Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-26

Socks, pair, 81, Segafs SO cents. Paid
y. q Co. expenses, 8 4. Hair cut 25 cents.
Jno. Matthews, New Orleans.
&C. Harding, Baton Rouge, La.
The following is the letter to Uorner
from his wicc:
MARY HORNETS LETTER.
CHAMBERSBURG, Oct, 20, 1850.
Dear William: AS Mr.. Martin goes
down to lIogcrstown this evening, / could
not help writing you line by him. You
are so heodstrong you will not listen to me.
Do, for Gods sakc~-don't go to lIorpcr's
Ferry now; You can do nothing if you 90;
| fear for your life. You can keep tho
letter for Capt, Brown until all is safe
You cannot give it him now; you would
be suspected and taken up. Come back
and wait at Chnmbcrsburg until Capt Cook
gets here. | am afraid this business will
bring us into trouble yet Last night |
never slept wink DO come back, for
shall be crazy until you return safe. Now,
for once, do. listen to your loving wife.
MARY HonNER.
p. 81 viii not go home until you
come for me-
The following is the Thatcher letter,
which purports to have been written from
, Memphis to old John Browa on the Sd of
October last, and which was picked up,
sealed, in the cars between New York and
Philadelphia on the 21st, just two days af
ter the insurrection was known in Mem
phis' and forwarded to Coy. Wise in the
same condition in which it was found. 1t
was enclosed in a large document-likc en-
velopc, addressed to Captain John Brown
flarper's Ferry, Va" and in one corner
was "Politoness of Mr. Iorncr-to be de-
livered in person."
'., THATCHER LETTER.
MEMPHIf, Tenn, October q 1850.
To Capt j. Brown, Gcnl COMMANDMENTS
Chief of Provisional Govt u. S. A.
Dear Captain: | have just completed
my tour through the Southern States, and
am now on my way to Kentucky In my
last letter to you | mentioned that should
give the States of Tennessee and Arkansas
aithOoueh securing. | did so, and am
satisfied that of all the States of the South,
Tennessee and Arkansas nrc the best fitted
to make strike IN. Those two States
have but few whites in favor of slavery.
while they contained an immense number
ot slaves already ripe and ready at the first
lntination, to strike decided blow for
their freedom while the large mass of the
whites are against slavery, and will be
ready to assist them at moments warn
ing Several of them stated to me that
they had gone so far as to prepare arms
for their slaves and instruct theIn IN their
use, aud how to act when the worst comes
to the worst. While at Brownsville, Ten
ncssee, addressed a letter to the school
teacher, Mr.. If, and he came to
brownsville to see me. He says there is
no arocatjon in which q man can do so
much good for our cause as that of school.
teaching, because all the country around
have so much confidence in school teacher
who conducts himself right. He SAYS that
the large majority of eolorcd people in his
part'of tie State are ready to take up arms
at q minutes warning, and A large number
OF whites are ready to join them. He says
we Yust send out more well. qualified men
to the South as school teachers, and work
them in everywhere. lie gave me letter
OF introdpetion to your friend Mr. Palmer.
who is an, extensive farmer near Shelby
Depot on the Brownsville Railroad. /
did not get out at that depot, for inoui
ring of passenger in tho cars, I learned
that Mr., Palmer did not live on his planta-
ton, on. account of diflicnlty' between
himself and wife, and~an Injunction on
his property, and a writ pending divorce,
and that he would be hard to find--so /
concluded to so on When L arrived at
Memphis, | accidentally met with sir.
Palmer ut hotel where 1 stopped. |
handed him Mr.. Ii, Is letter. Afterreatiinc
ithe cordially shaok my hand and invited
me to. take, Mwaik with t,iur., We went
up to a place on the bank,of tho river call
ed the old Navy Yard.aa took scot ON
some bags, in a excluded place. where he
could talk freely. He sail he had sincere
" sympathizcd with you, Captain, in all
yosir troubles, asrl,e hnd been 4 iiartyr of
shareholders himself He said he had been
working sileptly, but steadily, for our cause
foF two years, end that nc had married q
widow that had npmberI of slaves, for
the purpose of establishing himself in
the good opinion aud confidence Of tho
slaseBoldefs nbont him. That he had at
first intended, at the first good opportunity,
TO transfer oil The slaves he had got in his
possession by marrying, to our friends by
way of Cincinoati.S and tllat he had great
many more, belonging to his ncighbois,
that were ready 10 so with him; but a
difficulty had occurred between himself
and wife, and that she had, with the Sc