Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-09

non, OearH' walker, C'apton ana OenNer.
LEFT SwIrzERLAND.-Ex-P President Porce
has left Switzerland for Italy, where he pro-
poses to spend the winter
SuccEssrUL.-Ten Broccb's favorte mare,
Prioress, won the great Yorkshire Handicap
race, at Doncaster, England. Twelve horses
were on the field beside the mare.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 2S,-Rev. Henry NJ.
Denison, Rector at ST. Peters (Episcopal)
Church, died of yellow fever in this city to-
day
A SAFE -Four shares of
stock in the Bank of Pennsylvania, (oncc the
most safe Bank in the State,) sold in Phila-
delphia, last Friday, ut one dollar pc. sharo
Par value, 500.
MATURING EARhy.--rhc st. Anthony Min
nesota) Nc,cs of the lth instant, states that
corn is now ripe in that city and fit for grind
ing, that sprang from seed planted sixty-seven
days ago,
UoRRoRs OF THE SLAVE TRADE.-Captain
Chaunccy announces the death Of two of the
captured Africans, rescued from the Echo,
agara. lie states further that two thirds of
them arc afflicted with darrhGa, and about
one third with opthamia. One half of them
will probably die on the homo voyage.
KIDNAPPING CnILDREE.-A band of Clip
sizes have pitched their tents near Co.
lumbus, Ohio, and have made several at
tempts to kidnap children from that city.
INA LUNATIc AsYLUM.-Gen. VIM. T. Has
kcll, of Tennessee, is again in the luuatio
asylum in Kentucky, and considered incura-
Tie CALHOUN FAMlLY.-A singular fatali-
ty attends tlis family. Since the death of
the eminent statesman, John c. Calhoun
: three sons and a daughter have followed him
to the grave.
ELorENENr, "A jonrneymcn sausagema-
keE Of philadelphia, /" who parts his hair iu
the middlc," recently oloped with the daugh-
ter of a large operator in kndling wood
They did tho first eight miles in charcoal
wagon. AT last accounts the young lady's
father was in pursuit Of them.
DECLINED.-Land warrants declined last
week, five to six cents per acre.
GRAIN TRADE OF CmIcAGo-The rcccipts
OF grain at Chicago for this season have hceu
over 100000 bushels, of which Is ,00OO 900
bushels have been shipped off again by the
lakes.
RETURN DAY IN YoRS.-The Yorkvillo
Eaqmrcr states that the clerks book shows
return of $50 cases, Excepting the return
to last court, this, it says, is the largest in
flictcd on the district for many years
TnE FEVER ANEW oRLEANs.-Thc deaths
from fever, on Saturday, September 81 were
G7. The total for the week is AS.
AT lloME.-Prcsidcnt Buchanan has been
spending few days at his old home, in Ian
caster, Pa. lie has returned to Washington.
EARLY.-Thc East 7cnmeSsceut has hoistcd
nt its masthead the no me of Howell Cobb, If
Georgia. for President. and D. s. Reid, of n.
c., for Vice President.
BANK DWIDENDs--Thc banks of New.
berry and Chester have declared living"
dividcnds-about equal to 20 per cent per
annum, beside carrying respectable sum to
the reserved fund
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ia the most clio
quent ofpreachcrs, but she never has n large
congregation
IRuEcorRAGE.-l the courage to snow
your respect for honesty, in whatever form
itappcars: and your contempt for dshoncs-
ty and duplicity. br whomsocver exhibited.
HEAVY FINE Henry Goulding, president
of a bank in Worcester, has been subject to
fine of $4,000 FOR conveying property to-
twice that value out OF his hands to escape
taxation. One-holf of this fine goes to the
prosecutor, and the other half to the town.
NoTED DEATHS IN TExAs.-Gcorge II.
Wood, Governor of Texas in 1917, died On
the 9TH ult He was Colone in the army
at the storming of Montory. Colonel Sam'l.
Williams, one of the leading spirits of the
Texas revolution, died on tho 14th. Hon.
VIM. Fields, State engineer, died on the 9th
inst
ARKANsAs.-A Washington despatch says
that the Arkansas democracy arc for Doug
las to a man, IL. his fight with Lincoln.
LexiScroS.- Telegraph desires to en-
ter Lexington on the snake question" OF
cou",e itisa free fght--pitch in." But it
will take ono longer than five feet, and with
more than fourteen rattles, to make your
chance count" Ivy again.