Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-24


Arab brethren. "The Turcos pity us very
much" remarked grim visagc grenadier,
with significant shrug. GAS we Chris
tiaus wear our hair cut short, they tell us
the prophet can only catch us by the car
and as he won't be able to carry us very
easily in that way, we stand Il mighty slim
chance of being suved!"
The Emperor, Empress, and Imperial
Prince left Paris last evening, for Saint
Sauveur, Watering place in the south of
| France, which their majestics have not
hitherto visited. They are to remain there
and take the baths during three weeks
The Imperial party is to occupy several
houses at the extremity of the village,
which have been furnished from the chat
eau at Pau. Sixty foot-soldicrs and ten
mounted men, of the Guard, arc to at
tend the Emperor and Empress at st. Sau-
vcur. The imperial visit will doubtless
make the future fortune of this hitherto
comparatively unknown place of summer
resort, on the frontiers of Spain, the native
country of the Empress Eugcnc.
An important decree, scarcely less i'm
portant in character than the one above
mentioned, is officially published in tho
Montcur Universal, of this morning. All
the warnings given to the newspapers and
periodicals of France and the colonies since
the decree Of February 18th, 1852, arc
declared null and void. The press is thus
enabled mt once to commence, rs it were,
anew, Three warnings are followed by
suspension or suppression. Many journals
had already received two. l predict that
this is but preliminary step to the reno
val of every restriction on the press, and
that the day is not far distant when all
shades of political opinion will be allowed
free expression in France, rs in the United
States, Great Britain, Belgium, and Sar-
dinia. FIGARO.
p. ST reopen this letter to give you
curious and significant item of news,
which has just been communicated to me
by undoubted authority. The NIonitcur of
Sunday explained the non-participation of
Prince Napoeon's corps d'armee in the tri
umphant entry of the Army of Italy, by
the announcement that the Emperor had
4" decided to maintain, momcntarily, an ar
my of fifty thousand men in Lombardy,"
of which Prince Napoleons corps (thc
fitth) is to forma part. | now learn that
military storchouSes and other buildings,
for the use of the French army, have been
rented in Genoa for two years. There may
be some meaning in this which will dcvcl
ope itself in the course of time. 1t is cx-
pcctcd that the fifth corps, md one division
of each of the others, now in ,.ombardy
and Sardinia, will return to France about
the same time as the French army of oc-
cupation in Rome FIGARO.
ABUSE OF THE FRAMING PRIVILEGE.
We copy the following from the Wash
ington correspondence of the Baltimore
| Sun:
" For some time past, the postmaster Of
this city has refused to send off in the mails
such matter as, in his belief, was fraudu-
lcntly frankcd In other words, such as
was not frankcd in the handwriting of the
person entitled to the franking privilege. =
In this he has been sustained by the Post
master General, who docs not admit the
right of member of Congress to author
ize the use of his name by another for the
purpose of franking.
"Some of Senator Browns documents
first came under this condemnation, his
name having been signed by another per-
! son. under authority. They were return
ed for proper signatures, as others have
since been Doubtless counterfeits have
been smugglcd through, but the postmas-
ter has been instructed 10 arrest, as far as
possible, frauducntly endorsed documents,
come from where they may That the
public will stand by Postmaster General
Holt in this matter, there can be no doubt,
since that it should be known, that during
a session of Congress, hundreds of per-
sons arc engaged here in this species of
countcrfciting. Nor do they scrupic to
frank their own private letters as wcll as
those of their friends. The evil consc-
queI &c does not alone end with a violation
of law The object of the establishment
of mail faculties (tor which business men
pay postagcs) is often in whole or part de-
feated through the delays in transit occa-
stoned by the overwhelming mass Of Jun-
con.be matter sent from this city by the
mails. l
"Thc existence of the franking privil-
egc acts injuriously in another way, Which
is, that so long as private and partizan cleo
| tionccring can be carried on at the people, s
expense through the cmonopolizing, at times,
of the mails, so long will legitimate Con
grcssional business be set aside for making
buncombe speeches and for, what is worse,
the printing of them"
A MoTuER's GRAvE-Earth has somc sa-
cred spots, where we feel like losing the shoes
from our feet and trcading with reverence ;
where common words Of social converse seem
rude, and friendships hands have fingered