Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-20
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY H. 1870.

bay uron which is the Golden City. Who
could doubt for her future prosperity, when
they look at her drawbacks, and sec hcr gi.
gantic strides, since wc came into possession
OF her-oapturcd, MS she was, from the Span.
iards and Mexcans, in tho war which many
OF us rccollect? In 1847, had not exceeding
400 inhabitant, numbering now, within about
one decade, 200 900 inhabitants, with taxa.
siYl estimate of her property Of about one
hundred and seven millions OF dollars in 1869.
fshe has many attractions, as the reader mus,
determine, orshe could never have made this
stride, and, principal among which, is her
healthness-thcre being no local cause for
disease, she will over remain healthy. While
the climate is not all that one could desire
especially in the spring and summer, her
cold, dry winds prevailing gencrally-yet,
where, in this sublunary sphere has man
found the tabled paradise We did not
mention, in our last, anything about her
schools, of wb' rh she has many, and especial
ly her business College, where tho young
man is educated practically. Her churches
arc numerous and elegant. Her places of
amusement of the highest order in architec
turc and beauty Of sccnery--much of it laid
from her own, which could furnish the gran
dcst for the world We attended her muse
um, theatres, and hippodromcs, and must say,
that, out of many VIC have attended, hers sur.
pass them all She has tho "NIasonic Tem-
pe," that two hundred thousand dollars
could not purchase. The taxes would seem
heavy, (about 3.05 on the hundred, city and
STATED yet we see but few houses 'to let,"
though the business men complain of sshard
times" The business transactions arc based
on coin.
Wo did intend to have said moro of her
fashions, when VIC spoke of the manners of
her people in our last, and cannot refrain now
TO say ono word about the ladies, who dress
ato 'Demorcst," "neat, but not as gaudy" as
you would think, when We see the amount of
splendid goods displayed in the windows, and
the elegant jcwclry to tempt thcm-scts
worth from fifteen hundred dollars to six
thousand We priced them, and if VIC had
the wealth of a "Jim Fisk" don't know bat
we should have went in for some of it, IT'S
said, Mrs j. f. has four hundred thousand
dollars worth of jewclry, Gust think of that
end, snd pause; We mention these things to
sho" whatis there, but no uncommon display
is made ut seems; yet, one Montgomery street
firm sold, tits said, on yesterday, sixty thous.
and dollars worth of that article alone. The
men dress carelessly, but neatly enough, not
following any particular fashion, but just
"their fancy" without any prescription,
whatever. Such thing as "stove pipe"
you seldom see. We did notice one on a
ministcr, he so. called himself, of the "Church
of Cod" who was around at our hotel night.
~, trying to prove to us, that the soul of man
was not immortal, and that man, when he
died, was no more than the grass or ahy 9TH
or animate or inanimatc substance We did
- nrl IL Gol.o l.,
like his hat. Hats arc worn Of all kinds,
shapes and colors; coats ditto, except if you
ever see bobt tailed Boston or Broadway coat
here, you see in it real"Yankee, and if he
remains long here, gets him fashionable fel.
low. We did not have to change our garb-
was all 0. K.--fclt castor than when "W ak
ing up Broadway"
Now, We leave San Francisco, after remain
ing there four days, about long enough to
wash the smoke and outside 6iach off US
at o'clock, a. m. We took the San jose
and San Francisco cars, and made the run
to this place at II o'clock, M. and, what is
remarkable, the engineer never "bowcd tho
whistle" between here and San Francisco,
eighty two miles-coming through the pretti.
est country you ever read Of, and if the Para.
disc we "read Of" exccls this section, it is
worth struggle to reach it, if you OILY re-
main as long as we do here, (two hours. -
Yet, VIC must say, that MS we leave San Fran
cisco, near the ocean beach, that the "irre.
pressble" sage brush is met with, though in
bloom here, and very much like our dolncsti.
Gated, which makes, taken all together, its
appearance rather more inviting. But soon
we are amongst the mincimcta and chapparal,
and the latter means all the shrubs taken in
connection, and tho strawberries and wild
sun.howers yellow, bluo and white, with
those of all the colors of the rainbow-fi filling
the air with their fragrant odots, and those,
and the grass and other greensward clothe the
"word' around us in 'siving green" This
section is not unlike tho Johns Island part
of our State, that you have vivid recollcc.
tion of. Tho oaks, though not the live oak
species Of our State, yet you find them in 70.
liagc pretty much tho same; and, especially,
you notice tho long moss, termed, in our
State "dcath's mantle" for it is thought
where it is found no health is, but this, wo
should judge, was an exception--in wide
valley, surrounded by tho Coast Range Of
mountains, in we'll watcred country, we SEQ
no cause for disease. Though to plant success
fully you must irrigate, and all along you see
the wind mill pumping water for irrigation,
and stock, and Of the latter you find many
and Of the finest kind. We saw, at, NIillbank
Dairy, about fifteen miles out from San Fran
cisco, upwards of ono hundred fine COWS and
ninety calves; and very commonly SEQ from
fifty to ono hundred head Of cattle in the
ranches about Redwood City. At San Moteo,