The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-07
Editorial Correspondence.

CHARLESTON, Feb. 4th 1851.
Wednesday and Thursday last were beautiful days
and the 'tler d"ightful-just pleasant enough
togve the people Of our city fine opportunities for Pc
dcstrian and riding eXercises-and they 1--WE mean
particularly the ladies' know how appreciate these
fvors and they do not-in the language of the old
adage, make hay while the sun shines, they make
the best possible use Of Kingstreet for promenading
and booking purposes.
Business men hare.litile time for promenading the
streets of Charleston for the fun Of the thing-they
have heary trampag enough do, ifthey attend prop
erly TO their business without trying to Kill time, as
some are duing most electualy.
King street affords capital opportunities or the en-
plOymrnt Of the busy moments OF an idle rOn,an "
and there are doubtless thousands who avail them.
sclv ofthcse-whosc time is taken. up with 'trhcs
light ar"-and upon whom care sits as compacent-
| ly as feather upon the ocean, One would lot sup
pose, whilst gazing upon this vast, moving living pa
noama OF human souls, that many Of these fair ones
poor, worried lsserhalt5 toing at the oar of slow
craft with a running head tide high winds, and heavy
SCI still we are not to infer from this, that the Queen
City afford better specimens oGthe fair "daugh
crS of Carolina for we know that there are some as
good Southern marons here as in any other place,
who know what duty requires, and knowing, dare per-
form it, even the risk of being considered uufslion-
able and Of losing caste among those who leading
and are preeuinS to give tone and character to the
fashionable foes of the day. We pity world made
up of very fashionable and exquisite men and women,
who are almost good, in their estimation, tn
set their satin covered ieet upon the uncapeed earth
whose highest ambition and chciest aim is to get
the front scat always at the OPERA and the fastest span
of beautiful arclI-Ecckcd bays the plank road, and
to be considered OH all occasions, the best turn out
| in town.
But nass from this very Improbable subject, for
fear that some brilliant imagination might indulge the
fancy that speak in envy, because engagements
and circumstances such to preclude the udul.
gcncc of the EuSt amuSemcnts Of the times We reck-
on we could. if We wanted, for While. mako ourseli
quite conspicuous, but ,ve prefer better way-not
quite so dangerous to life aud limb
The gentle.ncn of the turf have been subjected to
some disappointment, in the absence on Wednesday
last iu the four nile heat of the Gallant Highland.
er," he having been sod hy his for $40 600 to
Tln in the great $4,000 stake at New Orleans next
April This heing the case the beautiful and renown
ed Nina as the Nctos pocticlly calls her left alone
in her ory, and hai merely 10 go through the form
of circliug the course ina gentle opc. The account
given by the city papers particularly the Ne~ oil this
days Wednesdays proceedings on the turf, is very
amusing, and goes to show how hnciluly and nicely
every thing in the a='0songering line is done up here
from description OF the most elegant and finished
y rk OF art-the most elaborate lecture where scien
fc research exhibits vast amount Of mental labor
! even down to Il monkey show, or what is worse,
horse race Verify there is often but step from the
sublime 10 the ridiculous
But we are not finding fault with our brethren o
the Pyess.gaag; they driven to by this fast age
of ours which is greedy for news. that unless pa
per is filled with all sorts Of wonderful paragraphs
making a real "junbled up variety" and telling o
things too tedious to mention, rs well as some thing
which have never happencd-s passed by, considered
behind the age and laid away ancient history. Now
we do not object to neIrS paper giving the pco
pie having the news-but we most empha,ically entc
ademurrer against the bill Of complaints which news
crazy world disposed to file against some OF Ou
: one horse teams because we cannot give is muci
startling intelligence and astonSh the natives as some
of our city sr horse lcamsdo. The telegraph although
in many respects great blessing is not much advan
tage TO newspapers On the contrary. it has done
them HARM and we need only refer to the columns o
our papers here, to show what an enormous tax il
imposed upon them, merely to crafty the precociou
and overgrown curiosity of tho presentase. tis sur
prising 10 SEQ what small and trfng matters are tee
eraphcd to our papers-or all of which they must pay
and that heavily y-What particular benefit is 10 DO do
rived from our knowing whether the Thermometer il
ten or hundred in New York? Who cares whethe
Dedia: is burnt u oagy or has sailed for Europe O.