Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-12

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department., now engaged in farming on
the Rappahanock; j. p. Benjamin, the Con.
federate Secretary Of State for three years and
generally deemed Mr. Daviss most influcp.
tlal adviser, now q member of the English
bar; James A. Seddon, Confederate Secretary
of War in 1923, now engaged in farming
on the Jumes River, near Richmond John
q. breckenridge, first major-gcncral and
then successor to Scddon as Secretary of War.
now living in Paris; G. G. Mcmmingcr, of
South Carolina, the first rebel Secretary of
the Navy, now residing at Pensacola, Fla i;
| Thomas Ii. Watts, Confederate Attorney.
General now practising law ut Montgomery,
Ala. -Four of Mr.. Davis Cabinet officials
have been pardoncd, viz: i. Pope Walker,
OF Alabama the first rebel Secretary of War
at Montgomery, who resigned in ScptcmLcr,
1861, and became for awhilea Brieodier. Cen
cral, now practising law at Huntsville, Ala. :;
John III. Reagan, Postmastc. General now u
lawyer in Texas George Davis, of North
Carolina, AttorncyG Gcncral, and George A.
Trenholm, Of South Carolina who was the
last Confederate Secretary Of the 1'rcnsury.-
George W. Randolph, of Virginia, who was
Secretary of War for considcra period, has
been released by higher power, having died
last April in Albermarlc county, Va.
Among the diplomatic aud commercial
agents axcluded from amnesty, we note Johu
Sl'dcll Minister to Paris. now living in that
city; James nj. Mason. Of Virginia Minis
ter to London now residing quietly Will, his
family at Toronto, Canada West; a Dudley
Mann. who got big salary ut Brussels, no
body knows for what now, living at some
cheap German hotel on his savings; l.. Q. c.
Lamar, of Mississippi, cooucl in the Con
I Ia = ~, ~,
war to tnssla, and now practising law in Mis-,
sissirpi; John r. Pickett, Commissioner to
the Republic of Mexico General William
Preston, of Kentucky, a Confederate briua.
der then sent to the Court Of Maximilliun,
but never received there George Eustis, of
Louisiana, Secretary of Legation to Slid,l
james E. Macfar|and, of Virginia. Secretary
t" Mason; Walker Fearn, of Alabama, Sec
retary to lamar; Henry Wotze. editor of the
Index and commercial agent at London Ed.
win DE Leon, of South Carolina, employed
to write up the Confedcrucy abroad CHARLES
j., tit'ipi nr .SsnsuSk I in ,'s,,,,. :" Io,
note.
Among the agents employed by the Con-
'rdcracy for miscellaneous purposes not yet
iuly disclosed, and excepted by this procla,
nation. we may mention Clement G. Clay, Of
of Alabama, now lawyer at Huntsville, Al,
bama Jake Thomson, who. with Clay was
E. G.. Lee, emissary in Canada Beverly
Tucker. who WAS engaged in shipping beet
somewhere in Nova Scotia and running the
blockade Capt. NJ. +. Maury and Capt. Bnl
lock. sent abrond to buy ships; Ferguson and
IIuss sent to London to buy army supplies
the last Of whom. it is said, made II good thing
out Of it--and few others OH similar bust
ness The notorious George NJ Saunders,
who affected to bu a diplomatic agent of the
Confedcracy, never held any sort of Office or
commission in its service
The military men unpnrdoncd are still quite
numerous and there is barley space to give
tine names of the most conspicuous First
VIC have Robert Il. Lee, Joseph E. johnson.
&. y. Beauregard, Samuel Cooper and Brax-
ton Bragg, all of these full Generals. Coop
er was also Adiutant General at Richmond
Among, the lieutenant Generals are John B.
Hood of Kentucky; John c. Pombcrton,
Il. Kirby Smith, Florida; Theophlus Holmes,
North Carolina James I.ongstrcct. 1.ouisi-
ana Iiarlcc aud .Jubal Early.
Among the Maior.Gencrals not pardoned
are Howell Cobb, Of Georgia; John B. Ma
cruder, Virginia George T.. Pickett, fir-
.ipia; Stcrl'us Price, Missouri; E. McLaws.
Georgia; IIueor, South Carolina; Gustavus
w. Smith. Kentucky; Mansfield Lowell;
Wade Hampton, South Carolina; n B. For
rest. Memphis Dick Taylor, Louisiana; S.
B. Buckncr, Kentucky Wm; Mnhomc,
Virginia Gordon, Georgia: Elzy, Maryland,
aud about twenty other of lesser mark.
Ony two naval men of the Confederate
States are excludcd-Admiral Semmes and
Admiral Buchanan.
Tho Governors Of rcbol Statoa arc also ex-
ccpted. Among these note Governor Smith
Of Virginia (Letchcr has been pnrdoned):
u. 3. Vance, of Moth Carolina; j. G. Har-
ris, OF Tennessee Clark, of Mississippi
Moore. of louisiana Allen of same State,
died in Mexico; Lubbock, of Texas; Rec
tor, of Arkansas; j IT, Brown, of Georgia;
M. l.. Bonham, Magrath, L. W. Pickens,
Governors Of South Carolina, and Acting
Governor Aston Of Florida.
On the whole, take it, the number Of per-
sons still excluded from amnesty may be sta
ted at one or two bundled, and certainly does
not exceed five hundred at the utmost MIR.
johnson would have satisfied the country bet
ter if lie had taken the advice of the Herald.
instead of Mr. Stewards and planted himself
on the broad ground OF universal amnesty,
reconciliation and progress But few mon in
Office havo tho invaluable faculty Of newspa-
per sense ); they piddle, about triAcs, and
when they give away anything think the vir-
ture is gono clean out of them.