Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-08-11

and IN gruff voice eXclaimd:
"Nlen, put these things down. You can CO."
In response to their look of surprise, ho con
tnued: ] guess there isn't more here than
is sufficient for tho family.
The soldiers departed empty handed, and
with them their commanding officer As he
passed ut of the door he whispered to ser.
gcant, who had previously been placed there
rs guard over the premises. What that
whisper meant [ soon learned After the Off,
GERS departure, the sergeant approached me,
AND i'll respectful manner asked if could no.
comnodatc him with place to sleep. replied
in the Affirmative, when hc said:
Another man will soon be here to relieve
me, but the lieutenant has given me orders
10 remain iii the house aud protect it from
depredations by strnggcrs.'
Tho mystic sign had prevailed. was
left, not with ten days, but with Inorc than ten
months provisions; my silver and gold were
untouched and my house, under the guardi-
anship of the sergeant, was never molcstcd
during the remaining stay of the army.
/" never saw Lieutenant D. again,"
said DIR. IL, concluding his tale, but
this know Of him, that whoever he was he
was good and true mason"
No mason who reads this little story will
we imagine, refuse his assent to the proposi
ton.
a Daniel Webster, in pub.
lie speech delivered at Fancuil Hall, on the
7th of March, 1850, made use of the follow
ing words:
If the internal fanatics and Abolitionists
ever get power in their hands, they will over
ride the Constitution, set the Supreme Court
at defiance, make laws to suit themselves, lay
violent hands OH those who differ with them
in their opinions or dare question their in
talliblity and finally bankrupt the country
and dclugc it in blnod.
a statesman never displayed more political
sagacity than i+herc exhibited, nor was rroph.
ccy ever porc truly verified
\ New AND Coop WonD.-Thc "N New
York News has invented or manufactured II
word which has a very expressive sound. 1t
calls the Yankee twaddlc about Nassachu-
sctts, New England, &c, and about our slo-
rous free government, " podsnappcry."
TIE wife Of a returned Ohio soldier was
alarmed lest her husband should lose his arm,
which had been badly wounded by muskct
ball but by her careful nursing it was saved
Eight months after she gave birth to child,
one of whose arms was pcrfec., but the other
was stump similar to the one with which the
wifc's mind was impressed at the time the
surgeons were talking about taking of, her
husbands arm. The scar of the builct-holc,
so visible on the fathers arm, was also visible
on the childs at the base of the stump
GEN. M. w. GARY.-lnom the erich
mond Examiner" of the 26th, we copy the
following notice of Gen Gary.
We were gratiied yesterday to receive Wis.
it from General NJ. w. Gary, of South Caro-.
lima, a cavalry officer of merit and distinction
during the late war. At it's outbreak he
raised company, which he commanded, and
Mt the first battle of Manassas his command
fought with conspicuous bravery, capturing Il
number Of guns from the enemy From
the position of Captain, Carey rose through
all the intermediate grades, was made Briga-
dicr General, and placed in command of a
brigade of cavalry, which participated in many
Of the hard-lought battles wagcd for the pos.
session Of Richmond, and rcpulsing, single
handed, several advances upon the city. Cen
cral Carey rcposng upon his we'll earned
military laurcls, has entered upon the practice
of law at Edgciicld Court House, South Caro-
lima
TIE "St Louis Republican tells the fol
lowing wheat story Judge Russell, of lion
county, produced from single grain of whr&s
a stool of scventy-fivc stalks, averaging TWEEN
ty-ninc grains each, or an aggregate of two
thousand one hundred and seventy. five grnins
Were bushcl and half (thc ordinary qnan,
tity) sown on an acre, and produce in the pro.
portion this grain has done, the yield would
be S262A bushels on the acre. As the hun
drcdth part of this quantity is large yield,
and more than double the average crops in
the State, an interesting investigation would
be to- determiu M"a >ccomes of the wheat
sown. Who can ,.:f
a MAN living at village near Mobile. at.
tempted, recently, to frightcn some girls by