Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-27

Thar was place in old Virginny called Port
Republic, but Mr.. Rebel General Stoncwal
jackson wiped out it's contents generally in
1868, and / haven't sinse heard of it in North.
ern literature. I have heard of skrub con.
sarn over about Washington they call Re
publik, but, sur, it are likely to prove the
grandcst impoeture that ever existed on con.
tiucnt of freedom / suppose, sur, it arc to
be moved to Boston or the Internal regions in
few days and want nuthin to do with it.
Exkuse me, sur, but [ must insist on ben re-
spcktably discharged"
| took my seat amid the most profoundest
and tumultuous silence ever seed, and Mr.
Gibson remarked that he wouldont impose the
Republick on no respectable man agin his
wishes. lie then transferred me to the Iii
nants Committee, and scd he hoped we would
take immediate action, for the State had nc
money, as well as himself and board was high
and eat seteras frequent. This may not have
been his exaktual langwidge, but it is anglin
toward it. [ how'd my head and said "Dtto,
exsep that don't eat setcras." Forthwith |
telegrafd varyous gcntlcmcn for temporary
loan, but they wouldent lend a dollar until
MIR. jenkins wer norgoratcd for they wanted
j.,
q tap lost about the wagin. If we arc a State,
we can bony moneyin Augusty. IF VIC aint
State, its none Of our business to borry it,
all If Andy wants to run the machine his
own way, let him pay his own expenses
What in the dickens is Provisional Gov
crnmcnt for, if it ain to get provisions and
provide for a fciler gcncrally? l made up my
mind that perhaps we had been humorin Andy
about long cruf. We had as much right to a
Governor as Alabama or Sonth Carolina He
wants us back about as bad as we want to get
back, and a little Bladder, perhaps and he
incident put on many unnesscssary airs about
this Senator business. If he fools with us
much we won't elect nobody golly we'll
take the studs and so backwards [ forth
with returned to the Capitol, and stretchin
forth one Of my arms, ses ], "Alr Gibson,
sur-I'm your friend--I'm the friend of your
wife and children; but cf Mr. jenkins amt
norgerat.d soon the State will collapse; a
bright and glorious. star will be obIiterated
from off the striped rag, and the President
will lose about nine Supporters in the Federal
Congress.
| move, sur, that cf VIC can't git our Gov
ernor at once like sine quu non, we break
up in row and depart for Mexico 1t took
like the emall-pox, and were carrycd tu,Rultu-
ously. These procccdns were telegrsfd to
Washington before the ink was dry, and i've
received orders forthwith to norgurate our
Governor and roll on our cart. Then The
money CAME, and we voted ourselves a pocket
ful apiece, and took furlo. My friends, that
wer proud and glorious day. When that
great and good man was maxim his an'cctn
speech, we all felt happy, and Capcn Dodds,
the member from Polk, remarked that he
would like to die then, for he never expected
to feel as heavenly agin. The tears run down
his left, eye like rain. His other eye wer
beat out by Yankee soldier while the
Capcn were in prison. OF course the vilcn
were tried for it, and hung, though hahn t
seed no mention Of it in the papers. Alas
poor Wirz
My fe(low-pcoplc, let me in conclusion CON
gratulate you bavin Governor once mcse, as
is Governor, Oh there is life in the old
land yet, apd by and by we'll all mix up with
our friends at the North, and we'll transport
them Black Republicans into the Afrikan des-
ert, and put 'em to teaching. IIotentots the
right Of suffrage.
More anonymous, BILL ARP.
How. GuAs. II. SMITH, (BILL ARP. "A
correspondent Of the Cincinnati E" Enquirer"
hives sketch of the inmitable humorist.