Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-11-25

From Mexico.

NgW, ORLEANS, Oetg 80 The fight around
Nlat1Sporas, onethe 25th, lasted for three hours.
The eIibarasswere successful in gaininga por-
3tionSof the works, which, however, we're sub
,sequenty ,regained by the Imperialists. The
Liberals $wepe roughly handled and pat to
fighf, closely pursued by the Impcrialists. -
A Brownsville report says that the Liberals
|. lost five hundred in killed and wounded. The
Impsiialists had several wounded, but less
thana a3dozen men killed. One Liberal Gen
eral was Killed.
The Steamer Vera Cruz, from Mexico, ar
riypdat New York on the 9th ut. The
+ [Lakeofy Texcuco, Immediately adjoining the
City of Mexico was, on the 5th Of October,
within ohc inch Of the level of the city, and il
the rains had continued few hours longer q
greaNaestrlsction of property would have re-
suited. lie Emperor MaXimilan and Elm:
presssWonld leavc-on visit to Yucatan Nov
enlbor, 5th,s
The railsosdgbetwccn Pueba and the City
of Mexicog ogWilEbe completed by the first o.
May hextsMOver 4 900 laborars are employed
on ths railroad from Vera Cruz, to Mexico
a convoy from ,e2uanaiuato had arrived a
Mexico witt. S900,0O0'in silver. !.
4 cunous phenomena OCCURRED in the val
ley ofMcxico Oct. 9th. Five large streams
of water burst suddenly from a mountain
which, if they do not diminish in volume, >wil
form h considerable river.
An cx-rcbcl, named Mitchell, had rented {
plankition in the State Of San Luis Potosi
and would plant 5000 acres in cotton mex
season
.A.milroad train was pluadered by robbers
not faF from Vera Cruz, and an officer anc
nine pen of a foreign legation. captured. /
Was cid that Marshal Ba2ame would dispatcl
slt
RACES.
Three hundred Of Figuera's band are sal,
to have been routed by the citizen soldiers o
Oaiaca near that place, Oct. Gath, killing 81
and capturing G8 prisoners. Seventy eigh
Austrians: charged 400 of Figuera's' band OF
the 22d. ult., and routed. them. The loss 0
the latter was so killed and wounded. J.
Another account reports the Eastern por
ton of the City of Mexico submerged, ant
that there is danger Of total overflow Of th
city.
SPEECH by FRANK BLAfR-Frank Blai
made characteristic speech at Rolla, Nlo.
one night last week lie statad that arount
the works. of Eicksburg, were captured b,
|. Grant, one hundred thousand bales of cotton
and turned over to the Government, and no
a thousand bales of it ever were accounted for
lie said the Provost Marshals Of the Yves
were set Of thievip& plundercrs generally
and robbed the people and swindlcd the GOV
crnment He made bitter warupon Stanton
accused him of being an original traitor ane
said that Alex. II. Stephens, the Vice Presi
dent Of the Southern Confedcracy, was loya
mana more loyal man than Stanton. Drake
Fletcher, or any other radical; and that, when
Stanton had Stephens locked up, the good
loyal and true man was inside and the rascal
and traitor upon the outside III came dowr
upon the officers of the Western army will
one full swoop. Hc charged them with al
sorts of fcorruption.
THE CATTLE PRAGUE IN ENGLAND -Tht
United States Consul at Manchester, Eng
land, writing to the State Department under
date of October II, reports that as yet there
is no abatemcntDf the plague among the oat
|tle, which is mrinly confined to horned cattle
hut it has in few instances brol cn out witt
great violence in Aocks of Sheep As there
is,dapger that the disease may be transmitted
to America, ,@he suggests that thc'importation
offoreign stock be for the prescnt3prohbited
BY the Importation Of hides from Russia THE
disease is by many supposed o'hayc heen ia