Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-17
pennings and Clippings.
The MAREET.-cotton is quoted in Char
lesion ut 10 to l2E ceuts per pound. !,

SlOvcn, says tho Columbia Guaydian, cons
victed ofhighwoy robbery at the last term of
our court, and sentenced to be hung on the. /
30th inst, has had his sentence commutcd
by his Excellency Governor Allston. he isl
to bc whipped in the Jail yard receiving rs
stripes on the 23d and 10 on the 3Oth inst,
and be banished from the State forever.
ENoUGH OF THEH.--oycr fifty set speeches
were delivered in the House of Representa-
tives in favor Of the Lecompton Constitution,
and seventy agoinstit.
BEAUrrFuL.-Sunday is The golden clasp
that binds together the volume of the wcekl
TEiPERGScR.- The Grand Division of.this
State convcncs at Columbia, on tho 2Sth in-
slant. Persons will be pessed over the Green
Vile railroad for one fare.
BERT SUGAR.--France, Belgium, Germany,
Austria, and Russia make about three hun-
dred and forty millions of pounds Of beet SUI
gar in the course ofH year.
CsSsus-Tho Chinese official census of
thirty years ago gives tho population of that
| empire at 376,532,90oi That OF Japan is
estimated at twenty-five to fifty millions.
ST. Iorrs ELECTION. an election for
municipal Offices, held in ST. Louis on the 5th
inst, the entire free democratic ticket was
clcctedby a majority of fromS00 to l20Ovotcs.
AN oBLIGING JURY.-The story is told that
q Jury at Taunton, Mass, recently, boingun-
able to agree in a certain case where man
was accused of stealing $3.50 worth of nails,
reported that they were willing pay for the
nails and let the prisoner go.
CoRREcrLY NAMBD.-Tho Washington I'm
ion very properly styles Crittonlon's amcud,
ment to the Kansas bill, "a bill for keeping
up the Kansas agitation, and making confu.
sion worse confounded."
A Man TARA letter to the Pbiiadel
phia Journal, written on board tho U. 5. frig-
ate Minnesota, says that siy or seven OF the
crew have been killed or crippled fs' life' by
falling through the hatrr---'J oi the tre room
o;roo tl,o+ ,.-o--,s-rutt the United States
:, EA6.-Hon. Joel Crawford, Formerly n
member of Congress. from Georgia, and a gal.
4 liant officer in the Indian wars, died ON Mon.
day IN Early county, (Ga.,) aged 70.
Mrs. PIERcE AT MADERIA.-Lettors have
been received at Washington, from cx, ,Presi.
dent Pierce, conveying the gratifying intel.
lgenco that tho climate of Madeira continues
to prove highly beneficial to thc.hcalth of his
estimablo lady.
DuEL.-The Augusta Dispatch learns that
q duel took place, on Thursday last, at West
Point, Ca, between Ben. Lane Posey, editor
OF the Marion, Ala, Americaa and the edi-
tor OF the democratic paper published at the
same place. The result of the meeting is not
known.
MoNRov1ANs AND THE FRENcu Pres
idcnt Roberts writes from Monroyian. that
the settlers wore likely to be drawn int
trouble with the natives, owing to the
French system of collecting emigrants on the
coast for their West India colonies. The
chiefs had commenced kidnapping and waq-
ing war on each other, in order to obtein
supply of hands for export
SHIPS OF 0AK.-Hhe London Times savs
that the average duration of a ship-of-war in
aseQworthy state, built of British oak, is on.
ly thirteen years OF active seryce.S1It takes
seventy acres of ground eighty years to pro-
duce the timber.
MEAsLEs.-Prof. Fishburn, of Washington
College, Lexington, Va, died of measles on
the 26th ult. About twenty cadets, it is sta
ted' arc in the hospital of the Same disease.
Observation-Disclosures tho Mormon dolo
gate in Congress, is aboutsixty years of age,
and fine looking old man. He is said to be
very moderate in his religion, having on1g
nine wives
SENTENCED FOR LIrE.--G. q. Blaolwood.
tho young man convicted at New Orleans Of
the murder of Wright, was on tho 9th ult
sentenced to the penitontiary for life.
MExIco.--A New Orleans letter-writer to
the Now York Herald says that ex- President
ComonfUrt and Gen. Walker have formed a
project for subduing Mexico. Comonfort is
TO find the necessary funds, and Con. Walker
isto be the military head oftho expedition. +
TnE REsuLT.-The result Of the election.
in Connecticut, for State officers and for tho
Legislature, is favorable to the Black Ropul,.
licanS by decided majority. IN
YELLOW FEyEm--Letters from la Plate
and Rio Janeiro, via England report the Vel.
low Fever raging severely among the ships'
crews. An, English vessel fwar, after sui.
fsrlng dreadfully, was evacuated by the thir-
y mon who were spared. Several other