Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-10
Difficulty in Baltimore.


The patriotic city of Baltimore is passing
through the Same cruciblc of tribulation, says
the Yorkyille Enquirer" that New Orleans
and other places South have experienced
The radical Legislature of Maryland, at it's
last session, passed an Act comforting extra
ordinary powers upon the Police Commissions
crs of Baltimore, in supervising the ballot
box. The Act further provides, that for any
malfcasancc in Office, these Commissioners
may be brought before the Legislature for tri.
al aud dismissal; or if that body be not in
session, then before tho Governor of the State.
After the recent Mayors election, alleya-
tons of fraud and corruption by the Commits,
sioners, in the registry Of voters, wcrc made
to Governor Swami These allegations dis
played an amount Of corruption that required
examination, and Govcrno, Swami immcdiatc-
ly summoned the Commissioners TO appear be-
fore him to answer to tho charges. This thoy,
declined to do. Thercupon tho Governor IS
proceeding with the investigation which may
result in their dismissal
But this is not the rca! difficulty. Gov.
Swami is johnson Republican, and the Com
missioners are all Radicals. The charges
against, them supported BY competent tcsti-
mony, were that they had excluded voters
from the polls because Of their conservative
principles, and admitted the votes of a different
ordcrof politics Hence the violence mani
tested by tho Commissioners, and the secret
organizations of radicals in Maryland, Penn
sy'vana and elsewhere, to support them by an
appeal to arms.
The excitement, in view of these violent
proceedings, has become intense. Governor
Swami thri" ems to "exhaust the State"
rather than surrender the privileges of the
people to this alleged corrupt body, and the
President is in duty bound to afford him mil
ltary aid to suppress riot and disorder at home,
and resist invasion from other States.
y compromise, according to our latest dates.
has been agreed on; and the whole matter
goes to the courts for adiudication
TIE SOUTHERN PEOPLE AND PoLITrcs.-
Some of the Yankees don't approve of tho
apathy manifested by our people in the mat
ter of national politics. The "Ncw York
Times" of Saturday says:
| We notice that great many Of the South
, orm ,neWWsrnrers VS. arc ADV ain" ~, -yr'' "i the
affairs, but to give up all care us TO whether
or not their representatives are admitted to
Congress, and to abide patiently the develop
h'ent OF the purposes of their " No,thcrn
masters. They argnc that the appearance
OF affairs is so discouraging, and that the no.
sition of the South is one of such utter helm
lcssncss, that the best thing its people can do
Is to let politics drift, and devote themselves
entirely to improving their material fortunes.
Inc advice, in broad aud permanent pont
OF view, ls bad. 1t would be Il most unf,rtu.
nate thing that such a vast body of the Amer
lean people shond settle down into indiiTc-
renee upon such vital matters of popular con
ccrn. 1t is absolutely essential to the proner
working and permanent continuance of our
free institutions that the whole people nf the
country should at all times take an active in.
| tcrcst in them"
gSS- Before the adjournment of tho Cont
at Grecnvlle, tie following sentences wcrc
passed, after the Grecnvllc papers went to
press:
Caroline and Phillis Williams were found
gully OF murder, and sentenced to be hum,
on Friday, llth of December
Marion Walker and Ned Williams, (col.
or'd) were found guilty Of burglary, aud SEN
tenccd to be hung on the same day
Wm. White (colorcd,) convicted of larce.
ny, was sentenced to two years Imprisonment
in the Pcnitcntiary
EW- Hon. d. W. Middleton, Clerk of the
supreme Court of the United States, gives
notice that at the ensuing December term
the general causes brought into this court by
writs of error or appeal from the circuit and
district courts for tho scyeral districts within