Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-20

| VIII hung his head in fear and shame,
And to that awful presence camc---
great green, hushful simplcton
The butt of all good-natu fun
| With smile suppressed, and birch upraiscd,
The thrcatncr iaulcrcd-"Im amazed
That you, my biggest pupil, should
| BE guilty of an act so rude! '-
Before the whole school set TO boot
| What evil genius put you to't?"
"'Twas she, herself, sir," sobbed the lad,
II didn't mcarto he so bad
But when Susannah shook her curs,
And whispered was fraid of girls,
And dursn't kiss baby's doh,
| couldn't stand ii, sir, at all.
But up nul kissed 'er on the spot,
kItow-boo -hon-l Ought TO not
But, somehow, from her looks-buJ hoo
l Thought she kind o wished me to-"
SALE OF a WnIrE WOMAN TO Nj
GRoEs IN MASSACHUSETTS, We clip the
following tcm from the New Bedford
Times:
We have reliable authority for stating
that white woman was sold in this city the
other day to a negro for the sum Of $50
She remained In his service for day and
a night and then returned by underground
railroad to her master. lie sold her short
| ly afterwards to another negro for the sum
of $50 cash down. This selling of white
women to negroes is not occasional, but is
almost an every day transaction, az we have
asccrtaincd after some little inquiry. AS
that veteran butdcfuncttown ctierA" Tom
Williams" used to say---so may it with
faithfulness bc said now" Git along I'M :;
you is just as good as us" There is no
such slave degradation in. the whole South,
as will compare with doings OH some of our
own streets
IMMENsIrN OF Sp.icE.-In a conycr-
sation with Prof. Omstcad, who is tamil-
lar with astronomical statistics, he said that
a railroad car which at the rate of 20 miles
an hour, or $50 miles in twenty-four hours
would be fifty days in going round the
world, and five hundred days in going to
the moon, and five hundred years in going
to the sun | To GO to the planet Neptune,
which is the largest discovered of our plan
cts, the car would be travelling night and
day for sixteen Thousand years! There is
distance for you. But moro than that-to
reach the fixed star 81 Cygni, whose dis
tance has been accurately determined,
would take the car three hundred and TWEEN
ty-four millions of years Still more: Light
travels at the rate of twenty millions of
miles minute and it would take, at that
rate, nine years and half for light to como
from the star 81 Cygni to the earth, and it
would take forty years for light to come
from the north star to the earth, travelling
at the same rate namely, twelve millions
of n.i!cs iii minute.
FINDING FAULT WITH MINISTER'S
There arc many persons whose religion
consists in finding fault with minister's
Nor are they all of the world Some
church members think this one of The
privileges of their profession. And as
Satan desires to sift tas wheat Simon, so,
they sIt the character and life of their
minister. Every word lie speaks, and cv-
cry act he performs, i'll private and in pub
lie at home and abroad must be weighed
in their balunce-and if he is found wan
ting, they must post Up the church and the
world iii reference to his defects and mfr
mites This part of religion must be at
tended to by some ono. GAN members
have not the same Office" And as they
lave peculiar taste, if not talent, for fin
ding fault, and relish for anything more
spiritual, they are faithful in pointing
out his real and imaginary defects. And
thus they save him from that woe which
Christ said rested on ministers, when all
men spoke well of thcm.--T True Witness,
Observation-Disclosures AN INDIAN.-Sume
of tlle Saginaw Indians are intense wags
IN their way. One of them, having given
trader some annoyance, was told that in
ease he was seen again with bottle, it
would be taken from him and thrown into
the. fire. y few days the lndian appeared
with his pint flask in his blanket, as usual,
but the trader was as good as his word, and
demanded the bottle, which the Indian
gave up and started for the door. The tra-
der threw the flask into the stove, upon
which whang went the stove, and out came
the windows, the trader following close be-
hind The,next time that man burns an
Indians whiskcy bottle lie will examine
it to see whether its contents are of " Du-
points make" or gunpowder.f
MANY people like newspapers, but few
preserve them yet. the most interesting
reading imagihablc-is a file of old. news.
papers. 1t brings up the very age, with
all It's hustle and everyday .aflairs, and
marks its genius and its spirit more than
the most Jaborcd description of thc-l,isto-
rian. Who cantake upa paper half a
century back, without the thought that al.
most every name there printed is now cut
upon atombstonc at tho head of an epitaph?
/ MEERscIIAUM pipes, 1t isshid, arc made