Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-05-19

1e5hcEDfr 4 81.
following special dispatches fre1 the Char.
lesion Mercury, of Saturday morning;
WASHINGTON, May 10---So far from the
submission address to the Southern delegates
to the Charleston Convention being signed
by every democratic member of Congress, not
a single member of the South Carolina or the
Alabama delegations win Sign it. 1t is hoped
that it will fall dead
Under the gag rule, the Black Republicans
paused Wilmot Proviso bill, repeating all
laws i'll New Mexico establishing or protecting
slavery, by seven majority BY an over
wholming vote, protective tariff bill was
passed, which will proba6ly be defeated in the
Senate, Us will the former bill
Constitutional principles are worse than
nothing with these Sewardtcs.
Several Southern Know Notlings voted for
the tariff bill
IL tho Senate. the characteristic features of
the Homestead bill were destroyed by an
amendment to the committees action, aud it
was then passed. 1t gees back to the House
thus amended, where the original bill will
probably be restored.
The Congressional address to sccclinc dele
gates from the Charleston Convention, to in
duce return at Baltimore, and union of
action among the Southern delegates, still!
hangs FIRE. Some revision has taken place,
but no important changes in the programme
Somc opposition to it is found among the
cotton State members.
WAsuINGroN, May lily Gcsterday, an
other effort WAS made to put the compromi.
sing address on its legs again, but VIC arc
pleased to say that it will probably prove n
fizzlc. Several Southern Senators signed -,
and Representatives, but many of the ece.
ding State members rcpudiatcd it, ii very
properly, upon the declaration II principle
should be maintained withc 1t compromise.
and not make the dcfcat of Douglas tho
simple war cry. 1t is 1ho question of State
equality which cove the whole question,
Douglas and all IL him.
AN ApoLlr oNlsr WHIPPED AT KINGS.
VILE by }. BALTIMoREAN.-A Struggling
fellow (r ssinS himself Of rs white man,
out " loved to be a free ncgro,) was soundly
WIN .pcd at kmgsvilc, on Sunday, between
TO and three o'clock in the afternoon, by
Gr. B. Franklin Cole, from the firm of Str;,uS
Hartman llofin Il Co., of Baltimor"
Mr.. Cole overheard Hare So at Mary
land was an Abolition State, ~ boastful
way He Immediately gave it the lie, and
made towards him. Some words cnsaed
during whca the true hearted Bahimorcan
manfully stoud his ground, and the strsslcr
gave abundant evidence of his being an Abo-
litionist of tho most low and dirty charactcr.-
Soon it was spspicioacd that he was but an
impudent free negro, rom some Northern
locality This he acknowledged, upon being
push up little. NJ. Cole then took him
aside, into an apartment of the Kngsvillc
Hotel, made him pei off, and gave him the
limit of the law, swcl-fllcd, pressed down
and shaken togcthr," upon his bare back.
S0mtcr lYutchmun.
PrRiIous PosfIoN-on Thursday morning
last little girl aiout two years old, of Mr. Wm'
Mcdaniel, who resides few miles from this
place. after brakfast went out into the ward To-
play In a sbrt time Mrs. Mcdaniel was hor
rfed at secig her little girl coming totteriny
along the pth toward the house with a LARGE
copper-heatsnake in her hands. The child had
| one hand nst below the neck and the other
about theniddlc, and the forked tongue of tho
venomoU creature was projecting from its mouth
in the hoSt savage manner. The mother vas
acknowledgement to death, and our informant
says TIT she has not gotten over the fright vet
A mc'ber OF the fmily Immediately ran tn the
chil3 and. after some difficulty. srccec,oJ In
resring it from it's perilous situation wthomt
bog bitten The child evidently thought it
he, found a pretty plaything. and the GOODNESS
othe morning had undoubtedly bcnumbed the
@nke so that it was not so active as il otherwise
i'onld have bccn.--N7com 90. (Ea) Rep.
ATLANTA, May 12-Thc Democratic meet.
ing, previously announced took place here to,
day, Amotion made to djoun for one week.
but lost. The Postmaster defended the SO.
eession Of The Georgia Delegation, and de-
nounccd Judge Dougas as a traitor to the
Democratic Party and to the South. A Com
nlttee of five was appointed to draft rcsolr
lions a portion of the Committee reported
The Tennessee resolutions, aud the other por-
non the majority resolutions of the Charles |
.on Convention. Mr.. GaskclI advocated the
'doptlon. of the former, and Mr.. b. G. Yanccy
.he latter, in a speech of considerable length.
The meeting then adjourned for one week.
Democratic Meeting.