Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-25
The Changes Of Twenty Years.

In noticing that gentleman named
Ilutchings had been nominated in Ohio to
succeed Joshua II. Giddings in the T.. S.
House of Representatives, where he has oc-
cupicd seat for The last twenty years, tho
Albany Jpundi ,luS moralises:
Every chair III the old Hall of Repre-
scntntives must be fraught with memories
of the past to the " Senior Membcr." He
has seen generations OF short lived poiti-
clans rise, fall, and become forgotten. He
has seen faithful public servants removed
to other trusts, aud many to another world.
Hound the entire circle of the Hall his eve
fails TO find single member who sat there
when he entered it, and who has sat there
with him since. Adams has gone to his
reward. Ogden Hoffman, Chas G.. Ath-
crton, Icvcrctt Satonstall, Edward Curtis,
B@rHwcll Rhctt Dixon III. Lewis, and ma
NY others are also gone the way of all the
earth. Hunter and Bell arc transferred to
the Senate. Wise to the Gubernatoriai
chair. Brown is dispensing the patronage
OF the Post Office Department. Clifford
wears the silkcn judicial robe of the Su-
prcmc Court. Stanley has gone to that
teTFa hcog"to, California. Truman Smith
Cooper, Weller and Williams, after ex-
changing Representative for Senatorial
honors, are departed from the Capitol
Corwn, aitera brilliant carccras Governor,
Senator and Secretary is preparing IT, re-
turn again to the field of his early dstinc-
ton. Pickcns and Hopkins are trying the
pleasures of foreign courts. Briggs and
Lincoln arc cX-Govcrnors. Granger and
Cave johnson, are eeX-PostmastcrS General.
| Strong and Marvin are on the New York
| Bench.
Like changes have altered IL c aspect of
the Senate Chamber Clay, Webster, Beu-
ton, and Calhoun, then in the zenith of
| their fame, now live ouly in history. Buch
anan occupies the White Housc-Picrcc
has lately left it. VIM. King became Vice
President and died abroad. The grave has
closed ovcrSilas Wrghtand Honest John"
Davis. Walker has had his ups and downs
/ with every train of the Wheel of Fortune
and is now cX,Govcrnor OF place that he
then had never heard Of The only Chair
that retains its old occupant is that filled
by John j. Crttenden, the veteran of the
Senate, as Gddines is of the House.
Empires have risen and fallen; King
doms, turned into Republics aud Republics
INTO Kingdoms; six new States have cn-
tered the Union, and three new Territories
have been brought under our flag Presi-
dents have gone up like rockets, and come
down like sticks; compromises have been
made and broken; war has followed peace
/ and peace again succeeded war; trade has
expanded and collapsed, parties have risen
Hourlshcd and dccayod platforms have
been built and torn down again--since he
took seat in the Hall of Representatives.
BURNING THE DEAD.--The Philadel-
| phia Bulletin has a leading editorial article
advocating the practice of burning the dead.
1t quotes from work urging the introduc-
tion of Cremation, published in May last
| by a mcmbcr of the College of Surgeons in
London, and which shows from scientific
examination that the poisonous gases cvol-
we'd from all church-yards is to 4 certain de-
gree the cause of fresh deaths. The Bul-
letin chcrishcs the idea that burning will
take the place of burial, and tho London
author is good enough to suggest plan by
which the dead could be reduced to ashes
so speedily, and yet so quietly, that even
smoke would not arise TO offend the sight.
| lie says that Il combination of the ox-hy-
drogcn blow pipe with the rcverbatorv fur
! mace, would utterly and completely consume
q body in short space of time, and an oc-
cas'onal 4uivcring of transparent ether like
common heated air, would be the only in
dication from the high chimney of the dead.
In the meantime, the progress of civil
Zation is still more strikingly marked by
the burning of sick people, before they are
dead, IN She Staten Island On. Y Hos
pitnl.
! FRoM lIAVANA-Through tho Calawbo,
which arrived mt Charleston, on Monday, the
Charleston papers have received late news.
The Mcrcnry's correspondence gives the fol-
| lowing account the recent arrivals of cool
I les:
On the Doth ultimo, arrived tho Dutch
/ ship Admiral Van IIeniskrk Kornins mas-
! ter, llS days from Swatow, with 4S9 coolies,
/ having last during the voyage one bundled
and twcnty-Scven from disease and casual
ieS--on inc 9t>t nEtiMlo, by she Dutch Shin
Cornelius Ioon IIoof, Koens master, l5i
days voyage, same port, received alive $50
coo'os, two bundled and ten having porishcd
during the passage. The deaths from the
cargo fthis vessel, since arrived, by disease
contracted ON shpboard, has varied from ten
60 eighteen per day up tn Yesterday, so thnU
there will be but remnant left for toil.p
INDusrUY, There is no art or science
chat is too difficult for industry to attain to.
1T is the gift of tongues, and makes a man
understood and valued in all countries and
byall nations. 1t is the philosophers stone.
TINT turns all metals, even stones, into GOLD