Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-05-06
From WASHINGTON.

and minority of the Court on the legal tender
case will not be read on Monday, but will be
reserved for the ADJOURNED term, which com.
menccs October Is. 1t is understood, how.
ever, that an elaborate opinion will be read
next Monday, announcing the unanimous de-
cision of tho court on collateral point, sus
tanning the validity Of gold contracts made
since the passage of the legal tender Act Of
1861 There seems to be no reason to doubt
that the majority of the court, consisting Of
Justices Miller, Swaync, Davis Strong and
Bradley, will affirm the constitutionality of the
said legal tender Act, and decide that con-
tracts made before the war, in which no spc
cial kind Of money was mentioned, may be
fulfilled by the payment ofgrccnbacks. The
minority, consisting Of Chief Justice Chase
and Justices Nelson, Field and Clifford, will
dissent from this decision, and declare the
opinion that the legal tender Act cannot con.
stitutionaIly apply to any such contracts.
Several important cases which have been ar.
gued this term will not be decided until after
the expiration of the recess, among which is
one from Kentucky, involving tho cons,itu.
tionalty of the Civil Rights BILL The case
of Klein and Phrgont, involving the consti.
tutionality of brakes amendment, relating to
the effect of pardon in the Court Of Claims,
will be held under adviscmcnt until October,
ns will also be the case of Watsoa ct at. as.
Jones ct at, involving decision Of the dis.
putcd rights to property between the Prcsby,
tcrian Church North and the Presbyterian
Church South. The case of White Us Hart
ct at, on appeal from the Supreme Court Of
Georgia, involving the binding force Of notes
given for slaves previous to the emancipation
proclamation, will not be decided until argu-
mcnt is heard in the similar case of Holmes
vs. Scivcr appeal from the Circuit Court of
Arkansas. The decision of the former case
will turn upon the question whether the pro.
vision of the Georgia Constitution prohibit
ing the enforcement, consideration of which
concerned slaves, is in contravcntion Of the
article of the Federal Constitution, which
declares that no State shall make any law
lmpairng the obligation of contracts. Re-
cent decisions in the Supreme Court in case
In. which q note for slaves was concerned
was determined by other considerations, aud
tho impression prevalent in somc quarters
that the foregoing question was then decided
is erroneous
WAsnINGToN, May 1.-The Supreme
Court in the civil rights case from kentucky,
the case involving the constitutonaliy of
by the court Of the affect Of pardon aud am.
ncsty in cases under the captured and aban,
doued property act, and certain gold contract
cases, and certain slave contract cases, 90
over to the adjourned term for decision
Cowdry against the Galveston and IIous.
ton and Henderson Railroad In this case
the Circuit Court was in all things affirmed.
In Inf tnI f,t,, 4
bacco, etc. In this case, the Judgment of the
Circuit Court was affirmed l.was held that
the Indian country is part of the United
States, aud that Congress intend to tax
whiskey and tobacco in that country, and that
there was power to do SO, aud that the treaties
with the Cherokces do not stand in the way
Justice Clifford read a brief in papers, in
the lcgul tender cases, Of Knox against Lee,
aud Parker against Davis, as ful!ows
Gin these two scs two questions were
heretofore directed to be argued, viz : 1st Is
the act Of Congress, known as the legal ten
der act, constitutional us to contracts made
before its passage? I'd. Is it valid as appli,
cable to transactions since its passage?
'Thcsc questions have been considered by
the coart, aud both have been decided in the
affirmative. The decree of the Supreme Ju
N'c'"' Ooul' VI ila"SachuSeltS, IN inc case OF
Parker against Davis is therefore affirmed,
and the judgement of the Circuit Court OF the
United States Of the western district of Tex.
us, is also affirmed
''The Chief Justice, with Associate Justi.
COS Nelson ard Clifford, aud Field, dissent
from the majority of the court upon both
propositions, and the result, holding that the
act Of Congress, so far as applicable to con
tracts made since the passage'
The opinion Of the Court and the reasons
for dissent viii be read before the close OF the
adjourned term.
The Southern Claims Commission intend
distributing printed lists. All claimants to
be buletined at the Southern post Offices for
the purpose of obtaining additional evidence
concerning loyalty Of multiplying claimants
a Practical ENcouRAa EMENT OF In.
MGRArIoN.-T German population of
Charleston propose to adopt sensible aud
practical plan for tho encouragement Of i'm
migration, which might be initiated with the
most beneficial results by our German friends
in Augusta. The Courier says:
1t is being seriously thought of by our
German population. at the suggestion of
Gen. John A. Wagcner, to purchase farm in
the suburbs, for the purpose of locating i'm
migrants as they arrive in the city, and where
they can be kindly taken care of, and have
their best interests explained TO them by their
countrymen.
1t is proposed to afford them support and
instruct them in our language, effects of the