Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-04-26

was preparing Tor the mines, which would
leave all the towns deserted.
A company has been formed al San
Francisco called the California Stea n
Packet Company, for building an inde-
pendent line of steamships TO run between
That city and Panama, to connect with
the Empire City line on this side. The
sum OF 100000 has been subscribed,
and an gent sent to New York to con-
tract for the building Of four steamships
of 1000 tons burthcn.-P PicayuRe llM.
MEXICAN ERws.-The brig Water
Witch left Vera Cruz on the 5ih inst,
and arrived at this port yesterday morn
ing. Wc are indebted to her poll tc and
gentlemanly commander. Capt. Brown,
for files Of Mexican papers, running up to
the date of her departure.
The fedc.al congress was in session in
the city of Mexico. The rg4nizaiion
of the army--of the military tribunals
the planting of colonies on the northern
frontier--were engrossing the attention
of Congress. A project for building
railroad from Vera Cruz through the city
of Mexico to San Juan, on the Pacific, had
been adopted The Mexican journals
predict, confidently, its speedy terTnina-
lion. Capitalists, and property holders
in the capital. and in the states of Mexico
and Vera Cruz. are disposed to make lib
eral advances for the furtherance of the
enterpraze.
The city of Mexico was tranquil. and
pronunciamento- -mongers, seemed dispos-
ed TO allow the republic some EePese,
through the summer, at least. The mon
archical party alone, continue to wage
+ fierce newspaper war against the present
administration. Herrera being Just now.
the main poin. of attack 1t is curious
fact. that this hypocHtical gentry have
assumed the name of "the law and order
party the name under which, now-a-
days, traitors, towards. rascals and muir
dercrs, as well in Mexico, in France, in
Italy, and in Austria, perpctrate their
nisdeeds
The cholera prevailed extensively in
the states ofZacatecas, New Leon, Mich
oacan, and in other parts of the republic
/ There had been from thirteen to nineteen
cases day in the city o. Zacatecas. du-
! ring the past month. Tanhuato and the
Hacienda of Soledad, in Michoacan, were
severely scourged by the fearful plague,
six cases in seven proving fatal.
| The Indian war in Yucatan was draw
| ing to close; the Indians had been wors-
ted in several engagements. Not so in
Sonora and chihuahua. The unprotec-
ted inhabitants ofthese States arc contin-
ually harrassed by the savage hordes
which, from Texas, New Mexico, and
California, overrun their country, destroy
or carry away their property, murder
their woman and old men, and lead their
children into captivity Our government
is under solemn treaty obligations--be
sides the obligations of humanity and
good neighborhood---to restrain these
hellish fiends. 1t is time that something
should be done to redeem the faith of the
Nation, pledged in the treaty of Guada-
loupe. The little that has been done is
a mere mockery keeping the word of
promise to the ear and breaking tito the
hope. The use of infantry for such
service, far from being u check upon the
Indians, encourages them by its inefci
ency.
line Legislature OF Sonora, ior the
protection oftheir constituents, have es-
tablished Guerrilla corps and offered re.
wards for the heads of those savage rob-
bers and murderers. The Legislature of
chihuahua did likewise. But it appears
that the Chiefs of those Ouerrillas-
among the number an Americsn by the
name of John Glanton---h have made
themselves a fearful name for murder,
rape and rapine. as any of the Canaan
che or Apache chiefs, whom they Under
took to destroy Who will now take
the reward for the head of John Glanton
Smuggling over the northern frontier,
is on the increase. The revenue from
custom is dwindling down to nothing
not enough to pay for the expenses Of
collection. The Governor of New Leon,
in communication to the Minister of
Finance. assigns among other reasons for
this decline ci the receipts Of the customs,
the participation Of the collecting officers
in the business of smuggling carried on
by the people on the Ameiacan side Of
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