Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-10

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don, You will understand it all in good time"
>, For Gods sake, don't arrest my clerk
| lie will be the ruin of me- groancd he.
You should have thought of that before" /"
! ! said
You don't mean to say that everything
isn't all right about my brother's affairs -
i}ecause ifit isn't will mako it right, YOU
knoWW, he whined in supPlicNting tones.
You say you saw Mrs Gordon sign that
deed 2"
she sis ID it,"
You don't know she didn't"
How should know?"
"Shc can't writc She never even wrote
her name in her lifen
'Gracious"
| pressed the rascal closely, and made him
acknowledge that his clerk had signed the
name for consideration. [ would have
caused both of them to be sent to tho Stntc
Prison, If Mrs. Gordon had not begged me
to pare them. She recovered her dover.
TIE CRoSs.-Crucifxion is an ancient and
degrading mode of puniShmont Among the
komuns 1t was confined to maletactors of the
lowest rank. As soon as the sentence of cru
cliNion WAS pronounced, the person condemn
cd was stripped naked, with the exception of
Il narrow girdlc round the loins. lie was
then fastened to post and terribly scourgcd
with whip of leather, tipped with lead or
bone. Sometimes he expired under this nm
iShment. After the sc0urging the person
was compelled to bear his own cross to the
place of execution. The cross was generally
about ten feet high. At the intersection of
the beams was projection to which tho
condemned, divostodofhisclo clothing was raised
and bound 10y cords. His ar,ns being then
stretched out, his hands were nailed to the
crossbcam, with strong iron spikes. His feet
were also fastened, but is not certain whcth-
or single spike transfxed them both or
whether they were nailed separately. The
apparel of the suffcrerwas then divided am0np
those who fastened him to the cross VINEGAR
or wine, mcdicatel with myrrh, was FREQUENT
ly given, to oalleviatc the pain. Over the cross
was placed the G2US, or inscription, indica-
ting the ofcnce for which the punishment
was inflicted. The cross was of various forms.
but tho most common was beam fixed up-
right securely in the ground and another
beam crossing it at right angles, near the top
Sometimes the cross was inverted, and the
sufferer nailed to it with his head downwards
and feet upward,-SouHte'n Monitor
VALUE OF THE Neutrality-suspicious. man oc-
cupies an original position. Every great fact
comes straight MIN. Every appeal of du-
ty must run through the alcmbic of his rca-
son, his conscience, and his will. The cone
of Heaven bursts above him, the urfathomed
depth open bcneath the mysteries of God and
and Immortality came streaming in with their
awful splendorS, and truths that have CON
founded the loftest intcllccts, truths that in
ages have reused up the soul from its founda-
| tlons, and baptized with reverence, and kim
ulod itwIth love, environ him as intensely as
if he were the irstborn of men, set face to
face with fresh and unrcsoved problems.
A SPEECH IN OH TIMES. s.-They were
not given to much speaking in Revolutions
ry days. What was said was brief and to
the point, as the reader of Col. Cleveland's S
address to his men going into action at
Kings Mountain will see
My brave fellows" said the gallant
old North Carolinian, "we have beat the
tories, and we can beat them. They are
all towards. If they had the spirit of men
they would join with their feilowctizcns
in supporting the independence of their
country. When engaged you are not to
wait for the word of command from me. |
Will show you by my examples how to fight.
can undertake no more. Every man must
consider himself as an officer, and act from
his own Judgment. Fire as quick as YOU
can, and stand your ground as long as you
can. When you can do no better, get be-
hind trees or retreat; but beg of you not
to run quite. If we are repulscd, let us
make point to return and renew the fight.
Perhaps you may have better luck in the
second attempt than the first If any of
you are afraid, such have leave to retire,
and they are requested, Immediately, to
take themselves off"
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PERILs OF PnospERIrY. is no
more perilous ordeal through which man
can pass--no greater curse which can be
imposed on him as he is at present than
that of being condemned to walk his life
long in the sunlight of unshadowcd pros
perity. His eyes ache with that too un-
! tempered brilliance--he is apt to be smittcn
with a moral coup dc soleil But it as lit
tie follows that no sunshine is good for US
He who made us and who tutors us alone
knows what is the exact measure of light
and shade, sun and cloud storm and calm.
frost and heat, which will best tend to ma
ture those flowers which are the object of
tins celestial husbandry, and which, when
transplanted into the paradise of God are
to bloom there forever in amaranthine love.
illness. Nor can it be without presumption
that we essay to interference with these pro-
cessesJ our highest wisdom is to fall in
with them.- Edmba'y Route,o,
LITERARY MEN AND THEIR WIvrs
do maintain that wife, says Sarah Cole
ridge whether young or old, may pass her
evenings most happily in the presence of