Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-12-04
P0Ll7 T00AL.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

brings with il the season Of deliberation for
the common veal. Assembled, therefore, in
council, greet You with grateful heart,
scnsibly impressed by the mcrcics we have
experienced the past year. and with an cx-
preston of my Willingness and desire to
unite with You i'll all that can contribute to
the welfare of the State.
1t is again my painful duty to announce
n vacancy in the Senate Of tile United States.
On the 7th of May. despatch from the scat
OF Government informed nc of the very sud
den termination of Judge Evans useful life,
at the close of the day before IA day occu-
pied as usual by his Senatorial lahors
On the llth. | received official informa-
tion of the melancholy event from the Vice
President of the United States. Full Years
and full of honors possessing an honest.
good heart, and q mind sound, clear and Wig
urOus to the last. his was the happiness, at
the close of well spout life, to render unto
his Creator the spirit which he gave, alta mo-
mcnts warning, without regret, and whilst
at his post, engaged in the active duties of
the high trust confided to him 10y the Safe.
Attached to the Revolutionary history Of his
country, and trcasuring in his retcntive
mcmoiy much knowledge of its Incidents, his
familiarity with the rules of law, and with
itsjudicial administration, rendered his in
dustrious service on the Scnatc3 Commit
tees, exceedingly useful to that body and
valuable to tho Government. Learning that
tho remains of our valued Senator were to be
inferred mt his own homestead, instructed
my Ad-dc-camp to proceed to the North.caS-
torn border OF the State, and attend them
3 thence to their final resting place. In view
ofthc remaining days of the session, and re-
garding it unwisc, under the circumstances
then indicated, to transfer to the Senate one
OF our faithful Representatives in the lower
House, the inclination of my mind was not
to fill the vacancy by an appointment. But
on learning that it was the desire of the
Delegation to have the scat filed, forthwith
appointed the gallant Col. Arthur p. IIaync
to repair promptly 90 the Capitol. His com
mission, dated the 10Th of May, Was to con-
tinuc until the fourth Monday in November
(22d nst.) now submit to your wisdom and
discretion, the election of II successor in the
Senate, until the 4th of March next, tho un-
expired term of the late Hon. josiah Evans
The requests ntuncl in the resolutions
ofthc last General Assembly have been COM
pliod with IA far as pr0cticable.r In respect
III the work of deepening the channel of the
river, 10y the city of Savannah application
WAS made to the President of the United
States, who promptly responded through the
War Department, by sending the intelligent
officer in charge of the work to explain tic
plan of the Scientific Board who projected it,
His diagram was laid before me. (the Attor-
ney General and several members of the late
Legislature being presently and his opinion
scemcdto be well founded, that in all human
probability tn" prosecution of the work to
the limited extent described, would produce
no injury to tho Carolina side, nor impede
tho navigation of the Savannah Back River.
This opinion was concurred in by General
Tottcn, the able Chief of the United States
corps of Engineers.
Tho statue of Washington, to which my
message of last November alluded. as having
been proposed hY the lamented Senator But
Ter, was completed soon after. Asccrtain-
ing in March that the artist was obliged to
dispose of his work, and being certified that
it was valuable. 1 took it for the State, at
ten thousand dollars, advancing two thous-
and dollars from the contingent fund. |
now ask an appropriation of eight thousand
''o'ia'S, y. coiipseto tiiu purchase und r"n.-
penSate fully the Ingenious artist. The stat
uc is of bronze. 1t has been placed in the
Orphan House grounds, in Charleston, under
the care Of the city authorities, until tie New
State House shall be sufficiently finished to
render it safe in the State grounds here
The BEoUEsT OF JACKSON. AT the request
ofCul. II. q. w. Butier. of Louisiana, a fa-
vorite ward of Cen Jackson. and BY puthor-
ity frm NJ. Andrew Jackson, the heir and
executor of the testointor, bestowed on the
4th Of May last, his bequest to the patriot
ofSonth Carolina, m mpstvaliant in defence Of
his country's rights" upon the President Of
tho Palmetto Association, and his Successors
in Office. in trusi for thc last survivor of the
SonEn Carolina Regiment 'f volunteers IN
the war with Make propAciy known as the
"Paimettu Regiment.' THIS was doae by
prnc.a'net.n, s, wnleh S is ree"Fded g IN tne SEE
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