Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-10
English Opinion Of Americans

WOrlu, nut they are essentially, in their own
phraseo"2y 20 ahead people. They always
conirrro iU weather upon us in all that per
tmns to competition, or Z" battles by land or
+ fights by sea" If not by downrght fair
means, yet by some means or other. the Yam
kees always find way to whip johnny Bull.
They taught us that eightecn.pound shot
would not knock about ship after the fash
!on OF twentytour pound shot they let us
into secret q know it is n sore subiccN as
regard Hat sail and long hollow bow in
yachts; they laughed at our disaster at Ba-
Iaklava and asked where were our rcvolvers.
and told MS that body of Yankee cavalry six
hundred strong, if called upon to make that
charge, would have fred 5000 shots upon
the enemy, at distonce whcro missing was
impossible; however, they did full Justice to
the desperate valor of our men. They also
claim for their war authorities more sapacity
than our people possess, in being armed with
Colts rcvoIyers in the Mcxicnn war, some
ten years before the commencement OF the
Russmn war, At which time that terrible
weapon was absolutely unknown in England
Again, over comes Yankee with half do.
zen American bred race horses, and as op-
posed to all England, walks off with the
great Newmarket CNsarcwitch, and Good
wood stakes, and has lately been first favorite
Tor the same operation at Goodwood These
American horses appear as cute as possums
or coons. They run last ut so many races
that you begin TO believe them to be as slow
as tortoiscs, when, without its being at all
accounted for, they run fast enough to beat
all the horses that have beaten them. -
Maal ! guess jonathan whipped US with big
tr!!gatcs, still, mind you, with (rigatc against
imSate, so now he has produced big giant,
who nearly Knocked and chokcd the life out
OF our small champion. Still, Tom Savers
was our puglIistiG champion, and thanks to
his bulldog proponsitios, is not to be chokcd
OFT even by giant; and as ono istic cham
ron rates as match for another, and thus
Jonathan goes ahead. In the Crimca, the
American revolver pistol was denied to our
men, but purchased BY our officers at their
own cost. We went through the East Indian
rebellion with 10 sign IF Improvement in our
cavalry weapons until the eleventh hour,
when at last regiment of hussars got rcvoIv-
ers, and their previous bloodless victories
ceased, and sanguiuory onslnughts were made
on the flying foe by weapon which proved
as destructive in the hands of our men, ,chen
Mey9 9"t il MS in the hands of the Americans
Lon3on E.cuminer.
CHANGES AT THE CAplroL--In " Occa-
slonnI letter from Washington, published in
Saturdays Philadelphia Press, VIC find the FOL
lowing description of changes and improve.
ments going on in the Capitol
:" sauntered into the Capitol during the
forenoon, and on all sides heard the busy note
OF preparation for the coming session. In
the hall of the House of Representatives cur
we'd oak desks and chairs with rcd leather
seats and backs, have, under resolution of the
last session, usurped the place Of benches and
the desk OF the Government reporters, was
glad TO see, has been made more roonly and
comfortable. More than once have wonder
ed, as sat in the gallery, how, with the scan
ty accommodations afforded them under Cap
tam Meigs' plan--less to each reporter
learn, than is allowed to diners at a hotel
these gentlemen could drive their "ravenous
pens" presume they are now indebted to
the kindness Of Captain Franklin
The old Senate chamber, where Webster,
and Clay, and Benton, and Calhoun and our
hrst orators have entraccd +" listening Sen
ates, and held crowded galleries enthralled
toy the wltchory of their eloquence, is now be-
ing fitted up for the use of the Supreme
Court at Its approaching December term
Ihe change consists in the removal of the
ladies' gallery and the dais which was occu-
pied by the Vice Presidents chair. as we'll as
the desks of the Secretary of the Senate and
his clerks, and the substitution, instead of
the latter, of long platform, with heavy wood
railing for the use Of the Chief Justice and
his associates a square incosure in front of
the bench has been rallied off for the use of
the bar, and outside of that seats will be pro.
yided for visitors. Thus this august tribunal,
the highest judicial body known to our laws,
so long imprisoned in one of the subterranean
vaults of the Capitol building, will now be
brought out into the open daylight, and hold
its sttingsin chamber to which its exalted
and distinguished position in the Government
entities it,"
JNnEALTnlSEss OF iIoT BRRAD-Thc Scicn.
tilic American says that Dr. j. c. Bunting hos
published some very interesting and useful
facts in relation tn the digestion of food In the
human stomach, deduccd from his experiments
with ST. Martin, the man with an enlarged
bullet hole in his side, through which can be
seen all the processes of digestion In speak
ing OF the nutricions property of farinaceous
food, and the proper state in which is most
easi!ysdigested he gives the following most ex.
cellent advice
eliot bread never disests. Bear this in
mind, reader, if you are accustomed to eat the
light and tempting biScnit at tea, or the warm
loaf that looks 30 appetizing upon tie breakfast
table After long season of tumbline and
working about the stomach it will begin to fer.
mont and Will eventually be passed outIof the
stomach as an unwelcone tenant Of that delicate
organ, but never digests--nevcr becomes assin.
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