Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-10

has already given us his programme.
The nuisance must be tolerated If he
abstain from open violence, his opposition
will be of no account. We cannot this
morning, count up more than twelve Sen
ators who will, with Mr. Benton, resist
the propositions of the committee The
country may be congratulated upon the
happy result. Those who doubted, at
any time, the strength and durability of
our institutions, have been agreeably dis
appointed. The Union is broader and
stronger than it ever was before.
The three bills of Mr. Clay's Commit
tee will now pass the Senate-that is, in
amonth, and the House will easily pass
them. Faction is dying away. 1t fades
before strong and free opinion.
I am glad to see that Mr.. Hunters bill,
to establish Board of accounts, is to
come up for consideration, in the Senate,
tomorrow. The arguments in favor Of
the measure are not to be answered. Ex-
perience has proved that Congress is a
most unfit tribunal for the adjudication of
private claims. No bills of the kind can
pass without log-rolling. A large and
doubtful claim is better than any of the
legion of small and Just ones.
The Census bill is TO be again debated
to-day. Nothing can pass without long
talk. Yet every body knows that tho
Census must be taken. The hundred
questions are opposed by few. They
are admirably devised for the purpose Of
exhibiting the resources and social i'm
pIovement of the country. The last
Census embraced many useful statistics,
for which we were indebted to the late
and lamented Mr.. Legarf.
-Four public officers resigned during the
last week, in order to go to California.
Among them is Mr.. Greenhow, the ac-
complished and veteran translator for the
State Department. Mr.. Clayton has ap-
pointed in his place Mr.. Walsh, a son of
the United States Consul at Paris.
Hon ii corks.- White slavery-The
New York Tribune draws the following
forcible picture of the state of social pro-
gress in that metropolis.
Can any Southern city furnish par
allel? OF any plantation afford an offset?
Contrast the condition of these white
slaves--slaves in the worst sense, and to
shame, sin and misery--with that of our
black bondsmen, and then let the ques-
tion be put which of two must be most
pleasant and grateful to the eye of Om-
impotence. Let the Philanthropy and
Charity, clamorous for the abolition of
things abroad-look to the abolition of
evils at homeland both will have
enough to do:-Zelegraph.
The late official expositions by our
Chief of Police of the denominations and
horrors of New York Vagrancy have
justly shocked and thrilled the souls of
Christian Philanthropy. To think for
one moment of the trifes and frivolities
that engage the attention of the great
majority of our city's residents--the sta
pie of party and ballroom conversation,
of tea-table gossip and social conference
while this awful desecration and ruin
of human sonls in thousands is proceed
ing all around us--to think how stock
jobbers, spectators, &c. pursue their
several schemings--of the gaudy, emyty
glitter of fashions heartless votaries, the
Joyous notes of the viol and the play of
the dancers nimble feet, while all around
and beneath little children of four to ten
years are driven forth in thousands from
deds of squalid ignorance and depravity
toprocure by beggary, peddling, theft or
prostitution the means Of preserving their
own wretched existence and sustaining
heinfernal alcoholic fire which is slowly
consuming their fendish parents or keep
ers--to consider that such is in verify the
education ola large minority of the chill
dren livingin our city, while many more
are sent into the streets to learn their
manners and their morals from these
victims of utter depravity, while destitu-
ton, squalor, semi.intoxication, morose-
ness and strife arc the spectacles daily
afforded them at home; are not these
enough to drive sleep from the eyes of
the compassionate, and impel them al
most to despair
Froa, the Telegraph.
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