Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-03-19

| Il THE SPEAKBR's FAREwELLs--At 12
M., OH Friday, 4th inst, the House ad-
journed, after the following yulcdictory of
| Mr.. Speaker Orr
Gentleman of the House of Representa-
I tiSes--The hour has arrived when our re-
lations, personal and political, are to be Sc
vcrcd. congratulate you on the consum-
nation of much of the Legislation necessa-
ry to administer this Government without
embarrassment.
| embrace this, the last occasion on which
[ shall have the honor to address you from
this chair to make myg mygratefulncknowlc lcdg-
Incnts for the uniform courtesy and kind
ness you have extended to me as your Pre-
siding Officer. Difficult and trying as has
been the cposition, it's labors have been great
! !y diminished by the cordial support you
have so generously givenme. Tie dignity
and dccorum that have marked your DELHI
erations will compare most favoubly with
any Of your predecessors to this fact ut
I tribute whatever of success may have ut-
tanned in this chair.
/ The vote of thanks which von have offer
! cd me gives me assurance that my admin
| iStration has been acceptable to YOU, and
| for that thank YOU IchaYe, throughout
! my term, sought most earnestly to do exact
and ''Hl justice to individuals, parties,
and sections, and if have failed the pu
pose, through error or prejudice, l now
crave your pardon.
Trusting, gentlemen, that our delibera-
tions here may realize for this great Rcpub-
lie the most prosperous development of all
its immense resources, and invoking upon
you through life, the richest blessing of
kind Heaven, bid you farewell, and pc'-
form my last official act by declaring the
Thrty.iifth Congress at an cnd.
[LQud applause in the galleries and on
the floor aud soon afterwards the hall was
deserted. ]-Aatiomot hteihiyeacer.r ..,
ARRIVAL OF TIM ISABEl.. The Uni
ted st mail steamship Isutct, Capt. Tit
+, tic, ed at this portat eleven o'clock on
Saturday night, from Havana and Key
West She brings Havana dates to Feb
ruary TO.
BY the arrival of the steamer Granada
at Havana on the 9th, VIC have news from
Aspinwall to March 3.
The formidable revolution in ChiliMhich
commenced in the province of Copiapoy
lIucsco, in the North, was extended to
Talca, in the Sonth. The movement had
become quito serious. Society at Yulpa-
raise was alarmed and uncosyat its approach
and the government was organizing troops.
Don Manuel NIontt, President, lad been
invested with dictatorial lpowcrs The news
from Ecuador is favorabeto the speedy
termination of the war with Peru. Quay
aquil, the principal port of Ecuador, WAS
in state If blockade ut last accounts. -
From the other South American republics
there is no news of importance.
From California, the news is not of COM
manding Importance. in the Legislature,
Mr. Street has presented resolution asking
that the United States Government should
establish protectorate over Mexico, in in
dcmnity of impending reclamation and for
reparation for past outragcs, which was re-
tcrrcd to the committee on Federal Rcla-
tions. Another resolution was presented
by the same gentlemen, asking Congress to
take steps for the acquisition of Cuba
Nothing new from the mines.
The u. S. Marshall at Key West had
arrested the crew Oft brig, name unknown,
run ashore on the Florida Reef, supposed
to have been a SLAYER, and that they land
ed cargo of negroes on the Cuba coast and
then run for the Florida reef, where they
ran her ashore and n,adc .hcir way to Key
West When arrested, they wore ON the
eve OF departure for Havana in the Isabel
a portion having paid the passage money
at the agents office.
Charleston Ke1cury.
| IIcmcIDEIN IN EDGErIELD-A correspondent
of tho Augusta Dispatch, writing from Edge
field, on the 10th instant, relates the follow
ing:
"a most lamcntablo affair came off near
the Red Oak Grove Church. in this district.
yesterday morning. at o'clock n IN. levi
III. Mcdaniel was killed by three halls fired
by John IL. Jones,(a we'll dggcrl from u
revolver.
The whole neighbOrho0d has since bccn
the scene Of intense c4citcmeni. TheesiOcnc6
in substance, was, that there having boon au
old foud between them for several months.
and having met in tho road, the ,leceascd
said he could whip Jones, and got of his
horse and pulled OF his coat. and made ns
Jones, whcreupon jones fred threA times. -
The deceased walked about thirty yards. fell
and expired in n few moments. Tho verdict
of tho c0roner's inquest is, that Levi II. Nc
Daniel cano to his death from the effects
ofpistol balls fired by tho hnnd of John II ,
Jones Jones is not arrestOdu to this time, I"
HARD on THE DocToRs.-- Harris,
the United States Consul at Japan, recent
~ had spell of sickness at JedClo, con.
corning which he writes as follows
# "The Emp, ror and the Council of State
manifested the greatest anxiety during my