Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-23
Pennings and Clippings.

NhhAp' -Aho cpVtW says that Geh. -.
Il. Edwards rcceivcda creator number of
votes. at tho late election, for Representa-.
tive, than by any ono at any previous cleo
| tiOn.
CAMELs.-Forty-nin ofthe Camels belong
ing to the United States are now at Canine
Verde, sixty miles from San Antonio. Onlv
one of those imported has died, while ton
have been added 10y birth These young
American born camels thrivcwell and prom
Use to grow up equal in all respects to those
imported.
RACING BrT.-A New York paper saws
some wealthy American gentlemen, in high
state of racing fever, have determined to
challange race between English and Amc.
ricGn horses for $l00,O00-four miles heats
over the Fashion Course
Loss OF LIFE,-Elcven; lives were lost by
the explosion of tho steamer Hercules, at
Montreal, on the 10TH The boat was owned
by Calvin and Brcca, and is total loss.
THE BLOODY FrRsr."- About twenty of
the surviving members of the First Rcgi-
mont of Tennessee Yoluntcors in the Moxi-
can War, had very asreeable reunion in
Nashville on the 2lst ultinlo, tho anniversa-
ry of the bait of Monterey, whore, by thcir
heroic daring, they won the honorcI sou
briquct of 80 The Bloody First"
EXTRAORDINARY LoNcEylry.-A Pcnnsyl-
vania paper announces that death, has at last
divided the Oldest pair in the United States,
,nl, ~
in Burnside Township, Clcarfcld county
Pa, at the age of l08. Her husband, who
is ll2, survives her.
SAD,-Elizabcth Fitzgerald, aged 3 wears
daughter of VIM. G.. and M. G. Somervic,
of Culpepor county, Va, died on the 10th in
slant. This makes the sixth child recently
taken from this afflicted family all died of
scarlet fever.
| ANOTHER CoMEr.-Tuttc's comet can now
be seen in the constellation Pegasus, without
the aid offs telescope. This group is in a
direct range with line drawn from tho two
pointers i'll the "Groat Dipper" through the
| North star, and is about as far FROM that
body as Arcturus.
INpoRTANT.-It has been ascertained that
| the man who held on to tho last, was shoe
maker.
A tribute 10 4 WoMAN,-The Troy (Ala.)
Bulletin notices the death of Mrs Aun Love,
land-ady of a hotel in that place. So much
had she endcarcl herself to the citizens that
every store was closed at her burial.
StN e.. a.
Now Orleans Crescent We mentioned as n
singular circumstance the marriage ofa Ger
man widow, in the third district, to her fifth
husband--not one of the previous four hav-
ing out-livcd his wcddinga year. We'll, a
few days since, the fifth husband took the
yellow fever. lie died, and on Friday he
was buried.
WITHDRAwN-Ex-Prcs Fillmore, in
his letter to the, committee of invitation of
the Kentucky State Fair, says he has with
drawn entirely from all political strife.
LucKY.-In London, printer boy has fall
len heir to somo $S,0O0,0OO by tho death of
an uncle in Calcutta.
BANK OF GoLD.-There is project ON
foot in New York to establish bullion bank,
which shall use nothing but coin in its transac
tions. 1t meets with tho cordial approval of
many prominent men, among whom arc Mar
tin Van Burcn, Robert j. Walker, John A.
Dix and John j. Cisco. The capital is to be
Sl,000000.
TIE ToMATo.-A medical writer asserts
that the introduction of tho tomato upon the
table has reduced the severity of certain types
q: summer diseases 10 noticeable extent.
There is no doubt Of their hcalthfulnoss as
food, nor of their excellence as n luxury
THE SLAVERY QCEsTIoN.-Th Washington
Uniondeclares that whatever cause may have
heretofore existed for difference of opinion as
to the right of Territorial Legislature to pro-
hibit slavery, the decision in the Dred Scott
case now affords platform for all honest
minded citizens to stand upon, and strikes
the slavery issue from thedockct.
/ SHORTENING THE TIME.-The first scctien
of tho overland stage route to California
somc 600 miles-has been travorsed in more
than ono day ioss time than called for by the
schedule. If the gain holds through at the
same rate, San Francisco will be reached
overland, in twenty-five days time.
SOUTHERN" PoErRY.-Mr. Van Bureh
Moore, of Tennessee, who is preparing a
large octave volume, to bo entitled Poets
! and Poetry of tho South, informs his friends
| that he has the entire South "written u-7v