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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16
Z O T. Y n T q a l. .
Tho Grogt and Important Question.

Tho GreGt and Important Question.
(, We are dslishteh to notice tho manly effort
being moae by the Newspapers of The South,
ssys'the " Edgcfcd Advertiser to cncpur-
aye immigration to the Sonthcrn States. The
press is doing it's duty inthis respect, but the
people seem unwilling to move Ana why is
1T, ih God name, that the rcoplcof the South.
especially of South Carolina arc 50 inert, and
so lacking in that foresight, which the mos.
ordinary thrift and business sense ought to
furnish people? The negroes arc free, ara
they are leaving tho country to 90 f.rthcr
South OF West, and if their Iacos, AZ labor
era, are not supplied, the country must incvi
tably 60 to ruin Is any cnc unw;sc enough
to be still idly phiosophiaing upon tho 1roba
biitics Of the avnilab!cncss Of black labor for
the future? Ii will certainly be neither abnn
dant enough nor available enough to depend
upon. Why, even nov. scarcely day passes
over our head that we do not hear of some
plnutcr or acquaintance who I" has not SIN
gle laborer, and is not able to secure one" In
order, therefore, to provide against the contin-
gency of further failure Of black labor, lct MS
begin betlmcs to provide the white labor iEat
is within our reach The course of wisdom
TX to do tho very best we can with all the la.
b1r we now have, both black and white, ana
at the same time to mako provision to obtain
ten times as much more aS we now h. vc We
ahali thus make our present labor nu,re rclia-
BILE, and add Immensely to- the wealth OF the
State by Il largely ncieasoH ,lnnunt OF it,
And although we believe tie State .cris.
laturc should give cvciy possible encourage.
mcnt to Immigrants, rot the landhol,lrrs of
the State should neither wait fnr nor depend
wholly upon Legislative action. They have suf
ficient interests at stake, sufficient facilities in
their hands, to accomplish tho desired results
If they have the energy and enterprise to act
properly: They can now enrich themselves if
they will. The choice is presented them con
tinuing for years to come, as they have for
years past, the owners of comparatively valu
less property in fertile but uncultiva,cd lands;
Or raising their lands in short time to Il hiyh
value. Ii they will cnnlblIc together, offer
the large Inducements they are able to offer
to immigrants, and send their agents TO IIn-
rope, they can soon have steamers and omi-
grants ships landing thousands of immigrants
Upon our shores.
And yet none have the energy, public srr-
It, and thrift, to pursue such a course. And
vhyis 1t that when it would be wise to give
! Away half of oul lands to have them scttled,
80 tow seem willing to offer any inducements
to immigrants2
There arc many mon, we have no doubt,
who would gladly move in this matt and
earnestly y4-if they had energy and public spr-
It to get togethor, form tho necessary combi-
nations, and write ont their oilefs for publca.
zion Whe,thcn will set tho ball in motion
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16
POTTERY.
ThingA That lIaycr Die.

The pure. tbs bright, the beautiful,
That stir.el our hearts in youth,
The impulse oi worlless prayer,
THO dream ot love An irhtt
The lonsinss after something lost,
The Spirits yntrning cry
The strivings after better hopes.
These thugs can never die
The tim;i haul stretched ftrl, tc aid
y bro her in his need;
Thu kinUy wpr,I in srirf's dark hour
ria, proves tho Arcni inlccd;
The plea Of Grey softly hrca,hcd
When jasticu threatens nigh;
The sorrow OF n contfi.e heart
These things shall never die.
Tho memory ofa cllsping hand,
The pres ,surc o. kiss,
AMI ali tn. trhes. sweet AMI fr,il,
That ln,kn up loves Grst bliss,
II with irm, unchaaging faith,
r Ana holy trust ANA hifh.
Thoa, hsnis have cl,spd, those lips havs met.
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded AS i, fell,
Tho chilling want OF sympathy,
We fe,l hui navcr tell
The he"rl rc7y,lse that chills the heart,
Who's. hopes rerc bounding high,
Inyan unfsiing record kept,
|hE5. things sAhl never die.
Let ns,hing pass, for every hand
Must hai some work % ,{n
Lose not p chsnce to weaken love,
BE firm and jus. aud true,
So sl,all light that cannot In &c
Beam an thcse from on high,
Aad angels voices cay to thee,
Tiesc things shall never die.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16

EY "A cubic yard of gold is worth, in
round numbers, s1O0O0,O00 and at this CO.
innate all the gold in the world if melted in
to ingots, might be contained in cellar TWEEN
tyfour feet square and sixteen feet high All
the boastcd wealth already obtained from Cai-
ifornia and Australia would 60 into an iron
safe nino foet square and nine feet high.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16

sa- Within a period Of less than forty
years upwards of $1,000 miles Of steam rail.
roads have been constructed in the United
States, at an aggregate cost Of 81 500, ,564,.
600.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16

sss~ One hctoryin Augusta, Ga, has turn
ed out, during the last year, S,4lO.O0O yards
Of cloth, and paid dividend or olear profit
of 8G11 900 to the stockholders
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16

CHARLEzroS, FEBRUARY 7.--Govcrnor Orr
i here. lie is hopeful of a speedy rcstora.
ton on the ba.'s of impartial suffrage, and
will convene iho Legislature as soon as North
Carolina acts
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-16

JUDGE PERKINS, OF Columbus, Mississip-
pi' died recently, in the eighty aixth year Of
his age. He was liberal in his contributions
to charities. Ho gave not less than $50 900,
Of which sum he placed $50 900. in the hands
of the directors of the Theological Seminary
at Columbia, 8. G.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21

we are prepared to consider the phenomena Of
'mimicry."
Il has been long known TO entomologists
that certain insects bear a strange external
resemblance to others belonging to distinct
genera, families, or even orders, and with
which they have no real affinity whatever.
The fact, however, appears to have been
generally considered as dependent upon some
unknown law of 'analogy yn-some system of
nature OF general plan'-which had guided
the Creator in designing the myrads Of in
sect forms, which we could never hope TO
understand. In only one case does it appear
that the resemblance was thought TO be- use-
ful, and to have been designed as means 10
a definite and ineligible purpose. The flies
of the genus Voluoella enter the nests of bees
to deposit their eggs, so that their larve
may feed upon the larve of the bees, and
these flies are each wonderfully like the bee
on which it is parasitic. Kirby and Spence be.
lieved that this resemblance or ''mimicry,' was
for the express purpose of protecting the flies
from the attacks of the bees, and the con-
necuon is so evident that it was hardly possi-
bic to avoid this conclusion. The resemblance.
however, of moths to butterflies or to bees. of
beetles to wasps, and of locusts to beetles has
been many times noticed by eminent writers:
but scarcely ever till within the last few years
does it appear to have been considered that
these resemblances had any special purpose
OF were OF any QlfeCJ D6neuJ 10 the insects
themselves. In this respect they were looked
upon as accidental, as instances of the ''curious
analogies' in nature which must be won
dered at but which could not be explained.
Recently, however, these instances have been
greatly multiplied the nature of the resem-
blances has been more carefully studied, and
1t has been found that they are often carried
out into such details as almost to imply a
purpose of deceiving the observer. The phe-
nomena, moreover, have been shown to follow
certain definite laws, which again all indicate
their dependence ON the more general law of
the survival of the fttest," or ''the preser-
walton of favored races in the struggle for life
1t will, perhaps, be as well here to state what
| these laws or general conclusions are, and then
to give some account of the facts which sup
| port them.
The first law is, that in an overwhelming
majority of cases of mimicry, the animals Cor
the groups) which resemble each other in
habit the same country, the same district, and
in most cases are to be found together on the
very same spot.
The second law is, that these resem-
| blances are not indiscriminate, but are limited
| to certain groups, which in every case are
| abundant in species and individuals, and
can often be ascertained to have some special
protection.
The third law is, that the species which re-
senble or "mimic' these dominant groups,
are comparatively less abundant in indivi-
duals, and are oftener very rare.
ITO be OontinaIed.l
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21
GAS FIXTURES.

CALL AND BUY YOUR GAS FIXTURES
~ from the manufacturers.
VANKIRK q MARSHALL,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21

VANKIRK d MARSHALL, No. 9l2 ARCH
Street, manufacture and keep all styles of Gas
Fixtures and Chandeliers also refnsh old fixtures.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21

WANKIRK & MARSHALL HAVE A COM
V plete stock OF Chandeliers Brackets, Portable
Stands, and BrOnZes, at No 9l2 ARCH Street.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06

the process of annexation, will be
gratefully remembered as the author
of an act to protect the children of
the State from the averice of factory
owners or agents. His bill, which
has passed the House. and will in all
probability go through the Senate,
provides that children under sixteen
years of age shall not be worked more
than ten hours day, in any of the
cotton or wooden factories of this State.
1t is designed to correct prevalent
evil, and will be more important as
our manufacturing interests increase.
Mr.. BRANHAM, in the Speakers
chair, has disappointed the hopes of
his friends. With an evident desire
to discharge the arduous and delicate
duties of his position with perfect
fairness and Partially, he yet lacks
that thorough knowledge of parlia-
mentary law, and that degree of self
possession which are indispensable to
the acceptable performance of the
duties of Speaker. 1t has been his
misfortune to be greatly overesti-
mated, which can never be the case
hereafter. MARK TAPLEY.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
STATE ITEMS.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax has given one hum
dred dollars to the g. A. R. of South Bend
George P. Taylor, of Aurora, eloped on
last Monday night with his sister-in-law'
He left a wife and two children.
The Wabash Express has new head and
has changed its name to the Terre Haute
Express. Sensible change.
It's. Rickords, of Fayette County, was
recently found dead, with his throat eut.
Suicidal Insanity. InN ln
Dr.H. d. Cromwell, of Bowling Green,
who swallowed aqua ammonia by mistake,
died on the 18th ult.- $500 ----.--
III AT Charivart in Metamora, the other
night, the visited man treated his visitors
to asmuch beer and ipecac as they could
drink. The effect was beyond description
The editor of the La Porte Union counted
about 800 sleighs, sleds and slides in the
city of Laporte, a week ago.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
4 DemOcrat on Pr0hibition.

In the list Of those members of
Congress who have united themselves
with the Total Abstinence Society at
Washington, is Mr.. LEWIS w. Ross,
Democratic member from Illinois.
At a recent meeting Of the society
Mr.. Ross made a speech. in which he
proposed to abolish the sale Of liquor
in Washington City, He proposed
that it should be tried there as an ex-
pertinent. He considered that there
we're no constitutional barriers in the
way. Congress had exercised the
authority of prohibiting the sale Of
liquors to the Indian, and why not
he asked, prohibit its sale to the white
man? IF it was bad for the Indian
it was equally bad for the white man
He suggested that a prohibition Of
the sale of liquor should be made par
of the work of reconstruction, anG
added: :" Perhaps the reconstruction
on this principle might be well begun
at the upper (Executive) end of thu
avenue, and extended to the Slprem'
Court, and generally throughout thu
city" ~
The Chicago Tribune says Mr.. Ros.
has been a great strickler for tn,
rights of the people, and while
proposition from member from on
of the Republican Districts to pro
hibif the sale, and, of consequence
| the manufacture of whisky. Nigh
attract no serious attention, coming a
it does from the Representative of
Democratic District where eall tn
corn and rye raised, " except small
portion wasted in bread, is convert
ed into whisky, it can not fail to at
tract universal attention.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
THE VETO ON REcoNsrRUoTIoN.-

THE VETo ON RECONSTRUCTION
The Presidents veto of the Military
Reconstruction Bill was very lengthy,
and was much mangled as it was re
oeived by telegraph We do not wish
to occupy so much space to the exclu-
sion of news, by its publication en-
tire, but give on the second page a
full abstract of it, with all the points
made by Mr. JOHNSON in his own lam
guage; so that our readers may form
correct estimate of the force of his
objections to this important measure,
which is now the law of the land.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06

Elisha Sherman, of OHIO county, was
drowned on the 18th inst. in attempting to
cross Willow Creek on horseback.
Calvin Hays, of Dearborn County, who
was arrested some time since and taken to
st. Louis on a charge of forgery, has been
set at liberty and returned home, no evil
dence being offered against him.
They are discussing the subject of new
railroad a; L porte. There is proposition
for the city to subscribe one hundred
thousand dollars.
The Indianapolis Herald says an infa-
NOUS article of confectionery, known as
the musk Iozenge,v is becoming unusual
ly popular in that city. 1t makes the eater
smell like q William goat saturated with
eau de Cologne.
We understand that the retail millinery
houses in Indianapolis have entered into
combination to sell no more bonnet and
hat frames" thus forcing the ladies to
purchase their hats and bonnets of the
milliners. The combination is said to in
clude the wholesale dealers of New York.
A cotemporary says: The ladies in their
new style short dresses seem to have re-
newed their youth, and matrons of thirty
who have been in the willow wagon busi-
for dozen years or more, pass current as
"sweet sixteen"
They are establishing a new Insurance
Company at Laporte, with capital of
$4,000. Indiana is becoming noted for In
surance Companies.
On Friday afternoon, Thomas Irons, q
young man in the employ of the Western
Union Telegraph Office in Indianapolis,
fell from a step ladder while engaged in
washing the glass doors of the Office on
Meridian street. In falling, his head struck
the stone steps, and the conclusion kept
him insensibIe for some time, and resulted
in his death on Saturday night.
A lady OF Plymouth disguised herself as
an old man, and called on travelling ply
stefan, who was stopping at the same ho-
tel, for medical treatment. The conduct of
the physician led her to suspect that her
disguise was insufficient, and not being
disposed to submit to his Z" heroic treat
ment, she beat hasty retreat, with inter
minable confusion. She admits that the
doctor had the best of the joke.
Mr.. Rice's. divorce bill provides that
there shall be no cause of divorce short of
the commission of adultery by one of the
parties. Bluejazy, of the Indianapolis
Herald, wants to know if, when wife
adulterates her husbands coffee, an action
for divorce might not accrue, under Mr..
Rice's bill.
On Saturday last a young man named
Guion, resident of Marion County, went
out to chop wood. He cut down a hickory
tree about two feet in diameter, which, in
falling, struck an ash tree of about the
same size, but hollow. The ash tree was
bent nearly to the ground by the weight
of the hickory, which finally slipped off,
when the ash rebounded with such force
as to snap it off short distance from the
ground, falling parallel with the hickory,
in the opposite direction. Guion, who
stood at the root of the hickory, was
knocked down by the fall of the ASH, and
expired in less than an hour.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
Smiley Times.

The Evansville Sen1nel-on-the- Bor-
der was quite spicy in its issue of yes
terday afternoon. In addition to it
bitter personalities, we find the follow
ing items:
It says there are tsoeloe tribes or
kinds of Democrats in this part of the
State.
1t asserts that "Brick" PoMERoY's
Lacrosse Democrats the leading paper
in the Northwest; and that " Brick ;"
is one of the truest and most honora-
BILE men in the land
In view of the threatening charac-
ter of the times, it advises the citizens
Of Evansville and this part of Indiana,
and all those opposed to military
despotism in this country, to organize
to defend their liberties. 1t thinks it
should be done at once, aud before it
is too late.
1t refers to the malignant and NOR
bid publisher of German reprint on
Main Street." (the Denaokra); and
reads the Courier out of the Demo
cratic party, and notifies it that it will
be treated as a political enemy, for
pronouncing Brick" PoMERoY a
forger."
Altogether, the Democratic situa-
ton here-a-bouts grows more interest
ing and exciting.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
Rebel Officers In a Democratic Con
Yenti0n.

Rebel OmcerS In o Democratic Con.
venti0n.
Among the rebel officers most con-
spicuous in the Democratic Conven-
ton at Frankfort, on the 22nd of
February, we find the following men
toned:
General William Preston.
Gen. " Mudwall Jackson, formerly
of Virginia.
Col. George Jesse, of Jesse's Gang.
Col. Theo. l.. Burnett.
Col. Philip B. Thompson.
Col. w. C. p. Breckenridge, of Nor
gan's command.
Col d. Howard Smith, of Morgan's
command.
Major John p. Thompson.
General Abram Buford.
Captain Preston Rogers.
Capt, CAL Morgan, Brother of John
Morgan.
Capt. Dick Morgan, brother of
John Morgan.
Col. John Rodman.
Col. Robert j. Breckenridge. jr.
Col. j. Warren Grigsby, of Nor
gan's Gang.
Col. Robert w. Wooley.
And any number of privates-some
of then, in their old uniform of grayi
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06

REPUDIATIoN.-The Paducah Her.
aid, the organ of the rebel Democra-
CIV in Western Kentucky, is edited by
Col. JOHN FL. NOBLE, ex-Confeder-
ate Quartermaster, and an ardent
friend of the ''lost cause" He has
stricken from the State ticket, as pub
lished in his paper, the name OF
JAMES A. DAWSON dominated by the
recent Frankfort Rebel Convention
for Register of the Land Office, be-
cause he was once Federal officer.
We agree with the New Albany
Commercial. that NOBLE has served
him right; that any man who was
mean enough to desert to the Con-
federate cause after wearing the blue,
is too mean to run for Office, even on
the rebel ticket. According to that
gallant and eloquent champion of
Democracy, JOHN YOUNG Brown,
the standard bearer in the Second
Kentucky District, he ought to be
shot do,on, for has mpholy aoGr against
the South" And if the Evansville
Courier had thousand votes, we fear
DAWSON would not get one OF the m,
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
The MouIders, nificnltY.

The moulders arrested some days
since, charged with the shooting and
assault on Peter Malone and others of
Bridgeford's work hands, were before
the Police Court yesterday. Most of
them we're held in heavy bonds to
answer. tits expected that the Mould
ers' Union will be indicted as a nuis-
ance, perhaps. by the Grand Jury
now in session, as movements are in
operation in that observation-disclosures
UiNe Courier.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06

Our enterprising neighbor, the
Courier, positively promised that it
would publish the resolutions of the
Rebel Democratic Convention of
Kentucky and the Military Recon
struction Bill, which appeared. in the
JOURNAL a week ago. We have
anxiously looked for them without
being gratifed, thus far. We hope
to see them in this mornings issue.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
FROM THE CAPITAL.
The New Evansville Postmaster
Honorable Mention.

Editors JourEal:
Perhaps you will permit the use of
your columns as a medium through
which to extend the congratu-
lations of many Evansvillians to
your newly confirmed Postmaster.
on the fruition of his long deferred
hopes, and their coincidence on the
absence of his friend and compatriot,
the illustrious Squire MCBRIDE,
whose presence on this occasion would
so fttingly grace the signal triumph
of the junior member of the never
to-be-forgotten firm of MCBRIDE &
WHITTLEsEY.
The confirmation of such men as
GARLAND, ROSE, and others. whose
record is not less fragrant, though
their names may be less suggestive,
precludes the possibility ofregret that
the Senatorial career of the Hon. III.
s. LANE has closed; for it is believed
that had he used the means at his
command, he might have prevented a
result so very distasteful to all Union
men. It is more than intimated that
the ex-senator, in his excessive devo-
ton to the Rosy God. has forgotten
the claims of his party and the inter-
ests of the country. :
: Notwithstanding the prevalent opin-
len that honest men never go to Con-
gress, nor sensible men to the Legisla-
ture, there are few level headed,
common-sense men among the law
makers here assembled. g Even sthat
grand circus and menagerie combina-i
ton, which, for dignity's sake, is
styled the House Of Representatives,
is not entirely made up of strained or
unframed animals" and = lewd fol-
lows Of the basers sort, butts graced
by few solid men. who would be
valuable acquisition to any delibera
tive body. -rn s7rr.z.v
Prominent among these is NEW
COMB, of Marion, a plain, unvarnished
practical man, with the right word al
ways for the right place, and with no
superhuous words for oratorieal dis
play. His sterling good sense and
conscientious devotion to his duties
as Legislator, have secured the
respect Of all parties, and his remarks
never fail to command the most re-
.spectful attention. He richly merits
the sincere gratitude of his party, not
less than of the people at large, for
the eminently judicious direction
which, by "a word ftly spoken, . he
has often given to the proceedings of
the House.
The Republican delegation from
the First District have commended
themselves to the appreciation of their
constituents by sedulous abstinence
from .buncombe speeches, and by Civ
ing their best efforts to the promotion
of important measures. They have,
In no instance, skulked from duty or
shirked responsibility, and have made
record creditable alike to them
selves and the people whom they
represent.
DR.. BRUCKER, of Perry, now hap
PLY resident of the First District by
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06
wwERCHANTs FURNTsHED WITH

NH Common Ware alone, II desired. We
keep constantly in our warehouses AS
sorted Crates of all Common Ware OF the
very best make of goods. Also, many diff
ferent assortments of Common and stone
China Ware.
We are the only firm in this city that
imports Assorted Crates direct from
III gnnds tb Keep Pae'ehr o saI IN ybis
city has, or can get in the English
market. Our wares are imported via
New Orleans. direct, and bought with
gold, thus securing every advantage
within the reach of any house in the
West or East. ny.
Our stock is the largest in the State, and
will be sold at prices entirely satisfactory
TO the trade.
now diff
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-06

We publish this morning letter
from a bilious traveller, who has been
spending few days at the enterpris-
ing and beautiful town of Princeton.
As his criticisms are not very dam
aging, we give them to the public.