Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-29

The following resolutions were adoptcd:
R3$otigd, That VIC consider the rc-cstab-
llshmeut the Americans in Nicaraguan MS .
work fduty, no less .'wn of'honor and in
toreSt, on the part OF the Southern people:
and that this enterprise, tcndingas it does to
the Acreascof southern commerce and South
ern power is ofparamoWiL Importance to
many otherqupstions now before tic Amcri-
can people. Z
RtsoirGd, That as the Southern States
have. under the Constitution, equality of com
mcsf.ial rights and privileges with those of
the Forth, the federal government is faith.
less TO It's engagements and oppressive in its
operation when IT attempts to suppress. emi-
grafton to Central America from the South.
while 1t permits it from the North; and that
we deem it Just and lawful to condemn such
sion of constitutional authority.
RcS0lced, That we consider the Americans
of Nicaragua as having bccn twice most
grieyously wrongod by the federal govern
ment, first by the actof Commander Davis ut
San Juan del Sur and Rivas, and recently by
the utterly illegal and disgraccful conduct of
Commodore Pauldipg ut Punta Arenas and
that we believe that the people of the South
etn States not only entirely ropudatc these
yronEs to their former countrymon, but also
regard them as indirect insults to themselves:
and we accordingly warn the federal govern
Nept that further persistence in such acts
will rcndcr the government odious to the pcG
pie of the States and contemplate to foreign
pations.
gote: g
Virginia Is, South Carolina g, Ala
pama,0, Georgia 10, Mississippi Z. Louisia-
ma 6, Tennessee ln Texas 4, and Florida c.
II.
Nays-O
The following resolution was on motion
of MIR. Iancy laid on the table:
Rcsolcedr That it is inexpedicnt for any
state or its citizens, to attcmpt to reopen
the African slave trade while that State is
one of the United States of America
The only vote against the motion was one
half the vote of Louisiana.
Mr.. llarvie, OF Virginia from thc;Commit-
to"on Business, made an unf,Norable report
upon the resolution of Mr. Steele, of Georgia
in relation to appointinga II committee of three
to visit examine and report upon tic iron
rolling mill at Atlanta. Georgia.
8lr, Steele, of Georgia, moved tlat the re-
port of the committee be disagreed to, and
that the resolution he adopted.
TThhSS ms sSsSSacStv RSsSGa tH ao,eoo
the Convention the following as the commit
tee: Messrs. Steele and IIolcombc, of Fulton
county, Georgia, and Mr. Lochranc. of Ma
con county, Georgia.
Mr.. Jones, Of Georgia, called up his reso-
luton, upon which the Committee on Busi-
ness had made an uniayorable report. The
resolution is as follows: ~-s''
Resolved, That we recommend to the Gov
crnors of the Southern States, or such of them
as think with us, to call on the people of their
respective States to elect delegates, equal to
their representation in Congress- to meet in
convention at---on tho first Monday in
z----, to tako into consideration the pres
ent critical position of tho South, and the
danger that threaten her in the future, and
to cndeavor to devise, If possible, cffeetual
safeguards for her future security and equal
lty in the Union, or failing in that, to 90 out
ofit. 49,
Mr.. Rufin, of Virginia, moved to lay the
resolution upon the tablo.
The motion was agreed to, as follows:
Yeas Virginia 10, Georgia TO- South Car
6lina 8, Alabama 0, Tennessee IL, Florida
3-57.
. Nays-Louisana G..
b The usual complimentary resolutions were
adopted
F. New ORLEANS, May I4.-Thc steamer En-
pre- City has arrived with later dates from
Havana.
She reports that the search of American
vessels in the Gulf of Mexico by British crui-
sers, on the pretence of overhauling slayers
still continues, accompanied by downright
insult and overbearing conduct on the part
of British officials.
AtSagua La Grande the search Of all YES
sells in port is being prosecuted vigorously.
These high-handcd and dunwarrantable pro-
ceedings have created the greatest excitement
and Indignation in this city, and the federal
authorizes will be urged TO take the matter
in hand at once. Asitis, American vessels
leaving for ports in the Gulf will be compell-
cd in future to so fully armed, prepared to
defend themselves at any hazard whatever.
ANOTHER AMsn1cAN VESSEL FIRED
INTO ny A BRrTIsu CRUISER. Captain
Howes, of the schooner Mobile, reports that
on the 29th ult., when 25 miles South of
Key West, he saw steamship to the wind
ward bearing down for bis vessel. He hove
to speak her, and when within rife shot
distance, the steamer began firing rifles at
the Mobile, the balls from which passed
between the men on deck, and lodged In
tho bulwarks. When two more shots had
been fired by the steamer, boat from her
was sent on board the Mobile, and those
'LNtt'tiqqhNNpu s1te pOdO ofelIhulcu .kiio YES
sells papers, and declared their intention to
seize the'ycs9l, she not having foreign,
register on boarl, but afterwards left with
ont doing so.g They gave no reason for
actiag as tthseyy.did,,a nor did-they deny plain
.ly seeing the american ensign set on cur
vessel. The steames was the. British m,n-
of-war Styx.--N.aR Coppty. & E,aoutrer.
= &atsoTFREgs. Tho Newburyport Her
ole, ,gin ansinteresting g.nrtieie upon this snh-