Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22
The Commercial Convention.


cial Convention was opened with a. prayer
at nine o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Ruf6n, of Virginia reported scries
of resolutions recommending that the South
in her trade, adopt Determinations against
the North, by means of taxes and licenses
Gen. Wm. Walker and John Mitchell,
Esq, were rendered seats in tho Convon-
ton.
Roger A. Pryor, Esq, of Virginia, is
speaking against Mr.. Sprattt resolution for
the ro-opening of tho African slave trade,
and Mr.. Yaucey, of Alabama will follow.
There are five hundred delegates pres
ent There are many able and eloquent
men among them.
MoNrGoMERY, May 1l.---Mr. Prior
spoke an hour and a half in opposition to
the Slave trade resolutions Mr.. Yancey
was replying to him when the Convention
adjourned for the morning In the after
noon, Dir. Yancey resumed and spoke two
hours. Mr.. Rulfin and Mr. Gtlskin, of
Virginia, made short speeches. NIr. Gas.
kin declared that the re.opening of the
Slave trade will save the Union
Il. ID. SCOTS resolutions for two lines of
steamers to Europe with discrimination
in favor of Europe. resolutions from Nelson
Tit, of Georgia, and Mr.. Elliot, of, South
Carolina, and others, were referred to com
mittees.
The Convention adjourned till nine o clock
to morrow.
MONTGOMERY, May 12.-The CONNER.
cid Convention met at 8 o'clock this morn.
ing. The principal matter of interest was
the speech of r. c. Scott, of Alabama,
against the policy of agituting the reopen
There is an nnmonsc attendance, tho
number of people being no less than three
thousand, including hundreds of ladies.
MONTGOMERY, May 13.-The Conven.
tiqn was in session last night til eleven
o'clock. Mcss8. IIilliard, Harper. and
Hubbard, Of Alabama, and Hunter, OF
Georgia, spoke against Mr.. Spratt's Rcso-
lutioms on the Slave Trade To-day, Mr..
Preston, of Virginia, spoke against, and
Mr.. Yancy, of Alabama, in favor of them,
and Mr.. Spratt concludes the argument to,
night. A strong disunion sentiment per-
vades the convention.
SENATOR EvANs-TmE VAc.ANcY.--
The Mobile Register, speaking of the death
of Judge Evans, says
"Thc death OF Senator Evans will be
deeply 'lamented in South Carolina. He
was, we believe, native Of Darlington Dis.
trct. After presiding for many years with
ability and urbanity in the superior courts
of law, he was elected to the Senate of the
United States to fll the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Franklin Elmore, who sue
ceeded Mr.. Calhoun AS a man and
statesman, lie was distinguished for intcg-
rlty of character and a certain simplicity,
which is the surest index of an honest man.
lie had as much heart as head, aud was
equal to any crisis, We hope that Mr..
Speaker Orr will be selected by Governor
hliston to fill the vacant Seaatorship."
.CREvAssEs IN PLAQUEMINEg PARISH.
The Poipt-a-la-H Hachc Pilot, of the LIST
instant, in calling attention to the creyasscs
in the parish, says:
We have been crcdbly Informed that
they have increased in number and are now
more dangerous than they have been. On
the right bank of the river we find two Gre
vases, one ON each side of the plantation
of MIR. Grant. In our last issue we had
only an account of the creYasse on the up
per line of this plantation.
On the left bank ofthe river, we find
also an increase in our misfortunes, yiz: at
Slf. Lour's place adjoining Judge Huling's
plantation. We are informed that this
gentleman's lcvce has given way, and TIE.
his orange orchard will be ruined as weli as
the orchard recently planted by Judge Hu-
'ling7-cousistin of five thousand orange
trees, which it is supposed, will not sur
vivo the injury they have received from the
overflow.
The crevasse at Mr., Roto' S place has now
an opening of nearly seven hundred feet,
and the immense volume of water which
has passed and is now passing through this
channel has inundated the country for f,v-
erai miles below the crevasso, thereby q 4.
troyinS taS creps already planted, Tue
prospects at the preseut time ofreplanting
arc doubtful in the extreme We regret.
that the exertious of many of our most in.
dustEious rice planters will Se unproduetiyo.
The BELL CREvAssE. E.---The work ON
this creYasse shows little prospect of sueocss.
full completion. The water stiIlcreeps slow.
ly up on the dry land The railroad track
far above the crevasse is ten inches under
water. Communication is cut off with the
Marine Hospital, except by boats. The
greater portion Of Gretna is submerged; in
torcoprse by land carriage between Algiers
aud sGretha is suspended, and sho gardens
on the right bank are nearly destroyed.
NJ o. I2ioavuae, GM.