Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-02-23

like Mr. Polk. 1t is generally under
stood and acknowledged by the knowing
ones here, that the cabinet is supreme as
to all executive matters, and the official
organ has had the cando. 20 acknowledge
that the responsibility of legislation is all |
upon Congress. This gives Gen. TAYLOR
an ecsy time, both as to labor and res
possibility"
n Controversy to be settled.-It is we'll
known that an empty bottle hermetically
sealed, when lowered to great depth at
sea, will come up full of water. The why
and the wherefore of this result has long
been matter of controversy among sci.
entitic men. Il gentleman who entertains
an opinion that bottle can be made that
cannot be filled with water, has taken
some pains to establish his position, by
having two bottles Of the form of globes
made, OF the thickness of three-quartes of
an inch, which arc without hole in any
part. The bottles are to be intrusted to
the care of Capt. E. E. Morgan, who sails
on the 9Th of February, in the packet
ship ''Southampton" for London-one is
plain and the other ground with the name
on it of Southampton"
The subject is one that has occupied
the speculation Of so many, that this trial
has occasioned a good deal of remark.
The bottles are made with the belief that
former experiments of the kind will be
controvertcd by this trial. The result
will be highly important and interesting.
~ Y. Express.
Rome IN THE 10th CENTURY.-Poets,
artists, and romantic young mon in gen
eral, who have never visited Rome, are
apt to form ideas of that classical CITY
which partake more of romance than
truth. They fancy that the Seven Hills
are always bathed in sunlight by day and
moonlight by night, and famed by soft
Italian airs while holy quiet droops
over all, giving one fine opportunity to
muse on the past, of which all things
seem to speak. Fallen columns, IVY
covered domess and crumbling palace
walls usually serve to adorn the visions
that fill the brains of youthful dreamers:
This is one picture. Here is another
drawn from the correspondence ola late
French traveller
| "Rome ia certainly the worst paved,
the worst lighted, and the filthiest capi-
tai in all Europe. The sidewalk of the
Corso is so narrow in some places sin
gle individual cannot keep it; in other
streets this protection of foot passengers
against carriages is altogether unknown.
a. few miserable street lanterns burning
oil, serve only to render the darkness
visible and even these are all extinguish-
ed at midnight At this season, after
SIX o'clock there is not a .1facre to be had
and those who have visit to make are
compelled to hire carriage
'The palaces arc splendid, but as THEN
owners have not yet returned to them,
they, are occupied by the French soldery
andiook more lie guard-houses than
princely residences.
The oldest Republic on Earth.- The
American Quarterly Review contains q
letter from O. W. Erving, ESQ.,, giving a
sketch of his visit to San Marino, a small
republic in Italy, between the Appcn-
ines, the Po, and the Adriatic. The ter
ritory in this State is only forty miles in
circumference, and it's population about
1000. The Republic was founded more
than 400 years ago, on moral princi-
pies, industry and equality, and has pre-.
served its liberty and independence
amids all the wars and discolds which
have ragged around it, Bonaparte respec
ted it, and sent an embassy to express his
sentiments of friendship and fraternity.
1t is governed by a Captain Regent cho-
sen every six months by the representa-
tives of the people. The taxes are light,
the fam-houses arc neat, the fields we'll
cultivated, and on all sides are seen COM
fort and peace, the happy effects of NOR
ality, simplicity, liberty, and Justice.