Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-10

were nearly over, and the Ministerial majority
was about "a. We presume to obtain so "a
vorabe showing for Ministers, the moderate
Conservatives are classed as their friends
There was great rioting at the Limerick elcc-
tion in Ireland. The mob assailed the military,
who fired on them, killing eight, and woundiAg
many others.
From Paris we have rumors of coup d'etat
on the 18th of August. The approaching mar
riage of the President to the Princess of Baden,
and granddaughter of Eugene Beauharnais is
talked of.
SOME OF TIE RICH ANcIENrs.-We suppose
there are people in all parts of the United States
that think they are pretty well of:-even rich.
We know a few unfortunate individuals that la
Dor under this hallucination, and that with
mixture ofpity and contempt upon their fellow
worms Of the dust, whom they think have less
of the "dust" than themselves. But heaven
help these poor witngs, they have not the slight
est conception of what wealth is. They rich,
torsooth They are beggars comparatively. Many
rich mans upper servants live in better STYLE
Mr. CrceSus, who hourished before our time, and
whom the reader has doubtless heard of. used to
say that a citizen who had not fortune suffi-
cent to support all army, or a legion did not de-
serve the title of rich man, and he is good author
ity. His property alone was worth the snug lit
tie sum OF ss,5Oo,ooo. Then he possessed slaves
furniture, horses, cattle and cash to an equal
amount, making the comfortable sum of sl7.-
100000.
Mr.. Croesus was a rich man, but many of
the old gentlemen that kicked the bucket CEN
turies ago were richer than he. There was
Seneca, the philosopher, that uttered and wrote
some tolcrabIc good things considering the age
in which he lived, was worth sl7 800 900! MANY
modern authors would doubtless have been GLAD
to have been remembered in the old fellows
will. And SO they were all of them He has
left them an invaluable legacy if they would but
accept it; and this it is whenever yol have
written book lay it aside for nine years at the
expiration of that time, perlse it carefully; and
then if your judgement approve publish it but
not before"
julius Cesar like Watkins Macawber, Esq.,.
was so continually mourning pecuniary liabilities
that he found it difficult to discharge He set
high value upon friendship, having purchased
that Of Lucius Palus for sl,500O0O, and that of
Curio for S2,500,000. He was a terrible spend
thrift. Before he succeeded in obtaining any Of
ticc he had amassed debts to the amount ofSl4-
$4,000. But ofice-holdcrs had good pickincs
in those days. rs we'll as in our own: and as soon
as Julius GOT his hand into the Public Treasury.
his debts began to diminish. He soon became
rich. He gave Servilla, the mother of Brutus, q
pearl of the value of 100000. He would doubt
less have been guilty of a great many other en-
travagancicS, had not "the well beloved Rrutus'
given him that cruel stab under the fifth rb.-
On the day Of the assassination, Caesars friend,
Mare Anthony, owed 81, 100000, which was paid
thirty days atterward. This same Anthony sub
sequently swallowed pearl dissolved in vinegar
(which Cleopatra administered to him,) worth
100000. He also squandered s735, 100000
of tue public treasure. He would have been a
splendid fellow to have held fiscal agency, un-
der our Federal Government.
Tbcr is at his death left SllS,l25,OOO. which
Calgula spent in less than twelve months. He
lived at the rate of s35O,oOO day; one supper
cost him 100000.
Esopus, the comedian even transcendcd Cali
gula in extravaganza, having given 100000
for one single dish. He had one son, Clodius
who was a chip of the old block. Among other
costly featS, ClodiuS swallowed pearl Ia Ia An
thony) valued at $4,000.
Appius another Roman millionaire, souander
ed in debauchcry some s2,5000OOO after which
finding himself accidently sober one day he in
vestigatcd his pccuniary affairs and finding that
he had only half a million dollars left, he poison
ed himself because he considered that sum insult
ficient FIR his maintenance.
A Mr.. Heliogabalas, who lived in those times
and was one of the Upper Ten, used occasionally
to get up nice suppers that cost 100000 each. d
Another gentleman, Lucallus, seldom sat down
to a repaSt that cost less than slO0,OOO His pri-
table eclpsed the "iadies' ordinares" of twenty
ofthe best hotels in the world. The fish from his
ponds were sold forSl65, ,0oO.-N. Y. Musicals
World.
MELANCHOLY CAsUALTY.-The Literary Wade
Mecum, published at Buena Vista Georgia, says
an interesting child about three years old, of
MIR. Benajah Peacock, residing some four or FIVE
miles from that town was so severely stung BY
bees one day week before last that it died the
next morning. 1t appears that the parents Of
the child were not at the house at the time and
the child had gone near where swarm of bees
had settled and perhaps irrtated them when
they flew tupon and before it could be rescued IL