Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-11-03
Holstnn Conference.

hecehtIY IN session at ASheYllc, N. o., has
a membership of 52,32l, having increased p
458 in the past year There are in the confer
cncc 662 preachers, travelling and local About
So 900 was collected for missionary purposes.
Tho Nc'cs says the now Chapel at the Female
| College, Is one of the handsomest buildings in
that town. The late session of thc,IIulston Con-
ference was held there. 1t is seventy by fifty
feet, and capable Of seating an immense audi
cnce. The interior is flushed in good taste and
IN fine style.
Visitors to the State Agricultural Fair, to bc
held ut Columbia, commencing on Tuesday,
18Th Novcmbcr next will be passed over tic
GrcenVille and Columbia Railroad for one fare
on Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, Re
ton tickets will be given, good for any day to-
and including Saturday Eth November: and
stock and all articles iateI,dcd t0i erhibitioU
will be transported at the owners risk, free of
charge. For this purpose, special train will
leave Grccnvlle on Saturday, November l0,h,
at O'Clock a. m Persons wishing to avail
themselves of this privilege are reminded of
the necessity of giving notice ut least one week
beforehand, OF the quantity and character of
the stock to be shipped.
Mr.. DoUGTAs.-This itincrant candidate for the
Presidency has made another political raid on the
South, and intends dozen speeches in Tennessee
and Alabama. The New York Tribune warns him
that he may meet the fate of John Brown, and
rather hints that hc deserves il Mt the hands of the
South. 1t finishes him oil thus;
When at Mobile. upon the fifth of November,
MIR. Douglas has made his last specch for the sea-
son, lie will probably take glass of whiskey and
water, smoke n cigar and seek his sheets for slum
Der or reflection. When he arises the next morn
ing, he will shave himself take his cocktail eat
his breakfast read his newspaper and light his ci-
gar again. What will he do then? The business
OF " smashing" will be over He will be n DO.
litician without party, leader without n tail a
general without an army, an advcnturer without
hope schemer without project, a bankrupt
without II resource, politician without principle
! The fragments of +" the machine" will be heapcd
around him; and as another will be sitting in the
White House upon the fifth of March, Mr. Douglas
Will find the occasion favorable for n variety of
moral reflections, which it would be prcstmptuou.
for us even TO Indicate"
| INCREASE OF SLAvEs-Tho increase Of the ne,
groes has been greater than in any previous
decade, and will amount to nearly 33 8 per
cent. The slaves in 1850 numbered 3. .204 ,3I3,
and will not now fall much short Of 4 272, 600
The whites of the savcholding States will mum
Der about 100000, the slaves being a little
more than one-third Of the population of the
Southern States. If the slave population con-
tinuea to Increase at the present rate, there will
be five millions seven hundred thousand slaves
in 1870; in 1880, there will be seven million
| live hnndred thousand slaves and in 1900
thcre will be fourteen million threc hundred
thousand.
SUGGESTION PROM CoL. ORR---Wc learn from tho
! Greenvle Patriot that Tuesday lust Coils Orr
and Ashmore addressed the citizens of the District
in the Court House,, Col. Orr had no hope of the
dcfeat of Lincoln, but would counsel no hasty nc
tion on the part of the State. South Carolina
should not withdraw alone. He differed from 9th
ers in tho opinion that our Legislature should call
| for Convention of the people rs soon ns it was
| aecertained that Lincoln elected. lie thought
| it would be wiser and more prudent that Commits
| sioners should be appointed to 60 to and consult
| with the other Southern States and ascertain the
course they intended to pursue under the oircum-
stances, so that there might be concert of action
Col. Ashmore also thought Lincoln would DC
elected, and counselled that the State should mt
herself into position of resistance, and that when
| tho time comes sue should resist to the dcath
|
! THE Boy WHO is TO DE CoMMoDoRB The bright
est boy of the class inst examined for admission to
! the Annapolis Naval Academy was little fellow
| from Texas, about 10 years of age who had been
! three years setting type in newspaper Office and
had studied mathematics and arithmetic with dip
candle in t'o garret of log cabin at night. He
was poorly clad when he reached Annapolis, and
on being asked how he obtained tho means 20 reach
his money falling short the roue. he had got
| some small jobs at esetting in New Orleans,
and other points of his journey. il he should not
be admitted, he expected to work his way home
| again lie is now to be board the Consti-
tuition In his naval uniform, will, his gilt buttons
| and anchors, LOOKING as bright and hopeful as II
he anticipated becoming commodore
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