Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-30

i"ir Ray, lnstne last
True C2rolinian nominates Col Warren u.
Wilkes as o candidate for Congress fCs s,lss
ceed Col. Orr should he doGlpo a re.eleetIefss
rs it is believed he will.
A LoNo ADvERrIsgMEST.-T WASHING.
ton Union has five supplementary sheets con-
tanning au advertisement of mail contracts
fillmg l27 columns of that paper 1t is stt.
ted that the price paid for publishing this for
twelve weeks is $4,000. 9
PETER FUNEs AT NEw YoRx.-Tho Peter
Funks are doing brisk business. Three
swindled parties complained at the Mayors
office, Monday, one done out of $GO another
$40, and another 800. The Police, however,
compelled all to disgorge
LIcnTfNG MS own WAY.-Onc Thomas G.
Clinton has, Solitary and alone," sought i'm.
mortality by mcmorializing Congress to pass
law increasing the salary of the President
Of tho United States.
A Coon 'UN.--Nat, what arc YOU leaning
over ,at empty cask for Why, Pm mourn,
ing over departed spirits!
LARGE AMoUNT.--The Ertrao,dindry a
journal publishcd in the city of Mexico, esti-
mates the amount of American clai rs against
the Mexican government at twenty million of
dollars.
ANAsT DoMAIN.-TcXas has l0l,747 900
acres of vacant domain.
ExrRAvAGANT-Th Empress Eugeni
France, recently appeared at ball weoring
jewels whose value was estimated at $780,
600, and having flounces of lace on her robe
that cost $l20,000.
HARD TINES. The cry of hard times is
falling thick and fast on every side A wng,
at our elbow, suggests that everybody had
better get the Legislature to incorporatc him
as u bank, and then suspend" aJ
HuRRAu FOR THE PALMErToEs. Es.-IIon. H.
w. Crook, recently elected Judge in Georgia,
is u native of Spartanburg district S. c.
Crook yourself for Governor next time judge
SPECIE IN New ORLEANs.-Tho banks of
tho city ofNew Orleans now hold in round
hgnres, ten millions of coin, against threc
millions sixty days ago. The declared state
ment two years since showed larger amount
but the PtcGyane does not think the actual
quantity ofspccic was SO great as now. Still
our banks do not resume. Why not?
SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS REcoyEREp.
Orlando lluntor has just recovered $1,000
against tho Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chic
ago railroad in the Racine Circuit Court saws
the Racine Advocate. The plaintiffs father
was killed some time ago, and the plaintiff
h!msclfhad some of his limbs broken by the
cars running against his wagon.
a MODEST EDITOR. M Jdest editors orc
rather scarce article. "Buncombe," how
ever, can boast of hers. The editor of The
Ne'os' speaking of the municipal election
soon to come off there, says that his namo
has been used i'll that connection without his
consent. He is already "justicc of the
peace and is unwilling to monopolizo all
the Offices, with that OF Alderman, to the
exclusion of more mcritorious men |"
AN AGED CoUPLE.-Thero is now living in
Burnside, Pa, Mr.. Dudwick Snyder, ia
years old. His wife, Jano, is 10Y wears old
The date oftheir marriage is not given, but
supposing Dudwick was twenty-five wears
old at that defiant epoch they have been liy-
ing together as man and wife ninety-two
years.
WAsHINGToN's lIoME.-Both branches of
the Virginia Legislature have passed bill
providing for the conveyance to the State of
Virginia of the birthplace of Washington
and the homes and graves of his proccnitors
In America. The adoption of this measure
may be regarded MS a patriotic prelude to the
consummation of the noble enternriso in
which the Ladies, Mount Vernon Aesceie-
tion is engaged
IN SERVIcE.--In the army now in Utah,
are tho following officers from South Carolina.
Capt. Barnard Il. Bee, 10th Infantry, Cant
John Dunovant, do. Lieut.. j. b. Yillipigue,
Compony III, dragons, Lieut.. S. N. Fergu
son, "a Regiment Dragons.
a Coon OLD AoE.-Mrs Margaret Purdy,
aged LOG years, lately died at Spencer, Now
York. She had been widow over eighty
years, her husband h&ving been Killed in the
revolutionary war in lT77.
TRAdEDY.-A correspondent of the Peters
burg Express states that three white persons
were killed by negro in Gates county. N.
w. few days ago, and that the murderer
was afterwards captured and put to death.
No particulars of this bloody tragedy ore
a NoyELTY.--Capt. dc Riyire, late of the