Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-31
PIckENs COURT HOUSE. s. c. SATURDAY, OCTOBER s 1857

Iio 10 heeo comments Does not tho Matorica
Mcdlca ofthe Allopathic Doctors abound with
both vegetable aud mineral poisons. If you
do not know this you have not vet gotten
through your horn book of science. What
think you of Mercury or Calomel Do you
not know that the Allopatls in their practice
IN many cases rely more upon this mineral
poison as q medicine than upon anythinq in
their Matcria Madca. Do they not tell YOU
1T is poison Will you toll them you Know
better? for if so, why does it not poison and
kill every ono to whom they give it. But if
you tell, them this, they will only laugh at
your ignorance
Gousoy +" five have not seen monstrositics
snakes, Nc, preserved in alcohol for years
that we have not Travelled far" w..
Yes, q" critas," we have seen these things
| and have never made the tour of the world mt
that; and we have also seen the flesh ofhoes
after having been Killed preserved for years
In salt; aud yetwe have never seen n man
salt away his hogsaliSc to keep them from dy-
ing. we have also seen cucunrbers preserv-
cd in vinegar, yet we have never seen people
put their cuculnbcrs in the vinegar while on
the vine, and then argue that this would pre-
serve their lives.
p" You also shy that anything taken into the
stomach must be digestcd before it can have
any effect upon the system, and adducc rs
proof, positive, the case of childrcn's swal-
lowing coins, buttons, &c.
This may BIO positive proof to you, but we
are not quite so easily satisfied What about
the officiating chld2 Wonder if dirt is ii
SestibleE Does dirt have no effect upon the
system? Gould not the children swallow dirt
as rarely, and in as small quantities as it does
buttons and it would have no pcrceptible ef-
tect upon its health; but when il is taken req
ulariy every day it soan tells upon thochildfs-
healtlI 1a - ir =. - ~ fss,-t..
Neritas" says '.Christ told his disciples
to come out from the world and be separate,
Yes, z" Veritas," thisis what we know: and
| consequently, weJask which can afford the
purestsassociatc, the division room, the tem-
perance hail. or the bar room. Although, ,you
regard it impious for member of the church
toJoin temperance society,, yet you can sec
| no impcty in mcmlor of the church. distil-
ling alcohol going into the grog shop drink
ing, mixing and commingling with the drum
ken, proiane and ungodly. Is it not this the
world and the very worst portion at that, you,
know it is. You say you have known sewers
al churches very much disturbed by temper
ancc men. We have known more churches
diSt'srbcd, and oftencr too, by tho demon in
temperance than by the good angel temper
nncc. And perhaps it would NC we'll for YOU
to inquire whether ornot these churches wore
disturbed in, the same way as were those
evil spirits whom Christ cast out during his
nmistratioh on earth, who cricd out, iI.ot
| alone Jesus of Nazarcth.H,J3 ,a,<., ST., u'.,
! 'sy eritas" tells his readers that we have
shown a narrowncss ofmind which lie did
not expect in charging him with believing
! the Bible contradcts itself But saws lie
might have known it if he had remembered
the old negro preachers text Now we sup
pose he did rem embcr this text, and eadcay-
orcd to improve upon the same when he
charged MS with accusing Christ of practising
nm imposition upon the Governor and guest
| at the marriage in Cana of GaIilec.
But finally, and above all spare us f, ON his
attempts at criticism. These nre the most
inapicabe Of anything used by him .ilthc
wholecontrovclsy; for what do his classic and
| scientific attainments, or our destitutiop ofthc
same, prove respecting the nnconstitutional-
| ity ofthc Maine Liquor law. lie says what
| hurts us the worst, is, that the farmcrkuows
and will tl,nlt FOR huIsvlf. NON, SIR this is
| all gratuitous, We only used your own Ian
4 GuoSo and we never dreamt that it would cx-
oito your'ire as it has. And tic 0;;ly reason
/ that it did is that you imaSiae we used it to
disparage you5 Whereas, you used it for the
purpose ofexcitinc praise or commendaton
| MORMON OUTRAdEs. .--Washingto Oct.
| l9.--A letter has been received in this city
from w. p Landon, one of the clerks
whom the late Surveyor General, (Burr,)
loft in charge of the Office, when, lie for his
own safety, left the territoryiof Utah last
Spring. He was, OH the 18th of Scptem-
Der, at Pluceryillc, California. In giving
an account of his escape from, Salt Lake
City, he says that while engaged in conver-
sation with party of enigrahts, he was
assaulted by q gang of NIormons, led ON y
IA fellow named Dick Petit, and ii ruffian
associate, who, without cause, severely beat
him with stones and clubs. IIewas scarce
/ ly, able to reach. home in consequence of
his Wounds. The same afternoon they at
tackled the deputy Surveyor, Mego, by
stohing him. ''.sH
Landon was driven from lis home at
night, leaving his wife andschild at Salt
lake Gity5 After adroitly elutling his
armed purstscrs, he reached Placereile Ia
tho most distressing condition. He says
he met orthes road the. Indian, Peter, who
used tv, ,feqpentlysyisit the Surveyor Cen
erals Office. Peter informed him that
Brigham Young had sent him out to get
horses and carbines, The Indian spared
his life, because he had, on several occa-;
siohs, given him red paint Latiooii had
not long parted from him before he, (the
Ihdian,J shot a'nian with fcair balls. The,
mar. escaped, though much injured. 81
Z. sAnotlier clerk, MntsYilsoD, in tile Sar-
yeyor Geperal's Office, was also attack4Jby
che Moymons, They 9onghly seixed him
! tearing him agsay from. hiss angfly They