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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11
B,ue Ridge Raipsad- Governors Message
G,aUemtp JMe Senate and House Of Rep.
7'cScHtuttUcS.

G,,u,1emto oJ'Me Senate and House Of Rep.
gcscatatsUcs:
IL tny inaugural message, expressed the
intention Of submitting to your honorable
bodyA plan for the carly completion of the
BIZ Ridge Railroad In accordance thcro.
yth, now invite your earnest consideration
of the subject, and invoke such action by you
as shall speedily achieve this great result.
For more than forty years, the Importance
Of uniting the West with the South Atlantic
ooast has been urged by the loading intolocts
Of the country; and many Of the railroads
constructed during that period, on both sides
Of tho mountains, have been built with view
to their direct or tributary connection with
this great national highway Roads from
Branchvillc to Columbia, from Columbia to
Greenville, Abbeyillc and Anderson, from
Columbia to Spartanburg, from Columbia to
Charlotte, and from Charlotte to Statesyille,
Morganton and Asheville, and tho several
roads extending from Cincinnati and Louis
vile towards Knoxville, and from Knoxville
towards tho Blae Ridge, are all but tho Off
shoots of this great enterprise. Even as early
as 1886, when delegates from nine States as
scmbled in railroad convention at Knox
vile, it was declared to DO the most nnagnif-
cent and important public work projected in
our country.
After mature dolibcration, and critical
!. survey by the n,s distinguished engineers,
II N ~ dooidcd to locate tho route between An
derson, s. G., and Knoxville, Tenn, the dis.
tanoe being only 195 miles. Tho total cost
Of the undertaking, it was estimated by Col.
Gwin, the Chief Engnoor in 1850, would not
exoocd s7,575,G77. The work #as CON-
inenced under the most favorable auspices,
and energotoally pressed forward until 1860,
when operations were suspended by the war.
At this time, thirty-four miles Of the road had
beon completed and were in running order.
Much of the grading aud masonry in the re-
naming territory Of South Carolina, Georgia
and North Carolina was also finished, so that
the work may now DO said to be moro chan
half completed In this connection, it is
proper to state that tho grading in South Car
olina alone is nearly equal to tho whole gra-
ding in North Carolina and Tennessee; the
bridge and arch masonry in South Carolina
/ is nearly equal to all tho bridge and arch ma.
sonry Of tho remainder of tho road; while the
tunnels in South Carolina 'oxceed noarly all
the tunneling on tho rost of tho limo.
The sum expended upon this gigantic
work is s3,287, ,25S-about half the esti-
mated cost Of tho whole road, and thore
has boon incurred dobt Of only s230,0O0
bcsldes interest, which is secured by an issue
Of firsS mortgage bonds. The State has sub.
scribcd and paid in State bonds $l,3lO,o 900,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11

TIE VALUE OF ADvERTIsINa.-Ag gon
tleman Of New York, who has taken up his
family in ono of the outlying suburbs, recent
y purc hascd sovon pounds OF sugar from
summer quarters with his village grocer, and
found it sadly adutoratcd with sand
The noxt day ho inserted The following para
t;raph in the village papor: "Noticc,-I
boughtof a grocer, in this village, seven pounds
of sugar, from which havc extracted ono
pound of sand. If tho rascal who cheated
mo will send to my address seven pounds of
sugar (the soriptural measure of restitution)
| will be satisfied if not will expose him"
The next day nine sovcn pound packages Of
sugar wero left at tho advertisers house,
there being ninc grocors in the village, and
each supposing himself to have been detco.
ted.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-09-11

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The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25
per and unquesonable objects either of public indignation
or legal punishment
The British Navy on Guard.

= FROM the Chicago Evening Journal.
orrlple! just think of it-here is armed steamer
somewhere without proper papers," Five British vessels
nave gone In search of her, Of course she is Fenian.
britain can hear of nothing else waking the British
non sees Fenian sportsman behind BUSH and smells
barrel OF gunpowder under every hiock and sleeping he
creams OF horrible traps compass his destruction and
aegoes nightmare of terror To Great Britain everything
looks susplclousy and ghully green In place
SO many tons of blasting powder disappear broad daylight
from magazine carried off, without doubt in green pail
In another town. certain barracks carried by assault and
vast number of taken But the most thing
Is that mysterious armed steamer without proper papers,
BRITANNIA who rules the wave almost green herself
the thought Shall British be scourged by pri-
as difficult handle the Keasarge 60 prowing about to
be hunted by British Alabamas Mercul Heaven forbid
guilty conscience needs accuser" John Bull knows
IN his inmost soul that it would him Just right if the
Yankees should accidentally let few swift steamers we'll
armed and Manned slip out to raise the green flag,
and plumber and burn British ships. 1t would be Just
retrbuon If British commerce should be driven from the
seas II British ships should be refused insurance and forced
to change their nationality if the carrying trade of the world
should be put in other hands, and if British vessels
should be mainly employed for rowing up and down
the and chasing swift pirates it would be than
England deserves Every of an unknown cruiser
where therefore, throws England into panic We have
reason to suppose that Fenan cruiser actually aoat but
ut would be the easiest thing in the world build buy
to equip and it, and to slip of American
port just British pirates escaped seizure during the war
Simply because would her right England expects it,
and undergoes panic whenever vessel without proper
papers is reported.
Everybody advantage except those "eaders
who successful in showing the Fenians how not
10 it
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25

Fenan murderers have shown unmisakabe desire to
knock the animal the head In fact it has been
year of for the blessed British empire Darkness
everywhere except in the Vest America, after all the kicks
and cuffs and burnngs and robberie of the Alabama has
been exceedingly friendly Read this Americans and Irish
Americans and then judge of Johnson and Seward and
Sumner as their damnable doings deserve ::
Towards foreign powers the Government of the United
States has shown itself toleaby fair and moderate On the
of every election the taken from the Fenan ma
RAIDERS into Canada stated to be returned to
the and the endeavor of the President to place the law of
naturalization basis may perhaps be ascrbed,
although change really necessary wish to catch the
Irish STILL the attitude of the United States towards
England has not been unfriendy Although the subject of
the Alabama claims has been kept alive it has not been
pressed while the prudence and caution of Mr. Adams in
not urging the alleged right of American busters to play
at Feniansm in Ireland and England with impunty, has
been great as to call down him the wrath of those
enthusiastic of his countrymen who think that every Amer
lean should be at liberty do anything he likes that may
tend destroy absurd and Odworld institution the
throne of Queen Victoria.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25
Who Are the Miscegenators?
Correspondent of Chicago Tribune.

In The beautiful village of Pulaski Giles county, Tenn,
resides hotblooded chivarous young merchant
named Calvin LAMBETH formerly rebel, Democrat
and alw ouspoken and stern theoretical opponent of
miscegen 1@u In the romantic village also resides
pretty yell CIV girl named Lucy Reynolds and, although
there are M Wy charming white girls in this place.
possesses so Many attractions for the said Calvin Lambeth
Lucy Hence for months past he has been in the habit of
opening his ste door at unusual hours and of saying
Lucy 8Come pretty paror and Lucy trail
and Lambeth wa gallant did not decline the invitation
Moreover, she wa not usually 60 nome tn morning
the war races would between the proud
Calvin and the lovel Lucy
Lmcys conduct Poss l of the young of color
conscious of hinge Of jealousy and leading man
among them told Lucy anky s should a n nnd
be punished Lucy, witt aPitatng hear told Lambeth
and Lambeth resolved on aefense of his rights Must he
proud Caucasian be dep lived of the tender embraces of
pretty African? Never not this white mans govern
ment? He therefore declare that he would kill Carter
sight Accordingly early la iesd ns m0inng ne e ssfu
search of the isturber of his fell city Carter for time
avoided him. At eleven ococ However having been
Enforced by two or three g od Democrats young bood
like himself he approached gre where Carter and
was about shoot him when he driven away by the
authorities But oc ock he again caught Carter
nhs brothers grocery and immediately placed him
self in front of the pistol in hand and cooked to wait
for him to out. coored AN named Fields warned
Carter of his danger whereupon La beth Tired Two shots at
Fields but without effect These shots the signal for
Lambes clan and Unless than thre minutes eighteen white
men formed in line before the grocer " armed with shot guns
and pistols and firing into the grocery There
were eight coored in the hous few of whom had
pistols they defended themselves best they could At
this peaceabe citizens at the risk of their
lives prevailed the white esist provided that the
negroes would make further resistance This the negroes
readily assented to- and when they supposed that all
over and standing hudded together, and off their
guard Lambeth and his clan suddenly fired volley into
them, killing man named Orange Rhodes, and wounding
five Others of them severely and of them, it is
feared MORALLY. Thus ended the riot
Twelve of the young arrested and bound over
in the of 81 800 each but that they Will ever be pun
ished is not at all probable.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25
Liberty in France.

Paris Correspondent of the N. Y Times.
Nine young have undergone their trial being
bers of society. The society issued printed and
manuscript procamatons circular notes like other const
uted authorities The proclamation forth that the EN-
peros reign founded upon and maintained by crime
notably Italy and Mexco-and that the United States
drove him from the latter country ought he to be chased
from France which he ruled Gortschakof Mouravief
and Bismarck; that he has destroyed the industry of
France and brought nothing but poverty to resides
Further that the empire in ruins it behooved
Fenchman not be buried in the ashes but rise
man. and take their affairs into their hands.
appears that this society business the members
had commenced to lay in stores of powder and ball. Some
the members had been delegates at the Peace Congress at
Geneva and returned with the conviction that all European
thrones should be done away WITH and United States set
up instead.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25
Fair and Moderate.

Tho london Saturday Reuie0-rom which the following
massage is quoted par excellence the of the extreme
Eosb Tories Like great many other papers, 1T pub
shed at the close of the last month"; review of the events
which occurred during the year 1867 This, matter of
rs ia written from an exclusively English point of view
The tone Of the article is generally speaking, excessively
lugubrous Most people, from Russia to Abyssinia have
been treating the old humbug ion with either contempt
uous indifference, positive defiance, while not lew
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

The sale of a private collection of rare works
relating to America, which has Just closed at
the Book Trade Saesroom of Messrs. Leavitt,
Strebeigh a. Co., was of character so uni
usual as to deserve more than mere pass
ing notice. The price obtained for Eliot's
Indian Bible was startling to people un-
used to hearing of a single volume selling
for so much money; but the sales OF certain
State histories had even more significance
Three early accounts of Virginia were sold OF
these BrlTlls Virginia, in vols. brought SfO
BullOcks, GO pages of text, 1649, SG0 and Raphe
HamOr's, 80 pages, 1915, $40 The copy OF
Horsmandens Negro Plot which sold for $40,
was water stained throughout, and appeared to
be in very nearly the condition when an or
binary book would be thrown aside as worth
less These facts point to Il wonderful dissem-
ination of the disease called bibomania among
u.s. almost imperceptibly, it seems; but this sale
will serve to call public attention to the
subject While we have not in this city a
single public library which completely meets
the public wants, many private collections
contain nearly all that is rare, curious and
valuable in history and literaturo-more par
ticularly American history and literature and
to hear the owners talk of their possessions,
and see them handle their gems with such evil
dent veneration, is to catch something OF the
fever that burns in their veins. The mania
for scarce American books is of recent growth,
and it is not ten years since it took its first de-
velopment in the rage for large paper reprints
of the rarities, which were then eagerly sub
scribed for at 80 and even $50 volume and
now sell almost for a song Large paper
copies have already gone out of fashion, and
uncut books come in; binding is positive
disadvantage now, and many intelligent people
who have had their books bound for use, and
a few who paid for elegant bindings for show,
will be little surprised to learn that these
must be banished out of sight, and that the
drtier and MUSTER book is, the more worthy
it is of attention. This is the moral of the
great sale; but it is a dangerous subject to
handle, since the gems are concealed under
titles where they would be least suspected, and
we feel impeled to dismiss it without another
word
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02
Amustmrnts, &t.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-This AfternOOn.-"l4a La Belle
Helene and Evening including first aud second acts Of La Inde
Ducbessa"
BROADWAY THEKTER--This Afternoon and Even
ng Rory OAOre" aud THE Irish Lon" MI and Mrs Barney
WikiamA
EUROPEAN CRcUs Broadway and Thirty fourth
st-Tbis Afternoon and Evening -
FIFTH AVENUE ART GALLERY-This Day-Mr
Jerome ThOmpsons painting The Od Oken Bucket aud Nh HAUL
bachs painting, The Era Of the Reformation"
French THEATER-This Evening"" Sor Teresa
Mme RistOui
MADIsON-SQUARE HALL. No. 95i BrOadway.-This
Evening 8The Panorama Of the War Miss Sae BOWnson Good
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Day and Even
ng-The h Annual Exhibition OF Pictures and Sculptures
NIBLO's GARDEN-This Afternoon and Evening"
"Tbe White Pawn" Parsenae Ballet Troupe.
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Afternoon and Evening
iIumply Oumptv." q. L. Fox.
SAN Francisco MINISTRIES. No. 5S5 Broadway
This Evening at Birch Wsmhoh, Bernard and BaskuSe
STEINwAY HALL This Afternoon. at =. - Mrs
Frances Aune kembe Readings from Milton Long0w and Whittier
WAILACKS- This Evening at s." Loves SacI-
fee" J. W. Walack, Charles Fisher
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

Mrs. Kcmble brings her series Of Readings to
a close with matinee to-day. This Is an
nOunced as her last course; but we trust that
she may recall her determination, for the en-
tertainments have been too successful and too
keenly appreciated to be cut short so soon.
The benefit done by them extends far beyond
the circle of her actual audiences. Ii is felt
in some degree by whole classes Of the public
She has awakened the dormant sense of what
is noblest and most beautiful in dramatic lit
erature; she has done something toward making
truth and purity the fashions she has encour-
aged the nascent reaction against the sensuality
of the stage, and therefore hundreds OF us who
never heard her read acknowledge ourselves
her debtors. 1t is quite impossible for edu-
Gated and intelligent people, such as those who
have crowded Steinway Hall during her reel
tations-for women, especially with their nice
sense of what is delicate and good-to acquire
a taste for Shakespeare without cOnceiving at
the same time corresponding distaste for the
gross performances which have done so much
of late to corrupt society. Perhaps only few
thousands have been brought within the charm
of the readers voice but many more thousands
have caught the spreading influence, and the
dirty drama and the sensational drama, We be-
lieye, are already declining.
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

The Illustrated Chicago Nrs is the title Of weekly
ournal Just started in Chicago devoted Ia popular
miscellaneous reading with copious pictorial embel-
lisnments. Mr. Mast is announced Of tho
artists who will contribute sketches every week, and
ample arrangements have been made for correspond
ence from the principal cities in the United States
musical and dramatic criticisms. and agreeable
variety o. light literature. From the two numbers
already published. we are led to form favorable es-
innate of the standard which it aims to reach.
without straining after popular effect by forloru
comicalitcs, or vapid and meadacious personal
gossip
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

so. Our State urgently needs more Rail
roads-needs the Susquehanna completed
and the Midland well begun forthwith
perhaps the Champlain also. Our rural dis
tricts are stationary if not declining in popula-
tion and industry for want OF more railroads to
give them ready and cheap access to markets.
The aggregate increase OF our population for
the last thirty years has been confined to our
cities and villages. We ought to grow lar more
fruit and edible roots than we do; we woutd
grow more if proper facilities existed Tor
bringing them to market. New ork has fewer
miles of railroad to-day than Pennsylvania
far fewer than the five States next east OF her;
though her population, wealth, and trade, are
far greater than theirs. We construct new rail-
roads slowly and with difficulty, because sad ex-
perience has shown that at least half
the money invested in New-York railroads is
a dead loss. Were our railroads paying in the
average as they ought to pay-as they would
pay, if built and managed with integrity and
economy on strictly business princlples-we
should readily obtain the money required to
build our projected roads; their stock would be
sought as an investment; whereas, towns are
heavily bonded, and the Legislature haunted
by lobbyists, button-holing, boring, and log
rolling for loans or gifts of public money
that is, to help one section at the expense OF
others. Ii is of grave consequence to the yet
secluded districts that the experiment of run
ming railroads on business principles shall
prove "A success; and we entTeat that no local
or personal clamor shall be allowed to deilect
the Central from that wise benefcent policy
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

"The city provides for its own incbriates, y
says the Tax Levy Committee, and so they
strike out the clause requiring so much per
briate asylum. 1t is but fair; the distribution
of inebriates in the Common Council and other
public offices, to say nothing of the Legislature.
proves that the great metropolis is duly atten-
tive to that unfortunate class of her subjects.
Why should hummer go into dull asylum
when he has his choice of seat in the City
Hall or sinecure clerkship in one of the De
partmcntsP
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

After another thorough and animated debate
on the Irish question. the English House of
Commons on Thursday night divided on the
first of Mr. Gadstone's resolutions. This result
is most gratifying to the friends of progress
and justice. Not only did the Liberal phalanx
which few weeks ago obtained signal vic
tory over the Ministry, remain unbroken, but
the Liberal majority even increased from 60 to
O.. Disraeli acknowledged the Importance of
the vote, and announced that the Ministry
would consider what course they ought to take
under the circumstances. The general opinion
in London is that after the Scotch and Irish
Reform shall have been acted upon, the Par
Lament will be dissolved, and the Tories will
try the only weapon that is left to them, by
raising throughout England, Scotland and the
Protestant districts of Ireland the No Popery cry
to stir up the religious fanatlcism of the lower
classes in favor of perpetuating the grievances
of Ireland. Occasionally, fanatical appeals of
this kind sway the ignorant masses, and inter-
rupt for n while the steady advance of the
cause of REFORM but in a question like this,
when bigotry, fanaticism, and oppression are so
clearly Oh one side and Justice, liberty, and
right on the other side, the issue of the conflict
cannot be doubtful.
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

The Ku-Klux gang ruling this city are de-
termined to supersede the present Croton
Aqueduct Board, and thus secure potent
lever for the Presidential election. 1t is openly
stated that bargain and sale" arrangement
has been effected, and that the measure will
bc rushed through the Legislature during the
closing hours of the session. We trust there
arc enough honest men in the Senate to save
the only economical department it the city
from the clutches of the Ring" Gov. Fenton
has saved us from many jobs, and if all other
measures fail, we confidently look to him for
- veto of this scheme.
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

Among the precious privileges OF our tax
payers for the coming year is an addition to
the salary of each Alderman of enough TO make
his pay $500 IA year. exclusive of perQusites;
also the increase of the Clerks salary to $500;
also the Deputy to $4,000, and so on, making
the total salaries in the Legislative Depart
ment S2li.450. Ten years ago it was about
81 900 in ALL Time was when men served as
Aldermen for the honor of it. The honor has
long since gone, and now it is grab while you
Can.
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

In their explanatory notes on the Tax Levy,
Frear, Bamler & Co. condescend to say:
The Committee have increased donations those OF
last year for charitable purposes.
True and little by little for twenty years
those Charitable purposes have been de-
veloped. Translated into plain English, it means,
liberal donations to Roman Catholic schools of
purely sectarian character. 1t will add consid-
erably to the millions of public property
already set apart for that particular denomi-
nation.
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

Frcar & Co., in their report upon the Ia,
Levy, sneeringly say that the item for dona.
tOns covers contributions to institutions wlo..
care is legacy of the late war, care Of sol.
diers' families and 50 on. We would not asL
Frear TO love man who fought for the conn.
try, but surely the boys in blue, in or out Of
their graves, ought to be secure against the
sneers of this newly whitewashed specimen.
of virtue
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

The Rum Democracy in the State Senate
ma 10 one more fcint to reconsider the voted
down Excise bill. They did not succeed, and
did not wish to; the motion was blind for
simple minded voters. The Tammany gang
would (secretly) favor the enactment OF "a law
ntterly prohibiting liquor-selling throughout
tbe State, if they conld show that 1t was
odonted as a Republican measure, or by he
antlcao votes. They know too well The
strength Of appeals to the lower passions 70
fake the risk of losing such valuable capital
EYsn ts act t9 prevent tas sa!a q elSG Gs-
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

will contain. Admitting that all the member
OF the Common Council can read. we need only
4l copies for them, and for other officers say
enough to make up hundred; price a. "a
each There is a little difference between
$3.50 and $4,000. Is not that difference wort,
savingi tre.s
New-York tribune., 1868-05-02

In the House of Representatives yesterday
Mr.. BrOO ks pressed his resolution charging that
the impeachment Managers have been mixed
"upr in the Alta Vela claims; but Gen. Butler
rected history which cleared the Managers
skirts, and after the General had administered
a sound reprmand to Mr. Brooks, the House
tabled the resolution by 90 10 20.