Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-06-22
social union. Yours, most respectfully.
G. A. TRENuoLN.
To Messrs. w. H. Dendy, A. E. Norman, and
j.. Is. johnson, Committee.

l.. Is. johnson, Committee.
CHARLEsoN Juno 10, 1861.
Gentlemen: Your letter Of the Sd instant inyi-
ting me ton Pic Mo, TO be given,at West Union,
on tho l4th instant in celebration of the compile
non OF the Biuc Ridge Railroad to your neighbor-
hood, and which you say is extended to me by the
unanimous request of your ciizcus,, las been re-
ceivcd but have to thank YOU gentlemen, and
the citizens of Wahalla, for so kind remembrance
OF me in an OCCASION of so much interest. havo
ony to express my regret that cnnnot we'll bo
absent from tho city at this time; and must there
FORE forego tho pleasure of being with you
avail myself of the opportunity. however, to
say. that although tho completion of the road to
Maihalla is but step toward tho great end con.
tcmpl"tcd by those who originated this important
work, still 1t is step completed in tho right di-
rection; and it: by tho well-known perseverance
and industry of your people, tho resources of tho
country shall be so developed as to furnish traffic
iat will pay iii interest the OF this portion
+ Of 1t, the completion of the remainder, will, no
doubt, follow at no very distant day.
more than thirty years ago tho leading minds in
j tho State, without exceptions projected and urged
the construction Of railroad across tho noun
t"ins, and they based their reasons for such con.
nectlon, OH political, not less tinn commercial and
! soclai grounds The neglect of their counsel has
iost 10 the interior of tho State, and to its CONNER
cial capital. large trade that should havc been
ours but which has gone elsewhere by the compile
ton OF other roads in advance of us and now events
are suddenly prccptated upon us which demon
as well; and if We cannot ut this moment continue
what hns been, commenced, they ndmonish us to
resume the great work at the vory earliest moment
TINT we shall be enabled to do So
! am very respectfully, your obedient servant.
ii. GoUnDIN
To Messrs. W. IT, Dendy, l.. b. johnson, and A.
Il. Norman, Committee.
! BhirisH SYMrArnY.-Tho New York Herald of
| the 9th inst. says:
| The last mails from Europe brought intelligence
| to our Marine Insurance Companies with regard
/ u the lifting out of prvatccrs in England which
induced them to-day to raise their rates for war
| risks on American ships from to 3, 4, g. and in
some Instances per cent. This amounts of
| course, to rcsigning the command of the ocean TO
foreign vessels Our ships cannot compete with
british vessels while paying per cent extra for u
war risk and the Legitimate conseoucncc Of tbr
resolution adopted to-day by the leading compn-
MES will bo that in n few weeks the bulk of our
vessels VIII be laid up ut home. We are not pre-
cisely informed rs to the tenor o. Intelligence
which led the companies to take this step
1t is understood thnt prvntccrs are actually 6t
ting out In England to sail under jeff Davis let
ters OF marquc. and it is expected that they will
readily evade tue Instructions placed in their way
by the Foreign Enlistment Act hnd the Oucon's
proc'amation. 1t is moreover well understood
| that under the recent decision Of tho law officers
OF the British crown, American vessels seized bv
Southern privateers. may bc taken into Liverpool
OF London, and sold there under Judgment from
|
The insurance companies have probably received
from their European agents more details OH these
heads than nrc given to the public. They must
nave had something very substantial to 60 upon.
or they never would have taken the startling neu-
sure OF qundrupling tho lisk in q single day
The fact adds fresh Importance to the question
which every one is agitatng; What are to be our
| future relations with England?
| II England by recognizing tho Southern rebels
MS bclligcrents, and winking nt the departure of
prlvateers from her ports has already destroyed
our foreign commerce, what worse could berni us
| II hosilitics actually existed between the United
States and Great Britain? The tenor of the pri-
vale letters per -AusrNlasian is regret to sny.
| extremely unsatisfactory, far as British, syu1a-
| thy IS concerned. Some Of the best informed cor
respondents write that British sympathy is dcci-
dcdly on the side of the South thnt VIC have re-
PEELED England hy our Morrill, tariff while the
South attacks her with promises of cotton and
| trec trade. We find the same story in letters both
from political and commercial sources
The anti slavery telling seems to havc died out
| in England. and TO have given place to n bitter
hostility to Northern Protectoniss If this is so,
| how long will it be before British sympathy finds
expression in overt acts Has it notalrcaiy done
so by the Queens Proclamation, the privaicering
enterprises foot in Liverpool and elsewhere and
| the increased risks which practically compel our
| vessels to remain nt home? What are the instruc.
| tons given TO the Admiral Of the enormous fleet
! Great Britain is sending to our const?
Arwar between the United States and England
Southern rebellion. wonld undoubtedly he n very
great calamity. But if England is bent OH forcing
1t upon ns for the sake of Cotton, how can it be
avoided? Actual war could not be much worse
than the present mock friendship. und, l. cover of
Which Grent Britain supplies guns to the rcb0ls.
hts out privatccrs for them, compes our merchant
| vessels to remain at home, lows the rebels to use
her ports rs dcp0ts for their privntccrs and by
her moral support and sympathy gives them cour.
age to protract the contest with our Government
--s
CorToN SuBscRIprIoSs. The Gcorgians mp
pear to have entered heartily into tho scheme
of contributing to the funds Of the Comfedcrate
Government by subscribing to the loan in cotton
and other products We observe in the Augusta
Co"sttutionalist . series of appointments made
by Hon. a. ii. Stephens for the purpose of nd
dressing tho people u,,nn the subject. The
planters of Bib county have alrcady Subscribed
in this way over 5 1000 bales and the Tcle1,aph
says they will increase it to six or seven thnus
and. Col. Leroy Napier has subscribed S5S ,OOO
and the whole of his growing crop. estimated at
SOD bnles. a general convention Of the nlnp-
tcrs of tho State is called on tho lth { .Tuly
next, to meet at Macon. to take action upon in.
vcstng cotton in the Confederate bonds, and of
sustaining the Government. In Oxford, Mis-.
sissippi. last week. IL few planters met and sub.
scribcd six hundred bales, Hon jacob Tlonp.
son subscribing four hundred bales on his own
account. The Government will 10 maintained
RECEIVING VOLUNrEEns.--From The subjoincd
clipped from tho Augusta Chronicle Of Saturday,
it would appear that the President of the Confed
ate States will accent armed yoluntcer from n