Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-09

I "e"'h vi houry Lyons, Oh ColumDlu, on tDe
2d instant.
WAR.--Thc Texas papers state that four
teen Indian bands have declared war against
Texas.
DISTINGUISHED Administration. William
Walker and Col G. Natzmor arrived in Nash.
vile on Sunday evening last. They will re-
main there for several days, and then leave
for Mobile.
FAsr.-Thc ladies of Iowa are decidedly
east" On the 18TH instant, race of la
dies came oil at Iowa city, for prizo of II
silver cake basket and dozen of champagne
which was won by Miss Handy.
WuAT y LEssoN.-Thcre were no less than
five persons suffering with the dcirium trc-
mems in the Cincinnati prison on Saturday
night last.
BALLooNiNG.-M. GODDARD, tho French zero.
naut, has gone to Cincinnati to meet Steiner,
the German ,oronaut. The balloon race be-
tween them comes off at Cincinnati The
one who goes the highest will be entitled to
the componionship and purse of 80, 900.
ONE or THE ArrRAcrioNs.-. Among the at
fractions ofa amp-meetinga Redding. Conn,
was a fat girl, yet in her teons, weighing six
hundred pounds, and dressed in boomers
with low-ncck dress and bare arms. A good
many people saw a great deal of her, and re-
port her fair to behold
LARGE SUN.-Jacob Demmart formerly
clerk i'll the post Office at San Antonio, Texas
who has Tor some time past been committing
depre,lntious on the mails, was arrested n
few days since at Indianola, Texas, and on
hisperson was found 500 000in stolen drafts.
ANOTHER NEW BooX.--A Philadelphia pub
fishing house are issuing n new English
Grammar for schools and academies, ofwhch
Professor Davis, of fSpartanburg, and Chair
man of the Board of Commissioners in that
| District, is the author.
RGuT.-Wc concur with the Charleston
Courier in asking our exchanges not to in-
| fict advertisements on us in the shape of bills
and placards enclosed in their papers More
over it is practising q fraud upon the post
office department
! MORE STEAMSHIP ENrERrRIsE.- cntcr.
prising shipbuillor has, in connection with
one of the New York shipping houses, con
cludcd q contract to build six screw propcl-
lcrs to ply between that port and Liverpool
and Glasgow. They are to be of one thous-
and tons cach and will cost in the neighbor-
hood of 925o000 each
INCREASE OF CUsToMs REyENUE.-Tho re-
ceipts from Gust ms at Now York shot up to
a high figure in the carly part of last week,
by reason of a heavy importation of dutiable
fabrics by the Yigo and Persia On Friday
and Saturday but $4,000 each day was re-
ccivcd. Total for the week $G3S,0O0.
Destructive FIne.-A worry destructive
fire occurred in Camden, Ark, on the 18th,
destroying property valued at 100000.
LOST AT SrA.-The ship Emily St. Piorre,
of Charleston, was lost recently, near Calcut-
ia. She was insured for $4,000 in N. York
and &i,500 in Charleston. The cargo is in
surcd in Ensland.
A MONSTER SEA TURTLE 4 sen turt,r
weighing 100 pounds was captured last wecL.
in marsh adjoining the lands of CYRUS
Jones, in Danes Quarter, Somerset county.
MI. -
liocs.-About 9, 900 head of hogs we're sold
at Cincinnati, during the past week, at SIS so
net to be delivered the last two weeks Of No.
vcmbcr and the first two of December. There
is some demand at this rate.
/ SuIcIDE--John Axe, II German. and II
shoemaker By trade, killed himselfat Angus
ta Geo. on Tuesday, by shooting with pis-
tol, He leaves wife and children.
MARRIED-At Grocnpoint N. Y, on Tues
day, Dist ult George Shields, Esq, to Miss
Maggia A. Jorden. The happy couple de-
parted for an up-river tour this week, and
with the shicd the lady has donncd, we trust
j0'dan will prove path of plcasantness, and
easy travel. Selah.
TIE CoMET.-rhe earth and the cometaro
getting to be quite near neighbors. The dis
tancc between them now is said to be only
about 4o,OOO,O0O miles, Stand from under
DrINc.-The papers report the vomito pre-
vailing quite extensively at V era Cruz, and
numbers were dying daily.
LARGE SALARY.--The salary of the French
Minister at Washington is 100000 q year
that of President buchanan 500, 600 Thus.
$4,000 to be placed to tho credit of republican
| simplicity, as we'll as the difference of their