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The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-08-23
Fhr the Camden Journal.
Public Meeting.

In accordance with previous appointment at
Il meeting held at 1ilicr's Church on Saturday
the I'd OF July, a number of the citizens OF
KcrShaw District, assembled ut Pleasant Hill
Church, Oh the 18th inst. for the purpose of cleo,
ting Delegates to the general Convention to be
held at lIIIcr's Church On the I'd Monday in
September next, to express the sentiments Of the
pco lie on the propriety Or non propriety Of the
new District measure.
On motion, Maj. /. f. Ti!ler, was called to the
Chair, and &. Mehinnon WIS requested to act as
Secretary.
The Chairman then set forth the object of the
meeting. and stated the advantages that would
likely accrue to the people within the boundaries
Of the proposed District, should the project be
successful, and also to the entire up country, BY
placing us nearer on an equality to the low coun-
try in point Of strength in the Legislative body
of the State. The Chairman then announced
that if any one present desired to make known
his tcnets OH the subject, he was at liberty.
Whcrcuron, the following gentlemen: }. r.
Shaw, J. w. Ba>kin, Daniel Bethune and S. L.
Nurchison, discussed the question with ,onsidcra-
hlr warmth-thc two former in favor of, the
two latter i'll opposition to the measure.
On motion of }. W. Baskin, it wis moved
and seconded, that seven delegates be appointed.
1t was moved and seconded. that committee
of three be appointed to chose said Delegates,
all of which was adopted.
The following gentlemen were elected dele
gates: Capt. W. Mung", Capt J. d. Young,
Erwin Railey, Capt. W. Kelley, Maj. Z. Z. Iillcr,
Tobias Folsom Esq, Col. VIM McSween.
On motion it WAS moved and adopted that
j. X. Shaw, and J. w. Ba>kip, be supcradded to
the above list of delegates.
On motion Of J. II. Shaw, it was moved and
seconded that each delegate ascertain whether
or not the proposed boundaries meet the aprro.
baton Of the people in his section, previous to
the general Convention.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
f. f. TiLLER. Chairman.
c. McNIsHoH, Secretary
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ABOLITION PAMPHLETs.-We have received
through the Post Office paper addressed to
Congress, praying that no State, hereafter shall
be admitted into the Union without some pro.
vision for the emancipation Of all slaves with
in their limits. From its having been sent to
us, and to papers in Savannah, it is to be pre-.
sumed that it is distributed through the coun.
try f"r signatures, and although no harm can
come from its being sent among US, We are
compelled to say we regret to see it. 1t is
further evidence of the ceascless efforts which
are made to wear away our institutions, and of
how hyd headed in nature, aud Protean in
shape is the sentiment which opposes us; and
we feel assured, that in some form or other, it
will glide about us, until we will loathe The
Union, by whose ligaments we are bound 10
Such association. Ii we do set upon maga-
zine Of our own construction, it is hard that we
are to set from age to aye in constant watch.
fu|ness against the approach of those who seek
to fire it. They are shameless wretches, it is
true many Of them are insane; but no rnatter,
it were As bad TO be hoisted by one of these
as by men of the hest possible intelligence
The predcament is an unpleasant one, and
without attaching undue Importance to this
particular proceeding, we are constrained to
say We are tired Of it.-SJuMern Standard.
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Such conclusion thatto which our sagacious OBJ
iectors have arrived could only have been jumped al
by those whose prolific imaginations, with little
stretching might twist garbcd extract in their favor
The forced construction which the Carolnian and its
"wel Informed" coadntor attempts to fsten upon
article is unjust perversion OF its spirit and fact
We still maintain that the President Of Railroad
might very well knoW how to run an engine, 'act us
fireman." or 'grease the wheels" without serious in.
jury to his character or dcrogaon from the exalted
position to which he may have been called.
We want the knoaging ones. as well as all garbling
apoogsts to tell what valid objection there is to
our article. We do not particularly who diskes
it, and we presume the edtor-no matter how ''wcll
Informed" he is-who undertakes please every body
will find IN the long run endless race
For the present we leave this discussion, hoping
that the next time the Carolinian and "Justice" feel
disposed to indulge their shreVd suspicious they will
be at least wel informed before they attempt to en-
tighten and amuse the public or crcise others. We
close, not desiring further reputation as
Snapper up OF nconsiderable trifes"
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An ExTRAoRDlNARY FAM1LY.-Some thirty
years since there lived in Montpelier, VT, a
family of the following descriptions: The hus,
band and wife; son aud his wife; the hus.
band ard his eight chdren-fve SONS and three
daughtels-the husbands father and mother
The ages Of the four patrlarchs average over
eighty years each-total age of the grand pa.
rents, three hundred and twenty-five All the
members Of this family sat together at the same
table and worshipped at the same altar. Its
head was one OF The officers of the town at its
organization, in March, 1901, and is now living
at the advanced aye Of 80 in October next;
and SO vigorous in mental and physical power
as to labor daily in his fine fruit nursery, and
travel, on foot, twice in the week, mile or
more, to attend meetings for religious worship.
We doubt whether parallel to this extraor
dinary and prosperous family can be found in
the Union. 1t is the family of the venerable
Clatk Stevens, a member and minister of the
Society Of Friends Vermont Hatchman.
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ACCIDENT FROM FLUID ExrLo>1oH.-Mrs.
Thankful p. Patridge WAS very seriously burned
by an explosion Of burning fluid on Wednes-
day night immediately preceding the sad ac.
ciden,, she was arranging to fill a lamp, having
fluid for that purpose exposed in an open can
T" aid her in this operation, she was about
lighting another lamp, having struck Il match
for that purpose. At this moment the expo.
sion occurred, precisely by what means the
unfriunate lady cannot determine, ST. great
WAS her terror. She was instantly enveIoped
in flames. Her screams called some members
of the family to her assistance, who only saved
her life by instantly stripping The blazing gar
mcntS from h"r b'dy. OF the recovery of
Mrs. Partridge some doubts are entertained.
Portland IdOertiser.
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For the Camden Journal
The Express Companies and Rail
Road Companies.

When the Rail Road agents were along the
line, procuring the right of way for the road,
many fine promises were made TO the people,
and this and that accommodation WAS promis-
ed as an nducemert f'r them TO grant free
passage through their lands. How far these
promises have been. fulfilled vii! not say-the
public know. a few months back, the com.
pany would carry small packages in the pas
scnger trains for twenty-five cents; lately II
difcent arrangement has been made and
now they have, what they call an express agent,
who takes charge of these small packages, for
which We are now required to pay fifty cents;
twenty five goes to the company as formerly,
and twenty-five to the express agent, rs We are
informed. These parcels 90 no quicker now
than they did f'melly, neither are they de.
livercd any more promptly. The conductor,
or whoever formerly attended to it, could do
it as well now; but the people are subjected
10 this dunble lax that some yankee, or ether
concern, may reap the profit. In old times,
this would have been called downright impo.
sition upon the public, VIII" cannot see how
they are benefited by paying an Express com
rany fifty cents. for doing what the X. K. Co.
formerly did for half the money. suppose
this is called uccommodoHon-uho it accom-.
modatrs amy one can tell.
The public did not ak for this change
which they consider an imposiiion and which
Jcprivcs many IL une Of the satisfaction of send.
ing friend y small quantity of fruit in its SEA.
sou, or some other articles which might crafty
themselves and be favor to others. II.
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Well Said.

The Tammany Society of New. York celeLra-
ted the Fourth in Il handsome manner, and re-
ccived many letters from invited guests who
could not attend. Among them we find one
from Charles j.. lnscr>ol, of Philadelphia, from
which we make an extract. In referring to the
distinguished Englishmcn who have come over
10 this country to attenl the Worlds Fair he
says:
English nob:emcn, like the Earl Of Durham
and the Earl Of Eilesmcrc, are among the most
useful surveyors this democratic country can
have. They look beyond the mere resources of
is people and vice of its cities into the vast asri-
cul urAl aud planting developments of its free
institutions, and controvert the silly dispara C.
ment Of less educated tourists.
The earl of Ellesncrc is nearly connected with
the Duchess of Sutherland, whom lie may in
form that rs freedoms is the fu'crum, slavery has
ben the lever, Of that prudgious national az.
grandizement by which the American colonies
in half century have changed places with their
mother country, extending Bnrkcs fine fancy Of
the daughter near sixty to her also clothing her
parent.
BY means of these American pacifcator<, our
British kindred, instead of hating and abusing
us, have become our friends, admirers, auG what
blood relations should be; and that is all the
founders Of democracy, Jefferson and jackson,
asked for and fought for. When Great Britain,
by her government, literature, society, and sci
ence, treats us kindly, our Declaration Of Inde-
pendence declares that we are friends.
1t is to be hoped that Lord Ellesmere will cx-
plain to the Duchess Of Sutherland, aud her
melllesome camarillas, that their extravagant
applause-of gross misrepresentation of Amcri-
can slavery will have no other effect than to
deaden if not defeat the growing alnity between
her country aud ours.
Rctrainlng from hard terms applied to these
misc!'ievons ladies, we might retort that every
negro slaves dog is better fed, housed, nursed,
and taken care Of than many of those called
t"nantry in Scotland, Ireland and Eagland.
And Lords ShaltesLury, Carlisle and other no
blemen may learn that there is better right
and reason for aSSang the inherited institutions
Of their privileges than the inherited institutions
of African slavery in this republic. Slavery is
by far the most ancient and extensive of the
two institutions, and if there be anything in the
unennoblcd wisdom Of ancient Greece and Rome,
aud modern France, and this country, which
have nterdictcd nobility, it is more irrational and
injurious than slavery.
am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your hum
bic servant c. J. INGERSOLL.
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clad in an old mourning dress, aud leading by
the hand small hoy, ten or twelve years of
age. They were all that were left ofa family,
which, last week, numbered some half a dozen
members; this was their father, and they were
accompany ing him to the grave!
Poor creatures they were inconsolable, and
all we could say to diSsuade them from their
weary journey Of more than two miles, through
the hot sun, to the Lafayette cemetery only
ELECTED the plaintive cry: Mon pauvre pere !
mon pauvre PEREZ" They were immigrants,
who had arrived but a few mouths ago from
France.
Such incidents, and others equally distress
ing, met our eye in every direction. They
proclaimed what alas is too apparent in a
hundred other forms, that New Orleans is now
grooming under one of the most awful pes,:-
lences that ever scourged a community.
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ALL BURIED.-We learned last cvcnir

ALL BuRIED.-We learned last evening that
sufficient number Of men had been employ.
ed during the day, to get all the bodies in all
the cemeteries under ground. For several
days previous bodies had been accommodating
at SO rapid rate, that graves could not be fur
nShed for them at nghtIaII, and until the next
morning they remained by dozens in the grave
yards, unburied, tainting the air forrods around
with pe>tilential odors On Sunday evening
the number of the unburied was greater than
ever, though the chain gang had blen employ
ed during the day in the digging Of graves
Five dollars per hour was offered, but even at
that rate men could not be employed; for the
swollen dead were bursting their coffin lids,
and the strnch was sickening in the extreme
1t is, moreover, a common complaint that the
graves are not dug anything like the required
depth, and that the thin earthen covering is not
sufficient to prevent the escape of foul gases
from the decompQsing dead. .
New Orleans Delm.
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A letter from California relates many pecu.

A letter from California relates many pecu.
liar sights incidents, one of which is about Il
rich young man having to turn washerw"man.
Il have met Young man who at home moved
in the best ciIcles of society, and is a gentle.
n'an every inch of him, falling to make any
thing i'll the mimes went into a certain town,
and actually took in washing, and clcansed
for his bread. the filthy garments of those who
at home, he would not acknowledge as acquan-
tances. 1t was rather an amusing sight to see
him at the wa,h tub, soaking and scrubbinp the
dirty linen OF his nolIey patrons, swearing at
his folly aud upbraidins his luck"
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Documentary History.

We acknowledge the receipt from, the accomplished
Editor DR.. R. W. G1BBEs, Of copy OF the Document
airy History ofthe American Revolution, consisting
Letters and Papers relating to the contest for Liberty
chiefly in South Carolina in 1881 and 1882, from ORR
ginals in the possession Of the editor and from other
sources.
We are quite obliged to DR.. GIBBEs for this volume
and take pleasure i'll recommending it to those who
have relish for byc-gones. Price in paper one dol.
lar; in cloth, one dollar and twenty-five cents.
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The NEXT SPEAKER OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPKEsEETATIyEs.-Th There is an on
dit current, that the Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, during the last Congress, the
Hon. Linn Boyd, will not be ,henored with the
suhrages Of his party friends in the coming Con-
grcss. A lower seat in that political synagogue
will be assigned toa veteran Democrat. Tie gea-
tlenan spoken of to preside with ability, Impair
tiality a"d dignity, is the young, gifted, and el.
oquent Representative from the Ashland district,
III Kentuckry, the Hon. John C. Breckenridge.
Mr.. Bro ckrnridge is an esteemed member, .popu-
lar with the members OF both the great parties,
and, beyond doubt, would make most accepta.
Lle Presiding officer.
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TuE YEAR OF PrsrJLEHcE.-Fur year past
the yellow fever has been raging with great
virulence on The coast of South America and
in number OF the West India Islands. At
the island of llayti probably no: less than one
hundred American officers, and Seamen have
died, besides large number of the inhabitants.
At jamaica, Demerara, Antigua. DC, it has
been very fatal. The West India English feet
has lost many seamcn and several valuable
officers of the disorder In one case a British
steamer lost seventy five men. In Cuba the
cholera aud yellow fever together have carried
off thousands. On the coast of South Ameri-
ca, Rio Janeiro has been visited, the British
cousul, ameng others, falling victim to the
dreadful disorder. At Baliia also it has been
quite fatal; and at last it h,s reached New Or.
leans, and already carried off nearly us many
victims as during the visitation of lS47, though
perhaps fewer persons of emnence.
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THE EPIDEMIc:-The list of the interments
for the past week is the best evidence one can
offer of the terrible mortality of the fever. The
whole number Of deaths may be, stated, in
round numbers, at l,50n, and the interments
from yellow fever, including over a hundred re-
ported as unknown" exceeded 1850. The
preceding week was not as fatal. The: total
number of nterments was l,l34, and the
deaf by fever barely thousand, there has
therefore been an increase of about $50 in the
whole nunlber.of deaths, and ofneurly the same
amount in those caused by the fever.-New
Orleans Bee, 18th inst
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The New York Evening Post says: at is
clear that the greatest dangers which we have
to apprehcnd for the next four years lie in the
path of our domestic policy. We have too much
money III the treasury; our tariff is producing a
larger revenue than we know what to do with.
The principal business Of the next Congress will
be to devise ways of spending it, and the capitol
will be surrounded by swarns Of patriots anxious
to serve their country and relieve the treasury,
each with a plausible scheme OF plumber. There
is danger that Congress, in its attention to plans
of expense, will overlook the proper remedy for
the c'ssc, "A revision of the tariff, and a dimnu-
ton of the too abundant sources of income"
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TREMENDOUS THUNDER SrosM.-A telegraph
ic despatch, dated Boston, 18th inst mentions
that terrible thunder storm occurred in that
city on the previous evenin,;. At Georgetown,
says the despatch, the Baptist parsonage house
was struck and the wife of the Rev. Mr. Russell,
the pastor instantly killed. Strange to say, a
child in her arms escaped injury. At Groveland
the house of VIM. Fowler was struck, and him.
self and wife knocked down scnscless. A barn
was struck at ByfcIl and destroyed. Another
barn was also struck at Andovcr and burnt
Several houses at Lowell, Lawrence, iIaverhiII,
&c were struck and persons injured.
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We witnessed a very affecting sight yester.
day. A girl was about crossing Mervin street
bridge with wagon containing what casual
observer would suppose to be u child-a neat
little eounterrane folded dclcately down from
the neck" of the innocent, and lis face con-
ccaled by blue veil. 1t was theme that
might have called forth n,yst eloquent out.
burst from the warm heart Of {" Fanny Fern
Presently, however, in ascending The bridge,
the vehicle upset, and out rolled tile precious
contents, in the shape of--not "baby.,' gentle
reader, but a well filed wBIsKEr JUG which
was dashed to pieces against stone. The
grief Of The "ofd folks at hume" for the loss of
the "dear crathur," whose "sprit" thus uncere.
moniousy took its fight, was, no doubt uncon.
troIable.-C Cleveland True Democrat
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A New INvENTIoN.-A Bostonan has invented
"chronometrca lock-" which fixed to door cannot
be opened before the time determined on beforehand
1t operates by clock work, and the absence of key
hole precludcs all attempts to pick it,
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The WEATHER AT THE NoR7lI.-The columns
OF the New York Journals come to us crowded
with the names of the victims to the extreme
heat. The Tribune of Monday gives list Of
about 22O deaths, and so or go others prostra-
ted in that city, Brooklyn and Williamsburg,
during the last six days. from the excessive heat
of the weather, and adds:
The frightful heat Of the last week seems to
have eliminated Oh Saturday in degree Of heat
more fatal than any ever before known, at least
50 far as the mortality thereby occ.sioned shows.
The number IS entirely unparalleled, SO far as
we kLow in the history Of the world. Its per.
fcctly horrible, and betrys not only unequaled
heat, but, in many CASES, most unheard Of care
essness vn the part of the victims. There were
no less than ll3 deaths from heat in the city on
Saturday and Sunday besides Is others who
were stricken down, and are lying i'll. Fifteen
of the dead were natives of Ireland three of
Germany, two of Scotland, and one Of England.
The nativity of many is unknown. On Sunday
the prayers of the congregation of St. James
Church, in Brooklyn, We're offered up for no less
than % persons who died during the past week
from illness produced by the present unusually
warm state Of the weather. and for. eight Others
who lie dangerously ILL.,
We attribute this scourgc to several causes.
First, heat; second, alcohol; third, pestilential
filth. The thermometer WAS above 100 degrees
in the shade, alm"st every day, and the heat ell
dured by those fully exposed to the sum- was Of
ten as much as Is degrees.
In brooklyn, the number Of d,aths from sun
stroke is 3S, besides 3 others who were prostra-
ted but are recovering.
At Troy n. Y, there have been II cases Of
coup de solcl, nearly all fatal.
The Tribune also says:
From various accounts received, we should
judge that at least hundred horses have been
killed in the mean time, in this city alone. All
sorts Of business in the travelling line has been
retarded; railroad trains, relays, onnibuses re
daccd. TO half speed, and pcdestinarianism
brought almost to a stand still Another sucll
week would outrival in mortality the height Of
the cholera Of 1910.
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EXTRAORDINARY ISITIATIoH-Thc Division of
the Sons Of Temperance in, this place, initiated
Deaf mute into their Order, on Thursday night
lust. This individual is an interesting and intel
liS"nt young man, who WAS educated at the
Asylum in Staunton. 1t WIS a novel and high
interesting scene and was witnessed and larlic-
patcd in by Il larger number Of the members
than usually attended the meetings Of, the D-
visions; and there were also present several men,
bers Of the Order from Assistance, who had come
delegates to the State Temperance Convcn-
ion. Cbn}ottrS;Hc Jfirso1mn.
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THE LATE DUELL1HG ArFA1R.-Capt Ber.
nard S. Treanor and Patrick ODonohue ap.
pcared at the police court yesterday to answer
to the charges, the former of sending, and the
latter of ofaccepting challenge. From the tes-
timony of William +. A. Kelly it appeared that
O'Donohue who received letter or rather
challenge, requesting him to meet Captain
Treanor the next morning in New Hampshire,
but the letter was signed by Major Mulcahay
for Captain B. s. Treanor. The witness could
not say that O'Donohue accepted the challenge
and it did not appear that Captain Treanor
ever authorized Major Muicahay to write the
letter. The court is of the opinion that the
case was not made ont, and therefore ordered
the defendants to he discharged. .-Boston D1i.
In Adr.riiser, 1871
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Peterson's Magazine.

September has made its appearance early, and we
welcome to our table this interesting book. The mum.
Der before has beautiful picture called Music and
Love-" and has colored Fashion Plate There are
several pretty stories in tall to please the ladies.
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Charlotte Railroad,

The number Of bales Of Cotton carried over the Char.
lote Railroad from the lst October 1862, to June 30
1859, was sxtysix thousand four hundred and eigh.
teen (66,4ls)