Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-10

Mr. CuNNINGuAM, of Charleston, offered
preamble and resolutions authorizing the Gov
crnor to draw 500, 900 from the treasury to be
expended Tor arms and ammunition; the consid-
Grafton of which was postponed.
On Tuesday, the Senate met. Joined the
House in vote for electors, made the Govern
or's Message the special order for Thursday, and
adjourned
In the House, after the election Of electors,
resolution was unanimously adopted re-
QucotnS them to cast the vote of the State for
bRECKENRIDGE and LANE
MIR. CUNNINGuAM's resolutions for purchasing
arms, &c, then adopted.
The Governors Message having been made
the special order for Thursday, the House adj
journcd.
The Carolinian, Of Sunday last reliable
and safe paper, says:
COOP News FROM MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA AND
GEoRGlA.--We have had the pleasure of convcr.
sing with gentleman who returned Yesterday
evening, from a special visit to several of the
Western States, and has had interviews with
the Executive officers of the above States lie
gives most cheering news of the feeling which
exists. The public mind in Mississippi is in
tensely aroused. and so soon as the telegraph
gives sufficient returns to make certain tho elec-
ton Of Lincoln, Gov. Pcttus will Immediately
take steps for cOnvcning the Legislature that
measures may be Mt once taken. The disunion
give South Carolina cooperation. and these two
will in All probability be the advanced guard
ot the Southern exodus from the Union In
Alabama too, the feeling is very strong. The
BrccEnrl,tgc party, and large portion of the
Bell parry. arc for resistance, and the opinion
OF the loading men of the State is that the dis
union vol Will compose very heavy majority.
GcorG!a $ vory much aroused. too and the Gov
crn"r, il Is expected, will call for large appro-
printion to arm the State. The feeling is grow
ing that sooner or later the issue will have to
be met and Georgia will be ready for it. Coy
Moore, ot Alabama. is thoroughly aroused and
will, as soon as he receives intelligence that
Lincoln has been elected. issue writs tor the
election of delegates from the several counties
Owing, however, to the framing of the act, by
which the convention is to be convoked it can
not meet before the first of February. He has
no discretion in the matter, and are ou-
thcntlcalIy informed, regrets exceedingly that
ne has not. In louisiana the feeling is not 80
decided, though it is thought that the disunion
movement will prevail. Florida we are told
considers herself somewhat in advance of South
Carolina. These indications will CRAFTY all who
deprecated the issue of solitary or cooperative
State action. They give us unity and harmo-
soon as the contingency renders it necessary,
without giving our enemies, if perchancc we
should have such to intorpose to prevent our
action, the advantages which they would derive
from our delay. q
Columbia is full of nptables. On Monday
night can immense and enthusiastic" crowd
assembled before the C,ngorcc House. says the
Guardian, with music, to honor distinguished
gentlemen lodged there:
In response to repeated and hearty calls,
Senator Chestnut came forward, and in earnest
and patriotic language pictured the purposes
OF the Black Republican party towards the
South lie exhibited the South as at the initial
point of great aud stirring events But two
courses were open for her to pnrsue-ome, that
OF acauicsccnco i'll the election of the Black Re-
publican candidate. with train Of the most
dlrelul consequences and with the certain fate
OF dcgradaiinn and ruin the othor, that of the
most determined, and at the same time trust
full resistance. lie urged that the State Of
South Carolina. withiut bravado of any kind,
should unfurl the Palmetto 1ng assert and ex-
ercise her sovereignty, and knowing herself to
be right, to peril all in its mantainance.
Gen. Bonham followed in a spirited address,
in which he deprecated delay in the assertion
of the separate secession of the State of South
Carolina from the Federal UuioR i'm the contin-
gcncy of Lncolms election. Her action would.
IN his Judgment, be the signal of combined
Southern movement, that would inevitably be
crowned with brilliant success.
The Hon. r. Barnwcil Rhctt referred in
thrilling tones to the illustriOus deceased, with
wbom he had acted in the incipiency of the
measures which were now so rapidly ripening
They were not dead their spirits their exam
pie called upon to rise to the level of the
great duty before us. That duty he had long
connselled IL was to escape the fanatcigm, the
injustice, the greed and the shameless effron-
terry of our foes, by taking our destiny into our
hands, The question tn he decided, was wheth-
or we would submit to he ruled by the North
or whether we would like men and freemen. re.
solve to govern ourselves Mr.. Rhctt very hap
PLY ridculed the idea of any invasion of our
soil, and in any event called upon the country
70 stand fast by right and duty. South Caro-.
lima had history had bred noble race of
statesmen and patriots, had nurtpred people
brave, intelligent of Immaculate honor, of
unsullied integrity. She was to this country
what Athens had been to Greece and she owed
1t TO herself to nterpose her sovereignty in this
great crisis in behalf of regulated liberty
Ex-Goy. Albums showed that every class Of
our people were equally and vitality Interested
in the decision Of this matter His advice was
to try the virtue Of the great principle of State
Rights and tho remedy of separate State ac-
ton. His faith in the doctrine had increased
with the necessity for its exercise. The con-
test WAS upon us, and nothing but the most
active measures could take us safely through
IT, Gov. Adams secuted the idea of coercion.
The accession of States to the present Govern
their withdrawal in spite of tho empty threats
of Douglas at Norfolk, where he pandered to
the Black Rnpublieang, could not be prevented
by force l.
SENATOR YooHBs--We learn from the Times.
that Senator Poombs wore, in the strcots of Co.
lumbas, Georgia. on Saturday last, blue cock