Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-05

'NiN' iVh ''"'ooV' AZ biarkSNHle, La, on
the Sth inst. twenty of the imported Afri,
cans by the Wandcrer were sold at $4,000.
| WESTWARD, IIol--The gold fever is deci-
dedly rigging throughout the West, and hun
drods Of young mon are preparing to start
! early In the spring for tho newly discover
mines of Western Kansas. In many of the
latter towns companies of Sc to 100 are or
gonizipg.
Cholera IN MAURY Co., TESN-Tho Co.
lumbia Mirror, of the 18th inst, says: 9" We
nre informed by physician, that three deaths
from Cholera occurred in this city on We'd
ncsday the 10Th instant
RrcuT.-Thc Legislature of Florida has
passed law requiring the bank agencies
in that State to redeem their bills in specie
This is blow in the right direction against
undue spcculations.
BArTIsED.-A young lady from Albcr-
marie, Va, was baptized recently in the
river Jordan. by DR.. j. p. Barclay, mission
AIRY in Jerusalem.
ENGLAND AFTER MAINE-The object of
England in appointing Lord Lyon Minister
to the United States, in place of Lord Napier,
is said to be to facilitate The acquisition,
by purchase or conquest, of the State of
| Maine
EARruQUAEE-A communication from
| Kingston, Jamaica, announces that most
terrific and violent shock of Earthquake was
felt in that city IN the morning of the Odd,
causing damage 1t is stated to- be the Sc
ycrcst shock ever felt on the Island
CoLD-It is conceded, we believe, from
Maine to Texas" that Sunday the 23d was
the coldcst day of the present winter Our
evidence is very much to the Same effect.
TAX BrLI.----In North Carolina n State
tax is levied on poll, notc-shavers nogro-tra-
dcrs, silver plate, watches, distilled liquors,
patent medicines, banks, ready-made cloth
ing, and various other articles too tedious to
onumerate ~
TIE CcsEr AGMN.-Sevcral papcrs have
published an article headed, Prof Mitchell
on the Comet" We should like to be in
formed how he got into that position.
New WoR1.-W. Gilmore Sims, as we
learn from our exchanges, has another work
=" The Cassique of Kiawha" in press.
and soon to appear.
HANDSOME BEQUEsT- gentleman named
Adams, formerly q resident Of Tennessee
but lately deceased, left by will, to his broth
er, Hon. Gabriel Adams, Associate Judge of
the Pittsburg Court, the handsome bcqucst
of S25 600, and to the wife of Robert Ncel, q
topstsve in the same Court, $4,000, all in
| hard cash.
| ANoTItEB LIFE OF CALHOUN. The Mobile
| (Ala.) Tribune says that Capt. Reynolds is
writing life of the lato Hon, JOHN C. Call
[ houn.
ArFEcr1oNArE.-Th Chinese, in their pro-
clamations, style the English and Frcn h,
red-hoired foreign devils"
| LARGE BILL.--Thc Bank of Charleston has
just issacd bills of the denomination of $500
from new and beautiful plato. Send us
| specimens
LAST WoRDs.-Thc last words of tho Old
Testament are fearful threatening Lest
come and smite the earth with n curse"
The last words of the New Testament are
bcncdiction "Ths grace Of our Lord Jesus
Christ be with you all, Hmcn."
SENTENcED.-JudgcM Munro sentenced Rich
ard j. Foster, in Charleston, on the Goth, to
be hung on FridaSthe 9th March, for .bnr>
glary and larceny"
REMARKABLE WoMAN.-The Calais Adrey-
ttScr reports that Mrs. Jemima Noble, aged
9G, died in Calais, January l4th. A year or
two before she died, an entire new set of
teeth had grown in her mouth, and she could
see and hear as we'll as when young,
LOUISIANA SENATOR THE Hon. j. p. Ben
lamim, of louisiana was reelected by the
Legislature of the State, on the 24th instant,
Senators in Congress for six years, from the
4th of March next, when his present term
will expire.
CoTToN.-Cotton is quoted in Charleston,
as brisk, at last weeks rates-l2 cts per lb.
LosT.-The steamer North Carolina, bound
from Baltimore to Norfolk, was burned on
the Both ult. Rev. Mr. Curtis, of Chester,
and another person were drowned Loss by
the vessel, $4,000.
ELopED wTu HIS STEP. MOTHER ~ young
man of the mature age of nineteeE years,
who was employed in the Pike House, at
Bloomington, III not long since, eloped with
his stcp'mother on Friday evening. r1th ulti-
mo. ~ morally bright youth 7