The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-03-08
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The TELEGRAPH and the SpecHla'Ts.--A let
ter from New York, in the Charleston News,
contains the following timely caution:
alt cannot be two well known i'll the South
ern States for at least two or three days pTeri-
ous to the expectedarrival of the English steam
ers, holders and dealers in cotton ought to s''s-
pend operations until tire foreign news is re-
ceived. As the Eastern telegraph is now mar
aged, the public are completely at the mercy
Of few spectators, and the only way to es.
cane imposition is for holders and dealers to sus
pend operations as have already si.id.":.
.Ncp Church Edifce at Charleston The
congregation of the Third PRESBYTERIAN Church
(Rev. Mr.. Daila's,) in this city, have just com
f, pleted new house of worship, the most beau:l-
iul in the place 1t was dedicated with arpro-
pirate services Sabbath before last. 1t is sitra-
ted in Meeting street, Just above Society, ard
has received the new name of the Genital
Church" The architect, Mr.. E. G. Jones, OF
this city, who designed it, and superintendent its
erection, has, by this effort Of his talent, large
" increased his growing reputation for taste
I'd skill in his profession. Presbyterian.
4 dreadful tradgedy occurred at Wellesley,
Ia. ON the 23d ult The collector of taxes
was compelled to leave his wife ana young fami-
ly alone over night, while absent OH business.
The lady, knowing that there was cons ieraLle
money in the house, sent for some o: the family
ola neighboring blacksmith to stay at tic house.
Her request was gruhy refused, but pcd!ar,
who passed. by in the dusk of the evening, con-
scented to allow his dog to remain as a protector.
In the night the lady was awakened by distub-
ance, and on entering the room where the dog
was left, she fonnd the animal drawing Il man
by the throat through the window. The neigh
bors were alarmed, and on on examination it
was found that the robber was her ncghbor, the
blacksmith, quite dead.
AWestern Editor appeals thus to Lis sub
scribers:
0, You tarnal sap-hcads, You green tailed
lizards, why don't you come along and Fay
for your paper! Doyon suspect that am such
a consunniate block. head su III rt lighted
white.livered nlmscull, as to stay here to priat
right in the midst of Il swamp country, where
the air is so dense with ague that YOU have to
cut Your way through it with Il broad-axc-
where it shakes the hair off the back, and the
teeth out of the mouth of the wild hog itselr,
unless YOU pay for it /!
Perhaps they won't pay because were they
to do so, it would give him means to leave them.
What uns h?-The Cherokee Advocate of
the llth ult, says: "Qnite a phenomenon ap-
peared in the Southern part Of the heavens On
Friday night, sth ult., between and o'clock.
Il IL i'm no
tail of commet, some three or four feet long
At times it would seem to increase i'll bllliancyy
so rs to cast considerable light upon the earth,
and then dilnins hagain, and so on until it tdlsap
pcared about 9 o'clock, or little after.
Amount of Conversation Calculnicd The
Rev. Mr.. Gannet, of Boston, reckons that each
individual averages three hours conversation
,lailv, at the rate of hundred words Il minute,
or twenty pages of an octave volume IN an
hour. At this rate we talk volume of 400 0c-
tavo pages in q week, and lifty-two volumes in
yenr:
Life has been compared to a fox chase; the
pleasure consists in chasing, not i'll ovcrtaklnS
your object; and when you have caught the
frame, fortune or rank, whatever you were hunt
ing, YOU have the qualification of being at the
death of your own enjoyment, unless you start
fresh quarry.
A modest young lady, dcsiri'- a leg of u
chicken at table, said she woul! take that part
'rhich ought 10 be dressed in 1""'"'ens' A
young gentleman opposite imn'' .'iltrly called
for that part which usually wears nc bns'le!'
INTERESTING ANEcDorE, Two young
Americans, after the completion Of their educa'
ton in Europe, were travelling with the view of
pcrfecting themselves in their classic studies.
Thus engaged, they were soiourning for n short
time in Vienna. Oncday. while cros'ingon Of