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'. ... . ". 1 ? ? ' RQB'T. A. THOMPSON, Editor. B. A. Thompson, W.H. Holconibe,R. Young, PROgRIBT&mS. ' _ TER MS.?One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months, in advance. . Provision also leiken in payment, at the mark?i ratos. fl?f* Advertisements inserted at $1 per square for the first insertion, and 50 cents for'each subso quontjnsortion, onsh or provision. ' * . t?S"* Obituary Nottyee exceeding five lines, Trib utes of Respect, Communications of a personal character, and Announcements of Candidates; will be ohirgod for. as advertisements. jjp3f".lob Prating executed jvith neatness and despatch, for cash or provision. ?gy- Necessity compels us to adhero strictly to <ho requirement of cash,payment. ??. PICKENS C. ., S. ?.: Saturday Morning, October 21i 1865. ? ' AGENCIES. ' Messrs. JoAn B. Sitton, Rowland k Knauff, ^cndleton ; Dit Norman and P. Bikmann, Walhalla, will act as Agents for the Courier; .receiving subscriptions either in cash or provision. So, likeyiso, will Post masters "generally. 1 .? We have made arwingeinents to have tho papor delivered regularly at Pendieton, Wal halla,jind on the Railroad. Subscriptions will be receipted through our columns. Persons receiving late papers will confer a favor by loaning them to us. Late Papers Co}. IIob't. 'Maxwell will, accept our rthanks for tho loan of late Northern papers. -L_- .?- ?- ? Tra Election. The election, on Wednesday last, was con ducted in a very quiet, orderly manner. The poll, was heavier than the recent one formem 'bors of the Convention, and a good c$al of so ilioitudo was manifested as to the rcsujt. '? Tho novelty was the. election for Governor ?f?p^iaTlte&ti ?vef ' nefd 'tr?Vlftc^o^cosna South Carolina. *Tho result, in this district, ' was altogetherunanticipated. * Eolipso of the Sun. Early in the forenoon of Thursday last, on obscuration of the sun's di?c commenced.? dthc eolipso was not as complete es that-fore /told by ye almanac gentlemen, but gave very "genoral satisfaction ! ? , ? Immigration. Wo call attention to the interesting letter of Col. John A. AVaoi'.nku, of .Charleston, which we publish'this week on our first pnge. Many of our readers will recollect Colonel Waoenkr, as one of the principal founders of the flourishing Gertnau settlement of Wal haiia^in our districi. ?? ,1?We commend his letter, containing so much inni important ?o our prosperity, to the ma turo consideration of our Legislators, soon to assemble. . We regret' to learn that throe members of the federal garrison were killed at Urown!s , Perry, in Anderson district, last week. They wore ,pn dotached Service, guarding cotton, when they met their violent death. Several citizons oY Anderson have, we learn, been ar rested, and sent to Columbia for trial'before the military authorities. The frequency of violont, unlawful killing in this section, must be a source of most scri cue concern to the good citizon ; and should by s?me monns be averted for the future.-1-: Human life is not rcgarded^vith any show of sa?redn?ss, or home.with sanctity. Where will thi? reokless.regard of life lead - us ? Will it improv?our present condition, or brighton tho' future t'l We think not. oWny should tho reckless and imprtfdent amon'g'us add trouble to our woes, ?r fresh woun?e to our humilia tion. If wo-are:not to havr* poaco, humanity pleads' for a reenonablo.trpce at least. V. ?iie prize for impudonoe, nt the London dramatic* Shftr?. was won by n> young lady who, after persuading tho kindly manager of the palace to, get her aomo flowers, stuck one in his button hole and charged him two uhillings and six pence for ir,: * nu rjnt5i-yr-tuo??^?t___ _ United* States Senators. In additiou to the many selections for office that has already been made, the State Legis lature will be cajlcd ou to elcot two United States Senators. Gov. Peuuy, it is conceded on all hands, will be one of the two. Hoh. W. W, Uoyce, of Fairfield, is also favorably .spoken of in connection with the other seat. It behooves us, in this extremity, to select our best, wisest, and most considerate states men to represent us in tho Congress of the United States,, at the present tiAc. , Deolination. Maj. T. C. HoTrtJNG, who has been an nounced through, the Greenville papers as a " Union Candidate " for Congress, now de clines to be a candidate. This leaves the field open to Messrs. Fakrow and Asii j More. A lively time may be expeotcd before ?thcoanvasM is over, if stump speaking can be relied on for that purpose. .mo n;iiui m^^i^^fci/p?Hh me uourecr?nfc ate Prison at Andersonville, where so many j Federal, prisoners wero confined, ** drags its slow length along," at Washington. The de tails of the evidence are often too disgusting for the columns of the press. The Yankee prisoners, according to the evidenco of both j Confederate and Federal evidence, wore treat ed by Winz worse' than brutes. During their stay at Andersonville, 12,500 died ! Wiltz's health, always delioatc, has given way under the heaviness of tho proof against him, and he, is not expected to survive his trial.' ' ? ' ?'. ?/ Thus, *whi|st the Confederates acted with conspicuous gaflautry the field, and treated their prisoners humanely as a general thing, such men as Winz, by his almost inhuman cruelty, disgraced us as a people, and brought untold suffering on oi*f prisosi^rs who w,c?e in the hands of the federal authorities Cotton has Advanced ^Cotton having advanced in Liverpool, a ? corresponding advance has taken place in Now' York, putti li g up the price to sixty cents per ? pound for " middlings." Belgium has been visited by waterspout of extraordinary violence It occurred in thp ! neighborhood of Liogo, and has spread ruin ; far aqd wide. The accompanying gale caughjt people up* in tho. air and dashed them to the ' groiind. It cut off the tops of some larg? trees and felfed many others to'the ground Itstonped railway trains and overthrcw.housesl It was attended by thunder and flood? of raihl \'\ Altogether, it was one of tho most-disostrouis ' tptorme that has over visited the country. ; j ' 'Fort PUI/a8ki.-?Ono of the Savaimn? l editors, lately visiting down tho Savannah j Itiv?r, says Fort Pulaslci, with its frownfaig parapets lined with tho savage dogs of war, is at present a plaee*of considerable interes), containing within Its battered, 'war-grimmety historio walls, several distinguished prisoners of the,late Confederate States, Among tho prominent men' now, confined thore, are Qov. Magrath,'of South Carolina, G. A. Trenholm, late Secretary o* tho Treasury, D. L. Yulee, | of Florida, Secretary Seddon, Judge Oaqir> I hell, General Mercer and others. j 1 Foreign News. The intelligence from Kurope.is uninterest ing. Cotton has advanced heavily. Something, amountiitg to a rebellion, has broken out iu Ireland. For a yeai' or more, the Irish Jiavc'bceu organizing what they term the Fenian brotherhood." The organiza tion extends to the United States and else-j where. The New York ?lvrald says of it : | John Bull has at'last been fairly soared out of all propriety by the Fenian movement, and is making as groat a hubbub as if a hostile army of two hundred thousand^en had al ready landed on his shores. Gem Sir llugh Hose, who subdued the Indian rebellion by shooting the Sepoys from the muzzle of guns, is in command of the British troops iii Ire land, and has under h ini a force whioh our Dublin corrcspbndei\t estimates at nearly sev enty-four thousand men. ' A sweep has been macie upon tho office of an unhappy Dubliu weekly- newspaper, suspected of Fcnianism,. -ftMe*^ still more importaut haul was made subse quently, when the police came across a live American captain with documents and a uoi forh); in his possession. The Privy Council has been solemnly .c?nvened to decide "what is to be done with the prisoners. British war vessels hover around every portion of tho Irish coast at which 'an invading army could effect a lauding, and Donald McKay,'tho shipbuild er, has boon called in consultation by the Ad miralty with the '.iew^of protecting British harbors bp torpedoes in cuse of war. At t|ic latest dates the oxoitoment and arrests con tinued. Tho cholera appears to be receding east ward At Constantinople it is estimated that the victims number 20.000, the* number of denths in' a single day having reached a'thous and. It is said that probably 200,000 people have left the city from panic. In South America the wur between Parp guay and ra iL; Still continues. Lopez has put himself at tho head of his' army,. Tho Kinperor of Brazil is also proceeding to'.the front. The hottest of the is yet to come. Tiik ?ndex, of /Petersburg, publishes-the ! subjoined extract from a private letter to one j of its editors,, from ? Gen. Leo : ' " It should bo tlio object of all to avoid controversy, to allay passion, give free scope to reason a>d every kindly feeling. By doing this and en couraging our citizens to engage in the duties of life with their whole-heart and mind, with the determination-not .to be turned aside by thoughts of the past, pr fears of tho future, ourcoountry will not only bo restored to mate rial prosperity, but will bo advanced in Sci ence, virtue and religion. < ; * * t Wishing you overy success, I am, ' , Most truly yours, * ? It. K. Lkk/' ' lj Tii^re is good -authority for stating that allthe Colored troops'now in Jhe Federal sor vico are tobo mustered out. ? The idea, that they would bo rotaiued as a part oi the rogu lar army is erroneous. They simply/orm a provisional corps, whioh will bo discontinued Within a few months, Tho whito vtroops re tained to. constitute t?ic regular army will ^mfyer 126,000 men. ' * ?. /. ?.'*.?* ?. ' ' > , :. Minutes.?TJie Minutes of t?ic^Tw^lve Mile Kiver Baptist Association haVe b.w*> priiitpd at' tills ?ffioe, und aro n3W r$*dy for distribution. ' ?., ' . Tub IMinoi?-papers abound in aobount? of murdors aud outrages of the-moat flagrant nature,' quite equal in atrocity and as numer ous as tbc aocbunts wo have from any of the * Northern or Southwestern States Most of them .appear to have ? perpetrated bv re turned soldicrsj or by the fovoigu tuimlgratot population. Gov. Bhwnlow, in a recent, letter to the? Knoxville WLg, expressed tho opinion that idleness, starvation antj disenso, .will remove from tho sphere of mortal existen?e #ic ma jority of negroes of this generation, and that the race will ultimately becomo extinct like* the Indians. ' ' ________ ' , . Two Notional Banks have failed. Tho > tiret National Bank of Attica, N*w York, and the American National Bank of Ilollowel^. have gone by the board. The capitili of both thcso.defunet institution's foot up an aggregato of one hundred thousand dollars. ?? - ; M T The Abolitionists of Perry county, Indi ana, reoently held a meeting qt Tell City, in that county, in which they passed a resolu tion opposing qegr? suffrage and declaring that negroes must not como to that county to stay. Ar*a banquet given in honor of EForaco Greeley by some of his colorod brethren, tho following toast was proposed: "Massa Grec ley ; his face is white, but ho habana black heart/'; It is asserted that orer 8,000 Southerners, chiefly young men, have settled in Now York city, since the surrender of the Southern ar mies. It is sail that the President has received fewer applications for partion from South Car olina than any other State. Winchestjsb, Va., was occupied during irowuriSytno T*e?eral Sud .C?jiroaorr.x?-tfyop^ ? sovcnty-six tunes. About forty persons ?n Giles * *? sty, Ten nessee, having been dcolarcd outlaws by the military authorities, have boi shot down ?r hanged within the.last three weeks. 7 Charlotte Market.?Tho'cottou market war* rather dull and heavy on? the^ 2d. inst., conse quently prices gave way and sales of thirty eight bales at l&\(<ifil gold,und 20(fa)2?>'cur rency, aw. .'quotai. DeJioiv's Review.??-?Ir. DcBow hak received! his pardon from the President. As indicated in his letter, the Review will support the pol icy / reconstruction, and devote itself ? na tional interests. v. . ? ' IJ?knry Ward Bekchku and Uxivfcn 8ali8m.?Our New York correspondent in forms us in his lastlet'tett, of the astonishment and grief experienced by tho congregation of eury Ward Bcecher on reading his intima tion'ihat he favored the creed the Univer salista. We thought the friends And admirers of Beechcr had passed beyond tbat point \d&n they would bo surprised or even fed extraor dinary emotion at any act this champion might dp, or any word ho.might corniciato. If t\\& members of Beecher's CUircli would take tho pains lo think more for themselves, anq* regard more sincerely tW .subii me teachings of the Scriptures, rather than the political fanati cisms of a pulpit actor, they would have enuse to bo amazed every Sunday that t^hey listened to his preaching. Reliable information from Bast Tennes see proves that the young man Baker', who was hung by the mob of citizens and soldiers,' was first assailed by Hall, whom he killed.?? The mob was tho logical oonscquon?o of the1 ' teach i ij^s of Governor Browhlow. *A spirit ?f lawlessness and cruelty prevails in that section, and Gon. Stonenmn declares ttypfc ho oannot* suppress it so long as it is enoour aged by the Executive of tito #tato. The ne^ gro soldiers havo boon."killing White persons,' and have become so insolont/in their bearing that even Governor iWwulow calls for their roihoval; . V .