Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-12
From Washington.


will terminate the present session on tho 7th
June, the day they have fixed by rosolutiou,
and they are willing to work up to it. They
think there is time enough to dispose of eve.
ry subject before them, which demands atten-
ton at the present time. They can say ono
thing for themselves, that they have dfold
longer sittings, on tho whole, than tho 33d
Congress. That Congress adjourned in Au-
gust at their last session, and the House was
in session GIT hours during the time. Tho
sittinGs Of the present House, up to Monday,
had occupicd5 5S5 hours. Before the 7th June,
the present House will have sat nearly roo
hours It is true thatit may be said that the
present House has squandcrcd public time,
but that is true of all who have preceded
them Of late years.
The Select Committee appointed to invcs-
tigatc the alleged corruption of the last IIouso
in regard to the Tariff, were to have reported
to-day. They have sent out copies or alb
stracts of their report for publication. 1t
appears that Mr.. Wolcott, tho refractory wit
ness, so covered up his works, that but little
Of the money entrusted to him can be traced.
1t Is generally supposed that hc retains it,
The creditors of Lawrence g. Stone so think
MIR. Wolcott was discharged, on bail, bv
the Criminal Court of this district, and his
trial will take place next week, upon the in
dictmcnt for refusing to answer questions Of
tho Committee of the House.
| The Administration are determined to re-
sist, in every way in their power, the aggres-
sions OF the British cruisers upon our vessels,
whether authorized or not by orders from the
British Government. Under present ar
rangcments we shall now have vessels car
rying l40 guns, Of different calibrc, on the
coast of Cuba. Several small steam vessels
are to be fitted out under the command, res
pectivcly, of Captains lIartstoin, Rodgers,
Dahlgrccn and Matftt, who will give good
account of themselves,
There is so general an outcry in the coun-
try for small war steamers fit for the service
In the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea,
that Congress is induced to adopt the meas
ure. The bill for building six small steam
Sloops of war, passed the House yesterday
without dissenting voice. OF course, tho
Senate will pass it. But the building of some
thirty or fifty steam gun boats has been shown
to be vital necessity. They will be worth,
gether; that is, for such service as VIC require.
Our monster steam frigatcs and sailing frig-
ates are fit neither for peace nor war.
| WASHINGToN, May 3l.-The Senate has
agreed hereafter - lake recess from 4 to
towards motion to extend the timo of adj.
Journmcnt, has been withdrawn. @s
| TWAS agreed to take up Mr.. Mason's res
olutions relative to British outragcs on Fri
| day. Appropriations were then taken up.
| In the House, the Senate resolution for an
J adjustment of the difficulties with Paraguay,
growing out of an attachment of the Water
| lpjtch was passed. Also the Supplemental
Indian Bill The bill providing for defccn-
cy in Indian Appropriations was taken up
and discussed until the hour of adjournment.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Lord Napier to-
Gay dispatched a special messenger to the
| Admiral of the British American Squadron,
| F,,t,
Of our vessels. The Messenger expected to
find the Admiral at Halifax; if not there, he
would proceed by steamer to the West India
| Station.
A TALE or HoRRoRs.-An atrocious
crime has just been perpetrated in Stick
sza, Hungary A hawker, who had long
been in the habit of travelling about the
country selling linen, stopped for the night
at the house of a peasant. After taking
his supper quietly with his host, he retired
to bed. In the middle of the night the
wife awoke her husband, and proposed to
him to go and murder the hawker in order
to get possession of his property. The hus-
band positively refused, on which the wo-
man, calling him coward, went and plum
ged large knife into the heart Of the sleep
ling hawker. The husband then, by order
Of his wife, put the body into sack, and
threw it in the river, while she eet about
removing all the marks of blood In the
morning her soi, a boy of five years of age,
asked his mothrI for piece of bread, when
| she took the knife to cut him a slice Sec
ing this the child cried out, "Do not cut it
with that knife, for you used it to kill the
| hawker" On this the woman, fearingthat
the crime would be revealed by the child,
seized hold of him and threw him into the
baking oven, 1t so happened that on the
very nighto Of the murder, the house of an
other peasant had been robbed of a quanti-
ty of meat and bacon, and the owner had
been prowling about in search of the thief.
In passing near the house of his ncighbor,
he smeltan extraordinary odor Of something
! burning, and gave an alarm. When per-
I sons were entering the house to search for
the cause of the smell, the mothorhad pull
ed outsthe half consumed body of the child
from the oven, and was endeavoring to car
| ry it away in her apron, but one of thcfcet
was seen protruding and the whole affair
was discovered. The peasant and his wife
were arrested, and the woman made full
confession of her guilt.
KIND words are looked upon like Jewels in
The breast never to be forgotten, and pcr-
| haps to cheer, by their memory, a long, sad
life; while words&f efeplty, or sF careless.
nos1, are like swolss So the bosom, wound.
ing and leaving Feafs which will be borne
| to the grayc by dor victim. Do Won think