Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-04
EX-PRESIDENT MONROE's
I. M6 ~ HOUSE. KY

49, 1sHNtiVSS VI TIC llte tIN-EIeSlQent
NLonroe, in London conpty:
MoNRoEis HoUsE.-London conn
/, " IS celebrated as having been the
residence ofsthe late President Mon
roe, who some thirty wears since, e.
erected on his farm, situated about.
forty miles from Washington, a splen,
did brick mansion, at an expense of
some twenty or thirty thousand dol
lars. ii was placed in the centre of
his farm of four thousand acres, and
being ON an eminence, has a com
mandIng view of the whole country.
as lar as the South mountains. The
house, on smaller scale, is built af-
the plan of the Presidents S in Wash
,lnggloon, has q splended pnIico sup
ported by seven massive pillars, and
IS surrounded with large and lofty
oak and locust trees, in front and a.
round, a spacious lawn, and florish-
ing orchards, which makes it an OBJ
Ject OF attraction to strangers, It's
now the residence of Samuel l.. Gou-
'verneur, Esq. late Postmaster in your
city, andson-in-law of President Mon
roe. In his absence, the house had
gone into decay, but Mr. g., since
his residence here, has fitted it up in
a hand 'ome manner, aud made great
improvements on the farm, SO that in
a,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 ali
the members of Monroes S cabinet,
VIZ: Calhoun, Thomson, Southland,
Wlst, Mclean and Crawford; there
are also five portraits of President
Monroe and his lady, and also of
Mrs. Gouyerneur, their daughter,
with many other choice and ancient
paintings Of the odmasters. Every
thing in and about the house beto.
kens that ii was once the residence
OF taste, wealth aud splendor, and
worthy of the noble patriot who in
habited it.
a Now Part Of tie Couat,y.-The
person employed in taking the cen
sus' writing TO the Dubuque Tribune
from Fayet,e county, iowa, relates
the following characteristic anecdote:
u. "Whle crossing one Of the exten-
sive praTies that stretch along the
southern border of Fayette county,
upon which the grass and vegetation
had grown to the height OF fonr or
fIve feet, then scared and yelloweA
by the, auiumnal frosts, we were sud-
denly startled by the voice of per-
son shouting
Hello, there, stranger, did you
come from this here course?
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 exten-
5ded IN a southern direction. We an
sWered in the affirmative, when the
man continued:
We'll, stranger, did yousee any
thing OF a town site in your travels,
'slantlng little towards the sun. with
abustin coming out spring by the side
OF boulderl l 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 fndi!'
We answered that we had not dis
covered his lost town site, when he
continued:
sWell, stranger, reckon I'll have
TO give it up till The grass burns, and
if,you'll let me ride behind into The
settlement, ] Il make you deed to
a lot fronting on the public square as
soonsas.l i gel my land warrant squat
ted on " Empire City,"
Il Not being the owner oftown prop
erty' we accepted the offer.
Ho,o 1t tcoj'ks, to hare many Hyives.
lin these days offree discussion, we
are all interested TO see how poliga-
my 0'aspers. The editor ola Wis
consin paper gives an account ofa
visit made him by one Of the Nor
mons, He says:--
q Mr.. Mills lived year with Mr..
{, ,Cheeseman, who had three wives
one old'and two young ones; q A have
separate beds; the younger have one
child each, and the oldest has four or
five. Mr.. Cheeseman has had two
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