per acre, to s6,42s,.
435. For lS49, 5,lS4,4l0 acres were dispos-
ed ofiu like manner, amounting, at the same
rate, to S6,575, ,625. And for the three quar-
ters of 1850, exclusive of the bounty locations
not yet returned for the third quarter, 2Sl5, 1865