Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-10-01

| WASHINGTON, September 24-Nothing
certain is known regarding che Cabinet scs.
: sion. Texas was up, and it is stated on quite
!. reliable authority determinati was reached
8 t9 throw tho Executive influence lin favor Of
q DAVIS, the extreme eandidats for Govenor.
Ih furtheranco of3this policy, j. G.. Tracy,
Chairman Of the Republican Executive Com.
s'fhitteo, has boon appointoa postmaster at
Houston, and sSanty alm, postmaster at
Austin. Its: stated ob some authority quite
good, that other Federal officers opposing Da.
Wis will befemoyed. q. L q 8, : y Il. y h.
+ Count Catacasy tho Russian Minister, was
received by the Presidents to-day
Tho President has appointed James NJ.
I JDickerson pasjessor*of@ the Sixth Tennessee
District, and WIN. Rule Assessor of the Sec.
/, ond Tennessee District hrs9
The Treasury Department has ordered
three new revenue cutters
Tho Agricultural report states, regarding
the corn crop, tho unless that close of tho sea.
son isvcry favorable, there must be $50 ,000,-
600 bushels less than q full crop. Regarding
cotton, there will be a reduction in the yield
Of cotton from tho Carolinss to Alabama, aud
material increase fron, Missippi to. Texas
Georgia, Florida aud South Carolina have sef.:
f'red most, mainly from the drought, and in a
few localities from the rust, Caterpillar and
n worm. Our cstmutes mako the increase
in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas respective
| ~, ten, twelve and fourteen pcy cent. The
probabilities at present favor q yield Of g.
100000 bales. The wheat crop is large.
The quality in the South is decidedly supcri.
or.
RlcHMoSD, September 2l.--Thcrc was on
extraordinary sceuein the Hastings Court to.
day. George Washington (colorod) was con.
vieted of horscstcaling, and sentedccd to ten
years in the pcnitcntisry. Being asked what
he had to say, he turned to urgc negro au-
diencc in the Court House, and warned them
against Yankccssand carret-Baggcrs who were
the ruin of their ricc'amd Of the State Hc
hoped when he came out, in ten years, to find
the Star Spanglcd Banner waving over Vir.
ginia, the State, governed 10y her own people,
and d,all carpet. baggcrs in the bottom of the
ocean. '"fhe speech created considerable ex.
citemcnt.
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TnE SENATORIAL SEVEN Most Of the
seven republican S n tors who voted against
the impeachment Of Andy Johrson have been
singulnry unfortunate? Henderson, of Mis-.
souri, and Van Winsle, OF West Virginia,
have been superseded and left out in tho cold
Fowler, of Tennessee, will probably be su-
perscdcd by Andy johnson himself ia the
coming Senatorial election in that State; Fes.
seudcn, of Maioc, has gone down to the grave; !;
and Grimes, Of Iowa, mn invalid in Paris. it
nnpoars has rcsgncd. Only Trumhull of
I inois and Ross, of Kansas, remain intact
Of all the bold and independent seven. Such
il tho whirigig of party politics. Whirls
men in and it whirls them out but still the
| world wags on,4-N y UcraM
a SILVER CUp.--The Chamber of Com
mcroeJ Charlsson, offers silver cup of tho
value of $loo as premium for the best ten
bales upland. cotton, as to quality, prcpara,
tion and staple, at the fair to be held in Col
nmbia in November next
Gay" Cotton has been seriously injured by the
late drought. In some fields the leaves seem
to have wltcd and upon shaking the stalk,
forms and even bols will drop Off. The Ca
| t'rpillcr has made its appearance, and is doing