Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-14
Correspondence Of the Columbia Ph@nix,
WALHALLA, S. c., Sent G. 1867.

clcd extensively IN Europe, expressed to us,
in conversation few days ago, the opinion
that the mir of Walhalla is purcr aud moro
hoalth.inducing Than that of the most famous
health resorts Of Germany, Spain, Switzer-
land or Italy. The atmosphere is dry, pure
and active. The temperature is as delightful
as the breezy and bracing presence of the
mountains can make it. Invalids from the
lower and dampcr ATTITUDES find themselves
here rapidly restored to health, whether the
cause Of suffering were pulmonary, hepatio or
gencral-whcthcr the sufferers be dyspeptic,
bilious, or hypochondriacal-w whether their
ills be fcbrile, nervous or imaginary. Tho
secret Of this Notwithstanding character of the
place is to be found in the fact that the per-
fectly pure atmosphere allows nature to rc>
store her proper tunctions--does not impede
restoration by any local causes, such as nala-
ria and excessive heat--allows the uis n,eli-
catric natu,sc to have u fair chance in resto.
ring exhausted ,wcrs.
Wahalla, as everybody knows, is German
settlement made BY a company of immigrants
fron, Charleston, in 1860. The town has OK
crowding the population. The successful on
Grafton of the Blue Ridge Railroad will, no
doubt, contribute largely to the material pros.
perity Of the town. The communication is
daily with the Southern routes of travel.
~ number Of practical miners are probing
for gold. Their operations are active, and
some with whom we have conversed are in
high hopes of abundant success. That gold
exists cverywhcre-on every hill, and in tho
sands Of every branch and crcck-is abun-
dainty evident. The problem for tho miner
is to find the grand deposits.
The soil hcreabouts is stony, and not very
fertile, except in tho valleys, where the fer
tilty is equal to that of bottom lands any
where iu the world. But yet, these stony
hills, by little care and nauuring, can bo
made fertile beyond the richest lands upon
the coast or anywhere else. We can illus
tratc with an examples Mr.. Bicmann,v . Of
the Walhala IIotcl has section of his veg
ctablc gnrdcn that measures quarter of an
acre This piece of ground has produced this
year h"n'1rcd dushcis of Irish potatoes, and
there is now growing on it luxurious crop
Of fail beans. This yield of potatoes, you
will observe, is .four hundred bushels tn the
acre. This was accomplished at very slight
expense, nothing but common stable manure
being used.
There is growing trade here IN, herbs aud
bought hero and sent to tho New York mar
parilla, queens delight, Indian turnip, Co
Jumbo, slippery elm, golden rod, the various
kinds of snake root, and in all over thirty
kinds of native growth This trade CON.
menoed only last year, and already amounts
to at least 81 900 year. In a few years. it
will become un important branch Of business
and trade
The population Of this place is almost en-
tircey g fErls asaa tsn <hrenglt
with them mahy of tho pecnliarities of the
fathcrland pccu|inritirs that make them, as
a people, different from our American folks.
They arc very slightly.if 1T all, corrupted by
any villalnous tricks, and honesty, if It vet
fingers anywhere in our unhapny country.
fingers here among these thrifty 1eutonics.
More again. M ID
BERLIN, Sept. IA pacific note has been
issued from the Prussan Forcign Office. ia
which the recent note of M.3Mousticr, the !!
French Foreign Minister, il alluded to as
highly satisfactory to the Prussian Govern,
mont. iN
ATLANTA, Sept. G.--The New Era . -has
been officially informed that registration In
Georgia, so far as heard from, il something
over IS0,UU Xxx.
RALEIon, N. c., Sept 5.-Tho Rcpdbl-
can Convention re-asscnblctl this morrhine,
hnd permanent organization throughout the
State w.s effected Many speeches were
made, chiefly OF an inAammatory kind, favor
ing prescription Of rebels and conliscation Of
property Marshal Gnodioe defonled tlo
Southern whites manfully; Deprecated contis-
cation and warned tho, freedmen of tho dan
gers surrounding them, No platform rs yet
adopted. but resolutions referring favorably
to tho action Of Congress, we're carried by a
tremendous majority, amid vociferous choer-
ing They meet again tonight
NEW YoRK, September THE shipment
OF specie to day was $G73,000
The election in Canada yesterday resulted
in riots at Montreal, Griflintpwn, Clarence and
other points. The Disturbances were not very
serious, though several persons were badly in
jurod.
A Montreal despatch gives tho particulars
OF tho riot yesterday. About dozeu of the
rioters were captured by the soldiers, and the
police were only with difficulty saved from
tho vengeance of the onragod citizens, who
threatened to lynch them: One policeman
was killed. About thirty serious oasualtios
aud half a dozen gun-shot wounds ara 70,
ported as the sum ofinjurles sustained blythe
citizens. - -. s',s'ese q lsa;S 3
The passenger train on the Nauyatuck Rail.
road broke through a bridge near Thompston.