Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-04-29

A Word to Tax-paycrs.
| For the information of our readers and for
thespecial delight of tax. payers, we publishthe
act as passed at the last session of our Legis.
lature, to make appropriations for the fiscal
year commencing November LIST, 1860. &
We pronounce this appropriation bill deoi.
dedly plethorio, compared with the lean ap.
propriation Of 1855; then It was 84z0, 900,
now wo have an appropriation of 81, ,O7O,OoO,
besides county taxes amounting TO over $7OO,S
UOo for county pusposes, in addition to the
oapitation tax, which will be $500, ,000..--
| Thus it will be seen, that the whole tax lew
amounts to over ono and half million of
dollars more for the fiscal year of 1869 and 1870
than In 1866 and 1867. Banquo's ghost
may have appalled, Macbeth, but there is no
ghost here. Let us look at somo of the fea.
lures of this appropriation.
For three codo commissioners to perplex
young lawyer, md make fools of magistrates
$l0,50O, expenses of election for 1870 8l5,-
600, for State constabulary 100000, for
Mother Hubbard's son $500. We suppose
for his valiant services in lying, for conting.
ent expense of the State, including expenses
of your General Assembly 1926, 900, chuck
| in $l3, 900 least the above is not enough
Adjutant. Generals s2500 salary, and ~260O
more for his contingent account, and only
$4,000 to pay for enrolling the militia, oil to
be drawn on the order of the Governor, and
be disbursed by che Adjutant General.
Stated officers are, In addition to their sala-
ry, voted q contingent fund of $1,000 each.
For thirty.one county auditors e3l, l,600.---
We now turn to the educational department.
The State generously votes $4,000, If so
much be necessary, for educational purposes;
that will do to pay off not less than five hun
dred teachers. One hundred each is all the
State can risk on them, $31 500 for thirty.
one school commissioners
| This is what is called reconstruction. We
ask the taxpayer to think on this mounotrous
bill, with the full assurance from us that II
he does not now see it in it's true light, We
will let him have our spectacles. About the
time the tax.gatherer is done with him, we
bet high sopulchral voice will be heard
from within the den of thieves ..tclaiming,
let us pray, least this pyramid Of human mus.
Gle and living bones that we have erected for
our self.aggrandizemen fall on us, then may
the devil have mercy on their souls, for We
don't believe the Lord will.-Horry NeWs.
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THE FALL OF LopEz-Thore is now little
doubt that the iron leader Of, the Paraguayah
cause, who, by the sheer force of an indomi-
nable will, kept up so fierce and 80 prosraoted
a struggle against Brazil and her allies, IL NO
more. The end of Lopez seems to have been
fitting close to most remarkable career. &c.
He met death fesolutely from hostile lance,
rather than yield to the hated foe. So long
as Lopez lived, even though fugitive id
the mountains, and relying for sustenance on
the Indian tribes, whose friendship he ap.
pears to have won, oil the successes of the
allies failed to give perfect assurance that
tho struggle might not DO renewed. Tho
death of Lopez relieves the new provisional
government, established at Aoupoion from its
fears, and enables the Allies to disband their
forces, with the certainty that they are no
longer needed. Whatever crimes have been
ascribed to the implaeable dictator by his on.
imies, it must at least DO said that tho un.
swerving devotion Of the Paraguayan people
to Lopez himself, and TO the cause foriwhioh
he fought, finds bat few parallels in history.
| Whatever may have been his motives for Be.
ginning the war Whieh has terminated so ia.
tally for himself and SO .disastrously to Para.
quay, the protraoted resistance which this
petty and isulated State offered to the oorn.
bined forces of the Argentine confederation
and Of the Empire of Brazil--taxing the pow.
ers Of both to the utmost--must forever
remain memorable in the annals Of South
America.
| " Sas.-------- i.s7
A REVOLUTION IN RAIL, RoADINa.--A
statement is made in some of the Pennsylyas
MIA ,papors that a citizen Of that State has per.
| fectcd an invention that is destined to effect
q complete revolution in the present system,
Of building and running railroads. His plan
is to lay four rolls instead Of two to single
track road; to build the cars seventeen feet
wide, with double sets of wheels. These he
proposes to have propelled by double engines
Of sixty tors, which bs says can draw sfaina
containing a thousand passengas each. He
Eclaims that BOTH the passenger and freight
cars Of this construction will weigh Eve tons