Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1872-02-23
The War on Charleston.


The War on Charleston.
Our city BY the sea is much agtated about
certain efforts on the part of the Georgia Gen.
tral Railroad to lease tho South Caroliua road.
The movement is regarded as strike against
tho interests Of Charleston and in favor of Sa-
vannah. and as such has stirred up the clio
4uencc of the merchants and BUSINESS men of
the former city. Messrs. DESAussURE,
LATHERs and TRENHOLM, in speeches, held
it to be duty and commercial necessity to re-.
tain in South Carolina the direction of our
chief railroad. This is patriotic language
and pleasant to hear: but words without
deeds arc like faith without works, dead
While sour folks" talked, Mr. JOHN IL.
JAMES, of Georgia interest, worked, and, says
the -Nc'cs, bought up four hundred shares in
the road. Though Charleston, we hope,
will be successful in this little war, there is
n silent, persistent and more destructive in.
aucncc mt work to injurc her trade and pros
periy. This is the cxorbitant frciyhts ex
acted by the roads over which her trade must
pasa For. several years our merchants have
laborcd to reduce the tariff on goods to some.
thing like par with the freights on the
Georgia roads. Such course they believed
and argued would conduce to tho profits of
the roads 10 less tlIan to their own trade aud
business. Not only havc the heavy tariffs on
goods driven the merchants of the adjoining
counties of North Carolina and Georgia to or.
dering their goods to Athens-a much farther
point than Walhalla--but some of the cit
zcns of Oconeo even have been hauling their
produce to Athens and buying their groceries
there. Ia this way much up freight, rs well
as the produce which would be brought to
ship down, finds transit over the Georgia
roads. So too mucl, trade is lost to Charles
ton in the same way. There WAS once talk
10 Walhalla of hauling to and from Athens as
matter of economy. Would Savannah suf
fer this from the Georgia roads2 Charleston
has wealth, talent and influence. will she Ion.
ger suffer it? When you have chokcd out
the ring of Georgia, bring your artillery tc
bear in advocacy of low freights, and VIC Of
tho mountains will work hand in hand with
you. Suffer the present system of freights tc
continae, and in twelve months, when the
Airline road is available. mountain n,er
chant will be a stranger in Charleston. True
we are poor now and oar trade of trifling\im
portance but the time will be when it will bt
worth seeking. You can get, retain and 10
crease it. will you do it.?
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! WASHINGTON, February 19.-Senato,
Davis is convalescing.
There will be no minority report in favol
of Abbott, who claims the Senatorial sea
from South Carolina. It is reiterated by tht
committee :ha. :hey will report Of seatin,
Ransom.
Baiey has been confirmed as collector O.
revenue for the first district Of Texas. arc
Charles Hale as Assistant Secretary of State
The Committee on Ways and Means deo,d
ded to day that the income tax for the ourren
year shall be collected as heretofore. ,ght
Commissioners Of Internal Revenue is distribu
ting the necessary blanks
SENATE--The majority and minority X,
Klux reports wore presented and ordered
printed. The majority report, 10 connection
with tho extension and suspension of tn,
; haboas corpus, recommends exceptional gen
ornl amnesty.
The question Of selling arms to France wa
resumed. Senate adjourned
HousE.-A civil rights bill, similar L
Senator Summers, went over to next Monday
A resolution instruoting the Committee o,
Ways and Meuns, to report q bill aboliship,
the duties on salt and ooul, failed OF two
thirds vote, yeas 108 nays 88. n
}, A'bill aboiishipg the duty on tea and ooffo
was passed by vote Of one hundred an,
|, afty.three TO one hundred and thirty.six. pm
The Ku Klux Committee have reported
The minority report was passed, but not re
ceivedby vote of SO to 180, not two.thirds
because It contained phrases disrsspeotful t
the President; but afterwards, upon condi
tions that IL should be pruned Of it's offen
sensive aad unparliamentary phrases, IL wa
received without division! The House tho
II adjourned .Ng 3N' '- "A