Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-06-03
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 2G.--Thc House b;l1
repeating the law Of Now Mexico cxemptin1
real estate from execution, but excmptins
Sl,OOO homestead, was passed.
Tho Northern Pacific Railroad hill ,yoa ID.
sumed. seyerel amendments of charter crip.
ping the enterprise were defeated. The hill:
as 1t came from tho Senate, will undoubtedly
pass without amendment.
In tho Senate, an application from the
hnlghts Tcmplar for loans at ten per cent.
reported in joint resolution, meeting With
objection, went over
The action on the North Pacific Railroad
Is the result of compromise, which. it ID
asserted, secures liberal railroad bill thid
session.
The river hatbor bill reported today gives
the upper Mississippi fer dredging and r..
moving snags s36, 900; Rock Island Rapids
si5o, 900; Illinois River 500, 900; mouth
OF the Mississippi 100000; mouth of St.
Johns, Ella, $4,000; falls of the Ohio $3.50.
Ooo; Mississippi, Missouri aud Arkansas
IuTers ,OcO; Ohio River $50 900 Mis-.
slsslppl above the falls at st. Anthony $780,
0oo Tennessee River $4,000; Galveston
llarbor $4,000; and authorizes the Scctc.
tary OF War to make many SURVEYS in the
Southern waters.
In the Senate a bill to aid in carrvinr
mails between the United States and tho west
coast of South America was reported. II
gives S3l, 900 to the No, tn American Steam
ship Company for each round voyage between
New York and Valparaiso via Panama. 4
blil was also reported requiring the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad to
maintain drawbridgc over the channel of
draw $50 feet. = 'A'
Tho appropriation bill was continued, and
an amendment adopted limiting newspaper
publications of laws to important measures.-
1t was agreed to dispose of the bill and
amendments tomorrow:
In the House, q Joint resolution prantino
additional subsidies and right to mortgage
land and road to the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company was passed without amendment:
The CoWmittec of Conference on bill t0
enforce the fifteenth amendment rcportcd.-
After debate, it was agreed to vote to- morrow:
= h"t'"r having rc'nrned, tits supposed the
Georgia question we'll be resumed.
WHAT MAKES A MANA Baltimore
Preacher says:
1t IS neither physical nor intellectual de-.
yelormcnt that makes man. That was pot
a man who went from this city last week to
lound fellow creature for thousand dollars.
lie had the muscle and limbs, and all tho
outward parts OF a man. But if the man had
been in the frame, he would never have train
cd himself to become brute
That Is not man who is owned by a bank
account, or he who has let all his life run into
his learning or his art. The man is the man
moral, not tho man carnal. Moral and spir-
itual qualities arc they alone that make man.
Nicles do not do it, Society does not do it.
Learning nor industry. These got up great
shams, things men coyct or yield to. These
usurp the place and p,ivilegc of men, but just
as well might the mass Of rags and straw in q
cornlcld set up claim to manhood-thcy
arc not men.
BooUETs.- The following may be of inter-
est to some OF our fair readers, and perhaps
some of our nici young men might be benefit
cd by it:
When you receive boquet sprinkle it
lightly With fresh water; then put it in a
vessel containing soap.suds this will nutrifv
the stem and keep the flowers as bright as
new. Take the boquct out of the suds eyerv
morning and lay it sideways (thc stock enter.
ing Grst) into clean water Keep it there a
minute or two, then take it ont and sprinkle
the flowers lightly by the hand with water;
replace it in the soup.suds, and 1t will bloom,
as fresh as when first gathered. The soap.
suds need changing every three or four days.
by observing these rules boquet may be,
kept bright and beautiful for at least month,
snS vii Last s 0nser & 5 in a,f sryaRSs Rssas
directed above must be observed, or all will
perish.
Get Life is like fountain fed by thoi,.
sand streams that perishcs if one be dried
1t is that parts asundcr if one be broken.
Ihoughtlcss mortals are surrounded by in.
Vulnerable dangers which makes it much
moro strange that they escape so long, than
that they almost all perish suddenly at last.
We are cnconpasscd with accidents cyery
day sufficient to crush the dccaying tenementa
VIC nhabit. The seeds of disease arc planted
in our constitution by nature. The earth and
the atmosphere whence we draw tho breath
of life are impregnatcd with death. Health
is made to operate its own destruction. The
food that nourishes contains tho elements of
decay tho soul that animates ft BY viyifyine
at first tend to wear it out by its own action.
Death Turks in ambush along our paths.
GD- 4 Western lawyer, better known for
his wit than his regularity Of life, was at ODDS
with clergyman Of tho town in which he
lived, who was in the habit of making perso-
nal attacks upon people from his pulpit. Ono
Sunday, when somewhat top.hcavy, he stroll.
cd into tho Clergyman y church, and leaned