Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-10-14
CoLoRED MEN SHOOTING WHITE MEN.-

Sabbath was a week ago, colcred soldier shot 7
white man in the leg. Friday last, near
the depot, several colored soldiers fired on
white man, but fortunately not one shot took
effect. Last Sabbath, on the train at Loudon,
acolored soldier shot and killed member Of
the 9Th Tennessee Cavalry, on his way here
to be mustered out n
Last Sabbath, on Gay street, Allen Hen
dricks Of Co. A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, was
run through the chest by colored soldior.
with bayonet, and died instantly. The col
ored man had difficulty with drunken
soldier Of the 9th, and Hendricks stepped for
ward to take the intoxicated man to his regi-
ment. His object was to make peace, and he
demeaned himself quietly. But the colored
soldier, in most unwarrantable manner, drove
his bayonet through him, and he died, leav-
ing, as we are informed, a'wife and children
to mourn his loss. This murder has produced
intense feeling among the Tennessee troops,
and it will require frmness and skill on the
part Of the officers commanding both parties
to prevent serious trouble. @
We are opposed to any war upon the col
ored troops, because they are in uniforms with
guns on their shoulders. The Government
put them into the service, and they are enti-
tied to q fair showing. But we are opposed
to the freedom with which they use their bay.
onets and level their muskets at white men.
Loyal men who huve been driven from their
homes into the Federal army--have served
their time out and returned to be mustered
out-don't propose to be shot down like dogs
! by men cf any color, or to be ran through with
bayonets at every corner Of the street.
The truth is, that no troops are needed in
East Tepnessee, and the sooner they are re-
! we'd the better for them and the country,
,lassglass. better order is observed. Each sheriff
i.ayeach Scounty is authorized 70 keep a force
adequate to the order and quiet demanded,
and each county fcots the bill.
:, [BrownzosO's KnoDuille Wig.
KNoXvILLE.-The Chattanooga Gazette,
Of the 7th, says: "Agentleman FROM Knox
vile yesterday reported everything quiet
stores all closed end only ten men dead"
We are happy to be able to state that affairs
appear to be improving at the home of Gov.!
Brownlow. An officer who left that place on
Friday morning, informs us that the number
killed the night before he left was only five
three white men and two colored "All quiet
along the Potomac. ."-NalfOWe, Gazette.
METEoRs. On bright night, twenty min
utes rarely pass at any part of the earth's sur.
face without the appearance of at least one
meteor. Twice a.year Con the 18th of Au-
gust and the 18th Of November) they appear
in enormous numbers. During nine hours
in Boston, when they were described as fall
ing as thick as snow flakes, TWO hundred and
| forty thousand meteors were observed The
number falling in year might, perhaps, be
| estimated at hundreds or thousands Of mil
lions, and even these would constitute but
small portion of the total crowd of asteroids
! tha circulate round the sun. FROM the phe-
nomena of light and heat and by direct OBJ
servation on Encke's comet, we learn that the
universe is filled by resisting medium (the
ether), through the friction OF which all the
masses of our system are drawn gradually to-
ward the sun. Aud though the lsrger plan
cts show, in historic times, no diminution of
! their periods Of revolution, it may be other
wise with the smaller bodies In the time
required for the mean distance of the earth
to alter single yard, small asteroid may
have approached thousands of miles nearer to
the SUM-.
The New BONNET. THE new, bonnets
which tire milliners have just displayed in New
York are thus described:
AZ few French bonnets are on exhibition, \
but there is nosgreat change from last season,
except they are made lower in the neck, leav-
ing less room for waterfalls, which are waning
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