Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-05-11

Ut Bethel Sd Sabbath in May, instant bnd at
Piokens G. II, on52d Sabbath in Jn. 4. 81
MAJOR AspsRsoN--It is reported thai this
officer, New Dersoyman by nd option; hasaskcd
'permission 70 takc command oftte Jersey qao-
to-, and promises to lead them into Fort Sumter,
and that his wishes mi!lprobebty he ,aoceded'to
by tho Governments. So shys the Boston Attas..
1as MORE RoDpKRiss---'lhey are soixing in phila,
\ tdelphia, munitions of war aud provisions in.
tended for Baltimore.
IIo! JErr DAVIS LOOK Our FOR Yous scs.p
"A Senator SPINDLE, ofNew York, declared, at
lato public meeting, that nothing should be
left to mark the place where the city of Balti
more stood, save tho granite column erected TO
commemorate Washington that tho bullion in
tho banks is to reward tho volunteers, cut of
which an annuity Of $4,000 is promised to tho
fortunate man who shall secure tho scalp Of ono
Jefferson Davis. 1t't ,t
| TnE Matioao1 Lstelliyencer says: I. is under
stood that the force now in Washington is fully
eighteen thousand mon. The entire force to bo
| Kept in the city proper will be forty thousand
men; but there will DO largo camps at oonve-
Mont distances, each perhaps equally largo.
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WE are told by old washingtouians, that at
this time the press Of Washington is as COM
pletely muzalod as that Of Paris is by Louis
Napoleon. They dare not publish anything ro-
fecting upon the Lincoln Government, which is
fnst assuming the shape of military dospotis,n.
Outrages nrc committed by tho soldcry, which
takon for tho use of Government, citizens threat
enod by rabid Republicans with tho direst ven
4 'geance, and others ordered 70 loavo tho city
no free man daros now to express IN opinion.
FRoM MissouRI-The Atlanta Commonwealth
of Friday last says that messenger from the
Governor of Missouri to President Davis passed
through Atlanta that morning. for the purpose
Of soliciting aid in taking tho arsenal Mt St.
Louis, Tho same papor states that provisions
to tho amount of 100000 have beon purchased
in Missouri by President Davie, for the use of
the Confederate States army.
AN INSTANTANEOUS CLIMATE The Eufala (Ala.)
Spirit says: "a handbill was culated d few
days since in our city, stating that our climate
was very unhealthy at tho present time tdthoso
| gontlomen whose residences were in the North.
A fcw hours after its appearance the omnibus
was crowded with passengers, and not stranger
has been seen in our city since"
GEORGIA VoLUNTEERs-We hear from high
authority, that Georgia is pouring in her troops
from NIL quarters, and rapidly passing them on
to Richmond. Somo to thousand Georgia
troops are said already to have passed. over tho
roads, and several thousand are on their way
from Alabama to Richmond. 1t is said that
all Georgia is perfectly alive with enthusiasm
and with united determination to save tho
Southern States and to defend the Southern
country.
From TeSNEssEE-Tho Governor of Tonnes.
see has called for 80 600 volunteers. Tennessee
has acquired the cnviablo soubriqnet of tho
volunteer State" and sho is not now likely to
forfeit the reputation so gallantly won in the
war of 1915, the Florida war, and the Mexican
campaign Gen. Pillow has taken charge of
tho defence of Tennessee, in the vicinity Of
Memphis. -
llIRELTSGs.-T oty government of Boston
arc offering twenty dollars per month, besides
tho regular government pay, to volunteers to
invade tho South. So, after all the vaporne
about tho thousands who wore rising oyory.
whore in the North to Sustain the GOVERN
ment" it scoms that it is the pay that brings
out those volunteers. But tho money will not
last. and whom it is exhausted volunteering in
the North will be slow BUSINESS,
! CRors IN LOUISIANA AND GEoRoIA.-Thc cot.
ton and sugar plantations in Louisiana promise
iinc crop, and tho wheat crop of Georgia is
likoly to be worry large crop. Wheat ilp some
parts of Georgia is now fully headed out, and
corn is up and growing WE'LL
! TIT FOR TAT.--Lincoln's mon at Cuiro onn-
tured IL steamboat with SITS 900 worth of arms
and ammunition on board for Tennessee. The
people of Tennessee arc retalating by soizing
every Cincinnati boat that passes up the river.
! A PRIVATE letter from Richmond, Va, states
that 10000 Virgnians had volunteered to bear
arms. So far tho authorities had only been
ablc to enroll $4,000. M
| Missouri FOR THE SoUTH.-Extract from n
lottcr from gentleman. in Jefferson CITY. Mis-
souri,, dated April Goth.
Missouri will DO with old Virginia int
days. We have no Union men in this State
outside of St. Louis. Military companies arc
forming oil over the State, and Con. Hougli
told me to-day That he was issuing over one
hundred commissions to volunteer companies
daily"
SUICIDE OF A NAVAL OfrIcER.-Co Commander
Lloyd B. Newell. of the United States Navy,
committed suicide &c the Merchants Hotel.
Philadelphia. Friday morning, by shooting him