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

hegroeS were oiowheu. Seven hundred
end eighty bales of cotton, $40 barrolsso
-four, besides other produce, were burnt
The boat and cargomc a total loss. The
cargo was partly insured in New York.
GApTURE OF Fuanlyg sbAyr An
llARnlsPURGT-I INTENSE EXCITEMENT.
Harrisburg, Penn, April An intense
excitement was created here, this morn
ing, by Deputy t. 81 Marshal jenkins
arrcsting colorcd man, under the Fupi-
tive Slave Law. The arrest was made, In
the. narket7place, and the fugitive WAS
taken to Philadelphia, to appear before e.
>. Commissioner ,Eongstrcth..'
a. The slave is claimed by "a party from,
Firgi;.ia yS!se say that he. escsined six wears
ago The hegro.s named Daniel, Web,
stcr, atrt he says that he has been living
In Harrisburg pAle years,
PHILADELPHIA, March 3l,--Ycstcrlay
morning n lUconiotivo attached to a c,s,,
train exploded ON the Reading Railroad
near the Schuylkill falls bridge, with ter.
rlblc effect The engineer, named Josiah
Mhssi,ncr,laitd ,brakesman, named ,Jehn
lolan; bOtli lost their lives. q'he body of
INC hrst named has not yet been found
IL was no doubt blown iuto thr Schuylkili.
The mangled body of Tolan Was found UP
on tho tow-path of the canal, distance nf
ont. handrcd and fifty feet. A more sick
ening spectacle thai, that presented by the
bedyt,wheB gathered up, rarely meets the
eye-the top OF the head being blown off.
and tile brains spattcrcl over tho ground.
The unfortunate man Ind fallen head. fore
most upon rock, The safety valve of the
engine was blown across the river into the
yard OF u house mt the falls, where it was
found aftersduSlight, a piece OF boiler, as
heayyas two strong men could lift, vfns found
upon hill obUut eight hundred feet from
thespot where the explosion occurrcd.-
lic, entire locomotive, avery powerful one.
was, lin fact, dashed into a mass uffrapments
upon the htidge--a distance of sixty feet
from where 1t stoo | Mt the moment of the
collapse. * sn,all frame buildinr. oceu.
pied by John Mcdonnell, stands near the
spot occupied by the engine. The concus.
ston rocked this building to It's foundation.
while the live GOALS which were scattered
upward, fell upon its roof aud set il on fire.
Mcdonnell was asleep at the time. He
was hurled from his bed against the wall,
with some violence, aud child sleeping
In ar adjoining room made marrow es
cape from hugo fragment of iron whicl,
Was blown Through the window of the urart
ihent. daughter Of the sahio man was
30 much stunned by the i,r communicate ID
to the building as to remain unconscious
for length oftinc. The explosion, ac-
cording to the evidence Mt the coroncr's in
quest, was caused by want of water in the
boiler.
sCUrPEe, CoTroY AND Co,;sTIrrrIoy
The New Orleans Crescent, speaking of
+, the three Southern Institutions" VS.:
1t is worth paragraph to ore-urlnouncc
the TACT that three very Important South
ern institutions were simultaneously inau
gurated, two hundred and thirty-eight
years ago-if Bancroft the historian be
authority on the subject In the wears.
iG2O-2l, slaves were first introduced into
the colony of Virginia. In 1921 the first
crop of cotton of which there Is ret. ,rd was
grown in Virginia; in 162l tho first writ.
ten colonial constitution was ordained and
established in Virginia -
lt ltislndced, a remarkable coincidence.
that the establishment of these three ain.
stitutlons, --slavcry, the cotton trade and
constitutional statutc-the very basis of the
national prosperity of the. South, should
have such chronological identity. And
we predict that as they were horn togcth-
or so will they die, if die they ever do
The,slaye labor institution will 90, MS it
came, few mouths in advance, aud the
crush Of Stnte constitutions, of laws and
statutes, will follow quickly, hand in hand
with the downfall of the cotton and other
agricultural and commercial interests. in
Producing thc,nation to an era of anarchy,
ct individual, social and political distrcsses.
The fact of mutual Independence, howeyer.
but increase the stability of the whole, and
though 1T would render their destruction a
more disastrous totality, it ut the same time
removes all danger of such occurrences.
Cf.tssIFTATIoN OF kIssEs.-Iiic mo.
ments wasted in kisses are the sweetest ,by
II jng full, in .a,whole lifetime of extraya.
gancc. We have very little experience,
in the Joy, but speak from extensive rc5
searchan observation, when we say that.
there'are only three rcgttinr kisses in the
art, and these may bedenolninatcd the kiss
negative, the kiss positive, and the kiss su-
perlatiyc. The first consists in kissing a,
hdy's hand The second, or positive, in
kissing her cheek; and the third, or s,,.
perlatiye, consists in kissing her lips.
There arc, besides, two auxiliary kisses