Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-09-06


South, by the operation of the reven-
ue laws, will have to pay the greater
portion" " l
MICHIGAN CoNsTITUTfoNAL Cox
vENTIoN,-This body has adjourned. |
Its session commenced on the first
Monday in June. and it cannot be.
accused Of being too long about its
work. No doubt the members were
greatly aided by the result of con-
stitutional conventions IN other States.
They have rather revised the old
constitution than made a new one.
Homestead exemption and an elec-
toe judiciary are among the new
features, There is to be no inde-
pendent supreme court, but eight
circuits with one Judge elected in
each. Every county Of 10000 inhab-
tants has four terms of court a year.
Supreme court meets four times
year. The question ofnegro suffrage
is to be submitted TO the people. In
dians may become citizens. A prop
osition to refer to popular vote the
question of Licensing or not licensing
the sale of ardent spirits was reiec.
ted. The Legislature is required
within five years to establish free
common schools, to be kept open
three months in each year, and also
as soon as practicable to establish
State agricultural school, setting
apart twenty two sections of spring
lands for It's support.
The convention provided that ev-
cry newspaper publishing the con-
shtution should have $25 for it.
The ENGLIsn DIFFICULTY IN BRA
zIL.-Another account from Brazil
states that the commander of the
English steamer Cormorant, after
beng fired upon by the fort of Par
angua, instead OF burning the four
slave s he had in tow, returnct! the
fire of the fort. battered it down, and
then sailed away with his prizes.
The Brazilians are greatly exaspera-
ted at these proceedings, and 1t is
said that placards have been put up
around the town, calm upon the in
habitants to eXterminate the English.
] prtucs Of Mih.-It is a naost per-
feet diet. Nothing like tit con
tains curd casieu, which is necessary
for the development and formation OF
muscle-butter for the production O!
an adequate supply of fat--sugar to
feed the respiration, and thereby
warmth to the body-the phosphates
of lime and magnesia, the peroxyd
of iron, the chloride oi potassium and
soda, with the free sodl, required to
1 give solidity TO the bone--together
| with the saline particles so essential
| ly necessary for other parts of the
body. 1t contains Tactic acid or the
acid of milk, which chemists inform
us is the acid of the gastric juice, SO
requisite for the proper dissolving
our food inthe stomach. Itis there
fore obvious tliat milk should be
chemically correct in all constituents,
and that its beneficial effects on the
constitution should not be neutral
lied by adulteration; it is, DIR. Prout
properly states, 'the true type of all
food. How necessary, therefore, is
it that it should be pure-otherwise
this wonderful and wise provision of
Providence will be curse rather
than blessing.
Bugg's Observations ON MIX.
Who would have thought Milk
had so much chemistry iti
Wumber Of Jews in the World---
Isaac de Costa, aleaned jew ofAm
sterdam, estimates the whole num-
ber of Jews now in the world at from
five to seven millions. He allots on
ly $4,000 to the United States, where,
/ he tells us, they are treated better
than in any country in the world, ex-
| cept perhaps Turkey, which is more
liberal 10 them than any European
/ government.
Louis Napoleon, on learning that
/ the mother Of young Walker, who
lately attempted to assassinate him,
was in great distress, hastened TO as
sist her.
/, SKY Liglt.-There is a talk, says
correspondent of Chambers Jour
nal, of a stationary balloon over.Par-
.fis,, TO sustain an electric sun for iIlu-
minatinf the city atnightl
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