Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-30
ITEMS.

| Il Il IA Nu %.
The health ofLouis Philippe con-
tinues to fail. : +
Mr.. Prescott, the Historian, is ira
yelling in Europe.
Garabaldi, the defender of Rome
against the French, has arrived in
New York.
Haynau, the butcher has fallen
into disgrace.
General Paez, the celebrated pat
riot and chieftain of Venezuela, is at
West Point.
The City of Cracow is said to have
been extensively desolated by fire,
which, among other buildings, con-
sumed the Archbishop's noble palace.
Mrs. Bowden, and Irish heroine,
has arrived in New York. This was
the lady who sheltered Smith O'Brien
so long and SO effectually from the
police, at the time of the attempted
revolution in Ireland, in 184S.
Add ell Kader, the brave and mag
nanimous Arab Chief, who has been
so long held prisoner in France, in
violation of the conditions of his sur
render, is about to be liberated and
sent to Egypt, whence he will pro-
ceed to Mecca.
The Countess de Alcoy, wife of
the Governor General of Cuba, and
her three children, lately reached
Few York, on board the ST. anish war
steamer Pizarro.
Rogers, the poet, now 81 years
old, was knocked down by cabin
the streets of London, and severely
injured.
The White House at Washington
is said to be SO unhealthy as place
of residence, that Mr.. Fillmore has
hired for the season, small house
at Georgetown.
1t is stated that Mr.. Fillmore has
two brothers, who have, for some
time past, resided in Washtenaw
county, Michigan, one ahouse car
penter, the other a blacksmith by
trade.
The University of Oxford, as we
learn from the British papers, has
conferred the honorary degree of
Doctor Of Civil Law on Mr.. Pres
colt, the well known American his
torian.
A new poem ofconsiderable length
by Robert Burns, has lately been
discovered in Scotland. Robert
Chambers, good Judge, youches for
itsauthenticity.
The late Presidents agents in New
Orleans, state that he leaves in bank
stocks and other valuable property,
the sum of 800, ,000--that he never
gave a note in his life, and died with
out owing dollar.
The steamer Anthony Wayne has
returned to ST. Louis, after another
successful trip to to the wild waters
OF the Upper Mississippi. She as
cended TO the mouth of the Blue
Earth River, a tributary of the ST.
Peters, and more than two hundred
miles distant from the junction of the
Mississippi and ST. Peters. The
most remarkable feature in this trip
is, that the captain of the A. w. has
actually carried her two hundred
miles up stream which, until few
weeks since, was supposed to be en-
tirely unnavigable.
1t has been proved, byexperiment,
IN England, that iron vessels are
not near so well adapted for warfare
wooden ones. Under cannon balls
the iron splinters in the n ost danger
Gus manner.
Henry A. Schoolcraft, of Sacra-
mento, California, is now on a visit
to ms relatives in Albany. He IS a.
bout twenty-five years of are, and
went out to California as d private
soldier in Col. Stephenso's regiment.
After his discharge from the u. S. SER
vice, he obtained emnplovmept as q
book-keeper for Capt. Sutter, and has
SINCE accumulated an estate valued
at $35O,Co0. While in Capt. Suffers
employ he had at one time The nav.
ing off of 60C clerks and surveyors,
not one Of whom received less han
$l3 per day. He states that duri1s,
6 his stay with Capt. Sutter, SIS, ,O0O;,
600 of that gentleman's money pass.
ed through his hands,. Consi itut.e...