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E4WNeSV Packet-LAUREL HILL, JonN A.
a. ~ CorroS, Master. This fine boat.
built expressly for the trade, will
leave New Orleans every SUNDAY morning at 9 o.
clock, and every "WEDNESDAY evening at O'clock
and will leave Baton Rouge every MONDAY and
THURSDAY afternoon.
N. B.-The LAUREL HILL is built in strict compli-
with the requirements of the late law of Con-
gress, and offers to passengers every guaranty of
safety. nov16-tf-d.
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A LIE AND PORTER.-A large supply
Il of Barclay, Perkins & Cos London
Porter and Tennent Scotch Ale. warranted
genuine just received and for sale by
Jan 24ly WIN. BOGEL. Druggist
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Railways Ready Relief.
YNHE great Pain Killer,n said to cure all
i Pains, known to man, Except thu
from the Inconvenience Of an empty purse
For sale by H. r. WApDrLL.
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Eancy Chewing TObaccO--An-
J. other lot inst received and which for
fneness Of quality cannot be beat.
oct13 JOSHUA BEAL.
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700 BARRELS Flour for sale by
i wv THOS. PRENDAGAST.

CORN MEAL-1O barrels steam dried
~ Corn Meal, warranted not to spoil,
just received and for sale by
feb 9-y JOSHUA BEAL.
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SUNDRIES, &C

Barclays London Porter.
tx Dozen, Pints and Quarts. Just re
IL ceived and for sale by single bot
lie or dozen. JOSHUA BEAL.
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notonous, for it has nothing to do but grow and
twirl its ieelers float in the tide, or fold itself
up on its foot stalk when that tide has receded,
for months and years together. Now, would
it not be very dismal to he transformed into a
znophyte? Would it not be an awful punish
ment with your human soul still in you: to be
anchored to a rock, able to do nothing but
spin about your arms, or fold them up again
and knowing no variety, except when the rece-
ding ocean left you in the daylight, or the re-
turning waters plunged you into the green
depth again, or the sweeping tide brought you
the prize of young periwinkle or an invisible
star-fsh! But what better life are you spon-
taneously leading? What greater variety marks
your existence than chequers the life Of the sea
anemone? Does not one Gay float by you just
as the tide floats over it, and find you much the
same, and leave YOU 1ege,ating still? Are you
more useful? What real service to Others did
you render yesterday? What tangible amount
of occupation did you overtake in the one hun
dred and sixty. eight hours Of which last week
consisted? Aud wha: higher end in living have
you than that poIypu>! You 60 through Ger
tain mechanical routines of rising, and dress
ing, and visiting and going to sleep again; and
are little reused from your lelhargy by the
arrival of friend, or the effort needed to write
some note of ceremony. But As it curtseys in
the waves, and vibratcs its exploring arms, and
gorgeS some dainty meduSa, the sea anemone
goes through nearly the same round of pursuits
and enjoyments with your intelligent and i'm
mortal self Is this a life for rational and re-
sponsible creature TO eadl
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people whose opinion is worth having. And
it does not take great while to accumulate Il
respectable amount Of the capital. 1t CONSISTS
in TRUTH honesty and integrity; to which may
be added decision, frmness, courage and per
severance. With these qualities there are few
obstacles which cannot be overcome. Friends
spring up and surround such young man, al
most as if by magic. Confidence flows out to
him, and business accumulatcs on his hands
faster than he can ask it. And in few short
years such young man is far in advance OF
many, who started with him, having equal tai
ents and larger pecuniary means; ere long our
young friend stands foremost, the honored.
trusted and loved. Would that we could IN
duce every young reader to commence lie on
the principle that moral capital is the thing al
ter all
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-21

TIE REGISTRATION Acr.-'Tbc act passed at
the last session Of the Legislature for the regis.
Try of births, deaths, and marriages, is one Of
much Importance to our citizens. Not only
as matter of statistical interest, exhibiting the
improvement or decline Of the population Of the
State, does it possess interest, but in relation
to questions of property, the record of births,
deaths and marriages, is of permanent value TO
the commonwealth. The origin ard connec-
ton of families, interlnarriages, births and
deaths, preserved and recorded by the State,
will furnish the most conclusive evidence in
our courts Of law and equity, and the ends Of
justice will he subserved, and imposition and
fraud prevented. By the terms of the act, the
tax collector of each district is required to col.
lect from every citizen information as follows:
AS TO births: The date, sex names of parents
and their residence. As to deaths: Date, age,
sex, name, parents, residence, cause Of DEATH
As to marriages: The name of husband, age,
residence, name Of wife, age, residence, names
Of parents, date ofmarrage, and by whom mar.
ricd.
As to coored persons and free negroes, the
births and deaths are to be recorded and as to
slaves, the number, sex, dates, name, of owner
time of birth or death, &c. As to non taxpay-
ing citizens, schedules will be furnished by the
tax collectors to ministers of the gospel, mags.
trates and physicians, to enable them to record
cases amo2g the poor.
The work will he heavy one on the tax collec-
tors, who should be compensated for the same
and no doubt will be. After they collect the
facts, the books are to be returned to the Comp
troller's Office, and are there to be delivered to
the registrars, whose duty it is to digest and
report to the Legislature The present bill is
by no means perfect one, but as beginning
Of most valuable work. We trust it will meet
with the cordial efforts of our citizens to carry
out its object.
The Medical Association of the State has
been anxious and earnest in originating and
urging the matter, and are entitled to the
thanks of the community for their zeal in ad-
ding to the history of South Carolina such i'm
portant records.-SouM CaroHniun.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THOMAS J. WARREN.
r D., e VI -.

Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and
Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and
Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration ofthe year
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the iol,
lowing rates: For one Square, fourteen lines ess
seveutv-ve cents for the first and thirtyseven and
half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single IN
sertions. one dollar per square; semmonthy, month
" and quarterly advertisements charged the same as
for single insertion.
~" The number of insertions desired must be noteo
ON the margin Of all advertisements. or they Will De
published until ordered discontinued and charged ae-
cordngly.
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as plain as A b G, we will suppose person to
count 60 of these silver dollars minute, 5000
an hour, 43,200 day of II hours each, or
Sundays iucudcd) l5,7GS,00O year, say,
TO count this stupendous amount Of money in
silver dolars, it would require fraction short
Of l3 years
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-21

BOYS Our AFTER NIGMrFALL-I have long
been an observer. a. am sympaihizing lover
of the boys like to sec them happy, cheer.
ful gleesome. | ann not willing that they be
cheated out of the riyhttul heritage of youth
indreI can hardly undci stand how HIGH.
toned and useful man can be the ri pcned tiuit
of IA boy who has not enjoyed fair share Of
the glad privileges due to youth. But while |
watch with very jealous eye all rights and
customs which cn'rench upon the proper rights
of boys, am equally apprehcn>ive lest parents,
who are not f'rethoughtful, and who have not
habituatcd themselves to close observation up
on this subject, permit their sous indulgencics
which are almost certain to result in their dc
moralzation if not in their total ruin; and
among the habits which have observed as
t.nling most surely to ruin, know of none
more prominent than tina, of parents permitting
their sumS to be IN the street after niChtIull Ii
is ruimuus to their morals in almost all instances
they acquire, under cover of the night, an
,lnheathtul aud excited state of mind; bad, vul
gar, immoral, and proIane language, obscene
practices, criminal sentiment, a lawless and RI
otous bearing indeed, it is in the street, after
nightal, that boys principally acquire the cd
ucation of the bad capacity of becoming row.
dy, dissOutr, crimina' men. Parents should,
in this particular, have most rigid and irilex.
lille rule, that will never permit a son. under
any circumstances, whatever TO 20 into the
street after nightfal with view of engaging
in out Of door sports, or of meeting other bows
for social or chance occupation; Il rigid rule of
this kind, invariably adhered to, will soon dead
en- the desire for such dangerous practices.-
Boys should he taught to have pleasures around
the family centre table. in reading, in convcr
saton, and in quiet amuscmeuts Boys, gen
tIcmcns sons, are seen in the street, after night
fall, behaving in Il manner entirely destructive
of all good morals Fathers and mothers,
keep your boys at home at night, and sec that
You take pains to make your homes pleasant,
attractive, and profitable to them; and, above
all, with Il view to their security from future
destruction, let them not become, while form.
ing their characters for life, so accustomed to
disregard the moral sense of shame, as to open
Iy violate the Sabbath day. by indulging in the
street pastincs during lis day or evening hours
4 Tr"c fricadofMc Boys
CAPITAL FOR THE l"uNG.--It is a cons"la.
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COplSf1EltielOpIe.

The city occupies triangular PromohlorJ
of land between the B"sph"ruS and its inlet
the Golden Horn. 1t is about three miles ana
half in length, and from one to tour miles IN
breadth, and is enclosed by triple range OF
walls, twelve or thirteen miles IN circumference
and entered by twenty eight gates. 1t IS built
on an unduiatlnS declIvIty rising towards INC
land side. Externally 1t has all imposing aP'
pcarance, with its mosques, cup"las, m'narets,
and Expresses, and its ports crowded with ship
ping but internally, 1t mostly consists OF a
labyrinth OF i'll paved, crooked, dirty lanes, and
low built small houses OF wood or rough hewn
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PLEASURE OF GOVERNMENTAL have a rich
neighbor that is always so busy that he has
no leisure to laugh. The whole business of
his life is to get money, and more money. He
is still drudging Oh, saying what Solomon
says, "the dgent hand maketh rich" And it
is true iu.!ced but he considers not that it is
not in the power of riches to make a man hap
py, for it was wscly said by a man of great
observation that there are as many miseries be-.
yond riches lis on this side of them And yet
Heaven deliver us from pinchng poverty, and
grant that, having competency, we may be
thankful. Let US not repine, or so much think
the gifts of God unequaIly dealt, if we see an
other abound with riches, when, as God knows,
the cares that are keys that keep those riches,
hang so heavily at the rich mans girdle that they
clog him with weary days and restless nights
even when others sleep quietly. We see but
the outside of the rich mans happiness; few
consider him to be like the silk worm, that
when she seems to play, is at the same time
spinning her own bowels, and consuming her
self. And this many rich men do, loading
themselves with corroding cares to keep what
they have already got. Let us, therefore, be
thankful for health and competence, and above
all for quiet conscience.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-21

How FALLEN.-It is customary to charge
every man with fanaticism who advocates the
total abolition of the rum traffic and he who
ventures to speak one word in the defence of
an injured woman is charged with sickly
sentimentalism. At the imminent risk of in.
curing the cenSure of such people, we shall
relate an incident which recently occurred on
Orange street A young husband had been
cnticed to a liquor den and made drunk. When
he had partially recovered his senses he was
conveyed home. His wife, an amiablc and
beautiful woman, gently laid him on q sofa, and
bahed his fevered brow, and twined her fingers
in his raven locks, and spoke kind words to
him, and tried to smile when he turned up his
heavy eyes and stared at her with that cold
stare which only drunken maa can give.
Sleep at last relieved her of her charge, and
them covering the face of him she loved, as if
to hide his shame, she knet down by his side
and wcpt,-wcpt bitter tears,-for she was but
an artess woman who had not yet learned the
hcartless usages Of society. And there lay the
unconscious husband alas, how falen-.dream.
Ing perhaps, of boisterous merriment of vul-
gar songs, of coarse jests; but he dreamed not
of the aching heart of her who bent over him,
and prayed for him, and wept for him, but
wouId not give him up.
The morning came, and he was received with
smiles and with soft caresscs. lie heard no
harsh word, he saw no unkind look yet he
was sullen, and his whole aspect was cold and
repulsve.' After breakfast he rose up and de-
Parted departed without speaking. That night
he was carried home DRINK One wear ago
this man was an Industrious, kindhearted, low
ing husband now, he is m outcast, degraded
wretch, his own shame, his wite's sorrow, his
ncighbors scoff the worlds by.word, the pic
turc of beast, the monster Of q man
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PooR PELATIoSs.-A poor relation is-the
most irrelevant thing in nature-a piece Of i'm
pertinent correspondcncy-an odious approx
maton-a haunting conscience-a prepostcr-
Gus shadow lengtheuing in the noontde of your
prospcrity-an unwclcome rcmembranccr-a
perpetual recurring mortilic@ion-a drain on
your purse-a more intocrable dun upon your
pride-a drawback upon success-a rebuke to
your rsing-a stain in your blood-a blot on
your escutcheon-a rent in your garmcnt-a
deaths head at your banquet Agathocles' pot
"a Mordecai in your gate Lazarus at your
door--a lion in your path-a frog in your
chamber-a fly in your .ointmcnt-a mote in
your eye-a triumph to your enemy-an apol'
ogy to your friend-thc one thing not needIul
the hail in harvcst-the ounce of sour to a
pound of sweet-the bore par excellence.
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remarkable uses to which India rubber has
been lately applied is in the manufacture of
combs, the article possessing, it is said, all the
lightness, tenacity and elasticity Of shell or
bone and afforded at one third of the price of
shell combs. The following is the process of
manufacture, as described by the Philadelphia
Ledger: The rubber is first prepared by being
deodorized, hardened and colored. Then it is
spread into sheets of the necessary thickness,
by machinery. A circular saw set against the
edges of the sheets cuts it into strips, resembling
in shape two combs, locked together by the
teeth. One blow of the cutter divides the
teeth. A grinder sharpens them, and grailer
with file gives them the requisite bevel. The
entire surface is smoothed by revolving wheel,
covered with cloth, and the comb is then bent
on metal cylinder, heated with steam. The
polisher, upon a wheel prepared with fine
polishing material, imparts beautiful fnish
All kinds of combs, dressing, puff, children's
combs. are manufactured by nearly the same
process, and the finish and beauty of these arti.
cles must recommend them to general USE
They neither warp nor split in the teeth and
may be washed in warm water.
John Meals son has been found guilty of
shooting Mark E. Jose, of Portland, Maine
Our readers will recollect how bitterly and un.
justly John Neal some time since assailed Neal
Dow and misrepresented the Maine Law in
Tile State Of Maine newspaper. Subsequent
| ly, when his son James became the victim Of q
rumselling outlaw, he endcavored to take ad.
vantage of the provisions of the prohibitory
statute, by prosecuting the temper Of his son.
But it seems he was too late in his conviction
. of the necessity of total prohibition. This un-
ortunate son had formed the appetite which
as since placed him in felon's CELL and the
ther has the melancholy reflection that his
PMS fate is but the practical application of the
theirs finely spun theories. Had he not so
tterly denounced the Law which seeks to re-
owe the temptation, his son might not have
len an early victim to its fatal evasion.
Lancaster Express.
FoRGoT How TO MIX Ir.-An old fellow in
ssouri, who was in the habit of ''not belong.
to the temperance society,"" was in the act
taking nip one day before young Virgin
"What do you drink! p asked the latter.
>randy and water was the reply. "Why
mt you drink mint juleps?' "Mint Juleps?"
cried the OLD man, why, what in the name
drinks is that?" a most A59E deISia,LI san IoM -
LaRe ~ tiTF i, as see you have mint growing al.
nost at your door," The young fellow soon
procured the ]uep, and the old man was de-
ightcd with it. About month after, Oh his
return home the Nirginan thought he would
stop at his old friends to indulge" but Judge
of surprise, when his inquiry at the door for
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CAPITAL FOR TnE l"uNG.--lt is cons"la.
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LIFE WITHOUT An Aru.--i'hosc Of you who
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-17
THE DETROIT ELECTION.

Some Of the Washington newspapers quote
the Nebraska Question had nothing to do with
the late election in that place. There is record
evidence of the contrary. Mr.. Hyde, tho oppO-
sition candidate for the Office Of Mayor, was
informed that several of his fellow. citizens
would not vote for him unless he publicly de-
clarcd his views on the Nebraska Bill Up to
that timc, he had not supposed the question
would enter into the election but being deci-
dedly hostile to the measure, he ut once ayowed
his hostility in letter, which was printed,
posted up about town on the day Of election
and circulated among the voters The Free
Press, the favorite authority with the pro-sla-
very organs here, had the effrontery to pro-
nounce the letter a forgery, but Mr. Hyde
promptly set the matter right, in the following
motto to the Detroit Tribune. Let the reader
examine it, and then say how much credit is
to be attached to such papers as the Free Press
and those that are in the habit Of relying upon
it as authority.
DETRoIT, March 9, 1854
DEAR Sir. Observing, by this mornings
Free Press, that the correspondence between you
and myself, in respect to the repeal Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and the farther extension
Of Slavery, which was posted up about town
on the day Of election, is pronounced forge
ry, deem it but simple act. of justice to You
to state that the correspondence was published
iOith mig express appreciation and consent, and
that the sentiments it contains meet my most
Il L.
in favor Of leaving Slavery in the undisturbed
possession of the territory to which it was con-
fined at the adoption Of the Consultation, my
views in opposition to it's further extension
have been openly expressed upon all suitable
occasions, and are well understood by the citi-
zens Of Detroit.
Your statement in last evenings Tribune,
that my reasons for making them public in the
form did on election day, was the fact that
was informed that several of my fellow citizens
declined to vote for me until publicly declared
my sentiments upon the Nebraska bill, were
literally true You informed me on Monday.
morning that such public avowal was re-
quired by gentlemen for whom had the high
est respect, and promptly and cheerfully au-
thorized you to have the correspondence print
ed and circulated
These are the simple facts of the case, and
take pleasure in fully and unequivocally re-
lieving you of the charge of having got up and
published the correspondence without my all-
thority or knowledge, and Of again asserting,
in the most emphatic manner that it was pub
ished with my cordial consent and approba-
ton.
And now, in justice to myself, and to very
many warm personal friends, who broke their
party bonds, and gave me their devoted sup
port desire to say, that ! did not mediate or
expect that that question would be made an
issue at the late City Election, from what tran.
spired between yourself and me, whatever that
issue may be between the great parties Of the
country. Yours respectfully, o. M. HYDE.
Joseph Warren.
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

vote as did Messrs Norris and Williams in the
Senate, and will blast AL his future prospects
in New Hampshire by 10 doing. With Mcssrs
Morrison and Kittredge think it will be other
wise. do not believe any member OF Con-
gress from this State can vote to repeal the
Missouri Compromise, and ever be again elect
Cd to Congress-. Half the Democrats who
will be elected next Tuesday to the Legislature
Of this State will be pledged to vote against
any man for Senator who is in favor Of Doug
lass Bill of denominations.
Agitation will begin in earnest, in this State,
immediately after our election il out Of the
way and Democrats will be leaders in the agi-
tation. New Hampshire is to-day as much OPP
posed to the Nebraska swindle as is Old Mas
sachusetts
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WASHINGTON, d. c.
CONGRESS.
matt and vicinit,

The Senate has to-day been engaged in the
consideration of bills upon the private calendar.
In the House. the personal explanation OF
Mr.. Jones, Of louisiana did not appear to rem
der the affair between him and Mr.. Giddings
any clearer than at the date Of our former ad-
vices, except as it afforded to Mr.. Giddings an
opportunity Of showing that he asked no cour-
tesy not his DUE and could not appreciate the
condescension Of any gentleman.
Mr. Jones alluded to the fact Of his being .
new member; but that was evident: no man
OF experience in the House of Representatives
would for moment think Of browbeating, or
walking in stately triumph over, the veteran
from Ohio
In Committee Of the Whole, there was a
spirited discussion on the Deficiency bill. The
admirable working Of the fye-minute rule was
happily excmplified. Messrs. Breckenridge
McMnllen, Campbell Stanton Of Kentucky
Craige, Wentworth Orr, Preston, and Wash
burn, spoke pointedly, and generally upon the
proper subject.
Mr. Orr, however, took occasion to denounce
Secretary Guthrie's Democracy as not more
orthodox than Elk President Tyler's Whigge-
ry!-and all because Of the recommendation
by that fnnctionary Of certain Pacific Rail
road Bill and certain description Of Tariff!
1t would be a pity, at the present moment, for
any one to withdraw his support from the
Administration, on other grounds than the
Nebraska bill affords. The detection there
should be deemed ample enough, in all con-
science!