Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1852-01-20

particular mode of Southern resistance has
been set aside as inefficient! Is our work there
fore at an end? Is the Southern spirit therefore
fed We would not yet indulge the dread;sup-
position, and yet, without powerful awakening
the South is gone and her" lovely plains I"
despocd Of all their wealth and beauty. "A
mong others, we have had serious fears that
the sleep of death had we'll nigh taken hold of
our peop Pile. Blu, no! the end of orr struggle for
equal rights is surely not yet arrived. Let US
not suffer ourselves to become callous to our
country's fate however disheartcning the chan
ccs NAV be. Let US endeavor TO keep the
flame Of Southern resistance burning high and
bright. The enemies of our peace and well.
being are even now madly adding fuel to that
fame; and, if we stand firmly at our posts,
it may vet become CONSUMING fire." to the
destruction of all their hellish purposes.
Brethren Of the Press! let us arouse ourselves
once more to the strife. And should South
ern freemen continue blindly to run after their
idols of gold and silver to the utter neglect
of that higher and noblcr work-the work of
Southern deliverance-let us at least be GER
tain that our duty has been faithfully discharg-
ed
Men of Carolina! Let US unite once more
under common banner-let US set an exam
pie of harmony and union to our Southern bro.
Tiers - and let US, while awaiting the time and
occasion for unfurling the Southern flag, keep
Our arms burnised and our ranks in good or
der
Murders by Arsenic in France.-One of the
most extraordinary cases ever brought before
a criminal court has just been tried by the Court
of Asszes of the Illcet-Viaine. The prisoner
was female, named Helene Jagado, who for
several years past has been servent in differ
ent families of the department. She stood al
the bar charged with several thefts committed
in and since the year 1876, and with seven
murders by arsenic in 1854; but the evidence
showed, that although only seven cases had
been selected, as more recent, and therefore
more easy Of proof, not less than forty 'hrce
persons had been poisoned by her with arsenic.
The victims were either her masters or mistres-
ses, or fellow. servants, who had incurred her
hatred. In some cases no motive of interest
or hatred could be asst yned. The prisoner ap-
peared to have been actuated by thirst for
destruction, aud to have taken pleasure in wit
Messing the agonies of her victims, The sud-
dcnncss of the deaths in the families where she
was servant excited the greatest sensation,
but for long time no suspicion rs to the cause
for the nurdress appeared to be very religious;
she attended in many instances with apparent
solicitude on the persons whom she had pois-
oned, and so successful was her Hypocrisy
that even the deaths of the mother and other
relative of phycican in whose family she liv-
ed raised no suspicion of poison in his n1lnd.
The frequency Of deaths, however, in the fam.
lilies by whom she was successfully engaged
excited suspicion among the peasantry that
there was something in her nature fatal to
those who were near her, and it was custom
ary with them to say her liver was white, it
being bciieued in that part OF France that
persons who are dangerous have white livers.
The prisoner herself frequently exclaimed, at
ter the .eath of victim, "How unhappy |
am; wherever go, death follows me-
The cases on which she was brought to trial
were established by the evidence beyond the
possibility Of doubt The prisoner, throughout
the trial, which lasted ten days, constantly de-
clarcd that she was innocent, and seemed to
anticipate an acquiita! Oh account of their be-
ing no proof of her having had arsenic i'll her
possession 1t was proved, however, that in
one of the families in which she WAS q srrvant
some years ago there was large quantity Of
arsenic. which was not locked up, and that 1t
had suddenly disappeared. This arsenic had,
without donbt been taken by the prisoner, and
had served for the commission of the success
sive murders. The only defence set up for
her was founded on chronological principles.
1t was conteuded that the organs of hypocrisy
and Lestructivncss were Developed to a degree
which overpowereI the moral faculties, and
that, although it would be unsafe to leave her
at large, she ought not to be condemned to
capital punishment, the peculiarly of her or
ganza,i"n rendering her rather an object OF
Iity. Til; defence failed entirely; and, the Ju-
~ having delivered a verdict without extenua.
ting circum stances, the court condemned her
to death.
In our statement on Saturday last of the'eX-
tensive dry goods establishment about to be
erected at the corner of King and Market
street, we crroneously mentioned that the land