Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-24
Pennings and Clippings.

this week, to which the attention of the pub-
lie is directed G@e5ssa
CorroN.-This staple is only now bringing
IL cents pcr pound in Charleston. But afcyy
weeks since it reached as high as Ii cents!
THERE'S AN EXAMPLE PoR YoU.-A mum.
Der young ladies in Salem, Mass, having
considered the state of tho money market and
determined not to pay ten or twenty dollars
for winter bonnet, have set about making
bonnets for themselves.
NUMBER OF BANKS IN THE UNITED Sr,rps
The number of Banks in the Union, on Jan
uary |, 1857, was 1855, with l43 branches.
Their capital was Sab, 1874, ,272; loans and
discounts, $634,7S3, $50; specie $50,3l4,O ,OG3;
circulation, $l05, 5,747, $50; deposits, $2l2,7o5,
662. The amount of capital employed by
private banking establishments, without char
tors, was estimated at $llS, ,OS6,O0O
The LIFE OF NATIoNs.--The natural life of
nations, as well as of individuals, has its fix
cd course and term. 1t springs forth, grows
up, reaches its maturity, decays, perishcs.
Coz. PREsroN.- friends of Col. Preston
willprcss his claims for the post of u S. Sen
ator before the Legislature this winter.
BosroS, Oct. lO.-A stranger stopping at
tho United States Hotel, in this city, was
found dead in his bed this morning. There
were papers in his pockets having on them
the name Off. Poultncy Smith,
DIED.-ITon. w. h. Venablc, U. S. Minister
to Guatemala, died in that county on tho 22d
August He died of cholera
Destructive FIRE.-We learn from the
Livingston Miss Messenger that a most dcs-
tructiye fire occurred at that place, on Sun
day, the 9th ult., destroying property to the
amount of about 10000 dollars.
CAUSE AND ErFECr-Since tho stoppage
Of the cotton mills in Amherst, n. IL. the iail
there has been filled to ovcraowing with per-
sons charged with petty thcfts a melancholy
illustration of the old adagc that "idlencss is
the mother of crime"
U. 5. SENAToR.-A correspondent of the
Marion Star nominatcs Hon. j. l. Middleton
of Georgetown, as u candidate for the U. S.
Senate.
ELECTION IN Miss s'ssIppI.-Thc full returns
from this State have not reached us, but there
is enough intelligence received to warrant us
in announcing the election of Gen McWillie
(Dom.) Governor of Mississippi, over his op-
ponent, MIR. Ycrger OK. ny by large ma
iority-the election to Congress of an entire
Democratic delegation, and, large Demo-
cratic majority in the Legislature.
RIcHMoND, Va, Oct. lS.-The Custom
House in this city has been entered, and SGT,
7OOin gold abstractcd. The money was OBJ
tained by blowing up the safe with gunpow
der.
SOUTHERN STUDENTS IN YALE CoLLEGE.-A
" Yale College" correspondent of the New
York Tribune, states that thcro are seven
Southern students in Yale College, and thir-
ty-three in the Academical Department 1t
is strange that Southern parents should con-
tlnue to send their sons to such sink of Alb
clifton.
GEORGIA ELEcTIoN.-In all but six coun-
ties Brown, Democrat, for Governor. has
majority of 10, LAO. The State Senate con-
sists of SO Democrats and 80 Americans, and
the House lO5 of the former and so of the
latter, Democratic majority ON joint ballot
l09
METHODIST CoNFERENcE.-Th annual scs-
sion of the South Carolina Conference of the
M. r. Church South will bo held in Charlotte
n. c., commencing on the Goth of November.
BishOD Andrew will nresidc
A Sign OF THE TIMEs.-As u "sign of the
tines" it may be mentioned that some OF the
leading Now York hotols are reducing tho
price of board, notwithstanding that provis-
ions are still unaccountably high all things
considered.
The INDIA MUTINY.-Thc English papers
continue to give the most heart-rending de-
tails concerning the state of affairs in India
and ofthe most horrible outrages pcrpotrated
by the native insurgents.
TIE ErFEcT -Mormonism bids fair to be
the cause ofas many social evils as tho dclu-
sion of Spiritualism. Two destitute women
were found in the streets of St. Louis last
week, stark mad-preaching and fighting by
turns-all on account of desire to follow n
Mormon apostle to Salt Lake, and to realize
his promises.
"A MAD MuRDERER.--An insane colored
man at Princess Anne, Md, last week being
told by conjursss, named Pusoy, that if he
got the right hand of female corpse and
Nyore n ahouf HE Yo.von H. sue..tI !, ~,