Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-02

hope and expect. 1t has survived many q
tug as hard as the present. In sl527 the
combined German and Spanish armies of
Charles V. stormed and sacked Rome, enact
ing in its streets the most diabolical cruelties,
burning, torturing, robbing, rayisbing and
destroying for ten days. Some six thousand
of the inhabitants pershed, 100000
crowns of plumber were collected, Pope Gle
ment VII. paid 100000 ducats for his own
ransom Luther thought that the end of
Rome had come. But it has survived and
recovered. Sixty years ago it wac in the
hands of Napoleon, who seemed to hesitate
whether to crush it or not. In 1920, 1881,
and 1913 it was prey to the revolution, Gar
ibaldi himself, at the last date, expelling the
Pope, who escaped in the disguise of foot
man on coach box. A republican govern
ment was then established, but another year
saw him back again, and now he looks for
support from the dcspotisms which would
themselves tremble at his fall His tempo,
raj dominion may be even now at an end but
that dominion is really his weakness, and not
his strength and when he is well rid of it
he will reign as head of the Roman Catholic
with more substantial influence than for
long time past.-EnyIiA l'apef.
FoRTs AND VEssELs.-An mother of the
many examples Of the inability of ships to
compete with forts is mentioned by New
York journal in some rcniBiSoeBces of Fort
Morgan, which has been lately occupied by
the troops of Alabama. This fort is located
on Mobile Point, on the site of Fort Boyer, of
1914 memory-a long, low, sandy peninsula,
between the Gulf of Mexico on the South,
and Bousccours' Bay and Navy Cove on the
North. On September Ii, 1914, n British
fleet of four vessels, carrying ninety.two guns,
attacked Fort Boyer, a small rcdoubt. This
redoubt was garrsoncd by only one hundred
and twenty Americans-oihccrs included
under the command of Major Lawrence, and
its armament was but twenty small pieces of
cannon, some of which were almost entirely
useless, and most of them poorly mounted in
batteries hastily thrown up, and leaving the
guns uncovered from the knee upward, while
the enemy's land force, acting in concert with
the ships, consisted of twenty artillcrsts,
with battery of two guns, and seven hundred
and thirty marines, Indians and negroes.
His ships carried five hundred and thirty men
in all. This immense disparity of numbers
and strength did not allow to the British mil
itary and naval commanders the slightest ap.
prehcnson that four British ships, carrying
nincty.two guns and land force somewhat
exceeding seven hundred combatants, could
fail in reducing n small work mounting only
twenty short carronadeS and defended by n
little more than one hundred men, unprovidcd
alike with furnaces for heating shot, or case
mates to cover themselves from rockets and
shells Nevertheless the enemy was com
plctely repulscd; the British commodorc's
ship was entirely destroyed The cncmy's
loss in killed and wounded was two hundred
and thirty,two men, while the Americans loss
was only eight orninc.
Such examples as these and history is full
of them-show how easily and cheaplya State
may defend itself, if it be so disposed, from
attacks of vcssels,-Rohmond Dispatch.
How TO KEEP Men AT HoME.-There
would be fewer wretchcd marriages, fewer
dissipated, degraded men, if women were
taught to feel the angel duty which dcvolves
upon them, to keep the wandering steps of
those who are tempted so much more than
they in the paths of virtue and peacc--
to make them feel that in t'ro busy world is
noise and confusion-that at home there is
order and repose--that their "cyes look
brighter" when they come thcre-that the
smile of welcome is ever ready to be laid
aside to minister to the husbands pleasure;
they would find amusement then at home, and
not try to seek it elsewhere. And not alone
to the higher classes of society should this be
taught; it should be lesson justified into
the minds of all, highor low, rich or poor
Fewer heart broken wives, weeping and scold
ing, would stand waiting at the door of pub
lie houses to lead the unsteady step of their
drunken husbands home, if that home had
offered q room as cheerful, fire as bright, q
welcome as ready and cordial as at the tap
room they frequent. Duty has seldom so
strong hold on men nas women they cannot,
they win not, for duty's sake, remain in a
dull, tedious, ilmanagcd, quarrcsomc house;
but leave it to seek elsewhere the amusement
which fails them there and when riot and
rcvolry have done their work, the wives and
sisters who have done so little to make them
otherwise, are pitied for their bad husbands
and brothers.
INrIDELITY FLoGGED OUT OF A MANI
had one just fogging says Coleridge. When
/ was about thirteen, went to shoemaker
and begged him to toke me as his apprentice.
He being an honest man, Immediately took
me to Bowycr, who got into great rage,
knocked me down, and even pushed Crispin
rudcly out of the room. Bowyer asked me
why had made myself such afool To which
| answered that had great desire to be a
shoemaker, and that hated the thought of
being a clergyman Why SOP" said he
" Because, to tell you the truth, sir" said
" | am an infdelY' For this without more
ado, Bowycr hogged me wisely, as [ think