Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-09-01
don, Gsapt and the South.

INTERVIEW WITH pnEsIpRNT GRANT.
Understandingfr from General Babcock that
tlia President would be glad to have a talk
with me about Southern matters, your core.
spondsht embraced an opportunity to step
Into the tSanctuns Sanctorum Of the White
House and indulge in an interview. A re.
markable improvement in the Presidents
health Is apparent at the first glance. He is
much stouter than usual, aud looks we'll.
Our conversation at first was mere matter
OF explanation of affairs in the Southern
States from the standpoint on which based
general conclusions as to the material, social
aud political conditions ofthe different States,
as shown in letters sent you from the States
themselves, together with the business and
idcnt listened attentively, and interposed ma.
ious to know what tho people there thought
post offices and other Government positions
lie was answered that the general complaints
against his officers is on political grounds,
aud that the chief dissatisfactonat the South
is with State and county officials. The course
of the Southern people toward Government
officials is generally determined by the hon.
esty and capacity shown by tho incumbents.
AZ general thing Government officials get
along we'll with the people and many Of them
are highly respected. The men against whom
the people of the South generally show a
vindictiye spirit are men who nre dishonest
at home in the North, and arc now thieves at
the South, conducting their nefarious schemes
under the shield ofoflieial position, as Re.
rublicans, and as Republicans only, because
they thereby manage to use the negro votes
to elcct them to Office.
WHAT TIE PRESIDENT SAID.
The President admitted belief that there
are very many bad mon in Office in the South
claiming to be Republicans, but who would
be anything in the political line that would
further THEM bad designs, and are not there.
fcan party as great political organization.
outragcs have been committed, that the grad.
ual advance Of a better feeling throughout the
South, besides the moral effect Of the passage
Of the Ku. Klux bill, has stopped Ku Klux-
ism outlawry to very great extent. He did
not propose, in making appointments, to con.
sult politicians in the South who vote against
the Republican party any moro than he
would in the North. But lie was determined
to give them honest and competent Gov
crnmcni officials, and he would take it as
favor when men Of any shade of politics dis
cover dishonesty or incompetcnoy on the
part of his appointecs to acquaint him with
the fact. Well authenticated complaints
from any quarter would receive careful atten.
ton. lie had removed alt Objectionable men
from tho New Orleans Custom House, and
he believed he had good set of officials there
now. lie regarded the condition of the South
generally as improving.
asleoi saturday HHsEs tEsg as 12 a}sso&ersd spS
in the rear of Nladsdcn's Tobacco Store
Meeting street, opposite the Charleston Ho
tcl, a few doors North Of Bissell's aud the ad
joining storo destroyed some time ago AS
usual, tho alarm was not given by the bells
until some time after the fire was asccrtained,
and whcn tho engines arrived on the ground
'uatters had taken serious turn. The build
ings occupied by Madsden, and Lcngnick
dealer in Millinery, were 80 badly burnt that
nothing but she'll of them ia left. The
building occupied by L. b. Stoddard & Co.,
Wholesale Shoe Dealers, next door, was also
badly injured. Madsdcn's stock, which he
valued at 81 500, was insured for Sc, 900 in
Rayenel, Huger & Co.'s Agency, and Leng
HlCh lOl pCtUVO Ill "A. L. lODlaS Agency,
which covers his loss The stores they occu-
pied were owned by Jennings, Thomlnson &
Co.. aud were insured for SIS, 5,O00-S2, 900 in
the London, Liverpool and Globe Company,
and the balance in Company unknown, sup.
posed to be the Astor, of New York.
u. R. Stoddard & Co., owned the premises
they occupied, which were insured for s5 900
10 the Home Insurance Company Of Now
York. Their stock of shoes, boots, &c., was
damaged about scventy-6ve per cent, and, was
Insured for $4,000; $4,000 in the "Ger-
munia;" $4,000 in the "North British Mer.
eantie," and $4,000 in the "Georgia Home"
of Columbus, Ga. Nachman & Co., immedi.
ately South Of the building where the fire or.
isnated, had their stock of dry good damaged
by smoke though not to any great extent.
Their insurance is $4,000 in tho London
Liverpool and Globe
Steele & Wardell fancy goods, next
North of Stoddard & Co., did not suffer at all.
1t is the general opinion Of those who saw
the condition Of affairs in the early stage of
the fire, that it was an act Of inoendiarism,
and. one that ought to be rigidy ,nvcstiga-
tsd.--Courier, 2SM inst.
a NORTHERN REBELS WILL-Tbe will
of,Daniel Cornell, citizen of Guilford, Che.
mango county, New York, no died in the