Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-29
pennincs and Clipnirgs.

teridH gives notice that its issue of the 29th
September, will be the last in CharlestonS as
the pnpOr has beon sold to n new company,
Elam Sharpe & CO., who intend to remove it to
Columbia The new volume will be edited by
the Rev. A a. Porter, of Alabama.
CArALocuE-We have received the catalogue
of the Laurepsville Female College, fay 1860
The number of pupils, l28. The Gnllrge is in
prosperous condition. Pho catalogue bears
the imprint of Mr. Jnmes nlIolihssworth, of
the Herald, andis gotten up in superior style.
DEATH OF CHARLESTON MERcmANr-The
Charleston papers announce the death of Mr.
William Calder in that city. Saturday last
in the slXtieth year of his Sge
/ FoRT SMITH, ARK, Sept 2l--The post Office
and garrison block of buildings were destroy ed
by fire this morning. Loss S20O000 Four
thousand letters including the mail from Cali
fornia, for the Southern States. were consumed
! Lynch LAVA man named Mcclure, hail
ing from the State of Maine, was on Saturday
last, by order Of the vigilance committee, whip
ped by slave at Grahnmsvillo. 6 c., for tam
| pering with slaves in that vicinity.
| CENSUS Oh LAURENs DisTRIcT-Tho deputy
marshal of Laurcns furnishes the Hcrdid with
the statistics Of that District. We abstract.
! No. of families 3, ,1SS-nf houses 2 l23. White
males 5,l72-fcmales 1856; Free Ncgrocs
males 52-fnmalcs So. Slayes: males G,5l0-
females 6,GSl. Entitled to- vote 2.2SG, Por-
sons oHer 20 who cannot read and write 50.
Sick ITEADAcmE-It is stated that two tea.
spoonfulS of finely powdered charcoal, drank in
a half tumb!cr Of water, will in less than ff-
teen minutes, give relief to the sick headache
when caused, as in most cases it is, by supcra-
bundance of acid on the stomach.
| WILD PGEoNs--It is stated that the number
of wild pigeons shipped East from Michigan.
| the past season, is over 100000, which sold
for S25, 600, paying $1,000 "cisht
PoMrIcAL RrorrNc-A Bell and Everett
meeting in Philadelphia. Friday night. was at
| tackled by band of Republican Invncibles y
who were marching down the street in which
the meeting was being held The Bell men
drove off the nSsailnuts, but not until several ON
both sides were wounded by sticks, stones and
pistol shots.
New YORK. September f5th-rhc "Shr,
year at 4,Ci5770 bales. Exports for the same
time 3,174,l73 bales. Stock on hand 227 JOS
bales
Second CRor-A friend has presented The
editor of the Montgomery {Alo) fa$t With some
specimen peaches of the second crop grown ON
the same trees this season. These peaches
though of small size, are fully developed in
! shape and color and the trees were still bloom.
| ing.
FoRr SMru, Ark, Sept. lS--A fight took
place last night between Il party of Cherokee
Indians at this place The encounter was fierce
and bloody, knives and pistols were used with
mnrderous energy. Two were killed and two
mortally wounded. The affrav grew out of II
family leud, which nothing Lut blood could re.
concilc.
| UNCHANGEABLE-Tho materials with which
the Eternal writes his name may vary, hut the
style of the handwriting is cvcrmorc the same.
| And whcthcrn illuminated characters lie paint
it on the field, or in starry plubct bid it fame
from the face of the Observation-Disclosures he
| work IN the curious mosaic of she'll, or in
Hebrew letters inscrLc it ON tables ,of stone,
I,devotion recognises its Heavenly Fathers hand,
and admircs with reverence the mutchlcss au.
tograph.
WAsHlNGToN-'rhc population Of Washing
| ton city is 6l 400. being gain Of 2l ,420 since
the census returns of 1850.
Growing Returns from fnrtv-iyo counties
in Minnesota give population of lll2I4.--
| The population of the whole State will not be
less than 10000. In lSiJ it was not quite 5
| 000
CYCLorSDIA OF MErnoDISM-Rev w. b.
Watkins, of Cambridge, Ohio, says the Motho.
dist, has in course of preparation work to be
entitled e" A Cycopcdia of Mchodsm," which
| when finished, will he complete reperory of
all the educational and literary institutions of
MethodiSm; Biographical dictionary nf MI
the eminent men our Church has produced
both living and dead: and an accurate y"cnbu.
| larry of all the terms peculiar to Methodistic
doctrine, history, and polity. J-;
TAKING THE FIELD-Gon. Atchison, of Mis-
souri,. an old war-worn veteran of the Dchroc-
| racy, has taken the stump for Bfeckinridge and
Lane. His clarion voice will be heard ninvc
the din OF battle, and will carry diSmay into
the ranks of the enemy.
ODD FELLowsnlP-R B Boylson Esd. OF
| WinnSboro, has been elected Grand Sire of the
United States of the o Of. by the Grand
Lodge of the United States, now in session at
Nashville
MgxIco-Thc last accounts from Vera Cruz
state that Miramon barely succeeded in reach
ing the city of Mexico, having sustained a sue
ceSsion of disastrous defeats. The capital is
surrounded by twenty thousand men, while the
Church party could not muster more than n
tenth of that number.
a Man CoNpEssEs A MURDER He DID NOT
CoMMIr-At Road in England, recently, child
named Francis Sayille Kent was murdered. and
one Ed nund John Gregg gave himsclf up to the
magistrates as the murderer Before his trial
however, il was discovered that he had not been
near the place where the murder was committed
that he did not know the chiI,l murdered, aud
in short, that he was in n distant part of the
country. At last he confessed that his previous
confession was untrue, and that he had been led
to 1T becauSe his life was burden to him.
He was of course, discharged.
The ELGiN IIoRRoR-No Steamboat disaster
of equal magnitude has occurred on the Lakes
since the loss of the ill-cIipl Atlantic Of thf