Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-09-17
Tho Marriage Lave.

Church marriages no registrar 10 required to
be present; among nonconformisss bis .stten.
dance IL requisite. The Quakers have a
separate law Al to themselves. If tho place
where the marriage is celebrated has not been
properly consecrated the marriage is invalid.
1t oan only be performed within certain. hours
never later than Il2A.. M. In Scotland
there is marriage by simple consent Of the
parties, marriages according to three or four
different laws, and irregular marriages, which
make people liable to a Cue but the pay
ment Of the fne legalises the marriage, and
this rs a common mode Of procedure. In Ire
land there is ono law for Protestant Church.
men, another for Prcsbyterians, and no law
at all for Catholics, except a law Of pains and
penalties in certain cases. If q Roman Cath.
olic priest should presume to celebrate a
marriage between a Roman Catholic and
Protestant, or even between a Roman Catho.
lie and q person who had been a I Protestant
within a year Of the marriage, till compara-
lively q recent time that vas a capital %offeuce,
aud even now it il a criminal offence of a
very high order, and tho marriage is absolute
void. Of the irregular Scottish marriages.,
Sir Rounded Palmer has the horror that
might be expected in an English lawyer and
c~hurchmsn, and his description Of them is
technical and droll. He says -
'The system Of irregular marriages in
Scotland is q very startling thing to those
whose minds are not thoroughly accustomed
to it. 1t is contracted in two different ways.
Suppose any gentleman in this House visited
u house in Scotland where a young lady hap
poned to be staying, and that he and the
young took q walk together, aud ia the course
of the walk he took a piece. Of pa per out Of
his pocket on which they wrote down a mu-
tual promiae to marry though the piece Of
paper might be simply put back again into
his pocket, though nothing might be said to
anybody about the writing, and though no.
body else might be there ut the time, if the
persons afterwsrd lived in a certain way togeth-
er, that would bo a valid marrisge, although
nobody might know of he fact. of the mar
riage for years pftcrward. No mere promise
will constitute a marriage unless it be in wri-
ting, and unless s~udsequente copudu. A
promise 80 given aud 80 followed constitutes
a good marriage, however long it may be
kept secret. There is another even more ex.
traordinsry mode, in which no writing at all
is necessary. and that is where the promise 10
made not de future, Ibut de pnsemH-where,
the woman says, ~ take you, John, for my
husband" and where the man says. "I take
you, Mary, for my wife," before Witnesses
A promise of that kind hoing brought up at.
any future period, even although the people
have never lived together, will hold good, and
will be sufficient to overturn any perfectly
of the parties iss i taasy"hha ahs|ss marriage thAt either
into, aud this actually occurred in the oele.
bratcd Dalrymple case" tH5
How THE DEBT Is BEING REpUoRD,-
This, Republican party has been in powor, not
only during the war, but for the four years
which have elapsed since, For tho conduct
Of the Government they have been for eight
years entirely responsible, The following
table shows how they have reduced the pub;
liz debt. The war, substantially closed, says
Secretary. MeCulloch, on the 1st Of April
1865. It is at that period We commence oul
table. We give the figures in round mum
bcrs t,at..t ~. 3aas.,t
April, 1865, $780, 900 900
s%optcmtor, 1864, 2,757, 100000
November, 1868, 2,557,000,0Ot
July, 1869, 10 io5iof' ..aa 2,645, OoO,OOI
How long will it be, reader, before we pa,
the debt, under this showing, with Republi
can rule? 1t is proper to say that 'thci6g
ures above given arc from the official report
of tho Seoretaries of tho Treasury, Mossrs
MoOullooh and Boutwell.-Gerra Hau.
Jouraqk aal.
! TEA costs IS cents per pound in Chin'
the duty is rs cents, that makes 60 cents. :
The freight to New York about two cent
the importers fair profit 10 poi, cent? an
!. tho retail dealer rs per cent. That, brip,
; tho tea ID. the consumer al 93 cents per pouni,
allowing over two cents for freight from No
York to Cincinnati. This same tea cauhn
9 be- had in this city for less than $1,b02p
! pound, giving 81 cents plundcr onHEA
pound, for the beneftsd the heavy oapit,
Q ists who ~monopolize the tea trade. We
I'll there no duty, on tea, and we're there no IN