Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1872-01-19
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Jnnumy l5-Gen. Emo.
ry hns been ordered to keep his truops ont of
bNeowsOrlcans, unless ndviscd from Wsshiug. !
ton,;a & 20 s&sE ~
Ihe. Senate galleries wcrel crowded with
blacks, in anticipation of nlIrpeeoh from Sura.
heriup"n civil rights, us affider to nmaessy.
J@rly action, upon nmncstybis imprpbnbie.
Abbyt wantssaetiope postppned ,pntiI Ills. con. !.
test Os Vance, ft6m North Carolina, Is de.
cided, when Morton will withdraw his restrio.
tion uncudment
ln the House, Butler introduced clean
amnesty bill, which was referred to tho Ju.
diciary Committee. The Democrats will
vtte.for tho Louisana investigation commit.
tee, with in amendment to make the Inycsti.
gation searching.
The ohafgesagainst Third Auditor Ruth
erford, for drawing double Communication mon
ey,. arc progressing! {iiI .utI3h 3il
In the Senate, Goldthwaitc was soatcd,
rom Alabama Sumner and Yickers ocou.
pied tho day. p RAM ,frsf,E 5ic1a' u
In the House, bill was passed MAKING
Plttsburg port of fchtryg aud dsliyery.s-
Dawes sskcd leave toofser 81 alreso,utibn fof tho
appointment of select committee of five TO
inquife'ihtV the Origin Ind character of 'the
difficulties between tho Government and off.
cials of Louisiana and tho Unitcd, Stntes off.
olals in that State, and to report the Same to
the House. with such Recommendations os Il
may deem expedient-the committee TO hava
powertto seud for persons and papefs, aud 10
sit IN Washington or elsewhere Kerr OBJ
jeotcd Dawes moved to suspend the ruIes!!is
md adopt the resolution! Agreed to. Al
adjournment the Speaker had not made up
the committee. A bill to remove all political
and legal disabilities failed, by yeas LOG:
nays 3d. Dawes then moved for cleat,
amnesty for political offences, which failed Of
a two. thirds vote,
Nays-Ambler, Barber. Bcaty, Bingham,
Buffington. Burehnrd, Butler, Of MIussachu.
sets, Butler, Of Tennessee Coburh tConger.
Coion, Due!l, Dunnell Enrno, Frye, Good.
rich, tlowley, Hazelton, of Wisconsin, Ia.
zelton, of New jersey, Hooper, Kelly. Of
Pennsylvania, Kcllinger, Iaporrtc, Low
Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, MyGrew, Mo.
Junkin, Mcrcur, Merriam. Monroe, Loooare.
Myers, Orr, Packard, of Indiana, Packer, of
Pennsylvania, Palmer Peck, Pendleton, Por- Is
ter, Prindlc, Rnmey L. II Roberts, Of New
York, Rusk, Sawyer Sely, Sessions, Shspks,
Shellnbargcr, Smith, of New York, Smith,
of Ohio, Snapp, Snyder, Sprnngue, Stark
weather, Stoughton, Strong, Taffc, Townsend,
Of Pennsylvania, Tyncr, Upson, Walden,
Wnldron, Wallace, Walls, Wheeler, Willard,
Williams, Of lndinnn, Wilson, of Indiana,
Wilson, Of Oho-T0
Another amnesty bill, excluding those who
lctt Congress. ortlic hrn'yior navy, passed by
ITO ayesyt 81 nays.
In tho Supreme Court, yesterday, Mr..
Justoo Strong, delivering the opinion, over.
ruled the former decision Of tho legal ten
der questions; which held that green
hao ,unr y,r,& lox.. 4 -
OF contracts made subsequent to the passage
OF tho Act, nnd held that Treasury notes are
n legal tender in cases except where tho con.
tract calls for some specifically namcd money.
MIR. Justice Bradley re i'd a concurriny opin
ion, and the Associate Justices Clifford md,
Field read dissenting opinions. The Chief
Justice stated that Mr. Justico Nelson VIII"
was not present, also disscnts from the ma.
jority view.
TIE New TREASURY NEGOTIATION.
Tho Washington Chronicle and also the New
York 1rib"ne's Washington correspondent
state 'thatth6 London banking firms Of Roth /
schilds and Jay Conke Il Co, huve perfected
the purchase from Srcrat1ry l}oufwell, tfrosh
Governor Cooke of 5000 900, 900 of the new
loan. They take the remaining $500 900 900
of new five per cents, and the $500, 900 900
of four and ono half per cents. This leaves
only the 100000, 900 OF fnr per
cents, yet il tho market and this the same
bankers agree to tako ifrthe United Stutcs
will pay tho interest thoreonlnt London. 10 Il
collect this interest otherwise, it is oonteoded 5,
would result in deriving very little benefit
from it,
New. YoRK,i January Is. u Panama pa-
pers confirm the destruction of the otv of