Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-13

the same, That NO subscribing witness to any
will, testament or codicil, shall hereafter be
held incompetent to attest or prove the same
by reason of any device, legacy or bequest
therein in favor of such Witness ur the hus-
band or wife of such witness, or by reason of
any appointment therein of such witness, or.
the husband or wife of such witness, to any
Office, trust, or duty, and such device, legacy
or bcouesh shall be and the same is hereby
declared valid and cffcctual, if otherwise so,
except so far as the property, estate or interest
so devised or bcqueatcd shall exceed in value,
any property, estate or interest to which such
witness, or the husband or wife of such wit
ness would be entitled, upon the failure to es-
tablish such will, testament or codicil but to
the extent of such excess, the said device, leg
acy or bequcst, shall be null and void and
such appointment shall be valid, if otherwise
so; but the person or persons so appointed
shall not, in such case, be entitled by law to
take or receive any commissions, or other COM
pcnsaton, on account thereof
II. That the second section of an act enti-
tied "An act to alter the law in relation to
last Wills and tcstamcnts, and for other pur-
poses," ratified the 2lst December, 1858, be
and the same is hereby repealed.
III. That the third section of the said act
be amended so as to read as follows, viz: That
hereafter the probate, in due form of law, by
and before the proper Ordinary, of. any last
will and testament, whether the same be of
real property exclusively, or Of real and per-
sonal property mixed shall be good, sufficient
and etfectual in law, in the same mannersand
to the same extent as if the said last will and
testament were exclusively of personal estate;
ereal estate sl.:'M sa esl
as evidcuce in any cause until after probate
before the Ordinary, either in common form,
or in due form of law.
Nv. That all acts and parts of acts incou-
sstcnt herewith, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
I. THE GOVERNMENT CENsoR-A MYsTE.
RY.-The late war left us many ingenious and
useful -curiosities. which belong as much to
our literature and history us the curlcd darling
of the time of Charles, or the yellow skinned
nabob Of the early reign of George III. We
had our Shoddy- Prince, whose career showed
how much spendor could be gathered from
rags; our Coppcrhead; our Cotton Shark !;
our Reliable Gentleman our Intelligent Con.
traband. They were creations of the war, and
passed away with the return of peace Our
Gun Contractor is now in tho Pardon Broker
age business, and, we understand, makes a
goodly sum of morfoy by the dispensation Of
executive clemenoy. Our Cotton Shark is a
claim agent, and makes from twenty to five
hundred per cent. ON soldiers pay and boun-
tics-a business created and facilitated by the
tardncss and injustice Of the War Depart
m.nt. The Coppcrhcad, when last seen, was
wriggling through the Jersey sands, near
Long Branch, pursued by lineal descendant
Of st. Patrick, and. from the result Of the
election pressure, found no refuge but the
ocean. The Reliable Gentleman left the
North some time ago, and went down to the
Rio Grandc, whence he keeps us fully informed
about Mexico, while the Intelligent Contra
>band has been employed by the Fenians, and
sent into Canada We had presumed that not
one OF the rare curt tiles remained. Wewore
mistaken A Western paper announces that
the Government censor still resides in Wash
ington, and, a few nights since, ccnsorizcd
correspon lent for attempting to send dis
patch ~ a Cincinnati paper. ~. 7. Tribune.
TIE PRoFIrs OF ADvERTIsINa.--S Some
of our readers may think that cvcn our very
cheap charges Tor Advertising are large. We're
they many times larger, it would be still
greatly to their advantage to advertise. For
instancc: A gentleman wrote to Horace Gree
ly to know if it was true that u certain adycr-
tiser paid him ten thousand dollars per annum?
The editor replied that he did, and that the