Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-17

1t went INTO operation, and .wo are content.
The South shot,ld.ask for nothing more,
aud take nothing less, without, indeed. she
u bosely reerennt to herself and her poster.
ity.
There is sentencc in =" Junius7 full of
beauty end wisdom. adapted to the present
Crisis" No measures are likely to be sus.
tanned with SO much frnness as those which
are commenced in moderation,o We owe
tins moderation to our allies in the Free
States. Think of the earthquake shout of
that majority of twenty thbusaird freencn
IN the city of New York, ut the last aut,i,n.
nal election, who declared that our in..titu.
tions were not to be invaded, and what we
owe to their gallant leaders, who conducted
the people 10 such gictoryl [ have. ms
entire confidence iu the administration of
Dir. Buchanan as ] have in his spotloss In.
teSrtS and Hue tllents, aud devoted ipyalty
to. the best inserestsof his county but stiil
he and his Cabinet my be oycrfuled and
overrnn by an}incendiary horde bent ON
the ruin of their country. Then the great
issue niustcome up. We have no alterna.
tive. The crisis is Inevitable, and the ca
tdstroplle not to be avartcd.
contributed 10 sItke one revolution
or as Burke said, in rotation to the reyol,.
tiorin England of 1865, IA revolution pre.
vented rather than made. revolution.
which, in despite OF allfalsehood and false
docttiue, resulted Sin thc. e8tablisltmento of
the opening the principles os Free Trade.
trust am not too old to contribute to
thc making of another equally certain and
fur more glorious in its result--tlio en-, uici
patton of the South from the most odious
and detcstibfe of alltyrannies, the despot-
ism of a base and hypoeritieal ftaaticisn,
but J. say OF the Constitution and the TIN,
ion, as they came. from the hands of their
framcrs, -es;o pcrpGtad .s -.
/ hayc the houbr to remain, very rcspcct
fully, your obedient servant,
81 J. HAMILTON.
BtdfFtop, S. G., Oct. Sd, 1857.
WE, have interesting news from China.
Al a council of war, held ut Hong Konr,
it was decided that Canton could be cap
tured biit could not-bc retained. This. mt
least, is the view of militarynlen. though
the naval autherities seem to think other
wise The rebels were advancing ON Can
ton with the intchtion Of attacking it, and
Zen was lnaliiag preparations to receive
them. 1t rs alleged that Lord Elgin has
gone to Calcutta in order to obtain some
native regiments with which he proposes
to carry on the war against China
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DEATH OF Mn. TENABLE The Guatc-
nala correspondent of the New York Ee-
press announces the death Of the Hon. WIN.
II. Yenable. Minister Resident of the Uni
ted States near the Republic of Guatenala,
ON Saturday, the 22d AIr. V. arrived
thcre on tho LIST August, but owing to the
sickness, he had not yet presented his ere.
dcntials. A few days after his arrival he
complained of fatigue, took to his bed, and
continued getting worse, until the night of
the Zlst, when symptoms OF cholera Set in,
and he died as above stated. His rrniains
were conveyed to room adjoining, the
cemetery the same evening. and on Sunday
morning at III O'clock, he was buried in
tho Protestlnt. burial ground of the,city.-
The funeral services of the Episcopal
Church being read ON the occasion by
Charles Lennox Wyke, Esq, II. b. M's.
Charge d dAffairs. Our national flag, and
OF the various nations represented there,
was kept at half mast throughout the lay,
and his remains were followed to the grave
by some of the principal officers of the GOV
ern'nent, the representatives of the various
foreign powers, aud tue only two of his
own couutrymen residing there. 1t may
be some consolation to his family to know
that every thing that medical skill could
effect, and the Kindness of friends suggest,
was done him. He died at the residences
of Henry Savage, Esq, (who has been and
still remains in charge of tho u. S. Lega-
tion,) whose Kindness and attention to him
was unrcinitting throughout.
[CHGrtcstot Standard. ~
A WARNING TO YOU'VE MEN. The
fate of the gifted Haskell of Tennessee.
should be a warning to all young mon. lie !
passed through Louisville last week, inl
charge of friends, ON his way to the Lunatic
Asylum at Lexington, While. on the
Frankfort cars he arose, and in the most
eloquent and pathetic terms appealed to
the gallant Kontuckians, among WHOM he |
was, to protect him from the relentless en-.
emies nc imagined were pursuing him. He |
became SO excited and Siolsnt that his
friends were forced to confine him. Tho
,nafeer of this gifted but unfortunate sot,sof
genius should bo known for the lessons
which ttFfasoboe,. 49, tlEE 4