Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1872-01-12


dents organ III this city has opened its guns
on Senator Schurz. Nothing could SO clearly
mark the wide divergence of the Administra.
tion and the Reformed Republicans than the
acrimony which characterized the Times ar.
ticle 1t showed that the President has no
logger my expectation that the breach ia the
Republican ranks can be healed, and that lie
Is prepared bench forth 10 treat YSchuf5 and
bis companions i'd the Senafe as etlsini ies. ~
How the senator can persist ip regarding him.
sell as inside the party, when he has been do
Iibcratcly put by its Legitimate authorities,
remains to be seen. He certainly hos moth
log now in common with the Republican
party of which Grant is the chief, and vefr
little in difference with the Democratic party.
The insults which the President organ Ii
New York heaps upon the great leader Of the
Western Germans are in effect, that lie iista
mere adventurer, person Of Ieithcr capacity
nor honesty, failure as general In the war,
failure in diplomacy and statesmanship,a a
wordy, windy declaimer, and a "fraud" gene.
ally. He is accused Of having been on un-
considerable seeker Of government patronage,
and an enemy of civil service reform, until
the President removed his brother in law. from
the collectorshp Of Chicago TO all of this
the senator will doubtless reply in the Senate,
as soon as the recess is over and 50 the, war
will 60 on. }.' 9i1i .aaolt
A curious letter, written by Mr.. Greeley,
relative to the next Presidency, has iust Seen
the light. The writer republishes il in his
own paper with the intimation that 1t was. ID
tended to be private, but since the recipient
has given it TO the public, there is no reason
to exclude it from the columns of the 7tibtlns
The letter cannot fail to exaspernte the ad.
mnistrationists still further with Mr. Gree.
ley, for he unequivocally expresses the opiH-
ion that if the Democrats will nominate
Gratz Brown, Trumbull or ex Secretary Cox
for the Presidency against Grant, they can
elect either, and that it would be better for
the country if they should succeed. He SAYS
that he believes the Democrats could hive
succeeded with Chief Justice Chase in 1868,
and that as the result "genuine peace and
thrift would have been promoted" g This
giving of aid and comfort, in the shape of nd
vice, to the opponents of the Republican par.
ty, certainly looks Ike high treason, and log
ically should subject the offender to expulsion.
Where will the Tribune stand after Grant
is nominated by the National Conventionfi,o
WHY JEFFERSON DIED PooR--It isira.
lated Of Jefferson that he might have been
rich and not poor man, us he was, but for
the multitude of ndnring visitors who throng-
cd Mnnticello from years end to years end,
and literally ate him out Of honse and home.
AS many as fifty strangers sometimes swarmed
In upon him in single afternoon They
came on horseback and in carriages, and
dozens of them stayed all night, and many Of
them stayed for days and even weeks. No
other man of whom we have any record was
ever 40 overrun With visitors for so long,
period They came from all lands aud be-
longcd to almost every rank in life 1t was
not possible to turn then, away. Jefferson
had To stand the punishment, and he stood
it bravely, and with at least outward serenity
of spirit, although his inward struggles
were terrible. He finally sold his library,
perhaps the best then in America, and the
choicest possessions he had on earth He
and even the Legislatures of few States,
Of no avail. His affairs grew worse and worse.
lie finally petitioned the Legislature Of Virs
ginia for permission to dispose of his estates
by lottery; but before the act was passed he
died, nrd his estate was sold at auction by
his creditors, and his heirs were turned from
their ancestral door forever. oR
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a CHRISTMAS THoUaHr.-A lecture was
delivered in Boston few days since by Rev.
| VIM b. Wight, and during his remarks he
beautifully said " ,9 ra6
Most of us remember the days which are
set in the year of childhood as gems are set
in rings. In later life these startling points
! of time become effulgent days, rising like
suns; flushing the household sky with genial
tones, warming its gray with COLOR TO uus
numbered millions Christmas has been suoh
day. TO sad hearsithas brought gladneses1 il
has stood like rock by the sea. The dark
waves come moaning against it, to be caught
and tossed into silver spray yand dash, Of rain5
bows. Though the drops fall back again anii
are lost in the joyous ocean, though Christ
mas laughter soon settles into the moan of
care, the next tide shall repeat the benadios
ton. For, when Christmas is gone Christ.
mns is coming Though the yule log blases
but one year, sparks Of its oaorsd Aama
shall lingor on the hearth and mingle with
fires daily Eindled where 1t hos laia. The
benign effect of amerry Christmas does not
ceass when the tapers are extinguished.
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THE SfATE FAIR NEXT FAIL Colonel
d. Wyatt Aiken, the Secretary of the. South
Caroliaa Agricultural and Mechanical 30.
ciety, invites the cooperation Of citizens of the
State in completing the premium list for rho
! fair 70 beheld next Fall. Aily suQacstiopg