Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-20
Pennings and Clippings.


| Pennings and Clippings
MELANCHOLY ArrAlR-John @. A. Fugato
was shot and instantly killed at Paris Mo-, n
few days ago, by his brother. VIM. Fugatc.--.
They had trivial quarrel, came to blows. and
in tho Excitement Of tho momont tho fratrioide
was committed. When tho surviving brother
realized the, cnormity Of his crimo ho bocumc
frantic and was with difficulty prevented from
taking his own life.
FIRE IN New OELEANs-On tho morning Of
tho 9Th instant, Gro broke out in Tocdano
street, Now Orleans. and destroyed seventeen
houses, nearly all Of which were occupied by
butchers. Loss, $4,000. Tho remains of an
unknown man were found in the ashes after tho
| fire.
The MERcENARy 1IoRDE-A private letter
lately received from Washington, reports Tint
the Lincoln hrolings occupying that city num-
Dor 10000. Of course FREQ speech. and lebute
and deibcration in Congress, will lie maintained
under such arguments.
| An EXCITEMENT IN NEW JERssY-Thc Now.
ark advertiser says that some time during Sat
urdny night last an cfRgy of President Lincoln
was suspended on liberty pole in Railway.
New dorsey, and bcing discovered Sunday
morning. occasionod great excitement among
the townsrcoplc. Several efforts were mado to
take down the onigy, but tho perpetrators of tho
act had creased the pole SO that nobody could
climb it, and it hnd finally to be cut down.
TIE LINCOLN MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
'Ihe Cincinnati Commercial, in o Wow of the
military appointments made in that State,
trenblcs for the fato of tho Abolition Govern
"'ont ut Washington, elf similar lnck of iuds.
ment and discrimination has been made in the
whole list"
Secession Victory CoScEgpkp-Th CORES.
pondcnco OF the st. Louis Democrat iALolition)
comedies secession victory in the affair at Call
Camp, or Camp Cole, OH the 10th ult. The
fcderallsts loss is stated to bc twenty killed and
wounded, and twcnty.threo taken prisoners,
who were liberated on taking an oath not to
bear arms against tho South The Lincoln
i'rcc was live hundred, and that of tho NIissou-
r'nns three hundred. Tho loss Of tho lnttcr
Is reported to have been thirty by all casual
ties.
! IuE CAMPAIGN IN rENNEsssE.-It seems that
tho redoubabe Anderson. tho "hcro of Fort
Sumter" is to command tho troops who arc OK.
pcctcd to make the raid into Fast Tennessee. IIo
Is to DC assisted by Antrcw Johns ton, the trait.
or.
AoRIcuLrURAL-Ac correspondent of the Rich,
mond D'spofA asks, What makes the lies.
sian Fly2" and answers it himself thus: "Col.
Magruder's masked battery"
TERRIBLE ErrEcT.- One effect of the block
ado, the New Orleans Delta says is that "ilour
is one dollar a barrel cheaper than it has been
for ton years" Besides the quality is anew and
superior article brought from Tic ilimitablc
grain folds of Texas,
llsAfr SHOE CoSTR ,cTs.---lt is stated hy a
B"ston rnrcr that tho Governor will som issue
proposals for the manufacture of four hundred
thousand pairs Of scwcd shoes fDr The use Of fhc
army.
SALE or TuE SAvANNAn.-~Th captured pri.
va'eer Savannah WAS sold In New York, on the
"a, at auction Messra. McRcadv. Mott a. Go.
were the purchasers, at 81 ,275. Her gun aud
ammunition brought S75. The small arms in
cluding twelve ilnt-lock mnskets and half do.
zen cutlnsscs, brought 800. 1t is rumorcd that
the United States Government will fit here ont
for service.
| IHE QUEEN OF SpAIN.--'rho Madrid Gazcfic
announces That tho Queen of Spain has sent
the usual notice to ali the Bishops of the King.
dom, mentioning that sl,c has cntcred tho lnet
month OF her pregnancy, and requesting them
to have prayers offered up for hor safo delivery.
LInERAL--A patriotic planter, who holds 9
Large interest on Edisto Island, but is now tcm
porarily sojourning in Athons Ga, writes to I,is
factors, w. M. Lawton s. Co., concerning tho
Confederate Loan: "plcasc put me down for
tiirec-tourths OF my crop" A tcw more exam.
pies OF TINS sort, and South Carolina can tako
rank with larger and more populous Statos in
contributions to tho common defoncc
TIE New Orleans Crescent Is anxious to see
those 100000 mon {" in Lincoln srecn." and
st'll moro anxious to SEQ those $400, 600, 900 in
the Federal Treasury. The Crescent soys;
Tho Snutl, can afford to laugh at Lincoln's
four hundred thousand mon in buckram. Tho
South does laugh at tho spectacle. But tho
smilo grows dcepcr and the laugh hcarticr. over
tho proposition Of Lincoln to raise four hundrci
millions OF dollars TO sustain the war upon tho
south, when tho bonds and stocks of Lincolp's
Govornmont meet with dull sale in Now York
at from ~ to II por cent. discountl We know
that tho first instalment Of hs four haflre1
millions will not command fifty cents. on tlic
dollar lloncc oar jubilation.. 1We, don't catc
a rcd cont for IIincOln's four hundred thousand
mon butif no should do whntewo consider nm
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