Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-06
From Washington:

meeting 1t confirms the pyovious dispatch.
es from Major Anderson, that he cannot hold
out much longer Mr.. Lamon gives iE as his
opinion that it is almost Impossible to rein
force the garrison at Fort Sumter lie left
no order with Major Anderson for the eyaeu-
alton of the fort, but will probably return to
Charleston in few days with orders for the
evacuation.
The Cabinet meeting isunderstood to have
been unanimous in advising the Withdrawal of
! the troops from Sumter.
| Although President Lincoln has refused
to make public Major Anderson's dispatches,
1t is known that there is no ground for alleged
discrepancies i'll them, as has been charged.
The Confederate Commissioners have re-
ceivcd no intimatious of any reply as yet to
their demand for recognition, but have deter
mined toconply with the advice of their Go
vernment to tarry here awhile
Col. A. Dudley Mann left to day for 4 u
rope, quite hopeful of the success of lis
mission
The Senate has adjourned sine die, and
crowds of disappointed politicians are leaving.
j, =. Harvey, who WAS nominated to- day
as Mini5tor to Portugal, (and since confirm
cd) was once G .ar!cstonian, but for the last
twenty years has been resident of Washing
10,
has been editor Of the Philadelphia No,fh
1mcricun.
WASHINGTON, March 31-'rhe Secretary
of the Treasury has issued positive orders to
the United States Collectors at ports on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to appraise all
foreign imported goods on which no duty is
now or had been pre- 'ously collected. This,
In effect, makes them ports of entry without
the authority of an act of Congress.
have been Informed for the hundrcth time,
that Fort Sumter will be evacuated within
three days. 1t is alleged, privately that the
delay was caused by fear of disastrous infu-
cnce on the New England elections, which
take place on the 1st # April
WAsnINGroN, March 29,--Duriug the
late Executive session of the Senate about
400 nominations were confirmed, nearly fifty
of which were sent in by the President yes
terday.
Gen. Wm. Hickey was elected Assistant
Secretary of the Senate, and not Secretary, as
stated. Asbury Dickens retains the latter
position.
The postonice Department., under the re-
Gently enacted provision of the law, has re.
stored the mail service between Georgetown
and Lexington Missouri, to six times week.
The events in the South arc occupying the
Administration TO day.
G..W. Lane, recently confirmed as judge
for Alabama, will, it is said cndcavor to hold
his Court at Athens
The receipts into the Treasury last week
were upwards of 100000 The net balance
on hand was upward of a million and half
dollars
The trial of Captain Armstrong, for the
surrender of Pensacola navy yard, is still pro-
crossing
Much anxiety is expressed respecting the
distribution of the building of the seven steam
sloops- -of-war ordered by the last Congress.
No official action has been taken on the sub
Jcct, BESIDES, the appropriation for that ser
vice will not be available till after the first
cf July
WASHINGTON, March 30.-The Govern
mcnt order to remove thc guns from Bcllona
Fa.,O Foundry to Old Point Comfort has
been revoked
WAsniNGToN, March 31-Thc Confcdcr.
ate Commissioners feel no uncasncss ms re.
CARDS the evacuut;on of Fort Sumter or the
reinforcement of Fort Pickcns. They arc
fully satisfied in regard to both these points
They arc striving to achieve peaceful solu
ton of the difficulties, by rrocurng the
speedy Withdrawal of the FEEDER roops from
the limits of the southern Coz edclncy-
They feel confident that tins dtSithyYilun can
b. accomplished by managing this compli-
Gated business with skill and ability.
NEW YonK, March 20-Thc steam shin
Quaker CITY, from llaYanna, March 25th, ar.
rived here TO day.
Much excitement existed there on the sub
jcct of the annexation of St. Domingo to
Spain 1t GEMS that n system of Spanish
emigration mas been going ON to that island
emigrants being instructed, when the proper
time arrived, to hoist the Spanish flag and in
woke the protection of Spain. This was done
on the 10th, much to the astonishment of the
blacks and natives. When the news reached
Havana, the frigatc Blanco, fully armed with
Il large number of regular troops, was dis.
patched from tho Island on the 23d, and two
screw frigatcs will soon follow with 5000 reg
ulars.
a large naval and military force of 10 900
is said to be on the waw from Spain to Cuba.
1t is stated that Ilayti will soon share the
same fate us st. Domingo, with the consent
of France.
a million of dollars are said to be ea route
from Spain to aid the mctal circulation on
the Island.
NEW York, March 3l.--Tho steam ship
Daniel Webster, from Texas via Florida, has
| arrived at this port, and reports that she land
ed at Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Companies
j. and NJ, of the First Artillery; and at
Fort Taylor, Key West, Companies L. and
Is. of the same Regiment. Her Texas ad.
vices state that the Indians were committing