Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-20

substantials and early vegetables, and sucl,
butter and milk, you don't often find away
from home This State affords all the ole.
ments of good living, either in raising stock
or digging the golden quartz, or the placcrs
out, SO that you may procure with their pro-
oeeds your subsistence, and yet you find in
this city now 10000 persons without employ.
ment, it is said, and 5000 paupers. Why is
it? echo answers why
We find all the hotels crowded The nun.
Der passing through the Russ House daily is
ut least one hundred, and then you take the
many other hotels and you find them all full,
general big rush all the time, in and out.
Ills said now that there is not less than 20,
600 strangers in the city. The Grand hotel
is the aristocratic, the Accidental and tho
Lick on same style. Tho Grand is mag.
niiiccnt building, spanning one square, ala
Stewart, New York.
Many merchants are hero from northern
and eastern parts Of the State, from Oregon,
Washington Territory, &C., aud a large whole.
sale trade is done here. One thing we have
remarked is that you sec few young men or
boys amongst the travel, generally men get
ting grey, some quite grey and old, many
OF them land hunters aud landsellers. The
land in the lower part of the State is so dis
puted that it is not safe for stranger to in
vest and feel safe. The lands al! over tho
State range high. From here to Sacramento
city, l3S miles, we guess you could not buy
an acre for less than 500, on an average, and
en- some of it, this season, not one dollars
worth of provisions will be made, but it is
not common thing in that section, though
it is in the country adjacent and near Los
Angeles and Nisalia, whittier we intended
going, to visit some of our friends and rcla-
tions, but from all the writing and telegraph
ing, and from daily communications with
those sections, we have concluded that they
have either "movcd their washing" or gone
where the "woodbinc twiueth." 'Tis soid
those sections are unhealthy, and We know
the migratory inclinations Of some of our
"kin," and we now think that to morrow VIC
shall 60 to Gilroy, in Santa Clara County,
south of this, and from that towards Virginia
City, Idaho, and Montana Territory, viu Salt
Lake City.
Yesterday we vent to sec Woodward Gar.
dens, on the outskirts OF the city, wcstwardly,'
and was we'll repaid for our visit. The grounds
occupy perhaps five acres or moro, beautifully
set iu grass, flowers and shrubbcry, both ma
tive, and the most costly and beautiful cxot-
les, and the museum filled with all kinds of
birds and animals stuffed, and coins, shells
and relics, and natural curiositics of every
conceivable kind, tho Polar Bear being
huge monster of his kind, should think hc
was, ten feet long four feet high, and built
in proportion the Ostrich, the king of the
feathorcd tribe, and tho Mbatross and thou.
sand others of the lesser kind was there
Tho statuary was Of the most varied kind, and
the one which struck us as amongst the most
handsome and impressive, was "Thc Indian
| Girl by the Grave of Her Lover" Shc seems
deeply distressed, and bowing over his grave
in the most tender manner, she brings to
mind verse of Bryant's very forcibly, to
wit:
San Indian Girl was setting where
Her lover, slain in battle, slcpt;
Her maidcn's veil her own black hair,
Came down DER eyes that wept;
And windy in her woodland tongue,
The sad and simple lay she sung"
Tho paintings were varied, beautiful ard
numerous. Tho live animals were also nu-
merous, very many of them we had never
seen before. The live fowls, aquatic and
otherwise, were to be seen in great numbers
around the Park and grounds. There is a.
large pool in the Park, and fine sailing boat
running around continually, and all you have
to do to taxa voyage around the world, is to
get aboard, and she soon takes you around.
| We cannot conceive of moro full and we'll
arranged Park. The Library is also filled
with choice collection of works, and the
pricc for seeing all, stay all day if want to, is
only rs cents, or as they call it here "two
bits"
We have now given you pretty we'll tho
outlines Of what We have seen, and wo will
not dctain you longer, and will perhaps, from
Salt Lake City give you fow moro pcnnings.
| We think that in day or two more VIC shall
leave here, and are anxious to hear from you
and other friends, which We hopo to do in
! two weeks from now, at Helena City, Mon
tana Territory
Yours &c, G.
g.. GILRAY, SANTA CLARA, Co, CAL,l
II O'clock, April 27, 1870.
DEAR COURIER while we arc stopping
here, We will give you few of our random
notes, and wo want to run back to San Fran.
cisco moment and shall call her the tGrcat
City" Of the United States, now, and the
! timo is coming when she will not be out strip
ped by any in the world. Her extensive har.
Dor 10 receive tho shipping of our country
and that of the old world, and since the com.
pction Of the great Trans. Atlantic Railroad,
! is fast concentrating thcro. Tho railroads
now in course of construction from various
points, (thcir main terminus being there, of
which this is one,) loading via San jose, tho
capital of this county, with 10000 inhabi.
tants, to this, now tho terminus, eighty.two