Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-21

"'''i'N yoV iieiFc III III NleW 10 nhnS n good
many of your darn't Wings, and had it in
mind to say to you hat that was not the
way to succeed with these peoplc--besidcs
nothing is more uncertain than the fate of
battles, and your Lordship and your brave
men may change places with the Wings
now condemned to die. My son John is
one of the damndcst Wings in the colony,
and if your Lordship goes on to hang, and
you should afterwards fall into Johns
hands, he would hang up your Lordship
like dog" Johnny's speech had its pos
siblc effect, for nobody was hung, no prop
crty Plundcred or destroyed. 1t would not
be worth while to speak of the spirited at
tack made by part of Sumter's force on
the British post at Rocky Mount. Turn
bull i'll command of that post, with British
and Tories, made out to maintain his posi-
tion with inconsidcrable loss. The hone
OF the attack consisted in firing stack of
hay and communicating the flames to the
Fort; but the unruly wind blew the wrong
way, And how often in life do we find
that We fail because the wind is pervcrse
and intractablc. James Johnston, com
monty known as Adjutant Johnston, was
the Whig hero on this occasion He wore
the blade which graccd the side of his
grand father at the siege of Derry.
After the defeat of the British at Black
stock, and it was incontestible in its com
pletcness, the wreck of the British troops
engaged in that fight dropped down to Mrs,
Dansby' near Broad river. The poor old
widow was forthwith ordered out of the
dwelling with her children. She refused
to go; force was threatened. She bid de-
fiance to force. "I will not say what /
am but you say | am British subicct--and
If so have the right of a British subject
until am legally diyested by the verdict
of jury. If you must have shelter, go
take the kitchen, and make the most of it."
They took her at her word---and British
officers, scented, clad and trimmed off with
gold lace and decorated with gold epau-
lcttes, were glad to find an asylum in poor
old Martha Dansby's kitchen Such is the
indomitablo resolution exertod in the right
spirit and in good cause. Many of the
British officers aud British soldiers wound
ed at Blackstocks, died here Among the
rest and chiefcst in all chat constituted the
man and tho hero, was Major Morny. He
was connected with some of the highest
names in old England, and distinguished
for scholarship, kind heartedness and gal
lantry, The day he was removed from the
kitchen to another world, the pewter on the
shelf ratified with the excess of his convul-
siYe agonfes, and he cried out often, "comc
on boys, we value none of them but Tom
Sumter and Will Washington"
Major Morny is particularly mentioned,
because, strange to say, his English friends
were never apprized of his fate, and not
thirty years ago inquiries were made after.
him. He sleeps on the hilltop where he
brcathcd his last, and the winds have long
since whispered his requiem,
Besides contributing many brave men to
the regiment of Rangers, afterwards to
sumter and Marion, Fairfield sustained the
great cause with noble spirit in many
other respects III at.o b5ba Is 1'fa,i
After the drawn battle of Hobkirk's
Hill, which tho British claimed as n great
victory, but which, by the by, they had no
power to improve, Green passed over the
Wateree at Graves Ford and encamped
onthc banks of Sawney's Creek. His Wig
! 'l,tatadsersary, Rawdon, crossed the Wa
teree az Camden, and marching up en-
campcd ON the south side of that stream.
The creek was, not large b4tt the banks
werelhgh, steep, aud iinpracticabl Here
tho two armies mel face to face, but both
concluded to retire without battle. Raw
don dropped down towardstho low country,
and Green with his wretched force, almost
naked, swarining with vermin, and scraw-
noy with famine, took post at Mr. Reuben
llarrison's. They needed egerything.-l-
They tented under the blue arch Of hca9en
slackencd nothing in resolve and purpose,
but looked manf,hly forward to happier
times and brighter days Mr. Harrison
had sbeen with Sumter in his pcrils, his
partiallsuccess and his defeats lie tllousht
like a soldier and felt like a man. EEe or
aored his people TO foswaFd TO che amy
breadstuas, fat cattle and sheep,in plenty.
Green ,omained at his bivouao for a whole,
week, living on the hospitality Of Mr. Har4
rison. Whom about to leave, hapings no
strong box, he rendered to Mr. Harrison a
certificate for the bountiful supplies lie had
furitished( NO, y said SIR Harrison, 1--WE
are'cugaged in the satnc greas eause YOU
resweleomes to all you hsvoreceiyed Your
success will be my pay.ii - 4, 81
In one of his marches tIrouGh the nm
lands Washington corps of cavalry halted
'at I6gIcinan's Mill, ON Wilkihsori's, some
times called Owea's Greek, His object
most probably was to wataH tho motions of
the British Colonel, Innis, WHO was posted
at Schuffer's Ferry, afterwards Called tSStfo.
thess, now called ltufF's, or Hugely y. $.
Washington was wholly out 6f Ihohey ana
oft az stipDliog Y frhe (nYhtt,issoY 80, Az, 81