Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-06

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mover was such prospect for an abundant
corn crop. One re'good general rain will,
beyond doubt, mako corn enough for two
years. So everybody says. Cotton rather
poor, but there is plenty of time for that to
como out.
Yesterday (Eust Day. was u,oro u17 irs oisa'' b,
observed among us than ever such day was
before; every store, Office aud shop boing
shut up al day, and very interesting union
service of all denominations was held in our
(Prcsbytcrian) Church. I trust our people
arc beginning to realize tho Importance of
trusting in God for success Our cnuso be-
ing just and right, and God on our side, We
mast conquer peace.
Yours, truly, G. H. D.
FEDERAL OUTRAGEs AT FORTRESS Mon
RoE.-lt was but few days ago that tho Ma.
tonal Mtclttycnccr spoke in glowing terms of
tho proclamation of General Mcdowell, ad-
vising the federal troops to respect private
property. Incidntally, tho Intclligencer spoke
in terms of guarded approval of the conduct
OF the troops thus far. We clip tho follow
ing extract from the Fortress Monroe corro-
spondcncc Of the Now York Tri6umc, as an
evidence of the atrocious manner in which
the troops really do behave:
"Thc outrages committed by our soldiers
on the property, and not unfrcquently on the
persons also, of Virginians conceived to be
scccssionists are disgrace to our army. A
proper degree of discipline would insure the
shooting of platoons of scoundrcls, not AL
priyatcs, who seem to have imbibed the idea
that they came here to pillagc aud Destroy
The outrages that could detail are calculated
to cause every decent man tobush A wound
has been inflicted that never will heal so long
as recollection remains. It sin the hope that
some good may be done thereby that make
this disgraccful confession"
On Thursday two men belonging to the
Georgia forces stationed at Scwoll's Point,
got permission to go out fishing, They took
n negro man along to do tho working part for
them; after getting pretty well out in the
river, they then put over to the cneny's stcn-
mcr-.Anacosta, by whom they were then
turned over to Commodore Stringlam, who
upon the ncgros' begging and crying to be al
lowed to return, was permitted to do So The
white men, who arc of Northern birth, were
retained Of course
lNTEMpERANCE ON TIE Observation-Disclosures
the above caption we find the following para
graph in recent issue of the Cincinnati En-
Qairrr:
"Wc regret to learn, as We do frop, those
whose position enables them to know,by daily
observation, that ntempcranco is frightfully
on the increase among US, The old and the
young, men and women, boys and girls, are
being added with fearful rapidity and in
swelling numbers, as recruits to the army Of
this demon of the family circle and society"
1t will bo remembered that we stated in the
Express short time since, that the blockade
of Lincoln on the Western waters, would de-
stroy the morals aud the lives of the Porkopo.
litcs as well as their pockets. They are pro-
hibtcd from sending their mean whisky out
of Cincinnati, and it must be drunk ut home.
At last accounts it was selling for eleven cents
a gallon. This places it within the reach of
everybody, and it sccms from the above ex-
tract, that they are not slow to avail them
selves Of the cheap terms ut which it is offered
We predicted that Cincinnati whisky would
slay more Ohioians thanSthc sword, but we
did not suppose that oussprophccy would be
verified at such an early day.
Petersburg E.press.
FoREIGN MINISTERS IN TROUBLE
New York paper, of the 1th inst, says:
h' i'"co''' i''s' o"'cl Oh lofc'Sh nP-
Po'htMents appear TO DC turning out badly
Harvey is to be recalled from Portugal as
traitor; Carl Schurz, it is feared, will be
sent back from the Catholic Court of Spain
as a hopeless hereto; Burlingamc is report
cd as already rejected by Austria, because of
his Congressional manifestations of sympathy
for Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi the i'm
pulsive Csssius NJ. Clay. appointed to St. Pc