Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-11

n ertt 0rnly y, senta message 70 the n0ted Pard0n
Brown 10y, eq1esting bin to serve as Chaplain.
i The Reverend Individual epliedtin oharac-
4 tcristio stylo, saying :: g When IsshaM havS
madc;ap my mind to go to? o?lIell.I wilIcut my
/ thfoat and go dsrect, md not trasol round by,
way Of the, Southern Confederacy.', Wehopo
3he will try tho experiment, Whether he ,sao
caeded in rencliing his destination or not, by,
50 doing he would rid the lind of his presence
i ---"acopsummation most ieyoutly tobo. .Yish-
lss'Ss AWFUL CArAsrRoPHE.---a despatch dated
Eric, Pennsylvania, April Is, says; An awful.
catastrophe ihapponeta last night on the Buchan.
an farm, in tho oil rcgions. The gas from q
spoatiny we'll touk Gre aud exploded, killing
sevon men, Among them was Mr.. Rouse. an
,ox-member of the Legislature. The Buchanan.
farm, onwhioh 100 wells are yielding oil, il now
in lames as all tho wols are now on fire. Tho
loss in oil, dorricks, So. is n,uonsc
DisTREssINc AcciDENr.-N Near Middleton, in
Hyde Conaty, North Carolina, on the 18th ulti-
mo, a young nun named Samuel Ball acci.
dentally shot himself while drawing wad
from gun, when tho gun exploded and drove
the ramrod through his face into his brain.--
IIe survived but few, hours
Tus CosT. The United Statos Treasury real.
lied over 800, 100000 from the salor of lands
given by Virginia and Gonrgia. This is moro
thnn all wo,paid to France. Spain and Mexico
for Territories: At tho beginning, the Union
had no Territories but those.
TnRoUoH TRAvELTo THE NoRra.-I,iu Bny
line between Norfolk aud Baltimore ia ::ow
running regularly rs heretofore. carrying az
tho Mails, North and South, with it's usual punc-
tualty. Passengers will experience no incon-
vcnience or delay, by this route, but can make
tho usual connections from Charleston to New
York via Norfolk.
NoRru CARoLlNA.-Th Convention bill,
which wc reported as having passed the House,
unanimously, has since passed tho Senate.-
There wero three negative votes. The election
of delegates will, therefore, take pnce on tho
18th instant, and the Convention will meet on
the Goth
RfralsAis. = The detention of NTomphis prop.
erty ut Cincinnati, heretofore noticed by tele.
graph naturally provoked tho Inhabitants of
tho first named city to make reprisals The
steamers Lady Jackson, Captain Samuel Dean,
from Cincinnati, and tho Citizen, from Pitts.
burg, were both waited on anil informed that
they would be detained at Memphis till such
time MS the people of Cincinnati forwarded the
goods illegally arrested.
| DEATH OF PRoMISEST CiTIzENs.---The Char.
lesion papers announce the death of Col. Ed
ward Is. Bryan of st. Johns Collcton; also of
| Mr.. Samuel S. Farrar, of Charleston.
TIE Alexandria G>.sette says: We cannot.
see. entertaining tho sentiments towards the
Southern people which they now profess why
the Northern people should wish to live with
thom one hour under the samo government
| The Snnth Knows that living together is no lon
ger agreeable or even possible. Why not agree
to separate in peace? -
| Cor. TENcm c.. CARsoN-;Wc regret to learn
tho doath Of Col Tonoh c. Carson. lie died
ut his residence in Grecnville District, on SAT-
nrday last, attcra protractol illness. Col Car
son at one time represented Spnrtanburg Dis
trict in tho State Legislature, and was much
beloved by ourpooplc.
| TIE TMREAT-Tho National {" PrDullicau.n
in its issue on Thursday, in Washington, thus
announces the policy and the purposes of the
Lincoln Government: There is to be no pcaco
except upon the basis of tho unqualified sub
mission Of those in revolt. There is to be no
recognition of any pretended Southern Conftd.
cracy. There is to be no pcaccable assent to a
| separation of those States. The Govornmen,
is to be maintained, in that plain, straight.for-
ward way in which all Governments are main.
tained, by coercion. The leaders of the con
spiracy IRE to bo driven out of the country or.
to be hanged"
STEALING WoRKMES.-lt is confidently be.
licvcd from ato advicos from Pensacola, that
the twenty negroes stolen by United States
vessel from Tortugas. are at work near Fort
| Pickons. ~
| PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND.--The Cover.
nor of Pennsylvania. in his message, declares
that Pennsylvania will open q passage from the
North to Washington, as essential to trade md
transit. and that whethor Maryland is in or ont
OF the Union. no hostile soil will bc permitted
70 lie between the Capital and tho States loyal
to tho Union.
Nsw JERSEY GALlASrRy.-A young ia,,y.
formerly of Georgia. was expelled from tho
Grove Street Baptist Churcl,.- in Now Jersey,
City last Sunday, for rplayfully displaynga se-
cessiop badge.
Mexico.-Thcre has boon another nipiste.
rial crisis ut the Mexican Capital Sonor Mata
has been appointed Minister Of Finance ond