The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-09-19

Idiers have fallen by the same unseen, yet re-
sistisss Toe; They have; been denied esen.the
heEoss desperate wish of at the lannon's
mouth with tie music Of hat sounding in
his ears busting ip the dense and
plagae scented hosp@al, they have made the
last sacrifice to fame and country. s. s.
s sAnd at our own doors, what spectacle! !!
Thealast fall and Wiater were almost nnprece.
dented iii the destruction Of life and property
BY fires in tile Northern cities, and shy storm
and ssfipwreck aloGg The extended path Of
Commerce. L canaet BE forgotteu, how. day:
'afteFday, we were called Ion to chronicle the
less of some noble ship, gone down, with her
'cSTreW;and cargo, to Tie chambers of the deep.
Spring returned and with it the labors and
the hopes Of The hushandman, The seasons
were propitious, and all things promised abun-
dance. I'M South Carolina, never before did
the prospects seem BRIGHTER. Cotton, Rice,
and the provision crops, all looked d@ell And
this conditihu of things continued with but
little change until one week ago. when a storm
unparalleled in the memory ofsthe present
generation swept over us, leaving in its track
desolation and rl,iin. In ourseity, its work is
o.be seen in almost every object which meets
the eye, while from the country every mail
brings IN tie, most sickening tidipgs of loss
and destruction. The Rice crop scut off one
half. The Sea Island Cotton fields are strewn
with their just maturing fruit. The entire
Low Country. of Carolina and Georga has
been seyerelyaand bitterly visited. =. 81
7; But our disasters have not stoppedshere. A
worse calamity is upon us in the ravages ofsthe
Yellow Fever. Our sister city Of Savannah
has been a lazar. house for number of weeks
past. Her people have fled by thousands from
the jaws Of, the unsparibg pestencc, and stand
afar of, watching, while it sweeps away tthe
:few.who remain. 1t is spectacle to excite
the deepest sympathy, and call forth our best
aid. Charleston in abundant gratitude be it
spoken has thus far been less sorely stricken.
But it is impossible to note the hearses which
are constantly vending their sad way through
our streets, and every day more frequent with
out feeling that we too, are afflicted. Our
season, which opened with such fair promise,
has been darkened by cloud of misfortunes
When we thus sum up our sorrows, We are re-
minded of the history of Job, as messenger
after messenger followed each other in quick
succession, with their tales Of disaster and dis
tress-C Charleston Mercury.
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WHAT CAUSES THE GULF STREAM.-Mr.
Stanton Shoals, an experienced navigator, gives
it as his opinion that the waters of the" Gulf
stream are nothing more or less than the waters
Of The river Amazon This great father of wa
tiers is bedded more than 1000 miles immedi
atey under the equator, and all its tributary
streams for many thousand miles are constan.
ly pouring their hot water into this mighty re-,
seryoir of water. As these waters are gath
cred in under the burning sun of the equator, it
is extremely warm; far more so than the At.
lantic Ocean waters under the equator. The
great body Of heated water shoots out into the
Atlantic more than a hundred miles, in the face
of the eternal trade winds.
s The Amazon is sixty miles wide, after being
belted in its irresistible course it curves off to
the left and scuds off before the strong trade
winds till out oftheir reach. Driven along
with great force, it1takes its course round the
great bay formed between the two continents
of,Nerth andzSGuth America. Dashing along
the coast ofsouth America, and passing to
the leeward of THE West India Islands it leaves
the shore Of Cuba, and proceeds along the
shores of Florida; the capes of Virginia and the
south coast of North America, and passing
the shores Of Newfoundland, ends its mission,
among the icebergs which float out of the
Northern ocean. Cut off the Gulf Stream, and
it would not be many years before the North
Atlantic would eaflied with icebergs that
,wouldsbe very destructive to navigation. But
wise providence has provided an external re.
servoir of hot: water constantly rushing around
over the back of the ;cold Atlantic to its des-
tigatjon, where after spending its vital warmth
among the icebergs it is hurried away by a
new5supply of native warm water from the
great Amazon. Seamena can always tell when
in or out Of the Gulf. Stream by dipping the
hand in the water along side. y ~ X
Undoubtedly this view wilfbe new to some
readers, but what lhaveswritten lis -fronrexpei
rfience, and was seen while Iwas rowing upon
the mighty deep. rhe:& Gulf Stream, 14repeat
is nothing more OF, less titan the waters of the
great Amazon,of South. America. Ihaye eros.
sed il in many places, and for many Years have
,glided thgeugh,it it's warm water, always pleased
to have lit asterp. The most violent storms,
from whatever qaarter they uay come never
change its course or itsscurrent, butt contin-
ues tonoge on in that irresistible power which
was given to it in the beginning By the Power
above. - ass
- JASNEx,s HoTELs he editor of the Giro.
.lEit.iap Informs is that he bad the pleasure Of
|spjartaking Of tie farewell dinner given BY Jan
ney to his friends in Columbia, on the eve Of
his departure from the House for which, by his
skill nrbanity and gentlenanly bearing, he has
gained such widespread popularity. And
this reminds US that we have not mentioned the