The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-04-12

from GeOTSd, uleu dt washington Ull SuHudy.
=, r Char. Mercury 9th inst.
There has been tremendous freshet in Cana
da, attended with great damage.
A severe storm of rain and snow has visited
Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Much dam
age and disaster to the shipping is anticipated.
The mails are greatly deranged.-Ib
Deaths inthe Merican War.-The total number
of officers and men, of the regular army and VOL
unteers, lost in the war with Mexico, from all
causes, was l2,S9s. Of these, not more than one
sixth perished in battle.
The steamer Richland small boat, while trying
to make port during fog recently, at Louisville,
struck rock on the falls, and was run ashore and
sunk.
Respect TO The Mustrions Dead-Minute guns
were fired yesterday from the Place d'Armes by
Gally's Battalion of fArtiery, in honor Of the men,
ory OF John C. Calhoun-N. o. Crescent, Sd inst.
A Time TO Work-A Time 10 Rest.--An honest
old man endured heat and cold, and TILED his land
in cheerfuness and hope. On sudden hea-
veny vision appeared before him, and he was
afraid. Then the shape spoke-@I am Solomon.
What art thou doing, old man!" "If thou art
Solomon, hcXeahst thou ask Z" asked he. "Thou
didst send me in my youth to the ant. consid-
cred her ways, and learned to labor and to save,
and do so still. "Thou hast learned only half
thy lesson" replied the shadow. "Go once more
to the ant and learn from her to rest in the winter
ter of thy days, and to enjoy the fruits of thy Ia
borw
The PRoDUcr OF WooL-From document
just sent to Congress, it appears that the produc-
ton of wool in this country during the last year,
was 100000 pounds, valued at $25,0O000O.
ExAeG GERAT1oN.-A traveller once related with
all seriousness to company of persons that ne
had passed through the FIVE divisions of the earth;
and that among other curiosities he had met one
OF which no writer had as yet made mention.-
This wonder was, according to his account,
huge cabbage, which had grown so broad and so
high that fifty armed riders might have stationed
themselves under a single leaf and performed
their maneuvers. Some one who heard him,
deeming this exaggeraton not worth any confu-
tdtlOn, SdlC, WIFI SSoi-
ness, that he too, had been abroad far as Japan
where, to his pstonishment, he saw more than
three hundred coppersmiths at work upon single
kettle, and within the same were FIVE hundred
men polishing it. aWhat could they do with such
| monstrous kettle!" asked the traveller. "Cook
the cabbage therein of which you have just now
told u.s."
John NJ Barrett, who was arrestsd in this State
| on charge of having circulated incendiary pub
lications, died in Dublin, Qnd) on the 23d ult.
Boundary line bet,Oeen the United States and
Merico-The commissioners for running the
boundary line between the United States and
Mexico, had meeting on the 18th of February
at San Diego, when it was determined that, as it
was impracticable during the presentstate ofthings
in California to advance beyond the mouth Of the
Gila, toward New Mexico, and nothing Of impor-
tance remained to be done on that side fthe line,
the commission should adjourn to meet at Passo
del Norte, on the 4th of November next.
81 do not wish to say anything against the in
dividual in question" said very polite gentle
man, abut would merely remark, in the lam
guage of the poet, that to him truth is strange,
"stranger than fiction"
The rain in the mountains in this State, on
| Tuesday night week, caused a swell in the Keo-
wee river, and swept the bridge off, which has
withstood all the freshets for many years.-Char
Courier.
A village without blacksmith's shop would be
very moral and innocent, for in it there should be
neither rice nor tmgery-HooK.
About the 18th instant the Geological Institute,
in Walnut-street, Philadelphia, will be opened as
skating saloon, 1000 square feet of artificial ice
being prepared for the purpose. 1t is under the
patronage of many Of the most respectable citi-
zens of that city.-Char Courier.
Why is an avaricious merchant like Turk
He worships the profit Prophet)
Mr.. James K. Pauldng, Secretary of the Navy
during Mr.. Van Buren's administration, has writ
ten letter to the Democracy of Tammany Hall,
New York, in which he very properly denounces
the Wlmot Proviso, and all its aiders and abet-
tors at the North as needlessly exasperating the
South, and making disturbances and mischief
Correspondence of the Camden Journal
BRIG TARoUINA at Sea,
Pacific Ocean, 2Jth Dec, ls49,
Lat 4l south, Long. so vest