The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-02-21

Though visions Of rapture haunting il yet
Though when the winds rustic the sieet in the
pine,
hear mid their music, low voices like thine.
I've loved thee too dearly! too deep the spell
Too crushing the weight OF that sorrow which fel!
On bosom but blind in devotion 10 thee,
Yet discerning the weakness resolved 10 be free!
1 know that another engrosses thy thought,
How bitter the knowedgc-how painfully taught;
know that her smiles are far swccter than mine;
May her love prove less wayward, less changeful
than thine!
THE EMIGRATION FROM lRELASD.-It is a
growing expectation in Ireland that we are
now about 10 witness one OF the most moment
Gus operations of socieiy-the removal Of a peo.
pie en- maSSc 10 distant shore. The half mil.
lion who have got oft with no very great stir in
The course of two years are hut an advanced
guard to the main body that follows. 1t must,
indeed, be tbc,mo furious impulse or the dir.
est necessity that can urge men at this season
of the year TO cast themselves on The deep, 10
brave the wide Atlantic, to lie thrown on they
know not what headland or shoal in the
storms and fogs which beset the wished.for shore
and at the best to land in country still ribbed
with ice and buried in snow. Yet we are told
The other day Of ten emf grant vessels taking
refuge in Cove of Cork. OF crowds waiting at
other ports tor the chance Of a passage, and OF
multiudes ejectng from their holding. and now
lodging in towns with no other hope upon earth
than once to pu, their feet on the shore Of the
New World. We believe il to be even as it
is described. The failure Of The staple crop,
the burden Of maintaining the victims of famine
the imposibility OF paving rates upon small hol
dings, and the invincihle o'jerlinmto to pay them
upon holdings Of any size. constitute an expel-
lent force of which the like was never seen.
Paupcrism in ALL its lie rings is depopula'ing
the island. They who are panPrrs, they VII"
expect to he paupers. and they who loalhe tho
thought Of contributing their hard earnings T."
be squandered upon paupers, are equally out OF
heart. and resolved To go elsewhere. When
the mind is resolved, the means only arc want.
ing. But among the many redecming virtues
Of this inrractabc and unfortunate race is
strength of family affection which no distance,
no time, no pressure, no prosperity can destroy;
and even one of The halt million who have safe
" effected their retreat cnnsecratrs his first
earnings to the pous work of rescuing parent.
brother or sister from Ireland.
London Times, Jan. 9.
4 TOUCHING SroRY.-Hon. A. H Stephens,
Of Georgia, in a recent address at meeting in
Alexandria for the benefit Of The Orphan Asy.
lnm and Free School of that city. related the
following anccdote:
A poor little boy on cold night in January,
with no home or roof 10 shelter his head, no
pa,ernal or maternal guide to protect or direct
him on his way, reached at nigh'fall the house
ofa rich planter, who took him in, fed, lodged,
and sent him on his way, with blessing
Those kind attentions cheered his heart and in
spred him with fresh courage to battle with the
obstacles of life. Years rolled round Provi
drnce led him on; he had reached the legal
profession ; his host died the cormorants which
prey on the substance of man had formed
conspiracy to gp, from the widow her estates.
She sent for the nearest counsel to commit her
cause 10 him. and the counsel proved to be the
orphan boy years before welcomed and enter.
tanned by her deceased husband.
The stimulus Of warm and tenacious graft.
tude was now added to the ordinary motives
connected with the profession. lie undertook
her cause with will not easily to he resisted;
he gained it the widows estate were secured
TO her in pcrprtni,y; and Mr.. Stephens added.
with an emphasis of emotion that sent its elec.
trio thrill throughout the house, "hn orphan
boy stands before you''
CoIonrp POPULATION IN On1o.-"The last
census Of Ohio shows l5,003 co'nrrd people in
The Southern division, and only 2,3ll in the
Northern abolition portion of the Stale"
This is comment on the practical charnc.
ter of Abolition charity. Th" colnred popuIa-
iinn Of Ohio have shown their feeling by keeping
clear Of their clamorons friends.
EMANc1pATIoN IN kESTUcKY.-lt is pro.
posed that The Legislature nf Kentucky shall
direct the Sheriff to open poll at each precinct.
next August, and let the people vote directly on
the queslion-"Shall slavery be pcrpelra'pd in
Kentucky, or not?" This vote to- he the in.
s,ructons Of the people TO the Convention.
DEATH OF Col. w. X. JouNsoN.-The
Charleston Conrier says that relcsraphic drs.
patch from Mobile announces the death of Col.
W. R. Johnson in that city on 10th inst. II
is stated ,ha, Col. ]. was walking about on the
day of his death, suffering from Influenza, but
not considered by any means dangerous.
Col. Johnson was a native and resident OF
Chesterfield county. Va.