Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-21

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Mr. Clark apologized for his remarks and
soon after the House adjourned.
The Herald and Helper
Harmony" writes from New York tothe
Mobile Register:
The Journal of Commerce is laying the lash
(pcu) over the shoulders of Editor Bennett
for his deception in reference 10 General
Scott! The Journalsays that it is false that
any one nominated Genoral Scott at the Tn
ion meeting. So oit is. Never mind; if Ben
nett can get Scott nominated and elected, he
will deserve credit and foreign mission
Young Bennett is now the principal assistant
editor to his father. lie conducts the cdito-
rial department when his father is not in town,
and writes well. For a long time young Ben
nett gave no token of editorial talent, but all
that is changed. He has been for year at
the editorial rooms every day (when in town.
and either wrote or dictated tue leading cdi-
torials. He has more talent than his father,
though not the experience. Thcrc is no
person in the United States that hi,s received
such an education as young Bennett. He has
spent years in France, Germany, Italy and
Spain Was at school in all those countries,
consequently he speaks, writes and reads all
those languages with the correctness of ma
tive. W hen he is twenty one, few days
hence, his father Intends to change tue head
ing of the Herald, so as to have it rend.-
james e. Bennett % Son, Editors and pro
prictors,"
When the old gent dies, then the heading
will be changed back to the siuglc j G.. b.,
as the son has the same name as the father. =
The Herald has some very extraordinary men
..,l 0 Il I
writer is thecclcbratcd Doctor Jones who is
the real author of the Impending Crisis Of
the South" by Helper. The book WAS com
piled by Doctor Jones in the Herald Office
from facts and statements that have been at
tested by Mr. Bennett. Helper may have
assisted the Doctor AS proof of this, let
of any consequence was said about the book
until few days before the meeting of Con-
gross then the Herald opcncd upon it, repub-
lishing extracts aud abusing it cditorially,
day after day, until members of Congress
engaged in the discussion, and the fortune
of Doctor Jones, Helper and Burdick, the
publisher, is secured Bennett is avery shrewd
man, cunning as fox and deep as one of his
own Scotch glcns. If any deviltry is to BE-
concocted he can do 1t, and beat Satan ten
points in the game.
Last summer, when he was stopping with
President Buchanan at the soldiers retreat.
he gave the latter copy of Jones book
There" said Bennett, ".is gunpowdor
enough in that hook to blow the Union to the
devil" Buchanan jumped foot, and Ben.
nett added, "but badly fired off it'll make
ye President again y and then he explained
in detail to Buchanan how the campaign was
to be managed. The John Brown business
has nearly upset al their fine plans.
THE BLACK LAW IN MIssoURr.-The St
Louis ECening Necs says the free negro law,
which has just passed the Senate of Missouri
is harsh and oppressive in the extreme. 1t
prohibits any slave holder from rcwarding
his faithful slave for long years of devoted
service, by giving him his freedom unless he
enters into bond of two thousand dollars to
remove the emancipatcd slave from the State
forever. 1t provides that every free negro or
mulatto over the age of eighteen years, now
living in the State, shall leave it before the
first Monday in September. 1850, on pain of
being sold at public auction into slavery for
life. All free negroes and mulattocs under
eighteen years of age shall be bound as appren-
tices till they are twenty-onc years of age,
twelve months after the expiration of which
they shall leave the State or be sold into slave
ry Any free negro or mulatto who shall
come into the State after the first Monday in
Septenlber, 1861, and remain twOnty-four
hours, shall be sold into slavery. Such are
the leading provisions of the bill
SOUTHERN RIGHTs IN GEoRGIA.--A
Southern rights meeting was held at Savan-
nah Ga, on the 30th ult. The resolutions
authorize vigilance committee of twenty-five
citizens, to be appointed by the chairman of
the meeting, whose duties are prescribed.-
They also recommend direct importations,
non-intercoursc as far as practicable with the
abolition communities of the North and urge
the propricty of employing native teachers
and patronizing Southern schools and colleges.
They also call upon Southern representatives
in Congress to protest against and resist the
right of representatives of those Northern
States whose Legislatures have passed laws
violativc of the provisions Of the Constitution
and the fugitive slave law to occupy seats in
that body.
MoRE FRUITS OF THE IRREpREssIBLE
CoNFLIcT.-The Petersburg Express, of yes