Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-08-14
Proceedings Of tho Legislature.

TToceeulngS OF Jno Legislature.
! COLUMBIA, August Tn tho Senate tho
Committee on tho judiciary reported in favor
of reducing tho pay of the Chief Justice
to $4,000 and that of the Associate aud Cir
cult Judges to $500.
The bill to establish the State poioo pass.
cd
In tho House, tho writ Of quo soavanio
against the old Coroner, Walker, was post.
poned by Willard until Monday, whom the
difficulty will be removed by tho passage Of
q bill declaring all Offices Of tho Provisional
Government vacant.
Thomas Richardson, ono Of the negro leg,
isators, has been arrested and identified as
the murderer Of Dallas Smith IIc was adj
mitted to bail to-day in the sum of $1,000,
Tom Robertson serving as his security. Soy
en- white jurors declared Richardson guilty
of murder; whilo the five negro jurors re.
refused to give verdict.
| COLUMBIA, August 10.-In the House,
Del4arge offered joint resolution, that Joint
Committee be appointed from the House and
Senate to investigate and report upon the
feasibility of reducing the expenses of the
printing of this General Assembly; but con-
scqucntly modified it so as to refer the matter
to the Printing Committees of the two Houses
acting conformity, in which shapo it was
passed.
In Presenting it DoLargc said, that hc de-
sired to impress upon the mcmbors the nccos-
sity of making this investigation. AS chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means,
| he had some time ago introduced bill to
make appropriations, and in it had provided
for the expenses Of tho General Assembly,
including what was then supposed would bo
q sufficient amount to pay for the printing
but had since discovered that at the rate the
| cost for this feature was accommodating, that
| amount would not bo enough Ho had found
that the printer had large quantity of papers
| in his hands, he knew not from whence com.
ing, or by what authority, for the printing of
which there was no moro necessity than for
ladder to tho moon Amongst other things.
ho found cha. lso wac preparing to print in
full number of extra copies of the message
| of late provisional Governor Orr, including
oil the details Of the trial of Major Leo, Su-
pcrntendant of the Penitcntiary, the partio-
ulars Of which wero of no moro Importance to
the momhor than was the price Of land in
Australia, and the Reproduction would cost
between 5000 and $500 IIc had also learn.
cd, on good authority, that the Legislature
was now paying as much for blank as printed
pages. These things he desired rcmcdicd,
and the expense of the printing brought with
in the means Of tho General Assembly
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WASHINGTON, August s. Grants recon.
mcndation for general Jail dcivury in the
Southern States, heretofore tclcyraphol, was
formally presented to tho Cabinet yesterday,
but produced no action. The habcas corlus
being restored, and the Courts being open,
relief from unjust or illegal punishment was
within easy and speedy reach of every citizen {;
whcrcas the sweeping action proposed by
General Grant would doubtless throw many
bad men on these communities.
A careful reading of the second section of
the fourteenth amendment Of the Constitution
shows that the people must vote for Prcsiden-
| o'Ai ctSSeoAoj VI AoSo tllClI representation III
Congress.
Internal rcvonuc receipts to-day $780,.
OOO
A. w. Clark relieves General Fitzpatrick
as Chilian Minister
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The UN1rLD STATES CouRT---Wo learn
from tho "Grecnvillo Enterprise that His
Honor Judge Bryan, tho United States Dis
trict Attorney, Major Corbin, and tho Clork,
Daniel Horbcck, Esq, arrived in Grconyillo
last wcck, and the Court was regularly opened
on Monday, in tho new Court House. There
were several legal gentlemen from other parts
of the State in attendance--Col. Rion, of
Fairfield: COL Blanding, of Sumter, and j.
P. Reed, Of Anderson. Others, of course
will appear in the course of the sitting. The
juries wcro empaueled, and tho Judge, as
usual aes.7oroa an address to the Grand Jury,
which wo loarn was quito short, giving a
hopeful estimate Of the condition of public
affairs in relation to the administration Of law
in the land. The Court sat on erondcS; ttiIl
ono o'olook--adlourped tc meot at ton on
Tuesday, having dispatched considerable bu-