Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-09-15
a New storm Cloud.

The New York Ueyalti of Thursday sodtids
loud alarm over the recent National Dem.
onstration of the ESQ called) Labor Reformers
at st. Louis, and the strong demonstrations
they have nude aud are threatening In Amer -sss
icau politics. Herald thinks that; possibly ~
they may not be abls TO make d curious diver &
sion n>sthe ''rcsidantiu canvass next year;
but they will thereafter inaugugato political
agitation more furious and powerful than has
ever been seen on this continent, and com
pared with Which the violence Of the slavery
agitation is as nothing.
These Labor Reformcrs are the Americau
international and Communist. The head.
centre in London, during their triumph i'll
Paris, said they were fifty thousand strong
in the State of New York alone, and there
were over two hundred thousand of them in
the different cities of the United States. 81 1t
is the Grand Agrarian Organization of tho
world and, in country like OURS. where,
under ltidica ruling, all thing are responsive
Immediately and totally to the ballot, it is no
wonder that the Uorun should smell and de-
pore the danger alar of. The few who own
the houses, lands, stock and strong boxes of
the nation will stand but a slow chance With
the many who don't own them, on the ques-
ton of an equal division.
The National labor Rcformers boldly threw
their banner to the breeze in St. Louis last
week. They said the abolition Of chattel sla-
very in the United States left labor still the
slave Of the onopolists-crushed down to
the smallest living compensation by the arts
and extortions of moncycd tyrants. The de-
mand that land, air and water shall be made
free to all, that call able. bodied and iutelii-
gent persons shall contribute to the common
stock, by fruit industry, a sum or quantity
equal to their own support, aud they insist
that the State as trustee shall guard, protect
aud distribute the common earnings This
is the London and Paris International plat.
fo II. Supplementary to these fundamental
dogmas, arc score of dcivcrance against
banks, swindling rates of tcrcst, railway and
manufacturing monopoics, new national
currency, Chinese labor and 50 on, which
serge skirnishrrs. satisfactory to the grand
batEc on the fundamental basis
New England is the theatre whore the war
will begin, and Ben Butler ESQ says the Her.
ahO is the gubcrnational standard bearer of
the party in Massachusetts,. Theirs the votes
representing employ and wages predominant.
That is the reason why Ben could not imag-
inc the possibility of his defeat for ovcrnor
before the Radical nominating convention Of
that State. lie though the convention would
be unwilling to risk rupture with the ."la-
boring masses" The HcraM says;
"In the coming Massachusetts election,
should General Butler be the labor candidate,
he may turn tho State topsy turvy. In this
event even the Presidential election of next
year may become doubtful problem but i'm
any event, after November 1872, we shall
have the beginning Of new political agitation
in this country which will hardly stop short
of the greatest aud most radical and sweep.
ing revolution in the history Of the world,
nd h,ll ho f.,r
or general civil war in passing through this
approaching revolution Such arc the signs
of the times, and we live in an age of rcyolu-
tions. - 7eiegraph and Messenger.
COMMERCIAL WIT.-The commercial col.
umn Of SO stately journal as the New York
Journal Of Commerce is not the place where
one would naturally expect to find sa,irie
report Of the morals market, yet in yesterdays
issue, sandwitched between an item on the
law OF promisSory notes and survey of
the money market, appears the following
"Ihcre has been good demand for sharp.
ness and acuteness. We notice also some
call for rougery and rascaity. Selfshness is
steady. Prudencc-Thc stock small, but tie
demand iuconsiderable. Peculation and EN-.
bezzIement looking up. Gross flattery ac-
tive, with rising tendency. Adroit lying
"t a PTelHu'n. Not much demand tor truth,
except in small quantities holders firfi.z.s
Candor unchanged. Uprighteousncss has d
downward tendency. Zeal for the right daI
and quiet. Modes,y has declined. Iai9hs
demand for justice not much offered Gam
ming more active than usual. good busf.
ness done in pockot.picking would be bet.
ter but for the police Something done In
suicide, House breaking rather active iust
now. Popularity Many and lively bids az
first and second call. Love of1good men
rather quiet Charity Of the first quality; lit
lie offered; owor grades are in good demand,
especially if they promise quick retufus.--.
Sincerity rather scarce and demand moderate.
Hypocracy stir; VIC may cay active.
a little doing in atabbing and rape. Drunk.
enness-Much offered and good deal taken.
Reckessuessin demand, Foolishness---Much
in the market, and considerable quantities Ia
ken nat high prices. Something doing in over
trading. Promises, not intended to be kept.
plenty. Honesty firm, but AZ low pfioes.--.
Usury rather flat. Extorlion flat also. Gov.
etous, moro fatal than cholera, increasing.u
Sea- B. Byas, member 8f the Sautli
Carolina Legislature, has besn attending
school at Washington during the yaeation. Il
and, we suppose, is now able to read and