Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-12-10
Tobacco.

Tobacco
MIR. ID. LESTER has laid before us n bunch of
line locking tobacco, raised by him this year.
Ilc expects to enter into the business largely the
ensuing season. and, with his experience, has
good cnmS to success. He requests us to say
that he Will have seed of superior article Of
tobacco at this place on saod"y next.
LATEST NEWS-DOMESTIC & FOREIGN.
Old John Brown" was hung Mt Charlestown.
on Friday the 2d inst. No attempt at rescue
was made. lie received his mcricd punish
mcnt ON the scaf',Id, warning to knaves and
ianaticS--Washington Irving, distinguished
world wide as literary character, died in New
York on tho 2Sth ult in the 77th year of his
age--Fightng continues in Mexico Several
Stoutly contested BATTLES have been fought. 400
being killed---The Columbia "Courant" has
been discontinu ed Edmund BolGngcr dis.
tingushcd citizen of this State, died last week
Tho Methodist Conference has elevated Mr.
' Is Sharp to dcacon's orders. and ordained Il
} Clyde. The Advocate" has | 800 subScri-
bers. Conference adjourned Thursday last.
THE COSMOPOLITAN ART ,JoURNAL.-The
December number of this excellent Quarter
ly is before us. Published by the Cosmopo
Titan Art Association, 5iS Broadway New
York, at $500 year, or fifty cents number
In the present number is portrait of Wm
Gilmore Simms, and a short biographical
sketch of this gentleman, from which we
make the following extract
civilian Gilmore Smms was born in
Charleston, South Carolina, Ap.il II, 1906.
His father, who bore the same name was of
Scotch-lrlsh decent, and having failed as
merchant in Charleston, removed to Tcnncs-
see, where he held commission in Coifecs
brigade, under General Jackson, in the Sem
mole war. His mother was Harriet Ann
Augusta Singleton, of distinguished Virgin
ia family, who early became residents of
South Carolina, and were ardent patriots in
the Revolution; Colonel Singleton, of the
Partisans, having been, if we are not mista-
ken, our authors ancestor. Before he had
passed his infancy lie lost his mother, and was
intrustcd to his grandmother He never re-
ceivcd collegiate education, we believe; but
as much might be said of Irving, and many
of the most celebrated writer's of America and
Europe. His own active and energetic mind
supplied the defects of training, and the
works of Mr. Simms indicate, unmistakably.
a large, comprehensive, and generous culture"
GIFT ENTERpRISES.-It is amazing that
people are duped with these concerns 1t is
amazing that people that make any pretcnsions
to intelligence don t sec that a Gift enterprise.
is of necessity from the nature of the case a
swindllng enterprise. And then it is strange
that all do rot sec that az conducted every
one who deals with them is gambler. Lis
ten to what writer in New York says Of them ::
"This city has been infested FOR many
months with a class of men connected with
different GJt Enterprises. At first their op.
erations were connected principally with the
sale of books, but now it has been extended
to many other articles. The way in which
the business is done is this: A book is sold
for certain sum, and along with the book
or whatever article may be sold a piece of
cheap jewclry Is givcn-thc particular article
OF jewclry being determined somewhat in the
way in which lotteries are conducted. The
operation OF these men are carried on all over
the land, by means of agencies established in
tbs cities, towns, and neighborhoods One
very successful method is to operate through
postmasters. The whole thing is of evil ten
dency, and the police have made several des.
cents upon different establishments: The
books sold are generally useless, and the jewel
ry obtained is of the most worthless kind while
the principal on which the business is conduc-
ted issimply that of the lottery in disguise.
The young, the art!css and the poor, are the
victims upon which these sharpers fatten.-
And wherever one of their agents makes his
appearance, or any one undertakes to act for
them he should be regarded as not engaged
ina legitimate or honest business, although
no doubt sometof these are not conscious of
the great wrongs they are assisting in perpc-
troting Every thing that has the least squint
toward the lottery or hegambling table, is to
be esehewed by those who would preserve
their morals and their purses"
~SRRoUs ErDEMIC.-We regret to learu. saws
the Lancaster Ledger that a very distressing
epidemic is prevailing on the plan alton of Dix
on Barnes, about four miles west of this place.
Ter Of his most valuable negroes have died the
last week. About fifty others are now down
with the disease, and there seems to be no abate-
ment of it. The disease, we learn, partakes
somewhat of the character Of pneumonia.