Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-27
PIcKENs COURT HOUSE, s. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER o. Ieco


outward exhibition of mere prudential consd-
crations within, how weak and impotent must
be tho sentiment to resist the first bilow of
passion as the first ground of disruption,
whether imaginary or real There may be
state of things within the Union as bad as dis
ruption itself. Can the Northern mind not
grasp this idea and lay it to heart We prav
God that it may, and that it will do it in time
to save us from the breakers ahead Throw
us not into strife and revolution with our
brethren at home for when that day comes
we shall be all of one mind and one heart
The Rubicon will have been passed, and
common cause will be the cement of a united
South
jHE RESOURCES OF THE SoUTH.-The
lhiIadelphin Pcm'&yl0onion, in reviewing the
late election in that State, remarks:
Conservative Pennsylvania seems disposed
to JOIN herself to that Northern Abolition PAR
ty, which, if true to its professions, must dis
solve the Union.
When it breaks the chief bonds of Union
as formed by the Constitution, the South will
have nothing left to it but to declare, to pro
mulSatc what the North has actually done. -
When the North commits that high handed
act, then the South will declare free trade.
and make treaties with European powers.
giving them priority and preference, and cx-
cluding Noi thcrn products, manufactures and
ships. The North will thus be left to support
itself, and to compete with Europe
The South may then invite the idle artisans
and manufacturers of the North to come to
them, where they will have employment
Now, of every six dollars earned by the South,
four of them arc paid to the North The
South can exchange with Europe her cotton
and her tobacco for whatever she wants; ; the
North will have nothing comparatively to cx
change. There is nothing whatever which
the South now receives from the North which
1T cannot get cheaper elsewhere The North
can nowhere else get what it now gets from
the South. In these two sentences there are
volumes OF suggestions.
TUE ErrrcrS or Ton>cco. Sir BENJAMIN
brodie, an eminent London phvsican was an
phcd to recently to unite in petition to have
l'arimontaiy committee raised to inquire into
the effects Of tobacco upon the human systcm
lie declined, because hc did not consider such
n committee competent to investigate such n
subject bnt he has written letter upon the
subject to the London Times, in the course of
which he says:
The effects of this habit are indeed various :.
the difference depending OF difference of consti-
mode
otherwise. But, from the few observations which
have been able to make on the subject, am
led to believe that there few who do not su fer
! harm from it, to greater or less extent. The
earliest symptoms are manifested in tho de-
rangemcnt Of the nervous system. 4 large
proportion of habitnal smokers are rendered
lazy and liStlcss, mdSpUScd to bodily and in
capable of much mental cxerton Others suf
Ter from depression of the spirits, amounting to
hypochondriGSis, which smoking relieves for
time, thongh it aggrayates the evil aferward
Occasionally there is n general nervous excita-
bihty, which, though very much less III degree
partakcs of the nature ui the dcliriu5o iycusns
of d'unknrds. | have known many individuals
to suffer from severe nervous pains, sometimes
III one, sometimes in another part Of the body"
The Doctor afterwards adds in reference to
the habit of smoking us it prevails at the pres
cnt time
But still gravcr question remains to be con
sidcred. What will be the result if this habit
be continued by future generations? 1t is but
too true that the sins of the fathers arc visited
upon their children and their childrons children
We may here take warning from tho Indians Of
America. An intelligent American physician
gives the following explanation of the gradual
extinction of this remarkable people: One gon-
Grafton of them became addicted to the use of
tircwater. They have q degenerate and COM
pnratlvclY imbecile progeny, who indulge in the
same vicious habit with their parents Their
progeny is still more degenerate and after
very few generations the race ceases altogether.
We may also take warning from the history of
another nation, who some few centuries ago.
while the banners of Snloman the Magnificent
were the terrors of Christcndom but who, since
then, having become moro addicted to tobacco
smoking than any Of the European nations arc
now the lazy and lehargic Turks, held in con
tempt by all civilized communities.
LARGE LAND SALE-Thc real estate of
the late Col. j. II Irby, consisting of town
lots in this village, and of about 5000 acres
of land in the District, the balance having
been taken at valuation by the family, was
sold on last Friday, at this place. Prices of
land ranged from about SIS to something over
$2S per acre, according to the various qualities
of the different tracts. The Odell place, of
about 400 acres, with the exception of clear
BOO acres of the Wadsworth leased lrnds,
with about 40 years to run, averaged near
S23 per acre. All the lands sold averaged
near S12 per acre. The lots and land of the
Estate sold for about S92, 900, on credit of
one, two, three, and four years.
LntUeuSUHc Hc,nM
The EXCITEMENT OF lNToXICATIoN.- The
love of narcotics and Intoxicating compounds
| is so universal that IL NAV almost count 90 o,,