Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-02

worse for the dampcnng it got, but dry
weather will make that all right When we
state that Mr.. Reynolds is native of South
Caroina, it will in the minds of some people
account for his zeal We go for putting him
on the pension list of the new Republic"
Just what might have been expected of
old Rcub. It's Edgefeld all over Why one
of our RNcS walked TO miles to oin his com
pany the day before it left for Charleston
and two or three others walked Is miles to
unite with it at station on the s. c. Rail
road. Place him in the land of the stran-
GER" or where you will, an Edgefed mans
heart still fires with the hopes, the prospects
and the aims of his boyhood's home.
"Though the barquc be toss'd by the
winds aud the waves,
The needle still points to the pole"
[L"ycfcH .AdOcniser.
TIE PosIrIoN OF Gov HIcKs.-Thc re-
sponsc of Governor Hicks to the Talbot
County committee leaves no longer shadow
of doubt as to his ulteror design We gave
crcdencc the other day to statement from
source we deemed perfectly reliable, and
which we have no cause to doubt that tie
Governor had at last taken a practical view
of our position but our informant was evil
IDENTIFY misled 1t is now manifested that
Gov. Hicks will do nothing to auttorj.e pop
uIar action in the State of Maryland We
shall not stop now to examine the causes of
the determination they will no doubt fully
appear at future day. He has affected a
disposition to put the issues of the day before
the people on certain contingencies, all of
which have transpircd ; and he now dcliber-
atcy charges upon the Legislature secession
designs, a wanton imputation for which there
is no excuse, for the Legislature of MARYLAND
would not dare to hint ut such proceedings
as he alleges against them. If the remarks of
Gov, Hicks have any definite meaning, it is
that he will authorize no action on the part
of the people, until after the Inauguration of
MIR. Lincoln. And he makes this purpose
known under cover of the profession of at
tachment to the South. The citizens of Ma
ryIand are capable of understanding such in
consistency us this without an interpreter
Baltimore Sun, 22d
LETTER FROM EXPREsIDENT FILLMORE.
The Hon. Millard Fillmore was, few
weeks ago, suggested by Union meeting in
New York as a suitable person to 90 to South
Carolina to tender the people of that State the
assurances of the citizens of New York that
the North would respect and uphold the con-
stitutonal rights of the South This mission
Mr., Fillmore declined, and in his letter re-
marked:
What they want, and what want, is ONE
assurance from the Republican party, now
dominant at the North, that they, or at least
the conservative portion of them, are ready
and willing 10 come forward and repeal all
unconstitutional State laws; live up to the
compromises of the Constitution, execute the
laws Of Congress honestly and faithfully, and
treat our Southern brethren as friends When
l can have any such 1ciiuJic assurance as this
to give, will go most chcerfully and URGE our
Southern brethren to follow our example, and
restore harmony and fratcrnal affection be-
tween lhc North and the South At present.
our labors should be hers. Let us put our
selves right, and then we can with more con.
fidencc and justice appeal to them.
TENNEssEE.- The following resolutions
have been adopted by the Legislature of Ten
nesscc:
ReSol0cd by the General Assembly of the
State Of Tennessee, That this General Assem-.
bly, has heard with profound regret of the re-
solutions recently adopted by the State OF
New York. rendering men and money to the
President Of the United States to be used in
coerclng certain sovereign States of the South
into obedience to the Federal Government.
Re$oiccd, That the Gc eral Assembly re-
ceives the action of the Legislature of New
York as the indication of purpose upon the
part of the people of that State to further
compicate existing difficulties, by forcing the
people of the South to the extremity of sub
mission or resistance, andooso regarding it, the
Governor of tne State Of Tennessee is hereby
requested to Inform the Executive of the
State of New York, that it is the opinion of
this General Assembly that whenever the au-
thoritics of that State shall send armed forces
to the South for the purpose indicated in said
resolutions, the people of Tennessee, uniting
with their brethren OF the South, will as one
man, resist such invasion of the soil of the
South at all hazards, and to the last extremity.
A FRENcHMAN, resolved to be rid of life,
went little before high tide to post set up
by the sea side. lie had provided himself
with ladder, rope, a bundle of matches,
and vial of poison. Ascending the ladder,
he tied one end of the rope to the post, and
the other end round his neck then he took
the poison, set his clothes on fire, put the
muzzle of the pistol to his head and kicked
away the ladder In kicking down the lad
der, he slopcd the pistol so that the ball miss
cd his head and cut through the rope by
which he was suspended he fell into the
sea oxtinguishing the flames of his clothes,
and the sea water which he involuntarily
swallowed countcracted the poison, ard thus,
in spite of his precautions he remained nm