Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-11-30


he will not be tried at all. Ho certainly should
not be, unless many others arc. Thousands
nro as guilty as he can be, if there bc guilt
at all.
Ey Tho appropriation BILL" as porfcc-
ted by Gen. CANDY, will be found on the first
page. Tho tax bill, from the samo souroe,
will appear in short timc
Congress-
This body assembled in Washington on tho
21st instant. If appearances arc to be crod-
itcd, tho tax on cotton will be repealed,
The majority of the Impeachment Commit
tee have reported in favor Of impeaching tho
President, whilst tho minority have reported
adversely thorcto.
Election Returns.
The election for delegates to tho State Con
ycntion is over, but the result is unknown
here and elsewhere in tho State In Pickons,
we have returns from Walhalln, Pickcns G.
H., Pcrryville, Bachelors Retreat, Pickens-
Vile and Wolf Creek, with the following ro-
suit
Eryco, 53S
Maulden, 40
johnson, 209
Bassngamo, co'orcd 1l3
Thurston, colcrcd, alias Dlassingamc 100
Adams, 16l
Ligins, oolorod, 1872
Field, l43
Folger, 1913
Howard, 81
Rl;ES. Bq56f, as;'iI"M"ME ss%;'E; NJ. "MExJIDrs, and
Dr. l.. 3D. JOHNSON arc probably elected
Messrs. JOHNSON and Bryce were members,
OF tho Convention which assembled in 1865.
Dr. JOHNSON, of PicEcns, and Mr. PERRY,
of Anderson, are the only white conservatives
elected, so far ms is known
The impression is That the Convention has
been defeated, but probably the official count
VIII be necessary to determine the matter.
Efs- A Convention has been called in Flor
ida by majority Of 400 votes.
haS" Judge Underwood has granted, upon
the prayer of Gen. j. ID. Imbodcn, a mandc.
mus to compel Gen. Schofiold to permit him
to vote 1t is roturnable on the 5th Dccem.
Der.
&c 1t is net true that the Legislatures of
hcw 1ork and Wisconsin will elect Senators
IN the place CT Senator'S Morgan and Doolit-
tie The terms Of these Senators oxpiro m
the 4th of March, 1860, but az tho members
OF tho lower House in these States arc eloofcd
annually, tho election of Senators will dcyolve
on the Legislatures elected in 1868.
esS" Tho Kansas Legislature is after tho
usual pattern, heavily Republican. Returns
nearly complete show for negro suffrage, ,59l,
against l6,1 II; for woman suffrage, 6,670,
against l6,3G2; for disfranchisins disloval.
lists, 1880, against 1O,2SS.
DfD~ Mexico is now moro scoureod bv han
ditti than oyor They arc now so numerous
and powerful that they do not confne them
selves to be robbing on tho highway. but evon
attack garrieonod towns.
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GW Prominent Republican politicians in
Virginia now declare themselves in favor Of
tho disfranchsed whites with tho
ballot, finding it to be necessary in order to
rescue the State from the control of tho no.
grocs, led on to desperate conduct by fanatics
and radicals, and to secure proper white ron
in Congress.
GV" The official canvass of tho yotino in
Georgia elbows that 1873, CAT names wcrc rcp.
stcrcd, of whom 106,41O voted. OF these.
l02,2S3 were for Convention, and q 1877 on.
posed; majority for tho Convention, 98, 1856
There were about $4,000 white voters for the
Convention.
RY- The Suffrage amendment striking tho
word white" from tho Constitution Of Min.
lesota is now thought to bo defeated The
atcst returns, embracing 25 counties, give
'eary 800 majority against it, and it is by no
means certain that the returns to come in will
overcome this advantage.
WASHINGTON, November 25.-The i'm.
lcachcrs expect to mako their stronp noint
ganst the President, from circumstances con.
'ccted with the transfer of the rolline stool
o Southern ruilrOads