Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-09
New York Politics.

thc slavery resolution OF the Know Moth
ing platform;
Rcsoi0cd, That while We recognize the
power of Congress over thc Territories of
the United States, we deny its right to cs-
tublish slavery within the Territories, to
extend slavery thereto, or to declare its cx-
tension therein against the voice and the
will of the people"
The Republican Convention adopted the
following:
ReSoIvcd, That the Republican" par.
ty was called into being by an imminent
public danger and an urgent public ncccs-
sity--thc danger of the subjugaton of our
vast national territory to human slavery,
and the necessity ofresisting and the arres-
ting that calamity.
The Democratic State Convention ADOPT
ed the following
j" RcSolccd That the settlement of the
Kansas question by the votes of the inhab-
itants of the Tcrritory has removed that sub
lcct from Congress, and has left the future
disposition of its internal affairs to its own
people, subject only to the Constitution of
the United States
"That we rcpcl the offensive and dan
gcrous assumption Of Senator Seward
from this State That, by the prcpondcrance
of the Northern States in c C,nglcss, victo-
ry has been won over the South; that We
rcpudiate any such appeal to sectional num-.
bers against the rights ofsister States and
that we rely upon the natioanl and putriot-
ic Democracy of the North, in conjunction
with their brethren of the South, to main
tain the rights and equality of all the States
OF our Union against any such usurpa-
ton of the Federal Union.
MYSTERIOUS AFEAm.-The New York
papers publish the following
A long box marked "W' and a diamond
were left few days ago on board vessel
loading for Mobile, by some person at pres
ent unknown. 1t was packed in the hold
with other goods, but the day following the
stevcdorcs complained that strong and
very offensive odor seemed to proceed from
the box in question. The captain paid
little or 10 attention to the circumstance,
but later in the day the stencil became un
bcarablc, and the box WAS taken on deck
and the top removed. a zinc canin was
disclosed to the astoushcd Officers OF the
vessel, who returned the cover to its posi-
ton. The box was subsequently, removed
to Bellevue Hospital Dead House when,
on opening the zinc coffin, it was found to
contain another wooden coffin, in which
WIS a corpse. The whole affair is yet a
| mystery
EXTREMES MEEr.-Thc efforts made in
Charleston, by the advocates of the re. OPEN
ing the slave trade for the rescue of the
Africans from the hands of the Govern
ment, is parallelIed in utraism only by the
spirit exhibited by the Abolitionists over
fugitive slave. One very we'll illustrates
the other, and thus the solecsm is cstab-
lishcd, that extremes meet First, an cf-
fort was made to wrcst these poor wrctchcs
from the hands of the United States author
tiles, under the State law against the intro
duction of free negroes. The law officers
of the State decided adverse to this ground.
Second, by ha6edS corpus it was attempted
to take the slavcr's crew out of the bands
of the United States Commissioner, and re-
move their cases for hearing before Tic
District Judge under writ of ccrtiorart,
when it was known that the witnesses
whose evidence was necessary to convict M
were not present in the State. This failed.
Ingenuity, as in the case of the Wheeler
negroes in Philadelphia. then devised an
other dodge against the negroes.
[SportanJury Spartan.
A GLIMPSE OF New ORLEANS.
editor of the Natchez Courier lately drop
ped into that city, and is convinced that
"New Orleans is the filthicst city in the
United States" He "counted six and ff-
ty stenchcs," and those "well defined and
genuine" Says the Courier:
Cologne certainly could not have been
much more odoriferous THANH it's sister city
ofthe Mississippi It's low, fiat back streets
and alleys, along which the stagnant liquid
mud is seen, green in its decay and rotten
in its substance, give forth exhalations in
themselves enough to breed an epidemic;
while the city authorities seem bent to make
that still worse which was bad enough be-
fore.
They have selected the month of Sep
tembcr, and the season of an epidemic, to
dig up the moist earth through several of
the business streets, under pretcnce of re-
pairing gas pipes. Gravier street is an ex-
ample. The mud and stones are piled up
on each side, while through the centre runs
a hole, at the bottom of which is water;
and about the sides foullyscented slime.
Of course the street is impossible for horses
and carts, and the sidewalks to foot passen-
gers. except as they guard their nostrils
from the effluvia.
SHUN man who doesn't pay his com