Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-08
I. Tho Cnrse jof prosi,eritY.

mature, that mankind generally y3aro more ca-
pablo OF bearing adyersity than prosperity.
Whom smitten by misfortune, man displaysa
patient fortitude that makes blu, an object Of
admiration but If his course bo .unintorrup-
Itedly prosperous, he becomes elated and
ruted up with naughty ptido. It is strange,
4 too that those who lhayo once endured tho
frowns. of fortune are most easily fr0wned by
her, favours. It might be supposed that
their experience would teach them meekness
and humilitys but It is rarely 50. Ono who
| is suddenly, elevated from a low estate drops
Ills pnticnco, and often too many of his othor;
puts on characteristics which hc deems moro
bcftting his new position. They arc Ike
plants which, lin tho frigid zone, have SO con.
formed themselves to tho climate thut they
arc ablo to pass uninjured through all Its rig
ours but transferred to tho tropics, they lose
all their hardness, aId become moro delicate
than the creeping annuals that never knew a
chilling breath. @.FS..''1
We every day sec illustrations of this
strange foaturein our constitution. Sec, for
instance, that man who bears himself with
such. scornfn pride, as if he thought tho
world could not boast bis peer. When he
moves amid n crowd of his follow men ho
holds his head as one might do who walked
among: toads and all kinds of disgusting rcp-
tiles. You read in his countenance pfainiy
enough that lie deems Himself formed of3 a
purer clny than these common mortals. He
treads rs if the ground were too yilo for his
touch lc speaks and nets asif there was a
fascinating eloqucncc in all he says q pccu-
liar majesty in all he docs. That man was
once poor, and then none could surpass him
in complaisancc and afFability He had Il
smile and pleasant words for everybody, and
with fawning sycophancy licked the boots Of
some whom he now deigns to patronizc. Bus
1t was his luck to marry rich wife, md her
gold has so wrought upon his constitution
TINT nc finds it very unwhoesome to bow DO.
litcly TO allwhom he meets on the streets, or
to-. stoop down and then to press tho rough
hand Of dn honest lubourcr. When he be-
comes a candidate for Congress- hc thinks
his wifes money can carry him there--he
will perhaps do these things; but now he is
cold and stif moving along as mechanically
as NJ puppet skeleton strung upon, wires.
There is lady arrayed in d splendid attire
and baughtness are as plainly written as if
they wero printed. She Is now rich and
fashionable, and tho !" best circlc 'His proud
to claim her as n 'monbcr. But it was not
always so. Sho was once an humble dress
maker, and thon all admired the patient and
honest industry with which she toicd for her
bread licr conduct at home and abroad was
SO Tar as nm observer could see, marked by n
most commcndable propricty. but now all is
changed Sho married. a rich man and threw
away tho little instrument with which sho
had kept want and misery from her door,
She now >nssocintcs with those the hens of
whose garments she was not previously
thought worthy to touch. But where arc
those, who, in her days of poverty, gave her
work and encouragement She knows them
not. They are not Of her " set" and slto
passes them with cold stare that sends tho
hot blood to the check, but forbils al rccoc-
nition.* Prosperity hos cllangcd her heart, MS
well as turned her head.
We might 90 on cndlossly, cnumeratne
tho transformations for the worse which pros
perity produces; but let these suIHce. In all
such instances it is a curse, and not a bless
ing. Tho qualification which it affords the
Individual is moro than balanced by tho
changes which it makes in the moral charac-
ter. Better far it is to continue poor and
honest, than by some sudden turn of fortune,
to be lifted above poverty and honesty. Mel
ther unexpected advcrsty nor success arc de-
sirable. But the effects ore widely different.
The former seldom makes persons worse, but
sometimes makes them, better; the latter Of.
ten takes away tho few virtues which they
possessed, and begcts, III thcm vices; to which
they were previously strangers. It is beyond
all doubt, blessing that, "I.ifc is mingled,
yarn-good and evil mixed together" Sc
NOBLE EADvIcE.--Alexantle H. Stephens
said the other day at Atlanta:s $@
My friends, forget not lthe soldierl Send
him contributions to mako him comfortable
while he is in the service. Take carc OF his
family While he is absent. Employ your
hands and your substance in doing works of
charity in this day Of your.countfy's trial.
If any should fall IN battle, reneE,berthe
orphan and the widow, and tako cdreS6of
them. God will bless you in such noble Icr-
formancc Of patriotic duty"
|'%i. ~ S.E> .sat ...,,J,. as.
SOME of the Northorn papers are gettinga
little sick of tho war, and nsking whether it
cannot be stopped. The game of brag is be-
ginning to be played out, and MIR. Seward,
sllrewd dialectician aud wiley demagogue as
heis, cannot much longer conceal from those
whom he has led on to tho brink of the prcs-
ent crisis that his qualifications are all those
Of the partizan and not at all those of tho
Statesman, while, the hollowness of his dogmas
is shown by tho result. Of, their first decided
success. lie has attempted to bully the South.
|, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee ann Ar
kansas reply, TO his romedyl by Joining tho
Confederoay, md tho cannon Of Norfolk. of