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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-06
State Of South Carolina,
EDGEFIELD DISTRICT,
LN 90 NNlN PLEAN -.

GuthTldgc Chcatlam, OeufcF,
Us For. Attachm'm
G: W. Strom.
'EylIE Plaintiff in the above slated case having
Z this day filed bis Declaration in my Office,
and the Defendant having neither wife nor Attor-
ney known 10 reside within the limits of this
State on whom copies Of said Declaration with
rules to plead can be served On motion of w.
W. Adams, Plaintiff Attorney, ordered that said
Defendant appear and plead to said Declaration
within year and day from the date hereof or
final and absolute Judgment will be given against
him. S. HARRISON, COED.
Mar I. 1851. " II
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
The Ueral;i's --latest.

The New York I" Herald" has found an.
other panacca for our national ills, and pub.
l.hcs it for the cdifcation of the South. 1t
says:
This balance Of power secured i. E. by con-
trolling the blacks, the whole work of State
reconstruction, even in South Carolina, will
become simple and easy, so that by tho time
the Presidential election cones round, with
the ten rebel States reclaimed and several
new States admitted, We shall probably have
forty Suites participating in the contest
Meantime, the Southern press, from the Po.
tomac to the Rio Grandc, will be pursuing
tho course of wisdom, safety. harmony and
prosperity in falling in with the example of
Governor Brown, of Georgia. Any other
course will only serve to prolong the present
snficrings of the Southern people and to bring
tho two races into hostile array against each
other, instead Of bringing them to harmo-
NOUS political understanding. At the same
time, to show that they are in earnest in this
work of reorganization and they have faith
in its speedy ful6lmcnt, the Southern press
would make decided hit proclaiming as their
reunion national ticket for 1868 the follow
ing:
For President,
General U. S. GRANT.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
E d cation:

In dle'rrss to The Parents AMI Public of
Virginia. hy General IL. f.. lee and Pro.
tessors Minor and Dabncy.
General Lee and Professors Minor and
D.bney have published an address upon tho
subject Of education, which is so judicious,
PRACTICAL aud sensible in it's views, that We
transfer it to our columns. 1t will we'll repay
an attentive perusal by every person who is
interested in the educational training Of chill.
dr,n. The address is as follows:
The undersigned have been appointed, by
the Educational Association of Virginia. n
committee to address ynn OH their behalf,
"nrSing you to n more hearty cooperation
with teachers, in matters Of instruction, dis.
cipinc, Re-"
Ih. benefits which woul! be secured to cd
ucation, and tho aid which would DO afforded
teachers By such cooperation would be very
great; as all who have any experience on the
subject must be aware Of the obstacles ut the
very threshold Of education, ari lug from tho
want ofpropcr family management. If, there
fore, they can be removed much good will be
attained. Since the teacher is properly to be
regarded rs the parent agent, to assist in the
training Of his children. it appears obvious,
that parents may be best induced to this i'm.
portant concurrence, by pointing them to tho
fundamental principles to be observed in the
education of youth.
In its broad, comprehensive sense. cduca
ton embraces the physical, moral and intel
lcctual instruction of Child, from infancy to
manhood. Any system is imperfect which
does not combine them all, and that is best,
which, while it thoroughly deveopes them,
aliases the coarse, animal affections of human
nature, and exats the higher faculties md
feelings a child has everything to learn,
and is moro readily taught by having before
it good examples to initiate, than by simple
prccepts. He should, therefore, as far as cir.
cumstanccs will permit, be encouraged to as.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
PAssiYitY.

Under this head the I" Richmond Whig"
sensbly remarks:
Tho Sherman -Shcllabarger Bill, utteslY dis.-
tasteful as it is, gives the bulk of Southera
people who participated in the late war the
opportunity, and the only opportunity yet Of
fercd chem, of uniting with all conservative
mcn in organizing their States, electiug State
officers, and securing representation in tke two
Houses of Congress. The conditions under
which such opportunity is accorded are very
far from being such as wonld havo been cho.
sen--hut the power of choice does not reside
with us. 1t is now in our power, by acting
under the provisions of this law, to make our
influence felt in the matter of reconstruction.
II VIC refuse to act if VIC follow that course
characterized as pnssiritH, we surrender all
power and control to an ircsponsibiesand-p MA
snfc minority, and suffer amode ofreconstrue->
tion to be adopted which will not only bear
heavily upon ourselves, but upon those whe
shall come after US. This possivity is pre-
clsely what Southern Radicals desire They
seek our dstranchisemcnt, and selfinAicted
disfranchiscment will be as acceptable to them
as if it were created by Congress. 1t will,
perhaps, better subserve their purpose, since
it will furnish them with TIE argument that
VIC arc bitterly opposed to, the Governmeussss
1T, from resentment, pride cf opinion or any
such motive, We refuse to participate in the
Government, we will help to perpetuate the
rule Of oppression, and will deprive the North
eTn Conservative masses of every argument in
their contest with the opprcssors. The exer-
else of the power conferred upon us by this
Bill will give US Q choice (nc: unrestricted Is
is true) as to our public servants. Are we
resolved to reject all offers because they are
not such as we would prefer, and remain for
ever disfranchiscd and enslaved? Are we
prepared to let our industrial interests 20 to
rack and ruin
city cotcmporary yesterday alluded to
Hungary as a noble example Of passivity by
Which we should profit 1t told us that nine
teen years of Austrian despotism failed to sub
due the spirit of chat gallant peoplc--zth@tth thsY.
refused all terms not consistent with their
honor, bore the calamitics and prosecutions to
which they wero subjected with heroic forti-
tude, and now have their reward in seeins
themselves exalted and Austria humbled. -.
Let those who feel themselves allured towards
passility reflect, before they follow the exam
pie of Hungary, that she did not subdue Aus
tria. Her humiliation was inflicted by Priv
sa. There is no Prussia to como to tho aid
Of the Southern passivists.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
lYoL} NO. 27...

spoken truth.
The Grand Jury, having confidence in the
intelligence, in the patriotism and love to this
State glowing in the people of York. trust
and believe there can be no body Of men With
i'll its limits who are willing to subject them-
selves to The charge that they are in a condi.
tioa OF insurrectiou to the State, aud lay
themselves liable to the consequence thereof.
either at tho hands of the tribunals of the
State or Of the military of tho United Statea,3
whom we may look to be shortly among us,3
or by making, themselves liable to punishment
for the offenoeo of riot
Considerinethese various mt
could be greatly extended, if time permitted,
the Grand jury re,firm the prcsentment, that
they are not made aware of any combination
Of men to resist the action of civil rule by
the regularly constituted authorities of South
Carolina.
W. j. BOWEN, Foreman.
March II, 1867.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
PoETRY.
The Undiscovered Country.

Could VI but know
Tho land that ends ohr dirk, uncertain trnvol.
"hsrc lilo those happier hills and mosdows 10 vi
Ah ii beyond the spirits in,nost cavil
j, Ausht ofthat country could wo nurely know,
Who would not go!
Might We but hear
Tue hovcring eagles l.ig, imagined chorus.
or cntoh, bctimcs, with wnkeful eyes and clear
One radinnt yista Of the realm before Jig
with one wrapt moment given to see and hear
All! who would fcnr!
We're VIC quite sure
10 'ind the peerless friend who left MS lonely,
Or there, by some celestial stream M rurc.
iEo &c sc in eyes that here were love Ii, only
This weary mortal COIL were We quite sure,
Who would cndures
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30
Supreme Court D,cision.

We learn from the +" Raleigh Sentinel y
that the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
has recently made the following decisions
J. The act suspcndng the statute of limi.
tations did not prevent judgments from be.
coming dormant.
2 The "year and day" spoken of. in
reference to executions, run from the time
issuing out the last executor, and not from its
return.
8. Persons who gave notes for the hire Of
slaves for 1864. are liable for the whole wear.
notwithstanding their emancipation.
4. Tho ordinance declaring presumption
as to the money in which contracts made du.
ring tho war are solvable, docs not conflict
with the Constitution Of the United States.
D. One who took payment in Confederate
money dnring the war is bound thereby.
6 y Trustee who without any occasion.-in
February,.lSG3, received Confederate money,
at par, for an old debt, then and still soc1.
rendered himself personally responsible.
T. The operation of the act requiring rem
rcscntatvcs to be parties within two terms.
&c, is suspended by tho act suspendina the
effect of the lapse of time
s. The Stay Law of 1861 allowing defes.
dants twelve months to plead, did not dispense
with an appearance at the return torn.
WESTERN Local. lately lost his sweet-
heart, but he says lie has all that made hef
lovely; lie has her curls, her frizzlc, her
waterfall He hSs her spiral palpitators, hes
store tccth' nn'! her calves. lIo has pat ali
things in their order-has them hung on wirea
and intends to put up something ia tho
hxlngs and have another Miranda. .
NONE but tho brave deserve the sf;.ir. !,
No, and mono but tho brave can live WITH 'sn,.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30

See +. And be it further enacted, That
the commanding general Of each District shall
appoint such loyal officers or persons us may
be necessary, not exceeding three in each clcc.
ton district III any State to make aud com
plotc the registration superintcnd the election,
and make return to him of the votes, list OF
voters, and of tho persons elected as delegate.
by plurality Of the votes cast at said cleo.
tion; aud upon receiving said returns he alall
open the same, ascertain the persons elected as
delegates according to the returns of the
officers who conducted said election, and make
proclamation thereof, and within sixty days
from the date of clection,hc shall notify the
delegates to assemble in convention, at a time
and place to be mentioned in the notification,
and said convention, when organizcd shall
irst determine by vote whether it is the
wish of the people Of sucl, State to fr~mc
constitution and civil government according to
the provisions of this uct, aud the act to which
tbs is supplementary, and if SO, shall proceed
to frame such constitution aud when the
same stnli have been so framed said corstitu,
ton sl.al' be submitted by Tie convention for
ratification to the persons registered under the
provisions of this act at an election TO be con.
Quoted ty the officers or pcrsons appointed by
the commanding general. as hcrcinbcfnrc pro.
tb;r,y Az rr,.m, 10 i,,r ,; oNi'.'a'"n %
he .,;v,n Iv III cnrvnnt:,,, All H., .>,,.,.' W.
thcy.or sh.l hn m.I. ~ ~, 10
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sec $. And hr II f,,,,..r,,.ot,1 a., g
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,LnI| he rt;ii,,] hv m,;nr;, ;, nf ~" '"tes nr
tho clectnrs nu,l;end nc hernin s,",;,;,I oas,
ut said cec,;nn l.t l.,s, s,h.If ~ ~, ,ho
rcristcrrl vnlr,s v,,.;n,r ,,,n,, H., ,,,,,..;t ,r
such ratification tlc nrcs;'lcni nf H., c,,r.n
lion SHALL transmit = c,nv nr ,Lo sn,,o All,
certified ;o ,,,c p,cx;,,rt or t,o oT,:t,IS,.t,s
who shan fort; Win tronsn;, ,l,, s,,.o s., Con
rrc,s # tLrn in so,sion ond r. 49,, -, ~
Then immcd;at,lv mon lie no~t ss.nn,l;n,,.
and !: thr s.;d H,n,,;,,,t;n, sl.l, T.. I,o,a.ss,i
by Coprrcss to be IN con- corn.;,v viii I'm nrn
Visions or Tho oct ,n Will ,h;. ;s
tary. and thc utl,or 49, .:ns nf s.;d ~ h.l,
,.:e ho,n con,l;,u5 u;th .nd r. r.,,,ro.a
sl.all be satisfied lint thc rr,ist.r,d vn,rrs lnd
tho unrcstr,;ncd liI,crty to yntc ar,, tb,t M ,ho
Constitution 81 rat;t;od na.ts ,y;t, the onr,ov
nj of a ma;ori,y of the tn.,iG,.d r,cctnrs II
said State. and if tic said CONSTITUTION sh,ll
he npnrovcd nv Conrrcss thc Stto sholl h.
declared entitled to rcpre s,ntation. nnd Soma.
tors mud R,n,csnnt,,;rns ol,,u In o1,;.,.a
,hcrcfrom as therein nroy;,l,d
See. 6. And he it fu,thcr enacted That III
elections in tic States mentioned in the said
Act to nyo,ii, c,r IN, n,,r. "a; ;.nt ,,,,,,,.,,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-30

Under this head the /" Richmond Whign
sepsibly remarks:
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
Hon. B. d. Hill on the Recent Elec-
tiOns-His Idea of the Duty of the
South,

Hon. Ben. II. Hill, writes a long letter
from Washington to the Augusta Chronicle
d; Sentinel, in which, abiding to the recent
elections in the North, he says: sThe de-
cisiOn of the people is more decidedly against
the Radical policy than the Radical party
This fact must teach the party that it shall
adhere to policy after it has been so en-
Phatically condemned, the party itself must
be cursed, aud utterly cast out, for it will add
cOntumacy to heresy" He thinks that, sin
view of the hopeful and ever glorious changes
going on in the North" every man in the
South, who has been inclined to accept the
Radical measures, owes it to himself and the
country to reconsider his position that no
man, white or black, at the South, ought to
vote at the military elections or to have any,
thing to do with organizing Governments
under the military bill and that in the mean
time the whites should be peculiarly kind to
the cOlOred people. He closes with the fol-
lowing =
"a long conversation which I had with
very intelligent Republican ended with this
speech from him: i belong, Mr. Hill, to the
Republican Party, as you have seen. l do
know the masses of the Republicans do not
desire to do injustice to the Southern people.
Our leaders told US that these harsh mca>
sures were necessary to keep down the spirit
of resistance at the South. We are begin
ming to discover that the Southern people
are willing to live by the Constitution, aud
whatever her leaders may desire the masses
of the Republicans will exact nothing more.
We arc ready to repudiate the policy of our
leaders, but we do not like the Democrats
and there is no third party. Neither do we
like Andrew johnson yet tel you frankly
that we are troubled with the thought that
such bad, i'll tempered man as Wade may
possibly take his place. 1t is difficult to see
what We shall do, or can do, but on this you
may rely: The masses of the Republican
Party North will never consent to force on
the Southern people government which VIC
would not accept ourselves. / only wish all
the people, North and South, understood each
other as you and l now do
This was the honest expression of man
who desires to do right, and there are very
many such. How such men tower above
Southern Radicals"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
MILROY.

during the progress of the struggle which
c"cntuated in the overthrow of the liberties
OF the South, and brought in its train. negro
suffrage and all its attendant horrors, an in.
decent creature with the form of a man and
the instincts Of a hyena, commanded for
Tine at Winchester His reign was marked
10y the brutality ola IIayuau, and the roguery
81 Butler, and honest people reasonably con-
c!rded that aitor he was -dislodgcd from his
position in 1863, by Gen. Ewen, he never
would have the mcanneSs to return to the
Valley of Virginia But Yankee audaritv
Knows no shame, and the thief who robbed
the Tar!oTs Of the citizens of Winchester du,
ing the war, presented himself last week on
the theatre Of his thefts, and essayed to teach
the people their duties in the pending cleo,
ton His reception was not one from which
lie could extract any great amount of COM
fort. lie was Kissed and hootcd. but con-
tinued his remarks amid cries of "Spoops,"
''Scnd Mrs. Logan's silvcrwarc home" Bah :"
Where's John Arnold's Cow ?" General
EwclIs coming You never did anything
but steal, and rob, and burn houses when YOU
were in the army Yes, you heIpcd to
make this Eal!cya waste" &c.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
Parson Browlow and His Next Friend.

Parson Brownlow doesn't know much that
decent white man would care to know, but
nevertheless, he secs pretty clearly how things
arc going. In letter to the Black Rcpub-
lican mourners at Cooper Institute, New York,
last week, the old reprobatc wrote as follows:
~ trus. that the noble. hearted RepubIi
cans of New York are not going to fold their
arms and let the world, the flesh and the
devil Gall are included in the term Democra-
cy) sweep the field as they seem to have done
in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Tennessee tyrant, we observe, is al
ways pretending to be afraid of the devil"
He can never make a speech nor write let
ter without betruying his constituencies con.
corning that parsonage.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
The Effect of the Northern Elections
What the Democrats Propose--An
Amendment Acceptable,

The New York Wo,iI, one Of the most in
tiuential journals in the North, and one which
was not long ago in favor of negro suffrage.
now argues that the Democrats will have pow
er, and will use that power, to prevent the
differentiation of the South, and concludes
its remarks rs follows:
1--WE come now to a more Immediate poIDt.
If the Democrats carry New York and other
States, as we expect, the country will demand
the settlement of the reconstruction question
without further delay. Seeing that the Radi-
cal scheme cannot succeed, the people will
be impatient of persistence in it. There will
arise moral necessity for an immediate set.
Element on Il more liberal basis. We trust
that such a settlement will be reached on the
basis of compromise in which the Republi-
can party will yield something, President
johnson something, the South something the
Democratic party something. Each narty
will have advantages which the others cannot
fail to recognize; which is a state of things
favorable to mutual concessions aud liberal
adjustment of differences. The strong point
Of the Republicans will Lc tie large present
m"j0riticS III Congress the strong Ioint of
the Democrats their certainty OF defeating
the Radical policy; the strong point of the
South the ability of its white Inhabitants tn
render the reconstruction scheme cuutcmpti.
be by standing uloor aud surrendcring tho
control of it tn the negroes. both the South
and the Democratic party would lie willing
tn make some cUncCSSi,mS to have the UucS.
ton settled H",c, instead of tvo or four wears
hence. The Republicans had better make
concessions than to stand out and lose all \
settlement thus reached would have this great
advantage: that, being established by the
mutual consent Of all parties, it would bind
the honor Ot all. aud he secure from subSc.
Iurnt disturbance. Whatever is deemed es.
scntial could at once be Put into the Consti-
tuition by the prompt ratification of all the
States; and neither party would be future
Eot-Lcd of scdition, as it might under the
soreness and humiliation of a complete and
imSolent triumph by its adversary. In pro-
posing as the ground of settlement an amend.
ment securing perfect equality of civil rights,
We did not intend to assume authority that
does not belong to us and offer an uninlatun,,
but ouly to express an opinion which we had
no doubt the Democratic party would readily
assent to.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29

society of the city, and though Yankee intru-
ders have usurped the control of affairs, as
they have done in jefferson, yet it is hoped
that this thraldom will not continue longer
than the next election. The change in the
politics Of Ohio and Pennsylvania have served
to raise the spirits of the conservative people
of this section of the country, and at the next
election Missouri will speak for herself. The
good people of the city talk Of having its name
changed. They think Kansas is horrible,
and say they never want anything to do with
those people over the line. As the old Dutch
Captain at Fort Delaware said of distin-
guished physician of JeffersOn-they have
"a tam pal phys-i-O-siqWes dHyhOlc."
have met here many Virgiuians and Ken
tuckians, aud l feel their hospitality and
Kindness have lost none of their virtue by be-
ing transplanted 10 the soil of Missouri
There are some people who always make YOU
feel at home, aud Kansas City possesses some
of this class.
Permit me to add, it shall ever be nv plea.
sure to hear of the success and prosperity of
the good people of Jefferson, in whom feel
deep and abiding interest. shall strive to
keep my image before them, for to be forgot
ten by our friends is the worst feature of alb
sence. We do not feel the ties that bind US
to our native spot so forcibly impressed upon
us, until we have severed our connection with
it, and begin to look back upon the scenes in
which we have acted a part until we roll
over in our minds many who were joined with
US there, and whose presence ever cast glad
some light over our pathway; and we view
them alone as fertile GASES in the past, which
we will never see again, but which memory
will often revisit, and at which, she will re-
fresh her wearied spirit Though our dcsti-
MES are forever scperate yet l shall ever
point to old Jefferson with pride and pleasure
and say it is my home. 1t is said of a GER
tain bird of the east, that when it feels that
death is approaching, flies back to the spot
that gave it birth, aud dies upon its native
heath. 1t shall be my endeavor at least to
initiate this noble bird, and desire no sweeter
resting place than that spot where my in.
fancy was Graded
will not trespass further upon your COL
umns at present, but whenever anything of in
terest occurs will drop you line.
Yours truly, JEB.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
ELECTIONS IN WEST VIRGINIA.

The annual farce, dignifed with the name
Of election, came off in this State on Thurs
day last. OF the result VIC have yet few re-
turns, but these indicate most decided Gains
Tor the conservative party in the western por-
ton OF the State This may, perhaps, be
attributed to the disgust Of the people with
the abominab!e foreman tyranny, which has
ever sought to manipulate and influence the
elective franchise only for the pcrpetuation
Ui It's own power and position.
In Ohio county, embracing the city of
Wheeling, the conservative gain has been
very heavy, amounting it is said to more than
five hundred Brooke county, the right wing
OF The Pan Handle, has also thrown of the
sfaekies Of ra5icalism, and returns Demo,
crate delegate 20 Tie Legislature.
In our county and Berkeley. the pomp.
P'wcc and pusiiauimity of Joe Chapliuc and
his party, are continued. Against it. there
US really no organized opposition, and it was
only few lays before the election that any
';!Ort was made TO turn the tide in favor of
conservatism. Had the conservative vote of
this county been polled, We might have had
at least one delegate in the Legislature or>
posed to the Chapline dynasty. As it is,
however, Jefferson sends two radicals. in the
persons Of Chambers and BiIlmycr. Mr..
" .!sou has made good run. but the compact
Ines OF radicaiisn have resisted him. and lie
loses his election by three votes.
In another column, We publish the result
II the county, is far As We have been abe to
ascertain it