Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-10-27

Hct VI yesterday, Cnc lOllOwlnR:
"Scott's fuss on his picket line promises
Georgia much good. Wo had the pleasure
of meeting, yesterday, several substantial cit.
zcns from certain counties In South Carolina
now under martial law, who visit our State
in quest oflands. A venerable old gentleman,
whom we have known for years, whose portly
carriage, saying nothing Of the infirmitcs Of
grey old age, consort but lily with our precon-
ccivcd idea OF active, virle, ghost like ILu.
kluX, tells us something of the procedures
under martial law. There arc about seven
hundred United States troops at lorkvillc,
the headquarters Of the Grand Club of South
Carolina, and two hundred arrests have been
made. The arrests are always at midnight.
The suspected or charged party is arrested
anu taken to headquarters, and there an in
vcsti.;'tion commences. Throughout the
cou' try, it is understood among the coorcd
population that witnesses arc to receive two
dollars Hpiccc per day Witnesses arc abun.
dant, therefore, ut that price 1t is nnlcr.
stood, also, that two hundred thousand dol
lars OF the United States secret service fund
IS in the State of South Carolina, at the dis.
posal of switt-working detectives. The whole
proceeding was inaugurated under the special
supervision Of Attorney General Akcrnan,
who was personally present., giving directions
to the United States Marshal. Tho tone of
tho people is represented as dcsparing of
any roturn of good order. The new proceed
ing is considered as giving removed license
to lawlcssncss, and without provocation
There have been over fifty dwellings and gin
houses burned in York and Spartanburs
counties, and the better class of citizens bc.
lcvc that this work of destruction will be re.
sumcd hence such MS have means are seek.
ing new home in other States, with the VI:
to ultimate removal. The exodus PROMISES
therefore, to be large"
Berlin, October 20.-Thc i,russian (r,.
zcttc coniradlctsa rumor given by the papers
Of y contract between Bismarck and NuDolcon
IN 1866, and asserts that the Germans, willie
at Versailles, found in the archives of the
French Government copy, in Bcnnlctti's
hand writing, OF the famous secret treaty,
which was published last year
GOTTA, October 20 Full reports of the
last German expedition to the North Pole
have arrived, and states that Polar sea was
discovered, free from ice and swarminr with
whales.
BERLIN, October 81 A distinguished
Prclatc, an cmssary Of the Pope, was referred
by Emperor William to Bismarck for an an.
swcr whether it would be allowable to hold
tho approaching conclave outside Of homo
some town III France, for instance. Bismarck
cvadcd reply. The Emperor sent an auto.
graph letter Of sympathy to the Pope.
LoNpoN, October 2l-Tt has transpircd
that the Gastcin Conference agreed upun en-
crgetic measures for the suppression of the
international Society. raly refuses co opcr.
alton, because It's labor agitators oppose the
International Society
SINGULAR TRAGEDY. singular traro
dy is reported from Switzerland. Last sprin.
the wife of a peasant died at Grisons a
few hours before her death she took pill
which had been prescribed by the medical
man whoWas attending her. After her death
the hnsb'tId, who 'was passonacy attnched
to his wife, got the fixed idea that the pill
contained poison, and that it was owing to
her having taken it that his wife died, aud
with continually broo'.ing over this thonyht
he became quite melancholy, and u few days
ago took his two children, aged respectively
) and II years. and beat out their brains With
hammer, aCcr whicl. he cnt his own thrnt
In letter, which WAS found on a table in his
bed room, he stated shat as he was unable to
live without his wife, he had taken the short
est means to Join her, with their children, in
the other world.
= lnsinuations arc being made to faston
upon the people Of the South the responsible
ty for the calamity that has bcfallcn Chicago
The Chicago correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commcrctul says:
"Ihc ctizcns arc highly excited on the sub.
jcct Of inccndarism, and many insist that
a determined conspiracy is on foot to burn
up the town. Some Germans say that the
Southern Ku Klux have their inccndiarics
at work"
despatch to the ST. Louis Democrat also
states, "that an inccndiary had been hung,
confcssing that he had come there with OK.
rebels to burn the city. Such is Northern
sentiment in its fanatical hatred to the South
= Our information from Spartanburg and
York is that y feeling of great insecurity and
excitement prevails in those counties. Ma
ny have left their houses to avoid military ar
rest. Yesterday, at Yorkvillc, there had
been forty four persons placed in jail and our
informant states that 500 or 600 persons had
left their farms-lcavng their crops exposed
to depreciation. At this period of tho year,
the injury resulting to the business interests
of these disturbed communities from the
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