Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-03-02

Twice Tue cotton, and put up twice the meat
you did last year, and let Congress do It's worst
acts, wait and take its own time for it.
spcak'from the dcp.l. of hearty good
will. Pray try to be able to write me soon
that almost every one in Georgia is hard at
work, determined to live and let live, and con
ccding to every one else a perfect equality of
rights.
Yours, very respectfully.
HORACE GREELEY,
10 II. d. CApErs, Esq, Sandcrsvllc.
TIE ANDERSON PHsoNEns.-W clip tho
following extract from the Washington cor
reapondencoo of thssl;iacianutti Commercial: !:
Some further facts have recently come to
light respecting Secretary Stnnton's conncc-
tion with the case of the four South Carolin
ians found guilty by military commission of
the murder of three Maine soldiers in Octo
Der, 1863. II appears that 20 sentence of
two of them was committed b., Gen. Sicklcs ;
that Secretary Stanton, in view Of the ouim
ion held by the Supreme Court relative to the
legality ot military trials since the close of
hosti,lles, recommended the communication of
the death sentence. The other two. who, he
says lie believes were the murdercrs, were
properly tried before military tribunal, Justly
convicted; but it did not seem to him proper
to recommend their execution, in view Of the
opinion which he knew was held BY the Su.
prcmc Court. He recommended the confine
mcnt of the prisoners at the Tortugas, hut
attcrward changed the Recommendation to Fort
Delaware. lie consulted no one but General
Townsend as to the proper place of inplison
mcnt, and recommended Fort Delaware be-
cause he thought it on the whole the best of
the military prisons for that purpose. He
never for a moment anticipated that the civil
courts would interfere with them there.
When the writ of hobeas coypnS was is
sued, he instructed the officer to make the
proper rctnrns, and decline to deliver up the
prisoners iIe does not state what orders, if
any, were sent to the officers by the Attorney
General ut the instance Of the President, nor
does he say anything about tue influence
brought to bear upon the President to secure
the removal Of the prisoners from the Tortu.
gas to Fort Delaware
Be4y" The South Carolina Railroad prospcra
finely An incredible amount of labor wns done
last year All the qualifications nre attended
to. Washes in the swamps piled and filled in !;
bridges and trestles built crosst ties and rails
laid down, workshops repaired; cottages and
tanks erected, and work on'the Camden branch
vigorously pushed In SHIRT time the
officers will have the proud satisfaction of dis.
covering their road complete from cnd to end.
The labors of the past year were hcrcnlean -
The receipts amounted to l.3l2,73a.52. Elk.
renses, including interest on fnregn debt, 1924
oO6.SO. Net incomc 3S7 .82l Go, or per cent.
on the capital stock. Bond debt S3. .53l, ,70S 02,
Of which S2.2l2,0+4.46 is payable in London.
Foreign bond-h"ldcrs have accepted torms Of
renewal. OF the domestic debt. there remain
$l3S,6S7.50, balance Of past due bonds and
interest, which is nearly all in the hands Of par.
tios willing to renew.
A HEAVY CorroN SuIr.-The case of the
State Of Louisiana VS.. The Louisiana State
Bank, was commenced on the 9th Instant
The suit is for the recovery of 100000,
claimed as remaining to the credit of the
State on bond of the bank which was fiscal
agent during the Confederacy. The State al
lcgcs that by permission Of Generals Butler
and shcp!ey, 1 900 bales Of cotton were pur-
chased and brought to the city, and sold for
tho benefit Of the bank aud State.