Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-11-09
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pnia lt2uBef SldleS .lDat VldfluI, VINO
was one of the Opera company re-
Gently in this country, now in Hava-
ma, was not permitted to use the
word 'libertad in the famous duett in
II Puritani. An officer had strict or
ders 10 seize and imprison hlm ifhe
used the word and ali who applaud
edthiin. 'fhe word loyalty was sub
sti,uted. Marini, about a year ago,
was sent 10 prison becausehe used
the word slibertad' after it had been
forbidden. Every body who heard
the Opera in Philadelphia, says the
Ledger, must remember the effect
produced by the sunorous voice OF
Marini, and the enthusiastic iervoii
with which he Sings this fine piece.
CoTToN AND ToBACoo.-There is
every prospect that these two great
Southern staple Will fall uncommon
.y'short this year. With regard to
the latter, as far as we can hear, we
suspectthefe is little doubt that such
will be the fact, and that the high
prices now gwen, will continue with
out material abatement for a long
time 10 come. {9ft .Ttt
The New Orleans Picayune has
extracts from various Texas and
Louisiana papers, :,il tending TO show
the shortness Of The cotton crop i'm
the regions they represent, The
Drought seems TO have extended
throughout Tho length and breadth
of the land, SO as 10 alfectit in very
great degree. Notwithstanding, a
gentleman, who had been a cotton
planter in Louisiana for a number of
years, the other day expressed to us
his opinion that tho crop would not
be found, when gathered in, 10 Eal
mtieh below the general average.
The reason he gaveAt was This: there
IS always more cotton plauied than
nbe gathered in ordinary years.
1heamount offorce can, in any wear
only gather a certain qaun,iiy. Now
the weather has becn'so very fine for
picking that il is probable, although
the as much may not be made, as
much will be secured, as in the bet
better growing years. This reason
ing seems TO be sound, but we bro
fess not TO know any thing of'ihe
matter. q oiti9 hsl3f p 9.f7 sii} R
1i'a .s"7 [Richinond Dispatch.
'3 l03H(9ia9 Gl DGf . d'sn9' 70
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION in
INDIANA.-This convention has adop-
ted a proposition for Biennial Sc ssions.
A proposition is also pending TO pre-
vent the emigration of free negroes
in'othe State, 1t is urged that3the
laws of Kentucky and o,her slave
States tend TO drive the free negroes
into thefree States; and that lin ord r
10 guard Indiana from a,"mixed pop.
ulation," (which is called one of the
evils of slavery, such a proh;bitory
law is ,eXpedient. The, State Journal
says that there VIII probably be no
separate submission Of the regro
question 10 the people. and very few
mem ers favor its Incorporation in
the constitutions. FltF
An important question has been
raised in the Northern prints bv
those who are favorable TO the exc
cution Of the fugitive slave act. 1t
hds been contended that the issue of
absconded slaves born IN those por
llons of the Union INTO which they
have fled, are not to be classed with
their parents as fug:tives from labor.
This is an attempt to withdraw ihe
question ef recovery of runaway
slaves from its true character as one
of property, and place it in false
category as oneof personal right
The law of property in the South with
regard to slaves must determine this
question, That law makes the issue
OF 81 YES by the mother side the
property of the owner Of The parent.
The status of the slave, where held
as property, must regulate the con-
istructlon of an act passed 10 carry
out provision Of the constitution i'm.
tended to protect the rights Of prop
erty in slaves, If slavery is an insii-
tuition governed by local law, all the
incidents and consequences which at
tach TO il by that law come of force
by necessary implication. Whaley-
er Is the law where slaves are held
with regard tytheir issue must from
the rule of Interpretation for statute
OF congress, designed TO secure the
owner in his rights, precisely as such
a rule would gouern the courts Of the
State from which the slave had fed.