Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-29
Pennings and Clippings.


The next meeting of this Convention will be
held at yicksburg, Miss, on the I'd Monday
in May, 1859.
LABOR. IN SwITzERLANn.-The working
days in Switzerland arc from fourteen to nine.
teen hours a day Wages, for children, Ave
cents per day; women, from sixteen to thir-
ty; men, from forty to fifty.
AlIANDsoME Present. Saturday the Min
nesotcans in Washington presented the lady
Of Senator Rice pair of blooded carriage
horscs--costing $l200-that took tho first
premium for matched horses at the last An
nual Agricultural State Fair for Kentucky.
DEAD.-Gen. Persiler +. Smith, OF tho U.
$. A., died at Lcavcnworth city, on The 10Th
instant. He had distinguished himselfin the
Mexican war.
DACorAu TERRITORY Minnesota papers
state that this Territory is receiving q fair
share of immigration. Numbers are nouri.
in by way of the Missouri, bound forthe val
ley of the Big Sioux River.
THE- FREsurr- Subscriptions are being
made in New Orleans for the relief of those
who have suffered most by the -inundation-
many of whom have not only lost all their
crops aud personal effects, but are left desti-
tute of the means of subsistence.
A BIC SwINpLE-Tho Boston TrareUcr
says that Mayor Ticmann informed Boston
gentleman recently, that he had no doubt but
that the city of New York had been swindled
out eight millions of dollars within the past
few years by officials and others.
OuR CouNTRY.-Thc extent of the territory
and variety ofclmate of the United States,
may be realized in the fact, ,thatin certain parts
ofTcxas tho wheat crop is now ready for the
scythe, while at the North it is just beginning
to grow.
REFUSED.--The British House of Lords
have refused, by vote of ll0 to so, to relieve
the Jews from the necessity of swearing ION
the true faith of Christian" before taking
seats in Pariamont
lMrRoyINo.--Military pnradcs, opening of
theatres, and the general desecraton of the
Sabbath in New Orleans, have boon for tho
most part discontinued.
TnE IIIGuEsT.-Tho New Orleans Prices
Current states that the water mark of the
Mississippi river, opposite to New Orleans
thon - on,, e,n,,,.,n;,
of,c, that limo no ,;,.on ,,a5 o'Is' oS',, wy
s ''''0 'l' ii'oi h"u oniy reccucu
three inches.
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-, VIZ n+%,No-.0o in,''noy' VINO prcco-
N0N ~ "'",' !" p" "i'Dus'o''"s a'temPt
20 fpP"r'ou 10 nave
c;ent o,ont;tv If fsunnl;os-ond 70 hr nro,,o
inc for descent unon the cooot of Mnaa,,;,o
Srp1yr nun,hor of tho or,rlo,o,,
in the machine shons nf tho NIor,ni,;s ,d
Charleston Roilrood ot Monnbis ORC ,,o,,,
ON n strike. They contend for The . fen bour
svstcm !" which the Cop,nonv rcf,.o 70 e,h
NIT to.
Co$yrcr1crT-- Jeeis,ot;vo c,mn,it
49,. c....i Nj.
sideration the case ofG w SovIes momhor
of the Legislature from Windsor Locks
whose seat is contested because no "trcotcd,
with intoxicatiro liouors ON election dov
DEsrRoYEp.-The town of Frankestein in
Sicsia, situated on the road from Breslau to
Glatz, was on the 24th ult. entirely DESTROYED
by fire. Out of 500 houses, which the town
contained, 4O0, including the Catholic church
arc arc lnrnins. Sixteen persons persisted in the
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DEAp.-Tho Pensacola papers announce
lo,l a