Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-13


siding there; but we wish to record our con-
viction.-with great respect for Cincinnati,
Pittsburg and Chicago, which we have scene
that St. Louis is destined to have henceforth
the most rapid growth of any American city,
porium of our country for the Aaext twenty
rank the chief cities Of the United States in
this order: l, New York; q, Philadelphia /;
8, ST.. Louis; 4, Chicago; S, Cincinnati; 6,
San Francisco; Z, Baltimore; 8, Boston; 8,
Pittsburg; 10, Richmond.
This train Of thought is suggested by the
fact that the southwest branch of the Pacific
Railroad-which the exigencies of the war
has long halted at Rolla-s about to be pushed
on to the border of Texas, where it is to be
met by one from Galveston, forming direct
line from the Gulf to the Missouri, 600 miles
long. Another line composed of different
roads, will soon connect St. Louis directly
with Minneapolis, on the Upper Mississippi at
the Falls Of St. Anthony, sppplanting over
900 miles of devious and often obstrncted
river transportation by little over 400 of
rail. St. Louis will then be but days ride
from those Falls, which afford the most valuu-
bic water-power on our continent, and but two
or three days from Galveston, thus bringing
tropic heat i arctic cold within her grasp,
and supcrscdng navigation that now trayer-
scs little less than 5000 miles and consumes
at least three weeks. Meantime, the " Union
Pacific" is being pressed steadily westward,
and will bring ST. Louis within three days
ride of Den, cr and the mines Of the Rocky
Mountains within the next three years. These
mountains will then employ and reward at
least hundred times the labor that can now
be proftably employed in thcm-wil produce
silver at $40 per pound and gold at 500,
where they now cost $25 and $3.50. Most
dazzling is the immediate future that opens
for our country when our people shall have
settled down into the conviction that it is cv-
cry way wiser, noblcr, and even cheaper to
hire whatever labor you may require and pay
a fair price for it than undertake to get it for
nothing.-Ncv York Tribune, 25h.
The SENTIMENTS OF A CoLoRED EDIToR
The New Orleans BLACK Republican" a
paper edited by colored Clergyman, thus ex-
presses itself on the subject of the elevation of
the freedmen:
''The colored man and the white man canA
not live together in this country they must,
and will have to separate unless the Congress
of the nation will give them place for them
selves, for, as it was with Abraham aud Lot,
so it is with u.s. and the sooner we seek
home for our rising generation, the better it
will be forus. Our final destiny, so far as
can dimly see, is that in three hundred
years it will be rare thing to see colorcd
man in this country. Like the Indian. our
race is destined to become extinct in this
country, unless we move ourselves
THE LAST VETERAN-The war of the
American Revolution closed about eighty
three years ago, and it is announced that, of
all the many thousands that once figured as
Revolutionary soldiers on the pension rolls Of
the Government, barely two rcnlain VIM,
1lutchips, of Penobscot, Maine, and Samuel
Cook, of Clarendon, Orleans county, N. Y.
Several have died within the last year I; and
it may be that 1866 will witness the closing
of the books.
THD ROMANCE OF A WoMAN's LIFE
A Prussan paper contains the following: On
the 9th of October, died at Frankfort on the
Oder, eighty-fve years old, in the Holy Ghost
Hospital, Louise Dorothea Schulz, Of Dem
min, in Homerania. The late Professor Ack-
ermann; friend of Theodore Korner, and Ja-
ger in Lutzow's Freichaar, madc the following
communication on the life of this remarkable
woman: Louise Schulz fed from her home du
ring the wedding procession to distant
church, which wedding was to bind her, by