Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-10
From Washington.


polntmcnt of select committee, to report
the best mode of taking the census Of 1860
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the deficiency bill.
SENATE.-Mr. Fitzpatrick informed the
senate that the Vice President had been
compelled to leave the Capitol to take his
family to the South, and the Senate must
elect President pro tcm.
a ballot was then talsou, whom Mr.. ita
patrick received %; Mr. Fesscnden u.
and Mr. Hamlin i. Mcssrs. SlidclI and
Dixon conducted Mr. Fitzpatrick to the
chair, who took the oath.
The Minnesota bill was resumed, the
question being on the motion to amend
section 2, regulating the number of repre-
sentatives.
A MARRYING MAN IN LIMBo.-A man
named Il. Wilson was arrested in Philadel-
phia on Monday, on the charge of having
married number of different females and
secured their property. The Bullctin fur
nishes description of his exploits in the
marrying line, as follows:
Mrs. Prudence r Wilson, of Mannyunk
charges tho accused with having married
her under pretence of being engaged in
business, and after securing all her property
loft her He is charged with having, un-
der the name of Boynton, marriel a lady
OF Trenton, whom he left after obtainin%
possession of $500 belonging to her. He
is also charged with having married a lady
IN the lower part of the city, giving the
name of Smith. From her he stole S261
and gold watch and then decampcd. At
West Chester it is alleged that he married
lady whom he soon afterwards left. He
paid attention to lady named Carrigan in
the Eighteenth Ward in this city, and made
a Pretence of wanting to marry her. but
by some means she escaped his foils. 1t is
believed that the accused has wives all over
the country, and those who have been
dupcd by him should come forward and
testify.
The accused is Yankee, and about As
years of age. He is large man, weighing
about 25O pounds, and rejoices in black
hairand florid complexion. The fore finger
OF his left hand has been cut close off. The
police have have been In search OF him for
some time, and party of indignant wives
Will probably greet him at his hearing on
Thursday next.
LORD STANLEY ON THE FUTuRE OF
AMERICA AND RUSsIA.-Lord STANLEY.
the new British Secretary for the Colonies,
delivered at Lynn, on the occasion of his
reelection, long speech, in the course of
which he caid:
g In every age that old question of the
balance of power assumes a new form.-
That question no longer concerns Western
Europe alone. Two empires are sprnging
up in the East and in the Weat they are
already of iirst-rate magnitude and both of
them are incrcasing-not mainly or neces-
sarlly by aggression upon others, but sim
ply by natural means-at rate of progress
which far exceeds that of ourselves. Look
ing merely at the matter of population, it is
impossible not to see, that unless some un-
forseen events take place, America and
Russia will, 100 years hence, be numerical
ly the most powerful empires upon the
globe. | say numerically, and of course in
that reckoning | do not include India, be-
cause it can hardly be considered an cle-
ment of strength in respect of population.
Now, of both these great empires | speak
with no feeling of jealousy; speak of
them both with respect; of one / speak
with sincere admiration and sympathy, but
still, as society is constituted, it must hap
pen that independent nations will have diff
ferent interests. A position of inferiority
is never satisfactory, and it is not always
even safe. What say, therefore, is, that
if western Europe-at this moment the
very focusand centre of civilization through
out the worlds to hold it's owns to
hold in another generation the place which
it occupies in the present, it must be by a
cordial and friendly union among its lead
ing Powers" Hear, hoar]
REyIyALs.-The New York Baptist
Examines of last week, says:
"Our revival summary for three weeks
past, though imperfect, of necessity shows
a great advance. Over seventeen thousand
conversions are therein specified, aud the
ingathering, on probation or otherwise, re-
ported in our Methodist exchanges during
the same period, amounts, by our own count,
to over twenty thousand more" The sum
mary specifies the following conversions
that have come TO its Knowledge: Maine,
Ais New Hampshire, 82 Vermont, 304;
Massachusetts, 1914 Rhode Island, 387;
Connecticut, 795; New York, 1886
Pennsylvania, 1746; Now Jersey, sos T;
Dcleware, 40; District of Columbia, 81 :
Maryland, o; Ohio, 1148; Indiana, 737;
Illinois, 1146; Michigan, 604; Wisconsin,
46a; Iowa, 27S; MinncSesa, SSS; Mis-,
souri,, 424 Kentucky, 1913 Tennessee,
I'll; Virginia, 29B other States, III /;
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