Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-04-29
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WASHINGTON, April 22-J udgc Hum
phrcys, of Alabama IS nominated for j udge
Of tho Supreme Court of the District of
Coluabia. a,t .GSGG.s>.. sx, g.5;s,..r
1t is understood that the PENNSYLVANIA
moubers of tho House are dissatisfied with
the progross made on the Tariff BILL aud will
vote solitly oitable the pending bill.
The bill to pay Internal revenue officials,
appointed in the South after the war, who
were unable to take the oath of Office pre-.
scrihcd ny Congress, was objected to by, I'D
munds, as nc intended to make speech Upon
it. Senator Sumner Thoughts that tho parties
ought to go to ANDREW johnson For their nav.
Senator Sawyer's bill prescribing M oath
of office for participants in the rebellion, not
described by tho Fourteenth amendment, was
pa' sed. The oath is the sane as is taken by
congressman whose disabilities have been re-,
moved This bill will probably roliovo d
million fpeoplc, and will enable the majority
OF the Southern people to hold Federal Offices
WASHINGTON, April 28.-Canby was be-
fore the appropriation Committee yesterday,
CONCERNING the expenses Of reconstruction.
General Young authorizes the statement
that he apprchends the postpopcmcnt of tile
Georgia matter as an advertisement for new
Georgia outmges. The extremists confidently
expect them between now aud the 9Th of May.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-Tn the Senate,
committee of conference was appointed on
the non concurrence of the two houses on the
income tax.
A resolution indefinitely postponiug the
pending tariff bill was defeated by "a large
majority.
Dockcry, of North Carolina, offered rcso
luton declaring that the honor and goud faith
of the government is pledged to the payment
of all claims Of loyal people in the South who
had property taken'hy the army, navy or gov.
crnmcnt, during the war. Objection was
made, aud the resolution was not entertained
Subsequently Booker, of Virginia, offered the
same resolution, and the House again, by a
vote of 80 to 60, refused to second the demand
for the previous question aud allow it to be
entertained.
The bill which passed thc House giving
the Sisters of Mercy at Charleston $50 900
to rebuild their asylum was reported TO the
Senate without amendment.
a bill to renew a grant Of lands cor the
beneGt Of tho South and North Alabama
Railroad was passed.
The Judiciary Committee reported as
substitute for all propositions on tho subject
bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment.
1t provides that all citizens shall be entitled
to vote without distinction on account of color
race or previous condition of seryitudc. If
any State or Territory shall require any act
as prerequisite to voting, public officers shall
give all citizens an opportunity of perform
ing such net; in default of which they shall
pay S5O0 to the person aggricved, and on
conviction, be further fined or Imprisoned
The bill gives the President tic Usual pow
ers with land and naval forces.
COLUMBIA, April 20.-Michcal Mozart
ney, discharged United States soldier, was
ARE atcd here today on suspicion Of being one
OF tho persons who broke into the banking
house of Scott, Williams g. Co, on Sunday
last. Sheriff Frazec nude the arrest.
Solomon Gaige, who was found locked up
IN the banking house when the burglary was
discovered, identifies Mccartney as ono Of Che
burglars. & n
The bold burglars had camp near town,
in which some of the stolen papers have been
found. This has given spirit and life to the
pursuit, and several parties are out to night
hunting for the burglars in the Conparoe
d
a few cases of small.po are reported as
having occurred at Helena, in .Mcwberry
County, on the Grecnvillc and Columbia
Railroad. N..ft
LISBON, April 20.--Later advices from the
Argentine Republic contain more particulars
of tho frightful storm which occurred at tie
City of Buenos Ayres on the 9th of March.
The wind blow perfccb hurricane, and the
water in the Rio dc la Platte rose SO high as
to flood great portion os the city; So sud.
den was the overflow TINT men nad horses
werc drowned in the streets, and MANY people
barely escaped with their lives. A ereat
number of buildings were undermined which
werc subsequently broken down and entirely
destroyed by the weight of the goods in them.
Ships were driven ashore and wrccked or
sunk at their anchorage Many sailors were
drowpcc. The damage, was immense. i.
CHARLESTON, April 22.-Somo excite
ment prevails among the city officers and tho
holders of city securities by a movement of
certain owners Of over due city stock to levy
upon the city property to satisfy their judg.
ments The'judgnent creditors have attach.
cd the personal assets and cash ia bank be-.
longing to tho city, but theother creditors
have obtained an injunction restraining fur.
ther proceedings until Wednesday, when the
case will be heard before Judge Carpenter.
There is soofo talk of placing the city assets
In the hands of q receiver. ,l5 Ns y .a.i
= GREAT SALT LAKE Cry, ,UTAir, April
2S--.It Is stated tho Mormons north ofSheye
are buying oil the earms and ammunition thew
can obtain, with5the ostensibls object of pro-.
lection against Indian hostilities, but tho In