Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-03-31

Our RSENAToRs on TIE Ku.KLux-In tho
Tuesday on the condition Of the South, Mr..
Sawyer, Of this State, urged the passage of a
General Amnesty Bill. lie said that if the
eufranchscmcnt Of the negroes in the Recon.
structon laws had been accompanied by gene.
raj amnesty to the white people, this policy
woui have been powerfully felt in removing
all the people. There VAS no danger of
in the South originated not from hostility to
the Gencrul Government, but that they were
Inspired by disatfcction with the local Gov
ernmcnts. The men most fitted by cducu-
tion and position to take par, in the afl,irs
Of the State are excluded from all participa.
ton therein, while sound policy dictates
that all public places should be thrown open
to nll ci,izzons alike, aud AL political dis.
abilities and discriminating legislation wiped
FROM the statute hook. Senator Robert.
SON. from this State took the saue po.
sition, aad urged IN Amnesty bill un-
der which tho white men Of the South would
would have all tho privileges of citizenship.
The Ku-kIux must be punished for their
crimes. But these would soon cease if the
South WAS legisated for wisely and efficiently.
-(Haylcstoa Courier.
VALUABLE MINERAL DrscoyERY.-Wc
are informed by Mr.. Jackson Johnston, of
Macon County, n. G., says the Athens (Ga.)
Ip"'chmam, OF the 22nd instant, that very
woithy poor mau, living about eight miles
from Franklin, has discovered on his lands u
large supply Of corundrun--u mineral Of
great valu" on account of its usefulness and
great scarcity There il only one other place
in the United States where it is found, aul
there in small quantities. There seems to
be great abundanco OF it in North Caro-.
ina--so much SO, that one hand can dig one
hundred pounds per dny. The following de-
scription Of 1t is by Rev G. ID. Smith an en-
incn. mincralogiSt and geoloSist.
''Ihc specimens represent blue, rcd and
grey cornnaru,n. This coruphrum is of su.
parlor quality. The c,Garngc faces are rcluar
kably we'll defined. Its crystalline Stvnrtnrc
and character invest il with All interest that
does not brlong to the corundrum or com.
mercc. Indeed, in its superior purity and
quality, nothing like it has been found else.
where. The localit' furnishes hnxagona
pr!sms Of much interest. prots. Dara aud
Brush, of Yale College, have paid me over
adoll.r pound for box of specimens
have by request shipped tox of it to the
city OF London have little doubt that when
properly worked, the locality will yield the
Oriental gems
DEMOCRATIC TALK IN WAsrINGToN.-
The correspondent of the New York Jou1aal
Of COUlii,IyYr saws:
The consequences Of assembling so many
prominent Democrats i'll WHshir.tou is gen
cral desire for private discussion, and, if pos.
tlblc, The inauguration oi spuc Il. ovcment that
viii end in defining the political issues now
before the two great pnlitic! r,ttics for con
sidrrntion | have talked freely With many
OF these ccns'e'Ncn. They al seem to agree
that the Only great living issues upon which
tie parties eau divide for the benefit of IL.
Den cratic party arc the finances, the tariff,
and the taxes. They seem to agree that they
aust ignore the Reconstruction debates, M,
Let those laws work themselves out to - e4'i
mato effect; that they must drop all discus.
sion us to the status to be held by the colur,.l
population hcrenfcr. They seem to aercc
that to cling to the negative side Of shusc
questions as vital party issues wnuN involve
the Democracy IN 1872 in defeat but t,n,t
VIII! well defined position on n platform
treating Of the three issues n.nel tho De-
mocracy would certainly be successful in elcc
ting III; candidate
MucH MARRIED,-St. Jerome mentions
widow who married hcr.wenty third lush,nd
who, in l,is tarn, HAD been married to twenty
wives \ woman uamrd Elizabeth Mast,
who died at Florence, in 1877. had been mar
ricd to seven husbands all Of whom she out
lived She esp"u:cd Tie last at tie mature
age of sixty. When on her death bed she
recalled the good and bad POINTS in each OF
her husbands and having in.,nrtially weigh
ed them in the balance. she SINGLED out her
HSisi spouse AZ '.er favoriir, aud desired that
her remains might te inferred near his
The death of soldier is recorded in 1874.
who had five wives. and his wdow, aged
ninety, wept over the grave of her fourth
husband. The writer who mentioned these
facts naivnly added '"i'hat slid soldier was
much attached to the married state
- Stephen M. Wells, who recently died
very poor, near St. Paul, Minnesota, once
owncd 40 acres on which the business part
of the city now stands, hut sold it because he
wanted money, ana had not sufficient knowl-
edge of business to mortgage his real estate
Had nc kept his property, he would have
been the wcalthicst nan in the State.
II ia said thnt a rl,ck 81 ,,r,,,to ,y,; l.