Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-05-18
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two o'clock; and the people gradually
passed round the Government House, as
on Fridayand Saturday. In the mean
time numerous bodies of h Jops were sta
toned in places near the Government
House. But the people continued to as
semble and the streets presented an ap-
pearance much more thronged than on
the preceding days.
. Presently the carriage appeared, and
Its appearance was the signal for pro-
longed yell and groan from the assembled
multitude. AS his Excellency passed
the Guard House, some persons standing
IN the gateway, which goes to the Camp.
de Mars. continued, during the whole
time he was passing, to throw eggs into
his carriage. %
The members deputed to convey the
sense of the House to his Exceilency.
presented the addrest of the majority Of
what are called the representative of the
Sovereign.
His Esxcellency = replied as follows:
My confidence in the good sense, mod
Grafton, and loyalty of the body of the
people IS however, in no degree shaken
by what has occurred.
1t satisfactory to me to receive the
assurance that the course of Justice and
iImpartiality which l have followed, in the
discharge Of the functions Of my high
office meets your approval. That course
is prescribed to me by my duty to my
Sovereign and to the inhabitants of the
Province. A free people can hardly fail
to discover in the faithful observance of
all constitutional guarantees, the best Sc
curity for the preservation Of their rights
and liberties.
No efforts will be wanting on my part
TO secure the preservation of the peace of
the city, and | sincerely trust that by the
exertions of the Legislature and Execu-
tive authorities, and the cooperation of
all the friends of order, this object NAV
be accomplished.
The people wait the egrcss of the Gov
ernor General. Instead of returninq
through Notrc Dame street to the Place
d'Armes, the carriage proceeded in the
other direction, and was travelling at the
most rapid pace towords Sherbrooke
street.
Some of the persons who had been
standing about Gosford street, were of
course aware OF what was going on, and
these followed the carriage as speedily as
possible. Others took cabs, calecbes,
every thing that would run-it was n
chase. AT length His Lordship was ov-
ertakcn at Mr. Molson's corner, between
Sherbrooke street and the Main street Of
the st. Lawrence suburas.
at this point furious attack was made
with stones on the carriage; the back Of
it was completely smashed in; and its
course, which appeared at first, to be
directed by way of Sherbrooke street.
was changed to the road which goes
round the back of the mountain. In this
sad manner did his Lordship depart YES.
terday, from the capital of Her Britannia
Majesty's possessions in North America.
In addition to the foregoing particulars,
we learn that the Governor General, in
coming to town, was pclted from the end
of Great st. James Street, and that on
entering the Government House, he car
ried in his hand large stone taken from
the bottom Of the carriage, and that Col
onel Bruce received confusion in the
back part of the head by stones thrown
into the carriage.
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FRANCE.
Much sensation was excited in Paris ~,
Sunday, and continued the whole of the
day, in consequence Of some person or
persons having the night previous cut
down the tree of liberty in the Place de
la Croix Rouge, where six streets meet.
The tfeessyas completely sawn through at
the root, and lay on the ground. The
police made the most active exertions to
discover the person who did the act, but
u vain. The only reparation that could
be made under the circumstances was
made, namely, the planting of another
tree, by order of the mayor, on the same
spot, and decorating it with imrnortelles
and tri-colored ribands information was
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