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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17
Correspondence Of the Keowee Courier.
CNLuMnIA. nnremllnr III 1S

COLUMBIA, December l2 1859
DEAR TuQNrsoN: 0ao week more of the
Session has gone by and very little has been
done that will bcncit the people of our State
good many subjects have come up before the
Legislature which have created great deal of
interesting and animated discussion. Rcsolu-
tons for and against re'opening the slave trade,
the Charleston Convention. and any quantity of
resolutions in regard to federal relations, but
alter tiIry have all becn discussed thcrc seems
I" be but very little differenceof opinion under
prescht circumstances. There seems TO he but
one opinion, which untes all parties that the
time has como when South Carolina should
say to her sister States, are are yeady, and "set
her house in order"
The bill to afford aid to the Blue Ridrc Rail-
road. was voted down in the huusc last week l,y
IL majority Of seven Freight. 1t was brought
mp to-day in the Senate and amended bv asking
the State to- subscribe three hun,lrcd and ten
thousand dollars in stuck. which amount shall
lie used in completing and eguping tho road to
WnlhaIlp. 1t is thought that the amendment
will pass both houses 1t will come nm n, the
Senate tnmorrnw. This will be much less than
the friends of the enterprise hoped for have
no donbt that the State would be much more
lbcral if it was not that our fine State House is
costing s0 much money.
Mr. MEMNINGER is still active in irving to
improve ourcommon school system. Mr.. RmgrT
Is also very attentiycly engaged in this cause
He is Chairman of the Committee ON E,incation.
IN the Senntc, audi very anxious to report n
hlll that will suitevcry purtinn of the State.
This is one of the most important subjects that
is now before the Legislature.
Plekens and Charleston have gained addition
al members bg the last census, i'ickons one,
aud Charleston two members This gives evil
dencc of tho prospect of your district
Col. Oar, our Former representative in Con-
gress. is here. He is looking well. and seems
To- have great many warm friends, who greet
him ut every turn.
The State ironsc climbs up slowly. In an
swer'to resolution asking for information as
10 thG estimated cost, the Superintendent has
stated that it will not cost over two millions.
We are glndt hear that Nigiant Committees
are forming all over the State. Your delegation
are all well and at their post, ~
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17
Nrw YonK, pecembor 4. lsoo.

New YoRK, December 4, 1859. =
Tho mortal remains of john Brown, reached
this city on Saturday evening about 7,o'clock,
by the Camden aud Amboy Railroad in charge
of j., W. HoprsR, of Brooklyn. Oprcachins
this city il was conveyed to the establishment
Of Graw and Taylor. The lid was taken off the
coffin, which was the same the convict had rode
upon to his execution, and the body was found
just as it was .wcred from the gallows The
corps prosecuted the app rance Of one in n deep
sleep. The face was quite n,.shcd, and the eyes
quite red Tho mark of the rope ~ns visible
,on the lete eide of tie neck, and underl,. oar.
His hair and whiskers were neatly trimme,,.
Altogetheri tileappearaaec Of the body is that
of one in Calm sleep. To-morrow it will be
delivered to Mrs. Brown and two gentlemen,
and takcn by the IIndson River Railroad to
North Flba, at which place it will be inferred,
as requested by Brown. gsb e
Phe excitement sisiAgradunlly adieing out in
this cfy, but the ,fanatical shriekers Of Boston,
Albany and other cities, continue, and, if ",
are to .iadge from tho sympathy expressedyby
tho 6rst Northern men with Brown, endorsed
by their constituents and approved by the press,
tho vehicle of public thought, the South has
nothing tohope from Northern conservatism
IL ls but mind to Iuii the south into ianoicd
sooprity, Th0spowar OF the eopssfyhtye party
has passed into tho hands of the Black IlopuLli,
cans which has been proved TO fine ccpgiotion of
the most bigotod, hy the last election. when they
swept the entire Sthto; II. Rowan Helpers
Hand Book OF Treason, Is offered for salJat
Bprdick's, las Nossau street, whore any one
can pnrehasB copy lts dootrises are those of
tho Republican pnrty, yiz; That sleyeryRt the
South must DO throttIed, and je It cAnnot ho
suppressed by moral force and Legislative onant-
mants, it must be overthroYn by violence !; and
whatever oonsoqnences follow, they tshe aboli.
tinpi5ts) are dotermined 70 have 1t QUO way or
the other."3 l
In tho name of tho abqlitionist thssanthor
aelemny swears that If slavery be not abol-
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17
To His Exccllcncy Henry A. Wise,
GOvcrnOr Of VIRGINIA, Richmond, Va

lloME.-lt is q little word it has its own
interests, its own laws, its own difficulties and
sorrows, its own blessings and joys. 1t is
the sanctuary of the heart, where the aifec-
tions are cherished in the tonderest relations,
where the heart is joined to heart, and love
tl1umphs over all selfish calculations. 1t is
tac training school of the tender plants, which
in after years are to yield flowers and fruit to
patcrnal care. 1t is the stream which beaut-
fcs and enlivcns social life.
If any man should have home it is the
man of business. He Is the true working
man of the ,comnuuity The mechanic has
his fixed hours, and when these have run
their course, he may, ere the day closes, dis
miss all anXictics as his labors end, and seek
the home circle, Comparatively little has
been the tax on his MUD and not much more
on his physical system, as he learns to take
all easy. But the man of business is under
constant pressure His is not ten.honr sys-
ten, With an interval Of rest; but he is driven
onward and onward early and late, without
tile calculation Of hours. Ho must be Elm
ploycd. In the earnestness of competition.
in the compleXity Of modern modes of bust
ness--ih the fluctuations which frequently oc..
cur--in the solicitous dependence on theRdel-
ity and integrity Of Others he has no leisure
moments during tho day. Witha mind in,,
eessanHy unaor exciting engagements, and a
body without its appropriate nutrimcat, he
may we'll pant for home, and hail thesmoment
when he may escape from his tolls tosscek it's
quiet, and Its. affection aud confidence. E.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17

! Ike came from school very much agitatcd,
because he coulln't understand tlIe principles
Of Allegation saslnid down Groenlief. '!There,
deer,2 shid Mrs. Pafttngten, "Uont frotabout
it; you must toltth teacher yea ain no alliga1
tor. aud i know he'll rclnquish yon.p > The
lad was comforted accordingly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17

MopEssY is q guard 10 virtue.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

DoN'T BE HAsTY.-l. Because you will be
likely to treat lightly two very good friends,
Reason and Conscience, who will not have a
chance to speak
2. Because you will have to travel over the
same ground in company with one Sober
Second Thought, who will be more likely to
have with him whip of scorpions than a
bunch Of flowers.
g. Because the words of actions involved
in it are more likely than otherwise to be
misunderstood, and therefore to be severely
judged.
t. Because this is one way to please and
give great advantage to great enemy of
yours, one powerful enough to be called ''the
Prince of the World" and who has caught
more people than can be counted, in this very
trap.
s. Because in so doing you are likely to
be tellow-traveller in such company as fol-
lows "Ho that is hasty with his feet sin
meth" He that is hasty Of spirit exalteth
folly "Seest thou man hasty in words :
there is more hope of fool than of him -
1.-The thoughts of every one that is hasty
tend only to want
G. Because such fire may be kindled that
it cannot be put out even by all the water a
whole engine company can throw, with Sec
ond Thought for their captain.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

PROFANITY Profanity in a child is ter
rible thing. We encountered lad some six
or eight years old on the street the other day,
who was swearing terrible at a companion !;
no one " in the army Of Flanders ever in
dulged in fouler profanity than this mere
child. Where he learned so to profane the
name of the Deity we know not; but if he
had parents--a mother who loves him and a
father who chershes great hopes for his fu-
ture- we pity them, Their boy can never
be anything else than a curse and a shame SO
long as his lips utter blasphiemios. The
swearer however proud or elegant he may be
however elevated his social position--has
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

DOCTRINE OF CONFERENCE.-The are
countless hosts of insects that often destroy
the trees, bushes and vegetables Of our gar
dens, fields, and forests, by eating their leaves
and such are very generally despised on that
account, much as we may admire their beau
tiful colors and motions. If we were able,
We would destroy them all at once But we
forget that our trees, with all their beautiful
foliage, are not more pleasing to us than the
feathered warblers that build their nests on
the branches, and gladden. us with their hap
py songs We should take from our groves
and forests half their charm, if we were to
expel our robins, thrushes, mocking- birds,
jays, orioles, tanagres, finches, blackbirds
cedar-birds, and many hundred others. And
vet, were we to annihilate caterpllars, ouI
gardens. woods and fields would soon be aban-
doned by the whole feathered tribe who feed
on them, and melancholy sadness shroud the
abodes of men, Ardently, then, would We
long for the return Of the noxious caterpillars
and with them the joyous songsters Of the
forest. In like manner, we ignorantly despise
and contriye means to destroy, many birds
who devour our vegetables, without consider
ing that they rid us of much greater evil
in destroying millions of mice and noxious
insects--so beautifully is the doctrine of com
pensation illustrated throughout the animal
kingdom, as well as in all the objects of ma
ture.-Prof. h. Jaeger.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

THE SEASON OF PLEASURE AND BEAUTY.
The brightest and most pleasant, if not the
most desirable, portion OF the year is now
emerging upon us. 1t is the season, above
all others, when Nature robes herself in her
most beautiful and engaging attire, when eyes
sparkle and hope brightens The earth will
reward the tolls of the husbandman. and the
remaining but lesser pursuits of life will yield
their product of profit and honor. The pleas
ure-seeker will ramble in quest of aliment to
feed an appetite which preys on summer
scenes and delights. While this is true Of
the busy, pressing, steaming world, the Chris
tan will be looking through Nature up to
Natures God. admiring the workmanship of
the Creator only to love more, and more pro-
foundly reverence his name and character.-
The returning, pleasant. charming season will
fail to fascinate and adorn a godly mind, a
lover of the beautiful of the world, unless
the smiling of Nature leads to the reeogni-
tion of Benevolence and Goodness, attributes
Of Him who crowns the year with His loving
kindness. We wish for all pleasant sum
mer, one not darkened with cloud, one of
health and beauty, but prominently one.
above all and before ALL of thankfulness and
duty to God and the Faith of the world
Redeemer. r.-Bu6alo Christian Advocate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

~ The Jackson MississiDpidn, a 6re-eating
journal which is anxious the South should
20 out Of the Union recently put the query
to the Memphis Tenn Enquirer, whether it
was not in favor of Southern secession from
the Union, il Republican should be elected
President in 1860. The Enquirer responds
'that it subscrbes to no such doctrines" as
resisting the Inauguration of President con-
stitutonally elected and that it will resist
it to the utmost, and it adds that until the
Southern people are struck with judicial
blindness, it can never take deep hold upon
the public mind. 1t assures the Mississippian
that it and It's friends will have a sharp time
before they are able to dissolve the Union.
DEMOCRATS IL TIGHr PIAoE.-The
Democracy Of the North have struggled long
and maniully for the preservation Of the Com
stitutional rights of the South, and are will
ing to do so still. But gradually crcum-
soribing round him. one demand has followed
upon another, until now that Congressional
protection for slavery is presented as a test
Of political orthodoxy, as O dogma which
must be advocated under penalty Of excom-
municatiou. Selfprcservation compels them
to repudiato il in terms which none can mis-
understaud.-foney's Press.
EV'The Cincinnati Gazctte says the latess
advices in regard to the water in the Lower
Mississippi are of an alarming character
The numerous crevasses have resulted in the
overflow of large tracts of country and the
destruction of stock, crops and improvements
to an almost incaleulable amount. From
Memphis down the river is described as
spreading on either hand like a sea. and the
marks of desolation are everywhere visible.
Scores of plantations and villages are either
ovcrhowed or rendered almost uninhabtabse.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

| ~ Colonel, will you lend me hundred
to-day" Cant possibly do it, sir never
loan a man money the second time when he
disappoints me the first" "Some mistake, |
reckon, Colonel. paid you the fifty had
last week" That's just it. Inever expected
il back, SO you disappointed me, Can't do
it, sir sorry to say, ] can't do it on princi-
pie"
Two THINGs.-John Newton, when his
memory was nearly gone, used to say that,
forget what else he might, he never forgot two
things-lst, that he was great sinner ID,
that Jesus Christ was a great Saviour.
10 The best definition we ever heard of
"beuring false witness against your neighbor"
was given by little girl in school She
said it was when nobody did nothing, and
somebody went and told of it.
| Ia Communities prosper and flourish,
droop and decline, in just the degree they
practice or neglect to practice the primary
duties of justice and humanity,
~ Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innu-
merabe streams; but is extremely difficult
to trace it to its source.
LUMBER ron THE HoLY LAND Com
merce makes curious changes, and places the
products of the earth in strange places. We
have schooner, the Forest Belle Captain
Percival, now loading with lumber in our
port, and destined for Beirout, one of the
seaports of Syria, in Asia. Who would have
supposed that, in the course of human events,
the pine forest Of Georgia would contribute
lumber to rebuild upon the ruins of Baalbeck,
to modernize the ancient city of Damascus,
both of which are in the vicinity of Beirout,
or to frame anew the domes and palaces Of
the Holy City Yet time, in its wonderful
revolutions, has made it living reality, and
in future days the Georgian who shall make
his pilgrimage to that distant land, can mia
glo the associations OF his own home with the
sacred memories of soil that was trod by
the Saviour OF Mankind The cargo of the
Forest Belle is the first that has been ship
ped in that trade. and we trust that the sue
cess of the experiment may be such as to
encourage additional and more heavy exporta-
tions.-SaOannah Republican, Apra 81.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13
g. MERRILL, Supt.
Norihaeld. VI. April IS. 1859.


4
On and after Monday, April lS 1872 Passenger Trains
will follows
Ur TRArNs. -- Leave Concord al lV.31 A. NJ, or on
arrival 1f trains from Boston, Worcester &c, for hi'
River junction, connecting with -oo y ~ trans o1.i
Vermont Central Road 20 Burlington and kouses Point
there connecting with trains which reach Montreal and
Oglcnsburgh the same evening, connecting Al Ogqens
hur1h with Lake Ontario Steamers for Niagara rails
sc. and with trains over Grand Trunk kalRay for To-
ronfu and the West Also. connecting al fotsdam VITA
trains for Rome aud Ncs York Central Road and az
White River Junction with trains over Passumpsic aud
White Mountains Roads TO Barton VI and litt!eion
\. H. thence by stage 20 siunstead' Newport Magos
Lake White and Franconia Mountains, Nc
Leave Concord at 2j b. ~, on arrival Of trains
from Boston, Worcester, Portsmouth, Portland, Nc, ioi
Bristol and White River Junction connecting win
trains Vermont Central Ogdensourgh and Montreal
Roads reaching kouscs Point at 300 a, ~ aud Mon
trcal and Ogdcnshurgh the same forenoon.
Leave Concord at $50 j.. ", or on arrival OF trains
from Boston, Worcester, Portsmouth, Dover, &c, toi
White River Junction connecting the next morning
with The 2l A. NJ train over VI Central Road 20 Bur
ngton and Rouse's Point, arriving at Montreal az 80
and Ogdcnsbursh al 500 ". thence by Steamboats,
and Grand Trunk Railway ior the West.
DowN rRNfNs.-Leavc White River Junction az 1.Vu
A. NJ. with passengers leaving Oglcnsburgh and Mou-
rea, the evening previous; also u 3lP NJ with pas
scngofs over the VI. Central, Passumpsic and White
Mountains Roads connecting az Concord with trains tor
Manchester, Lawrence. Portsmouth, Nashua, Wofees-
ter, New York. Lowell and Boston
Leave White River Junction az $40 p. NJ with pas
sengers from the West leaving Ogdensburgh aud Mon
treal the day, and connecting at Concord with
trains Tor Nashua, Lowell and Boston.
IF Passengers from the sullivan, Cheshire ana at
ley Roads, can connect az White River Junction with
the 3lj r NJ train over the Northern Road for Concord,
Mauchester sc. Returning, can leave Concord al 80
aud s 80 r M for White River Junction, and proceed
the next morning by the 6.2O A. NJ train for Windsor,
''''' oNsLow srEARNs, Agent.
Concord y H., April a. 1859
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

MEAN IN BUsINEss.-There is no greater
mistake that business man can make than
to be mean in his business, always taking the
half cent for dollars he has made and is ma
king, Such policy is very much like the
farmers who sows three pecks of seed when
he ought to have sown five, and as a recon-
ponse for the leanness of his soul, only gets
ten when he ought to have got fifteen bushels
Of grain. Everybody has heard of the prov
erb Of penny wise and pound foolish A
liberal expenditure in the way Of business is
always sure to be a capital investment.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13
LOOKING on THE BRIGHT SIDE.

Here is a letter from a wife in Rensselaer,
county to her husband in California. She
don't intend to go through the world with the
blues
Ny Dear Husband AS it is now some
time since you left for California, suppose
that you would be glad to hear how we arc
getting along in your absence. am happy
TO say that we are enjoying very good health
on the whole. Just at present two of the
boys have got the smallpox; Amanda Jane
has got the typhus fever; Betsy is down with
the measles Samuel got hooked by COW
the other day and little Pctcr has Just chop
ped off three Of his fingers with hatchet-
IL is mercy he didn't chop them all off.
With these trtiling exceptions, we are all
we'll, and getting along nicely. You ncedn .
be at all anxious about us. almost forgot
to say that Sarah Matilda eoped last week
with tin pedlar. Poor girl She's been
waiting for the last ten years for a chance. and
I'm glad she's married at last. She ncedn {
have taken the trouble to elope though. for
I'm sure ! was glad enough to have her 90.
She was a great eater, and find baked beans
don't go off near so fast as they did. The
way that girl would dip into the pork and
beans was a caution to the rest Of the family.
The COW took it into her head yesterday to
run away, which was very fortunate, I'm sure,
for the barn caught fire last night and was
consumed. | was in hopes the house would
60 too, for it's very incon,enient; but the
wind was the wrong way, so it didn't receive
much injury. Some boys broke into the or
chard, the other day, and stripped all the
fruit trees. am glad of it; for if they
hadn't, ! presume the children would have
made themselves i'll by eating too much fruit.
Hoping you enjoy yourself in California as
well as we do at home, remain your alfoc-
tionate wife
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

CRACKS IN BELLs.--A correspondent of
the London Builder gives some very valuble
advice about bells He advises that they
should be occasionally examined, to observe
how much the bell is worn at the places struck
by the hammer If a considerable indenta-
tion has been made, the bell should be re-
hung, and turned quarter round, to present
a fresh surface to the action of the clapper.
Some good bells have become cracked without
any extra or violent use, by being worn only
at two points. The cost for turning the bell,
to prevent its cracking from such cause, is
very trifing in comparison with re-casting a
cracked bell.-ScieHtifc american.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

A NATURAL WELL OF lem WATER
The latter part Of last November, Mr. Andrew
Twombiy, Of Brandon, Vt, commenced to
dig a we'll near his house, situated about a
mile from the centre of the village of Bran
don, on a tolerably level plain. Having ex-
cavated to the depth Of fifteen feet. through
sand and garvel, the workmen continued to
excavate the further distance of fifteen feet
through frozen ground
At the depth of forty feet, sufficient water
having been obtained. the well was stoned in
the usual manner. The character of the ground
was the same throughout the whole distance,
viz, coarse gravel and sand-the frozen por-
ton interspersed with Jumps of clear ice At
the time the well was dug, the surface of the
ground was not frozen. Ever since the well
was dug, up to the present time, ice forms in
the well and incrusts the stone at from fifteen
to thirty feet from the surface, and the sur
face Of the water, which is thirty-fve feet be-
low the surface of the ground, freezes over
every night. On several occasions, when the
bucket has been left in tho well under the
water over night, il has been found necessary
to descend the we'll, and, with hatchet, cut
the ice in order to extricate it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-05-13

~ Believe me. mothers, you have nc
right to expect that the sense of religion will
be infused by the labors of others. When
parents have ceased to be teachers, religion
has ceased TO be taught.
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Waitshcld and Favston, ORANGE SMllhi
Warren. FRANKLIN A. WRIGHT,
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