Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-12
The Love of Scandal.

BID love Tor filthy scandal which is moro or
less tho bano of all society, and which, too
often, is tho indulgence of women. Surely
they who so delight in this unhalowed pas
time have never reflected upon the onormity
of their crime nor felt the force of tho golden
rule. "Do unto others as you would have 9TH
ors do unto you" Apropos of this subject
we annex the following suggestive extract
from an article in the N. Y Sunday Times
alluding to the suicide of the late Henry w.
| Herbert, better known rs Frank Forester:
"And all this fearful mystcry of dcstruc-
ton was the effect of thoughtless woman's
careless word the effect of vicious habit
ofcntcrtaining one neighbOr's prurcnt love
Tor scandal with another neighbor's follics
and infirmitics-thc effect of that despicablo
love of calumny which could even ask a young
wife to sit down, Ghoullikc, and feast on the
reputation of her husband.
a marriage after fortnights acquain-
tance, no matter how romantic the mutual
introduction of the parties to it, can hardly
be called auspicious. Tho union of man Of
fifty with maiden in the first score other
summer youth, is in itself uupromi;ing Tho
inability or ndisposition of the maturcr mind
III such an association to control its bursts of
phrcnzy, to bc patient and enduring with its
pupil-tor what else is young girl in the
hands ofsuch husband ?-is not fclicitous
omen. And yet, what will not love some
times accomplish if permitted to work out,
In ITS own way, its rainbow colorcd schemes
Of double happincss2 What obstacles will
| 1t not surmount7 What Victories will it not
achieve save itself and it's idosyncracies p
Mr. Norbert, then, despite untoward circum-
stances, might have enjoyed, for many years,
comparatively radiant season az a finale to
his exciting career oflife, had it not been for
the unwarrantable interference of some pry-
| ing busybody with the sacred privacy Of his
domestic affairs thus dashing from his lin
the cup of beaming hope, and punging two
fond and earnest hearts in an abyss of sor-
rowing darkness. That busybody whom he
pointed at, but did not oven name, may we'll
writho in the agony Of self consciousness
which mutely proclaims her murderer.-
She needs no publcaccusation. She belongs
to q class who rejoice in the circulation of
pquant stories-who Systematically irritate
and keep open with the seton of report the
raw and running sore of many heart fam
lily. And for what To feed their own bru-
tai appetite for human anguish Let US hope
that there is special retribution hereafter
for such harpios, since no social or moral
laws may reach them here, and that at least
double share may await the digestion of tho
J particular individual engaged as far as Mr.
Herbert was concerned, in the
| Deep damnaticn of his taking off,"
BoNApARrE's WOUNDS Napoleon showed
me tho marks Of two wounds-onoa very
deep cicatrce above tho left knee, which he
said he had received in his first campaign of
Italy, and it was of so serious nature that
the surgeons were in doubt whether it might
not be ultimately necessary to amputate. lie
observed that when he was wounded it was
| always kept n secret in order not to discour-
age the soldiers. The other was on his toe.
and was received at Eckmul. CAT the seigo
of Acre" continued ho, "a shell thrown by
Sidney Smith fell at my feet Two soldiers,
who were close by, seized and closely em-
braced me, one in front and the other on ono
side, and made rampant of their bodies for
me, against the effect of the shell, which ex-
| ploded and overwhelmed us with sand We
sunk into the hole formed by bursting; one
J OF them was wounded. / made them both
officers. One has since lost leg at Moscow,
and commanded at Vinceunes when left
tarls-when he was summoned by the Rus
slams; he replied that as soon as they had sent
him back the leg he had lost at Moscow he
would surrender the Fortress" "Nlany times
in my life" continued he "have been saw
ed by soldiers and officers throwing them
selves before me when was in tho most i'm
minent danger. AT Arcola, when was adj
vancng Colonel Meuron, my aid-de-camp,
threw himself before me, covered me with his
body and received the wound which was des-
tined for me-. lie fell at my feet, and his
-" 'P""'N" "P III my lucc' lle SaNe Ills
life to preserve mine. Never yet i believe,
has there been such a devotion shown by
soldiers as mine have manifested for me- In
all my misfortunes never has the soldier,
even when expiring, been wanting to me-
never has man been served more faithfully
iby bis troops. With the last drop of blood
gushing ont of their veins, they exclaimed,
ViveP Empereur"
| MANLINEss.--Learn from the earliest DAYS
to insure your principle against the peril of
rldicule. You can no more exercise your
reason if you live in the constant dread of
laughter than you can enjoy your life if you
are in the constant terror of death. If YOU
think it right to differ from the times, and to
make point of ofmorals, do it; however rus
tie, however antiquatod, however pedantic it
may appear, do it--not for insolenee, but Sc
riously and grandly, as o man who wore a
soul of his own Ia his bosom, and did not wait
till 1t was breathed into him by the breath
of fashion.
That philosophy which teaches that men
| arc born equal and alike, and that the mind
when broughtinto the world is like a sheet
OF white paper, on which education may
write what it -pleeses, is a gross absurdity'!
lfphysieal effects have their physical causes,
mental effects, likewise, must have theirmen-
| tai causes.
AN INrIpEL CoNvERTED.- English cor.
respondent of the Zion's Herald, writes:-
Thomas Cooper the noted sceptic, and au-
thor of "The Purgatory of Suicides, "shas re-
Gently become convert 10 Christianity; and
after having spent thirty years ofhis life in
isoturing and wEiting against the bible, he is