Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-12-22
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.

Charles Dickens, who was present at the
cxecu ion of the Aannings in England.
1t is thought that the strong light in
which he has presented the scenes will
induce the government to support mco,
sure for making crinnina executions phi
vate. There were upwards of 10000
persons present on the occasion. One fe-
main was killed and two others severely
injured. Carolmian.
IL believe that sight so inconceivablv
awful us the wickedness and levity of the
immense crowd collected at that exccu.
ton this morning could be imagined by
no man, and could be presented in no
heathen land under the sun. The hor-
rors of the gibbct, and of The crime which
brought the wre.ched murderers to it.
faded in my mind before the atrocious
bearing looks, and language of the assem-
bied spectators. When came upon the
scene at midnight, the shrllness of the
cries and howls that were raised from
time to time dcnoting that they came
tom the concourse of boys and girls al
ready assembled in the best places, made
my blood run cold AS the night went
on, screcchng and laughing, and yelling
In strong chorus of parodes on negro mel
odies, with the subs,itutions of Mrs. Nan
mig for Susamah, and the like, were adj
ded to these. When the day dawncd,
thieves, low prostitutes, ruflians and vag-
abonds of every kind fockcd to the
ground, with every variety of foul and
offensive behavior- Fightins, faintings.
whlStlings, limitations of Punch. brutal
Jokes. tumuituous demonstrations Of indie
cent delight when swooning women
were dragged out of the crowd by the
police, with their dresses disordered, gave
new zest to the general entertainment.
When the sun rose blightly-as it did
ltgilded thousands upon thousands of
upturned faces, so incxprcssibly odious in
their brutal mirth or callousness that a
man had cause to feel ashamed of the
shape he wore, ond to shrink from himself
as fashioned in the shape Of the Devil.
When the two miserable creatures who
attracted all this ghasny sight about
them were turned quiSering into the air,
there was no more emotion, no more pity,
no more thought that immortal souls had
gone to judgement, no more restraint in
any ofthe previous obscenties, than if the
name of Christ had never been heard in
this world, and that there were no belief
among men but that they pcrished like
beasts"
A CASE ~ PoINT-Lieut. Maury, of
the Navy, is practical man clear head
cd thinker, and constantly at work. In
his, address to the Memphis Pacific Rail
road Convention, after pleading the ad-
vantagcs of ship canal, he contends that
the proposed railroad will also be very
useful.
Take one item: The Ohio, seyonty-four
Is Iiow on the coast Of California, and is
soon to come home, because the times of
her crew are about to expire. She has 4
crew OF ner eight hundred men, all told;
1t will take her not less than one huuIred
and twenty days to make the passage, at
an average expense of one thousand dol
lars per day. Another ship Of equal force
will probably be sent to take her place,
at an equal loss of time and money to get
her there. Total expense of getting that
ship home and sending out her relief,$2
100000 Now, if the railroad across Pa
mama were in operation, the Ohio could
touch there, meet crew sent from this
side of the isthmus, and send her old
crew home by the same transport from
Chagres, at saving offour or FIVE months
OF time, and some twenty thousand dol
lars of money.
The FEMALE DnEss.-A correspond
ent of the Water Cure Journal, who pro-
fesses to be 4 country girl" prone to
ramble in the woods, suggests style
dress better adapted to such exercise than
that which has prevailed from time i'm
memorial. 1t is as follows:
Stout calf-skin cutters; white trowers
made after the Eastern style, loose, and
confined at the ankle with cord; green
kilt, reaching nearly to the knees, gather
ed at .hc neck, and turned back with a
collar, confined at the waist with scar
let sash tied upon one side, with short
sleeves for summer and lcpg sleeves fer
winter, fastened at the wrist; green tur-
han made in the Turkish mode