Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-02
Penninss and Clippings.
Up.--cotton is selling in Charleston ct / |
to 13 cents per pound.

(ark9 Shield. Of theS 5tl, inst.Ssays; .IjS
Scaife; OF South Carolina. few days since.
Iieold in this city, to Drs. Deputy aud King,
and Judge Hornor, of this city, seventy ne
groes, nt'an average. price of onetthousand
dollars--Dr. Deputy taking one-hStE and the
other gentlemen eacha fourth of ofth6number
The NATIoNAL ELAo.4-Congress inassod nm
act in 1913, providing that one new Star shall
be added to the national flag on the 4th of
July next succeeding the adinissioh:of new
State. 80 that the number will renain 80
until ncStlth of July. after whichift will be-
33-;he last star is for Oregon
LARGE SUir.-Suits arc about to he com.
meneed by the Cherokcos who were driven
from Texas many years ago, for; ;ty,c lands
granted to them by Mexico These compose
the richest and most fertile portion Of Eastern
! Texas. .'>
/; CnrAr "BRAxpiY. Rev. DR.. IdS Showed
some eight dollar brandy" nt a Temperance
meeting in Springfield, Mass, on Wednesday
evening, which was manufactured Mt a,cost
of only ten cents per gallon
| Is IIuRny,-A San Francisco lady who
obtained divorce on tile 18th Of January,
got married again on the 10Th.
y PRESENr.--The Italians of New York
propose to open a subscription throughout
the United States to offer to the King cf Sar-
dinN sword, the blt of which shall consist
of a small statue of Italy, in pure California
g'ld, as tribute of sympathy and almira-
ton offered by the Italians here to the cham
pion of national independence in Italy.
Snow STORM The Grand Junction (Tcnn)
Q"'tb~nc of Saturday last says: We had
real whitc.robcd hyperborean snow storm at
Grand junction yesterday morning. Think
of that a snow storm in the sunny South
on the 18th of March
a BIG WILL CAsE.-Tho will of the late
Hon. VIM. McEcnna, of Lancaster. ignores
his blood relations and connections. and gives
nearly his whole property ($2OO,O0o to the
Roman Catholic Church! Law as usual, is
the last and only resort
COMING Sourm-Thc Charleston Mercury
says that brutal prize fight took place in
that city recently, for a wager of 500. This
isa Southern exhibition with 9. .Northern face
| DEATH OF SENATOR SMlTu.-IIon. o. III.
Smith, Ex-U. S. Senator from Indioradied on
the 2lst ultinio.
SurrERINo rcR Suffering almost
amounting to starvation, exists in Montcalm
CO., Michigan Two hundred families are
greatly in want of provisions.
Guild KuLED.--A little son of Michael
Lyons was killed at Charleston, last Friday
evening, by tho falling of an old wall, which
remained among the ruins Of FIRE. .
DEATH OF Gov. CAMpBeLT.AT Hon. Da-
Yid Campbell formerly Governor ofVirginia,
died on Saturday evening last, ut his resi-
dence in Abingdon, after very tedious and
painful illness. He was far advanced in life
probably over eighty years of age, at the
time of his death.
A New MovE.-Gcnoral Walker, who has
sailed for California, intends, tits sail, to or
game an expedition there against Nicaragua
EARLY VEcETADbEs.-Green peas we're sold
in this market on Thursday last, 18th ,insta
says the Charleston Mercury, from IN5isotes
farm, on the king-street road. =. Peas Haye.
previously this season boen in our market
from Florida and Cuba, but these are the
earliest of Carolina growth.
RE-ELEcrED.-Henry L. Pincknev, ESQ.
has been reelected tax collector of Charles.
ton, without opposition.
REDUcrEos OF WAGEs--At the q. 8. Arm
ory, in Springfield. Mass, thirty.six work
men have been discharged, and the wages
OF 100 remaining Mt work are reduced fivo,
ten, ana ina few instances, twenty per cent.
the consequence Of the failure of the an.
preparation bill.
WISE CoCNSEL.-Never confde in young
man new pails leak. Never tell your Sc
erct to the aged ;.old doore seldom shut close
lly. q
| To REruRN.--It Is announced Cor the ben.
eft of thosepersons who did not get sight
Of the comet, that it will again appear before
the public, for q few nighte, in the autumn
of2l47s ..
TIE plrgEkEscE. Mexico; everybody
ls.supposed to be on ex-President who wears
clean shirt and keeps his bands washed.
And in this country, every politician expects
to be President, whether he has shirt or
not. .. -.
TopAcco.-An exchange paper soys: at
iS stated that the Rev. George Trask, of Fitch
burg lectured so powerfully in Webster, a
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