Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-08

T
| ria, Illinois, has made descent upon the
houses of i'll fame in that city, expelled the
inmates, set the costly furniture in the street.
burned it to ashes, and sacked the houses.---
| Some ten or eleven houses were visited in
turn, aud property to the value ofS7 900 was
destroyed. Most of the expelled parties have
fed to Chicago.
Bur TGREE.-There are bnt three rcvolu-
tionary pensioners surviving in tho State of
| Ohio. IS
VERY DouprruL.-Ti report is revived in
well informed circles in Washington, that
Senator Slidell of Louisiana, and Mr. Bel
mont, late Minister to the Hague, are en-
gagged in the raising of loan for three mill
lions of dollars, to be applied in aid of the
revolution now in progress in Sonora.
TRADE IN COOK SKINs.-On Friday last,
a Chicago firm shipped direct to London, Eng
land, bYway of New York, oightocn thousand
Coon skins, valued at $4,000. The skins werc
made up in sixty compactly pressed bales.
ANOTHER DuGL.-A duel was fought at
Augusta. Ga, on the 29th ult between two
men 1Glackmcyer and Pollard. Two shots
wore exchanged withoutinjury to either party
ExTINGUIsmED.--An old suit, commenced
nearly twenty-eight years ago by the United
States, against Con. HARRISON, npon an off,
cial bond which he signed fora public officer
was recently ordered to be struck from the
docket of tho United States Circuit Court at
! Cincinnati.
PAPER Mills BURNED The Chronicle aud
Senh,ael, of Sunday morning learned from
passengers by the Georgia Railroad yester-
day morning, that the "Pioneer Paper MILL"
near Athens, was destroyed by fire Friday
afternoon.
TEXAS CRoPs.--The Texas papers, without
exception, speak of the aattefing prospects
of the crops, in their respective sections of
the copntry; though they will occasionally
rclieve'thc sunshine with growl about the
grasshoPpers, the nipping frost, and too
much rain" ~
CONSCIENCE STRIcKEN.-The Secretary of
the Treasury received, "A few. days since,
individual, who states that he had cheated
| the eGovcrnmenttot that amount during Pierce $
| administration.
ANOTHER STATE.z-A bill to admit Oregon
has already been reported, and will come up
next in order, At the close of the present
session of Congress, the Union will probably
embrace thirty-four States.
1 GREAT Heavy rains fell at Hunts
/ vile, Ala. on the 22d ult At least six in
4 cl.as of solid water fell. The railroads have
been injured to a very considerable extent
New YoRK, April 2S.-wm. Fuller has
been arrested here, charged with forging a
Government draft for $4,000, purporting to
be drawn by James Reesde and accepted by
| o. p. Brown, Treasurer of the Post Office De-
partment. Four drafts of n similar nature
have been already pad ut various periods.
AusTRIA.--In 1856, according to an Official
report 84,774,37l lbs. cotton wero imported
into Austria. In 1854, lS9 establishments
for cotton manufacturing were in operation
in Austria, consuming (cstimatcd) l45,OO0
bales.
| IMPoRTANT TO YoUNG FARMERs-Effectu
destruction of weods-marrying "a widow.
1
LoTTERIEs.-We see from the National
American published in Atlanta, Ga, that the
Grand Jury OF Fulton county, in that State
in speaking of lotteries, say that "the system
is dangerous to the interests of the commu-
nifty and demorHlizing in its influence"
A DEAR Acr.-4-A few days since, faroor
living near Galena, ILL.,, carried a load of po-
tatoes tothatplace. The highest offer he could
get was ten cents bushel, and rather than
sell them at that rate, he tipped them into
Fever River. The result was that he thus
obs!ructed navigation, and was find $l4.
VorING IN KANsAs.-The negro Worship
pers of Kansas have passed law, giving ne
groes of that territory the right of suffrage,
and making them socially and politically
as no doubt they are mordlly-equal to the
freedom shrickcrs, with white skins, bat
black principles,
GovERNHBSf FIEAEcEs.- The receipts iato
the u S. Trec sury for the. three quarters of
the present fiscal year, amount to 800, ,239- :
$50, including S3l, ,931, ,22O from customs So
I 604,467 from sales Of public lands, and Sl.-
694,692, from miscellaneous sources
SHOCKING AssAIR---A little girl, abont 7
years Of age, named Anna Reyford, was run
over by tho cars at Syracuse, Friday after
I noon, neGr the corner of Genosee and Mont
gomery streets The giFlafterwards lied. !,