Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-07-02
7THl5 BzLEOUyLE e GWy R 1ERg

blown distance ofthrcc quarters of n mile.
ana strange to say not one of his family re.
cccved the slightest injury, although all thoir
furniture. clothing and money were swept
oil by tho wind and lost The clothing they
had on were torn into rags. Wherever tho
tornado struck it left II perfect waste, and
carried dcsoiation in every direction. There
were great many persons moro or less in
Jured~-somc with broken arms and dislocat-
ca limbs, and a boat with u negro man i'm il
IN IN the river, was capsizcd, and the negro
drowned
FIRST SiGnT OF THE MISSISSIPPI Thus
tehe.n good writer, Mr.. j. w. Davidson, of
the 1orkviiic Enquirer, his experience in
taxing look at the greatest of rivers:
=, MY iirst SIGHT of river was Mt Mem
pins, Tennessee. 1t was glorious expert
T"re. 1 hnd seen smaller rivers. Thought
l had some fair conception of the complcx
IDEA river" had glidcd over the waters
OF the Susquohanna in its mnturcst breadth:
| u was well. had seen the Tennessee dance
down from the Cumberland mountains and
Shue laughing through the plains tothc Ohio
III wHsnn aesthetic privilege that the soul
never iorgets. had enjoyed an excursion
ever other rivers had seen. incidentally ~
awandcrcr, had not prepared me for the prc.
senco of the Father of Wators-dc River of
| RIVERS the River. 1t was late in the after
noon ono day when stood in Gnyoso street
| ma gnzed upon the occan-river that moves
by. 1t docs not glide. flow roll or sweep
! along nay, more than all these. and | felt
thcrc that none OF these common rivcr-tcrms
wero appropriate The idea stood apart
This majestic action was moyomcnt, simply.
at first blush it feels like the ocean; and it
may be some moments before the eve can
gather the distant touches of the bank on tho
| opposite side and the mind cannot then with
the solid earth beneath ones feet.
a LETTER from Trebizon,i. of the llth
ult., in the London Herald says:
n party OF Circassinn dealers arrived here
lately, having among their stock" a young
houri some fourteen years of age. In proof
nt her usual beauty. | may ut once mention
that the price set upon her was and is 200, 900
piostrcs. Some days after tho landing of
tho owners of this Caucasian gem, q rcln-
ton of hers arrived and claimed her from
her rosscssors, who. it scoms, Ind stolen her
from her home. lie claimed her restoration
to himself, but, need hardly say, in vain
tho owners of so valuable piece of NOR
chandisc were not the mon to give it up,
| through any sentimental weakness. The
dispute was at last referred, to the pnsha's
arbitration, much against the will of the
young beauty hcrgclt. who protested against
her return to her native hills, and Stoutly
paradise of n Crcassian girls ina gination.
Before the Pdsha, however, could deliver his
Judgment on the matter the dispute was set
tied by the relation foregoing his claims for
a consideration. and accordingly the young
beauty and her friends embarked for Constan,
tn"p lie couple of days ago,
AWFUL Observation-Disclosures night, mt
about ten clock, an affair occurred in Brook
lyn, \. Y, Of most hcartlcss charactcr-a
boy, six years Of age. almost INSTANTLY killed
a brother of ten, by thrusting n knife into his
breast. 1t appears that two brothers. of the
above mentioned ages. named Thos Mackcy
(the oldcst) and Charles, sons ofarcspcctablc
widow named Margaret Mackey, residing Mt
No. SS Washington street, near York be-
came engaged in quarrel about an excursion
ticket, when Charles the youngest stabbed
his brother mortally with a pcnknfc.
SuIcIpr.-Dr. II. j. Neah of Wnnsboro.'
committed suicide at that place on the l7th
ult, by taking strychninc. lie was in q
mental state of arrangement.
DID'NT DO y CREDIT Ih,sINrss-An Ohio
cdtQr recently took n cotcmpurary to task
for copying choice scraps from his editorial
columns and not giving credit for them The
c;oicmp"raty replied by saying he "did not
do credit business ~
MORE ArRiCANs.-Thc Mobile Tribune
confirms the report that cargo of slaves
was recently hndcd on the Florida coast,
and says that some of the barbar;ans are not
now far from Mobile.
OBITUARY.