Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-07

A SOCkdOIOger.

tho Campbellites. His peculiarities soon
made him quite noted, and large audiences
assembled to hear him. OF late he has aban-
doned tho pulpit, and is now justice Of.
the-peaco lawyer, On one OCCASION, when at
the zenith of his fame, he preached a dis
course on the dcliyeranco Of tho children Of
Israel, ~ which he said "Bretheren, there
arc many difficult passages in the Bible, aud
you arc likely to be led into errors unless
made to understand them. Now, YOU all
have read this chapter wherein Moses,strctch-
ed out his hand over the Red Sea, and tho
waters became wall, and the children of Is.
rael went over on dry ground safely, and how
the pursuing Egyptians, the chariots and
norsemen, and all the hosts Of Pharaoh were
drowned. Now, my brctheren, as this reads
it is hard to believe and difficult to explain
but will explain it, 1t don't mean what it
says; for tell you have read it in the orig
lnal Greek, aud it is there all explained and
made perfectly plain and in the next transla
tlon of the Bible, which our church is get
ting out, it will be all explained. Now this
passage Of Scripture, when properly explain.
cd, means simply this:
When Moses and the children of Israel
arrived at the Rcd Sea they campcd all night
and 1t turned cola, aud the Strong cast wind''
caused 1T to freeze over and tho truth of
the whole matter is plain, az you can see. that
the children OF Israel passed over, "dryshod,"
on the ice. There were no such things as
great walls. The ieinal Greek will not per-
NIT any such unjust and difficult translation.
And again, when the Egyptians, with their
immense armies, heavy chariots and great
weights, pursued the children on the ice, thew
broke through it, and were all engulphed,
drowned and lost. This, my bretheren and
sisters, is the true explanation of this cir
cumstAnce, and the original Greek in the
next translation will explain it all, and make
it plain"
At this point brother sitting back in tho
congregation aros and said, "Brother b.
would like to ask question, if you have no
objections"
staesss sssl4'ar leaking triumQhantly toward tho
as many questions as you want to y '-.--..-,
"Well," continued the brother, ''luy n,,ur,-~
edge of geography and the location of the
Red Sea shows that 1t is located nearly under
the equator, and is therefore, in very warm
country, and never known to be frozen. Will
the gentleman please tell the audience whero
tho ice came from os which he spoke? ?"
The elder became exolted, aud answered,
with lofty diSaAin, "If tho brother who has
asked me this question knew half as much
about the Scripture and the geography of the
country as lie prctcnds to, ho would know
that this circumstance which I have explain
ed happened thousands and thousands of
years ago; yes, sir, thousands Of years before
the age Of biographies, and before there was
| have answered the gentleman complctclyw
A SPECIMEN ScALAwAG.-A., 8. Wallace
misreprcscnts the Fourth District of South
Carolina in Congress, and was elected to
seat by the Radical majority in the House of
Representatives, two years ago, in the face of
a popular majority Of folr or five thousand
for his opponent. Although previously de.
graded by partisan scryity, he has since then
been ono OF the most abjcct serfs of Radical
ism. He recently appeared before the Com
mittcc Of Investigation, to testify against his
own State, by making charges 10 regard to
the existence Of Ku. klux, which have been
since disproved by every respectable witness,
and by none more decidedly than the Repub-
licans, whohayc been summoned from South
Carolina. AS soon as that testimony was
given, Wallace hastcncd to claim his reward
after the example of Bergen and Settle, from
North Carolina-iu the appointment of his
son as United States Marshal for South Car.
olina. Tho nomination was procured by mis-
representation of the incumbent, and, Wc are
glad to say, has since been revoked
In the days Of slavery, this person was not
orly one of its most blatant champions, but,
like many moro of tho same stamp, was in
tolerant Of any opposition to the "peouliar
institution" Now, when the tables arc turn
cd, he naturally consorts with negroes, and,
doubtless, finds many of them his social supe-
riors the Charleston Courier gives fair idea
of tho traits that mark most of this most
dcspicablr tribe Of "scaawag," in the follow
ing description
"Mr Wallace We remember before the war
as not only the advocate of slavery as It ex-
istcd, bat as standing alone in his efforts to
reduce the free persons Of color into condi-
ton Of bondage. Ho introduced into the
State Legislature a bill to sell free persona
of color, on certain conditions into Slavery
The bill fell through Of its own weight
Washington Patriot
GY" "What arc you disturbing tho whole
house with your yells in this way forY" do
mandcd New Jersey landlord of guest
whom he found late at night seemingly in
pursuit Of invisible foes, and yelling at the
top of his voice. I'm shouting the battle
cry Of Aoadom, iSanswered the guest, as he
went ahead with his search and yells.
nea. Iowa contains venerable couple
who were married In 1903, and whoare near
ly two hundred and five wears old collectively