Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-11
CANADA.

! nCaNfAlffAs
The hasty efforts to annex Canada by
the North expose tbem to calling fire
from the Canada side and on no ono
does it fall more heavily than on Gen.
Scott for his late latter ON that subject.
The Hamilton Journal and Express thus
shows the hand he holds:
1--WE subjoin letter from General
Scott, on the annexation of British North
America to the States, The General
must be poking fun at the American vo-
ters, with view of catching them at the
next Presidential election. It is impossi-
BILE that he can be SO ignorant as to sup
pose Great Britain will part with any por-
ton of her territory to enrich foreign
State. The boundary disturbances arc
sufficient to show her disposition i'll this
matter. AS for compulsory annexation,
we cannot for a moment believe such an
idea could enter into the brain Of any sane
man. The Montreal tory writer's to the
New York papers may lead some Of the
Americans to believe that annexation is
seriously entertained by considerable
portion of the community. Such, how:
ever, is not the fact. The people, with
but few exceptions, arc perfectly satisfied
with the connexion which at present ex-
lists. Their patriotism Is quite equal to
maintain the conneSion were it attempted
to be severed. No other country in the
world possesses more genuine liberty.
The increased facilities for trade, which
will be in full force next year, will bring
that prosperity which will no longer ir-
duce the grumbler to weigh his loyalty
and honor against dollars and cents. Can
ada is destined to be the most prosperous
portion of North America, Her great
capabilities and boundless resources will
shortly be brought out, and the ST. Law-
renee will be the great thoroughfare of
the world. 1t will be seen that the GEN
eral has not paid much attention to our
politics, or he would know that the news
from the Parliament of Great Britain has
given 'discontent' only to the tories--a
mere faction of the people; whilst to tho
reformers, the government party, and
consisting of full three7fourths of the elcp-
tors, the news has given the most unquall-
| fled satisfaction" 4a
NORTHERN MOVEMENTS, Tho New
York Herald closes some comments on
the late letter of General Csss as follows:
Gin short the political men of the free
States, In order to accomplish partial tri-
umphs in their several localities, are stim-
ulating, exciting, and rousing up the anti
slavery feeling among all ranks apd all
classes in this republic---a feeling and a
movement, which will ultimately crush.
destroy and annihilate the Southern
States, throwing them into the same con,
dition as that which now desolates the
British West Indies, or orimsons the beau
tiful region of Hayti, a'he public mind
in this part of the country is losing its
practical character, and becoming moro
and more fanatical every day on the sub
4 ject Of slavery and the social Institutions
| Of the South. Unprincipled, ambitious,
reckless, mercenary, and grasping men,
In order to accomplish their local pur-
poses, are driving onward in this career,
and all those moderate fcounsels and prac-
tical compromises, and wise forbearances,
which marked the history and character
of the great men of the revolution, and
the statesmen who immediately succeeded
them. are now being 6 er to the winds,
and O new code of political fanaticism is
about TO be issued, that will end in no
thing but, as we have said before, the
desolation and destruction Of the South.
f'he name and last writings Of Thomas
Jefferson are pressed into this service,
and everything reveals new step in ad-
vance of the question"
\ BoMBARDINa BY BAILooNse-1-It seems
to be the serious intention Of the Govern
ment Of Austria to try the effect Of tho
serial warfare upon the rebellious e,sies of
the empire. Experiments are being made
TO test the practicability Of bombarding
towns from the air. and the balloon prac-
!, tice Is said to answer perfectly Some
hundred balloons are already in process
Of completion. They are made capable
OF holding sixty pound bombs, which
win fall from 6 prodigious height, This
novel species of attack win first be bro't
J ) INTO operation over Venice. Ifsrceessful
tese the fortresses of Gomorn and Pc.