Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-11-30

do not, for one repuse, 1orego the purpose
That you resolved to effect" SHAKsPEAEE.
A weak spirit will be crushed by the same
| misfortuncs which would reuse strong one to
cxcrlon. The same storm which fixes more
firmly the giant oak, roots up the tender sallng.
Stroke after stroke fells that
"Unwedgeable and gnarled oak
effort after effort overcomes gnarlet, ungra-
! cious fortune.
Bonaparte once said: 81 have no idea of
merchants acquiring fortune as general wins
| a battle-at n single blow"
This slap dash way Of acquiring fortune has
been ruinous to very many young merchants.-
They covet Aladdin's lamp; with one smart rub
they would summon the genii, and obtain count
less treasures.
Disappointed in their sanguine expectations,
and perhaps utterly ruined and bankrupt, in.
stead OF beginning again in moderate way,
with experience for their guide, they have either
entirely forsaken mercantile affairs, or struck All
other "hIow" so violent that the rebound has
crushed them to the earth.
10 know how to wait is the great means Of
success, says modern French writer; to know
how to persevere is the surest means Of success
in any undertaking, and this involves atient
waiting.
Perseverance is like taste for olives where
they are not indigenous; it is.not a natural gift
like genius, it is an requirement. True, some
persons more easily continue steadfast iu career
than others; but after all, anybody can persc-
we're if they only uiU.
When the boy takes his gun, and goes out in
the morning to shoot birds, he resolves not to
60 home with his game-bag empty. Miles and
"mileses," as Hood says, he tramps over field and
ford, mud and mire, through the bushes, over
hedges and stone walls tearing his trousers and
his shins bruising his hands and blistering his
feet and all for what purpose? Success
".lll things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoyd."
"Men prize the thing ungaind more than it is"
All but there are more dragons ip the way
to mercantile success, and fercer ones, than
guarded the golden apples Of the Hesperides.
"Fght thcm and the Graves ce thy boldness is their
panic
Fear hcn and their treacherous heart hath lent their
ranks legion"
Stephen Girard, at the age Of forty, command
ed his own sloop, engaged in the coastng trade
between New York, Philadelphia and New Or
leans. He had taken many steps on the ladder
of Fortune since he was cabnboy not worth
shilliug-but think of his perseverance, in noun
tia. that ladder step by step, till he was worth
seven or eight millions of dollars
The following anecdotc of an oriental sover-
eign is given by Malcolm, in his History Of Per
sa -
"There was no feature more remarkable in the
character of Timour, than his expraordinary per-
severance No difficulties ever led him to recede
from what he had undertaken, and he often per-
sisted in his efforts under circumstances that led
all around him to despair He used, on such oc
casions, to relate to his friends an anccdote ofhis
early life.
81 once said he, was forced to take shelter
from my enemies in ruined building, where l
sat alone many hours. Desiring to divert my
mind from my hopeless condition, | fixed my ob.
servation on an ant that was carrying a grain of
corn larger than itself up high wall. num-
bered the efforts it made to accomplish this OBJ
iect The grain fell sixty-nine times to the
ground but the insect perscvercd, and the seven
teth time it reached the top Of the wall. This
sight gave ne courage the moment and | shall
never forget the lesson it conveyed"
This reminds US of Bruce's spider, whose ef-
forts were nearly as numerous before the object
was accomplished.
1t is common notion among young people,
that everything must be struck out at heat
that this is the way genius works. Genius Is
suggestive, but common sen;e active.
"AIas r' said poor widow, the mother OF
bright but reckless son, "alas he has not the
gift of continuance"
This is an attribute of the best order of minds.
Every school-boy knows "Perseverantia vlnct
omnia" at least he has fixed it indelby upon
the pages of his copy book. Dcspise pcrsever-
auce AS we'll might one despse the act of
breathing, because it has to be repeated and con-
tinued every moment. But this is an uncon-
scious act. True, and so may perseverance be-
come, when the habit Of accomplishing what Is
undertaken, is once established. Perseverance
is linked cham which grapples to the goal of
Success with hooks of steel.
FROM AUsrRALIA-By advices from Sydney
to the l4th of August, we learn that the yield
of gold still continued to be enormous. In the
week ending the 7th Of August, upwards OF one
hundred and sixty thousand ounces passed
I Al.