Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02


cried, sis your watch and portman-
teau-all safe-it was onlya Yankee
trickI" Delighted at his success, the
Majors good humor was restored.
He leaped into the flat, even took the
hand of the Yankee, and accepted
his offer to go and take a drink. But
just as he stopped to enter the low
cabin, the other jumped into the
skif, and with his comrade ro,ced up
stream! leaving the Major to get off
as he might! 1t need scarcely be adj
ded that neither the portmanteau nor
the rogues were heard of afterwards.
N. o. True Delta.
A SCENE IN New ORLEANs.-Last
week one of those extraordinary oc-
currences took pace in the vicinity
of New Orleans, that sometimes
come off in the purlieus of our large
cities-a dance, IN which the females
appear in state of entire nudity
The dance alluded to, with other Ger
emonles, entertainments, &c, was
held at house in the woods, neur
st. Bernard canal. The police
rushed upon them, and captured
nineteen of the Cyprians, both fair
and sooty, though the company num-
bered hundred at least. They
took as many as they were capable
OF managing, however, and conveyed
them TO The guard house, where they
were left TO the agreeable exercise of
brushing off the mosquitoes and gal
inippers till morning. The last scene
OF all in the eventful drama, came of
at the Recorders office after sunrise,
when the party were paraded just as
they were taken, without so much as
a flg leaf to cover their nakedness,
before crowd oftwo or three thou
sand spectators. After a lecture
from his honor, that fell OH the ears
OF the trail one like pouring water in
to seive, they were each fined $40,
the greater part of which was made
up on the spot, and the enchanting
scene was broken. Other cities can
get up these sylvan amusements,
but 1t takes our sister city to carry
them tn. .ough with their comp .te-
ness and their consistency unmarried
to preserve the subject of them in
all their classical nudity, to the de.
nouement.-Delta.
The EFFICACY OF TEAR.-In
Miss Bremer's life in Dalecarlia,'
we find the following touching illus
tration of he power of tear. In
the dreadful year of famine here, lS-
3S, there came to me one day Dal-
mad from another parish, and said
to me: Sell me few tons of straw
the man was one of those great stall
wart figures, which you can seldom
see, except here; yet he had evident
ly suffered for want Of food. He had
drawn his hat with its broad brim
deep over his face. i cannot sell the
straw said /, at his entreaty; have
not more than ] shall need myself,
and the poor of my own parish. -
Sell but one tom implored ne. Not
even that can L. l replied: that
which | have left | must carefully
preserve for myself and my people,
Half a ton, them persisted the Ial-
man, pressingly. 1T grieves me-
said |, 'but not single half ton can
lspare thee The huge fellow took
a step nearer to me, said not a word,
but Lifted his hat above his brow, and
gazed fixedly upon me; he let me see
that he 'Dept. The sight of this an
guish could not sustain. Come
with me- said /, thou shalt nave
what thou wilt He followed me,
and got the straw he wanted. III
this were for myself said he, i
should have not probably been mere;
for' 1--WE men suffer and endure
want, 1T is no more than our sins de-
serve, and we can and ought to bear
1t; but the poor animaIs--what can
they have done amiss?"
FREAK OF NATURE.-The St. Lou
is Organ says that the wife of a me-
chailc living in Morgan street, in
that city, on the night of the 4th in
stant gave birth to child with two
heads and weighing eighteen pounds.
Lenz has ascertained by actual
experiment that electricity is as ca
pable of producing cold as heat, to
the degree of freezing water rapidly.
When the sun shines bright, take
/ a IO0kinn.0lacs hoil =. ..