Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-27

lSfLUESCE OF oONG.---nlOSL OF nave OK
perienced the luxury of tears when listening
to an old ballad. We know an old man, who
having lived long career of vice and crimo
was ut length banishcd from the country;
and who, while undergoing his period of ban
ishment amidst the wilds and junglos of q
distant land heard in the summer eventide a.
sweet voice, singing in his own language the
very song which had lulled him to his iufant
slumber, when he knew crime by name, and
knew it only to abhor. 1t had been sung,
too, by the cradle ofau infant sister, one who
had died young. and was now in heaven the
| mother, too, was no more. "
But the song--the old song had not lost its
influence over him yet. Back came trooping
upon him the old memories which had so
long sluulbered down there in the unconsum-
ed depths of his heart; the mother and tho
father; the husband gathering; the old school
houses time-worn church, half hidden by
the old yew trees, where he had heard the
Bible read, all came back upon him as fresh
rs ifit were but yesterday; and overpowerod
by his feelings, he gave vent to them in II
tlood of tears. And then the old man grew
calm, and his latter days were his best days;
and when the term of his punishment had
expired, he came back to his fathers land,
and there in that old village graveyard, amid
whose grassy hillocks he had played and
gamboled, aud where the mother and her lit
tleonoS were sleeping, he laid down hiswcary
limbs and sank peacefully away into com
mon grayc-E}iZa Cooks JOunal.
'GooD YARN.-1'hc editor of the Alba
NY Police Tribune tells the following: "Somc
five years since two well-known Albanians
left this city to seek their fortunes ut Wasll-
ington. We will call them Mr.. A. and Mr..
B.. Mr.. b. got II contract from the govern
mcnt and made snug little pile, some S40,-
900 worth of real estate. While acquiring
this property, Mr.. A. contracted about 81
600 worth of debts, $500 of which belonged
to MIR. b. Mr.. a. is not any more honest
than the law allows. s. he thought he would
get rid of those cUSsed borcs, his creditors,
by making over his property to his niece, a
fine looking young lady, about eighteen years
Of age. He accordingly assigned the whole
of his real estate to his niece, the interesting
young lady already spoken of Having con-
cludcd Iris arrangement, he thought he would
so South and Look at the country. This took
place last summer. Durin@ his absence in
| pursuit of quicness and cotton fields Mr.. b.
ascCrtains all about the assignment, and gOcs
in for making all things square. lie com
monccd operation by counting the niece afore-
said, and finished up by marrying her. When
Mr.. \. returns from Georgia he finds he has
been donc--that Mr.. B. has not only got the
value of his debts, but S37 500 worth of real
estate in addition. Mr.. A. is now swearing
in eight syllables, and insists that it is II con-
F.! spiracy.
Pay THAT DEBr.--It is small ono, to be
sure, and apparently not worth a serious
thought. Why not then pay it? Why be
compelled to suffer tho modification ola dun?
| Why not take that little thorn out of your
finger at once? 1t will tester if allowed to
remain, and cause ton times the trouble
| Why not relieve the conscience of that little
load? You will feel the better for it by so
doing. You contracted the debt knowingly
and willingly. Did YOU not mean to pay it :?
| Certainly you did. Then why not do it Mt
once? Every days delay increases morally
the amount Of the Obligation Remember,
| too, that your little, and another mans little
debt, and a thousand othcr mcn's little debts,
make a little fortune for your creditor; or
they enable him to pay his larger debts, or
feed his workmen and keep his machinery
a-going in times like these. Don't you see
how tits! You do? Well, then, remit tho
amount at once, and tonight the ghost of
that debt will not trouble your dreams.
MARSHAL RADETZKY SELLING HIS
BODY TO A CREDIToR.-German papers
state that the veteran Radctzky, who it
seems was constantly in debt, sold his body,
lsome time previous to his death, to one of
his creditors, linendapcr of Vienna,
named Barkfricdcr. Itappcars that Bark
frieder, who had acquired an immense for
tune from contracts for furnishing goods to
the army in Italy, was dcsrous of attaining
position among the dignitarics of the
Court, and determined by mastcr-stroke
to accomplish his elevation from the plebc-
! an ranks. Radetzky figured extensively in
the linendrapcr's books--the latter offered
to cancel the obligations if the Field Mar
shal would place his body, after death, at
his disposal to be buried in his country
seat at Watzdorf, promising, at the same
time, that the veterans grave should be
surmounted by handsome monument.--
Radetzdy readily assentcd, and signed a
written agreement to that effect. The old
soldier now slumbcrs in the grounds of Mr..
| Barkfriedcr, whose country scat has become
the Mecca of princes, dukes, barons, counts
and generals. The linondrapcr's scheme
has been crowned with succcss-members
of the imperial family and titled mobiles
have necessarily become his guests, and he
is a member of the "Court Circle"
SOBER Truth. The less you leave your
children when you die, the more they will
! have twenty years afterwards Wealth In
heritcd should be the incentive to cxertion
Instead of that, "it is the title-deed to sloth. "
The only money that does man good is
what he earns himself, A reaiy-made for.
tune, like ready made clothes, seldom fits
tho man who nomoO in ,,oseooc;o,, -: