Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
Chantar of Trapadies.

NEWARK, n. j., May 20.-Patrick
Nlaude, whose escape from the Lunatic
Asylum at Trenton, was published last
week, arrived here on Saturday evening,
succeeded in cvading the officers who were
in pursuit of him, and shot his sister, Mrs.
Abraham Turbctt, Instantly dead Two
Shots were fired with remarkable precision.
1t was well known that he had threatened
his wife, but no reason is known for his
killing his sister, unless he was insane
The prevailing opinion however is, that he
Is not insane. Much excitement existed
and other murders were apprchendcd until
his arrest was announced, which was ac-
complished by officer Wambold, in Com
mcrcc street, about ten o'clock, where the
prisoner, wasskulking under the shadow of
buildings. No arms, but loose powder
and small amount of money was found in
his pocket. The victim was an cstimablc
woman, aged forty years, and the mother
OF four children. The verdict of the Jury
was that Nlaudc committed the murder
maliciously and wilfully. He declares his
innocence.
NINDICnVE MURDER IN RHODE ISLAND
PRoVIDENCE, May 2S.-Last evening
as Nlr. Burrit Arnold, of Centreville, War.
wick, was sitting in his store, he was shot
and Instantly killed by some person un-
known; the ball entering his back between
the shoulders. lie had just returned from
this city.
1t is supposed that the reason of Mr.
Arnold's murder was his activity in enfor
cling the law against the sale of spirituods
liquors. The Coroncrls inquest adjourned
to Tuesday. The evidence so faris unitn.
portant, and does not point to the pcrpc-
traitor
Troy, May 28.-Robcrt Morrison, a
wcllknown citizen of West Troy, and She
riff of Albany county, was murdered at a
late hour on Friday night, and drobbed, and
his body thrown into the Canal Basin, from
which he was recovered today.
BoNApARTE's EARLY PoyERrY. Thicrs
in his history of the Consulate, rocitcs some
very strange nnd previously unknown par
tculars respecting the carly life and penury
OF Napoleon Bonaparte:
g. 1t appears that after he had obtained
subaiterns $ commission in the French service
by his skill aud daring at Toulon, he lived
some time in Paris in obscure lodgings. and
IN such extreme poverty that he was often
without the means of paying ten sous-tcn
cents--for his dinner, and frequently went
without anything at all. lie was under the
necessity of borrowing sums and even worn
out clothes from his aoquaintancesl He and
mis- brother Louis, afterwards King of 1foI-
land, had at ono time only cont between
them. so that the brothers could OILY 90 ont
alternately, timo and time about At this
crisis. tho chief bcnefaotor of the future en-
peror and conqu6ror ut whose mighty.name
the world grow pae,' was the actor Talna.
who often gave him food and money. Napo-
looms face, afterwards so famed for its cias.
sicnl mould. was, during That period of stan.
vntion, harsh and angular in its lineamonts
with its projecting cheek bones. His moagre
fare brought on an unpleasant aud unsghtly
cutaneous disease of type so yirulent and ma
lignant, that IL took all the skill and assidu.
ty of his accomplished physician, Coruisart,
to cxpcl it, after a duration Of morc'thon' ton
years.
The squallid. bcggar then, tho splendid
emperor allcrwards-ihc tl,readbaro babili-
mcnts and imperial mantle. howell and
the palace tile mcagro fare and gorgeous
barqnel--tho friendship ofa poor acton, tho
homage and terror of the wirIll--an exile
and a prisoner. Such are the ups and downs
of this changeful life; such are the Iightsand
shadows Of the great and mighty"