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Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
mr. Ti,rasher's Letter.

We fiud in the New York Herald, the follow
ing letter Of Mr.. Thrasher to Mr. Webster:
MADRID, March %, 1852.
Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary State for
the United States of Amerca.-Sir: In your
despatch of December 18th last, to the Hon. ID.
NJ. Barringer, United States Minister to Spaia as
published in the New York Herald, you are led
into one or two errors, which beg leave to cor
rect.
You say-aIt is much to be regretted that
Mr.. Thrasher has made no communication what
ever to this Department respecting the circum-
stances fh:s case so as to enable us to see what
are the precise grounds of his complaint. y
was arrested at Havana on the 10th day of
October. For,the fist FIVE days my arrest was
merely an honorable detention, but no sooner had
the seni-rnonthly steamers left for the q. States
than was thrown into dungeon ofthe prison.
and thence transferred to one in the Punta Cas-
tie For sixteen days, or until after the next
semi-monthly departure of the steamers, was
kept in, street solitary confinement with utter
deprivation of all communication with the world
During this time it was impossible for me to
transmit any information to the department. :
WhenI was allowed to see my friends, Mr..
Owen, the American Consul, but lately appoint
ed By the existing administration, came to see
me, and assured me that he had laid uy case
fully before the Department of State at Wash
ington. During the time intervening between
this and my subsequent embarkaton for Ceuta,
Mr.. Owen occasionally expressed his great sur
prise that no communication had come from the
Department of State in regard to my case; al
ways assuring me that not only The co@@unica-
tions: made to him, but several that had been
made in my behalf by my friends, had all been
transmitted to the governmenment Of the United
States. Under these circumstances | judged it
superHuous to make direct communication to
the department, as could add nothing to the
information already before it.
You say@If the official account of the Span
ish authorities be correct, Mr. Thrasher appears
to have expatriated himself and to have become,
at least for a time, a subject Of the Crown Of
Spain.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

TIE CROPS IN ANDERSON DISTRICT.-The Anderson
Southern Rights Advocate says that there will be an
immensely large crop of corn raised in that District if
there be any good seasons and that Independent OF
them, the supply will be larger than usual the farm
ers having carried into practice this year. the lesson so
often sounded in their ears plant more corn and less
cotton" Wheat, however, in some parts of the Dis
trct, has been affected by the fly, yet an abundant
harvest is anticipated
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The following beautiful and appropriate ac-G
count of the Huguenots in South Carolina, We
extract from an eloquent sermon, delivered be-
fore the Presbyterian General Assembly now in =
convention at Charleston, by DR.. Humphrey, OF
Louisville, KY, and published in the lsgentng Z
News of the goth inst: 80 &.
"Nearly one hundred and sixty-seyen years
ago, the revocation of the edict of Nantz drove J.
from the kingdom Of France more than five hul=ss
dred thousand Huguenots They. fled tosall the
Protestant States Of Europe, to England, tothe
Cape of Good Hope and to the shores of the
Western Continent. Invited by the genial ci1s
mate of the South to the infant colony of Caro- !:
lima, large numbers Of these exiled people of God
found rest, some on the borders of the Santee
and Others on the banks of the Cooper rver.ss
The latter company built their house Of worship
in little village few miles distant called Char
lesion. Thither on the Lords day, they were borne
on the bosom of the River, by the gentle flow
of its waters, or the motion of the oar, orlsthe
ebbing of the tide. In their forest homes, and
in their humble sanctuary, they wept for JOY as I
the voice of their supplications, and thenieiody
Of their songs rising upon the tranquil and frag5
rant air. stood contrasted with the carnage asd
terror from which they had fled. This IS the an
cient Carolina This, too, is Charleston. Near
us is the site of their first house Of prayer. Yon-
der is the Cooper river There are the fields in
which they set up their dwellings and domestic
atars. There the rich and odorous vegeta-5.
ton of the early summer repeats for us the life
it lived for them. Around us lies their dust,
awaiting the resurrection to meet their kindred
dust as that too shall rise from the graves of
murdered saints beyond the seas. &s
"Here, in this presence, are their children:
The blood which moistened the beautiful valley
of Languedoc and Tours, which stained the wa
ters of every river, and the pavenents Of every 1
city, from the English channel to the Medterra-
mean, now runs in the veius of those with whom
we worship God this morning With what
unanimity these adhere to that ancient faith, a
stranger may not presume to inquire. But they
are our witnesses, this day, that in faith, order
and worship, our church is isidentical with their
own ancestral church IN its pure and heroic day.
Not these alone, for here are they also, whose
fathers brought hithet generations ago, the living
and fruit bearing stock of Presby teranisn. Let
these, our own brethren, partakers with us Of the
root and fatness of the olive tree and let beliey-
ers of every name, and they who believe not, dis
cover in our proceedings and in us, no spirit of
contention, or uncharitabeness or evil speaking.
May they see nothing in this august council, but
pious zeal for the theology, the spirituality and
the extension of the church, and for the glory
Of its eternal King"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Idle Jesting.

Among the seems of Thought" usually contained in
that excellent paper Arthurs Home Gazette, we find
the following which is true every word of it: "Thou
canst not joke enemy into friend but thou mayest
friend into au enemy" What n common and idle
practice is joking, and when pertinaciousy followed,
how productive it may be of ham An idle jest may
be the cause of infinite evil We should be cautious,
lest by thoughtless and unknd alusion, we may. un-
Intentionally ALLEVIATE the feelings of those whosefrend
ship is worth having We not Of that class ofstck
lers whose straight laced notions Of proprety will not
allow them to deviate hars-breadth from the most
exact and scrupuous particularty who measure each
word with as much nicely as Doctor is required to
apportion each ingredient of his prescription; with
such we have no community of feeling Our motto is
"laugh and grow fat ifyou can enjoy the goodthngs
of life as reasonable and intelligent beug-not how
ever at the expense Of ones best friends for this is un-
kind; to say the least of it unchartable. The sncer-
ty Of any mans friendship may well be questioned
who habtually INDUCES passion for fn without
gard the feelings of others. With some it passion,
and we have charity enough to suppose that good
okers do not often give offence designcdly. II is safe
rule not to jest with those who not in the habit of
recprocating whose peculiar temperament are not Of
an accommodating turn. With such it is an easy mat
ter to joke friend into an enemy. AS gcncralthing
ospeycr seen or heard ofgood resulting from pro-
P5oalng HaiN,=is I9nt to come out of il, and
than one occasion have we seen tho evil Of the
Better to talk little than too much-it is
Say what we have not said but difficult to un-
hat we have done. Let our minds be occupied
With something useful and good
"Time was given for use, not waste"
md surely it is sinful waste to spend the golden
nents of brief existence upon trhcs as light air
"Ie sins against this life, who sights the next"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

A DREAM REALzED.-Some time during the
past summer, a stranger stopped at one of the
watering places on the mountains south of
Waynssboro' Pennsylvania. After his arrival
there he was taken sick, and for several days
was apparently deranged. On his recovery he
informed the proprietor of the house that, ldu-
ring his illness, he had dreamed for three nights
in succession that he had discovered at certain
distance in the mountain, under rock, an earth
en- crock, containing large amount of silver.
At this the worthy host expressed surprise, and
spoke of it as mysterious dream.
Afterwards, however, they were walking to-
gether in that direction, when the dream was
again adverted to by the stranger, and the pro-
pretor at once proposed an examination to sat-
isfy their curiosity. The rock was soonfound and
after carefully brushing the leaves away, it was
removed, and to their utter astonishnlent there
sat crock full of silver. They took it out and
conveyed it to the house, and on examination
it was found to contain S4oo, all in half dollars,
which was divided equally between them.
The day after this discovery, the stranger was
about to take leave of the mountain, and COM
planned to his friend, the proprietor fthe springs
of the inconvenience of carrying the silver, when
an exchange was proposed and made, the stran-
ger receiving bankablc paper for his silver. 1t
was not long after his departure, .owever, that
the proprietor made another discovery--his four
hundred dollars in silver was counterfeit, and he
had thus been jngenuoasly swindled out of two. !.
hundred dollars.-Norwieh Courier.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The authorities neglected TO inform you that
on the sth OF September, 1850, in communi-
cation to the Captain General of Cuba, Iexpress-
ly and unequivocally refused to take out letters
Of naturalization, and thus become a subject Of
the crown Of Spain.
l embrace the present opportunity to transmit
to you copy of letter addressed by me to
Gen. Concha, upon the subject.of domiciliation
in Cuba, and the trial of American citizens by
the permanent military commission of that coun-
try.
l submit to you, with much difidence the ar
cuments it contains, and not as my own views
only. but as those of some of the first legal at
tainments in Spain. Whether you will find
them Of sufficient weight to induce you to rnodi-
fy any of the opinions expressed in your letter
Of the 23d Of December last to the President, |
know not, but sit is to be hoped they may have
some weight with the present rulers Of Cuba.
The world now knows what Il disorted and
unwarrantcd Interpretation WAS given by the
Spanish government, both here and III Cuba, to
the unfortunate wording ofthe Presidential proc
lamations, in regard to expeditions, and YOU are
we'll aware of the extraordinary pretcnsions that
have since been made by the Spanish Ministers
in relation to the right of capture on the high
seas wide Contoy,) and in subsequent questions
that have since been resuscitated between the two
governments.
These facts, and the known disposition of the
government of Cuba towards American citizens
in general, lead me to anticipate the most disas-
trous consequences from the unwarrantable in
depreciation it may give to your letter.
If the government of Cuba was one admins
tered in accordance with statute and justice-if
the law were respected by its ministers-or even
the executive power there, absolute as it Is, were
guided in its action by any fixed principles-I am
we'll aware there is nothing in that letter which
would endanger the person or property of sim
gle American citizen. But while such is not the
case-while not only existing laws arc disregar
ded but new ones arc continually "decreed" by
the arbitrary will of one man, as circumstances
may seem to require-while the ministers Of JUS
tice and the administrators of executive power
seem animated solely by one idea, that war of
races exists-vhat interpretations and what ac-
ton therein may we yet dread?
To prove to You that do not speak from per-
sonal feeling alone, will cite a well known fact
in the history of that same permanent execu-
tive military commission, which claims ju-
risdiction over all Americans in Cuba. | will
only premise that in ITS, torture was declared
by Charles III, to be "barbarous and infamous" !"
and was expressly prohibited in Spanish tribu-
mails and that when the Inqu sition fell before
the decree of the famous Corteg, of Cadiz, in
1912, that last relic of the barbarous ages disap
pcarcd, even from the ecclesiastical tribunals Of
Spain.
In lS44-5, in the trials during the execrated
invention Of "black c0nsffiracy," hundreds Of
negroes died under the lash, tied 80 ladders, by
order Of the permanent executive military CORY
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Letter of Mr.. E. Bellinger, Jr.

We have received Mr. BELLINGERs letter to the Poo
pie of BarnwcI in relation to the action Of the Convcn
tion Mr.. DELLNGEI asks:
"What did the Convention not do? What has the
State gained?" "For myself" he says II am not only
perfectly satisfied, but proud Of the result"
We regret that We have not space for all OF his letter.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Crops, &c.

We have been informed by gentleman, who has
recently passed through several of the lower Districts
Of this State, embracing Williamsburg Sumter, &C., that
the crops are looking WE'LL not remarkably large for the
season, but especially seems to be in healthy
Md fourshng condition. Corn and oats in this vcin-
ty So far as we have seen, are looking WE'LL giving us
strong hopes of abundant yield in the grain crcpS
the present year.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY AND FEcUNDI-
rY.-A Canada paper records the death of Mr.
Charles Boucher, of Berthier, at thc advanced
age of l0e. He was married to three wives, by
whom he. had 90 children. Heleaves todeplore
his loss 43 children, 66 grandchildren, Is great
grand children, % nephews, 70 grand-nephews
and 10 great grand-uephews.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

VIM. Johnson Secretary Of the Vigilance Committee
of the Ant-slavery Society, convicted in New York
of passing counterfeit con has been senencedt to hard
labor for three years in The STATES prison.
Brass bedsteads are getting quito into vogue at
Birmingham they have large orders for this branch of
brass foundery
The Rev. G. E. Cunningham, a missionary OF the NJ.
E. Church South, recently sailed from New York to
Shanghai.
The steamer Pampero, of well.kuowu fame in the
last Cuban invasion, is now in the harbor Of Baltimore
undergoing very material improvements preparatory to
taking her place in the regular line between New Or
leans and the Nicaragua route 10 California.
The Washington Republic states that the Office of
Second Assistant Postmaster General has been filed
temorarily, by the appointment OF William H. Dundas
gentleman long connected with that department.
The tolls on the New York Canals have largely de-
creased this in comparison with the lass year. There
had been twenty-five days Of navigation on the 18th
ult when the amount collected was S30a0s9. at the
same time last year, there had been thirty days Of nav
-rat9p-,and tie tolls amounted tc-
The Methodist General Conference now in session in
Boston, has passed resolution declaring that
al Conference is not competent to censure its members
for joining secret societies.
Several Jumps of gold have been discovered at Min
eral Point, Wisconsin.
Tho monument to Pulaski, at Savannah, will cost
SIS, 900, aud is to be promptly executed.
The U s fiigatc Mississippi the flag ship of the Ja-
pan expedition in company with the L. S. steam frig-
ate Princeton also of the Expedition arrived below
Baltimore Tuesday evening for the purpose OF re-
ceiyng her machinery constructed at MuTy & Hazln-
hurst's Vulcan Works at that place. She will be de-
tancd there some eight weeks in receiving her ma
chincry.
The Trustees Of the Bank of the United States un-
der an assignment to secure the note and deposits OF
the Bank, give notice that they prepared to pay
dvidendo the claims established against their trust
in pursuance of final decree Of the Court Of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia county, on presentation Of the
proper vouchers
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The New York Evening Post says that moth
ing has been heard lately Of the project to erect
Long Island into State, and the aspirations of
the Brooklyn people to become governors, sena-
tors, &c, are probably extinguished but it is now
rumored that the Roman Catholic Council at
Baltimore resolved to petition the Pope to make
Long Island an independent diocese.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

in question and know him to be agentieman'in every
respect and far too elevated in his character as SUCH
to deal in "querulous and illiberal complaints lie
is one for whom we at all times prepared to vouc
either in the Division Room or out oft.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OUT OF On;
DER-ITs CoSDUcroR CONDUCTED TO THE STATE
PR1soN.-The conviction and sentence Of 5Em.s
johnson, Secretary of the Vigilance Committee
of tie AntiSlavery Society, to the State Prison
for three years. for passing counterfeit money,
shows how dangerous it is to tamper with moral
pruciplcsT and how intimate is the relation be-.
tween thesdifferent forms Of vice. By the prac-
tce of aiding and abetting the escape Of slaves
from theifmasters, contrary to the spirit Of the.
Constitution and laws, he learned to think light
ly Of civil obligations, and thus was prepared to
transgress the laws in different way. How.
many slaves have been spirited away By means
of counterfeit money, we have no means Of know
ing. And vet Johnson, while concerned in this
netarious business, doubtless persuaded himself
that he was doing God service. We hope the
sad fate of Johnson will be warning to the.
other members of the Vigilance Committee, and,
to Abolitionists generally. Sc
NJ 2. Journal Of Commerce. g
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Democratic Review.

The April number has been received. 1T contains
portrait of Hon. EDWARD C. MARSHALL, of California.
The Review is down upon "Old Fogyism" like thou
sand of brick and such old stagers as Gen. Cass have
no showing at all.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
FFomas Albany {Ga) Patriot. "
The Tendency OF the Government

FTonttae Aaoday Gd.) .fuafos-
The Tendency OF the Government.
Every friend of his country who has watched
the course of the Government of the Union must
dcplore its rapid downward tendency to consoll-
dation Let an unsophsticated man read the
Constitution Of the United States, and then ex-
anime the operations of the Government as IL IS
now carried on in allits departments III docp'-
full if he would recognize that Government as the
one intended to be established oy 'h;'V co,iSti'u
ton. The simplicity, economy anu "isuoil' u
the one, would contrast strangely WIN .ne
growing compexty, extravaganza, ana sovereign
pretensons OF the other lie "'aio io,'A III VAN
in the; Constitution Tor powers wi'nh nave %%' e.
assumed ahd eSeFcisea q LIE tHeeo'I'e ana 's
ting railroads e!eaahS rivers 'egi9'a'i"s ''f OF
against particular classes OF ''io"S''Y' T''",','e
donations, creating ofiees not contemplated py
the Constitution, purchasing political PartlsaLs
by tat jobs, prolonging the session OIL congress
at the expense OF the Treasury for partisan or
personal ends &c. &c These are violations OF
the letter and spirit of the constitution Again.
every power granted IN the constitution IS made
the pretext TOR the exercise OF other ana unne
cessary powers. As an instance, take that clause
OF the lst ART. "a. sec. OF the CONSTITUTION =
winch provides tor numbering the 1hhaoltahts ol
each State-tor the purpose OF ascertalmnS the
number of Representatives to which they are en-
titled. .eThe actual enumeration Tot the inha-
bitants, shall be made within three years after
the lst meeting OF the Congress OF the United
States and within every subsequent term OF ten
years, in such rnanaer as they shall by law dl-
rect" Who could have supposed "hen TINS
Simple and necessary canSe was adopted lhat
power you'd ever be claimed under it to collect
statistical information concerning all the indus
trial affairs ofthe people, and to manufacture
books, the printing oifwhich will cost near mil
lion ofdollars; yet such the fact and sotis with
otner powers-the simple original is nearly lost
in the mass of new powers which are the offspring
of forced construction and unwise precedent.
But we need not paticularse; every one will
acknowledge that the Government is rapidly in
creasing its powers by absorption from the legit-
innate rights Of the State and people: 1t is not
surprising that an annual revenue OF more than
fifty millions OF dollars, expended as 1t now IS
at the discretion OF the President or OF Congress-
without regard to the strict provisions OF the
constitution, should assemble the selhshly ano-
tions by the corrupt of all parties who would
sell their country or their souls for place and
power, which would bring them money Or polti
cal distinction. 1t is net strange that such men
are constantly engaged IN the effort TO tost men
INTO power who oeheVe that the constitution can
oe stre'caeo nke lnola neooer 20 ineel tutit - s,
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Col. Thomas J. Ancrum.

We see by the last Palmetto Standard that Colonel
ANCRUM has been nominated by "Chester Squadron
of Cavalry" for the Office of Brgader General, in
place of Gen. OWENS, who it is said has, or intends to
resign.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

NUNS AND PRIEsrs.-Among the passengers
who arrived at New Orleans on the 18th instant
in the the French ship Belle Assize from Havre
there were twelve nuns and twenty-seven Catho.
lie priests. Their destination is Texas and Mis-.
souri,.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01
Agricultural Publications.

THE FARlER AND PLANTER, for June has been re-
ceived. Published at Pendeton S. c.. at one dollar
per aunum
The SOUTHERN CULTvAToR, for June, is also Apon
our table 1t is published at Augusta Geo. at one dol
lar per annum.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The Paducah Democrat thus details q few in
cidents in the life of fast man of the present
day and generation. DR.. Hayne, the notorious
swindler and bigamist, ran off from New Orleans
on the 29th of February last, arrived at Cincin-
natl on The 10th. of March, married Mrs. Howe
,-s=.4e st -latileesas on tLa lsth.sna. -
iting St. Louis, Nashville, and other places, arr
we'd at Paducah on thetsd of April, coprted and
engaged himself on the 4th and 5th was mar
ried on the 18th, left here on the 4th, was ar;
rested at Clarkesyille, on the 18th, brought back
on the 10th, was put on his trial on the 2 7th,ss
found guilty on the 2sth, sentenced onsthe first
Of May, started to the Penitentiafy on the q, {.
reached there on the 4th, and was put to spin
ming hemp on the 5th., Thus in % days he mar
ricd two wives, travelled some 1 $50 miles, told
1000 lies, and in 20 days more was arrested,
tried, convicted, and lodged in the State prison..
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

Our Cotton Market continues firm at Fridays quota
tions-7 l.2 to 10. -
Charleston quotations s 1-2 to l0l-4.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-01

The heirs of Lord Dillon, lately deceased in Ireland,
of whom the great dealer in Sarsaparila, DR.. John
Bull of Louisville is one by marriage inherit estate
of ST. 100000 Tho share Of the Doctor is said to be
from three 10 four hundred thousand dollars