Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-11
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DEATH OF EDtToRs.--T'he Wils
mington Commercial of Tuesday am
nounces the death of Henry i. Toole,
Esq, editor of the Aurora of that
place. Mr.. Toole has been for some
years connected with the press Of
North Carolina, and was man of
more than common ability. Tho
commercial says of him: ellis social
qualities acquired large circle Of at.
tached friends, and his talents cou0-
manded respect in every situation he
was called 10 fill"
From the Alabama papers we are
panied to learn the death of John
Mccormick, ESQ.,, late of the Mont
gomery Advertiser, who has for MAJ
ny years been a distinguished MEM
her of the editorial corps Of Alabama.
He was accidentally drowned while
crossing the Alabama river, on the
Oath ult. The West Alabamian re-
fers to him in the following terms:
The deceased was a man ofstron9
mind, which had been highly improv-
ed by reading and refiecting, of great
sociability of disposition, Of warm
and generous feelings, a high-toned
gentleman, an upright, public spirit
ed and useful citizen. AS an editor,
he had but few equals in the State.
He leaves widow and three chill
dren to mourn his untinaoly DEATH"
We learn from the Vicksburg Sens
tinel that Gen. e. M. Price, for ten
years the able and efficient editor of
the Mississippian, died at jackson on
Friday n orning, the Goth uIt., at 8
o'clock.
Mr.. Lemuel Gill, publisher of the
Eutaw (Ala.) Democrat, died in Mo-
bile on the Goth ult. He arrived
there a few days previous, suffering
from diarrhoea, which became aggra-
vated and caused his death.
South Carolina atlantic and Stedns
Navigation Company. ne Charles.
ton Courier says: 1.-THE entire amount
Of private SUBSCRIPTION 70 this com.
pany, one hundred and twenty thous-
and dollars, was taken up yesterday
forenoon, in very short time after
Ii the books were opened. BY the Act
of Incorporation, a like amount of
125,C00 will be loaned to the compa-
ny by the State, and they have au,
thority to extend their capital to one
million of dollars. 1t is estimated
that the subscription, made yester-
day, will build the first ship, and that
she may be put afioat by the first Of
July next. One subscription only
went to the highest amount limited
by the law ($l2,000,) the rest was
tor smaller sums, many being for
single share, $1,000.
GENTLEMEN, OUT WEsr.-rThey
seem to have good standards, off to-
ward the Prairies. We have receiv-
ed a copy of a Discourse, delivered
by Rev. ]. III. Linebaugh, at Baton
Rouge, La, which is full of the chiv-
alric sentiments and iudicious teach.
lngs, which new country most
needs. The following passage will
show the tone ofit:- Home Journal.1 |
"Manners alone make not the gem
tleman. They may be, and are one
of the evidences of gentleman, be.
cause of their connection with good
principles and good feelings, AS
dissociated from sterling principles
and benevolent feelings, they src
nothing worth. BY gentlemen, we
mean him who in character is honest
and honorable, who, through the lof-
tiness of principle scorns to do what
is unjust, or dishonest, or dishonora-
bic, who never deceives the unwary,
nor imposes upon the unsuspecting,
nor defrauds the ignorant, nor be-
trays the innocent, who has continu.
ally abidingly, in the language of Mr..
Burke, that sensibility Of principle,
that chastity Of honor which feels a
stain like a wound. We mean him
who, to the loftiness Of virtue, adds
the gentleness and forbearance of q
generous and raagnaninous chivalry;
who shields and protects the person
and character of the humbIest and
most friendless female, because sha
wears the form, and has the weak
ness of woman; who to his enemies
Is forbearing, though he has tho pow
er to iniure; who to the poor is Goa.
scending and kind though they
haye no power to repSy; who TO the
rich and eSrnof e,,,,l ~ - }.s,t<ss.el -