Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-08
Jennings and Clippings.

Ihtty dollars to furnish books anu tracts Tor the
volunteers. Tho namo of this generous citizer
is unknown. 4. (, ,44 .,,. 3
WoRDs AND WoBEs---Goy. Rrown,ef Georgia
backed his address to the pooplo by n porsona
subscription Of ono thousand dollars to tho
clothing fund, and his estimablo lady has
bought up q thousand or more yards Of tho ca
dct gray, and gone with tho whole Of her house.
hold, into making up tho goods. @
EpiToRiAL BRAVERY (!)AT rHR NoRTn.-Out
Of one hundred aud eleven editors and report.
ers connected with tho New York 1ribune,
Times, World, Courier and EnquJcr, Fleming
Post, San, and Coo,mcrciai---nll Of which arc
fcrocious war journals tho number who have
enlisted for the war. all added up togctbor,
count precisely none!
s New FLoUR.-rhe Charleston papers odvcr-
tiso now -four from tho I" Forest City Mills" at
Savannah ground from wheat grown on tho
plantation Of Dr. Danicll, near TINT city.
VENERABLE DRuM.-The drum now in use by
Capt. Hannah 'scompnny,. of Polk County, says
tho Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner, is II relic of the
Revolutionary war--it was beat at tho charge
on Yorktown. BY good luck, it has been pre-.
served through period Of eighty years. md the
Polk boys says it shall be beat again ut the
charge on Washington.
FRElcmr FOR ON Ane.-.A box, seven feet
long and four feet wide. containing live Abo.
litionist. was shipped from Grand Glaisc. Ar
kansas, marked !" Abraham Lincoln, Washing.
ton. d. c." Won't Old Abo think that box con.
tnins nnothcr rn nftlnsnoko2
FATAL SHoorINo.-In difficulty at the De-
pot ut Columbia, Tenn, few days ago. W. G..
Reynolds shot and killed his brother.in-l law,
VIM. Porter, and also killed, by an accidental
shot, Mr.. Burgess, q voluntcor from Giles coun-
ty. In the course Of the unfortunate rencontre
Mr.. Reynolds was wounded by pistol shot in
tho shoulder, and severely beaten on the head
with stick. Reynolds has been arrested and
will be brought to trial.
LINcohN's PRtvArEERs- London Stand
artl aptly characterizes all tho private armed
vessels that Lincoln is employing to enforce his
blockade, as "'prvatcers." This is excellent.
They arc privatcers. and no such blockade, the
Standard says, will be regarded.
The true mon Of Maryland have n hard road
to travel. Wo sec thnt Brady r. johnson,
Esq. of Frederick, Maryland, has joined tho
Confederate troops for the defence of Harpcr's
Ferry, and has already lG0 men under his COM
mand and hopes soon to have regiment
Capt. Inhnson's men are destitute Of every
c'mfnrt, denounced as traitors by tho arch-trai-
t'r Hicks, and reward of five hundred dollars
hos becn ofere for the apprehension of Capt.
johnson.
SEIZURE OF United STATES VEssELs.-All the
United States vessels iu the port of New Or
leans, which have arrived there since tho 9th
INST, were taken possession Of OH the 24th by
the Confederate authorities there.
TIE Nashville Union. in its money article Of
the 18th inst, Says: There has bccn$ho move.
,nont Of nnte in money matters during the
week, except that South Carolina, Gcorsin and
Alabama currency has further improved and
is now takon ut par.
TnE MIME BALL.-rhe Coroner of ST. Louis
states as tho result of his experience at the late
inqncsts that q wound from Mimic rife ball,
in the lleshy part of the person, is sure in al
most evory instance to result fatally.
TENNESSEE DoINa HER DuTY.-A friend
writes us from Memphis under date Of 9th
instant: Tennessee has already sent 25 900
troops into the field, and thcro will be 1000
more within tho next thirty days--making the
entire number called for By the Legislature
TEXAS MISUNDERSTANDING the Texas troops
in Virginia arc some of tile best horsemen in the
world, who, as guerilla soldiers, would be inynl.
unblo. There are Indian fighters from rexns,
VINO. ut full speed, can raise an infantry soldier
from the ground scalp him, and throw him
away without arrcstng tho rush Of the horse -
a body of these warriors on the borders Of Ohio
and Pennsylvania would be invaluable,
Cars. The North Carolina percussion caps
have already been tested, and found to he of n
superior quality. The war has scarce commen
ced and tho best of manufactures arc springing
up like magic all over the land ~
TIE INVASION OF TEHNEssEE.-rhc publico !.
ton ofthc Columbus Crescent, Hickman Carrie,
and l%tdncaA W Weekly Herald, has been sus.
pondcd on account of the approach and expect.
ed occupancy of those towns by Lincoln's live.
rine pirates.
No MORE MAILS FOR THE NORTHERN Sr,rrs
= Iho postmnsters in the Confederate States
have been instructed to send no more mails to
the Free States. So that no more mal matter
need bo made up here for Yankee land.
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PRiyATEERING.--In New Orleans tbc NOR
chants are fitting out scores of privateers on
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