Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-03-06
Relief.

Aho AolioWlnS circular letter, which is O1
absorbing interest, especially to the planter
OF this State, is from tho pon of General Scott
and will bo eagerly perused:
HEADo'Rs ASSISTANT ComM'R,
BUREAU r., F. AND A. IT,,
CHAaLEsroN, 8. g., Fob. 27, 1868.
The Ass:stans Commissioner ID compelled
to call the attention af tho people Of this Dis.
trlct to the great increase within the past few
days in the number Of applicants for Gov.
ernmont assistance, and to thus publicly an
nounce that it will be impossible for him,
with the limited supplies at his command, to
assist moro than fraction of those who are
now applying. Nearly onc-half of the amount
at his disposal has been already expended
and but a limited proportion of the applioa-
tions received have been acted upon.
In future, oil applications for assistance
will be referred to the officer or agent of the
bureau residing nearest to the applicant, with
instructions to investigate fully his or her
condition, and upon the report made, the
Assistant Commissioner will act.
Application should, therefore, to save time,
be made direct to the nearest Bureau officer,
who will forward thom to these headquarters,
with such expression Of approval or disapprov-
al as be may see fit to make.
The applicant should state in each case
the name and situation of his plantation, and
the nearest railroad station or steamboat lam
ding; The fact that the plantation is fully or
ganized, tho number of adults and children
(those over fourteen years Of age being con-
siderod adults) for whom provisions are dcsir-
ed, and the number Of acres to bo cultivated
in cotton, corn or other products. In no
case will food FOR animals be furnished.
To tho freed people throughout the Dis
trict, tho Assistant Commissioner desires to
say that the determination now 50 prevalent
in many localities not to contract, exoopt up
on terms which, while they assure nothing to
the laborer, are so disadvantagoous to the
planter as to preclude the possibility of any
agreement being made, is most unfortunate,
and can be productive of nothing but disas-
trous results If such people are under the
impression that they will be fed by this Bu-
reau, the Assistant Commissioners desires to
undeccive them without delay. No loan of
provisions will, under any circumstances, be
made to those who are planting undor con-
tracts of such nature, that it is evident they
will not only not make sufficient supplies to
live upon another year, but will with difficult
ty be able to raise sufficient to repay advances
made them this year.
Many people entertain the idea that oil
that is necessary to enable them to obtain ra-
tions, is to have possession of pieco of land.
Such is not the case. The Assistant Com.
missioner must be satisfied that the land is of
such quality, and that the applicant is plant.
ing it under such conditions, that he will be
able to produce from it sufficient not only to
repay his advances, but to supply himself and
family another year. Furthermore, no issues
Of rations for planting purposes will be made
TO individuals, but only upon organized plan
tations, with responsible head, either white
OF colored, whose experience and character is
such that the Assistant Commissioner can
have no doubt but that his obligation to the
Government will be fulfilled to the letter.
The WORD "BANKRurr."-Few words
have so remarkable history ss the familiar
word bankrupt. The money changers of
Italy had, it is said, benches or stalls in tho
burse or exchange, in former times, and at
these they conducted their ordinary business.
Whom any Of them foil back in the world and
became, insolvent his bench was broken, and
the name Of broken bench, or banco rotto, was
given him. When the word was first adop.
ted into English, it was nearer tho Italian
than it now is; being 6onhero,t, instead of
bankrupt. Grcenvilc Mountaincer.
B0- We cordially endorse the Presidents
assertion that I" God and tho American pco.
plc will make oil right, and save our ins.itu-
tions." Tho dispatches for several days will
be looked for with interest, @
F.J. MosEs, Jr., is spoken Of as man of
vim in the Convention. Can't some Of our
EdgeAcld friends give the " Mercury" man q
plain unvarnished tale Of his doings while on.
rolling officer for that Dlstriot2 We fancy
that DR.. Folk or Amos shealy, both highly
respectable gentlemen, could assist in skin
ming him il applied to. --Ep, COURIER.
IRELAND. Train sums up thus ; Talk .
slavery in Carolina or Virginia, in Cuba OF
Brazil, but chat was freedom comparedSwitl
what you sec In ireland. Slavery Of The
mind, Nohope,S no future, no noshing bpl
darkness and despair Tho Protestanss stol,
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