Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-17
News from Alabama.

gong on at CStell Hail. CnarIeS Il. IOlaru,
Esq, President of the West Point Railroad,
on taking the Chair, made most forcible and
telling resistance speech, which was most en-
Enthusiastically received.
Governor Moore was called to the stand.--
lie stated publicly that he would summon
Convention of hopeople, to meet in thirty
days
Our people here, and in Selma, arc unani
nous for resistance.
ii p. m.-The mass meeting at Estell
Hall. is still in session. Speeches were made
by L. H. Watt, Il. w. Pettus, and Hon.
George Goldthwaith, all of whom spoke in
favor of separate State action. The speech
es were all received with the greatest enthu-
siasm. Mr.. Goldthwaith made most pow
erful and eloquent speech, MS indeed did pll
the orators
Mr. Ynncey has risen to the stand, after
cheer that shook the building.
Judge Ricc's resolutions, rccommendings
pirate State action without delay, will be
adopted unanimously.
All party lines arc oblitcratcd. All arc now
unanimous Never before was there such
meeting in Montgomery.
THE LATEST Nothing WAS ever seen here
to equal the enthusiasm of the resistance meet
ing held here last night. The speeches of
Gov. Moore Judge Pcttus. Judge Cl,nton,
Col. Yancey, and Mcssrs. Goldthwoith and
Rice, were received with tremendous cheer.
ing. The Bell electors including Mr.. Daw.
son, of Dallas County, are unanimous for
secession. The rcsolu ions adopted affirm
the principle of separate State action. but
express a willingness to consult with the
other Southern States
The people are a unit for secession, and
Alabama will certainly dissolve her conncc-
ton with the Federal Government
SAvANNAU November 9.-Adviccs from
Milledgcvillc, received in this city, state that
the Governors special message was received
with tremendous opplause--cvery body en-.
dorsing it. The Legislature of this State en-
dorscs the course Of Sonth Carolina Senator
Toombs has resigned his Office as Senator from
Georgia, and goes for immediate action with
South Carolina. The citizens of NIlcdgcvillc
are nll wearing blue cockadrs.
The State Of Georgia, from tho mountains
to the scaboard is determined to resist Lin.
coins election.
REFUSAL OF FEDERAL JUICES TO HOLD
OFFICEUNDER LINCOLN. Montgomery, Ala.
from Apaachcola, stating that Mcqueen and
Mcintosh, Federal Judges of Florida, will
not hold Office under Lincoln.
THE Policy OF THE ADMINIsrR ATloN.-
Washington. Nov. 9.-lt is understood here,
in the best informed circles, that the Admin
istraton does not feel called upon to take ac.
tion in the present condition of affairs in the
hnt, ,uli inf A. I. Al,
dcnt will cautiously avoid any act which
might, by any possibility, cxaspcratc She pub
lie mind.
New ORLEANS. November 1.-THE steam.
ship Benvile Capt. Bullock from Havana.
the Sth instant arrived ut this port To day.
The sugar market was dull and quoted nj 81
rinls. Grinding had commenced. Dy this ar
rival we hnve later accounts ffr,m Vera Cruz
Accounts from that city to the 2Sth ultimo state
that the Constituiunnlists lost >, 900 men by tho
explosion OF n mine at Guadaluara and after
wards ra scl the siege
INDIAN MASSACRE Dallas Noun-
tujneer contains a letter written from the
UmutiIla Indian Reservation, by it's Super.
intcndcnt, on the 3D. of October, giving an
account of another Indian massacre. The
letter says:
Yesterday, two brothers named Keith ar
rived here, reporting that the train to which
they belonged had been attacked by the
Shoshoncs or Banack tribe of Indians; that
large number of emiSrants had been killed,
and the remainder driven away from their
wagons and scattered The mcn arrived here
much exhausted having subsistcd on some
dried horse meet for twenty,one dayo' The
names Of the murdered are MS follows: J
Myers, Wm. Autlcy, Lewis Lawson, Jus.
tice CrceEe, Charles Kersner, Elijah Otter
and hIs wifi, three daughters and one son.
When the brothers Keith left the train
there were alive Joseph Myers wife and
five children A. McNormau, wife and
five children: Daniel Chase, wife and three
children Sam'l Gleason, Charles JefFy, MI
Munsay, and six children of Elijah Otter
When last heard from they had nothing tc
eat. Some provisions have been sent t.
their assistance, and it is hoped they will
arrive in time to save them from starvation
The attack was made between Salmon Falls
and Fort Basc. If they are yet alive the
supplies will save them.
WARNINGS TO THE NORTH-The New
York Herald of Moaday, the day before the
election, has quite number of articles and
communications from the South, warning the
people of the North that the Southern States
would act in the event of Lincoln's election
Notwithstanding all these they have reckless
ly lisregIrded them, and it remains but fol
the South to show that she was in earnest
The Herald, in one article, saws:
In South Carolina the Legislature, which