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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-02-08

Geu Agents. San Francisco, and u Conusrss 81, Ny
MILLIONS Bear Testimony 90 their
Wonderful Curative Effects.
Vinegar Bltters are not vile Fancy
Drink, Made Of Poor Rum, Whiskey,
Proof Spirits and Refuse Liquors, doc
tored, spiced and swcetened to please the taste,
called L" Tonics," "Appetizers," "Restorers, &c,
that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin,
but are o true Medicine, made from the Native
Roots and Herbs Of California, free from NIL
Alcoholic Stimuinnts. They nrc the
GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A
LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, o perfect
Rcuovator and 1nvigorator OF the System. carry
ing OF all poisonous matter and restoring the blood
10 healthy condition. No person can take these
Bittcrs accordin: to directions and remain long
unwell. provided their bones arc not destroyed
BY mineral poison or other means, and the vital
ORGANS wasted beyond the point Of repair:
They ure n GcntIo Purgntivo rs we'll
ms Il Tonic, possessing, also, tho peculiar merit
OF acting MS powerful agent In relieving congcs-
tion or Inflammation ofthe Liver, and Of all the
Visceral' Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether
in young or old, married or single, at the dawn OF
womanbool or at the turn OF life, these Tonic Bit.
tors have no equal.
For Influninintor md Chronic Rhcn-
nntism nnd Cont, Dyspepsia or ln-
. digestion, piIions, Replittent nnst
Intermittent Fevcrs, Diseases OF tho
Blood, Liver, Kidneys md Bladder,
these Bittcrs have been most successful Such
Diseases are caused by vitintcd Blood,
which is generally produced by arrangement OF
the D1Cesiivc Organs.
DYSPEPSIA Or INDIGESTION,
Headache. Pain in tho Shoulders, Coughs, Tight
ness OF the Chest, Dizziness. Sour Eructations Of
the Stomach Bad Tasto in the Mouth. Bilious
Attacks, PnlpitaHon Of the Heart, Inflammation Of
tic Lungs rPninin the regions OF tho Kidneys, and
a hundred other painful symptoms are the off,
springs OF Dyspepsia
They inYigorate the Stomach and stimulate the
torpid Liver and Bowels, which render them OF
unequalled efficacy in cleansing the blood Of all i'm.
purtics, and impartang new life nnd viaor to the
whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Euptions, Tesser,
Salt Rlieum. Blotcies, Spots, Pimplcs. Pustues,
Boils,. Carbuncles. Ring Worms, scn,d Head Sore
Eyes Erysipelaa Itch scurfa, Disoolorations tho
ever name or nature, literally dug up and car:
RED ont of the system In short time by the use OF
these Bters one 5GIe IN M slS tSar T
Cleanse the Initiated Blood whenever you find its
impurities bursting through the skin in Pimplcs,
Z Eruptions or Sores cleanse It when you find 1t
obstructcd and sluggish IN the veins; cleanse it
when It Is foul and your feelings will tell you when
Kecp the blood pure, and the health Of the system
will follow.
PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, urking
in the system Of 30 many thousands, are e6ectualy
destroyed and removed.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
j. WALKER. Proprietor. r. H. MCDONALD &c
CO. Druggists and Gen. Agents, San Franeisc2,
caa aS and 81 Commerce Street, New 1ofA
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Friday night, going down III twenty
/ five feet of water. She was owned by
j. Y. Mcdonald, of Pittsburg, and
worth six thousand dollars, but whether
| insured or not we are not able to state.
Her crew barely escaped with their
clothing. The produce boat j. G..
| Baker, from GolcOnda, Illinois, was
sunk at the same time with two thou
sand barrels of potatoes, worth six thou
sand dollars and insured for five thou
sand.
The Belle Lee was released from her
position at the Helena bar on Saturday
evening, and came up the river a few
miles. She. will doubtless come up here
to-day.
At last accounts the steamer George
w. Cheek was laying in dangerous
place at Helena.
The Strader has now on board six hun
dred bales of cotton.
The H. g. Yaeger came across the
liver yesterday and took her place at the
landing.
Brown & Jones received, yesterday, q
telegram that the William COWen, with
six barges Of coal and one of coke, left
Cairo yesterday for this city, and will
doubtless arrive to-day.
The Fannie Lewis passed Hickman
on Friday morning.
Our local columns to-day contain an
account of the changes at the river yes
terday.
1t is reported that the gorge at West
port had broken loose.
The towbOat Valid lies in the middle
of the river, below Beaver, imbedded in
the ice.
Seven thousand bales of cotton are
at Camden awaiting shipment, and forty
thousand at Shreveport.
Captain F. A. Banks has bought the
Lotawana, and viii place her in the
New Orleans and Ouachita river trade.
The General Buell., cut down by the
ice, at Madison, is a sidewheel steamer,
owned by the United States mail line.
She was built at Louisville in June,
1862. She was two hundred and fifty
seven feet long, thirty-six feet beam,
and had a depth of hold of five feet
eight inches. Her carrying capacity
was about nine hundred tons. Her en-
gines have twenty-inch cylinders of
seven-feet stroke. She was only insured
against fire.
Tuesday night large body Office came
dc IN the Ohio at Cairo, which struck
the towboat Wild Cat and a barge loaded
with corn and one with salt. The Wild
Cat sank to her hurricane roof on the
larboard side. The corn barge had two
thousand bushels of corn on board be-
longing to parties in Bayfield,. The other
barge was loaded with salt, which be-
longs to parties in st. LOJlis-we pre-
sumo the Ohio River Salt Company.
Both barges are total loss. The Wild
too fast before the wrecking boats get
there.
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WASHINGTON.
Treasury Orders-Kansas Secretaryship
Bribery Investigation = Mexican
Border TrOubles-LOaisiana
Affairs.

WASHINGTON, December 29.-An al
legged case of pardon by the Grand Duke
Of Hesse, on condition that the criminal
should emigrate to America, having
been brought to the attention Of the
Hessian authorities by cur diplomatic
representative at Berlin, assurance has
been given him that pardOns, accom-
panied by a condition Of that character,
viii in no case be granted by the Grand
Duke.
Assoeiate-Judge Strickland, Of the
United States Court of Utah, viii soon
resign.
The Secretary of the Treasury has au-
thorized the Assistant Treasurer of New
York to buy one million dollars in bonds
and sell one million dollars in coin each
week during the month of January.
The Commissioners to inquire into the
depredations of Mexicans on the Texas
frontier are expected to leave for their
destination on the fourth of January,
to resume their labors. Meade, one OF
the Commissioners, has resigned.
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections, will, ,On the tenth Of JAN
uary, resume their Investigations of the
charge against Senator Caldwell, that
he was elected by the bribery of certain
members of the Kansas Legislature. The
testimony taken by the Commissioners
of the Legislature is already before
them. They will, at the time above
stated, begin the examination of wit
nesses. The Sergeant-at-Arms has sum-
moned about twenty persons for that
purpose.
The New Orleans Committee have
printed their address to the people of the
United States relative to LOuisiOna trOu-
bles, accompanied with an appendix
quoting laws in support of there posi-
ton. Their memorial viii be presented
to Congress and an appeal made for
the appointment of commissioners to
proceed to New Orleans and ascertain
all the facts in the ease.
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TELEGRAMS.

The Czarovitch was all hunky las
night; SO we are told by cablegram.
The Atehison, Topeka and Santa FL
railroad was completed to the west line
Of Kansas yesterday.
Buck, Fenton & Co.'s tannery a
Portsmouth, Ohio, went up last nsghi
by fire; loss, $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Haight has written lettel
declining the position to which he had
been elected as Bishop Of the Episcopal
diocese Of Massachusetts.
Hy Williams, at PottsviIle, Pennsyl.
vauia, fell seven hundred feet, yesteE-
day, down a coal-pit. He has never
since said one word about the frightfu
tumble.
The amount of freight received IN Sc
Louis by steamers and barges this yesl
Is eight hundred and thirty-six thou
sand nine hundred and nineteen tons
The amount shipped from here by rivel
is eight hundred and five thousand two
hundred and eighty two tons. Twenty
thousand tons less were received and
thirty thousand more than were shipped
in 1871. More bsrges were employed,
but fewer steamers than in 1871.
The Erie express train which LEFT
Long Dock at half-past seven Saturday
evening came in collision at eight
O'Clock with a coal train from Weehaw.
ken, about one mile west Of Berger
Tunnel. The coal train at the time was
endeRvnriDg to switch of the track Il
allow tie express train to pass. Five
ears Of the freight train we're almost en-
tirely demolished, and the first of thl
two locomotives drawing the express
train Vss thrown on the side into deeE
cutting and badly damaged. The ex
press train was delayed two hours. No
body hurt.
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CUBA.

HAVANA, December 28.-The Insur-
gents attacked Mayari on the night Of
twentieth instant. The town was in q
defenseless condition. The regulars
and volunteers being absent, the man.
of-war Huloa landed her marines and
sailors, who drove out the insurgents,
not however before the latter had sacked
several houses. In the attack twenty
Spaniards were killed. The insurgents
succeed in carrying off their dead and
wounded.
On the night of the 18th, during the
absence of the troops on an expedition,
the insurgents, under the command OF
Vincente Gariea, entered the town OF
Holguin and captured Fort PeTrigurd.
The Holguin volunteers had been pre-
viously ordered to march into the fort to
replace the troops Withdrawn, and as
they approached, not aware that it had
fallen into the hands of the enemy, they
received heavy fire from the insur-
gents. The volunteers and a few regu-
lars subsequently attacked the insur-
gents, and messengers were dispatched
to recall the troops. Operations were
suspended until daylight on the 10th,
when the insurgents withdrew, after
sacklng SIX eSLdpllSHUeutS anu uuiu-
Der of private houses. A Spanish Lieu
tenants Colonel, a Major, and several
other officers were killed. Reports as
to the total loss of the Spaniards are con-
fiieting, some placing figures as high as
sixty killed. Spanish accounts ac-
knowledge twenty killed. Troops are
moving rapidly in pursuit of Garcia,
anxious to ayenge the death of their
comrades. Full particulars Of the affair
are wanting. Seventeen insurgents sur
rendered at Trinidad ON Friday. It is
reported that General CaballOs will re-
turn to Spain upon the arrival Of Gene
raj Cordova.
Those exposures cause much excite
citement among offiee-holdeTs and mer-
chants. 1t is reported that the In
tendente will return to Spain shortly.
IIis efforts to abolish the revenue frauds
have been partially successful. Senor
Puerts, President of the Spanish Bank,
is dead. The epizootie has broken out
among the oxen in the jurisdictions OF
Cardmss and Cienfuegas. Itis of q ma
lignant type, and in many cases death
follows almost Immediately upon the
animal being attacked.
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THE PACIFIC COAST.
Destructive Land Slide on the North
ern Pacific acknowledgements
Suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29.-Ont
hundred miners at the Raymond Ely
mine struck yesterday against ten hOul
shifts. They had been working eight
hours. Both parties are determined tC
maintain their position.
There has been a heavy rain storm
throughout the western coast, and San
Joaquin is threatened with overflow
Several bridges on the Iyaba river were
swept away.
Five immense land slides have occur
ed at Oregon, on the line of the North.
ern Pacific railroad. Two hundred
men will be employed two weeks
to put the track in ordel
again. Much damage was done on the
Columbia by breaking booms and float.
ing logs. Navigation is impeded by
floating ice north of Vancouvar.
Charles Krager, of this city, who
committed suicide to-day, had before
had Iesperate struggle with his clerk
who ,ried to prevent him. Krager's
clothes were torn off. He finally got loose
his left hand, armed with razor, and
cut his head nearly off, and fell dead tC
the floor. He was an unmarried Ger
man, in good circumstances. No cause
for the suicide known.
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weather ProbabirItIes.

WASHINGTON, December 29.-Proba
Utilities for New England-northwest
erly and southwesterly winds, and part
ly cloudy weather. For the Middle
States-winds backing southwesterly
and cloudy weather, with a light snow
over the northern portion, probably
turning into rain on Monday. For tbs
South Atlantic States-easterly and
southerly winds, and increasing cloGdi.
ness from Kentucky to the Gulf; south.
easterly and southerly winds, cloudy
weather and probably rain from the
Ohio Valley to the upper lakes; south
erly and easteTly winds, cloudy weather
and diminishing pressure from Missouri
and Kansas to Minnesota and Dakota;
diminishing pressure and increasing
easteriy and southerly winds and cloudi.
ness, with probable rain, from Iowa
southwark, but Snow thence northward
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

The steamers Siberia ard Cuba, from
Liverpool, put in yesterday. They expe-
rienced terrific weather.
A Paris tradesman has been sent to
prison for two years, for displaying in
his shop placsrds containing remarks
insulting to the National Assembly.
Smallpox, imported from Boston, is In
the country towns Of Nova Scotia. In
Yarmouth, all the churches, schools and
other places Of public resort are closed.
The Paris Gazette says Prussia is treat
ing with Portugal for the cession 70 the
former power Of Delagoa Bay, an inlet
of the Indian ocean, in southeastern AT
rica.
The Boston Gazette says that the late
Edwin Forrest. a short time before his
death, offered Mr.. James Parton five
thousand dollars If he would write the
life of Forrest, but Mr.. Parton declined
the offer.
Phosphate rock has become an i'm
portanf article Of shipment from Charles
ton, South Carolina. Burning the last
wear twenty thousand tons OF this ma
terial have been exported fr0n Charles
ton, and fifty Thousand tons from Bull
and COOsaw rivers.
A Washington correspondent says it
is believed by well informed parties that
the Louisiana proceedings were insti-
gated by Grant himself. DuIells usurp-
alton is supposed TO have been planned
in Nashingtors and Grants purpose is
said 70 be the election Of Casey to the
United States Senate.
Dr. SchIieman furnishes the New
York Herald an extended report Of his
researches in buried Troy, where he be-
gan to excavate in October last year. He
has found q well, an immense tower,
fragments Of urns, vases, goolets, etc,
and sOmse healthy toads, which be sup
poses are three thousand years old.
There is a movement on foot to revise
the New Hampshire constitution That
instrument is the only document Of the
kind in the Union which retains so in
vidious ard unrepublican q provision as
TO exclude men from Office on account of
their religious views. No one there not
a Protestant can be Governor, Senator or
Representative.
Mr.. Thomas B. HOlcOmbe, Of Virgil
mis-. who died in New Orleans last week,
was s graduate Of the University of Viz
cinia, and had practiced law both in
Cincinuati and indianapolis. He re-
tired from his profession on account of
falling health. and served several years
as librarian OF the University. BE was
a man Of fine RttainmeDts.
Mrs. Mary Darcy arrived in New
York on Friday, TO take her niece, Kate
Cummings, who had been employed at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, back home
with her, and learned for the frst time
that the unfortunate girl had been
smothered and burned In the recent fire.
It appears that Miss Cummings was wei
educated, and had left a comfortable
home, owing 20 q misfortune.
Casey. OF the New Orleans Custom
house, VIII be acendidate for the United
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.
FRANCE.

PARIS, December 29.-M. Bourgaing,
French Minister to the Papal Court, re-
signed because some French naval off,
GERS in Rome, at the beginning of the
holidays, called on the King and Pope
on the same day and rendered the COM
pliments of the season. The Monarch
lists seek to make political capital out oi
the affair. The Union publishers issued
an address praising the minister's act
as striking disavowal Of the policy
which would abandon the Holy Father
to spolation and insult.
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: GENERAL SUMMARY.

Z Destruction Of Cargo of Cotton.
CHARLESTON, s. c., December 29.--
The British bark J. B. Duties, at this
port for Bremen, with two thousand
two hundred and forty-nine bales Of up
land cotton on board, took fire on Sat
urday night in the cotton forward. She
was filed with water by engines, and
sunk at her wharf. The damage to her
cargo by salt water is large.
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eooa Nsw. From Upper rivers

CINCINNATI, Ohio, December o.
Thirty steamboats, are laid up in the
frozen river exclusive of ferry and har-
Dor tOw-boats, Of which there are ten.
1t is thought that they are 50 protected
as to be secure from harm when the
river breaks. The ice has been cut out
between Suspension Bridge and New
pert Bridge. The weather is growing
warmer ane the snow softening.
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EEGLAN ID,

LONDON, December 29.-The Aus
trian, French and Prussian newspapers
are engaged in a lively controversy Ovel
disclosures made by the Duke de Gram
mont in regard to the origin Of the late
war. The Duke brings documentary
evidence to support the truth of his
assertion that Austria promised to assist
France in case of war with Prussia,
and publishes an Austrian dispatch to
the French Government, in which q
pledge is given in the following words:
IfYour cause is ours, and we will con-
tribute to the success of the French
arnls.n 1t is reported that the Austrian
Government have determined to dis
pense altogether with the services OF
Count Won Beust.
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stnhls Rurnsa-we.ther.

ST. LOUIS, December 29.-Daniels &
McLaw's sale stable, corner Fifth and
Carr streets, burned about two O'Clock
this morning. Loss about twelve hun
dred dollars, partly insured. The
weather was much milder to-day, and
much snow has disappeared by thaw-
ing. The river is stiil rising, but the
ice-gOrges are still strong.
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The great-grandfsther of Thomas
Edwards died at one hundred and four
teen; his grandfather at one hundred
and four; but his father died at the
early age of sixty-seven. His young
son Edward, now only ninety-five,
recklessly committed matrimony with a
child of seventy. That is what comes of
being an unadvised orphan.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MASONIC NnTICE.

A SPECIAL convOcatiOn OF Penn g
IA Royal Arch Chapter, No. p will be Ny
held on MONDAY evening, December/N\
50th, at ~ o'clock for work in M. NJ. NJ. degree
All NJ. II. IS are fraternally invited.
By order {. g. LOCKE, NJ. Z. II. p.
A l. WHEEL F-R Secrararv de@l
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
Rnafs Lcnvtng To-Iax
Rivers, weather. Business.

Andy Baum, st. Francis, Mary Miller, Ar
lington, Ashland, Frank Forrest, Lawrence,
p. W. Strader, Glasgow, Pat Cleburne, EX-
celSiOr, Legal Tender, H. c. Yaeger.
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SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL

COTTON SEED CAKE is ? lznast s->Stitute
~ for coal in making mr. phis
Oil Company can furnish t.-- hty,
and at reasonable prices. ue9
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PeremptOry Auction Sale

MILLINERY GOODS, TRIMMED HATS
and Bonnets, Counter Shelving, Hat Stand,
two large GILT MIRRORS, ETC., etc. on
Tuesday Morning, Dec. 31st,
at 10 O'Clock, at Mrs. WINGS, SO2 Main st.
GEO. SHIELDS & CO., AucfiOneers,
deg 2i0 MAIN STREET.
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ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.

UNION AND PLANTERS BANK OF MEMPHIS,
Memphis, Tenn, December y, 1872.
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that
- an election win be held at this Bank, on
MONDAY, January Is, 1873, for the purpose Of
choosing Fifteen Directors to serve Tor the en-
suing wear. S. p. READ, Cashier
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?. ". RoYsrER. Jso. P. TREzEvAEF
ROYSFER, IRRELEVANT & CO.'S
REAL ESTATE
ExCHANGE
NE COR. MAIN and JEFFERSON.
BULLETIN for THIS DAY
The Most Valuable Business Lot In Men,
nhis af Changer Sale.

DY appointment Of the Clerk and Master,
ID we shall have the honor, as auctioneers,
OF assisting him al the sale ordered by the
First Cbancery Court, OF that most valuable
ground on Union street. in the limits OF
the burnt q fstrief- extending from Sec
Ond street 20 the alley between second
and Main street, 70 take place upon the
premises, on
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SCHOOL ELECTION NOYICE.

A N election viii be held on Thursday, jan
IA uary 2, 1873, pursuant 10 provision OF the
Charter of Memphis City Schools, for the Sc
lection of one citizen from each ward in the
city of Memphis to serve for two years as
member of The Board Of Education Of the
city of Memphis"
The election will be held at the same places
and by the same officers as for city election.
W. z. MITCHELL,
President of Beard of Education of the city
of Memphis. de2l
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TnFFICE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, /
NJ MEMPHIS, Tenn, Dec. II, l672.
a meeting Of the stockholders of this Bank
will be held at their Office, on TUESDAY, jan
uary Z, 1873, between the hours Of I and ., for
the purpose OF electing thirteen Directors to
serve the ensuing twelve months.
delE W. w. THACHER. Cashier.
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Tuesday. January 9TH. Is73

No property Of equal value and extern las,
for a great while, been placed upOn this N a r
ket, and we are glad 70 invite the attention Of
business men and capitalists 70 sCe a sii r..
The property VIII be sold on the UE- Jn5-reet
front, and plans viii be exhibited as sOOn IS
they can be prepared. The terms o. sale viii
be found I'm the notice Of sale published ov
the Clerk and Master.
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Special Bargains az Private SaIe.-We
invite calls frUm buyers, that We may lay be-
fore them eLtraOrdi mary Inducements in Eea-
idence Lots on Dunlap street, MOsby street
and Court street, and alsO a very nice Brick
Residence in the Titus Block, on Exchange
street, offered a. less than the value OF the
building, and the ground thrown in.
ROY SIER. TREZEVANT 9 co.
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The little steamer Webster was cut
down and sunk by the ice at Helena ON