Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-27

ters, ana VIII, 1t IS stated, go North In q few
| days.
The New CoUNTiEs.-It is said that two
new counties--Buchanan and Breckenridge;
are to be erected from portions of Tazcwell,
County, Va, during the present session.
| The Jefersonyillc 1dc0catc states that in the
former there are only three slaves--and in
the latter there exists the anomaly in Yir-
ginia of "a county in which slavery has not
single representative.
SCARLET FEvER.--Tho Frederick (Md.)
Union says there have been thirty deaths
from scarlet fever in the northwest section of
that county, within tho last six weeks.
| ALL FOR I.ovE.--Johu Smithson, of Drew
county, Ark, hung himself with bcd-cord
few days ago because the young lady ofhis
affections married. rival.
RIPE FRuIr.--The Vicksburg miss,
! Tttte Southron, of the Goth ultimo, acknnwl-
edges the receipt of a full grown and holfripe
peach.
VENERABLE Man DEAD.-Alphous Baker,
classmate of Daniel Webster in Dartmouth
College, and father of Col Alpheus Baker,
| ofAbbcvillc district, who is we'll known for
his eloquent appeals in behalf of Kansas,
died lately in Columbus, Ca, in his eighty
seventh year
DEAp,-Col, Hugh Archer, formerly of
South Carolina, died in Florida, on tho 23d
ult.
EARLY.-Col A. q. Sumner has presented
the editor of the Companion, published at
Ocala, Fla with "mess of snap beans" on
the 4th instant.
DEATH OF Cor. TuoMsoN-Tho Spartan
announces tho death of Col. III. III. Thomson,
of Spartauburg, aged ffty-tlrcc years lie
was lawyer of note.
| DEATH OF a PALMETTO T.. Younr
a member of the Palmetto Regiment died in
in Winnsboro last week. He entered tho
army, says the Herald, at tho tender age of
sixteen years, and was in the thickest of the
! fight on every such OCCASION Peace to his
remains, andal honor to his memory.
WnMLSGroN, NC, Fob 1.-THE steam
boat Magnolia, bound to Fayetteville, explo-
dcd at White Hail. killing fifteen or twenty
persons. Some of the bodies have been re-
covered, but many are missing.
FATAL AFfRAY.-Two men named lIohl
and Costello wero shot by an Irishmau whilst
interfering to prevent disturbance in a
drinking saloon, at indianapolis, on Satu-
day night, Costello is dead and IIohl is fa-
tally wounded. The people are threatening
to lynch the perpotrator.
| p,..,um, IL ~
of the sun, of 81 ,092,665 paid into the United
States Treasury during the quarter ending
with Dccembcrlast, SO, ,237, 723 wero fir, m Gus
toms, S49S,7Sl from sales Of public lands,
and SS66, l50 from miscellaneous sources.
! Schools IN MAINE-The annual Re-
port of Mark III. Dunuell, Superintendent
of Common Schools for Maine, gives the
following results for 1857:
Number of towns in the State, 39I ::
towns that have made returns, 1856; mum.
Der of organized plantations, %; that have
made returns, 76; school districts, 4, ,1O2 :;
4 parts of districts, 1928; children between
four and twenty-one years, 240,764; schol-
ars in the summer schools, 13l ,404; in the
winter schools, 151 ,636; mean average in
summer and winter schools, 108,044 ; male
teachers, 2,777; female, 1856; average
wages, of male teachers per month, exclu-
sive of board, S22.21 average wages of fe
male teachers per week, exclusive of board,
S2.l0; money raised by tax in 1856 for
the support of schools, S401 SOB Is; excess
over amount required by law, $54, ,066. 35; ;
received from State school funds, $77, ,96O.
l6; from local funds, $15,47O.42; ex-
pended for private schools, $50, ,455.59 !;
voluntary contributions for the support of
private and prolonging public schools, S12,-
! l18.4l; paid for school superintondencc
Sl3,Oo9.75; amount of permanent school
fund, Sl36,S4G.54; amount of bank tag
distributed June l, 1857, S75,63 % |;
school houses built tho past year 140 cost
$lA,000.40; aggregate amount expended
for school purposes the past year, $685.
| 1875 number of good school houses in
the State, ] 1881; poor school houses, 2 ,0o8;
estimate value of all the school houses, 81, =
Ol9, ,OS3; number of towns and organized
/ plantations that raise 60 cents per inhobit-
ant, as required by law, 312; number that
have raised less, 102.
! A KING FOR CANADA A.-The Sandwich
| &C. W.) Mercury is advocating the erection
of Canada into an independent kingdom,
with a permanent ruler. The most eiioible
person to found Canadian dynasty, the,
Mercu, :, thinks, is a Prince of England /;
for, while his elevation to the throne Of the
new Kingdom "would be graceful tribute