The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1858-05-04
The Mississippi slave Trade.

|. We,6ad,tl,e following ip the New York 4 III
buae dated the sth inst. .at Xicksburg, Mis-
sissppi Our readers will attach VIA. importance
they please to the statements. OF course it is
unnecessary 10 say that the Tribune is quite
unscrupulous in the manufacture os-Southern
horrors. The story, however, is only c6nfirma.
tory Of other reports from the same locality:
|. is the, impression Of a great many that the
article in the Delta,in relation to the landing
Of cargo of Africans in the Mississippi, on
Pear. River, is hoax, but such is not the fact
and the Legros, as reported by the Delta, were,
sgIe :snous !, slanded, and can be now seen by
Ii,he ctedulons on the plantations of Messrs. H.
la. Goodrum, w. S. Heyland, Col. james Glass
Ilest smes A Hen, qF'tts,aias K. Knowlald. Mi.
I Z, Pice,J. Wesley Fortner, and a few others,
whose names have not yet learned under
Egoing a regular training, preparatory TO the
leplture Of cotton and other products insthe
State. -, -.n,a, H u
Abon. 40 Of the number landed were matcb-
ed, from Pearl River to this county, Warren,)
and can now be seer on tie plantations. of he
gentlemen above named. The balance were sold
in the interior Of the State at handsome
profit. 40
| The gentlemen above mentioned, as / leari
from undoubted authority, have forlneda ipints
stock company, and hare already paid in ff
carrying on the trade ahe sum Of $l09 900, and
ty the lst of next, August they espeet another
lc.rgo Of about 1900.
T understand that they intend to increase the
capital stock te $500, 900, ara that many others
in this. and county arc anxious to invest
in il. .,r. ~. t,r 1, ~ ;.
They have employed an experienced man
from Boston, Mass. at a salary Of 900, to
command the vessel, besides giving him an equal
share OF the profits. :,
A young and likely African man will readily
sell here for $1,000, whereas one from Virginia
or Maryland will sell for $400 more. KS
J. Wesley Fortner is President Of the Com
pany; III. II. Goodrum, Treasurer, and Thos.
*. Knowland Secretary. The Presidents, J.
Wesley Fortnsr, is the father Of the scheme,
and has been heard 10 boast that he would ciear
n cool one hundred Thousand dollars at it be.
fore two years" =,
The above are facts, Mr. Editor, VIII ich ;c You
may rely on as being 50. HILL CITY.
RnAAy 4 BARx Cosrs ErAn.-When it
necessary 70 iced infants arti6cially,, and cows
milk is used, i shoqId b. 6rst boiled, then skimp
ed, then fwsetepea with aljttle. sugar, and Rf4.
a little srl: added, not enoughto siva it satish
taste milk thus psepared Nili not only pre-.
vent the Indigestion and, cohseduent aSidlt,y;.
fatulence. collie, diarrhea, &C., from which
sucking children suffer 50 much, but will actu
ally cure them; SO says Halls Journal Of
Health.
-. A hearty infant will swallow, during the first
year Of it's life, fourteen hundred pounds Of
milk, IN which are twenty one pounds Of cheese,
thirty pounds OF butter, and hundred and
twelve pounds ofsusar. At six cents a quart,
with the necessary swe1teniug, each "dear"
little creature costs. for food alone, fifty dollars
for the frs. year.
FAMILY FniS siufFro'niTrED s$if BIZ EAa1Es.7Lpqk.
ombe in his "'rour Through Ireland in l719,"
saws: "In u,nst of these mountains (tbe Mac
Gillycudtys Reeks Of Kerry are numbers Of
eagles and other reeplasfions epls!o brd' have been
assured that some yearSsso 4 certain poor man
in that part Of the country, discovered one Of
their nests, and that by clipping the wings, Of
the eagles, and fixing collars Of leather abont