Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-01

With the determination to remain under the
rule of carpet baggcrs, negroes and scaluwags.
This Territory is Democratic "n full" Mai
Wilkinson, of the Gazette says most too.
much so, "can't make it interesting" but wcl
| don't sec it SO, we are willing to take surfei$
Gin ours" When Congress passes her "Cull.
man Bill, - authorizing the Governor to dis.
| place certain officers, who are not running
tho machine in unison with the adminstra-
| ton, we should not "hankcr" after the Gov
crnorship of this Territory for VIC arc sure
| the first Democratic officer of this Territory
so dccapitatcd, the people would advise him
as one Ahithopel of old was, "to set his house
| in order, &C." Since our arrival in the Ter.
ritory VIC have not seen his Exccllcncy, Hon.
| Jcems NJ. Ashley. He is on Thompsons
River, with his ferry and rancho perhaps or
prospecting Cedar Creek. His house is on
| Rodney street, not far from us, and for size
and convenience, it will vic with the one on
south cast corner Of Catharinc street, of your
| town.
From l. x. j.. City, VIC returned via
fuckers Gulch, some three miles across the
mountains, and had dinner with our genial
friend of former days, not loosing any of his
many good parts since his removal to tic
"Wilds of the great far West" from Chcro-
kce County, Georgia, ten years ago. Wched
on the lst inst, stopped all night with him.
He has the prcttcst place VIC have seen in
Montana, taking it all in ALL First, he has
the largest, best and most conveniently loca.
ted placer diggings we have seen, just at the
foot of the mountains, covered with wood
The finest pure spring water and in park
or level BASIN with fine range all around him,
the hills, dalcs aud mountains covered with
Strawberries, raspberrics, currants and flowers
of every kind, it seems, and the higher noun
tains jutting out over him, now covered NJ, /:
snow, that affords all the water he needs for
his mines. Here you see at every turn the
late savage index of this region. The i'm
mcnsc frames or horns of the elk moose, Cor
as Nlessrs. Lewis aud Clarke called them, the
mulc) deer and antelope. We srw two live
ones to-day. The snow was eighteen inches
deep last week in his yard We visited his
home, and saw the "bcautifnl snow - as some
of our late poets designated it and mcthnks
that he must have laid his scenery Just here
| for We saw the robin and blue birds on their
nests, and saw the roses in bloom, the straw
berry and current also, and notwithstanding
it was in snow, deep all around us, 1t was
genial "summer time" and by dark it had
gone off OF one place on the mountain side,
near by, so that we arited our horse who
found sufficient grass amidst it to satisfy his
hunger. If the beautiful was not interviewer
;. here with the sublime amidst the scenery
that presented itself 10 us, we admit ta. We
have never seen either We have seen pretty
snow often, but the "bcau,iful snow" never
til now, but in this, basin as in the other
Jerry had Jim for his cook, and guess some
Chinaman does his washing. We nett in this
and tho adjoining gulch, the Mcssrs. Win
SCOTS, lately from Ihdiann, Who perhaps for
their successive proclivities, were ostracised,
for they informed me that they were not in
the Union army, and that Gen. John Morgan,
in his raid through Indiana, passed their
fathers farm, where many fine horses were to
be had, for the taking, and that nothing was
molcstcd, &c. They are opening rich
quartz lead. From seven pounds of the ore
they pounded, in hand mortar seven dollars
and sixty-fvc cents out. We found them
kind and gcntlcmanly, and bachelors, keeping
house alone.
On our route to Helena, We saw many
laborcrs at work in Dry Gulch, now no name
for it, for the road was flooded, and the mines
paying we'll. On our route, wo saw some
fine cattle, and occasionally milk ranch
poultry yard, and vegetable garden. All
branches seemingly prosperous. Wo got into
town to supper. One thing VIC have not, we
believe, mentioned in our rambling notes, and
that is the great difference in time here and
with you. We have sunset here at near 8
o'clock, p. M, sunrise about four, A. M, and
twilight very much longer than at home. In.
deed wc don't think that moro than three
hours of darkness intcrycncs between tho twi-
light Of evening and the twilight Of morning.
The time of working here is ten hours, when
hiring, but tho people, generally, don't seem
to labor moro than We do, when we only pre-
tend to work our little "patohes and gardens"
in the States. We asked wood teamsters,
today, on the road, hauling with two OK
wagon to town, what they mado, they said
a = 4.