Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-15

feet mgh--cightCcn feet beneath the surface
and seventeen above. On the top of the piers
frame work Of wood, twenty-thrcc feet in
height is to be placed SO it will be almost
impossible for tho freshcts either to undor-
mnc or ovcr-top tho bridge.
3" At Slab Town." had the happiness of
spending night with my last pcrcoptor, tho
Rev. j. Leland Kennedy. This gcntloman's
reputation as Teacher, attracts largo num-
ber of students to his school every year, and
it will never be otherwise so long as ho may
consent to teach. Than Slab Town, how
much soevcr its name may be lacking in GU
phony, know ofno place moro favorable in
every respect to 1.-The acquisition of knowl
edge and virtue" Tho climate il salubrious,
the tone of the neighborhood moral and re-
fined, the teachings thorough, efficient and
eleyating."
The ATLANTIC SUBMARINE TELEeRArH.-
Tho proceedings in regard to the Atlantic
telegraph cable, in England, are exceedingly
interesting. We extract the following from
an article on the subject, in the London Times
on the 24th ult:
Tho Agamcmnop leaves Groonwich to-day
and after the adjustment of her compasses
proceeds at once to Queenstown, where tho
other vessels composing the squadron-the
Niagara, Susquchanna and Lcopard--will
also rendezvous. During tho trip from Sheer
moss to Queenstown experiments will be made
by laying down about twenty milos of cable,
in order TO ascertain that everything is in
good working condition. BY this means the
Stiffness of the paying out gear, of which con
siderable distrust is entertained, will be ac-
curately tested, and the amount of risk known
which the scheme will have to encounter in
mid-ocean
Those trials, however, are to be strictly pri-
vate, and mono but those actually connected
with the operations about to be undcrtakcn,
will be allowed on board After taking in
Goals ut tQnccnstown the four vessels will start
together for Yacntia Bay 1t has bcon
thought advisable to alter the arrangement
by which tho cable was to have been Joined
in mid-sea, and the Agamcmnon and N;aga-
ra then make tho best of their way to shore
the former to America and the latter to Ire
land. Now the plan is to submcrgc the whole
cable in a continuous line from Nalcnta Bay
to Newfoundland. The Niagara will lay the
first half from Ireland to the middle of the
Atlantic the end will then be Joined to the
other half on board the Agamemnon, which
takes it on the coast Newfoundland During
the whole process tho four vessels will remain
together and give whatever assistance is re-
quircd. While it ia being laid down MESA
gcs Will be sent back to the coast of Ireland,
reporting each days progress, and if ncces-
sary, ofcOurse, each hours. Scientific mon
will look forward to the result of the under
taking with the deepest interest, az some
wonderful electrical phenomena arc certain
to be observed during the process of submerg
ing. Those most nearly interested in the plan
arc sanguinc as to all being successfully COM
plcted within month, and the state Of the
markets at New York known every morning
throughout England. Most earnestly do we
hopc that their fullest expectations may be
realized, though it is useless attempting to
conceal that the risks of failure to the present
plan are many and most serious.
SERIOUS ENcoUNTER.-About four o'clock
yesterday afternoon. a ghtoccurrcd in a room
near the corner of Hascll and Meeting streets,
between two free persons of color, named ST.
mon Cross and Joseph 4Allston, in which the
former received blow on the head with a
tailor's goose, which seriously injured his
skull. Dir. Pcttigrew, vino was called in, ex-
amined the wound and found the skull frac-
tured. lilo was alive at ten o'clock this
morning but isnot expected TO survive the
day.
The affair commenced in a tailor shop oc-
cupied by colored man named McKinlay
and the parties, Mt first, were thought to be
boxing III fun, but the contest waxing warm
| aud the combatants becoming excited, blows
began to be dealt in earnest, when Cross seiz-
! cd lap-board and dealt his opponent blow
on the head, cutting him pretty severely
Cross then ran down the steps and out in
the yard, whore he stopped and was convors-
ing with some one. Allston then seized a hot
goose and going to the window, threw it tdown
upon the head of Cross with the result above
specified. Allston appeared with his coun-
sol before the Mayor this morniug, and was
turned over to a Magistrate without oxamina-
| tion,--- Charleston Ne1os
WAsurSGToN, Aug Tho instructions
to Minister Forsyth, respecting the new Troa-
! ty with Mexico, have not yet gone ont. Tho
Administration became convinced that no
time would be afforded for negotiation un-
der the Comonfort dictatorship They will not
enter into q Convention respecting Tehuante-
pee, Independently of conventions on other
subjects. They ntond to make great Trea-
! ty with Mexico, and it must be mado with ths
new Constitutional Government
The parties to tho Tehuantopec grant
/ GarNy lie Sere and Beniamin-hop to induce
Comonfort to olfcr Tchuantepec Treaty at
once, sending out special Minister to con
! cludc it. but it will not be accepted here.
The Now Granada negotiation is likely to
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