Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-06
Our Southern -orts,

ready acquainted our readers with tho fact thn +,
PresIdent Davis has issued requisition for
o'ooo troops, VIZ: 1000 from Louisiana, 1900
from Mississippi, 1900 from Alabama and
1000 from Georgia. The destination of thesn
troops is Pensacola, and the object to take Fort
Flckens, 1t Is not surrendered under the de-
mand OF the Government of the Confederate
states. nombcr OF the troops from Mississip.
pt and Louisiana have Ivy this time probably ar
| rived at Pensacola, and the others ore on their
way under marching orders. President Davis.
In tins instance, is acting with his usual prompt-
ness and sagacity. and in Gen. Bragg, now in
command OF that station, he has one of the
most energetic and accomplished officers i'm the
armies of either Of the Contcdcr,.Gics.
! 1.-The reinforcement of Fort Pickens seems to
have been settled upon by the Lincoln Govern
ment."
About Fort Sumter and Mnjor Anderson, we
ind the following dispatch in the TriJune:
,,, " The assignment Of Major Anderson to tho
Western Department of the Recruiting Service.
aitcr the 5Oth OF June next, has no reference To
his present position at Fort Sumter, and no sic.
nihcance as to the intention IF the govcrnment
concerning his withdrawal from there. The
field officers Cor this duty are detailed eye.v sec
ond 'ar under the supervision of the command
ing general. If there be any good reason whv
they should be employed elsewhere, others are
substituted In this particular case, if Major
Anderson should be relieved from Fort Sumter
ho Will assume the recruiting duty, but the ar
ranSement does not necessarily prcsupposc that
he is to be called from thnt post 1t is merely
contingent upon the relief All the spocula-
tons, therefore, which have been predicated
upon this abstract fact are erroneous for it is
very we'll known here that it was mere matter
| of routine, of which even the Secretary of war
had no knowledge until his attention was called
to it to-day"
TIE EUROPEAN FLEEr-Wc find the
Paris letter to the New York Times, which
was referred to in our telegraphic dispatches.
IN Friday mornings issue of that Journal
Ii the statements made therein be true, the
purpose can only be for the protcction.of their
own commerce, and to see that their vessels
entering their Gulf States shall not be moles.
ted After stating the facts as already given
In the dispatch, the Paris correspondent saws
The precise object of this fleet it will be
impossible to ascertain, as it will probably sail
with sealed orders. We may surmise, howev-
or, that 1T Is Intended as an audience for the
struggle which is soon to take place between
brothers and friends in the United States
as sort of escort of honor for the funeral of
the great Republic. The idea is said to have
been provoked in the English Cabinet by the
indgnities offered to British subject or sub
Jccts in the Southern States. We do not
suppose, of course, that the fleet goes out
with any hostile intent; its stensibc errand
will be the protection of En- .ish and French
subjects But it is the custom to send fleets
g of observation" when any great war is go
ing on in foreign country, and while obser-
wing, to pick up any little advantages that
may offer for themselves; !; or when the sym
pathy of the fleet is all on one side, to send
boats now and then accidentally between the
contending forces, as England has twice done
In the late Sicilian war, SO as to protect suf-
fprinCr friCn6 M tho r;,,bt !,
l'AMoN IN CnARLEsToN.-Th Charles
ton correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch
gives the following incidents connected with
the visit of Lncolns envoy to Charleston:
Col Hatch, Quartermaster General, took
Co!. Lamon over to the fort in the steamer
Planter, by order of his honor the Governor
ana TIC Nommanderin. Chief Gen Bcaure-
gard. On arriving in the city again, as the
llooslcr put his foot on the wharf, he turned
to Col. Hatch and asked him what WAS the
fare. High-brcd gentleman, that He ask
ed Gov. Pickcns for body guard that he
had received two letters since he had arrived
III the city, stating that he would be assassin,
atcd. The fact was, t!at no man in the city
knew that he was the man until after he had
applied for tho guard. The clerks in the
oihcc at .hc hotel swear tnat no letter came
through the Office for the Z" Kurnel," and
that the hotel-kccpers themselves knew not
whom he was until after he was put under
guard. lie also stated that he came here to
see MIR. Iuger, the Postmaster, and not to
See Major Anderson. The man was scared,
and hence he lied. The servants at the hotel
said his clothes were not made to 0rtlcr-thc
caterer said that he wore an old swallow-tall
coat, bought at Il slop.shop," and that no
one was gttln,da who did not have his
clothes made TO order. An elegant Govern
mcnt that-bankrupt, corrupt, defunct, dis
graccd, and ignorant. For mercy's sake, beg
all Virginians who have any respect for the
old Dominion, if not for themselves, not to
take office under such men,
4n--
THREATENED MULTIPLICATION AT TIE
NoRrn.-The New York Commcrcjal, at
one time staid old Nhig Journal, but now
intensely republican, earnestly calls for an
extra session of Congress to repeal the Nor
rill wood screw Z" tariff law, 1t hints that
if not reperled, notification may be resortcd
to at the North Here is it's language:
The people of the North are undoubtedly
a law-abidiKg people, and they will obey
much rather than evadc or defy the laws
But tleir commerce is their first interest
and if a high scale of import duties is en-
forced at their port, while importltions are
admitted free or with comparatively nom
| inal duty at the South tbaro ;e o,ro go ,.oo.o