Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-10-06

Thomas ID. Rice. is dead. Liquor conquered
him, and he died in the lap of poverty.
FREE LovE.-Twdstye6 were divorced
ut the late session of the Superior Court in New
London County, Conn.
COMING Souru.-Thcre are now three cnmpa,
nies of Wide Awakes in Wheeling. numbering
altogether. about 800 men. They have regular
military drill and one company is providedwith
piece of artillery
ACTIVE WORK -Bnynrd Taylor, in n farewell
ietterto the Now York .Herc,uy, thus sums up
ms iaDnrs Tor the past sixteen months 1.-Two
hundred and fifty lectures, thirty thousand miles
travel forty eight Mcrcw,y articles, two books
published, and one house built.
STREET PREAcuiNG. A case was decided on
Saturday in the third district court, New
York, which involved the constitutionality of
city ordinance against street preaching. A
man nnmed Fnconcr was arrested for lcctur-
ing on Temperance i'll the Park. and being taken
before The Justice he demanded trial by Jury
The jury decided in effect that the ordinance
in nqueStion was in violation OF flee srecch, and
the defendant must be discharged.
THE PRESs.-Names of the Press figure on
two tickets thus far nominated for Charleston:
Yeodon Cunningham, and Rhett
Hos. l.. Q. C. LAMAR.-AIr. Lamar in a re-
cent speech, said of John Bell, that however
pure his motives. " like the mariners needle
to the pole, always pointed North, and that in n
tremor."
PorULAR--.Icnny L;ntto Gold>chnhlt has
been enthusiastically received in her native city
of Stockholm, where she is at present staying
with her family. 1t is understood to be her
Intention to make England her p manent
place of residence
Or THE EXTREME'-Dr. Hall says men regard
their wives as angels one month before mar
riago and one month after death And ail IT, j,
~ Of the time as-dcvis. Oh. Doctor.
lIEALTH or CHARLESTON. The hill of NOR.
taity for the week ending the pod instant.
reports thirty-(our dcatl,s--thrcc from yellow
fever
LyNCu L,w'-Juhn Shear, a.horse thief and
a. q. Ford, lawyer and n desperate bad man.
were hung by IN lbs in the Pixies Peak gold re,
gon, IL few weeks since.
FA>T.-Thc SwiflcSt horse ever known was
Flying Childcrs" He performed four miles
and three hundred and eighty yards in seven
tilirty'thlcc miles per hour
U. S. TREAsuRY.-D During the week lust
closed there was paid into the Treasury at Wash
ington the sum of Sl,l77000. Ii may be
mentioned as an indication of the rate at which
Uncle Sam is getting rich, that this week he
received SGOO,OOJ more than was paid during
the week just ended
AN OyERsEER knLrD-Mr. James Davis. we
learn. was killed wv negro man at the plan.
taiion of Col " Cooke, in Macon County. on
Saturday morning last, between 10 and -
o'clock. The deceased was the oycrscer, and
was IN the act of correcting said Negro, when
he was violently attacked with knife and cut
to pieces
Cor MS THIRTY PIECES OF SlvrR"-Bol-
ling the Douglas candidate for Clerk of tho Court
oi Appeals. in Kentucky. has been appointed
by Gen. Combs, whom he helped to elect his
Chief Deputy. Boiling bolted the regular nomi
nation after going into the Convention. and hy
running as a Douglas candidate, divided the
Democratic vote, and secured Combs election
jews CoMiNG TO AMERIcA-Scveral thousand
Polish Jews have recently passed through puSen
on their way t" the United States, via Berlin
and Hamburg The German papers say that
such an exodus of tie children Of Israel has not
been witnessed since that out Of Egypt.
DEATH FROM a SlNcuLAn CAusE-Thc Brigh.
ton (EnS.) GUordian records the death of n
clerk named Bcllringer, in tlnt town, from suck
ing his pen. y slight wound in hs lip being
or"n. the ink produced crysipclas and DEATH
Clerks will please bear this in mind, and keen
their pens out of their mouths
"OLD ADE."-A patent of ono hundred and
twenty acres of land has inst been issued from
the Land Office to Abraham Lincoln, the Re.
publican capdtinic inr President a.. .s;;ta:,, Ia
the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk
war. 1t is stated that Lincoln, while in Con-
GreSs, voted against the granting of lands to
soldiers serving in the Mexican war. vet hc
has no objection to taking one hundred and
twenty acres for himself
DR. LIvINGSToNE-Thc celebrated African
traVelcr Dr. Livingstone is to have another
steamer which has been sent out by tho English
Admiralty. to enable him to proceed with the
exploration and navigation of the Zambesi -
The screw stenm. .sloop Pioneer, of $50 horse
power, has recently departed from Woolwich,
tully laden with stores for the intrepid explorer
STARVED TO DEATH IN New YoRK-On Mon
day Lasts in New York. two pcrsOus. (male and
tcmalc.) were picked up in an emaciated aud
spcechless condition. and both have died, siugu.
lar to relate, from sheer starvation! A singu-
lar thing truly, to relate of city like that, and
one which would be deemed fabulous if told of
any other community.
NORTH AND SoUrH-The exports of the pro.
ducts OF the slave-holding States, is two hundred
ana fourteen millions. three hundred and TWEEN.
ty-two thousand dollars while the exports of
the products of the non.slavclolding States is
hve millions, seventy-one thousand: thus show.
ing that the trale. which is carried ON by North.
ern. cities with foreign countries, is done on a
capital OF produce by the South for exportation
OF more than two.thrds.
ELECTION IN FLoR,DA-On Monday last. Oc
tober LIST, an election was be held in Florida for
Governor and members of the Legislature. -
Oen. Edward Hopkins is the candidate for Gov
, ernOr of the Bell party Gen Joh, Milton :.