Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-09


or in vast eternity. In time you have tho
hope OF mercy but if you postpone this mat
Ter Tor eternity you will repent for ever.
where the distant hope Of mercy will never
come and TO YOU my Christian friends lets
me say be faithful TO the trust which God
! has coniided to your care Guard well that
sacred cause to the end Of lfe and crown
will be given you by your Father dceked
! with brighter jewels than ever graced
monarch'S brow.
! III there is any man under the sound OF
my voice or elsewhere who have ever in
Jnred by words or actions pray you for
give me, to those who have wronned me
particularly in my trial freely forgive. [
have no bad feeling or i'll will towards any
SaSUR Poa g.! TO sRS9Ss a, IF mS fgiSnds who have
imprisonment please accept the deep gratis
tude of my heart May God have mercy
upon you all, and do you all the good that
he in his wisdom may see you need, is the
humble but ferYenl prayer Of an unfortunate
man.
Farewell TO all until we meet a. the
judgement bar of God
Y. c. BovARD.
A NOVEL FINALE We find in The New
York k papers the following account of "a
closing scene In the recently adjourned
black republican legislature Of that State:
Shortly after six o'clock, the Senate
chamber becoming densely packed with
spectators aud lobbymen some industrious
wag busted himself with spriuklng cayenne
pepper over the carpets in HE room an,'
on the registers, the effects Of which were
almost Instantly perceptible on those pres
ent. The slight and irregular coughs, and
delicate sneezing, soon increased to a gen
cral and prodigious cough, sneeze, hawking
splitting. and blowing of noses, the noise
and confusion" from which at times entire
Iy precluaed the possibility of hearing any,
thing else. So general did the scene at
length become that nearly every Senator.
not excepting the President, was seizedwith
themania. The chamber, which was cram
med to an uncomfortable degree. including
a number of colored people, now became
the scene of general cough, sncezc, and
blowing Of proboscs, SO as to render it i'm
possible for business to proceed"
BosToM IMMoRALrrY-Th capitol of
New England is acquiring an unenvable no.
tohety by IFS indecent criminal trials. Di.
rectly npon the heels of the Knioch trial
comeo tho Dahan trial which the Roston
papers state exceeds in repusive indecencv
any similar one that has ever taken place in
that part of the country. Even the Boston
Times shoulders at its revelations." Aud
yet the parties involved in these scandals are
young married people belonging to highly
respectable families, who had borne good
regulations until their immorahtes were
brought TO light by the homicide of Young
Sumner, who was beaten TO death by the
man whose domestic peace he he'd de-
otroyed Boston may not be worse than
New York, or,any other of the large towns
of the Union, but it has lately had to endure
the shame Of more scandalous trials than
its population would entitle it to il their
morals were on a par with other American
c.ties.--N. Y. Ifnses.
-nasrRUcrIoN OF PsTERsDuRo.- hast
Hoyre steamer brings German papers of the
7th instant Among them we find the
I AIlgemelne IeiIupg, which contains the fol-
lowing singular paragraph, which we trans
late for the benefit of our readers
" A startling occurrence happened in the
State of Virginia few days previous to the
sailing OF our last steamer, The. Hermann.
Assudden and mighty inundation of The fi
nous river, &ppomatox, bnafing upon its
bosom an enormous avalanche of timber(rom
above, and sweeping in its course every
dwelng,milb hotel towerand fortress upon
its banks, coming upon the town of Peters
burg insthe night and sweeping it and the
whole of Bristol Parish into tle sea. Some
of the fortresses upon This river are said TO
have covered ten hundred acres Of area
Three of the towers were one thousand feet
high each. The spectacle was awful
Trees. churches, forests, negroes, ladies',
judges eouncitmen, street commissioners,
! pigs, poultry, loco focos. wings, indomita
bl"s, aud but ende,s, were all henpcd up
| togetherin n crude and shapeless mass of
conglomersted improbahiIities, like an un
appfohchabie island, about one hundred
miles from lbe mighty rive, whose e.mpet-
uous course inflicted the calamity. When
the steamer left, she passed tic inandaled
town, and saw 5, 600 people standing upon
! the fragments Of inrerlockcd timbers nasts.
roofs columns. and vessels, waving white,
pocket handkerehiefs as signals Of distress.
The town is ruined. of course. Banks oil
soaked, and specie all sunk in Ibe sea. liz
is reported lmt ibis awful calamity ,nirht
have been averted. bat for the obsiinacv Of
the %dam(uilles" Zone of the local pariiesl
who were too arstocralic to receive funds
from territorial neighbor gratis, where
with to build wall for the Guys protection.
The whole Stale, it is said. is in Imminent
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