Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-22
Pshhings and Clippings. !

""u ~ r NlchOlson represent Pickens district
we'll in this spirited corps.
YANKEE PATRIors--It is said that many o
the soldiers now.in Fortress Monroe on learn
ing that Billy Wilson's band Of desporndoes had
been ordered to that point, gathered all thci,
little valaobles, put thom in bags, aud buried
them.
lEssIANs-This has always been an opprobi
Gus epithct with Americans ever since tho Rev.
olutionary war. George III employed IIcssians
to lick US. Lincoln employs all clnsses of for.
eigncrs to lick us. We licked Old Georges
lIessians, and we'll lick old Abos.
INDIAN WAR-,Tho Davenport (Iown) GUzeNc
loarns from Desmoincs that three thousand In.
dians, apparently with hostile intent, werc
within fifty miles Of Sioux City, aud TINT tho
whole northwestern part of the State was in
great alarm from the npprohended attack.
a Hon PRIvArE.--IIon WIN. A. Forward,
Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court o(
Florida, has enlisted as n private in The ranks
of Company recently organized in Putnam
County.
TIE CnARLEsToS BANKs-1he banks Of Char.
lesion. IN compliance with the recommendation
OF the Bank Convention recently held in Atlanta,
have agreed " to receive in payment Of all dues
to them the Treasury Notes to bo issued under
the Act Of Congress of May l6, 1861, and to re.
ceivc the same OH deposit. and nay tl,om out
again to customers"
TIE WESTERN FoRcEs-Gcn. McCulloch has
taken command Of the Western forces and hns
made rcquisitions for six regiments upon Ar
kansas, Texas, Louisiana, and the Indhn rcr.
rt"ry. Albert Pike goes with him as Indian
Commissioner.
NoRTn CAROLINA TEA-Thc Washington IN,
C.) DispofcA says that it has recently drank
somo green tea, the dona tile greon tca of China.
grown in Hyde county.
5 AN ISGRArs-Capt. Mercer. U. S. n who
was reared III tho Charleston Orphan EIonsc, is
said t" be in command of tho steamer Wabash
n"w blockading that port.
MARYLAND LADY's ZsAL.-Mrs. Bradley
L. johnson, Of Mary arrived a ,lav nr two
since with 500 Mississippi rifles, $500 in cash.
5000 cartridges md 10000 caps for the Mary.
iahd b"ys' She was scrcnadel ut night by the
Marylandcrs, aud Mr. Johnson mndc hand.
some speech, followed by others. nil from the
same State
CENSUS OF NORTH CARoLINA.--The Whining
ton Jo"m"t says: According to the census re-.
Turned last summer, by the Deputy Marshal,
the white population is stated to be ut tho time,
OBI .4S9: FREQ coloreI, 300o7; slaves, 33l ,osl ::
total, 92G67.
Tie BATTLE M,Nrn--June has been noted
Tor centuries as the month Of battles it is likely
TO maintain Its reputation in 1861.
TnE Lincoln marau,lors. now occunv;,o IL,
eS""dr'a' now issue daily paper called TNe
Pennsylvania FVM from the office of the Alcx
andra Sentinel
y REGIMENT OF Docr,Rs.-Dr. a. A. Ter.
huhc' OF Georgia. proposes tn the one thousand
doctors VIII" have applied for surgcnn's cnmmis
sIons in the Confederate Army to form rc,
ncnt OF doctors, aud tender their services to the
President.
G"INc on AN EMnALMIxc CAMpAicN
A~lmcs, OF New York, the celebrated embnlm.
st has received commission as Snrecon in
the United States Army. His duty will he to
cmbalm oil those kllol in battle, whose bo,lios
1t mny be desirable to preserve.
lHE PRESSURE ~ CiSclSvArr.--A gentleman
in Cincinnati writes to u friend in Memnhis
that tic depreciation in the value of rcnl o.
tate III that place is unprecedented The writer
owns property. among them several brick houses
on one street. for which lie was offered ST.. 600
each only year since. Latterly hc tried to
sell TWO OF his brick houses for 81, 900 each,
out could notobtain the price. lie fell to 81 CO.,
ana found a man wh" promised to take them,
but backed" when the the time came.
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QUICK REsroSsE.-Gcn. Bcauregard having
o" Sunday week, made rcnuistion on the pco.
pie Of Orange county, Virginia, for forty wagon
loads OF provisions the rcunisitnn was com.
pied with on Monday. by sending him sixty
wagons heavily ladcncd with provisions. PROV
cndcr, and other articles needed by tho army
n FALSE REpoRT.--Tho report of tho land.
ing OF the United States soldiers at Dawruskie
Island and Hilton Head, is pronounced by tho
savannah papers to DO without fnnndation.-
The whole ground has been examined, and no
traces of tho invaders could be found.
Gov. LErcHgR. of Virginia, has issued war
rant Tor the arrest of the traitor Carlisle
traitors in every quarter had better look .hnrp.
Their punishment is rs sure as that night fol.
lows the day. The South will NOT only whip
the Yankees, but will also tuko care of traitors
at home.
NEUTRAL MISUNDERSTANDING Paris Cousf;tu,
h'nnct. in its issue of. Mny IL, aeknow lcarina a