Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-01
What the English Papers Saw.

IA NlS.-Nc arc informed upon the best,
most unnamcabe authority, that I'LL this np.
roar is caused by the Bcelzcbub of the TuiIle-
ries. Louisiana. Florida and Mississippi were
all French possessions once The french
owned the half of ST. Domingo, and many of
the little fragments of submerged continent
which peep up above the waters, as the Antill
es, were French. The Emperor has nm idea
is to rcccndiq"er frontiers. The inference is
easy. He has set the Spanards at St. Domin-
go and the Americans by the cars, that by
and by he may step in as a benevolent media
tor 10 Stop the eiiusinn of blood, and 10 quar-
ter the Palmetto of Carolina with the lilies of
France. Quantities of raed cannon and
shell arc sent to New Orleans and Pensacola
in Fronch bottoms but Louis Napoleon is n
great manufacturer of artillery, and has al
ways store from whence to lend fricnd--
He cannot be blamed, for Virginia herself is
casting cannon by night and day, aud it is
toss up whether they are sold to Northcrncrs
or Southcrncrs. 1t is quite true that the
French are making vast preparations in tho
could all be split into matches.by Tia Gloirc
alone. The Emperor doubtless watches events.
and as surely will =" consult the interests of
France hereafter; but he has other objects
nearer homo at present, and the voyage to the
Gulf of Mexico would exhaust all the coal
his steamships can carry Livo,1'ool Courier,
30M 1m'2.
BEwILDERED.--Vcry few persons in this
country ever believed in the possibility of u
Southern secession and of a separate South
! crn Confederation, until the fact was actually
accomplished Fewer still, perhaps, were
prepared for the display Of energy, resolutions
and political sagacity apparent in all the pro
cccdngs of tho South, and furnishing so
marked contrast to the trcachcry, the imbc-
cility, or the bewildcrmcnt of certain North
crn statesmen. No one anticipated that some
of the foremost men Of the victorious anti
slavcry majority would seek in the hour of
| triumph to cvadc the " irrcpressible conflict"
which they had themselves announced by
unworthy suggestions Of compromises; and it
was equally contraryto most peoples cxpcc-
tatons that every concliatory overture should
bc contemptuously ignored by beaten minor.
ity At one time the most sangune friends
OF peace would have hardly vcnturcd to sup
pose that six weeks could clapse from the
date of the new Presidents Inauguration
without single blow being struck on either
side On the other hand, many persons had
lately been encouraged to hope that there
might possibly be no war at all.
|. Lsoerpool Aiercury, 1prR 3GM
TIE BLUNDERs OF LINcoLN.-By talking
of coercion, Mr.. Lincoln kept up continual
fever in the South, enabled the Montgomery
Government to concentrate it's energies OF,
military preparation, and forced the border
States into hostility to the Union. Were CO.
crcion actually practicable, this course might
have been dctensible, but strong words do not
take forts, and Mr. Lincoln is further now
from success against the South than he WIS
when he started from Chicago. As regards
Eort H. i AZ ~.
could do. He intended to cvacuate it in n
few days but sooner than consent to acknowl-
edge that South Carolina was rcbcious, he
expressed his intention to send in provisions,
by force, it necessary. He thus gave the
South the provocation and opportunity of
brilliant victory, and had to submit to NOR
tfying defeat The conduct of the scuthcrr
Government has, on the contrary, been mark
cd by moderation and good scnse They olung
to no Rctons, and were hampcrcd by no legal
Ignorance of p'an facts. They wanted to
leave the Union and they left it, Thoy want
ed to take Fort Sumter and they took it.
They wished the border States to join them,
and, by precpitatingo a collision, they seom to
have got thcm-unless, indeed, some good
sense at Washington prevent them at the
eleventh hour, -London Chronicle, May 4th.
zen. GWfNN.-Wc c arc permitted, says
the Richmond Enquirer, to publish the fol-
lowing complimentary lettcr.fo Gen. Gwynn,
from the Governor of South Carolina. It is
an honorable testimonial to the efficient SER
vices rendered by General 'Gwynn to tho gal
liant State of South Carolina: 4N
STATE OF SoUTH CAnobINA,r 5,i
Headquarters, April %, 1861
| To 3hJor Gcneral Gmynn:
Sir: have just received yours, rcsignipe
your Office, "Chicf of the Engineer Corps
under my appointment. | canuot accepts it
without returning to you my thanks for the
ability and zeal with which you served tho
State, alta period Of great trial. You wcro
the first man | appointed and called into ser
! vice, the night was inauguratcd at Columbia.
then gave you special appointment, whioh
you discharged faithfully, and afterwards L
appointed you chief of our engineer CORPS,
and 1t was your professional Information, to.
gethcr with MajorTrapicr, that enabled me to
form those batteries which tinallyreduced Fort
Sumter, and | ngain return you my thanks
for your patriotic service.
trust the new aud wiAor feld of service
towhich you are. called by the noble State of
Virginia will add a large reputation to your
name. With great regard, yours, most re-
spectfully. ~ INV. PicKENs.g
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PRfvArEERs.- Tho first privateer fitted out
in the Soutlr-Lt the Calhoun at New Orleans
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