Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-02

These are momcntous and solemn oues-
tions, that ut this time claim the serious con
sideration of every American citizen through
out the land. FRlEND TO JUSTICE.
The AFRICANS TRANSFERRED TO THE Nj
AGARA.--The United States steam ship Mag
ara, from New York, arrived off this Bar on
Saturday last, and came to anchor in about
eight iathoms of water the upper part Of her
masts being barely visible from the city
whavcs. The steamer Gen. Clinch which
was chartered by the United States Marshal.
left her wharf on Sunday morning and pro
ccedcd to Fort Sumter, where she took the
Africans on board and proceeded outside the
Bar to the Niagara. which vessel she reached
some time after midday. Tho sea was quito
rough, and there hcing some difficulty in got
ting the Africans Gf tlic steamer, the Clinch
was attached to the stern of the frigatc by
two hawscrs, while third rope was run
from the spanker-bUom of the frigatc to tho
deck of the Cliuch. On this last line large
tub was placed, and in it the negros were
transported from the steamer to the ship
The Niagara will probably leave for Liberia
to-day, (Monday.)-Chor. Courier, 2lI.
"GREAT EVENTS IN 8."-Undcr
this head the New York Observer ranks
four things, as follows:
l. The revival ofrcligion the most cx.
tcnsiye and thorough ever experienced in
the United States.
2. The triumph of the American Tract
Society, the gcsItest moral victory of truth
over error achieved since the reformation
under Martin Luther
3. The successful completion ofthe Flee
trio Telegraph from Europe to America,
the greatest work of human perseverance
and enterprise.
4. The opening OF China to the COM
mcrcc of the world, and free tolcration of
the Christian religion throughout the en-
pire.
Pretty well for the first half of 1858;
what will Autumn and Winter bring forth?
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CHARLESTON AND THE TRADE OF Fast
TENNEssEE.--Our Charleston readers. we
are quite sure, have not failed to observe
the tendency of the trade of East Tonnes
see, which they have heretofore command
ed to so large an extent to fall into anoth-
er channel. 1t is very true that to retain
this trade the managers of the several lines
of railway from East Tennessee to that city
have acted with commendable wisdom, but
1T is not to be expected that the high char
ges which enow demanded by the rail
ways between this place and Virginia tide
water, will be persisted in for any consid-
| cradle length of time, it is fair to presume
that Charleston will soon lose theudvantage
1t still has. And this advantage is only to
be regained by the city through the Rabun
Gap Road Those who projected this en-
| tcrprise, and who were its earnest advocates
and defenders while the scheme was vet in
its infancy, saw very clearly tnat what is
now happening would take place, and it
was, among other things, to meet this very
contingency that they were so earnest in
pressing upon public attention in South
Carolina tho necessity of building this road.
When the road scompcted from Knox
vile to Anderson, the distance from this
place to Charleston via Columbia, will be
about equal to the distance from Knoxville
to Richmond; but should the road be cx-
tended from Anderson to Aiken, the dis
tance will be about fifty miles in favor of
Charleston RnorvWe Citizen.
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n Busy ED1ToR,--We sometimes feel
1T to be pretty tough task 60 do the read
ing, writing and thinking for a daily paper,
but we knock under to the editor of the
Ocala (FloridO Companion, who gives the
following report nf his labnrs:
"During the last three weeks, the edit
or of this paper has set all the type, made
up forms, worked press, folded the papers
and mailed them, and attended to ali his
editorial duties, besides superintending the
getting out of shingles and timbers for two
houses, putting up two hundred and TWEEN
ty feet of palings, and regularly conducting
the business of a regular commission mer-
chant. In fact, we have nearly had our
hands full. Whew how hot it is"
Memphis Ara1anche.
TnE HEAVIEST BULLOCK EVER BUTcn-
Erred. Upon the authority of the Prcsi-
dent of the American Institute it was re-
Gently stated that the heaviest bullock
butchcrca in this country was the OK Wash
ington, whose gross weight was ,204 lbs,
and weight of beef 2,I74. This claim ap
pears to be disputed, however, by some wri-
ters in the Tribune, from PENNSYLVANIA,
one of which claims that bullock was
butchered near Lancaster, on the 22d of
February last, whoselive weight was 8, 1897,
net 2, 400; the other that Berks county
OK was batchered some years ago. in Phil
adelphia, whose live weight was $50, net
1888. A still heavier bullock is announ-
ced in the Saratoga Country Press, which
says that 90 M. Cole, of Saratoga Springs.
slaughtered an or, in 1847, whose I've
weight was 8 $50 lbs. dressed, 2 1867" -
If this be true, MIR. Cole has probably beat
en- tile world, aud should give the world
the proof. - 1D,ertcaa Feterindry journal