Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-02-23

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THE QUESTION At WASHINGTON.
We clip the following extracts from the
Washington correspondence of the Penn
sylvanian:
The course of the Government in this
most critical juncture, is worse than tri-
fling and demagogucish. tits comical in
the highest degree. Never have we had,
in mo.ern times, q moro forcible exhibi-
ton of the policy of Nero -fddling while
Rome was burning than on this occa-
sion, when, in the hope that non commit
tallsm may lead to continuance of pow
or in their hands, the Cabinet of the Sc
cond Washington see fit to play out their
game Of hide and seek as thou, ,sh not
aware that under their feet there is mine
ready to explode, destroying their charge
IN It's explosion, which they, of all others,
can best and soonest render, harmless.
feel assured, from what / learn, that
Mr.. Clay looks upon the present crisis
as just such another as the South Caro-
lima notification affair. Poor old man!
his eyes are growing dim, or he has SO
long and so ardently courted the North,
(without avaiD that he is unable to see
clearly in any issue between the two
great sections of the confederacy. For
getting that the legislatures of five slave
holding States, (not of one as in the case
of the notification matter) have deliber-
atcly taken measures indicative of deter
animation to stand by the proposed Nash
vile Convention, and its rccommenda-
tions, and then it is morally sure that
with the probable exception of Delaware,
and the barely possible exception Of Ken
tucky, the legislatures of all the rest of
the Southern States will do likewise, he
talks grayely to his friends, understand,
about the necessity that may arise for the
blockade of the ports of the South, one
and all, by the United States Navy; the
ships of which, be it remembered, are
more than half officered by Southern
men, while those from the North in high
places of the naval service, have, with
few exceptions, become in notions, hab-
its, principles and sympathies, Southern
rather than Northern men.
One hundred and sixteen thousand CO.
pies of the speech of Mr.. CIingman have
already been subscribed for by Southern
members, for the most part, for distribu-
ton among their respective constituents.
mention the fact, only because it en-
braces an illustration of the earnestness
with which they have adopted their pres
ent purpose of leaving no stone unturned
70 bring the people of the South one and
all to sustain their position. AS orders
arc still going into the Globe office freely
forit, the probability is, that another
fortnight a second edition equally as large
will be scattered over the country.
4 hear that it is the purpose of the
South to move for a select committee on
the Union, know not what this means,
unless it be 10 report on the power and
duties of the general government, in case
the Southern States takes measures for a
peaceable secession from the Union. Mr..
Clay's g reported conversations about the
probability that the second Washington
may have to order the american Navy to
blockade TIE ports of the South and the
seconds illusions in the message to the
necessity for maintaining the Union at all
hazards, have created, among the South
erii members, the impression that these
two distinguished individuals deny Il the
right of a combination of the States of
the Union the secede at will, and threat
ento compel them by force of arms to
remain under the shadow OF the Consli-
tuition of the u. s., after they may Judge
that its substance IS ars1ong jhings which
have been If this co.nmittee be raised,
it will doubtless take occasion to inquire
of the Executive what he means by his
allusion to which / refer. a'
Memphis Branch Rail Ieoed. The
Tome Bulletin says, che profits Of this
road forthe year ending Jan. 1st, we are
pleased to learn, are III 34 per cent.
A dividend of 8 per cent has been de-