Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-16

Davis, Crittonden, Brown, Pugh, Toombs
and Douglas took opposite side. The mes
sage WAS finally rcferredto the COMMITTEES
ofForeign Relations
The Senate thenwent into an executive
session, and after spending several hours
therein adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The sc
lect committee appointed to inquire into
the circumstances Attending tho sale of
Fort Smelling consists Of Messrs Burnett,
Morris of Illinois, Merrill, Faulkner and
Petit.
Tomorrow being the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleans, it was agreed, that
when the House adiourns to-day it be adj
journcd till Monday.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Presidents message.
Mr.. Thayer, of Massachusetts, argued in
| favor of Amercanizing Central America
We can do it, and shall do it. He was a.
| gai st doing this by means of armed and
illegal expeditions, but by organized cmi-
grafton. Owing to the surplus population
ofthc North, they ymusthave soueScnt They
were now cranmcd in betweenthe Atlantic
Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. If the
neutrality laws shall be repealed, the North
would fill up Nicaragua, before 1889, to be
sufficiently comfortable. He repeated that;
there would be asurplus population enough
to make eight States, if we have territory
where we can put them, and use the peo-,
pie economically.
MIR, Adrian made speech against filli-
buStcrism, and condemned in severe terms,
the maruuding spirit. The neutrality laws
should be changed so as more effcCtually
to check it.
Mr.. Washburne, of Maine, made q speech
on the subject of Kansas affairs, maintain
! ing that Congress has the power to lcgislate
regarding slavery in the Territories.
The committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
Tricks INTIIE NEW YoRK STocK MAR
KEr Many persons innocently suppose
that the quotations of the auction sales "bc-
tween the boards" at, She exchange, arc a
reliable test of the value of the stocks or
| bonds sold. That they arc to be received
with "little grain of allowance" the fol-
lowing transaction of last week will show
! Five different sales of shares in a certain
company, not usually sold at the Board,
wcrereportod as made at auction Mt figures
much below the current value of the stock.
| The officers of the company certify that not
a single share of stock has been transferred,
but explain the matter by the fact that Ger
tain parties were operating to buy up shares
at a low rate. BY paying the expense ofa
few sales at auction, bidding in the stock at
a low rate, in the absence of purchasers in
these tight times, they make their own fig
urcs for she valne of the stock.
| Another "dodge" rcsortcd to by parties
1, ,,..I.A AI..n T. ~
should be fully understood by the public.
Mr.. Jones is making an exchange with Mr..
| Smith. jones wishes to buy Smith farm
or house. He offers Smith stock in the
'Full Blown and Dead Bent Coal co.. -
Smith is ignorant of the value of the stock,
but will make inquiries Jones
can well afford to pay a commission to the
auctioneer for selling some of the stock,
whlchis sold at q good round figuro---Joncs
seller, Jones danny buyer. The operation
being repeated two or three times at tri-
fling cost, enables Jones to drive good
trade with Smith, if Smith is not thorough
ly posted up.-Ac,o York Post.
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| SALE or CIRcAssIAN GIRLS The I.on-
don Post thus speaks, in recent number,
OF the traffic in Circassian girls in Turkey:
81 1 oiCClNIhb lluI Wlcn tue ltuSSlauS shall
have re-occupied the Caucasus, this traffic
in white slaves will be over, the Circassian
dealers have rcdoublcd their efforts, ever
since the commencement of the peace con-
foronoes, to introduce into Turkey, the
greatest possible number of women white
the opportunity lasted. They haYe acls
so successful, that never, perhaps oS aby
former period was white flesh 50 leae IS
it at this moment There is ana sle
glut in the market, and dealers are
to throw away their goods, owinp lBe
extent of the supply, which, in Iaai is~
stances, has been brought by steam; islcg
the British flag. IN former times, a'eood
middiing Circassinn girl was thought ysgg
cheap at Gl00, but at tlieprcscntlnonieait,
the same description of goods may be bad
for g5}'
SINGULAR CoINoIDENcEs Eliza
Lawrence, aged 80, very cstimable laly,
died in this city at the residence other
brother-in.law GJas. Yernoy, Esq.,) on the
I'd inst. Her death was caused by henior..
hage from thp lungs, and there are one or.
two incidents Connected with her own and
brother's death that pcrbops would not