Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-04
.Ex,PREsIDENr MONRoE's
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Nionroe, IN London couPty:
MoNRoEss HousE.-London conn
y IS celebrated as having been the
residence ofatRe late President Mon
roc, who some thirty years since, e.
erected on his farm, situated about
fortymiles from Washington, a splen-
did brick mansion, at an expense of
some twenty or thirty thousand dol
lars. ltwas placed in the centre of
his farm of four thousand acres, and
beng on an eminence, has com
mandmg view of the whole country,
as lar as the South mountains. The
house, on a smaller scale, is built af-
the plan of the Presidents S in Wash
ington, has a splended pcuico sup
ported by seven massive pillars, and
is surrounded with large and lofty
oak and locust trees, in front and a.
round, spacious lawn, and florish-
ing orchards, which makes it an OBJ
Ject OF attraction to strangers, Ii is
now the residence of Samuel T.. Gou-
verneur, Esq, Hate Postmaster in your
city, and son-in-law of President Mon
roe. In his absence, the house had
gone into decay, but Mir. G., since
his residence here, has fitted it up in
a hand some manner, and made great
improvements on the farm, SO that in
n-tew years he will have ne of the
best cultivated and profitable farms
IN the country, and worked by hired
labor. The parlors of the mansion
are adorned with the portraits of
Presidents Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, John q. Adams, and all
the members Of Monroe's cabinet,
W.; Calhoun, Thomson, Southard,
Wist, Mclean and Crawford there
are also five portraits of President
Monroe and his lady, and also of
Mrs. Gouverneur, their daughter
with many other choice and ancient
paintings of the oldmasters. Every
thing in and about the house beto.
kens that it was once the residence
OF taste, wealth and splendor, and
worthy of the noble patriot who in
hablted it.
a Nev Part Of tie C0utyy.-Tho
person employed in taking the cen
sus, writing TO the Dubuque Tribune
from Fayet,e county, Iowa, relates
the following characteristic anecdote:
"While crossing one Of the exten-
slve praries that stretch along the
southern border of Fayette county.
upon which the grass and vegetation
had grown to the height OF four or
five feet, then scared and yeloweA
by the auIumnal frosts, we were sud
denly startled by the voice of a per-
son shouting
Hello, there, stranger, did you
come from this here courseY
Turning IN the direction. of the
voice, we discovered the head of a
man just peering above the top ofthe
tall grass, while the arm was cxtcn-
5ded IN southern direction. We an
swered in the affirmative, when the
man continued:
We'll, stranger, did you, see any
thing of a town site in your travels,
slanting little towards the sun, with
abustin coming out spring by the side
OF a boulder? | found one downin
these parts last spring before the veg
citation was up, and I've been look
ing for it again close on 10 two days,
and, by thunder, | can't find itp
We answered that we had not dis
covered his lost town site, when he
continued:
Well, stranger, | reckon I'll have
to give it up til! The grass burns, and
if you'll let me ride behind into the
settlement, I'll make you a deed TO
a lot fronting on the public square as
soon as ! gel my land warrant squat
ted on" Empire City,"
Not being the owner oftown prop
erty, we accepted the offer "
Ho'o 1t ,corks, to hare many HIves.
In these days offree discussion, we
are all interested 10 see how poIiga-
my als,Oers. Tie editor of a Wis
consin paper gives an account ola
visit made him by one Of the Nor
mons. He says:--
"Mr Mills lived year with Mr..
Gheeseman, who had three wives
one o.tt and two young ones; all have
separate beds; the younger have one
child each, and the oldest has four or
i've. Mr Cheeseman has had two
other wives, but one boited and the