Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-27
Penniugs and Clippings.

III tiiV uDON6 DlStTlCtS VIII please COPY.
CREASED LIouTNINo--Iu the coal oil regions,
thunder has disappeared. Tho atmosphere is
so saturated with oily vapor that it greases all
the lightning. and enables il to slide down hill
| from tho upper regions us gently as "cooihg
/ dove"
The 4" Brooks BOYS "-.J. NJ. Calhoun has
been elected Captain of this company, A
meeting of the Company is desired Mt walhalla,
to-day.
"OLD ABE. '-Lincoln has issued another
proclamation in which he states that persons
engaged in privatecring will be treated as nj.
rates. "Old Abe" should bear in mind that
catching is essential before hanging. What q
commentary upon " free government hum
ginS it's own citizens!
Tue BLocxADE-Tho New York Nc,cs com.
menting on the telographic announcement that
Lincoln had declared the Southern ports in
state OF blockade, pronounces such blockade il.
legal, because foreign nations, through their
ministers. have received no notice of such intcn-
tion on the part of the United States; and SAYS
1t foreign vessels arc stopped without this for
mality probably their governments may admin.
lister sharp robukc, and demand apology.
WELL PUr-The Albany 4rgus says that
whenever foreign enemy has wnged war upon
the country, tho party Of which Lincoln is now
the representative has taken sides with the foe.
THE only ,ca' IN ,ctich they hare PIT heart, is
'cdr against their brethren.
ADDREss-Thc Rev. d. c. Doggs has accented
an invitation to supply the Jackson's Greek
church His post.ulicc address will hereafter
be " "Jnckson's Creek, Fairfield District, South
Carolina"
! LrUIsIANA--Grcnt preparations are in prog.
rcss for the defence of New Otlcans The City
Council has appropriated SoOOOOO for tho pur,
pose. Gov Moore issued proclamation on the
10th inst, for 5000 men.
THE CtNCtNNArI SEIzUREs-A despatch from
Montgomery says that unless the Cincinnati
seizures are promptly rcdressed, they must
cause nonintercourse, and the seizure of Ohio
property in New Orleans.
NOVEL CuARoE-Thc Ncwbcrry Cqnsercatist
says: The secession of Virginia was hailed
with great enthusiasm at this place on Friday,
the 10Th instant. by firing of the cannon, charged
with powder and tobacco. Iurrah for the old
Dominion State"
The IRISH IN THE FiELD-It is said that ten
Irish regiments in the Abolition States have
offered their services to President Davis.
TENNEssEE-Gov. Harris conycncs tho Ten,
nessec Legislature on the 25th inst.
TLoRENcE, S. c., April 22-Fivc companies
from Georgia passed over the railroad today for
Virginia.
pATRIoTrc-Thc Charlotte Bulletin SAYS that
five thousand volunteers free Of expense to the
State, have rendered their services to Gov Ellis
for the common defence
WANT To BORROW. addition to Lincoln's
other troubles, the Washington iSiates vouches
for the following: There are now in this city
F., between sixty and seventy men, mostly from
the West, who have informed Lincoln that he
must either give them an Office, or lend thcnr
money to get hume with
LIE BALTIMORE EDIFFICULTY.-T Pres
idcnt Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
issued formal notification to other roads that
| he VIII! transport no more troops to Washing
ton over his line A despatch has been re-
ceived in Baltimore, from the President of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, saying That he will send no more
troops over his road "a. present ..
Among the incidents cf the fight in Bati-
more, as reported in a lon5 and interesting
letter in the Petersburg Ecpress, VIC find the
following:
"Whilc the cars containing the troops
were standing at the President street depot,
a clerk from the custom house went into ono
of them and denounced the soldiers in bitter
terms captain ordered him out, threaten
ing If he did not go, they would fire on him.
Ne replied, they were too cownrdy to fire,
when the officer struck at him with his sword,
which blow he received on the left hand, and
with the other knocked him down and took
his sword from him, ms also the scnbbard. -
private intcrfcrcd, for the protection of his
comman Ter, and he, too, the clerk Knocked
down with heavy drawn pistol, and escaped
with his prize (thc sword, the only injury
he received being a pretty severe cut across
his hand.
" At the intersection of Gay and Pratt
streets, While the soldinrs were fring upon
the crowd, two other clerks from the same
place ran into the ranks and each Knocked
down q soldier with his fist, and bore of their
muskcts ms the trophies of their exploit"
Mon VIOLENCE IN OmO.- New York
paper publishes the following by telegraph
from Washington "A despatch has Just
reached here from Dayton, Ohio, asserting
that Mr. Yallandgham, member of the
last Congress, has been mobbed and his house
torn down, on account of his sympathcs with
the sccessonists. He publicly announced in