Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-12-08
Spirit Spirit of the Tim5s.


FRoM GEoRcIA.-C CoIusBUs, Saturday, Nov.
Z4-Iho demonstration made hero to-day was
the greatest ever seen in Western Georgn All
the merchants closed their stores and Joined in
the procession Flags and bunners were stIs-
pended on the streets, the emlitary and Southern
Guard paradcd in professions and cannon were
tred MS salute to tho Southern COnfcderacy.
Messrs, 9onccy and Rice spoke in the morning
10 crowd of five thousand people. John Cocl.
ranc. of Alabama speaks Tonight. with Sem.
tor lverson and Mr. Crawford. Nine-tenths of
the people linen. women and childrem--wcar
the disunion cucknde The secession feeling
seems to porvadc all classes.
LARGE MLETING-D During tho week pnst large
ana imposing meetings have been held in tho
citlcS OF Griffin, Macon and Columbus Ga. In
the latter Hon. Wm. l.. Inuccy spoke and the
greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Six hundred
minute men with the blue cockadc were in pro-
ceSslon, and all the business houses were clos ed
In Macon and Griffin great feeling prevailed
At the meeting in Columbus among the letters
received 10y the chairman was one from Senator
Hammond, in which he said "that South Caro-
lima would scccdc on tho 18th December, high
and dry, and forever"
FUoM MARYLAND- -BALTIMoRE. Nov o7. 10
m.-lhc Palmetto Hng male after the pattern
OF those in South Carolina. is luntiug to tho
breeze upon our streets AS it was huiste it
was salutcd with tremendous cheering. The
feeling for secession is growing stronger in Ma.
ryland every day. The greatest enthusiasm is
manifested for the cause of Southern rights and
Southern Independence.
ArcusTA, November 81 Dispatches received
in this city from jackson Miss, state that the
Legislature merely organized tn-dnv, and the
Governors Message was delivered Its tome il,
nncompromiSing. The members arc ununimuus
ior secession: g.. .
PuLAprLrIIA, Npvomber co-BuSiuess ofnll
descriptions is very dull here. EAcrythi will
bc at II stand still until the southern troubles
are arranged.
MSSIsSirrI-An immense meeting of Missis
slppl"ns was held last week at Jackson in that
State. Speeches were made by Gov. pcttus.
Hon "A. q. Brown, Judge Ghuls"n Mai Barks-
dale, and others Resolutions were adopted
expressing settled determination never to sub
nit to Abolition rule The last resolution is as
follows:
Rcso'rcd, That we symrathi$c fully with the
people OF Suuh Carolina, feeling that their
cause is our cause, and that whatever may be
the final determination of the people ut this
State respecting their relations to the existing
Uninn, VIC caumut bat regard II blow struck Ut
South Carolina, or any other Southern State as
a blow struck at us, and that it is our duty TO
oppose and resist any attempt. from any quar-
ter, to molcSt her or them in their efforts To cs
cape from the sectional tyranny about to be in
augurntcd.
THE AUGUSTA BANEs To SUSpEND-Angusta,
December 2-lt is generally conceded here that
all our banks will suspend on Monday murnimg.
One section of the recent Bank Act suSpends
the legal collection Of all debts until December
lSGl
WAsnINCroN, Dec 3--A Union meeting was
here among the Senators and ltcrre.
Scntativcs for this evening; but it WAS mdcti.
n'eIy postponed at the suggestion Of Senator
Criucndcu.
THROWN OCr or EMrLrrMENr-The New
York JoWndt IF COmntcIcc thinks it would
probably be no cxaGgcratiun to estimate the
number ot persons thrown out of employment
since election day, ut 2j. .000 IL large proportion
OF whom arc young women. One clothing cs.
tabiiShmcnt IN New York has discharged 1000
hat establishments has DISCHARGED
nearly l,OUO saddlery firm las reduced it's
ioroo about 800; aud curtaimcut is very gcucr-
III. At Newark, especially. the crisis is severe
lEfett, ON account OF their extensive connections,
with the Southern trade.
TmE STATESMEN OF GEORGIA SrEAKING Our.
We fnd the following document in tie Mil
lcdgevilc kcoierM Unton of Tuesday. Ue
names appended are worthy of attention:
We recommend to the Joint Committee on
the state of the Republic the passage of II bill
calling IL Convention of hie people of the State,
To meet nt an carly day, and We recommend us
n preamble to the bill,
Whereas. the pres cnt crisis in our national
affairs, in the Judgment of this General Assem-
bly,, demands resistance and whereas it is the
privilege and right of the sovereign people to
determine upon tho mode, measure, and time of
such resistance. Therefore bc it enacted, &C.
Joseph H. Brown, Alexander III. Stephens, r.
Toombs, Joseph III. Lnmpkn. Richard +. Lyon
Charles j. jenkins. by II. Toomhs, j. w. A.
Sanford, Horny l.. Bcnning. Garnet Andrews
Linton Stephens, Martin j. Crawford, Bcnja-
min II. Hill. Francis S. Barlow. James Jack
son, ThnS. II. II. Cobb, llcrSchcl Y. Johnson
Eli III. Baxter, John VI. Howard,
FRoM WAsnlNGToN.- Washington, November
25-Thc President is in receipt Of numerous
letters from various leading men in the Cotton
State, saying that secession is no longer n spec
ul0tion, but an absolute certainty, and urging
him to offcr no resistance to pGaceablc separa-
ration. as it would do ITO good. but involve his
Administration in disgrace. They promise to
let him close up his term without unnecessary
trouble, provided he ducs not interfere. Only
one letter of n large number has brcnthcd
Union sentiments, and the writer begged that
some step should be taken at once to arrest the
tendency of things.
Private adviccs Of reliable character from
Texas state that the Lone Star flag will be again