Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-08
Important from Central America.

| which confirms the report that the Chamo-
ristas and Iconistas are preparing fora Sc
we're contest, and the two Provisional Pres
/ idents, Martinez and Jercz, will then decide
their respective claims.
The Chamoristas (who were formerly
| opposed to the North Americans, but into
| whose ranks number of those formerly
with Walker have recently onlistcd) have
sent urgent solicitations to Walker to re-
! turn to Nicaragua. AT least, SO say advi.
ces from that quarter.
The Costa Ricans pretend that they are
sending to England for three gun-boats and
other means of defence, one of the boats to
| be placed at San Juan del Norte, one on
Lake Nicaragua, and one at San Juan del
Sud that they will keep one to fortify
their posts on the San Juan river and the
lI;llie--that they intend to sell the boats
and appurtenances of the Transit Route to
! Harris & Morgan, and that they will pro-
tect them in the use of the same
The fort ut Sorapiopr had been DESTROY
cd, the Costa Ricaps considering it of3no
Importance, since a road has been made
| from San Jose to Castillo
The conduct of Rivas towards Gen. Zav-,
ella has created orupturc between Gnutema-
| la and Nicaragua, the former government
declaring Zwela's expulsion from Leon,
| whatever might have been his personal diff
! ferences with Rivas, an insult of itself.
On the Sd inst, Capt. Thatcher, of the
| United States sloop-ot7war Decatur; DIR.
lIine, United States Consul; Lieut.. Scott,
United States Navy; Mr.. Carey Joncsand
Mr.. Young Anderson, loft Punta Arenas
for San Jose, but no news of their arrival
had been received at PuntaArenas previous
to the departure of the steamer
The cholera is raging in the State of
Salvador at Coiutepeque, San Salvador,
l,Sonsonnati and other towns. At the end
| of June the deaths in Sonsonnat averaged
sixteen day.
ORIGIN OF GREAT MEN.-Some of tho
greatest men the world has ever produced,
either in ancient or modern times, were of
humble and obscure origin. Columbus
the discoyercr of America, was the son of
weaver, and a weaver himself Homer,
the great Greek poet, and the prince of an
clent puets, was Il boSSuI. DrIuvotl1or.vo,
the great Grecian orator. was the son of a
cutler Oliver Cromwell was the son of a
brewer. Benjamin Franklin was jour
neyman printer. Ferguson, the Scotch
astronomer, was shepherd Edmund
HALEY, an eminent English astronomer,
was the son ola soap boiler, at Shorcditch
Hogarth, the celebrated English painter
was put an apprentice to an engravcr of
pewter pots. Virgil, the great Latin poet,
was the son of a potter; and Horace, of a
I,shopkeepcr Shakespeare, the greatest Of
| English Dramatic poets, was the son of a
wool staplcr; and Milton, the greatest of
| epic poets, was the son of a money-scriven-
| er. Pope was the son of alnerchant, and
| Dr. Samuel johnson, of bookseller, at
| Lltch6eld, Akenside, the author of that
elegant poem, the 'Plcasures of the Imag-
ination,' was the son ola butcher, at New
| cas5le Htvbers Be.r"o- q. plntvinan of
Ayrshire, Scotland; Gray, the Englishpoet,
the son of a money scriyener; and Henry
! Kirke White, ,of'a butcher at Nottingham,
| England, bloomfield and Clifford were
shoe-makers6 and Addison, Goldsmith, OF
"Y, aEa Giis;;is;:::se, se.cH se:.t f ci4neynlem.
The present Lord lyndhurst, the Lord
Chief Justiceof England was the son ofthc
painter Coplcy, and an american by birth.
| This list could be doubled, but it is unnec
essary, These examples show that there
Is no state or condition fife, however hum.
bic or obscure, from which talents and pc
MUS may not rise by Individual oxo,tion to
eminenco and distinction Particularly is
this the case in our own country, where
there is no nobility aud no privileges con
terrcd by birth, and whore the road to the
highest Offices and the proudcst distinction
IS alike open to all.
WEATHER WIsDoM.A-A a rainbow in the
morning gives the shepherd wafning---that
is, if Che wind be easterly; because it shows
! that the rain-cloud IS approaching the OBJ
server rainbow at night is tho shcp.
herds delight. This is also good sign,
provided the wind i, westerly as it shows
that the rain-elonds are PASSING tiway.-L
Evening red, and next morning gray, arc
certain signs of a beautiful day. Wucn
the glow-worn, lights hel lamp, the ground
is always damp, e the cock goes growing
TO bed, he ceytainly rises with .w;ttcry
he9d When you see gosSalner flying, be
sure the AVIS drying, When black snails
cross your path, black cloud much moisture
hath. When the peacock loudly bawls,
soon we'll have both rain and sq1alls,lL
| When tho5d0eks are4dfiying through the
tbnfn, thatgnight the weatheftakes a tnrn.
! 1t the moon shines Ike asilyef shield, be
not afraid to reap your field But if she
l,risns hQloed round, soonawe'n tread on del
ugcd ground When. rocks are sporting n,
the air, II shows that storms arc near. If.
at the sun rising OF settipe, the clouds SO.
pear OF Iprld rcd color, extending to the
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