Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-07-20


telegraph instantancously his messages to his
" dear brother of France and SEQ the end Of
a cable going under tho Atlanticto to that New
foundand which he paid Sebastian, Cabot to
discover The laws he so carefully devised
to protect his spinnors and weaycrs are dis
placed by free tradc--thoso artisans them
selves supplantcd by cunningly contrivcd iron
machines The realm that he left, rs Graf.
ton relates, nbundahtly stored with gold and
silver bullion and plate, he would find four
thousand millions Of dollars in dobt, aud yet
moro prosperous than even in his days.
lie would find individualism aud sclfintcr-
est everywhere paramount, and money the
object of life. lie must pay sixpencc, for ad
mission to tho bronze doors Of his own chape!
on his way back again to his tomb.
The effect of the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia is related in few lively paragraphs.
| In the meantime California was rapidly set
tied. X workman, building a saw-mil in
january, 1918, discovered particles of gold
/ in the mud; further search rcvcac, the
fact TINT Eldorado was found as last Forth
with stream of population set in, first from
the adjoining Mexican countries, then from
Oregon md the Sandwich Islands, the circle
extending rs tho rumors were confirmed, mud
Peru, Chill, Australia, and oven, Asia be-
coming involved. The Excitement in the Uui-
ted States rose to mania. Early iu 1840
multitudcs made the journey across The con-
tincnt, cncouutcring tho great desert, and
forcing their way over the Rocky Mountains
Very soon, 1000 horscmcn and 1900 wag-
ons had gone through the Pass SO great
were the pcrils and privations that the track
was marked with skeletons. Some of the ad
renturcrs, prcfcrrng to encounter the daugcrs
of the sea rather than the trcachcry of the
Indians and the hardshirs or the land, went
round Cape Horn. y new form of sailing
ship, the clipper, was invented to meet the
need. Others tried the pcstilcntial passage Of
the lsthmus of Panama. In eighteen months
100000 persons had ponc from the United
States The Bay Of San Francisco was al
life, and where this beautiful city now stands
was an oStcmporancous collection of shanics
and tents, bowers and huts. Since the days
when nil the human race undertook to build
the Tower of Babel never has there hccn such
a confused gabblc of strange tongues. pco
! pic from every nation undor the sun swarmcd
| togcthcr--somc tratlicking, somo digging,
many gambling. Ships were left snilorlcss
| in the harbor their crews-so sometimes, it is
said, with their officers at their hcad-had
run of to the mines Occasions arc men
| toned in which captains of singular virtue
had hand cuhcd or fcttcrcd their mon to keep
them. judges stcalthily left the bench to try
their luck The attorney general of the king
| of the Sandwich Islands joined in the rush.
| Every man was all things to himself; the
hiring Of labor was out Of the question; the
wages demanded were often from thirty to if-
ty dollars for single day. Yet, rs if by en-
chantment, this camorous anarchy ceased or
| ganizaton cnsued, streets were laid out houses
built, stores erected, wharves made, roads
constructed, municipal and State institutions
established. 1tmay be said that San Fran
cisco was built over and, over again. Not
without difficulty, however, did Inv assert its
supremacy in a population consisting of thous-
ands of adult males, with scarcely any women
The New York spectators found to their cost
that such community afforded but mn ndif
fcrcnt market for the laccs and rich silks they
sent 1t is said that pianos were actually sold
for cuphoards, there being no other demand
for them. Expensive furniture came to un-
wontcd uses in the tents and bowers of these
canvas and lcafv cities.
Nor was this profusion and extravaganza
/ limited 10 California. New York, into which
the gold Of San Francisco flowed, was infected
by the example. Persons who had been
stepped in poverty rose to aillucnco. They
| cNchahgcd shantics Tor palatlai residences
the homlicst clothing for the latest Partisan
fashions; coarse crockcry for silver platte
They brought vulgarity into the higher walks
of life. In 1851, so frightful in California
was the social condition-the courts dcrided
the constabulary without power; assassina-
tions and incendiary fires occurring in all di.
rcctions, tho perpetrators of these atrocities
openly controlling elections, appointments to
Office and administrations of Justice that
the more respectable citizens had to take mat
! tcrs into their own hands, and, forming viz.
lance committee, which administered rude
and prompt justice by hanging hogging, and
cXpclng the more atrocious miScrcants, Sc
cured better order for season
The long continued prcdominonce of the
South in national affairs is briefly skctched in
a passage which shows a just view of tho false
position into which it had drawn one of the
great political parties Of tho nation.
During period of forty eight years (1780.
1880, the slaves States had held the rcns of
government for forty years, the free States
only eight. 1t followed, Of course, that il,
the distribution Of patronage, tho former had
much more than her just share Between
the parties, which with various fortune, divi-
dcd the suffrngcs of the North, the slave in
flucnce held tho balancc of power, and, afili
ating uniformly with tho Democratic party
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