Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-23
News Summary.

ers to be employed works for the defence of
Charleston harbOr.---Tho President (Buc-
hanan) has issued his proclamation convening
the Senate in extra session the 4tb of March
next.-----P Patriotic citizens Of Sumter have
just rendered 5000 in money. ard sixty servarts
for the use of the State !---Judge Hillyer.
of Ga, has resigned the solicitorship of the
| Treasury. Mt Washington. ladies
throughout the State Of Mississippi are employed
In making uniforms for tho volunteers. and in
raising money to arm and equip companies. -
A cold snap" North, on the 9Th, run the ther-
mometer 30 degrees below Zero The Sen
ate of North Carolina has rejected q bill to
! amend the Constitution concerning ad udiorem
taxation. .---Military despetism is almost un-
bearable in Washington, and apprehensons Of
general commercial crash exist throughout the
North. by the latest advices cotton had
iecinc,i 81 az I.;yorrao a y Hinckley
has contracted to clean tho streets Of New York
city for Eve years at $279 900 year
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INVESTMENT FoR PnoFIr AND PATRIOTISM M-The
following find advertisement in the
Charleston Cotrier. We re publish il MS matter
TO which the attention of our citizens should gen
orally he directed:
BANK OF THE STATE OF SoUrH CAROLINA
+" CHARLIsroN,, February II, 1861.
The Legislature having. at i's last session, au
thorized the issue of bonds to tG ana cunt of SG75
600, bearing nm interest of per cent for the
purpose OF providing the funds required to sustain
the State in the net of resuning her rights of SOW
ercignty. this Bank is now prepared to dispose of
the Bonds. They are Issued in sums of $50 500
and So'W An opport unity is thus afforded every
citizen tO make secure and profitable invest lmcnt
while contributing aid to the cause in which the
State is engaged. With the view of enabling citi.
zens in any part OF the State TO share i'm the loan
the Clerks of the Courts Of the several Districts
have been requested TO open books of subscription
for The stock. Suitable arrangements will be made
for furnishing bonds on the receipt of the money
nj an early day after each subscription has been
| made. Engagements for the purchase of bonds
may he made at the Bank, or at any OF its branch
es II is probable that, Mt the next session of the
Legislature those parties who desire il may have
their bonds converted into stock.
G. NJ. FURMAN. President.
Mr.. HAGooD, the Clerk of the Court, has the
bonds for sale. No safer or better investment can
DO made hs' our patriotic citizens. '
| THE BREAKINa UP-Since the 9th OF Novem
ber, 1860. there have hcen one hundred and
fory.hve designations in the Federnl Govern.
ment. to wit: Members of tho Cabinet, z {;
Senators, 10; Mrmbcrs Of the House of Repre-
sentatives. &c: Feler.,, officers i'm the Southern
c'"'So SulIeCVTS, &C.. y IN the Ar
my. 20; and IN the Navy. Gl. A pretty ranid
breaking up; the work will go on yet for awhile.
MoBrLE, February l3--A salute Of one bon.
dred guns was fredin this city, to-day, in honor
| of President Davis
To DS HuNo-Jnhn G.. Burckmever and Rich.
ard White--convicted Of nurder-have been
sentenced t" be hung in Charleston, on Friday.
the l9'h day of April.
Not long since, man in Sauk county, Wis.
ntricd for his second wife his own step.mnthcr.
who singular enough, was sister to his first
wife. The lady liz, therefore. not only step
mother and aunt to her husbands children but
also their grand mother, while the husband is
step'fnther to his step,sisters. Her issue by
his marriage will not only be own cousins tn
to their step-broher. hut uncles and aunts alsa !;
and the lady herself being grand mother to her
children and nephews mny be regarded ns
mother to herself and child to herself and.
therefore, her own grandmother.
FIRE At New YoRx--rwo FrReNEN KILLED
The Ocean Spice Mills in Fulton street. were
burnt Friday morning and the adjoining ware.
houses Of Messrs ll"dges and Co., paper deal.
ers; Henri Mali x Co., importers of wonlens,
and Bonhude Il Co., liquor dealers. were bndlv
damaged. Two fremen were killed by the fall.
ing of n chimney.
.DS'IN pCI"o!iS were uroWneu on the ltth
instant, while attempting to cross small stream
in Illinois, in sleigh.
CosT OF the Agitation do not suppose
there is public work II single branch of busi.
ness of any kind. n single department of human
enterprise in this country. or one single indi.
vidnai IN it,. who has not suffered mDre or less
by thepresent agitation. The ioss to the ,cnun.
icy can scarcely be loss than q thousand mil.
lions Of dollars. This IS heavy tribute to North.
ern fanaticism
Tue Cincinnati Enq'tiycr states that Major
liayne: of the South Carolina army. and brother
to Col. Hayne. bearer Of dispatches to Wash.
Ington from Gov. Pickens. was in the former
city and in st. Louis hast week, where he pur.
chased and shipped for home. Al, 900 bbls. Of
pork, 1000 casks of hacnn and several theus-
and bushels Of corn for tue use of the Curolinian
army.
FALLING OFF IN THE REcgIrrs PROM CUsToMs
The receipts from customs at New York last
week were S555 ,000, or only shade above half
what they were in the corresponding. week of
last year. Facts of this sort. occurring every
week, speak volumes upon the disastrous conse.
9uences To the North of the falling off of the
southern trade. They. also expnse the utter
toiiy OF adopting protective tariff BILL which,
IN excluding certain classes Of imported articles.
Will destroy revenue.
RoUsER--An immense mortar. says the
Petersburg lya,) Express, of tho 18th instant.
weighing $4,000 pounds, arrived here yeser.
day from the Tradegar Works. .. Richmond.
intended for South Carolina The calipre is
adapted to 10 inch mortar shells, sixty of which
acc Impaned it, severa hundred having aIrendy
preceded it, IL femainal n tho Hsoh,,,.,nl