Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-07-21

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mulated, strength, to triumph over wrong and
to bear onward in the grand march of civil.
zation the .destinics of man.
In this great cause we fought and fell Is
there one here who is not proud of his conn.
ty? Is there one here who does not cherish
the glorics of our soldiet&s dead ADD living 2
Some of them arc sceptis by us unconscious
OF our vain efforts to cypress Dur love and
| reverence for them, and some Of them are
listening in the crowd and limping on the
fragments of shattered limbs; some of the
men who, amid the dinand danger of the
battle, have borne up tliclr country's flag on
an hundred fields; some of the nacn who,
without undue clation, shouted with the VIC
tors on the Chckahomany, and who saw un
disn,aycd the disaster of Gettysburg; some of
the men who made the bloody iav ut Frank
lin or who were with Lee ut Fredericksburg
at the Wilderness at Srotsvl,unia. at Cold
llarbor, at Deep ottolt, ut Petersburg, pla-
ccs their blood has sancti6cd names their he
roism has rendered immortal Have these
men suffered and fongft and bled or died in
vain Has this create c|tstrucelc Of modern
times, all this toll OF thu bavouac and the bat.
tic, this great putting folth of human strength
and OF all the higher human virtues, been
Tin vain? No men de| aid their names and
places arc lost in the dist with which tbcv
minglc, but great Thoughts and noble actions
never die, but live and go on their endless
mission, sounding dowI the centuries in the
deep, so ,orous tones of Rtarnitv: from genera
ton to generation insIling and rcinspirinu
high resolve, and runni]g and strcnrthcninu
and multiplying themselves through the ages
of Time Thus they wlo strike for the RIGHT,
fight the battles Of all ages md nations. Slecp
on, then brave soldicrd! 1ou have not been
forgottcn-you are, i)dccd, blessed. You
have not seen the ruinpf your country. and
yet it is your high am happy fortune that
your actions shall live centuries hence to Gle.
vatc tho minds and to influence the dcstipes
Of men. III. - 49,. :
nraIa Thank Glorious So u" past. ovcrpoworcd We
mo"h -, hot vanquishcd. PROSTATE we are,
h hnt st fallen Our Government has vanish
~ our armies have melted away; our sol
dicrs arc in their graves; liberty and fortune
are gone; mournfully do VIC stand by the
grave of our country but proud
ly, for we have saved her honor. Then. let
us endure with manly fortitude that which
with manly courage we sought to avert and
it shall not be said of us that VIC have our
hands on our mouths, and our mouths, in the
dust
BALTIMORE, July 6.--Judge Bowie, Chief
Justice of the Court Of Appeals, rendered an
Important decision undor the civil rights bill,
in the case Of the Commonwealth against Som.
crs, for beating negro. 1t was contended
by counsel that, according to the laws Of
Maryland, negro was not II competent wit
ness against white man. The magistrate
decided that the said law was null and void
and had been abrogatcd and superseded by tire
civil rights bill, and required bail, which Som
crs refused to give. md WAS com aittcd. Ap-
plication was made to Judge Bowie for a writ
Of liabcas corpus, which he declined to grant,
giving written opinion sustaining the mag
istratc.. He admits that there arc doubts as to
the constitutionality of the civil rights bill on
other points, yet not seeing clearly breach Of
the Federal Constitution on particular point
bearing on this case, following usage and the
decisions of the highest Courts, he was bound
to assume that Congress had not violated the
constitutional obligations and passed an un-
constitutional act The prisoner was remand
ed to tho custody of the officer.
The statue Of General Washington, taken
from the Virginia Military Institute by Gen
Hunter, in his raid up the Valley, two years
ago, was sent back yesterday by tho National
Express Company to Lexington, Virginia.
a NEW EXPLOSIVE CoMpoUNp--Anothcr
explosive compound, more destructive than
nitro glyccrine, has been brought to light
This chemical mixture is called sodium ANAL
gam. 1t is never manufactured in large guam
titles. thought has been advertised for sale
in San Francisco, one firm claiming to have
as much as two hundred OUNCES forsale. The
amount is not large, but whenit is understood
that the explosive power ofons ounce of sodi-
um is equal to that Of. abouttWenty.f pounds
Of gunpowdcr Or two and a half pounds Of
nitro. .glycerine, it can readily be conceived
that even fifteen Or twenty. ounces exploded
in one. place would create immense havoc. -
And when ono further reflects that even go
little thing as spoonful Of water. coming in
contacs With .wo hundred ounces Of sodium
would cause an explosion equal to that which
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