Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-10-27
A Ride on tho Narrow Gauge.

Grace Greenwood writes as follows to the
New York Times:
"l should have chroniclcd somo time aco
an excursion on the Denver and Rio Granie
Marrow Gauge Railway. We went out about
iltteon mics-as far as the rails were then
laid 1t was charming day. We had a
pleasant company of citizens and tourists, and
an went merry as marriage belr in the
ola days when marriages were some account.
On tins railway you arc struck at.once with
the reduced proportions of everything, from
the locomotive, which seems like small yari.
ETY. OF the 'iron horse'-a very little mustang
TO tho windows and lamps in tho cars
The cars themselves are bright, pretty, di-
mlnutlve affairs, cosy and comfortable. Tt
seems like playing at railroading, sreci.. .ly as
there is marvclously little noise or motion
Never have known train to glide along so
smoothly and quietly. The little epeino
'buck!ed right down to her work. like
GhI1uity, and made no ado about it for sevo
raj miles, when, grcve to say, sho balked,
and had to be Switched We took another
horse and went on morrily to the end of the
road. Here wc all alighted and watched the
men laying rails and driving spikes. Tho
rcmorselcss officers of the road insisted on
your correspondent paying her way by dri.
wing spike. 1t was cruel tax on my mus
cular Christianity Tho newspaper report
said that drove the spike home triumphant-
ly' But l really thought it wouldn't 40
home till morning This narrow gauge
road, when flushed to Ell Passo, will be
wonderful route---for pleasure as woll as COM
mercc-as twill be almost unrivalled for va
ricty and grandeur of scenery The noun
tain views the pictures of river, and park,
and plain, between Denver and Colorado City,
are especially magnificent"
INTENSELY RADIoAL--In the canvass now
progressing in Virginia, the question of
irepudiation comes in for share of Discus
sion and it is at least amusing to read the
theories and arguments advanced by some Of
the supporters of reputation. The following.
circular is published in the Staunton Specta-
tor by Ahithophel Smith, candidate for
tho House of Delegates. The fact that it is
published seriously and in good faith, rem
ders 1t more absurd IT t--'--->7- -
81 respectfully announce myself as can.
didate for the Legislature say the House Of
Delegates AS to my political prinoiples,aI
presume it don't matter whether 1 am Con.
servative or Radical, and shall say nothing
on that subject: Tho only question of inter-
est now a'days is repudiation, and upon that
am right. [ soc that somo of the oandi-
dates in Rockingham arc for repudiating tho
State debt. So far SO good A candidate
in Highland goes for repudiating all debts,
public and private, contracted before April
18th, 1865. That is step further in the
right direction. But neither the Rocking.
ham lawyer nor tho Highland doctor has
quite como up to tho mark yet. They arc
on the way, however, aud hail thom as fell.
workers. My doctrine is repudiate all
debts, and divide out the property. Here is
my ncighbor Major Jones, who owns five
hundred acres of good land, worth $4,000,
who don't want to pay his debts (amounting
to 5000 and grumblcs heavily about the
taxes. Well, now, is it right and fair that
neighbor Jones shall be relieved Of his debts
and taxes and hold on to all this land !?
say it amt; because when the law relieves
ono it ought to relieve all. / have no debts
to be abolished, and want little farm bad
y. 1t elected, promise tc carry out nv
principle les-universal repudiation down t.
the latest possible moment, (none of your
10th Of April, 1869 an equal division Of
property, and an oven start for us ALL There
urc Of course no constitutional difficulties in
the way. The people who hold property to
any amount worth speaking Of, are small
minority, and if all tho othor sort vote for mo
I shall certainly bo elected. Those like me.
who owe no debts and hold no property, DONE
caro- a straw about repudiution and taxes uu-
less in tho now shuttle wo can oomo in for
something" ~
nea.. Colonel Lewis w. Washngton, the
head of branch of the family to which tho
first President belonged, died on October 1,
after brief illneess Of congestiyo feyer. at
his residence, near Harpor's Ferry, West
Virginia. IIo will bo remembered as tho
most conspicuous of the gentlemen who were
seized and held as hostages by John Brown
in his famous raid on IIarpar's Ferry, in %.
tober, 1850. Ho possessed valuable oolec-
ton of relics of Washington, among others
the elegant sword sent by Frederick tho
Great, with the inscription, "From tho oldesb
General in the world to tho greatest"
GY" Real estate dealers in New York say
tho Chicago disaster has unfavosahly affected
that branch of business, owing to tho diver.
sion of SO much capital westward. Tho
number of tho dwelling. houses to let and for
sale has largely increased within the few days
past, and rents arc undergoing noticeable
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