Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-03-05

eighteen million Of bushels.
,Hteu. Ata sale of negroes in Abbcyille
last wock ten wese sold fog$l0,030, being an
| average of, k0o3. There wero two women
in the lot each forty aud fifty years ofagc,
TmE PREsIDENT-A writer says that, while
sitting in tho gallery ofthc Senate Chamber,
and looking down upon the assembled wis
dom therein c,llcctel, Ike counted sixty-four
candidates for the Presidency. ~
I Tue Roman RAILRohDs---'rhe- entrance of
the first locomotive into Rnnc in the month
Of january excited universal enthusiasm
| Tow CowIS ron SrEAKER.-'rhc Western
mcnarc huscarly urging Tom GOWN, ,ofoho,
! for. tho next Speaker of the u S. House of
! Representatives.
! A ROSE WITH MANY THoRNs. Garrett
Rose was arrested in Saratoga county day
before yesterday, charged with bigamy. 1t
is said that one of his wives lives out West
another in SchuylcrSillo, and third in Troy
! GUnERNAToRtAL CoNyESrIoN.-'rh third
Monday in Juno has bccn fixed upon rs the
time, and Millodgevillc as the place, for hold
ing State Convention of the Democratic
party of Georgia, to nominate u candidate fer
| Governor.
RELIctoN IS Goop.-Thc Hudson (Wis.)
Star says that one of tho effects of the revival
in that place is that several begin to pay their
debts who were considered hopeless cases
! before.
I A YIELD.-Thc dairy farm Of znloc Pratt
of Green county, New York, kept fifty cows
in 1853, which yielded $500 pounds of but,
ter. and brought from % to 27 cents per b.,
or over 81 500.
! UNcERT!INTY or Aw,-Joln Porrey, of
Albany, NJ Y, recently brought sixty three
suitsagainst the Erening JoWrnal of that city
] in which he claimed Sl,300000 damages.
The suits have been tried, butthc jurics found
for tho defendants.
! DIED RETuRNINC FROM y BNL,.-NIiss Laura
Stratton, q young girl, while on her way
| home Tuesday night from military ball
given in Baltimore, became so i'll that she
was forced to scat horself on doorstep
Her brother ran for q physician, but on re-
turning with one found her dead in her ball
attire. She died of congestion of the heart.
Observation-Disclosures tho past two months
four children have mystcriously disappeared
in New York city, and although the police
have used every effort to trace them out, as
yet no clue has been obtained to their where
| abouts.
DEAD. Sister Agnes, of the Presentation,
at Carmclite (Catholic) Convent, in Baltimore,
is dead. She deceased on Wednesday, a ed
90 years. Her family name was Elizabeth
Harriet BUarman, which indicates that she
was descendant of the old stock of Mary
land settlei'., Her membership with the re-
ligious order dates back G2 years.
ExEcUTEp-The Barnwcll Sentinel says:
the unfortunate men, Clayton and Carter,
! convicted of Negro stealing ut the last torn
of our Court, were executed yesterday about
one o'clock. One or two thousand persons
were present and witnessed tho melancholy
spect, &C.
TRurH.-Thc basis of all excellence is
truth. Truth is intellectual gold, which is
Edurable as it is splendid and valuable.
DsAD.-Ifenry IIalum, the distinguished
Englia historian, died in January last, aged
eighty-one years.
LoaIo BE, HANGED:-Thc Orangeburg Soutd-
ron says that Harry, q negro, was tried be-
fore Magistrates and free holders recently in
that district, for attempting to violate the
person of u white woman. lie was found
guilty and will bo hanged on the first Friday
in April.
NoMNATED.-Gco. p. Elliott. Esq, of Beau
fort, has been nominated by his friends as
candidate TO succced Col. Koitt in Congress.
JusT THE DIFFERENcE.--If man fails to
the amount of million, it is all right, but
let him fail to the amount Of his board bill
and he rs scoundrel.'
WHAT NEXT ?-Parson Drownlow, of Ten
nessee, is spoken of as the Know-nothing can
didatc for Governor of that State!
The MISSISSIPPI RlvER-The river is ri
sing rapidly, aud there is now every proba-
bility ofRHother heavy freshct. The rains
have been heavy ip the West,
| AN ExpEDIENTs-4It is stated upon good
authority. says the Son 9f Temperance, that
the Mayor of Columbus, Co.. has issued or
dcrs for tho stationing ofH policeman at each
of the churches in that city, whose duty 1t
shall be to arrest any person Glowing tobac-
co, or smoking cigars, and splitting on the
the stops of the church.
WARLIKR pREpARATtoyV ~ Exot,>.n