Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-03

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The San Antonio Texan says there has
not been single instance OF felony of any
kind in that city for the last three months
The dcsperadoes appear shave left
The Texan has an article showing the
Importance ofia connection by railroad with
New Orleans as the chief commercial city
of the South
1t appears, notwithstanding all precau-
tions, the Indians occasionally make de,
scent in the ncigllborhood of San Antonio
The Herald of the 7th Instant contains All
account of recent descent made by the
Indians at Ilicrnomo, eighteen or twenty
miles from the city, and carried off nine
horses. y party of us. troops were start
ed in pursuit. The Herald says If
these depredations continue we trust Gen
Twiggs will be successful in his sapplication
to the General GUvornmcnt for on addition
al force, adequate to meet this state Of
things"
AS to the Indian news, we state that a
private letter from AN officer of the IT, S.
Army now absent from Charleston on Wis
1t to San Antonio, states that Gca Twiggs
is moving quietly, but clfcctually, so that
the Indians will soon be reduced.
The Brcnham Bngaife, says that plan
ters there arc all busy picking ont their
cotton, which they arc forwarding to mar
kct early, rs ne H,j,,E fheg sdoud.
The Whner Deaiocrdt says that crops in
most parts Of Upshcr aud Harrison co,m-
ties, were turning out better tliup usual
The cotton crop would be large one.
The Brownsville hydg says that crops
on the Rio Grande arc all fine The over
flows of that river, it is said, remedy all the
evils of drought.
Tho IallGy says that a Mexican, by the
name of La Santa, was hung by due course.
of law at Corpus Christi, on the 14th, the
first execution that has ever occurred in
thatsdistriet; but not the first hanging, we
mightadd.
TheIIerald says that no portion of Texas
has grown so rapidly for the past few years
as the northern counties. This is truly So
The progress of settlements there has been
more like that of the North w estcrn States
than what Texas has been accustomed to
see 1t is a rich country, and capable of
supporting II dense populations. The vote
of the sixteenth district in 1855 was ! 500
1t is now upwards of 1000.
BLOODY TRAGEDY IN TEXAs.-Wc flNd
the following in the Dallas Herald of the
10th ult.
1t becomes our duty to record one of
the most desperate and art-rending trag-
cdies that has ever been enacted in this
region of the country John Robinson,
living some four or five miles from Bird
vile, Torrant county, on Friday morning
OF last week, without previous prorocation,
as we are informed almost without an in
timatlon OF his fiendish intentions shot and
killed George and James Andcrsoa, broth
crs ot his wife, then attempted the life of
his wife, and, failing in that, proceeded
deliberately to his neighbours, old man
Sublett, d distance of nearly two miles, and
while theold man was begging for mercy,
shot him dead.
Returning to within short distance
OF his home Robinson finished this horrid
and unnatural tragedy by placing the muz-
zlc of his gun against his own forehead,
and pushing the triggcrwith his ram-rod,
put an end to hisown life Instantly. The
whole affair occurred in less than am hour.
Robinson previously had a difficulty
with his wife, and had agreed to 4 separa-
tlVn. Her brothers were assisting To re.
move her things when he shot them both
with rifle andsa musket Sometime ago
Robinson committed u brutal assault upon
old man Sublett, and was punished. viii,
several months imprisonment, (which was
probablythe causc'of his animosity against
that individual"
BLOODY AFPRAY IN G EonafA.- A man
named Hornsby, who resided near Brr,ns.
wick, Ga. being suspected of stealing his
neighbors' stock, was recently warned td
leave the district by certain,day, the 10th
inst. As he did not comply, party pro.
ceeded to his house on horseback for the
purpose of compelling him to quit. A.
they approached Hornsby's dwelling, the
inmates fired, killing a nan nanled Runph
and wounding another named Radcliffe and
his son, The party then fred, killed
Hornsby and his wife, and wounding a
child very dangerously. IRall, there were
eight wounded and theee killed. "
MAGlsrBATE's GoURr.-- --TsiIi Waters,
free person Of color, was tried in Colum.
bia last week, charged with robbing the
mail on the Charlotte Railroad and alb
straeting some 900. The yerdlcto of the
Goart was guilty. Sentence, four months
tnprisonmant and 80 lashcs- 30 each
montlE Out Of this ease .5notIleF gsow--
the State ys Jesse Rabb for complicity