Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-03-05

tatlOn, foreign, as we'll aS native, are, and
always have been, in favor of the Liberals,
and this party has been augmented by the
tyranny Of the Governor and his friends in
making forced loans from both Mcxicans
and foreigners. He demands a certain
amount of money of the persons whom he
thinks has it /; and it they do not pay they
are taken to the barracks and confined in a
room, with nothing to cat until they sub
nit and fork over. One ,uiserly old wo-
man has been confined three days, though
her friends without contrivc to supply her
with little bread, which keeps body and
soul together The demand upon her is
$4,000; and how it will end God only
knows
The Mysterious Case of Mrs. Brannan.
We have had in this metropolis and its
vicinity, from time to time, many mystic
rious eases of a dark aud terrible character,
pointing to deeds of blood and violence, the
secret whereof has never been revealed
but one of the most alarming and extraor-
binary cases of all is that of Mrs. Captain
Brannan, who disappeared, in july last on
Staten Island, and of whom trace or tidings
have never been found Some time ago,
the case of Mary Rogers, who disappeared
iii similar way, and whose fate was never
publicly known, excited great sensation.
The only solution to that mysterious affair
was that she had been carried off, violated
and murdered. Later still came the Bur
dell murder, around which bloody business
the veil of mystery is still wrapped as i'm
pcnctrably as ever.
The disappearance of Mrs. Brannan,
however, is surrounded with so many re-
markablc condolences, as to render it more
startling and more incomprehousble than
the others.
Here is lady, the wife of captain and
the daughter ola colonel of the army--an
cstimoble wife and mother--against whom
there existed no hostility on the part of any
living being and possessing a character
which prccludcs all suspicion of voluntary
descrtion of her family In the broad light
of a summers evening she is seen to enter
the Staten Island ferry boat, which daily
carries thousands ofpcople, and which was
then filled with passengers she is seen to
leave the boat and enter carriage at the
landing at Staten Island, and depart for
her home, short distance off. There is
nothing in her department or her language
Cor she makes two or three inquiries of
hack-kcepcr) to indicate that she is not bent
upon direct return to her home, in the
usual manner; yet, from that hour to this,
shcis never heard of moro. A gentleman
is seen to enter the same carriage with her,
but she does not appear to be acquainted
with him. No trace of that individual,
whoever he was, can be had and, what is
stranger still, no clue can be discovered to
the driver who had charge of the carriage
Such arc the facts elected by the testi-
! mony. Various rumors as to her vounta-
ry departure from her home, and her ap-
pcarance in this and that part of the coun-
try, have been siftcd by her friends, with
the assistance of two able lawyers and
strong detective force, and they arc all pro-
nounced to be untrue
What conclusion remains? Alas only
one that on the journey between the fer
ny and her home, short as it was, and un-
dcrtakcnin the broad daylight, she was
cruelty outraged murdered, and herrcmains
concealed, toavoid detection We repeat,
there is no other solution to the mystery,
and it is dark and fearful one.
But what commentary upon the moral
condition of this city--what a rcproach to,
the police system under which it groans
and suffers, and is daily exposed to the
worst cries of the most daring criminals in
the community! Who can be surprised
that midnight m lrdcr passes undiscovered
and unavongcd, when such deed as this
can be done in the open day and in COM
Jatratively frequented locality?
| If the conclusion we have arrived at be
correct, there were, in all probability, two
parties to the crime-fhe mysterious per-
son who entered the hack after the unfor-
tunate lady, and the man who drove them
Yet, not all the vigilance which the police
4 are said to have exercised have been able
to discover the identity of either of these
persons. In all probability, VIC shall hear
no more of this extraordinary case The
fate of Mrs. Brannan will remain as deep
iy shrouded in mystery as chat of Mary
Rogers, or the murder of DR.. Burdell.-
'Acm York HraH.
TITLES ABUSED D.--Thc Philadelphia
Press remarks that there are more States of
this" Republic, New York. for example,
with the prefix of honorable to their names,
| than are to be met with in the whole of
monarchiul England, Next to that of
Honorable, we think that of Professor is
| the most roundly abused. Any one now
who has second hand knowledge of some
trick in horse tanning, or some slight-hand-
of accomplishment, or has sat two
weeks in % country school house, thinks
himself justly entitled to it, end straight