Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-09-13
"Tf. saws the Newark Adyert;ser.

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number of Russians to Siberia, and
the Gerr ans, Dutch, Norwegians,
and other Europeans, who are going
out to fill up new countries, we
would be able TO form definite idea OF
the present great providential move
ment soon to alter the entire face of
the g'obe. We suppose the whole
company will be about one million /!
And this wonderful current is to con-
tinue year after year-and increase
in its millions we know not how ma
ny fold, until The prophesy is fulfilled
that many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased"
Socialism as at is.-Some queer
things (says the Herald) develope
themselves, when we observe what
distinctions are madein operative law
as well as by conventional usage, be-
tween rich and poor.
If poor man beats his wife unmer-
cifully, and she cries out Justify, the
police rushin and carry off the often
der, who must expiate his misdeed
according to law.
A rich man at fashionable hotel,
gives his wife aregular thrashing, and
people merely say, How strange,
and some even venture to asser that
such conduct is wrong and unbecom-
ing a man; but the law never thinks
of interfering.
A poor tailor living in poor apart
ments, gets on aa Saturday night
spree, quarrels with his better half.
and threatens TO kill her. He is
seized, imprisoned and made to an
swer for his violent conduct.
A rich tailor belonging to the ton,
goes out shooting, comes back to his
hotel tpsy, quarrels with his wife,
and points pistol at her. She cries
out, the peace is broke, but the rich
tailor suffers none of the legal chas-
tisement which his brother has TO en-
dure.
A practical illustration of this oc-
Cured at Saratoga a few davs aqo.
Were a titled nabob did the thrashino.
and rich tailor did the pistol exer-
cIse' There must be deep philoso-
ply and a good reason for these dis
somewhere. but we have
not yet discovered what that philos-
ophy is, nor what good reason gov
erns in such cases.
! MIR. Jenkins, will it suit YOU to set
tie that old account ofyours''
mo, sir, you are mistaken in the
man. am notone of the old set
An Editors Retort.-At late fes-
tival, pretty Miss waited on the ed
ltor with pie-p!ate Of an antique
manufacture, in the centre of which
he espied the following couplet:
"One sweet kiss,
is the price OF thisl''
This excited his naturally am,rous
and as soon as an oppor-
tunity presented, he mo,ioned the
young lady to his side, and pointipe
with his lines, said "Young lady. YOUR
pay is ready whenever you present
your bM
A pert young lady was walking
one morning on the Steyne, Brighton,
when she encounte ed the Wilkes
You see,' observed the lady, Il am
come out for a little sun and a;r.'
You had better, madam, get a little
husband first
a printer whose talents were hut
indifferent, turned physician. He
was asked the reason oft.
I'm printing" answered he, call
the faults are exposed to the naked
eve: but in physic they are buried
with the patient, and one gets off
more easily"
1t is stated that an editor down
East got his pocket full Of money,
and was afraid 10 go by the useum,
lest they should catch him for a Gu
riosity.
Some sensible chap says truly that
a person who tries to raise bymself
by ,scandaiizing others, might Just as
well SIT down on wheelbarrow, and
undertake to wheel himself
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