Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-16

crate IN arriving at conclusions. Consider
ing, then, the whole of these circumstances,
is the culture of the child's mind matter
upon which the parent should feel inditfer
ent? II is Il task so'smniy incumbent, and
task no less noble than delightful.
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The Duel.
In his Cyclop@dia of wit and humor, Mr..
Burton quotes the following reply to chal-
lcnge from a work published in 1895, and
entitled "Modern Chivalry :"
"SIR: have two objections to this duel
matter The one is, lest should hurt you;
and the otheris, lest you should hur: me.
do not see any good it would do me to
put bullet through any part of your body.
| could make no use of you when dead for
any culinary purpose, us would a rabbit
or turkey. ] am no oannibal to feed on
the flesh of men. Why then shoot down
human creature Of which could make no
use? a buffalo would be better meat
For though your flesh may be delicate and
tender, yet it wants that frmncss and con-
sstency, which takes and retains salt. Al
any rate, it would not be fit for long sea
voyages. You might make good barbe-
ShSb ~ ~ ~ wv ICING Va tuC idlulC vi AZ IdC-
coon or an opossum; but people are not in
the habit of barbccuing anything human
now, AS toyour hide, il is not worth Ia
king off, being little better than a year.ol
colt.
cit would seem TO me strange thing
to shoot at Il man that would stand still TO
be shot at inasnuch as have been hereto
fore used to shoot at things flying, or run,
ming, or jumping. Were you on tree
now, like squirrel, cndeavoring to hide
yourself in the branches, or like raccoon
that after much eycing and spying, L OBJ,
serve al length in the crotch of n tall oak
with boughs and leaves intervening, so that
! could just get sight of his hinder parts,
! should think il peasurable enough to take
shot at you. But as it is, there is no skill
orjudgment requisite either to discover or
take you down.
AS to myself, do not much like to
stand in the way of anything harmful.
am underapprehensons you might hit me-
That being the case, think il most adyisa.
BILE to stay at distance. If you want to
try your pistols, take some object, a tree or
burn door, about my dimensions If you
hit that, send me wold, and | shall acknowl-
edge that il had been in the same place,
you might also have hit me.
j. FARRAGo, late Capt. Penn. Militia.
Major Valentine Jacko, U. S Army.
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AN ONO EDToR on FAsuIoNADLE DAN
cINd.-An Ohio Editor gives his views of
several dances which he witnessed at the
Inauguration Ball at Washington, thus:
"The want of variety in this Metropolis
dancing, was, however, fully made up by
the fancy things, such as the waltz and pol.
ka. These were absolutely barbarous. The
old fashioned waltz, the morality of which
even Byron called in question, is here ig-
nored as altogether too cool and Distant
The lady here Laws her head on the gentle
mans bosom, puts one hand in his coat tail
pocket, then resigns herself to bis embraces,
and goes to sleep, all but her feet, which,
when not carried by him clear off the floor,
goes patting around on her toes. The gen.
lleman thus entwined throws his head back,
and his eyes up, like a dying calf; his body
bent in the shape of figure a. he whirls,
backs up, swings around, swoons to all ap.
pearances, pushes forward, and leaves the
ring, to the delight Of all decent people,"
The books, papsrs, drafts, notes of hand,
&C., formerly property of the United States
Bank, to the.amount of forty tons, have been
purchased by Messrs. Bottom 81 Co., of
Trenton, and are 10 be ground up and con-
yerted into paper. The True American
says ten tons Of this vast amount is of corr
respondence, autograph letters Of the ttst
statesmen, politicians, and financial ;TTie; of
ihis and other countries. Drifts upon the
Rothschilds for hundreds of thousands OF
dollars, certificates of stock transferred to
leading bankers in Europe, checks and drafts
from Clay, Webster, Cass, Adams, Calhoun,
Houston, Crockett, &c, &C., all lie scatter,
ed, ready for the important transformation
into clean, unsullied white paper. This
huge mass Of books and papers strikes the
visitor with astonishmept.
A DYING Irishman was asked by his con.
| lessor if he was ready TO renounce the devil