Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-02


Force.
An Act 20 raise Supplies for the year COM
mencing in October, one thousand eight hum
! dred and sixty.
An Act to make Appropriations for the
year commencing in October, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty
An Act Creating Military Establishment
for the State of South Carolina, and for other
purposes
An Act to amend the Charter Of the Town
OF Georgetown in sundry particulars
An Act to renew and amend the Charter
of the Town Of Grecnviie.
An Act to authorize the appointment of n
special Magistrate for the Town of Summer
vile, and an additional Magistrate for Lex
ington District.
An Act to repeal certain Acts in relation
10 the Registration of Births, Marriages aud
Deaths in the State of South Carolina.
ODrTUARY.-Thc accidental shooting of Mr.
Strnwinski has already been noticed. His wound
has proved fatal He died on Saturday night. We
ciiP the following obituary notice from the Charles
ton Wercury:
Died. on Saturday night. at the Marine lIospi.
tnl. Thaddeus s. Strawinski. aged ~ years and
DAYS, from mn accidental wound from n revolver.
rms promising young man was duty in tho
Columbia Artillery, mt Fort Moultrie wien the
S''N hCC'ucHt occurred lie was noble fellow,
ami Just week after entering tue Freshman Class
of the South Carolina College, with his spirted
Inther joincd the ranks al the cnll Of the State.
hhie on the litter being carried to the hospital,
ne said TO thoso who were conveying him, "Frcnds,
oh how sorry am you are to attack Fort Sumter
without me-" During his suffcrings he momrncd
that he could not be Mt the taking OF the Fort. lie
was calm and resigned. aud met his end prayer
I"i'y with the Lords Prayer on his lips, moth
crs gentle influence soothed his dying hour ard
n soldiers spirit ncryeU n fnthnra IN rrsipu
his son to his Creator. The sympathy of the whole
community is with them in their berea' eu.ent.
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len NEWSPAPERS were first established, they
were quite destitute of advertisements and nothing
was more common than for papers TO be issued
with blank page The first newspaper printed in
America had only three pages of reading mnttcr,
rs there was not foreign or domestic news enough
TO NIL out all the columns. In England. after u
while. n new method was adopted to fill up the
space not required for the current news, by pub
Ishtng selections from the sacred scriptures. and
many nm old newspaper is now extanl with whols
page copied from tho Bible. Chapters from the
New Testament were placed mt the head Of tho
column, and the space below was filed ont with IL
psalm of the required length. In the period which
this, to MS novel. proceeding was rcsorted to. to
I'LL out the newspaper, the Bible was not so com
mon or so cheap as nt present, and doubtless much
good resulted from the practice. What would
some of the subscribers to popular Journals say
II their favore sheet was to appear with seven or
c'ph Columns selected from the ScripturcSg Doubt
less in some quarters. even in our day extracts
from the Bible would be "ncw indced!'
RecoGNproN or rnE New CoNrEDERAcY.-
has been alreM vnotieedth that the Toronto Lea,ier,
said t" be an influential journal announces that
he new Cotton Confcdcracv will be recognized
by Great Britain as soon ns formed.
The Washington correspondent of the Rich
mond Esdmiier, a very reliable source, says:
IL hear fr'm reliable authority thnt tho
ID g
will recognize promptly the Independence uf
the new Southern Confederacy. Assurances Of
this have been given in n way which leaves no
doubt as 10 the result. 1t may Le counted on
with certainty that any attempt tn block np
Southern trade will be put dawn by England
and France. They must have the cotton"
ALABANa-The popular vote of Alabama. at
the recent election. stood thrtv-fye thpnsnnd
seven hundred and seventy.six fur immediate
secession, and twenty-six Thousand two hundred
and eightvsix fnr co.opcra,ion. NuLody troub-
led themselves about the Unioal
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 22.-The TImee of
Delegates yesterday passed. by vote "f 81 to
u, resolutions declaring that in view or the
mon and moncv rendered by several Northern
States to the Federal Government, Kentucky.
uniting with her brethren Uf the South will re.
sist the Invasion nf Southern soil mt all hazards
and to the last extremity.
New ORLEANS. Jan. % Fifty ships cleared
from this ptTt yesterday, with ll0, 900 bales Of
cotton.
SEIZURE OF ARMs AND MUNITIONS OF WaaSAr
NEW loRS.-Thlrty. eight cases of nuskets,
containing two dozen ench. and n quantity Of
balls and gunpowder were seized Tuesday bythe
New York ril:ce an hoard the steamer Month
cello. abnnt tn sail for Snvaonah. Fifty sol
diers arrived Mt Frt Hamilton. New York.
Tuesday, from West Point.
BosT,N. January GA c ,mmittee, consist
ing of Edward Everett c. Winthrop. Amps
Lawrence. h. S. Tohey. aud Chas L. Woudbo-
ry arrived in this city last night, with a mann.
moth Union petition, signed by about lIOO0
persons.
PATR"Ttc-W: NJ. Thomas. Esq. of Green
vile. pr"ilers tn be one of twenty TO raise ten
thousand dollars for the benefit Of the families
of the poor men of the Greenvile volunteers.
PENSACOLA. Fla. january 26-The voun.
teerE are making every preparation for stormine
Fort Ptekens. 1t is known TINT the steamer
brooklyn is on her way to this place with rein
forcements.
SOUTHERN PATRIOTISM learned veater.
day at Cahaba. says the Battle (Aln.J Lttetliqea-
Ger, that Joei II. Mathews, Esq. had viyonlto
the Governor of Alahama ttuo Gu,,d,e1 and sec.
cnty bales 9f cotton, TO DO sold and the proceeds
applied to strengthening the dofences of tho
State It was shipped at the ST. Charles yea.
terday evening. Mr.. Mathews has also offered
TO the State the service Of two hundred negroes
m he