Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-27
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From Washington. bsi
WASHINGTON, May l7.--Today was mark
cd by the most excited debate of the sessions
in the Senate on the subject of universal am
nesty. Ys!f#Ji tlt
Senator Ferry, Of Connecticut, came out
unrcscrvedly In favor of the measure.
Senator Morton, Of Indiana, replied with
much bitterness, charging Ferry with having
made an ultra Democratic speech. ssa
Senator Ferry, ina rcjoinder, declared that
the Fifteenth amendment was deluson and
a snare, so long as all political disabilities were
not removed. "I say," said lie, "tbc black
man is not cDfranchised when he is not per-
mlttcd to- vote for at least half of his friends
and ncighbors Ireland tells the story to. day
OF the effects of disabilities and test oaths :"
Senator Morton remarked that if there were
general removal of disabilities, JeT. Davis
and breckenridge would be returned to their
seats in the Senate.
Senator Sawyer, in the course Of the debate,
made very conservative speech, taking de-
cided grounds in favor of immediate and uni
versal amnesty.
The days debate is regarded as highly sig
! nicant, as many consider it as the practical
disruption of the Radical party III the Senate
The Reconstruction Committee havo agreed
to report bill re.admitting Georgia on the
terms applied to Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas, with clause authorizing tue Statos
named to organize, arm and call into service
their respective militia forces
Among the petitions presented was one by
| General Abbott, from North Carolina lady,
who, after carefully reading the oath, ,scannot
epa gsas to As ree4s EEhs SRs h
tiles. s2s.ssy
Tn the Senate, Howard, from the Committee
ON Pacific Railroads, reported a substitute for
the Marshall and San Diego Railroad bill,
from Marshall, Texas, to Trinity River,
thence to El Paso on tho Rio Grandc, thence
through the Territories, across Colorado Riv-
or TO San Diego on the Pacific. In tho Ter
ritorics, the bill grants twenty alternate
sections in any State through which tho road
might pass. large portion of the line lies
within the State of Texas, and as the United
States owns no public lands in that State, no
lands were granted 1t also authorizes
connection with lines of road from New Or
leans and Vicksburg The amendment has
received the sanction Of a unanimous vote of
the committee. The bill was ordered to be
printed and placed on the calendar.
Discovery OF TIE ORIGINAL Docu-
MENTs FOR THE Books OF GENEsrs.-Mr
Charles Wexford, in his last London letter to
the Booh Buyer, published in New York by
Scribcr, Weltord " Co, gives an account of
the remarkable announcement just made by
Sir Henry Rawinson before the Asiatic So
cicty. 1t is not merely fthat this eminent
Oriental scholar claims to have discovered the
original records from which the Book Genesis
| 4 !
by details of tho most striking kind He
himself said a..s1s7Z,
) 'Thc progress now reached in the collec-
ton and arrangement of tho Nineveh in.
scribed fragments, made it beyond a doubt
that they would be able to drive the whole
I of the history given in the Book Of Genesis,
S from the time of Abraham from the original
documents; and twas not too much tt,s lex
t pcct that almost the same facts and descrip.
tions would be found in the Bible. He Loped
t very soon to have ready paper on tho Gar.
q den of Eden QParadse), in which he would
Q show that was the natural name, of Babylon
J The river bore the same nanie and the
;, Babylonian documents gave an exact goo.
graphical account of the Garden of Eden.4-
Tho flood and tho Cover of Babel would be
found to be most amply illustrated in Baby
lonian documents" S
BLEEDING FROM THE NosE.---...'u I,iect
of paper in your mouth, chew it{rapdly, aud
it will stop your nose from bleeding. Yhif
remedy has been tried frequently, it is stated
s and always With success. - fn
d Physicians say that placing a small ro!f o
e paper or muslin above the front teeth, under
It the upper lip, and pressing hard upon Chs
h same, will arrest bleeding at the nose, check
ing the passage Of blood through che arteric.
g leading to the nose \; " S n. IS. ~. d =
y ALL Suck AIds. II he Macon S( 3asY Teie
t, graph is responsible forl this 4on6Y An oi
Q negro woman down in Houston was --hsteninl
$. to a defense of the Rsdical poliotioiansi il
u Georgia from q ,colorSd fagle,neh who. wa
$, forced oadmit that SUM s 3 on iss y III
9. meanp, but, says he sum on ,snl;is as ZOO
% rs you ken Saad sanyskas naver seea IA
10 difference says In old lady, Thas sslaass
u, one on em }but'lh suck aiss,S Il s ii
he EB- Nine or ten Thousand Jews LIZ th