Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-02-08

Cot Fremont. MIR. Benton stated
in speech which he addressed to the
Senate, that Senator Fremont was
detained at his homN, in California,
by indisposition, and that it was inn
possible to say when he would re-
turn to Washington. We under
stand, )says the Washington Union
that Frer ont will not return to his
seat in the Senate during the pres.
ent session.-Courter.
The Pleasure Of Learning.-As
the eye rejoices to receive the light,
the ear 10 hear sweet music; so the
mind, which is the man, rejoices TO
discover the secret works, the vari-
cites and beauties of nature. The
inquiry of truth, which is the love-
making or wooing of it; the knowl-
edge oftruth, which is the presence
oft; and the belief of truth, which is
the enjoying of it, is the sovereign
good OF our nature.-Lord Bacon.
Lord Brougham the distinguished d
orator of England, the Richmond
Enquirer makes out, is nearly related
to the descendants of Patrick Hen
ry, the great orator of Virginia Pat
rick Henry S mother was Sarah Win
ston. His father was John Henry,
Of Aberdeen, Scotland; John Henry's
mother was Jane Robertson, sister
TO VIM. Robertson, the historian,
and Brougham is descended from
the same stock.
An lrishman went squirrel hunt
ing, and with his gun loaded to the
muzzle, he blazed away, and off
went the squirrel chirruping away
IN the top Of a tall tree, and down
went the lrishman, whom the gun
had knocked fiat on his back. Pat,
on viewing the squirrel singing away
in derision of his wounded antago-
mist, angrily eXclaimed-'An faith if
ye d been at my end Of the gun, divil
a bit woula ye chirrup sol!
Enjoying Farce.-Afler George
III. had ceased to visit the theatre,
Macklin's farce of 'Love-a-la-mode'
having been acted with much ap-
plause, he sent for the MS. and had
it read to him by sedate old Hano-
yerian gentleman, who, being but lit
lie acquainted with English, spent e.
Ieven weeks in puzzling out the au-
thor's S meaning.
English Slaves.-At the Norman
conquest and close of the Saxon hep
tarchy, two-thirds of the population
of England were found 10 exist in
different degrees ofservitude: and OF
and ofthe miletnS, borders, bottarS and
HSeiJ8 or thrdlS, one in seven were
slaves and marketable commodities in
the most unlimited sense of term.
Slaves and cattle were kind of
money, or legal tender, at value
fixed by lava slave being equivalent
to four oxen So says ID recent Eng
llsh authority. But it should be adj
ded, that in England this has ceased
to be the case for hundrdeds ofyears
In His PocKET.-The count de
Grasse being wounded in the leg with
d musket ball the surgeon made many
nclsinons. Losing all patience at
last he enqulred why they cut and
carved him so cruelty we seek for
the ball,' said they. why the ID
didcn't you speak before,' said the
Count. i have it in my breeches
pocket
The Sandwich Islanders were, at
the last accounts, taking measures to
have the Islands represented in the
Worlds Industrial Convention at
London.
Cabbage, says the Edinburgh Re-
view, contains more muscle-sustain-
ing nutrlment than any other vegeta-
bic whatever. Boiled cabbage and
corncd beef make fifty-two as good
dlnnf RS in twelve months as a man
can eat
Matrimony is a circus. Many no
bic creatures enterit, run round and
and round, and kick up fine dust,
but few getiproperly trained and bro
ken 10 it.
Father Mathew, writing from Pen
sacola, gives a cheering account of