Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-25

elusive logic Will force the conviction of the
integrity OF hiS position il true friend of tho
Constitution. We predict for him the largest
audiences ever assembled ut the North.
FROM CALIroRNlA-'rhc Overland Pony Ex
press with California dates to the lst inst, ar
rived at St. Joseph, Mo, on Monday morning
\ little moro activity prevailed in business cir
clcs in San Francisco, but prices have varied
but slightly. The steamer John l. Stevens
which sailed on the morning of the lst to con
meet at the lsthmus with the A%pinwnll steam
or, had on hoard 202 passengers and SSTG 900
in treasure of which SIS9,000 was destined
for New York. Politically the community of
California was considerably agitatcd The
Douglas wing OF the Democracy were believed
to be gathering courage for desperate Strug.
gle Tor asccndcncy, though the Breckinridwc
wing were confident of success having the
Fedcral patronage to keep them in countcnancc
An csEurt had been made to effect n union on
an Electoral Ticket, but it had been found i'm.
possible to do so. movement was ON foot to
call Bell and Everett Convention for the nom
lnation of an Electoral Ticket.
TExAs.-It is said that the drought in Texas
is so general aud SO extreme that the large cmi.
grafton flowing into the State has been checked
and many families from Alabama and other
Southern States are returning to their former
homes. lnGuivcSton, tits reported. there has been
no rain since April, and water is nnw selling al
'''s,,S s PR P"n DMF' ",""S' "'Wh ,,1 20 nr'n,
brought from the Mississnp river river is ', sollim@ in
Indianola and Lavacca for twenty-five cents II
gallon.
prAropy's pnolIr,c CoKy.-We rccolIcct to
have seen nm account somewhere of n certain
clock, which would run month"; predict the
changes of the weather, show tho day Of the
month ana the TIME OF day aud M addition
i,,o wv qu"a.s "' ii:,N oNc'E evening" put we
wos shnwn 70 rs this nnornin1+ +, ,tn ,,rI "'
duct of a single Grain Of the Variety called Prn.
body's Prolific and was grown ON the plantation
1t contained four distinct stalks, and bore ten
full cars OF corn, and nubbin besides. We
are 'oiu 'h"t inns is not an isolated specimen,
in Gnv M L' ;in i",S E 4t 'n% Wmo'c HI'a In aIai
im,m,c"c o I"p J' jt,i %, I"" 10 nave ''o"
Terrible INDIAN FI"Hr-TnREE Hun
/ DRIED DELAwAREs AND POrToWAToMIES
kILLED-W learn from Mr. Davidson, Of
lndianoln, that painful rumor was brought
to that place on Saturday last, by returned
Pixies Pccker, OF severe indian fight some
three weeks since, on the Solomon, about 100
miles above Fort hllcy, In which about 800
Iottowatomics and Do!awarcs were killed.
The informant says he passed through the
scene OF the light that the dead were all
scalpcd.
y fight between the Ghcycnncs and Paw
who were at the timc hunt;no hmH.iIo n,,I
was described bv them ps bcn@ fcn,ful
scene. The comLatants numbered some thou.
sands were all mouptcd and Font c,nvt,utI,,
crcling, lyinr down in their saddles and Il.
RING over their horses nccks rs thcv onnr,n,ch
cd the enemy. The feht lasted two bour,
/ quite number were kiii,;-.o;,l :. thn ond
of that time the Pawccs broke and ran with
the Cheycnnosc after rthem.-Kansas Pccoy1
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MILLEDGEYILI::, August 4.-The Doug-
las Democratic State Convention assembled
here to-day. There was a very large attcn.
dance and great enthusiasm Hon. A. j.
Lawson was chosen President The electors
for the State at large are Hon. Alexander IL
Stevens and Augustus r. Wright The Dis
trict Electors arc: lst District, Hon James
u. Seward; I'd, Hon. B. Y. Martin; Sd, Hon
Nathan Bass 4th, Hon. Hiram Warner;
7th James Hook: 9th. Julien Cumminos
4 resolution was unonimouslv odontcd in.
yitino JUDGE DouoIas to visit GEORGIA. Gov.
ernor Johnson in rcsnonsc to rcncotcd calls
/ addressed the Convention ot lcnptb in nm ,hln
and cloouent strain, The Convention thcn
adjourned sine dir. amidst tbc widest crthm.
siasm and CHEERING