Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-05-21

people, will, we hope, keep faith with foreign
nations, at the same time holding them strictly
to all their responsibilities. Spain, before she
can put down the instruction in Cuba, will
without doubt commit some and perhaps grie.
vous wrongs against our Government o: our
people or both, but she will be quito sure, in
every instance of aggression, to make such
amends as the case shall Justly require. She
will be very careful not to get up or to encour-
age a grave quarrel with US unless she shall
have good reason to reckon England and
France as ready to stand at her back.
Coutcr.Journal.
R%ErUNDlSu OF TAxEs.-The Internal
Revenue Bureau has issued new blank forms
and regulations for the funding of taxes nuder
tho Act of April 10, 1869, upon tobacco, Sc
gars and snuff:
The claimants arc required to furnish evil
dence proving to tho satisfaction of the Com
missioner that the tax imposed by said Act
has been previously pail, which evidence
must in all cases include the affidavit of the
manufacturer or some other person who paid
the tax, corroboratod by the certificate of the
assessor and collector who made the assessment
and collection, or assessors then in Office. In
describing the goods, the kind, number of
boxes or packages, tho marks and brands
thereon, the collection destined, tho number
of the factory and the inspectors name must
all be given in full, and in all cases where
claims are made for ~rcfunling tax paid on
imported sogars before any claim can be allow.
cd, a full and complete idcntifc ,tion of the
goods must be made, and where the goods,
either foreign or domestic, have passed
through different hands since tho payment of
the tax, it will be necessary to trace the goods
through tho different namcs by which thcy
nave passed from the importer or manufac.
turcr to the claimant, and any failure Of the
claimant thus to identify and trace back the
goods Of the person or pctsons who paid the
tax, will be hold as sufficient reason for reicc.
ting the cluim.
All aft lavits required to be made under
this general regulation, must be made before
persons competent to administer oaths. All
certificates of collectors Of internal revenue
must be authenticated by their official seal.
The form is intended alike in all cases where
claims are made for refunding Tux paid on i'm
ported segars, ss on segars, snuff aud tobacco
Of domestic manufacture.
Q .TCharlcston Courier.
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Terrible FAMINE IN THE NORTH OF
EuRops.-Adviccs by mail from the coun-
trics on the Baltic Sea toll Of a terrible and
widely extended famine now existing there.
A letter says that tho distress is indcscribable.
From tho 23d Of May to the 18th Of August,
last year, no rain fell, and the summer crops
were scorchcd. Bread can now be scarcely
got, even at tho most oxorbitant price, and,
as tho roads are impagsable by reason Of the
extraordinary wet weather, no help from
abroad can Each the people. The dcbilitatcd
condition Of the population and their herding
t3gcther in the larger Villages, in the hope Of
getting food and shelter, has eng,ndered dis.
case, which is making fearful ravasos.
So ss~-
EE' The Washington Express says chat
tho.English Minister denies that Groat Brit.
ain has had under consideration tho question
Of tho Cuban Instruction declares it a pre-.
postorous report that 1t was ever designed to
recognize the insurgents as bollIgsrents, and
says tho Government is net even Informed Of
the existence Of q provisional government on
tho island. Her present relations with Spain
ard with tho majesty Of governments are
highly friendly, and regards the report horoby
eQqtsadiotcd as ~intepdedto omtatter the. rola.
t~iongbStwdea the United States and Great
Britain.
Eay- Tho railroad lines leading Into Mem.
phis will carry all delegates to the Convention,
going and coming, free Of charge, and all
others at half prico. Stops are. taken to in-
duce all tho roads in tho South to mako tho
same arrangement,