Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-15


Tho yPermapert Constitution of the Con-
fcderate States was ratified blythe Convention
unanimously. N.N
NEW YonK, juno 10.-Tho steamship
Fulton arrived at this port to day, bringing
advces from Liverpool to the 23d ultimo.
Sales Of cotton for tho two days $4,000
bales, of which spectators mud exporters took
5000 The market closed firm. Sales OIL
Wednesday 1000 balcs-narkct stcady.-
Breadstuifs dulL Wheat in better demand.
Flour declined Cd. Corn active; mixed Bis.
yellow 30 to 32s. Cd. white 83 to 34s.-
Consols OH to 9ls.
.CAmo, juno 8.--Gen. Prentiss, on learn
ing that tho seccssionists had established n
camp at Ellcott's Mills, in eKcntucky, sent
two companies there COL Wyckliffc rcmon.
stratcd against this invasion of neutral State,
but Prentiss replied, {" it ii my determination
to send troops in any direction and upon say
soil that my Government requests"
RICHMOND, June 9.-The Richmond city
council yesterday passed bill for the pur
chase of the residence of Louis ID. Crcnshnw
as q mansion for the President of tho Con-
fcdcrnte States. The cost was 5000.
Hon. Pierre Suulc, of Louisiana, arrived
here last night
From PENSACOLA Twcnty eight hun
.lrcd troops have been transferred from Pen.
sacola to Virginia. The New Orleans Drlta
says that this reduction of Gen. Bragg's COM
mand leaves him ample force to conduct all
the operations against Fort Pickcns Tho
troops leaving comprise the Louisiana batta-
IONS, tho Honavcs, and Georgia and Alaba-
lnn regiment Seven hundred men Of the
cnemy's forces have been landed at Santa
Rosa, with a large supply of provisions, inclu-
ding live cattle. Their purpose is evidently
to establish an cntrcnchcd camp on the island
Gen. Bragg is strengthening and augment
ing his batteries, and making such arrange
,ncnts MS, it is stated, will make the result a
gloriou, one RcnfDrccmcnts ut this season
of the year arc not Of much value, as sickness
will prove dccnator Of the ranks.
It is said that great alarm prevails in Fort
Pickcns, rs the general and his officers have
little confidence in their men. The dry dock
was not sunk i'll the channel, ps, owing to the
want of steamers, they could not get it to the
channel. This is said to be matter of small
Importance. as no vessel can cutter the bay
with impunity. Gen Brown. the commander
of Pickcns, thought the old dock was a float.
ing battery, and sent two communications to
Gen. Bragg on the subject On the assn.
rance Of Gen. Bragg that it was neither a
Trojan horse nor floating battery, Brown s
apprchcnsions subsidized, and affairs Mt Fort
l'ickcns have been more quiet since.
TnE GREAT EARTHQUAKES IN SouTll
AMERlcA.-Lossc ct' YiwcnW 1hounnd Liccs
--Each additional arrival from South Amer
ica swclls the dreadful account Of the num-
bcrs destroyed by the recent earthquake in
the Argentine licpublic. At first VIC were
told seven or eight thousand, then not less
than eleven, and now by an arrival at Boston
from Montcvidao. with dates to the 9TH ult.,
we learn that the number destroyed at Men.
doza, and several small towns in the neigh
horhood ct that city. cannot be less than
2o,oOO. Tho CcntiRclu P.mtnno, of March
3Uth, says: "Thc reason is obscurc.l, the
soul saddcncd. to hear these phrases. Men
doza is to-day a mountain Of ruins, under
which remain scpulchrcd 10000 of her in
l'abitants Human intelligence cannot de-
scribe the sad picture that Mendoza and her
adjacent villages present Scnor Don b.
')rcllano, the last who has arrived from there.
and who merits entire confidence. says that
Mendoza, cnmprchcn;ling the capitri, San
Jose, San Vincent Infcrmllo, Pon1uiu,a,
Pnmeria, and all the other interior districts,
Is today mountain of rubbish and corpscs
of the latter not less than $4,000 to 90
nOo, In the spec which was destroyed
there coull not have been less than 80 900
of both sexes. Calculating that in four
]eagncs Of the area there have parishcd four
to each square, gives 20,736 pcrishcd. Of
anany families of twenty and thirty, not Il
single mcmhcr has BEEN saved Tie details
of the numerous letters from the unhappy
persons who escaped, arc terrible; ther Suf-
ferlngs for the first Gavs were cruel the mar.
rativc of so much su 1oring rcnls the heart