Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-15
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caying nation. Tho dangers arc too great
for the promise of success;
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I. TIE BbuE RIDsE RAILRoAD.--A COR
respondent, of the Edgelield Advertiser
writes from Walhalla, on the 10Th ult:
The work eu the Blue Ridge Railroad in
this vieinityis is progressing rapidly, We
are informed that Mr. Jones, contractor of
the %Saddlc Tapnel," is making good head
way, and has commenced arching it
Messrs. Humbird, Hitchcock & CO.; arc
making. good progress with the Stump
House funnel, ("NIamiaoth Tunnel, y and
it is confidently believed by some of the
"tar seeing ones that this, the ne Plus atl-
t'd OF Southern Tunnels, and the great
"hobby horse the opposition party have
rode-so hard, and to SO little profit, will be
completed before the cars reach WalhalIa.
We have understood (but we cannot affirm
-it to be true) that the contractors of this
job have said that if the Railroad Company
should fail to got money enough to com
plcte the lob, tIatt have the available
lneans, and that the job shall be completed
at as early day as possible. We are in
formed that the contractors along the line
arc men oftenergy and determination, and
arc well calculated to get through the work
with as much scientific skill and dispatch
as any set of men in the Union.
&cQrlTTAt IN KENTucKY.-The trial
OF tiardesty for the shooting of Grubb, oc-
cnpied three days of last week at Burling
ton, Boone county, Ky. 1t will be remom-
bercd that sister of Hardosty wus seduccd
by Grubb, and that HaElesty told the Sc
ducer that he would give him six mouths
in which to make his choice between mar
rying the girl and being killed The six
months expired, and Gruhb not having mar
rled the girl, Hardesty met him, and on
sight shot hi,n. The evidence showed that
Grubb was armed also, in expectation of
the attack, but was shot in the act of draw
ing his weapon. The trial was ended last
Thursday, and tho verdict of the Jury was
not guilty. The following isthe substance
of the Judgment pronounced by Judge Nu-
tall upon theSerdict of the jury in behalf
of Hardesty: '~<
''"Sir You lave been indicted by a
grand jury ofyour country upon a most
heinous charge. You have put yourself
upon your country and your God for, deliv-
eranee! You have had a fair and impartial
trial before them, and they have both pro-
.nounced you not guilty, and SO say /. 1t
may not be proper for me to express my
sentiments, yet, nevertheless, | will do it.
Yonng man had been wrongcd as YOU
have been, j. would have spent every dollar
l. had on earth, and all that l could have
begged aud borrowed, and then starved upon
the track of the villain, but would have
imbrued highlands in his blood Go hence
without delay. Youore acquitted" ).
>tGDuEb,IN NEW ORLEANs.--The Sunday
Delta says: A meeting took place OH 1st
May, at 10 O'clock, upon the Metairie
Ridge, just below the Halfway House,
between Mcssrs T. S. McCay and NJ. C.
Edwards. The weapons used were double
barrclcd guns, loaded with bali; the dis
tance forty PAGES. Four shots were. exz.
changed; Mr. McCay, ON the fourth FIRE;
received the ball of his adversary in the
left leg, below the knee The parties then
left the field. Mr.. McCay's wound is
slight.
ANeTHER SU1GIDE. - A man named w
d. Davidson, an Irlshman, committed suis
eide in this city this morning, by .shooting
himself through tho head with n musket
We are informed that he had been on a
protracted drinking spree. io.st..
4. GIaassto Chronicle, 5th,
,JynGE ONEAbrY-Tlis distinguished
man wiring ,thc &cwberry Rising Sun,
speaking of the r.c int snow storm and se-
we're frost, make tie following comments:
What an awful Judgment upon. our sin
full country, to be visited with snow storm
and frost the last. days of April meyer
felt moro solemn than did en- Monday
Itscemed to meas if God was speaking in
the storm, and adinonlshiag Us Against the
sihs,of the land. think you, that God
does not deal with us as he did with the,
children Of Israeli IbelieYe that he does
and that ii. warnings are every day in the
land, but y . heed them net, and we arc
rushing ON to disunioh aud anarchy, and to.
the Joyerturningz zof the best government
which God ever gaveato man, The North.
'ern fanatical fury is likely to have the. ef-
feet of brihgingfuiI doyh upon themselves
and others ' ~ 1
- The Christian Soldier. -,
+! %Rhe life and example of a good man
sh9uld never be losttoslfis feliowFinen. On
the contrary, they should be held up before
the eyes of the word for instruofbsu and
imitation. Inthis way Che goodand great,
though dead, may yet speak with power
and effect 1t is in this spirit that we de
siire 4 n Y,tokat n 'hriaP' o1I,5;nn 10 '@ba 1,{a