Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-08-20
State Items.


sAsg State Items,
Thos. Williamson, a colored mar, has been
appointed Postmaster at Abbeyille @. II.
The "Kiugstreo star" announces open
bolls of cotton last week.
Phif. Eichelborger, of Edgeicld, in aletter
to the Phoenix" says the report that.he was
whipped with two hundred lashes since tho
war, for cowardice on the battlefield, is false.
Mr.. Leslie, the Land Commissioners, an.
%nouuces, through the "Phenix,1 that his
Office is now organized for business. He pro.
poses to buy only frst,class lands, and OF min.
imum prices, and invites competition from all
quarters. Mr.. L. can buy oil Oconee Coun-
ty, we opine, ut fifty peroont. below tho Gao.
tual value" Of the lands as assessed for tax ~
ton.
The University of South Carolina still lives,
says the Columbia correspondent of the can.
derson Intelligencer." So did Rip Van Win.
kle, though unknown and unattended. We
wish the Institution we'll.
All the lands and fixtures belonging to the
Kings Mountain Iron Company are to be
sold on saleday in September.
The "~Orangeburg News" says: eve
understand that arrangements are being made
to publish a Republican paper in Collector,
also at Edgefold G. II. We also learn that
the "South Carolina Republican" will soon
be issued from Columbia, and daily Rcpub-
lioan paper started in Charleston. Verify, we
are going to be enlightened upon Republican
ism"
The " Charleston News" says: "The car.
pet-bag wing of the Radical party, it is re.
ported, propose to run Congressman G. G.
Bowen for Governor Attorney General D.
Fl. Chamberlain for Lieutenant-G overnor,
and Judge r. b. Carpenter for the Supreme
Bench. If Bowen be elected. he will then be
made U. s. Senator, and Chamberlain will
become Governor. "Man proposes" &c.
Tho entire contract for building the Port
Royal Railroad has been let out to a Mr.. Elan
negan, at the North, for two millions and a
half dollars. The work will begin at once,
and the contractor hopes to finish I, whole
road by January, 1871.
The "Sumter Watchmau," Of the 18th
instant, states that a few days ago a young
man calling himself Louis Henry G%oodwynn,
passed through Sumter, en- route to his home
in Madison County, Miss, from Johnson's
Island, Lake Eric. lie had been wounded
and captured in Morgan's raid into Ohio, and
taken to that prison, where he remained until
December last, when he was taken to New
York and kindly attended by one Col. Sin.
gleton, who procured him transportation as
far as Charlotte. NC. lie stated, says the
"Watchman," that there were at Johnson's
Island, when he left that place, some eighty
six Confederate soldiers, who had not been
home or heard from their friends since the
war. That five Of these were from South
Carolina, and he gave their names as follows:
Major Mobley, Of fairfield, about 32 years
Of age, fair complexion, s feet 8 inches or 6
feet high. Lieut.. Simmons, Of Fairfield,
Capt. Zeigler and Lieutenant Easterling, Of
Orangoburg, and Lieutenant r. w. Boyd, of
York. He begged that these names should
be published, that their friends might learn Of
their whereabouts and that they were alive.
The Marion Crescent" has been enlarged
and fitted out in a new dress. It's energetic
Proprietor says eff my business shall pros.
per hereafter as it has done in the past year,
| propose to purcbpsea Power Press and en-.
large the Crescent again" We wish this
valuable exchange all the prosperity its merit
us a first class journal should bring.
Homicides in the State.
On Monday the 9th, says the "Charleston