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Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
Messrs. Walker g. Wardlaw.

We copy tho following notice OF this new Charleston
Firm from the Augusta Consttutonast. Their Card
will be found in our advertising columns to-day.
"The Card of WARDIAw & WALKER, will be found in
our advertising columns and wo take pleasure i'll COM
mending this new Charleston House to the confidence
and patronage of our readers We have long enjoyed
personal acquaintance and friendship with the junior
PARTNER Mr. Golohun Walker, who for many years was
q leading Commission Merchant and Warchouscman
in Hamburg and of moro recent years, in Augusta and
in both cities has amidst every variation of circum
stances enjoyed tho respect and good opinion of both
communities and Of his customers generally. He is q
man of intelligence Of enterprise and industrious bus
ness habits and has through good report and evil re-
port" in prosperity and in difficulty sustained the
character of an honest and honorable man. On his re-
moval to Augusta three years SINCE ho brought with
him large amount OF South Carolina business which
followed him from Hamburg and won to himself many
new patrons in Georgia. Our city patrons, we appre-
hend lose considerable trade by his removal from Au-
gusta, but If it must be drawn from this point there
consolation in believing that it could not SO into the
hands of more clever man.
''Wc have in Augusta as capable, honorable and nc
commodating set Of Warehousemcn and Commission
Merchants any city boast Of yet it is with re-
gret We see such men rs Goothun Walker leaving us.
"We have not thepcasuro ofa personal acquaintance
with his partner, Mr.. W. A. Wardlaw, but we learn
that he is gentleman of intelligence and pure char
,ctorN
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
The Cotton Plant

Is the name of paper, lately started in Wash
ington city, which strcnuousy supports the interests
of the SOUTH and advocates the concentration of south
ern commerce at the port Of Baltimore. We find in it
the following notice of the Commercial Convention to
be held in Baltimore:
"There is to be held, in December next at Balti-
more one of the largest Conventions ever assembled
in the South for the promotion of southern commerce
The most extensive arrangements have been made
1t is contemplated then to adjourn the meeting to
Memphis, then to New Orleans then to Mobile or
Montgomery, then to Macon or Savannah, then to
Charleston, and then to Richmond and so on"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
Indigo.

Indigo and silk, previous to the Revolution, were
two of the principal productions of the Souh these
together with SKINS quercitron bark and various roots
formed the chief articles of export.
The introduction Of Cotton in few years caused
these articles to be laid aside The only place that we
know of where Indigo has continued to be cultivated
up to the present timc is in the District of Orange
burch, S. c. Several thousand pounds are annually
made in this District and carried to Augusta, Column
ba and Charleston. There are two kinds OF Indigo
the tame, and the wild The former requires to be
sown annually the latter once in five or slN years the
wild is the most valuable The season for manutac-
turing commences in June-the weed is cut several
times in the course of the summer but only in the ear
" part of tho day whilo the dew is on. The weed IS
put in a vat and water poured on it here 1t remains
until the coloring matters is extracted; the fud IS
then drawn of into another vat and water strongly
imprecnated with lime, is mixed with it; the whole
being well and frequently stirred or beat up. When
properly Mixed and an appearance Of granting, it is
left to settle The water being off, the sediment IS
taken out and put on frame to drain and before it
becomes hard it is cut into small pieces and placed on
boards to dry when perfectly dried it is broken into
small fragments and ydt into boxes or barrels when it
is ready for market.
Tile weed after the coloring matter is taken from it,
is good manure, for which purpose it is used. **
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
Parental Affection.

Coleridge, we believe is the author of the following
truthful and beautiful sentiment: "Call not that man
wretched who, whatever else he suffers as to pain in
ficted or pleasure denied, has child for whom he
hopes, and on whom he dotes. Poverty may grind
him to the DUST obscurty may cast its darkest mantle
over him. the song of the gay may be far from his own
dwelling, his face may be unknown to his neghbors,
and his voice may be unheeded among those with
whom he dwels,-even pain may rack his joints, and
sleep flee from his pillow; but he has gem with
which he would not part wealth defyng computation,
for fame filling worlds ear, for the luxury Of the high
est wealth. or the sweetest sleep that ever sat upon
mortal's eye"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

The CorToN Observation-Disclosures accounts
received from the South, in relation to the pro-
gress of these destructive animals, confne their
ranges as vet to Beaufort, St. Helena and the
forks of the Congaree. Nothing in relation to
them has been heard of further South, though
we might nationally anticipate, according to the
natural history of the animal established by
modern writers, that their ravages in that quar-
ter, from whence they are said to originate, had
been by this time pretty serious. A letter from
Wilmington Island mentions their presence at
that place, but says nothing of the injury as yet
done. According to Since, it is native OF the
West Indies, waited here by Southern winds
the larva of the Pholane Noctue Gossyp'',
rendered in more common acccptation, the Cot
ton Caterpillar. 1t is supposed, in the winged
state, to deposite its eggs upon the plant, to
which its peculiar instincts direct it in preference
Here they multiply most numerousy, quickly
running through several successive broods, strip
ping entirely at such periods of their prolific de-
telopment, all vestige of foliage from the plant
which it attacks. We have thus seen whole
acres of cotton standing, with scarce one feature
beside the bare stalk left to denote the chracter
of the plant thus rihed. But this depends, in a
great measure, upon the period of their arrival.
As early as July, they have, on some such occa
sions. made their visitatious, when there is but
little prospect of securing aught like one-fourth
of an ordinary crop. The present appearance of
these animals is considered as sufficiently early,
should the season favor their development, to ex-
cite lively fears for the coming harvest. Anoth-
er theory attributes the origin of the caterpillar
to the everglades of Florida-but this we deem
less plausible than the other, and has only origi-
mated, perhaps, upon their more frequent ravages
in that section which, of course by its vicinity
to the West Indies, comes first in the order of
visitation, and supplies the plant to which they
they seem so peculiarly attached.
Southern Standard
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

CoNeREss.-On Tuesday, the Chair laid be-
fore the Senate the following message from the
President:
To the Senate of the United States:
1 have received resolution of your honorable
body, Of the 9Th instant, appearing to have been
adopted in open legislative session, requesting
me to inform the Senate, if not incompatible
with the public interests, whether any PROPOSE
tons have been made by the King of the Sand
wich Islands to transfer the sovereignty of those
islands to the United States, and to commun-
cate to the Senate all official information on that
subject in my possession In reply, also, have
to state that on or about the 18th day Of June
last I received similar resolution from the Sen
ate, adopted in executive session, to which re-
turned an answer, stating that in my opinion
communication of the information requested at
that juncture would not comport with the public
interest. Nothing has since transpired to change
my mind on this subject, and therefore feel con-
strained again to decline giving the information
asked. MILLARD FILLMORE.
Washington, August 13, 1852.
Mr.. Seward submitted the following resolu-
ton, which was laid over:
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be requested to send a Commissioner to
the Sandwich Islands, who shall be instructed to
inquire into the expediency of insttuting nego-
tatons for the acquisition of those Islands to the
United States.
The subject was laid over-Mr. Weller de-
string to discuss it.
On Wednesday, Mr.. Gwin introduced bill
granting land to California to aid in the con-
struction of canal across the Sierra Nevada
Valley.
Mr. Hunter reported back the bill to extend
the warehousing system, by establishing private
bonded warehouses.
The Michigan ship canal bill was passed. The
Senate then on motion of Mr.. Davis, took up
the river and harbor bill.
a bill regulating the payment of the expen-
ses of the Cayuse war in Oregon was taken up
and passed.
The river and harbor bill was then taken up
and debated until the hour of adjournment.
In the House of Representatives the Wheel
ing bridge case was resumed, and debated until
the expiration of the moIning hour The House
then went into Committee of the Whole, and
took up the bill making appropriations for the
Navy
An amendment, proposed by Mr.. Stanton Of
Tenn, increasing the salary of the Navy Agent
at Memphis was adopted.
Mr.. Stanton then submitted the amendment,
to which he spoke yesterday, relative to build
ing ships-of-war, to replace unservceabe vessels.
After some debate the amendment was adopt
ed. The House at o'clock ad djourned without
taking vote on the bill.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

CHERAw AND DARLINGTON RAIL RoAD.-Itis
our pleasure, this week, to make the gratifying
announcement, that the requisite amount Of stock
necessary to secure the charter of the above road
and for the organization Of the Company, has
been subscribed. We look upon this as the most
important event to the people of this section of
country, which has occurred within the recollec-
tion of the "oldest inhabit mt" The upper Pee
Dee country abounds in available resources
which the completion Of this and the Whining
ton and Manchester Rail Road must develope
and make valuable. The securing dfthe charter,
and the organization Of the Company, with the
spirit manifested, we feel an ample guarantee
for the completion of the Road, at the earliest
possible moment. Indeed, 1t only remains for the
stockholders, who are to meet in this place, as will
be seen by reference to the advertisement of the
Commissioners, on the 3lst inst, to elect Board
of Directors imbued with their own spirit, to re-
move all doubt That they will do this, we feel
confidently assured.-Cherao Gazette.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

R1cE.-We learn that the prospect for the
forth coming crop is very good. The Rice plans
tiers are highly favored-their crops are almost
sure-and prices almost always good. The great
consumption of Rice lately in this country, goes,
to prove, we suppose, the palmy state Of pros
perity existing at the North-for there It's used
not as necessary article of food, but as luxu-
ry Our readers noticed in the Republican the
other day the curious fact that Rice had been
shipped from Hamburg back to New York. In
connection with this fact we republish the fol-
extract from the letter of our New York cores
pondent, which appeared yesterday morning
He says:
"Rice is very scarce, and prices have advanced
to S., with very little to be had at that price
I understand one lot Of strictly prime has been
sold at S., 12-12-the highest price attained
since 1s47, when the market was, as now nearly
bare"
A yet further advance is inevitable, we sup
pose as the article is held here at S5.25. 5a
The harvesting Of the new crop will commence
generally in ten days, and in a few instances
perhaps, before.-Sayannah Republican.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

SICKNESS IN THE INTERIOR AND CRoPs.-We
have accounts of serious illness from various parts
of the interior of the State. The seaboard is, we
believe comparatively exempt, as it usually is. In
the up-country, there is much fever of typhoid
type, which, we think, hardly ever appears in
the low country. Generally, it may be said
that there is an unusual degree of sickness from
the Blue Ridge to the Florida line. For instance
accounts have come to us from the Cherokee
from Wilkes, from near Athens and from seve-
raj parts of Middle and Southern Georgia. In
one of the Northern countries, Uincoln,) we
have an account of ten deaths in one household
consisting-of eighteen persons, of typhoid fever.
The rejecting reader will not fail to remark that
with abundant crops in the South, there is sure
to be proportionate amount of sickness. The
meteorological conditions which produce the
most abundant harvests are precisely those
which are accompanied with extraordinary exhi-
hibition of disease.-,Savannah Republican.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

WEBSTER MEETING AT BosroN-The meeting
of the friends of Mr.. Webster, held in Boston,
on Monday evening, resolved to support Webster
and Graham. and not Scott and Graham, as was
inadvertently stated. Mathew Hale Smith, H.,
presided, and committee was appointed to call
a general meeting at Faneuil Hall, to nominate
an electoral ticket. The committee consists of
the Hon. George T. Curtis, S. Kettell, Ii. Wins
low, NJ. II. Nelson, C. A. White, NJ. Fl. Smith,
and F. Wiley. The following resolution was
also adopted:
Resolved That the friends of Daniel Webster,
in convention assembled, in the home of our great
statesman, send greeting to the national Wings
of North Carolina, and purpose to accept their
distinguished son, and offer our own to them,
as fit associate in the coming Presidential cam
paign; and to all the South we say, that as com
promises are the order of the day, we offer to
accept the ticket furnished by the Baltimore Con-
vention, with this compromise, that the name of
Webster be substituted for Scott, they taking
what is due to the South, and we taking what
is due to the North, and with Webster and Gra-
ham we will sweep the land.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
Popular Elections.

The time has at length arrived when the peo-
pie are beginning to disenthral themselves from
the fetters by which they have been bound
Their powers have been cramped-their opn-
ions suppressed until forbearance has ceased to
be virtue. The scales are beginning to drop
from their eyes, and they to see the rights and
privileges enjoyed by the people Of every other
State, are denied to South Carolinians. A gen
eral murmur is rising from one end Of the State
to the ether. The people from the mountains to
the scaboard are expressing their dissatisfaction
with our present system, and demanding, in Pc
remptory tones, such change as will invest them
with all the rights peculiar to .treemen.
An election for President and Vice President
of the United States will be held in November
next, in which, by the existing law of our State,
the people will not be permitted to express any
direct voice. If the Governor shall sec proper
to assemble the Legislature, the vote Of the
State will be cast or thrown away. at the d>ere-
ton of the Legislature elect. The sum of four
or five thousand dollars, and perhaps much more
the trouble and annoyance OF an extra session-
is quite too eXtravagant price to be paid by
the country, in order that the privilege Of elec
ting the high functionaries Of President and
Vice President, privilege now possessed by the
the people Of every other State in the confcdcra-
cy should be reserved to their Legislators and
withheld from themselves. But to say nothing
of the expense to which the State is subjected
by our present mode of voting, and to place it
on higher ground-the exercise of the privilege
of voting for President and Vice President OF the
United States, and Governor of the Statc-is the
right Of and ought to belong to the people, The
people are Immediately interested in the result
Of these elections, and we admit that they have
the capacity to determine as to the fitness of the
candidates for these high posts can express their
own opinions, and cast their own votes more sa-
tisfactorilv to themselves than can be done by
any man or set of men. Let the pcol Ic rise up
in their might and majesty and rc'lli' ii their
legislators to remodel our system, 81 Il - give
them voice, as to who shall be their ruL.r>.
Southern Rights -1Irocae.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

Pn1Losor1N OF MoNEY-An eastern paper
observes that the moment money becomes cheap
up rocs the price of beef and potatoes, so it
makes but very little difference to anybody save
gold diggcrs and borrowers, whether the yield
Of gold mines be one ton ayear or one thousand
tons Since the discovery of the gold in Cali
fornia, interest has fallen some 4Oper cent, while
rents have gone up seventy-tive. The idea that
the quantity of comfort in the world depends
on the quantity of money in it, is therefore, all
moonshinc. Double the present supply of gold
and we would double the price of every article
for which gold is given in exchange--so that it
makes mo difference to nobody" whether half
the mountains in California are composed of pre-
cous metals or not. Things will find their lev
el and if an hours labor in California will pro-
ducc an ounce of gold the time will soon come
when an ounce of gold will be given for an hours
cobbng. The quantity of labor necessary to
produce an article determines its value. Make
gold dust as common gravel, and it would bring
the same price per peck.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24
Georgia Politics.

Two Conventions of the Wing party of Georgia
one Scott and the other antiScott-were held in Ma
con during the past week. The former ratified the
nomination of General Scott by the Wing National
Convention The latter after the adoption of the Wing
platform, nominated the Hon. Daniel Webster for
President and the Hon. Charles j. Jenkins of Gorga,
for Vice President There are now three tickets in
that State for President The presumption is however,
that the State will 90 for Pierce and King.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

\ controversy is now going in on the Catho-
lie journals, as TO whether tallow candles may be
allowed instead of wax in the church ritual. One
of the disputants in the last Freeman's Journals
holds that the poverty of a Church may Justify
it in using tallow candles, provided few wax
ones be used with them; though, this sagacious
writer doubts whether the taow ones receive
any part of the blessing bestowed on them all
together. We wonder how many souls will be
saved or lost, on the settlement of this greasy
question, one way or the other!
Carolina Spartan.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

REMARKABLE PHENoMENoN.-By a statement
of Captain Lunt, of the lightship stationed off
Sandy Hook, it appears probable that the rese-
nue. cutter Taney, which was recently capsized
and sunk in New York harbor, was struck by a
tornado. He says:
aOn the noon of that day, between one and
two o'clock, we experienced very heavy squa
from the n w., attended with thunder, light
ming and hal-the smallest Of the stones as large
as pigeons eggs; but previous to the squalls
striking the ship, he observed a singular appear
ance of something rising suddenly on the shore
like heavy explosion Of gunpowder, it lmmedi
ately took rapid course towards the SSE and
continued to travel with great velocity for about
one mile, when it reached the water and disap-
peared from view.
"My first impression was, that the lightning
had struck and set fire to the bushes but when
l saw it travel with such velocity, carrying las it
must have done) the sand with it, having the
appearance of train of cars with the smoke of
an engine under full speed, or a heavy cloud of
dust driven before fierce wind, there no longer
remained on my mind any doubt Of its being a
tornado. The squall soon after struck the ship
with great fury, and continued to blow for the
space of twenty-five minutes, attended with in
cessant thunder and lightning and hail After
the squall had passed over, the water around us
was literally strewn with newly broken off branch
es and bushes that must have been brought in
the air distance of more than six miles, that
being the nearest that we are to any part of the
shore"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

THE Source OF DIsEAsE.-Dr. Harris states
that the moderate use of spirituous liquors has
destroyed many who were never drunk and DR..
Kirk gives it as his opinion that men who were
never considered Incorporate, by daily drinking
have often shortened life more than twenty years !
and the respectable Use Of this poison kills more
men than even drunkenness. DIR. Wilson gives
it as his opinion, that the use Of spirits in large
cities causes more diseases than confined air. un-
wholesome exhaations, and the combined iniu-
ence of all other evils.
DR.. Cheyne, of Dublin, Ireland, after thirty
years practice and observation, gives it as bis
opinion, that should ten young men begin at
twenty-one years of age to use but one glass or
two,ounccs day and never increase the quantity
nine out of ten would shorten life only five years,
and should there be but four moderate drinkers
to one drunkard, it would in thirty years cut off
in the United States 32, 100000 years of human
life. An aged pysician in Maryland states, that
when the fever breaks out there, the mcn who
do not Use ardent spirits are not half as likely
as other men to have it and if they do have
it they are more than ten times as Likely to
to recover. In the island of Key West, on the
coast of Florida, after great mortality, it was
found that every person who died was in the
habit of using ardent spirits. The quantity used
was afterwards diminished more than nine-tenths,
and the inhabitants became remarkably healthy"
Temperance Advocate.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

mounted and drank. He had not gone far be.
fore he commenced feeling tickling sensation in
his stomach, and on his arrival at home was
quite unwell. Getting worse, a physician was
called in, to whom he stated that he was conf
dent he had swallowed something while drin-
king from the branch which produced his sick
ness. After trying several remedies, a powerful
emetic was administered, when live leech was
thrown up, which the unfortunate man had evil
IDENTIFY swallowed at the branch above mention
ed, it having remained alive in his stomach for
several days. Although relieved from the leech,
he died in day or two afterwards from the in
iuries which it had inflicted Charlottesville JEFF
tersOnidn
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-24

FATAL CAsUALrY.-Mr. John F. Carlisle, of
the firm of Skiddy and Carlisle, merchandise bro
kes, in Wallst. lost his life yesterday afternoon,
at Long Branch, under the following circumstan-
ces: while on the piazza of the hotel, by the sea
shore, information reached him that child was
in imminent danger Of drowning, close by. In
a heated state, lie plunged into the water, swan
to and rescued the child, and bore it into the
shore. 1t was almost Immediately observed that
Mr.. C.'s face was greatly discolored, and that he
was apparentlyin dying state. He expired in
about five minutes-at l-2 o'clock p. m.
1t is supposed the cause Of his death wasa
rush Of blood to the head, resulting from his i'm
mersion in the water in heated state. Mr. G.
was about % years Of age, and universally res
pected. His body was brought to the city this
morning.-Jourmol Of Commerce..