Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-20
Telegraphic Items.

receipts today 100000.
Report for the quarter ending March 8 3lst:
Revenue SO, 100000; miscellaneous 7,000,.
600; public lands 637, ,OO0 Expenditures
civil and miscellaneous l3,250,000; war 49,
500; navy 6,500,000; Indians and pensions
12,500,000; interest 39,000,000. Bonds
purchased l8,000,000; redemption of pub.
lie debt 8, 100000. ss
WASHINGTON, May 14.-In accordance
with request from Collector Casey, of New
Orleans he has received leave Of absence to
report here.
Neither house in session.
1t is stated the Senate Pacific Railroad
Committee had prolonged meeting last night,
and have completed the bill known as kcl.
logc's, with some amendments. Among
them the road shall be built of American iron,
and the eastern initial point shall be Mar
shall, Texas, with branches to New Orleans,
Yicksburg and Little Rock, and from somo
point west in California to San Francisco.
The Secretary of the Interior, by direction
Of the President, has issued an order forbid.
ding the railroad companies extending their
roads into the Indian territory, The com.
mandcr of the military district has been in
structed to enforce this order.
Summers bill supplementary to the civil
rights bill requires all hotels, restaurants,
railroads, theatres, churches, concert halls,
academies, common schools, colleges, etc to
treat persons Of ull race or color alike, and
imposes penalty punishable on conviction
in court for any refusal of any privilege to
any one on account Of he or she being Of Af-
rican descent. 1t prohibits cemeteries from
being devoted to tho scrulture exclusively of
white people. The bill was referred.
The Indian Bureau has adyiccs that the
Oregon Indians are preparing their rescrya-
ton. No trouble is apprchcndcd as the gov
crnment will use force to hold them within
bounds.
Revenue receipts to day s674,0 900.
Count Louis Corti, the new Italian Minis
ter, was presented to the President.
District Attorney Picrrcpont has resigned,
to take effect juno lst. \ dozen noted Now
York lawyers are scrambling for his place.
Tho Mayor and other corporation officers
were summoned by tho Senate committee on
inquiry into the solvency of the corporations
Municipal politics are hot. The negroes are
thoroughly divided.
WASHINGTON, May 16- Congressman
Pierce, from the Fifth Mississippi District,
nominated T. gro to West Point.
3 p. M.-In the Senate, bill granting
public lands in Alabama to the Decatur and
Aberdeen Railroad, passed. In The House,
bills were introduced, granting lands to the
New York and Norfolk Rairoad; for i'm
provemcnt of the Tombigbce River; to not
exclude women from Census Marshalships ;
constructing bridge across the Ohio, at
Metropolis ILL.,. granting lands for railroad
from Mississippi to the Arkansas River, along
the thirty. ff,h parallel. The House refused
to ordr the Reconstruction Committee to re-
port bill for a general amnesty, by a vote
of 81 to IS.
The llousc postponed the tariff bill until
after the passage of al appropriation bills,
which is equivalent to an indefinite postpone
ment. Tho report from the Ways and Nj leans
camn,;ttoo, af'a partial internal revenue bill,
repeating most Of the spccnl taxes on gross
sales, etc, was received. Also to reduce the
income tax to five per cent, the exemption
being raised to 81 800, aud bill was report
ed from the Judiciary Committee to protect
the colorcd population in the exercise Of suf-
tragc providing pains and penalties aganst
any State officers or Individual ctizcus Who
attempt to prevent the exercise of that right.
The usual large number of bills were reported
and referred. The internal tax bill will comc
up for action early next week
FcRT ScoTT, May 13.-An account of the
most djubolical affair ever recorded is publish
ed in to days Monitor. On Tuesday seven
men, either Texans or outlaws from Indian
Territory, came to the town of Ladorc, few
miles South of here. After bringing all day
they went to the boarding house of j. N
Roach and asked to stay all night Being
refused on account oftheir drunken condition,
one of the party knocked Roach inscnsble
with revolver and then went to the bed oc.
cupicd by the two daughters of Roach, aged
twelve aud fourteen years, and ravished them
during the entire night, using knife to ac
complish their purpose. Roach revived af
ter a time, but feared to stir knowing he
would be killed if he did. He describes the
cries and cntrcatics of the girls as heart rcnd
ing. a quarrel arose among the demons and
one was shot dead while satisfying his lust.
at daybrcak the party fled, one taking with
him to the woods tho Youngest Girl Tho
town was Immediately aroused and parties
started in every direction in search of the
fends. The ono with The girl was soon over
taken and hung to tree Two others were
found secreted in town and were hung to the
same tree. Tho remaining thrco were also
captured. Two of thom wcro hung. The
other ono at last accounts was in custody of
the citizens, but will probably share the fate
of his companions.
CoLuMn1A, Pa, May 14--At meeting
of the iron masters, held here yesterday, the
unanimous feeling was to stop the production
of pig iron, which cannot DO made at current