Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-05-14
A SMALL LOT OF suNpR1Es,

GREAT TIME.-The Express train on the Hudson
River Railroad, which left NewYork yesterday morn
ing at o'clock arrived at the Depot East Albany, at
10 o'clock precisely; making the from 2lst street
with steam, in three hours twenty mnutes.-Alb Ex-
press, 9th.
EXECUTION IN MAssAcHUsErTs.-The Massachusetts,
Legislature have passed bill providing that criminals
under sentence Of death shall be imprisoned hard
labor in the State prison for year previous to their
execution.
ACCIDENT TO Mr.. WEBs1ER-Mr Webster was vic.
lcnty thrown from carriage near Kingston, (Mass.)
the horses having become frightened and running of.
Ho sustained only slight injury.
Two deaf mutes, John c. Acker q printer in the
Office of the Rochester Democrat and Miss Amanda
Ashley married in the sgn.language at Roches-
ter on Sunday last Both parties graduates of the
New-York Institution for the Deafa Dumb.
Since the lst of January 4537o tons Office have been
exported from Boston.
FRUIT TREEs-At Rochester, N. Y, last year the
sales of fruit trees, from the nurseries amounted to
S35O,OOo.
CROPS IN MIDDLE GEoRG1A.-A friend writes US from
Monroe county, that the young cotton, corn and wheat
looking badly for the of the year. The re-
cent cold weather and heavy rains have kept them
back and given them unhealthy appearance.
During the year ending the 1st instant, 7l9 vessels
arrived at Wilmington, n. C.
In Alabama it is an indctabe offence to play cards
in 'publc place" 1t has been decided in late case
that playing in the woods out Of sight of house. and
off The road is not public place."
1t has been proposed to hol convention ofall per-
sons who served any the Of the United States
in Philadelphia, on the third Monday of May.
1t is said that Mr. Stewards sales in New York, dur
ing the year 1851 amounted to the enormous, and al
most incredible of twelve millions Of dollars One
tem that of gloves, put down at six hundred thou
sand dollars
THE RUSH FOR CALIFoRNIA.-The steamship North
ern Light which left New York on Wednesday for Nj
caragua had on board nine hundred and fifty Callfor-
MIA adventures. When she took her departure, her
decks and rigging were crowded with human beings.
AS the Crescent City sailed the same day from New
York for Navy Bay with 500, we have total of ,450
persons leaving single port the Atlantic, in one
day, for the Pacific.
EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN LoUIsIANA-A law has
passed the Louisiana Legislature, and goes into effect
in six months time which prohibits the emancipation
of slaves in that State except upon the express condi
ton that they shall be out Of the United States
within twelve months, and requiring the payment o.
$3.50 to be deposited in the treasury for each slave to
be appropriated in payment of passage to Africa, and
support after arrival.
The General Unitarian Convention assembled on Fri
day afternoon at Cincinnati. The attendance Of dele
gates was very small.
Six patients have been admitted into the Indiana In
sanO Hospital, within the past month"; whose insanity
has been produced by the spirit rappings
The deaths in Washington during the month Of April
were So
The thermometer stood at 81, in Boston, on the 7th
instant.
Two cases of Asatic cholera are said to have
rcd at Cincinnati, of which was fatal
A petition has been presented to the General Confer
ence ofthc NJ. F. Church. praying that the Conference
will require all the editors Of the Methodist papers to
conform to Bible orhography and not to that of NOAH
WEBSTER
Col jeff Davis has eptcd an invitation rendered
him by the two Literary Societies at the State Unver-
sity Oxford Mss to dcvcran address to thcm at the
commencement on the 10th July next.
STIIPwRECK AT SEA.-The barque Oire Branch Capt
Jefferson, with cargo Of teas from Stockholm, has
been totally lost IT, the Gulf Of st. Lawrence. The
captain and passengers have arrived at Quebec.
Dr. III Sr l,I L. -NEo 10