Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-12-01
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with silent and greedy eagerness the meal Of
their Hindoo brethren, aud counting with
bitter longings the minutes till their timo
should come.
Under the shelter of the Ghst, crowded
women and girls and children, aud outside tho
gates were hundreds and hundreds who had
lost their chance till the next distribution -
Over all horrible deud silence reipncd.-
There were no chattcring or conversation:
hardly sound, excepting when at intervals
some wretch threw up his arms with an ciac.
alatlon to heaven, wrung from him by tho
unappeasablc pnnSs of hunger.
More than this. officials wrote homo des.
crptlons of meeting dead bodies in cvcry
morning ride, bodies lying in the road, with
the village dogs eating them ut leisure.
\ Calcutta Journal stated that in Batasorc,
having population of 1900, the deaths
amounted to 800 day aud on the Govern
mcnt demanding of its officials report against
the libel, the collector of the district replied
that on the StE Of August he had 245 deatha
! III the city, and on the 9th, ISL, and for tho
week ending the 9th, 126 day. the bodies
sometimes remaining unburicd for three days.
The province Of Orisa suffered tic most
severely, one paper declaring that 100000
souls have pcrishcd in maratimc Orisa alone.
Indeed, Il telegram from India announces that
hall the population of Orisa have pcrishel in
the famine; that is fully 2,500,o00 people.
EMIGRATION TO AMERIcA.-A Liverpool
paper says: "Unti within the last day or
two, such thing as an emiyrant ship going
to Texas has rarely if ever been known in
Liverpool T; but such, however, is the fact and
IN few days there will sail from the NIcrsey
for Galveston ship with 800 cmigrants.--
y hnn ,,f IL, L
rlcultural laborers, and the remainder will
come from Dcvoushrc On the arrival Of tho
vessel at Galveston, the cmigrants, after de.
lay of a few days.. will be forwarded into tho
interior of Texas where they will be employed
as agricultursts. A German paper says that
the number of applications at the Frankford
Town Dajl for nassports to go to America
surpasscs the means for supplying the demand,
and pace cannot be kept with the anxious
wishes Of the Intending emgrants They arc
alarmed at the prospect of being called upon
to be soldiers for three years under the new
parental government, and have no taste for
uni6cation.
ALL HAIL. KENTUCKY "Louiavillo
Courier" says that Kentucky has an immense
surplus of corn and meat this season, and she
Intends to give literally of them to her suffer-
ing brethren in the South. For this purpose
societies are being organized throughout tho
State and before the close Of the year we hope
to hear of one in every county.
We also learn from the " Courier" that the
Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington Railroad
Company, announce that they will transport
over their roads, free of charge, all contrbu.
tions for the destitute poor Of the South
All of which is crcditablc to our more ia
vorcd sister State, and for which she will have
the gratitude Of the South.
THE VorE OF TIE LARGE CITIES. New
York city and county, 100585; Philadel-
phia city and county, 100000; Brooklyn and
Kings county, 4S,9l9; Cincinnati and Ham
county, 21,G00; ST. Louis city and county,
2l ,l35 Chicago and Cook county, 2O,045;
Boston and Suffolk county, 1850.
Sa- TO him that goes to law, nine things
are requisite First IL good deal of money
| second, good deal of patience third good
cause; fourth, good Attorney; fifth, good
good jury eighth good jSSdssss jSsss aSGH, teRooa
| luck. Even with all these, 4 wise man should
hesitate before going to law.
HEAVY CRops IN TIE WEST 1t must bo
u matter Of congratulation with our impovcr-
ishcd planters to know that the great grain
fields of the West have produced an abundant
harvest, and that the prospect of low-priccd
corn for the next year is good. Our western
exchanges report J 70 crops of all the differ
ent cereals, in that tccning section, and wo
have no doubt but that provisions, md partic-
ularly corn, will be cheaper than for some time
past. 1t would be better for our planters in
each county and ncghborhood, who have to
buy corn, to agree among themselves how
much they need, and send us an agent to mako
the purchase for the Whole amount required
for each county or ncighborhood. In this
way we have no doubt that the corn necessa.