Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-23
The President.

especially apropos.
Hon. JEFF DAVIS, PREsIDENr.--Fe
men have led a,life more filled with stirring
or eyentful Incidents than Jefferson Davis
4 native of Kentucky. born about 1906, he
went iu early youth with his father to Mssis-
. sippt, then d Territory, and was appointed by
- ,Pyesident Monroe, in 1922, to beS'a cadet at
West Point, He graduated with the first
honors in 1928 as Brevet I'd dsLieutenaht, and
at his own request was placed.in active service,
being assigned 10 the command of General
Chen ColoneD Zachary Taylor, who was sta
toned in tho West. In the frontier wars of
the time youhg Davis distinguished himself
in so marked "a manner, that when new
Regiment of dragons was formed he at once
obtained commission as first lieutenant
During this time a romantic attachment
sprapg up between him and his prisoner, the
famous chief Black Hawk, in which the lat
ter forgot his animosity to- the people of the
United States in his admiration for Lieut.
Davis, and not until his death was the bond
of amity severed between the two brave men.
In 1885 he settled quietly down upon n cot
ten plantation, dovoting himself TO n thorough
and Systematic education. He was married
to a daughtero of Gen. Taylor
~; IN l848 he took the stump for Polk, and
Tin 1S45, having attracted no little attention
: inhis State by his vigor and ability he was
I, elected to Congress-, Ten Days after he made
his maiden speech Soon the Mexican war
broke out, and regiment of volunteers hav.
ing been formed In Mississippi, and himself
chosen Colonel, he resigned his post in Con
gresss, aad in' auty repaired with his com
mand to join the corps ddysnce under Gen
eral Taylor. At Monterey and Buena Vista
he and his noble regiment achieved the SOL
dier's highest fame. Twice by his GOODNESS
he saved the day Mt Buepa Vista. Wherever
fire was hottest or danger to, be encountered,
there Colonel Davis aud the Mississippi Rifles
were to be found. He was badly wounded in
the early part of the action, but sat his horse
steadily till the day was won, and refused to
delegate even portion of his duties to his
subordinate officers.
In 1913 he was appointed to I'll the vacancy
;, in the Senate of the United States occasioned
10y the death Of General Speight, and IN 1850
T. WAS elected to. that body almost unanimously
for the term of six years .''' go
.. lB 1851 he resigned his seat in the Senate
to became the State Rights candidate forGoy.
ernor, but was defeated by Governor Foote.
In 1858 he wns called TO 4 scat in the Cab.
met of President Pierce, and was Secretary
of War during his administration. In 1857
he was elected United States Senator for Mis-.
sssppi for theterm of six years, which Office
he held until his resignation, on the secession
OF Mississippi from. the Union ,s.
Personally he is the last man who would be
Selected as a iirceater'' He is prim,
snootl,lookiug man. with a precise manner;
stiff, suldierly carringe, aud an ansterity that
is at first forbidding He has naturally. how.
ever, genial temper, companiopable quail
tipR and Atsnncif;,,t, 41,k L.:
by whom he may be surrounded. AS speak.
er he is clear, forcihic. and argumentative (;
his voice is clear and firm, without tremor !;
''ahd he is'one 'imSepery way fitted for the dis.
tinguished post to which he has been called
3s,--a
INCREASE OF THE SLAVE POPULATION -
The returns of the national census show a
very material growth of the slave population
during the last decade growth, indeed,
which may surprise many who supposed that
slavery WIS declining under the pressure of
abolition propagandis,n, vruent denunciation
and faDaiical raids. In every Southern
State, except Delaware, Maryland and Mis-,
sou!i, the increase of the slavc population has
been nearly in the same ratio as that of the
FREQ population. white agd colored and in
the aggregate the growth of the slave popu-
lation In the fifteen Southern States has kept
pace with that of the whole popllation of the
United States-that is to say, It shows ain in
crease Of about thirty per cent. in ten years.
. And, very curiously, even i'm Missouri-s,ir-
roUnded on three sides by free States where
twe7were told that. slavery was rapidlysdying
out, the number Of slaves has Increased
o from 81 ,422, in. 1885,. to 1868, in the
year 1860, and this, too. with ABUNDANT op-
portunity Of running them off, and very
great loss from this cause So much for the
decade Of slayery.
A FEMALE WARHIoR.-A widow, whose
na'ne figures honorably in the military annals
OF France, recently died in the Hospice des
%Petits-M enanges, at the age of 81. Her
maiden name was Therese Fign"ur, aud she
served as draShoh in the 18th and 9th Reg
Tnents from l7DS TO 1919. She was known
throughout the army by the name of Sans
Gene, and was so much esteemed by her
Officers that, when the Committee of public
safety determined on excluding all women
from the army atl, exception was made in her
favor. The history of her campaigns We
published from her own dictation in 1872
She began her military career at Toulon
when that port was bdsieged by the English
in 1893, She was there put ttilcr arrest bv
Commandant Bonaparte for delay Of TWEEN
ty-fiVe minutes in executing an order. Some
years after when her old commander had be-
come First Consul, he sent for the dragoon
Sans-tiene to st. Cloud, and afterwards gave
hefasgood service pension of 200 francs. -
SanssGenc remained in active service until