Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-21
Coryespondsneesofsthe Columbia Phenix.,
81 .yYALifALI.A s.. c., Sept. 13, 1867.


he practically yiustructisct to our friends below,
TO give them son,o :of t..io, prices current, in
) this region, Of pure air and netonici honesty.
Beef bought by the quarter, may be had at
fropithree to Eve cents a pound, and tho beef
is ofs:oScellont quality generally; willie at re-
ataiT the pricelvarics from s to 8 cents. Nut !
ton is sometimes cheaper than beef. Bacon
aud lard range from 123 TO, 20 cents a pound,
depending upon Che supply of other meats-
Yenison Of the iness quality sells ut FROM s |
1 tosl0 ccnts u pound. Ihat is to say, beef,
mutton and vcnison all sell at about the same
price. Chickens oan be readily bought at
from l2a to Is cents, while eggs never go
above Sl0 cents q dozen, and three dozen for
quarter, We're bought a few days ago. Butter
costs fromll5 to 20 cents pound. irish po,
tatoes, cost, varying with the time Of the year,
i froms5 ITO rs cents a bushel and sweet po-
tatoes never go above 50 cents. Flour sells
at SO barrel. Corn just now--thc old
erop5z,costs $1.25 a bushc; but not Single
man with whom, we have converscd expects
that the new crop soon to come in, will com
.mand more than so cents bushel, if even SO
much, Oats were recently sold at 33 cents a
bushel. Rye brings $3.50 but the new crop
apples sell readily at 50 cents bushcl, and
too, is at correspondingly low figures-thc
best houses in Walhalla rent ut about $40 a
month; and smaller houses rent at So, and
there are many that can be rented for less than
that.
The Blue Ridge Railroad, you are aware,
comes noniinolly to Walhalla; but in fact IL
stops two miles short of the town, so as to
give one a pleasant drive in the omnibus be-.
fore coming too suddenly upon the town. AS
long MS this arrangement continues, present
plioes will probably remain and, when the
railroad shoots on past through tho tunnel,
and away into North Carolina and Tennessee,
of course prices will rather fall than rise
4 From tho, Walhala depot to the tunnel
about ten miles above hero the road is near
lNif not entirely graded and the tunnel is
abouttwo. thirds done. There is no working
. now. on this end of the road, but rumor says
the Tennessee end is br lg brought South
ward as fast as possible.
Tho Grecnyille Company is running the
Blue Ridge road to this place now. It char
! gcs enormous fi'eights but if a practical wis
dom were infused into it's counscls, to induce
it totput down these cxorbitant rates to about
half, the amount Of freight would-so sens-
BILE resident thinl-bc increased about five
fold. But penny wisdom is likely to have its
usual result--pound folly. ID.
Savannah Republican publishes the fol
loving letter, which was received at the
Freedmen's Bureau in that city:
SETNIRA; N. ", August 12,. 1867 10
. The. Gooetno1.-D Dear Sir: l have an only
brother, who enlisted IN tho Union army, was
taken prisoner by the, rebels, and since has
not been heard from and supposed tobc dead
have consulted q clasryoyant, who tells me
81 81 write to hin aud direct it to the Govern
4 or Of the Sea Islands off tho coast OF Georgia
he will get it !, therefore, direct to him, ant
I enclose 1t. to you, and beg Of you, if you know
Of any such person, please deliver my letter t,
him
s, I am a widow, and in need of male friend
and heis the only one to whom could look
His name is Samuel James Garrett He wa.
in co. d, 146th Regiment, New York Yolun
toers. Yours, respectfully,
q, Fl A. HART,
= Box No. 8, Elmira, New York.
Strange mixture of education and igno
rance, Mrs. Hart can write letter correct
in photography, syntax and punctuation, and
i. yat,ahe believes in a cairvoyant, and gov,
i. So !. 8 .e.gld :Lslagds.
( n ,IHliE iESll'oSEs or Bull RuN.-A corrcsnon
dent Of tho !" CINCINNATI Commercial writ
ing Of a visit to the battle. field Of ls-r Kun,
says:
] :. ."'Fhc first sight tl,n. greeted my eyes at
manassas Junction, was forciblc reminder
OF the war. The huge piles Of bones, horse
bones, cattle bones, and, sad to say, human
bones intermingcd, lay whitening right in
! fseus .oss tho hotel! They are picked up off
tho battle field by theowncrs Of the soil, and
{ earted bore, for shipment by the cars to be
ground info, Fertilizers, at some mill in Balti.
/. nore. Tho,pricc here is Ca penny a pound,"
!. one o. Fairbank's platform scales to weigh
L the deliveries, and several tons of bones have
beep,shipped. e One man. with girl to help
/ llin, collected ia two days enough to come to
/ SIG. Ny landlord, Pennsylvania Dutch
( mao named Warner brought out long and
n powerful looking bone from behind the bar,
4 sayihI q" Here now is some poor fellows
Y thigh, bono" The sight was not to inspire
& eheerfdl reflections. In another great heap
I: were, piled masses Of complexities, musket-
n barrels, wheel-tircs, solid shot and broken
shells, fragments Of swords, bits of wagon.
1. gear old rusty fre.ocks and the like. This,
6 is for the market. the last relies of the
3 huge debris. Of destruction of which cyery