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GaIlatin Itaces---SPring OF 1893

GaTIatim EEaCcs---SRring Of 1859.
IL. szs
ATCH RACE for Three Thousand Dollars side four nle
IN heats: 20 come the Thursday in june lej9
ild a nIytEe names Iiawata by Abion dam y Wagner.
nj Odom names, Mary Wyie, by albion, dam by Sovereign.
.r,KFs PROPOSED TO n FIRST JUNE, lsj9.
No l. Stakes for ali ages. I've mile heats Two hundred
dollars entrance hundred dollars forfeit Three
make race - -, No., -. q
hundred dollars entrance hV dollars lorc Three or more to
maze 49,,
and Gf dollars entrance fy dollars forfeit. 1hes
make race.
trs,ca frtv dollars forfeit. lhrCe
No s. SuSe year ods, SluO entrance $50 forfeit,
,, more 10 ma to close the first Of March, 1850
An he above stakes close the lst OF March, 1859.
a. entries rust he addressed the secretary the Galan
Rae Course accompanied with security for forfeit
larlA- -triwtlIlmrll A. bAhNEe fropfIetor.
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LAM FRIR SALE

~ VIE subscriber offers fUT s8le seventy 0fIanG s
III Middle Frsnklh Turnpike, four miles fron NsshEs
joining the which he resides and the lands Capt Joha
Jones' The land equal % the best, th Abunssuce
lent failing water, with the beautiful building ate
In the country. and in the mdss neightarod n
America april NATHANIEL HkNTER =
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EATzNTED.--The Prinopal of = afga BoardipE schooi
w Tor young ladies' situated tn the % Columbia A.
sizes to employ ay the capasY House Eeefr one 81
experience vii be preferred RoT further fencs apply
oifre. fienIRf71
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FHNB Democratic Hfd, pun1ed - lleGsrs. aichel1uu z
Horsey, Coluuhi4 Tennessee fgst afvaasns
msum, and syersasnts E bs inssFtsd promptly. and =
reasouable1 terms
orders Ie he Dhf0a and 4asrGa oaee for ne Hsrasa
will te attended . pnnctlys sdjre.s Puhshrrs
cotlS-dt4Asf NIrlI1s.sON a H0RzIEY
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The notes. accounts viii At s Old gand
fnow Abhay Gibson Co. c=rse of A. g. Adams, icr
tement. EhoIa those VIII c1u a maze od.s
payment. az longer indulgeiee ezHnot Be given -.
tedt61fm. fHOEA8 H4htE-
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VOLUME MIX.
FITr rrNNsYnvANIa

CENTRAL RAELROAD.
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RrOadWaV WOnse.

TTNHE above House having bvsn thofonghly
3 Ieatted is open Tor he reception Of traF-
sleFs Tbs proprietor hopes from his i6ng ek2e sr4s
IN the business. aha hfl esseminAon to l9la -
spare pains Supplying his t.nls with The best
shs market aaorts, and 70 merit and reeeys a
share Of patronage -vn,,a
Day Boardsrh SD
~'s- S'A'asr'' vH w. vxxaOuss. y
san fFuprslax.
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FTVHB partnership existing hetHsn TIE urdersxned
Yer. Ellis &c dissolved the 5ist Dcsir lssI,
By The ehFe ct.r pa4terg
the business, purchased b Tnas Eakh.
liabilities of the 1rm, sud alone authorized q ga a ligas
ton. THOMAS EAkIN,
LESLIE RLLI-,
febl6. SAN. A. sfKIcELER.
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W. N. BAKER. Secretary. !
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WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

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Les - .issHs. z4sE.--..iss
being imp,rtce for tie pTUIr prCiecton ol
the Track, keep out VI tie way 81 gravel and o
fain that freit trains reu uniform rate ot sle
which can only OmpLed y running on schedule uc'
therefore that @ irt ira may be run on the Time
laid down in t schedule it is o. Ieed after thirty days from
this ate freight viii he receycIIy the Nashville and Chattanoo
ga Railroad Company, at Schedule stations only.
". COLE,
iaueI-tf BPG Sup't OF Transportation N & c. Il. r.
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M and alter Monday, No7ea6er 2it I7J IIan8 run As
follows . !.
Morning Train. Evening Tram:
Arrives ElgefeId 800 Arrives Edgefeld $50 de
Leaves do "ls0G do Leaves do a. I3O do
Arrives Gaatin al ~ do Arrives Gaatin " J:OO do
The Train leaving Galatin 730 A. NJ, and Edgshed at 10
Al connects al Garu with mail coaches TO and iron Louis
Vile The Train leaving Edgeield AZ 10 A NJ and Gaatn Il
p N connects with coaches and from Hartsve and
CARTHAGE Only he mornu Train viii We run SUuays
III Wearug apparel alone constitutes baggage oI winch each
,ar will Le allowed pounds free charge vii be made
fr extra hlvsaee which must N ad to the conductor Other
articles baggage carried in the tsas cars Vi E charged
Fss freight which must paid the agent Of the Express
. Company. Id, ..,. -
Passengers taking their Galatn an EdgeEed without
Drrrtosil, tickets. vii be charged ten cents extra.
;,,a6-fi RORERT MACLEOD, Superintendent.
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Special NOtice.

Hart Macrea Co.'S Books warsh0ss q
Edwards Gkeson Co.. corner of College and Churh
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
MISCELLANY
From the Saturday Evening Post.
Solving the Ghost Question"

About the year IS, business had call.
ed me to n remote part of B---connty
tennessee, and was stayingat the house
OF a Mr. Rubort.
The family consisted of Mr.. Rubcrt and
wife, one SON.. and two daughters. The
sons name was Austin; cwasabouttwcnty
years of age, and sccmed to be very intclli-
gent. The girls were no less intelligent
than Austin. Adcla, the eldest, was
about seventeen, aud Julia, the Youngest,
about fifteen.
Prcttier girls u never saw l loved them
both as soon as had seen them.
We were sitting by blazing fire, talk
ing and laughing as lively as if we had
been acquainted for years when sudden
noise, as if some large building was fall
ing, interrupted us
"Ugh ugh! ugh -" said some one.
as If frightened out of his senses.
All of the family rushed to the door, cx-
ccpt julia, who.sat still, and remarked
+" 1t is Bill Jenkins running from tho
ghosts again,
Scarcely had the words escaped her lips,
when in rushed tall, gawky, awkward, al.
most beardless fellow, putting and blowing
like locomotive.
What's the matter ?" said Mr.. Ru-
bert.
Matter enough T. said Bill, his eyes
looking slmost as large as the bottoms of
two common-sized tea cups. " Out yon-
der" he continued, throwing himself
down upon a chair; q out yondcr, / heard
baby o cryin, and then somebody a
groanin and saufiiu' and tell ye lest
got away from thar"
At this could not suppress a laugh.
"You needn't laugh, old hoss, y contin.
ucd he, turning to me "you needn't laugh
for I'll swear its no fun; It's jest sqS-Pll
swear IT,"
turned to Austin and said,
Ietns accompany him back to the
place where he heard tho noise, and 4" solve
the ghost for him." -.
Austin was silent,
Will yoi so 7" asked,
Austin began to stammcr out something.
"Dam me" interrupted Bill, "darn
me, gentlemen, if you get me- back thar
any more J; sec if you do Y
"Tben tell us where it was" said I,
"and five can hear IL, wei solve it sure"
Austin don't care much about go;ge,
| believe" said Adcla,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
The Virginia Ele6tionS

1t seems to be very definitely asccrtaincd
that the Virginia elections have been decided
in favor of Mr.. Lctcher, who has doubtless
been elected by some five or six thousand
majority. 1t is another evidence of the de-
nlltatihg distractions which exist in the
pcmocratlc party. With its rGnks thimed
Dy dcsertion, attacked in front by Black Re,
pnblicNns, its fanks exposed to tho vigorous
onsloughts of motley opposition mastering
numelodsly in the middle slave States. and
with strong force of fiery assalants em.
bracing the slavc-tradcrs, the filibusters, and
extremists generally, VIC sec not in the pres
ent anything Indicative of its prolonged vi
tality% 1t will probably hold together until
the meeting of the Charleston Convention
lhcn 1t VIII dissolve and die. Some new
party mast then spring up which will walk to
victory over its disintegration. No man that
the Charleston Convention may nominate can
be acceptable to the disconteuted clements
which iilibuStorism and the slave trade is
sues have excited. These clements are very
likely to urge the necessity of II Congressional
slavery code for the Territories, not because
as matter of practical action" they arc
any moro inclined to it than Mr.. Boycc. but
because At will distract and dissolve the con-
vcnii"n. These elements will have q Presi.
MShtlal ,G candidate of their own in this event
The next step will be an effort to consolidate
n great conservative party which will sweep
the middle States with a compast centre, md
With it's right left wings fghtund divide their
opponents North and South Such. it an.
pears to us, will be the solution of the pres
cnt intricacics and divisions Of parties. Dc.
mocracy can not triumph in 1860. As soon
as this conviction obtains generally, the po-
liticans will lose all party attachment-their
partisanship will subsidc as suddenly as does
the friendship Of the man of the world when
it is no longer profitable. Conservative men
North will combine against the Black Ro-
publican party because they see clearly that
its scctionalism cndangcrs the Union. The
result must ben new organization. This
Virginia election portendsit, those Of Ten
ncssce and Kentucky will make it still more
apparent: and by the spring of 1860, the ma
terials will begin to compose in real earnest
Tor the great conflict of the Presidential
struggle Cur0linnn.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
SEaE0 TgD POETRY.
rurbislEp ny nro,,rsr

az, . W ''Shhp III REQUEST.
thc Following affecting lines from the Nov
hhsand Diadem, were composca OF, reading
letter sent by CnW. CHASE to his friends in
forming them of the dca,hur his l)rvshcr /, law
Hr. BnowN owHN, who died on sen ON his dos
tined voyage to California. We presume ,l,o
none will rcad the lines without dropping ton,
of sympathy to tho,unfortunatc Particulor,,
uosc who have lost some of their dear relative.
inHpr onthcir way to a Foreign country. +.
1tay up nearer, brother nearer
Forlny limbs arc growing cold,
Ana thy presence sccmcth dcnrcr
when ySi;; aTG.s AROUND! nc fold.
am dying brother, dying,
soon you'll miss me in your berth
For my form will soon be lying
Meath the oceans briny surf
lIcarkcn to Inc brother, hearken.
have something | would say
Ere the veil my vision darkcns
And go from hence away
am going, surely going.
But my hope in God is strong,
am willing brother knowing
That he docth nothing wrong.
Tell my father when you meet him
That in death prayed for him,
Iraycd that might one day meet him
In u world that's free from sin.
Tell my mother God assist her,
Now, that she is growing old,
That her child would glad have kisscdb
when his lips grew pale and cold.
listen brother, catch each whisper
lis my wife Id speak of now.
Tell, oh! tell her how missed her
WlIcnthe fever burned my brow,
Tell her, brother, closely listen
Don't forget n single word
THAT in death my eyes did glistcn
with tue fears her memory stirred.
Tell Aer she must kiss my childrcn
Like the kiss last impressed,
ii"idthcia as when last held them
Eoldcd closely 10 my breast.
%iive them carly to their Maker,
J'uuing all her t1yst i'm God
And lie aever wifi fnrsakc her
For he's said 20 ia Ills word.
slh my child'rn. Heaven bless them,
They were all my life tome
Would c0nld- once more carcss Them
Ere siuk bcncath the sea.
was for them crossed the ocean
what my hopes were. I'll not tell;
iiut I've gained an Orphon's portion,
Yet he docth all things we'll
Tell my sisters rcmcmbcr
Every kindly parting word.
A"d nay heart has been kept tender
ny iAe thaaglts their memory stirred.
TEL them never reached the haven
Where sought thc prccions dust
iimt &c gained port called Heaven
Where the gold will never rust
Urge them 10 secure the cntrancc.
For they'll find their brother there,
Fnith ia Jesus, and repentance,
Will secure for each q share.
ilark hear my Savior speaking,
lis know his vvicc so well
when I'm gone oh don't be wceping.s
Brother, herc's NY last farewciIH
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
PIcKENs COURT HOUSE, s. c. SATURDAY, JUNE II, 1859.
wnro married.

were married.
Years have since rolled by. A robust
boy and q pretty little girl have blessed our
union, aud hevcr have | rcpcnted for one
moment'that | saw the ghost, rthat Julia
became my wife.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11

4 -Mcssrs ,dason found in the
sand, drcdgcd by their steamer in the
Nlafiit Channel, on Friday, piece of sill
yer plate, supposed to have originally be-
longed to the private stock of Sir Peter
Parker. 1t can be seen at Mcssrs. Ea-
sons machine shop, corner of Nassau and
and Columbussts IS Charleston 4iiercu,y,
24M inst
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11

We can conceive of nothing SO littlo or
ridicnlons as pride, II is a mixture of in
sensibiIity and Immature. in which it is hard
to say which has the largest share.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11

DDI [ notgive ycu a fogging the 9TH
or day" said a schoolmasterto trembling
urchin. Yes, sir" answered the boy
" We'll, what docs the Scripture say upon
the subject ?" / don't know, sir" said
the other, "cxcept it is in that passage
which says, it is more blessed to give than
rocoiyo'
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23

"THE ARMIES OF EURoPE.-In Europe, gen.
orally, there are twelve soldiers to every thou
sand inhabitants; in Russia the proportion is
as high as fourteen in England it is only eight
in a thousand. Great Britain has fewer soldiers
in relation to population than any other Eu-
ropean State. The British army costs far more
per man than that of any other country it is, on
the average, 1882 20 per man per annum. In
the armies of Continental Europe the annual
average cost per man varies from S1S4 68, in
Belgium to S63 Is, in Russia. Each soldier in
the army costs annually each inhabtant ofEng-
land So 13; France 81 10; Austria 81 81
Russia 81 81; ; Prussia 81 SO. The maintenance
of the armies of Europe in time of peace costs
the different countries an annual aggregate of
S366O0O 900, and the cost of the fleets is about
S6S, 900 ,OO0-making total yearly expenditure
of $3.50, 900 600. The figures, large as they are,
it must not be forgotten, only represent what
exists in a state of peace. When war occurs
fresh expenditures, reckoned by millions, are oi
course Immediately incurred for munitions Of
war, equipments, the transport of men and
horses, and provisions. No man can correctly
calculate the loss sustained by agriculture and
commerce by the withdrawal of so many. The
armies of Europe amount to no less than ), 1885,
900 men. and the nav'es to 29l 900, making a
total of 6,0l4,0o0 men. This number is in fact
Is per cent OF the male adult population of Eu.
rope withdrawn from the pursuits of industry
and constantly maintained under arms
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23
Letter form Mr.. Douglas.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1859.

WASHINGTON, June %, 1859.
j. B. DoRN, ESQ.,, Dubuque, Iowa:
Ny DEAR SIR:-I have received your letter,
inquiring whether my friends are at liberty to
present my name to the Charleston Convention
for Presidential nomination. Before this ques-
tion can be finally determined, it will be neces-
sary to understand distinctly upon what issue
the canvas is to be conducted.
If, as have full faith they WILL the Demo-
catic party shall determine, in the Presidential
election of 1860, to adhere to the principles en-
bodied in the Compromise measure of 1850, and
ratified by the people in the Presidential cleo
tion of 1852, reaffirmed in the Kansas Nebraska
act of 1854, and incorporated with the Cncin-
natl platform of 1856, as expounded by Mr. Bu-
chanan in his letter accepting the nomination,
and approved by the people in his election-in
that event my friends will be at liberty to pre-
sent my name to the Convention if they see pro-
per to do so.
If, on the contrary it shall become the policy
OF the Democratic party (which | cannot antci-
pate) to repudiate their time -honored principles,
on which they have achieved so many patriotic
triumphs and in lieu of them, the Convention
shall nterpolate into the creed of the party such
new issues as the revival of the African slave
trade, or Congressional slave code for the Ter
riscries, on the doctrine that the Constitution of
the United States either establishes or prohibits
slavery in the Territories, beyond tie power of
the people legally to control it, as other proper
ty, 1t is due to candor to say that in such an
event | could not accept the nomination if tend
cred to me-
Trusting that this answer will be deemed suf-
fciently explicit,
| am, very respectfully, your friend,
s. A.. DOUGI,AS
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23

Mr.. Crow IN CHURcH-Several years since, on
a warm Sabbath morning, the Rev. D. B,
of well known fishing town in Massachusetts,,
was holding forth; a tame crow, which had been
taught to utter one expression only, and that a
wicked one, flew into the church, and alighting
on the pulpit, saluted the minister with 'G-d
ID ye;" whereupon, the frightened as we'll as
horror-stricken pastor, " drew off" and gave the
gentleman in black winder that sent him to
the floor. Nothing daunted by this, however,
the crow was soon on his "pegs," and looking
up at the reverend gentleman, repeated his SAL
utation with such emphasis that he took to
his heels, and together with his congregation,
who were as much frightened as their minister.
scampered from the sacred edifice in double
quick time. One little old woman, whose seat
was in q corner. did not see fit to follow the ex-
ample of the shepherd and his flock, but firmly
kept her position; upon seeing which, the crow
advanced to her, and hopping on to the seat in
front of her, again gave vent to his favorite cx-
preston. The old woman not little astonish-
ished at his impudence, and evidently taking him
for an evil spirit in the form of a bird, yelled
forth at him :: " Cd d-n you tool What you
Cd d-n me for? l don't belong to this
church p And giving him wipe with her UNI
brella, she cleared the coast, leaving the church
to silence and to crow.
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23
How they Behead People in China.

The criminals were brought in gangs if they
were able to walk, or if they could not walk, in
chairs and in baskets, the latter of kind in
which usually dogs are carried, the basket being
attached to two poles and thus carried on the
shoulders of two men. When the culprits reach
ed the execution ground they were tumbed out
OF the chairs and baskets down upon the pave
ment with as little sympathy and care as though
they had been loads Pumpkins or potatoes
The executioners then arranged them in rows,
three usually when there was large number to
be dispatched as my friend informed me, one
executioner taking his place at the head of each
row, and giving each victim blow on the back
side of the head to push it forward and lay it
convenient for the sword, as all knelt and await
ed the fatal moment
When all things were thus arranged the death
warrant came it was a banner, and as soon as
it waved in sight, without any verbal order be-
ing given, the headsmen began their work of
death There was a rapid succession of dull,
crunching sounds-chop, chop, and down drop
ped the heads, while the bodies fell forward and
streams of blood were shot into the air like jets
OF water from fire engine. The friend who was
my guide, as we stood on the very pavement by
the wall on one side of the street where these
rows ofvictims were drawn up, told me he had
been obliged, as others also had been, to step
back of these wretched kneeling men when the
work commenced, lest the blood, if they were
in front, should stream across the street and fall
upon them. No secoad blow was ever given
for these dexterous men are slayers educated for
their work; for until they are able, with their
heavy swords, which are in part butchers cea-
vers as well as swords, to slice great bulbous
vegetable as thin as we slice cucumbers, they
are not eligible to this office.
Three seconds are sufficient for each head In
one minute FIVE executioners cleave off one hun
dred heads. 1t took rather longer for the as
sistants to pick up the heads and bodies and
pack them up in rough coffins, preparatory to
their being carried away into the fields and hills
outside the walls for interment. Nor were they
at all careful that the old companionship of head
and body should be continued, but they often
thrust head and body into coffin which had
never met before. As hundreds were sometimes
executed at a time, occasionally coming up to
five hundred, while these scenes were of con-
slant occurrence the whole area swan in blood
If not to the horses bridles," yet almost over
the shoes and up to the ankles. The earth does
not contain so horrible an aceldama, so true
:" field Of blood."-Hong Kong Correspondent Of
the ". II. Patriot.
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23

JoPPA.-Brooks, of the N. Y. Express, is tray
cling in the Holy Land. He thus speaks of Jop-
pa, city familiar to the readers of the new
Scriptures:
"Jatia, Joppa, Japho Yafa-we have it spelt
all these various ways-is believed to have ex-
isted before the deluge, and to have been the
city where Noah dwelt and built his ark It was
the port whence Jonah embarked for Tarshish.
when he was thrown overheard and swallowed
by whale. Here, too, Peter the Apostle raised
Tabitha from the dead, and tarried many days
in the house of Simeon, the tanner And it
was here that while praying on the house top he
saw that strange vision of clean and unclean
beasts and creeping things; and heard voice
saying Rise, Peter, kill and eat During the
Roman war it was burned, and 5000 of its in
habitants killed. Napoleon entered it with a
French army in 1899, and carried the city by
storm. And here was the place, if English his.
tory be correct, where Napoleon massacred 4OOC
Romans, principally Albanians, who had surren
dered to Eugene Beauharnois and Croier, hi!
aidesde-camp, and here too is where Napoleon
poisoned mis- plague-stricken invalids to thu
number of four or five hundred. The place has
history, as you see, but the quicker you get ou
of it, when you are in, the happier you will be-
The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23

TIE IRoN CRowy.-As writes Paris CORES
pondent) the holy Roman empire is-supposed to
be inseparable from the tenure of that iron
crown which has now been made safe in Man.
tua, just as Hungary is held to go with st. Ste
phens crown carried off once by Kossuth), l
may as well state having seen the article at
Monza, that it is not an iron crown at all, but a
baronial circlet of gold. Inside it there is a
slight teruginous wire, supposed to be beaten
out OF nail OF the cross, and the date of its first
notice in history goes back to the sixth century,
when Theodelinda, Queen widow OF Lombardy
welded Agiluph, King of Turin, and brought
this relic for the coronation of the joint ROYALTY
in ia. Charlemague was crowned Herewith
By Pope Adrian l., aud in 1887 Charles V. was
equally crowned with it at Bologna. Napoleon
]. crowned himself at Milan in 1905. There il
an Order of the Iron Crown which was then sci
on foot by him, and is kept up by the Kaiser