Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-05-14
Election in Piokens.

1850 w ASAN ~ u SoouuJ Va
Pickens on tho 18th instant, for a mombcro of
the House of Representatives, to fill tho un.
expired term Of WIN. r. F1Ehr. Tho attch-
ton of managers. is called to tho official order
published this week.
$3.50 &A-
WASHINGTON, May 10.--Tho last spike
of tho Pacific Railroad was driven at half-past
2 o'clock to day, Washington time.
Internal revenue is very heavy for the
month; tho prospects for customs are also
very favorable. The revenue accounts show
that receipts from the whiskey tax have in
creased since the reduction.
Internal revenue receipts today $685.
600.
Thirty-six typos, mostly veteran Washing
t%onians, were discharged from tho Government
printing office to-day.
1t seems determined that tho DISTINGUISHING
clause of the Virginia Constitution will alone
be submitted to u separate vote. Shrewd
Virginia politicians predict that under this
plan the Constitution will DO Defeated by an
immense majority, as the test oath and Coun.
ty organization clauses aro regarded as equal
ly odious-espeoially the County organization
clause-which it is claimed will involve ruin
Gus expense to the people of Virginia. 1t is
considered certain that tho election will occur
on the LIST Tuesday in July.
1t is stated to be requisite to an appoint
ment to any position in tho internal revenue
office, that a solemn oath of total abstinence
from intoxicating drinks DO taken.
Regulations for refunding the tax on capt.
tai invested in this country by foreigners has
been prcporcd, and is in the hands of tho
printers.
Tho Cuban patriots arc represented here
to have resolved upon a different policy.-
They represent that the Cubans have taken
positions where they can successfully resist
the Spaniards.
TREATY WITH MEXIco.-It is rumorcd
that dispatches have been received at Wash
ington in which tho Mexican Government
proposes to ccde to United States q certain
portion of its territory for / specified sum in
gold The territory which it is proposed
to cede lies on the Gulf of California, and it
Is believed to include the States of Sonora
and Siualoa. The negotiation originates with
Senior Romero, the present Secretary of tho
Treasury of the Juarcz Government, who was
formerly Mexican Minister to the United
States; but it, of course, meets the approval
OF President Juarcz. It is quite evident that
the Northern States of Mexico cannot much
longer be held by the central Govcrnmcna
They arc filling up with q class of population
kindred to that which wrenchcd Texas from
Mexico and attached it to the United States
and revolution will follow revolution until a
like result will be produced -Ihons1.
RADICAL WAR UPON sour1uERN Col.
LEaEs.-Whcrcver the radical carpct.baggcrs
and negroes have had swayin the, Southern
States they have cast a complete blight over
our institutions of learning, and that while,
protesting peculiar devotion to the cause Of
cducatlo4:s They have placed them in a posi-
ton where they know tho whites would net
spatronizcTheme and they knew equally we'll
That the blacks could not. The consequence
Several ae the best institutions of learning
hays g0ns, sagla board Tho Alabama Col
1Sge,. ohcoye)3S uftSlbing, has hardly a pupil to
,tha bench :sRbsssouth Carolina College once
ths!hhdgasiREy State, and presided over by
tAfbapApsfkM reston, has also bocn.prostratod
at the $ce9aH Mtesry9ing party. .TAd Wniyer-
isity:sfNpf Mt&G@ina, under tho AsisA4ipula-
eloR3f.H q9ahAahfhis party iisyabput to mect.
tds ss5a 1Jediiih + that stats aps ase'
ias oftbsiSqnasss e artiys, says: "Thcfo
is'one:gasa rnlfga@ssb&sat orsk Univcrsity under
the ncy:3 dsRssMeai oh:' 1T will never have,
sty4saa g 81 up row" .
4 e. &@; [p8a"i"'
Geas 4 Masssssgssl1ts Mayor. nine nogyg:
and NATURALIZATION with not tEe'
interest Of a thoassad dogars, all combined
in the city, mqkfsNpfkiprostty municipal go&t
ernmon;S IN CharfesSonf Can anybody won.
dor thatefs5gulators and Ku Klux associations
find ezistantAe hm6hng a ppcccen!!e % "..; arc s seas
,nsult'd and11o9bod of their govornment2-
% tncrc a community at tho North that would
lie quiet under such indignitics /? It is ycrv.
certain that there is not ono upon Which thew
would be nttnmptnd St;n (. - ~ =.