Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-18
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Telegraphio News from alleQ Quarters.

arrived, and Anchored OF tlte bar, wllpre Sho
cAan be seen plainly from the Battery She
carries fifty gums, and six hundred mon, ,'dnd
will blockade the port. She draws twenty
four feet water, and but nineteen feet can
GROSS tho bar. sN v. II 4
S NIoNTaoMERY, May II, 1T Is. probable
that Congress will adjourn within tho hsxt
ten days, and meet again in July, atsuch
place as circumstances may render necessary.
There is nothing new, from Pensacola, and
nothing of unusual Interest transpiring in
Montgomery.
ANNAponIs, May 11.-About twenty shots
we're exchanged last night between the Con.
federate or secession soldiers and tho picket
guard ut Camp Butler. The Baltimore train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
stopped by Virginia troops ten miles west Of
Frederick, Maryland and examined. The
samo thing will be donc to oveFy western.
train hereaftcr -Four hundred Virginiaus
are strongly posted for the purpose. A train
Of western cals, @itlLa lotof horsds and one
,hundrcd beef cattle, bound to Baltimore, was
captured at Hnrpers Ferry ) 81,
LOUISVILLE, May ll.-A battalion cf
Louisiana troops left Richmond on the 9th,
on secret service. Alexandria was occupied
by 900 secession troops, -ts
NEW York;, May u.,--The steamship
Great Eastern, with Lii arpool dates to the
afternoon of tho lst instant, via Milford IIa-
ven, has arrived. The sales of cotton Mt
Liverpool for the three days before her sail
ing amounted to 10000 bales--spcculaiors
and exporters taking 1000 bales. ,lIcwc,t's
circular reports an advance Of since Friday
the market closing quiet and stcady.-
Nliddling Orleans 7a. The Manchester nd.
~ 81 i Il
Wheut steady. Uonsols 01aQD91s.G The
crate States of America had reached Eng.
rvs motion, in the House of, Commons, rela.
tive to the recognition of thcindependcncc
Of the Southern Confederate States, was
postponed for two weeks. American vessels
homcward bound arc insured ut four guineus,
covering war risks.
MONTGOMERY, May 1.-THE Express
Company commences running to Pensacola
early next week. There was nothing of III
tcrcst publicly done in Congress to-day.
ALEXANDRIA, May ll.--Tho United
States steamer Pawnee slipped hor cable late
this evening, atthc Washinaton Navy Ynrd.
and dropped down to Alexandria. She how
lies off the city, close to tho wharycs, with
port holes opened and gunsrun out.
WASHINGTON, May ll.--It is rumorv
that the Missouri State troops. under Gov
ernor Jackson, have invested ST. Louis. aud
some eight thousand, under Blair, urc de-
Tending tho city. Large numbers Of Con-
fedcratcF troops, with heavy ordnance, arc
concentrating at Alexandria A largo Con-
fcderatc force is marching towards llarpcr's
Ferry. 1t is supposed that heavy force is
on the way into Pennsylvania to cause d.
version of the Federal forces
I WAsn1NGroN, May ll.--Gcnpral McClcl-
Ian, of Ohio, has been appointed commander
of the Department of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois
BALTIMORE, May IL. = It is reported that
thc>moumtuin forests OH the Maryland side of
the Potomac have been fired. Col. Dimmick
is mounting Columbiads and barhctte guns on
the land side Of, the fort. Thirteen hundred
troops from Pcrryville have moved towards
Washington. In the Legislature, on Thurs
day, S. Teacklc Wallis, Of Baltimore, sub
mitted tho report of the Committee on Fed,
cra Relations. 1t declares that the war
wagcd by the people of the United States
upon the people of the Confederate States is
unconstitutional, repugnant to civilization
and sound policy, and subvcrsivc of free in
stitutons. a protest is entered against the
war on the part of Maryland, declaring that
she will take no part, directly or indirectly,
in it's prosecution, and the assertion is made
that Maryland desires the peaceful recogni-
ton Of the, Independence of the seeded
States. The present military occupation of
Maryland is protested against MS unoonstitu-
tional, oppressive and illegal The final res
olutions assert that, under existing circun-
stances, it is incxpcdent to call a,sovcrcgn
convention Of the people of Maryland at this
| time, or to take measures for the immediate
organization of the army and militia. The
report closes by proposing the adjournment
Of the Legislature to a day to be namcd.-
The report was adopted in tic House of Del
egates by II vote Of yeas 40, nays II. The
resolutions wore made the special order for
this morning in the Senate.
RicnMoND, May 1l,--Tho Palmetto
Guard, Capt. Cuthbcrt, arrived this morning,
all well and in fine spirits. They have
joined Col. Kcrsliaw's regiment,
Gen. Leo is now acting with great visor
He holds command of all the Confederate
States forces iu Virginia
Seward the abolition Secretary of State,
received yesterday a dispptoh from n New
York firm, asking whether their vessels
could proceed to Norfolk to take in n cargo, of
cotton. Seward replied thyt thoy could not.
adding that similar requests had been re-
fused in tho cases of foreign vessels"
The editorials in tho English papers, rcla-
two to the reduction of Fort Sumter by the
South Carolinians. nrc decidedly favorable tn