Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-30
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Jokes of congressman,

~ correspondent OF the Rlchmond South
thus describes an episode in his trip from
Richmond to Washington:
"Of course, no one can get within gun
shot of the capitol without inhaling some of
the odors of Congress, and / was regaled
with choice conversation between two
congressman, who were givin, an outsider
an account Of some of the doings at Wash
ington. One of the congressman was a
very large, pcar-shaped old follow, with
rather a small head for man of his huge
proportions, who INDUCED unscrupulously
in those discarded Yirginiansms, ,char and
thar. The other was a middle-agcd and
middlc-szed South Carolinian, whose acltccrS
and there's contrasted strongly with the
aoh0rs and Mars of the clcphantinc Virgin
ian. The third was a red headed, and nice
hammered man, with whiskers la Van
dyke, who, while being regacd with stale
Congress Jokes, managed to inform these
jovial public characters that he had partly
ascendcd Mont Blanc, and had seen st. Pc
tors, &c, &C., which you know all about,
and which your European tourists so delight
to dwell upon. Once at Rome, you are all
Romcjng forever afterwards We'll, this
Vandyked gentleman Ron,ed while the two
Congressman joked. The cars reached
Aqua Creek, and the boat not being ready,
the three grouped themselves Just at my ell
bow, and not knowing there was "chiel
among them takin' notes." they went on b.
The conversation turned upon the franking
privilege. The big Virgnian said he once
sent newspaper to an old North Carolini-
an, whose name had been furnished him,
aud, of course, had never thought of the
thing again. Some years afterwards he
happened to be in North Carolina, and an
old man accostcd him saying, "IIello, mis-
ter got that paper you sent me, and |
cut out all the advertisements and stuck
some up here in my porch, and the others
sent round to my neighbors. [ thought
all them runaway niggers was yours, and |
would do rs much for you as knowed how. !"
The tacctous Congressman ended by say
ing that he believed that old man would
vote for him to be President, he felt so com
plimcntcd by that newspaper "Did you
ever hear of free Tom Moore? ?" he asked,
sapping his travelling friend upon the
shoulder. The man who had seen Mont
Blanc was forced to acknowledge that he
lad not. Dwell, Tom Moore was also IN
hc habit of scattering his speeches and
ther public documents broadcast!over the
'and-untl an old countryman began to
enquire, who, upon the face of the earth,
HAT Gree Tom Moore" was, who was al
ways writing his name upon everything"
Then, the facetious Virginian told of an old
publican to whom Mr.. Buchanan had acci-
dentally sent book, who regularly exhibit
cd it to his visitors, never failing to remark,
that he wondered how Mr.. Buchanan came
to take such a fancy to him, MS to send him
book. 1t is with such pap that the nno-
cent babes, called American voters, are fed
while the man that can tell the best Joke,
is always the one FOR them In This man
ner, our National Halls are filed with the
inest body of jokers the world ever saw"
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AN UGLY LoT.-Onc hundred and fifty
even unhappy married people have applied
divorce at Cincinnati up to the 9Th inst
reporter says
early in the morning the court room was
ongcd with those ill-matched pairs, who
led anything else but lovingly toward
another. Froyns disfgured the faces
ere smiles should have been, and those
o should have walked hand in hand
own the pathway oflife until they reached
&C shores of eternity, took seats as far re-
owed from each other as possible. They
'ght it contamination even to sit in the
room together, and whenever their
hanced 10 meet they Aashed-not
,e fire of love, but that Of hate, deep
sting.
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