The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, July 07, 1841, Image 1
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THE t AW?E.\ JOURNAL.
FIVEW SERIES.] VOL. II. ' ' ' ' . " -' " /
'" ?AROMWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1841. . - .. ..
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MISCELLANEOUS. r
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Importance of ventillated Apartments. t
.?A man consumes or spoils more than 2
w . owg, gal foil of air i.i a rr.inute, consequent- t'
' ffr'all closely confined places most be ii
very unwholesome. Candles and lamps t
i become dim in public assemblies, and this t
r; is an indication of the impurity of the air. ii
The perspiration from animal bodies is h
" exceedingly injurious in a confined space. c
"Three thousand human beings," ob- ^
serves Dr. Arbuthnot, "living within the tj
space of an acre of ground' would make e
an atmosphere of their own steam about t(
71 feet High, which, if not carried away by
winds, would become pestiferous in a mo- ?
ment." Dressed food, both animal and ^
Vegetable, pollutes the air, consequently
- ?;a vprv insalubrious immediately ?
' ft rvimi j
after it h*5 been used for the purpose of 11
dining. Dr. Priestly, on one occasion |s'
coiked up a bottle of nir of this kind, and c
found that it was deprived of a considers-j I
tie portion of oxygen. Every room i a
ought to be completely purified, by the j h
openin g of the door and windows, at11<
least once in the day. A close bed-room is t<
also extremely unwholesome, neither p
ought the bed to be surrounded with cur- n
tains; many persons have a habit of sleep- v
ing with the curtains drawn entirely rotihd jj
.the bed?no practice can be more injuri-1^
ous. The fire place should never be stop- (j
s ped up by a chimney-board; but in damp p
weather a fire is essential to health, care
beino- taken that the room is not overheat.
, 'T"zr?^v*2 r
ed. Many dangerous colds ere caught by |
those whose lungs are delicate, by chang- ^
p-' ing the atmosphere of a dry and wartn|'(
silting-room, fot that of a damp and cohl'rr
chamber; such transitions are injurious
even to the robust, and often fatal to the s(
weak and delicate. t!
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IIaudwork.?It's hard work to go up tl
hill without leaning forward?and it's 11
r .hard work for a 'neutral* editor to speak n
of politics without either leaning one way j0
or the other.
^ .It's hard-work to make a dinner of * 0
grape shot, unless they are well boiled; !Q
and it's hard work to digest a fool's argu- ?j
mcnt, unless it be soaked in something ^
like reason.
It's hard, tvork to look at thesun with- ;, ?
hard work to look
UUb uumrj|wf uii., .. ..
at some girl# without feeling inclined to 1n
wink. |a
It's hardwork to do nothing, and have ;?
too much of il on hand; and it's hard work ft
to collect a debt of one who says,'I'll; if
pay it to morrow.' [ft
' ,It's hard work tn squeeze cider out of a fi
-' 'brick-bat; and it's hard work to scratch A
r 'but ideas for a paragraph after being on a rr
:v vspiee for twenty-four hours; If)
, / It's hard work to hold lightning by the jr
'tail ;and its hard work to stetn the torrent
of a woman's will.
It's hard work to refuse a good offer;
' and it's harder still to be compelled to acr'
cept a bad one. i
It's hard work for many people to live; ^
and doubly hard-for some to die. ^
DEAD LETTER OFFICE. Jj
A writer in t!ic Worcester FullaciiHmr
gives the following account of this tie- a
partmenl of the general post office: a
"The dead letter office in the post office 0
department, isa great curiosty. The dead v
liters are returned to the General Post n
Office, with the quarterly accounts from 0
^13,000 post offices which now exist. Five S<
clerks are employd in the dead letter of- vt
fice. The envelopes are taken from the tl
. packages by one clerk, who ties a string fi
round the contents and casts them into a ti
basket; the next clerk assorts them and c
compares them with the post bill; sending v
the letters to a clerk to be opened; on g
opening, the letters containing novalua-L
ble inclostires, are thrown into a basket !v"
and destroyed. Those containing valua- j
inelosures, are returned to the office where a
they were mailed, and sent to the owner !
if found. If not claimed, all money is '"
--.-placed in a separate fund, and the ac- f1
count recorded, so that it can be paid to l'
the owner at any future period if claimed. 1
Thev onen about two hundred and fifty h
- thousand letters per quarter; there are now ii
several cart loads in the office unopened, a
The work of opening and assorting is ve- tl
ry tedious and laborious." tl
v
Baron Van Halberd's Wife. t
The following acount of the success of c
the Baron Van Halberg,s matrimonial ad- -v
vertisement, which was published some i(
1 tkne since, has appeared in the German t
- journals:? - 1
u It will, no doubt, be recollected, that, v
two months ago, this bold Baron Van c
Halberg de Broech, Captain-Colonel of c
- . the Rhine and Meusc, applied through the s
,c European press for a wife, giving in lively 1
terms a description of himself and enu- i
merating with great delicacy the graces e
and virtues with which she whom he I
sought must be endowed. This step of 1
. the rather eccentric Baron has led to the 1
most happy results. He has, without a g
joke, met with a perfect woman. With
his conscientious punctuality and delicacy, <
he is now preparing, with his mind at f
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est, a circular letter to those conde
cending young ladies who have offeree
0 surenderto him their hands and heart!
md all their charms, amounting to no few
:r than 749. The gallant gentleman, wh
s repairing his ancient castle to reecivi
he Queen of the Toumay, deeply regret
hat the terms of his own letter and hi
mate sense of delicacy, will not allov
iimto publish the 749 letters he has re
eived. Some of them, he says are s<
eautifully composed, that if exposed t<
he light of day, they would in one weel
xtinguish, by their brilliancy, the celebra
ed correspondence of Madame de Se
igne, and render it stale and unprofitable
phe most spirituelh, he says, as migh
e expected, came from France. Then
re 27 from actresses singers and dancers
01 from grissqttes, courturiers, enluminui
es, and modistes; 53 from duchesses
ountesses, and marchionesses; 329 fron
'arisian literary ladies, whose names an
lways mentioned in a whisper. Th<
onorable and discreet Baron, however
3 prevent the possibility of his yielding t<
jmptation, has announced through th<
ress that he has burnt all these perlumet
lissives. The letter he is preparein<
.'ill be his adieu to the press and the pub
c. Henceforth, he declares,he nolongei
elongs to the world, but is devoted t<
le treasure of beauty which the wheel o
)rtune has brought to him."
Geological Discoveries.?Two thirds o
II the rocks forming the earth's crust, art
. a ... n .
)ssil rocks, and many hundreds ot stratc
iade up entire of fossil animaleula;.?
'rom the limestone quarries in Italy, in i
one weighing one and a half ounces
lere were obtained 10,454 beautifully
)rmed shells shaped like the Nautilus, <
lousand of them only weighen a grain.?
'here is a bed in Germany of these ani
lalculae where 41,000,000 shells can be
btained from a cubic inch of the strata
md Arembburg calculated that the coat;
f the stomach of these animaleula? wert
nly 150th million of an inch think!?
'heir powers of reproduction were won
6rful. One pair in six days produoec
m millions, of young; on the 11th day
)ur millions, and on the 12th day sixteer
lillions, of young was produced. Then
re 500,000,000 of these in a single drof:
f water; and yet these, when fossilizec
>rm the hardest rock in the world. Think
you can, how long it must have taker
> convert these delicate masses into rock:
t {or building fortifications and castles.?
.nd of 80 distinct species of fossil anilalculoe,
40 are extinct. Of fishes, 8,00
species are extinct, and of8,000 fount
1 a fossilized state, no two being alike.
Dr. Criscom.
A Sand Storm at Cawnpore.
No sooner had the hot winds completer
sit in, than we had a splendid genule
northwester in full force. These
jflans, as they are here called knew nc
alf measures; on they come, wrapping
le whole face of the cuntry in darkness,
nd spreading alarm and destruction far
nd near. On this, the first occasion ol
ur witnessing the visitation, our attention
i'as drawn to it by the appearance ol
lountains of sand, which occupied nearly
ne third of the horizon; for while thej
eemed stationary, although in fact, thej
re re advancingwith tremendous rapidity
\e edi?es reflpr.fpd thp ravs nfthp Hpplin.
? ?0? ; * "V w w* "MW fww""
ig sun, and exhibited every variety oi
inge. We gazed on in astonishment, noi
ould we easily believe that what we saw
iras not a range of solid mountains, newlj
prung up at thecommand of the Almighy
Being, who at the first had created the
yorld. Soon they evidently drew nearei
nd appeared like a rolling mass, which
hreatened to entomb us; we lingered as
ang as we dared, the phenomenon was
lewtous, and we were scarcely aware o.
is power. The doors and windows o
he bungalow had already been securec
>y the servants, one only being held oper
a readiness for our ingress; the storn
pproached: and we ran for shelter int<
he house; at that moment I recollectec
hat a tame but imprisoned jackall, with
vhich I often amused myself, was exposet
o the violence of the storm, and unable tc
srane. I hastened to secure it. but har
veil nigh fallen a victim to my inexper
snce; the tempest had well nigh reachec
he compound, when I was literally pullec
nto the house and in an instant, w<
vere in total darkness; and the monstroui
;loud was passing over, and around us
Iriven on by an irresistible wind, whicl
iounded like a continued peal of thunder
[t was truly awful! Not a creature stir
ed within the house, the Ayah was seat
;d on the ground; with our infant on hei
ap, whilst I clung to the arm of my hus
jand; had the last dread day arrived, rnj
jewildermcnt could scarcely have beer
greater.?
The total darkness lasted on this occa
lion for about five minutes; the blacknesi
hen changed to a sand yellow whicl
gradually died away. The compound
d the ppearance of desolation the trees were
5, covered with sand and many of their
- boughs weie broken, while every article
o of furniture in the house bore witness to
e the visitation.
s ?Narruti ve of a Residence in India.
7 CANADA.
- an Extra from the New York Herd
aid of Saturday, we have the speech of
3 Lord Sydenham at the opening of the
t Parliament of the Canadas on the 15 of
- June. The House of Assembly was or.
ganized by the election of Mr. Cuvillier.a
. Liberal, or Reformer, to the Speakership,
t Sir Allen Mc Nab was nominated by the
j Tories, but withdrawn, for the same rea
son we suddoso. that candidates are some
. times withdrawn in Charleston. The
if speech of Lord Sydenham is much like a
i Message from one of our State Govenors
3 ?discourses well of public works, popular
3 education, immigration, rapid improve ,
ment, &c. &c. quite democratically.?
3 The following passage is rather savage,
3 and is the only one that particularly inter1
ests us:
r "A subject of her Majesty, an inhabitant
. of this Province, has been forciblv detain
r ed in the neighboring States, charged with
j a pretended crime. No time was lost by
f the Executive of this Province in remonstrating
againstthis proceeding, and provision
was made for insuring to the individf
ual the means of defence, pendingjthe furj
ther action of her Majesty's Government.
) The Queen's representative at Washing.
ton has since been instructed to demand
i his release. Of the result of that demand
I am not yet apprised, but I have the
- Queen's commands to assure her faithful
i subjects in Canada, of her Majesty's fixed
. determination to protect them with the
. whole weight of her power."
J HOW TO CURE GRIEF.
j BY AN OLD BACHELOR.
5 Reader, has your heart been made
. shipwreck on the barren, rock bound
. insensibilityof some witch of a girl? I am
1 enabled from experience to appreciate
J the full extent of your calamity, and I
, have a deep fellow-feeling for you in your
. distresses. Pray then let me advise you.
> Do not resort to drinking. Eating, eating
I is the remedy! Shun the bottle. It has
never been a cure for sorrow. Trouble
! has ever been to the drinker but the lame
5 apology of a thirsty stomach. The well
. filled plate is your sure resource. Do not
. drink, but eat, to desperation. Drinking
. quickens the movement of the brain into
[ delirium, it stimulates the sensiDiuties, until
they cease to act only from over-action
and exhaustion, eating it is, that all at once
lulls and stupifics. The penitent who
wishes to assuage it, always advises you
. to eat. I have known one dissolved in
grief before dinner, assume by degrees
; great moderation, on blunting the edge of
? his appetite, and become at length, on the
r conclusion of the meal, so evidently calm
, that hisconscious placidity of countenance,
in comparison with his recent sorrows,
f evidently shocked and pained his inward
i sense of consistency. Then if grieved, iry
f eating. As it is proverbially omnipotent
' over the temper, so it operates like a
' delightful narcotic, an opiate, upon all the
r sensibilities: and beware, above all other
; things, when oppressed with a sense of
. calamity, an empty stomach. It is fertile
f of suicides.
r PHENOMENA AT THE NORTH POLE.
r A St. Petersburg periodical, publishes a
. very extraordinary narrative of an expedi
; Hon lo me Aruc region, unuer mc wm
mand of Nidjnei Nit'goiwosnesend. The
i narrative says:
51 About the 88th degree of latitude yiel;
ded us one ofthsmost curious discoveries,
f that have enriched the physical sciences in
f latter times. It occurred thus: For some
1 days we had no fire for want of wood
i when, in searching our box of provisions, I
i, found some Lyons chesnuts which N Ara>
go had sent me as a convenir; took it into
1 my head to roast them. We put together
i some shavings which we still had, kindled
1 them. A bright flame forwith arose and
> we were anticipating the sweet sensations
1 it was about to yield us, when suddenly an
. incomprehensible phenomenon manifested
I (itself. The flame, at first so bright and
1! crackling struck with immobility, and was
; gradually covered with a solid crust?it
s was congealed. .
, Our astonishment baffles description.
'? i ?:
l scienunc description ui uic ice inus pro.
duced then follows.) I broke a bit of it and
. put it into my mouth. Contrary to my
- expection.thesensation, which resulted was
r most agreeable; just fancy a little taste of
. barly sugar extremely refreshing, though
r accompanied by a light burnt smell. I
i am persuaded that when such ice shall be
produced by artificial means, confectioners
. will turn it to great account,
s A little further on another phenomenon,
i not less remarkable, awaited us. We had
v' ** X 'jy
over the whole garden. The same coarse . ^ ;,
should be pursued with lekka and onions.
It is a prevalent opinion that the bush - squash
cannot be perpetuated among* us,
as suchhave a strong tendency to run, an^will
in one or two seasons become a vine.
TIL.. 1 ? ? OT?SB
I for some time perceived an increase rapid
ly in the progress of our sledge, though
we used our iron hooks but little. The
phenomenon was soon explained; one ol
us having dropped his hook, the moment
he attempted to pick it up we saw it gradually
remove from us, flee before us, and
ultimately whiz as it split the dense atmosphere
around us. Though already accustomed
to the wonders which those mysterious
regions had presented to us, as .it
were at every step, we stood mute with
astonishment, but were soon roused from
our amazement; or sledge which is almost
wholy made of iron, seemed pushed on by
fatal, irresistable,' and invincible power,
such as that which draws a light boat towards
a cataract; we tried to stop it, but
could not succeed and were compelled to
leave it to the mercy of Heaven.
The magnetic power of the pole produced
its effect, and after a few hours of
that fantastic progress, we were enabled
to perceive, by the light of an aurora borealis,
the sombre and mysterious extremity
of our globe. It consisted of enormous
mountains, probably of pure loadstone, divided
into huge strata of various colors,
green or blue. One would have fancied
! the back of a gigantic zebra was rising
before us. Alas lunless Providence vouch,
safed us unhoped-for assistance, we must
soon b2 dashed to peices against it. ImEelled
by the proud demon of science, we
ad tempted Heaven and already did wo
feel its hands suspended over our heads
ready to crush us.
Nevertheless, thus isolated in that vast
frozen solitude, and fatally dragged to destruction,
we were calm and resigned, so
great is the power of the grand mysteries
of Nature over man ! Some tears ouly
flowed in silence, and I heard beloved
names uttered, when suddenly, a sort of
i barrier of ice-bergs, heaved over one another,
made us deviate from our course, and
at the same moment, and in a few seconds,
a force as powerful as that which has
made us before devour space in front of
us made us roughly recede. We had just
fallen into a negative magnetic current
We were saved, and saved carrying away
with us the most awful secret of Nature.
It was enough to run mad with joy. We
raised our hands to Heaven.
! Manures.?The cardinal point to be1
observed in the management of manures,
is to appiy them in that stale, and to those
crops which are the most benefited by
their application. When manures are left
in the yards over the summer, and exposed
to the action of sun and rain, they are deprived
of much of their value. The most
efficient parts pass away and are lost to
the farm. If manures are not applied to
the spring crops of corn and roots, they
should be heaped with layers of earth,
vegetable mould, marsh mud, wash of
roads, and with some lime, that the salts
and gases produced may be absorbed and
retained. In this way, the value of yard
manures is much increased, and the quantity
augmented. The experiments of
Chaptal and Liebeg, prove that the more
vegetable mould left by the decomposition
of plants or man ure in the open air, pososses
little value compared with that in which
all the salts and fertilizing ingredients are
rnt uinorl
A Wl? IUUU
A short time since, a Committee of the
French Institute was appointed to examine
the nature and effects of a new manure,
represented as of extraordinary power.?
It was found to be composed of gypsum,
saturated with urine, the mass then dried
and pulverized, and appled to plants in the
form of a powder. It was pronounced
the most effective of a large variety of the
animalized manures, so much so indeed
that the committee recommended great
caution in its use. A small quantity applied
to corn, garden plants, <5tc. give a
most rapid and vigorous growth. Would
it not be well for our farmers to make
some experiments with this material ? It is
1 certainly within the power of all. We
hope that poudrette and bone manure
will also be fairly tried; on these points,
we should be negligent no longer.?
Alb. Cult.
cavp sf.r.ns
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All seeds keep better in their seed vessels,
but this can rarely be done, on account
of the great space occupied. As
soon, therefore, as the pods of cabbages,
turneps, radishes, &c. turn brown, and a
part become dry, the stems should bo cut
and laid on a cloth or floor to dry, afterwards
thrashed out, and hung up in ba^s j
in some open airy place. Lettuce shoufd
be pulled up with the roots, as soon as
there is the least appearance of maturity,
and hung up, and the plants will ripen all
of their seeds, nearly at the same time.?
If left in the garden to ripen, the earliest
and best will be lost; in f?ct, except undej
very favorable circumstances, very few
will be obtained, as every shower and
every strong breeze will lessen the quantity,
and scatter those which are mature
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i ins is a misiaKe, ana originated, uoaoupl,
in the manner of saving the seed. . If tbp,
first squashes whichnppearbe retained for
seed, there is no danger of the plant running
the next season; butif these be twed,
and those.wbich are borne at the extremeties
are preserved for this purpose, they
will run, and moreover will be later in
bearing. To have early fruit of either
the squash, cucumber or melon, the very
first should be reserved.
Southern Agriculturist*
THE COTTON CROP.
To the Editor of the N. 'O. Commercial Bulletin.
,
Gentlemen:?My . attention has been
attracted to numerous newspajwr para?
graph (on the subject ot the presentgro wing. .
crop of cotton, the tendency of. which is
calculated to create an impression that it
will be, a large one. The New York Her-..
aid of the 1 st. tinst. says, "The growing;
cro p has in most sections got a good stand,
and the quantity planted is' seven .timesgreater
than ever before, exceeding even
the prodigious crop of last year," (allnd-_
ing to the crop of 1839 of 2,206,000 bale&); :
And in that excellent sheet, Cook. & 'Lev'
vy's Prices Current, of the past week,-we .
are told that tlie present crop of Cotton,
all accounts concur in stating were jiettr
more promising. I quote this last from
memory, but it is the sense. Without V
multiplying quotations from papers^ all of ..v"
which have partaken more or less in simi- .. >
lar statements, the above are sfiipient for
the purpose of calling the attention of
both planters and merchants to this subJCCu
Similar publications to these, made
throughout the Cotton region in the .
months of May, June, July, August and ; r:
September, of the year 1833, I am.pjer- ,
suaded cost the planting interest two millions.
?>f dollars. To convince any one of
this, let them peruse the extravagant arid
glowing accounts of the crop with .which
Southern news papers then abounded,
recollecting at the same time that the crop
of the previous year was 1,800,000 bales;
and then let him add the fact, that the
crop of 1828, instead of equalling; fell
426,000 short ofthe year before, anathink 2^
they will be satisfied I have not over esti- ':v
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maiea ine actual loss ro me -- v*
when it is also borne in mind that Cottou
advanced as much as thirty three per cent
upon the opening price before, the Isi of zz.-ff.
March, I do not suppose, by any means,
that it was the intention of the Editors of
public journals thus to pros* rate the planter?far
from it.- But such will always be
the effect of such publications, when
made without proper data to go upon.?
Whether 1 shall be able to throw anyjight
upon this subject the sequel will unfold. If
any gentleman has better data togoupon,
he owes it to the planting and commer-cial
interest to make it public. ,
When I became a planter, myenquirieg
soon satisfied my mind that every gentler,
man had, sui generis, a way of guessing
peculiar to himself, and no fixed, pnncfplo .
on which to form his opinion This induced
me to make a planting register, inwhich
the time of nlantiner?comingr ud
?grow?bloomings-opening, &c. were
all carefully noted, with observations on
the weather. The doing of this has given
me the following-results. My Cotton
was planted the various years stated,
about the usual time that plantersgenerally
do their planting, and never varied:
more than a day or so generally from the
same time each year. Ndw"the result.
The crop of Cotton of 1838 was in
bloom the 4th day of June, and the crop
yielded 1,500,000 bales. The crop of
1837 was in bloom the 28th day of May, v..'
and yielded 1,000,000. The crop of li838
was in bloom the 14th day of June,, and
yielded 1,350,000 bales. The crop of
1839 was in bloom the 24th day of May,
and yielded 2,200,000 bales. The crop '
of 1840 was in bloom on the 6th day: of
June, and yields supposed about 1,600,000; -Vv
The crop of Cotton of this year (1841)^ > /"'?
was in bloom the 10th day of June, and
what it may yield time will -telK But I * ' ,
think in the face of these facts, to speak ~ ~
in extravagant terms, stich as quoted
from the Herald, and such as may be
found in many other papers is wholly un-* --v?
warranted. If it is continued to "be done,
fhope it will give a sensible data, and ,
some more sensible reason than mere
I guess-work. So faras my knowledge ex
| tends, the planters are turning intjir atj
tention more to producing.their awn OTp- ' plies
.and planting less Cotton than any
year since 1837, with but few exertions,
; indi'thcrofiirc I do not believe "more Cotj'.on
is planted as stated.
te^It is also a fact that the blooming of
[cotton anfrthc coming of fCOst in-the fail '
bear some relation to each other, caicuh'
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