Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-26
Can it be Possible

The following Intelligence, which VIC
clip from the Stutcs, is matter of great
surprise to us, because that there has been
at last one, who is determined to do or die
and whose motto is, g Don't give up the
ship"
The steamer Washington, Capt George
f.. Welch, arrived here day in &c hours
from ASpinwall which port She left yestcr-
day at 10 o'clock, When within some ten
or fifteen miles of San Juan saw vessel
to leward, too far off to make him out. The
captain kcpt.o on his course, with all his
colors set, till within some four miles, when
a blank shot was fired at us. The captain
bore away for her found her to be the L.
), sloop of war jamestown, cruising about
for tilIibuStrrs. Coming along side, the
Washington was hailed and told to lie too /;
and they would send their boat on board for
any letters or papers we might have for
them. Soon, the boat with an officer,
Lieut. Carter, came along side and was ta-
ken aboard, who requested Capt. Wclch,
with his papers, to go on board the james
town, to which Capt Wclch readily assent
cd
After getting on board, copy of his
papers had to be taken, agrceably to any
order recently issued from the government
to the vessels on that station
Orders have been issued "to burn. sink
and destroy any foreignyessel that attcnl-
| pts to board an American vessel with her
colors up.
1t was supposed, at first, that the James
town was an English man of-war and when
she fired the shot we were too far off to
make her out
Capt. Wclch made the remark that he
would willingly give five years of his life
should she prove to be an English man Of
war, and gave orders (bcforc going into
| AspinwalD to the chief engineer to attach
the hose to the boiler He was detcrmin-
ed that % foreigner should ever board his
ship without his permission. If he did,
he came at his qeri.
! TIM MoRAts or PoLITIcs.-A fine batch
| of frauds have Just hcen brought to light
] by the committee on Military Affairs of the
| House OF Representatives, in connection with
the Oregon and Washington Territory war
debt. The whole debt. as reported by tho
| Government agents, is about SG,000,000,
! of which the Committee assert that not more
than about oncmillion is just ly due Some
oil the charges by which this difference is
made arc very modest. Pistols are charged
at 500 each; muskcts at $l25; oats at IS n
bushcl; hay ut Sl20 q ton, and other things
in proportion. At the last session of Con-
gress, when the debt was first brought to tho
notice of the committee, the War Department.
! recommended its payment but Mr.. Faulkner,
| OF Virginia, caused action on the matter
to be deferred. in order that it might be full
ly investigated. BY this delay and inves-
ugation, the somewhat considerable sum
OF from four to five millions will be saved
to the Trcasusy The parties interested in
this claim regard Mr.. Faulkners nterfer-
cnoe in this matter as impcrtnent and un-
called for, and thcy have met with great
deal of sympathy from the lobby in being
| thus disappointed and plundercd, rs it were,
OF tour-htths of their hardcarncd and hard
sown spoil.
A WORD 10 APPRENTICES. .-Apprcn-
ticcship is the most important stage of life
through Which mechanic is called to pass;
1T is emphatically the spring season of his
dayS--thc time when he is sowing the
seed, the fruits of which he is to reap in
after years. If he spare no labor in its
| proper culture, he is sure of obtaining an
abundant harvest; but it, in the culture
of the mental soil, he follows the example
of many in tilling the earth, and earclessly
and negligcntly docs his work, like them,
nv VIII iIp Viz oSSulllS5 lllllc )ESI, anu his
ground only bringing forth weeds and
brioTS. Let the yonn% apprentice bear
in mind when lie commences learning
any business, that all hopes of success in
the future are doomed to fade away like
the morning mist, unless he improve tho
the golden season. Let him bear in mind
that he can become master of his business
only through the closest application and
the most persqycrng industry; and that
unless he docs master it, he may bid fare
well to. all the visions of future prospects
and success The apprenticeship is the
| foundation of the great mechanical cdifice;
and surely if the foundation of a structure
be not firm, the structure itself crumblcs
and alIstothc earth. Then, young friends,
pcrscvcrc; be studious and attentive; study
well all the branches of your business, both
practical and thoorotical--and when the
time shall come for you to take an active
part in life, you will not fail to be of use,
not onlyinyour own particular business,
but in society.
JOKE on the GOVERNOR. The Raleigh Gil
rnitc relates the following: About twilight
the Other evening, Just as our Governor was
passing down street To his residence Strau-
ger rode up to the sidewalk before one of the
stores and balled out to His Excelleney, p
rlsay, stranger, won't you be so kind as tn
| hold my horse while | step in here and do II
little tading?" "Why. my dcai. Fellow
said bystandcr, that is Governor Ellis. -
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