Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-28
Negro Jurors.


I, Negro Jurors
The following order was issued yesterday {:
iIEApo'Rs. % MILITARY DISTRICT,
Charleston, S. G, Sept. 13, 1867
General Orders No. SO.
Paragraph II, of General Orders No. 32,
dated May 30, 1867, is modified as follows
All citizens assessed for taxes, and who
shall have paid taxes for the current year, and
who are qualified, and have been, or n,ny be.
duly registered us voters, are hereby declared
qualified to serve as jurors.
1t shall bc a sufficient ground of challenge
to the competency of any person drawn as II
juror, that he has not been duly registered as
"A voter. Such right of challenge may be cx.
crciscd in behalf of the people, or of the nc
cused in all criminal proceedings, and by
either party in all civil actions and proceed
ings.
Any requirement of property qualification
for jurors in addition to the qualifications
herein prescribed is hereby abro"atcd
The Governors of North and South Carroll
ma, respectively, arc hereby authorimd and
empowered to order, if it should be necessary
special terms of courts. to be held for the pur
rosc OF revising and preparing jury lists, and
to provide for snn,muning aud drawing jurors
i'll accordance with the requirements of this
order
by command of Brevct Major. General Ed.
r. s. CANBY
LOUIS V. CAzIARC, .Adj's.. Gcn'l.
The following is paragraph II. of Gcncr"l
Orders No. 50
"All citizens assessed for taxes, and who
shall have paid taxes for tho current year are
quilted To serve as jurors. 1t shall be the
duty Of the proper civil officers charged with
providing lists of ju.,,r., 10 r."~e,&, m;.,,;,>-
their several Jurisdictions. without delay, and
ascertain the names of all qualified persons
and place them ON the jury lists, and from
such revised lists all jurors shall be hereafter
Summoned and drawn in the manner required
hy law"
Order No. 80 made ever, person who had
paid the current taxes eligible MS n juror
Ordcr No. 80 makes eligible only those who
;r,nol rotc,s Every person, therefore in this
State. who is dlSiranchiscd hy law nr who
; does not register, will Le ineligible to serve as
a juror Ch"ri~sfon Mcruy, loM SPIT
NEW York, Sept. lS.--A party Of South
ern gentlemen cave dinner to Gcu. Bcaure-
gard. at the New York Hotel, to day. In
the course nf his remarks, the General stated
that lie had received tempting offers FROM Eng
lish capitalists to take up his rcsil nee in
Engnnd as superintendent of extensive engi
nr"fn" works IN that Country; lie had con-
cindrd upon calEly surveying the different
Governments OF the world, their status and
their inherent strength. that this country pos
scssed the most stable government OF any cx
isting on the face Of the earth, and that for
his part he was determined to spend his life
under the flag Of the Government that was
the most stable and least liable to disorganiza
tion. 1t was nothing short OF sheer nonsense
to talk OF another rebellion Ii they wanted
to raise one they could mott was utterly
impossible, aud will be impossible for them to
! dn SO for the next generation.
MONTANA, Sept. l9.-Thc volunteers have
been reinforced by eighty men nnd piece of
'rtillery. The Grow Indians, while profess
mg pence, are undoubtedly dcprcdnting.-
300 hostile Indians cnvironcd Fort Dodge
and captured five of forty wagons, loaded with
am unition and stores, within thirty miles of
Io t. Dodge. On the 10th, (the next dny,)
they attacked another train, killing four men
aud capturing twelve mules. There were two
! fatal cholera cnses at Omaha yesterday. The
commissioners are Mt the Nuftn l>lattc, ana
nro holding a council with 200 Indians, in.
Guiding Spotted Tail, Standing Elk, Swift
Bear and others.
In 1910 Colonel in tho Austrian army
caused young Countess to be publicly whip
ped for concealing ono of the revolutionary
party. She died shortly after, leaving son.
two years Of age. The son grew up, and
with the purpose of avcnging his mother, per.
fected hims,, ,f in the use of the Turkish sabre
When ho thought the time had come, some
few weeks ago. he went to the country seat of
the Colonel then Baron Prangcn, and slapped
him in the face A challenge was, of course,
sent; and the young man chose as weapons
Turkish sabres. They met, and after inform.
ing the Baron of his orgin and Iurposc, the
son of tho outraged Countess proceeded to
slice and hack his ancestral encs,y into small
pieces.
DETRmT. Sept. 10. The tug A. r. Muir
exploded today, killing six and injuring FIVE
persons
NEW ORLEANs, Sept. 19.--There were IS
/ internents from yellow foyer up to o'clock
this morning
,CmARLEsroN, September TO- Registra.
tion closed in this city today; colored me-
jority 1901.