The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-07-05

olson, who is a lawyer, 10 the Judge, Thompson.
Il case Of assault and battery was IN trial. A
negro woman was indicted by n negro girl. The
celebrated David Paul Brown defended the case;
The prosecutnx was sworn, examined; att cross.
examined, neither of the counsel rising from
their seats. The Judge, along side Of whom !
was sitting, talked to me and am sure heard
nothing of the case. Indeed; he told me that
at the beginning Of the term the laws applicable
to such cases was fully explained to the jury
and afterwards, without note or comment from
the Judges, they were allowed to dispose Of the
cases.
We next proceeded to the Mint, and SAN the
whole process Of making money, from the slnelL-
ING until It was ready to be issued: Every thing.
is done separately. The chemical preparation 1T
silver makes it. in the first place-a lifted from
the boiling caiiIdrohs-look like sordid dust;:"
it is then cast into ingots--these are made into
bars: these are rolled and pass under the ma
chimes, which cut them into the different circu-
lating coins; they are then mcd and stamped:
In these latter operations Of the smaller coin';
women are employed. The whole operation of
milling and stamping is done by machinery, and
every second piece is completed and drops into
the vessel which is placed underneath to receive
it. All pass into the counting room, which .is
also done by machinery. There seems to beam
immense coinage going on. In cabinets, are !.
kept specimen coins of the Ancient and the New
World. A piece of silver like those paid to
Judas for his Masters blood, is there to be
seen. -.
In the afternoon with my brother Nicholson,
| visited the house in which William Penn lived:
1t is low down near the River; was built front:
ing it row of houses is How betwcen-it and
the Delaware. 1t is a low, old fashioned brick
house. Pennsylvania ought to buy it, and fit
it up and furnish it: write over the door, "Here
lived our worthy father, VIM. Penn" and keep
some one constantly there to show it.
We then went to the Arch Street Quaker
Meeting Housc-found it open; and a friend,
Thomas Evans, with whom lad some acquain
tance he Showed us the spacious accommodate
tions, and then took us into the graveyard.
There is not stone to mark single sepulture;
and said 'the dead are buried at least four tier
deep" all under the present house. The paved
yard, and half the street, he said, are occupied
BY the peaceful dead. Such is the fate of man !:
"Ihc place which once knew him, Shall know
him no more forever"
We passed next to the Christ Church yard,
and stood for moment over the grave Of Frank
lin. 1t is covered BY single slab marked Ben
iamin and Deborah Franklin, 1890. It covers
too, the graves of John Read, the father Of Mrs;
Franklin, and the son of Dr.. and Mrs. Franklin.
The head stones of these graves stand again st
the wall. Along side of them (the DR.. and
his wife,) lie their daughter, Mrs. Baehe, and her
husbar d.
AS stood looking on the unconscious mar :
ble, I thought Of Dr. Franklin's wish, when OH
drinking bottle of wine, he found fly iminers-
ed in it--took it out apparently dead, but on
laying it on the table, it soon revived, and he
said, "Oh that could be bottled up, as this fly
has been, and after fifty years have come and
gone could be recalled to life, so that might
see the condition of the country and PEOPLE to
which, and whom have aided in giving liber.:
typ The wish was vain but if he could now
be permitted on an angels wing to fly over this
broad and happy land, how would he rejoice, at
the great good which have resulted from his labors!
am done! Ny tour will in few days, I
hope, take me to my home; and some one else
will write, and then will read.
., Yours in L. P. & F.
JOHN BEBTON O'NEALL: