Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-11-25
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fant3stato Of things is Mississippi:
M !" JACKSON, MISS, Noycmber4 q .-A- Matters
in tliseState We assumiggla threatening atti-
tude. Gov Humphreys his issued a procla-
nation urging the immediate Organization Of
volunteer militia coh,panicse and the I.egislay
turc is mcnoriazing tho presidentto remove
the United d'Statcs troops and release D efIerson
Davis. sS35ss <'ss;.
Meanwhile, two negro soldiersiandss Gov
ernment mules. %.erc captured Yesterday, be-
tween this city and Raymond. sSIhessoldiers
we're probably shot. w. ). WILKINSON, Of
Laudcrdale county, was murdered5by his, for,
Mer slaye on Sunday last;@& Geh.W. INVADE,
was also Killed. The Federal soldiers and
negroes Of Vicksburg have heldSlneetings and
resolved to defend their rights.
o Gov. Sharkcy has Just receiyed2a despatch
from Secretary Seward announcing that he
is expected to exercise the fupctiSSns of Gov
ernor e. Of Mississippiuntil fgrther orders from
Washington. asss'.~
This is bad enough, but the result of tho
elections North, ismuch worse. rhe N. Y.
World" q democratic paper, says Of the
resultof Che recent election there:.
"The result Of yesterdays election is shown,
even by the partial returns received vpsto the
hour of going to press, to have been Repnb-
lican victory. We have no desire to count
our wounds, nor to conceal them. They are
the witnesses of .manly struggle, against odds
Nor would weconccal their disastrous conse-
1uenccs--not 50 much to the party which
will outiee and outlast and bring 6tb the dust
these vcors of today, and whose$p principles
being true are imperishable; but,inthe defeat
of the Democratic party, PrcsidontJ = olinson's
plan for the immediate restoration Of the
Union is defeated also"
"In the election just closed, the Democratic
party has been faithful to it's me-honored
principles. 1t has sought nothing less than
the good of the whole country. 1t did not
hesitate to endorse the measures of an Admin
istration whose election it had opposcd3 for
those; measures were well adapted to the end
which it never lost sight,of through four Years
Of war-rcstoraton Of the Union ant, its laws,
Of peace, Of our civil liberties, Of locallso
government, and Of fraternal good will bet FeGn
all sections of our common country Ann to
day the chief regret of every intelligent Dom
socrat will be, not that alocal election hasbeen.
lost, but that MI Johnsou's politicn! nc,s-
ures fog the early restorationof sthe Southern
States to their cocqual, and normal relations
i'll the Union, which was thechicf.and alo .ost
the, ,ouly national issue at stake in the l;cte
canvass, have not received the weighty en-
dorsement Of the Empire State" (.
With disqnietrdc South, and radit alisn
rampant North, our future is dark, very d;a&
If President JoHNsoN's plan Of rcstqrat ;on is
ignored by tile Northern people, it will, we
fear, be a long while before we are rcsto red to
on! rights in the Union; and that meantime,
We Shall have military rule.
An anomalous state Of things exist in Mis-
sissiIp and South Carolina. Both States
Rave two Governors each, and the Federal
authorities insist that the Provisional Govern
ors sliall rule for the present. There is bung-
ling somewhere.
Dark as the prospect is, VIC still hope for
ethe best
Freednaen's Affairs S.
Gen HOWARD, Chief Of the Ffe .lmcn's s.
Bureau, in letter. To Col.%TREsco svr, says
that Supervisory Board, to consist of tile
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