Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-12-12

SuNtf ye'rs oiV prOuSnC Sl1oos u girt, nlteen
years; $1,000 |; q boy, twenty-two Years $1a35
opd others sold at ,'l equally high prices.
TuE PUBLIc PRlsTtNo.+-The cost of tho
public printing Of Congress is 81, ,i3G, lO9.84
This includes engravings, etc.
| Nor or THAT FAMiLY.--A man whose ap-
pearance indicated that he was staggering
| from the excessive weight of brick in his
hat, being asked if he was a " Son of Tenn
pcrance, replied, " "fIick-no--no relation
not even an (hicl--ocquaintonce." W
LOTTERIES IN GEoRoIA,--The Legislature
of Georgia has unanimously pronounced lott
tories to be u curse and swindle. 1t is
thought that at the expiration of tho present
charters for lotteries no more will be granted
GAMING a PREsIDENT.--The girls I've mean
the young ladies) of tho Spartanburg Female
College have presented q cane to j. Wofford
Tucker, Esq, tho late Prcsidont of that fair
and aourishing institution.
NcMrNArED.- John Cunningham, edii-
tor of the Charleston Ecening Neos, has been
nominated as Candidate for Governor of
South Carolina.
| BAD TIMEs.-Breach of promise cosos arc
olarmingly frequent at the West. The main
cause is that "thc fellers" can't afford to
marry, and so back down from the fowery
banks of matrimory.
Gov. McWILLIE's INAUoURA1.-Gov. Nc
Willie, of Mississippi, delivered his ipnugu-
raj at jackson, on Monday week. 1t is taken
up, principally, with discussion of the slave
ry question.
ALL FOR LovE.--A beautiful young Ger
man girl named Henrietta Block, swallowed
"cold pizen" in Brooklyn, last week, and
thus terminated her existence. She had been
deserted by hor lover, Frank, u barber
HUyG.-w Woody II, Carter was hung at
Chester G. II. on Friday the 9th ult., for the
murder Of James Gibson.
AVALUABLE CRoP.--The wool crop of Ohio
is estimated to be worth $6,000,O00.
JOHN b. GoUou.- This temperance orator
has been iecturing in Edinburg lately, to
crowded audiences. The Duchess of Suther-
land and a large crowd ofthe English nobility
attended
COMMON Schools IN MISSOURI In Missou-
ri there arc 1858 schools districts, 267l schoo!
houses, 81 ,907 childrcn attending, 2I00 male
and 43O female teachers. State school mon
cy distributed, $238,845 teachers wages
paid, $376,Sl5 88. There are colleges and
48 private academies.
DANGEROUS CouNrERFErT.-Thc Atlanta
! American has been shown counterfeit ten
dollar bill on the bank of Hamburg, S. c.
The counterfeit is dated Nov. 3, 1850, letter b.
SAILED.-Ex.rresidcn Pierce and lady
have sailed for the island of Madeira. Mrs.
4 P.'s delicate health renders this trip indis-
\ pensable.
ANArIvE OF NORTH CARoLINA--Wo learn
TINT General James Pinckncy Henderson,
one of the newly elected United States Sona-
tors from Texas, is native of Lincoln coun-
| ty, NC.
NoBoDY IN JAIL"-The jailer of Union
district reports Nobody in jNilw
FIRE IN ORANoEBURG.-A correspondent
of the Carolina Times writes that the Pres
bytcrian Church at Orangcburg G. III. was
destroyed by fire at about one o'clock on Sun
day morning last. Tho fire is supposed to
have been the work ofan inccndiary.
y FeKN ADoyAND Loss OF LIrE.-.A letter
from G%ihnett county, Ga, to the editor
of the Augusta Chronicle, gives the follow
ing account of a storm and whirlwind which
passed over that county few days ago
Its first appearance was on the premises
of a MIR. Stancil near McAfee's Bridge
and so powerful was the wind, that youth
who was passing, by the name of Waits,
found difficulty in getting in the house, al
though the house was outside .of the track
OF the storm, which swept through space
of about fifty yards wide. The largest oaks
and pines at this point were literally twisted
into fine splinters, and the very ground was
rooted up as with mammoth plow. The
youth had scarcely got seated in the house
before falling tree top swept through the
house-top, k,!ing him instantly The in.
mates of the house were covered up with
the roof and timbers of the house, but not
one OF them were hurt The storm only
travelled three or four miles, sweeping ey.
erything before It. The fields of corn and
cotton that it passed through were picked
and shuckcd.
4 ST. LOUIS, Dec. AT meeting at
Leayenworth, Kansas, on the 21st ut.
resolutions were adopted similar to those
passed at Lawrence on the 10Th, and speech
es were made by Messrs. Vaughan, Phil
lips, Hutchins, Moore, and others. Mr..