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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

TIE Chattanooga Dispatch revivcs
the fact that in 1853 Mr.. Davis, taen
Secretary Of War under Pierce, relieved
Capt. U. S. Grant, of the Fourlh In
antry, from tho consequence of court
martial sentence 10 suspension Of rank
and pay for The space Of oue year, and
sent him back to his command. The
Dispatch wants to know if Grant "ro-
members that great favor with a sense
Of gratitude, or ever said kind word
of his beneiactor"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04
A man who committed murder. was

II u1"u WIN eUTHuTEttcu D'urUeE' "ur
tried, found guilty, and Sentenced TO
be hung. A few days before iis ere-
cution he drew upon the wo,'s Of Lis
prison a gall1ws with five steps 'aaGiug
to it. On the FIRST step he ~roto, "His-
obedience to parents" Or tho second
step, Sabbath breaking.' On tho
third step, "Gambliug and drrnEen>
ness" On the fourth STEP he wrote
Murder" The fifth step wcs the rlal.
fo;m on. which the gallows stcCd This
poor fellow doubtless wrote shc history
Of many wasted and ruined life.
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Duty to P5rertS.

lie kind to yonr parents or grand
parents, clrc .or them tcrdcrly, loving
", waichiuiIY. age has taken from
tacur the vitality which gives buoyaney
aul youth. 'layhap they have dfanS
deeply of l;fa's cup Of Sorrow-Tl'h
aching, heavy, aad WI riga broken
hearts, may have seen hopes and joys
fade away before their eycs-cndured
much for the sake cf othc:s-and now
that lie is fading, they need care and
support far more than the younger ones
let us humor their whimS. their child
ishness, their seeming peevishae's. Let
kind words aud acts cheer them and
make lfc's pathway more pleasant Tor
the lettering feet. Make warm cor"
ncr in every heart for the aged t''
meubcr that dra;h bed scene is not
far distant, aud you should have no dark
spot on memory's page. The parting
blcs.in. Of oh age is Ike the very dew
of heaven Itself. Earn it by kind ac-
;ilns.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

The New. York Worlds special cor
respondent in the citysof Mexico says
the sentiment Of the people is in favor
of Il war with the United States Tho
World concludes that Senator Maxey
was right in his inference that Secrcr
tary Evaris is desirous Of negotiating
a new treaty with Mexico, bu; thinks
it impossible under existing circum.
stances.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

It is remarked Of the Hebrews Of
New Yo,I, that Willie they form about
ten per cent. OF the population of that
city, they contribute less than one Per
cent Of the criminal classes. One r'a-
son for this is. that aS Il race they are
early educated to habits Of industry and
sir dependence and are not given To
vices That have Il criminal tendency
Another ia, that such of them as hap:
pen to be stricken with poverty and
dcstitu,ion, are carefully provided Tor,
and not cast upon the word to become
Lccgars and outlaws uud enemies to So
cicty. There is much in the jewish
economy that Christians uishtprOtit BY
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

THERE is too much whisky in pol;,ies.
Here is Liverpool rejoicing as mayor
the owner of sixty gin palaces, because
he spent bis ill-gotton wealth freely and
founded an art gallery. He ought to
have bought some Of Cruikshank's
powerful paintings illustrating the evils
of intemperauce, and added them to the
collection.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

A farmers wife in Jay, Vermont, q
short time ago, became displsased with
tho hireI man of the place, an / while
her husband was away, discharged him
and did all the household and farm
work, digging fifty bushels Of potatoes
in day.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

men lay dead on the field, and the sur
vivors were sulienIy retreatins down
the hiI!. Mortal mon coula not have
stood hat fire. In half an hour he
c. n;esird field vas cleared, ard the lat
tic Of GctiysLurg was over.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04

The Turks on the top Of tic Balkans
at Shipka Pass are willing to i've nine
days ON handful of dates. out when it
comes to one meal u day or sno"lOlls,
they feel Il little anxious about next
years campaign. :.
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An excited railway man. who sleu's
into the cars the names et the stations,
and who hears a great deal Of .1mrlaint
because the names are called lpti.s :nct,y,
wants TO know if the prl;.c expect
,enors at $40 q month.
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,~Amn;e accommodations. Tables sup
piled with the best the Markers amor; 80
~ attention paid 10 the c"nior' "i uuts.s, s.s,
nay-Conncciel with the house Is " sas' "an
class Bar. which is located separately i'o"
the house, ard orderly kept;
sA-Conveyances supplied to c"es's o"
liberal terms. either for city or country H7e'
febo1y s. d. LATHAM Proprietor
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DeKalb House,
CAMDEN, S. c.
MRS, A. y. RODGEEks,
pROPRIETRESS.
REGULAR and Transient Board furnished
upon accommodating terms
September 30.
CHARLESTON HOTEL
CHARLESTON, s. c.,

CHARLESTON, > O.'
T. II JACKSON & CO., Proprictors.
The Charleston Hotel, well known as one
~ the leading frs; class Hotels OF me
South. offers to the travelling public sPGci%. !.
;nducencnis this season at forCLAh
ptTCS-S2.5O. So and 81 per day ac-
cnrdinc 10 location Of room. noSo-o'
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THE PLAN or ATTACK.

1uE llaN Db hAi's
When | left Gen. Lee ou tie night
.f In. lst believe that he had made
up his mind to attack, but was confident
tha. he Lad not determined as to when
rhe attack SHOULD be made. The ass'r-
ton first made by Gen. Pendleton, and
echoed by hi, eontrderates, that | was
ordered TO open the attack at sunrise IL
totally false. Gen. Lee never in bls
life gave ne orders To open an attack
at specific hour. lie was relt' c,ly
satisfied that when I.had nv troops in
position and was ordered to attack, no
time was lost. On the night OF the 1T
| left him without tiny orders at all.
On the moruing Of the 2d | went to
Gen. Lees headquarters at daylight and
renewed my views against making an
attack. lie seccmcd resolved, however,
and We discussed the probable results
We observed the position OF the Fcdc-
rails and got general idea Of the nature
Of the ground, About sunrise Gen.
Ice sent Venable, Of his staff, to Gen
Ewell's headquarters, ciderlng HIM to
make rcconnoi.ance Of the ground IN
lis front, with the vew Of making the
main attack on his leit. \ shbrt time
afterwards he followcd Col. Eruoble in
person. He returned at about OF clock
and informed ne that it would Eot do
to have Ewell upon tn" attack. lie
finally determined that | should make
the main attack Gu The extreme n"ht.
1t was fully ! O'Clock when Gen. Ice
arrived at this conclusion and ordered
the movement.
Oar army was stretched in an eIiip'l,
cal curve. reaching from the front OF
Round TIP around Summary Ridge
aud euve!cpjpg Cemetery he''his %"
the lcft, thus covering space OF iour
or FIVE uilcs. The 'ncmy occupied the
high ground in front cf us, beng
massed in curve # about two mites
nearly conc,n;ric with the curve de-
scrbcd By ouy torc:s. HIS line was
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-12-04
GETTYSBURG.
Genera; Lougstrcci's Account Of
Thai Eatni Day.

A narrative Of the Pennsylvania cam
paicn. from Tie beginning to the close,
written By Genl James Longstreo', is
published 10 the Philadelphia Times.
Gen'l Loncstrcct tells some things that
have never been told, and reviews the
operations of 1868 frnm point Of view
that is in many respects more adVanta'
seous than is possible to any other man
DOW living. since 40 mau now living
was 50 prominently concerned III thcm.
TIE FIGHT on JULY lst.
The encounter on the lst Of July
Gen. Longstrcet shows to have been
wholly accidental, and IT was then that
he belicTes Lee committed an error in
not either vigorously prosecuting the
tempory success, or oi,e mnn@uvcrn:
sa as to compel Meade t, make TIE at
tack Gen. Long.,reet continues as
follows: When oWricoA Gen. I've
a, 5o'c!ock ,l.ai o!ternoon hc said that lie
thought of attacking Gen Meade upon
the heights next Gay Gen. Lee WIS
imposed ~i,h the idea that b. attack
Ing rl.c Fedcyals he could whip them ia
detail. | remirGed Kim that il the
Federals were there in the n:crpirg 1t
would Le proof that they hal their
forces well in hand, aud that with Pick
EFT in ChamLcrsburs, ard Staurt out 0:
reach, we should DC somewhat in detail.
He, however, did not scpm to ahaodon
the ld.a of atiar; on the next day lie
sceu.ed und.r subducd excitement,
which occasionally took possession Of
him when "ihc hunt was ur," ard
Threatened hi, supctb cquipoise. Tic
sharp battle fought by ill ard Ewril
on that dag had given him taste OF
victory.
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STOVES. STOVES.

A heavy stock of COOKING, PARLoE
onI OFFlCF STOVES just received anu
offered at prices lower than can be hau
elsewhere in Camden
GUTTErING. ROOFING, Sc, attended
o. a. sbortest notice and on accommodating
terms.
A full lire OF
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-21

S1TTING-HENs.-It is q great mistake
to suppose that hen must sit on her
nest of eggs all the time, except fifteen
or twenty minutes each day, to hatch her
chicks. No one accustomed to the man
agement of fowls would ever place nest
where it would be exposed to strong
wind from any point of the compass, but
the sitting-hen should be put in some
kind of an inclosure, a box or barrel at
least; then the box Of coal-ashes to
which q handful of Stoddard's Carbolic
Powder has been added) would be handy,
so that when she comes off she need not
be disturbed, but left entirely to her own
instinct to determine when she shall 60
on again. Sitters will almost invariably
stay away from their nests longer in hot
weather than in cold, which shows that
they know what they are about, and will
bring out their chicks if left to regulate
their own time.
We have known hens to be off their
nests four or FIVE hours at time, on a
very hot day, without injury to the eggs;
on the contrary, we feel sure of the
necessity of such prolonged absence, to
give the eggs thorough airing. The
she'll being porous shows the necessity Of
air for incubation, and ventilation is
needed where temperature runs up to S50
and upwards, or the chicks will be feeble
and liable to disease. Experience is the
best teacher, and we have learned these
thingssby experiments in the last thirty
years. s.-Poultry World.
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A NEVADA PHENoMENoN.-The Vir-
ginia (Nev.) Enterprise says that much
excitement was recently created in. that
city by one of the strangest phenomena of
the century. At first it had the appear
ance of sparks of fire coming up through
the pools of water beside the street.
These sparks seemed to explode on
reaching the surface, in many instances
producing reports loud enough to be
heard across the street, and being accom-
panied by little cloud of smoke and
emitting a decidedly sulphurous smell.
After watching these performances for
long time, and tracing them all along the
street, it began to be noticed that they
occurred only on one side and that under
the telegraph wires. This led to closer
examination, when the following sup
posed solution was arrived at: The sparks
seemed to be caused by drops of water
falling from the wires, which exploded
when striking the pools of water, with
the effect above mentioned. This solu-
tion was seemingly confirmed by the fact
that when the wires became dry the
phenomenon ceased. There still remains
to be explained, however, why, under the
circumstances, such results should follow
the falling of the water drops from the
wires.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-21

Cur This OUr.-Every person should
know how to treat fresh wound. Every
one is liable to be placed in circum-
stances away from any surgical and We
terinary aid, where he may save his own
life, or friend, ora beast, simply by the
exercise of little sense. In the first
place, close the lips Of the wound with
the hands and hold them firmly together
to check the flow of the blood until
several stitches can be taken and band
age applied. Then bathe the wound for
long time in cool water. "Should it be
painful" a correspondent says, "take a
painful of burning Goals and sprinkle
upon them common brown sugar, and
hold the wound in the smoke. In q
minute or two the pain will be allayed,
and the recovery proceeds rapidly. In
my case rusty nail had made a bad
wound in my foot. The pains and nerv.
Gus irritation were severe. This was all
removed by holding it in the smoke ff-
teen minutes, and I was able to resume
my reading with comfort. We have Of
ten recommended it to others with like
result. Last week one of my men had
a fnger-nail torn out by pair of ice
tongs. 1t became very painful, as was
to be expected. Held in sugar smoke
twenty minutes, pain ceased and prom
ised speedy cure.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-21

A Boys COMPOSITION ON GIRLS
Girls is queer kind of a varmint. Girls
is the only thing that has their own way
every time. Girls is of several thousand
kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like
several thousand other girls, if she wants
you to do anything. Girls is all alike
one way; they are all like cats. If you
rub 'em the wrong way, or step on their
foot, they'll claw you. S'long as you let
a girl have her own way she's nice and
sweet; but just cross her, and she'll spit
at you worse nor cat. Girls is also like
mules they're headstrong. If a girl
don't want to believe anything you can't
make her. If she knows it's so she won't
say so. Girls is little women, if they're
good; and if they amt good then, nor
when they get big, they're she-devils.
That's what father said mamma was
once, when she fixed hot fat-iron in
the chair so he'd set down on it, cause
she was mad at him. Brother Joe says
he don't like big girls, but he does like
little ones; and when I saw him kissing
Jennie Jones last Sunday, and told him
what he'd said, he said he was biting her,
cause he didn't like her. I think he
hurt her, for there was big red spot all
over both her cheeks. This is all l know
about girls, and father says the less l
know about 'em the better off am.
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Judpe John A. Campbell, of Ne,

Judge John A. Campbell, of New
Orleans, who was the Confederate Assist
ant Secretary of War, has written letter
regarding the treatment of Federal pris-
oners by the Confederate authorities.
The7letter was elicited:by certain charges
made by a Colonel Chandler against
General Winder, who for a. time. was in
command of Andersonyille. Judge
Campbell says his connection with the
officers of the Confederate government
enables him to say with, emphasis that
there was no inhumanity, cruelty or
wanton msltreatment or neglect on their
part. He gays the condition Of the pris-
oners must have been deplorable, as was
the condition of the Confederates in the
camp and hospital, but argues that this
was due to the inexorable and iron poll
cy of the United States, which precluded
relief to these prisoners by resort to the
usual course of making an exchange of
prisoners. The blockade prevented the
introduction of medicines, stores and sup
plies. Armies of invasion made desc
lation and u waste in the land. The de-
struction of railroads, mills and maga-
zines prevented the accumulation and
distribution of provisions. The posts at
which prisoners were placed were thus
separated from intercourse and supplies.
Their conveniences, comforts and even
necessaries must have been curtailed.
Judge Campbell concludes his letter as
follows: "Neyertheless, it fully appears
that the nu~nber of deaths among the
prisoners captured by the Northern ar
mics was proportionately greater than
the number Of Northern prisoners in
Southern prisons. I am not prepared to
conclude that inhumanity, cruelty, want
of care to the suffering and the impotent
belong exclusively to the States south of
Mason and Dixon's line"
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Agriculture the Nation,s Wealth.

A popular writer has bethought him
that tho road to a revival of our national
prosperity lies through the development
of our agricultural resources. He sees
now that every other profession is so
over-crowded as to hurl, in times of
scarcity, vast mobs of idle, lawless people
upon the cities and towns for support
we say lawless because hunger knows no
law-the most law-abiding people in the
land become outlaws when driven to
desperation by famine. ''The sins of the
fathers are visited upon the children"
Those thrifty farmers who thought to
place their sons in better society than they
themselves enjoyed in their youth who
thought to put their sons more surely on
the road to wealth and respectability, by
taking them out of the farms and putting
them behind counters, or in lawyers and
doctors Offices, have now the satisfaction
of seeing the latter without patients and
briefs, and the former without customers:
Had these young men been encouraged
on the farm, and furnished with land, as
could have been done in most cases, many
of them would to-day be prosperous far
mers. The commonest observation teach
es that the nations wealth lies in its
agriculture. Neglect this, and all other
industries languish or perish. All the
other industries are but multiplied facil-
tiles for carrying on this. Among them
all this is the only sure one, unaffected
by foreign wars, unchanged by political
agitation. Prices may fuctuate, banks
may break, and currency fail, but God
causes the earth to yield her fruits, and
he that labors will be rewarded with
bread. What cares the farmer for low
prices, if his farm swarms with stock and
his barns swelled out with grain? Low
prices cannot effect him; he can afford to
wait for money he does not owe, and very
little money will answer his purpose
where food is abundant. So it is with
the nation. Let food be everywhere
abundant and cheap, and the currency
may 70 on contracting, but the nation
will be in repose.
The great matter which is troubling us
now, is the alarming fact that the non
producing classes have grown too great
and overwhelming for the producing
class. Agriculture, therefore, should be
encouraged by every possible means, both
by the national and State governments
Let governments and parents make it as
honorable to engage in agricultural pur-
suits as to become lawyer, doctor.
preacher, clerk, agent, drummer, tinker;
and peddler Let the young be taught
the real merits of an intelligent agricul.
turist, and the great disproportion be-
tween the producing and non-producing
classes will begin to diminish. The
future safety of the nation against famine
and consequent mob-rule, demands this
at our hands. The longer we delay, the
greater will be the work to perform. Lei
the squandered millions by State and
municipal governments be diverted into
the encouragement of agriculture. II
would accomplish wonders.
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! sshe.caI aiuncle, . said Mr.. Farley,
although we are not related" -
Constance begged me to excuse her
for moment and ran upstairs to call
ssmamma."
sIndeed," said to Mr.. Farley, II
thought from the name you were q rela-
tive. 1t is AN odd coincidence"
"No," said the old gentleman, "not at
all-did she never tell you? You see, I
am an old friend of the family-Con-
stance, bless her heart, has been pet
of mine from her birth, and I have made
her heiress to my property, on condition
that she takes my name"
90! I have often heard of you, then,
sir. Constance never told NE that Far
ley was not her real name."
"She has borne it ever since she was
three years old, and has lived at home
but very little, so that she rarely thinks,
suppose, of ever having had any other
name."
"This is my MOTHER" she said, leading
her forward. mamma, this is"
Now, reader, what do you suppose the
old lady was? Mygrandmother. Yes
Constance was the youngest of thirteen
daughters--the oldest was-my mother.
Therefore, Constance was my aunt.
"a man shall not marry his mothers
sister," And I did not marry mine.
Now, my dear reader, if you know
what is good for you, you will learn as
much as possible about your relations
especially if you have AL aunt younger
than yourself; because, you know, she
may have changed her name, and you
might fall in love with her. Isn't this a
very queer story? But, nevertheless, it
is true.
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MIXED HUsBANDRY.-The farmer who
keeps too much of his land in tillage
finds the agreeable yield of his crops d.
minishing every year until finally the
soil becomes completely impoverished,
and he pulls up stakes, seeks some other
location, and continues the process of
exhaustion. By adopting system of
mixed husbandry and keeping a greater
part of the farm in well managed grass,
a farmer can have dairy products, beef,
pork, mutton, and wool to depend on, in
Stead of waiting whole year for the
proceeds of crop of wheat, and then
finding out that the yield is poor and the
price low, while debts and demands are
gathering bulk by delay. A farmer who
keeps the greater portion of his land in
grass of the best quality can winter a
large number of stock, make abundance
of manure, increase the fertility of his
land and raise abundant crops of every
kind. Having many sources of revenue,
he is enabled to meet every demand and
save money beside.
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How TO INCREASE THE FLOW OF
M1LK.-A lady correspondent, writing
us from Arkansas, gives the following
excellent recipe to increase the flow of
milk in COW, and we can heartily en-
dorse it, for we have seen it tried. She
says: "Tepid water slightly salted given
twice day will increase the flow Of milk
one.third if the COW will not drink it at
first trial scatter a handful of bran or
meal over the top of it. They soon be.
come very fond of it, and will drink all
you give them. I tried this plan three
years ago with perfect success. I had
only one cow, and she was the common
scrub stock of the country, and after she
began to drink the water, prepared as
above, she furnished me twice day two
ordinary water buckets full of milk, and
by feeding little corn boiled with cot
ton seed the milk yielded butter enough
to supply my table bountifully and leave
me few pounds to sell every week. l
gave her three gallons of water twice a
day."-tSouthern Industries.
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A NEvER-FA1L1NG M1NE.-Young
man, you desire to obtain honorable,
lucrative employment; have you stored
your mind with useful knowledge; have
you made suitable proficiency in the pre-
ceding degrees? If so, step this way,
and we will conduct you to the portals
of bonanza as inexhaustable as time
itself. Have no fear about machinery
to excavate, or water to wash the bright
gold from the dust. Nature has mould
ed you into the proper machinery, and
she pours down her showers from heaven
Tin due season." See you these broad
lands, spread out before you? Behold
that beautiful valley stretching away be-
tween the vine clad hills, all covered with
green verdure. Hoe nor plow has ever
yet disturbed the repose of its fertile soil.
Every acre of that virgin soil conceals o
$1,000. Have you the manhood to un-
earth it? You twill try"-that is the