Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-09

w. r. Boggs. of tire Ordnance Department. and
| Lieut. y. Jones, of tho I'd Artillery, United
States Army, have resigned Mr.. Boggs is o
native of Augusta, Ga.
| REcnuir.--Chaa. Mellon. 1nte City Marshal
of Detroit. Michigan. has gone to Charleston,
and enlisted as Lieutenant in one of the cnmpn-
MES of the secession troops. lie is a native of
| Detroit, nnd his father. n Major in the regular
army, was killed in the Florida Seminole war.
1 TUE TyrEs.--A Southern editor in attempt,
ing to compliment Cen. Pillow as n :. battle.
SCARED veteran" was made by the types to call
him "battle.scared veteran" In the next is
sue the mistnke was far corrected as to style
him "bp bpttle-scarred veteran.
Our OF THE UNION Five States have alrcndy
passe'! ordinances Of secession. The following
! is the area in square miles of the Staics that
haveseceded; Genrga. So 900; Florida so 26S !;
South Carolina $4,000: Alabama. 50,722 : Mis-
, sisSippi, A. l5l-making total of 24S.l4l
square miles. The Tertiary embraced in these
five States is larger by $4,000 square miles than
/ the empire of France and is just twice as largo
. as Great Britain and ireland.
SENT OpF-Thc citizens Of Norfolk Va. on
Monday last, sent of from that city J. Russell
Dawson, who, it was nscertnincd, had voted for
Lincoln. -
SALE.-The negroes and land of the Carpen.
ter estate, which sold on last Monday. SAYS
the Eutaw (Aln) Observer of the 8th brought
very high prices. The land sold fnr thirty-hve
dollars per acrc-nnd chnice negroes brought
from $1,000 to 50, 800. Corn, $3.50.
IxpIANs.-Tt is n singular fact TINT Indiona
has had four Governors since the first of Octo-
ybon To-, C'',, IJnJ 49,, y, |' 'n'
IIe snrveI IN Jnhnar, 1i,i, ,rho a. In''o
was inaugnrated. Gov. Lane served two DAYS
a,c onJ WINS sunorseded Iy J;ont e. NJ
tnn Fonr G,varnors IN IoS. tLon c,,,r ,,,b,I,s
"- .o-- ''''' '"'' '''0''''e'
Lay. n"U'svlIhH Jan. 81 he Legislature has
I';., ,:. "''P'ou W" i%'hIH reS",
- ,''..'s' G :" "','u'l'" 'S ~ 'ci"'re 'ie Foeiat
o,, LII, ~ i',"'"oV S'nN',S ~ lcrr,l"rlcs rn@ @
""I n''u W. 'r"n'h "i 90 "o
NV NV w. '''' Trans" vi si"NeS 'hrouSh
'"o ''ee STATES
r CoCNTEkfElrhkS ,' hR"EIrEp'-Ihree counter
Nj :, ~, 81 ,: 'eS ;" h"n s'ne'H: Ma on
,,I 80 =, ~ ihoIr nSsesS'mn large
Mor,,n,., ~ F H',nr eI,'n.nrlet ol''s on Tie
'i'' '''''''' A'"''~ " No" o''eanS'
DIAN Rer. ,Jobn T,lbot .ou ,, ::
Northwestern Virc;,ia ne F,,herT,lh", M,,h
nd;st ,,;n;a,or JfI =; -; .' ho'''
the 10Th inst, lie had been atraveling minister
Tor o' years.
Nrw Op,r,xs ,T,nnnrv 3o ,r,o c,uo;
gentlemen to-day wcrc chn.en he the in";S i",,GM'nS
St,te Convontinn ne D,Iot,nto,' 10 ,ho' 'S,,I''
Conoress to bo bolJ IN ,he I,h nf Fn1,rs,,
Montgomery. Alabama For thc State NJ I,r%s ns
john Perkins and a, Declpuet. For the lat
Instruct, =. Nj: Conrad; "a. ID. +. Kcmer; 3d,
'en' Edward sparrow; 4th, Henry Marshall.
sr 1 1-. ,n NV, ~
,,iJo,, ,i,n S,,a" g, o"'. no iicuFe t"t,"Y
,,,,;an:'. Vi, ,"": " 'e"'"'""s "r seho'hg
,,I nh,n,n1 y" +" W" me 4'n rox'
onnrSo F H., ~ NJ I 9 ~ "cn""nc'ng me
IN tond".;n IA Nv % G Hnu o'" ., Legislatures
o"erce tie South.
A "SEl1. ."-Rocklond Maine g..
ment last Saturday wcck ovnr rho r,,r,,r 49,
General Scott had bccn killed in J"nl ,.;,h
Tonubs. 1.-The hollis wera tolI,1 orJ ,ba,,non,'
filed with excited nconic " VEIN snoiIv 49,,
home. lnborine under the ;mnross;nn t,,"t
| "salc" +" had taken Mace '''"'
lnE CAcHE IN MENriits.-on the 22d inst.
thcre was an immense demonstration in Mem.
phs' IN honor OF the seeding Suites The 1fr-
the lnrgcsf that cvor ,nL io poeNc''" ,p'n was
| A private lettcr ~ ns s,a,ns ,hn, ,o oo a
VAS nearly two miles jnng rh. n;t, ,os ill.,
minated ""'
,
ELECTION OF SENAToR.-On Thursday last,
says says the R"leigh IN. 90 &dndard. tEe 1Inn.
Thomas H. Ci'ngman, disnni"nist, was elected
! tnre of this S,oto E,r s;x ynors Gr,o, onI go.
the 4th of Murcb next fbcro was M o,r,,o
| iycd oppositim to- Mr. Cl;nem,n W s"'''
| -.
| DEATH OF ES'G"vERNoR LETcDER-Ex.G Gov.
Robert 4 Letcher died in Frankfort. Kentucky,
on on thursday ng't, after protracted illness