Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-12-24

WASHINGTON, December 16-There is
no negro elected to Congress from Virginia!
Impeachment Ashley has been removed q
from the Montana Govcrnorship. Gen. Potts, i
of Ohio, succeeds. yl,9
4 sharp. contest occurred in the Senate ).
over Morton's amendment that Georgia's re-
admission be preceded by tho adoption of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Mr..
Carpenter opposed, and Thurman made q \
strong impression on the Senate In opposition.
Senator B,yard spoke strongly in opposition.
Trumbull's Judiciary Bill was postponed, by
vote of 81 to "a
In the House, bill was introduced to re-
peal the ten percent. tax on the circulation
of State banks s
The President deems the information cal
led for regarding Spain, asunadvisable. The
House went into Committee on the President's
message. Mungen read an argument favor
ing Reputation Of the national debt. AT the
conclusion, Brooks, Randell, Sla,um, Cox,
Kerr and Woodward, repudiated Mungen's
views. The following was adopted That
| the proposition. direct or insrcct, rapMdiata
the debt, is unworthy of tho honor and good
name of The nation, and this House, without
distinction of party, setf the seal of condemns
! tion on such propositions. Adopted yeas
1913; says |. Adjourned to Monday. IS y
MAuoMEr. Our English rapers give 81
very interesting description of the Prophet,
gathered from the various Eastern SOURCES,
and enabling US to understand in a measure,
the t%ondcrful personal influence which hci
exefted over his foloSers--an influence 'seGsS
ona 10 none except that OF the founder Of
Christianity I'VE feel inclined to think of
Mahonet very muol, MS we do Of Harmon 81
Raohid : ~ $ ASH 81 D G9 d.
=, as -<ccinething associated In our mindass
With houris and slaves, pipes and turbsns,
but divested of.all personality, so that to hear
his features, dress, and conversation minutely i
described seems? ike any other. attempt q
toduce the ideal to tho real, strained and nm.
natural lIe is said to have been of medium
height and very slender, with largo, dark n
ayes, in which all the emotions of, an ardent h
temperament found Won't, exceed Il;
ngly fond Of perfumes, gentle and winning
in manuersfeven to his servants In land
where servants are indeed slaves. and When
ia one of his brilliant, fascinating moods oapayf
bic of swaying the hearts of multitudes like 81
reeds before a wind. He was so considerate 81,
that he would never allow an awkward little
page who was for ten years about his pSrson.
md blundered daily, to be rcproyed, and his "
Interiors were loud in theirpraises of his great
benevolenoe and gentleness. One Of them B
declared in truly Eastorp language, 4 sHaass...
;hon seen him thou .wouldst have deolarea /,
hat naught bns the moon could shed such be..
iignant beautifal rays upon the earth
Tradition says thai :hs had an abhorrehoe OF )
'trong drinks,la and . asture which was essea4 IS
Tally refined, sensitive and intellectual. s,3
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A wnMAH in Wisconsin, after bayi6g, mar
ried and buried u second husband, iIjs Sh aYsf !;
plicant. for u divorce, Id order TO A,sff i
third she having jpst learned hat
husband who faported Il, rod It's
fornia eleven years sago IN Id
md Living wit Al q second wife iA San B
co. fSss ss b Y IS
OF tkS IS vi bs slb 81
through ijlea csased sss l| 81