Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-03-17
The Prelude to Wealth.


aire Of Philadelphia, who was once as poor as
Jobs Turkey, and who alnassed millions by
his own energy and sagacity, gives hint that
might be advantageous to good many we wot
of in these days Of dull trade, Read, and
profit by the advice, yc seekers Of the {" root
of all evil :"
81 have always considered Advcrtisins-
literally and long-to be the great mcdium Of
success in business. and the prelude to wealth.
I And have made it an invariable rule, too, to
i'advertisc In the dulcst times, " long expert
cncc having taught nc that money thus spent
is we'll laid out; as. by keeping my business
continually before the public, has secured me
many sales that [ otherwise would have lost.
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Gov. ORn's LErrER-Governtr ORR has
written an interesting letter to the Secretary
of the German Society Of the City of Now
York, says the ''Abbevillc Press" in reply to
various Inquiries, in relation to the induce
mcnts which were offered by the State to pro
mote foreign Immigration. The Governor
states that our citizens generally, anxiously
desire the importation of foreign labor, and
though the State has done nothing by lcgisla-
tion to encourage foreign immigration, yet ev-
cry induccment is offered in the present con
labor. in tho facilities for proper Investment
cal rights which arc extended to the immi-
grant. Manufacturing and mechanical labor
can be made cminently profitable, since in ad-
y: n.t1,
mechanic, the Southern would realize the cost
Of transportation, as so much nett profit. .Ag
ric1ltura labor would also be we'll rewarded.
Plenty Of goou lands can be had at prices
ranging from one to fifty dollars per acre aud
day luborers might realize from 50 to SO per
month by the year, with board. Immigrants
should bring their tools. clothing, bedding.
&c, with them, and will receive cordial
welcome.
Gty-Thc Legislature of Tennessee has lately
passed an act, appropriating ten thousand dol
lars amile, to build a road from Morristown to
Paint Rock and the papers Of Western Nort'l
Carolina arc calling upon their citizens to take
some action in reference to the extension of
this road to .Ashcyillc. -
GkD@ EcaE OF trlchln:p, the anlmalculfc found
! in pork begins seriously to affect some Of the
Western markets. The Chicago papers in
form that a load of pork put on sale at Pc
oria, Illinois, last week, was examined micro.
Scopically, and two of the hogs were alive with
the trichiu;o Dressed hogs examined at Dix
on were found to be infected
E:gs- In the United States Senate, on Mon
day, a petition was presented from citizens Of
Iowa for constitutional amendment rccoglri-
zing the existence Of God and the divinity Of
Christ.
EFy- The 22d Of February-W Washington's
birth-day-has been made a legal holiday, by
the United States Congress.
etsf" A colorcd boy, Andrew, was shot near
Grcenvilc G.. H., on the 18th inst Inycsti-
CATION is taking place.
haa~. Smallpox prevails throughout III g
South.
E9s" -Four thousand negroes attend the
SCHOOLS in Macon, Ga.
NY- What is the worst kind Of fare for
man to live on? Warfare.
sey- Gen. Joseph Wheeler was married to
Miss Ellen Jones, Of Lawrence County, Ala,
on the 9Th ulti,no. j.