Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-09
MERE MENTION.


bad-s'T The territoralzing scheme has
gone to the WALL" says the National (Wash
nyton) Inteiiigcncer-fn Denmark snow
has fallen to tho depth Of fourteen feet
Two members of the Virginia Legislature
have had regular old fashioned " fist fight
no body huft---lt is understood that the
Congressional Reconstruction Committee is
hopcessly armonious-'Fhcre will be
four eclipses this year-two of che sun and
two of the moon.Tho present English
Parliament is probably the most liberal ever
returned They amputate by steam in the
Berlin hospitals There arc two hundred
funcral, daily, in London.-One ncTro
was killed and others badly woun'lcd in
Charleston on the Both ult.. by the explosion
Of Il once s'hostilc" shell found in that citv
, \ resolution passed the Illinois House
Of Representatives on Tuesday, declaring de-
s 'tcrs and skedaddlcrs from the draft dis
franchiscd.- .--A gentleman Just returned
from Mexico says that " things are nearly as
bad there as in the United States On
July /, 1865, the Southern Railroads were
indebted to the United States $6,57O, 900 for
rolling stock, &c. Prentice says the mud
dy streets of hohisvillc, are proof that the in
habitants are not transgrcssors for the way
of transgrcssors is hard -The cost of man.
ufacturing one pound Of Cotton in New Eng
land is about eleven cents.--Do you want
to increase your business? Advertise.
l,l l.
appropriate $4,000 to tcat the constitutions
| ality of the Cotton tax. x.-M More than a mil.
lion of persons. starved to death in the late
famine in India.-put your own shoulder
to the whecl-bclore your head slips under
it.--Thc Legislature Of this State appro
prated St, 900 to test the constituionality OF
the u. s. confscation laws, which have swept
over the Sea Islands, &c.--Johu Smith is
dead. He leaves u large family y.-Thc best
credit systc,n-crcdit to whom credit is due
- Nothing great 1: glorious was ever
achieved by any one who was not possessed
Of Tie most rcsnlute sclt-dcnial.- -- Both of
the Salisbury (N. C)pap,rs, tho cod North
State" and the " Banner" have come out in
favor Of qualified negro suffrage. "A rail
road engineer has been arrested in St. Louis
for having three wives too omany-Thc Old
aud New School Prcsbytcrans, raised for
chnychl .nu'ossss dnSinsg Jbs Jqsta yGaUShH4A:
cant --" The Laughing lIycna' is the title
OF new paper in Texas --rwcnty. five
farms have been sold in one section of Ala
bama for the low pr.cc Of 81 rcr THE
Maryland Legislature has passed the enfran
ch's'ng act, restoring Contcdcratcs to their
ancient rights. - -Brownow astonishcs and
gr"t'iles Tennessee by the announcement tbnt
ne VIII retire from public life at the close of
'''S 'ct''' us dcvcrnor - lfa good man can
not prevent evil, he will hang heavy on its
"'"sS--A brother editor says that VIII,
ne was IN prison for libclinga Justice of the
pence lie WAS requested by the jaor to give
| inc prison putt. .-lS,OoO Cunfcderatcs,
large and small, Sp"li,icaIly, have been par.
d1"ed: - Female lobbyists are swarmius at
"ashlngton:--T Thcrcarcalrcady nine steam
boats on the Amazon. The first cntton
mil built in the United States was at Beyer.
ly, Mass, in 1877. .-Thc dccprst mine n
the world is that at Ruttcnbura, in Bohcui,
which is sunk to 377S feet below the surface
---N negro in Virginia WHO farmcd {. on
his own hook" last ycat nettcd thirty cents on
his tobacco crop.--Thc :" first shaa Of The
season. turucd up at Wilmington. N q
last week, at 81 cach--Two Vessels wero
cleared at Charleston last week, freiohtcd
WIN cotton, rosin aud lumber Value of
cargoes, sS29, $50 !--Thc amount of Gov
ernnent and other American securities held
in Europe is $500 600, 900 O.--Ihe weekly,
returns OF Immigration show that | ,452 emf
grants landed at New York last week, max
ing ~ total since January lst of 14,000.---
between the first of May and the last of No.
vember l,2l2 persons died of Asiatic cholera
In the city of New York
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-Governor Parsons
is authorized to say that the features of the
new project, as published North and South
are garbled Gentlemen prominent in the
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