Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-26
A Tale of Horrors.

ed by the Nicksburg ,SouMyoa with having
pardoncd out of the pcnitentiary a man
named Dyson, who had assassinatcd anoth.
er man named Nelms, for which he was
SIMPLY sentenced to the prison for fifteen
years. That paper says of the criminal:
CHE waylaid his victim, with whom he
had deadly fucd; brought him down at
the first shot, and then, emerging from his
hiding place, tauntcd his dying victim with
words of insult and reproach, and finally
concluded by placing the muzzlc of his gun
TO thc body OF Ncims and firing the second
time. This shot produced instant death,
and so close was the gun to the victim that
the flesh of the murdered man was burnt
by the explosion. Having completed the
work of slaughter, hc deliberately mounted
his horse and rode to the home of Nclms,
called his wife out, and informing her that
he had murdered her husband, directed her
where to find his manglcd corpse
Dyson is blood-stancd, blood thirsty
lncarnatc hend. He is not q man, but a
fcrocious tiger and Gov. McWillic has no
more right to turn such beast loose upon
the community than he has to open the
cages of Il whole caravan of tigers. His
antccedcnts are well known too and they
should have forbidden all hope of Execu
tive clemcncy. The murder of Nclms was
not his first taste of blood He had pre-
viously, in a most base and cowardly man
ner, murdered lawyer named Moss, of
Do Soto county, by shooting him in the
back as Moss rode from him. He had
murdered three of his own negroes, and
one of them in n manner so horribly appall-
ing, as to cause the death of his own wife.
This case occurred at his own table and the
victim of his ficndish rage was woman
Taking offence ut something the woman did
or omitted to do, while waiting at the table,
he rose, drew Bowie knife, and with n
single blow ripped her open. His wife
swooned, and len she awokc to conscious
ness, he had the negro's heart out, and with
it upon the knife he thurst it into her face .
She swooncd again, and the result of her
horror and fright brought on convulsions,
from the effects of which she soon died
New ORLEANS, June 10.-The United
States surveying schooner Vixen had ar
rived. All the crops in the northeastern
section of the State exceed anything ever
known.
A party of lynchers, near San Antonio,
was committing terrible outragcs
The Indians on the Pecos were trouble
some, and Capt. Pope had lost number of
horses.
The crops on the Rio Grandc were fine.
There had been tremendous hailstorm
at Fort Davis
INTERESTING STATISTICs-Amonc 9TH
cr interesting facts of DcBow's statistical
view of the United States, we may mention
that the foreign vote of the country is one
twelfth of the whole; that the State OF
New York has about one-cighth of the pop
ulation of the Union; that there is one
house to overy six persons in the country
that the number of persons who live east
of the Mississippi is twelve times greater
than those who live west thereof; the dis,
tance between New York and New Orleans
is more than that between London and
Constantinoplc, or Paris and St Petersburg;
over two-fifths of the national territory is
drained by the Mississippi and its tributa.
rcs; of the 1897 political newspapers pub
lishcd in the United States in 1850, 85G
were Wing and 742 were Democratic. -
There four hundred thousand Indians
in our territory; at the close of the Rcyo
luton, there were but thirty-six thousand
in tho old thirteen States, according to an
estimate of Gen. Knox; direct and indi.
rect tax paid by each white person in the
country, 1924 number of real estate own.
ors ! 100000, or one in about $40 of the
free males over twcnty-one years of age
number of Federal Office holders Exclusive
of army and nary,) 35,459, n nine-fold in.
crease since lS00-thc population having
increased about fve-fold one c-fourth part
Of tho people reside in villages, towns and
cities; the number ofpeople to dwelling
in New York city averages more than 13,
in Boston nearly o, in New Orleans 02, in
Richmond about 5.
MEDICAL Students Examination: "Do
wounds often heal by the first intention 2"
:" Not when the patient is rich and the doe.
tor poor" When docs modification en-.
sue 2" "When you pop the question, and
are answered no.!
SLIrpERY WEATHER. -" Good morning
Patrick slippery, this nlornngY "Slip-
perry am be jabers, it's nothin else, yer
honor Upon me word, slipped down
three times without getten' up once yer
! honor"
Consignees at Anderson Depot,
FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 81.