Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-27
Telegraphic News from all Quarters.

CoMMIsSARY.
Telegraphic News from all Quarters.
/ MONTGOMERY, April 10..-Rogcr \. Pryor
has been appointed Colonel in the Array
Con. Honningscn will probably be appointed
Lieut. Colonel under him. Pryor leaves to-
night for Virginia to organize Il regiment =
Appointments in the army are being made
rapidly, but the list of the War Department
is not classified. w. L. Gordon has arrived
! from Virginia with tho ordinance OF secession,
which he presented to the President and Vice
President of the Confederate States. lie
left last night for Richmond.
| NEW ORLEANS, April l8.-It is expected
that Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Missouri and Arkansas will soccdc within a
week
Capt Necdlcr, Of the French Marine, has
offered his services to the Confederate Gov
crnmcnt, and will fit out privateer at his
own expense. Several privatcers are expect
cd to leave here soon.
Recruiting is rapidly progressing. The
troops are pouring in from the interior.
RICHMOND, April 20.-Presidcmt Lincoln
has stopped the mails coming to Richmond,
No Baltimore Express has been received =
The dictator is evidently beginning to think
something is going wrong"
BALTIMORE, April 20.-In the collision
that occurred here yesterday, seven citizens
were killed aud about dozen others wounded
more or less dangerously.
The people here are resolved to prevent the
passage of Northern troops at any cost The
stone bridge at the Relay House, on the line
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, nine
miles South of this city, has been rendered
impossible for trains. The long railroad
bridge of trcssel work between here and Phil
adclphia has been broken down, SD tnt no
more Yankee soldiers can come by that route.
Maryland as far as is asccrtaincd, is unit.
and Is ready to dispute every inch of ground
Baltimore Is unanimous to resist the passage
of Northern troops, but is comparatively de.
fcncclcss. All the bridges on the roads lead
ing to the North have been been DESTROYED
and the Susquehanna ferry boat is sunk -
There are not more than five thousand troops
in Washington. 1t is believed that with en-
crgctlc action on the part of The South, Wash.
ington may be seized, and possibly the Ad-
ministration. This is perfectly reliable and
! by gentleman who has just arrived from
> Baltimore They are preparing in Baltimore
to drive back tho Rhode Island regiment
A few on both sides were killed yesterday
| Winans, of Baltimore, offers seven millions of
dollars to the Southern Confcderacy.
1T is reported Fort MclIcnry is to be attack
cd by the Baltimorcnns
Martial law is to be proclaimed in Wash.
ington. The citizens arc leaving there in
great numbers.
Fifteen or twenty thousand troops from the
North, en- route to Washington, have been
stopped at llavrc dc Grace by the burning of
the bridge. 1t is supposed these mcrccna.
IieS will come round by water.
Col. r. E. Lee and Commander Maury
have resigned. Commodore Il. Forrest has
also resigned and been appointed Commander
of the naval forces of Virginia Col Lee is
to be commander of the military forces.
NORFOLK, April 20.-Our boys captured
the naval magazine last night, with three
thousand barrels of gunpowder, and vast quan.
titles of loaded shell and other ammunition
Most of the powder is now half way tc
Richmond.
The Cumberland lies abreast of the Nav,
Yard Four hundred of her crew swear they
Will not fight us. We expect to capture her
NORFOLK, April 20 1t now appears that
Commodore Paulding, of tho Cumberland
was the party who spiked the guns in the Ma:
! Wy Yard two hours ago. He sent q flag ot
truce to Genera Taliafcro, commanding in
this city. The officer bearing the flag hos
been in scc.et conference with Taliafero unit
a few minutes ago, when he returned to tn,
Cumberland, which is still ut the NAVY Yard
The result of the conference is not Known
Twenty-Five sailors escaped front tho Cumbcr
land last night to our side. Rumor says tha
| Paulding threatens to shell the city, but AZ
yet rumor only
BALTIMORE TELEGRAPH OFPIcH.-Th,
Superintendent and operators of this ofhc,
have closed, in consequence of threats agaips
their lives. Parties came into the Baltimor
office with dispatches, and threatened to shoe
the operators if they were not sent, while 9th
ers threatened to shoot them if they. did
The wires arc all cut between Baltimore ant
Philadelphia,
j. r, Dowell, Superintendent from Wash
ington To New Orleans, has been arrested b,
the authorities at Washington for apnonnoinI
himself seccssiohist lie is a virginia.
by birth.
| NoRFoLK, April 20.-The Pawnee cclyey
ed the Spanlding 10 Fort Monroe, with aboI
@l,4Oo Northern troops "a RSsFas This hllsese