Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-02

ALWAYS liable toSsmall pox whenever ex-
posed to the influence of that dreadful
disease; tenth, If cv e,y irdiyidusl were
vaccinated before puberty and revacci
mated at that revolution Of tho system,
there would be no such disease existing
rs the small poX
California Supposed to be Ophr,-In
estimating the ;mount of gold which was
Brought from Ophir, find it stated in
Kingsl; chap TX, verse %, that they
came TO Ophir and took from thence 420
talents OF gold; but in Chronicles H., ch.
VIII, v. 1s, it is stated that they took
$50 talents of gold. How do you ac-
count for this discrepancy, and where do
you fix Ophir? The talents OF Ophir
and Jerusalem varied sufficiently to &C.
count for this difference. or they may
have taken 45O talents at Ophir and ex-
pended 80 in paving for the service of
King Hirnm's ships and crews. Arch
bishop Usher calculates the silver shekel
at Is. 3D. sterling, and 100000 talputs
of silver Mt that rate amounts to S36. $50,
600, which being multiplied by twelve
tue proportion of silver to gold, will give
the sum of $435 100000. The whole
expense Of building and furnishing the
temple Of Solomon. TO- which this gold
WIS brought from Ophi", was G83s,477.
3G5 sterling more than the national
debt o' g -ent Britain. If Ophi" was a
three years voyage from the Red Sea,
then it was not in Africn or the Indian
ocean, which was within sixty dpys
journey In the oldest maps of Califor-
nn, SIN FranciSco is laid down as the
Golden Gates which is Il scripture
phrase. We can find no o'hnr location
but California for Ophir. Mqj. Noah.
Eyoyments-The following para
graph is taken from Paulding's new now
el, "I'he Puritan and his Daughter" -
capital work.
"Those enjoymentt which neither in
iure ourselves, interfere with the happi-
ness of others, or violate the laws and de-
corum Of so ictv, are in fact themselves
most effcctual barriers against the indul-
gence of tho criminal propensities which
It one and the same time, undermine our
own happiness and destroy that of others.
Give TO mankind innocent amusement,
and they will be fan less likely to seek for
guilty pleasures. But it will generally
be found that those who whct their ap-
peti'es by vigorously abstaining from one
endowment, are the most voracious i'm the
qualification Of others; and he who rails
most loudly at the ninety y-nne innoccn!
pleasures Of life, most commonly selects
the hund~edth as an exception, and con.
verts it into vice by excessive indul
gence."
Effects of Camphor on heth. From
attentive observations of the teeth foi
several years, il has been ascertaincd thai
the use of dcntrifices containing camphol
renders them brittle. Teeth allowed tc
remHin in chalk imprgnated with cam
phor fora few days, had the enamel yer,
much altered; placed in camphoratet
spirits they become very brittle; an i
exposed tothe fumes of camphor, a NOR
bid CONDITION TO d still greater extent su
pervened. a writer in the London Lun
Get states that seven-tcnths Of the dentri
flee now used contains more or less o
this destroying age.--Cambridge (hron
The Sobbaeh AT the recent meeting
Of the Stockholders of the South Carroll
ma Rpilroad Company, on motion OF MIR
Wallace it was
"ResoIUed, That the President nj
Directors of this Company be instructed
to make early arrangements for dscon
tinuance of ltbor Oh the Sabbath day
(unle's in case of necessity by all per
SOL in their employ.
Creams By MAcBINERY.-A machia,
has been put in operation in Cuba tor the
manufacture If cigars. 1t rolls them sc
fast, th one machine can give occupn
ton to six men in the way of tipping and
clipping them.
What is idleness? Il public mini
where vari us kinds of mischiefis coinet
and ex'ens vely circulated anon the mos
desplcable of the human race
,-~--ss yyzgr
"A woman in Ohio, put her babyintc
.stbe washing-tub, and its dry frock and
petticoat in the cradle, and set her it'll,