Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-11

nnndS That our COnsui.Genprnl, Mr.. TuwneonC
aiarris, has ayincod great skill rs negotlator
/ Ihe provision TINT Constitutes the President o
the United Stptesihc referee on the part of in
pan In any a' Gully she may have with foreign
: nFsisreg.r dcd as one of the most signal tri
un,rhs yet achieved in diplomacy. The mora
! weight, II ssail which it gives to this country
IN the Orient can scarcely he over cstn acd.
FoneERs-7A Young man giving his name rs
Wm. Tavl"r, has beon lately arrested in The city
| OF Charleston. FIR attempting tn pass of a ftrg
cd check, on a house in New Orleans These
! sw'ndlers keep the police quite busy.
NEw ORLEANS, Ang. 2-It,is now ascertain.
l cd that nine persons were killed and fur wu,In.
ded by tue boicr explosion yesterday, on board
the steamboat Lacrosse.
NASHVILLE. July ga fill electoral ticket
was nominatedhy the Douglas and johnson
mcn today. William III. Polk and H. NJ
Waterscn were chosen electors for the State at
large.
| SriCIDE-Thns. Monroe Cory. n prominent
merchant of New O,lcnns. lately commttcd
suicide by hanging himself Cause financial
| cmbnrrassmcnts.
ENcoCRAGENIENT FOR TIE BE RIDGG
RAuRoD-Wc cojy the following from the
Franklin N. c., Observer, of the 31st ut.
We learn that tho engineers on the j. cation
of tho Western extension of the Nor a Caro-
lima Ra,lroud. are now at work or Scott's
Creek, % miles from this place and about
the same Distance from Nuntr ala, in this
County, where this road and .ne Blue RIDGE
Road intcrscct
Wcare informed ttntmo considerable bar
ricrs TO the easy build g of road have vet
been found: II the ,rther loca ion finds no
greater in future u TN the experimental sur.
rcy experienced, ais route will DC most ia
vorcd by the gre . body of our people And
hence we say 10 the people of South Carolina.
press on with the Blue Ridge Road Within
% miles Of tranklin and IS of Clayton, Ga.
you will set with railroad running from
Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean.
The WESTERN CRAZY. Cnors.-CmcA-
GO, Thursday. August 2, 1860 Wells
Comm"rciai E.rpres to-day gives the result
OF the wheat crop of 1859 us marketed at this
point In -four, 7l1,303 barrels; in wheat,
S,942,4hl bushels; to- u, equal to 12408,-
81 bushos, exceeding thc receipts from the
crop of 1888 by 5,203, $50 bushels, but fall
ing short of those fror the crop of 1857 by
3,1O9,S39 bushels. The Erprrss stakes its
commercial reputation on the probable truth
of the prediction, tina Chicago will receive
tncnrly if not quite fifty millions bushels of
grain, from the countr;. which seek its mar
kct here, in the year from august l. 1860, to
AUGUST i, 1861 Corn rt ,eipts here from
the last crop have already. reached twelve
million bushels. Receipts of 'ew wheat arc
already beginning to be liberal, md will soon
be large.
BArTSsT Sr>rE CONVENTION This bo-
dy convened re on Friday last 4 large
number of delegates were in att ndanco and
the session was unusually intcre Sing. How
}. B. O'Neall was elected lrcsi cnt, Rev. .
G. IGndrum, Vice President R6 DR. Brant
ley Secretary, and Prof. G. H. =, ldson, Trcn.
surer. We believe the various interests, Ed
ucatlonnl. Missionary, Sabbath clool, &c.
coming under the cognizancc of &c Convcn-
hon, have received new impctu from this
meeting. Rev. III. A. Duncan w, ,appointcd
Agent for the Funman University, and Rev
MIR. Dargan Agent for Sabbath ,chools. -
Among tla editorial r}'Stjmgun draw 'togcthcr
by this occasion, wc observe the naI IS of j.
ID. y. Dcl}ow, E&;., editor of the !ommcr-
eial RovieN, Rex. 5. j. Fleming, = litor of
the Sumter Dispatch, and Rev. W. B Carson,
editor OF the Southern Baptist. on. NJ
King and Judge \. G.. Magrath, arc, also in
town. The Eunyentioa adjourned ol Tues
day evening, to meet next year in the 1own
of Spartanburg. The occasious throu; i,out
has been one of great interest
{GrecavAtc Enterprise.
JOSEPH \. WoopwARD.-,Th Talladcga
(Aln.) Watchtowcg says:
Hon. j. A. Woodward, for many wears the
distinguished representative in Congress
from the. Columbia District. S. c., hut nov IL
citizen of this Flaee has declared his int N
tion to support Breckenridge and lane. In
1856 0lr. Woodward WAS u supporter of. -ir
.EiImare, and made many efficient speech, ) in
his behalf in Alabama. lie now fnvors the
election of Breckenridge and Lane, as the ep-
rcscntatives of the only party whose plat I'm
cnunciatcs purely Constitutional principles.
ABorr SoUTH CARoLINI,Ns.--lt is TOO
common to hear the people of the Palu ctto
State sHnlmarily set down aS che cmbodln c3t
of ali that is unreasonable and hot.hcadco -
| The following paragraph, which we find 20
ing the rounds of the Northcrn papers, thr )ws
some light on this snbicct
The benevolent Miss Dix, whose phiinn-
thropc labors in behalf of the insane reflect
much credit on her humanity, and ha sc
been attended with wonderful success stat, !,
in one of l.cr publications. that in Che Ne v
England States hc-proportion of the. .insar
to the whole population is about one in COO ;
in.thc Middle States, one i'll 700; and in the
Western States, one in 1900 The most an
fortunate is Rhode Island, where there is one