Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-11-19

yeS ana Legislators. The negro Legislature
1t Columbia last year was droll enough.
J~srists from all parts Of the country stopped
there TO see the black Sulons, as they would
look in at a menageiic. Bnt the way the
lawsnse administered from day to day is SO ex.
, traord '1ary that white man in South Car
olina CNuts might wonder whether he had
emigrated tr t,iberia, or was a citizen of
| monarel iRep1tiic. A letter from Edgc6eld
thus speal1 of the Circuit Court, now ia Sos
sion
Tuesday vas occupied in organizing the
jniHs Th. grand jury consisted Of eight
whites md eeven blacks; petit jury. No 1,
was composed entirely Of blacks, and No. 9
had considerable sprinkling Several ne.
z cunstables we're employed about the Court
l;ouse. Solicitor F., l. Wiggins was pre-.
.sent for the first time though it has been
nearly year since Ills election to Office He
isa Northern n,an, residcsi at Beaufort, and,
it ia said. was buying cotton there at the time
OF his election. r. b. Elliott, negro, WAS
present, and. it is reported, ut the request of
the Solicitor, to assist in the discharge of his
dutiea." .ipti.
On Wednesday, the Court was occupied in
the trial Of the case Of the State Us. Thomas
w. HBlease, fur the murder of John A. Ruth
erfnrh, These we're both white men, and the
jury consisted Of nine whites and three blacks.
With the aid now received, South Carolina
cannot long be ignorant Of her duties under
the Constitution -New Fork Republic
PARKER PltLsBURY on RECoNsrRucTIoN.
Mr. Parker PiIstury writes review in the
New York Revolution" of "The South as it
is,' in which he says:
81 think the North knows less of the actual
South to day than of almost any other portion
of the globe. Rcpubicanisn, hears rule there,
aud reports itself to p!earc itself Counter
authorities, especially from Democratic
sources, are cast aside as unworthy OF conf.
dence. AS no doubt they often are. But it is
time one thing was told, an ! believed. ton ev.
erywhere, and that is. that Reconstruction, 50
far, is Il failure. 1t is bad fuilure. From
the 'rlc of its foot to It's head, If it have any
head, there is no soundncss in il, none what
ever. 1t began where 1t should have left off,
with political organization, with suffrage and
sovereignty, when the first lessons in civil
zntinn had not been learned, had not been
taught. and have not yet been taught But
p,rty supremacy required the measure, and it
was adopt,d d. against ali tie dictates of gen.
uine craftsmanship, as well AS the demands of
justice and humanity. And hence lis failure
as could not but have been expected
LONDON November 1O.-Mr. Gladstone
at the Lrrd Mayors festival, spoke disonur-
agingly regarding Ireland. Claiming peace
with all the world, Gladstone said one parti.
al exception Of the deepest interest to English.
men, namely; our relations with America
But there is no OCCASION 10 which could
mure appropriately refer to these relations, or
better describe them, than rs those of peace
and concord. Were to attempt to depart
from that freddy strain, should be admon
l1hed to Judge more correctly and speaks mere
wisely, by al event which has happened with
III lis city during tho last few days-I refer
to the death Of George Peabody; a mau
whose sp odid henefactions will secure i'm
mortality for his name in that which ne re.
garded as his old mother country, bLt whose
fame likewise, and in a broader sense, is IN
plicable t" NIL humanity, he has taught t,s the
n'trt nccdful Of al lessons. how a man can be
n.nde master o. his f. tu, g, and o, ts slave
and it is most tcdi"hing to know. hit have
lenrned from his friends that while some men
would have heen unhappy at the idea of diving
In foreign land, his affections we're 40 dvid.
e BETWEEN tho land Of his birth and the land
O. his ailct s.trs that that which had been the
stnd st of his wishes may now be realzrd--
G. he buried in America, but to die in Eng
lind. With Mr.. Peabody 8 country we are
not likely to quarrel 1t Is true, that care
and skill in diplomacy, animated. thongh it
has been, by the purest and most upright
feelings, although it has not ihperled our
peace, has failed tolcad to the first isstie up to
the present moment Upon the tangled
qnestiens Of Law " hich have been in discussion
hhtwefn the two oountiee considerable delay
has taken place yet every delay, instead Of
ltsding to danger, was prompted by copsd
Gfatc good will mud a desire TO allow The in.
terventiun of "a limited time. in order to ob.
vlate the difficulties. fChcers] l believe
the world view with horror parricidal sttifc
between England and Amcrica; hut shcb
A etate Of things is not likely to arise from
our present relations; and my confidence is
in the sentiments which know animate the
American Government as we'll as our own,
and which also animate the minds If the pco
bfe Of these two great countries, [Chcers.1
GoLD 1868 Yesterday gold declined to
1858, tho lowest point attained since 1866.
when In the reacti6n following the end of the
war it sold MS low as 1875. 1t will be remem.
tercd that six weeks ago 1t was advanced to
l65 by tho great Snld combination. The Gun
trast is 4pi'e q cttroua ono TIE difference
is nearly forty per cent "a fall on I'm average
OF about one per cent a day. The reduction
OF the national debt and the ateady prosperity
Of the country ore tho secret Of the decline
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