Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03

plant is not, like the rogue savage, wary,
and rcvcngcful, or as Sir S. Baker expresses
it, "thirsting for blood, }" and knowing no great
CT pleasure than the act of crushing his
victim to shapcless mass beneath his feet.
|
Farm Products
In looking over the Charleston Mercury I"
Of Monday our attention was attracted by an
article giving an account of farm products i'll
and arounl Charleston. Previous to the war
small farms were cultivated, but to no very
considerable extent and chiefly for homo con-
sumption Since the war however, the num-
Der Of farms and the numbcr of persons en-
gagged in raising vegetables have greatly in
creased so that there is q somewhat lucrative
trade carried on in this branch of business
between Charleston and the Northern cities.
Some idea Of it cen be formed from tho fact
that, on last Saturday, tho New York and
Baltimore steamers took out total of 4,577
packages, or barrels and boxes, the value of
which the " Mercury" estimates at tho snug
little sum of S27, ,4G2 for one shipment or
SOD, ,o24 per week for garden products shipped
to New Yolk and Baltimore potatoes
green peas, beans, cucumbers, s1uashes, to-
m"tocs, etc. We are five to seven weeks in
advance of tho North, which, during that
time, gives our farmers Il monopoly, and con.
sequcntiy, highly rcmuncrativc prices. With
jndlcious management garden products can
not fail to pay we'll. The Mercury" in
| forms us that there arc about one hundred
and fifty small farms scattered around the
main land and islands in sight of Charleston
Augusta is in close connection with Sayan
nah and Charleston, and We sec no reason in
the world why some Of our friends in this
vicinity could not find good aud profitable
market for their early products in Northern
cities. The matter is worthy of serious con.
sideration. If it is SO profitable to farmers
near Charleston, it would also prove rcmuner
al ), although perhaps not 50 largely, to tho
farmers in aud around augusta.
| 1nyu$ta mroniclc ,r: Sentinel.
|
Coon INTENTIONS. Radical journals, cs
pccially the Southern ones, are very profuso
ia thoir good intentions, forgotful that ca,-
tain place of pcrdition is paved with just such
material. For instance, these rcncgades con-
tend that the Republican party proposes to
put the ballot into every mans hand. We'll,
the party aforesaid may be " proposing" this
sort Of nagnanimity, but while the PROPOSE
'ion has an overwhelming application to nc
grocs in the South Quot in the North, mind
you) it operates in taking the ballot from the
hands of nearly a half million of mon whose
great crime is tic whicness Of their skins and
dctcstation Of perjury ana dishonor. Would
1t be too difficult question, if VIC asked how
long the Republican party expects to keep up
its "proposing?" We might answer, that
the party 50 "proposcs" until its opponents
swear to an iniIuity, dcGlc their consciences,
and po'lutc their future Why the blessed
Republican party is so strongly proposing "to
put the ballot into every mans hand" that
the ron-clad oath is deemed an essential in.
strument for wholesale removal of franchise
distractions. Again, so kcenly do Rcpubli.
cans desire to "put the ballot into every mans
hand" that about fiyc-cghths of the people
o. Arkansas and Alabama are, by atrocious
constitutions, ratified with Indecent hurry by
the United States Senate, ciicctually barred
from voting at all. In the first named State,
this cagcrncss is SO manifest that tho owner
Of stallion must subscribe to negro equality
or sell Ills stecd. The Republican party "pro-
poses to put tho ballot into every mans hand"
justas it proposed, in Georgia, to put rcpudi-
alton in every mans power. The latter by.
pocrisy was bad enough, but the former is
monstrous. Every day VIC have evidence Of
this intense desire for universal franchise on
the part of the Republican party. The tclc-
graph Of yesterday furnished a sample. l.
the way Of Congressional news, VIC read
" The Conference Committee on tho bill
removing political disabilities reported, re.
commencing that George W. Jones, Of Ten
nessce, and George Houston, of Alabama, the
only Democrats ON tho list, bo erased, was
adopted"
These gentlemen may have been rightly
served for innploring such Congress but
the animus of tho Republican party is sufTi.
clently exempliicd by this recorded vote
! llcnccforth, any fool, who chooses. NAV orcd;t