Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-27


books have been made ] hope that all So
cieties and Committees will request a grant Of
Bibles and Testalncnts as their right, without
delay. Those ordering books, will please give
the name of. thcir consignee in Charleston,
and alsoe at Columbia and post Office address.
Wishing you and all friends Of the Bible
every blessing,
[ remain, yours sincerely,
Rev. e. 4. HoLLEs.
Onngcburg, S. G., january l, 1866.
THE following is notice served By the
treasury department against persons supposed
to have been presidents of the blockade com
panics:
CHARLESTON, S. G., Jan. Sth, 1866.
Sir: Information having been laid before
this Office that you have, within your custody
or control, cotton, money, sterling exchange,
and other property belonging to the blockade
running company, of which you were Prcsi-
dent, known as the Southern Importing and
Exporting Company, or by some similanname.
1 have directed Assistant Special Agent, II.
b. Peters, who will hand you this order, to
examine you fully on oath in regard to such
property; and to take possession, for the pur-
pose of this investigation, of all books, letters
and papers that may be found in your custody,
orunder your control, relating thereto. You
will also take notice that you arc hereby for
hidden to dispose Of the money, sterling cx-
change, cotton, or other property belonging to
the said company, either by the payments Of
the dividends to stockholders or otherwise :;
and you are required to deliver the same to
me, to be held subject to the order of the Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Respectfully, r. G. CALI1coT
Supervising Special Agent
The money made by running the blockade
cannot be said to be the property ",sed in
aiding" the insurrection under act of April
9th, 1861. If liable as property Of persons
engaged in insumcction under act July 18th,
1862, So also, is all the property, real and
personal, in the country; and if pardon pYo-
tccts the one, so, also, must it protect the
other.
Influenced by these, or similar considcra-
TONS Mr.. T.. d. .jcrvcy, one of the parties
against whom proceedings have been taken,
has refused to respond, and yesterday was sent
to jail Charleston Courier, 10M inst.
CRIME IN ST.. Louis.--Thc prevalence Of
crime in St. Louis oppas the newspapers, one
Of whom writes thus:
Z" Men arc bludgconcd and robbed under
gas lamps, on thoroughfarcs, at O'clock in
the evening. Banks arc robbed in open day
light, collectors and messengers are knocked
down, and their money packages seized at
noon, in the heart of the city. Ladies have
their purses snatched from their hands while
walking, in the consciousness of imagined Sc
curity, along the streets, and scores of dwell
inggs are ent.rcd nightly and plundcred. And
yet no arrests are made"
Child. KILLED by TIE BITE ORA RAT
Coroner H. M. Whiting held an inquest on
yesterday morning, at the North west corner
of Meeting street and Smiths Lane, upon the
body Of Fanny Young, colorcd. infant, aged
nine months Three of the toes of the right
foot of the child had been eaten away bysa
rat, and the jury rendered verdict " that
she had come to her death from the effects
thereof" = Churlcston Cowicr, 16M
TIE discovery of what is true, ,ana tho
practice of what is good, are the two most i'm
portant objects Of life. .