Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-03
The Song of the "Finanoier.

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Whom there s chance to S,ccGt his nCiglIbor?
! Away now with your power looms,
Revolving Jacks and spinning Jcnnics;
| Contrivanccs for picking wool
! Can't match the Banks for pck;ny pennies.
4 =" Ec njhH, njhH H." was once
! maxim much in vogue with some;
But few indeed can now maintain
That a. nothing can from nothing come"
For though the ancicnts could convert
Their gold to rags (uS we are told
/ Yet We in times more civilized,
Can make from rags the best of gold.
All hail. then glorious alchemy,
That can from nothing something make.
What pity things created thus.
Their primal form arc prone to take.
| SO let us have bank my boys
! \ iortun" thuS all may win;
/ Like lilies OF the valley live,
Who toll not, neither do they spin"
! With paper then. all debts we'll pay,
And should our credit Ger get low,
/ 1t never comes amss to say
1.-The croakimg IurdS have made it so.
An mccdotc, relative to the late profcs-
/ sol Wilson, is Just now circulating. When
/ the SUi;or furthc handot Professor Wilson $
| daughter had gained the lady'S appreciation
I he WAS, of course, referred to papa. Law
! ing stated this, probably, not unexpected
case, the younger gentleman was directed
/ to desire the lady to come to her fathcr,
and doubtless her obedience was prompt
I Professor Wilson had before him, for re
I view. some work on the fly leaf of which
was duly inscribed, &" IIM the uuihnr'%com-
4 piimD"ts." He tore this out, pinned it to
his daughters dress, Solcmnly led her to
/ her young lover, and went back to his work.
lloRyE CE>suS.-Thc follow M curious ac
count is given in .lpplcton's Cyclopcdia, of
the number Of horses in the various parts Of
the world
The general estimate has been eight or ten
horses i'll Europe for every hundred iuhab-
tants Denmark has forty yi>c horses to cv-
cry hundred inhabitants, which is more than
any other European country. Great Britain
and Ireland have 2.jOO.O 600 horses: France
/ 3.O0U,OOO: Austrian Empire exclusive of
Italy, 2.GO0,O0O; Russia 3.5OO.OOO. The
United States have 100000, which is more
than any European country the horses of
the whole world arc estimated at 81 ,i20,O ,O0O
y TuuCnING ANECUorE.- 4. H.
Stephens, of Georgia in Il recent address at
a meeting in Alexandria, for the benefit of
the orphan asylum and free schools of
that city, related the following anccdotc:
\ poor little boy, in cold night in
june, with no home or roof to shelter his
head, no parental or maternal guardian or
guide to protect or direct him ON his way.
reached at nightfal the house of rich
planter, who took him in, fed, lodged and
&ant him his way with his blessing. --
Those kind attentions chccrCd lis heart
and inspired himwitIl fresh courage to battle
with the obstacles OF life Years rolled
round; Providence led him on; he had
reached the legal profession liS host had
died; the cormoramts that prey on the sub.
stance of man. had formed conspiracy
to get from the widow her estate. She
sent for the nearest counsel to commit her
cause to him, and the counsel proved to b.
the orphan boy years before welcomed and
entertained by her deceased husband The
stimulus of a warm and tenacious gratitude
was now added to the ordinary motives
connected with the profession He un.
dcrtook her cause with will not easily to
be resisted; he gained it the widows cs-
tatcs were secured to her in pcrpctuity
and, Mr. Stephens added with an emo
tion that sent its electric thrill throughout
the house, " that orphan boy stands before
you -
\ WRITER in Once Week, gives the
following account of the great Pitt
Pitt died at his house on putncv Heath
near the spot where Canning and Castle
rcah foEght their duel, and in a very nog
lprtrl st.,tn unnn of Liu f.,,n;lv ,r fr;n,, H.