Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-20
DgarltoF IA. GILsAx--lhe Charleston
naners announce thc death Of Roy. Dr.. Gil


man ofthat city.
F,SALIY CLOSED. lit lis stated that OIL Sat-
urlay, the 9thof january, the doors of the
English Ecclesiastical Courts throughout the
kingdom closed, to open no more, aftor hay-
ing existed for nearly 800 years.
ANoTmER LARGE DEFALcArioN.-IIenr d.
Stone, of Worcester, Mass, q lawyer by pro-
fession, but better known as aspoculator and
notc-shavor, has failed and left the city, tax
ing with him from $4,000 to $4,000 in cur
rent funds, and leaving debts of more than
$120,600, with no assets to pay any portion
of them.
SoLD.--Tho filibustor steamer Fashion has
boon sold at Mobile, by order of the govern
mont Two hundred dollars only was paid
for her! & =
DBsPATGH.-Thc Charleston Mercury learns
that merchandise received by the steamship
Columbia, in. New York, on Saturday noon,
and which arrived in Charleston on Monday
afternoon, was delivered to tho South Carroll
ma Railroad, and reached Augusta Tuesday
morning, within the space of.sixty hours.
LARGE PRoPERTY.--Cof j. s. Preston, of
Columbia, has sold his plantation in Louis
iana-IIoumas-- Mr.. j. Burnside, of New
Orleans, with $50 negroes, for the clever
sum of 81 ,00O,0
TESNEssEE-T Senate of Tennessee, by
vote of sixteen to six, has adopted rcsolu-
tions disappearing of the course of tho Hon.
John Bell, U. S. Senator, on the Kansas-Ne-
braska Act, and ndyirtually asking for his res
| Equation.
PRESIDENT PIBRCE.--A letter written from
Madeira under date of January 4, says that
Ex-Prcsident Pierce was in fine health ond
| spirits, aud that Mrs. Pierce was evidently
improving The Ex-President and his wifo
will. probably visit Italy and Spain in the
| Spring
The EARTnqUAKE.--The latest accounts
from Naples estimate that the number of peo-
pie who were destroyed by the recent earth
quake in that city was thirty thousand, while
two hundred and fifty thousand were made
| homeless. s. }
DEcLtNEs.-F. Gaillard, Esq, editor of the
Winnsboro Register, declines, il a very grace
full manner, the call made on him 10 become
n candidate for the Legislature from Fairfield
district.
RRwARD.-A reward of $4,000 is offered
for Seymour, tho absconding teller of the
Savings Bank, in New Haven. lie is said
to be in Savannah, Ga.
ORGANIzING.-Th Black Douglas demo
Gratis and Republicans are organizing in the
North, and listening to harangues from Wal
kcr, Stanton and Others of the same stripe.
| TESAs.--The Clone Star State" has been
particularly unfortunate with her public mer.
To ES-Prcsident Jonos' suicide, must be ad-
ded q like death for Rusk, Collinsworth,
Birdsall, and Gryson Texas is distinguish
ed for deeds of noble daring and terrible &C.
tions
Coon. -" Indemnity for the past"--payup!
Security for tho future"-pay down!
I RsTuRNED.-Thc EdgcGcld Adpcrtiser says
that Geo. ID. Tillman, Esq, who killed Chris
tian In that place some months ago, has re-
turned, and voluntarily delivered himself up
to the Sheriff. lie will be tried at the ncxt
term of the Court.
REGRETECL.-ThcTe Tennessee Crusader saws
that Samuel l.. Hewlett and Philip S. White
formerly very eloquent and indefatigable
temperance orators, ,e'are both drunkartls
again" They are going around now as
"frightful examples" ofthe influence of bran
| dy toddies.
1 IIooPs.--At Senator Douglas late ball in
Washington, several of the exclusives, it is
said, had small hoops in the bottoms of the
legs oftheir pantaloons. They were made Of
steel, and gave the pants very pretty sot
around the boot.
MoUSr YERNoS. Mrs. Le V yart, of Mobile,
has telcgraphed to Richmond, that She has
just collected ono thousand dollars forgtI,s
Mount Vernon Association. Mrs. Fogs. 5!
Tennessee, also tolographs that she has col
lected over two Thousand dollars.
A TUNNEE.-It;s Is III contemplation to con.
struct funnel. under the seq, tounite France
and England. The tannel undor tho river
Thames is the longest of the kind of any in
oxistence.
SPIRITUAL MARBIAoRs.--The Northern pa.
/ pcrs contain many ridiculous notices like the
following Married, in Scott. Luzetao Co.,
Pa, Jan. I'd, at tho house Of Elan hiVoodwa2d
by tho spirit Of Charlos Morrins, through q
msdium, and inpresence of large nambo,
u ncl