Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-11-10
From tie Triniclnd Standard.

From tie TriniclaM Standard
DLsoRAcErUL Rtor-.rnH MILITARY
CALLED OUr-Loss OF LIFE 1t is our
duty to record to-day an event wholly un-
parallced i'll our peaceful annals. Law
and order have been, for the last two
days, in aboyance. The Government
House has been pelted by mob; its win
dows broken; and stones and brickbats
hurled at the Council while in the dis
charge of its Legislative duty. The pol
ice, in cxerting themselves to maintain or
dor. have been stoned, cruelty beaten, and
overpowered, so as to necessitate the cal
ling out of military. The military have
been also stoned, and forced to fire in
self defence. Two deaths and one or two
gm-shot wounds, have been the conse-
qucncc.
The Government buildings have been
converted into a temporary barrack, and
tthis moments occupied by the 8sth, by
the company of the I'd West India regi-
ment stationed here by the Artillery De-
tachment and by the men of Her Males
tv sloop of war Scorpion, now in harbor
Upwards of 800 special constibles have
been sworn i'll, and volunteer horse
patrol formed, at least seventy strong.
On the other hand tho mob, finding the
force in town too strong for them, have
son! off a portion of their number to the
eastward, to bnrn and lay waste the sugar
estates in that direction The Mogass-
houses cf Dinsley, Macoya, and El Dora
do estates have already been fired, and
burnea to the ground.
Such is the state of things at the mo-
ment we write The immediate and os-
tcnsiblc object originally brought forward
as the cause of the outbreak, was the reg
ulations recently passed for the Govern
ment of the royal Jail of the port of Spain,
which regulations, among other thin Is,
provided that debtors committed under
the petty civil courts ordinance; should
have their hair cropped close, and wear a
prison dress, and be liable to be called up
on by the jailcr to assist in any work go
ing on ihthe Jail
Itis evident that amongst the mob were
large number of ill-disposed persons
principally St. Kits and Antigua immi-
grants-anXious for both plunder and mas
sacre. The most revolving threats were
also urged against the white inhabitants as
body, by some parties speaking creole
French, and reported to be Martinique
immigrants; butthese parties, seeing now
distinctly that the natives of the colony
who had taken part in the earlier portion
of the days proceedings, withdrew them
selves from the subsequent outrages, had
haGno desire to carry their opposition to
the Government any farther, can no ion-
ger have any hope ofindulging in the ul-
timate objects with which, no uoubt, thew
joined the multitude, and sought to lead
them onto more outrageous behavior.
FEELING III CANADA.,--The following,
froma Toronto paper speaks feelingly
on the subject of annexation. Much al
lowance may be made. for the excited
condition of the .intemal politics of the
country. The paper quoted from is a
Tory organ Caroltnian. 4ig vto RID
"We could almost think we dream,
when we write the undeniable fact that
thereis no Brit party in Lower Cana.
da! Do our readers doubt this 2 let
them read carefully through our paper
to-day, and the damning evidence VIII
buttoo truly show how utterly departed
seems to be all that loyalty and enthusi-
asmswhieh was wont to ldndle at the
mention of the words tRngiand' and
Fhome,' from the breasts Of those who
would once have cheerfuily encountered
all the terrors of invasion, civil war and
bloodshs; rather than barter away one
jot or tittie.of their well-tried fcalty. ~