Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-03-19

GRowISC.-rhe census Of Ncwberry vii.
lage and Helena, as recently taken, show the
population to be more than two thousand.
DRArTs PRorEsrED. The Washington cor
respondent ofthe Baltimore American wri4
tes, that about 100000 Of Drafts, which
were expected to he paid out of the Dclicicn-
cy in the Post Office bin. were presented on
Saturday last, and had virtually to go topro-
test, there being no funds to meet them.
4 FIGnrfNG WoMAN-Thc wife of Gencr-
n! Mramon, who has lately become Presi-
dent of Mexico, is said to be q regular trump
card. She notified her husband--a Young
man of twenty-scven years-that he must
fight his way into the Presidential chair, or
she would not live with him.
WHAT 4 GuN.--just fancy q Dahlgren,
ga hitting, with a thirtytwo pound ball
the figure of a man at six miles distance! a
gun at the Norfolk navy-yard does it nine
teen times QUO of twenty. Hard to escape
the pursuit of such adetectiyel
ANernga. 1t is 'rumorcd, says tho Char
lesion Courier, that a literary paper is soon
to be started in Columbia, under able and
competent management
RErlREp.-Mr. Fillmore has been on vis-
it to Cincinnati In response to u dcputation
of political friends, at the head of whom was
MIR. Corwin, he said that he had retired
from public life forever"
New PosTorricE.-A new Pustoffice has
been established in Anderson district, called
Five Forks" and Joseph C. Eaton appoin-
t. Postmaster.
HoNclnE. Marion .Sar says that on
tic 26;h ut., in fracas between G.. Ford
and Il. Rogers, the latter was stabbed in the
uc,k and died in icw minutes Ford is Mt
large.
REMARKABLE EsCApE FROM DRowN-
INu-UTIhTY OF lIoOps.-Wew were in.
formed by q citizen of our District, on
4Jnday last, of most remarkable escape
cm drowning of Mr.. Robert Anderson,
wife, two children and sister. The cir
cumstanccs, as related to us, arc as fol-
lows;-1IbGcriUc Banner.
Mr.. Robert Anderson, a citizen of our
District, his wife, two children and sister,
left home OF Saturday last for the purpose
of visiting the father Of Mr. A., Capt.
George Anderson, of l.aurens District, and
while crossing Saludn, Immediately above
Capt Andcrsons mill, one of the horses
attached to the carriage was suddenly at
tackled with "Bind Staggcrs," and tell
overheard, nearly upsctting the carriage.
BY some mcaus the forryman, in the gen
cral scuiile to extricatc the animal, lost H.
poe and WIS thereby unable to govern the
boat, which commenced drifting rapidly
the river being considerably swollen-to-
wards the dam. Mr. Anderson, seeing
there was no alternative but to 60 ever the
dam, gathered his two children and Jump
cd into the pond, instructing his wife and
sister to do the same, which they did
Mr. A. succeeded in getting safely ashore
with his charge, but his wife, not so fortu.
nate, washed over the dam and was in a
manner drowned, when she was rescued by
n negro who obtained canoe and went to
her rciefjust in time to save life. She
was unconscious when first taken from the
stream, but after some time revived, and is
doing well. Theyoung lady, she sister OF
Mr.. A., fortunately, at least in this case,
was better prepared for the emergency than
her sister-in-law, by having on a hoop skirt,
which, we understand, so completely sup.
ported her that she suffered very little from
the accident, more than slight wettinc.
She, however, afterfoating about for some
time, was taken into the boat by tho ferry.
man, in which she remained until it passed
over the dam, which feat it performed with
perfect safety, dragging the dead horse,
which was drowned by falling overheard,
with it,
We regard this most remarkable cs-
cape, and should be warning to those who
neglect to detach their horses when driven
into fats. 1t is also one of the strongest
arguments We have seen in favor of the
hoop, which in this instance served as an
excellent substitute for a life-rreserver.
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CAUSES OF FERrILITY.-Tn a letter tc
the New York Farmers Club, Prof. S. w
Johnson, ofthc Yale College says:
"Thc labors of chemists, to discover
positively all the causes of the fertility Of
soils, have not yet met with conclusive sue
cess The mechanical structure of soil is
of primary importance. Naked rocl
grows lichen-the same rock crushed into
coarse grams, grows much higher order
of neutrality-suspicious. fine, cereals grow
in it. Geology, chemistry, botany, phpsi
ology, metoorology, mechanics, hydrodyn.
amics, heat, light and electricity, are all in
timately combined in the grand process Of
vegetation. There are sandy soils in oul
Eastern States, which, without manure
yield meagrc drops of rye and buokwheatt
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