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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-27
Horrible Treatment of a Wife.

Horrible treatment OF Wife.
| a case of unusual interest was tried in
Walton Superior Court last week, consul
ming four days. A man named Thomas
Kelly, or O'Kelly, was arraigned for the
murder of his wife, who was found dead,
frozen It's said) in her place of con6ne-
mcnt during the extraordinary cold wealth
er of 1855. The deceased, it was alleged,
was at least partially derangcd, and had
been confined number of years, IL or II,
We believe, 1t was proven that her place
Of confinement consisted of a pen construct
ed of poles, notchcd at the corners, and
covered with clap boards. In this was
a hole, ten by four inches, some four or five
feet from the ground, with a shelf inside,
upon which was placed her food in an old
frying pan. Her food, some of the witness
es testified, was pronliscuously mixed to-
gcthcr in this pan, boiled bacon, ''collards,"
and milk being frequently mixed together.
Many of the witnesses testified that the
chinks or cracks between the poles of this
den were open-there never was any fire in
it-no bed or bedding, and the poor crea-
ture was sometimes entirely naked, and al
ways nearly So In this den she languished
seven years, until relieved by death from
her horrible suffering. One cold morning
that winter she was found upon her hands
and knees at the door, naked, or nearly so,
aud stiff frozen. Many persons think there
is rcSscu to believe that starvation as well
as cold had something to do in bringing
about her death +! We understand that tho
deceased, before her mind became impaired,
was a sensible and respectfully educated wo-
man. AS before remarked, it is no part of
our purpose to give the testimony in this
case would ill a book. We only refer
to material points against the prisoner We
did not hear one syllable in his behalf
The minute, or filling in of the picture, is
too sckening TO lay before ourreaders The
husband was indicted for murder, The
attorneys for the prosecution were Mr.. So
licitor Thurmona, N c. Foster, and 9th
ers; for the defence, Judge Floyd, Mr..
Clark, and others. Tho prisoner was ar
raigned on Wednesday morning. Whom
we left not one half the witnesses had been
examined. We learn that the pleadings
commenced late on Friday afternoon. At
the time we write we have not heard what
the verdict of the jury was. Since the
above was written, we learn that O'Kclly
has been sentenced to three wears in the
Penitentiaw.-A AMens (Ga.) UatcLmoo.
49, :" - >-.--z7
ST. LouIs, March l5.--Mr. Hartwcll Sec
retary ety OF Utah, has arrived In this city. He
left the camp on the 26th ofJanuary.
The troops wore in y comfortable condition
and IN good health, Only fonr deaths had
occurred SINCE their arrival.
- mo ne thouSht thae an entrance to Salt Lake
valley could be effected by route 400 miles
.ol'gef' hae oMefinS no distractions to the
Narhs IN
af me Indiqns gave assurance OF friendship.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-27

know tho spirit of the government through
its form, and government itself was nothing
buta higher form through which society
lived and was expressed. The ratification
of the constitution was reversing the march
of mankind, aud blotting out the expert
cncc of eges.
Could society live without law and order,
and without form, and could it have these
with the individual put above society, and
society elevated above the government? p
He concurred with his colleague in the
Senate, (ilr. Iiammond, tnat constitutions
were made by the minority. It was true
there were two great objects in all govern
mcnts, personal rights and property rights.
Ina goyernmcntlike ours, the samo person
al rights were possessed by each man, and
they were safe. But property was in the
hands of the minority, and was constantly
in danger of aggression.
! In his opinion, the people could not
change their constitution before 1864. SO.
ciety itself was but the accrction of individ.
uals, and government but the instrument
by which society was kept together He
admitted that the soycrcigntyof the people
did reside in the original convention, and
admitted that one, sovereignty could not
bind another; but the sovereignty of to-
day could put checks in the way of tho
sovereignty of tomorrow. They might
tell him that when the convention met il
wassoycrcignty; but they mustundcrstand
they were confounding natural right with
the social right, and if they put checks
upon the e,only agent which could call then
together, then, when it met, it would b,
nothing more than mass meeting.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-03-27
pIckENs COURT HOUSE. s. 6, SATURDAY MARCH, y, 1858
Foreign Intelligence.

BY the arrivals from Europe, VIC have
full particulars of the capture Of Cant. a, as
follows; .-.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
NsANIT

That the number of the insane is ~feartully
increasing throughout our country is an un'
doubted fact. 1t is said that in San Fran
cisco from two to FIVE have been arrested In
the streets every week during the last year
Dragged liquors undoubtedly add thousands
to the list of the insane. frequently, as
in the cases of Senator Rusk and Ex-Presl,
dent Jones of Texas, it assumes the suicidal
form. Thousands die Of what is called "con-
g~estion of the BRAIN" the p~otation being so
thoroughly poisoned. We heard of twelve
Irish railroaders on a Railroad section in In
diana, dying "of congestion Of the bran"
in a single week. They had all drank from
a barrel of whiskey doctored with "Stamoni-
um," or "Jamestoun veed." The nux voml-
ca and cococulus indicus used in beer affect
powerfully the brain. When these fatal
drugs do not produce a speedy DEATH they
often leave the victim bereft of reason ana
a fit subject for a ~lunatic asylum. Whatever
may be the results of the traffic to the pecu-
mary, physical, intellectual or moral con-
dition Of man, it will be a long time before
Politicians will yield to the demand OF az
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22

TyHE Subscriber returns his thanks for the very
l. liberal patronage received for the past, and
takesthis method to inform the citizens Of York and
the surrounding Districts, and the whole South,
that he has effected another Improvement in the
Cotton Gin and Wheat Thrasher,
that excels any that have ever been introduced
heretofore and from long experience he has nc
fearin challenging any other Factory, either North
or South, to produce an equal. He feels very con.
fdent in saying to the public, that his Gins excel
in performance any other make or pattern now II
use. With dry cotton the roll cannot be broker
or made to spew over, which no other pretends tc
claim, and with good driving power and attend
ance, a As saw gin, will
Gin from 4 to 6 Bales or more in a Day
weighing from $50 to 400 TBS. which is as much
as any one hand can well handle in a day. Any
person wanting a superior Gin or Thrasher, car
be supplied by sending on his order to me at
Lewisville, Chester Dist, s. G.
Work will be shipped to any place desired. RF
PAIRING done at the shortest possible notice.
To House-builders, I will say that I am manu-
featuring
SASH BLINDS AND DOORS,
of every description, made of the best material,
and dry lumber, and workmanship the very best.
All work carefully packed and forwarded to or
der. JOHN
June -, 1856 "a If
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF
RICH GLOSSY HAIR,
COMPLETELY PRESERVED

LIZ lllD OIeL1l lLb1 11OI.
4 Nd who that is gray would nothave it restored
N 70 former color; or bald, but would have the
growth restored, or troubled with dandruf
and itching but would have it removed, or
troubled with s~crofula, scsld head, or other
eruptions, but would be cured, or with sick head
ache, (neuralgia) but would be cured. 1t will
also remove all pimples from the face and skim
Prof. Woods Hair Restorative will do all this, see
circular and the following.
ANN ARBoR, November 8, 1856.
Prof. o. J. Wood-Dear Sir: I have heard
much said of the wonderful effects of your Hair
Restorative, but having been go often cheated by
q~uackery and quack nostrums, hair dyes, &c., l
was disposed to place your Restorative in the same
category with the thousand and one loudly trum.
peted quack remedies, until I met you in Law
renee county some months since, when you gave
me such assurance as induced the trial of your
Restorative in my family-frst by my good wife,
whose hair had become very thin and entirely
white, and before e1hausting one of your large
bottles, her hair was restored nearly toit original
beautiful brown color, and had thickened and be-
come beautiful and glossy upon, and entirely over
the head she continues to use it, not simply be-
cause of its identifying effects upon the hair, but
because of its healthful influence upon the head
and mind. Others of my family and friends are
therefore, ny skepticism and doubts in reference
to its character and value are entirely removed
and ! can and do most cordially and confdentially
recommend its use by all who would have their
hair restored from white or gray (by reason of
sickness or age,) to original color or beauty, and
by all young persons who would have their hair
beautiful and glossy.
Very truly and greatfully yours,
SOLOMON MANN.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
Temperance Matter*
From the Spirit of the Age
WON'T STICK"

lie - IL 81
Whenever a drunkard resolves to reform,
and unites with some one of the temperance
organizations for that purpose, there are those
in every community who are ever busy to
publish their opinions respecting his proba-
BILE want of integrity in the premises. They
manifest a great pleasure in contemplating
the step the unfortunate man has taken, and
would seem to wish that be might be endow-
ed with fortitude to resist all temptation and
keep his pledge sacred and inviolate, but up
on every occasion they predict his downfall,
and even go so far as to taunt the person to
his face by telling him that "he must stick
Now this is wrong and unjust to the per-
son in question. He has been a drunkard,
his moral purposes have been sadly weaken
ed by strong drink, and now, since he is
making an effort to cast off the terrible hab-
it that has degraded him, he stands in need
of the counsels, the countenance and COM
fort off all good men, in order to enable him
to maintain the noble purpose of breaking
the accursed letters by which he has been
bound. He feels his own weakness and the
weight of his old scourge pressing him down,
and if he is tainted on every hand with
predictions of his downfall, and constantly
reminded of his weakness andwant of power
to resist the temptations of IL Intoxicating
glass, is it any wonder that He yields to the
first temptation and becomes worse than be-
fore? Such treatment from his fellowmen
wildly impresses his degradation upon his
mind, and is but too apt to confirm him in
the belief that heis beyond the reach ofhope
and is doomed to the worst of fates. Many
q poor fellow has been driven into the wild
ness of despair by such uncharitable treat
ment
We should exercise much charity and
sympathy towards the drunkard, endeavor
inc to reform. His manhood has become
weakness by reason Of strong drink, and hi:
strength like that of a little child. Let those
who are strong, uphold him and cheer hi;
failing powers. 1t is better to rescue one
such, than to add hundreds to our lists from
the ranks of those who never have felt the
reproach of the curse. Then let all such
be encouraged, by counsel, by sympathy, by
charity and by manifestations of confidence
in their integrity to the VOWS and pledges
they have assumed. This will inspire the
man with courage to battle more zealously
with assailing temptations and to put them
under his feet; while if we manifest no con
fdence in his integrity, and constantly sus
pect his motives and predict that he viii
abandon his purpose of reformation and be
worse than before, we may reasonably expect
the man to lose confidence in himself, con
slider himself an outcast and 60 back to hi'
accused "pots" and their slavery again
Hold up the hands, the hearts, of all such
by your encouragements, and happy one'
shall lisp your name in %thankfulness arounc
hearthstones bright as day, where, a little
while ago, the shadow ola curse fingered
and darkened all that was centered there.
Spirit Of the Age.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
A YANKEE,

The Boston Olive Branch having called the
editor of the New York atlas a Yankee, the
Atlas man gets off the following:
But we own up to the Yankee, and feel
no little pride in it; but we don't hail from
Berkshire, exactly. We have dropped pump
kin seeds and have eaten hasty pudding
and milk in New Hampshire, and have plow-
ed, moved, and logged in the State of Maine.
We have fshed for minnows with a pin-hook,
and carrid our bread and butter to school ;
and we have seen long-driving on the Ken
nebec river; we have coaxed a club-footed
girl to slide down hill made slippery by the
fall of pine leaves, on her feet, for the fun
of seeing her catch her toes, and roll over
and over, and we have gone into the swamps
with two yoke of oxen and a bob-sled, when
the snow was five feet deep, and felled trees,
and 'twiched' logs all day, and went home at
night-fall to 'bean porridge hot ) we have
been to a few prayer-meetings, that's a fact,
and we've been to 'hustings,' too, and apple
BEES and ~'raisings,' and militia-musters.'
We have helped make cider and afterwards
set sa.straddle' of barrel, and sucked it with
a straw. We have sat W. all night in a saw
mill, and have sat up all night with a gal
We have a high opinion of j~ohnny-cake and
{ sassinger,' and we have frequently had a
finger in the making of the latter; We have
eaten our share or Goldfish and potatoes,
with pork scraps, and we guess we have lick
ed a proper proportion of 'lasses candy, and
also boys; we have pulled flax for nine
pence a day, because we had a sick head
ache and could not go to school, and have
had teeth pulled with a piece of strengthened;
we have travelled over the feldsin Spring with
a maui, knocking about the w~hat-you-call-
'ems, and have popped corn in the ashes ;
we have turned the grindstone all day to
sharpen a new axe, snapped jack-knives,
broken steers and colts, set traps for skunks
and woodchucks, tapped our W shoes,
clicked the schoolmaster, robbed the milk
pans of cream, and laid it to the cat, pitched
into the apple-'sass,' hooked loaf sugar, and
numberless other things 'too numerous to
MENTION but for particulars Of whichs see
small bills.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
THE SHOALS AND QUICKsANDS

Il OF YOUTH.-Just Published, the 90 Edl-
ton. On Spermatorrhea or Seminal Diseases
A scientific Treatise on the treatment and perfect
cure of Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness, In
voluntary Emissions, Impotence, &c., resulting
from vicious habits acquired during the critical
passage from Youth to Manhood.
By DIR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal
College of Surgeons of England, (ls27.) Licen-
tiate Of the Hall 1884, and 80 years Resident
Practitioner in London; author of the "Guide to
Health" screen Book" How to be Happy"
memoirs of Single and Married Life" SC.
This small, but highly valuable Treatise, writ
ten by a world-renowne Physician and Surgeon,
points out the only sure and permanent cure for
all diseases resulting from self abuse, and is the
only publication of its kind written in o benevo.
lent spirit and by n scientific man. 1t should be
in the hands of all who value their life and health
and happiness here and hereafter.
Price, II cents, or 4 stamps, at the receipt of
which will be sent, post free, and well secured, by
DIR. Gu. KLINE, No. 42O LIST Avenue, Box 55St,
New York.
Jan 81 8 If
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22

EDITORIAL COURTESY IN KANSAS
The editor of the Constitutionalist, publish
ed at Doniphan, K. T., pitches into the edi-
tor of a Black Republican sheet after the
following manner:
The editor of the Chief wishes us to bring
him into notice, but We do not wish to pol
lutte our columns with such trash, unless fore
ed to do so. We would gentle hint to the
crossed-eyed, crank-sided, peaked aud long
razor nosed, blue mouthed, niger Tipped,
white-eyed, soft-headed, long-eared, crane
necked, blubber-lipped, empty-headed, fill
thy-mouthed, squeaky-voiced, snaggle-tooth-
box-ankled, pigeon-toed, reel-footed, google
eyed, hammer-hearted, cat-hammed, hump
shouldered, bandy-shanked, ~splaw-footed,
ignoble Black Republican abolition editor,
to attend to his own affairs, or we will pitch
into him in earnest
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
TO PREVENT INTEMPERANCE.

1t is an old saying, that |" an ounce of
prevention is worth apound of cure" II
this is true in regard to physical ailments,
it is certainly true in regard to Moral dis
eases. In these days, when public atten-
ton is being directed to the Importance of
building Asylums for inebriates, it will be
appropriate to inquire whether the necessity
of such Institutions may not be obviated.
In the first place we would remark that
no individual who adopts the total absti-
hence pledge and keeps it, will ever be a
candidate for such an Asylum. Every one
who uses any kind ofintoxicating drinks is on
the direct road to the Asylum, poor house or
prison. Having once imbibed the poison,
there is no security that the virus will not
result in death. He only occupies the van
tage ground, and is safe from the all-perva-
ding destroyer, who never, under any cir
cumstances, permits the accursed cup to ap-
proach his lips.
Drink one glass of beer, or wine, ar bran
dy, or whiskey, and you may be incurably
diseased. Every temperance organization
can furnish incontrovertible testimony that
the pledge is not a certain cure for intem-
perance. How important, then, that a pre-
~ventive should be resorted to in time.
If all parents would make ittheir especial
business to throw the protecting @gis of the
pledge around their children, instil into their
Youthful minds the truth that their temporal
and eternal welfare may be destroyed by
slipping a single glass of the simplest form
of alcoholic liquors, and millions would be
saved from the second death. The preven-
tive costs nothing, and how criminal it is to
neglect it
The parent is scarcery excusable who does
not have his children vaccinated before they
are exposed to the smallpox, altough it is at
tended with some expense; and how much
more culpable must that parent be who will
neglect to give them the preventive to a more
loathsome and desclating disease, especially
as it costs nothing. Every family circle,
Sabbath School, and Day School should have
its pledge book, and children should have
their anne enrolled therein, and they should
occasionally be cautioned not to yield to the
fascinations of the destroyer. We must put
forth more of effort to save the young from
beginning a career of intemperance by taking
the first glass.-C Crusader.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22

A NICE POINT OF LAw.-Two Quakers
applied to their Society, as they do not go
to law, to decide in the following difficulty
A is uneasy about a ship that ought to
have arrived, meets B, an insurer, and states
his wish to have the vessel insured. The
matter is agreed upon. A returns home and
receives a letter informing him that his ship
is lost. What shall he do? He is afraid
the policy is not filled up, and should B hear
of the matter soon, it is all over with him ;
he therefore, writes to B thus:
Friend B, if thee hasn't filled up the
policy thee needn't, for I've heard of the
ship
sOh, OH! thinks B to himself, cunning
fellow he wants to do me out of the pre-
MUM
So he writes thus to A
Friend A, the best too late by half an
hour, the policy is filed
A rubs his hands with delight yet A re-
fuses to pay. Well, what is the decision
The loss is divided between them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-22
THE State of So. Carolina,
YORK DISTRICT,

YORK DISTRICT.
Eldred D. Williamson Us. S. W. Observation-Disclosures
meRt.
W. B. Withers, rs. Samc.--4Hdchmcnt.
WHEREAS the Plaintiffs did, on the Goth day
w of November 1857, file their declarations O.
eainst the defendant in the above stated cases,
who, as it is said, is absent from and without the
limits of this State, and has neither wife nor at
torney within the same upon whom q copy of the
sam declaration might be served. 1t is, there
fore Ordered, that the said defendant do appear
and plead to the said declarations, on or before the
28th day of January, which will be IN the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
nine, otherwise final and absolute Judgment will
then be given and awarded against him.
JOHN G. ENL0E, C. C. C. PLs.
Jan 27 y lyq