Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-30

OF this place, was entered on Saturday evening
last, and something less than $50 90 stolen
The rogue was evidently familiar with tho con-
dit Oh Of the store. Other articles have been
missed md suspicion is settling down on the
supposed guilty one.
BsS" We nro indebted to our esteemed Sena-
tor. Col GRESHAM, for n sketch of tho "Sand
wich Islands General Predictions
Climato-Animals, &c." by Judge McDoiyELL
of California. We will lay this interesting orig
inal article before our readers noxt week.
Bay" There arc eleven post Offices in tho dis.
trict where the mails arc regularly received and
opcncd. under the new test" arrangement
We are "harmonizing" at hopeful rate.
De4. In New York on tho 25th gold was SO.
Cotton 81 to 80.
gsV' The latest intelligence from Europe in
dicates continental war. Cotton was lower.
--S~
6S5~ Tho Executive Committee of the Nation
al Union party have issued call for n Nation
al Union Convention to DO held at Philadelphia
on the I'd Tuesday in August next. This is the
party which supports President Johnson. =
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Ras- Young men read the plain words and
sensible advice Of your staunch friend, EDMUND
lE"NDoN, Esq, in his communication on the
first page Of this r~rao. ynur condition h,ro
may DO anything but agreeable but can you
improve it by changing your homes to distant
climes. Rccollcct, that "rolling stone gath
ers no, moss"-that we'll directed energy and in
dus'ry will make even our waste places teem
with the necessities and often the luxuries of
liio--that contenmcnt is the mine of health and
happ'noss--that prosperity, which your cxer-
tlons alone can give to the country, will bring
with 1t education, refinement, morality-and
cause you to forget, in your usefulness, the dis
astcrs trials and msfortuncs of the present!
Stand firmly by. your homes and the sad mem
cries of the. past for there is life in the old
land yeti"
: y Ety- Our readers will bear with us in an
nouncins that. there was frost in the upper
part of this District and North Carolina, on
Tuesday morning of last week
seE- An adjourned meeting of the people
of the District will be held on Monday next,
to take into consideration what is best to be
done in the present indebted condition of the
country AS the Court of Equity will then
be in session, gentlomon from some of the ad-
joining Districts will doubtless be present
TIE BLUE RIDGE RArLRoAD.-We only
nave time as we 60 to press to reproduce the
following extract from letter from the dele
CATION from Charleston to Cincinnati, dated
17th instant:
g Siessrs. hfordcoai, Trenholm Korr, West
and 'Courtenay arc all here. We have been
received by the president and members of the
cincinnati Chamber of Commerce with great
courtesy and kindness, and spent last evening
at the Club House. We find that the Knox
vile people arc altogether in favor of the
Blue Ridge route, and, therefore, we wait for
their delegation to arrive here. They are cx-
pccte.d tomorrow and we arc to have public
meetng,on Tuesday evening, Of the citizens,
where we shall be hoard.
"'Tho plan of building railroads, in this
eectlon OF country, is to get subscriptions to
q. fo'o, 10 DC pald as bonus, on the construc-
oo Already there has been subscribed $780,
0oo, IN Clncnnatti, and it will reach 81 ,oOO,-
oOQ. Thls is exclusive of what will be done
10 Louisville. Now, if We put in the So 600.
wv already spent on our Blue Ridge Road.
as bonus the company will have 81 900 900
subscribed ann to complete road to cost 81, ,0OO,-
900 originally"
On Tuesday, Mcssrs. TRENHOLM and REED
addressed the people of Cincinnati with the
happiest effect.
Day' There is no longer any doubt that
when President DAVIS was first incarceratcd
in Fortress Monroe that he was heavily ironed.
Shame on the manaclers.