Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-04-25

resented to be deplorable indeed, Five
years ago, and the city Of San Durango con
tanned $4,000 Inhabitants, aud the hacen-
das along the route were well stocked with
cattle Now, DISSOLUTION reigns around, the
n'''"nd9s ', are IN ruiz, and The population of
Tue CITY has been reduced 10 5000
LIVES Losr.LrNo briaao o,. c,
River at Cedar Valley, Iowa, was. -,
away by The breaking up of the ice, on the
25th of March, and two young ladies, daugh-
ters of MIR. Black Of Kingston, who were
upon it at the time, lost their lives.
WnIcu is Ir?-Love is an " insovlablc
enigma" says some writer. Is it not also
an "unsquinchonable fire.? Or if not, what
ish? 4
r.. L ""n M THE HoRRIBLE.---Dur the
worst days of the French Revolution, and
previous to the execution Of Robespierre. n
restaurant at Paris bad miniature gaillo.
tine which, turned bya wheel, was employ
ed oschop sausage-meat Thousands of
people flocked to admire the spectacle.
| FRENcu EMGRArIoN TO ERtcA.-Tbe
population of several of the departments of
France has been very much reduced by
emigration to America. In some cases
whole villages have become depopulated.---
This is particularly the case in the depart
ments of tho Haunt saone, the Somme, and
some of those in the north.
MURDERERs.-Thore are no less than four
teen men now confined in the Louisville
jail on the Charge ofmurder.
CAEToN GRAPE SHAwLs. Tho n. York
Evs"iag Ppst says few years since 3oo,-
600 Grape sllawls per annum were impor-
ted into this country--while this year more
can come. 1t asks" What will the ladies
do?"
| AUGUSTA ELEcrEoN.-The election in this
city resulted in the choice of khow noMinqs
for municipal officers, accompanied with a
general row in the "bloody fourth ward"
Two men were shot. but not dangerously in
jured.
NANKREs CorroN. The Augusta ConsI-
| nationalist says that fourteen bales of Nam
keen Cotton were sold in that city on Friday
OF last week at l69 cents per pound.
Fatal AccDEEr.--On Friday evening
an accident occurred on the Michigan South.
ern Railroad, near Adrian, causing the
death of a lady and child. Several were
seriously injured. -Four Of the cars we're
completely demolished.
New lDsA.--Two candidates for the Leg
islature in Virginia have avowed that they
are in favor of selling the Free Negroes to
pay the State debt, and therefore affirm that
they are just the boys to go to the General
Assembly.
SERVED HIM RlGHr--At the late term
of Richmond IN. C) Superior Court, Ste.
phen Cole was sentenced to pay fine of
five hundred dollars. and be Imprisoned ten
days, for cruelty beating and whipping his
wife.
REvIvAL.--A revival is in progress 10
Macon. Some sixty members have been
added to the Baptist, and thirty.lhtee to
the Methodist Church, during the last week.
a GOLDEN SURPRISE PARTY.--Rev. Doc
tor Foster Of New York city, is about to
remove to Evanston, the seat of the North
Western University. A few days since
number Of his friends paid him visit and
presented him With purse containing ST.
900 in gold
CoMaENcEMENT SERMoN.--Dr, McBryde,
Of Pendleton, will deliver the Commence.
flent Sermon at Erskine College, in August
next.
a DELEGATION of Creeks and Seminoles
will visit Florida in tho autumn, and en-
dcavor to persuadethe Seminolss there to
emigrate Wesy. Meanwhile, no active mill.
tary movements viii take place in Florida,