Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-05
SCRIrTOR SINE NOMINR.


COL ORR.-" Tho Spartanburg Express
and Anderson Gazctte urge Col. Orr for
the. Presidential nomination. lie is not
suitable to the views and feelings of his
own State lie was to have been nomina-
ted for Vice President on the ticket of
Douglas for Prcsidont. Squatter Sovcr-
eigntywill not 60 down (cXeept in one way)
in South Carolina. Let us have Iris vicws.''
The above extract is taken from the
Charleston Evening News. Wcagrec with
the News that " Squattcr Sovereignty will
not 80 down Except in one way) in South
Carolina" and that way will be the same
in which Know NUthingism went down.
That Col Orr is in favor of Squattur Sow
creignty, is an assumption of the News in
the face Of facts and jast inferencSs to the
contrary. With Mr.. Calhoun and the I'd
itor of the News he opposed the election
Of Gen. Cass On this very ground. In a
speech delivered at Crsytonville, in. An
dcrson District, lie uses the following Ian.
gunge, in reference to Stephen A. Donglas
lie will find that 2" confidence is a
plant of slow growth" and that his aber.
ration will cost him many years of faithful
service before he is re-instated in the HIGH
position from which he so suddenly and
unexpectedly descended"
Whether Col. Orr Z" is suitable to the
views and feelings of his own State" we
have not, nor do we undertake to say, nor
do we allow that tho dictum of the News
is sufficient evidence on this point.
AS to the political views held by Col.
Orr, he has record Which will show that
no man In the Sttc has been more fear
less in their Expression, or more prompt and
ready to maintain them, on the stump,
through the press, or in the Halls of Leg.
islation. 'Sportapbng E.press.
An ELECTION lNciDGmT-In a certain
county in our State, says the Savannah Re.
p"6hcdn, the late election was very close,
and i'll order to carry it for ono of the parties,
the aid of about one hundred. some say a
hundred and twenty. votes of the ''vote early
and vote often class was called in, or rather
brought in. to secure the desired result
These hundred, or hundred and twontv.
as the case may be. had been !" Gagged"
for day or two previous to the time when
they should exercise the prerogative of, free
men," and consequently had time to get re-
licvcd to some extent from the effects of, bad
liquor. When.the wagons and the purchaser
of the votes arrived to rey the patriots to
uremote precinct TO cast their snffrageS, where
they would be free from unpleasant interfer-
anccs the most Of them were sober and ready
to make as mach out Of the occasion as pos
6ible. Five dollars was the price per head,
and as each vdtcr gnt into the wagon the
amount was paid to him. The buyor soon
found that he hadphi,i for considerable more
than one wagon load, and yet the wagon was
'eonsTaratively empty. Such q singular state
of affairs led him to an Investigation when
lie found that as the T" freeman" would got
into the wagon from one side, after having
received his five dollars, he would jump out
at the other and come around to be paid over
again! One individual had obtained SIS in
this way. This, of course, was put stop
to, but the buyer was unablocto collect my
reclamation. i80{GtattH
IA A DISCUSSION arose in coffee room at
Southampton as to the natiopality of gen
Alcplan at the other end Of the room. Giles
al Ehglishman," said one. 81 know by
His head nTIe's,a Scotchmah," said
abqther, {" know by ms complexion. -
'VHe's German" said another, " I know
by his beard Another thonghth he looked
like a Spapiard. Here the conversation
acstcd, but soon enc of them spoke, "I
have it" said he, ahe's eN American !;
he's got his legs on tho table,"