Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22
MonthlY Bank statement.

Monthly Bank Statement. M
We subjoin full synopsis of the condi-
tion q, the Banks of this State as exhibited
by the monthly Comparative View of the
Comptroller General for the month of
April -
Total specie on hand, 81 1873 ,643. .o3 i;
total circulation, S6,719,77376; Notes
discounted on personal security, .Sl1,270,
249.35; Domestic Exchange, 81, ,435 1854.
40; Foreign Exchange, 81 i,250, ,O24 IL:
In relation to the Banks of tho interior.
with which our people are more, or less in
timately associated in business intercourse,
we subjoin the following items in their re-
turns:
Bank of Newberry.--Bills in circulation
S4l5, 1000; Specie on hand, $31 ,747.5I;
Bills of other Banks in this State, S7,41O.,
90; Domestic Exchange, s493, ,823.98 I;
Notes discounted on personal security, S82,-
572.41.
Bank of Chester Bills in circulation,
S260,S10.00; Specie OH hand, $49,72 90 (;
Bills of other Banks in this State. SI5.-
1900; Domestic Exchange, S344, ,885.-
8l; Notes discounted on personal security,
1852, ,91402. h
Planters Bank of Fairfield. ld.--Circulatio
S2l0T2000; Specie on hand, Sl2,006.-
46; Bills of other Banks in this State.
Sl586.0Oi Domestic Exchange, $296,-
022,22; Notes discounted ON personal Sc
eurity, SS4, ,S08.7S. 4.
The Columbia Banks exhibit as follows:
Commercial Bank.-~Spocie on hand,
SS5, 5,019.54; bills of other banks in this
State, S5S,990.00; Domestic EXCHANGE.
S206,S02 go; Notes discounted on person.
81, security $5l0, ,932. 43 circulation S107,-
517,00.
Exchange Bank. Specie on hand S25,-
22H.93; bills of other Banks in this State,
S5,340.755 Domestic Exchange, S4OO.-
1890 Notes discounted on personal Sc.
curity, 1921 ,306.79; circulation, $3.50.
1l0.00.- Southern Gwardian.
WoULDN'r STAY Sruok.-About six
months since an elderly lady, of property,
living in Brooklyn, N. Y, who bought her
fashionable wares at a celebrated dry goods
house in Broadway, New York, became en-.
amorcd OF handsome young man who at
tends there. After many visits she dccid-
cd to invite the young man to her magnii-
cent house in the city of churches. She
told him she wanted to see him on matters
OF tho gravcst importance. He blushed
and moro out of curiosity than admiration,
he consented to visit her. The young man
was dazzled attho maSnifccnce of the house
to which he had beer, invited, and was en-
tircly lost in coWecturing for what purpose
he had hecn brought thither. The lady,
after giving her guest some various refresh
mcnts. proceeded to narratc the fact of her
long observation of his respectable conduct,
adding shat she had inquired of his employ
ers, and fouad him to be highly moral
and worthy young man-worthy of a better
situation in society. She confessed that
she had became cnamored of him, not oil
course for his physical beauty, but for his
moral worth, and finally wound up by offer
ing him her hand in marriage.
The lady was on the shady side of five
and forty, while the lover was not twenty.
two summers old The latter was in love,
TOO, with a handsome young lady in the
millinery department Of the same establish
mont whore he was. employed, He fatty
refused, notwithstanding she had some So Q, ;.
600 which she could place in his hands,
After several interviews, tho widow eradu,
ally won the young man to her views; and
finally he consented to and did marry her
After the marriage she refused to make
over her real estate to her husband, and
this aisplcased him. About-a week ago the
"Benedict" thought he would take trip
to. the country, to see few friends. His
wife consented; but in a few days, he not
returning, she concluded her bird had flown.
she started in pursuit of him, and learned
that the yonng lady had accompanied him
IN his flight. The old lady arrived in Chi.
cago, and consulted with an experienced dc.
tcctiye, who.put her, after some inquiries,
on the track of the guilty pair, who had
gone farther west. The wife says she is
HOW prepared togive him fHlIooHtrol cf all
her property IT he wouldreturn alone home.
Senators boye drawn lots Con- Shields
drew the term expiring in March, 1859, and
Mr.. Rice that enling March, 1868.
Dispatches from Leutonant-C Colonel SSimp-
son, dated Fort LcaTenworth. May 7th, state
that the Sixth Infantry, under command Of
lieutenant Colonel Andrews. and q eoInpa-
nyof Bngsneers, commanded by Lieut.. Duane
left that day en- route to Utah -. t
The regimcntwo,Ad go via Fort Kcarney,
thence -diverge from the Oregon route as far
MS the sbwth fork of the Platte and thence
through the Black Ellls to Port Bridgcr,
The route was surveyed and locutct by
Liaatsnant Bryan In 1886, and is seventy
rtilessborser than fhe cid one. Con, Smiti,
WAS expected to arrive at Fort Leavenv.orth
ON tho 9th inst - f
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