Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-12-19

tion, to us, has far more significant bear.
ing May it not be an omen of higher
and prouder destiny for our gallant neigh
bor--her gradual abandonment of that OBJ
stinatc exclusiyeness that has sayored, so
strongly of vanity and weakness in the eyes
of tue world, aud that has kept her aioof
from the. great race of national progress and
glory. We trust so. While her position
has been gallant and high-toned, there has
been . lack of thut wise moderation and
practical utihtariapism, that are necessary
to enforce the teachings of her doctrines
and example. She has kept ina region too
sublime for this common sense, lnatter.of-
fact age of the world, and we hail with JOY
the slightest appearance of an indication I
that she is to come down from her lofty
estate. ,,s
Gen. Hammond at one time acted con-
spicuous part in the politics of his State
but, VIC believe, has at no time been regard
ed as affiliated with the prevailing ultraism
of her people. He is conservative, and
while true and dauntless friend to South
Carolina, he has also patriotism that en-
braces in its grasp the whole Union. He
has superior mental requirements and tal-
cnts Of very high order, and both are \
destined to shine in the new armament to
which they have Just been tronsplanted.
[Soronnah Ptpubttcan.
Tue Washington Union, in recent ar.
ticleunon tho action of the Kansas Conr 4
stitutiona Convention, has compressed the 4
whole merits of the controversy into fcw
brief and teiicitonsly expressed sentences.
1t says:
In the absence Of any restriction in an
enabling act of Congress, the people of Kan.
sas have as clear a right to decide whether
their Constitution should be submitted for
popular ratification, in whole or in part, as
they bavc to decide whether slavery shallI
or shall not exist. They can only settle
this question: however by the legal deeis.
ion ofthe people. Ifihe late Convention
was a legal body, and its action within the
scope of its legal power, tits clear infrac-
tion of the doctrine of non.interyen,ion TO
attempt to defeat the legally expressed will
of the people, upon the assumption that the
whole Constitution ought to have been sub
miIted. The Kansas act declares that the
people of Kansas have full tightto decide
that ques ion. They have decided ii bythe
action of a legal Convention, aud the ad
mnistration, in recognizing that action, is
faithfully carrying out the spirit and letter
of the Kansas act" 5Es>
New YonK, Dec. f--Tle Cahawba has
arrived from Havana The wife OF Gener-
al Santa Anna had reached Cuba from ST.
Thomas.
-Four cargoes of negroes had arrived on
the Island within ten days numbering in
all ten thousand four hundred souls. IL
was believed that three of the vessels be.
lopgea 10 tho slave-loying State Of Massa
chusetts -s,.
TERRIBLE SCENE IN a THEATRE. a wri,
ter from Europe gives, the following des-
cription ofthe scene at atLeghorn, where in
an agony OF causeless alarm, one hundred
men of a crowd, were tramped to death,
and five hundred wounded --S,'-.
"The house was crowded--tho. play.
The Taking of SebastopoL" The first acts
went off well ]; battery after battery explo.
ded, and The thrilling spectacle made the
theatre ring with applause: All eyes were
turned to see them take the Malakotf. At
last twas stormed. The soldiers rushed
| lin--then the explosion amid the widest
cheers. At that moment spark caught
the scenes they blazed4r-the audience
thought it part Of the play, and cheerod
the louder, the scene was so natural. Alas,
it was too perfect. Another moment they
saw their mistake a cry. of misery drown.
ed the applause, Higher and higher3il
rose, maddcnipg tho spectators with fright.
Five minutes more and the fire was exfin.
guished, but the spectators, like q herd Of
buffaloes, like a papic-s,rieken army, like
n flock of sheep before wolves, like passen.
gers from q sinking ship, losing all thought
but of self-presefvaIion, rushed from their
seats. The. sbtieks of women, the shrill
cry of children, the hoarse voices of men,
all struggling for life, presented q scene not
1 describable. Some threw themselves from
the boxes into the pit, killing themselves
and crushing those beneath them. No
judgment--no forethought, outgof tile win
dowe---over the lodges stamping each
other to death. The scntnels W.. ! order.
ed 10 stopthe passage with bayoncts. They
planted, and those in the front ranks were
ran through and through, and theSsoldiers
with the rest, were mutilated with the feet
of hundreds. $500 y f.gs ~. rl
F. SENATOR HAMMoEp.--Goe Hammond,
the newly elected Senator from South Car
olina, has oDeof the largest landed estates
Of sbe SSo1sh, bis Farm farm" coaipsisigg over
1900 acres, and he may set ( Wn with
propriety asa representative mar ot South
Carolina. LIE was class mate Of William