Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-10-27
Letter from washington.
Correspondence Of the Charleston Courier

appeal of suffering Chicago Tho outpour.
ing of sympathy and charity in behalf of her
destitute population is an honor to humanity.
The conflugrations so ruinous in the North
west would, at any other moment, have de-
manded aud received relief, but the public
mind is hardly capable of embracing another
object Of benevolence. !, , ,s...>,
This tax,riddon city has does d' mo more than its
share towards tho relief Of Chicago. Private
subscriptions amount to fifty thousand dollars,
and tho District Legislature with vote hun.
dred thousand dollars more. Meanwhile our
admiration Of the rccuperativc power of the
Western, city is excited. Chicago will soon
risc,, Phonix like, from her ashes
Now our attention is called to tho financial
effect of this great burning disaster upon the
monetary affairs and business interests Of the
country. The camel was ovcradcn before
the addition of this new weight. Will the
camel master tho accumulated burden p
Everything has been SO inflated and over
strained that some untoward incident would,
as has been foresecn and predicted, ovorthow
the whole fictitious fabric of public aud pri-
vate credit.
What it was in 1887, when the collapse
of the Ohio Trust Company brought on the
revulson of that year, 10 it may be now
The panic in New York is only type of that
distrust which generally exists in commercial
communities. The responsibility of all mon
led institutions, and of all large business
houses will now be subjected to curious
test. Failures have commenced with business
houses, with hunks, aud insurance and trust
The apprehension of such fail
ures is often tho cause of them
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fall dead. Speculation will, for while, be
arrested. Now we arc to see whether the
enormous importations Of this year arc to be
paid for. How can they be. absorbed at the
costs I? All our gold and all our corporation,
State and Federal bonds and stocks will scarce
ly suffice to meet our liabilities abroad. The
panic may, after while, become route A
money collapse killed the Democratic party
i'll 1910, through Yan Bu.cn's Administra
ton, as the scape goat, and it may smothor
the, Rcpqblican party through Grants Admin
The Ponhns5lraniaa' and q d3hio elections re-
suit in a triumph of the Grant Adminlstra
tion. There are reasons enough for Rcpubli-
can success in Pennsylvania outside of the
temporary causes to which it has been attrib
utcd l have heard very prominent Radical
politicians declare that Pennsylvania would
have gone Democratic at the late election, hut
for the impression madc by Democratic mis-
rule and robbery in New York City. Others
sny it was caused by General Grants person
al influence, as cSertcd in his recent visit to
tho Pennsylvania iron masters and their de-
pendcnts. The truth is, that Pennsylvania
is devoted moro to the high Protection Tariff
than she is to any party, or any individual
She is Democratic at heart, but not in pocket
Where her troasure is there will her politics
be. /, Polk had TO prove himself better tariff
man than Clay, in order to carry Pennsylvania
Chief Justice Chase is here in improved
health, and will appear on the bench Of tho
Supreme Court tomorrow. .'a MA.
The prospects of General Hancock ns the
Democratic nominee for tho Presidency are
somewhat faded, by tho adherence of Penn
sylvania to her high tariff policy the over
throw of which must be the constant princi
pie of a Democratic administration. Tho
Democracy may "dcpart" from any by gone
issues, TO revenue reform it must hold fast
1o@uf tsa ,a. M LEO. Il.
j. ED- At Chicago ninety dead bodies now
lie in the Morgue, and it is certain that this
is but small number Of those who havc per.
ishcd. As many az twenty bodies wcrc taken
from the basoments of two buildings, on tho
north sides At an inquest held on sixty, four
of the bodies only two wcro recognized. Tho
Committee Of Relief were enabled to supply
10000 destitute persons with food. Tho
number to be provided for during tho coming
winter is estimated at 70, 900. Brave efforts
are being made by the Chicasoans to organize