Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-23

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and whilst my position for several years past
has enabled me to mingie freely with them,
can say that among all my warm hearted
friends from the South aud from Virginia-
for they all have sea in my utmost heart of
hcarts-yct, | must assert thatif there is one
portion nearer the centre than another it is
gallant South Carolina. have never known
OF more refinement and less assumption
among any class of gentlemen than among
the South Carolnians, say that in vindi-
cation of South Carolina
And whilst L am upon that subject, will
! vindicatc her still further My friend from
! Rockbridgc, (Mr Moore spoke of the disrc-
spcct with which South Carolina treated the
Virginia Commissioner. [ saw that Commits
sioner yesterday, specially, with view of in
quiring what was the fact concerning that
matter. He told me that he had made an of
fetal communication to this Convcntion,
which was in print, aud presume every
member of this body has received it. He
soid that whilst his heart was warm by rca-
son of the ttention which was paid to him as
the rcpre4 i've of Virginia, if it was
warmer towa any one spot more than anoth-
cr, that place was Charleston that there
could not have been more respect shown to
by South Carolina TO the representative of
Virginia. And whatever may be the efforts
of my friend from Bedford and my friend
from Rockbrldgc to speak of a feeling and to
generate feeling between South Carolina
and Virginia because of what they will have
the organ of South Carolina the Charleston
.Rc!rmY say, the Commissioner tells me, as
the sentiment of every heart, that there is
h,, Al 1
they would rejoice in Union with any of
the border States, Virginia, the oldest, and
most Interested, and her fame more distin-
guished than any-shc is the one they would
prefer.
body so grave as this, not an asSemblage in
which we arc candidates for official position,
but n body representing the aggregate sovc-
reignty of Virginia in its greatest wisdom
that it should be gravely presented here that
the Charleston Mcru,Y is the organ of South
Carolina, and that the expression of the
Charleston organ is the expression of South
Carolina.
ARRIVAL OF TIE FIRST JAPANESE MER-
cnANT.-lt is not unlikely that many of the
statements made in recent letters written
from Japan by disappointed naval officers,
who anticipated " magnificent ovation y
there, are grossly exaggerated A San Fran
cisco paper reports the arrival at that city Of
a japanese merchant, who came to purchase
goods to be sold in his own country. This is
the first instalment of a traffic that, We trust
will be both extensive and permanent.
DULL TIMES IN ST. LOUIS" Chatty,"
the knowing ST. Louis correspondent of the
Now Orleans Delta, writes, on the 10th, as
follows:
GAS an indication of the times, and the
condition of affairs in this city, | have it
from good authority Ga house agent) that
there arc now within the corporate limits of
this city FIVE thousand vacant houses, which,
if put together would make, in themselves,
quite a respectable city-and they arc, for
the most part, large and finely finished
Men who, year ago, were satisfied to pay
from ten to fifteen hund.ed dollars year for
residence, arc now content with house at
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred.
This may be change Of taste, but am
rather inclined to think it is change of cir
cumstanccs. In any event, so many vacant
houses is but bad indication of prosperity"
AMUSING IoNoRANcE.-The Wilmington
IleraM tells the following which would be
more amusing but for the reflection that such
Ignorance as this bears its full share in sha
ping State policy:
Patience is virtue which ought to char
acterlze the people of North Carolina in an
eminent degree, for they are called upon to ex-
ercise it so often that unless they are very
poor scholars, they must be imbued with its
very spirit. Some people call it by differ
ent name, but, after ALL it may be that the
slowness with which mcaos is circulated among
the people has great deal to do with the for
nation of their character. We heard there
was man in town the other day, from
neighborng county, who, when something
was said about secession, remarked, that he
supposed that idea had been abandoned long
ago; that nobody would carry out that threat,
to be sure 7; and when asked =" what he thought
about South Carolina, for orinstance ?" he said
he didn't know anything particular about
that Statc-that he hatln't been to toicn t1r
hhree months, and hadn't heard anything from
there He was utterly lost in anazoment
when he learned that not only South Carolina
had seeded, but that new Government had
been formed at the South.
AN EMPTY YTREAsURY.-Thcrc was hca
Wy run on the U. S. Treasury Saturday, and
before night the last eagle had taken it's flight,
and the Treasurer was forced to commence
issuing drafts on New York A letter SAYS:
Cone draft for 100000 was cashed and
lnnumerable ones ranging from one to one