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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-11
LARGE SALE OF
VALU UABLE LAND.
MASTERS SALE.

w. T. Trenholm, Executor, vs.. Anna II. Tren-,
holm ct al.
DY virtue Of n Dccrclal Order in the above
ID entitled cause, dated the l5lh day of De-
cembcr, 1879. and by virtue of other orders in
the same cause, will be sold under my direction
ut luhlic auction, by r. A. Thompson, Esq. in
front OF the Court House, at Walhal!a, Oconee
County. South Carolina, at IL o'clock NJ, on
MONDAY, Tie 9Th day of April, 1880,
1896 Acres, Oconco County, For
nerly pickons District,
All that TRACT OF LAND situate formerly
in pickcrs District, State aforesaid, seven miles
West OF pcndcion Village, lying both sides
Of Martins Creek, waters of Seneca River,
bounded by The Blue Ridge Railroad on the
North east, lands of j. o. Lewis, Hays and
Abbott on the North and West, lands of Miller
on the South and Souhcas and lands of NJ.
II. Innnicutt on thc Southeast and East; en-
hroCinE ihc suHcral tracts of land conveyed TO
John !. S,oon ~ NJ. ~ !iunncu,t, Joel Pattcr--
son, "os2lh Cos, John u. Ston and Thomas
W. bIanGD.r, containing
i ,Es5,D Acres,
more or sa hayin5 such shape marks, butings
nnd bouUliUg3 as wa consolidated plat Of tho
several irncis annexed TO conveyance by said
John 7. S0nn to Geo. 4. ilcnholm, September
( iOth, 1868. Recorded in Mcsno Conveyance
!'ook, Ccr'tJ Office, Picheng District, Book X,
( Che above Tloc; OF Land will be sold in eight
Lots containing about 200 acres each. Plats Of
( same viii be c%h!hiied on day Of sale.
/ This Property may hc treated for as whole
at private sale before the day appointed for tho
pubi.c sale.
I!'RM3 OF SAEE:
! One hGlf cash: balance in one and two years
wilh interest hom The day of sale, payable
annually, secured by bond and mortgage OF tho
properly sold; huings to bc insured and
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-11
Personal.

We regret We had no timo or space last week
to announce tho visits Of the following brethren
Of the press: ii. 9. Richardson, Of tho Columbia
Register; Mr.. Eubanks, Of the Charleston News
and Courier; and A. 8. Todd, Of tho Andere
Journal. These gentlemen represent ably con-
Quoted journals wLioh are fully abreast of the
times.
Mr.. II. nj. Brewster, Of Byron, Ogle county,
Illinois, also paid us visit last week. Mr..
Brewster is on an inspecting tour Of tho South,
locking out for good locality to locate at. lie
tells US, so far rs lie has scen ho is pleased and
favoraby impressed with the Sunny South.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-11
Hee un RDtuan'e Cured

Y Dr. j. snEMss syronT Gyna without tho injury and suffering rus
lBrdwa
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
MccoRD's AMENDMENT.

Congressman McCord has introduced an
amendment to the United States Constitu-
ton which provides as follows: "That the
I" Presidential, State and county elections
I" shall be held on the first Tuesday after
ssthe first Monday in November; that
estate Legislatures shall divide the State
into election precincts containing not
s'more than 500 electors; that such district
shall have not less than one public school,
accessible to all children from to 81 years
"old, without distinction en- account of
trace or color that no funds shall be ap-
propriated for sectarian schools that no
''citizen born within the United States
" who has not attended public or other
"school five years, and is unable to read
"and write, shall vote; that the failure of
"any State in these points shall be deemed
81 a failure to maintain republican form
"of government, aad Congress may by act
" exclude the representatives of such State,
"a and the electoral vote OF the same, until
" the required legislation is enacted" The
central purpose of this amendment appears
to be to introduce what is loosely called an
educational qualification, and to unite
with this a method of securing the COM
plete distribution of the public school
system, while putting up new ba..
rier against the aggressions of sectarian-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
THE PANAMA CANAL.

M. Lesseps has been greatly assisted In
floating the shares of his canal by the pecu-
liar condition of the money market. There
has been plethora of capital seeking in.
vestment for some time past, and during
the last three months this condition of
things has led to the inception of a great
number of highly speculative enterprises,
and to the creation of a period of initiation
generally. 1t was at the top of this food
tide that NJ. Lesseps launched his scheme,
and the result is that it has been success
fully fioated, if the reports which reach us
may be credited. Under the circu1l.
stances a very much more doubtful
project would have had an equally cor
dial welcome, for the spirit of speculation
is as general and as feverish as at the
elimination of any of the gambling eras
which precede financial panics. OF course
the floating of the stock is not equivalent
to the successful accomplishment of the
scheme. 1t only means that there are
enough people willing to bet upon its sue
cess to make the attempt financially prac-
ticable. If the views of some of the most
experienced engineers living are trustwor-
thy, the difficulties to be overcome before
the canal is an accomplished fact will try
the skill and courage of NJ. Lesseps to the
utmost; and if their views are correct it
by no means follows that even if the canal
is finished it will be possible to maintain it
in operation. So far it must be remem-
bered that nothing has occurred to disprove
the assertion that the canal is not feasible
Undertaking.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
THE NIcARAeUAN CANAL

It Looks as though the projectors Of the
Nicaragua Canal were at least as much in
earnest as NJ. Lesseps. They have not, it
Is true, so audacious aud energetic cloqueur
to help their scheme forward, but
then they are free from the inconvenience
which not inirequently attach to bold and
solring imaginative projections. For ex-
ample, NJ. Lesseps, whose honesty, a con-
temporary graveiy asserts, has never been
questioned save by " blackguards," has
within the past two weeks been
announcing, through his Paris organ,
that subscriptions to his canal were
pouring in at San francisco at the
rate of millions of dollars daily, and
that the American press and people were
perfectly delirious over the amazing sue
cess OF the enterprise. This is no
doubt an evidence of the honesty of MIR.
Lesseps which none but blackguards can
question, but unfortunately the kind of
blackguardism which entertains suspicious
OF this sort of statement is distressingly
general. Nearly all capitalists and bust
ness men are depraved enough to think
that a man who lies as intrepidly
and as frequently as Mr.. Lesseps
has lied cannot be deserving Of
implicit confidence. Those who have fol
lowed his meteoric career are not at al
likely to accept his representations of the
state of the subscription without more
trustworthy confirmation. On the other
hand the Nicaragua Company has at least
I number of very well-known and substan.
tial business men at its head, and it has
furthermore the great advantage of having
on its side engineering reports much
more promising than any respectable
engineer has yet made concerning the
Panama Canal. OF course if the Nicaragua
Canal is pushed, and if it is as easily con.
structei as is alleged, it can be completed
long before Nj. Lesseps has accomplished
his undertaking. And in this event the
stock of the Panama Canal will very GER
tainly not remain at premium, or be il
great request among investors. The
struggle between the rival enterprises
meantime promises to be lively, and the
public need not care greatly which is vic.
torious
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
THE PORTER CASE.

Congress has passed bill empowering
the President to reinstate Fitz John Por-
ter IN the army, with the rank of Colonel,
on the retired list i; the conditions being
that he shall not be entitled to any back
pay or other emoluments for the time during
which he has been out of the service The
bill was passed by strict party vote, the
Republicans all voting against it, save a
few in the Senate who declined to vote, and
the Democrats all voting for it. Senator
Logan made a very bitter and abusive
speech on the occasion, comparing Porter
unfavorably with jefferson Davis, and init
mating that if he had had his deserts he
would have been shot by drum head
court-martial. The vituperation of Sen.
ator Logan demands explanation for
assuredly there has not been any evidence
adduced In the later and more care
full investigation of Porter's case, to
warrant such expressions. On the
contrary, it has been proved as conclusively
as any thing human can be, that Porter was
greatly wronged by Pope; that he was not
accorded fair play on his first trial; that
his actions and his positions were hagrantly
misrepresented; and that in fact he had
been condemned On testimony which was
nearly all worse than worthless. This,
moreover, is the opinion of some of the
best military judges in the land, and of
these more than one has intimated that if
strict Justice were done another officer
than Porter ought to have been court
msrtialed in this connection. Logan's par
tisanahip appears to have mastered his
sense of justice, in fact and it is to be re-
oretted, since party eves seems SO mean
IA when it impels men to defend fragrant
injustice rather than admit that political
opponent is in the right.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
MIsCELLANEOUs.

The President has nominated Eugene
Schuyler, of New York, to be Charge
d'Affaires and Consul. General at Bucharest !;
W. +. Peddrick, of Pennsylvania, Secretary
of the French Claims Commission. United
States Consuls-John Farrell, of New York,
at Bristol; David A. Mckinley, of Cali
fornia, at Honolulu; Theodore Canisus, of
Illinois, at Gelstemunxe.
Amount of bullion withdrawn from the
Bank of England on balance yesterday,
$3.50, 000-all for America.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch says that Sec
retary Schurz will leave Washington and
make st. Louis his home early in April. He
will manage his paper there and write book
for the Appletons.
Captain Eads writes the Mexican Consul
at ST. Louis from the City OF Mexico that he
is progressing finely, and will shortly pro-
coed to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to ex-
anime the country.
The funeral of Nine Theirs at Paris yes
terday was a very imposing pageant.
The President yesterday nominated VIM.
B. Wood, of Alabama, to succeed Justice
Strong in the United States Supreme Court.
The Missouri State bonded debt amounts
to sic. 900. O0O besides So, 600, 600 st. Joseph
Railroad bonds. 1t must all be refunded at
the present rate of interest.
confidence man, pursued by the police
at st. Louis yesterday, fell through the ties
Of the big bridge ninety feet to the water,
and was drowned.
Earl Crawford is dead, and his son sue.
ceeds to the Peerage. making vacancy in
the English House of Lords.
Reinarcb, whom Rochefort challenged at
Paris, is Gambetta's Secretary.
By the aid of kerosene and benzine, Tues
day night, incendiaries attempted to fire
Formman's nickel plating works at Cleve.
land. The scheme was very ingenious, but
the fire was discovered in time and put out
with small loss.
The population of the State of Oregon, ac-
cording to schedules returned to the Census
Office by enumerators, is as follows: Males,
1O3, 1888 females, 71,379. Total, ia, 761.
Native, 14.437; foreign born, 80, 40; white,
163. OS7 colored, II, $50.
A Chicago Times Santa Fe special says ::
A party Of thirty citizens of Lajava are in
search of Charles Boussill, who killed two
Mexicans and wounded two Others In q diff
Guilty about a Mexican girl. He will be lynched
if caught. :,
Two children and one woman are reported
burned to death by fire at Olean, n. Y.
Tuesday night, which ciused a loss to bust
ness houses Of s715, coo.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
NEWS OF TEE MoRNrne.

n rey York Yesterday Government bonds were
o,es a. ISL for IS of 1907; 1o1 for IS Of 1881
ing ior rs; sterling, q 1904 81; silTer bars,
Il1s
SILVER N london yesterday, SD; consols, es s1ed;
{ rsr cont. United Ststoe bonds, l0as; IS liz (;
81. l15g
IT san Francisco Aah dollars are quoted at ] dis-
count 70 par; aexlcan dollars, Ole.
At liverpool yesterday wheat vas quoted at 9s Cd
,Sios ID for good to choice California.
Mining stocks were less active in San Francisco
yesterday and prices less satisfactory. There
were but small variations in values as compared
with Tuesday
steps are taking at salt Lake to unsea. Cannon
the Mormod delegate to Congress.
The sentence OF Smith, for killing sigourney a
Nevada City, was again postponed Yesterday until
mex Monday
David A. Mckinley of California has been nomi
mated b. the President to be Consul at Honolulu
Bullion 10 the amount of $4,000 was withdraw
from the Bank of England yesterday for America.
Secretary schurz will leave Washington for St
LOFTS in april and make the latter city his home
The funeral of Madame Theirs at Paris yesterda,
was very imposing affair.
Several persons injured by a railroad acc
dent near Eureka, NO, Tuesday night.
vacancy has been created in the British House
Of Lords by the death of Earl Crawford
In the municipal election at Boston yaeprday the
Democrats elected the Mayor, but the Council
stands As Republicans to &c Democrats.
The President yesterday nominated William B.
Woods, of Alabama to succeed Justice Strong in the
United States Supreme Court.
81 iot,t 70
OoOooO
man fell from the bidge at st. Louis yesterday
and was drowned
It is again rumored that the Car of Russia is
about to abdicate in favor OF the Czarowitch.
According 90 the census returns, the population
Of Oregon is 114,767.
Two children and woman were burned to death
Tuesday night at olean, y. Y.
An unknown man was found dead in field rear
lincoln, Placer county, yesterday
The 2O5o-foot level of the Alta mine was flooded
yesterday by an unexpected flow of water.
The trial Of Carrick, the defaulting County
Treasurer, began at Virginia. New, yesterday.
Smallpox is gradually spreading at Virginia, New.
Geo,ge Parrot, road agent aud murderer, was SER
fenced at RawIins, Wyoming, yesterday, to be
hanged in April.
Argument commenced at Los Angeles yesterday
in the hcFatridge case
Within the past week two railroads have been
completed to Park City, Utah.
The National Board Of Trade began its annual
meeting at Washington yesterday.
The appointments of Generals Hazsn and Miles
were unanimously confirmed by the Senate yester
dAy.
Charles A. Burt shot his mistress at Albany, N
y, last night, and then killed himself.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
CARRYING THE GOSPEL TO THE IN.
DAMS.

A new element has been infused into the
Oklahoma invasion. Some missionaries
have joined the raiders, and announce their
pious purpose Of carrying the gospel to the
Indians in this novel way. The so-called
colonists appear to have caught eagerly at
the new catch-word, and they seem dis
posed to assume the pretense of sort of
Holy War, as convenient cover for their
real designs. We are not informed what
church is honored by the membership OF
these missionaries, but they must be singu-
lar men if they fail to perceive that evan
gelization is not to be prosperously intro
duced by law breaking and outrage. 1t Is
true that in times past Mohammed carried
the Koran in one hand and the sword in
the other, and gave the people whom he
conquered their choice between the two
but the world has grown wiser since then,
and it is not now permitted even to fanat.
icism to present the gospel at mems heads
in this highwayman fashion. The Okla.
homa raiders intend nothing less than the
forcible appropriation of lands which dono
belong to them, and they propose to gain
these lands by defying and violating the sol
emn engagements of the United States with
the Indians. They are therefore preparing
to break the laws of their own country,
and to trample upon its undertakings with
its wards, and if the missionaries can find
anything in the Gospel to warrant such a
line of action they must have an edition OF
that work not known to the world at large.
Their foolish and weak minded course is,
however, calculated to give force to the
lawless men with whom they have cast
their lot, and the result of their preposter.
GUS experiment may quite possibly be tc
precipitate collision between the United
States troops and the raiders, and to ex.
pose the latter to serious punishment
Whoever really wishes to evangelize the
Indians will have to persuade them in the
first place that the Christian religion has
some practical connection with the course
OF treatment to which they have been sub
jected by the United States Government
and people, and we fear that this is task
beyond the capacity of even the most en-,
thusiastjc of missionaries
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16

It is time to ask the public in all
seriousness where they think these tenden-
cies will lead them, if no steps are taken
to prevent homicide and to protect human
life. Very probably the public have not
given any thought to the subject at all.
They are either Indifferent, or they are in
fiuenced by morbid sentiment, or they
content themselves with a passing ex-
preston of disgust at each fresh failure of
Justice, and so let the matter go. But if
we may judge from similar experience
elsewhere, the paralysis of justice which
now characterizes our Courts in murder
cases must before long lead to the setting
up of lawless methods of vengeance. That
is to say, that when men realize the
impotence of the machinery Society
has established. they will take the admin
istration of the law into their own hands.
It does not necessarily follow that Lynch
law will be adopted. But the con-
ditions which obtain In the Southern
and come Of the Western States, where
blood feuds are still common, must be
expected Thus when father or a
brother has been shot down on some trivial
pretext, his next of kin will take up the
quarrel and assume the duty of the avenger,
and in this way primitive barbarism will
be reverted to. We say that this is one of
the natural and inevitable results of the
kind of conditions at present existing.
Men will not always be content to see
murderers turned loose after farcical trials.
Presently there will come to the front PEG.
pie whose resentment is too strong and
their passions too high to submit to these
fiascos, and they will do what the law has
failed to do. If it is alleged that what we
predict would be in effect an arrest of our
civilization and a movement backward,
we entirely agree with this Interpretation.
But we must point out that the
backward movement has already
begun, and that it is manifested in the dis
graceful impotence of our laws against
!
murder. There is no test of real civiliza.
tion more trustworthy than the degree of
regard paid to human life, and the degree
of precaution used to guard it. Neither
wealth nor commerce are nearly such
sure evidences of advancement. California
may increase in riches, but so long as hu-
man life is not protected by her laws it
cannot be said with truth that her civiliza-
ton is progressing. Murder UNPUBLISHED
begets murder. and the driveling senti-
mentality which grieves over the fate of an
assassin has nothing in common with the
well-poised spirit of justice which realizes
that the first duty of Society is to protect
the individual, and to punish crime sternly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
ARCADE HOTEL.

INVITED TO ATTEND.-An invitation has
been received by Adjutant-General Backus
from the Executive Committee at Washing
ton having in charge the inaugural cere,
monies, requesting that California be repre-
scented by some of her military orgauiza-
lions on that occasion, as every State in the
Union will be similarly represented. In re-
spouse, Company +, First Infantry, and
Company +, Second Infantry, have expressed
willingness to attend, provided arrange
ments can be made for payment of their ex-
penses. It is safe to say California will be
represented at least by the Adjutant- General
and staff.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16

ism. If the result was to enforce COM
mon school education throughout the
Union there can be no doubt that it would
be productive of much benefit to the
Southern States especially, and that it
would lift the colored people out from
under the influence OF prejudice in that
region. The provision against any diver.
sion of State school funds to sectarian
schools appears to be justifable. 1t is
very certain that systematic efforts are
being made in various parts of the country
to secure such division of the school fund
as is here prohibited, and the danger APP
pears to be greatest in some of the centers
of population, where the effect Of such a
change would be most marked As regards
the idea of establishing the reading and
writing test, however, we question whether
the results would be satisfactory. So
much education as consists merely in the
ability to read and write cannot be re.
garded as an efficient safeguard against
the dangers which belong to ignorance of
the duties and obligations of citizenship.
The difficulty of framing an educational
test of any kind which would not do at
least as much harm as good, has hitherto
prevented the adoption of such a plan, and
we do not see that Mr.. McCord has
overcome this difficulty. For example,
there are many really shrewd and
clear minded men who cannot read and
write; and there are many utter simple
tons who can do both. To exclude the
first and admit the second would certainly
not strengthen or elevate the suffrage.
Reading and writing are in truth no tests
of mental capacity, or of fitness to possess
the franchise, and this proposition would
break down, from it's inherent defects, if
ever tried. Aside from all considerations
of the difficulty attending any proposal for
a restriction of the suffrage, we must hold
that the way to elevate the masses lies ia
other directions. 1t is after all practical
acquaintance with their own institutions
and the principles underlying those in
stitutions, which is needed to make the
employment of the franchise safe, and
that kind Of knowledge is not so taught in
the public schools as to be retained in
after life. In word, it is not education
in the abstract which is required, but
particular kind of education, and to obtain
this it is necessary to reorganize the whole
system. We think Mr. McCord has there
fore begun at the wrong end, and though
some of his propositions are sound, we do
not think that his amendment as a whole
deserves to be adopted.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
raREE oRIeINAL sToaIEs.

During the coming year, and commencing De-
eeu5e Isl, tie WEE ,IY UNION eiH publish three
Prize Stories of California. The Jirst, pub
location ef ,ollch tria IN tie first tceek
OF Doeezlber, triU be entitled, The Ventures and
Adreatssgcs Of Charlie Could" This is in.
teasesy interesting story Of the Stoct-Ga"1biing
pe,io Of California. and i0as ,critten by Edicard
+ ce6ia, Of Los angeles. Tie price Of the WEEKLY
UNION VII be So 80 per Ganun.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-16
DIED..

Sacramento, December IA Charles, the Youngest
son Of James and Kate Doleysek, native VI
California, 10 months and Is days.
Friends and acquantances are respectfully invited
TO attend the funeral, which will take place from
the residence OF parents Eighteenth and streets,
this afternoon at 8 o'coek.l
Sacramento, December l5-Isaac Willis, native
of Charleston s. c., 43 years, month and )
days. Brownsville, o., papers please eopy)
Funeral notice hereafterl
Grass Valley, December 13-James Lakenan, ID
years. IL months and Is days
Chico, December IL, con Pearson, Is months
Suffer county, December 12-August IL. Erich, Ss
wears,