Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-01

authOritlcS.Of tic Unlon, ana oI cauSlnB inc
laws there to- be duly respected and executed.
il; by order of
{, MAJ. GEN. q. w. sANDronD.
7 One Of the Southern picquet guardsSwas
captured to day.
RIciIsfoND, May 27.2-The report which
! prevailed liore that number of the Lincoln.
ties were killed OH SuHday in an attack on
Hampton, is authoritativdly denied The ru-
NOR sprung from tho report of muskctry Sr-
, ing, which occurred over the grave of sol
/ dipr at Old point. .v .EtSs 49,
On Saturday the Iincohitcs marched into
Hampton, but met with no opposition, rs the
citizens retired on tho nppronch Of the mercc-
narics: Finding tho town deserted, they loft
it, having hurnedthc bridge and cut off com
imunicatioh.
About five hundred Federal troops left Old
Point on Saturday. tits reported they pro-
olinn.
About thirty Federal transport steamers
nrc reported at Newport News, fifteen miles
from Norfolk They have Landed nm i'm.
mensc force of U. S. troops. 1t is supposed
this force landed here will be supported by
another body to be landed on Craney Island,
and that they will both proceed Simultaneous
ly to attack Norfolk front and rear.
NLCuMoND, May 27.--[ am reliably inform
cd that five United States war vessels entered
the mouth of the James River this morning,
and andcd body Of troopsat Newport News.
Dispatches received here from Hnrpcrs
Ferry contradict the statement in the Wash.
incton Star Of batle having been fought ut
this place.
NonFol.K, May 81, 3:2o p. .M--An Off
ccr from Crancy Island reports that the enc
my after stopping short tine Mt Newport
News, continued their course up the James
River They did not land troops at Newport
News. 1t is the opinion Of many that this
movement looks to II demonstration OH Rich
n.ond,; others think it only a trim.
RlcHMoND, May 27-Our troops arc in
possession Of Ccntrcvie and Fairfax Court
llunsc, and not the enemy, as reported
WAsul NGroN, May 27.--rhc Southern
mails will be made up here and forwarded
via the West. They will bl continued until
the first day.cf June.
Five and half millions lollars in bonds
were awarded to bidders at IS. L pwartls Of
two aud II quarter millions in treasury notes
were negotiated at par.
1t is reported that the Houavc pickcts at
tackled the advanced posts of tho Confedcr-
ate troops, and after several rounds the South
crncrs rctrcatcd leaving six prisoners in the
cncmy's hands.
baltimore, May 27.-Thc Adelaide ar
rived here from Fortress Monroe She ro-
ports that Butler was reinforced with 5000
additional troops. When she left it was un-
derstood that Norfolk would be attacked OH
Monday. The Southcrncrs arc confident
that the place is 'imprcgnab]e. t
The bridge connecting Old Point Comfort
with Hampton WAS burned by the Southern
NEW YonK, My "a Zouave colonel,
with $4,000 raised for his regiment has
been missing for ten days.
a merchant was arrested to day by Super
intcndcnt Konuedy ror using scditious Ian
guagc.
Capt Adams, commanding the Pensacola
fleet, has been ordered home.
BosroN, May 27--Thc Massachusetts has
sailed for Fort Pickcns, heavily laden with
munitions for that fort.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Thc Minnesota
and three other vessels are to leave Fortress
Monroe to blockade Charleston.
a traveller from Richmond Yesterday said
that the train in which he was passenger
brought n thousand South Carolinians to Ma
nassas Junction. There arc now I've thou
sand there, toleraby well equipped Extcn-
siyc cntrenchnents nre being thrown up, be-
licving that liarpcrs Ferry is to be attacked
.t.
The New York Times says that tho inlmb-
itunts of Alexandria arc snllen md disaffcct.
cd. Fortfcations are being. erected there,
including embankmcnts mile long and seven
feet high. Twenty thousand moro Abuli-
tonsts are called to Washington, and mar
tiul law proclaimcd in Alexandria
Eagar Showlon, OF the Gazette, refused
TO- publish the proclamation. and printers
frohl the ranks of the Abolition army took
possession of the Office, and arc publishing
Snowden's paper.
Tho 1'9bune says that probably an over
whclming movement will be made aguinst
Richmond within three weeks, independent
of the Washington reserves, aid t'mt the po-
sition at Ilarpcrs Ferry may be secured by
flank movement, by Manassas Gap Junction.
Should Lee advance yin lIarper's Ferry or
Al"nasshs Gap, it would be Immediately fol-
lowedby Buffers advance on Norfolk m
Butler anticipates rcacling Richmond by
the goth of July.
Patterson will throw misses of troops
down the Maryland line from ChMnbcrsburg
direct on lIarper's berry.
These are Northern dispatches, and must
be taken with many grains Of sult]
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MOVEMENTS AT TIE SOUTH--A gontle-
man who has just arrived here from Virginia,
where he has been for the last two months,