Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-13
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happy people and well governed State.
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Farm Life.
"Oh, friendly to the best pursuits of mon,
Friendly to the thought, to virtue, and to peace,
Domestic life, in.rurai pleasures passed. =
Few know thy value and few taste thy sweets ::
Though many boast thy fsyoYs and affect
To understand and choose thee for their own.''
| Education is by no means confined to
| schools. These are but rudimentary and
auxiliary to that training which is begun
in the cradle aud finished only at death. j.
The nursery days of our life, and its bust
ness pursuits, have an important bearing
upon the formation of character What a
man does, aswcll aswhat he studies books
educates him. The scenes amid which his
boyhood is spasscd, out of schools, the OBJ
jects which occupy his thoughts, the prob.
lens he daily solves, in earning his bread
quite as much shape characteras as the scenes
and problems of tie sohool-room. Agricul-
ture is the largest aud most Important of
all our material Interests the occupation to
which the largest portion of our countrymen
are born. 1t is matter of interest to con
slider the bearings of this pursuit upon the
characters of those who are engaged in it,
There are those who consider this men
tai occupation degrading to the body by
the toll it imposes, and bcitting to the mind
by the attention it requires to the minute
details of its business. They regard its
implements as the badges of seryility, and
look with disdain upon the plow7b lot
They doprecatc the influence of farm life
upon the social and mental culture, and
look upon the rustic man as the type of
boorishness and Ignorance. They think it
mainly business for brute muscles, whore
mind can achieve no conquests, and where
sklllfui labor finds G poor reward They
think the way of man of genius is ineyi-
ltably hedged up upon the farm---that there
! is no heroic work to be performed, no lau-
rels to be won. If he woulddo deeds wor-
thy of his manhood, gain wealth, gain hon
or, make himself a name that-will live, he
must turn to nobler occupations. &
lfthose who are strangers to the farm
alone cherished this view we could abide it
in silence. But when farmers themselves
admit this impeachment of their calling,
and the pestilenee of this heresy finds its
way to our fresides, and makes our sons
and daughters discontentcd with their ru-
raj homes, it is time to speak out If COM
parisons must be made, which are invidiouo
the shadows shall not fall upon the farmers s
lot. 1t is time that other callings were
stripped of that romance with which they
are yciltd, and that the sons of the farm
should haoY What they have in prospect
when they turn their backs upon the homes
of their youth. 1t is meet that they should
better understand the blessings of their lot,
its. capacity for Improvement and its supe-
riority to all other occupations Wewould
arrest that feeling of disquiet which keeps
so large portion of our raral population
perpetually longing for new fields of enter-
prise. We would have them settled, at
least portion of them, in the old parish,
and bend albthcir energies to the improve
ment and adorntnent of their homes.
QUEEN VIoToRfA's CRowN.--.It is re-
1 ported that the Queen of England is about
10 lose her crown. This is not to be caus,
/ ed by q revolution, nor is it to be attended
| by either strife or bloodshed. Itis to be
effected legally, in pursuance Of a decree
issued by the English Judges, and, strange
to say, with the acquiescence Of Her Ma
jesty. The explanation isas follows; The
/ King of Hanover, as eldest male descendant
ofGeorge Ill, and head Of the House of
Hanover, has laid ciaim to the prfncipa!
/ part of the British regalia, amongst which
! selIerMajesty'B crown, on the ground that
part of it was brought over to England by
George I.-7that che additions subsequent.
! ly made its splenior were paid for ont Of
1 the private funds of George III, and that
assall property goes in tie male line, het
George W Of Hauoger ID entitled to the
crown The claim was referred 10 the J,ld.
gesof England, and they have decided their
1 Queen must yield and Victoria herself is
1 prepared 70 obey the mandate. The Eng.
lish papers are not quite 50 good -tnIilorod
at the probable loss oflmany hphslfads Of
thousa1d Of pounds sterling; partly be-.
cause i II not their went to part readily
with what they fancy belongs e them. and