Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-15

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Gentlemen: re urn you my sin
cere thanks for the nauering manner
In which, you were pleased to speak
OF ny official conduct
When trst took this chair, | ven
tured TO offer you the pledge of AN
honest effort, firmly faithfully and inn,
partially TO discharge It's duties.
have endeayored in good faith to re-
deem that pledge And now, as ]
retire from that char, | feel uncon
scious of ever having done intention
al injustice TO any member of this
House.
1T remains for me, gentlemen, to
perform my last official duty, by de-
clarng that this House stands adj
jouned sne die.
There was loud applause, and the
members shortly afterwards retired
from the hall.
Among the bills lost are the French
SpOIlat. N, the river and harbor. and
the Iortification bills, making appro-
priatons TO the extent of more than
$4,000 000.
The President ofthe United States
has called an extra session ofthc
Senate, owing TO the amount and i'm
portaoce of the unfinished business.
MIR. VIM. Easily has been nomina-
ted by the President as commission
er of public buildings in the place Of
Ignatus Mudd, deceased.
II is rumorcd that Mr.. Thomas
EWbank, commissioners OF Patents,
has heen removed, and thai Edward
Curtis Of New York has been nomi-
mated TO the Senate for that office.
The President and the members of
the cabinet renamed all night at the
capitol, in the Vice President room.
The former was there to sign bills
presented for his signature.
UNCLE SANS BALANCE SHEET
The u. S. Treasurer statement
shows the net amount subject to his
draft in the different repositories, &c,
TO the 9th uIt., TO have been $I2,-
lO9,564 80. OF this there was at
Washington $IS0,34S 4S Boston,
$l,436,34i %; New York, $3,4lO,-
l3l 40; Philadelphia, $IG7, 500 SIS /;
Charleston, 22l ,997 90; New Orleans
$I34,5I6 50; ST. Louis, $I9G,693 rs;
Baltimore, $20,507 I3 Richmond,
$i5.G03 37; Norfolk, $4,000 5S; mint.
Philadelphia, $4,7II,l50; branch mint.
New Orleans. $620000 Transfers
ordered TO Treasury u. S., Washing
ton, ID. c., 100000.
The debt of the United States. in
cIudlng the stock of Texas, is rac-
ton over $74,0O0000; oflhis amount
six and half millions are payable IN
1853, five millions in Sc, eight mil
lions in 63, ten millions in '65. and
torty-three millions in G8. The a.
mount OF interest TO be paid between
1851 and 1868 will be nearly sixty
millions of dollars Of this $4,000
600 is due in 1851, The amount regu-
larly decreases unit lSGT,When So,
$4,000 has 10 be paN.
n Revolutionary "Reminiscences
Ii stlrs one blood, in these latter
days, 10 read the speeches or the re-
cords OF the actions Of those who
lived in the days oC the Revolution.
When the news Of the fall of III
conderoga, reached the capital of
New Hampshire, John Langdon,
who was Speaker Of the Provincial
Legislature, seeing the public credit
exhausted, and his friends discour-
aged, rose and SAID:
Il have $1,000 Hard money, | will
lpledgc my plate for $1,000 more.
have seventy hogsheads of Tobago
rum, which shall be sold for the high
est II will bring, These are at the
service ofthe State. ii we succeed
IN defending our fifesides and homes,
1 may he remnnerated. five do not,
the property wiIlbe Of no value Our
old friend Starke, who so nobly main
tanned the honor ofour State at Bun
ker Hill, may safely be entrusted
with the conduct OF the enterprise,
and will check the progress Of Bur-
goyue."
Thosewere the days ofpatriotisml
The offer was accepted, the money
paid, the plate hypotnecated. and the
ruin converted into cast. A corps
Of monntaineers was soon raised and
placed under the command ofStarke.
When he came in sight of the enemy
at Bennington, he said-'Boys, there
are the red coats.AWe must beat
them or this night Molly Starke will
The n vviloul' Ea did ba.f No.,