Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-02-25
Democrat, rather than permit the election of
n Republican Speaker
Don't Depend on Father.

Think you that +" father has attained to en-,
inence in his profession b>tt by unwearied m
dustry? or that he has amassed forttinc
honestly without energy and activity? You
should know that the faculty requisite for the
acquiring of fame and fortune is essential to,
nay inseparablo from, tho retaining of either
Of these Suppose father" has tho
Crooks in abundance; if you never earned
onything for him. you have no moro business
with those Crooks" than gosling has with
a tortoise and if he allows you to meddle
with them till you have learned their value by
your own industry, he porpctratcs untold mis-
chief. And if the old gentleman is lavish of
his cares towards you, while he allows you to
IDLE away your time, you had better leave
| nm; yes, run away, sooner than be made an
mbcclle or scoundrcl through so corruptng
an influence. Sooner or later you must learn
to rely on your resources, or you will not be
anybody. If you have ever helped yourself
at all, if you have become idlo, i. ,ou have
| eaten fathers bread and butter and smoked
fathers cigars, cut swell in fathers buggy,
and tried to put OH fathers influence and rep
utation, you might far better have been poor
canal boy, the son of chimney sweep, or a
boot black-and indeed we would not swap
with you the situation of poor, haf.starved
mothcrlcss calf Miserable objects you arc,
that depend entirely upon your parents, play
ing gentleman [alias dandy loafer. What in
the name of common sense are YOU thinking
of. Wake up there! Gro to work with Ell
thcr your hands or your brains, or both, and
60 something Don't merely have it to boast
that you have grown in E" fathers" house
that you have ycgotated as other g:cenhorns
but let folks know that you count one.
Come, off with your CO clinch the saw,
the plow handles, the SC, the the axe, the
pickaXc, the spade-auything that will cna-
bic you to stir your blood "Fly around and
tear your jacket" rather than be the recip-
ent of the old gontleman's bounty Sooner
than play the dandy at dads expense nirc
yourself out to some potato patch, let your
self to stop hoy holes, on watch the bars and
when you think yourself entitled to resting
| spell, do ton your<own hook. Ii you have
no other means Of having fun of your own,
buy with your earnings an empty barrel, and
| put your head into it aud holler, get into it
and roll down hill. Don't make the old gen
tlcman do everything, and you live at your
case. n
Look about you, you wcll-drcsscd, smooth
faced, do-notLing droncs! Who arc they that
have worth and influence in society! Are
they those that have depended alone on the
old gontcman's purse ? or are they those
thathavc climbed their way to their position by
their industry and energy? True, the old
genteman's funds, or personal influence, may
secure you the forms of respect but let him
lose his property, or die, and what arc you
a miserable hodglng-a bunch of flesh and
bones that needs to be taken care Of
Again we say wake up-Sct up in the NOR
rihgg--turn rohnd, at least twice before break
| tast--help the old man--giye him now and
tlen generous lift in businass-learn how to
| take the lead, ana not depend forever on be-
ing led and you have no idea how the dsci-
pline will benefit you. Do this, and our word
for it, you will seem to breathe new atnos-
pherc, possess new dcstiny--and you may
then begin to aspire to manhood. Take off,
then, that ring from your lilly finger, break
your cane shave your upper lip, wipe your
nose, hold up your head, and by all means
| never again eat tile bread Of idloncss nor de-
/ pend on father!
TIE BEspPnYsrc FOR a DEPRAvED Con
| SCIENCE. We learn that stranger, who gave
his name as Charles Ward, recently made
his appearance in the neighborhood of Scotch
Gross, in this District. Alr. Stanmorc Brooks
found him asaociatng With his negroes. He
was accordingly arrested, and taken before j.
| II. Tarrant, Esq, for examination; but moth.
/ ing couldbe drawn from him but that he was
a gambler, and had "bursted in Augusta,
Ca, and that hohad resortcd to bcggingamo !:
! the negroes to {" raise the wind" This was
not altogether satisfactory to the Magistrate,
but he was, however, turned loose, but remain
cd in Greenwood. Nncgro boy belonging to
Capt. j. T. Parks took upon himself the Office
| of detcctor, and under the mnsk of friend,
| ship, e(icited tho admission from him that he
was robber and thief by profession He
endeayored to persuade the boy to run away
| from his master, buS he declined to take pas
sage undcr the Under Ground Railway, and
for his impudcnGc in making such PROPOSE
| ton tic boy,took care to dccoy him into the
hands of the Philistines," who treated the
patient as he deserved. They took tho short
est way to his conscience, and withsome sprigs
of shelaly drew a blister upon his back ho-
ping, by counter irritation, to obrcak It's Iethar
KY, and rcstorc it to healthy action: This,
practice, in general, is correct, if the books
EarojriSht and The only chance Of error in the
trcaSnicltt of this particular case, wclld be to
assumc that it was an c9regious mistake of
the doctors in supposing that there was with
in himsu aftmction as a conscience
The recipient Of this treatment for a de-
PRAYED yanscicnec,is about 5 feet Z or s inch
,es high; With ploustach, and dark hair and
eyes. -A63epiRe Bqau,er. ~
PRAYER. Prayer draws all Tie Christian
1sracoa into ito fInnd IL draSys ,i,a,;4,, 4ttt