Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-03-10

AN IMpoRrANr REVENUE REpoRT.-A
Washington dispatch of the 30th ult., states
that Messrs. Wells, Colwell and Hays, who
were appointed a committee to revise the pres
ent revenue system, have mado report, which
has been approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury and laid before Congress Among
the recommendations contained in the report
are the following:
A tax Of five cents pound on raw cotton
| A reduction of the tax on whiskey to one
dollar per gallon.
A reduction of the number of articles upon
which taxes shall be laid, and gradually in
! creased burden upon few luxuries and neccs-
saries.
The removal Of all taxes from manufactured
| articles in time.
The exemption of oil incomes below one
thousand dollars instead Of six hundred dollars
as at present, the tax to be five per cent. all
incomes above that sum
No tax upon leaf tobacco.
No taxes upon retail trades, shocmakers,
tailors, dressmakers, etc.
IMPORTANT DECISION. learn from tho
"Nashville Dispatch" that the Supreme Court
Of Tennessee has lately pronounced. a decision
which will touch the vtals of many transac-
tions entered into during the war. The case
was as follows:
1t was in the case of O. i. Wright and r.
| Cantrcll, plaintiffs in error, against Wesley
| Overall. The cause came up from tile Circuit
| Court of Dekalb County Plaintiffs in error
had executed their note to Sampson Yergan
for the sum of $500 The note had been as,
signed by Ycrgan to Reuben Scott, and by
Scott to Overall On the 9th day of Dccen,-
Der 1862, Wright and Cantrell had paid Over
all $500 in Confederate money, and had taken
his receipt for the same The credit was not
| entered on the note, though it is matter of
record, he promised to make such cradit. In
the Circuit, Overall sued for the full face If
the note, and the Court gave Judgment for
that amount. Hence Wright and Cantrcll
came up By writ Of error The Supreme Court
affirm the Judgment below, in an opinion re-
garded by the leading members Of the bar as
| an able one. The cardinal points assumed by
their Honors are: l. That the Courts cannot
recognize, as power capable of issuing mon
ey, that which is not and never has been so
recognized by the Legislative and Executive
branches Of the Government. g. Ihat the
socallcd Confederate States arc not recognized
by those branches and never were 3. There
fore any paper issued by the said Confederate
States purportng to be money, cannot be rec
ognizcd as such by the Courts
THE history of Mexico shaws that during
the last forty years Mexico has had thirty
seven different forms Of government, thirty
two of which were Republics" and seventy
five Presidents Its revolutions during that
time have amounted to over two hundred.
Curious CALyuLArlON--Th following
| estimate (foundcd upon the last United STATES
ccnsus) has been made Of the probabIc amount
which it costs the individual members of tho
different churches in this country TO sustain
them: a Baptist or Methodist $40; a
Presbyterian, 81 Congrcgationalist, $40;
o Roman Catholic, Sill; an Erscopaliap,
SIS; a Reformed Dutch, s2S; Unitarian,
$23.
t y VERY learned and compassionate Judge,
in Texas, on passing sentence on John Jones,
who had been convicted Of murder, concluded
his remarks as follows:
The fact is, Jones, that the court did not
intend to order you to be executed before next
spring, but the weather is very cold our iail,
unfortunately, is ia very bad condition
much of the glass in the windows is broken
the chimneys are in such diapidated state
that 10 fire can be made to render your apart.
ments confortable; besides, owing to the