Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-30


Vert with their heads on the ground. and
their feet iii the air. Vert is their idea of n
superior power, to whom they talk in this
comical nature when they are disprited or
angry, or tired of ants and snakes, and long
ing for unknown food. The Dokos seem to
come nearest of all people yet discovered to
that terrible cousin of humauity-thc ape.
Souri, CAROLINA REMINIscENcEs-A
correspondent writing from Charleston, among
other things, says: GO | was Yesterday intro
duccd to one of the Licutcnants of the regular
army of South Carolina who is liucal dc.
scendnnt of William Washington, the cousin
of the Father of his Country" Mcpherson
Washington owns that celebrated " crimson
flag of Eutaw," which was carried at that fn-
NOUS fight, rs well as at CowpcnS There is
story connected with that famous piece of
cloth that deserves narration Just before
the battle of Eutaw, William Washington
called upon lady and asked her for some
thing red, to inspire the boys in the coming
fight She withdrew, and returned with the
desired color, carefully wrapped up. Our
Revolutionary mothers wore red pettcoatS in
those days, and, not being able to obtain any
thing else, she sacrificed her crimson juDc on
the altar of her country. The jupc was car
2 IL,
wherever it was seen, the boys thought of their
swccthcarts and wives at home, and struck
for freedom with terrific force That little
flag is still borne by the Palmetto soldiers,
being in the present custody of the Washing
/ ton Light Infantry. "-SpjrH of tie Times
: PROSPECT OF RECoNSTRUCTioN - The
most miserable dclusion that ever entered into
, the minds OF men is that OF the return of the
Scccdcd States to the Confcdcracy. An in
tclIigcnt Nirguian, who has thoroughly tra-
vcrScd these States, expresses the opinion
that there is about as much prospect of their
return as there was Of the return of the Brit.
ish Colonies to Great Britain after the battle
of Yorktown. What should they rcturn for?
WHO will bring them back The Border
States, which have deserted them in their
hour of trial Now that they have worked
out their own salvation and solitary and alone,
established their Independence, will the Bor
der States, who have hung all the while as
milestone upon their nccks, be able to coax
them back to their own yoke of bondage !?
They would better try it? Having passed
triumphantly through the flames OF MARTYR
dom, they are not likely to come back, like a
sow that is washed, to be wcItcring in the
mirc,-Rjchmo"" (lH.) Dj4utch.
|
FLAG LANGUAGE.-Th New York I{cr-
uId says of the Confederate Flag:
The design is striking, and the flnc has the
/ merit OF originality as well as durability
The upper and lower sections composing the
fly part arc red, the middle section white,
| while blue uu;on, containing seven stars in
acircIc, reaches from the top to the lower
red. This flag possesses an hcraldic Siynili-
cancc probably not cOmprchcndcd by the uni.
inflated. The blue union signifies ii,.;.n IS,
/ conStancy, tathtulmcSS the white, purity
and peace and red is cmblcmatic of war
| With the seven stars in the blue, this FLAG
can be read as follows: Bluc-Scvcn States
have been entered into a covenant of Good
Faith. Whtc-To promote the general wei
fare in time of Peace. Rcd-'ro provide
common defence in times of war; 70 assist
the reader to interpret the flag mc'c fully, we
would state that in engraving hcraldc dcyi-
ces 1T is ru'cablc to make the portions decline
ating blue in horizontal lines, and rcd in per-
| pcndicular ones
TUE L. S. ARMY is IN rebellion In 9th
cr words, 1t has been satisfactorily asccrtaincd
at the War Department, through the officers
in command of the several posts at Which the
army is distributed, that the rank and fle re.
fuse to be employed IN cannonading, fu>ihd-
ing and bayoncting their fellow coumtrymcn.
They declare that they were enlisted To- fght
Indians, McXicans, British French. Span-
iards or any other enemies of the country
who might present themselves. but not to
! fight Americans. SO the business of coercion
is at dead lock for the good and sufficient
reason that "cocrcivcs" are not forthcoming.
Hence, Fort Sumter and Fort Pickcns will
! De cVlpn,ItpI hnrnnSn