Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-07-26

vessels Of the North Atlantic scuadron TO
assist In transporting the troops.
The President has issued q proclamation
similar TO chat in regard 70 West Virginia,
covering the entire United States, and he
before IL O'Clock TO morrow, July 22d. This
proclamation ignores State lines. The pre.
1iminary proclamation, however, alludes 10
Maryland and sCumberland, and 10 The, call of
Governor Carroll The Secretary Of War has
ordered Gen. Hancock to Baltimore.
The riot ID .Pittsburg sMes of tho worst,
character: Several thousand persons were
engaged: in it. The military were driven Of
aud the thieves ruled supreme for more than
thirty hours. More than $1,000 900 worth Of
property was destroyed. The citizens, after
oowardly supinoness, have regained control
Tho striko3 continues to spread. Already
the States Of West Virginia, Maryland, Penn.
sylvania. Now York. New Jersey, Ohio. In.
diana, Missouri and Kansas ore under it's In.
fuence.
Ten thousand dollars reward has been
offered for tho incendiaries of the Lebanon
Valley Bridge at Reading. .... .......,..
WAsnINaToN. July 23.SThe day closes with
travel and transportation utterly demoralised,
except IN the South. New England and West
Of tho Mississippi. Elsewhere than 10 Ohio,
other than RAILROAD industries arc not yet
~
venia and Ohio are starting from nearly every.
where. but they .never arrive anywhere. The
holplessness Of tho Federal and State authori.
ties is pitiable. There is no safety outside Of
the forbearanoo of the strikers and tho firm.
ness of municipal authorities. a%"f q IIl7
Governor Hartranft this morning. oonfes.-
cling his inability to maintain order, has made
teetion., ',..,0,. -
READINa. July 23.--The mob which had
been up the track hero to day came in conflict
with portion Of the 4th Regiment shortly
after P. M. The soldiers fired into the
crowd, killing four and wounded several
others. f- rs t,. III .W,igII.I1-
WAsn1NaToN, July 23.--The movements of
Federal troops and vessels show some unoasi.
ness, or at least necessity for precautionary
measures looking to the safety Of tho Capital.
The otrike is undoubtedly gaining strength,
and thore are threatening Indications in nearly
every town whore railroad employees rendez.
vous. t#.rg.r
RIcnxoND, July 23.-The General passen.
ger agont Of the Richmond and Danville Rail.
road says oil is quiet with their men, and no
probability of trouble in the South.
Trains were stopped at Reading, Pa, and
two cabooses fred about IL O'Clock. A one
hundred and fifty thousand dollar bridge over
the Sohuylkill has been fred and totally
destroyed. The object Of burning the bridge
seems to be 70. prevent the passage Of troops
toward Harrisburg. An immense grain ele.
vator at the corner of Grant and Washington
streets, Pittsbarg, has been burned. The
citizens have organized vigilance committees.
The soldiers who escaped from the Round
house arc entrenohed ten miles up the river.
A dispatch from Philadelphia at IL Il. NJ,
says that tho strikers have just set fire to an
oil train on the Pennsylvania Railrod, near
South street Bridge, West Philadelphia.
The Federal Government, in feeble kind
Of way, is moving troops hither and thther
with the main view of bringing them within
protecting distance of the Capitol. 1t is in
no present danger. but there is no doubt it is
hideously exposed, and there are many mil
lions In Il. The following curiously involved
sentence, which is official, gives the idca: 1T
is not the purpose Of tho government to use
United States troops to merely protect rail.
Ioad property or TO insure tho safe trauspor.
tation Of the mails. except incidentally while
protecting it's own property.
Is is understood that Gen. Sherman and
Lieut..Gen. Sheridan will bo called Mt once
from the West, and tho Cabinet has agreed to
issue proclamation to the Pennsylvania
rioters. Gen. Hancock has been ordered to
assume personal command in Pennsylvania,
aud Gen Schoiold, from West Point, has been
ordered to report to Gen. Hancock.