Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-03
Important Legal Decision,

Court of Sumter County, Alabama, embracing
the following points:
l. The ordinance of the State Convention
and tho different Acts of the ceisaturc for
the protection of administrators, executors and
guardians, are valid and investments made
by them in good faith, in the late Confederate
securities, under color of law, will now be up-
held; tho loss falling upon the estate, and
not upon such executors, administrators or
guardians.
Contracts made during the war, which rec.
ognizcd the lawtuncss of Confederate bonds
and Treasury notes, and which were then val
III, will not be pronounced void.
B. Collections of debts due an estate, by
the personal representative, in Confederate
Treasury notes, will be upheld if made in good
faith, even though the debt was duo before
the war, and the notes became worthless in
the hands of the administrator
4. Where rights had already been vested
before the surrender, or acts have been per
formed under the laws then in force, the pub
lie policy which existed at the time such rights
accrued, and not present public policy, will
control the question of their legality; and
loyalty to the National Government docs not
require interference with such past transac-
tions, if honestly made, and in accordance with
the laws of the State ut the time
s. The administrators in this case, having
in good faith sold Il large amount of cotton,
BY the advice and order of the Probate Court
III 1868, for a fair price, and having taken
note for the purchase money from the purcha-
Ss %hlsh WAS dslysyea t9 ts smperdiaq m 8S the
an in Confederate money, he Is not Iin,ie
account again for said cotton; although the
same was made with reference t. the market
price in Confederate money.
NEW ORLEANS, October 16 The NIisss-
sippi Legislature met yesterday in extra scs
sion. The Governors message says that the
necessities of the State constrained him to call
the Legislature. 1t was not special emer-
gcncy, but II general cxigcncy, resulting from
the altered and dcrangcd condition of our
Federal relations and domestic affairs.
lie states that the removal Of the negro
troops from the State, and the transfer of the
Frccdmcn's Bureau to officers Of The regular
army, are subjects of congratulation. lie de-
plorcs the state Of the country, and cnclpscs
the constitutional amendment. but prcsumcs
that the mere reading Of it will insure its re-
lection He recommends the admission of
negro testimony in all courts, and requests
that provision be made for the education of
the INDECENT children of Confederate soldiers,
and for the relief of destitute disabled Confcd-
crate and State soldiers.
RAILROAD FREIGHTs.-Wc arc gratifcd
to learn that arrangements have been perfect
cd between the South Carolina Railroad Com
pany and the Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad Company, by which the freights be-
tween Charlotte, N. c., and this city have
been materially reduced. 1t is stated that So
per bale ON cotton 81 per hundred on first
class merchandise IS cents on second class,
and IS cents on third, are the figures for the
through frcights. Stock, furniture, machine
ry, &C., per car load, are rated ut comparative
ly low prices. The particulars Of these chang.
es will be made known in few Gavs; rs also
tariff of rates from and to Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, which will
give to this city position shipping port,
to which she is, by her geographical position,
so clearly entitled Charleston Courier, 2SM.
SINGULAR LEGAL OPINIoN.-A Mem
phis lawyer relates, if we may rely upon state
ment of the Memphis Bnlctin, that while in
Carroll County last week, he had attended the
preliminary trial of q man before country
magistrate, charged with stealing corn from
a neighbours corn crib The evidence went
to show that the defendant had been found
with his hand in an aperture in tho crib, safe.
ly fastened in steel trap, which the owner of
the crib had set for the purpose of catching
the thief who had been preying upon his grain
1t was also in evidence that two empty corn
sacks were found lying at the feet of the en-
trHpped individual. The decision of the mag
istrate was that there was no proof that the
prisoner had stolen any corn, and as to being
caught with steel trap, any gentleman had
right to stick his hand in one, if he felt in
clincd to do SO.
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TRUTH is tho orly lasting foundation for
friendship.