Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-04-21

of candidates fur the Legislature in that district
Col Major declines the canvass
CoTroN-This articleSwas selling in Charles
ton, OH Monday last at to ii cents per pound
FREsnEr IA heavy frcshet has occurred in
PittSburg, Pa, and adjacent regions. The
streams are withina few inches Of the, highest
water mark, and much property has Lecn de-,
stroyed. l'
TERRInLE AcCIDENT--An accident took place
at nnys * Co.'S coal works. in Pennsylvania, ON
Thursday evening, by which six men we're in.
stant'y killed. In descending shaft the rope
broke, prccipitating them to tho bottom Their
bodies were terribly mangled.
!. AuGUSTA, April "a private letter from tho
-Ilon Alexander I'll Stcphons, to the Georgia
Delegation to the Charleston Convention pro.
tests against the use of his namo in the Conyen-
tion as candidate for the Presidency.
CooIEs-Thc immigration of Coolies to the
West indies is progressing actively, as we learn
from late. Jomuicn journals. Two vessels re-
Gently arrived at Demarara, together brought
CSC of this class; and the Agent for Jamaica,
Mt Calcutta, had reported that 1880 would be
ready to leave for that Islaud by the lst OF
March.
PniLtNTuRorlc -Ex.Gov. Allston, of South
Carolina has given an order to Michael phelan,
OF New York. for the manufacture of q splcn-
did billiard table, which lie intends to, present
to the State Lunatic Asylum at Columbia.
NICTM or SrIRITUALISM--The Auburn i'd
reItSey notices auother victim to spiritualism
The wife of a wellknown gentleman of that ci-
ty recently became "mciium" Last week
ut the present time shcis violently insane. Her
condition is truly lamentaGic, and foars
are entertained that her mind is a complete
wreck Her friends intend to place her in the
Utica Asylum at the earliest moment.
CorFIN-Thc glass cofins recently invented
arc manufactured of plato an inch thick, and
indcsructibc from the action Of earthly COM
pounds and as they arc 50 constructed that
the air within tic coffin can be extracted by
means of the air.puinp, the corpse enclosed will
necessarily preserved for ages without change
in feature OF freshness.
MURDER The body of mou named Walter
WorloN rs found in the public read near Mari
on III, IN the 10Th INST brutaly murdered.
No particulars of the horrible affair is given
LocArED-Thc branch ofthc Bank the State
has been located ut Abbcvillc III. Anderson
was the proper place for it, .tt
Cot. AsmMonE.-'' Palmetto" the Washington
correspondence of the Columbia Corotimion, makes
the following remarks about our Representative
and his conrSe in Congress:
| You will see by the proceedings of the Demo.
cratic Committees that Mr.. Ashmurc proicsc ed Wig
orously againstth he removal of the convention from
Charleston Mr.. Ashmorc is one of the most ac-
tive, earnest and efficient membcrs Of the Ilousc
Whatever lie under takes to do, lie does it with
'vm." i venture to predict that he will DO great
honor to his State; thoroughly Southern, iinpul-
sive and ardent in his feelings, lie will yet be gui-
dct by just and wise view of tho condition of ar-
fairs. lie is a man of dcci,;cd intellect. and
speaks with force and energy. liz has one great
secret OF success, as a speaker, carncstncss; his
bol abrupt and daring energy must always com
mand attention. The course he has pursued since
the opening of the session deserves c0mmo nlation
either from friends or foes.
DEATH OF \ YETERAN.-John Ludwig Snyder
died in Clcariicld county, Pennsylvania last
week, atthe age of one hundred and thirteen
years. lie was Il native of Michnclstadt, Ger.
many, and came to the United States in 1853.
y paper noticing the event says:
lie was with Washington when he crossed
the Delaware, on Christmas night, lT76, and
was IN the battle of Trenton, the Goth or De.
cemhcr The light of day was Just breaking
when the americans drove in the outposts of the
llcssi0ns through thick SHOWS torn SNYDER
was in the battle Of Brandywine, September.
ii, lIII, under Lafayette. lie was transferred
to the commamd of Gen. Wayne, and was in his
defeat near Paoli, September 90 Iii. lie was
cncampcd with Washington at Valley Forge.
December H. l7TI. He has said the winter of
that year the coldest he ever experienced
Our troops, he told u.s. shot squirrels and drew
their skins over their feet for shoes. lie was in
The bNtllo Of Monmouth juno %, l774, under
Wayne. and was with Wayne at the taking Of
Stony Point, where the watchword was. are.
member PIoli, brave boys" lie was with La
layette at the surrender of Cornwallis mt York.
town, on the 10Th of October, l7Sl and, in his
own words, in many more scrimmages that lc
could not remembers the particulars of" This
warrior left descendants ntllc fourth generation,
and the number of Ecarly three hundred
lie as Sun-smitlib by trade, and made per-
feet gun when he was lQ7 years Of age. Du-
spcctaclcs. When lac was 90 he walked to-
CIcarfeld and back, distance of nearly 80
milrs-and then back again, II distance in all
of 60 miles, before dark, on one and the same
day lie never missed a Presidential or Cub
Crnatora election since the very FIRST.
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y FAMOUS MoNrm.-The present mo, th i,
one of the most distinguished in the caIrdnr.
if the birth and commem moration of great men
and great events of medcrn celebrity and radi-
tional fame, can lie said to impart honor to any
particular period of time. Henry ClG WAS
born ON the l2th at the 4" Slashcs" of Virginia
hence the sobriquct of "The AIilboy Of the
SIashcs." Benjamin franklin was born in Bos
ton on the l7th. The DIST is dedicated to ST.
AnscIm who was born at Aonst. In Piedmont
and in l093 was created Archbishop of Canter.
bury, in England. In ll42, on this day lst)
Peter Abelard, th unfortunate paralnour of
llcoiSc, died at the age Of sixty. three. The
BIRD is St. Georges day the patron saint of Eng.
land, whose pilgrim age to Palestine and whose
rescue of the Kingof Bcyrouts charming dauch.
ter from the dragon il familiar to every school