Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-01-04


HAVANA, Dcccnbcr 26 Vera Cruz dates
of the goth, via .Sisal 2Sd, have been rccoiy.
ed. City of Mexico dates to the 10Th There
is much misery throughout tho country, in
consequences, Of exhaustion and disorganiza-
tion from the war. The people arc compoll-
cd by hunger to resort to brigandago. Peace
has'beeu re-establishcd at Tepic. Several Pc
,rote, prisoners have been liberated The rev.
olution iu Yucatan is assuming large proper.
ttlons. Santa Anna has been proclaimed dicta.
tor, and is hoa!Ny expected from Havana, With
men and'a million in money. The fort and
town of Sisal arc in tho hands Of the insur-
gents, but the port was blockadcd by two
Mexican gunboats. A number of Imperial
officers arrived at Sisal from NIatamoras on
the 10th. The coast of Yucatan is closely
watched to prevent the landing of the Next
can steamer Yobasso, which is ready to sail
from Vera Cruz for the scene of the reyolu-
ton, with 500 men and artillery. Santa An
ia is still in Havana
LONDON, Dccembcr 27,-A despatch from
Dublin says an unusual largo number of let
tcrs have recently been received ut tho post
office here, directed to prominent officials,
each Of these loaded with explosive materials
designed to kill tho person to whom address
ed Several exploded, but so far no one kill
ed A policeman Of the city was horribly
mangled by one which he opened
G:H- We are accustomed to think that VIC
are great manufacturing people, but our
large establishments, particularly in the work
ing Of metals, arc entirely overshadowcd by
some of the huge English workshops. And
even the English arc left behind now, aud
little Prussia, which has luttcrly grown to be
great Prussia, boasts an establishment for the
working of steel alone which surpasscs any
general manufacturer in the world Krupp,
the steel king of Essen, has within the past
forty years built up what is in effect town
BY itself as his workshop. lie. employs ten
thousand workmen; add TO thcp their wives
aud children, and there is already rcspccta
ble population. last year lie turned out six
ty-two thousand five hundred thousand dol
lars, involving n daily consumption of one
thousand tons of GOAL. OF guns aono nc lius
delivered three thousand fyc hundred alto
.gcther, valued at five million two hundred and
fifty. thousand dollars
nes5- The cable authorities state that tclc
gram was sent last week from London to Wash
ington in nine minutes and thirty seconds =
,,tl> a., -
ington four hours fifty-cight minutes and
thirty seconds in advance of the hour of its
leaving London.
Professor Czcrmark, of the University of
Jena, while examing the stomach of mum.
my, found roll of somcthiug which, under
the micruscoPe, proved 10 bo tho skin of the
solc's Of the feet. Further investigation
| shows that this disposition of the sole was
common practice, and it is supposed to be
symboical of the eternal separation of the
dead from the Garth
AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY. The I" Cam
den Journal says:
A friend of ours, with whom we spent a
couple of nights few weeks ago, with the
aid of his two sons, one scarcely large enough
to plough, made this year, three bales of cot
ton, upwards of,four' hundred bushels of corn
one hundred bushels Of peas, two hundred
bushels Of sweet potatoes, besides Irish pota-
toes, pinders, &C., and bad thirtccn hogs ready
for thoknifc, which would nett him 1000 to
1890 pounds Of pork, with -four enough to
sseryq him S0til harvesting his next crop Of
wheat, of which he has planted largely. His
crop was all harvested and housed, his lots
and stables well filed with litter, and the boys
were taking holiday after their years work.
His wife and one daughter. attend to all the
household and domestic affairs, and -clotho
handsomely the family, consisting Of eight,
from wool raised on the plantation. Our
friend lives in tho "Sand Hills" and plants
sandy land, but since froedom," has adopted
the system Of planting tho richest portions,
leaving the other to rest and recupcratc is
such family dependent upon cuffy?
TIE BANKRUPT LAw.-Mr. Clinton y.
Rice, Of New York, who is preparing report
of the operations of the Bankrupt Law, is in
receipt of numbor Of letters from, Cumu,is.
soners in Bankruptcy, inquiring when the