Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-11-10
WAsnrHoros, Oct %.

lic system Ol pOicY as u removals,
which foreshadowoi in a reccnt letter.
| They are now removing thdrcstiges of
democracy from the burcaux. Mr. Wal
ter Forward, a very able and cStimablc
man, takes the place of Mr. r. II. Gil
lett The Cabinet, as am Informed,
! have determined to remove Mr.. Wash
ington, the fifth Auditor and Mr.. Hob
bic, the Assistant Post Master General.
Subordinates will follow their chiefs.
Thcaxc which has heretofore chopped off
few limbs is to bc laid to the roo of the
tree. 1t seems to be the opinion of the
members of the administration that, if
they have nothing TO gain, by appointing
their friends, they have, Mt least, nothing
to lose by it. After all, it would seem
that the French government has no idea
of abandoning their recamntons in the
Pot and Eugene cases, They disavow
nothing but some unsuitable language of
NJ Poussin, and have taken care to put
on diplomatic record, the marked express.
sion Of its opinion, that our government
was specially at fault with him. The let.
ter of NJ. de Tocqucvilc, let it be rccol-
lcctcd, has not been disayowcd nor .ecul-
led
The controversy, when it shall be re-
rivcd, will commence where it was bro
ken off, at points, where moderation and.
torhcaance will be required OF both sides
.Co'rc$p, BALI. ,Sun.
The IPhite Population of .SouM Caro-
Nno. Mr>srs. Editors: 1t appears that
the following districts and pariShcs have
gained in the last ten years, according to
the late GENUS: and to Darlington we
must yield the palm when we consider its
rcmoteneSs from the seaboaid:
The Pa,iShc of ST. Philips and St.
Michaers gain is 3211
Darlington District 1851
Pendleton District 1890
The total increase of white inhabitants
during this period is 23,oGO, at the rate
of 1926 each year-not so bad for one of
the old thirteen States The least in
crease is in ST. Andrews parish, twenty
nine
The great loss in population has hccn
il the following Districts. land Fairfield
has mndc clear field of inhabitants. viz:
fni fields loss 1888
Union do s37
Abbeville do 800
Georgetown do 5O4
The least loss has been in York Dis
trict thirteen, ,--- Char Courier.
BENToN.--It is said by paper pub
lished in Missouri that Mr.. Benton will
retire to private life, for several potent
reasons, which are compressed into brevi-
ty rs follows.
Ninety prominent members of the
Legislature, from ffercnt sections of the
State, have avowed themselves openly
against him.
Ofthe Judges, numbering twenty in
all. sixteen have committed Themselves
against Benton, and not one has yet pro-
nounced . him.
Of the Congressional delegation three
are deadly against him--his colleague and
two representatives. One representative
has espoused his cause, and two are as
yet on the non committal PLATFORM
Ofthe Democratic press, ten papers
are against him, six for him, and two neu-
tral.
A great majority of the county meet
ings which have been held have gone
against him decisively.
Mr.. Benton is not likely, moralzes the
Metropolitan, to get a mai mity in any
one county in the State.
Misunderstanding to an article in
the Winchester Virginian, the "Old Do
minion" is waking up from her lcthargv.
On the southwest the Lynchburg and
Tennessee Railroad is. to considerable
extent, under contract. In the centre.
the James river and Kanawha Canal will
speedily he opened to Buchanan. The