Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-08

burn, N. Y. of passing counterfeit half dime
upon fruit dealer, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment in the State prison.
TIE PRESIDENTIAL ELEcroN.-Co Congress pass
ed an act in 1915, to establish n uniform time
for holding elections for electors of President
and Vice President in all the States i'm the I'm
ion" This act fixes the time of election on
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November which this year is the
9th day of the month. All the electors must
be chosen, or appointed, on that day. except in
the Electoral College, or whero a State has fail
ed to effect an election CT the day6Iesfgnatcd
TExAs-Bctwccn thirty and forty of tho Tex.
as papers are supporting BrcckinriIge and
Lane, six or seven are still supporting Houston,
and two the Harrison Flag" and tho Quit
man Clipper" are advocating the claims Of
Bell and Everett.
! WuEAT-Whcat has great vitality 1t has
been subjected by Professor Wartman to tcm-
pcraturc of l00o below zero, and by Professor
lIcnslow to n temperature of 2lOo above zero,
and yet it afterwards gcrminatcd.
KEEP THEN MovING--Wc notice. m our OK
changes. accounts of inccndiary fires in various
parts of the Statc-und many of the papers
! contain warnings against itincrant pcd,llorS,
wonders of patents, and all other suspicious
, characters
RIcnMoND. August 20 Governor John Le,ch-
CT, VI lHlS ClaNc, ktOmmOnIN c0IICU - honest
John has to-day declared his preference lor
Stephen "A. Douglas, of Illinois. for tho first
Office in the gift of the people. Therchns been
so much misrepresentation IN regard to- }is posi-
tion that the Governor has determined to be cX-
plicit He regards Nv Douglas as the regular
nominee of the National Democracy. aud sup
ports him accordingly.
TnE IIuNGARI >Ns--Kossuth and Klupka. and
a large body of Hungarian refugees. the latter
/ mlliinriIy Or,rnniZpO ia rnOprtnl al Rnrl,.
artist, prepared toinvadc the country and get up
Il revolution.
ToAprrsM--Somc dirty water left by the
Prince of Wales in y basin in his apartments
ut Quebec, was bottled and sold at four shillngs
vial to some of his toadyng admirers.
WHAT is PRINcE WITHOUT, 4 CooK?-It is
related that when the Prince of Wales and
suite left Quebec OH board the steamer Kings
ton, the steward, SnnderSon, of Boston, and the
cook, were left behind. After stcaming an hour
or two, the cook was missed. and the vessel nut
about to return for that important personage-
| What can Prince do without cook Which
| is the most important Of the two--Cupk, or
King?
CosT or TUE CsNsus--'rhc census of 1860
cost ST, $4,000. exclusive of printing, on nj
most six cents for every head enumerated. Its
schedules are comprised in nearly one thousand
| volumes, and its taking required one million
Oh' HuHuIcu anu lDTlN luuUSunU SilPcIS Di
blanks, and three thousand two hundred and
thirty-onc assistant marshnls.
DEATm or AN ON MAN-Jamcs Stewart arcd
! Ill years and said to be The oldest nhabtant
on the Peninsula, died on the Cnhanock Neck
in northampton cnunty, Va, few days since.
During life he married seven times the wife of
his last marriage heuG younger than his first.
FATAL EXrLosIoN--On the 22d instant. tho
boiler Of the steam grist mill of Mr. Stock at
| McGrcgnr. Iowa exploded with terrible force
killing Peter Eckcrt, the fireman. whose huiy
was found l00 feet from the head Of the boiler
Lewis Stock. the engineer, was badly scadcd.
DEATH w LIGnTNINc-On the 2lst instant.
! the b"use Of James +. Grove. in Bclmnnt GouH-
ty. Ohio. was struck by lightning NlissWilnii.
daughter OF Mr.. Grove, while passing through
the nail toward the eastern doorway, was struck
by the electric fluid and fell dead Instantly
BOILED To DeAru-A child of William II.
Cunningham, of Fredericksburg. Va, fell into
and lost its life thereby. i;tle son of David
): Harvey, of Danvile Va, met similar ter
riblc death last week.
PERsoNAL-Mr. w. T. Gilmore candidate for
the Legislature, in card in the Chester Stan,
ddyd, declares himself for cooperation in resis
ting Black Bcpublicanism. lie also regards
the agitation Of the slave trade question as
impolitc and Use.
DEAD-Joln KnGman, Esq. an old citizen of
Charleston, died Thursday. Mr.. X was for
mery teacher in the Orphan House, and
among his pupils III former years was the eel
ebratcd John G. Fremont. the defeated Black
Republican candidate in 1856.
! VALUE OF ADvgRTIsINO-The routes through
the White Mountain districts, and the hotels in
the region, which we're freely advertised in June
and july, have enjoyed +" great increase of bu-
sinesS this year, and the managers are surprised
/ at the large returns they alrc.ly have received
for their investments in printers ink.
TuE LARGEsT-The Ycksburg (AIiss.) JYhig
says: Tho largest cotton planter in the South
is said to be Judge Griffin, of Washington Coun-
! ty. in this State His crop annually is about
| 5000 bales.
MosT TERRIFIC YEr-On the 2Sthat Niagara,
Blondin will cross over his rope, at o'clock,
with woman on his back, and at 0 p. NJ in n
blaze Of fire works. On the OCCASION of the
visit of the Prince of Wales to the cataract.
Blondin will cross the rope on stills four feet
high.
Sons OF TENpERANCE--There are, it is said,
| about 1900 divisions of Sons of Temperance i'm
the United States with nearly 10000 members.
ALBERT PIKE-Albcrt Pike, of Arkansas. in
letter announcing himself in favor of Breck-
inridge and lane gives to the country one of
the most able defenoos OF the position of the
true Democracy on the question If sqnattor sop-
ercgnty than has yet been published.
HEALTH OF New ORLHANs--Thcre were l42
deaths in New Orleans last week, but only