Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-19
Pennings and Clipping.
coTToN---Cotton is commanding in Char
ston 10 IA to ll3ss conts per pound.

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! CosT OF LIvINc.Tho expenses of living
in New York are a third higher than in Lon
don or Paris, and are constantly increasing.
LARGE EAGLE KlLLED.-A largo gray ca
gle, measuring feet from tip totip across its
wings, was recently caught in a steel trap
near Bloomery. IIamshiro Co., Va, by lit
tlc boy named Wm. Gnno
! New YokK NEGROES IN EcsTActEs-Mr.
Thomas lIodgson, white man of foreign
| birth, has set the colorod gentry of New
York almost crazy, by declaring that he has
patented discovery for taking the kinks out
of their hair.
| DEATH OF AN EDiToR Jas. S. Mccormick,
formerly an editor in Cincinnati, died lately
in Liverpool. His life was insured for SlO.-
1 600.
UNITED STATES ARMY Tho strength of
the United States Army is about 10000
The number of militia in the country is set
down at 2,724, ,42G!
SKATEs.-A married lady out West nearly
broke her neck few days since while learn
ing TO skate. Since that period there has
been an extraordinary demand for skates by
married men.
| AN UNMARKED GRAyE.-A writer says a.
mong the unmarked and uuhonorod graves
in the rural ccmetry at Camden, Arkansas,
is that of the brother of the llustrious Henry
Clay-hls only monument is an oakon tree,
with the initials of his name rudcly carved
in its rough bark. He is said to have been
an humble and devoted minister of the Cos
pei.
ELEcTED.-NTai John NJ DcSassuro has
hccn elected Representative from Kcrshaw
district in place of Maj. a. II. Boykin. pro
NOTED to the Senate to fill the vacancy caus
ed by the resignation of Col Chcsnut
NEWSPAPERS IN GEoRCIA-The Millcdgc-
vile Recorder publishes list of the ncwspa-
pers of that State, of which it reports Gl in
ALL
Sr. LOUIS, Fob. S.--Tho Pcntcntiary bull
ding at Alton, ILL.,, was partially destroyed
by fire, last evening The fire was the work
OF inccndiary. No prisoners escaped. The
amount of the damage has not vet been as
cortancd.
RECEIPTS ATTuE New YORK CusToM House.
For the week ending last Saturday, the re-
ccipts at the Now York Custom House were
in round numbers, 81 100000, or, including
treasury notes received for customs, 81. .4O0,-
OOo, which is more than has been received
III one week for n year and half
THE Divorce LAws.-Eforts arc now max
i,,er ,,,f fl,N Il n =
the laws of DIVORCE and assimiatc the lcris-
lation of that State to the code of Indiana
and other convenient Jurisdictions. The
Herald says that there arc members of the
Legislature ready to advocate the change
also, that the thieves, burglars, and assassins.
nave rcproseatativcsin the same Legislature
MEMPHIS AND Ono RAILRoAD.--The last
rail was laid on the Memphis and Ohio Rail
road on the 29th ult,, on the stretch between
Brownsville and the cjunction with the No
bile and Ohio Railroad, thus completing the
continuous connection by rail from Mem
phis with Columbus, Ky, and through that
place with the entire system of roads radia-
ting from Cairo.
INCH NIDoWS.-Thc New Orleans DsIin
mentions under the head of "Rich Freight"
the arrival of Il steamboat from Rcd River
with several passengers, among them eight
widows, whose aggregate wealth amounted
to $5,O00,O00. Ono of the latlies is the own
erof6OO slaves and the others made crop
of300,00O balos of cotton
STARvINc.-The Legislature of Michigan
has sent three thousand dollars worth of
provisions, making four car loads, of staple
nccessarics Of life, to Gratiot county, to re-
licvc the distress which prevails there. In
some of the townships in the county of Bruce
Canada, the famine is represented us most
appalling; hundreds of families arc vorging
on starvation.
SPORT IN BoSToN.-In Boston one of the
fashionable skating parks is advertised to be
illuminated in the evening, and to have the
additional attraction of full band of music
both afternoon and evening.
CouNTERrEIrs.- .-Thc Mobile Register SAYS
there is an abundant supply of counterfeit
quarters and half dollars principally of the
mintage of 1857 and 1853, now in crcula-
ton III that city, and that many of the citi-
zcns have been victmizcd in small way.
THE BALTIC LoRD DNApiER.-Iord Napicr
the Brltish minister, has formally accepted