Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-05

knowledge of the distance from
the Court House, and many Of them
desire to be no nearer. 1t is also
true that Inconvenience is exporien-
ced bythe distance ut which many
citizens reside from the Court House,
in their attendance upon the Court,
and it is fact, too, that the Court
for the District rarely sits over half
the week before the whole business
of the term is despatched, not sub
iecting those who have business, to
attend the second term upon the
same case, unlike Edgefeld and per-
haps other Districts whose territorial
limits exceed ours, and whose inhab-
itants out-number us by thousands,
the business of the Court in which
is rarely despatched in two weeks.
The name suggested for one Of the
new Districts, is the one above all
others which should be chosen; and
to do honor TO this name appears the
most sensible and patriotic of any
yet advanced, yet not, in the hum
BILE opinion Of the writer, sufficient
10 warrant a division.
The Tugaloo and Saluda waters,
it is true, afford fine lands, and are
inhabited by many good citizens,
and much of the business of the
Courts ii is to be regretted, comes
from these quarters, and it is a little
surprising that the friends in these
extremes, knowing the distance at
which they reside from the Court
House, and the great inconvenience
at which they attend the Courts,
should not be more cautious about
gettin into lawsuits.
Much has been said of the location
! Of the Cotrt House, and IL is admit
ted that the selection is not such as
might have been made, yet it was
made by gentlemen of high charac-
ter, one Of whom (Col. B. Hagood,) }
yet enjoys the confidence of his feI-
low citizens; and situate as it is, on
the beautiful Keowee River, one of
the clearest and most beautiful
streams in the world, submit wheth-
er the location might not have been
much worse.
AS to the location being in the
midst of a barren country those who
rave not thought of the matter, or
are unacquainted in the neighbor-
hood, are referred TO the plantations
on the Keowee and Little Rivers
within a few miles of the Village,
particularly those of Messrs. Ram
sey. Reid, Kirksey, p. Alexander,
Col. ]. Norton, Capt. Robt. Craig,
Steele, Barron, Gibson, Arthur Craig
and Col. Alexander; ask these gen
tlemen the price Of their lands and
what their products, and then say if
you can in truth, that Pickens G. II.
is in the midst Of barren country.
True, there are some hills in the
neighborhood, and it is to be regret
ed that some of the roads yet pass
over them, but to say that the place
is not conveniently or easily APP
preached from any point, is barely
sustainable, and / challenge compar-
ison betw cen the road TO IL noun
tain and almost any other in the
country; the road towards Jarrctt's
Bridge by way of West Union is
also very good, and that from Pick
ems G. III. to Pendleton will very
soon, under late improvement, be
equal TO almost any in the country F;
in fact all the roads are undergoing
improvement in a greater or less de-
gree--much labor and pains has
been expended in these matters,
which together with the improvement
going on about the Courthouse and
Court-hill, are urged as strong reas-
ons why the District should not be
divided.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, permit
me to remark that this petitioning
willhave the effect of adding TO the
reasons already in existence to pre-