Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-11
The Rattle- -Fields Of cur State.

editorial III tie Lancaster Le((Vcf:
History has never done Justice to tho
engagement at Buford's battle-ground
has in fact given it a wrong location, and
it remains for usfor this gcneration-to
give it the notoriety and Importance that it
deserves. This subject we alluded to some
months back, and asked any or all persons
who had any Evolutionary knowledge of this
fight, or of any circumstances connected
thcrewith, or of any revolutionary incident
founded in our district, to contribute this
knowledge for the benefit of their neigh
bors and of their countrys history. No
one has yet responded to our call, vet we
arc convinced that there is unpublished re
minIscence here; those in possession of it
may regard it as being of but little couse-
quonce, and in this way much has already
been lost. From this feeling of careless
indifference, enough incidents, founded in
our State (Which may indeed be regarded
as the classic ground of the Revolution,)
has been lost to fill volumes, and we arc
glad to know that efforts arc making to pre-
serve the little that now remains. A zen
tleman of Abbeville District, whom we
met during our late trip to the mountains
is collecting material for revolutionary
history, to be confined to the upper districts
of this State. Here is chance to give
our district a place in the picture, and we
repeat the call made by us some time back
to any who may have in possession matter
th"tby any possibility may aid in making
up history of revolutionary times in this
district. Who will respond?
&c In reference again to battle fields, we
will romark that every spot in South Car
olina, dignifed and made sacred by a bat
tie or a skirmish during the Revolution,
should be marked by monument. 1t
should be the peculiar pleasure of each dis
trict to attend to its own battlc-fclds, ioal-
Gus of any outside aid, other than by vol
untary contributions But if there is not
enough patriotism for this in the districts
if the Whig blood has been cooled by am
algamation, or though it still may run pure
and the spirit is strong, but the flesh is
wcak-if from any ofthese causes the whole
or a portion of the districts fail to carry out
this measure, then the State should take
the matter in hand and do what the dist
riots had failed to do The cost would be
trifing, nothing to weigh with the impcr-
ishublc glory that would accrue to her name
and the qualification it would afford to fu-
turo generations"
AN EXAMpLE FoR BOYS We have
connected with this Office, whoais
between the age of 13and Ii, who occu-
pies seat in the highest class in our pub.
Tic school, has the geography of the couu-
try at his fingers ends, and who can cipher
round n bcvy of schoolmasters and in two
and half years more, (Which will make
him sixteen,) he willprobably read Cicero
and Homer TO boot. But in addition to
requirements at school, he has three hun
drcd dollars in the saving bank, drawing
five per cent. interest, and is daily adding
thereto, all gathered together by selling
newspapers between school hours
TrsntoM True 1mcricdn.
TIE PRINrINd Pass. Tho London
london Herald, in an article ep the Atla,-
tic Telegraph, pronounces it 'the second
greatcst feat in the history of mechanical
progress connected with the fIrtherance
of civilization" The first place it gives
to g the inyenting of printing, and sympa-
thising as much as possible with the ten
dcncy of evcry generation to cxaggcrate
tho events OF it's own time, it yet seems diff
ficult to deny tile superior claims of the
printing press"
NEWSPAPER AS soon MS
Che Ocean Telegraplis is open to the public,
the leading New York papers arc each to
have special reporter in London to make
UP daily dispatches. This is degree of
enterprise that will strike JOIN Bell with
surprise.
NEW York. Aug 80. Tho Steamship CITY
of Baltiaiore reached thiS city ttiie la3tffiib
with Liverpool dates to the 18th of August
"A conspiracy has beon discovered at him-
burg, Ia Austria, among schooiboys from -
tol5 years of age One had boon sentenced
to death, and others To imprisonment In
Vestigations led to hGliscoYery Of a formdo-
bio conspiracy with ramiHcati0Ds i'm Russian
Poland, having in viewa general rising of all
the Sciavonie population in Austria to form
Republic.
AdyieSs from Para Indicate tie probability
ofan expedition against Madagascar by the
forces Of France aud England.
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AF4RaEn who had employed green En,-
eraidcr, ordered him TO give his mule some
corn in the car. On his coming IN, the far
mer asked Well, Pat did you give the
eornf" seTo besaro did, q iIow did YOU
give it?". 9And sure as SO told me, in the
ear" "Wen,yea see, tho craythur would mt
hould still, and Switching his cars about so
couldn't cit above n figtftili In hofh oors