The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-27

Suyd an q hDyo) an0 iney Were 'be cous'R"01o
of the first -Four the writer remembers Of ever
being sent from Western New. York to the city
of fNew.York. This flour was made at what
was called the Red Mills, (pow Seneca FaHs)
erected by Col Mynderse, and was sent down
by wafer through the Seneca outlet, Oneida
Lake, Wood Greek, and through the locks at
Rome into the Mohawk, and thence down the
river to Schenectady. Boyd & Suydam used
to sell this -four long heiore the last war with
Great Britain.
Some of the old citizens Of Buffalo will pro.
bably remember an early merchant here by
the name Of John Scott. He came here ia
the war Of 1912, but he had served clerkshiP
with Boyd d. Suydam previous to that period,
and came here under their patronage.
"Mr. Boyd was one ofthe directors in The
old United States Bank, when it had a location
in Broadway, Just below Wall-street. Mr.. Suy.
dam was director in one Of the local banks.
The firm and its successors have stood upright
and unshaken, amid all the financial and com.
merca revolutions which have agitated Europe
as we'll as this country, The las, forty years.
But distinguished firms, like the old and sturdy
oaks, do sometimes yielded, though they have
long wi,hstood the stormy blast Of time. Such
is the fate of man and the fortunes Of trade.
Hence this little narrative may possess some in
terest for your commercial readers"
CoLoRs.-In these the ancients certainly far
exceeded the moderns Sir Humphrey Davy
made many efforts to analyze the celebrated
Tyran purple of the East; but these efforts
were without success. He declared he could
not discover of what it was composed. The
Naples yellow, too, though less known, was
much used, and the art of making it is now en-.
tirely gone. The Tyran purple is the color Of
many houses of Pompeii, and they look fresh
as if just painted.
The colors of Titan are equality as vivid and
beautiful as when first laid on by the great art
list, while those of Sir Joshua Reynolds already
looked chalky and dead. And Sir Joshua him
self confessed, after making It the study of his
life, that he had never been able to discover
how Raphael and the other great artists had
been able to preserve the beauty and brightness
of their paintings. But if we marvel at these
artists, three centuries back, what shall we say
of those paintings found in the tombs Of Egypt,
more than two thousand years old, and yet
kept fresh and bright, though buried for that
time beneath the ground, in the damp, dark
caves Of the East! ...~...-.-.--
The very wife of Solomon is found there
lust as she was painted on the eve of departure
from her fathers home, to share the throne Of
Judea, and not only the color Of her garments
was preserved, but the bloom is still on hel
cheek and lips, and the lustre in her eye is even
as it was. Their paintings, too, are as far back
as the time of Moses; portrait supposed t.
be that of the Nice, the king who drove the
Israeltes into the Red Sea and even the col
ors of this are preserved peafecdy.
A BEAUTIFUL SKETcH.-The bell tolls -
Again the sad minstrelsy Of death strikes ou
his iron notes in measured tones. Again the
same tale is told. The remorseless enemy o
mau. is again in our midst. The sky is o'ercas
and cloudy and the drifting snow eddies in th'
whstlng blast. A lone day for funeral
cold without, and mother earth fast folding he
failed bosom in her chilly shroud. Earth il
passing away Another one has passed beyon'
the realms of SHOWS and wintry blasts, into
spring of eternal bliss and unfading bloom.--
Passed away in winter! Fit time for the oil
to die, falling like autumn leaves to the earth
in the winter of life But cold for the warm
hearted young to pass away.
Room gentle flowers, my child would pass TO Heaven
said Willis, as he laid the child beneath tn
green summers sod. "rwasa beautiful though
for child to pass through pathway of flow
ers into heaven, a brighter bud than all to ex
pand where graves and winters are not. Bu
it is winter now and child is passing to its Lit
tie home in the cold earth. The snow is fas
falling, and the turf above its rest will soon b
white as its own lips and cheeks, or the shrou
around it. But tho seasons will move OIL
The spring time will come again and tn
sweet flowers will burst from their wintry slee
upon the little girls grave, while in the sum
mer of immortality she shall bloom in unfadin
innocence and beauty.
A TIGER SLAYER-The morning after ou
arrival it was signifed to US that there was
large royal tiger in a nullah near the towr
This was soon confirmed by the appearance c
a native who was preparing to attack it single
, handed. The man was short, not robust, CON
! pletcly made, sinewy and active, having a oour
tenance remarkable for its expression OF eat'
y determination. He was entirely naked ahov
, tho hips, below which he siu.ply wore coars
+ linen trousers reaching halfway dowa tho thigl
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