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The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-02-15
Tribute of Respect.

Alta meeting of Wateree Division No 9, S. Oft,
held on Thursday evening, Feb. TO- ls5S the following
preamble and resolutions were UNANIMOUSLY adopted:
r,her in the meridian of life our late brother ALEX.
.unra JOHNSON, we mourn his loss as one in whose
daily walk was examplied the principles Of Truth,
Urine and Honor In him our Division has lost
Sisent member; the Church, faithful patron of chris
tianity. and the community valuable citizen. Be it
Pesolred That we tender to the family Of our de-
ceased brother our sincere coincidence at their rrepar
able loss and humbiy hope that the widows God who
has promised to be Father to the fatherless will be
their stay in this bereavement and their guide through
future days.
Resolved That blank page in our Record Book,
with his name and age inscribed thereon be dedicated
to perpetuate his memory:
Resolved That as token of our esteem, we will
wear the usual badge Of mourning for 30 days.
Pesolred That copy of the foregoing be furnished
the family and published in the Temperance Advocate
and Camden Journal.
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Drowned.

A negro woman belonging to Mrs. Elton in
the lower part Of this county was drowned in
Reedy Creek on Sunday evening 10th inst. 1t
appears that she and her husband had attended
negro auction in the neighborhood, where they
both got drunk. On their return home, having
to cross the creek, the woman fell in. when her
husband, being unable to give the necessary as
sstance, she was drowned.
It would be unnecessary to ask where these
negroes got the spirits from; upon which they
got drunk, for such iuterrogatory would scarcely
he answered. 1t is pretty certain, however, that
there are places where negroes can always OBJ
tain liquor when they want il, and these places
are generally legally authorized to keep and sell
it. We are aware also that it is considered an
attack upon the liberty Of the people to call in
question the proprety Of having these houses
established throughout the land, and one lays
himself open to the charge Of fanaticisnl, ultra
ism, jcslitism and what not, who says anything
against them. ~ :
There is law prohibiting certain publications
in the State or even the sale Of them; yet what
right has any one to say that man who has a
printing press and types may not use them to
print what book he pleases9 At least might not
the law regulate this matter, by selling licease
to publisher to issue unworthy publications !?
1t would produce revenue to the State and at
the same time secure to the owners of printing
establishments the right to use their property in
the manner they chose "But," says an object
cr "such publications have deleterious effect
upon the morals of society, and it is therefore,
right that they should be entirely prohibited by
law" All! yes; we perceived we had over
looked the point altogether. We forgot that
unworthy publications have an immoral tendency,
and that tippling shops and rum holes have a
tendency to build up and sustain morality
Then we will try it on another tack. The
evidence in this case of drowning showed that
the ncglo was drunk. Well she got the liquor
somewhere to get drunk on. We would just ask
slave owners if this 50 common sale of liquor to
negroes is not an evil that they are especially in
terestcd in removing! AT the present prices of
slaves citizens of Warren county have sustained
a loss Of fifteen hundred dollars within twelve
months, from the death Of slaves while drunk,
not counting the injury to slaves in other res
poets. There is an evil attached to this traffic in
some way, that seems to require remedy
What that remedy should be is for those inter
cstcd to determine. 1t is n maxum that "indi-
viduals must suffer for the good of the commu-
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Correspondence of the Camden Journal.
WASHINGTON. Feb. s, 1876;

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. 1853
The Ides Of Marcl, are fast approaching, and
in few days the Telegraph will inform you,
length and breadth of this Union, that Ginl
Pierce is kuna, and a few days more the STEW
hearts will be eladdened and the many sadden.
ed"
An attempt has been made in the House, to
abolish Capital Punishment in this District, but
the Bill met with most signal defeat. Pub
lie opinion now .a-days seems to be altogether
in favor of the criminal, or murderer, instead
of the murdered, and in the recent tragic scene,
which transpired in this city, under the very
nose of Congress, Senators voluntarily offered
to stand as bail for Schaumburg before war.
rant was issued for his arrest; and even now
he has the sympathy OF the people, forsooth
he is incarcerated in the walls of the District
Jail, aud there is little or no sympathy felt for
his victim (Fuller) who is now lying at the
point of death. Some time ago a man in this
District, deliberately cut his wfes throat while
she was lying in bed, and was condemned to
be hung, and even that punishment was too
mild for him. Mr.. Fillmore assumed omnipo.
tence, and committed the sentence to impriSon.
ment for life What will be the result? Af
ter this murderer has served some ten years in
his CELL and time silvers his head by age, he
will grow devoutly pious-&ill read two or
three chapters in the bible, and pray in the
presence of his brothers in crime, and sing three
or four psalms through his nose in hearing of
his keeper; and as keepers of prisons are gen.
orally humane men, he will spread the tidings
that this murderer is changed man, a perfect
saint. Petitions for his release, signed by the
lawyer who prosecuted, the jury who condemn
ed, and the judge who sentenced him, will be
handed to the President, who will pardon him
and turn him loose in the world with the mark
of Cain upon his brow. "He goeth to his own,
and his own receiveth him moi" and "his last
end will be worse than the first" "But we
have no right tn take human life," cries out
some saint Neither has the husband the right
to cut the throat Of his wife and children and
send them To an awful eternity without mo.
ments warming His hand has shed blood and
his own life shall pay the forfeit.
Mr.. Clemens, of Ala, has just concluded
very eloquent speech in opposition to the doc,
,rine of "Progress," Manifest Destiny and
"Overruling Necessity" or, in plain English
against the acquisition of Cuba.
Mr. Cass replied briefly, and took occasion
to read some extracts from letter received by
him from Paris, and written by one of the most
intelligent Americans in Europe, (all Amerl-
cans are the most intelligent and are from the
first families. as soon rs they tread the Euro.
mean shorcs) in which he said that the speech.
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EXTENDING THE AREA OF FREEDoM-In the Senate
of Ohio series Of resolutions have been recently in
troduced from which take the following as the most
important:
Resolved That if it be Heavens will as we think it
is to consecrae the whole continent with the islands
Of the sea adjacent thereto to freedom and to place
them under the protection of our flag American
citizens will nj murmur at the DEGREES Of Providence,
but on the contrary, with all other good Christians
will say, Goods will be DONE"
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The following complimentary resolution was
then unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That the thanks Of this meeting
be, and they are hereby, rendered to the re.
spected gentleman who has presided over the
deliberations of our sessions with so much
courteousness and ability.
DR.. Anderson having resumed the Chair,
and the resolution ust adopted having been
read, on motion of Mr.. Wallace, the meeting
adjourned sine die.
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Tribute of Respect.

At meeting of the Board Of Directors Of the Bank
of Camden South Carolina, Wednesday the 9th inst
Mr. THOMAS LANG offered the following Preamble and
Resolutions which were unanimously adopted:
1t has pleased Almighty God in the dispensation OF
His Providence, to remove, by DEATH from the com.
munity and from Misplace as an officer Of this Bank our
friend and fellow-citizen, ALEXANDER JOHNSON, Esq
The deceased had been an officer of this Institution
from the commencement ofits operat now nearly
seventeen years; and had endeared himself to all his
associates by his amiabe and unassumng manners,
and bv his uniform kindness and courtesy as an officer,
his dutie, WERE at all times, faithfully and efficiently
performed; and this Board, in common with the whole
community deeply deplore his loss Therefore belt
Resolred That in the death Of ALEXANDER JOHNSON,
ESQ this Bank has lost Jealous faithful and efficient
officer a.d the community good citizen
Rssolred That we tender to his bcreaved family our
heartfelt sympathy in this sad dspensation Of Prov'
Rssored That the Cashier ofthis Bank be instructed
to furnish the family of the deceased, with copy of
these proceedings. poo.,,,..o l..
Resolred That this Preamble and Resolutions be
nublished in the Camden Journal
pu''''''' W. D. MCDONALD, Chairman.
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Managers of Elections.

The following new appointments Of Managers of
Elections for this District made by the Lcgsla
ture at its last session:
Curetons Mills B. F. Watkins uice John Motley.
Lisenbys: Jacob Ellis vice L. W. R. Blair; J. J.
McLaurin vce Daniel Bethunc.
Liberty Hill: Alex. Nathcson rice II, summerville
Goodwyn's Store: A. Mcdowell rice Vim. Clyburn
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The Lancaster Ledger,

The last number, being the first of the second vol
ume oftbis ispapcr comes to us enlarged and improved
Mr. Bav deserves he doubtless will receive liberal
encouragement from the citizens of Lancaster, in his
efforts to render his paper worthy Of the District in
which it is published.
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Post Offices.

new Post Office has been established at Broad
way, Newberry District and K. Anderson appointed
Post Master.
Discontinued THE Post Office at Union Line, Spar
tanburg District has been discontinued.
Name Changed-Legal Law P. O.. Chester District,
has been changed to Taylors Creek.
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The State of North Carolina has issued proposals to
borrow $5OOOoo on its bonds having thirty years to
run to maturity; bearing six per cent annual interest,"
which is payable hafycary at the Bank of the Repub
lie, in New York The bonds issued to aid in the
construction of the North Carolina Rail Road.
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OBITUARY.

DIED-At his residence in Kirkwood, on Saturday,
the 5th inst, ALEXANDER JOHNSON, Esq, in the 42d
year Of his age.
When the good die, there is propriety in recalling
and dwelling upon the memory Of their virtues. 1t
soothes our melancholy while bowling under the chas.
tening rod Of wse but inscrutable Providence The
character of our deceased friend was one which may
be contemplated with profit. There was nothing in it
either dazzling or brilliant by which the gaze OF the
multitude might be attracted-on the contrary it was
quiet modest and unostentatious-
He had been resident in this community for nearly
thirty years the last half of which spent in init
mate association with the writer of this brief tribute
to his memory In all the relations of life he was
most exemplary; an afectonate husband, kind and
indulgent father, and humane MASTER AS q friend,
he was candid and sincere.
Bo was good citizen, faithful in the discharge of
all his duties; giving his aid cheerfully and lib
orally to every public enterprise of utility and be-
nevolence To the poor be was ever ready 10 extend
relief and none who were worthy, ever applied to
him in vain All his principles and instincts were for
the right He was an able advocate Of morals and
religion not that he preached either but he did that
which was calculated to make far deeper and more las
ting impression-he lived them! He gave the inau.
ence Of his character and his example to the of
Temperance early in life, and was attached to every
association in this community, formed to promote its
advancement and died Son of Temperance
For the last twenty years of his life he was con.
sstent member Of the Presbyterian Church. illustrating
the religion he professed, by careful conscientious
aud dliigcnt attention to all its duties His piety
was not Ipusive, bat rather the result of firmly fixed
religious principle, True in times Of special religious
effort bis spirit seemed to be more deeply stirred with
in him. but he was at all times profoundly alive to his
religious responsibilities and it this constant re-
cognition of his obligations to God which enabled him
in his last Moments to put with so much confidence
his trust in the merits Of his Rede emer. He has left
wife and three children TO mourn his loss May that
God who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb "com-
fort and console them under this heavy bereavement
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The three States ofIllinois Indiana and Wisconsin,
are now entitled to twenythree Representatives and
six Senator's Not many years since, the whole FORM
ed one Congressional Tstrict and the delegate who
then represented it is now alive.
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To Travellers.

We ask attention to the Advertisement the Charles
ton and Florida Steam Packet Line found in paper
to-day. Mr.. John W. Caldwell Of Charleston, is the
Agent.
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Col. Moses and Col Boyce, candidates for Congress-
addressed thepeople Of York at the Court House on
the 7th inst. The Miscellany says every body was
many liking both "
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u, 8. Senator.

John R. Thompson was, on Friday last elected Q
s. Senator by the Legislature Of New Jersey, in place
OF Hon. Robert F Stockton, resigned
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Jos. Damont, ofNew Orleans, has recovered 81, 900
from the New Orleans and Carrolton Rail Road, for
injuries sustained by his daughter.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-02-15

At meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bank
of South Carolina on the 9th nst William Birnie ESQ.,
was elected President of that Institution
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Congressional Election.

Weask attention to the notice of the Managers for
this District. Next Monday and Tuesday week will
be the days for holding said Election.
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es delivered hy Messrs. Cass and Mason in the
Senate in January last, on the Munroe Doc,
trine," had put all Europe in commotion,
charming that) and that all the Americans in
Paris coincided with Mr.. Cass' opinions The
House is all in a stir to-day about pint Of
order, as Jim Boyd would say, but from the
noise they are now making, take it they are
conteuding for quart of order, or tso pints,
which is al one.
We have no news about the Cabinet vet
Pierce still holds the bit in bis mouth, and as
he has his head turned the "other way" the
oliice-seekers shy off from him for fear he
might bolt.
The City is fast filing up with strangers,
and the streets present as worthy sipkt as
Fallstaf's army did when that valiant General
reviewed them, though our crowd las more
than a "shirt and a half between them," if one
can Judge from the dimensions of the ISLANDERS
worn by the beaux. "green 'un'' might
think some of them had dressed in hurry and
thrown their under naentionaJke "wrong end
up"
Mr.. Murdoch, the "American Star" opens
an engagement this evening at the National,
in the play of Hamlet, and of course he will
"draw" like "Jew David"
Madam Bishop has been in our midst very
lately, and left as, minus dollar. Her sing.
ing was delightful, however, especially the
French songs, but the words were all French
to some.of her audience. CATO.
FIRE F1RE!! FIRE! !!!-It is proved by STA
tistics, although it seems perhaps hardly prob
able, that more deaths and serious accidents
annually occur from the use of burning fluid in
the United States, than from steamboat explo.
sons and railroad accidents combine d.-Erc.
We hardly open an exchange mail that does
not contain at least one confirmation of the
above statement. How sensible people can
continue to use the burning fluid at the constant
hazard of their own and their neighbors' lives
and property, is to us a mystery. There are
no considerations of cheapness or convenience
which can justify it. The property which has
been destroyed through its use, in the United
States, during the past ten years, has cost hun.
dreds of times the amount that its use has saw
ed, leaving out of consideration the amount Of
human suffering and loss of human life which
it has occasioned. The immense fire which
laid one-thrd Of the city of Brooklyn in ashes
few years since, was caused by the upsetting
of fluid lamp. In many of the towns in the
Northern States its use is very properly prohib-
ited by law. 1t has been used to very limit
ed extent in Greenville, and we have already
known of one or two narrow escapes from fire
on account of it. 1t should be every where
prohibited, according to that legal maxim,
which is as old as the common law itself, Make
use Of your property in such manner as not
to injure that of another" r."-Greenvils Patriot
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nifty" but it does seem to us that, in regard to
this matter, individual sacrifice is becoming
rather disproportioned to the public good attain
cd Wayrenton ". c. NewS
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order, ofbusiness, for 10, o'clock, NJ. to-mor.

row.
The Secretary was directed to give public
notice of the action, of the meeting, upon the
Resolutions offered by Mr.. Sondly and upon
those offered by Mr.. Trenholm.
On motion of w. B. Pringe, Esd., the meet
ing then adjourned to NEE: in the same place to,
morrow, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-08

ALApAMA.-The Montgomery Journal learns
"irom direct and reliable authority from Hunts
ville'' that Senator Clemens will not, as has been
announced, take the field for the Office of Cover
nor. His health renders all exerton, at the pres
eat moment, utterly impossible.
c. c. Clay, Esq, announces that he is candi-
date for Congress in the Huntsville Dstnct-so We
learn from the Athens Herald.
Col. Stnllworth having declined the nomination
for Congress in the Fist District, rendered him by
The Democratic Convention which met at Clai-
borne, Monroe county, and Col. Phillips, the nom
inee of the Democratic Convention which met al
Mobile, having previously declined, District
Convention is TO be held on the second Monday in
June, 10 nominate Democratic candidate for
Congress. The Mobile Register objects TO the
convention being held in Claiborne, and accepts q
proposition made by the Southern Republic that
the convention be held at Camden, Wilcox coun-
ty, ri.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-08

pThe Lunatic Asylum at Columbus, Ohio, is
now full, containing upwards of five hundred
patients. In IL years there have been admitted
2,116 patients, of which, JOSS were discharged
recovered. or the number admitted, sos were
farmers, being more than twelve times the number
of those of any other occupation except laborers,
of which there were one hundred and sixty. The
next highest on the list is teachers, being 40
There were "a clerks. % preachers, 81 tailors, 9
lawyers, printers, sea captains, 2 musicians,
medical students, &c. Among the causes, spirit
rappings is now the most frequent.
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lFrom the Cincinnati commercial.1
A youthful Cuvier

We call atten,ionto the fact that Cincinnati is
to furnish to the scientific worldlone of the most
accomplished naturaliss of the day.
We have for some time past been much interest,"
ed ina young man, a native of tins city, named W.
II. b. Thomas. ThereiS nothing prepossessing
in his appearance. onthe contrary, excepting a
good eye, he cnrries an external that might attempt
one de lure to indict Dame Nature for libe l.
Meeting him, among the brilliant throng on Fourth
, stree, with an outre gait averiant physognomy,
IN partial eclipse from an incipient beard, a
SouclIcd hat drawn over the forehead the peck
of his seedy coat distended by score of botanical
pTeServatIonS, fossil ferns, and geological speci-
mems, the sombre hue of his linen advertising the
death of his washerwoman-hew would most likely
De taken for country lad from the hoop pole re-
glon, WHO had ventureds a trip on the canal in
search otthe terra incognitia Gown
We frstHknew Thomls newspaper carrier in
AS; his unusual knowledge of botany, geology and
zoology, was then the remark of all Soon after
tins, he obtained employment an assistant teach
erin one of our schools, at salary that barely
suthced to buy meal and Goals for his aged mother.
We met him again in the spring OF '51, at the Gin
cinnati meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. In the proceedings
OF this body he took interest that surprised all
whose observation was drawn by his eager listen
ing, and his large collection of minerals, plants;
anu fossils. Here he attracted the attention of
Professor Beard and Professor Henry, of the Smith
sonlan Institute. We afterwards met him on
Mound street, in this city, i'll the shop of Mr..
| Mckinley, another humble but enthusiastic deYo
tee of science, of whom the world will yet take
note, who had just finished, with his own hands
| anu rude tools, powerful telescope that Thomas
wasscnticising.
For some months past we had seldom met with
our eccentric friend, but we encountered HIM late
last evening ut the Little Miami railroad depot-a
huge blank book, labelled Notes on Fossil Infuso-
ra, under arm, SHIRT and pair of socks under
the other. de had just arrived from Washington,
and had in his pocket his commission as natural-
list 10 the Kane Arctic Exploring Expedition,
applied to Professor Henry for some opportunity TO
worn i'll the United States Coast Survey, and that
gentleman had procured his appointment TO the
honorable post in the polar expedition, where he
will havethe rarest opportunityto pursue his favor
lite studies, and 10 place his name am@ng'those OF
distinguishedsclentitic discoveries.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-08
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1858.
virginia washington Monument.

The Richmond Enquirer of Friday, says: A
letter received by US yesterday from Rome, brings
the agreeable information, that Mr.. Crawford, the
Sculptor and Architect of the Virginia Washington
Monument, has far advanced with the model of
the Equestrian Statute of Washington, and in
stead of keeping dotOn to the terms of the contract
has gone up ttoenty feet instead of fourteen feet
for the height of the horse and rider. He will thus
ensure grandeur of effect that could not have
been obtained by adhering to IA feet-though the
extraordinary size will cost him several thousand
dollars more for the casting in bronze than he
counted upon when he commenced thework. Mr..
C. is advancing rapidly. and the model of the
equestrian statue will be completed within the
present year. The statues of Jefferson and Henry,
are already cast in bronze. As a clue 10 the ex-
traordinary amount of clay Mr.. c. has thus far
put in The equestrian group, refer to the striking
fact that the right of Washington is sepen
feet long. We say nothing of the attendant head
,oork