Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-27

dispute, and opposed to alarming the country
with talk of war.
STATE OF IRELAND.-The last intelligence from
Ireland is that the people of that country appre-
hended another widespread blight of the potato
crop. 1t is stated, however, that the disease the
present season is only partial, and that it will be
compensated for in the increased production of
both the potato and grain crops. The Galway
Packet says:
"The people appear bent on leaving the coun-
try as fast as they can. 1t is lamentable to sec
men fleeing from the land of their nativity as
from pest house. The young and the strong,
and the vigorous, ay, and many of the compare
lively wealthy too, are thronging to the grant
ships On yesterday morning no fewer than 200
souls left this neighborhood by train for Dublin
en- route to America"
The Daily Express has the following statement
in reference to the potato blight:
"a good deal of anxiety is manifested about
the condition of this important crop. We have
given as careful consideration as we could to the
accounts received from various quarters of the
country, and have examined, personally, within
the last few days, many fields in this and the ad-
joining counties, and the conclusion arrived at is
that, although the disease is undoubtedly pre-
sent, it is not so in such a degree as to cause
great alarm. An immense extent of the crop
has been planted in Ireland this season, much
greater a ate than for many seasons past; and from
natural tendency to alarm, It waUllaaMing for the
the rot is not so widespread, nor so bad, where
it does appear, as formerly. Our contemporaries
and their correspondents would do well to weigh
their statements on this subject before exciting
unfounded fears in the public mind"
No Use FOR TRowsERs Now-On the morn
ing of the meteor shower, in 1888, old Peyton
Rogers, who intended making an early start to
his work, got up in the midst. of the display.
On going to his door, he saw, with amazement,
the sky lighted up with the falling meteors, and
he concluded at once that the world was on fire,
and that the day Of judgment had come.
He stood for a moment gazing in speechless
terror at the scene, and then with yell of hor-
ror, sprang out of the door into the yard, right
into the midst of the falling stars, and here, in
his efforts to dodge them, he commenced series
of ground and lofty tumbling that would have
done honor to tight rope dancer His wife
being awakened in the mean time, and seeing
old Peyton jumping and skipping about the
yard, called out to him to know
"What in the name osense he was dom out
thar dancin' arouno thar, without his clothes
on ;"
But Peyton heard not. The judgment and
the long black accounts he would have to settle,
made him needless of all terrestrial things; and
his wife, by this time, becoming alarmed at his
strange behavior, sprang out of bed, and running
to the door, shrieked out at the top of her
lungs
"Peyton l say, Peyton! what do you mean
jumpin' about out thara Come and put your
trowsers on"
Old Peyton, whose fears had now overcome
him, family answered, as he fell sprawling on the
earth, "Oh Peggy, Peggy, don't you see-e the
w-o-r-l-d-d's a-i-r-e. Thar amt no use for trow
sers now."