Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-12

cnce Of the same evil and raises the
penalty to 800 perSday Offenders
were made subject to indictment
and commissioners were appointed
for the Counties of Richmond, CO.
lumbia, Lincoln, Gilbert and Frank
lin to see that the river was kept
clear and offenders against the act
brought to Justice. TO like effect
Acts were passed in 1912, 1916, 1929
1880, 1881, 1884, 1887, 1859 and
1912, all, as will be seen, before the
construction of the canal even In
! its original form, cpd more than
thirty years before the building OF
the present dam. These statutes
arc all of the same tenor. They de-
clare that the river is so much OBJ
structcd, partly by nature and partly
by man, that tho transit of fish to
the upper waters is almost totally
prevented, whereby tho citizens of
the counties up the river were de-
prived of that articlcio food. Each
Act inEimates, by the additional pro-
visions it contains looking to the
free passage of fish, that the statutes
preceding it had failed to effect,
The repressiye legislation went so
far that the commissioners wore at
one time authorized to call on the
sheriff to summon the posse conaita-
tus and forthwith destroy all OBJ
structions. In another Act it is pro-
missed that the militia may be
called out for the same purpose. Is
it possible to read this Legislation
without seeing that the fish did not
ascend in those days, and that the
complaints Of the up-country were
unintermitted? Each of the COM
planning counties had its own set of
commissioners charged with the duty
Of keeping the stream clean; their
powers were ample; the whole ma
chinery of the courts, and oven the
military arm was put at their SER
vice. Either the commissioners
shamcfully and grossly neglected
their duties, or the failure of the
Hsh to ascend, while attributed then,
as now, to Instructions, was in re-
atty due to other causes.
1t seems TO be taken for granted
that before the canal dam was built
the river swarmcd with shad, and
the upper counties hauled them out
of the stream by the wagon load
but the statute book of the State
does not say so. To the contrary, it
shows that for forty years before
the canal was projected the fish did
not ascend, despite constant effort te
remove the distractions which il
was supposed deferred them.
May it not in reality be the case
that for many years back, as fal
back, indeed, as the beginning ot
this century, the shad, for reasons
best known to themselves, were 6c-
serting the head waters of the Sa.
vannah as breeding place? We
know SO little Of the habits of tho
finny tribe it is difficult to answer
authoritativcly, but one thing we dc
know, and that is the fact rs evi
dcnccd by the legislation cited, that
the dearth of fish in the upper Sa
vannah is no new thing.
The Townville correspondent O
the Neacs 0a,0 Courier, of the 29tl
August, says: "a meeting of consi
dcrablc interest, which had been il
progress in the Prcsby terian churcI
here for six days, closed yesterday
Some fifteen persons, all of whom
are young, united with the church
The pastor, Rev. II. @. Ligon, wa
assisted by the Rev. j. Lowrie Will
son, d. d., who is pastor of tn,
Presbyterian church at Abheville
DR.. Wilson is preacher of rar,
merit and has had withal a rathe
remarkable career. Born at Allaha
BAD, on the river Gangcs, III British
India, where his father, the late Rev
James Wilson, was stationed as
Presbyterian missionary, his earl,
youth was passed in that far-of
land. Returning to this countr,
with his parents he received his lite
rary training at Stewart College
which is now the Southwestern Pres
byterian University, at Clarksville
Tenn. His theological course wa.
not taken, however, till the close O
the late war, when he attended tn,
Theological Seminary, at Columbia
S. @. Hc enlisted in the Confcdc
rate service in the G3d Tennessee
Infantry, and was several times Sc
vcrely wounded. a deep scar OF
the side of the face records yer,
narrow escape from death. He los
a leg in an engagement near Drew
ry's Bluff, below Richmond, on til,
James, in the spring of ga.
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