Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, May 25, 1849, Image 4

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wjaBBmat?mmmmm mil i n,MIL I HIJJ n. POETRY. /Vow the Model American Courier. A TRUTH. Oh, tell mo when tho joy -will come, That I have sought bo long, In lonely walks of forests green. And in the busy throng? I have looked for it in beauty's sinilcn, I havo fought it everywhere. Have tried in rain love's winning h.rain, But, oh, it was net there! In Nature's gentle loveliness, 'Mid fields in summer time, Where flowYets laughed, and happy bird* Poured forth their joyful chime; And where the little babbling brooks, Like children freed from care, Prattle and play the hours away? I've Bought the phantom there! In summer nights, among the stars, I've bid my fancy rove, Ana blessed them as they kissed the wave With timid looks of love; And wondered if of all the hearts One felt my soul's despair, Whence upward rise so many eyes, Like mine, to linger there! On Friendship's truth I fondly leaned, And crushed it?like a reed? .OK 'itrao o '? ' ~ . .?, ? ?i?o n *v?vij uiui^ in wurofl, How empty in the <&W/ And little children, whom I loved, So artless and so fair, Let day by day their love decay, Like yew tree dying there ! I found a gentle, dark-eyed girl, With voice?how low and sweetl Who used to come with kindling glance My heart's fond words to meet! Ah, mc?my life was then as soft As songs on summer air, But scarco 'twas bright ere came the night, And Hope soon perished there ! And now I am alone?alone, Beneath the bright blue sky? And cheerful voices Bounding near, But none, to mask my nigh; My homo lwth lost ita happiness, My heart o'erwhelmed -with care;? Til week in Heaven the joy that's given To all who ask it there! AGRICULTURAL, From Aliens Book of the Farm. GRASSES. Egyptian or Syrian Millet or Guinea /CS-. 1 t--l v * vf/uoo, \ouiguuiu iuucpense,j Known by various other names, is a native of our southern states, in many of its varieties, although it has been imported from abroad. I have seen it growing in profusion on Long Island, Charleston, S. C., and in Southern Mississippi. It grows like a very slender, miniature cornstalk, from four to six feet high, with a strong stem, and large grassy leaf, and bears a stately seed stalk, tufted with flowerets, which, howftvftr. K<"? fnr flC flmir lio.fr. , ?, mo vi*vj mitt- v/Uiui: within my knowledge, do not bear a fully-ripened seed in this country. That imported from the Mediterranean grows with great vigor. Ity roots are tuberous, large and prolific ; and equally with the rich, succulent leaves and stalks, when the latter are young, they are at all times greedily devoured by stock. Dr. Bacliman, of South Carolina, considers it a stock-sustaining plant, far superior to any other crown nt. t.hp. <u>nfVi Tt 0 XV uimyin to remove when once embedded in the soil, and the cotton planters look upon its introduction into their cultivated fields with unminglerl apprehension. Bermuda Grass, (Cynodon dactylon.) This is considered by Mr. Spalding, an experienced planter in Georgia, who examined them both critically, from specimens which he raised together, as the Doub grass of India, so much commended by sir William Jonos, and so highly prized by the Bramins. It is by the wr nculturists of thcscuth deemed an invaluable grass, yielding four or five tons per acre on good meadow. Mr. Affleck, of Mississippi, states the yield of three cuttings at live to six tons per acre on common me.idow, that it loses only 50 per cent, of its weight in drying, and is conEcquently the hardest grass to cut. It is one of the most nutritive g. isses known, :?t a ?v . .1 ?..? id iji great vaiuc 10 ine nver planter. It lovfcs a warm and moist, but not wet soil. Crab Grass is considered, (unjustly as I think,) a pest by the cotton planters, for equally perhaps with the Bermuda, it is a rich and nutritious grass. It cornea up after the crops are laid by, (received their last plowing and hoeing,) and grows rapidly as the cotton or corn matures and dries; and by the time thev are rend v in w 1/ ' ~ ' J remove from the field, has frequently attained so large a growth, as to afford a crop of hay. Even considered as a fertilizer alone, it is a valuable assistant to the planter. "When tV ">rn cr cotter, is young, the ground fi bres working to an extent sufficient to keep down this grass, solely with A reference to preserving its porosity?itn dew condensing, dew . absorbing properties. iVhen the croii is sufficiently matured to need no furtner rare, we grass shoots forward mpidly, and absorbs largely from the floating element* of the air. ? .iji At/, f -- ?" Jisiiaati \ \ - _ MISCELLANEOUS, VALUE OF A NEWSPAPER. ' The legislature of New York passed on net recently requiring the county clork of every county in the State, t^ subscribe f6r, and preserve the files of two newspapers printed, we brieve, within their respective counties. This is probably as wise a measure as ever was onnr.fpH hv thf> 1 ,r>rric1:ifnr<? r>f Vm ? j ? " pir^ State, and the Evening Post of New York city, gives good and sufficient reasons to bear out the assertion. It says that no historical monument ' that has ever bwn devised has half the value for future reference that belongs to a newspaper, and no record can be made of eurrcnt events nearly as truthful, as minute, ns systematic, or as accessible as the "happy pages which no critics criticise," of ,1 riOr'iArlipol Imimol Tin.* *1* ~? w. ^ j/v.vuivui jvuiuui. inn HVJl IIIV.'Ill, 111 this country, we should soon lose nil evidence of events not strictly legislative, and fifty years hence our posterity would be as much at a loss to trace the interior history of this generation, as we arc in attempting to recall the more delicate lineaments of social life in the ages of Elizabeth, or of the Edwards. The newspaper is the common repository of every tiling of general concern that is done, said, thought, and suffered, within its range of active circulation. It bears record of the people's tastes and of the means enjoyed for satisfying them; of their industry and its results; of their opinions?and the processes by which they are formed, modified, and changed ; of their politics, their religion, their social uuu nanus, mcir virtues and tlieir vices ; in a word, of their whole existence as a community of men. We think we are not speaking ras'nly when* we say that the advertisements alone of a popular daily newspaper, like the Times , of London, or some of oiu* most prominent cotcmporaries in this-city, for fifty Yww^, niirinsicniiy n higher historical value than all the historical records which are embodied in the literature of ancient Greece; assuming, of course, that the civilization of England and of Greece, for that period, were of "rpal interest to tbi world. In them we see, from day to day, what people buy and what they sell, what they make, *1 A ? -? * " * ?nuii mey uai, ana wnat they wear, what they enjoy, where they travel and vhere they send, when thoy are born and when they die, when and whom they Blurry, when and why they arc punished, and what are their rewards; what books are made and what books are sold, what laws are enacted and what laws are violated, what Gods are wor shipped, and in what new religion they are taught and how, by whom and how the face of the earth is travelled, and the great deep navigated, and the wings of the wind made to carry burdens. All these things, and many more, are taught by the advertisements of a daily journal. They d isdosc the civilization of a people with a fullness and correctness to which the most elaborate, the most authentic, | the most philosophical, the most ingenius and faithfully written histories of antiquity do not approach. \Vhat would we not give for a fde of n Roman daily during the age of Augustus ? How profitable mighlwe exchange for it all the histories of RoW which ever have heen or ever will he written ? Neither Livy or Tacitus, nor Dion CassiKis, nor Cicero, nor Suetonius, nor Pliny, nor Beaufont, nor Nicbuhr have told us a tithe of what would have found its way inio the teaming journals of that metropolis of nations. We should then be able to turn to the date of Cicero's speech for Milo, and read editorial comments from the pen of Sallust or of Hortorisju*. In another column wo might find a new lyric inspired by the muse of Horace, or a new lyric Inspired by the muse of Horace, or a new satire from the inexorable pen of Juvenal. Farther on we would Serhaps read of the first appearance of ^oscious in the Andrea of Terence, or of yEsop, "for this night only," in the vlmphitrion of Plautus. The struggles of the forum and in the halls of justice, the frequent and curious religious ceremonials, the daily amusements, the commerce the agriculture, the army, the literature, the industry, the very life of old Rome, Jill mitrlit tin frmn/1 in onnl> n o ? IWW.U ?w fresh, and as full, and as satisfactory almost as if wo had been permitted ourselves to open the sheet yet da p from the press, uruer the shadows of the Capitoline. Compared with such a record, of what worth arc all the inscriptions, medals, coins, and monuments transmitted to u? by antiquity, over which fully thirty generations of men have been poring with whatsoever light their learning and sci ence, and industry nnd wealth, and patronage could slied in the vain hope of extracting from it some imperfect truce of the old civilization* which have "died and left the world no copy ?" Besides the advantages enumerated, a newspaper to the family circle is indispensable, because it is a map of busy life from day to day, chronicles the mar* ringes, deaths, casualties, the accidents by flood and Held, the movements of the political and fashionable world, the local intelligence, and everything of a public chiwicter important to be known. V' i ? A-? . ? 9 A good ncw^por, says Prcntice of 't the Louisville Journal, is a perfect mirror c of the times, reflecting every, event of in- c terest that takes place. No mind can J 1 11 :.f. i ...i.t-i- i > uu ncil uiiuim?.:u ? uiUU UOCS HOI liaOitU- t illy consult the pages of the newspaper. < it is of great importance to children that r they have the means placed before them of becoming acquainted with what is ta- i king place m the world. They thus, in j, early life, prepare their minds to under- \ stand those affairs in which they must, c when grown up, become actors. A child f who grows up ignorant of all the events { save tliose that occur in his. immediate vi- g cinity, is sure to blunder, and often to v blunder fatally, when lie arrives at man- < hood and is called on to perform his part t in the great, and stirring drama of life. n Such a child will most probably continue f( to bo a child, as far as knowledge is con- ? eemed, all the days of his life. Ho will ti go on year after year ignorant of the ^ spirit of the age, and without the means of appreciating those great movements in i, which his own welfare and the welfare of a those who are to come after him are in- i< volved. But one, who in early years a learns from newspapers what subiccts are n interesting in his own country and tho ? people of other countries, is thus fitted to d oegin his career intelligently, and under- r stand Avhatevcr is designed to agitate or t advance society. In view of the vast im- t portance to children of becoming acquain- \\ ted with the world and its affairs, any pa- a rent who fails to placc within the reach t of those whom Providence has consumed o p. " ? to his care a good newspaper, is unfaithful to the momentous trust which has c been confided to him, and is guilty of a s gross and unpardonable neglect of duty. R No child should be suffered to grow up c in ignorance of tho government under t which he is destined to live, or the sub- t jccts that occupy the attention of the peo- h pie, or the condition of the people under ^ other governments. In youth-lie should s be taught to take an interest in all the movements of society, and then, when he n ^11^-1 ? * io wuicu uu iu jmriicipaiu in inose move- ?i ment?, lio will dc able to perform his du- 1, ty intelligently in nil his relations to his ], country and to those with whom he may <] becomo associated. Many minds that e have become conspicuous, have received their first incentives to exertion and devel- f opement from newspapers. They have r l>een first directed to the studies in which t they afterwards excelled by becoming } acquainted with them through the mcdi- p um of newspapers which they were in the [\ habit of reading. No parent can tell what t jrruai, u u important results to his children ^ depend on his placing newspapers within thoir reach, and encourage them to read t them. j No one, who from his childhood has r been in the habit of reading new .-papers f conducted with skill and ability, can grow n up in ignorance. His mind will have all s its views enlarged and corrected by inter- r cojirse with the writiners of men who have v ,, Y t 11 distinguished themselves by their intei- rj lectual superiority. Such a mind will not ]{ be dwarfed and clouded by ignorance. It -y ?vill rcjoice in the light that enables it to ^ form truthful opinions on subjects of duty c and of interest/and undri-stand something r of that sublime maci .r.ory which regu- r lates the celestial worlds that revolve ovor j; his head, and of the mysterious processes ( of nature that are ever working out their r stupendous results in the fields and forests f around him. c Reader, permit us to urge you to take ^ a good newspaper?ftpeak to your neigh- s bor in regard to the value of a good news ? journal in a family, nnd recollect that for r one dollar and a. half you can obtain for a j TrOOv o nc <1"? ' 5 - 1 * * ' ' j VHI, a Ol 1IIU uupiruu quality, 1111(1 J if you rend the "Kkowek Courier," you < will ascertain where it is to be had. From the Lsuirenavillo Herald. ^ TRUCK, a "An important, useful, handy little word" r There are many words and phrases in ^ common use, without some of which it * would seem that certain persons would 1 find it difficult to -mrry on their common J t At/nnr-flotr T xl.!1_ '-C * u,vi^-uuj> wimvioiiuuii. Jl IIIIIIK, II we 1 neccpt the little pronoun it, and the noun * thinp, there is no word used in our be- } loved little State, of a more general ap- c plication, than that little, short, handy * provincialism, truck. Hearing it used I several times at a dinner table, not long r since, revived in my memory a converse- 1 tion which took place on the 2T)th of Sep- s tember, 1830, at a public house between Newberry village and the Queen City, i?n.?i * - ? unt*i hit-, luiiuiuru, 111.1 mmiiy, nnu myself; find to give an idea of its extctjt- c hive application, I will, by your perm is- t sion, relate go much of it as relates to this t important word. ^ 1 ?. After a hard day's ride, I rode up to fl the gate, and asked if I could get accommodations for the night. Tp which the t landlord answered, "Certainly, sir, light." i "Here, Peter." "Sir." "Take this gen- f tleraan's horse. Come, sir, walk in?you i BPOn\ t/1 t)A Wi't. " ' Vstuelr 1 * ' " ^ ? x (illicit I. " in tho shower this afwm?xm and feel rath- 1 er chilly."- Here, Peter, never mind the t horse just no* , brng in some wood to t nisike, a fire?and, do yv\x hear ? bring f plenty of drv truck to make it burn, quick." i We walked into the house, and after ma- 1 king my obeisence to tho ho?ess, who, t with 'wo or three children, was pitting f near ihe fire-}?Iuce, we sat down, when n 0- n , v- . * A . * . ... Mm lie old genilcnian asked, "Wfont part iro vr?li frr?m Kli-innror 9" "lfwiv. T - ~ ^ v.?. A ?vrn JUUUI ins, sir." "Laurens! that's high up. iow's the crops in that section ?" "Prety fair, sir; how arc they with you ?" 'Why, jest tolerable?truck suffered for ain right smartly with us one spell." Peter now came in with the wood, and 11 laying it down, come near upsetting a ar of dined fruit sitting ou the hearth; rhcn the old lady, much agitated, cried tut, "Mind, Pete, you'll spill that?that ruck, there." The fire being finished, he landlord said, "Now, tend to the jentleman's horse?but stop. How will 'ou have your horse fed, stranger?" 'Why, sir, ns I have travelled very hard o-(lay, 1 would not like to give him iiuch corn; I would prefer to nave him ed mostly on oats, if you have plenty." '0, plenty?and that's a very good noion, too?give him eight ears of corn and ilenty of chopped truck." Whilst I was saying to myself?there s truck to make the fire burn, truck (corn nd cotton,) suffered for rain, dried fruit > truck, chopped oats is truck, in tripped fine, buxom, rosy cheeked damsel of bout sixteen?"Pa, did you get ?" >eeing me she stopped, blushed and sat Iftwn T?,n rvlfl I--*?J -? I vr.v. IIKII | Olllliuu, lUUilt'U Clllllingly at the old lady, and probably hinking some explanation necessary, urned to me and said, "We arc going to iave a big meeting over here at , nd I. have been to the store to get some rwcfc to make my daughter a dress, and ome other little things." The articles were now brought forward, xarnined. admirer!, nml omc lime, when the old lady seeming uddonly to recollect something, cxclaimd, "Oh, Jonny, did the Doctor send anyliing for Bobby's chill's." The old genlrroan, drawing another bundle out of lis pocket, answered, "Yes, he sent these tills and this red truck in this vial; and aid that it would be sure to stop them if -1- r\ ? i- i x . iv^uinu^. \j, ?ne, am i ten you bout Nancy ?" "No, you did'nt." 'Well, that tooth doctor she has been so ong looking for, came at last, and puled out two teeth for her, and scraped, I lon't know how much truck off the oth:rs." "What sort of truck Jonny ?" "Why, it was hard, yellow truck?I orgot what he called it. O, yea?what nakea me forget ? What sort of truck was hat the Doctor gave me last fall when I lad the fever, that made me so dreadful ick ?" "What, tartar ?" "Yea, that was l. 1 don't rcckon it is the same truck hat they give to sick people, but that is \'hat he called it any how." Supper being announced, we sat down o the table owl tho old lady began to >our out the coffee, but she suddenly stopA . 1 1 ? A- 1 <?.?, jjuu iiui iiuuu up iu smiue nor eyes, ooked steadily into the cup for an instant, ,nd then exclaimed, "Why, Betsy, what ort of (rueA- is this ?" "Why, the coffeenill handle is broke, ma'am, and I jest iad to beat it with the shoe hammer." ^he old ladv seemed r.onsirlnmhlv * ; J ""7" nd and said, "I fear, sir we can t give on a good cup of coffee to-night." "0," aid I, "don't trouble y -Mrself on my acount, I never use the article." "What, icver eat coffee ?" "No, ma'am, I prefer nilk at all times." From the smile that ighted up the old man's countenance, I bought be felt much relieved that I was lot disappointed about a good cup of cofoo. He ordered Betsy to hand the panakes, and picked up a decantet and boiling it towards me said, "Stranger, lake ome of this what do you call it wife ? 'Well, really I've forgot." "Well, no natter, it aint the common molasses, its he (ruck that comes from the making of he loaf sugar "O, treaclc," said I, 'thank you, I am very fond of it." These are all the ways in which truck ras used on that occasion ; but I have incc heard it applied in various wavs, md to various things ; and what puzzles nc, is to account lor the fact that Mr. rValker has given but one meaning to tho vord?"truck, to trade." Ho stands so ligh as a lexicographer, as to preclude "lie supposition that lie lacked trurlc in he upper story. I think it likely that ic never travelled much. Had he, in his routh, bought some knives, scissors, omhs, calico, and other truck, and traveled over the country to truck with the >ecplo. he would have sven and heard nanv tilings which he never saw and icard, ami would not have-been so gi een L i ?1 i - * ? menu Tno word iruc/c. U. Tylerville. , Funny.?The following amusing spcimen of crona-reading wc extract fro/W? he Washington Globe. The writer saya _ J ir/* i* i ? - n?u h arou Tenow Doing requested by a?vt ,1d 1"\dy to rend the newspaper, took it tnd begnn ns follows: JS " Lrtol iiight, yesterday morning, aboy,? wo o'clock in the evening, a hungry taral ibout 40 years old, bought a fip eu<$ivd of- a levy, and threw it through a vnll nine feet thick, and jumped ov?yfl ind broke his loft ankle olT above mee, and fell into a dry ftfiQ'^opdSmd | frowned. Abut 40 yCatfl after no same. flay, anolti dftt had ninejhirkoyi fohterfi^-tho -wir.il blow Yankee jPbddt# ntd a frying'??in, au<T knocked tho ol?? Dutch Churn down, and killed ft. bow and wo dead pigs at Bostfm*. whci'c a deaf ind dumb man vi r.n talking French to'his innt Peto"i\" (#& ? Jj. , - ** - - The old lady raised up both hands and exclaimed, "Dutell." | "SotlATTWft A Titrrt w ? UVU1U JfWUlt ago in tho New Hampshire House of Representativeone of the members of J that body, an odd stick from South Hampton, when the yeas and nays were taken 9 on an important, question, did not answer to his name. After the roll was finished, lie arose and addressed the presiding officer in the following pithy language : 'J Mr. Speaker, I rise to let you know that'I did not mean to dodge the question. I only squatted a little, in order to take a better view of tile whole subject; and I , now says 'ho' to the critter 1" The manner in which this was done excited a universal burst of laughter from the members. 1 n - ? onorinq.?My uncle P was an jjj awful snorer. lie could be heard further "I than a blacksmith's forge; but my aunt became so accustomed to it, that it soothed her repose. They were a very domestic couple, never slept apart for many years. At length my uncle was required to attend Court at some hundred miles distant. The first night after his departure, my aunt never slept a wink; she missed the snoring. The second night passed away in the same way without sleep. She was getting into a very bad way, and probably would have died, had it not been for the ingenuity of a servant girl; she took the coffec mill into my aunts chamber and ground her to sleep at once ! -Birdie's Wag tf 3.?"What's your eggs a dozen, marm ?" said an old skin-flint one day to a market woman. " Twenty cents, sir." " Aint you rather high in your price ? nine pence is enough for . eggs. " Perhaps such an old hunk as you may think so; but if I was a hen I wouldn't lay eggs for a cent a piece, I know." From Fort Leaventoortk?Departure of troops for California and Oreaon..?A ^ - correspondent of the New York Sun, writing from Fort Leavenworth, April 20th, says, there is a great rise in tho prices of grain, horses, and mules there ?that boats are daily passing, crowded with California emigrants, the cholera following as to tho movement of troops : The ritle regiment is here, under the command of the gallant Col. Loring, (who lost his left arm in tho storming of Chapultepec.) It will leave about tho n Ail - i* zutn 01 way. Six companies arc destined for Oregon, direct, and three companies for Salt Lake, or Bear River, and three cc.npanic3 will proceed to what is commonly called Fort Larimie, on Larimie river. This post will be garrisoned by some artillery, infantry, and dragoons. Fort Kearney, on Platte river, will be garrisoned by two companies of infantry and one of dragoons. Larimie by two of rifles and one of infantry. At the latter post Major Sanderson Wilt Kn m ..... MV (U <UV/XUIJ1UIIU? The cholera and email pox are thinning the ranki of the rifles considerably, but no one seems to dread the frequent cholera alarms, becausc they have1 the very first surgeons in the world. There die daily about three. The companies wdl have to be filled up before they advance. Missions in Oregon.?The Methodist missions omVimoo c!r- '? -?1 VIA UM90lVlir>I 1U9 UIIU twelve or fifteen local preachers. There are two Presbyterian churches, u?*d one Congrcgationa), with cler#y?nen ; the Baptists have two ^roinistere and churched the CumhoHartdTPreobyterians three, thr two, thftj Campbellites one, and t&e Ipfcholic priests are numerous. Mwfcilj Smolting produces gastic disorders, cougiift, nna UrtinnttBfttory affections of the lnryn^, jmd pharyYix, diseases of the heart aii<ti'loVncsa of the spirits, and, in shorty IsMftsty injurious to the respiratory, aUiMtytaW, and nervous system. SrttXKjiffd Oct in Chcrch.?A young who is entracrcd and win W United to a gallant son of NopMjkfff yisited the Mariner's Church on l^ncfcy last. Diuring the sermon, the psistd? tfiscoiirsed eloquently and with mdjmr^arnestness of manner on the trials, mmk and temptations of the profess-.iilor, he concluded by asking U'io following question : "Is lere one ifc^fchinks anything of him who wears j^Wjp^ulin hat, a blue iaeket. or a nnir Pert* made of duck?in short, is v one who cares aught for the lor ?' A little girl, a water of ng lfldy, who was sitting ' y her, itcly jumped up, and looki ; archier sister, said, in a tone, loud fisriough for every one to hear; Sir, </>/??. t" ?m "i-f * ?w,v uveal iiK/iiuuit'iicu weiowmvmsed with laughter the minister bit his Hps, and concluded the services by requesting the congregation U> unite with him in prayer.?N. V. IVibum. tin.. # J - * - ?a ... % - * nr ny is u>o nuo 01 a carx v/ncci L'Ke r. hnndflCime.yminff Uvdy ? Bccniwo it's ^ vnyg surrounded by fellere. "V ^' ' " ^ 'f I :.i .A.. . ; ibii