Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-19


hitherto a strong supporter of Judge Douglas,
has written a lcttor urging tho necessity of
union of the Democratic party and taking
the ground that as the Kansas question has
been settled, there can be no longer any rca-
son for maintaining position Of hostility to
the Administrations
TooMbs OR ALE?-Thcrc is some question
which "beNt" in Smelling the blood of an
(now horribly Englishman," during the re-
cent war outcry in The L. S. Senate; but the
general impression is that the New lI0mp-
shire Yankee trapped the Georgian. Halo
is not to be outdono in the manufacture of
thunder or lightning.
A,FAT PMR.-An enormous fat woman,
who was recently exhibited about tho coun-
try has been married mt st. Louis to man
almost as large as herself, named Rogers
The happy couple weighed, together, about
| 1900 pounds.
ITEM EGGs-TRAoRDINARY.-- animal nam
ell Jno. Keith, at Mariposa New York, last
week on u bet devoured seventy-six raw eggs,
shells and all, in twenty-iour hours.
| Fatal LEAP.-John Watts, shoemaker,
lcaped from third story window at Phila-
delphia last week, and was instantly killed
He was laboring under an attack of mania a
potu.
Hoe CHoIERA.-The hog cholera has again
made its appearance in Kentucky Indiana
Tennessee, and Arkansas, and the animals
are dying by hundreds.
NoMINATIoN OF WAsuINGToN.- General
George Washington is said to have been nom
mated as Commander-in-Chicf, by Thomas
Johnson, delegate in Congress, from Mary
land '@A'
WHAT KANSAS mas CosT-It is stated that
Kansas has already cost the government, at
the very lowest estimate, fifty millions of
money.
GEN. HRNDERsoN.- j. Pinckncy Hen
derson, whose death whilst Senator from Tex
as we noticed last week, was a native Of North
Carolina, whence he emigrated to Texas in
1886.
LARGE CARGo.-Thc ship Black Hawk was
cleared at New Orleans on the 23d ult., for
Liverpool, with 10, 2,225 barrels of -four, the
largest cargo of flour that ever left that port.
SoUTu CAROLINA BANKs.-The bills of all
the South Carolina Banks are quoted at par
in the exchange tables fthe Memphis Tenn J
I papers The bills of the Banks of no othor
State are thus honorcd in that city.
ONcEREMoNIous.---.ar rery l,rotty lady stop
\ No Nf Ia Al. o4l,
day, got in, and proceeded to give the driver
a tremendous thrashing. She afterwards ex-
piaincd that he was her husband, and had
loved some one else, not wisely, but too we'll.
NEw CRor.-We learn, says the Athens
CFcnn) Post, that engagements for wheat,
new crop have been made at G5 cents per
buslcl. Old wheat will hardly command any
price.
ENTERED FOR TIE GoopwooD RAcE-"Pri-
orcss" and Charleston" /" have both been en-
tered for the Goodwood races, in England,
which nre to come off Oh the Goth. Of July
next Both animals are said to be in fine
condition.
The Longest STRAIGHT SrRErcu.-Thc
longest stretch of road in the South is on the
Wilmington Charlotte and Rutherford Rail
road where for sevcnty-eight miles the line
is perfectly straight.
ST. LOUIS, June IA Leavenworth dis
patch dated the 9TH inst, saws that the de-
tails of the affray at Lawrence between Gen.
Jim Lane and Mr.. jenkins arc received
Both General Lane and Mr. jenkins were
living Oh claim which both contested
The former enclosed an acre of land on
which was well, and which was used by
both parties in common. General Lane re-
Gently locked the well and fenced it up,
and forbade Mr.. jenkins access to it, Mr..
/ Jenkins declared he wonld have water at
all hazards, when General Lane threatened
to shoot him if he made forcible entry on
| his premises
On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Jenkins, ac-
comranied by four of his friends, we'll arm
ed cut down Gen. lanes fence, and pro-
ceeded towards thewell, when General Lane
warned them not to approach, or he would
shoot. Disregarding this threat, Mr. Jcn-
kins, with his party advanced, when Gen
eral Lane fred, killing Mr.. jenkins instant
!y. One of the Jenkins party Immediately
returned the fire, shooting Lane in the leg,
inficting wound, which confines him TO
| his bed. Gen. Lane had been arrested,
land was to undergo his examipation to-day.
Much excitement existed in consequence of
the affair. Mr.. Jenkins was held in high
estimation, and his death is deeply dcplor-
4 ed