Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-06-02

indeed every hue Of green has been DRUM
med into the service of the feir--and such
2 green--snch thoroughly green set as
they arel The world has never seen the
like, since that silly old woman, Eve, de-
voured the green apple"
a SrRAr SuDsEcT+-" Well, Cap
tain, says Califorria adventurer to the
owner Of a craft up for California, "when
do you sail 2"
On Tuesday" said the Captain.
Howdo you go?" said the interro-
gator
Through the Straits" said the Cap
tain; shall book you for the voyage?"
"Ireckon not" said the man in search
of gold. "I left home to get out of a
strait, and am not voluntarily going into
another"
BBT1sH EAST INDIA.-The i,nmensity
OF the British empire in India will recur
to the mind with peculiar force at the
present moment, when the disasters in
the Punjaub teach ,ls-not, indeed, to
expect the probability-but to consider
the possibility of its decline and fall. AS
far back as 1882, it was estimated in of
ficial documents, that the three Presiden-
cles OF Bengal, Madras and Bombay,
forming British India proper $50 far, at
least ms the continent is concerned,l con-
tained population Of 90 millions Of souls;
while in the subject or vassal--morc del.
icately entitled, allied or protected
states, there were 40 millions more-and
In the independent states (Scinde, Ne
paul, and the. territories of Sindia and
Runjeet Singh) II millions, making a
grand total of l4I millions of slaveso-for
such they were--a whole race of men,
an ancient one, the people of the rich,
fertile and famous India, reduced to sub
mission by company of British mer-
chants who aspire to the rule of mon
archs, as well as the profits of trade
who would be merchant-tyrants rather
than merchant-p princes, and extort the
taxes of groaning subjects rather than in
vite the profits of willing customers.
GREAT SEIZURE OF CoUNTERFEITrNa
ArpARATus.--In the vicinity of Blazing
STAR New Jersey, Officers Brown and
Leonard of New York made most ex
tensive seizure on the lst instant, of an
immense coming apparatus for coming
counterfeit Mexican dollars and American
quarter and half dollars. The apparatus
was contained in ! 9 boxes. There is a.
mongs j. powerful screw press; the lev
er used in operating with it is eight feet
long, and has at each end so pound
cannon ball. The rest of the apparatus,
seized consisted of bed-plate, milling
apparatus, crucibles, a large quantity Of
tools, chemicals, &c. and some boxes of
counterfeit coin in finished and unfinish
ed state. The dies were not found, but
the officers have impressions from them
which exhibit the highest degree Of per-
fection in their manufacture. The coin
cannot be detected either by sound or
weight from the genuine. The place
where the cou terfeiters carried on their
operations was built by a mar named
Sweet and his accomplices, and was so
constructed tn it afforded abundance of
light, and ut the same time, the opera
tors could not be seen or heard from
without. One man started for California
month or two since, it is supposed with
large quantity of the counterfeit coin
in his possession, intending, no doubt to
speculate with it. The Government
have dispatched an agent there to arrest
him, but it is feared he will have dispos-
ed of a large amount of the coin before
the officer arrives.
MAMkoTH MUIRs.--The Cincinnati
papers speak of an exhibition there of
two mules from Scott county, Kentucky,
which are the largest ever seen in that
city. One. black mule, four years old,
eighteen hands high the other, the
same age, a brown female, also eighteen
hands high. The two were put on the
scales together and found to weigh 8, 900
pounds. The price demanded for them
is 5000 each. Both raised by Mr.. Thom-
as, IN Scott county.
WHAT THINK or CALIFoRNIA. -
The Journal of Commerce publishes an
extract ftom returned Californian, who
says, in reply to the inquiry, "what he
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