Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-08
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faithful and able representatives whom
their suffrage and their confidence have
placed in position, Its cause for congrat-
uiation--on the part of the South and the
patriotic Administration it elected and sup
ports-that opposition coalition has been
defeated and the honor of the South main
tanned. 1t isto be hoped, that now the
business of the country will be transacted,
and our important foreign relations receive
tho attention their oxigoncies demand.
| SALEDAY.-A large number of persons
were in attendance on Monday. The sales
for the most part were unimportant Two
bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad for.
! 81 900 We're sold for $40O each ), one hun
drcd shares of stock. in the same Company
sold for $500 per share, the shares being
500. The candidates for the Legislature
were out in full force, and busy as IS their
wont. - anderson Gazette.
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REV DIR. TYING PREAcnINa THE Flu.
| NERAL SERMoS oF,HIs SoN.-The largest
audience that ever filled Concert Hall,
/ Philadelphia, assembled, Sunday night, to
listen to Rev. DR. Tying, of New York, who
preached the funeral sermon of his late dc.
I parted son. Tho occasion win probably be
long remembered in Philadelphia For
more than an hour before the services com
menced, multitudes of people came pouring
to the portals of the hall, onlyto turn away
at finding every inch of space already oc-
cupied. The narrow street at the rear of
the building was also filed with people,
many of whom waited in vain at the. closed
doors uutil long after the services had be-
gun, Thetextwas taken from 1st Samuel,
lst chapt, 27-28 verses /:
| "aror this child prayed, and the Lord
hath given me my petition which asked
Of him ,t,s t. ~ :"
"Therefore, also, have Ienthim to the
Lord5 aslong as he GVeth, he shall be iont
to; the Lord,
I The reverend preacher gave, in his dis
! course, a sketch of the life of his son aud
I OF his last moments. A more affecting ser
mon, perhaps, has never been delivered in
| Philadelphia. Tears flowed in all parts of
the house like summer rain; yet with the
exception of an occasional but suppressed
burst of grief, the speaker was unmoyed,
] although his heart was evidently agonized
1T his Bereavement
True CoURlGE.-The annexed reply
of \, j. Stofcr, Esq, of the Culpcpper( (Ya.)
O6Sqrner, to a challenge sent him by H. NJ.
Garland, of the Republican,, exhibits more
true courage than would thousand duels ::
| am not otwillipg in cold blood to attempt
the life of a fcllow-man--ev should he
have no family and children dependent
upon him--nor am willing to make my
self o target for the cold, deliberate, mali
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myself in a position where my wife may be
made widow and my children orphans !;
but even if | did, can see no reason to
resort to such means to satisfy the present
| difficulty between us. The controversy is
1 not one affecting the honor, / think, of
4 either, unless conscience is the monitor of
of condemnation, for either might be mis-
/ taken in some'pdrticular. 49,
| But'with reference to the whole matter,
in future, as in past, I shall maintain de-
fonsive p9stionj and, as1 can be seen daily
on the street, you can taEe'suclr course as
yoo think proper
! a SENATOR ELEerED by A LoyE LET
| TER The Providence Journal of the 10Th
inst, says Iu a certain town in this
State, a letter arrived fora young lady
| from her lover, on the dag of the election.
The postmaster, as is not unfrequent in the
rural districts, knowing the eagerness with
which a message Of that tender character
would be expected, took upon himself the
I pleasing duty of delivering it; but first,
like geod democrat, ne must vote, and of
ceurso in separate self-sealing envelope
| This. sduly prepared, with the. demo-
cratic tickets safely enclosed, aud the .glue
ten stuck together. Stopping at the town
meeting, he deposited the letter in the bal
! lot box, and proceeded with the separate
and self-sealed to the house of the bloom
| ing maiden, to whom he gallantly handed
the entire democratic ticket, Sc sand town.
How thelady interpreted the missive we
do not know, but the moderatorand clerk
\ ungallantly refused to count the loye letter,
and the republican candidate was declared
elected by one majority u ~ =
| .Es ~ ~~.-tsA-s> Ss-1---~--k o. q -. -
| .TERRIFettAI. .lNANaEs.--7,An able and
esteepled correspondent protests. against the
name Of Yuma for the western diyision'of
Utah. We believe that Yuma was the
name Of large portion of that region, and
perhaps of the Colorado river itself It
| has also been proposed to call it Carson, in
| honor Of Col. Fremont's celebrated guide !;
but no names seem moro musical and ap-
proprfate titan those bequeathed to us by
the original lords of tho soil. 1t is their
best and most fitting memorial, and the
majority of our new States, from Alabama