Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-11-06

rising. And this opinion is very cor
&c.
:RAL Posr OFrlcE.-The receipts from
,urccs for the quarter ending Both of
., 1858, amounted to $l,SlG,O ,O22.S3 The
nditures reached the sum of 1868 $40, 80
ne postage stamps and stamped envclops
used and cancelled amounted to $l,34G, $780,
u.
TRIED.-The Barnwcl Sentinel says that
Whtciield Kitchng, charged with the mur-
der of his father, has been tried there, and
tac unnatural son found guilty of fmanslaugh-
ter.
ALABAMA ScuooLs. the report of the
Superintendent of Schools for Alabama, says
the Charleston Courier we learn that the ag-
gregatc number of schools taught during last
year was 22Gc; number of pupils S9,0l3
average number of months taught Is; aver
age number in daily Attendance 80, ,SST; to-
tai cost of schools 1852 SS4.ll.
uomclDE.-T Pee Dee HcraM of the Goth
ult. states, that Joshua Afford was shot and
instantly killed, in Marlborough district, by
Zion Odom last week. Odom has been ar
rested
A DEsCRMINATfNG DIFFERENCE. The New
York Express seems to be ofopinion that the
only difference between slavery in the two
sections is, that in the South, the masters own
the bodies of the negroes, and in the North,
politicians own the voters, body and soul both
DEEP SNow.-On Thursday, the 18th ulti-
mo, snow fell in several parts of Ashtabula
county, Ohio, to the depth of nine inches.
EL&crED.-Rcv John Miller. of Alabama
has been elected President of Erskine College.
He is graduate of that institution.
MURDER Tho Grayson (Va.) Patriot states
that Daniel Davis, who was tried in that coun-
ty for the murder Of Spencer Isom and nc
quilted, started with his wife after the trial,
for Jonesvillc, North Carolina, and both were
murdered on the road. He was married but
few days ago.
For RoME.-Thc French troops, instead of
being withdrawn from Rome to Civita Tecchia
are to be Immediately reinforced in the Etcr-
nal City, by the addition of seven companies
ofthc Goth battalion of the rcloubtaDle chas-
scurs-a-pied.
The "SICK MAN."-Thc German Journal
of st. Petcrsburgh speaks of Turkey as fall
ing to pieces from incurablc disease, in spite
of the efforts of the Sultan and many Turk
ish statesmen to extirpato the cancer that
gn0ws into the vitals of the Empire.
STAMPEDE FOR THE WEsT.--A large emi.
grafton from North Carolina to the West is
going on. A caravan of 80 persons lefE Lin
coin county, n. c.. last week A large mum.
her are leaving Davidson and other counties
of the State
THE WHOLE NUMBER.--The population of
Europe is 272, 900, 900 of Asia, 720, ZOO, 900;
of America, 200 100000; of Africa, 80,000,-
900; of Australia, 100000. Total popula-
ton of the globe, 1,283,OO000O.
BUFFALO, Oct. 2l.--The great prize fight
between Morris'ey and Hecnan took place
yesterday, at Long Point, Canada, as ar
ranged and appointed, and witnessed by
three thousand spectators The contest was
terrific for eleven rounds, when Morrisscy was
declared the victor. Both were badly brus-
cd and cut, and it was necessary to carry
the combatants from the field on beds.
ARREsT.-The Charleston Ne,os announces
the arrest of Wan. Thompson, the mail rider
between Adams RIM and Charleston, on the
23d ult. Tie had been detected in the act of
rubbnp the mail on that route
BAREUM AoAIN.-Phineas L. Barnum lee.
tured in Manchester, England. on the 9th in,r
stant, taking for his subject The Shortest
and surest Way of Making a. fortune" He
was listened to by fifteen hundred persons,
and tho new speculation paid we'll.
A BLACK LIsr-The Barnwosl Sentinel re-
ports that there were four convictions, at the
late term of the court there, for capital often
Sos. Two or nircc were for negro stealing.