Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, June 02, 1849, Image 4
rORTKY.
WHAT 19 WOMAN.
TTO? U WOTIUUI t AUDI IWMt angel f
Gentle, tender, calm, and landEver
loving, ever faithful.
Is her soft and soothing mind;
A beauteous flower, bom to blossom.
Giving gladness to the eve ;
Ualf-doigncd for man's fond bosom,
Half a creature of the sky 1
What is woroan! Ask her sorrow.
Know how deeply she can feel,
But when hope her heart would borrow,
Mark what joy she can reveal;
O'er her cheek each pure emotion
Of her soul is soen to fly,
As fair clouds with chaste devotion
Fleet o'er Luna'a face on higli.
"What is woman ? All forbearing,
Patient, prudent, ?ecming gay?
Though ?ad imrard, thoughts arc wearing,
All unspoken, life away.
Thus she is * flower's nwoct blossom,
Giving Olitdncss to the eye ;
Half-designed for man's fond bosom,
Half a creature of the sky!
LOVE 18 NOT A GARDEN FLOWER.
BY OEORQK P. MORRIS.
Ah! Love is not a garden flower,
Tliat shoots from out the cultur'd earth,
That needs the sunbeam and the shower
Before it wakens into birth:
It owns a richer soil ami aenrt
And woman'# heart supplies them boin?
"Where It will spring, without a weed,
Consummate in its growth.
'I liesc leaves will perish when away
From cither genial min or shower,
Not bo will wither and decay
Celestial Love's perennial (lower.
'Tin our companion# countless smiles,
Through weal or wo, in after years.
And though it flourishes in smiles,
It blooms as fresh in tears.
Iff fer<W T A M?A*ro
Wamiv for thk Keowke Courier.
A Sketch of a Ride.
The following description and briefmention
of 8* enery and localities is no
fancy sketch, but the realizations of one,
who has visited the site of that ancient
station of the British, called Fort George,
or otherwise Fort Prince George. It
may not b generally known, that, this
place w only some six or seven miles abovc
Pickens Court H -use, and that this
stronghold of the mother country was
made the basis of operations ngainst the
French nnd their red allies, when our
own Marion under Colonel Grant penetrated
the vast wilderness, with which
inis region then abounded, and assisted
in punishing the murderous Cherokee#.
The indulgent reader is referred to the
life of Marion by Simms, or that by
Wcems.
To proceed, I shall perhaps, never forget
the day and the particular time of our
departure. (I say our, because I went
with a friend.) The dazzling luminaly
of day had passed his meiidian glory, and
was fast sinkiner tn bi? wn(?nr
^ ...w ?? m?vi j wiitii in
the great, western ocenn, ere we fiet out
on our excursion. The evening was ns
clear ns tlie untroubled brow of childhood,
" calm as the 'fields of Heaven," and
b ight ns the dny-dronms of the youthful
poet! Ri<?ht. musicnlly and Joyously did
the lucid tide of Kcoxoce lipple o'er sanded
ledge and round? d pebble, as we
drove across the romantic b idge, which
spans that most benutiful and lovely of
streams near the village of Pickens. The
gnarled oaks and shelvy rocks seemed
bending in charmed admiration over the
fair face of the haunted rivulet, whilst
along its meandering ho*der?, the "rflll
vale" nnd the graceful hill reposed in the
elvsium of its presence! Having passed
this entrancing locate of Nature, the way
presented nought but trees, hills, and
mossed rocks, Until we had reached the
eleemosynary institution of the District.
The 8ituation of this establishment is a
beautiful and undulating plain. It is here
the children of misfortune may find an
asylum from the beating storms of penury
and want. The next point, of attraction
is a narrow defile called "gap-hill,"
where even anterior to the American
Revolution, the roar of battle broke the
deep solitude of the primeval wilderness.
One sees the ominous rocks and trees
upon the frowning heights and shudders
to think of that " storm of death," which
was once poured from them into the se cluded
pass;?and in the distance, the
eve lookH nn
_ ( .luonjr upiCIIUUr Ol
the Mountains, seeming to ri from the
lowly v^ile to kiss the blushing clouds,
whilst around, ft solemn death-like filenw
prev lis reminding him, 'that, hore died
the brove, the noble and the generous, a#
well as the gay Frenchman and the wily
savage. Tn-n thinking of the gallant
Englishman battling side by side with
the provincials ttpffist the common foe,
perhaps you, kind reader, would be
forced to reiterate, as I did in my heart,
those words of relenting affection: "Engio.wi
wuv. -11 *1- -t? - -p
Wiu nii/u w.1 tuy lttuiut I LOVE theft still.'
Alighting from the vehicle to walk thro'
the defile end down the long dope oi
gap-hill, I JtU that we were treading
classic ground. From tbyfljfoiot to th
hospitable mansion of wiuth
, .?* ' *' 4 if
'' * . ' " Jm
w
%
?r we were journeying, the way presents
scenery the moet wild, beautiful, and
picturesque. Along this stretch of highway,
bo rife with the thrilling memories
of a by-gone age. Nature reveals hei
mysterious and magical beauty for the
rapt contemplation of her votailes.
'"The eve hid front wmIimkI ?nfl ?
The sun-set pourc-'l its rcwj flood.
Slanting o'er wood and viue.n
When, at length, we reached our destination
and received the cordial greeting
of our friend. Nothing in life could excel
the unaffected kindnc&s of the inmates
at his house. The farm of our friend
is an extensive and beautiful vale, thro*
the midst of which flow the limpid waters
of Keowee. But it is the historical
associations connected with this localitv
which enchains the attention and incites
to meditation. Here arc tumuli, in all
pi-obability, the sopulcher of nations.?
Here the embrasures of Fort Prince
George once frowned with ordnance to
the terror of the neighboring tribes of
Indians. Here were once enacted scenes
of stratagem, perfidy and cruelty. And
here, "long, long ago," might be seen
"the smokes' blue wreaths ascending with
the breeze" from tho winrwnina n( ti\.?
? w v* VMV
old Keowee Town; where the fearless
Cherokee wooed the chieftain's daughter,"
or invoked the aid of the battle-god,
when dire war had broken down the altars
of peace.
VIATOR.
Picken3villg, S. C.
NOBILITY OF MFmiAVina
Toil on, sun burnt Mechanic. God has
placed thee in thy lot perchance to guide
the flying car that whirls us on from
scene to scene, from friend to friend;
bind down the warring wave of ocean,
tempest tost; or chain the red artillery
of heaven.
Toil on! Without thy power, earth,
though her sands were one vastPactolus
of gold, would be a waste of tinselled
tears and glittering grief; and want, and
wo, and splended misery, would glenm
out from all her treasured mines. Rich
soils would perish in the r richness, nnd
and the fruits ot the seasoas changing,
die ungathered from the harvest.
Toil on! Jehovah was a workman too.
" In the beginning God created heaven
and earth." nnd from thn cnnfnso/1 nlm^a
sprang this perfect world?the perfect
workmanship of the eternal, uncreated
power. Up rose the mighty firmament;
and back the sullen surges swept, submissive,
tamed, each to their several
bounds. And then he set great lights?
the glorious sun to bless the day ; and the
timid moon to wear at night the mildest
lustre of the radiant orb. He painted
heaven with mingled blue and white;
nnd in the vaulted arch a modest star
peeps out, seeming by the majesty of sun
and moon, like a stray lilly breathing in
its lore of meek and blushing loveliness
on the gay tints of opening bud nnd rich
voluptuous blossom.
Wondering there dnwned another, and
u third, clustering, clinging to the spacious
canopy, they read in the colm waters
of the pea the story of their radiant
loveliness. From thence assured they
fear not sun nor moon, but faithfully distil
their pen.-ive light. Old ocenn tossed
her cresent spray, and from their hidden
depths creatures of life came up and flew
- - - " "
uoove me eartli?winged fowls nnd flying
firth ; and the great whale, dark emperor
of the sea.
And God created man! Six days he
labored and the seventh he reposed;
while from the sea, the earth, the air,
nnd all that is, went up a chorus of ecstatic
praise to God, the fust, the eternal
architect.
Toil on! Drink from the dews that
rtiaiila I '
(iu^in.iw livnci^ llic uuntt"
ing buds, the blessed air, is untold wealth
to the hard browned and bronzed mechanic.
Rich coffera bring a snare, canker
and corrosion. God's wealth is yours,
a wealth to which decaying gold is vanity
and dross.?Miss Wcntioorth.
THE SOUTH PASS.
The Liberty (Mo.) Tribune says:?
Many ot the way streams are ?o strongly
impregnated with alkali that they dare
not let their cattle diink. On the shores
of many, the crust is formed an inch
thick. They break up this i*rust, scrape
off the dirt on the bottom and top, and
find it pure saleratus. Strange as this
may scern, it is nevertheless true, and
the writer collected ir? a short time 75
lbs. A mountain of pure rock salt has
Deen oiscovered near the Mormon settler
ment. The Mormons have discovered a
t gold raine lf>0 miles southwest from the
Salt Lake. Tho last end of'thc journey
i to the Salt Lake, any 200 mile# i*attended
with little fatigue. Nearly all the
i way the rendu are as good as on any
prairie in the West."
LADIES' FASHIONS. ,
Hero is an ungall&nt paragraph from
, the Philadelphia City Item :
"At the imminent lisk of being con*
nidered extremely ungallant, we will ven1
ture the bare faced assertion that we
1 <have never seen a greener set of ladies
' In our lives than are those of Pbiladel
J A- * * ? -
; t uuui, uuaer we rnnuence 01 the Bpritjg
Fnehions, Green?dark, medium, arid
1 light green?-plain, changeable and fig
i ured green?pea, olhre, and brkibl
I jjreen, apple, golden and grass green?
indeed every hue of green has been drum
\ med into the scrvice of the fair-?and sucl
a green?such a thoroughly green set a
> they are! The world has never seen tin
like, since that silly old woman. Eve, de
voured the green apple."
A Strait Subject.,?"Well, Cap
tain," savs a California adventurer to tin
owner of a craft up for California, "whei
do you sail ?"
" On Tuesday, " said the Captain.
" How do you go?" said the intern*
gator.
" Through the Straits," said the Cap
tain; " shall I book you for the vovacre?'
r J O ~ *
" I reckon not," said the man in searcl
of gold. " I left home to get out of f
strait, and am not Voluntarily going ink
another."
Bbitisii East India.?The hnmera.itj
of the British empire in India will recui
to the mind with peculiar force at th<
present moment, when the disastera ir
the Punjaub teach is?not, indeed, tt
l?* * - 1
vmj^vvv me |ii ui/iiuiuiY"-"Dui vo consmei
the possibility of its decline and fall. At
far hack as 1832, it was estimated in official
documents, that the three Presiden
cies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay
forming British India proper (so far, al
least oh the continent is concerned,} con
tained a population of 00 millions of souls
while in the subject or vassal?mor delicately
entitl^H piling r?r Iil./iliin<nil
^ v w.ouu v*
states, there were 40 million* more?and
in the independent states (Scinde, Ne
paid, and tho territories of Sindia and
Runjeet Singh) 11 millions, making a
grand total of 141'millions of slaves?foi
such they were?a whole race of men,
an ancient one, the people of the rich,
fertile and famous India, reduced to submission
by a company of British merchants
who aspire to the rule of monarchs,
as well as tho DrofUs nf tnule?
who would be merchant-tyrants rathci
than merchnnt-prinees, and extort the
taxes of groaning subjects rather than in
vite the profits of willing customers.
Great Seizure of Counterfeiting
Apparatus.?In the vicinity of Blazing
Star, New Jersey, Officers Brown and
Leonard of New York made a most extensive
8eizure on the 1st Inetnnt. or
immense coining apparatus for coining
counterfeit Mexican dollars and Americar
quarter and half dollars. The apparatus
was contained in 16 boxes. There is a
monjf.it a powerful screw press; the lever
ivjetl in operating with it is eight feel
long, and has at each end a 32 pound
cannon ball. The rest of the apparatus,
seized consisted of a bed-plate, milling
apparatus, crucibles, a large quantity o!
tools, chemicals, <tc. and some boxes ol
counterfeit coin in a finished nnd unfinished
state. The dies were not found, hul
the officers have impressions from them
which exhibit the highest degree of per
fection in their manufacture. The coir
ennnot in) detected either by found 01
weight from the . genuine. The plnc(
wheiethccou terfeitevs carried on theii
operations was built by a mar namct]
Sweet and his accomplices, nnd was sc
constructed th t it afforded abundance ol
light, ?nd at the same time, the onera
to** could not be seen or henrd fronr
without. One man started for Californif
a month or two since, it is supposed with
a large quantity of the counterfeit coir
in his possession, intending, no doubt U
speculate with it. The Government
have dispatched an agent there to arrosi
him, but. it is feared he will have dispos
ed of a large amount of the coin bcfor<
www VIMWI muvuo.
Mammoth Mules.?The Cincinnnt
papers spenk of an exhibition there o
two mules from 8cott county, Kentucky
which are the largest ever seen in tha
city. One, a black mule, four years old
eighteen hands high; the other, tin
same age, a brown female, also eighteei
hands i> jh. The two were put on th?
scales together and found to weigh 3,00<
pounus. ine pnce demanded for then
i? $200 each. Both raised by Mr. Thorn
as, in Scott county.
"What I think ok California."*?
The Journal of Commerce publishes ai
extract f.om a returned Cnlitornian, win
says, in reply to the inquiry, " what h<
thinks of California,"?441 think, and an
confident., tluit ihn nmtnhm C?~.
, ?....? *?>V vxsu?av*J I?u\;ut Ulll
Frisco will inorttoae in wealth and impor
tance, and 'go ahead' more rapidly thai
any other place of which we have an;
knowledge. It is a good agriculture
country, nnd possesses a dclightfull clim
ate. From ito posit i< nnd facilities ii
regard to commerce wi n ihe great Eas
and West, it must, and that speedily, be
come a most important place. I Wijiev
a great ttostiny await* it, and were I tei
years younger, I should remove and set
tie there with my family. I apeak of i
independently of its precious metals, an<
rich minerals. They are inexhaustibly
I was at the mines three different times
and knew what most of the people wer
doing, and 1 feel perfectly safe in saying
that a man by six hoars washing am
u'Kging oicn a?y, can average aixtoe
dollar* a dnv ftom the 1st of March tthe
tot of Jyly?thl? being the only par
V
m
5 of the year during which a person can
- labor at the nines with safety.
i norm a ran tpttp
3 Dr. Franklin remarks: "That a man as
3 often gets 2 dollars for the one he spends
* in informing his mind, as he does for a
dollar he lays out in any other way. A
man eats up a pound of sugar (or some
* other trifle) and it is gone, and the plea3
sure he enjoyed has ended; but the in1
formation he gets from a news paper is
treasured to be enjoyed anew, and to be
S used whenever occasion or inclination
* calls for it. A newspaper is not the vrisdom
of one man or two men, it is the
oni0///vm 4 V* r* o/*n A?_
?vipmv('? v/i vi 10 n^r? OliU U1 J/llflt lOO?
A family without a newspaper is always
1 half an age behind the times in general
1 information; besides they can never think
> much, nor find much to talk about. And
then there are little ones growing up in
ignorance without any taste for reading.
r Who, then, would be without a newspar
per?"
1 Drill Husbandry.?It is a fact not
> i generally alluded to, says a distinguished
r English cultivator, that a field with a
1 southern aspect, if rich, should be drilled
north and south ; but if dry, and in want
' of shade, it should be drilled east and
? west. It is easy to sec thnt, in the latter
t case, the crop would shade the land from
the influence of the Bun, and counteract
> the effect of drought.
nru tt ?
iu >ir.vr.ni 11UK?KM FKOM JMUBRINO
i the Hair off their Tails.?Grease the
return, or fundament, with hog's lard or
I bacon ; repeat it until the hnir grows out
1 again. The hnbit is caused, it is thought,
by an itching of the fundament, occasion
ed perhaps by the discharge of a species
i of worm. At any rate, we have been
well assured that this is a certain cure.
Marriage in Lapland.?It is death
in Lapland to murry a maid without the
' consent of her parents or friends. When
! a young man has formed an attachment
to a female, the fashion is to appoint
their friends to behold the two young
parties run a race together. The maid
> is allowed in starting the advantage of a
[ third part of the race, so that it is imposl
sible, except willing of herself, that she
should be overtaken. If the maid over1
run her suitor, the matter is ended: he
I must never have her, it being penal for
1 the man to renew the motion of marriage,
* But if the virgin has an affection for him,
though at the first she runs hard to try the
truth of his love4 she will (without Atn*
1 innta's golden balls to retard her speed)
' pretend some casualty, nnd make a vol>
untary halt before she cometh to tho
f mark or end of the race. Thus, none
f are compelled to marry against their own
f wills; and this is the cause that, in this
poor countjy, the married people are
' richer in their own contentment than in
1 other lands, where so many forced
matches make feigned lovo, and cuuse
real unhappiness.
5 Blue Stockiko.?The celebrated Mrs.
P M nntnmm woo J** 1 1
...voif^uv niui in iifiuiia U1 II KMKlSllip
1 with the first wits nnd scholars of the
* age, and was the reputed founder of the
f society known by the name of the "Blue
Stocking Club.' This association was
1 formed on the liberal and meritrious prin1
ciple of substituting the rational delight*;
1 of conversation, for the absurb and vapid
1 frivolities of the card-table. Noparticu)
lnv J ' ? * *
.?> uviviiwun mis pnu 10 ner, dui tne con^
versation wns general, cheerful, and unt
restrained, far different from what is in
sinunted respecting the company, by fl
5 satirist; who accuses them of going?
"To barter praise for wmp -with Montague "
i The name of this club is said to bede<
f nvea from the following circumstances
One of the most distinguished cVractert
t in the early days of the society, wns Mr
Siillingfleet, who always wore blue stock3
ings; his conversation was distinguished
i | for brilliancy and vivacity, insomuch, thai
o 1 wViPn in liia nknAn/iA 1
j ......? imobiac, bin? mum ui genera!
) amuaement appeared deficient, it was the
y common exclamation, " wo can do noth.
;ng without the blue stockingB." And
thus was the appellative acquired, whicli
in now become frequently in use for all
> learned and witty Indies.
o Doctor's Fees in California.?A
c letter from a young Jersey boy in Cali
,1 fornia, written January 0, says:
"1 worked about eleven days, avera.
ging about $104 per day: was then taker
fi sick and h?d a very severe time of it. ]
p received four visits from the nearest doc]
tor, who v/as sixty miles off, and poic
- hirn to the tune of $600?tl60 per visit
n ?leaving me about sixty dollars in po'k
t et, after paying for my provisions, vrhicV
. are high in proportion.
e " ' "
? "To Err is Human."?A clcrgymnr
. having indulged too frqelv in filling up his
t glass, went one Sabbath into the pulpit
I and having given out a hymn to his cows.
gr?gation, set down; the melody of th<
,'t sacred song soon lulled him to s'ieap, and
a he continued for Borne time to play atre
ble bass symphony with his nose. Al
\ | length one of the deacons ascended to thi
a we desk, wd told hitxs the hymn vxu
0 out.
t "Well/'aaid he," fill it up apt in."
Frosr.the Richmond Enquirer.
DEATH OF BOTTS.
After Jo.Sn M. Botts had sworn to
"bead Gen. Taylor or die." and wt r?
fused to givti up the ghost?after this
failure of his, we suspected that hi* constituents
would soon do the work which
he refused himself to execute. His political
demise was accordingly accomElished
in the Richmond Congressional
listrict (after the protracted agonies of
three days' election) on Saturday last.
Hir< last will and testament was read for
()lfl Knilpfit nf ? *L_
vi uh iiciiddviiiubvvcii niuuidg
ago in the City of New York, in a "gonhead"
lightning communication. A Codicil,
subsequently in the form of a scries
of resolutions, upon the war with Mexico,
was 3er.t to his constituents about a year
after peace with that nation had been
ratitiea, with a recommendation of the
impeachment of James K. Polk in the
House of Representatives. Poor Botts!
he died of a most malignant distemper.
Seddon qroes a train from the ?i*th ni?
trict in Virginia to Washington to speak
his eulogy.?Alas! for the immortal
Botts and his unhappy followers, disconsolate
and ruined souls they arc.
HENRICO.
?&T Editors throughout the nation are
requested to publish this melancholy but
important intelligence.
Whv is a ehielrfln ni? lilr<* a
shop ? Because it contains fowl-in-pieces.
" It i? very curious," said an old gentleman
a few days since to his friend,
" that a watch should be perfectly dry,
when it has a running spring inside."
Isn't it rather an odd fact in natural
history that the softest water is caught
when it rains the hardest.
"You can't do that again," as the pig
i?...... ?
wuu iu me ltuy muicut install oil.
Recipe /ot Preventing the Frost injuring
Peach Trees during the time of Blossoming.?Take
a hooppole and set it
alongside of the peach tree, five or six inches
above the highest branch, make a
straw rope nn inch and a half thick, tie it
to the top of the pole, then let it descend
to thft crrnunrl nnltWo nf !?*? *-?'?1?
. 0?vu%vmv VJ viiu uiuiiunv?,
| nnd immerse the lower end into a large
tub of water at the foot of the tree.
It is Bnid an editor in the South has
purchased a race hor?e, at an expense of
$2,000, for the purpose of catching his
runaway subscribers.
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necessar^, internally, as well as renewed
exertions to promote its welfare externally.
The unfortunate divisions of the par%
i ty have resulted in a reverse more severe
than any that has been experienced for
many terms. The outgoing administration
knaves the country in every position
?politically, territorially* commercially
and financially, more renowned, more ex[
tended, more prosperous, and in higher
credit than it hnH nv?r **?#>?? ?
- ?W, w Wtvi V
The prosperity which pervadoa th? country,
and the glory that ourrounds its flag,
' are mainly, if not entirely, due to those
sound principles clearly recognised by an
1 American public, and carried to their ful
filment through the steady loyalty of the
' Democratic Party.
' That schisms have been created by de^
signing men, as dangerous to party as*.
' cendency as to national welfare
! additional reasons for moro rigorous exertions,
the cultivation of a spirit of for'
bearance, and that self sacrificing patriot[
ism which has for so long a period been
' a distinguishing feature of democracy.-?
For whatever of evil ma** spring from federal
ascendancy, those who defeated the
democratic party by heartless desertion
' u\ its hour of trial must be held accountable
; and we doubt not that November,
" 1862, will witness a retribution thiftt will
> be more terrible to false friends ' than to
t onen ffwur
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' Democrats?men whose patrfc^oV^inci1
pies and steadiness of purpose Jw? won
the confidence of the people, tsf
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