Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-05-26


officers had conducted themselves, to facilitate
the various examinations aud proceedings, al.
80 thanking the several railroad companies
for tho tender of FREQ passage of the delegates
to their homes, Alsoy to the presiding Off
Ger, Hon.W. d Porter, for she able manner
In which he had conducted the proceedings.
Mr.. Porter responded in speech expires.
siye of his appreciation of the honor, and of
his feelings on the occasion,
SPEECH OF MR.. PORTER.
IF felt any qualification at the honor con-
ferrcd in the opening, / must feel still great.
er qualification at tho satisfac ion in the man
ner in which the duties of the chair have been
= discharged 1t has been altogether to me
duty of pleasure. 1t has been my fortune to
preside over one brauch of the General AS.
sombly of tho State of South Carolina. I
would pay to that body the tribute of saying
that during the whole period during which I
discharged those duties, can call to my mind
no act of any member towards the Chair, or
towards fellow mombcr that would bring to
me a feeling of regret So much Kindness
was always exhibited in that body that it is a
memory Of an honor that will remain with
me to tho last day of my life. And now,
gentlemen, one Of the greatest pleasures is
what seems to me re union Of the same kind.
see so many of my old associates. l re.
ceive from SO many gratulations, and expert
ence SO many recollections of the relations,
that feel as if it were meeting Of old
friends after some shipwreck, or after some
long period of tribulatioh. It is really a
pleasure to look again in your faces, to see
tho sparkling OF your eyes, and to feel the
throbbing of your hearts-hearts that are
now, as they have ever been, true to the best
interests Of the commonwealth. AS for this
Convention, [ will not speak in praise Of it !;
we need not be ashamed Of it. Let its results
speak in behalf and appeal for it to the coun.
try for its sympathy.
think it good that this voluntary body
has determined to continue its sessions If
it act as an undignifed and unharmonious
body, it will accomplish nothing; but, if it
act on the same spirit that it has, if it avoid
Federal aud State politics if it wager no
war against the State or the United States
Governments, but simply, if it welcome to
its racks, as we have done, gentlemen who
propose to do'good, who are for wholesome
laws, good magistrates, and just administra-
tion Of the public funds; if it do that it will
have accomplished great good. l think We
-
and inaugurate period of better feeling, aud
better oonduction of public affairs. Thank
Jog you again for the honor you have con-
fernd upon mo, and wishing you a safe re.
turn to your homes, bid you fairwcll.
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TIE CONTINGENT LIABILITY OF TIE
STATE.-'rhe Charleston Courier calls attcn-
tion to the fact that the statement made IN
the Convention as to the public debt of the
State, is of course exclusive Of the contingent
liabilities of the State arising from the en-,
dorsement of railroad bonds The following
is the statement:
Contingent liabilities of the State of South
Carolina, arising from the endorsement of
railroad bonds, November |, 1870, as appears
by Comptrollcrs report:
South Carolina Railroad bonds, payable in
1868, secured by first mortgage, s2,093,312..
40; North Eastern Railroad bonds, payable
March 1SS9 secured by first mSrtgags HlpH ys
bonds, payable in 1877, secured by mortgage
$505, 900; Charleston and Savannah Railroa
bonds, under Act of 1869, payable in 1880
secured by first mortgage, $245,75O, Laurens
Railroad bonds, payable in 1879, secured by
first mortgage s75,000; Spartanburg and
Union railroad bonds, payable in 1S7S-'70
secured by first mortgage, $3.50, 900; Green
vile and Columbia Railroad bonds and ccrtiG
Gates Of Indebtedness, payable in 1881, 1872
1888 and 1883, under Acts of 1861, 1866
and 1860, secured by first mortgage, 81 ,42G,
$3.50; Blue Ridge Railroad bonds, unde,
Act Of 1868, s4,O00,00O total, ss,7s7,
Cos 20.
The Courier holds that these endorsements
should be considered part and parcel of tho
States liabilities, adding that "of the cxten
of this obligation, and how far on this accoun
the State is likely to sustain loss, each car
judge for himself"
a RUINED FAMILY. 1866 tho daugh
ter of Presbyterian clergyman in the ccntr,
of this State, who had been reared in
strict and rigid manner: proceeded to New
Haven, Conn, to spend month with friend!
during the college commencement season.
While there, taking advantage Of the new
freedom from restraint afforded her, she car
riod on extensive firtations with the students
and was ruined by member Of the senior
class. IIc persuaded her to leave her friends
and return with him to New York, instead
Of going home. Singular to relate, she ap
pearcd almost from choice to enter upon cit,
designations aud excesscs, until, becoming
thoroughly hardened and depraved, sister
came on to visit her and persuade her to &C
back to her fathers home. Instead of doing
SO, however, the visiting sister was also per
suaded to remain and enter upon the same
terrible life which her sister was leading
Since then the two abondorcd women have