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


or IN vast eternity. In time you have tho
nope OF mercy but it you postpone this mat
Ter Tor eternity you viii repent for ever,
/ where the distant hope Of mercy will never
come; and TO YOU my Christian friends lets
me say be fAlthfuI TO the trust which God
has coniided toyour care. Guard well that
sacred cause to the end OF life, and crown
VIII be given you by your Father, docked
with brighter jewels than ever praced
monnrch's brow.
1t there is any man under the sound Of
my voice or elsewhere who / have ever in
Jored 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 anv
shSUR foa a SSR99s7s agm IF my ftiSpdg who have
! IimprSonment please accept the deep orati,
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 tervent prayer Of an unfortunate
man.
Farewell TO all until we meet a. tho
/ judgement bar Of God
| Y. G. BovARD.
ANovEL FINALE We find in the New
/ York papers the following account of a
closing scene in the recently adjourned
black republicans legislature of that State.
Shortly after six O'clock, the Senate
chamber becoming densely packed with s
spectators and Iobbymen some industrious
wag busted himself with sprnkling cayenne
pepper over the carpets in The room and
on the registers the effects of which were
almost instantly perceptible ON those pres
ent. The slight and irregular coughs, and
delicate sneezng, soon Increased to a gen
eral and prodigious cough, sneezc. hawkinm
splitting, and blowing OF noses, the noise
and confusion" from which at times entire
y precluded thepossibilily Of hearing any,
thing else SO general did the scene ut
length become that nearly every Senator.
not excepting the President, was seizedwith
the mania. The chamber, which was cram
med to an uncomfortable degree. iuclndinp
a humber of coored people, now became
the scene of general cough, sneeze, and
blowing of proboscis, SO as to render it inn
possible for business to proceed"
BossToN lMMoRALrY.-The capitol of
New England is acquiring an unenviable no.
toHety by It's indecent criminal trials. Di,
rectiy npon the heels Of the Kalloch trial
comes tho Dalan trial. which the Roston
papers state exceeds in repulsive indecencv
any similar one that has ever taken place in
that part of the country. Even the Boston
Times shoulders at its revelations" And
yet the parties involved in these scandals are
young married people belonging TO highly
respectable families, who had borne good
| regulations until their immoraNtes were
brought TO light by the homicide OF Young
l'Sumner, who was beaten TO death by the
man whose domestic peace hO -hod de-
etrOyed 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 iG their
morals were on par with other American
cties.--N. Y. Times.
DRsTRUcrIoN OF PETERspuno- The last
Havre steamer brings German papers of the
7th instant Among them we find the
| 'Allgemcne Zeitung, which contains the fol-
loving singular paragraph, which we trans
late for the benefit of our readers:
startling occurrence happened IN he
! State OF Virginia few days previous t, lhe
sailing OF our last steamer, The. EIerm, MI.
A.sudden and mighty inIn1aien of the fl.
| nous rlVer RppomatoX, bearing upon its
bosom an enormous avalanche of timberfrom
above, and sweeping in its course every
dwelng,milt 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 tl,e 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 wns awful
Trees, churches. forests. negroes, ladies'.
! Judges Geuncimen street commissioners.
pigs, poultry, loco locos. wings, indomita
blrs, and bnlt endeps, were all heapcd up
togethesin a crude and shapeless mass of
conglnmersted improbahities, like an un-
appfohchahIe island, about one hundred
mics from tbe mighty rive, whose impet.
uous course inflicted the calamity. When
the steamer left, she passed the inundated
town, and sawl {, 900 people standing upon
the fragments OF inrerlockcd timbers, n,asts.
i roofs columns and SesseE waving whit,
pocket handkerehie(s as signals of distress.
The town is ruined, of course. Banks all
/ soaked, and specie all sunk in ihe sea. Ia
IS reported That this awfHl calamity might
have been averted, but for the obsiinacy Of
4 the "unmIuilleS" fonp of tha ioo,i ,.,..:.,,sN