Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-19

or whatever they call it, and charge $50 n
year, nnd who can keep up with EN-? 1t is.
hard times, and so it is and it wont do to
put n wethcrbUarded house in this settle.
mcnt, that's certain.
a profound rcposc brootls over the scene"
aud discOungcmcnt' is seen in every face
Dir. II has brought forth" and the issue
is-tnilure
We have another class OF people in our
country who have pluck enough to build II
good house, but no live man can stand thcr,
iongor than one year, and they can't stand
one another longer thnn the second year
when there is II b!ow-up"
just listen at Mr.. a. ON being requested
to subscribe the second time to the same
mana good Teacher, by-theby. can't
sign, gentlemen. Laat year lie r'l,nrcr p,v
Jacky for nothing, and he insultcd our CATH
run, aud some of my children told me that
MIR. BIS jim told them that he heard his
daddy say that Mr.. c WAS not going TO send
to any such II man. no how-hc didn't like
the government, and SO mc and my wife has
come to the conclusion not to send We will
try some body else. More anon.
Nov, 1850. A FARMER.
Visit to the Western Coast Of Africa,
The ftllowing information we take, in an
abridged form, from long official report of
Don Joaquin dc Navorro, just published in
Madrid, by order of the Queen of Spain.
The, Intelligent officer, lieutenant in the
Spanish Navy, sailed from Catliz in the
wor-stcamcr Vasco Nuncz dc Balboa, sent
to the African coast to accompany an expc-
ditlon of sailing vessels, to occupy the
Spanish possessions, and to make obscrva-
tions, particularly on the mountains and
timber Of the island of Fernando Po, for
which were provided ample means and q
chief engineer. a band of Jcsuits also
went out to convert the natives.
{" As we approached the African CONT
ncnt," says the writer, "wc experienced
sensations before entirely unknown. The
sun was intensely hot during the day, and
as soon as his disk descended below the
horizon, continued and tremendous sound,
like thunder, was heard; and We were Of
tel visited by tornadocs, which were the
combined effects of wind, rain and furious
discharges of electricity" But these ter
ribic phenomena seem scntby providence
to mitigate the excessive heat of the eli
mate; and fall of the thermometer from
IL to 20 degrees, and other Indications
give sufficient warning to prepare vessels
to bear them. At sea IL cool temperature
follows thom, but not on land. 1t is said
that the lightning comes so near the ground
F, that its heat may be felt by the human bo-
dy. The Spanish officer here quotes the
striking description of the commencement
of a tornado given by the English Lieutcn-
ant Bold
The River Senegal is the first river we
meet on the western cuast Of Africa us we
! sail from the north, and this large stream
flows, in the lower part of its course, along
the Southern border of the Sahara. The
coast, for great distance above, is very
uniform, forbiddiug and dangerous, tho
land Hat and low and difficult OF approach
One hundred miles north of the Senegal
is the solitary little English settlement of
Portlandik, to which, by their treaty with
France in 1888, their trade in Gum Ara
bic was confined. St. Louis is the princi-
pal Frcnchtown on the coast, and stands
y miles from tire mouth of the Senegal
1t coutams 10000 inhabitants, only $50 &.
whom are Europc.ns (Frcnch, } 500 French
soldiers, 700 negro troops, the rest being
blacks md mulattocs The exports are
gum, hi le' and occasionally ivory and gold
dust. Tho Cayor country, lying along the
south sioc Of tic, Senegal, is under King
Domuzcl, who can raise ~, 900 men in time
of war. Theyarc Jalotls; andarc thought
superior in strength and courage to all 9TH
ers on the coast.
g'hc Island of Gencc is so miles south,
contains 5000 souls, and wus ocded to
France by England in 1876, after the latter
had hcidit years. The c-eity is ON rock
OF Dasalt, with only cne Palm and a-few
rnse-bay trees in the square a handsope
fortress on the southwest end, is the chief
French military depot on the coast The
author says the view of the streets Of the
town from the walls presents the natives
i'll their uncivilized dresses and customs;
men wearing course-cotton, women at the
fountains, with little clothing, but some
with magnificent forms, and their neeks
hung with greegrees. "Thcre is small
chapel to rur Lady, and a hospital kept
by the sisters of the charitable assuciution
Of st. Joseph. A Gatholicmissiou under
Bishop Kobbc, is at Dacar, league dis
tait, amoug 5000 inhabitants
The River Gambia lies next below, pas
sing fiat coast marked only by few scat
tering trees. There is Buthurst, the capi.
tai of the English settlements, with 1000
inhabitants, on bay, behiud the island of
St. Mary. That region is extremely un-
healthy, and abounds in wild beasts, as Ii
ons, elephants, crucedilcs, hippopotami, &c.
I The inhabitants arc Niandngocs. The
writer attributes the unhcalthiness to the
gicat variations Of temperature, the thcr-