Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-09-29

thousands of parties in this and adjoining
States are interested, who are holders of or
otherwise parties to deeds, the records of
which have been destroyed during the war
1t will be observed that deeds executed before
October last, 1862, require no stamps This
has been frequently published, but want of
| information respecting it is still the cause Of
trouble and expense:
| &s TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
49, 4.OSSIcE1nE4 I INrIsR MA II RHytaUg, ---a
| Washington, Sept. 8, 1866.
| Sir l reply to your letter of the 4th inst,
that the first Internal Revenue a ct took effect,
80 far as related to stamp duties, October 1st,
lSO2. Instruments executed and delivered
prior to that date, though they may be record
ed afterwards, arc not chargeaLlc with stamp
duties
Any Instruments issued after the above
date, without the proper stamps, may be pre-
scnted to the Collector by the parties or any
persons interested, in order to have the rcoui-
site stamps affixed and cancelled Such an
instrument issued ut II time when, und in q
place where no Collection District was estab-
l.shed, may be stamped by the party who is
sued it, or by any party having an interest
therein, at any time prior to January 1st,
1857 When originals are lost the necessary
stamps may be affixed to copies duly proven.
Very respectfully,
l.. a. KoLLINs, Commissioner.
TIE WAR IN MEXICO Vera Cruz dates
to the 25th of August report that Marshal
Bazuine is concentrating force at San Luis
Potosi to meet General Garia, with 80 900
mon. 1t is supposed the general engagement
will take place between San Luis Potosi and
Mexico.
Guerreo's liberal forces cut the bridges at
Chichuila and Solidad. He then attacked
Mcdclin with his advance, fifteen miles from.
Vera Cruz, lie sacked the former town, con-
taiuing $500 inhabitants, mostly French, ra-
zing the place to the grouud
Tie gunhoat Eugenia was repulsed off Tug
pan buy. The liberals under ,Herrowa also
captured zoo Frcnol troops 81 ,rnspan and al
their stores.
BALTIMoRE, Sept l3.-A large meeting
of the soldiers and sailors of Maryland, to Sc
lect delegates to the Cleveland Convention.
was held on the 18th.
A series of resolutions were adopted, an
proving the policy of the President, and del
| cgation to Cleveland was appointed. Coloucl
Maulsbury, The Charmnn, while making an
address, was interrupted by radical, when
rush was made for the latter, aud he retrcated,
firing pistol 1T the crowd as he went On
being arrested, he confessed that there was a
plot among the radicals to provoke riot,
which had been suppressed only by the prompt.
itudc of the persons present.
SAN Francisco, August 2S.-A terrible
catastrope occurred in this city Yesterday
morning. A building known as the Summer
Street House, in Summer street, a few doors
West OF Montgomery, used as boarding
house, fell to the ground about 2 o'clock in
the morning burying i'll the ruins nearly all
the occupants. Tie exact number in the cs-
| tablshmcnt ut the time is not correctly known,
but it Is thought to be between thirty and forty
Already eight persons have been taken out
dead, and fifteen to twenty wounded.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 20.-Thc river has ris-
en- ton feet during the last forty eight hours,
with the exception of the Little Mama and
| Marietta and Cincinnati. All railroads arc
interrupted by the destruction of bridges
The cornfcds along the Big Mama are all
ovcraoweJ, the water e. being higher than the
| corn tons The Sciota oyernowed tho valley
at Columbus. The lower par, of n"yion l.;
! overnowcd, and McPhersonvillc, opposite, is
ten feet under water. Families are forced to
leave their homes. Three men were drowned
at Piqua
! CINCINNATI, Sept. 2l.--Thorc have bocn
great rains in all parts of the West, and much
damage done. Tho canal ombankm,nt at
Dayton, Ohio, broke, and considerable part
of thetown is under water. There is much
destruction of property, tho whole country in
that section being undcr water.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Seward is much
improved, and pronounced out of danger
Atty Gen. Stanberry has given d written
opinion that the President has power TO fill va
cancies iu the recess of tho Senate, without
any Limitation as to tho time they occurred.
IMPoRTANT If TRuB. "a Boston paper
states that q company of English capitalists,