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

TO sustain it. The other was "a charge of NAL
icasancc in office. in issuing ucccptancc4 to Ma
J"rS Russell & Co. Tho act of ~ prohibiting
prosecution for charge when The Marty imnl;.
Gated has testified before IL Congressional com
mittce on the subject, prevents any prosecution
IN this case, and the indictment was ordered to
be quaShcd
DEBT OF NonrH CtnoLINA.-Thc public
debt of North Carolina in November last in.
Guiding registered and coupon bonds and
bonds endorsed by the State, amounted to
50, ,l20,505. The annual interest on that
sum is S548,S7J30
The appropriations by the late Legislature
VIII Increase the debt soon and prospcctively
to l3,000,0OO. The sinking fund, inclu-
dlhS assets and resources, amounted to S9l4.-
OS0. The estimated reccipts for 1860 'G1
amounts to 1886, G02.39 and the estimated
disbursements to S784;4S8.90.
BLocKADING. "A writer in Del}ows' Re-
rtc'o for January says, {" the first dcmonstra
ton OF blockade of the Southern ports would
he swept away by the English fleets of obscr
V"tion hoverlng on the Southern coasts to pro
tcct English commerce. and especially Lh.
free How of cotton to English and Freuch
Factories. The flow of cotton must not cease
Tor dny because tho enormous sum of el50.-
0o0,00D is annually due to the elaboration of
raw cotton; and because 5000, 900 of people
derive their daily and immediate support
thcrclrom in England alone, and every inter
est throughout the Kingdom is connected
Herewith
TIE FIRST ADolIrIoNIsT.- Southern
clergyman says that in all his reading of the
Bible he never succeeded in finding any ac-
count OF an aboltiunist in it, We bor to
wi far, I'LL; Al.
terred to frequontly-w mean Satan lie
is tho genuine, original, simon pure abolition
iSt. lie has always been in favor of oJoLiSh.
l"J everything that was good. He was the
first advocate of the higher law" lie
trled4 the experiment in heaven, and got kick
Cd out Tor hlsaudacity and then undertook to
content himself with the reflection that it was |
better to reign in hell than serve in heav
en- which seems to be about the only con- |
ISOLATION left to Lincoln now
[M Y. Day Booh.
The Two PRESIDENTS The Phiiadel |
phla Pe"msytcqnjdn draws the following lust
contrast between Mr. Davis and Mr.. Lincoln : !
The President of the Southern Confcdc |
racy Is gentleman, scholar n soldier, and |
statesman. He has attained cminonce in ov
cry department. of life to which he has turn
cd his attention, and his name is the very syn.
tonym OF purity and honor. Like the Gheva- !
lcr Bayard, he is without fear and without
reproach
The President elect of the United States
IL sncithera scholar a soldier nor a statesman.
lie has some experiences as a nisi JyiHs lawyer
and local potician-more, if we may trust
his Republican biographcrs, as n aatboatman
and a rail splitter. Without the polished el-
es'nce of the well-bred man, he has all the
rough manncrs and course sayings of the
clown.
ONO SENATOR Black Republicans of
the Ohio Legislature have brought out Sher-
man as their candidate for tile United States
Senate, to succeed Mr.. Pugh, whose term hns
just expired Mr.. Sherman, tho reader will
recollect, was the Black Republican candidate
for Speaker of the late House of Representa-
tives, and was defeated for that position, after
n struggle of many weeks in consequence of
his connection with the Helper book. This
same Sherman is now chosen as the successor
in the United States Senate of Gco,re n
Pugh, one of the ablest and truest men In the
free States. This, VIC suppose is another ey.
ideucs Of the Immense reaction in the non.
Slavcholding States in favor of the South and
of hct peculiar institution, and will be go (,
takon and urged by the submissionists now
assembled in our Mechanics Hall.
Ietctmond Enquirer.
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