Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-09

raj effect of the present very high price
Of coffee is to diminish the consumption.
At Cincinnati the consumption is said to
have fallen off more than one half since
the late rise, and mt New Orleans, wri-
ter in the Bulletin thinks that the sales
are diminishing more than one-third, or
even one-half. He gives The average
stocks on the lst of February for FIVE
years in that city at 10000 sacks; now
thcv are estimated at $4,000 to $4,000.
With reference to deficient crops and de-
're'sed consump ion, a correspondent or
the Cincinnati Gazette has word to say.
Admitting that the yield of l949, in Java
and Rio, is less hv 100000 bags than
wns that of ls4e, he reasons that 200.
600 bags Of this deficiency will probably
he made vi, from portions of the old crop
held over in the shell in consequence of
the low prices of l84S, and that the di-
minished consumption, in Europe and
Americn, in consequence of the high pri-
ces OF lS4950, will he equnl to 100000
bags, which two items will "educe the
deficiency Of last wears crop, in effect, to
100000 bags. The Gazette add:
"ln the country, we understand the
usual substitutes for coffee, when prices
are high, have been extensively resorted
to, viz: rye, corn, barley, potatoes, and
sassafns. In this city, at most of the
retail groceries in the cutter parts Of town,
burnt rye and CON are now regular arti-
cles s'lc; and mixture of about equal
parts of coffee, corn and rye, carefully
burnt, is exposed Mt some of the larger
groceries in the central parts Of the city,
and sells at something less than nc-half
the prize of coffee alone This last pre-
pnra'ion, we are told, is not at all unpala-
table,"
NA2oLEoN's VErERAHs.-A CORES.
pondent ef the Boston Atlas. writing
from Paris, describes the following scene:
I'd strange and ghostly spectacle came
aihwart our gay and busy streets, on the
the anniversary of the death of the En-
peror Napoleon. The few remainint re-
lies Of that great army, sound and whole
enough to walk, assembled beneath the
DUNN of Place Vendome, and repaired
in procession to the Invalides, to cele-
brate mass in honor of h. namc. can
not describe TO YOU the effect of the rs
semb'aoe of wi'hered srectres, attired in
TIE u 'o'ms of the regiments to which
they had belonged. ltspemed as if each
had arisen from toe tomb, or the battle
field whercon they had once been left,
rotting in the sun or stitfening in the
snow. The procession passed without
exciting the slig ,test cnthusiasm; tie
crowd followed in silence and in awe.
The church was hung with black, and
the places around the altar were reserved
for the veterans of the Guard, of whom
three-andtwenty yet remain The cele-
bratcd Hul0n, whose Jaw was shot away
in seeking to place himself before the
Emperor, in skrmish in Russia, acted
as sacristan, an his "silver Jaw. bone" ["
freshly polished for the OCCASION, shone
and glittered in the sun. while Mameluke
Fezdah. without legs. and in pos ession
af bat oHe eve, clained the honor of
holding the chief taper. Altoecther. it
was one of the mos. nervous and extra
ordinary ceremonies ever Witnessed"
Prospect ofWar in Wisconsin. The
committee on the Militia. in a report sub.
mitted TO the Senate of Wisconsin, few
days since. make statements relative to
the Winnebagoes. and urge the necessity
of taking action for the protection of the
population in the northwest quarter OF
the State.
From petition of the inhabitants of
the county of Crawford. il appears that
the chief oftlie Winnebago Indians, with
about 1000 warriors, has entered the
county of Crawford. and openly threat
oned TO kill every white ihabitant in
that part of the State.
New ORLEAs. Feb. 20.
The sales of Cotton Yesterday amoun-
ted to but barely 500 bales. Dealers
were disappointed in not receiving the
accounts by the Ame,ica. The receipts
are 10000 bales behind those at the
same time last year.
Duel between Ladies.--A duel lateiy
occurred at Madrid between two young
ladies. One was ultimately shot in the