Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-26

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eighty years of age, and Judge Mclean over
| seycnty-six.
1T is SAID"--'rhc example in Virginia,
OF therevival andre-organization of the Whig
party. will, it is said be next followed in N.
Carolina.
DENIES the CmARGE.-Mr. Stephens, of
Ga denies that he desires to succeed MIR.
Iverson in the Senate. lie intends to with
draw entirely from public service for the
rest OF his life, and says he prefers scat in
the House to any other position in the Gov
| ernmcnt.
ToUcmrNG OBITUARY. III. Davis. n
heavy packer Of Cincinnati, died suddenly
on Saturday. A local paper says +" He was
highly esteemed as a man of benovolencc
and enterprise, and was good Judge of
pork"
No PRooF OF INTgMpERA NcE.-No proof of
intempcrance--a man with his hat off. mt
moonlight, explaining to lamp-post the
principles of his party
SEDucTIoN.-A bill has passed the House
of Representatives of Ohio making seduction
penitcntar.5 offence. AS the law now is,
the only penalty on conviction of this crime is
thcpaymcnt ofsuch pocuniary rccompcnsc as
may be awarded by theiury.
OuR MINISTERS AT LONDON AND PARIs.-
The Washington States has reliable infor-
nation, that it was determined Mt recent
Cabinet meeting, not to recall MeSsrs. Dali
las and Mason from their respective missions.
The SEvENTEEN.---'rhc Dclcwarc State
'Io"naI publishes. in conspicuous characters,
cncirclcd with black lines, the names of the
seventeen Senators and Representatives. who
recently voted for the Lottery bill.
JUBILEE The Odd Fellows arc to have a
grand national jubilee at New York on the
Goth of April next. Hon R,b't. b. Boyles-
ton, of this State, is to be the orator of the oc
caSIon
Pubic ScuooLs-By the Report of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
1T appears that there are 40,350 children in
California, between the ages of four and eigh-
teen years, and that 90, ,S22 have been in at
tendance upon schools during the past year
The whole number of schools in the State
was 1872
RuINEn.-Thc Boston Herald gives the
particulars of two men whoh recently left
that city, having lost heavily by gambling
and the purchase of lottery tickets. One has
lost property ofabout $l2,O 900, and the other
is minus property ofabout 100000.
DRowNED.-T Charleston Mercury of
the 2lst instant says that Coroner Kinemon
held an inquest over the body of an unknown
man, found floating in the dock, at South
Commercial Wharf, in that city Apparent
ly, the man was about thirty years of age,
and had probably been in the water for a
week.
RoME.-A census of tho ponulation of
ltome has just been completed, from which
1t appears that the total of the inhabitants is
about l8O,357-a figure at about which the
city has remained for the last $50 years.
MORMON FUcITIvE.-T is n lorce en-
grafton from Salt Lake into the Southern
section of California. The local papers state
that the towns are crowded with Mormon fu-
gltivos from Utah.
SOMETHING NEw.-lhc Weekly New York
'S"a, for the week ending on the 18th inst,
is printed on Mr.. Beach's new press, which
supplies itself with paper, and prints the
sheet on both sides at one operation.
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF SouTu
CARoLINA.-Dr. Eli Gcddings was, on Friday
unanimously elected Professor of the Insti
tutc and Practice of Medicine, in this institu.
tion to supply the vacancy occasioncd by the
death of Prof p. C. Goillard.
LATER FROM PARAGUAY.-We copy
from the New York Herald, of the 18th
inst, the following:
We have important news from South
America, dated at Montivdeo on the goth
and at Bucnos Ayres on the 30th of De-
cehber The frigate Sabine, flagship of
the Paraguay fleet, with the steamers liar.
rlet Lane, Water Witch, Fulton and store
ship Supply, arrived in the river Platte ON
the, goth of that month Commissioner
lowl'n was preparing to so up to Assun-
cion in the Fulton. If prevented, hostili-
ties would ensuc; but the general impress
sion was thnt Lopez would arrange ali diff
fcrences with him amcably. The report.
received by the Prince Albert, that the
Brazila! authorities had offered to medi-
tate between the United States and Para
quay, and that the offer had been accepted,
IS alluded TO in our special dispatch from
Washington. Neither the commander of
our squadron,nor the commission sent out to
Paraguay have authority to accept the me-
diatorv services nf onv ,,n,,or, ,uLo4.