Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-09


that tho chior business Of tho sun, n5on and
stars isSto shil,o for is$ilelcctation, !,
AS eISsASR Max .FmonrENsp SANE,AThc
Jersey county, Ohio, jal wns on fire a few
days ago, but the aNmes were qucnched be-
6oros hnuch dapage WAS done = An insane
prisoner had his reason completely restored
through the friSht-at least SO the local paper
says. tN Avs 4.~.4
SoYE SNow.-A La Porte Sierra CO., Cali
fornia popor Of sho eIst, mcutions snow
storm which lasted three weeks and left from
iihcen to twcnty feet of snow on cground
PERsaNAL-A country paper says: Il,
ID. Doclittle is in the habit of stealing pigs
and robbing hen-roosts. Ifhe dues not jcsist
we shall publish his namc"
Tue DLAcK pLAGrG.--Thc Calhoun (NIiss)
E"iWendcm of the 10th ult., says fourteen
persons have lately died in the southern, por-
tion of Calhoun CO., OF a disease resembling
tho black plague,
BIZ CAHErrt.--Thc yellow iessnminc is
/ poisonous. Parents and others should Jc
careful to prevent children from putting it
in their mouths.
EDcEFlELp-Thc .idrcnfiscrsays that Gen.
| Bonlinm will address his constituents of
EGefcld on salcduy next. Also that Seno-
tor Hammond has returned to his home Mt
Rcdclitic The same paper acknowledges
tho receipt of n cannon ball Ia six poundcr)
picked up at Nincty-Six, in tho vicinity of
the old battle field
/ DANGrRorsLr IGL--llon. Lynn Boyd, the
| distinguished Democratic candidate for Leu.
tenant Governor of Kentucky. is lying DIM
Scrously i'll iii Philadelphia, wliithcrho went
for medical advice aud assistance His
friends in Kentucky arc apprchcnsivc that
his sickness will terminate fatally.
DEeLlNEp.---It is amounccd that Hon. Eli
). Mortey, II, G.. from .tlabama, ,.pusitivc!y
declines to serve his constituents any Ion1er.".
STILL PRoGRESsING.-Th revival MT BAL
timore, Nd, still increases, and has reached
the rich and fashionable classes. as we'll MS
the lowest strataof society. Several prom-
ncnt dcspcradocs have apparently become
converts, and have changed their reyolvcrs
and bowie knives for bibles.
a STAR IN THE DAY TfME.-Thc Spring.
! field (Ill,) Register says that on Saturday
last about 10 o'clock in tho day, bright star
was sccn in the heavens by number of the
ctizens-that it WAS nearly at the meridian,
and very bright.
DEAp.-our Charleston exchanges an
nounce the death of Henry William Pcron-
ncau, Esq, an aged and esteemed citizen,
formerly in IN active and prominent position.
lie was ut ono time U, S. District Attorney
for South Caroluu.
| A Discovery New York Times has
discovered an " Intrigue for converting Mex
leo into Monarchy with Bourbon King"
The disclosure is made in Il letter from Sc
crct agent at Rome 10 Mramoh's confessor.
HEAVY RECEIPTS receipts ofthe Wcs-
leyan Missionary Society Of England for 1853
are put down ut El3U,0 equal to $3.50 900.
a WEALrnr PAUrER.-In Wheeling, Va,
al old man named McElroy, who has long
been supported at the public expense, has
been discovered to have about $4,000 ut in |
terest in Ohio,
The COMING WHEAT CRop-Col Johnson !
of the New York Agricultural Society states
the wheat crop Of the U. States, last year, at |
$50 millions of bushels; and estimates that
of tho present year at S5,500,0 600.
CiNcINNATI, March 29.--'rhc steameyNat !
Holmes, bound from Pttsburg to st. Louis |
with 100 passengers, mostly emigrunts To
| Pixies Peak, came in collision with the stem !
mer David Gibson, bound from Ncw Orleans
to Cincinnati with cargo of sugar aud mo-
lasses, opposite Aurora, Indiana last night.
! Both boats sunk and the cabins hoatei off =
| fitteen or twenty persons are supposed TO
have been lost on the Nat IIolmcs.-and in
! deed one account says that only one hundred
of her passengers were saved. Tho David
! Gibson had but a few passengers. who are all
supposed to have been saved but two or three
ot her crow, who are missing. The Gibson
was owned here, and valued at $4,000, and
insured for two-thirls that amount. The
Holmes vas owned in Pittsburgh, and val.
ue,l at $4,000
.. CIScINYATI--A. M.--No livcswere lost OH
| the David Gibson.
The Nat. Holmes had SO passengers, 43 of
I whom We're lost. ~.'
The survivors lost nearly all their clothing
and $4,000 in money
| The total loss on both boats Hnd their car.
goes Is about 100000, and tile insurance
$3.50
TIE Darlington Flag contains the fol-
lowing in relation to the sentences passed
at the recent Court of Common Pleas and
General Sessions, held in chat District,
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