Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-07-06
EXECUTION ol afaxlmilian. y.

an extract frornSa dosBstch roSsfye Sat The
Navy Department, dated juno 25, signcd Il.
"A. Eoe, Commander, g NIaximiliati was shot
on theyl0th; [ have leg ,cd for his corpse
for an Austrian Captain, but was rofused.A
Tho Cityof Mexico fell on the 20th, Vera
Cruz holds out, OH account Of the foreign le-
gion. Dms orders 10 acceptance of surrender
SoUTH WEsr PASS, IA, Juno 2D-To
the Austrian Ambassador, Washington:
have just come in to telegraph you of the con.
demuntion and execution of NIaximilian. -
President Juarez refuses to deliver up his
body.
(Signcd,) nj. TuEBANr,
Captain Austrian Navy
The New Orlouns Pcayuno" closed
| culogy on Maximilian as follows: "But if,
as an independent and seltgoverning power,
Mexico has ono friend left among the civil
lied nations, we cannot conceive which it is
The very name of Mexico must be oblitcrated
from the roll of nations, aud its Indians, like
the uamanches and Seminoles, be driven to
their holcs in the mountains, thus to perish
out, of the earth, if we mist,kc not the feeling
| Of the American and all other people %
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WASHINGTON, July 2.-Huu. Schuyler
Colfax, Speaker of the House, and Hon. Ben.
Wade President pro tenn. Of the Senate, have
arrived.
| The chances of failure to secure quorum
in Congress seem to be increasing. Wilson,
/ Chairman of the judiciary Committee, has
arrived. Thcyhad Stanberry and Speed be-
fore them, but it is understood their evidence
was Of little ih crest.
I The extreme radicals hell small caucus
at Willard's last night Another caucus is
called tnr tonight
| The President has never been officially no.
| tilted Of or sccu, Sheridan's letter to Grant
Tho Cabinet session to day is represented
as. somewhat stormy, Stanton supporting his
views vigorously. Affairs ip .Sheridan's dis.
| trict. it is said monopolizcd the session:
I p. Mo nights train improves the
| prospect for a quorum. Colfax expresses
himself as confident of a quorum in his
House. There are twenty three Senators
prescnt--within four of quorum.
! ~ Galveston despatch says II Monterey let
ter, written previous to the cxccution states,
that the Emperor was stripped entirely naked,
and Uscobcdo presented him with shirt 70
! cotef his nakedness. 81 < ia
RIcnMoND, July Ia large meeting was
held to. night, and was addressed by promi-
ricut citizens. All wero urged to register,
aud were assured that their rights arc not nf-
frcted by the Alexandria Constitution.
Fho remains Of General A.. p: Hill W re.
brought to this city to-day, and Inferred in
Hollywood Ccmetcry
The next convention of the Southern Bap-
tist churches will be held in Baltimore, on
Thursday preceding the second Sunday'in
May, 1868. The convention Just held in
Memphis amended the constitution by ,provi.
ding for annual instead Of biennial sessions
.g. -.
CnARLEsToN;.Ju July "A young freedman,
named Frank Smith, has applied to the Sec,
retarY Of War for cadctship. at West Point
from thc lst Congressional. District of South
Cdrollna. ,.r.r. r'H ~.
The General order for the closing of BAR
rooms IN this city has been enforced, and
hdrinks are not obtanablc except at hotels
EAvANNAH June 23-TIon III s. Fitch,
! United States District Attorney, in answer to
a letter addressed to him. has expressed the
I opinion that pardon granted BY the Presi.
dent blots Obi, all djsfranchise,ncnt and rein:
states the lndivi0aalin all his previous rights,
which lie cannot be Deprived of by any sub
scquont legislation. TIE saws the elective
franchise is one of tho rights rcotored by par
don and amnesty. If a person thus, pardoncS
is MISREPRESENTATION, let him enter a protest
| for considerations Of the Commanding Gen
cral The District Attorney closes thus -
Mex. tc ususpation Of power, there IS M
! higher grade of political crime than timid
Abandonment Of rights"
The United States District Attorney. Hon.
| II. s. Fitch, seized to-day enc hundred and
eighty seven barrels Of whiskcy by order of
| the United States Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue Mt Washington, d. G.
NEW ORLEANS, june 20.-An Austrian
steam sloop-of.w war arrived at South west Pass
this morning, and landed "a tclcgraphic de.
spatc', for the Austrian Court. Her national
ensign was drnpcd in deep mourning. This,
and the rcticencc of her officers, is significant.
They, however, report thosCity of Mexico
captured by the Liberals on the goth instant
The particulars had not reached Vera Cruz up
to the time of her sailing. The Mexican
schooner Atlas also arrived at the mouth of
tho Mississippi this morning, having on board
twenty.fo,ir cxcd Imprralsfs and Mcxicans,
who hadbcen pcremptorily banished. Among
them arc several military officers. They re.
port that when the Mexicans demanded the
person of Santa Anna, the Captain of the.
Virginia told them they could take him by
force, as; lie wassn \ arWedsggsH sH thensspread
the 4Stnerieap ems ign sens the sgapgway. r he
Mexicans trod on the ffag, seized Santa Anna,
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