Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-10

stand that the Delegations of this Con.
gressionai District, which met at Cam
dem yesterday, have app ,inted Coils.
James Chesi.ut and Maxcy Grepp rs
Delegates to the Nashville Convention.
They are both true aud able men, and are
of the flower Of Young Caroline. Car
Gilman.
a High Tree oad Tai Story-A
California correspondent of the Salem
Iazctte-Joseph S. Wallis--says that
Colonel Temple 9ebbets, formerly of
Lewiston Falls, Me, cut tree OF the
redwood species in in California which
was two hundred and fifty four feet high,
and measured at the top two feet in di
amcter, and at the butt twelve feet in d;-
ameter; the tree was worked into lumber
one hundred and forty feet from the butt.
w icre il measured five feet in diameter.
There was made from this ginnt of the
forest one hundred and ten M SHINGLES:
six M Mclapboards; four thousand feet
by joist, twenty two feet long; and there
was left, at moderate calculation, from
seventy to eighty cords of wood. The
clayboards were sold for $500 per M,
the shinglos for $50 per W. the ioist for
1875 per NJ, and the remaining part of
the tree would readily sell in San Fran
cisco for firewood, at $40 per cord; thus,
at a safe estimation, there was derived
from the working of this mammoth dwell
Ter of these primeval forests, the neat lit
tie sum of eleven thousand three hun
dred and fifty dollars
Inability Of Ignorance. How many
men. rich in physical energy, stand with
folded and idle hands, because they are
poor in knowledge! Tell such a man
what he should do, and he is ready and
willing to act. Heis uncertain, because
he cannot make out which of two plans
he should choose. He is negligent, only
because he is ignorant OF what he ought
to do, or of how it may best he done. Or
if, in his physical impatence, such man
rushes forward hc fails to reach his aim,
he is deficient in the materials for success
full action. How often do we see the
energy of one lily or wrongly directed,
because he knows too little of what he
engages in, while, under the guidance of
knowledge, another is observed to be a
sure stride in advance.
Eriensive Larceny.--On the night of
the 9TH .ult., the house of Mr.. William
Montgomery, of Vann's Valley in this
county, was entered and a trunk contain
ing the rise of seven thousand dollars ia
cash, besides notes and paper, to the
amount of three thousand dollars carried
OFF.
The trunk was discovered at some dis
tance from the house, but robbed of all
its valuable contents.
Several negroes were taken up, and on
being subjected TO the lash implicated
several white persons, some of them men
of wealth. and responsibility.
On Saturday last. james Berry, ESQ,
together with two Of his slaves, were
brought before magistrates and after ex-
animation, were committed in default of
bail in the sum of ten thousand dallars
Mr.. Berry has heretofore sustained
good character, and was for several
years, we believe, justice of the Inferior
Court of Cobb county in this State.
We forbear for the present to make
any comments whatever, on the crcum-
stances of this case, as under tho HIGH
state of excitement which exists against
the accused, il is difficult to understand
the facts sufficiently to be able to detail
them without the risk of doing injustice.
Rome Bulletin.
SUNDAY DISORDERS. Every Monday
morning brings with il cataloaue of
outrages committed in Pbiladelpbia and
i's suburbs on the Sabbath, From mid.
night on Saturday until the same hour on
Sunday, the rowdies have their own way.
The murderof Peter Myers in the street
opposite the Mount Vernon House, by
some undiscovered villain, is the most
tragical incident of yesterday; bxt there
vera disorderiy demonstrations during
the VIII lie day. in various part, of the
city and districts. We arc unwilling to
ell our columns with all the details of
these disgraeeiui affairs. Newspaper no
toriety is often the ambition of the de-
praved class who participate in them
aud NC " 6 shalt shalt sainisler as little to their
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