Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-10
-oEnsleganoies Of,sbeec6.l s

Great care must be taxed to acquire
habit of using geod tnguage.' Tie. .mam
Sbo goes slip shod six days in the. week;
will not walk with easeaDd grace on the
seyeuth in new sifoes "a If Ftife ilan9aagc
of everyday life,,is not we'll 'ohesens5na 9on,.
rect, It wifi be in, vain, to, attempt to speak
web in the pulpit or-oren,to write well I'M
the study: 'ghis. will partly explain why
solecisms, vulgar phrases and i9ioms, aeom!
mop;placc and chut expressions, &e,,, sd
abound in the PUBLIC. efonts Of some men :
The habitual use of good language in
ordinary speech prepares for its usoy -readi-.
iy and almost without effort on occasions Of
more Importance What 'eo6duceSS, great.
ly to form ills faculty is tho 'frequenting
good company; that is, as Mr.. Bautain.
observes, the society most distinguished
for elegance of language and fiue manners,
There ono learns to,speak with correctness
aud grace almost without. study, by the
mere force of hubitation. Buttas the.
young preacher,,f0r various reasons. may
NOT always be able to do this, he can in
great degree supply. the place of it by cul-
tNating the society of the masters of his.
language in books = This company is al
ways accessible, and always ready to speak;
50 there is no cx cusc for ncslectin this. par
ticnIyr, The pernsol Of the. best. authors.
serves directly to supply the speaker with
a copious fund of words, apt and elegant,
and nIorcovcr indirectly, by the elevation
of the thoughts, the march Of the septcn-
eos and the majestic flow of IDEAS, furnish
ed an affiatus, or divine glow, which pre
parcs the orator forehis intellectual labor,
1Cu 1., tho
read from that to be handled BY tic speak
or. In addition to this, We'wpuld recon-
mend storing the memory with the cdcf
et@NGsc' of the best writer's, tho poets cs-
pceially, to be- recited mcntally or 'albud,
duriQg the daily walk or, ride, .hy Which
one becomes habituated to The niceties of
the Language and, qs it were, makes them
his own1 nor must we forget to observe,
that no practice will more rapidly cultivate
the tastes and refine tho whole man.
f. FtqnTTNGTuEf'T TiGEp rNNEm YORK
The New York I'3S{ relates the follow-
7ingss .-.-.--.. ---,--.--s----
The AIinncsota I5Hgisbturc, wanting mo.
ney TO; complete their r,ilro'rd, (which is
getting to be ,lilis eur Eric, Canal, rather
eXpensive luXmryyah agent despatched
to this. city 10 negotiate bonds. He was
making hcudway in Wall street quite swim.
ming when he ,fell in 5compauyywith
wclI-dr6Ssca plausible person, of the class
which inEest hotels, with plenty OF. monty
to spend and leisure enough to doit, tie
' decoy" of a gambling den, whose duties
arc to inveislc the unsophi$tcatcd thithcr
for the purpose of. swindling them
The roper discovered that the wcsterHcr
was sharp, and it required superior tactics
to render him available. 1t was necessary
prepare him for the operations aud a few
bottles of wine accomplished the puyho4c.
The. twain visited the gambling house,
Which is located on Broadway, and the wcs-
tcrncr commenced playing. He was com
pletey stripped Of his money, and Mimi
csota bonds'valucd at one iiundrcd aud six
ty thousand dollars. The next day he re-
mcmbered every incident connected with
the, ,scene:of his folly but could not tell
where the dcn wds located in wbich.lrc he'd
been robbed, and it is needless to add that.
/ the roper had disappeared: 81. 49,. v.
He consulted WithNa firm of Wall street
brokers, who, hearing gthat he was in stu
alton. to paEfQr the recovery. Of the b9nds,
negotiations oomncnoedy and a, partner. of
! the contractor having been hurried. on
through n telegraph message; they proved
successful, Ruaior places the amount paid
the gamblers at various, SUMS from si%iy to-
ninety thousand dollars, t6ss,, @y;ai.
The -westcrncr, 'dis9ustetlS with his OK
pericucc, returned homo with the .cotiSiG
'tiou that the New York tiger %iS the most
,voracious aninlal that he had eyer epcoup-
tered. a." - ....<. - N-i',''
LUIS BEAQriEUb WoRLp, p,----thl this
/ beautiful world [ kCow not what. to make
of it! Sometimes it is all sunshiny and
Siadness, and Heaven Itself lies not far of
:; and then suddenly changes, and i, dark
and sorrowful and the clouds shut olt
| the day, In the livcso of tho saddest of a,,
there nre bright days like this, when we
feel .asif we could tqEe thegreatj world in
| our ,arnis.' :, Then, come gloomy hours,
when the ERE will! not burn onsour hearth,
and all without and withiniis, dismal, cold
| and dark. Believe me, every heart has its
secret sorrows which the World knows not
(9ud oftentimes. we call 4, man Gold when.he
isouly sad,--rLoagfelo,o. >.as-;' X .. y.
| . =, ..,. .. 7r-~T~fs = 4rs5f7-Fv - ,' i.'>
! : AeTIyIrys--Aetivity is one of the ovevlast-
ing laws'of existence. HT'hefe is no religion
Without work, LhaiDe$s Il spiritaql death,
Whoever had any thing worth having byiying
still and waitiag for itto COME to him? All
tLfnes are within the raacb of non ;f Ia