Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-08

icctlng testimony from unprejudioed SOURCES
concerning tho real condition OF affairs in tho
State. Thoy expect to obtain such evidence
as will show that poaco and order prevail
throughout the State; that if any breaches Of
the peace have taken place they have been
occasioned by disappointed politicians, inter
ested in having the present State government.
set aside; that the people of Gcorgi. arc dis.
posed to obey the Reconstruction laws in good
faith, and that there is no disposition to NAL.
treat the negro or persccute Northern men
settling in tho State. Whatever testimony
and facts they may have will be laid before tho
Reconstruction Committee as On offsct to
what has been submitted to them By Cover.
nor Bullock aud his friends.
VIEWS or THE pREsIDRNT ELRcr.
A Washington telegram Of Thursday, to
the Baltimore Sun, says:
The reports Of conversation between Con.
Grant and several Congressman yesterday rel.
alive to Pacific Railroad subsidies, printed in
the papers of yesterday and to day, arc claim
ed by some to be exoggerations, but upon in
quiry, it appears that there was ground for 8
portion Of the statement at least. In the
conversation reference was made to General
Grants approval of shc structure, So, of the
Union Pacific Railroad after his recent travel
over that route, and which was published in
the papers few days ago. oGcnsral Grant
made remark, in Substance, that although
he found the Union Pacific in the excellent
condition represented, ho had said nothing
about granting subsidies to railroads. Those
WHO knew this, did not understand General
Grant as opposing The existing grants and
Subsidies, but as (merely by imrlieation) indi-
eating his disapproval Of further subsidies to
projected roads, or tho granting of lands and
bonds, except what have been contemplated
aud provided for by the existing laws. There
are reasons for supposing that General Grants
views as to the granting further subsidies of
any kind, and also upon the matters of re-
trenchment and economy, coincide with the
we'll understood opinions Of Mr.. Washburne,
of Illinois.
POSSIBILITY OF A spLIT AMONG THE RADI-
GALS IN CONGRESS.
1t is believed that possibility exists of
split smong Congressman upon the question
OF berdcning or unhanding Grant, which will
even show itself this session. In the Senate
such split is already but half concealed -
The cause of difrerenceis upon tho bill trans.
ferring the Indian bureau to the War Do.
partmcnt. Wilson, as tho mouthpiece of
Grant, presses tho transfer, and Henderson,
Morrill,, Thaycr, all tho members of the In.
dian Committee, oppose tho transfer, knowing
that they are opposing tho wish of Grant, and
insisting that Che time has not como for him
to begin to shapc legislation; and tho intro
duction Of his name by Wilson, if authorized,
bodies no good in the future, and should bo
ropelled at once. It is evident that General
Grants intcnds to suggest to the next Congress
all that his indirect inauonco fails to secure
from this 1t is conceded here that no will
accept no shackles, and that he declares the
Civil Tenure bill, meant to hedge an untruat
worthy executive, is in its very animus an in.
suit to himself if continued It is believed
that General Grant desire will Conklin's bill,
and that tho Forty Congress will assemble
under tho present law; but such result will
only bo adopted to avoid tho trouble of com.
ing together little latcr by proclamation,
and it aettles mono of tho questions on which
difference betwoon Grant and the party is
probable in the immediate future.
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