The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-08-20
Alisfellaneous Department.

SALupA FAcToRY-We had the gratifca.
ton recently of visiting this Factory, situated
on the Saluda River, near Columbia, and of in
specting its operations. 1t is on the slave labor
or anti.free soil system; no operators i'll the es.
tablishment but blacks. The Superintendent
and Overseers are white, and ofgreat experience
in manufacturing. They are principally from
the manufacturing districts of the North, and
although strongly prejudiced on their first arr-
val at the establishment against African labor,
from observation and more experience, they all
testify to their equal efficiency, and great supe-
riority in many respects. So AS not to act pre-
cipitatelv, the experiment of African labor was
first tested in the spinning department Since
which, the older spinners have been transferred
to the weaving room. They commenced in that
department on the lst of July, and are now
turning out as many yards to the loom as was
performed under the older system. A weaver
from Lowell has charge of this department.; and
she reports that, while there is full as much
work done by the blacks, they are much more
attentive to the condition of their looms. They
all appear pleased with the manipulatons on
which they are employed, and are thus afford
ing to the South the best evidence that, when
the channels of agriculture are choaked, the
manufacturing of our own productions Will
open new channels of profitable employment
for our slaves. The resources of the South are
great and it should be gratifying to all who
view these facts with the eye of statesman
and philanthropist, that the sources OF prohta-
bic employment and support to our rapidly IN
creasing African labor are illimitable, and must
remove all motives for emigration to other coun.
tries. BY an enlightened system of internal
improvements, making Ill parts of our State ac-
cessible, and by judicious distribution of our
labor, South Carolina may more than double
her productive slave labor, and not suffer from
too dense population.-Char, Mer.
WoMAN's PATlENCE.-How strange chat the
patience of Job should be considered so re.
markable, when there are so many mothers in
this world, whose patience equals if it does not
exceed his. What would Job have done had he
been compelled to sit in the house and sew, and
knit, and nurse the children, and see that hun
dreds of things were attended to during the day,
and hear children cry, and fret, and complain
Or how would he have stood it if, like some
poor woman, he had been obliged to raise n
family of ten or twelve children, without help,
spending months, years-all the prime of life
in washing, securing, scrubbing, mendlng,
cooking, nursing children fastened to the house
and offspring, from morning till night, from
night till morning, sick or well, storm or sun.
shine, his nights often rendered miserable by
watching over his children! How could he
have stood all this, and, in addition to all other
troubles, the curses and even violence of a drun-
ken companion. How could he have felt, If
ter wearing out his very existence for his ten
der offspring and a worthless companion, to be
abused and bamedl Job endured his biles
and losses very we'll for a short time, but they
did not endure long enough to test the length
of his patience. Woman tests her patience by
a whole life of trials, and she does not grumbe
at her burdens. We are honestly of the opin-
ion that woman has more patience than Job;
and instead of saying "the patience Of Job, we
should say "the patience of woman"
THE ORIGIN OF GLASS. 1t is wonderful how
much we are indebted to chance for many very
valuable discoveries. The art of making glass
was discovered in this way: AS some mcr-
chants were carrying quantity of nitre they
halted near river issuing from Mount Carmel.
Not readily finding stones to rest their kettles
on, they used some pieces of nitre for that pur-
pose. Tie fire gradually dissolving the nitro,
it mixed with the sand, and u transparent mat
ter flowed, which in fact, was no other than
glass.
FLowERs.-How the universal heart of man
blesses flowers! They are wrcathcd round the
cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. The
Persian in the far East delightsin their perfume,
and writes his love in nosegays; while the In
dian in the far West clasps his hands with gee
as he gathers the abundant blossoms-the illu-
minated scripture of the prairies. The Cupid
of the ancient Hiudoos tipped his arrows with
flowers, and orange buds are the bridal crown
with US, nation Of yesterday. Flowers gar
landed the Grecian altar, and they hang in vo.
tive wreaths before the Christian shrine. All
these are appropriate uses. Flowers should
deck the brow Of the youthful bride, for they
are in themselves n lovely type of marriage.
They should twine round the tomb, for their
perpetually renewed beauty is symbol OF the
resurrection. They should festoon the altar,
for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in
perpetual worship before the Most High.