Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-05-19

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But in tho meantime, and to this end it is
especially necessary that the Southern people
should subduc their preiudices, and cultivate
an amicable feeling towards their fellow -citi-
zens of the North.
CRIMINAL STh ~IsTIcs OF CHARLEsToN-
The last quarterly report Of thc.Captain of
Police of Charleston, shows some curious sta
tstcs. The number of white offenders brought
to answer at the bar. of justice far exceed the
dissimilarty in the character of the offences
Of the two races. Cufces peculiar vice seems
to have been larccny--he having been haul
ed up for stealing, In the masculine gender,
l44 times and in the feminine, 16 times !;
while his white cmulator shows only 80 mas
culine cases, and none feminine. On the 9TH
or hand, the white man seems to have had the
most unmistakablc preponderance Of the pc,a-
Chant for violating city ordinances fig
urcs for this offence showing arrests of white
males 252, females "a colored males 32, fe-
males 4. The darkey takes the palm for horse
stealing by eleven to onc-but the white man
takes the lead in highway robbery by five to
nothing. We should like to see an essay up
on these statistics from some moral philoso-
pher or political economist - Caroliuium.
VALIDITY OF THE CIvIL RIGHTs Bill
The validity of the Civil Rights Bill will be
test0l in case, which has arisen III Mem
phis, and been taken to the Supreme Court
Of Tennessee for decision. The opinion of
the court will be looked forward to with much
interest. The case is this: GA negro, Robert
Church, havingbeen prosecuted in the Crimi-
nal Court at Memphis, undera law of the
State con6ning license to keep billiard table,
to free white men, the civil rights bill was
|pleaded in bar aud the court sustained the
| plea, on the ground that the State law Vas III
conflict, in relation to the case on trial. with
the law of Congress, and to that extent, by
the 9th Article of the United States Con
stitution, invalid.
TIE cholera is again raging at the lower
quarantine Five deaths have taken place,
and thirteen additional cases have been re-
cfived on bdSrd the Falcon since DR.. Bissel
made his last report The whole number re-
naming in the hospital is nincty-six, being an
increase of eight since theDlast report. Dr.
Swinburne, in a communication to the Board
of Health, gives very hopeful account Of
matters on board the Falcon, and says that the
severity of the disease is evidently lessening
The old sloop-of-war Saratoga was anchored in
the lower bay on Friday night, aud will be
used for quarantine purposes.
[New York Herald, 20M.
Gov ORR and other prominent citizens of
Charleston, >. o., propose to organize the
common school system for colorcd children
THREE T1nNas. Three things to love
courage, gentleness and affection. Three
things to admire-intellectual power, dignity
and gracefulness. Three things to hate
cruelty, ignorance and ingratitude. Three
things to delight n-beauty, frankness and
freedom. Three things to wish for--heath,
friends and cheerful spirit. Three things
to pray for faith, peace and purity Of heart
Three things to like cordially, good hnnlor
and 'mirthfulness. Three things to avoid
idleness, loquacity and fippant jesting Three
THINGS to cultivate-good books, good friends
and good humor.
/. THERE is a girl in Troy whose lips are 50
sweet that they stick together every morning
by the honey they distil, and she cannot open
her mouth until she has parted her lips with
a silver knife. She will be treasure to her
husband, not only on account of her sweetness,
but because she can occasionally keep her
mouth shut.
A MrNER who lately come from Virginia
City says vegetation is so scarce in that region
that two mullen stalks and bunch of this.
ties is called errOye'