Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-02-27
Pennings and Clippings.

at log to liz. .a.
CoNstoNEEs.-The Anderson papers have
como to us the two last weeks without the
"listof consigneos." Therefore; we are un-
able to publish them.
TaE New STEAM SLoops OF WAR.--Tho
five steam sloopsof war now boing built hayo
been named by the President as follows -
The one building at Pensacola, "Pensacola;" I"
the one at Norfolk, "Richmond;" the one ot
Philadelphia, "Lancastor;" tho one Mt New
York, Brooklyn;" and the one at Boston
! Hartford"
ST. Louis, Feb. i5.-Rcccnt developments
show that George Swisor, the late Collector
ofSt. Louis county, to be dcfaulter to the
amount of$lGO,oO0.
CoNFIRMED,-A. Birdsall, Esq, formerly
contractor on the Blue Ridge Railroad, has
been confirmed by the Senate aq naval officer
of the port of New York
| IcE.-All fears of failure of the ice crop
| North are now dissipatcd. The freeze has
been general, and the ice harvest is going on
with its usual cooluss and success!
CnANcED,-Tho Alabama Legislature has
changed the name of Benton county, in that
State, to that of CALHOUN A very decided
improvement, We think.
Too Lone i5cnton-"Old Bulion"-as-
signs asasuficicnt reason why Senator Doug
las will never be President, that his coat-tail
is too near the ground.
| Flour SlS FER BARREb.-Flour has been
selling at SIS pcr barrel in San Antonio,
Texas, in consequence of the difficulty of haul
ing from the coast.
TENNEssEE.-Thc Legislature of Tennessee
adopted resolutions on the 10th instructinc
the Senators and requesting the Representa-
tvcs in Congress from that State to vote for
the admission of Kansas under the Locomp.
ton Constitution 4
BREAKING DowN.-Thorc seems to be some
fatality attending Mr.. Ex-Secrctary Stanton's
efforts to instruct the people of the North
about Kansas. He was announced to speak
in New York City, on Thursday last, but the
proprictors of the Academy of Music would
not open it. lie was announced to speak in
the Assembly Chamber, at Albany, on Sat
urday, but for some reason not made public.
no speech was delivered.
4 n MODEL LEGISLArURE.-Aned editor writing
from Frankfort, Ky, says that the Legisla-
ture of that State is composed of fne-lookinG,
wcll-dressed and wcll-behaved men, and that
among the whole number there are but five
drunkards, and only somc eight or ten fools,
n 4 ~.
any previous General Assembly.
PRoTRAcTED SEssIoN.-Thc "knowing ones
at Washington express the opinion that Con.
grcSs will not adjourn sine die before August.
FAHED.--The Governor of Kansas has dis
approved of the bill calling another consti-
tutional convention. The Legislature has
adjourned
y New TERRIToRY.-Thc House Commit
tee on Territories have prepared bill to or
ganize II new Territory out of that part of
Utah lying west of Salt Lake. to be called
Carson Territory.
Tow THUMB OUTDoNE--The most FILTERED
down" specimen of humanity of which small
America can boast is now said to DC a Gen,
Green, O native O" Western Missouri, but now
a resident of Illinois, He is an intelligent
boy, l5 years ofage, although he looks 20-4-
perfectly formed, and much smaller than the
far famed Tom Thumb.
STARVING TO DgArm.-A very unrnasona-
bic story is going the rounds of the press, to
tho effect that woman in New York has not
tasted food for eighteen months, and is still
alive!
BAD RsSULTs.-Somc of the domestic events
of drunkenness are houses withoutwindows,
gardens without fences, and fields without
tillagc barns without roofs, children without
clothing principles. morals or manners.
THAT HYENA-'Che oleSeland Herald saws
the Paulding county Hycna" did not escape
to the woods after all. In fact there was no
hycna, and no Jacob Pofenbcrg or little boy
injured by the ferocious brute, and the grave
yard at Paulding remains undisturbed The
l whole story turns out TO have been n foolish
hoax.
l For THE SUCCESSION. The Black Rcpub-
/ licans are nominating w, II. Seward, of N.
T., and Col. Fremont for the Presidency in
1860 Seward is the strongest man every
7; way it is said.
| WnATA CoUNrRY.-W Were all the United
States as densely inhabited as Massachusetts,
it would have population of 4i6, ,000, 600
souls, of which Texas would have so, ,000, ,00G.