Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-19


heard of the insalubrity of the climate
hlDestic mountains, covered with exuber-
ant vegetation, presented cOlors which lhu-
man art could never initiate on canvas
The rose, the Palm tree, the queen of the
forests; aud there spread vcrdant meadows.
varied with verdure and flowers OF the
brightest hues. Nothing can equal the
beautiful panorama presented TO our eyes :;
but yet that luXuriancc of vegetation con
tributes to the fatal Influences of the eli
mate. Three Governors died here in ten
months in 1884, and all the Etrcpeans
seen have striking marks of disease in their
countcnanccs. Our admiration was excited
by the view from the lighthouse to the
', csl"yan Mansion house /; the numerous
ships of war and merchant vessels in the
bay, the college, the cathedral, the Gov
crnors house, the quarters, and hospital,
and the mountains beyond. A landing
place, with forty or fifty steps, leads from
the quay TO the platform on which the city
is built. The streets are drawn with mnth-
ematical precision, with carriage way in
the middle, and carpet of Bahama grass
on the sides. On the right of the landing
place is collection of shops of all kinds,
Kept by negroes. "I.caving this street
we met multitude of small isolated houses,
built altogether in the English style, with
their gardens, Astounding in fruit trees,
such ms oranges. guavcs, lines, mangocs,
plneapplcs: in short, all kinds of tropical
productions. The Fouluh college, a Prot
estant institution, lisa little Elysium, where
the grape is seen, with multitude of Eu-
ropean fruits and flowers, mingled with
those of the tropics In the market square
and elsewhere, we met with athletic men
of the Mandingo race, who arc Mohome-
tans, distinguished by their large loose
gowns and white or rcd turbans; aud hung
on their DcckS were talsmans or leather,
written with extracts from the Koran. The
negroes along the coast place equal faith in
their guardian angels, made of the teeth of
tigers and poisonous nuts" In the morn
ing great noise is kept up by women in
the streets, crying 4" Fyui" and 4" Agid-
6y" kind of food which they sell, made
of Indian meal. The women perform all
kinds of labor; and it was surprising some
times to sec with a burthen weighing full
hundred pounGy on her head, and at the
same time carrying heavy clild on her
shoulders ; and to learn that they often
travel thus fourteen or fiftccn miles with
out appearing futigucd.
The Spanish steamer received a fresh
supply of coal at~Sierra Leone, employing
krumcn as laborcrs; who endure hard
work under temperature of 10 degrees
Fahrenheit The officers enjoyed the at
tcntions of the English Governor and his
family, of whom the commander speaks in
high terms. "Their hospitality" he says
:" Is abundant, splcMdid and dclicato.Y
LlDERIA.-Erom Sierra Leone, they
proceeded south, consting along the islands
of Banana and Shcrbro, and passing Cape
Mount and Siberia. This colony, founded
in 1922, by the American Colonization So
ciety, to favor the return of negroes, is
now rcp"blic, with its capital, Monrovia,
on the River Mesuru,lo and claims the
country from Cape Mount to Cape Palmas
300 miles" "Thc whole aspect of the
sea coast, for many miles east of Monrovia
presents no variety whatever. An inter
minabc forest of acacias and !nancroycs ::
and intcrminablc line of sandy shore, with
very small habitations, or baracoons of
slaves on the coast, are tie only signs of
human beings. This is the country of the
Crcomen, or krumen, that race of men
strong for labor, whose services are of 80
essential use to European commerce in Af-
RIGA, they being employed as in our Spain,
are the Austrans and Gallcians"
MORALS IN TExAs.-Judgc Buckley,
in recent charge 80 the grand jury of the
District Court of Galveston, presented
most deplorablc state of morals in Texas.
Among other things, he said there was no
other country inhabited by the Ahglo.Sax-
on race, in which there was so little regard
to law and order as in Texas, and contin-
ued:
During the four years that have been
on the bench, there have been between 50
and go cases of murder before me; and if
in each of the IL judicial districts in the
State there has been like number, then
there has been upward of 600 cases Of
murder in four years, showing state of
things unequa!led in any country; and
that of these 800 cases, not six of them
had been found guilty by the jury before
whom they were tried. 1t is not posi-
BILE to suppose that, in all coses, there
was de6ciencyin evidence and the only
conclusion to which can arrive is that
the jury must have forgotten or disrcgarded
their oaths"
JErFERsoN's GRAvE--A student of
the University Of Virginia, writing from
Tint institution, states that no ycstige of