The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-09-13

is not too mnch We have use for the whole
of IT.; aud in proof Of it. we know that in sea.
sons when the crop is short the price of corn
doubles, and many farmers fnd' themselves
;'sl,oft OF supply. Even in this great produ.
cling country, andin that abundant article In.
dian corn, We have daily evidence that the
. production is not beyond the demand; but on
the contrary, that from year to year, the price
Of shis staple arsiclesadvapces and on the COM
pletion of our numerous railroads to markets.
s IL IS certain thar eorp will advance largely in
Price,
Hoes AND CarrBE.-The following extracts
s.of letter from an intelligent farmer in Madi-
son county, kentucky, to the Cincinnati Price
cufTeaf, is a fair. index Of the state of the
ceuptry in Fegard to the hog and cattle mark
ct: !.
In the county Of Fayette, the FIRST county of
The State IN iusagrieuture,d 4 caused the Commits
sioners of Tax to take the census of hogs more
fully than the law required. The result is
listed in, 1852 IS, lSa hogs over six months
old this year, 20, ,063 ); all, six months over
and under, 39, ,383 nearly all Of which latter
airpber may be brought into market at home
or abroad a -
The report Of the Louisville Courier will
. give you an idea of the number Of hogs over
six months OH, and the above data proxi-
mate, estimate of the whole number. all Of
which shows an amount of hogs uuprecedene
ed in our State. Similar causes, no doubt,
have produced Ike results in all the hog-grow-
ing States.
The two months drought prevailing all over
the State caused the purchasers Of hogs, for
future delivery, tes have some apprehension of
high prices ) but the4kte rains have been very
fine, nnd corn win be- an average crop all
Through this sectivn, .snd, as far as l can hear
; throughout the State, except upon the poorest
i Soils. Should say that aH,hugs suitable for
! fattening Yih be made fat. Stock hogs are
tbree aoilars per hundred, gross, and freely of:
fered. Fat hogs refused at the same price.
n The-amount,of old corn is considerable, at
$3.50 per barrel in the. crib. New corn is
selling at 8 f.25 per barreEin the field.
Cattle coming in for winter aud fall beef
are more scarce thansI ever knew them. lam
poa grazing 100 cattle--only one hundred of
them will be fit for killing this fall, whereas
usually one-half would haze been guod beef
4 found il utterly impossible sin Kentucky to
get aged cattle for grazing fat Beef;is six
eegtss per pound here, now, and must advance
with the.fall demand: "a. S. o..
::srhe California trade has taken off most of
the extreme Western cattle. and oxen have
been bought'in this county for that market.
Tennessee has even been, hunted over for old
oxen to feed for the New York market by
g. ken,uckians and Ohioans. 49,, =.
PROTESTANT MissioNARIEs IN CHISA.-A
recent number Of the Chinese Repository
says that siree the year lsU7, one hundr, d
aud fifty Protestant missionaries have labortd
in China; Of whom seventy three are still living
and remain in active labor, while five are alb
seBt from i'll health or other causes. OF the
remaining seventy.three twenty-five died in the
field of labor or on the passage home, inclu-,
ding four who were drowned, and three who
met a violent death at the hands of the natives
Forty eight have retired most of them on ac
count of their own i'll health or that of their
families, but some of them through discourage.
ment at the little progress they have made III
learning the Chinese language. OF the whole
number, fnrty.seven We're Englishmen, eighty
eiuht Americans, and fifteen came from the
continent of Europe. Oflhe missionaries now
in China, including the five now absent twenty
three are EngIihmen, five are from the CONT
neat, aud forty. -four are Americans. Most of
those from the continent are Lutherans. The
members of the mission at Annoy, sent out
from the United States, belong to the Dutch
Reformed CHURCH.
The Russian mission has large monastery
in Pekin, and the members Of it remain there
ten years, when they are replaced by a fresh
party from Russir.
The London Times says: In fifty years.
Ireland will be Protestant TO a man. Both
the Roman Catholics Of Ireland and the race
identified with that faith arc al! leaving ireland.
Ere long there will be none left. At the pre-
sent rate of emigration. which cannot be. less
than 100000. chiefly Roman Catholics, in a
our rhi drru will soc the time when the