21 Mar 1854
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Newspaper
Camden Weekly Journal
Location
Camden, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1854
Page
1
Advertisement terms detail two dollars in advance with later payments. Rates: one square fourteen lines at seventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each additional insertion. Single in German printing and multi insertion policies noted. continued ads charged accordingly.
A travelogue through Culloden field and Elgin describes two great buildings in Elgin, an old cathedral ruin and the Anderson Institutes. It recounts the tale of a Highland waif raised by townsfolk, his rise in the army, and his return to fund a public monument. The piece also includes selections from a Prospector’s Magazine on Australian and Māori peoples, their tools, habits, and contrasts with New Zealanders.
In vivid prose the piece extols Sprig as a genial herald of spring describing budding trees, fragrant flowers, and birdsong beyond city limits. It contrasts wintry grayness with warm sunlight and notes spring’s renewal across fields, gardens, and countryside, ending with reflections on nature’s awakening.
Fragmented report describes the United States steamer Cotywin arriving at an unnamed port early Sunday with officials claiming it touched at olive and touched none other, while the Black Warrior from Mobile via Tiwana reached New York. Captain Bulloch’s ship was detained as a questionable cargo case, with authorities examining the manifest and legal ties to customs. The scene included Blue Waterling observers and a Cotywin crew aboard for New York, though the full sequence remains unclear.
Fragmented OCR text recounts a deceased Samuel Rolly and property transfers to a grandmother, with garbled passages about relatives, servants, horses, and a harsh commentary on Russia. It mentions a death, a will, and references to a North and West slave context, ending with garbled political rhetoric and names.
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