Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-02-08

WASHINGTON, January 29.-In tho House
ihc Committee on Foreign Affairs reported
bill--herctoforc published concerninp thu
rights OF American citizens abroad there was
awide divfrsity of views on the subject. and
1T was postponed. johnson, of California.
asked whether the civil rights bill and Con.
stitutlonsl Amendments conferred rights Of
suffrage, &c on the Chinese in the Southern
States. Pie objected to the resolution. az
beng bulosque on common sense. y.@
lr the Senate, resolutions from the A ssen,I 4
DlI OF Colorado, asking admission, were pre-,
! ! eefte,.. The reconstruction bill was resumed
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
reported lavorbly on the Sandwich Islanda
reciprocity treaty a.
a joint resolution will be shortly intro
duced, resembling Grants order discontinue
ing the Frccdmen's Bureau in certain States.
WASHINGTON, January 30.-In tho House;
ochohcld, using to question of privilege,
offered q resolution, rccting that yesterday
evenings E.rpress contained statement that.
one of the Supreme Judges had declared. in
public, that a majority of tho Supreme Bench
declared tho Reconstruction Acts unconstitu.
tlonal, and the court would so decide, and adi-
rcctlng the judiciary Committee to inauire
whether the article was true, and whether the
facts constitute, such nisdemeanor as iustifiea.
the House in presenting articles of inpeach,
ment Adoptcd-97 to 81 The resolution
applies to Judge Field.
In the Senate, the supplemental tenure of
Office bill was resumed, and an amendment TO
exclude agents of the State Department.
who were paid from the Secret service fund,
was discussed. 1t meets strong opposition.-4
Reconstruction was resumed. The Cotton
Tax Conference Committee made another re-.
port, relieving imported cotton from duty af-
ter November, 1868, which was adopted. Ae..l
journcd. .sE
PARDoNED BY THE PREsIDENr..-W. Mo-
Mahan, native Of Greenvlle District, who
was convicted previous to the war, on trial besS
fore Judge Magrath, Of embezzement Of mon
eys from the post office at GreenvilIe, and sem
fenced to ten years. imprisonment, has rsoeiy.
ed an unconditional pardon from Presid .nt
johnson. The prisoner, during the war;
Effected his escape from JAIL but was recsents;
ly re-captured and re,ccmmistod to- iail 81
Greenvills, 10 ssrve, out the balance Of the:
term Of imprisonment for which he was seti.s
tepccd. s, 8sg, 44-s N $50. 80.
5.--.s =. ~ 3sssss
H8ss- Capt. Burgh, a. Chicago, completed
on New Year'sday, his feat Of walking seyss
cnty-fye miesin twcnty.four hours, withia
soldiers knapsack and accoutrements. The
stake was for $4,000. He had forty. .thses
minutes 'a'.I 'ossparo. G.
aeS'- A new route is projected from ths
Atlantic TO the Pacific through British Amor
ioa. of which 2,40o miles will be by water,
and 1886 miles byrailroad already oorstfnct.
eaS-leaving only 8 Is miles Of railway yet 10
i be built. s.a 81 Sl
Eaay A Washington tolegraps says Mr..
Johnson IS seyed up Butler Ii. .asill bottled
a up; Grant IS politically nsod Stanton 1,
stuffed ups aud the country, coastitutipsal
Il speak.ps, y gone up "
4 ~ nr AEessfss q srGsl i and pgsssass
Eiihept radiesls of @ tas aoIl jasGf
opiaiOh that tho sp ! stbsoHS ss
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