Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
News Of the Dau.

men of the city of New Orleans passed off
peacefully on the 9th instant. The "know
nothing" ticket was successful by about O.
900 majority.
The citizens of Buncombc county voted on
the Sd June, instant, on the proposition to
subscribe $l25, 900 to the capital stock of the
Grcenville and French Broad Railroad. Tho
majority for tho measure was S02, out of n
vote Of ,054
a shocking murder was committed at st.
Louis on the Sd inst Joseph Charless, one
of tho oldest and most respected citizens, was
shot and m0rtally wounded on the street by
G. w. Thornton, formerly teller in the Boat
man's Savings Institution. Charless had
been witness against Tho; nton. Such was
Charless' popularity that Thornton is in dan
ger OF mobbing.
~ suggestion has been made in various
quarters that a grand celebration be had at
Willlamston on the Fourth of July next, and
that Hon. j. L. ORR be invited 70 deliver an
appropriate address. 1t is designed that
| Abbeville, Anderson, Grcenvilc, Pickcns,
Newberry and Edgcfeld be represented on
the occasion. The suggestion is good one
for all, especially the pleasure seeker, and
we trust that it may be carried out
The Anderson Gazette says that the State
and district tax collected in that district is
Sl4,767.50. The census of Anderson dis
trct as we learn from the same source, show
the white population to bc Ii, 400.
President Buchanan was at Chapel Hill, n
G. at the college commencement lie was
enthusiastically received on his route from
Washington, $4,000 persons receiving him
at Raleigh.
The news from Europe is of a stirring ma
ture. The cotton market is firm. A batto
had been fought at Monticello uetween de-
tachments of Austrian and French troops, in
which the latter were successful. The allies
lost 700, and the Austrians 1000. Austrian
prisoners had reached Marscilles. Further
particulars may reach us by next week.
From the Ncwberry Rising Sun we learn
that on Saturday last the indefatigablc U. s.
Deputy Marshal, James Y. Harris. succeed
ed in arresting dofaulter in the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company's employ, who had sur
rcptitiously pocketed and decnmped with
about $500 of their money. An officer was
in hot pursuit but lost him here. After ar.
rest he disgorged $840, upon which the De-
putty released him to 60 whittier he would
Hon. JOHN LEroHER, the democratic can.
didate, has been elected Governor of Virgin
ia by about 1000 majority. The Legislature
is largely democratic.
| JOHN MILLER AND "JuN1Us." The
Pendlcton Messenger, in a sketch of the
cold Stone Meeting House" in that town,
after speaking of several celebrities buried
i'll the graveyard, says:
" Beneath cluster of cedars repose all
that is mortal of John Miller, printer
Welingered long by his grave, forhis event
full life afforded us food for meditation.
If we could have seen and conycrsed with
his descendants, who live in this vicinity.
we could have gained fuller sketch of him.
Mr.. Miller was the oldest typo in the State.
For the publication of Junius letters
the author of those papers he we'll knew
Tho was expelled from England He
came to South Carolina probably worked
for while in the Office of the first paper
published i'll this State, at Charleston, and
thence removed to Pendleton, using the
press which Gen. Greene had in his cam
paigns, he did job work, until he commen-
ced the publication of the Pendleton Mes
senger"-the second paper established in
this State
"The world has spcculatcd much as to
the authorship of Junius, but John Miller
carried the secret to his grave at the <" Old
Store Meeting House." and has left no
info nation as to the name of the author"
SAD DIsAPPoINrMENT.- We learn, says
New Orleans paper, that young Henry
Wick, who was killed in the duel by Mr..
Smith, near Mobile, few days ago, was to
have been married this week to lovely
and wealthy girl, living on Deer Creek,
Mississippi. The young lady, accompa-
MED by her mother, visited New Orleans
short time since, and purchased from
sto.e on Canal street magnificent bridal
trosscaa. Alas how suddenly have the
brightest expectations and most joyful an
ticipations been dashed to the ground.
A JuRYMAN was asked out west, whcth-
or nc had been charged by the presiding
Judge? Well, Squire" said he, "the
little fellow as sits up in the pulpit, and
kinder bosses it over the crowd, gin us a
talk, but | don't know whether he CHARGES
anything or uot"