Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-05-12
On Marrying.


about it, too I! Don't wait for the Millennium.
hoping that the girls may turn to angels, be.
fore you trust yourself with one of them
A pretty thing you'd be alongside an an
gel, wouldn't you-you brute Don't wait
another day, but right now this yery night
ask some nice, industrious girl to 90 into part
nership with yon, !, to help clear YOUR bath
way of thorns, aid plant it with flowers.
Suppose she :" kicks !" you, don't you know,
you blockhead, that there is such thing as
trying again, and that the " "minows" having
bitten at the hook and run away, there is now
a chance to catch a better fish? Marrying
won't hurt you--t won't. It'll sew the but,
tons on your shirt, and mend your breeches
and your manners too--it will
Going to get out of this subjugated country,
and try your fortunes in Mexico or South
An,erica, arc you? Well, if you will go, take
somebody with you that will love and care
for you,. where all others will be Indifferent
to your welfare. But don't go-at least, for
time. Get married There never was a
better time, for we are all subiugated rebels
together, and no one will "make remarks"
about the scantiness of your wardrobe, or the
coarseness Of your furniture. You can cut
the wood, and she can do the cooking, with
nice little stove that won't cost much.
Plenty of freedwomen to wash and iron, and
clean UP generally. Stop your whining about
being poor, and get married
Stop drinking whiskey, chewing and smo-v
king tobacco, and playing cards, and save
the money thus foolishly WORSE than foolish
ly spent. Your wife that is to bc-will take
care of your savings and furnish YOU in re.
turn with woman's affection, and pure coffee
to warm your frozen nature.
Get married-you especially who are in the
" scar and yellow-leaf" Of baehclorism, and if
you don't may you freeze to death some of
these cool nights. You ought to freeze YOU
good for nothing buttonless creature.
HoME-The following beautiful passage is
from the pen of DR.. Guthrie:
Home! To be home is the wish of the sea.
men OIL stormy scas and lonely watch. Home
is the wish of the soldier, and tender Wis.
ions miugle with the troubled dreams of
trench and field Where the palm tree waves
its graceful plumcs, and birds of jeweled lustre
flash aqd flicker from among gorgeous flowers,
the exile sits staring upon vacancy; a far
away home lies on his heart, and borne on the
wings Of, fancy, over intervening seas and
lands, he has swept away to home, and hears
the lark sing above his fathers field, and sees
his tair-haired boy brother, with light foot and
childhood's gee, chasing the butterfly by his
native streams And in his best hours, home.
his own sinless home-a home with fathers
above that starry sky-will be the wish of
every Christian man. He looks around him
the world is full Of suffering; he is distress
Ell by It's sorrows, and vexcd with it's sins.
He looks within him-he finds much in )1;a
own corruptions to grieve for In the Ian
.guage Of a heart repclled, grieved, vexcd no
often turns his eye upwards, saying, "I
would not live always" No; not for all the
gold of The worlds mines-not for all the
pearls of her seas-not for all the pleasures.
OF flashing, fothy cup-nor for all the crowns
OF her Kingdoms, would live always Like
a bird about to migrate to those sunny lands
where no winter sheds her SHOWS, or strips the
grove, or biuds the streams, he will often. in
spirit, be pluming his wing for the hour of
his flight to glory.
TIiE CATACoMBs. The city of rome is in
nearly the same latitude as Hartford, Connect
lcut. Its circumference is about Is miles.
inclosed by wall which has upon it about
3OO towers. It's catcombs were the excnya-
tions where the early Christians lived, wor-
shipped, and were buried They are cut
through a kind of volcanic stone and their
extent is extraordinary. You descend to them
through the church Of ST. Sebastian, which
is two. miles outside of the city, and thew
have been explored to the length of 80 miles.
Other cataconlba have been discovered, but
this is the principal one. On the way to this