Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-07-03
Col, Keitt in the House.

VOL heltt, OF Doutn Caronna, followed
in few forciblc and telling remarks, his
frowning brow and curling lip plainly
expressing the disdain which he felt for
one whom he evidently regarded as a trait
or to the interests of the South The Black
Republicans accuse this gentleman of hav-
ing established so alcoholic a standard of
party speaking in the House, that anything
short of a division of the Union passes for
milk and water. He is certainly one of the
most interesting speakers there. The con-
vulsions, the starts, the spasms of his man
ner, give to his speaking strong spell of
interest, and quickens the spectators curl
osity. An intensely Southern fcclingsccms
the prevailing popularity in his character.
The rights of the South and the defence of
her interests seem never absent from his
thoughts If he has the most dry and alb
stract subject to speak upon he will contrive
to Intervene an episode upon the slavery
question. He has, too, fund of restless
propensity, which seems quite beyond his
power to control This ovcr-weening vi
vacity is conspicuous in his whole manner
and movement, At one time the visitor to
the House gallery will find him indu-
ging in little straightforward talk about
Kansas and men and measures the little
pages passing his desk as charity as Queen
Emma creeping among the curving plough
shares. The darlings! They seem to be
perfectly aware of the gunpowdcr texture
of the honorable members tcmperament-
Another time you will see him jerking with
irritation, favoring the House with an
oratorical burst of Indignation, and -four
lshlng lis arms in manner extremely sig
nificant towards the Republican quarter of
the House.
Again you will find him pronouncing
verdict on their transactions, gvinga cat
alogue of their enormitics, and humping
the innocent mahogany at a rate which eau
ses the little pages to tremble with constcr-
nation. Why, after one of these speeches
it must cost the honorable member his DAYS
salary at 'Gauticr's' for lozcnges to cure
his hoarseness
" You at once perceive from his manner,
when speaking, that he has determined to
avenge the wrongs of the South His very
gestures indicate it, He filings out one
foot before the other, as if the Union were
already divided and he pushing the North
ern ascendency before him while OCCASION
ally an indignant, broad-shouldered shake
OF the upper man is manifcstly an indignant
effort to shuttle off the North. If sitting
in a serious mood, he is probably sketching
on the margin of an amendment, at a rough
calculation, the number of pro-slavery men
in Kansas capable of bearing arms, accord
ing to the latest returns of the population.
"The North seems to have set this gen
tlcman up as target for their shafts
We should think his ears would be cxcori-
ated by the sarcastic diatribes of the Repub-
licans, who are pcrpetually harrassing and
taunting him. But he raps them back, and
the opposition find they can neither sneer
him into silence, or control him by scrapc
of the pen"
WILL Still BE BLACK REpUBLIoAN.-
The oracle has spoken. All is game that
comes into has net, and when the trenchers
of all the original "Ropublicans" arc filled,
perhaps the camp followers, the eleventh
hour" men, may have the fragments, if any
be left. Hear what the New York Tribune
says, in its exultation over the acccssions
heretofore, and those confidently expected
hereafter:
| "Nor is the question of re- construction
of parties at all involved in the issue now
made. AS matter of fact, the Republican
party was changed in its composition,
though not i'll its principles, whe. the Whig
party-all that was left of it-joined us in
1855. The accession of many thousands
of Free-Soil Democrats and Free-Soil Amer
leans changed it still further in 1856. a
still further accession of Democrats and of
Americans who abhor the Lecompton poll
cy of the present Administration is now
probable; but it will still be the Republican
party-with heavier responsibilities and
wider aims, perhaps, but the same party as
ever"
SALE OF TmE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
RoAD-The Marshall (Eexas) F2ag con
tains the particulars of the sale of theSouth-
ern Pacific Railroad, consisting of the TWEEN
| ty miles in running order, iron, cars, track
appurtenance, and all other property belon-
ging thcreunto, together with the rights
and franchises appertaining to the old com
pany. The sale took place on the End inst,
under the deed Of trust executed sometime
last summer, and after some little bidding
the whole of this vast property, estimated
by hundreds of intelligent men to be worth
fully one hundred millions of dollars An
injunction had been issued ont against the
purchasers, but as bond of $500,0 was
required to give it force, aud as that bond
had not been given up to tie latest dates,
it will not amount 80 much. Tho purchas-
crs have since organized themselves into
| joint stock company.