Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-03
[VOL. 2NO. I.


EQUITABLE SETTLEMENTs.---rh Georgia
Southern Recorder" says that Judge Reese,
at the late term of the Hancock Court, defined
the construction of the State ordinance in ref
ercnce to the equitable adjustment of contracts
made during the war, follows:
The jury must couilnc themselves to the
contract The Convention says contracts
in the war must be settled cquitably," and
"cithcr party may prove in evidence the value
of the consideration ut any time - but YOU
must oonstruc this according to tho United
States Constitution, which forbitls the State
to impair contracts; and the Georgia Convcr-
ton IS only the State. SO you cannot as q
jury so construc their Ordinance of Novcm
bcr 1868, as to impair the contracts the
parties; that contract must govern you, not
the Ordinance or any notion of yours about
equity" The Ordinance only alters Tie
rule OF evidence, and that merely for the pur-
pose OF showing by parole evidence, what sort
OF money the contracting parties actually
meant; and if they had no definite idea, then
the jury may say what sort Of money was prob
ably intended by the parties. The word 'dol-
lars . in contract prcsumptivcly means econ
stitutiona T" dollars; but now parole proof is
admissible, to show you that the parties actu-
ally or probably meant "Confcdcratc dol
lars. If so, then the jury must reduce the
contract to gold, and add the discount Of cur
rcncy.
GEN. SHERMAN AND TIE CoMfSG Rryo-
LUTloN-Thc announcement that Gen. Shcr-
man will probably accept place in the Cubi-
net has aroused remarkable degree of attcn-
tlon throue hout the country, and imparts new
interest to his uttcranccs. We, therefore.
again publish singular extract from the
speech which he some months since made to
the students at Yale College. lie said:
Look at the flag Christian object
Obey its dictates and follow its leaders. AS
you g, out into life, you will find opportunities
enough to stand up for it; you may even have
a chance to fight for it. I tell you that be-
tore you pass from the stage there will be fight
ing, IN comparison with which mine will bc
s!'"ht ""d h.M1r ha.l ennnph."
nAsuiNulvN, Uctoucr av.-vvn. ,,,u,-
man arrived here last night, and is the guest
of Gen. Grant.
The President has ordered a pardon to be
issued to cxConfcderate Secretary Of the
Treasury Trenholm.
ToRoNTo, October 25.-Col Lynch, Fe-
nlGn prisoner, has been sentenced to be hung
on the 18th December
WHEELING, West Virginia, October GO
The election, yesterday, shows gains on the
vote for the constitutional amendment over
that of last May Borcman has been elected
Governor and Hubbard to Congress
WASHINGTON, October 26.-Sher,nan ac-
companicd by Grant, had an interview with
the President this morning.
OrTowA, October 2G.-Thc Hotel Duco-
rallc has been engaged for troops A part of
the Tooth Royal Canadian Regiment will be
stationed here this winter
NEW ORLEANS, October 90 Gen Shcri-
dan has addressed a letter to COL Scdgcwicl,
commanding Mt Brownsville, instructing hilA
to warn all adhcrcnts, of any party or protein
ding Government, that they will not be per-
mittcd to violate the neutrality laws between
the Juarcz N.ibcraD Government of Mexico
and the United States. These instructions
will be enforced against the adhcrcnts of the
imperial buccaneers representing the call
ed Imperial Government Of Mexico, and also
against the Ortcga Santa Anna and other fac
tions.
No FORMER STAKEHOLDER SHALL EVER
BE PRESIDENT OR VICE E-PREsIDENT-In
recent Boston speech, Mr. Boutwell, said the
President had disgraccd the country but he
would not be impcachcd for it, and added
want to say one thing, and so deeply ami
impressed with the conviction that no man
can ever hereafter be trusted in the Office Of
President or Vice President who has bought
or sold human flesh, that l conjurc you and
my fellow citizens forever after to make it
rule of your public policy that no such man bo
clothed with the highest Office in the gift of
the people. Great applause, and cries Of
good"
HALIFAX, N. S., October 2i.-Thc steam
or Victor makes the following report Turks
Island, on the 30th OF September, was visited
by terrific hurricane, destroying 500 houses
and their contents. Over 5000 persons arc