Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-12
Washington so,;etv.

s the NeW u ok It0teS, we lind the follow
ing agreeable sketches /:
Ini.social point of view, the city has
not been so gay or brilliant for many sea-
sons. Hospitality prevails on every side.
except in the one direction which. for tbo
honor of the country, it may be as we'll not
toname Postmaster General Brown kecns
open house, and his gracious lady gives n
warm and true Southern welcome to all
VINO enter her superb and stately rlausion.
Mrs Slldell is extremely, almost pain
fully, Impressive in her demonstrations of
courtesy With the manners of French
woman, and the impulsiveness of her ma
tive South, She evidently regards all men,
women and children as her husbands pre-
sent or prospective constituency" whom
it rs her duty to captiyate at whatever cost
otexertlon, smiles OF complimentary yollu-
bility
Mrs. Senator Gwin, a dueen-likc but We
~ gracious lady, whose figure is of the .Ju-
NO order, dispenses almost royal hospituli
ties, which are made more agreeable by the
'al Kindness and frank condcsccusion of
er pleasant manners and address. The
9nator much resembles the stately gen
2temen OF the days gone by, and rather
rides himself, tits said, on his resemblance
Andrew Jackson. What lie may lack
= quicknoss is made up in urbanity; and
not brilliant i'll conversation, lie has tho
'rtuc OF never speaking bitterly of those
& 18th whom he associates.
Mrs. Douglas is, beyond all question
3 no Senatorial belle Young, beautiful and
Winning never constrained in courtesy,
nut filling her position with easy grace
ler presence seems to diSsipatc all political
lspcritiesj and one might very rightly think
thatas many recruits to the Douglas cause
have been enlisted by her smiles as by her
husbands eloqucncc
The dashing Mrs. Clement Hill, whose
house is the rendezvous for all that is dis
tinguished in Washington society, seems
to have no political proclivitics, and her
q drawing rooms arc kind ofncutral ground
whereon people ofall opinions may meet in
uncompromising intercourse.
But the bright particular star of the me-
tropolis is Mrs Conrad, young Southern
widow, who has natural gilt of diplomacy
and takes to politics and plots Just as natu-
rally as young school girls do to bright rib
bons, rich loces and Partisan gloves. From
tho Vice President down, through all gra-
dations Of Senators, Congressman, finan-
ciers, journalists and artists, her empire is
undisputed. She has the kink of voice
which st. Paul, or some other good author
lty pronounces to be an cXccllant thing in
a womanj and, as might naturally be ex-
pccted, this Talleyrnd in crinoline is not n
little cnyied bymany of the less gifted and
less brilliant of her sistcrbood
a YOUNG WOMAN TAKEN FOR A Bur-
clan AND ST6T-Mr. Henry Barnard,
q German, who lives and kceps pawn
shop. at 2l Third Avenue, for some time
past has slept with a pistol under his pill
3 low, Tor the purpose of self protection a.
Eainst burglars and robbers. He was in.
duced to keep n pistol near at hand from
the fact that recently several burclarics had
been committed in his Immediate ncighbor-
mood, This (alonday) morning, about 4
o'clock, Bridget Leddy, domestic who has
lived IN Mr.. Brnard's family for some
mouths, arose and proceeded below stairs
to make q fire. The noise made by he,.
aroused Mr.. Barnard from his s.unIbers.
VINO was strongly impressed with the belief
that burglars were in tho house, he not piy-
lnSit q tboitght that Bridget was i'm. He
accordingly raised the scconed story win
dow of his sleeping room opening into the
yard and cried out, "who's there ?' sew
cral times.
The noise was heard by the girl. who un-
Assnspectingly thrust her head from the
basement window and looked up, for tho
purpose of seeing from whence the sound
emanated She was discovered by Mr..
Bernard, but he installing her in the darl;
fora burglar, drew his pistol and fred down.
sending one or two bullets in the RIGHT side
e her nook and shoulder Bridget gave
one scream and fell to the floor which
brought Mr. Barnard to the roalizine fact
OF the horrible mistake he had made. In
his anguish he exclaimed, "1Iy God
have shot the girl" and ran down stairs
where he found her almost speecIless on
the floor, and the blood gushing from her
wounds. DIR, Mott was Immediately sum.
monedan!l endeayored to probe the wounds
but was unable to do so in a satisfactory
manner. He found two wounds, one in
the head below the right car, and the 9th.
,crlower down In the neck or shoulder bnt
whether these were made by one bali, or
whether the pistol contained another bul.
let, the doctor could not definitely deter.
mine. Itwas most likely, however tbot
there wepo two bullets in the pistol.
Everything possible was done for the
suffering girl, who is still living, but the
chances for her recovery arc exeecdinelv
bad The lcaden missiles could not he
traced, and they arc supposed To hay Jpass-