Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-05-14
Woman.

lanous line in our hearing Alas Tor him !
we fear he is past redemption. We cannot
conceive why the fair sex have been SO Of
ten viliicd. We declare it unjust, and
we enlist ourselves in their defence; not
withstanjing Virgil hath said, "Womcn
always vatious and chungcablc" and Shake
pearc, Fratility, thy nume is womm."
Woman is hot more variable than man
Her constaucy has stood the test of fire, and
blood, aud torment, in thousands of instai
ccs, and shall she be called ficklc? We
verify believe that woman's friendship is
infinitely more disntcrcsted, infinitely more
pure than mans. She will follow her low
or through veal and wo-through evil re-
port and good rcport-tlrough povcrtv,
through sorrow, and misery, and deaf! -
She will love him in his5sin, and in his gL
ry, and in his shame, and in his dcgrada-
tion; and she will bind him the closer to
her heart, MS he falls tho lower. Willsmn
do so? No-lct but the breath Of evil re-
port dim the brightness of the pnrc name
of that being whom he loves, lrtl'er sin but
once, and lc will forsnkc her for ever
VIII be love herinabuSc and i'll treatment?
But suppose she coquet, and triilc with the
affections Of the worthy? Has she not
been taught by example? How many
hearts h; vc broken and bled to death when
forsakcn by man! How many women lave
given their whole affections aw =, and
poured out their whole hearts upon love-,
and then been forsakcn. How often have
attentions been offered to crafty vanity,
and to please pride How often? Alas
who shall answer the question?
BElNp GlRt-PowHR or THE BIEIr.
"A little girl had been attacked with 50
we're pain in the head, Which ended in
blindness. SHE was taken to an eminent
ocul;St. who pronounced her incumblc-
She wished to know what the doctor hid
said about her state, and her mother told
her. What, mother" exclaimed the
child Am never more toscc the sun,
nor the beautiful fields, nor YOU, my dear
mother, nor my father? Oh how shall |
bear it"' She wrung her hands. aud wcpt
bitterly Nothing seemed to yield her tie
slightest comfort til hcfmothcr, taking
pocket Bible from the table, --plnced it in
her hands. "Whnt is this mothcr?" in
quircd the disconsulate little girl alt is
the Bible my child" Immediately scopc
OF it's most consulatory passages presented
themselves to her mind. She paused. turn
eli her poor bcnightcd cycbals towards the
ceiling, while an angelic expression played
on her countcnancc, and then ms if filed
with the Holy Spirit, hrrathcd forth in an
impaysioncd, but scarce audible whisper,
1Hy mWJc donc on Garth as us IN ILo-
ZEN"
RoCNpED AND SQuAREn.--A butcher
presented a bill for tho tenth time TO n
rich skmaint. 1t st'ikcs me-, said the
latter, {" that this is pretty round bill
around often enough to make it appear so;
and have called now to get it squared.
dent of the Norfolk (Va.) Herald, writing
from The University of Virginia, Clrarlottes-
Vile, Says:
On Monday. 25th ult., Mr.. Everett de-
lvcrcd his Grafton on the Early days of
Franklin III the Public lInlfofthc Univcy-
sity A meeting took place on the plat
form between this distinguished orator Of
the North, and the venerable Hon. w. G..
Preston, of South Carolina, now residing
in Charlottesville. The meeting was most
cordial and datfecting-rcccivin as token
of appreciation from the Students, a unani-
nous burst ofapplausc.
SPONTANEOUS CoMBuSTIoN.-Co Colonel
Bolton has shown us n handful of charrcd
cotton seed just ns they were taken from
| n pile of the seed near his oin house. A
smoke was observed to issue from the pile
and upon examination, the smell of burn
ing cotton was perccptiblc, and after dig
ging some two feet into the pile, the heat
was found to be SO great that the negroes
could not stand upon the pile with bno
feet, and though no fire was discovered,
yet the heat had actually ,charred and
blackcncd the seed, and fire would dout'-
less have broke out in very short time
! Col. b., informs us that this excessive heat
took place, where the seed had been wet
by a rain and then covered by some fresh
seed. The fact should be cauti0nto our
cotton planters, as it affords n Reasonable
presumption that most of the ffepuont
heavy losses by burning Of cotton gins aud
the cotton in them, arc aocosieacd by
spontaneous combustion, unlcss when they
can otherwise be accounted for,-- Gaires-
ten Ncws. ..si .,4
An INCIDENT OF THE PAsT.--Tiie Mt.
Vernon Record, says the lcttcrboIow, which
We arc pcrmttcd to publish, will be read,
we are persuaded, with unusual intefat II
The incident To which tho writer .,l,tfdcs