The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-01-02

recently addressed to the French sMihlsters0f
War,.by NJ. LIE Maout, a cGenfistset ST. B,issS!
sr. Bn1EeSMSE, Oct: q, 1854
Monsieur LIE MINsTRE.: have 5occnpieds
myself since the conmencempnt.ofsth the East.S
ern War, with observations on the modife,s
tions which the atmosphere experiences. fonJf
the cannonades that took place. Those OBJ
servaons are.I made every three hours. yss.tsE
have collected on the effects of scailnpfs
facts Of the highest interest, which reiidef
intelligible upon paper by the aid of figures, "a
specimen OF which send you, extracted las
tiIy from the results of my observations, aid
which represent the comparative effects of the
cannonades Of Odessa; of The battle of Afmay
of the day Of the 9th Of October; Cannon y
fred at the Inyalids,) of,the opening of :fiie
bombardlnent of ;Sebastopol, andSof the I
of the 25th of October. -
Ihope to be abe to establish that the lbas
rometer is not, as is commonly thought, an i1ss
strume mt merely intended to indicatesraln and
fine weather. but n mobile apparatus; excess
syely sensitive, which places US in cemiai,tisS
cation with all great atmospheIica Pheno osnefas
What is remarkable in this instrlmebt
that at from GOO to 500 leagues of distance an
impression is produced omit ir a few hours
the discharge of cannon. Observed with
and intelligence it cannot: fail, in certain
cumstances, TO become of the highest utilifyin
the time of war. ..ssN<+ gs n a.
Tie obect.to Which. Itventufe to direct your,
attention is this: - ~ "a 3 -:;ss sS.i
haveno occasion to apprise you OF the
bombardment of Sebostopol, as you have al:
ready received the news Of it officially but &
can announce to you with "a certainty whletls.
will not be belied by thetfacts, that the day
before yesterday cannonade suchsas has not
taken place during the year which is about To-
elapse, even comprising those Of the siesesoE
Slstra and of the bombardmcnt of: Odessa,
commenced in the morning before Sebastopol,s
BE good enough to cast your eye over lales
table that1 send you. ou%ill see there that
in 4S hours the barometer arose 80 millimetIesJ
and that the figure which represents this nises
comparatively to those produced bytthesS other
bombardments is almost vertical, ansIadexS
with the other signs by which it is. accompa;
aied. of the intensity of the action Of
cannonade. q t,sssv
In few DAYS YOU o1-sgil! receive from sebass
topol news of the 25th, which will give YOU
full information of what occurred on that>
which has proved, have no doubt, one of tho
most memorable of the whole campaign. Z
In the meanwhile remain &c. 6sc.sss e sf g i
Cn. LIE, MAour.
1t is scarcely necessary for us TO add Sthat
the information contained in this letter @as9s
subsequently confirmed by the facts. '.rl
The END OF KENTUCKY HUNTER. On !.
Friday October 9th, Isaac Slower, and n,
young man named James A. McMinds, went
into the mountains of Cajon Pass, (California}
on hunting excursion, destined to be. the last
of one whose life has been spent in the woods:
In the afternoon they met very large bear,
and supposed that they had killed it Onap-
preaching nearer, they found thatit tillbreath-
ed whercupcn Mr.. Slower dismounted, and
was creeping around a bush, to get fair view
before shooting, when the bear jumped upon
him, breaking the right thighin two; places,
badly crushing the bone, also biting a. piece
out Of his left thigh, and severely woundng
him in the left side Of the head. McMinds
fired, and the bear left Slower, and chased
McMlnds few yards, but instantly returned,
and lay down within five or six feet of Slower,
Afraid to shoot again, lest it should seize: SIo-
yer, McMinds crept up, and carrieds Slogersof
some distance, and put him on lis mule, and
he actually rode a aqgarter OF annie 30 this
condition; and complaining Of being TOO FAINT
and sick to go any farther, a bed wasstnade
for him of their blankets, and here the two re-
mained till daylight of Saturday, when Nc.
Minds started with the sad news to his family
and neighbors. -. - &
This place is some thirty miles from San
Bernardino, and about Is l5from5theroadst through
the Cajon Pass, and ina country the toughest
imaginable: so that relief did' not feacRhim
until late on Sunday morning. He hadsre.
mained more than 20 hours with only as little
water, which his faithful friend had been able
to get in apowder flask. He must have suf-
fered a great deal in descending the mountains.
He died about O'clock on Monday morn. 8
ing, shortly before the party gotto the mouth
of the Cajon, retaining his senses, measnrablyto g
the last. Mr.. Slower was over so years OF iage
"a veteran hunter, and even in his old age sc
great bodily viSor. lie was. q native Of Ken
lucky, and "had hunted buffalo" as he;llsedto
say, "from Kentucky to Mssolri1 and Afkan. =
sas, until the bark ofhis neighDors dogs drove
him TO the prairies and Rocky Mountains"
Old mountaineers will reeolleet him veil He
came from New Mexico to California in 9IS43,
and has resided on the Los Angeles 4fontiers,
regarded in n manner as n "hostS in, himself
with his trusty rifle against hostile Indians.
4 Frenchexile, Mr. Antoine Fonriiief, who
was expelled from France by Louis Philippe,
died short time sifce'atPl Plaqperline, La The
New Orleans ,Picayune says His ETaae is
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