Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-20

CoTroN, CRors IN WESTERN TESAs.--The
I cotton crops of Western Texas are now better
| than. they were over known to be- .The crop
planted this year is much larger than at any
previous period.
A Prison DIRD.--Jus. II. Tarlton has boon
sentenced in Campbell county. Tenn, to five
years Imprisonment in the State prison. lie
is SO years old. and has served % years in
the same institution, representing six differ
cnt counties in it, His eldest son is in the
same prison under sentence of 81 gears.
BiTTER.-Thc n. Y. Ldepcn1entc says
that Acv. Theodore Parkcr's luSt book on
"cgotism, malignity, censoripus and irrcv-
crence must take rank with the worst cffus;on
of Thomas Paine" that he is "indiscourtc-
Gus, dcclamatory, profunc," and that Dr.
Holmes is mot one whiHbchind him in CON
cct and mnlignity against the Bible"
3, WoNES ALLOWED TO NoTg.-In the conSti-
tuition being formed for Kansas, women are
allowed to vote in school matters. They
/ may vote for school officers. school taxes and
everything pertaining to the organization of
the common schouls. equally with men,
Comforting this much of tho elective franchise
upon females is intended as an experiment.
SARA roGA.-A correspondent of the ~ Y.
Express estimates that there arc from 1000
to 5000 visitors now comfortably lodged in
the hotels and private houses of Saratoga
and The cry is still they como by every train
| and they all find comfortable quarters
YELLOW FEvER.-Thc yelw fever has
broken out at Brownsville, Texas, with the
same virulcncc as last year, and the citizens
were leaving in great numbers.
DEATu OF JuDcE UNDERwoob.--,Judgc I'm
dcrwood well known member of the bar in
| Upper Georgia, and fnthcr of j. w. II. Um-
dcrwood, candidate for Congress in the fifth
district, died in Mnricttc on Friday last.
FRosr.--A friend of the Spartan, claiming
to be posted in wcathcro!ogy, predicts that
we WI .avo frost by the 2Sth September.
Farmers will take notice, and govern them
selves accordingly"
TuE NAME OF WAsuiNcrox.-Judcc DAILY.
of New York, in the course of his decision,
E" in the matter of John Shook, for change
"' namc," remarked that the name of Wash
inston was originally Wessyngton," )" which
signifies "a person dwelling on the meadow
land where creek runs in from the sea-"
BLEEDING KANsNs."--Tlc present ropu.
lation of LelvcnwortlI city, Kansas, is 1000,
which shows an increase of 3 900 for the last
twelve months. The steady improvements
in this and other portions of the bleeding"
Territory, gnoS to prove that very powerful
fyRhc must have been applied
TIE JuDGEs OF THE SrrRrME~CorRT.-
Chief Justice fancy, of the United States
Supreme Court, is i'll the SD yearof his ngc.
His eight associates in the court, with one
single exception, are all three score years and
ten, and some of them considerably exceed
that number.
TIE WEATHER AID CR0ps-Thc al
most inccssant rains of the last three days
have been, we fear, very disastrous to the
cotton crop, which up to Sunday last gave
promise of an enormous yield. From all
sections VIC hear of lowhnds under water,
and hundred of "rcs of bottoms submcr-
gcd to such an extent as to threaten entire
destruction to the crops growing thereon.
In addition to this there 10 to be seriously
dreaded the boll-worm, which generates in
just such weather as we are now having,
and which is the deadliest foe known to the
cotton plant Altogether, the past few
days have very completely changed the
prospects of the cotton planter in regard
to the eprobablc yield of their lands.
[Mo"ty""lc,y ,C"4lt0e~tioD In.
BLoNDIN At THE FALLs.-Ncxt to louis
Napoleon, Bondim is c1nfocsedly the most
wonderful of Frcnchmen. At Niagara Falls
yesterday, he performed all he promised, and
more. Between 4 and 5 o'clock, he crossed
tho rope for the fourth time He was dressed
in IndiDn costume. His journey to the Can
ada side was not marked by any feat of pc.
culiar daring He went over on a trot
merely halting for an instant to balance linn
self. His homcward trip, however, complete
ly7ccipscd his previous feats When about
one-quarter of the way across. he stood on
his head, holding the balance pole in his
hands. a little farther along he laid down
on his back, with apparent composure. When
near the centre of the rope. he tied the bal
ance pole to the gny rope, and navigatcd by
means of his hands and feet, his body being
in state of suspended animation beneath
After proceeding some distance in this wav
he assumed'a perpendicular position and re-
| turned for the balance polc aud then walked
on. Another feat which be performed was
turning u sort of handspring. Lying down
on ms back, he extended the balance pole the
length of his arms, and then threw his body
over the pole, striking astride tho rope