Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-13
ICoRREspoNDENCE OF TIE KEowEE COURIER
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, S. c., November 7, 1875

| CHAKLESTON, .. VIZ november I, 1919.
Tomorrow the registration of voters of this
city begins, and we are all agog with politics.
The candidates are tho same as those an
nounced in tho early part of tho summer, the
Radicals having put out no candidate of thoir
own. Sale and Gayor, who run rs Indcpend
ents, seem to havo the qualifications ncces.
sary to mako them acceptable to the Radicals,
and it is understood that they will divide the
Radical vote.
Sale practices such unaccountablo folly that
many of his own party support him only
because they do not like the other candidates,
and there is littlo doubt that before election
day ho will bo virtually out of the fight and
the real contest will be between Courtenay
and Gayer. Indeed, somo think this is tho
case now.
Gayer is exactly the samo sort of Inde-
pendent as was Hon. Jas. B. Campbell in tho
State election Of last year, and yet he calls
himself Hampton Democrat, although
Hampton condemns this sort Of thing in the
strongest terms. Courtenay is tho nominee
OF the Democratic party, and has always said
that he would be governed by the party.
The vote polled in his fagor at tho Democratic
Primaries hold somo weeks ago, was very
handsome, and was not only q testimonial of
tho determination of good men to frown down
lndepcndentism, but strong ground for
having confidence in his election. In nddi.
tlon to the whito vOto, his organization
amongst tho negroes will probably secure q
largo colorod vote.
Business is in full blast, and great deal
OF cotton il being handled. notice that a
great many large iron steamships arc now
being used in shipping cotton from this port
to Europe. One went out the other day with
5000 bales in her cargo. Prices on this
market are good, and it seems now as if tho
consumption of the world having caught up
with the production Of the staple, they will
hold up we'll for the present crop at least.
SEQ the idea Of Calhoun monument to
be placed some whore on tho limo of tho Air
Line Railroad, has boon agitatcd recently in
the up-country. 1t may not DO forgotten by
some Of your readers that before tho war n
Calhoun Monument Association was organ.
lied, which collected about sixty thousand
dollars for monument. Tho fund has been
| NoAoA"ooiJ PASSohVCdy IOTly tn0uSnnu
dollars now remaining, and the Association
are pushing forward plans for the oarly 40
complshment of their objects. AS the
State will thus have q monument worthy OF
Calhoun, it is hardly in time to talk about
another, though, if our people could afford it,
we would like to see monuments to our great
statesmen all over the State.
There is, however, an object which may
we'll commend tho solicitude of our whole
people, for its noeds are pressing. I refer to
tho Confederate Home" Of this city, and
perhaps few facts in regard to it will not be
amiss. The "IIomo" was founded soon after
the war, and its chief aim is to educate the
daughters Of Confederate soldiers, whose
poverty prevents them from otherwise obtain.
ing education. During tho last nino years