Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-18

tt't III was too passive To satisfy the de-
mands OF an excited aud flibusteriug peo-.
pie, whose voice, like the Roman Senator,
was still for.war." The popular voice
was clamorous for an aggressive. vindictiye
and brilliant invasion, which should not
stop short of ".thc hallsof the Montez,mas."
The latter was popular, the former was
statcsmanly. Between such alternatives,
democratic administrations courting pop.
ular favor, and seeking it's own pcrpct,ta-
ton could not "long debate
Something Rare An Elopement. in the
South.
We have withheld, says thc Monsrom-
cry (Ala,) Ma3 of the last inst, until We
could satisfy ourselves of the facts, notice
of the clopciuent of Young married wo.
man, of this city. The other party to the
transaction could hardly be a;tid to reside
here, as.he hadR family in Wilmington,
\. g., thpugh-at work here for about ten
months ii !!;iS t:.ss.;le, We hone lie may be
"spottcd" everywhere he goes, for tho
'wroug and Injury he has inflicted upon
Mr.. William Myrick is aggravated to some
what beyond the average villainy OF such
ciscs.
The circumstances are about these: Mr.
Myrick married this woman about three
years ago, she being his second wife. Her
name MAS Mary ---------, and her father is
a worthy wcll-to.do citizen of Tallapoosa
county, living few miles north of Drank
lin. Up to tho time OF her leaving, We
are assured there was never apparently a
more harmonious union her husband keep
ing boardmg-h6usc on Commerce street
and She assisting him and acting chiefly as
cashier. =
Mrs. Myrick left home on the 9Th Of last
month, with the ayowed purpose of visiting
her frlcndSin Taiiapoosa county. She was
accompanied by her husband to the rail
road and he had no suspicion of hor hay.
ing cloned for several DAYS. On the 7th
Junc-the day after Mrs. MS departure
one, Green Savage, a sprightly, good look
ing, plausible young man, working at the
Sash and Blind Factory OF iilacomb, &
Morton, took through tieketf for Whining
ton, n. G. lie had been boarding with
Mr.. Myrick for several months, and scvcr-
al of the boardcrs nop remember that there
was an unusual intimacy between him and
Mrs. NJ. At any rate, circurnstancos have
since made it certain that the two have
gone off OH concerted plot Mus. Myr-
icll, it is supposed, tooksoF about $500 be-
longing to her husband. S
Savage is a man of about 140 pounds
weight, 23 or rs years old, with black
whiskers, and below the metluui height.
lie is thought to have really had u wife IN,
Wilmington, but it is Irlmorcd that she
lately cloped with anuther man.
Allx Mvripk ic ai,,,,f sSSs 4.n.,,., III a.,
rather over the USUAL size, very plump with
light brown hair, fair skin, and rather de.
ie"tivc teeth. t%
They most probably got in company at
Atlanta, Ga, by her waiting there day
for him. Ii issupposed that they have
gone to North Carolina.
COLONEL VRApBE, who lately lost his
lite by the same enterprise in which Walk
or made his first venture inftlle character
OF hlibustcr, was from Nashville, Telnes-
see, and was Il prominent Politician in Mis-
Sissirpi and California. lie and Walker
were, doubtless, sehoolinatcs, being natives
OF the same town. Inthe last Senatorial
contest in California, Crabbe was Il promi-
nent candidate. lie is the sane un, who
was the survivor in the last of the bloody
series of coulbats which the editors of the
Vicksburg Sentinel fought-1-the last Of SIX
OF the editors of that paper Laying fallen
by the hand OF Crabbe. 1t Was in 1910.
during the exciting contest OF Eoote and
Davis for the Goveruorsl,ip, that Mr.. Jcn-
kins, cditorof the Sentinel, n pcacablc man,
having commented ON the conduct of
Crabbc, was assailed by him in the streets
of Nicksburg, a terrible combat cnsued,
Jenkins using his boWic-knife with great
effect, before Crabbe could draw his pistol.
The latter, however, tlIotigl, terribly cut,
succeeded at last in diseharging his pistoi
in his antagonists side, WHO fell, lnortllly
wounded, and died in a few hours. y
OnsEQurEs OF Hon. w. l.. Nancy
\ very large number OF. persons intended
tho funeral of Mr.. Marcy at Albany, II.
T., on the .Sth inst Among the tistin.
gulshed persons present wore OK Presidents
Van Buren, and Pierce, and cx-(;oycrnors
Seymour, Hunt and Fish, of New York
The houses on Broadway and State-street
were drapcd with mourning for three miles.
The funeral ceremonies were commenced
at thecapitol amid the tolliug of bells and
the firing of minute guns. :Thc venerable
DR. Mott opened with iii clsquent PRAYER.
The Rev. DIR. Sprague read portions OF
Scripture, after which Rev. Dir. Hague de-
iiynrel a most beautiful discoarse, The
religious exercises were then closed With
the bcnedictiou by ltev DR. Welch.
General Wool acted as grand niarshal of
the tlay I'm ad,fition ~ fhc ,l;ot;ofs,,; u "a