Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-10-14
The Masonic Brotherhood.


convention issto restore and re-invigorate theif!
bonds of brotherhood, which the late civil war
had threatened, if not impaired and ruptured.l
Generally speaking, the Masons have been
everywhere true to each other-so true aud
stcadfast that, in s51ne instances, in this State,
they have incurred the scverest censures of
persons not of the craft, for the kindness,
which they showed to the prisoners, members
Of the craft, who had been made captives To
them they had furnished money, food, nour-
ishnent, clothes, and had even So far prevailed
'wich the keepers of the prison as to procure
their temporary release from their cells, that
they mightassemble with the brethren at the
s. yeral meetings of the lodges. They can
properly claim, accordingly to be among those
classes who, steadfast to the faith, superior to
the events of war, have maintained the inter-
ests of humanity and civilization, unaffected
by politics or strife. 1t becomes them to use
the instrumentality of their widespread and
powerful organization, to do all in their power
to restore the ties of the brotherhood, to repair
the bonds of the temple, aud to show them
selves ministers of. peace and harmony, as they
have been of humanity. There is yet another
important reason for this movement 1t APP
pears, from communications made by Masons
Of, the Northern armies, while in the South,
that pains. had been taken to disseminate
among them the idea that the Southern Ma
sons had, like the several church organizations,
broken off from all connection with the North
ern lodges, and refused any logger to frater-
nize with tlseni-an idea which is wholly in-
consistent with, the first principles of Free
Masonry, which is no more affected in it's laws
4 ~ : n . ILL -, 4 - q
the prevalence Of thunder storm. But we
toaexpress our concurrence with the course
adopted by our Grand Master of South Caro-
lima, who has determined that the brotherhood
of the, State shall be represented in the Ke,,-
tucky Convention, and who has made the most
iudicious appointment of the brother, Henry
Buist one of the brightest of Southern Ma
sons, who combines with the acquisitions of q
highly taughtand experienced Mason, the fine
qualities of the courtly gentleman, with the
eloquence of the orator.
Coletmbio Ehoe,,,D.
THE DEvIL ON TOP Under this heading,
and in support of the statement involved, d
Northern paper gives list Of recent outra-
geous crimes. We extract one from a num-
ber of the same character, which certainly
constitutes an important link in the chain of
proof Under date of the 10th it says:
Early Monday morning, at daybreak, the
house of Mrs Sarah Ketchum, a respectable
widow lady living at seventy-seven West For.
tieth street, New York, was entered by ruff
fans, who got into her bedroom, with the
avowed purpose of outragiig her daughter, q
young lady of remarkable beauty, who slept
with her.mother, The daughter succeeded
in escaping in her night clothes, and sought
refuge at aneighbor's, while She,baffled scoun-
.drels seized the mother. choked her nearly to
death, and committed pn atrocious outrage
Afterwards, bytfreats of murder if she re-
yealed it, they SO intimidated her. that upon
the case coming up in court she did not testi-
fy. Her friends, however, will endeavor to
obtain new trial, as some of the rogues are
known.
The FRACTIONAL CbRRENcY. The print
ing of fractional currency notes upon the new
membrane paper has been temporarily checked,
by slight disagreement between the inventor
and the department, in reference to the pro-.
duction and cost Of the paper. Eventually,
when decision is arrivedat by the Secretary,
the public will be supplied with a fractional
currency, the successful initiating of, which
wilSbaffle the skill of the Oldest counterfeiter.
1t will be wcll-nigh impossible to proddce the
paper out Of the Treasury building, and from,
its texture md finish the least expert in money
will be able to distinguish the genuine note,
Nnt ths' lanst amon0 the manu n ollon o;,,o r,f