The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-08-08
CREyAssE AT FACTORY DAM.

In consequence Of the heavy rains that have
lately fallen, the dam of the Dekalb Factory
broke on last Wednesday night, and let off all
the water In the pond We are not fully in.
formed as 10 the extent Of the injury done, bns
understand that about 60 feet of the dam was
entirely swept away, delugng the grounds be.
low. The water moved the shoe house and
backed into the basement story Of the Factory.
in the lower weaving room and ware room,
damaging The yarn and Goth considerable
The Company will repair the breach as soon
as possible, Which may consume some weeks.
Their loss Of time and cost OF repairing will
amount, i, is said, to more than $4,000. SIT is
an ill.wind that blows nobody good" and while
the accident was q severe loss 10 the Company,
it proved a pcrfeo, " "pinafaN" to the fish mon.
gers about Town. Innumerabe quantities OF
the "6nny tribe" were overhau!ed in tn"
drained pond, and trout weighing from to II
pounds, graced many table the next day.
PLANK ROAD 70 CHARLOTTE.
The improved trade of the past season. the
amount of cotton shipped from this depot, and
increased amount of goods sold by our mer.
chants, prove most concnsively that our citi-
zens acted wisely in securing to thcir town, a
bra nch from the South Carolina Rail Road.
Their efFarts too, in cooperation with the
citizens of Lancaster, to continue il TO Char
lo,te, to secure the trade of North Carolina, and
open channel through her depot for the cot.
ton and grain Of the up.country, were strenu'
uous and praiseworlhy; but Columbia. Fairfield,
Chester, and York ou,numbered them in sub,
scribcrs and voters, and pushed them off the
track. What then, should be the course o
kcrshaw and Lancaster? To despair of ever
efIccting an improved mode of transportation
because their strained efforts for Rail ROAD
failed, or to combine their energies and unite
in constructing the next best means Of irnprov
! ing inc trade in that drectienf II the work or
! the Columbia and Charlotte Road should be
prosecuted with the same energy that it ha.
been commenced, that Road, before very lorg
will he completed, and a great portion o the
trade that has hitherto supported, and that il
now supporting our Market viii roll by in 9th
er channels If tic trade Of the np.countr)
should be cut of, and our market be made Il
depend solely upon The Districts of KershaN
and Lancaster, Camden will be greatly injured
and the investments in her Rail Road ma,
prove utterly unproduciva. The prosperity o
Camden is the prosperity of Kershaw District
and the number and ability Of her merchants
her amount of trade, and her quantity and ptic'
of goods sold, govern, 10 some extent, tho pros
peri,y Of Lancaster District and all other p|a
ces that do their trading here. What ther
should be done! Let all the sections interest
ed, kcrshaw, Lancaster and the lower portion
of Mecklenburg and Union, Counties unite aa
construct Plank Road from here to Charoit
"a Road combining cheapHess, durability ra
pid transportation and profit. What says Ian
easier? What say her Steam Mills and Ion.
E leaf pines?
Internal Improvements are receiving tn
greatest attention throughout the Union, and
new spirit of enterprise has aroused all on
neighboring States. Southern roads are ma
,uraly bad, bu, markets mus, be reached. N
plan TO improve them has met with more favor
nor seems likely to be more generally adopte