Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-04-12
"a Living Cargo.

The packet ship Washingtonbro't
one thousand aud ten PERSONS nine
hundred and sixty-one ofthean pas
sengers@ into tins port yesterday.
She had boisterous passage of thir-
ty-six days, during which she lost
several spars, but lost not one of her
human cargo, either by sickness or
accident. This is, so far as we re-
member, the highest number of pas
sengers ever landed in this or any
other American city. by one vessel.
Capt. Page has delivered in four con-
secutive voyages no less than three
thousand FIVE hundred immigrants.
He has been unusually successfulin
preserving the health of his passel
gers in these several yoyages,-h
r. EV. Post. 81.
THE BouNTY LAND GRANTS
is officially stated that up to this time
about one hundred thousand applica-
tiohS have heen received for the ben
eft Of this law; and every days mail
adds from FIVE hundred TO thousand
to their number. The office is now
issuing between one thousand and
twelve hundred a week; and it will
require more than eighteen months
before the claims now one hand can
be disposed of, or matured into war
rants. All persons interested in the
law, or desiring information inregard
to it, are requested to address their
communications directly to the Com
missioner of Pensions.
From Editorial Correspondence of s. Patriot.
"In the evening we came 10 the
new German town near West Union,
twelve miles above Pickens Court
House and known as WALHALLA,
the 'Feutonic word, we understand,
for Paradise. WaIhalla is to be one
mile and half long. The main
treet has already been opened that
length, and one hundred and fifty
feet wide! We drove through the
town, and one of the Germans said
to us they on y wanted row of fine
buildings OH side of the street to have
handsome town. This inconsider-
able want we suppose will, in time,
be supplied, or attempted to be sup
piled. The site is certainly beau
tlful one, and when the town is hand
someIy built up, will almost merit lis
name. The purchase OF the land
was made of Col. Grsham. and con
sists of fifteen or twenty thousand
acres.''
''FoRT GEoRGE.-in the negh.
borhond of Plckens G. H., this am
clent fort stood on the banks oflhe
Keowee. The place is now owned
Ivy Ms.j aioHantlvF---,I "a ISI.A,s4 thie Eort,
Cambridge or old Ninety-six took
ITS name, being ninety-six miles from
Fort George. In the same way va
rlous rivers and creeks between the
two places were named. Twelve
Mile six and Twenty &c. Fort
George was the earliest British sta
ton nthe upper part of South Caro-
hna, No Vestiges of the Fort are
now to be seen, but cannon balls are
sometimes found in the vicinity of
where the Fort was erected"
An English paper, in giving an ac.
count of a new actress, SAYS:
Mrs. Baker, the prima donna, is
beautiful woman; other style of spea
king, we are unable TO give any opin-
ION; but her acting is almost Invaria-
bly, good. Her corpse like appear.
ance when she dies, or is killed, is
remarkable D. b ~ ri
ltappears tonsthat that's the We.
ry time TO look like a corpse.
Common garden touch.me.not
roots, the tea Of which is a certain
antidoteto the bite of rattle-snake.
or any other snake--the poultice of
the same for the bite of spider, or !
the sting ofany thing.
Lard, or lard oil is an aniitlote for
the poison of strichnine, nrIx-vomica,
or any poisonous effects of wild cher.
ry, or the peach tree, fox glove, or
the deadly nightshade. M
Tom Hyer's challenge to the World.
There is but little doubt that the
celebrated Tom Flyer will succeed
IN getting npa pugilIslic encounter,
according TO his challenge, without
going to England for an opponent.
lie and his friends have been for
some time past bantering a man
named Gooduson, who is powerful
fellow; and Hyer's card, it was un.
1erstood, had as much reference 10
nm as to any one else, if not more.
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