Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-15

trust, aforesaid, to the valuo of FIVE thou
sand dollars, exclusive of the increase, and
also She increase value of the property after
its acquisition by them, and the Act re-
main and continue in force for and during
the term of fourteen years, from Che fatiH-
cation thereof.
/! Belt enacted by the Senateand IToasc
of Representatives, noT mel and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, Thotall free white persons who
now are, or hereafter may become, rnem-
bcrs of the following Societies, viz The
Mount Olivet Church." in Pickeus Dis
triot; "St. Marks Church." in the town
of Chester; Ebenc2er Church" IN Green.
vile District; The Second Baptist
Church" in Pickcns District; "The Sha:
dy Grove Prcsby ytcriau Church." in Lau-
rcns District; "The Baptist Church, of
Long Branch," in Barnwcll District; {" The
Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church." in
Kcrshaw District; "1he Harmony Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South" in Edge
field District; Rchoboth Church, )" in Alb
beyille District; "Thc Williamston Pres
bytcrian Church" in Anderson District;
" The Shiloh Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, = FIR N5bcSiIlc District " The Beth
lchcm Baptist Church" in Edgcfield Dis
trict; "Bcthcl Church." in Grcenville
District; " Dorchester Baptist Church,"
in Anderson District; the Columbia Bap-
tist Church." in Greeuville District
Meals Crock Baptist Church." in An.
derson District; ''Thc Baptist Chhrch,"
at Manning; "The Presbyterian Church, ,"
at Manning; "Cheraw Lodge, No Is,
Ancient Free NIasons," of South CaroIiua;
" Hammond Lodge, No. 2, independent
Order of Sons of NIalta;' Bcnnettsviilc
Lodge, No SS, Ancient Free Masons y,
" Winnsborough Lodge, No. II, Ancient
Free Masons;" "The Orangcburg Mission
airy Union" of Orangcburg District; The
Mount Bethel Baptist Church." in Andor-
son District; "The Baptist Church." at
Chester, South Carolina; "St. Lukc's
Church" iii the city of Charleston "The
Bethesda Baptist Church" in Anderson
District; "Rhc Providence Methodist
Episcopal Church." "Ihe First Greek
Baptist Church." in Anderson District !;
Williston Academy" in Barnwcll Dis
trict; Z" Fairfield Division, No 13, Sons of
Temperance, arc hereby declared and CON
stituted bodies corporate and polite.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. how met and sittingin Con
eral Assembly, and by the Authority of the
same, That all free white persons, citizens of
tho United States, who have resided six mouths
in the Villageof Pickensvlle shall be, and tho
, same arc hereby declared to be body polite
|, and corporate, by the name and style of Pie
kensville, the corporate limits whereof shall
extend onc-half of mile in every direction
from the hotel now standing in said vlllgc,
and the said corporation is hereby invested
with all the powers and privileges, and sub
lJectcd to all the restrictions and conditions,
which by law are now conferred and imposed
upon the corporation of tho town of Anderson.
That a new road be, and the same is here,
by established as n public highway, leading
from Pendlcton village, in Anderson district,
by Warren Martins, Thomas Crcnshaw's,
and Watkins Tan Yard and crossing Twen-,
ty-Threc Mile Creek at Mclton's Bridge, to
intersect the road leading from Anderson
Court House to Pickonsyille, ,.at point at or
near Forcis' old place, (now Mtchey's); and
that j. B.sE. Sloan, Thomas c. Watkins and
/ Warren Martin, be appointed Special COM
misSionefs to lay ou, and establish sui,i road. !.
/ That the General Board of Commission
Ioi3.. of Reads, Bridges and Ferries, for
Pickens District, be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to elect Treas
urcr, as we'll as the second and nftn or sub.
boards of said district Provided, That
but one commission of five per cent shall
be allowed for receiving and disbursing the
joint funds of the several Boartls
That the road in PiGGcns District lead
ingfrom PickenS G.. III. to Cheohee, be chan
gcd under the direction of the Commissions
ers of Roads for the I'd Regiment South
Carolina Militia; and that Miles Nj. Nor
ton, Carfcll Hester and Morris Miller, be
appointed Speciaf Commissioners to lay out
| and establish said change.
SYRIA.--A letter from Bcyrout of the 30th
September says: "The caravan Of pilgrims
! from Mecca returned to Damascus .on the
24th inst, reduced in number by ene-half
from cholera and the fatigues of the journey
The sanitary autboritiesof DamaS Gus wished
to place them under quarantine, but the pill
grims would not submit to the measure and,
without cercmony p1t themselves in comma
inication with tho inhabitants.
-Aeanguinaf5 conflict took place on.tlc 9th
between two hordeso of Bedouins u car N Na3areih
and the ancient Sichem now called Naplusi,
Upward Of four hundred We're kiltJd and the
pictors deyastatedand piliaged several villa
ges. r So. ..ai :.f
The criminals who violated and massacred
an American family in Japuary last have at
length bech discovered and arrested. They
are siz,in number. The Tasha' of Beyrout las
writtepsto Constaptnople for orders either
30 execute thom in Syria or to deliver them
up 70 the AmSSricans.@ = .gs, ,m..
/, a mo spelling match is announced In
Goyipgton, Ohio, at the High School, when
the'lhd pla etknn,Is 1on,,o.t ,, 4Lo a.. onl