Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-09-21

rious quarters, it, docs not appear thnt tLe
impeachment movement has gained substan.
tial headway among the Republican members,
of Congress who have heretofore opposed tho
measure. Outside of the real merits of the !,
controversy between the President and Con.
gross, there is reason to belle, that tho i'm
parchment will be opposed by a considerable
number OF Republican members upon the
ground Of impolicy Carrying this additional
weight, as it is regarded by them, into tho
Presidential contest. this consideration, it il
argued, would alone determine these Congress
men against the adoption of articles of i'm
tions, such as objection to placing Senator
Wade in the White House, which is dcprcca-
ted by good many influential Republicans.
WAsHlNuroN, September 13.--The Cab.
net, including General Grant favor simulta.
neous elections throughoutthc Southern States
on the first Monday of November next on the
question of holding Conventions under the
Military Reconstruction Acts. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that the District Command
crs will concur
The Dubuque Gowa) /" Herald" in speak
ing Of the Montana election SAYS, "and in
Montana James NJ. Cavanaugh is said to have
been handsomely elected to Congress. Old
Ben Butler will probably move his expulsion,
as cavanaugh slapped the brntcs face at the
Charleston Convention, and told him that he
was n dirty dog"
The Peace Commissioners held meeting
at Omaha yesterday. They expect to start for
the North Platte OH the ltth, and t, there
meet Srnttcd Tail, who promises to bring his
principal men.
Mtorncy-Gencral Stanbcrry attended tho
Cabinet session to-day. General Grant was
absent The session was short one
The geld in the Treasury amounts to 800
$4,000; Currency SIS. 100000
\ Dispatch lrom Omaha says that General
sherman has received :driccs from Fort lar
ME stating that the hostile Indians will not
meet the Peace Commissioners ut the time
Specified hs thcy suspect u trap has been laid
for them, but that they will send some Of their
number to hear what the Commissioners have
to say, and it satisfied with the report, will
thcn make arrangements to meet them.
CHARLESTON, Sept. l3.--Gov Orr has
pardoned a freedman named Smart Chisom,
convicted of numbering his step daughter on
condition that lie would leave the State for
five years.
In the case of John Jenkins. freedman,
convicted Of the murder Of young l}rantford,
during the riot in June, 1866, and who was
three times respitel BY Gen. Sicklcs, u Motif.
cation has been served on the sheriff by Cen.
Cunby, that he has fully examined the cosn
and that there vii. bc no rur,lcr intcrrercncc
by the military.
RlcnMoND, VA, Sept. 1L.-Abncr Marks
charged witt, robbinr Adams Eynrcss IN
Tennessee, about year ago. Of s21 600 wa.
arrested here TO dny,
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~ n,t,.kca nv f,v.rl,. .,,,;,, NJ, 'ioNn'. n',.i
from fever to 6 o'cloc,, hi, n,,n,,;n,, ,,,,'t
to Al -" "'''ou"'
WAsurNcros Scntombcr ii rho ri;
forna Democrats have ty.n,y n,,;,.;,v ~,
i"nl bans, aut A4a., ,,cys nf nn,rc.s !.
\ Rcpnhhcun n,1Etttfg WIS is5i5ISin 81, - &
delp to-day, ut which Senators Nvc, Cam
eron and Cnttel spoke. a rrsoution de-
cl"r'ng It the d,ity OF Congress to impc,cho
and try, aud, il guilty, remove the President,
passed enthusiastically. NJ
Mct"ol has calclgnl Joe CDburn to fight
for $4,000
Numerous suits arc before the District
courts here, to test the constituti,nnlty of the
Congressional Coniiscation Act, whereby the
property OF persons who went South was sold
curing he life of those implicated. Caleb
Gushing has been employed by DR.. Garnctt,
v, VINO occupied high medical position in tito
Con- cder''c army, to conduct test case. {,
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