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:YS EIRsT EXPISILE.


ster General Key, ''ex-rebel, "
yther," etc., has written an
to the people of the South
e concludes that "the cir
IS attending the passage Of
er resolution to investigate the
entail election frauds of 1876 in
State of Louisiana and Florida,
ence that, if both Houses of the
y-sixth Congress are Democratic,
majority intend to oust President
es and seat Mr.. Tilden.o He fur
concludes that Mr. Hayes title
Presidential chair was fiirrevo-
settled by the Electoral Commits
and that the forty-ffth Congress
right TO dispute his election,
fforty-sixth Congress no more
ignore him than President
would have to send file of sol
the House Of Representatives
a Democrat whose seat was
q. He says "the leaders in this
-sggSa Mexicanize our Institutions
rely upon the salid- South to furnish
the majority in the next House" and
he cautions them (the Southern peo-
ple,) that Northern Democrats are Just
as unreliable now as they were in
1860 and 81. He thinks the South
"must now face the most momentous
crisis in its history since 1867 and
SHOULD afford crowning evidence Of
its devotion to the Union by sending
representatives to the forty-sixth Con
gress pledged to sustain the title of
/ President Hayes during the term for
ch he was elected, at all hazards.
cludes his lengthy epistle BY
the people Of the South Of the
lich threatens the country,
'no man need hope that the
es Of the men who have engin-
e55ed- the movement to uDseat Presi-
dent Hayes can be carried out without
a bloody civil war;"
Now, that "erring brother" Key has
unburdened his mind Of this terrible
nightmare AN unseated President, a
disorganized cabinet, and civil war,
bat must have been weighing upon
i'm heavily for long time, it is to be
loped he will rest easier and it
ls to be further hoped that the Presi-
dent will recognize this erring broth
er's faithfulness by permitting his
continuance at the public crib little
longer
We cannot think that any consider
bic number Of Democrats in Congress
ire aiming to unseat Mr.. Hayes
nd, as there is,no way to unseaf,him
gxcept by impeach1i - con
science is not 3 re-
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Of the decision Of the Electoral SoRi- :
mission, body created by both par
ties, and with a full and fair under
standing that the decision should be
final. But, at the same time, these
election frauds Of Florida and Louis
lana should be probed to the very bot
tom and the whole rascally transaction
laid bare for the inspection of the peo-
pie.
If Mr.. Keys letter is a bid for a
continuance of favor at the hands of
the Administration itmay be a success,
bat it will be sufficient to say that the
people Of the South will care as little
for Mr.. Keys letter as they care for
Mr.. Key.
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The closing price Of gold, in New
York, on Friday, was IL.
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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20

There is deposited at the Mint, Broad
street, Philadelphia, troy pound
weight, which is kept under duplicate
locks and seals. There is curious hiss
tory connected with this.weight. By it
is determined the standard to which
the accuracy Of the gold and silver coins
of the United States must attain. The
commission appointed by the President
to test the coins and make the annual
assay use this weight, and on these oe-
casions it is taken from its carefully
guarded seclusion, and it shows the ac-
curacy or inaccuracy Of the productions
Of the various mints in this country.
This little cylinder is copied from troy
pound weight preserved in the Tower OF
London, and on this latter the coinage
of Great Britain rests for reliability.
This exact witness of financial integrity
is carefully preserved and guarded from
tampering hands. At the conclusion Of
the assay commissions labors the weight
is intrusted to the care Of a judge Of the
United States district court, the COL
lector of the port aud the director Of
the mint, locked up and solemnly sealed
for another year, only to appear twelve
months after and show which mint has
been derelict in Its work.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
White Indians.

"Montana Charlie" a scout, who
lived in the Sioux country for about
twelve years, says there are two white
men in Sitting Bulls camp. Qee is
Major Pease, who was dismissed M dis
grace from the Fourth Infantry Of
United States troops in 1861, while sta-
toned somewhere in Kansas, since which
time he has been living and acting with
the Indians. He has the full confidence
of the Indians, stands high in the esti-
nation of the great Sioux warrior, and
is to all intents and purposes an Indian.
renegade from and an enemy Of his
race. The other man is named John
OBrien, and he was taken prisoner at
the time of the Custer massacre, and is
held in captivity. He has been adopted
into the tribe, and has squaw wife, but
is under the strictest surveillance to
prevent escape. The scout has seen and
talked with both these men, and knows
that they arc with these Indians under
these circumstances. O'Brien is sup
posed to be the only survivor Of the
g uster massacre. He was wounded
twice, and while lying in the bushes was
saved by squaw whom he knew some
time previous at Fort Abercrombie.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
The Street Of Nations.

A Paris correspondent gives this
item about the exposition: One Of the
most curious features of the exposition,
and one that first attracts general at
tention, is the Street Of Nations. One
OF the sides of this avenue is series of.
typical facades, that is, of fronts Of
buildings erected by the exhibiting
nations, and each of a special type Of
architecture. That Of tho United
States is a credit to Mr.. Henri Petite,
engineer. who directed the building.
By its proportions, its harmony, and
the care in its details, it answers to the
idea Of thoughtful and practical ma
ture. One fingers before this specimen
of friendly dwelling-house, or use
full establishment, so pleasing and at.
tractive by its elegant simplicity and
charming coloriug. Sweden and Nor
way show an edi6ce of firewood, with a
tower, and the reproduction Of an old
clock Of the tenth or eleventh century ;
Greece, q house of the time Of Pericles;
China, an actual house brough ht from
Pekin. Spain has rich facade where
remembrances of Grenada and Seville
are gathered. The Russian architect
was inspired, it is said, by the palace
OF Calomma, near MOSCOW, where rete.
the Great was born. 1t is impossible
to finish the catalogue.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
A Rejected Lovers Revenge.

Taking seat just behind the happy
pair in church, he racked his brain for
means of revenge, and looked like sew
enteen Othellos concentrated in one.
Finally ghastly smile crept over his
face, he raised half up in his seat, and
nabbed a large black bug that was
crawling on pillar hard by, and gent
ly dropped him down between his un-
cons cious rivals shirt collar and neck,
and then calmnly leaned back with q
virtuous and christian air of satisfac..
ton. The bug soon made his presence
felt, and that other fellow began to
twitch and scratch himself against the
back of his seat and look uneasy, and
cast unhappy glauces at tho minister and
affecting ones at the fair being by his
side. The bug evidently grew more
impatient at his imprisonment, and
turned himself loose, graphing around
with recklessness very suggestive oi
of big black spiders or scorpions and
that other fellow could stand ii NJ
longer ; but boiling upright, cast ont
wild, startled look at the congregation
cleared the space between him and th,
door at two bounds.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
A Love Trajedy In Texas.

About two years ago q Mexican youth
of this city became attached 10 young
lady whom he had known from child
hood, and recently engaged himself to
her for marriage, against the will of her
parents. His name is Jose Madrid and
hers Jesusita Chavez. Jose is train
master, and shortly after the engage
ment departed with train for a West
ern post. While absent, rival for her
hand appeared in the person of a we'll
to do countryman by the name OF jesus
Zepeda.
The latter, having the advantage of
Jose in age and wealth, was encouraged
BY the girls parents, who protested
strongly against her marrying Jose;
Jesus went to the girls parents, assured
them of his love for their daughter,
asked that she be given him, and was
cheered by a favorable response. The
girl declared that she loved Jose and
not Jesus, and vowed that she would
marry whom she pleased. For her per-
sistency in hor love for Jose, last
Thursday she was severely punished by
her father.
Saturday evening last was appointed
as tho occasion for the wedding. Jesus
made extensive preparations, and the
parents of the girl devoted considerable
money to their side of the programme
Thursday evening. however, Jose re.
turned FROM his Western trip, and as
soon as he reached the city, Jesuslt'
sought him out and told him the whole
story of what had happened during hi
absence. Seeing that he had not onl!
strong competitor, but tho parents o
his inamorata to contend against, Jos
and Jesusita arranged an elopement.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
What Voices Indicate.

There are light, quick, surface voices
that involuntary seem to utter II won't
do to tie to-" The mans words may
assure you of his strength of purpose
and reliability: yet his tone contradicts
his speech.
Then there are low, deep, strong
voices, where the words seem ground
out as if the man owed humanity q
grudge, and meant to pay it some day,
The mans opponents may tremble and
his friends trust his ability to act.
There is the course, boisterous, die
tatorlal tone invariably adopted by vul-
gar people who have not sufficient
cultivation to understand their insignif-
cameo.
There is the incredulous tone, that j.
full of a covert sneer, or secret, "you
cart dupe me, sir" intonation.
Then there is whining, beseeching
voice that says "sycophant" as plainly
as if it uttered the word. 1t cajoles and
fatters you; you are everything that you
should be.
Then there is the tender, musical
compassionate voice that sometimes goes
with sharp features, but always with
genuine benevolence.
If you arc full Of affectatioE ant
pretense, your voice proclaims it.
If you are full of honest strength ant
purpose, your voice proclaims it.
IF you are cold and calm and firm ant
persistent, or tickle and foolish and de
ceptive, your voice will be equally trutl
telling.
You cannot change your voice from
a natural to an unnatural tone wlthou
its being known that you are so doing
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
Wild Horses in Kansas.

1t is a we'll known fact that from time
to time immemorial herds of wild
horses have roamed over the plains Of
southwestern Kansas. Their origin no
man knows. 1t may date back to the
early Spanish conquest Of the country,
1t has been exceedingly difficult to cap.
ture them, the metho pursued having
been to run down and lasso them with
feet horses Latterly, however, it has
been ascertained that they can be cap
tured in herds. The method is to get
up an outfit Of a fast walking team on a
wagon carrying provisions and camp
supplies, and three or four riding po-
MES and as many men. When a herd
is found they are kept moving, no eff.
fort being made to drive them in any
direction. The team and ponies are
not driven faster than walk, and every
opportunity is embraced of cutting
across to save distance. The wild hor,
ses are kept in motion until dark, being
given an opportunity to Craze during
the day. At night they are too tired
to Craze, and will lie down. The pur.
suers camp, feed their horses from grain
which they carry with them, and are up
by daylight, have breakfast and start
again. This is kept up day after day.
Every day takes some of the scare and
wild out of them; they become accus-
toned to sight of the men on horseback
and the team, find that they are not
going to be hurt By them, and tired
and leg-weary from constant travel and
little feed, and in from eight to ten days
will allow the men to ride in among
them and drive them in any direction.
They arc then headed for the ranch.
and are quite tame and docile by the
time they get in. They are Of the pony
order, such as are used in the cattle
business, make good riding ponies, and,
when thoroughly broken, good teams
for light driving in that country. They
sell, when broken to ride, at GIG to s25
per head, and when broke to ride and
drive from $50 to s75 per span.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
Bows will be Boys.

She had invited him to supper, and
ho was trying to appear easy and un-
concerned, while she was on her pret>
tiest behavior. 49,
"Have you used the sugar, John Z"
inquired the mother, in q winning man.
ner.
"John don't want no sugar" ejacula>
ted the young heir, abruptly.
"Wby not2" inquired the father, Gus
riously, while John, in his surprise,
swallowed bit Of toasted crust and
nearly cut his throat open.
"Cos he DON'T" explained the heir.
in an artfui manner; 81 heard him tell
Mary last night
"You keep STILL" interrupted Mary,
in an hysterical maprer, while tn the
young man caught hlt breath in dis.
may.
II heard him say" persisted the heir
with dreadful eagerness, "that she was
so sweet he shouldn't never use no more
sugar any more-and then he kissed
her, an 1 said I'd tell, an"
The young heir was lifted out OF the
| room by his ear, aud the supper was
finished in moody silence.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
A Terrible Tragedy Under the In
f1uence Of the Moon.

In the dark path of the late eclipse
across Texas, 116 miles in width, there
were thousands of ignorant people, both
white and black, who had not heard
that anything peculiar was about to hap
pen. Many of these people the eclipse
surprised at work in their fields. Many
ludicrous scenes are reported. Espe-
-.-"y = s,.o plantation of United States
Senator Coke, near Waco, was it that
the negroes went to praying, believing
verify that the day of judgment had
come. A terrible tragedy in Johnston
county may be set down to the eclipse.
Ep5raim Miller, colored, with his fam.
lily of wife aud four children, lived near
Buchanan, in that county, whittier be
had removed from Tennesse six months
ago. On the morning Of the eclipse
he said that no had heard the world
was coming to an end that evening, and
if so, he intended to be so sound asleep
the trumpet of the Angel Gabriel could
not awaken him. When the eclipse
commenced and the darkness Of totality
came on he ran from the field to his
house with hatchet in his hand. He
was followed by negro woman named
Nancy Ellison, who also thought the
world was coming to an end. As she
cot to the house Miller's wife rushed
out under the same delusion, and look
ing up at the beautiful corona of light
around the black moon, screamed,
"Come, sweet chariot !" at the same
time rushing across cotton field wiring
ing his hands. In the meantime, Mill
Ter, wishing to take hi, ten'year.old boy
with him to the other side of Jordan,
raised his Ratchet and split his head
open. Leaving the latter weltering in
his blood and struggling in the last
throes of death, the father, on a ladder,
ascended to the top Of the house. Here
with new razor he cut his throat from
ear to ear, and he fell to the ground a
corpse. His two little daughters es>
capped by hiding under bed.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
VOLUME XXXVII.
THE LORDS PRAYER.

GThe following beautiful poem is said t
have been written by King James /, though
by some it is ascribed to Bishop Andrews.
If any are distressed and fain would gather
Some comfort. let them hasten unto
Our Father.
For we ofhope and health are quite bereaver
Unless Thou succor us
Who art in Heaven.
Thou showest mercy, therefor for the same
We praise Thee, singing,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Of all Thy miseries cast up the sum,
Show us Thy joys. and let
Thy Kingdom come.
We mortals are, and alterfrom our birth,
Thou constant art;
Thy will be done on Earth.
Thou madest earth, as we'll as the planets
seven;
Thy name Is blessed here.
AS it is in Heaven.
Nothing we have to use, or debts to pay,
Except Thou give it to us.
Give US this day.
Wherewith to clothe us, where to be fed,
For without Thee we want
Our daily bread.
We want, but want no faults. for no day
passes
But we do sin
Forgive us our trespssses.
No man from SHINING ever free did live;
Forgive US, o Lord, our sins,
AS we forgive.
If we repent our faults, Thou ne'er dis
dained us,
We pardon those
That trespass against us.
Forgive us that is passed, new path tread
Direct US always in Thy Faith,
And lead US,
We, Thine own people and Thy chosen ma
tion,
Into all truths, but
Not into temptation.
Thou that of all good grace art the giver,
Suffer us not to wander,
But deliver
Us from the fierce assaults of the world and
devil,
And flesh, so shalt thou free US
From all evil.
To these petitions let both church and lay
men
With one consent of heart and voice, soy
Amen.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
Alarming for Third Term Men.
General Grant Ineligible, Being a British
Citizen.

General Grant Ineligible, Being British
Citizen.
A correspondent of the Rochester
Union and Aduer tiser, raises the truly
alarming issue that "Grant is now, and
for several years must remain, ineligible
to any elective Office under the govern
ment of the United States or of any
State.
"You will remember" he says, "that
in the year 1877, soon after the close
of his second term, he left the United
States, and has since been in Europe,
and is now there on an extended
pleasure trip. Upon his arrival in
England he was the recipient of many
honors from the people and the rulers
of Great Britain, among which, and to
which I call the attention of all con-
cerped, he was elected or chosen or ap-
pointed as by the laws of Great Britain
provided, a freeholder of the city Of
London, which he accepted, and BY
that acceptance and presentation he
thereby become a citizen Of the corpor-
alton Of London, entitled to voice in
its government, and eligible to its Lord
Mayoralty.
Upon such acceptance, and at the
time of its being conferred, he signed
his name to the charter, or such instru-
ment in law as the corporation provides
for signature upon admission of new
citizens. That he also took the oath Of
allegiance to such corporation, which
| is but another form of naturalization
under the laws Of Great Britain. That
he is now, in fact as in law, subject
of the Queen, and by such fact has
ceased to be a citizen of the United
States, and is therefore ineligible to
any position under our laws until he
has passed the requisite term Of years
after his return and has been through
the agonies of naturalization-a term
Of years that bars him from the canvass
of 1880, if not for all time as to the
Presidency of the United States. /
submit this nut for our Republican
| friends to crack"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-08-20
By LOUIS HOOD, NEWARK, N. j.

Mankind loves to linger in the gale
ries of antiquity. The monuments OF
the past are apt to gil us with thoughts
sublime yet the sublimity is due not to
their age, but to the Incorporated repre-
sentation of another country. They are
acts in the great drama of the world,
scenes of which we ourselves are Wit
nesses. They are the lndices of the
great food of ideas which streams
through time. They are dear to US for
comparisons sake-comparison which
reveals the will of a higher power and
betrays the course of human develop
mept. A moment of this character,
the completest monument Of how the
| fame of thought leap, from age to age,
| is the Jew. Once politically united,
then dispersed and trodden in the dust,
now scattered but reconciled to human
ity-what phenomenon can be more ln'
teresting what more instructives :
There are two fundamentals into which
the genius of Judaism can be analysed :
Jehovah and universal priesthood; or,
to speak in less biblical terms, the idea
of the unconditional unity in the uni
verse and of free, moral humanity.
They are the essence of the Jews mani
festations, though the garb in which this
essence is clothed has changed With
epochs and surroundings. The essence
is constant; the garb, variable, The
essence is the Jew the garb, the colored
glass through which he appears as an
Gent or modern. Yet the essence,
though constant, has varied in its inter
pretation. Jehovah at first, was rather
ompipotence, than omniscience. Not
till the Persian captivity did he be-
come the Being of beings. So too a
universal priesthood has been diversely
explained. Antiquity saw in it vision
of universal empire hence, the personal
Messiah, and nationality. The modern
world conceives it to be universe
spiritual state hence the Messianlt
state and cosmopolitan. Notice the
differences which this change has effected
The ancient Jew was exclusive, the mod
ern is participative the former was
retrospective, the latter is prospective
the one was conservative, the other II
liberal. The ancient sought for his
tory peculiarly his own; the moderr
finds the realization of his aims when h
shall no longer need special chapter II
history. The former saw in the Mosai
Law the perfected code for humanity
the latter sees therein the true principles
of life, which possess the adaptabllity 10
an unshakeled development. The on
regarded the Talmud az authority il
dogma and in practice the other dis
cards it in both. The Immortality o
the soul, let me add here, is common t
the ancient and the modern.
The religion of the ancients SCENE
, fitted for a single nation, and for pal
| tlcular country that Of the modern
for all nations and all countries. 1t wa
; peculiarly defensive with the ancient;
r is aggressive, with the modern. In ger
: erai, modern Judaism clothes itself,
e the vestments of a religion for humanit..
1t aims to be a religion of life, free frol
dogma, with virtue and morality tt
corper.stone of its existence, with Go
alone as supreme. 1t lifts itself to IL
height Of srience, rejecting whatever ma