Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-30
News Summary.


viii, ms he ought to be, acquitted The press,
especially North and West, have been filed
with the disgusting details of the,disgraccfnl
amour, as itcamc from the wituess' stan,t.--
We neither gave the particulars of tho affair
when it happened, nor the evidence adLuoed
on the trial; believing that such publications
orc corrupting in their tendency. We would
be glad that we could say the same of all the
papers in the SOuthl
a fresh revolution broke out in Fenczuca
on the Goth March. About 700 revolutions
lists met and defeated II government force of
400 at Palito. The lattcr retired to Cow to
await reinforccments. Revolutions are as
plentiful i'll these petty States as u cat is sup
posed to be of lives!
During the sitting of the Court for IIaber-
sham county, Ga, a young man named MAX.
TIN was sentenced to tho penitentary for
three years, upon his own confession of guilt
for stealing pair of shoes His father was
sent there for lfesomo years ago for the crime
of murder.
Tho annual report of the President of the
Greenrile und Columbia Railroad appears In
the papers. The capital stock and liabilities of
the road are S2,0l9, ,55I.G2. The income of the
road for the year is S3I1, 1oO5G, showing an
increase of $iS, S,63742 over the income of the
previous year. Col. PERIlN's administration
has been emincnty successful
The latest adviccs from Cuba report the Is
land Us quiet. No ''flbustcrs" had been heard
of, though recruits for this service arc being
hunted up in the South and West.
Tclcgraphic reports arc credited to the effect
that there is much likelihood of war between
Mexico and Guatemala.
lamentable disaster is reported ON the Mis-
sissippi river, near Lake Providence Two ca
nal boats wero swept ashore into a crevasse, and
thirty lives were lost.
Gov MEDARY, of Kansas, has issued his pro-
clmnation for an election of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, toassemblc Mt Wyan-
dottc in juno.
The California intelligence is unimportant.--
ferry boat at San Francisco exploded on the
lth, killing six and wounding eighteen persons
business was dull and the market ovcrstockcd.
Letters from Paraguay says that President
Lopez, in his negotiations with the Amcri-
can commissioner, offered $3.50, 900 indcmni-
ty to the American company. and to pay for
The alleged damages it sustained, at once,
butthis sum being below the amount dcman-
dcd, the matter was referred to arbitration
at Washington. our government appointing
one arbitrator, Lopez another, and these two
q third.
We have to note the arrival of several YES
sells from Europe. Cotton had declined Id.
in Liverpool. The British ministry has sus.
tanned n defeat OIL the Reform bill, but in.
stead of retiring they have dissolved Purlia.
mcnt and ordered new election. From the
Continent the news is warlike France is
making extensive military preparations
Austrian troops are approaching the frontier
of Piedmont. The "pcace congress" is soon
to assemble; and, upon it, devolvcs the peace
OF Europe and much of our own prosperity.
pickens.
y correspondent of the Anderson Ga.
zct'e, in waysde article, says;
" Pickcns is great district. With such
an extent Of territory, large portion of
which is as fertile as any in the State
Win population of at least TWENTY-FIVE
thousand of high-minded Intelligent and
eHgcrgetc citizens--with her large bodies
of forest land Which the Woodlands axe La,
never yet dcsolatcd--with her beautiful
! crystal streams and water power equal t.
any IN the world-combincd with he,
mountain scenery, which is unsurpassed
makes it almost impossible to predict fol
her future too bright, especially when we
remember that this great railroad, con
Meeting us with the valley of the Nlississip
| pi, will pass directly through her centre
and that the whistle of the &" iron horse
will soon echo through her mountains and
valleys, where but q few years ago the war
whoop of the savage alone broke the still
ness of nature. Nor is she without her
history in romance. 1t was on the banks
OF the beautiful Chauga that horseshoe
Robinson lived Here it was that the
Hon. j. p. Kennedy found the old warrior
and gathered the facts for his celebrated
tale, which has placed him in the front
ranks of the authors of his day. had the
pleasure of vis,ung the house in which
llorse.Slio Robinson lived, and was told
by the proprietor (NIr, Hughcs) that the
old hero built it with his own hands. The
! place still bears his name. He has long
since been gathered to his fathers, and I've
been told that near Tuscaloosa in Alaba
ma, rude stone upon which is a roughly
carved horseshoe marks the resting place
of the good old man"