Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-04-29
EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER.
FROM TIE REMIyIscExCES OF AN ATTORNEY.

rRon THE REMIyIscEyCES OF AN ATTORNEY.
A smarter trader, keener appreciation of the
tendencies To rise "r fall in colonial produce
sugars more especially Athan John Linden,
Of Mincing Lane, it would have h"en difficult
to point out in the wide city Of I.nnd6n. He
was moi So immensely rich a! many Others en-
gagged il, the sam. merchant traffic rs himself; :;
nothing at all like it, indeed, for doubt that
he could ut anv time have been estimated worth
more than from eighty to ninety thousand
pounds; hut his transactions, although limited
in extent when compared with those OF the
mammoth colonial houses. almost always re.
turned more or less Of profit; the result OF hi$
remarkable keenness and sagacity i'll scentinS
hurricanes, black insurrections. and emancpa
ton bills, whilst yet inapprcciaie or deemed
afar of. by less sensitive organizations. At
least to this wonderful presciencc OF future si.
gar.valuc, did Mr.. Linden himself attribute his
rise il, the world. and gradual Increase in r"
tunrlity, riches, and respcctahility. This con.
stamt success engendered as il is apt to do, in-
ordinate egotist,. conceit, self.cstecm. vanity.
There was scarcely social. governmental,
or economical problem which he did not be-
heve himself capable Of solving, as easily as he
could eat his dinner when hungry. Common
sense business haipits-his favoritr phrase he
believed to be. quite sufficient for the clucida.
ton ofthe most difficult question in law plvslr,
or divinity. The science of law, especially. he
held to be an alphabet which any man. o'rom
mon sense and business habits, could a easily
master as he could count five on his fingers. he
drew his own leases, examined tie titles OF some
house property he purchased. and set his hand
and seal to the final deeds. guided only by his
own common sense spcctacles
With such a gentleman, the firm of Flint d
Sharp had only professional interviews. when
p-ocrastiuating or doubtful debtors required
hun to put on the screw-a process winch
haze no doubt he would himself have confident.
ly peril rmed, but for the waste of valuable
time-which doing so would necessarily involve.
Both Flint and myself were, however, privately
intimate with him-Flint more especially, who
had known him from boyhood and we fre-
quently dined with him on Sunday at his lIt-
tie box at fulham. Latterly, We had on these
occasions met there Mrs. Arnold and her
daughter Catherine-an apparently amable,
and certainly very pretty and interesting young
person, to whom, Mr.. Linden confidentially i'll
formed US, his son Tom had been for some
time engaged.
81 don't know much about her family" OBJ
served Mr.. Linden one day, in the course Of u
gossip a. the Office, "but she moves in very re.
spectnble society. Tom met her at the Shades;
but do know she has something like thirty
five thousand pounds nthe funds. The instant
was informed how matters stood with the
young folk, |, as a matter of common sense
and business, asked the mother, Mrs. Arnold,
for a reference to her rbanker or rsocitor-there
being no doubt that n woman and MINOR
would be in lawyers leading strings-and she
referred me to Messrs Dobson, of Chancery
Lane. Yoa know the Dobsonsi"
"perfectly; what was the replys"
"rhat Catherine Arnold, when she came OF
are-it wants hut very short time Of that
now-would be entitled to the capital Of thr.
tv,four, thousand seven hundred pounds. be-
sueathcd By an uncle, now lodged in tho funds
IN Tho rsnss Of the trustees. Crowther d Jea.