Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-11
The whipping Post.

" uIo sopioWttuG surprised 70 eco that tho
Kontncky Senate has laid on tho tabo tho bill
to ro-cstablish tho whipping post. We say
wo arc surprised ut this in Kentucky, whore
mon arc storm and stout and practical, and
where mock philanthropy is scarco, if it bns
any existence ut oil. But wo begin to suspect
that dcmogogism has found q lodgment
ariongst the solid mon of Kentucky, as we'll
as amongst tho legislators Of most all tho
Southern Statos, undor tho fearful social
revolution Of tho timSs. The consideration
that in whipping fclon rotcr might bo
whipped no doubt prevailed to carry tho Bill
to tho table. Philanthropy had nothing to do
with its fatc. So it is in other things that tho
public interests arc subordinated to tho politio
Wow taken by the dcmagogue. For instance,
tho measures to encourage shoep culture, by
protecting sheep from dogs, ali fail bocauso
the dog has a tote.
The criminal policy of tliis country hts
become inefficient because of too much phil
anthropy. The deusvo idea that crime was
to be ended by kindness to robbers and housb.
burners, snoakathieves and cut throats; that
villains and murdorors were to BIO made honest
mon and gentlemen by proaching and forgive.
moss, have paralyAed tho law and disarmed
tho police. :, Fclons ore not to DO roughly
treated. Their feelings arc MOTTO be wounded;
They must be Hospitality entertained aud left
to tho course Of meditation and remorsc, that
ablo detention fit companions for tho philan.
thropic pooplo who hnvo extracted tho sting
from tho law and smoothcd tho discomfort of
the hard and healthy discipline which is so
salutnry in the processes of repentance and
atoncment. Thus tho prisons aud penitenti-
aries havc dono absolutely nothing in the way
of reform, and tho men who have passed
through them havo como forth without fe,
pcntanoo, confirmed rascals, to make thor art
Ilol L.. II. Al.
fincment und before that hardening process
which made them imponetrable to tho moral
sensibilities. of which thoro were somo traces
ia their minds until they entered the so.called
ponitentiary, to part with them forever.
Tho whipping post would do moro to put 4
check upon crime and to deter men from
repeating their folonice than all other pro-
visions of law. If THO lash wero applied to
big thieves and littc thivos without distinction
OF color, race or previous condition of sorvi-
tudo, the criminal docket would shrink up
and tho jails and pcnitentiarios would be
relieved Of fully half thcr lodgors. Widen
impriaonmont, and Introduce tho ' whipping pHiIU us
post for application to cases of burglary and
stealing and thcro would b6 such change in
tho character and number of criminal cases
that wo might we'll imagine wo worc in n new
country. i is for tho want of Moro tlgid
administration of tho laws against felonios
and misdemcanors, and for tho want Of q
moro just gradation of tho rStribution to the
crime, that wo hear even in this adyaHced
poriod of civilization of so many Gaacs Of tile
intervention of Judge Lynch. Mako crime
odious by proper punishment, and tho public
gccurity will bo inorenseq whiio criiio will DO
decreased. Richmond Dispatch.
HOUSEHOLD EcoNoMY.-Tho average Amcri:
can citizen is giving much thought wa days
to the very practical question: ."Itow can /
rcdu the daily expenses of myself and
family?" Some say "times are hard" and
flippantly find fault with the government, and
blame mankind generally for tho condition Of
dads" &c., while others beliove that economy
is to them relief, and that it, like charity,
should begin ut homo, md 80 set themselves
about its PRACTICE In doing this, thoy find
that tho Government itself gives thon, mnnte-
rial aid through tho uso Of it's Postoffioo
Department. Shopping by mail is found to
he advantageous, and 80 becoming moro and
more popular. Merchandise of nearly all
kinds is aont from ono end of tho land to the
othor At little expense, and tho Government
hns adopted the old aoeigh of Fairbanks to
determine tho gross amount of charges. Tho
Postal scalo nado by tho old house of Fair
banks & CO. is usod in every postofico in tho
land, and it, or thoir Family Scalo, should bo
tho property Of every merchant and private
clifton. Prove all things that are bought or
sold
THE StIt FOR MILrIoNs.---It was stated
somo time sinoo that Mrs. Eliza Miller, of
New York, was preparing to assort llor claim
to 10000 aoroe Of land, valued at many
million dollars, in Virginia. West Virginia,
Kentucky and Ohio, as the heir of her father,
John Young, who at ono timo conducted a
bakery in Baltimore, and afterwards in Alex.