The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1851-01-17


To rise or ingloriously fall. s.
The Clergy of Merico-A pamphlet publish.
ed in Mexico, states that the income of the
clergy of that country amounts to $2O,090,OOO
per annum They are also in possession Of
landed property representing an enormous cap.
ital. The revenues OF the General Govern
ment itself are stated not to exceed $4,000, coo.
An English paper makes the following oh.
eervations: ''lhe United States sends us four
fifths of the raw material, which this immense
population works on, and without which this
immense population seems doomed to be thrown
out of employ. Our supply of cotton from 9th.
er quarters has been steadily decreasing, and
in fact America is substantially the source by
which, and by which alone, our cotton manu-
iacturers can be kept in healthy activity"
Melons in January-On New Years day
the editor of the Alabama State Guard was
presented with large and excellently favored
water melon. weighing twenty-tour pounds,
raised by Mr.. Spigner, twelve miles northeast
ofWetumpka. The seed were planted in July;
the melons matured by the first frost and were
pulled and placed, like potatoes in dry house,
where it is said they will keep all winter. Mir.
Spicner carried number to Wetumpka, OH
Christmas, and sold them fot fair prices.
Damages for killing Mans Wife.-In
the Supreme Court on Saturday, the jury re-
turned verdict in the case Of Ernest Shafinan
and wife VS.. the Boston and Worcester Rail
road Co; and in another action tried simulta-
neously of Ernest Shafnan vs.. the same de-
PENDANTS, for plaintiffs and assessed damages
in the first case Of S2,400; and in the second
$1,000 making $4,000 the legal price Of kill
ing mans wife on the railroad.
OF There are many people who think to
educate child is to crowd into his head u
given amount of knowledge; to teach the me-
chanisn, of reading and writing; to load the
memory with lwords; to prepare boy for the
routine of trade No wonder then that they
consider almost every body fit to teach. The
true end of education is to unfold and direct
our whole nature Alright Its Office is to call
forth powers of thought, affection, will. and
outward actions; power to observe, to reason,
to judge, to conceive; power to adopt good
courses and pursue them efficiently; power to
govern OuiScNSo anu po"ei
to gain and spread happiness. Reading is but
an instrument; education is to teach its proper
use. The intellect was created not to receive
passvely few words, dates and facts but to be
active for the acquisition of truth According.
ly, education should inspire profound love of
truth, and teach the process of investigation
A sound logic, by which we mean the science
of art which instructs us in the laws OF reason.
ing and evidence, in the tfle method OF inquiry.
and in the sources oc false judgment, is an es-
sential part of good education.
Faith and Doubt. Faith in God reflects the
very image Of all the virtues Of heaven upon
the heart, just as the smooth expanse of wa
ters, by reflection, bears the image of surround
ing trees and Of the skies above; but if doubt
is cast into the mind, the image Of God is
broken up, aud all the confusion Of unbelief
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