Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-09-29
The Rlna RIDGE.

in the State in consequence of the abandonment OF
the connection from Knoxville to Cincinnati South
Carolina was aiming at direct connection with
the great grain growing States. She did not ente,
upon the cons ,ructon of this road with any expcc
tation tlat it would stop at Knoxville and when
work on the line beyond that point was abandoned
the hopes of her people disappointed, and
they were on the eve OF awaiting more auspicious
time for its completion. In another column will
be found another article from the Knoxville Wig,
/ in which is given remarks made by Judge
| Frost before the people of that place. 1t will be
| seen that his hopes have been greatly revived by
! progress being made in the construction of the
Knoxville and Kentucky road, which will cross the
immense coal-ticds Of the Cumberland. If the
| people of Kentucky would now press forward with
the Covngton and Danve road and thus meet
| the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad the policy
of South Caroline making further appropriation for
the completion of the Blue Ridge Railroad would
be endorsed, we believe by very large majority
/ TIE completion of the North Carolina Railroad
| from Ashevle to Ducktown in Tennessee, will also
I enhance the value of the Blue Ridge Road because
the former would be but feeder to the latter as
the produce of all that section of country would find
a better market in South Carolina than in North
Carolina. We sincerely hope that these circum-
stances may all 80 combine ms to make the compile
tion of the Blue Ridge Road no longer matter of
doubt and hestancy but one in which all may unite
with zeal and confidence CdroIinian.
JUDGE FROST KNoXvmLE-PRospECTs OF THE
CINcLNNATG CoNNEcTIoN.--We find the following
in the Knoxville Why, of recent date
Judge Frost, President of the Blue Ridge Rail-
road Company accompanied by Major Gwynn the
Chief Engineer, has been n visit to our city,
having come over line of the road, in private
conveyance. On Thursday night, the Judge de-
livered an address in the Court House. OF near
two hours in length, which he characterized in
his opening remarks, 'a verbal report of the
progress and condition of the work. Our best
citizens were In tendance, and listened with
more than ordinary attention. Judge Frost is n
| ia 4
is candid, honest and agreeable gentleman, who
VIII command respect wherever he goes
HIS report was most cheering, under all the cir
cumstances, and presented n much more favora-
BILE state of things than prepared for.
VI the SI,OOO, 600 the road is estimated to cost
about $4,000, 600 have been expended so that
the work is more than half done. The half of
the 1876 miles are not complete, but the heaviest
work on the road has been under contract and
| pressed forward The Judge assured us that
whatever suspicious might exist ls to the pur-
| poses of the Company diycrging towards Duck
town and Chattanooga, they had ne other pur-
| pose, and had never entertained any other than
to complete the main road to Knoxville rs soon as
! it was practical to do so. True, he said they de-
! sired all the branches and feeders to the main
trunk thai could be built and especially was it
the wish of the Company as we'll as their inter.
| est. to connect with the Chattanooga and Georgia
road, by way of Ducktown. But he repeated
| that, in good faith, the Company would complete
! the main trunk to Knoxville as soon MS circum-
stances would allow of it. lie was agrceably dis
| appointed, and much encouraged, upon arrival
hero, to find that the Knoxville and Kentucky
| Railroad Company had thirty miles of their road
under way, and would shortly have the cars run
ming upon portion of that lie had been out
on portion of that road and could make an en-
couragng report to the people &C Soutl, Carolina,
upon his personal know wledge He could
assure them that before they were through to
| Knoxville, the prospects were that Knoxville would
be through to Kentucky
lie entertained not single doubt that the
South Carolina Legislature would now make them
such appropriations rs would enable them to pro-
gress with the work. The canvass for members
of the General Assembly was going on and dis
tricts which were supposed to be in opposition,
and whose Representatives and Senators voted
against the bill granting aid, were almost unan-
imous in favor of the aid required.
At the close of the Judges speech and after
consultation, the following resolution was of
| ferred by ouro own citizens and adopted by unun-
| imous vote
Resolved That our thanks arc due, and are
hereby rendered to Judge Frost, for his clear and
manly exposition of the present condition and flu
turc prospects of the Blue Ridge Railroad and
that under his management and direction, we
| have entire confidence in the completion of the
road to Knoxville, Mt the earliest day practicable.
| The EQuINoX-Our section has thus far es-
capped the gale which is generally expected mt
this season of the year says the Charleston
| Merc'Dy known as the Equinoctial gale. -
The North was visited with gale about a week
ago, which though me- very serious did some
considerable damage to the shipping; and off
New Haven harbnr the brig Mary Price. Capt.
| Clifford, with cargo of lumber. was eapsized
and seven persons, including the Captain, were
drowned. From Mobile we learn that II most
Setoio storm raged there on Saturday, flooding
one-thrd of the city, at n loss of $1,000 000.-
The brig r II Dixy was wrecked in Mobile Bay,
| and sixteen lives lost
THE IIENDERsoN INCENDIARIEs IIuNG-Wc
learn from the Henderson CTexas) Times that
after patient and protracted investigation. the
! vigilance committee found Green IGerndon and
his servant girl guilty of burning the town of
Henderson, and they were hung on Saturday,
August 25th
AcTIvITY OF THE GRAIN TRADE The Bnlti.
more ErChange of the 18th inst, says AS an
indication of the revival of business in our
midst and to show the great activity of the
| grain trade in this market we have only to
mention the extraordinary sales of yesterday.
there being nearly one hundred thousand bush
els OF wheat and iCty thousand bushels of other
grain sold on Change. The demand for wheat
was very active.
GALLANT-Gov. Moore, of Alabama, has Civ
on new direction 70 gallantry, and manifest
ed his preference TO the female sex in novel
way. 1t is reported that finding the pcniten.
tiary at Wetumpka too full, he has discharged
the female convicts to make room for the males
TIE OLDEST Man IN THE UNITED STATEs.-
The editor of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Times re-
Gently visited Solomon Pangborn of the Rising
SIN, Indiana, who says he was born in the
City of New York, small town of five or six
hundred houses, in l725. He is consequently
1876 years old