Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-06-09
Pennings and Clippings.

lcFtttcc says there has DSeii quite a fiee IN the
Pee Dee, and the crops in the low grounds are.
mestly anaer water 1t is not too late to rc,.
pimt, which VIII perhaps be dono pretty extern
siScv. The river we learn has beer within q
few feet of high water mark.
| Fon RrssIA Rumor says that Mr.. John Ap.
pleton is nominated to tho Senate for the mission
to Russia, vice Mr.. pickens, who asks to return.
.TnE wAsmlNoroS MoxuNENr--4 X moy cmcnt
is on foot IN the Iiohse of Representatives for
the passage of q bill donating $4,000 year to
aid in the construction Of the Washington Mon
umcnt. Tho receipts from tho different post
Offices in the country make but II small revenue.
and II this work is ever tn be conGplctcl it will
necessarily have t'i receive aid frVm Congress,
on the ladies of the country.
JUST RrroNrENsg-Thc Committee of Foreign
!iaairs in tho House OF Representatives have
unanimously agreed to report the Senate bill
"rpropriatinS $4,000 to Mr. Townsend Harris
tNr ncs1tating the treaty with Siam, which is
intended as an acknowledgment of his valuable
services to commerce in the East.
LETTER FROM los. c. C. CLAY, Jvx.-Tho
! Hon. G. g. Clay, jan, Representative in Con-
greSS from Alabama, has addressed long letter
to the NWioat LtfHigeHcer in which he ap.
proves of the secession of tho eight cutton States
| from the CharlcStonTCunvcntion.
FuREIGN IMuoRrs-'rho imports of f,rcirn
dry goods and general merchandise at New
York for last week was So 42.T 1856 since lst or
January S9G2S0, ,225 being II decrease of over
| four millions rs compared with the same period
of last year.
CArrAnArGrs, ~ y. May 3l-A tornado
passed over this place, atabout ~ o'clock yes
torday afternoon, sweeping everything hclnrc
it, entirely destroying six dwellings,, unroulin.,
part of the railroad depot. and blowing the wood.
she'd of the RAILROAD entirely down Four per.
sons were dangerously injured, and several
| slightly. The amount of damage Snot known.
but it will probably reach $4,000. The storm
passed Northeast, through the village of Wa
verify, about three miles from here killing n
JnrlnG two other persons, and several others
slightly. Almost every building within the
reach OF the storm was injured
| WV. STuHEs-Thc case of the State against
/ w. w. S,ukcS, for the killing of DR.. Dubnse
carried from the last term of the Court for Ciar-
end IN District to tho Appeal Court of Columbia
has hccn continued. The prisoner was exam
! ined by physicians at Columbia during the, Sos
sion Of the Court. and by them pronounced in
sane. Under this expression of opinion, he was
! ordered by the Court to the Lunatic Asylum.
TIE CATTLE DrSENSE-Thc cattle disease now
raging III eastern Massachusetts, prevailed in
England from lI4t to lT5j. In Nuttinglnm-
1 shire 10000 head of cattle died in six months :;
in Cheshire 10000. During the third gear of
there Sl5j, 600 were paid out of the public treas
ury rs rccompenso for slaughtered cattle In
1857 in forty,tlrrcc villages in Holland 1t 600
head of cattle died or We're killed
New ORLEANS May 3l-A Bell and Everett
ratification mcctin~ was held here this evening,
in Odd Fellows I. Ill, and was largely attended.
Resolutions were passed recognizing no plat
form but the constitution.
TuE TruG-Thc Presidential election takes
place on November e. 1860.
SAD SrqvEL-Tho clopomcnt of John II. L =
CART, medical student Of Alabama, with n
young lady of the same State, while they were
bnth attending school in Philadelphia. a few
weeks since, has before been published. Last
week, Just one month since her marriage. the
youthful bride died suddenly, at her home in
A!"bama.
CurroN BLoQM-Thc bloom shown to us the
other day hy Mr.. Lehman. saws the Momtgonl-
cry (.lla.) Mia. wns from the plantation Of Mrs
Jane ID. Massey, OF LowndcS.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT WITH TuEM-Thc Jap
ancsc Embassy brougllt with them eighty tons
OF baggage. large amount of treasure, and
Fifteen large boxes of presents for the President
of the tnitcl States, among which are several
very handsome rifles man uincturcd at Ycdlo.
and arc nm Ingenious improvement upon the
Sharp rife.
\ NEano's NoTIoN ABOUT TIE CoLoR OF \
1 CHINESE--A few days ag" II negro fellow, ali CT
gazing intensely at the Chinese. .wbn are now
III this city with Rev. Mr. Cnbaniss, exclaimed
:" If dc white folks is dark as dat out dare, |
wonder what de color ofdc niggcrs?"
AGED-lIon. Edward Everett completed his
sixty-Sixth ycar"n Wednesday last and so early
was lie initiated into tho activity of public lie,
that he can look back upon almost half ccntu-
ry of useful service to his fclow.citizcns.
I CoMrLIMENTARY-rh Boston [Ouyie, SAYS of
the Republican nominee for Vice President
lIc never had an original idea, and for his
tent to write good English, as his Message when
he was Governor shows. a. n stumpspcaker,
when he was an ultra Democrat. he was nutnri.
ous for indulsinG in low. backguardng style.
/ Everybody in Maine knows that. lie WAS hot
capable of anything better"
BAcEIHG DowN-A gentleman Of Chicago,
well posted in the political aflnirS of the country,
offered to bet 5000 ON the evoping OF the nom
nations. that Lincoln could not carry ten States
and this right in the face of the men who so
warmly urged his nomination, but no one was
willing to take the bet
WAsnNGroN, May 3l--Thc Mexican Treaty
was killed in the Senate today. The DemU.
cratic Senator'S refused to adopt the ameutlmcnt
offered by Mr. Simmons, Black Republican, o!
Rhode Island. ss"f
RIcnMoND. VA. May 3l-Pe.er Y. Daniel
Associate Justice OF the u. s. Supreme Court,
die hi this city to-day lie was Presiding
Judge " the Ninth Circuit consisting Of Ar
kansas and Mississippi. aud was appointed in
1911.