Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-02

The quiet of a month ago has been
succeeded by a reaction that makes
the heart of the patriot glow with Joy
and Georgia will, in her primary
meetings, in unmistakeable tones,
repel the slanders of the Northern
press, which, in various quarters OF
the State, has labored to produce an
impression that the paucity of our
vote was an indication of the public
pulse, as opposed to the Nashville
Convention.
"I'he people of Georgia are fully
up to the ultinatum of the Nashville
Convention; and, unless that is ac-
cepted by the present Congress,
think they will go back to where they
ought to be now. They will insist
on rebuking the fraud perpetrated in
the organization of California; insist
on her being remanded to a Territori-
al condition, and having the mines left
open to the STAKEHOLDER fer reason
able time at least, SO that legitimate
and not fraudulent expression of
opinion can be had on the subject of
slavery in the formation of the Con-
stitution.
"Upon the Texas question there is
but one opinion: her cause is the COM
mon cause of the South, and, when
ever g call is made for volunteers to
sustain the jurisdiction of Texas to
the Rio Grande, they will go from
this State by thousands, and the Gov
ernment will learn that force bills
must be dead letters upon the statute
book--they cannot be carried into
effect"
The Washington correspondent of
the .Journalof Commerce" writes of
the Presidents death:
"New difficulties were at the mo-
ment when he was summoned away
about to beset him. He had deter
mined, as we know, to meet them
boldly and promptly-alI occasion
lor temporlsIng measures having
passed by. How his successor is to
meet these formidable difficulties, re-
mans to be seen. One cannot, at
this dark hour, see ones hand before
him. 1.-THE first has been stormy,
and if the present is clouded, the fu-
ture is inauspicious. In six weeks
from this day the crisis must take
place, and convalescence or disunion
must follow" ~
Col. WEBB IN RoME-CuRIous
PERSECUTION OF a WIFE-ST. Pr
TERs SAVED BY MAJ. CAss.-The
New York Courier and Enquirer
has q letter from Col. Webb, at
Rome, from which we take the fol-
lowing extracts:
"An Englishman of very eccentric
character, has resided several years
at Rome, in the Rossi Palace, noar
the vatican. He is far advanced in
life, and it is the general opinion that
he is deranged. Certainly his con-
duct warrants this belief A few
years ago he married young Ital-
ian lady, of princely rank. Since
their marriage, her life is represented
to have been one scene of misery,
owing to the treatment she has ex-
perienced from her husband. A
week or two since, upon some pre-
text or other, he induced her to ac-
company him into the subterranean
dungeons beneath the Palace, and
immured her in one of the dark,
loathsome cells. For nearly two
days and nights she remained in that
horrible place alone, in complete
darkness, exposed to the disgusting
and noxious reptiles that infest moul-
dering ruins. The servants of the
Palace, after q diligent search, at
length discovered ths place of her
confinement, and Immediately con-
certed measures for her release.
! The British Government, as you
are aware, has no diplomatic rela-
tons with the Holy See. Americans
and EnglisiSaen are very often mdis-
crimihately confounded by the lower
classes Of Rome, and under the inn
preston that Major Cass was rhe
English Minister, two of the SER
wants of the Palace Rossi repaired
to his residence, and implored assis-
tancc for the liberation of their mis-
tress whom they believed to be at the
pointof death, Itwas impossible of,
course, to resist such an appeal, and
Major Cass very properly gave inl-
mediate Information of the circum-
stances to the police authorities. In
less than an hour, the lady, ] under
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