Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-05
Pennings and Clippings.

"Frond of Education" in another column.
DEATH PsNALTY RssToRED.--The Wiscon-
sou Legislature having tried the plan of inn
prisonment for life as a punishment for Of
fences capitally punished in othor States,
without success, are about to restore the
death penalty.
a New PARTY.-Movement arc said to
be in progress in Washington to concentrate
! all the elements ofopposition to the Admin
istration in a Peoples Union Party"
BAD STATE FOR MoRMoNIsM.-North Caro-
lima is o bad State to indulge in more than
one wife. AT the Cumberland North Caro-.
fna) Supreme Court last week, H. c. Bart
lett, convicted of bigamy. was sentenced to
be branded on the left cheek, with the le,,,
! b., to receive SO lashes ON his bare back. to
be imprisoned thirty days, then to receive 80
lashcs more, and to bo let loose. IIo had mar
ried four wives.
New SENAToR.--lIon. IL. B. Anthony,
editor of the Providence Journal, has been
elected U. S, Senator from Rhode Island for
sis years from 4tb March'next.
LARGE AMoUNr-Rev Dr.. Schou reports
S20l 800 as the amount collected for mission
! airy purposes last year, within the bounds of
tho NJ. E. Church, South.
REQUESTED TO REsIGx.--A movement has
bcon made in Mississippi to request tho :
isnation of Gov McWilIic. The people o.
the State arc worry indignant at the last 6xer-
else ofclemcncy, which has turned loose no
torious assassin named Dyson.
The TURKISH kDNIRAt.--Rcar Admiral
Mahonmcd Pasha and suite were entertain
cd Wednesday night in Boston. at the Re
we're House, by grand banquet, rendered
! by the city government. About eighty plates
| were laid. Speeches were made, and toasts
given by Mayor Lincoln, Mahommcd pasha,
Edward Everett. Commodore Stringham, Ex-
Mayor Rice and others,
He DESERVES Ir.-Benuctt, of the n. Y.
HeraM says that he never 1attcrs public sen.
timent. We don't sec why hcsl nd Pup
lie sentiment was nevor at all altering to
him.
SOUTHERN They arc making pa
per at Raleigh, North Carolina, and shipping
it to New York, where it is being sold at a
handsome profit. This speaks well for the
manufacturing interests and enterprises of
the South.
ArrcIxrMENT.-Gc Gen. i. Y. Fair, of Mont
gomery, Ala, has been appointed Minister
to Belgium. This is the third appointment
from that city to the same mission.
TIE MAhKEr.-Cotton is quoted in Charles
ton at 10 to l2s cents per lib.
| Too mucrr p>stc.--TLo news nom ILLINOIS,
and Indiana is that these States arc pretty
much drowned out. The prairies arc full of
grain, and rendered corn planting impossible
Ohio is not much better off.
PIrcuING IN.-Thc Carolina Spartan, pub
lishcd at Spartanburg G. H., has come out
openly and boldly for Col Vernon for Con-
gress
MARRIAGE IN INDIA.-An officer of the
United States steamer Georgetown, writes
from Bombay that he had just attended the
emn rites of the church-who were each only
five years old. Children are there married
| by thoir parents when mere infants. A boy
unmarried at six is an old bachelor!
A PAYING PRIsoN.---The net profits of the
Connecticut State Prison, for the year end
ing March 2lst were SO ,0G8 49, Total num-
Der of prisoners at the date named, 2l2--of
whom 20 are sentenced for lifo We believe
this is tho only institution of tho kind that
has paid expenses during the past year
CHURCHES IN NEW YoRK.-The number of
churches in this State is SOFT; value of
churches and lots, $27 7,760,328; numbor Of
sittings, 2,l4l, ,l59; number of persons usu-
ally attending, l,l24,2l number Of church
members, 1922, 1884; salaries of clergy, in
Guiding the use of real estate, $2,4ll 6s3.
CoMPENsATIoN TO 4 SPEAKRR.-Thc House
of Assembly of the Bahamas voted 9l00 to
their Speaker-the Hon G. G. Anderson
who has served in TINT capacity for twenty.
six years, as testimony of his faithfulness
in the discharge Of his dnties as such. lie
emi3rated there from Georgia.
NoMINNrioNs.-Ex Adams has been
nominated for the vacancy in the U. S. Sen.
ate, and Col. Thos. N. Dawkins, of Union,
for Governor.
TAxEs.--The amount of taxes collected in
Groenyille district, this year, is $l2,228.44
The mum, or of slaves is put down at 6,804.
KILLEn.--Tho Due West (Abbeville) asll