Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-06
Correspondence of the Mercury,
ARMY OF TIE PoToMAC,
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7 ASalu WTltS WlGu llttlc tO COIllinuulcatc.
1t might be interesting to your readers to
know what brgadcs have been formed where
they have been stationed what is the force
of each; how they sustain each other; aud
what are the works with which each outpost
is protected. But as we are face to face with
Il cunning adversary, as our outposts almost
intersect, and as our adversary, however un
willing to meet us in the open field, is not
above taking advantage of any opportunity
that may turn up, and might possibly look
into the war correspondence of the Mercury
for the information that may lead to it, still
think it best to be no more specific thun
have been, and will await until the accom-
plishmcnt of facts shall authorize II full dis
closure of the means by which they came
about.
Still, however, | may say the work goes
bravcly on. Still other troops arrive, aud
among them the admirable Fourth South Car
olina I 'giment, under Col Sloan. This came
! in at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, aud
was received with lively demonstrations Of
! rejoicing. One would think that among so
many arrivals, there would cease to be de-
monstrations of interest, and there is less,
perhaps, than there used to be; but the
coming OF our regiments is looked to with
solctude. Our troops have exhibited the
| spirit to meet the enemy. There is the feel
ing that. in some sort, they have seen service ];
and so, when the Fourth Regiment came in,
though there were no Caroiinians on the
ground to greet them, the greeting was so
general from others that there was scarcely
room to feel the want of more. This rcg-
ment, it is understood, will be in the brigade
in command Of Col. Early, Of this State, and
will also be iii advance Of this positions.
The distance between our lines daily be-
comes shorter, and there is now a space of
only about six or eight miles upon which the
great military game is to be played out.
Since moving upon Falls Church, with 5000
men, the enemy las suspended action. The
move is now with US and, as VIC close upon
him, the assurance is perfect that it will be u
fight or a foot race with him before long
There is still no further movement in the
IIarpcrs Ferry department.. The Northern
papers say that Gen. Cndwalladcr will rccross
the Potomac 1T Willamspnr!, and give battle
to Gen. johnson, or rather will drive him
| from the field. They scenl not to calcu-
late on fighting 10 drive their opponents
before them is their object, and they seem to
take it in bad temper if we arc not driven
| when they say we ought to be. OF the re-
crossing CT the Potomac by Gen. Cudwalla-
| der, however, we have heard nothing yet
| Persons at Winchester day before yesterday,
sny there was no indication of it, and as Gen.
McClcland's column q call it Gen. Nc
| Clelland's column for the reason that he is in
supreme command of that department., al
though | am not sure he has yet come person
| ally into the Statc) has not yet moved for
ward, and would seem to be sufficiently en-
gagged with the irregular forces around it,
there is no reason to believe that wo arc to
have much just at present to disturb us in
that quarter.
| It will be seen from what have said, that
| there are no indication of collision within a
| few days at least, and MS there are other move
ncnts in tho West of much Importance to
| Virginia, at least, ! shall avail myself of the
opportunity Of approaching that theatre of
action Virginia, as have had occasion to
say before, is in a civil as well as a foreign
war. You will have seen that the Conven-
tion Mt Wheeling has declared tho Northwest
independent, and one of The objects of Nc
! Clcllands force is to make this declaration
good. TO make lead against these political
and military movements, Gov. Floyd III the
Southwest, Gov. Wise III the Kanawha val
| Icy, and Col. Garnet in the Northwest arc
each raising force, which ogctiicl they think
will be sufficient to tho enemy in the field,
while they. sevcrally will exert their grcat po.
litical, power in harmonizing public feeling
in the course adopted by the State These
arc gentlemen cmnchtly competent to the
task, and as the interests at stake to Virginia,
at least, arc very great, and are great in fact
to the whole South, | shall, at least run
| down in the direction of Staunton, and there
| gather what | can, until advised by telegraph
! that it is again important to be with tho Army
of the Potomac. l.. w. S.
! A TOUCHING ScENE- When the Cotton
touched at Bruly Landing, to take on board
tho tirrailleurs, an old negro woman in the
crowd was observed to be much excited, and
with almost frantic pleadings begged to go OH
board tho boat. A bystander asked her the
reason for such strange behavior. She replied
that hcr young master was going to be killed
in the war, and that as sho had nurscd him
in infancy, she wished to go and attend upon
him wherever he went. We confess our eyes
felt moist at witnessing such an exhibition Of
| feeling from II "poor, down trodden slave"
to libcrate whom the North has waged an
nnholy war upon us for years. She was not
allowed to 60. ~. t',4 ~
+ West Baton Rouge Sugar I'1aater
I MIssounI. The war in Missouri will prob
ably bormore exaspcratca thun id any other
State. The insults, tho aggressions and op-
pressions practiccd by the Federal NIerccna-
| RIGS Ia ST Louis and elsewhere upon tho