Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-23
"The Secrets of the Great CITY )"

Vices, the Mysteries, Miserics aud Crimes
of New York City," is the title of a hand.
some volume, just issued by JONES BRoTM-
ERs 4 Co., Atlanta, Ga.
It tolls How Fortunes are made and lost in
a day-How Shrewd Men are Ruined in Wall
Ssreet-Ffow Countrymen arc Swindled by
Sharpers-H How ministers and Merchants are
Black mailed-How Dance Halls and Con.
cert Saloons arc Managed-How Gambling
Houses and Lotteries are conducted-How
Stock and Oil Companies Originate, and how
tho Bubbles Burst-and treats of New York,
its People, its Society, its Rich, its Poor, their
life, their habits, their haunts and their pc.
culiarities; of Churches, Theatres, Palaces,
Hoyels, Tenement Houses and Public Build.
iugs; of Editors, Judges, Lawyers, Brokers,
Merchants, Mechanics and Sowing Girls Of
Policemen, Detectives, Sailors, Firomen,
News Boys, Beggars, Thieves, Doad Beats,
%Swindlers, Gamblers and the Demi-Monde;
of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Saloons, Beer
Gardens, Club and Dance Houses; of Fifth
Avenue, Broadway, the Bowery, Wall Street,
the Five Points aud Central Park Of Pawn
brokers, Roughs, Fortune Tcllcrs, Quacks,
Gift Enterprises and Humbugs.
AL that is great, noble, generous, vicious,
mysterious, brilliant, startling, gentccl or
shabby, and Of al that is interesting and
worthy of record in the great City.
AS the Metropolitan Centre of the United
States, New York City reflects all the good
and evil of tho land in their most intense
forms. There is no man, however often he
may have visited New York, who cannot learn,
FROM this work, much regarding that great
City and its mighty interests.
This book will be found especially valuable
to those who expect to visit New York, and
would shuu its pitfalls, by studying it in their
own hdmos, without cost or danger, and yet
learn all.
This worry interesting work is sold only by
subscription, and the publishers want an agent
in every County.
WAsnINaroN, April 10.-Amongst other
appointments, which wcro confirmed by the
Senate to-day, was that of Charles II. Pet
tingill as Assessor of Internal Revenue for
the Third District Of South Carolina.
The bill restoring the property of Blanton
Duncan, of kentucky, (some Of which, lies,
in Columbia,) was passed, and sent to ting
President.
The Senate adjourned, IL NJ. today sine
The bill, for the further removal Of politi.
cal disabilities, failed utterly.
The President has singed tho bill providing
for elections in Virginia, Mississippi and Tex.
as.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-Despatches re-
ceived here, by cable and otherwise, from all
parts Of the world, report that the celebration
of the Pope's jubilee has been universally
magnificent.
The President sent in a large number Of
nominations today amongst which wore Mr.
Marksest, of Ohio, (who is he 2-ED.,) as
Minister to England, and two oolored mon
as Representatives at Liberia and Hayti.
The working mon of tho District serena.
ded Senator Spraguo tonight, as a NANTES.
tation Of their approval of his recent politi-
cal course.
The steamer Gettysburg has been ordered
to take a line Of ~soundings on the coast Of
Cuba and tho neighboring islands.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the ap.
peal in the McCardle case for want Of juris-
diction. This case involved 4he question of
the constitutionality of tho reconstruction
Aots.-ED.
There arc ton treaties under the considera.
ton of tho Senate amongst which is the Rev.
erdy Johnson treaty in reference to the Ala.
bama claims.
In the Texas bond case, the Supreme Court
has decided the constitutionality of the re.
construction Acts. Judge Grier dissentcd,
but only as to the merits of the case,
CoNaREss.-Congress has adjourned
Mr.. Buffers infamous Georgia Bill was not
passed.. Georgia, under the Reconstruction
Acts, was recognized as a State in the Union,
and is entitled to representation.
Her representatives have been sworn in as
mombers of Congress. This makes tho fact
of her Stateship complete. 1t is true her
Senators have not been received, but this is
because it is contended that tho Legislature,
by which they wcro elected, excluded tho COL
ored members elected to that body.