Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-01-06

SELF Finally, that by the Fifteenth amend
ment his citizenship became fixed aud csta5.
lishcd by law
ATLANTA, December 2S.-Thomas Speer
was elected from the Fourth District for the
Forty-scconcd Congress, by 500 majority
Long is elected to tho Forty Fist Congress
1t is believed that Bigby in the Third, aud
Whitley in the Second Congressional Districts
are elected. Price is elected in the Sixth
District, by a large majority. Ebert, W"itc,
Banks, Madison, IIabcrsham aud Franklin
counties, arc largely Democratic.
Chief Justice Brown has resigned Ex
Governor James johnson, of Columbus, has
been telcgraphcd for, and will probably sue
cccd him.
Is. H. Hill is out in letter, denying wri.
ting to Radicals, favoring radicalisn,, or seek
ing Office.
In compliance with public notice given by
the Governor, in October, bids were received
for the lease of the Western and Atlantic
road, until the 25th instant On opening
the bids, the road was let to company, o t
the following gentlemen, to wit: John p
King, Joscph e. Brown, Alexander II. Ste
phens, John IT, Grant, BENZ. II. Hill, E. w.
Cole, Richard Peters, Wm G. johnson, Wm
S. Holt, A. j. White. G. A. Nutting, Benz
May, e. Watzfclder, w. G. Morrill, Simon
Cameron, II. L. Kimbnl, George Cook,
Thomas a. Scott, Wm. T. Mathews, Wm. -.
Dinsmorc, II. B. Plant, Thos Allen, and
their associates, making in ali, %. Other
bids were made, but the parties failed to com.
ply with the law, and .ondered insufficient sc
curity.
The successful company, is one Of the
strongest ever formed in the South The
share holders represent in their own right,
over Sl5,O00,00e, and they give for sccui,ics
the following railroad companies The Gcor
ga Central; South Western Macon and
Western; Atlanta and West Point Macon
and Brunswick; Albany and Georgia the
Nashville and Chattanooga, of Tennesscc;,
md the st. Louis and Iron Mountain, Of
Missouri. The companies signing as sccuri
ties are worth S2o,000,O00, and the high
character Of tho lccsces and the undoubtcd
solvcucy and tho largo capital Of the company
arc ample guarantees, that the road will be
well managed, and the terms of the lease
faithfully complied with. The rental agreed
to be paid to the State, is $4,000 per month,
for twenty years, and the road to be returned
in Il good condition, in every respect, as it now
is, at tho end of the lease.
Elk Governor Joseph Brown resigned lis
Office as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
before.putting in the bid, and las been unan-
inousy elected as President of the new com
pany, to whom the road is leased.
WATnINaToN, December 2S.--Thc confer
cnce at the State Department yesterday was
confidential. Tolcgrains sent hence, with re.
gard to its import, we're mere spccuations
All parties to the conference nrc rcticnrt
An interview was doubtless had for mutua,
explanations, with view to conciliating DO.
itical differences, which threaten rupture
in the Republican party.
EH- AS you rise in life, so does the envy
of the world increase the man who makes
reputation makes cnemies.
Dsg- Chicago sold $3.50, 900 worth Of pork
on the 23d instant, but sho still grunts over
tho cold weather, and the divorce laws
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