Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-01-12

n Po"uVhV VI INC new Ork
fost says that there is at least a majority
OF at least two in the Senate for the adj
mission OF California without any altera.
uon OF her present constitution. In the
House there is majority OF at least six
ty. There is good prospect of the set
lement OF the whole question, as to Chli.
fornia, before the first of March next.
Power OF ,SrEAM.-Itis is stated that
the steam engines at work in London. are
equal to the force of nearly two million
OF men. What amcans of incalculablc
ana exhaustless production of wealth
TINS single power is giving us. II re.
qulres but a few months, and the work of
aiew hands to turn out an engine which
VIII do the work Of ten thousand men,
which never falters, never tires, but goes
on night and day, adding to the wealth
OF the world. 1nd there is no limit to
tniS power or its uses. 1t is demonstra-
BILE that almost all the work of the world
can be done by machinery. OF cousc it
Will be-. We are driving on to that result
as fast as possible. Every day some in
Vcntion supersedes manual labor-and
man is destined to be merely the over
seer and master of machinery, which is
to do the whole labor of the world
Then when the steam engines are doing
all the worlds hard work, men will have
better chance to deyclope thei' higher
faculties, and enjoy the paradise he will
create.
Mr.. BRowN.-I'his person is out in a
card to his constituents, iustifying his
course in relation TO ;the Speakership, in
which he says. ~. ,.s
had rather been defeated with the
vote l received, than to have been elected
under a pledge to pack the committees for
the benefit of the slave holding interests
OF the South. But the time has come
when the North will no longer bow the
neck to the slavocracy of the South I
am done She cannot be satisfied with a
moderate conservative support, but you
must become the defender of her institu
tions.
Ii you doubt or falter,y you are denoun-
ced as traitor. and with lordly AFRO
gance you are told that they will dissolve
the Union. Their course OF condition has
fully determined me never again to be a
candidate for Congress. Ny conscience
tells me have done right, and know q.
generous and confding constituency will
sustain my course.
CuRINo NEAT.-Thc article on salt, at
page 272, awakens desire, long enter
tained, 10 correct popular error in regard
to salting meat pork especially. The
present notion is, meat must not be sailed
until it turns cold; and have known some
people, when slaughtciing hogs whenever
the weather was warm, to wait after kill
ling them from twenty-four 10 thrty-six
hours to get nd Of the animal heat before
sailing. Now, whilst it is unqucstionably
wrong in such weather TO pack warm,
there can be no rational objection TO salt
ing warm meat, as. we thereby get nd of
the animal heat more rapidly, and the
salt dissolves and ". trike in" more readily
My rule for twenty odd years has been to
have my pork slightly saltcd as soon as
can have il cut outlay it thin with the
salt upon il the next day, and then pack it
with plenty of salt Since adopting this
course, | have never hau spoiled meat"
except now and then piece from insects;
and one year from trying the experiment
OF hanging part of my meat only forty
eight hours after sailing. Cutting out
the meat while warm requires sharper
knife and more care; and twice and salt
ing after cutting out gives little more
trouble, but that is not worth CONSIDERING
when we look to the comfort Of, sound old
bacon. The course here adyocatedis not
only bestfn warm weather, but is equally
advantageous in extreme cold weather
For all experienced house -keepe,s know
that frozen meat will not take salt till it
thaws, and probably spoils more readily
after thawing than recently slaughtered
meat.--Southe,n Planter.
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