Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02

PRESIDENT FiLLMoRE's Texas
yIEws.-The Washington Union of
Saturday evening, says it is asserted
that President Fillmore will not pur-
sue the course ofthe last adm;nistra-
ton relative to Texas, and adds:
I'm reply to an application made
OH Wednesday by the Texas delega-
ton, he is reportedto have declared
that he should decide what was best
to be done as soon as he had organ
ised his cabinet, and that reply
would then be given 10 Governor
Bells letter. The impression seems
to be that the President will avoid
any thing that is calculated to annoy
Texas, or bring on a collision be-
tween her and New Mexico"
PRESIDENTIAL NoMINATIoN.-The
Schuylkill Haven Map nominates
the following ticket for 1852: "For
President, Gen. Winfield Scott, of
New Jersey. For Vice President,
William B. Johnston, of Pennsylva-
MIA. Subject to the decision of the
Wing National Convention"
Carolmian.
Our CoMMERcE.--The London
correspondent of the New York
Herald states that the commercial
tonnage oftle United States is 90
600 tons more than that of England
the former being 3,l50,000 tons,
and the latter 3,l30,OO0 tons. If
this be true, we are of course the first
commercial nation of the world.
DoING GooD.-There used to be
a class of menin in this world who
made it point to score up credit
for themselves in the great book of
accounts, by performing some good
deed every day Of their lives. Should
there be any Of that class now on
earth, and haply at loss what act
to perform that shall be accounted
good, let them set out tree.--Now
is the season fer the work. Set out
tree, every day, shade tree orfrult,
and the generations will come that
will rise up and call the clever man
that does it blessed.
CAUSES OF RAIN.-Heat and wa
ter are the fruitful parents of winds
and clouds. When aqueous vapor
is precipitated In rain or snow, heat
that was latent becomes again sem
slble, and by increasing the capacity
of the air to hold water in the form
of vapor, prevents disastrous de-
luge of this element in nature. The
laws which restrain the precipitation
OF water from the clouds are no less
curious than those which cause it 10
rain at all. The atmosphere must
approach saturation before it can
rain, and it usually happens that the
quantities which will fall on given
area, one hundred feet above the
ground, and on the earth are une-
qual.-Large drops, in falling thro'
many feet of dry air, become smaller
by constant evaporation, and may
be wholly dissipated before they
reach the earth. On the other hand,
quite small drops fromed in could re-
gionS, nigh iii Inc air, constantly con-
dense more vapor in falling through
a saturated atmosphere, and will be
many times larger when they reach
ground than at their starting point.
To illustrate the production ofrain,
let us suppose that a current of air
OF 70 deg. temperature, saturated
with moisture, meets and mingles
with another current, also saturated,
but having heat of so deg. Now,
if the atmosphere at the mean tenn
perature of 60 deg. had the capaci-
ty to hold water as an invisible vapor,
equal to the mean of 20 deg. and so
deg, it is obvious that no precIrita-
ton would take place. But such IS
not the fact. TIE quantity of water
held in the air heated f.'om 60 deg.
to 20 deg. cannot be contained in
that heated from SO deg. to 60 deg.
In other words whatever cools AIR
saturated with moisture, causes a
cloud, dew, mist, or rain.
The NASHVILLE CoNvENTioN.----
A very amusing writer, who contrib
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