Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-07
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WASHINGTON, Oct, 30.--The amount in the
Treasury subject to draft is $9,S02, ,00o-rcss
ccipts of the week $441 900
A RUN.--Thc Yankees have been making
"run" on the banks of st. Johns, N. b. On
one day $4,000 in gold was taken from one
institution. The merchants have petitioned
the banks to suspend, and it was thought they
would do so.
VIRGINIA PoLITICs.-Senator Hunter of
Va, between whom and Gov. Wise, it is said,
there will be struggle for the about-to-be
vacant senatorial scat, has published letter
in which he denies the statement that he is
hostile to the present administration. He
announces his disapproval of Governor Walk
crs course.
DEAD LETTERs.-During the last quarter,
$l2,655 was received to about 220O letters at
tho dead letter Office. Not quito $4,000 a
year is generally thus received in about TO-
600 letters, or about on an average, $5 let
ter. OF this it is calculated that nino-tonths
arc returned to sender.
CAN'T AFFORD IT.--lt has been thought
that people arc dcgcnerating, because they
don't live as long as in the days of Mcthusc-
lah But the fact is provisions are so high
that nobody can afford to live very long, at
the current prices
a EEMARKABLE Casa marriage took
place in Fairfax County, on Saturday last, of
couple who were divorced nine years ago
In the mean time the man has been married
and his wife died, and on Saturday he was
again married to his former wife.
An EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION
Calhoun's work on Government and on the
Constitution of the United States, is the text
book on this subject in tho Citadel Academy.
We believe it has been adopted in no othor
institution. .r
READY.-At the meeting of tho next Con-
grcss two new States will be in rea illness for
admission into the Union-Oregon and Min
ncsota.
LARGE CoMpANr.-A company of Swiss
have recently bought a tract Of &c, 900 acres
of land near Connection, Indiana, and intend
to settle on it, having town for tho transac-
ton of their business near the centre, on the
bank of the river, and dividing the remainder
of the tract into farms.
TIE Sun TREAsURY.-IIon. Wm. T. ,Jor-
dan, member of Congress from virginin, is
the father of the sub treasury system. 1t was
first proposed in 1884, but not adopted until
some years later.
The CoLLEGE.--Thc grand jury of Abbe-
vile presents the South Carolina College,
"under its present management" as nui-
sancc
ANOTHER HERO GoNE.-Jamos Head, n SOL
dier of the Revolution, died in Scott county.
Virginia, on the 4th inst, at the advanced
age of 90 years.
IUNG.-PlcasantM Coleman. convicted of
the murder of Mrs. Bagby, at the last term
of the Logan Circuit Court, was hung OH Fri
day afternoon last, at Russclyillc, Ky.
OUT OF EMpLoYMENT.-Alo than 1000 Ia
borers have bcccn thrown out of employment
in ST. Louis, within the last few weeks.
ESCAPE OF THIRTY SLAyEs.-A great STAN
pcdc of slaves took place at Cambridge, Md,
on Saturday nightla No less than thirty
mad" thrir escape to free Statc--fftccn be-
longing to Samuel P"'tison ESQ.
FORMERLY AN EDIToR.-lIon. A. o. p. Mich
olson, who has been elected as United States
Senator from Tennessee to succeed Hon. ,Jno.
Bell, is best known to the country as the cd
itor ofthe Washington Union during Prcsi-
dent Picrcc's administration
A BRUTAL IIUsBAND.-A brute, named
Robert Gray, residing at Rochester, N. Y,
after beating his wife numerically, on the
2lst ut., turned her out of DOORS Next morn
ing her body and those of her two children
were found in a mill race.
RETURNING IIoME.-A Scbastopol cores
pondent of the Boston Courier says that the
former inhabitants of that ruined city are con-
stantly returning in transports and steamers,
and that already the place has population
of upwards of twelve thousand. Before the
seige the population was G0,000.
WISCONSIN WHEAT CRop.-The MiIwau.
kee Sentinel estimates the wheat crop of wis,
consin at 100000 bushels for 1857, an in
crease of near 6,00O,OOO over 1856
SMALL NoTEs.-NIssissippi is to be added
to the list of States which have prohibited tho
circulation of bank notes of o less denomina-
ton than FIVE dollars. A law to this effect
! goes into operation the first day of November
This applies to foreign bank notes, as there is
no bank is'ue in Mississippi,
| New yoRK, Oct 27,-The heavy rosre of