Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-15
A Picture of Bachelor Life.

"The wives present and future of the Glass;"
in very humorous style. The following
extract from his remarks will be read with
interest by sufferers;
What is more miserable, Mr. Cb irman,
and appeal to you, sir, as one who is still
in the "bonds of iniquity and the gall of
bitterness" than the life of self-sacrifc-
ing, pcrseyering, liborally educated bache-
lor? Tell me, sir, of the miscries and suf.
fcrings of tho various conditions and for
tunes of life; tell me how the soldicrieaves
his happy home, and dies unshrouded in
some foreign land how the sailor, who
has weathered hundred storms, at length
finds watery grave; how the weary trav-
eler sinks exhausted on Sahara's sands or
in Alpine SHOWS; but, o yc good fatcs,
who preside over the destinics of men,
Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos-and yc, O
beautiful Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosync and
Tholio, and ye, also bright goddcsscs, We
nus, Juno and Minerva, have mercy upon
us and deliver us from the life, tho death,
and the expectations of bachelor!
beg of you, my fellow classmates, to
leave the table for few moments, and ac-
company me to the "catsting place" of
bachelor. You behold here no tasty garden
with rich variegated flowers, no love bow
ers clad with woodbinc and ivy; no mean
dering walks fringed with rosy hedges, no
wife to entertain you with the kind words
of welcome, no children to climb up and
prattle on your knee, and no birds to punc-
tuate the too lively talk with song, but
rather on all sides the wretchedncss of "sin-
gle blcsscdness." Go with me to his room.
Oh, Confusion worse confounded !" Pc
lions of unified newspapers piled upon cas-
cs of unarranged books, magazines and man
uscripts lost like the unfound books of Lii
Wy IL the dust of ages Cast your eyes on
tn, mautelpicce, and lose yourself in the in
explicable confusion; sec his chairs totter-
ing on their last legs, as if too weak to stand
up by or for themselves; feel of his hard
bed, from which each morning he rises
mapped all over into checker-board by
the impressions of the cord through the
unevcnly spread mattress. Go with mo
to his bureau; here arc twelve shirts,
which look as if they would like to get free,
and shift for themselves there is not q ho.
som among them but that opens to you it's
troubles--not a wristband we'll enough ever
to 90 out into the world with its broken con-
stitution--not a collar so alistocratic but
that it seems entirely broken down by its
long-standing adversities. But look on the
bachelor himself See his perforated stock
ings holding up his heels to ridicule-his
torn slippers disinhcriting and turning out
of doors his tocs-his pantaloons trying to
get up meeting on account of their rents
and to be off before detection.
Why, sir, you may tell me of tcrmagent
wives more frctful than the Xantippe of
Socrates-of curtain lccturing and caudle-
izing when, weary, the lord and master
comes to his bed-of crying children, who
wake up at the noon of night with the ear
ache, toothache, whooping cough, canker
rash, or the measles-of unruiy servants
and abominable cooks-of cxorbtnt bills
at the groceries and druggists-thcsc, these
are cndurable; but, oh ye good fates,
graces and goddesses, whom have bereto-
fore invoked, have mercy upon us, AID de-
liver us from the life, the death, aid tho
expectations Of bachelor!
A GERMAN GIRL MAD FOR LovE.-.A,
beautiful German Girl of Cincinnati, named
Hannah Rootkcr, went suddenly mad ON
Sunday, on being told by her father that
she shonld not marry fellow countryman
to whom she had been engaged for some
months with the full expectation of bccom4
ing his wife. Upon the announcement she
fell, as if struck by lightning, to the floor,
and it was with much difficulty she was re-
stored to consciousness She then began
raving frightfuIly, and with cries, and
screams, and groans, and tears and alncn.
| tations, startled the entire neighborhood of
| Bremen street, where she resided Notll-
ing could be done TO calm or appease her
she grew worse and worse, until it was
| determined to remove her to the hospital.
When there, she continued to rave, and
would have died from exhaustion before
this, lad not chloroform been administered
to keep her quiet. 1t was found necessary,
too, to bind her to the floor, else she would
have taken her own life, leapcd out of the
window, on done anything desperate. The
physicians who saw her say they never be-
fore bcheld SO violent a maniac
CHOLERA IN CENTRAL AMERICA. let
terfrom the Pacific port of Acajutla, IN San
Salvador, informs us that the cholera broke
ont in the interior early last month, and
was raging frghtfuIly, eighicensor twenty
deaths per day occurring in The town of
Sonsopate, out Of population Of about four
thousand. Tho panic occa4ioned by tho
presence Of this fearful sco6rge was alrcsa ay
widespread, and the native from every di-
rection were fleeing to the mountains AT
] Acajutla it WAS found almost impossible TO
procure men 10 carry little freight on
board a vessel in the. e.harbor, although no
case of cholera had occurred at the port
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