Camden Commercial Courier, 1837-11-18

JLi pectfnlly informs the citizens of Camden and its vicinity, that they can have their clothes cut and inadc in first rate style, by calling on him at his residence, in Rutledge street, two doors below \ir. L. W. Ballard's. His terms will be reasonable. All orders will be thankfully received, and promptly attended to JOSEPH CHARLESWORTH. Oct 28 20 tf i%j o-riCii. ?The subscriber takes this nittli XT od of informing the citizens of Lancaster Dial, that he has re-commenced the Tailoring Business in all its various branches, on ; am ('reek, near to Shilo Church. He solicits a share of said business. E. W. BAKER. Oct 28 26 3t Plantation lor *alc. THE Plantation formerly belonging to P. J. Lucius, sitt ated on the Waleree river and Grannys quarter creek, containing about twelve hundred acres, lour hundred of which are cleared. The above plantation is nine miles from Camden with a gopd road leading to it. Persons disposed to purchase are invited to visit the place. Also, the corn and fodder that may oe -on the premises. VV. O .NIX' >N The Columbia Telescope will please give the above three insertions and fbrward their account to this office for payment. Oct. 28 'Jfi TIlV < opurtnership heretofore existing in this place, under the firm of MURRAY & BRYANT, hlS been dissolved by the death of the latter; All persons having any demands against the said firm, will please hand them to the subscriber for adjustment, and those who are indebted to it, are earnestly requested to make early payments 11 him. JOHN D. MURRAY, Surviving partner of the firm ol MURRAY & BRYANT Oct. 14 24 3m JOHN D. MURR\Y will continue business on his own account at the store lately occupied by vlurray & Bryant.

considerable laughter, llis evidence was as follows. Q. Have you ever been employed as an auctioneer ? A Yes. During fifteen y?-ars, I was employed as auctioneer by different houses. Q. Do you know of such things as shave lots ? A. Y?s. A shave lot generally consists of a nice looking little h >x tilled with a variety of articles, having at the top a few articles of value, and in the Imjuoui a lar^% number of smfrtl articles worth little or nothing, and so minute in size that they can scarcely be perceived until all the things are turned out of the { box All the articles in 'he box are sold i?it so much each article, and when a person bitls for them, and the box is knocked down to him, he is then asked to give a deposite, and alter he has paid it, the articles are then ail turned out of the box, and the purchaser sometimes looks a lit; tie astonished. Q. Are there many of such boxes sold at an auction during one day ? A. Not often. If we can really sell one shave box in the day, it pa> s all the '? xpenses. Q,. Wnut do you mean by the words 1 HKALLY sell ? A, It often happens that we sell ?lie same box five or ?ix different times in the same day, to Funks. a. What are Funks? A. Puffers emptor ed to hid against real bidders, in order to raise the price. Q. To what intent do these puffers Lid! A. Why, until I can catch any other chap bidding ; then as quick as I can, I knock it down to him. Cross-examined.? Q. Do you think that an honest way of doing business? A. No--that was the reason I quit it. Q,. But were yi.il not 15 years at it be -

Summo is in Partition. Elijah McElveen, Applicant. V8 yifi^HODA McElveen, Joscnh McElveen, John McElvccn, Mows McElveen, Eli.ts McElveen, William McElveen, Susan McElveen, (wid. ow of Adam wcElveen deceased,) John Frierson, (widower of Jai.e Mci l\een, decensed;) I-rancis selson and Eiizaleth s wife, Margaret McElveen ' (now cDonald, having iniermnrried with one 1 McDonald) Rebecca McElveen Samuel MoE.ve *n 1 Andrew J. McElveen?childien of Adam and Susrin McElveen, to v\it: Rebecca, Margaret, Mary Ann, John. Robert, Nancy and Adam. Children of John and Jane Frierson, to wit: Ada ine and Joseph, Mason Reams, guardian | adlitem lor minor heirs of William McElveen, sr. i deceased, defendants. IT appearing to my satisfaction,'that John Mci Elveen, Moses McElveen, Elias Mc Iveen, William McElveen. Margaret McDonald, and hu-band, ; Daniel A.cElv?en, James M Elveenand wife, and all others (if any of the legal heirs and represents tiveB of William McElveen, sr deceased.) dele dnnts, resides Without the limits of this st te, it is therefore ordered lhai they do appear nd object to , the division or sale of the real estate of William McElveen, sr. on or before the fourt. d. y of December next or their consent will he entered of i record. WILLIAM LEWIS, o. s. D. , < >ct. 7 23 8 #'J A fine Plantation for sale.?The subscriber having purchased lands in the West, offers for sale his plantation lying on West side of i Wateree river, containing five hundred acres, two

hundred of which, at thic* time has a crop on it f Any person wishing to purchase, is requested to call and examine the premises. Also, my house at Kiritwond, which is large, t with ail necessary out buildings, in good repair, a good spring within the enclosure. Nov. 4. 27 4t JOHN WHITAKER. PIANO iOli'1'L.iS i UN ED ?it. ivt\Jr-.ibTEtt. brjther to the late < . P. Sakrneister, ' Patent Piano Forte Maket, of N. Y.. offers his ser' vices to the citizens ot Camden, for Tuning an l ' Repairing their Pianos. In consideration ot his long ' experience in that line, he tlalters himself to satisfy every one, who will please to send his address to Mr. " M'Kain's Hotel. 1 N. B?Persons wishing to have their Tiano Fortes ' in good order, may send their address soon, on account r of my staying only for a short time. > Nov. 11 28 It FOR SALE?The subscriber's bouse and lot in the town of Camden, situate on the East side of Broad street, opposite Col. John Carter's. If not previously disposed of, it will be , sold before the Court House in Camden, at public. I sale, on Monday, the 1st January next, on a credit I of twelve months. 1 Also, on the 20th December next, on the pre mises, his plantation known as Jourden's Hill, on b the east side of the Wateree, about ten miles , above Camden, the tract contains upwards of 20<? i !>? of nrinin unland. 130 of hip. Ii in Hparprl

i may not be uninteresting'to your reader#. If Some seven or eight years since a hunts* gp ) man, whose name I have not learnt, Ten* -< lured further *into the great Mississippi , 1 Swamp than usual, when he discovered 3 the mark of barefoot human tracks ; aware ; thai this dismal wilderness had not before * been explored by the citizens, he was ' M&fl induced to the belief that he was near gjgsj' {the hiding place ?f some deserter, or runaway servant, and returning and mak* -18 jing known his discovery, joined.bv seve- t ral of his neighbors, who, with the ut- ^ most c-'utiun. approached the silent re- ? | treat, when to their astonishment and consternation, they boheld a being of tfte wilderness in human form, clothed in i nature's garb?hair effectually adopted to ,111c blasts and chills of his gloomy home, < 'not quite so long, though resembling the I rown boar of the West. This unnatural being, with searching eye, instantly discovi r.d hts pursuers, and hounding over rifts and through swamps, with the fa* cility and ease of a young buck, bid ^jj defiance both to doge and rtieu, until it ! reached a hiding place at some distance, ben alb one of the many mounds that atiract the traveller's attention in the alluvial regions of the West. The Cave showed some marks of man, but for the knutcl iigc would not have been suspecI led other than the hermitage of some

leather, i rench and Northern Calf skins, Dining and Binding skins, various colored Morocco skins for Coach trimming. Shoe knives, pincers, kit files, punches, awl blades and hall's, boot webbing, heel ball, shoe tackr, bristles sparables, peg cutters, sand stones, jiggers, shoulder sticks, shoe lasts and ull other articles generally in use wjth shoema .ers?also every description of imported shoe thread, shoe blacking and vurntsh Dry Hides received in exchange. GEO. ALDEN. Sept 30 22 tf ffA DOLLARS REWARD.-AbsconVrded from the subscriber in Barnwell Dist. S. C., on tho night of the 15th inst. a negro man named REUBEN, he also took with him a dark sorrel Marc about 13 hands high, said mare has a small star in her face, and has two saddle maiks on her back. Reuben is about 25 or 30 years of age, G feet high, dark complected, speakr quick when spoken to, and when he left, had on a blue cloth coat, and a black hat with crape around it. The subscriber bought said negro from a man who said his name was JOHN EDWARDS, and that he lived in about G miles of Camden, he was travelling to Alabama, and had four slaves in company with bin, of which Reuben was one, he is also of opinion, that said boy has by some means came up with his former master, anil that will endeavor to get Iiiin out of Che state for the purpose of re-selling him. Any person taking up said negro, and lodg -

. muss oi tlie lorest. Desirous of procuj ring the object of their pursuit unhurt* \vi Iv much difficulty, unit not un*il many slight wounds had been received, they . sut cerced in securing him. lie fought with the courage of a Tiger* but knew | the use of no w eapon other than those of nature, and uith >ugh as wild as the deer, . proved t<- he a lad of about sixteen years* Great anxiety was, from various and competent sources* manifested ill reducing to civilization this most perlect child of the j woods. if e was carried to WoodvilJe, I M ississippi, where he soon became do* t inesiicaled and exhibited marked evidences ot speech, first us the Parrot or an Automaton, and occasionally, as if showing the impulses of reason, would appear -Jj under the influence of some hidden or 1 latent spi ii g; rationality giadnally develop. d itselt as it from a long slumber*' When susceptible of interrogation* the natural inquiries suggested were, who he was ? where lie came from ? what his i name, and the myste imps circumstances which had placed him in the awlul dilemn; J j as well as the manner in which he had \ I sustained hinis. If among the bear and < | other ravenous boasts. From the best int. rpn tation of his answers, it appeared that liis name was Bill,?his father's J Broun; who was rowing his mother and

iiiir Him in jiiu9 uuu giving iiiiuruiuuuii mrrcui to me; at Blackvillo I'ost-oftice, Barnwell District, S. Cm shall receive the above reward. SAMUEL REED. Oct. 21 *25 4t* A CARD.?The suljpcribers having opened a Taylor and Drapers business 2 doors South of Holleyinan & Gass' store, on Main-streit, beg leave to lender their services to the citizens of Cauidcn and its vicinity, in cutting and making up cloth in the latest and most fashionable styles. 1 They will receive the New Yoik and Fhiladelphia fashions quarterly. They will execute all orders that mny be entrusted to their care, with neatness and despatch?and hope by close and unremitting attention to business, to merit a share of public patronag. SEVERNS & SMITH. Camden, S. C. Sep. 23 21 9t A CARD.?The undersigned having formed a coparlnetship in the Mercantileliusiness, would respectfully solicit from their friends and the public, a share of patronage. They intend keeping a full assortment of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, ot the latest fashions: a i. s o Groceries of the choicest kind, all ol which they will dispose of on the most accommodating terms. R. L WILSON, J. L JONES. Camden, Aug. 30, 1837. 18 tf Wm. KENEDY U1RCLA1," Portrait Painter, HAS arrived in Camden, and has taken rooms over Mr. Alex. Young's storo, where he will