Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-08-05
Sassafras Gap Turnpike Company.

Sassafras Gap Turnpike Company
On Tuesday evening Of Court week, at
Pickens, this Company was organized by the
election of the following officers:
\ Prcsttlcnt-JAMEs d. HAaooD.
Dircctors--JAMEs Il. Orr, JACKSON GrL.
LEspIE, w. ii. D.. GAILLARD, J.. M.
McFALL, q. Il. GRIgrIE, S. D. GocDIErr,
l. II. PnILpoT. n n
C2erh and Ireasurer-W. Il. HoLCoMBE.
The object of tho corporators is to build
Turnpike road, connecting Pickens @. H.,
with North Carolina, VIA the Sussafras Gap.
A considerable amount of stock in ahe road
has been taken, and the work will be com
menced in short time. The completion of
this road will mark an imr ortant era in the
prosperity Of Piokcns, md the adjacent region
of North Carolina. Its benefits viii also bo
felt at Pendleton and Anderson, where, it is
hoped assistance in the shape Of subscriptions
to the stock Of the road will be obtained =.
The gentlemen engaged in this enterprise
have our best wishes for their early success.
We wore much impressed with tho cheerful
and unsclfsh spirit in which Judge ORR on.
gngcd in tho organization of tho Company.--
Everything which improves our condition
commends itself to his attention and support.
Napoleon's Address to the Army.
PARIS, July 20 The following is the
proclamation OF the Emperor to the army, in
assuming command in person:
',Sotdtcrs--l come to take my place at your
head to defend tho honor aud soil of our
country. You go to combat against one of
the best armed Of European countries; but
other countries as valiant ms this have not
been able to resist your yalor. 1t will be the
same to day The war which now commen.
ces will be long and hardly contested, for its
theatre will be places hedged with obstacles
and thick with fortrosses, but nothing is be-
yond yoar perSovcring efforts
",Sotlicrs Of Africa, Haly and Mcnico-
You Will prove once more what the French
army is able to accomplish, animated by a
sense of duty, maintained by discipline, and
influenced by love Of country Whatever
road wc may take across our frontiers, wo
shall find upon it glorious traces of our faith
ers, and we will show ourselves worthy of
them. All France follows you with confident
prayers and the eyes of the universe nre upon
you Upon our success depends the fate Of
ilpelty Hnu clVillIaIlOn.
Soldiers, let encl one do his duty, and the.
God of battles will be with us.
"NAroLEoN.
cat General Headquarters at Metz, 2Sth
July, 1870"
nsg" The New York Tribune, in an edito,
rial u1on WHIrTEMnRE, the rejected Cadet.
pedding Congressman, asks who is the Dis
trlct,Atorney in South Carolina charged
with the duty Of prosecuting notorious Often
ders ayainst the statutes of the United States
Why Is this criminal at large to run for any
Office We call upon the District. Attorney
and the courts to DO their tooong neglected
duty And we call upon Attorney General
AKERMAN to see that they neglect it no lon.
ger Open the pcn'cntinry doors for him,
and let us have an end Of WLITrEMonE.
EDT Governor Scott, only two years ago.,
told General Wade Hampton that he would
make enough of the negroes in tho Lcgisla-
ture resign their seats "ro GIVE TIE WHITE
MEN MAJORITY IN that body" How can
the colorcd men Of South Carolina trust an,
advcnturcr so doubIy dyded in infamy and
shame.
90 M NJ E r or a T.
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