The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-03-14
REJUVENESCENCY.

I've lived my three score years and ten
And few men live much longer,
Put inc at twenty back again,
And should he much stronger.
Thus starting OH my new career,
With knowledge prcposscsscd,
better could lile's journey steer
With wisdom in my breast.
I'd shun tho tollies ofmy youth,
The pride Of middle age,
l could not mend my love for truth,
Nor more in it engage.
I'd medde not in politics,
As have done before,
But try and learn my mind to fix,
On things that profit more,
Riches should have charms for ME,
But what value more.
A heart I'd have for cl,arity,
To iced and bless the poor.
The sciences I'd cultivate,
lnguist | would bc,
I'd court the learned; the vulgar great
Should seldom trouble me.
One friend, Of sentiments refined,
Should know my inmosi thoughts,
Discerning he should he and kind,
And tell me all my faults.
Beside gentle murmurng stream,
In some scqucstercd grove,
Ny humble cottage should be seen,
With men and cooks love-
My little furm of fertile land
In every part should shine,
Ceres should place the circling boards,
Pomona procure the wine.
A cabinet Of things most rare,
Would much delight my soul;
They should he sought in earth and air,
And brought from either pole.
A microscope TO view their lines,
And see them all Alright,
That mugniied ten thousand times,
They would give much delight.
And then 10 view the spanglcd skies,
The stars in groups TO marshall,
Resembling that Of IIcrscle.
Since can't stay n second time,
My wishes 10 fulfil,
Translate nc 10 some distant cline.
o God, 10 learn thy WILL
Or when bid this world adicu
Lend me Scrap,'s wings,
Tho utmost bounds of space TO view,
Far, far from human things. w, L. II.
Woodlawn, Hartford Co. JAn. %.
WONDERS OF PIlILosPnY.- The polypus
receives new life from the knife which is If
ed to deslroy it. The ny.srider lays an egg
is large as itself, There arc 404l muscles
n caterpillar. Hook discovered $4,000
mirrors in the eyes Of dronc; and to effect
Inc respiration Of carp, $4,000 ar'erIes'
veins, bones, &c, arc necessary.
The body of every spider contains four IT.
lie masses pierced with multitude "f I'M
percep,iblc holes. each hole permitting the
passage of single thread; all the threads to
hc amount of 1000 to each mass, JOIN to-
rclhcr when they come oul, and make tho
thread with which the spider spins its web;
50 that what we call spiders thread consists
IF more than 1000 united. Lcunhock. by
means of microscope, observed spiders
no larger than grain of sand, who spun
threads SO fine that it took 1000 of them TO
equal in magnitude a single hair.
The American Bible Society has applIca-
lions from ConstanlInope, Syria, Persia,
South Africa, and India, for nearly thirty
thousand dollars worth of Bibles or Tesla.
mcn,s. During the month Of March, $4,000
worth are also to be sent to France. These
heavy calls upon the Society require that
It's friends should move actively in its sup
port.
A PnEpIcrloN.-Mr Walter Savage
Landor, in the London Examiner of Dec.
23I, prognostcatcs that 1.-The occupation ol
California by the Americans, will hereafter
av tho foundation of vast and powiul en-
Dre, to predominant, al no distant period, III
he larthcSt cast
EXTRAORDINARY LoNGEvrrY.-A color.
I'd woman, named Antlonelte Maxcn, dicd
asst week at the extraordinary age of l3l
years. She was, we understand, Il native o
|. louisiana, and up to within short time OF
her death, had always been IN good health
1t is seldom, in amy part OF the world, that
human life is spun out so long.
N. 0. Crescent.
Dr. Franklin used to say that rich widow:
were the only piece of secondhand good:
that sold at prime cost.
Just after the surrender of Cornwals
when the prisoners were marching out %
Yorktown, one negro said TO his companion
Now we shall sec Lor CORVALLIS" "Bi!
fool said the other, there is M Lor Corn
wallis now, for his cx'lcncy shell his corn of
and he is now Lor Cobwalis!'
TAKING A HoRN.-"l had rather not takt
a horn with you" said loaler 10 a bull bu
the bull iussted upon treating him to two
and the Ioa[er got quite high.