Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-16

wv DsluhSI laussuiLS Dub tilG IuCC is,
we've both of us been most confonudedly
sold, and the mischief of it is, / left let.
ter for Charles, letting him know it /; SO un-
doubtedly he will take the opportunity to
run off with Florence during our absence,
and plume himself, the rascal, on the way
in which | was taken IN"
81 confess that | left q note for FlOrencc
to the same Pprport How she will laugh
at me; what an embarrassment %
"I'll tell you what" said the Squire, af-
ter a moments pause, eve can carry out
our plans after all. We each came out
with the intention Of getting married. ~
Why not marry each other and tHeu you
know, we can make them believe we had it
in view all along, and only intended to
friglitcn them"
Mrs. Benson asscntcd with a little ure-
ing, and in the course of an hour, the twain
were made one They imNIctiately re-
turned, but found, us they anticipated, that
Florence and Charles, on discovering their
departure, had themselves stepped of in a
different direction, with similar intent.
They made their appearance the next
morning prepared to laugh heartily at the
frustrated plans of thcir parents, but learn
ed with no little astonishment, that they
had struck up bargain for themselves
Squire Markham and his new wife had the
address to convince them that it was all a
prcmcditatcd plan; and to this day the
younger pair are Ignorant of the plot and
countcrplot which led to this double union
of the two households.
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WAsIGINGroN,-We arc sure that the
following eloquent sentence will meet with
a ready response in the heart of every Am
ericau;
"Thc Republic may perish; tho wide
arch Of our ranged Union may fall; star by
star its glorics may expire; stone by stone
its column and its Capitol may ymouider and
crumblo all other names which adorn its
annals may be forgotten; but as long as
human hearts shall anywhere pant, or hu.
man tongues shall anywhere plead for
true, national, constitutional liberty, those
hearts shall enshrine, the memory, and
those tongues prnlnng the famo of George
Washington, - lIinMrop.
GENIUS OF ENERGY.-There is no &C.
MUS in life, like the genius of energy and
industry. You will learn chat all the ira
ditions so curront among very young men
that certain great characters have wrought
their greatness by an inspiration, as it were,
have grown out of a sad mistake.
And you will further find, when you
come TO measure yourself with men, that
there are no rivals so formidable as those
earnest, determined minds, which reckon
the value of every hour, and which achieve
c,ninencc by persistent application.
Literary ambition may inhamc you at
certain periods; and thought of some
great name will dash like spark into the
mine of your purposes; you dream until
midnight over books, YOU set up shadows
and chase them down-other shadows, and
they fly. Dreaming will never catch them
Nothing makes the "scent lie well" i'll the
hunt after distinction, but labor.
And it is glorious thing, when once
you arc weary of the dissipation and the
cnnui of your own aimlcss thoughts, to take
up some glowing page of an earnest think
Ell and read, deep and long, until you feel
the metal of his thought tinkling on your
brain and striking out from your hinty lcth-
argy, flashes of ideas that give the mind
light and heat, And away you 60 in the
chase Of what the soul within is creating on
the instant, and you wonderat the fccund-
ity of what seemed so crude
The glow of toll awakes you to the con
sciouspess of your real capacities; you feel
sure that they have taken new step to-
wards final development. In such moods
it is that one foels grateful to the nusty
tones, which, at other hours, stand like GU
rlosty making mummics, with no warmth
and no VII lity. Now they grow into the
affections like new found friends; and gain
Il hold upon the heart, and light fire in
the brain, that the years and the mould
cannot cover nor qucnch.
How YANKEE NoTIoNs WAS TAKEN
INA Hoosicr correspondent of the Wes-
tern >lndiana) Herald tells in the follow
ing, a good one, how Yankee notions ped
dlar was taken in by the SpeneeryilEtins.
Of Spenocrillc, III that State:
Notions drove into town and commenced
trade, when merchant stepped up and s,
lected goods to the amount of one dollar,
and carried them into his store, aud return
ed with coon skin, and says "Sir, here
isyour pay for the goods" "But hold on, {"
says Notions, ~ don't take coon skins for
my goods" Cant help it now" says the
merchant, "the trade is made, and a coon
skin is dollar ere-I-legal tender 49,
"Well,1' says Notions, eff them are your
laws here, ] guess can stand it," and at
once concocts a plan to get his coon skin
into somethingavailoble. Getting the coon
skin into as small a compass as possible, he
makes fora saloon, and there concludes 10
spend aquarter. Holding one hand under