Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-07
from the Washington Union !
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(FrOm the Washington Union
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"It is no scandal nor aapersion
Upon great and noble person
10 say he naturally abhorred SaiF
The old-fashicned trick to Keep hisscord,
Though Ills RIGHTEOUSNESS and shame.
In meaner men to do the samc"--[ Hudi6ras
"And so, said she. we have parted with the
colt, aud have only got gross of green specta
cies, with copper rims and shagreen cases."-
,Viedr Of lValefetd
The statue of Memmon sent fortb b
strain Of sweetest melody, when the last
rays of sunlight glanced upon its hal.
lowed summit; and the part of Second
Washington, by the aid of the marine
band, on o Saturday evening, when il
does not rain, discourses--amid the
weeks washing, that hangs there SO en-
ticingly to dry---most eloquent music.
This music soothes the distracted ear Of
power warns the sinking spirit of the
anxious office-seeker, and consoles the
wives and childr en- of the dismissed frora
office, whose cases in the language OF
Mr. Ewing, haye jus. been considered.
This national serenade. on a drying or
airing day, is very well for more reasons
than one; it proves to the foreign minis
ters that the Second Washington has a
,bountiful supply Of clean, linen, and
satisfies them that the republic is not as
shiftless as others that have existed, and
made more smeke though less noise in the
world. ..s
We have often imagined the feelings of
the representatives of kingly governments
when they beheld the Second Washing
ton mingling with the children and nurses
IN the vicinity of the masic-stand of
freedom, chewing shortcut or long,
It's all the same, and inquiring the price
of marbles, while near at hand, in rcyolu-
tionary simplicity, six-penny cotton
shirt wooed tho soft gale, and floated in
the breeze.
The deyelopements which time is
daily making at the seat of government
of official transactions are as startling as
they are Iudicrous; and occasionally we
feellike the boy who said that if he was
not attending his mammals funeral, he
would lay, down and laugh his trowsers
of. 9..s'' n H'8
The government Of the United States
Is now like the scale of music, divided
into eIghts parts, or notes. and If o per-
son can only find the nj, there is but
little difficulty in singing out the tune.
10 find the mi, therefore, in the octave,
is the thing, and 1t become sagacious pol
tticians TO employ some well-informed
young gentleman whose experience in
Z tho service of Congress and in the Wash
ington managing committee has given
him pre-eminent advantages to sound
the cabinet and the President beforehand
for them, and thus enable them, as slick
s mud Ilss;t5 = sing for their suppers, like one
Thomas fucker Of old, as recorded in
the nursery hymns OF Mrs. Goose. ~
The administration isconducted on the
principle Of an organ or of three Organs.
trequires much wind, many stops, and
heayy touches, to get up respectable
tune. Ordinary musicians cannot play
on tho Instruments with snccess, and
those who do play 70 the best advantage,
! wonder r1ahat inede tie aoise., The or.
eaflg, it IS rssmorcd, are about to play to-
gethet but the National Wing, the Ma
ficnaI Int esiigencer, and the Republic can
no more hafaonize than bass singer
WITH asthna, astenor singer with a &c of
gtammering upon him, and high coun-
Ter with Q fatal facility In music that
would ssng the time through twice before
the others had finished stare. When