Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-12-23


moved from Office and as to the result of the
investigations now being had ON the subject
OF contempt, it ia impossible to tell Butfif
he be not imprisoned, it is; rrssumablo tlut
Col. Crews will DO yery mucllf disappointed.
Joint Resolution has passed tho Ilouse or.
dering the coliectionEof eight mills on the
dollar as State tax.-ono half mill higher than
| it has been Since reconstruction, ,aand three
| mills higher than last year. A motion was
made 10 strike out eight aud insert five, which
carried by II large majority. But half hour
afterward, when tho dominant party had had
time to organize, it was reoonsidercd and raised
again to eight.
Cur people may prepare again to pay a
burdensometax, to tesquandercd aud wasted,
! Gas there arc good reasons to fear,) while the
best interests of tie State arc to suffer Aud
while this heavy tax Ohc heaviest of any pco.
pie on tho G lobe, us stated by learned pro.
tcssor, well versed in political cconomy,) is
being paid by our people it is all expended
in salaries, &C., while the State debt is in.
creasing daily. Of oil the money paid iuto
the Treasury in the past two years, there has
on tho constantly accruing interest on the
State debt. All the value that is, or has
been, attached tu State bonds in New York
ls fictitious onc-nono of them have. besn,
sold They are deposited as colutoral secpri !;
ty, and about fifty cents on the dollar drawn.
The money used in paying off the General
Assembly has been borrowed Twas all
expended in othe: dep,r,meatscf Government
| Perhaps your readers arc ready to inquire if
thcro is no hope of refcrmation7 There is
nothing encouraging to be said at present.
The dominant party in the present House of
Representatives is less acliuIte Man Mut IF
the last! 1t is not possible ror those who dc.
sire reformation 10 accomplish anything, or
even to expose frauds as they should b. ut
present, from the fact that all the Committees
are carefully "packed - No Reformcr, likely
TO develop anything, is placed on Committee
where it would be his province to develop and
expose matters that will not bear airing.
No printer has been employed yet. The
reports OF the different departments have not
yet been placed in reach OF members 1t is
utterly out of the question for the minority
to hurry these things, When the program me
il made out, and well understood hy the lead
ers of the majority, that developments arc
not yet to be made. FIJI
A concurrent resolution has been adopted
providing for recess from the o2d instant
until the 9th of January, 1871.
oCoNEE.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dcccmber 1T-It has
been stated in an organ Of the Rcputiicup
party that the Reform members Of the Lcgis
ltture "lack sense" quote the phrase, and
the writer adds that this may account for
their silence in the House and Senate um
confident that the Reform members of the
presen General Assembly do not need de-
fence either in the colums Of the Courier or
any other journal, but it is nevertheless prop.
or that the statement should he set right in
the public prints. The writer's talk about
GA hopeless minority" is simply twaddIe.-
What can nineteen men do against over one
hundred men who arc led entirely bX ufsT 4
Reform member advocate }iIl in the House,
and its defeat is sure. Let him oppose it and
its success is equally certain. The Reform
delegation in the Legislature are stauncb,
honest, intelligent gentlemen, representing
the people OF their respective sections, and
their voices; though powerless to d good arc
never silent when honesty and Justice call !
upon them to speak
In the Senate there arc few members Of
the Radical party, who sometimes break
through the tranImcls of party prejudice and
vote and urge wholesome legislation In the
House the number Of these are still fewer.
aud the more moderate, and we'll mcaninr
men arc invariably thr,shcd into the lines
whenever t!ry exhibit an incln,tion to net
Independently. With such opposition silence
would almost cease to be criminal 1t would
be better for the people Of the State if the
Reform delegation in the Legislature were not
quite SO small. Chnrlc&t,n C,uricr.
LIFE IN KENTucKY.-K kentucky is not
pleasant place TO live in, or, for tho matter
Of that, to die in. Here is the Louisville
Commercials record Of ii week "Within
the last week VIC have accounts of the shoot
ing Of Jack johnson hy Bill Poison, in
Metca|fc; Jessie Grove is taken from the
Irwin Jail bya masked band and hing; Sui
livan is murdered by jenkins in Woodford
Ezekiel Bodkins is killed while Ku Kluxinr
in Franklin; Throckmorton is murdered by
kinchoc in Daviess; Jacob Miller, lad
Of fifteen years, stabs to tho heart another lad
Of the sumo age in IIawcsyil.e; Ed Blakcy
is murdered by Paine md Hicks in Rockcss.
tie; Captain james NJ. Morrow is murdered
by George Finch in Logan; Boyie is killed
at negro dance in Foyc4ic; John Brown
and Charles Bogart, charged with killing
Boeic, are hung by masked ruflians fr5m
Madison, and to close the list, our Circuit
Court is engaged IN dspoeng Of the ,cascy
of no less than sixteen murderers, besides
other criminals of less degree"
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ANOTHER PoLrrIcAL TRAGEDY IN GEoR.
GIA.-Thc Americus Republican of the 10Th,