Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-09

Az ATTACK. ON WAseINGT0N.- A .dcspatch
from Washington to, the Alexandria Gd=ete,
snys:
a." II is now asccrtainc,l from rclinble snurcca
in Richmond. that tho course pursued by Gen.
Scott IN ordering trsiops to ihis city aud in his
nropnsca Concentration here of ull available
force. Is owing tn the information he has reccy.
ed from tile right quarter; that it, in the ap-
rroaehing election for members of the Virginia
state Convention. mliorty is chosen in favor
OF SECESSION. that Conventiou WHOM ASSEMBLED
on the l3'h proximD, l,y virtue nf the wefs YES
tel in itself will supcrscie Gov. Lecher. tho
sitting Legislature, aud 0rderthe armed voluu-
tcer eompaniesN seize and hold possession nf
the National Capitpl-:lence the organization of
The minute men and the armins of the separate
counties. -
RALEcu, Feb. la resolution is now. uadcr
consideration in the Legislature delariAg that,
III case sectional difficulties nre not speedily re-
cancelled North Carolina will gowith the South
The Military Bill comes next. -
| The Commissioners frumthis State 20 Alabama
lett tnr Montgomery to-day. Those appoipteI
to Washington will probably letye to. nrprr.av.
All is going ON quietly. Preparatipns,tu tn elect
Delegates to tho State Convention are progress
ing.
| Coon AlATERIAL'FoR SoLDiERs.--A letter
from Warrenton, Fla, to the Pensacola OF.
Fseraer, thus describes private in one,of tho
companies N, 80, -
Professor Day is just six and a half feet
high in bis stockings. Iiiswcight is three
hundred and ten pounds, aud he measures
seven feet IN the girth. lie is the talIcat
and biggest nam in the regiment, and is noted
for his great strength as well as for his huge
proportions. lie has been known TO shoulder
six bundped bale Of cotton, and hns ,frc
qnaeptly trken awliskey barrel by the chimes,
| rolsed; IT at nrms' le 9Th, and drank Mt the
oun8 hole. On one caslon he thre%,s. mus
tang pony and his rider over a tGn.riil fence.
nor thls offence he7was tried and enn victcd
IN the Circnit Court of Lauderdple County.
aud h0ed live hundred dollars! This re,nafkI
ebie man us the youngest aud. SMALLEST of
seventeen brothers. His father is two inches
taller than he 10, but hot ,ythick.sot Ills
brothers arc tuller, but nene of them are so
| stont as the frofcsser. tits necessary to re-
mark. TINT his father has been tN;e married
ana has eight ohildren by his frst wifo aud
nine by his present wife. ~ & ut,
The Professor is the si.rinoipal of the Ma.
rioD High School, and is q learned man In nv.
cry sonse of the world. He is nSsster, nf-
six languages, and as mathematician he bos
! no superior. He is, besides. one oP tho hssl
men living, and is noted for lis tood pature.
lie never had but one fght in hsilife. and
thon he killed horse and nearly murdered a
AZ ARMY or 0DsERvATIoN.---Th Chica-
80 Dsn'oc,uf says. that a n,oyen,ent is ON foot
20 cali o, monster Republican Conyention of
100000 men,, to be bcld at Osacianati ison
the I'd OF Mslch, The, delegates of this
Convention are expected to bo armed and
equipped for any necessary service. and will
hold themselves in readiness to 90 10 WISH
ington city on the 4th Of March, or in INV
other direction who're Generals Scott end
Wool may order them to moyo. !. - ! s. /.
/ AIJa Is a hector towards God, and a