Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-07-31

the rich, luscious grape fell without the
wooing-wherc the very mountains arose
in their sublimity to extend their shade
over mans repose? Through the chosen
''angel' of the Destroyer" still her name
is stamped ON the dccaloguc, +" Honor thy
father aud thy mother"
! What clouucncc so exquisite as Ruth's :
Thy people shall be my people, and thy God
my God!
In song, who moro impassioncd than
Sappho? in prophecy, who more inspiring
than Miriam with harp and timbrcl, by the
shores of the sounding sea?
Her destiny overshadows mau's--his fate
tremblcs in hers. Napoleon tore from it's
heaven his morning star Joscphinc and st.
llclcnn. III rctributiOn, arose in the ocean.
Did not Mary, the mother of w ashinrton.
fashion his great mind, and breathe her stain
less purity into his greater heart?
p" More eloquent than tongue can tell, more
glorious than pen can write, are tho simple
words: Mother-Daughter- Sistcr-Wirc!
Nlother'-llow sweet from the lips of the
Glcclul girl! how holy from the trembling
voice of ogel TO the dying captive, to tie
bleeding soldier, to the great man, to the
malcinctor on the scoGfold thy name. Moth
er, comes radiant with the light of young
Eden days.
Wife is thy better self; Sister thy lowell
est peer; Daughter, sunshine dancing on thy
knee.
In heathcn mythology, Jove was the pa
rent of wisdom, that sprans goddess, all
create from his immortal mind In Chris,
tan religion, the Virgin was the Mother of
our Lord
" Woman has ever been divine. With tho
ancicnts the symbol of plenty. of beauty, of
purity and wisdom, Minerva all perfect,
Ceres, with her shcaf of wheat, Diana with
her bonded bow, Venus arising from the
r crown'ng .S foam of the srcat, sea; With m
OF the New Testament, sho has bccn chosen
as wife and daughter for the expression of
miraclc-at the marragc-feast, when the wa
ter blushed to wine; and when he babe the
daughter OF Jairus arise and walk. Faith.
Hope, aud Charity abideth most in her who
touched but the hem Of His garment and was
made whole and in the widow, who, with
her mite, gave most 70 her Lord
Yes, Woman is divine. How many ori-
sons ascend to thee, Virgin Mary? Woman
Is divine even in her fall. Do you not re-
member that our holy Lord bowed to the
earth, wrote upon the sand, and would not
look upon her shame, her degradation or her
punishment
Why HE Foucnr a DUEL-Our readers
may, or may not, remember Gt is most likely
they do not) that there was talk-all talk; |
during the late session of Congress, of fieht |
between Mr.. Hughes. M. C. from Indiana. |
and Mr.. Harris, Nj. C. from Illinois But it |
seems that the thought of gunpowdcr is as
distastctui as the smell oft to the brave mon
of Indiana, and so Mr.. Hughes has been fan
to apologize and excuse himSelfto his constit-
icnts for his improper conduct in "callinc
n n friend" lie does it in this wise:
l challenged Harris not because | wished
o fight, but to bring on an honorable settle
ncnt-and | should have done the same in
indiana. Congress has it's rules and customs
And say to you that man who takes
'ubic unprovokcd insult without rcscnting
as man Of honor, might as we'll 90 home.
lie has influence no longer. This is made
evident when he rises to make
notion or speech, or discharge any Congress
ional duty. found this state of things there
md did not create it,
Harris called me n liar, and referred the
natter to n friend, who met with friend of
Mr. Harris, talked over the matter, and a
greed on basis of settlement, which was ac-
,eptcd The code of honor is not such bad
thing after all. These gentlemen talked the
matter over and came to q decision. No mus
knts at ten PAGES ever We're mentioned, for il
never came to that pass. You, of course, my
friends, cannot be aware Of tue intense anx-
lcty | felt while this question was in the
hands of our friends. | had sent my family
away to Baltimore that they might know moth.
ing of it till the affair was settled | could
attend to no public business while the pros
pect of duel was before me. But, gentle
men, | will never sit in that House a dis |
graced man. Doyou wish to be represented
by man whom even the boys in the streets |
would hiss as dishonorcd? In Washington,
II man must adopt this course to protect him
SClI from insult and 1iSrrocn
Ice FROM TIE Glowing CRUcrBLE.-
A new branch of physics has of late years
been inauguratcd by the discovery of what
is called the sphcroidal state of matter
When we had got as far as steam and gas
we fancied we had fathomed the uttcrmost
secrets of nature but now marvels which
a writer of fiction would hardly dare to in
troducc into fairy tale or legend, turn
out to be incontcstiblc and demonstrablv |
true. For instance, bold experimental |
ist-somc people might call him an impu-
dent quack-set his heart on manufactur-
ing lump Office. And where does he sue
cecd in making it? OF all prcposterous
places in the world, he produces it inside
a glowing crucihlc standing in heated fur
mace; the heat of the furnace, moreover, /
not being the gentle temperature which ba-
kcis use to reduce beef and potatoes to
savory dish nicely Drowned and with the
gravy in, but II chemists white heat and !
the bit of ice, so turned out, is not half |
melted hailstone, which you would suck
with pleasure (if clean) after summeraf- |
thunderstorm, but diabolcal
little lumn of such intense coldn,ss that Won