Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-08-03
me OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS TIE

liver the South for the Justice of our oa,'se,
and in answer to thosmany sincere petitions =
which have been offered by Southern Chris.
tians. And here, by way of encouragement
in the hour of need, we subjoin beautiful
story which appeared many years ago in the
Montreal Transcript. The Albatros isa very 4
large, restless bird, and to those who arc fa.
miiiar with its strength and habits, the story
will appear altogether probable The Tram
script says:
"The following most extraordinary circum-
stance is furnished in letter from an officer
of the SD Rcginicnt,n9w in India, to a friend,
in Montreal. Whilstgthe division of thc'83d /
Regiment to which the writer belonged was
on its way to India, being at that time short
distance eastward Of the Cape, one of the mon
was severely foggcd for some slight offence
Maddencd ut the punishment, the poor fellow
was no sooner rceuscd than in the sight ofal
his comrades and the ships crew, he sprang
| ovc,board There was high sen running at
the time and rs the man swept Oh astcm, all
hope of saving him seemed to vanish. Keller,
however, came from quarter where no one
ever dreamed of looking for it before. During
the delay, incident On lowering boat, aud
| whilst the crowded deck were watching the
form of the soldier struggling with the boiling
waves, and growing every moment less dis
| tinct. a large Albatros, such ns are always
found in these ATTITUDES, coming like magic,
with an almost impcrccptiblo motion, ap-
proachcd and made swoop ut the man, who,
in the agonics of the ,dcath-struggle, seized il
and held it firmly in lis grasp, and by this
means kept aRoatuntil tilassistancc asrendcred
} from the vessel Incredible rs his story seems,
the name and position of the writer of tho
letter, who was an eyewitness of the scene,
N place its authority beyond doubt. But for
4 the assistance thus afforded, the writer adds,
M power OH earth could have saved the sol
. tlicr, as, IN consequence of tho tremendous
sea running, a long time elapsed before the
boat could lave been manned and got down
$ All this time the man clinging to the bird
whose futtcrngs and struggles t. escape bore
:, him up. Who after this should dcspairl a
raging sca-a drowning man-an Albatros
). WHO could sec safety under such circunlstan
ces, or who will dare to call this chance! ]!
q it not rathcra n lesson intended to stimulate
faith and hope, and teach us never to despair
y since in the darkest molncnt when the waves
dash and the winds roar, and gulf Seems
~ ~ npar. a,
SC near,
&c EALswourn's FIRE XouAvEs.- The Rich
mond Etun,incr, spcnking Of the arrival o
tnC WouUuCN III IN"t Ci'S
Two cars in this train were appropriated t
the transportation of wounded Yankees, TWEEN
ty.thrce IN number. the majority Of whom be
: longul to Ellsworths Fire Xouavcs. Their
were nmung them, however, great variety O
st uniforms One follow, with bright red pant
C. and blue jackct, told .ns he belonged to tn
14th Regiment Of Now York militia. The
ns were all wounded in the most horrible mal
%, ncr, and as their wounds had received no al
DIS tcntion, they were ina truly pitiabc condition
is Their friends having run off and dcscrtc
RI them, they had lain on the field just whc,
nd their injuries were received until picked Il
M by our troops, and our surgeons being mol
it.h than busy attending to our own woundet
ny their eases were, of necessity, postponed tt
he after their arrival in this city. The most
lis them had been shot in the lower cxtrcmtic
lis One fellow had both OF his legs crushed, Al,
re- several had one leg broken One of the 10,
is, avcs presented most drcadful spectacle.
hc, rifle ball had entered Just below his right cy
an His whole face and head were so swclod All
,ur distorted by inflammation that it is no gre
g." stretch Of language to say that "hisown mot
ION or would not have known him."
In From another of Ellswcrths $ Xouavcs, who
ass left leg had been shattered by a muskct br
ps, let, but who seemed at the time 10 be suncril
Sc little pain, We derived considerable inform
'nc tim He was very intelligent fellow, Al
OF disposed to talk. Ile told us that there we
to not ten Houavcs in tho Regiment of All hu
IS drcd and fifty who did not rejoice when FL
rec worth was killed; that he was one of the nlc
OF brutal and tysanical men that ever lived til
IN he never issued an order without accompnl
ing it with an oath or kick lie also co
18th planned that the 'Southerncrs had done grt
our injustice both to IIllsworth's and Durye
'am ai, Houavcs, by supposng them to be compos
'ith Of the same material as Billy Wilson's " 1
ing Lambs"
ked From TIE K.ANAwHA VALLEY.-Onc
nd General Wisc's Aids, Colonel S. d. McDc
csts mon, has just returned from Charleston,
ncn nawha Hc reports that, on TuesdayX
of Captain Brock, Of the Rockingham CaLii
God together with Colonel Carkson cke
ijah about thrco hundred Of tho cncmy,bars
fed side Of a mountain, twelve miles bel4n of
in lesion, killing between twelve and,ev
slew them. 3SZtwcon
own On tho next day, Wcdnesda yunt;na
,scn four and five o'clock, the cnenyE @Iiont
to.2,5O0, attacked our forocsIhjno 200
title Colonel George S. Patton, cNk. fftoon
the mon, ut tho mouth of CcarrK Kanawha -.
thcl miles below Charleston, on floss Of from
van Tho enemy were repulscd, ,Ied. Colonel
,,cur 0k() ia 100 k;lIrd md III. IL L,s.>,'s,',