Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-05-04
PnoaREss or REcoNsrRucrIoN.-The


has seen and heard, that there is much les,
difficulty as to reconstruction than had beer
expected. Gen. Pope had expressed himsel
gratitied by his reception, aud thinks there
VIII be no serious difficulty in Gsofgia ant
Alabama III the execution of tho Hrccoustruc
4 tion measures.
I Letters received here from citizens of Soutl
Carolina also state that the reorganization un
der the Acts of Congress will be carried ou
ny common consent, and in the full hope O,
bcnticcial results. From Virginia, we hea,
that reconstruction is generally acquicsced
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No idea prevails, either in tho Carolinas or
in Virginia, according to these statements. of
suspendipg proposed State cooperation in the
work of Reorganization, in the expectation of
decision by the United States Supreme
Court in favor Of the injunction applied for.
| Further, it is to be noticed that the politi.
cal question involved is intimately connected
with pressing and practical questions. No
longer can restoration be deferred without pro-
lonSed ano aggravated injury to the material
interests If the South. 1t has become oucs.
ton of bread. Means of subsistence, to say
nothing of revived prosperity, can be secured
only by the cooperation Of labor with capital.
The whites have the land without the labor
The blacks have the labor without the land
The expectation of current of immigration
from Europe and the Southern States has not
been verified, and will not be until after rolit.
zeal restoration.
New YoRK, April l9.-Dr. Sears Gene.
raj Agent of the Peabody Educational Fund,
has issued circular giving detailed state.
ment of the mode in which trustees of the fund
propose to apply the noble charity committed
to their charge. lie says the direcs aim Of
the agents will be to encourage and MD the
common schools Of the South, that is, schools
established, supported and supcrintcnded by
the Southern people themselves.
Apart from this leading object, the foun-
ding and maintenance Of schools will not come
y11n1n the scope ~ Of his plan Usually ppro
where such schools are languishing or arc La.
bic to be suspended for want of means of sup
port. Similar aid, if necessary, will be given
in places whereunsuppled with schools, when
ever the citizens shall introduce them and un-
dcrtake their support; all such aid however,
Is to be regarded as temporary.
In selecting schools to be aided or places to
be supplied with them, those will be preferred
in which tho destitution is the greatest and
the number to be benefited is che hrgcst t.
Normal schools or schools having normal de-
paftments will receive particular attention.
Appropriations will be made only when the
conditions stipulated between individuals or
corporations and the general agent have been
complied with. Funds will not be given to
literary or professional schools as SUCH Ap-
plicants will make an estimate of the least
possible amount necessary tomeet their wants,
and report the same at once to b. Sears, gen
eral travelling agent, Atlanta, Georgia.
Special arrangements may sometimes be
made for tho purpose Of encouraging the in
dustrlal arts or for the education of teach
crs. The agent will not identify his efforts
with those of any other organization by pla-
oing funds at the disposal Of its managers
But in any connection he may hold with ben
eyoent or religious societies, he will pursue
his own specific object by such means and ap-
plianccs as he may select.
At present tliero will be no agencies except
few in which the services rendered will be
gratuitoas. The agent will not, except in
few exceptional cases, have occasion to employ
teachers. lie can, therefore, aid such in OBJ.
tanning places, only by giving their names to
school committees
THE REsIDENCY.-Schuyicr vv..-.. 49,
been formally nominated for tho Presidency,
by Governor Smyth, the retiring Governor Of
New hampshire The Presidential election
being but eighteen months off, candidates arc,
of course, appearing in all quarters. A list of
the men already named will be found to con-
tain the names of Generals Grant, Sherman,
Thomas, Mcclellan and Butler, Andrew John
son, Schuyler Colfax, Senators Wade, Sher-
man, Summer and Fcssenden, Thaddeus Ste
vens, Iloratio Seymour, and an indefinite
number of other persons. 1t is highly prob.
able that Northern man for President, and
Southern man for Vice President, will be
run by each party and there is no danger,
from present appearances, that either office
will go begging.
The RUssIAN-AMERIcAN cosson is regar.
ded with great favor by nearly all the journals
of the country, and causes many Of them to
predict that all Of North America will ulti
inately be absorbed by the United States. =
The " New York Herald" writing in this
strain, says: Manifest destiny, under al
these advantages, marks out the North Amer
ican Continent as the future map Of the Uni
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