The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-18

delivering one of the most humorous speeches
| ever listened to. He kept the audience
In one continued roar, save when he would
fling out some startling truth, and make it
tell
All the speakers acquitted themselves re-
markahly we'll They advocated prohibtory
measures. With such champions in the field
Rum must surrender. Its friends may for
while keep up sickly opposition, but in the
language of Brother HUNTER, in less than
ten years the Maine Law will be in force in
South Carolina" Who that watches the events
of the day can doubt its am entirely salts.
fed myself
And thus passed the ever fondy cherished
fourth of Jul y. 1t was day of intellectual
feasting, and pity the man who did not re-
ceive slice Of the wedding cake" When
shall we look upon its like again. When shall
we have another Napier or Hunter to address
Us. Alas times change, and may he when
the next anniversary of American freed m
shall roll around, those who contributed So
much to our pleasure, may have been gathered
to their fathers. But though this be so, they
will leave them name which those who come
alter them will call blessed.
Although my letter has run beyond all rea
sonable bounds, allow me to say our Division
is in prosperous condition. Candidates are
initiated almost every night. Is not this graft
fling. We are getting along better than at any
.tormer period Of our history. We have re
claimed some hard cases-they are now faith
ful members. The prospect is that we shall
make more headway this year, than during
any previous one This is cheering. Then
three loud long cheers for Prohibition. Let
us take pull, a strong pull, aud pull alto
gethrr and the batllements of Rum must tot
ter and fall. Yours truly. j. H. S.
Will my friends of the O. Teetotler," Normal
College, N. e., copy this aud oblige.
A WARNrNc.-We clip the following from
the Wiuusb"ro' Register Of Thursday:
can accident occurred yesterday in the horse
lot of Mr.. b. p Ravenel, illustrating this. A
horse, the property Of Mr. F. M.Spurrier, that
had been placed under the training of MIR. Raw
enel's os,ler, by some accident, resulting as
we are informed. from his having been very
tightly reined up, was preciptated in the we'll
t" The depth Of about TO feet. The noble an.
ilnal fingered about four hours after the fall be
fore it expired. In the attempt topul him out it
was necessary that some one should 90 down
into the well and faSten the rope to him. To
this task the u>tler himself volunteered He
had scarcely reached he bottom, however, be
fore he was deprived of the power of respira
ton, aud Was pulled up il an inSen>ible state.
Forlunatel, for him his legs hecame securely
eutangled in the ropes, "r he would have fallen
down to the boltonl, and must necessarily
have died either from the fall, or from the p"s
unous atmosphere. We have not the least
doubt but that the atmospheric mpurty
was caused hy the !gen in it having been
consumed by the h"rse-an animal OF sufficient
size to cousuiue in short time the property
t"xygen) in the atmosphere ofthat space capa
bic of Supporting life, and generating in its
stead that most deadl, poison, carbonic acid gas.
This fact will suggest the great danger of
going duwn into a lit or we'll of hat depth, ill.,
10 which any animal may have fallen, for the
confined air after being brealhed by it would
he converted int" destructive gas. Whether
the impurity existed in the well before the horse
tell in, or was produced US we have suggested
it is singular, and worthy of notice, aud al
though much larger animal, and requiring
greater amount of air to support animal life
the horse survived in it three or four hours,
when but minutes presence Interrupted rc>pi-
ration, and came very near producing death to
q nian.