The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-09-05

tire range ofabpl ldi4gs from Waterman swharfsto
Broad street and the square opposite Except Mrs.
Listers Hotel and the house at the corner where old
Mr. Waldo once aliyed,3 are all IN ashes. Tie fire
erossedto the house.o of lrs Walker, which asalso
burnt and here twas fnall arrested feel gloomy
enough Many families without homes TO goto and
not one unocchpied house in town cha,estea Aers
cary s2ss'' - & & i.
Large numbers OF unfortunate foreigners especially
natives Of Ireland seem destined to be oYertaken by
presidential diseases whichever way they turn. In the
South they afford food for the yellowfeyer and in the
North they swept away like claf beforethe wind
by Cholera, bilious and typhussfeyers and the small
pox. This proneness to illness is generally ascrbed
to tile want of care and attention on fheir part but
it not be more truly ascrbed TO their general pow
erty-to their want of means mherewith to procure
wholesome diet and raiment and healthy habitationsa
E2aT The territories of Nebraska and Kansas cover an
area greater than possessed by the original thir
teen States, who only owned about nine hundred thou
sand square miles Nebraska covers an area of 342-
438 square miles, equalto 2l9f60 800 acres Of land
and Kansas has an area of 1876 2S3 miles, or equal to
a0 s2l 100 acres Of land The IndanttIe toa large
portion Of this territory has pot been exDguished but
enough Of open to satisfy the cravings of all the
white Settlers who will 20 into it for some time to come
TIE ARTEs1AN WELL-The, tubing has now been
let down to depth of one thousand two hundred feet
the total depth Of the bongs exceeding that slight
y. The borer now rests in a hard sandstone rock
which has already been penetrated with great diff.
Guilty. to the extentof twenty three feet Charleston
/ Courier. ''i g" - N ~ :, .. -;s,-.,,
The dress of lady was set on fire in a. store in Bal.
tmore the other day by crelessy splitting canphene
and then throwing friction MATCH which had failed
to ignite on the floor. The lady. stepped upon the
match, the eamphene famed up and in o moufent ahe
was vas in ga . olaze, zsY;;s f1t, .:s5h:s d ~. .ai
Owing to the failure Of almost all the crops in Fred
erick county, Ya tie citizens of Winchester are alrea
dy moving to make provision against the anticipated
scarcity and severity Of the coming winter in order to
save thepoorer classes from suffering and want ~
louisville, August IA terrific tornado occurred
| here to-day. The Fourth Presbyterian Church was
blown down during the performance of Divine service
and twenty-four persons were killed andmany wound
ed. Mhny houses were also, unroofed, and consider
able damage sustained G'S'3s 'F W
Advices the Rio Grande to the 18th ult, state
the revolution in Tanaulipas is spreading and that
several towns have adhered tothe Revolntionfsts.-
In skirInish thel 18th ult Matamoras the In
surgents were victorious i.,.ssSs.se :sstt is,4y;
1t is estimated that the corn cropof those create
growing and pork making States, OHIO, Indana,I Ken
lucky Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri, will fall short
fourth average yield or about eighty millions Of
bushels The aggregate crop Of those States last year
els. ~. T., ai,fH ~ .ssa.s ti T. s;!!is isa
great antis islayery conference was held at Man
chester (Sngland( on the4st ult. and strong resou
tions for the immediate and total emancipation Of sa
very and the slave trade condemnng the acquisition
Of Cuba by the United States, and urging emancipa-
ton there the best means Of fustratingth scheme
Geo. Thompson was prominent speaker. 2
| A 'PENsioSER." - Chapman's Indiana Chanhceer
has exposition OF some of the operations Of Major
Morrison Commissary of the Indiana Brigade during
the Mexican war;, Morrison was notorious asasgam
bier in Mexico and elsewhere, and not satisfied with
the rich pickngs he secured during the war; after
his return, applied for and obtained pension on ac,
count the loss of sight thathe sustained durngahe
war. The plot was played off upon the Commissioner
of Pensions in the bodest and most audacous manner
afdavts being fled certifying to the perfect charac-'
ter ofthe Maorseyes before the campaign and their
almosttot loss SINCE The offence iss perjury, yet
Morrison draws pension Of S25a month. eig 8
PRE- ESPTIoS RIGHTS IN KANSAS AND NEBRAsKA.-
Attorney General Gushing hos lately given an opinion
on pre-emption rights in Kansas and Nebraska He
holds that the act Of Congress gives pre empton only
in such Of the lands ceded by tho Indians are not
required first tobe offered at public sale that the lands
ceded under the condition of being at pub
lie sale are more opened to preemption by act of
Congress then was the military reservation at Fort
Beavenworth that those lands cannot be taken up BY
settlers under acclaim of preempon and that such
claims will be- void in law, and confer no right ,on
which to demand patent from the Commissioners of
Public Lands moreover it will be heduty of the Pre-
sdent to maintain by force the plghted faith Of the
United States in this matter: fa.S 60 80
The colored 4pussons of Cincinnati have establish
ed theatre in. that place, which they call Liberty
Hal! where they announce that white people will not
be- admitted to any part Of the house except the gale
-ssr,-S
Accounts from Washington statethan an important
correspondents occ1rred between Secretary Buch
anan and the British: Secretary OF State for ForegH
fairs Lord Clarendon re asserts the British Territorial
Claims on Central America foufded On the Mosquito
proectofate, uchanan denies them in two eIab
crate notes anddemaEds reihquish.
ment Of the protectorate asserted also that our
Government has determined to adopt decisive meas:
ures to obtain the complete evacuatioH OF Central
Conyention.s ss Il. =
The N. y. Mrror says: siory has been s cirousa
ted in Liverpool and has been repeated Ia Ocskand
Limerick many add ditionz the effect that the
United States will give 16o acres of land
of every family arriving at tie ports of New
Boston" This is founded on the Nebraska BIT, no
deubt:s The ef'sct wlll beastound man WHO
can raise borrow orbeg three ,ponuds WIN
embark for the United Statesse When told
tale reaches Antwerp, Bremen, AND
will greatly increase emigration. These emgrantsl
shave no idea Of the existence of Nebraska from the
Atlantic shore, and tharunners take good care
say anything about IL 80. 80
RAlEs or sFoppsa r. The Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel says: q q 81
L A few days since, we saw. q few bales ef Fodder
brought to this which had been packed i1 com
mon cotton press They were about two thirds the
size OF 450 lbs bale Of cotton and averaged 4sl
each They were hooped with yybite oak splts about