Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-17

DEATH OF NEN. OWENS l ne Cttr0ttntttt AN
nounces the death Of General William \. Ovens,
of Barnwcll. He was young man of cmi-
ncncc and unusual promise, being ut the
time of his dcccasc Solicitor of the circuit in
which he lived, and also II candidate for Con-
gross.
Z" Look BE ORE YOU RAr."-Mnrragc with
ont lovo, is the suicide of happiness. AS we'll
might person undertake to built house with.
ont either cash, credit or material, rs to expect
to live happily in the married State without love.
EAGLE EILLEDIN ALAn>NA.-Mr. \. L. ITar-
alison, in letter to the Benton (Ala.) Hcr4H,
describes a very remarkable bird, which was
killed in Autauga county in that State, IL few
days since. 1t measured seven cct from tip to
tip; three feet from the end of the tail to the
point of the upper mandibe, and the spauof its
talon was eight inches.
MopILE-" New Orleans" says the DATA,
sis the third and ought to bc the second i'm
porting city of the Union. The NeycWy says
o Mobile is the third exporting, and ought to
be the third importing city in the Union" What
prevents it but tho Union Z?
REMARkABLE MATRIMoNIAL APrAIR-Thror
young person : the aame Of Bass, children Of
the same parents, were married to three chorS
named Tocl, also Of one famly--in Alabama,
on the 10Th of October. They were all married
with but one ceremony.
THEIR Pay GOES OS.-Thc members of Con
grcss draw thoirpay whether they are organized
or not. They once experienced the inconvcni-
ence of having tn wait Cor their money till the
House was organized, and they took good care
to make the law so explicit on that point, that
no further annoyance will arise from it,
ABoLITroNIsr IIcNc IN KENTucKY-Th New
York Day Booh has received information from
II private source that n few days ago an Ohio
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| Vigilance Committee in n certain county in
Kentucky. lie had inccndiary papers on his
person. AS he had been caught in the attempt
to circulate these documents previously and
warned that he should be hanged if caught mt it
again, he was this time swung up without fur
thcr ado
New YoRx, Dec. l3.--The repository and
bndcry of the American Tract Society were de-
stroycd by fire to-day to the amount of S77 800.
TARRED AND FEATAERED A school master
! from the land of wooden nutmeys was tarred
and fcat""rcd and rode on q rail the other day
ut Helena, and then sent adrift on the turbi,l
waters Of the Mississippi on log for ventiln-
ting his news rather too freely concerning the
peculiar institution. Served him right
DIREcr TRADE.-In the House of Representa-
tives of the Georgia Legislature, resolution
has been passed to appoint two commissioners
| to Europe, to examine into the feasibility of cs-
| tablshng direct trade between the South and
| Continental Europe. Hon. a III Stephens and
DR. McGehcc, Senator from Houston, have been
appointed.
GEoRGIA STATE FAIR-.i bill has passed the
| Lower House of the Georgia Legislature, grant
ing an appropriation to the State Agricultural
Society Of Sl5,000, for the purpose of erecting
suitable buildings, and $1,000 annually to be
distributed in premiums.
One or TuEM.-The Elmira (New York; Ga
zettc says that lIazct, one of the Harpers Ferry
insurgents, was formerly connected with gang
of horse thieves in that vicinity, and escaped
punishment by turning States evidence. This
IS specimen Of the martyrs who arc to make
the "gallowS as glorious as the cross"
! CoNrLAININc OF TIE WeATnER-Thc Charles
ton papers are complaining of the weather.
The .Nercmy of Saturday last says on Thursday
mt noon. umbrellas was found necessary to ward
off the heated rays of the sun; at midnight il
was freezing. and yesterday several persons hne
to break the ice in their bed chambers to per
form the morning's abluton.
JERUsALEM.-A letter from Jerusalem state,
that it is no longer the city (which no man seek
eth after" but it is now the resort of the wealthy
and great ones of the earth. Largo purchase.
of houses and lands are made by agents of Eu
. rOpcun governments. ana establishments
large and magnificent scale will shortly be made
in the ncighborhoods
DEER SNow.-The snow was six inches deer
in Columbus, Miss, on the 9TH inst
TIE GEORGIA STATE CONVENTION. Fifty.twC
Democratic members of the Legislature of Goor
gia have expressed in a Card. their disapproval
of the action and their protest against the au
thority, of the Democratic meeting held at Mil
ledgevillc OH the 9Th inst. The citizens of Mus
cOgcc have also mot in convention, and repudi.
ated the whole affair.
WORDS AND AcrIoN.-Upon the heels of the
Boston Union meeting comes the election of n
Black Republican candidate, Lincon for May
or, over the CitIzcns' candidate, Wightmap.
| REDUCTION OF EXPENDiTURRs.--The Secretary
of the Treasury estimates the expenditures OF
! the United States Government for the fiscal year
esding June 80, 1861, at $G6, IA 928 This is
n reduction of $6,4l3,049, compared with the
estimates OF last year.
Texas SENATOR.--Col. Louis IT, Wiefall. for
merly of Edgefeld, has boon elected United
States Senator from Texas. Her other Senator,
Judge Hemphill, is also native of this State
Col. Wigfoll's election is regarded as triumph
over General 1ouston,