Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-06-20
Great ExOi.slaent in ean Antonio,

oanu Oh rumans, IN that city, during
which nye persons were killed and one
wounded, AS our readers we'll know. there
mas been. fora long tune past, desperate
gang Of thieves. robbers and house breahers
hanging about San Antonio, whose repeated
,yllainies we have almost weekly recorded
On the night of the 29th, it seems. a horrid
murder was committed but few miles be.
low lhe -to~h, The wife of one: Mr.. CARA
was killed In her own house by some seven
or eight assasslns, and tue house then rob.
he'd OF money and vaIuables. A reward Of
$500 was offered next morning for the an.
prehepslon OF the murder, S, and Sheriff
Henry, with posse, fastened TO the place
adds: '
About 10 O'clock gang Of SOME dosen
'despera1oes had collected in the city on the
west side of the river. many of them in
'darkened room, as sort of resort for the
moment. Here The shooting commenced
between the desperadoes and some three or
four ci,i'ens. Fielstrop killed one of the
desperadees, and was shot throunl the
head by another. At this awful iuno,ure.
Jim Taylor, than whom brnver man never
lived, gave orders to some three of bis com :.
rades 10 follow him--and Mt the same mo, j.,
ment lie broke through The window into the
darkened room. AS he entered, Bill Hart,
a notorious character, shot him through the
breast. and Eat the same moment u f.s:; >, as
pointed at Bill Hart By another person
when Taylor exclaimed, "he has shot mo-
let me shoot him." and fred. Both fell
Cl'lzens commenced rushing in well armed,
Us we'll as many of the desperadoes, and the
shooting became general The gang of
rowdies broke from the room by a back
door; many of them " no came up af,erthe
melee commenced, immediately ficd--6n
ing that they were coming o close quarters.
by this time at,least three hundred ci,i
zens had collected, all we'll atmed-for il
was well known that this gang of rowdies
could bave at their command seventy five
or one hundred men within fifteen minutes
Many of them came in sight. but yery wise
ly Withdrew. Five persons were killed.
two citizens and three Of the desperadoes.
Taylor may recover.
At this stage OF affairs, the CITY authori
ties commanded the multitude to disperse.
and they immetliatelyob obeycd the command
Great excitement still prevails ! We
hardly dase prophecy what may bs the re-
suit before the matter ends There will be
meeting Of the citizehs this evening.
~ O. Picayanc.
HAIL SroaMs, -" Our informant" saws
that while he was at the house of Rev. 6,
+. Jeter. Ia Union District near Goshen
Hill, on Thursday last, about o'clock; P.
M., a very heavy hail storm came OH and
prevailed for neara half hour. ",moro O,
less" completely. riddling and ruinine the
Cotton crops in its course. Il seemed to
range nearly parallel with Broad River, as
he thought; from which fortunate ciroum
stance, IT is not apprehended that any per.
son In this District suffered from its raya /.
ges. Not so however, in another case,
which happened on the same dav, and
about the same time, to wit: In the ub
per part of this District, a tremendous storm
passed in direction nearly parallel with
the line between this and York District, be.
ginning about Lewis's Turn Out, andeross,
ing the Catawba River nj Lauuier's : Jerry.
The most serious sufferers from this storm
we have heard Of, arc Messrs. DR.. Wade
Douglass William Cowsair. Josiah Jordan
and James McFadden, each of whom have
lost nearly if not quite their whole cot
and wheat crops. The range of this storm
WAS at right angle 10 that in Union, and
about two miles from and pataliel TO iha,
which wo gave an aceountsof some, two
weeks ago.. Who can give a reason for
this p Chester Standard, 1Ith.
THr Wheeling, Va, Intellgeucer states
upon reliable authority, that some OF the
largest landholders. in the State, are taking
measures for thp deposition by wholesale
TO Eli Thayor's Company eofimmense tracts
ofland That paper further states thntsimi.
lar movements have been made In Ken.
tucky and Tennessee, and that the same
company will purchase iandsinthose States
These lands are to be settled by emigtauts
from tho New England States, according
to the programme tnadc out by Eli Thayer;
but we trust this scheme may never be ao-
complished. The influx of several hundred
fanatical enigrants into Southern commu. !.
nifty is something hardly to be thought of,
except as an insane project and far less TO
be silently tolerated, -
DEsTRucTivE Hail SToRM. A portion
of Lancaster, KeTshaw, and Sumter Dis,
-tricts, was visited on Friday afternoon last,
by a most destructive bail storm, commen,
teipg above Russell Place. in Laneaster, and
extending in a south sasterly direction as
far as BishepvIllc, 10 Sumter, It's width va
Syieg, us we hear, from two to six miles.---
ln plaay places IL dnfted to The depth Of
from one to three feet, some of the icy, mis-
silss measuring aise inshes IN circumference,
a !. D.