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Advising General Grant.

From the ~ Y. Tribune.
1t has not seemed to us advisable to proffsr
any counsel whatever to the President elect as
to the formation of his Cabinet. We have
several excellent reasons for his reticence,
only one of which need be mentioned-this,
namely, that he has not asked our advice in
the premises. The others may or may not be
equally good, but it cannot be necessary TO
adduce them.
For, while we do not question the right OF
any citizen to volunteer suggestions in the
premises, and would by no means incite the
President to disregard and defy the wishes of
his friends, we do insist that his own personal
Judgment and wishes should have very great
weight in the selection of those high func-
tionaries who are to be his confidential official
advisers, probably throughout his term OF
service. They are to be his familiar daily
associates his intimate, trusted counsellors;
be must rely implicitly on their integrity and
fidelity; he must, to great extent, see
| through their eyes, remove and appoint on
the strength OF their recommendations, and
be honored or disgraced in the public estima-
| tion as they shall do well or i'll. IL may be
too much to call them his personal or civil
stsff; yet it is simple truth to say that they
stand to him in a confidential relation OF in
timacy and trust which imperatively demands
that they shall be emphatoally the men OF
his choice and not imposed upon him by poll
tical combinations or personal pressure.
The administration will be known in his.
tory as his he must and will be judged and
measured by its success or failure; and pos
teiity will not admit as valid the plea in his
behslf-"He would have succeeded had he
been surrounded by the right men, for the
ready, unapswerable retort will belt was
his duty as we'll as his privilege to be thus
surrounded; be had no moral right to sur
round himself with others; and II he sue,
oumbed to dictation and accepted as heads OF
departments men whom he did not deem Mt
test for such grave responsibilities, he there
IN proved himself unfit for his own high posi-
tion."
In saying this, we indicate no opinion on
our part that those whom the new President
may call into his councils are ablsr or worthiel
than others whom his choice will exclude, but
only that his personal preference is entitled q
peculiar and even paramount weight in the
choice of Cabinet officers.
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An Impudent Politician.

from Lhe ~. y. Herald.
Mr.. Mcclure wants General Grant to ap-
point to his Cabinet from Pennsylvania some
man who will keep the Republican party in
that State together-who will vitaize 1t, and
make it "pusate." This is the true political
argument, and what these words as used by
politicians mean can be understood when
people understand Mcclure. Mcclure some
months ago went out to the Indian country,
and there saw how things codld bs done in the
way of big job. His eyes were opened-he
was excited. He must get that thing in his
hands somehow. Curtin is McClure's man.
Mcclure pulls the wires that move Curtin in
the eyes of the public, just as Thurlow Weed
has pulled the wires for many political pup
pets from this State. McClure's plan, then,
was to make Curtin Secretary of the Interior,
and through him as such Secretary to get
possession of the Indians. This is the whole
of it. This is what his concern for the ere
publican party" means, and this is the be-
ginning, the middle, and the end of all that
be had in view in his indecOrous assault on
the President elect
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The Senate and the Debt.

From he ~. Y Times
The country is so accustomed to the slow
movements and procrastinating habits of the
Senate when practical reforms are to be
achieved, that the failure thus far to touch
the bill prohibiting any increase Of the gold
bearing debt excites no surprise. 1t is
simple and obviously beneficial measure, in
volving no difficulty of theory or practice,
and ought to be disposed of without delav.
But the Senatorial fashion Of talking every
thing to death may defeat even this bill. 1t
still fingers in the Finauce Committee, where
its fate is further jeopardized by conflict with
the prearranged plans of Mr.. Sherman. There
is nothing half 30 dangerous as pet financial
theory. And as Mr.. Sherman would cure
financial ills by increasing the most oppressive
form of the debt as result of putting green
backs out of the way, it is perhaps natural
that he should wish to smother bill which
assumes that that debt is sufficiently large
already, and aims at preventing it's increase.
But Mr.. Sherman's partiality fer his hobby,
though it may explain, will not excuse, the
suppression OF one of the most useful mea-
sures of the session.
The positions assumed respectively by the
House and Senate ON financial questions differ
somewhat from those with which public
opinion has commonly associated them. The
House has been suspected OF heresies the
Senate has reioiced in reputation for ortho-
doxy. The events of the present session have
altered the relation. The House has proved
tself desirous of strengthening the public
credit, and by series of acts has contributed
TO the marked increase of confidence which is
revealed in the rapid rise OF our securities
abroad. The bill to which we have referred
as slumbering in the Senate committee is one
Of these, and by no means the least important.
The Senate, meanwhile, INDUCES its fondness
for debate by nursing Mr.. Sherman's scheme
for increasing the debt, the enactment ol
which would neutralize all the good effected
by the judicious action of the House.
The promise OF Mr.. Sherman to push for
ward Mr.. Schenck's Public Credit and Coin
Payment bill is good as far as it goes. But i
he would do his whole duty to the public
credit, he will not let the session close without
finishing the effective means devised by the
House for stopping the growth of the gold
bond debt.
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Recovery of the Second Cuba Cable.


II will be remembered by our readers that
the attempt of the International Ocean Tele-
graph Company to lay second cable between
Key West and Havana failed last year from
the drifting too far to the eastward of the
steamer Narva while laying it, and the conse-
quent necessity Of dropping some miles from
the shore the end that was to have been
landed in Cuba. The one was buoyed, but the
buoy-rope broke one hundred and twenty
five fathoms below the surface, and hence the
necessity for graphing for the cable in the
same manner that the Great Eastern grappled
for the first Atlantic cable. The work to
recover the Cuba cable was performed under
very different circumstances from that of re-
covering the Atlantic cable. The latter lay
at a depth of one thousand nine hundred and
eighty fathoms, on level bottom, under still
water; while the Cuba cable was lost at
depth of eight hundred fathoms, on an uneven
bottom, and with vast volume of water
driving over 1t at an average rate of four miles
an hour.
Preparations for the work were made by
placing on the steamer New England ma
chinery similar to that used for recovering the
lost Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern.
Owing to the strength of the current, the Crap
| pling ropes were required to be unusually
| strong. They consisted of sixteen steel wires,
each encased in Manila hemp, and laid up in
strands OF four each. This rope was divided
| in'o tenSlhs OF Two hundred fathoms, with
shackles and swivels between each. The
point where the cable was found was passed
over with the grapples six times, aud thrice
the cable was caught. On the first occasion
the cable parted, through some fault in the
machinery, and the second time it parted at a
splice, heavy sea running. On the 18th OF
February IL was caught again and successfully
raised and landed, and now we havea double
cable to Cuba as we have to Europe. The
operations were performed under the personal
supervision of General William f. Smith
President OF the International TELEGRAPH
Company, and Sir Charles Bright, Engineer-in
chief Of the company. This event is another
assurance Of the practicability of handling
ocean cables and laying them, and will con
duce to strengthen the science of ocean tele
gTaphy.
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~cxaxxA FUR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENe
4Sxkkkkzs Tow N.-Inmgn Line OF Mall 5teau,er.
sie appointed W sail follows--
CITY OF NEW OtSk, Saturday, Feb 20, p M.
NINA, HslifHX, TUESDAY, Feb. ~, Il noon.
CIIY OF Ana MkRP, Saturday, Fen IN, L r. M
CITY OF LOHDON. Saturday, M ar. q, n noon
hAN0A hUO,vta halifax, Tuesday, Mar ., 1 p. "a
OlTY OF BALriMvkE, Saturday, Mar1S, p. ~.
aud succeeding Saturday aud alternate TUESDAY,
~ / z, M, from Pier 45, North Rlver.
RATES OE PASSAGE BY THE MAIL sTRAMMR
AAILINs RvERY eATURDAx,
RrSysSie iS Cold .,oo s RsysD.e ~ currency
70 lon0On,..,...,,. 1u5 TO Lond0n-....--... 20
to Pars,.......,.... n5 70 Paris........ -.... ~
PAssAGE BY THE TUEBDAY srEAMER VIA HI LIYAx.
FIksT CABIA,
Pay able In Gold. Payable in Currency.
by Branch steaiaer....J ~ ~ Branch Steamer.
Passengers Also fcrw aroed 10 Havre, Hamburg Rra-
men, ETC., ~ reduced rhteA
Tlckets Can be bought mere Dy persons sending for
their friendB at moderate rates.
For further Information apply at the Company's
Otfces. -, 49, II II
Or IN ODONN ELI a FAUhK, Agents,
No. All CHESNUT Street, Philadeipnia.
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General Grant and the Internal Revenue
Bureaus
From the ~. Y. World.

1t may possibly be that Mr.. Rollins, after a
dozen feints in that direction, will actually 20
out of Office on the incoming of the new ad-
ministration. The belief that he may do 80 ia
strengthened by the statement that he has
made an ergagems mt with Jay Cooke to take
the Boston agency for one of that gentleman's
fnaacG8 schemes which has received the
favor M Congress, and also by the fact that
he cannot decently retain the post longer than
the fourth Of next month When he does 90
out one Of the most important offices under
the Government will become vacant. and
General Grant should realize the full measure
of the responsibility which will rest upon
him in filling 1t. President Johnson has
been repeatedly accused by radical journals
with having been the sole cause of the
deep sdemoraliz alton which has marked the
whole revenue service since he succeeded
to- the Presidential chair but little has
been said as to the Senste's agency in the
matter. The simple truth Is, neither the
President nor the Senate have realized that
the Revenue Bureau is great trust. Ap-
pointments OF assessors and collectors have
been made from political considerations alone
and the natural consequence has been thai
places of great Importance and power have been
flled by incapacity and rascality, effectively
protected in the preparation Of wrong by the
Tenure Of Office bill. Instead of these posts
being filed for reasons OF fitness, they have
Been QileQ IOr pollllchl roaSOuS' OVno Ol Luo
outrages committed upon the people by the
Senate through these appointments are already
well known TO many in the community. The
oases. however, of the five Republicans hold
ing internal revenue posts whom the Presi-
dent was absolutely compelled to suspend
under the Tenure-of Office act may not be so
widely known as they deserve to be. Although
the Senate was perfectly aware that the
course of the Executive in this matter was
in compliance with the recommendation OF
Mr.. Rollins, and that the latter official had
withstOod all pressure and allowed the five
to 20 unchecked as long as the local
public sentiment would possibly permit, that
body firmly refused to confirm single one
of the suspensions, and never did do so. OF
the Eve, one died before legal action against
him was consummated; they Were convicted
of official corruption and imprisoned; and the
xems6 Asg one, Collector James, Of Richmond
notoriety, was actually restored to Office by
the Senate with the proofs of his crime be-
fore its face, and in face OF the report against
him, made by its own Finance Committee;
and 1t is likely that he would have been in
the ONCE to this day but for the developments
In case tried in the adjoining district which
fastened guilt firmly upon him. This is bui
one out OF many cases that could be quoted to
illustrate the manner In which these import
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John Bright on Ocean Penny Postage.

FROM th6 ~, r. Herald,
At banquet of the Associated Chambers of
Commerce held the other evening in London.
John Bright made a characteristic speech, and
urged, we are told, the importance and neces-
sity of adopting the system OF ocean penny
postage. There is no public man living now
In England whose name is so extensively
and honorably associated with reform as John
Bright. Since 1882 up until the present time
there has been no reform movement in Great
Britain to the success of which he has not
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-01

The wolf bounty IN Minnesota has been
reduced from $40 to 90 per head.
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PRICE OF PASSAGE
In gold (inoluding wine),

-N 40 BKEsf OR HAvRE,
Firat Cabin $l40 second Cabin.....,. s85
IU PARIS. l' ~
(InCluding railway tickeis furnished on boardl
Flrst CABIN $40 second Cabin
These ste aneIs oo hot carry steefsge passengers.
III edlcsl attendance II ee OF charge.
American travellers going 20 or returning from
the continent OF kurope. by taking the eamers Of
this line avoid UNNECESSARY risks from transit py
English railways ana crossing the channe besides
sAvInR time, Trouble and expense.
GEOk9E ID lCkENZlE, Agent,
NO. So BROAl WAY, New York.
For passage In Philadelphia, Apply At Adams
Express Company, to II. l.. LEAF,
lH2 No $50 CHESNUr Street. n
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ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.

a. A. A. unN ERAL TRAN5ATLA MTG COMPANIES
MAIL sIEAAeHIPS BEPWEhN NEW YORK
AND HAVkh, CALLING AT BRE5T,
The splendid vessels This favorILe route for
the Continent will sau from Pier No. 50 North river
IUIlUws:- ~
ST. LAU URkNT........ .Brocande. ....Saturday C,ot
WILLIE DE PAhl6.... .Surmont. Oct ~
Duchesne. Oct "A
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
THE JOURNAL.
Camden, February II, 1859

How THE LAND GoEs.-Ihe Sec,
retary of the Interior informs us that
up to the SOth of January, 1862 Con
gress had given away-malniy TO ra'l'
roads-twenty-one and half million
acres of land, and that since that time
five and half millions more have been
added to the list. And yet the New
York Tribune thinks that this is not a
comnlete account 1t asks: "Will not
CONGRESS call for more particular state.
ment, showing, first, how much land
has been given away up to this time;
second, how much more is involved in
the bills now pending; and, third, how
much good land we have ett?" We
would like to add to this the further IN
quiry, "How much of all the land do
mated to these objects has been given to
the South ?" This would be fair and
proper, not merely for the qualification
of any sectional feeling, but to place
before Congress basis for future ae-
ton should that body be disposed to
make some amends for the glaring par.
tiality which infamed the discomfort OF
the South and helped on secession.
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THORBURN'8
GARDEN SEEDS.

TARLY next week we shall open at
IT. the journal Office, our usual sup
ply of SPRING GARDEN SEEDS,
consisting Of
BEANS-Early Valentine, Early Yel-
low Six Weeks, Early Mohawk, large
and small white Lima.
BEETS-Extra Early Turnip, Early
Blood Turnip, Long Blood, Long
Smooth Blood. Swiss Chard.
COR Mammoth Sugar, Adams
Early. .
CABBAGE-Early York, Large Ear
ly York, Early Ok, Heart, Early Bat
tersea, Early Dutch, Early Drum
head, Early Winningstadt.
Large Late Drumhead, Late Flat
Dutch, Green Glazed.
CRESS-Broad Leavcd.
CUCUMBER-Early Russian, White
Spined, Early Frame, Long Green.
CARROT-Long Orange.
EGG PLANT-Improvcd New YORK.
HERBS-sage, Summer Savory.
KOIILRABI-Vienna.
LETTUCE-Ice Drcmhead.
MELONS-Nutmeg, Cantelope, Ice
Cream.
MUSTARD-Brown, Rape.
ONION SETS-Silver Skin, Large
Red, White Onion Seed.
OKRA-Improved Dwarf.
PARSNIP-Gucrnsey.
PEpPER-Sweet Mountain, (fne for
Picklcs)
PEAS-Extra Early Daniel ORourke,
Bishops Long Pod, Blue Dwarf I'm
perial Champion Of England.
RADISH-LoDg Scarlet Short Top,
Scarlet Turnip.
Satisfy
SQUASH EARLY White Bush.
TOMATOES-Large Smooth Red, Fe-
ice Island.
SPRING TURNIPS-Early Red Top,
White Flat.
Feb. 4 tt
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List of Letters
W. CLYBuRN, Clerk.
Feb. IL

REMAINING in the Post Office, at
Camden, S. c., February 10, 1869.
Miss Jane Brown, Mrs Evy Brown,
Nancy Bankin, Mrs Pender Cohen,
Fannie David, f. C. Dolby, Mrs. Fran
els j. Davis, Miss Sarah Edwards AL
sey Eatmau, Chas. B. Glover, W. Nj.
Harrison, G. P. Hodge, A. NJ. Idol,
M. J. johnson, B. N. Jones, James y.
Jones N. w. Jones, Miss Sarah J. Nc
Donald Elijah G. Mcdonald, Miss A.
L. Mcdonald, Miss Margaret Macuster,
Mr.. Pleasant McCray, j. P. Morrison,
Joe Mcdonald, Jefferson Nettles, F.
W.. Patrick. Emma Pleardown, Cisily
Ross Miss E. Sutton, J. A. Stucky,
Bertly Simpson, Dina Sutton, W. G..
shoves, R. Springer, Maraws Taheas,
J. E. Tobin, J. w. Weldon, Henry
Willgards, Miss Matilda Williams, Mrs
J. c. P. Williams.
Persons calling for the above letters
will please say they are advertised.
j. NJ. GAYLE, P. NJ.
Feb IL. 1t
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s A L e
Valuable Real Estate,
Under Decree in Equity,
J. D. Kirkpatrick, Admir-. VS.. James
Chcsnut, ct al.
Petition 10 sell Lind, &c.

Petition 10 sell Land, &c.
IN obedience to an order directed to
J. D. Dunlap Receiver in above stated
cause, we will sell before the Court
House in Camden, on the first Monday
in March next within the legal hours of
sale, all the Real Estate Of John Ches-
nut, deceased, lying on Sanders Creek
and Camp Branch, on east side of Wa
teree River in Kershaw County, con-
sisting of six thousand acres more or
less, bounded by and adjoining lands Of
e. B. Cantey, Ii. c. Salmond, j. Il:
Vaughn and others. The said tract of
land, with valuable mill seat thereon,
partly cleared and under cultivation,
and partly heavily timbered, suitable
for agricultural and turpentine farms,
will be sold in small and convenient par
GELS. Plats of said lands in the posses
sion of j. D. Dunlap, Receiver, can be
examined by all persons desiring.
TERMS.-So much cash as will pay
the costs of these proceedings and ex,
pcnses of sale, balance on a credit OF
one, two and three years, with interest
from date, payable annually, secured BY
bond, good sureties and mortgage of
the nremiscs sold. Purchasers to pay
for stamps, papers and recording.
j. ID. DUNLAP, Receiver.
J.P. BOSWELL, Sheriff.
Feb. I'll
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NATIONAL FAMILY
SEWING MACHINE.
AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITION.
WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS.

AT the present time it lis unnecessary
to set forth the practical utility OF the
Sewing Machine, and the advantages
to be derived from its use. The pres
ent age has been prolific of inventions,
but that of the Sewing Machine stands
pre-. eminent. Every family should have
one, and the only question is, which is
the best, cheapest, and best adapted d, to
the wants of the community. Ihe
NATIONAL SEWING MACHINE
combines the good qualities OF oil Sew
ing Machines heretofore made, and is
so simplifed in mechanical construction
as to be manufactured at the very low
est price. BY discarding all compllca-
ted machinery, perfect machine has
been produced, so simple in its opera
tion as to be readily understood by all.
The above Machines are for sale at
the store of j. S. CLOUD, in Camden,
where one Of them may be seen IN op-
Grafton.
Jan. % IT,
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UNITED STATES
AMERICA.
SOUTH CAROLINA DISTRICT,
TNpA ANHpT1pTnV

SOUTH CAROLINA DISTRICT,
IN BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter of John L. Jones, Bank
Bankrupt. - d"
rs uohom it may Concern
TN pursuance of orders by Hon. ".
/ j. Clawson, Register, made in the
above case, I will sell at public outcry,
at Camden, s. G., before the Couit
House, on Wednesday, the 9th Feb.
ruary, A. D. 1869, the following prop
erty, to wit: -. ".s
One Tract of LAND, at Liberty
Hill, in Kershaw District, containing
twenty-eigbt acres more or less, bound
ed north by lands of R. B.. Cunning
ham, south by John Brown, east by
Sarah Hudson and petitioner, west by
Wylie Patterson. ~'.'
His interest in six acres of LAND
at Liberty Hill, in Kershaw County,
bounded North and east by Wylie Pat
tcrson, south by Johu Brown, west by
petitioner.
Terms, Cash. Purchaser to pay for
papers and stamps. -
J. M. GAYLE,
Assignee for J.iL. Jones.
Feb. 4. es@ 1t
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PIEDMONT
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The most Popular Company in the
United States.
Eighty-scven aud-a-half per cent. of
Profits paid to Policy Holders.

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Would you secure your endorsers
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If $50, secure at once Life Policy in
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January 20. I'm
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NOTICE.

NITIZENS are earnestly requested
" not to empty into the streets the
TRASH and LEAVES which they re-
move from their premises, as they fill
up the bitches and prevent the proper
drainage of the Town.
BY order of the Council.
W. CLYBURN, Clerk.
Feb IL. st
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One Tract of Land lying on the wa-
ters of Big Lynches Creek, bounded by
lands of Geo. ?. King, j. i. King and
DIR. B. s. Lucas, containing Eight
Hun drcd Acres, more or less. Levied
upon as the property of Daniel Gardner,
at the suit of A A. McKain, Adul'x
of w. J. McKain, deceased.
Terms CASH, purchasers paying for
stamps and papers.
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RESPONSIBLE
AGENTS WANTED

TO dispose of guarantees for the sale
of Landed and other valuable property
10 different parts of the United States.
Profits very liberal, sales easily effected,
and no loss of time from other business.
Address J. r. MILLER & CO.
Box /, P. O. Port Deposit, Nd.
January ES. ot
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Final Notice.

A IL persons to whom the Estate of
n DR.. J. LEE is Indicted, will
please present their accounts properly
attcsted on or before March the lst,
to Messrs. Baum, Bros
THOS. B. LEE, Admir-.
Feb Al. st
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PROBATE NOTICE.

FXECUTORS, Administrations, Trus
u tees and Guardians who have neg
lected to make their Annual Returns to
this office, according to law, will be al
lowed TO do so during the present month.
All who fail. to comply will positively be
ruled to show cause.
j. +. SUTHERLAND, j. P.
Probate Office, Feb. 2. At