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

All who would strive for famo that flies
Like forms of mist before the Gale tsF
| Renown but brcathes before il dies
meteor's path! an idiots tale
/ Beneath retiremeut's sheltered wing,
From mad conflicting clouds remote,
/ Beside some grove encrcled spring
Let wisdom build your humble cot!
There clasp your fair one to your breast.
Your eyes impearl'd with transports tear.
! by turns carcssing and carcst---
| Your infant prattlers sporting near.
Content your humble board shall dress,
And poverty shall guard your door
OF wealth and fame, if you have less
Than monarchs, you of bliss have more.
LIEUT. MAuRY thus briefly, but forcibly
describes the Gulf Stream:
! "Ihere IS n river in the ocean. In the
severest drought it never fails, and in the
mghtiest floods it never overnows. Its bonI :
and its bottom are Of ooi,i water, while its
current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico Is
Its fountain and its mouth is in the Arctic
seas 1t is the Gulf Stream. There is in
the world no other such majestic flow of wa
| ter. Its current is more rapid than the Mis-
sissippi or the Amazon, and its volume more
than II thousand times greater. Its waters
as far out from the Gulf as tho Carolina
| COASTS, arc of an indigo blue. They arc so
distinctly marked, that the line of junction
with the common sea water may be traced
by the eye. Often one half of tho vessel
may be perceived floating in gulf stream WA
ter, while the other half is in the common
water OF the sea, so sharp is tho line and the
want OF affinity between thoso waters; and
Such, 100, the reluctance, SO to speak, on the
part OF those of the Gulf Stream to minrle
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AMONG the other fruits of the RELIGIOUS re.
vival, is to be added the publication Ola now
book. Its title is to be "Remarkable Con
versions and observation-disclosures. The field
is a wide one, extending, as it will in this
work, "from the conversion of St Paul tothe
present great awakening" The compilation
and arrangement ofthe volumeis tobeentrus
ted to the editor of one of our religious iom.
nals and Henry Ward Beecher writes the
introduction" This volume in its list
of remarkable conversions" will decide
the question whether or not any other of
the celebrities of the metropolis besides
"Awtur' Gardner have really been convert
ed, and intend mending their WAYS.
Among the "curiosities of literature of
the present times, is the "Polylingual Jour
nal, j" magazine published in five different
Languages, and all in the same number
The languages are the French, Spanish,
Italian, German and English. 1t is pub
lished weekly in this city, and is intended
to facilitate the acquisition of these various
tongues. ~: T. Cor Char. Courjer.
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THE WoMEN.--Women are the real cffi-
clients thatsettle the great poil of human
existence. They exert their influence at
a number ofdistinct epochs. They fetter
us (males) alike before and after marriage;
though many of them are wise enough to
silence the clanking, and to conceal the
iron. They rule us ininfancy- matur-
ity-in age. No other hand knows the
tender, adroit and proper mode of binding
Four brows in pain and sickness. They
stand by us i'll the last agonies with untir-
ing and undismayed faithfulncss. They
soothe our dying moments. Theyshcd the
choicest tears ofmemory that water ourtu
They are purer, less selfish, less destitute OF
true moral courage, more susceptible OF
kind and generous impressions, and far
more so of religious feeling than men,
Surely, then, everything which concerns
the education of this bctter-half of the spe.
cics must be. of intrinsic Importance. III
this world is ever to become a better and
happier world, woman, we'll educated, dis.
ciplined, and principled, sensible of hc1
own influence, and wise ard benevolent ia
exert it Alright, must be the original mover
in this great work.
A GENTLEMAN Show me a man. who
can quit the brilliant society of the young
to listen to the kindly voice of ageHwho
can hold cheerful conversation with one
whom years have deprived of all charms
show me the man who is willing to help the
.deformcd, who stands in need of help,
as if the blush Of Helen mantled on her
check; show me the man who would no
sooner look rudely at the poor Girl in the
village than at the well dressed lady in the
saloon; show me the man who treats un.
protected maidenhood as he would the heir
ess, surrounded by the powerful protection
of rank, riches and family; show Me him
who abhors the ibertine's S gibe-who shuns
hlm as the blasphemer and traduoer of lis
mothers sex--who scorns as he would the
coward, the ridiculer of a woman,s. reputa.
ton; show me a man who never forgets for
an instant the delicacy and respect that is
due toa woman, in any condition or class.
and you show me a true gentleman.
"AEoTHER VETERAN GoNE."-An old Af
rlcan negro named Cesar, fell into the river
day or two since and was drowned. Caesar
was 2 relic of BY gone days. lie belonged
70 nobody IN particular,and went pretty much
/ w hGNn hn nvNIa II l.