The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-12-05

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fortress for his conduct during the war.
This is the way they treat men in that
country who fail to do what they are
ordered to do, no matter what the
cause Of failure may be.
AN election to fill the place of Judge
Shaw, deceased, of the Third Circuit,
was to be held on the Sd instant, and it
is almost certain that Hon. T. B. Fraser,
Senator from Sumter, will be chosen, as
his name is the only one prominently
before the House. The choice of Maj
Fraser will undoubtedly give satisfac-
tion to the State. He is not only q
lawyer of conspicuous fairness and
ability, but his moral fitness for the
bench none will question.
THE following bill, relative to the
use of firearms on rhc streets, has passed
to its third reading:
Be It enacted, de-, That any person
hereafter convicted of an assault or as
sault and battery committed with any
6re-arm on the street of any iucorpora-
ted city or town, or any thoroughfare,
or in any place of public resort. shall be
punished by fine ofnot less than two
hundred or more than one thousand
dollars and may be imprisoned for not
less than six or more than twelve
months.
THE Baltimore SIM says there has
been much denunciation Of the whipping
post, and inhumanity and barbarity has
been cried against it by its opposers, but
the fact remains that Delaware, where
| it is used. is freer from crime than al
most any State in the Union. 1t spends
very little money on jails and criminal
prosecutions, and is one Of the few
States entirely out of debt. When the
honest people of South Carolina come
to realize the cost to them Of punish
iuc theft and other crimes BY imprison>
ment, they will demand the application
of the lash as more effsctual preven>
tive of crime and a much cheaper
hod.-Rcyi$ter.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta to the
Times says that trouble in the Khyber
Pass has been greatly exaggerated. A
single officer, Lord William Beresford,
rode The entire length Of the Khybsr
Pass without being molested. General
Brownies force will probably winter ct
Daka unless some movement on the part
of tho Afghans provoke further ad-
vance. Gen.. Biddulph's will probably
remain at Pesthon, but if he shall de-
termine to proceed to Kandahar that
place will probably be found to be un-
defended. Gen. Roberts advance on
the Peiwcr Pass may encounter resist
ance, but the Pass will probably be
found to be easily overcome. No i'm
portaut fighting is expected anywhere
this year.
HISTORY REVERSING ITsELF.-The
Washington correspondent of the Bslti-
timorc SIN calls attention to the fact
that in the Forty first Congress, out OF
sixly.threc Southern Representatives
admitted to seats fifty two were Repub-
licans, aud Of Southern Sonators twenty
Two we're Republicans. The South says
the correspondent, was just about as
solid then as it is now, but it was on
the other side. In the Forty first Con-
gress the entire body of The white peo-
pie of the South, the people who owned
all the property and paid all the taxes,
were practically without representation;
yet not one word of disapproval was
uttered against this monstrous wrong
BY press or speaker of the Republican
party. Now, on vague allegations,
totally unsupported by respectable proof,
that the colored people Of two or three
States are deprived of representation,
the partisan press of the North is in an
agony Of horror and reproach.
IT was reported during the early part
of the week that the condition of Cover
nor Hampton was very critical. Drs.
Kinioch, Of Charleston, aud Campbell,
of Augusta, were summoned by telc-
graph to meet his physicians in Colum-
bia, to hold a consultation on the case.
The following ia DR.. Kinloch's state
ment; "a few days since Governor
Hampton was unexpectedly seized with
chills, followed by some fever, and
seemed depressed in spirits. There
was an apprehension on the part of his
attending surgeons that blood poisoning
had ensucd, and the question of ampu
tatiou of the limb was naturally con.
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