Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-05-04
NUMBER 36.

UNwHoLEsoME CoNTAe1oN-The following
extract from An article in the New York Tribune
sets forth in pretty strong colors the influence
of Congressional extravaganza and prodigahty
on the man who leaves his home with the idea
that eight dollars a day is fine wages. Though
highly colored, there is great deal Of truth in
the paragraph:
"Thc Congressman has bawled himself hoarse
on the stump in behalf of 'retrenchment and re-
form; but he reaches Washington, and secs mil
lions going this way, and other millions that, at
the dash Of the pen; and his eight dollars per
day, which looked so inviting in the prospect,
dwindlc. in full view of these dazzling realities,
into pittance which be would be ashamed to
keep his dog on. So he begins by overcharging
his mileage by some magnificent circumbendibus;
next votes himself cart load of books, which he
often sells at ruinous shave, (but he pockets
the proceeds and Uncle Sam the loss ); and now
he is ready for jobbing in congracts, in claims,
and dabbles in all manner of miscellaneous cor
ruption, whereby the expenditures are swelled,
and the treasury depleted. So up 60 the ap-
preparations to an enormous figure, but nobody
is to blame. Party hacks try to make party
capital out of it, and pot applies uuseemly cpl
thets to kettle: new demagogues contrive to
supplant some of the old Ones and fall to reali-
zing Esop's fable of the fox and the flies; so
nothing of this whitening expose and that trc-
mendous castigation, but infinite confusion,
wrangng, and empty noise; at all events no
retrenchment, but rather increased extravaganza,
waste and speculation.
ANNE BoLEyx.-Henry the Eighth was mar
ried to Anne Boleyn on the 25th of February,
1888, in garret at the western end of the pal
ace at Whitehall. She is described as fair
young creaturc so exq'listely moulded in form
and feature that she enslaved the eyes and un-
derstandings of all she encountered and suchis
the interest with which her memory is still in
vested, that numbers daily visit her chamber at
Hever Castle, near Edinbridge in Kent, Eng
land, and eagerly listen to the romantic tradi-
tions which point out the hill where Henry used
to sound his bugle, when he came to visit her, in
their happy days of courtship, from his palace at
Ethan; and the exact spot in the garden, where,
at the turn of the walk, she suddenly came upon
the king, who was so struck with her wondrous
beauty, with confusion wrought by so unexpec-
ted meeting greatly augmented, that from that
moment he was inspired with the fatal passion
which raised its Unfortunate object to the throne,
but 10 transfer her to the block. The axe with
which the little neck of the cruell sacrificed
queen was served, is still preserved in the Tower,
and shares, with her grave in the chapel, the
melancholy interest which for more than three
hundred years has been associated with her
name 1t is said that during the night which
followed her execution, her body was secretly re-
moved from its grave before the altar in the
Tower Chapel, and buried in the church Of Sale
in Norfolk, where black marble slab is shown
as covering of her remains,