Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-10-21

affairs claim their full share Of Tho nnhlins3aat.
tention. There have been Of slate mary dis,
turbances, and many Aof the whites on the
frontier have been murdered. Nov that the
war is over these matters eslikely to receive
the careful consideration Of the Government
Arrangements are now being made for fresh
treaties with the Indian tribes, many Of whom
seem to be peaceably inclined. On $the 18th
of Sept, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, the fol-
lowing tribes signedta treaty of permanent
peace with the United States, as represented
by loyal delegates, viz; ,Osages, Seniinoles,
Creeks, ChickasaWs, Cowskins, Senecas, Qua.
paws, Shawnees, and Chdttaws. ,p. 5, III
4 ACCIDENTAL SHooTINd Two. cases of
accidental shooting have occurred within
short time, within a few miles Of this place.
In one instance a wife shot her husband With
apistol, endangering his life /; two servants in
Company d., Goth Maine Vet. Volunteers,
now at Society Hin, while fooling with rifle,
shot fellow-seryant, killing him instantly.
[Darliagton Ncw Eru.
NEW York, Sept. 25.-Spzst IN the Dem.
'ocratic E'arty.-A meeting of State Rights
men was held at Cooper Institute to-day
Thomas Lawrence presiding, and'resolutions
were adopted dcnouncing the Democratic nom,
nations and platform as absolving them from
obligations to support the party ticket, pro-
claiming themselves for the Constitution as it
is and the Union as it was, and affirming that
all Executive proclamations and decrees affect
ing the rights Of the States are unconstitu-
tional, null and void, etc. The nomination
of State ticket is left to the decision Of the
,comlnittee. Thirty-6ve ASSEMBLY districts are
represented. a 3 .@..
SOME idea of the terrible havoc Of war may
be gained from the following figures In the
desperate encounter at Chickan,auga, Rose
Grams lost 1851 men, and at Murfrecsboro'
12,085;. at Pittsburg Landing, Grant lost
1858, at Vicksburg 9,S75, and at Mission
Ridge 1000; at Gainess Mill, Peach Or.
chard, Savage Station, Glendale, White Oak
Swamp, and Malvern Hill, Mcclellan lost TO-
600, and at Antietam 1926; Hooker lost
in his campaign in the Wilderness 10000;
Burnside at Fredericksburg 10000; Grants
united losses from the time of crossing the
Rapidan, in his, s,fnal campaign, to surrender
of Lee, are computed at 100000 To these
bloody figures, must, of course, be added the
Confederate losses in these fights. Al.
TuE CHoTERA,-Thc Commercial 1dvcr-
tiser says the cholera was long a familiar pes,
thence in the marshes Of the Ganges, and, in
1864, destroyed 10000 lives in upper Hin
dostan. 1t began its march around the world,
in 1917, when, overlapping its customary lin
its, it appeared in Calcutta, extending thence
to Naples in the North, and Ccylon and Mad
ras in the South. In 1920 Bombay was in
vaded, and 100000 lives were taken. In
1871 the pestilence, following up the naviga-
BILE rivers and the travelled roads, appeared in
Persia and Asia Minor Here it halted for
time. In 1879 itappeared in Southern RUS
sia, and the next year at Moscow. In 1881
it broke out in Central Europe, and in Janu,
airy, 1882, it was in Great Britain. On the.
9Th of June it appeared in Quebec, and thirs
teen days later in New York Thence it
spread over all the country, first appearing
along the great lines of travel In 1884 tho
cholera revisited the United States and Since
that time it has often made its appearance
here. In l84a this. d:scase came 10 this,
country as part Of grand tour of the world! !.
similar to that noted above. Its ravages wers
less fearful than in 1892, and the disease was
everywhere more, manageable For several
successive years the cholera appeared hero
and there in the country, becoming in some
places almost an ace!imated disease n
THE JEWISH RACE. For eighteen hun.
dred years the Hebrews have been dispersed
into different latitudes and climates, and thew
have preserved themselves most distinct from