Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-06

miles ahead. IL o'clock NJ.
Yours, &c., G..
Northern Society by n Northern
PEN.
The Rev. w. T. Clark, a Pcnnsylvanian,
paints dismal picture of tho ''AIoral Situa-
tian" of Northern Society. 10 enable our
readers to judge for themselves we quote,
without comment, the following passage:
"Tho reactions of the war on tho taste,
habits, ambitions and morals of our people
has proved damaging. mhc old order of
things has been broken up. The leaders of
other days have been left behind, if not for
gotten. Glasses arc dissolved. Ideas and
usagcs which had became familiar, are thrown
aside. New men, new customs, new notions
arc in the ascendant The low have been
lifted up. Followers have become leaders.
Bcggars Of yesterday arc millionaircs to day,
and set the fashion for whoever is foolish
enough to follow their lead. To get money,
and to spend it in lux !, display and dissi.
patton, are the ruling passions of the day
Such an intense and insane rush and struggle
for wealth, such ruinous extravaganza of ex-
penditurc, such deirum for the nuttering
fripperies Of fashion, this country has never
witnessed before. And, alas, not only taste,
refinement, purity and piety have suffered uu-
spcakable detriment and diminution, but even
honcsty-tho only firm basis of commercial
prosperity, the only sure support of social ar
der, the essential condition Of national we'll
bcing-has given way before the steady sap.
ping and mining of immortal customs and tho
fatal strain of false ambition. Speculation
tho popular name for gambling on the
street and at the boards-is trcnching on the
line Of legitimate business and eating out the
heart or n0noraUlo enterprise. E-e~as ~.a
villainics. deserving tho severost punishment
are pcrpetrated almost openly and confessed
without shame. Scarcely an article of food,
but is nauscous with adulteratons Coffee
is made of stale ship bread and oil nuts, milk
is thick with disease, and wine is compound
of drugs and damnation.
"Our streets and public places arc full of
intcmperancc, and not only do young men and
old fall before it by the hundred, but even
boys and women wear its fire blush on their
cheeks, and reel and tottcr under its influence
on the sidewalk. Gambling is business
carried on less publicly, but scarcely less cx-
tcnsivcly than many honorable avocations,
and the gamblers include every class, from
the boy Of fifteen to tho rouc Of sixty. In
deed, every vice on the black catalogue of
transgression has more than doubled in vol
umc and in victims within dozen years, and
our young men, tho pride and hope Of the
nation, fall before the subtle dcstroyers faster
than they eMduring tho Southern campaigns.
Marriages are Diminishing. Homes are
breaking up. Amuscmcnts are vitiated with
yulgarity Echoes of profanity fill the air.
The streets are mined with pitfalls of vice, and
crimes arc so frequent that they have ceased
to shock or even to startle us; indeed, we ex-
pect an account Of a wholesale robbery, divorce
case and murder as spice for our breakfast
Many of our judges scom to imagine that it
ls their business to protect criminals from
Justice, and prosecute prosecutors and punish
witnessesses until they are afraid to testify in
court. Many of our cities are at the mercy
of banditti who plundor by ordinance and pick
pockets by tax. Tho lobby is the most pow.
erful brauch of tho Legislature, and almost
any measure can be monoyed into law. Half
OF tho revenue officers arc suspected Of spec.
ulation, and it is estimated that single inter-
est dcfrauded tho Government out of q million
dollars last year. The Governor of the lead.
ing State in tho Union was unqucstionably
elected by fraudulent votes, and the repeat
ers' drop through tho rents of our rotten
courts like canary seed through q coal sieve."
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TIE LARGEST CITY.--.Itis is commonly be-
licved that London is tho largest city in the
world, but the belief is erroneous. Jeddo,
tho capital Of Japan, is, without exception,
the largest and most populous city in the
world. 1t contains the vast number of ,000,-
900 dwellings and 5000, 900 human souls.
Many Of tho strcots arc nineteen Japancearica
in length twenty-five English miles,. The
commerce Of Jcddo far exceeds that of any
other city in the world, and the sea along the
coast is constantly white with sails from the
Southern portion Of the empire, where they
are ladcn with rico, tea, sea coal, tobacco, silk,
cotton, aud tropical fruits, all Of which can
find ready market in the North, and then re-
turn freighted with corn, salt, isinglass, and
various other productions which have mar.
ket in the South.
Da. In a speech at Washington in 1850,
Daniel Webster said y eff tho internal fana-
tics and abolitionisss ever got the power in
their hands, they will override tho Constitu.
tion, set the Supreme Court at defiance,
change and mako laws to suit themselves,
| lay Violent hands on those who differ from
them In their opinions, or dare question thei,
infallibiity, aud finally bankrupt the country
and deluge it with. blood" And yet, there
are those who declare that Daniel Webste,
was no prophet;