Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-18
j. The Mother Of Waters.

from China to the Philadelphia Ledger,
asserts that the Mississippi River, which
we call tho " Father of Waters is not to
be compared to the Yangtso-Kiang River,
to which ne applies the name of "Mother,
of Wators." Inproof of this, he compares
the width and volume of the two strcans:
The Mississippi, opposite New Orleans,
is not quite six hundred yards wide, with
mean depth uf one hundred feot, and a
mean velocity of nearly one and half miles
per hour. Thus body of water one and
half miles long, six hundred yards wide
and one hundred feet thick, is driven into
the Gulf of Mexico every hour. A little
more than one hundred miles from the
mouth of Yaug-tse Kiang (thc Son of the
SeO is located tho city of Kiang-Yin. The
river here is nineteen hundred yards wide,
has an average depth of miuety-nine feet
and mean velocity oftwo miles pcr hour.
Thus we have, he remarks, /, body of wa
ter two miles long, nineteen hundred Yards
wide and ninety-niuc feet thick, hourly ur
gcd into the bosom of the Yellow Sea-
Compare this volume with the first, and it
will be found to be almost doublo.s We're
the length of the great Chinese water course
only known; the comparison might be COM
plctcd but that cannot be untilthe intc
rior of Chinais opened to the world. Its
estimated length is three thousand three
hundred miles.
Lieut. Habcrslam estimates that tho wa.
ters of the Yang.tse- -Kiang carry alone in
suspension the remarkable ouantitv of
about thrty-three and third per cent. of
scdimcntory matter. According to this cs
timate. 1855, ,3S6cubic feet ofmud is hourly
transported to the sea by this river. it
seems quite incredible, but as the earthly
matter discharged by the Yang-tsc- Kiang
colors the waters at it's mouth, giving to
them the name of the Yellow Sea, besides
forming immense fats, the amount must
be very large, The Yang-tsc- Kiang, how.
ever, bears no better comparison with the
Amazon than, according to Lieut. uobcr.
sham, Che Mississippi does to the Chinese
river. The Amazon, which is shc LARGEST
river in the world, is one thousand seven
hundred and sixty-nine miles in length in
direct line, or, including its windings
nearly four thousand miles, while Gour hun.
dred mules from the Atlantic it is more than
mile in width, and has velocity of IT, &c
and half miles per hour, and in mid-cur-
rent no bottom is fonnd with twenty faith
ons or one hundred and twenty feet. This
noble river, with its tributaries, is estima-
tod to afford fifty thousand miles of inland
navigation.
TYGER RIVER BAPTIST AssooTATroN.
From the Minutes of Tiger River Asso-
cotion, held at Rcedy River Chuch, Green
vile, IN August, we learn that it is compo-
scd of 3S churches, and 104 delegates. of
whom lS were absent. From the statis-
tics we. SOC that the churches, have upon
their rolls 4499 communicates. Durinn
The year there were 480 babtisms; l74 re.
ccivod by letter; 10 restored 246 dismiss
cd to other churches; Al excluded Sc de-
ceased. The colorcd membership is 770.
The Sabbath Schools of the Association en-.
brace about 1000 children and 167 teach
crs, with libraries containing All volu-
mes Attached to ono of tho churches is
a Sabbath School for colorcd children,
having 100 scholars, 10 teachers, and $50
volumes. Spartan.
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EXPLOSION OF a STEAMBOAT Boiler
Two MEN ScALDED TO DEATH. Yester-
day morninga as the steamboat Aurora was
on her regular trip from Kcyport, N. j., to
this city, tluo of her boiler collapsed, and
two of her fircmen were scaldod to death.
John Mercnus, one of them, died instant
iy; the, other fingered until the afternoon.
and died soon after the boat reached the
dock, foot of Fcsey,street. The accident
took place at 10Y o'clock, when the boat
was about midway between Keyport and
Staten Island A physician was procured
from another boat and rendered Ali tho nc.
slstencc in his power. The boiler had been
only two years in use, and was pronounced
by All inspector, a short time since, to be
capable of carrying sixty pounds of steam
to the square inch but when the accident
happened the pressure was 2E pounds TO
the square inch. Itis supposed chot flaw
in tho iron was the cause of the explosion
The coroncrs were notified, ami nm inmcst
will be held on the bodies tc.dty.--M "
Jo.ya'at Of conmcrce.
BTsnop JAMES SHor.--Bishop James
OF the NJ, Il. Church, had narrow escape
from death in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the
"a instant He WAS passing along the
street from the residence of Bishop Amcs,
when he was struck in the face by shot
from gun earclessly fred by some boy and
painfully wounded. The shot entered the
lett check and penetrated the side of the
nose. asurgeon soon extracted tho shot.
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