Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-02-15
The Yamkee Clock EBusfracss

several days past with suit Institu-
ted by Mr., Chancery Jerome, Of New
Haven, CT, against two persons of
the name of Samuels, 10 ecover
damages for having couhterfeited his
labels, and sold a great Il aney clocks
in England and other countries of an
inferior character, as being the man
ufactureof MIR. Jerome. During the
examination Of witnesses, it was
shown that Mr.. Jerome manufac-
tured upwards of five hundred clocks,
of various patterns, every day, and
that the demand is equal 10 the sup
ply. In the State Of Connecticut,
one thousand clocks are made daily.
Within late years this Yankee clock
business has wonderfully increased,
and IS very profitable. While was
in England, last sP"ing, / saw to my
surprise, that there was one of them
in almost every store anG counting
room there. On inquiry, learned
that they gave general satisfaction,
and hen they were introduced there
the loW prices at which they were
sold astonished every one. At first
they Brought forty-tive shillings a
piece British currency, but now thev
are sod al len shillings each, and even
thai gives fair profit. j refer tothe
old fashioned maniel piece clocks,
with pendulum and weights. OF
course better descriptions bring bet
Ter prices. An cnterprising Yankee
friend Of mine now carries on an ex-
tensiye and lucrative trade with Eng
land IN brooms, pals, clothes-pins,
and other Yankee notions. He is in
undalmg thai country with these art
cles, and becoming rich rapidly. |
saw Chancery Jerome, Jr., in Liver
pool, and was much amused in wit
Messing his trading operations with
some Yorkshire dealers. Both were
SO shrewd that neither could get
much advantage of the other.
Jerome Yankee clocks, however,
are no shave. What accounts for the
cheapness of these Yankee time
p'eeees=s is, that, the woazs are all cat
by machinery. Eight or len plates
OF brass are put together, and in an
Infant eight or ten wheels are struck
off. They are mathematicaIIy cor
rect, and hence they eep good time.
CLAY's KvowLEDGE.-CIay said,
j know no North, no South, and he
might have added perfectly consistent
with himself--'In the selfish avarice
of popularity ofmy declining years,
Itnow l nothing, save tihe Il piii.attiiofis iiii.att
of my mappeased ambition
Pity bat Mr.. Clay had known of
late years enough of the South, TO
prove himself one Of h r champions,
10 cave her from national humiiatIon,
and to save his own name, when the
grave shall close over his mortal form
as it will over hie unquenched hopes,
from the odium of such a requiem
as
His country served him, gave him place and fame
He loved her not. but with his mighty name
Stained he left her to rnn or 20 shame.
We know the South, wholly the
South, and would rather enjoy the
unalloyed pleasure, sincere devotion
10 her brings, than sigh in our de-
ciinng years over so great repnta-
ton as Clay's, so greatly marred
Hornets Nest.
BRIsK SALEs-LADIEs IN CALI
FoRNIA.--A young man, r, w. Don
aldson, writing TO the Zanes Aurora,
from California, says: "Women are
in more demand here, let me say,
thar anything else, and there are a
great many arriving here every day
from Sycney---,he place where the
English send all their conyicts-and
from Chill and other countries. You
do not have TO get priest or preach.
er TO marry you in this country. If
you want q wife, all YOU have TO do
is to go on board a vesselgthat has
just arrived from Sydney or ChiIi,,and
buy you one. Women sell here from
five hundred to as high as ten thous.
and dollars apiece. 2 If n good look
ing young lady would come tolthis
country, haveno doubt but that she
might get as high as twenty or thirty
thousand dollars for herself There
was a ship from Chill day before yes
terday, which let go her anchor with
in speaking distance Of uss and she
hadRiUety-three women on board Of
her. To-day, at,twelye O. clock, there
was but one left, and she was about
segenty years old. 'es'9 q - 's
III fG-4G- fisioa 80
Franklin was an observing AMI
Sensible i an, and his conclusions