Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-02-17

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More than $4,000 persons, mostly women and
children, many of them sick, took to the out
skirts, with hardly a rag to cover them, and
with,nota a mouthful of food to eat. General
Sherman promised to leave behind him cattle
enough to sustain them, but the cattle he left
died at the rate of twenty head each dry, from
sheer exhaustion, and those that were killed
were feshless and bloodless.
It should be understood that the city had
offered no resistance to Sherman's approach,
but that on the contrary, the small Confeder
ate force within it all withdrew the day before,
and the Mayor drove out some miles with
white flag to meet the invaders. He carried
with him letter to Gen. Sherman surrender
ing the city, and asking for it's citizens the
usages of civilized warfare" That same night
Sherman said to the Mayor, "not fingers
breadth, Mr.. Mayor, Of your city shall be
harmed. YOU may lie down to sleep, satisfied
that your town shall be as Safe in my hands,
as if wholly in your own y
Some cotton. had been set on IRE in the
streets during the day, bdtit was extinguished
by the fremen of the city, until the soldiers
cut their hose and broke their eng gine to pieces
Then the reign Of terror began, Houses were
first pillaged, and then set on fire. The sold
iers, writes an old inhabitant, !" could be seen
staggering off with huge walters, vases, can.
delebra, to say nothing Of cups, goblets, and
smaller vessels. Ladies were hustled from
their chambers, their ornaments plueked from
their persons, their bundles from their hands"
The eldest clergyman in the oity was subject
ed to gross i'll usage while vainly endeavoring
to save the communion plate of his church
In other instances, men were hung up till
they were nearly choking, and made to tell
where their PROPERTY Tss hid The g soldiers l.
treasure, and they we've busy with probing
It may be we'll supposed that, with all their
houses razcd to the ground, the people in this
part of the country are in deep distress. |
am told Of families who have always been in
certain livelihood, and these are mote fortu-
nate than many others who are not fit for
work, or. cannot get to do. The state of the
poorer classes is wretched beyond description,
for they have nothing left, and they have no
/ friends capable of helping them. It is not
too much to Gay that thousands of families in
this part Of the country will be in state of
absolute want, this winter unless something
IL uOue loF LtleNI LHcy 'HhFo Dot wv uoauS
to buy the barest- necessaries of lfe The
horses and cattle were killed and burnt for
many miles arodud, and, indeed, all along the
traclNof Sherman's march, SO that the whole
country is bare and destitute. 1t is quite
certain that timely aid would save hundreds
from fate little short Of starvation.
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IMPoRTATIoNs.-Aco communication appears
in the Washington Intellgenoer," setting
forth that at the port Of New York alone, in
one week, the importatons amounted to over
I $4,000 900, and during five months to $127,-
100000 III gold figures. Taking this basis, it
is estimated that the importatops for the fiscal
year ending June next will amount to $780,
100000. 10 this array Of figures are to be
added the amount of importations at Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities, in
order to enable us to form correct idea ot
what we have before US in the way of cancel
ling the NationalD Debt The writer pertinent
ly puts the. question, /" Can we afford this
extravagance Of importation p and suggests
that Congress should devote portion of it's
time to the study Of some measure to avert the
dreadful financial revulsion which stares the
country i'll the face, instead of discussing
problems which in themselves lead to bitter
animosities and waste of valuable time.
There is much wisdom in the remarks of tho
correspondent.
THE remains Of fossil man have been