Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-08-23

lists in all commercial and financial orioles of
Loudon respecting the reputation move
ment 10 Georgia and Virginia This, with
tho effect Of the railway strikes, threatens to
bo tho destruction of American credit in
Europe.
The eptiro Democratic ticket for Mayor
apd Aldermen of Greenville was elected by
handsome majority on the 18th Instant
We send greeting to the Democracy of tho
mourtaiu city. which has preserved its party
organization 10 spite of efforts to breed dis.
scnsions 10 its ranks.
The Mobile Register states that though
the Radicals of Montgomery outnumber the
Democrats more than two to one, yet at the
recent election the noble little band of Dem
ocrats redeemed the country. The cotton
belt Of Alabama is now almost solidly Demo.
cratic. Sumner, Dallas, Montgomery aud
Barbour are the latest and among tho most
brilliant jewels in our party crown.
A man may want liberty aud yet be
happy, as Joseph was; man may want
peace aud yet be happy, as David was; a
man may wont children, aud yet be blessed,
as Job was; man may want plenty, and
yet be full of comfort, as Micah was; but
he that wants the Gospel wants everything
that should do him good. Advancement
without Gospel, is but going high to have
tho greater foil.
The newspapers in Georgia arc considera.
bly, worried over tho protracted session of
tho Constitutional Convention. 1t has
already cost more than $25, 900. which was
the limit Of the appropriation made by the
Legislature, and the State Treasurer refuses
to pay out more money for its expenses 1t
isa costly luxury, but tho newspapers were
dissatisfied until the Convention was ordered,
and there is no remedy now to heal their
laccratcd spirits.
On certain occasion, when there was q
prospect, or at least possibility, of civil
war in Great Britain, the Duke of yelling
ton addressed the house of peers as follows:
"hly lords, am one Of those who have
probably passed longer period of life eu-
gagged in war than most men, and princi-
paliY, l may say, in civil war, and / must
say this: That if could avoid, By any
sacrifice whatever, even one month Of civil
war in the country to which am attached
| would sacrifice my life in order to DO it.
say that there is nothing which destroys
property and prosperity and dcmoralizes
character to the degree that civil war does
By it the hand of man is raised against his
neighbor, against his brother and against
his father-the servant betrays his master
and the whole scene onds in confusion and
devastation.
1t is stated that the late General John G.
Breokiuridgo had son (CabeD upon his
staff, and at the terrible charge of the
Kentucky Brigade at Murfreesboro', chose
him to carry an order to a distant part of the
limo, saying in roply to remonstranoe
that he would not direct any officer to face
danger from which he would spare a
member of his own family. The boy GAL
loped safely through q storm of bullets,
delivered the order and returned unhurt.
1t is now announced that he is to marry
noxt month the daughter of Lloyd Tcvis,
now reputed tho richest man in California.
While Capt W. A. Moore, of Cokcs .
bury, Abbcville County, was returning homo
from his etoro the evening Of the 7th he
was knocked off his horse with club by
unknown parties, and seriously hurt The
object was no doubt to rob His knife and
koys wero tuken. but tho robbers wero
frightened away before getting his watch
and purse. He is improving.
A teachers duty in the Sunday school is
not to hear recitation, but to teach class.
If ne has not studied his lesson, he is not
fitted to teach its truths--indeed he does
not know what they are. The important
question, therefore, concerning any school
is not, do the scholars study at home? but,
do the teachers study anywhere?
The Supreme Court of tho United States
has decided in subs,ance: That "the CON
mon law power of the State Governments
to regulate ferries, common carriers, hack :
men, packers, nilers, wharfngers, inn keep
crs, etc., applies to railroads and grain ele-
vators, and that it has in way been dinu--
ishcd and restricted BY the Constitution of
the United Stptes, and that the State Legis,
latures have the right to decide by statute,
if they please, what the reasonable rates. of
transportation" This is CALLED the "Gran-
ger" derision, and confirms the Granger
laws. Under it the farmers cease to be serfs.
Pure laziness is what's tho matter with
many people. Not few of them are too
poor to live without work, but are both
ashamed and too lazy to work themselves,
aud as they think they ought not to die
while other people are able to work, they
breathe on, hang on, sponge on, any thing
but work on. The are the impersonation Of
hard times On tramp--not on tramp
either, If they oan live without it.
While working on tho road near Lowndos.
vile. Abbovillc County, on tho 18th instant,
Lewis Young was killed by another negro,