Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-02

cousin, or brother, might have u little let
tr, and innumerable other affecting relics
"Whore do all these letters 90 when
they have been opened and examined p
Are they burned p
"No; that was formerly the custom how
ever. We used to make great bontires of
them, but aside from the fact that bits of
written papers would always escape from the
flames, thus destroying all privacy in the
letters, it was found that many people made
it a business to seek among the ashes for
! the gold, jewels, dollars, etc. which often
escape our notice here, and go in the open
letters so now they are all sent to a paper
mill and ro-manufactureda as writing paper. :"
We passed into another room where were
many mcmcntocs of the good old days be-
fore the law of ! 'e-payiug postage went into
effect There ' re of the huge stones
which had been sent for a coke" involv-
ing an immense amount of postage to be
paid by some unfortunate, who luckily new
or received the ponderous packagc-a gi-
gantic rag baby, said to have been sent to
some vincgar-faced old maid-a neatly man
ufactured night,cap, which some indignant
| Old bachelor-namc not recorded refused,
in high dudgeon, to receive, and which con
scqucntly found its way here, and a da-
guemeotypo of a young man, which had
been cracked across the nose, and wrathful-
ly sent back by some fair damsel with whom
he had quarreled
We asked the Postmaster General, to
whom we we're introduced, how it happen
ed that all the employees in the dead letter
office were gray haired old men,
Because they have more discretion and
less curiosity" he said, smiling. "Young-
er men could not be depended upon; they
would probably read the letters oftencr"
"And why do you not employ ladies p
! am quite sure Ii y could discharge the
duties admirably"
"lndocd, said the Postmaster General,
mischievously, 81 am afraid their curiosity
would be so extreme that the Department.
would fall into inextricable confusion, 20
say nothing of the number of secrets they
would ferret out of the dead letters"
lie USEFUL AND TIE BEAUTIFuL.-
The tomb of Moses is unknown; but the
traveller slakcs his thirst at the well of .Jn-
cob. The gorgeous palace of the wealth.
est and wiscst Of mouarchs, with the cedar,
and gold, and ivory, and even the great
Temple of Jerusalem, hallowcd by the Wis
ible glory of the Deity himself, are gone,
but Solomons reservoirs are as perfect as
ever OF the ancient architcctuary of the
Holy City, not one stone is left upon anoth-
cr; but the pool of Bethesda commands tic
pilgrims reverence at the present day.
The columns of Pcrsepolis are mouldcring
into dust; but its cisterns and aqucducts
remain to challenge our admiration. The
golden house of Nero is mass of ruins ;
but the Aqua Claudia still pours into Bone
its limpd stream The temple of the sun
at Tadmor in the wilderness, has fallen /;
but its fountains sparkle as freshly in his
rays, as when thousands of worshippors
| throngcd its lofty colonnadcs 1t may be
that I.ond6u will share the same fate of
Babylon, and nothing will be left to mark
| its Site save mounds of crumb!.ng bi.k-
WORK. The Thames will continue to flow
as.it does now. And if any work of art
should still rise over the deep ocean oftimc
we may we'll believe that it will be neither
palace nor Il temple, but some vast aquc
duct or reservoir; and if any name should
fash through the midst OF antiquity, it will
/ p'pRIp'g pc tHuI VI Il Illdll WHO Ill his uaN
sought the happiness ofhis fellow-mcn rath-
er than their glorN ard mixed lis name to
some great work d naiionui utility aud bS-
ncvolence. This.is, he-atrue. glory Which
outlives all other, and shiycs with uudying
lustre from generation to generation i'm
! parting to works some ofits immortality and
in some degree rescuing them from the ruin
which ovcrtakcs the ordinary monuments
ofhistorical tradition, or mere magnifcence.
Eainb@rgh Rerie,c.
4 WOMAN VINO LIVES WIrnour EAT
IMd.-A medical correspondent OF the New
ark Advertiser, having recently visited
Mrs. Simeon Hays, " the woman who lives
without eating" at Chester, Warren coun-
ty, New York, says:
"The case is unquestionably one OF hys-
terra in it's most aggravated form Little
food is required in such cases, and this lit
tie is unquestionably administered. tap
pcared that two sisters have had somewhat
similar attacks of hysteria, which indicates
the constitutional tendencies of the family.
That implicit crcdence is not placed in the
statement of ~. Hays after all, pay hsin-
| ferrcd by thoS1sct that within the last few
days the citizens have met to appoint Wig
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