Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-02-05
The iAtlanticnand French Broad
'a ' Valley Railroad 'of

This Company has procured fifty couviots
from the State, and Chief, Engineer and
Superintendent Kirk is now having tn G
nescessary buildings and stookade.s ereotod
for their safe keeping. Within thrao
weeksIor loss time, tho, oouviots, will be
brought up and the work actually commepr
oed. Ibe .stockadee, will be built about two
miles this side Of Easly Station, and the
grading completed to tho stotion aud twro,
miles this way before tho ostockadc is moved
Cars. Kirk is Of the opinion that he can
grade the road from Easlcy to this place
with thc fifty couvicts before the first day,o
next January. Elections on tho question
of subscribing to the capital stock will soon
be hold in Williamson and Brushy Creek
Townships, in Anderson County, and the
friends of the enterprise down there are
confidont of success. Each township pro-
poses to subscribe 50 900, which, if carried
in all of them, will increase the capital
stock $4,000. With this amount the
grading of the Road, without another cent,
is assured to this plaee. But we do not
intend to stop here. Ashcyillc' is the obic
tive point, aud with our woudc,fu route
Ga maximum grade of sixty Gvo feet to the
mile) wo opprehend no such thing as fail
urc. Other combinations and interests
may try to defeat US, but with tho ativap
tages of our route over oil others, stch an
event is OH impossbility. Charleston, it is
true, is giving US no encouragement ut this
time, tut sse uro glad To say that Augusta
and Port Royal, besides other powerful and
Influential friends, are coming to our aid
If Charleston folds her hands and lets this
great opportunity pass by her it will be no
fault Of oprslssINsst ,syttSas f2UH lpr
The completion, Of the road in. the near
future We now considcr an accomplished
fact and look forward with bright antici.
pntions to a brilliant AID prosperous future
for this section lickcns Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, January 2O.-Judgo
Mackey is actively engaged in urging tho
passage ofthe bill 10 pension tho veterans of
the Mexican war. The bill has had two
readings in tho House, and will come
on next Monday, aud will certainly pass tho
present Congress-. Tho bill restores to the
pens lourolIs, with oil nrrens of pay due, the
pensioners of tho Mexican war who were
stricken from the rolls for alleged disloy
atty, and pensions all survivors at the rate
of eight dollars per month from date of its
passage.
1t appears from the argument framed by
Judge Mackey in support of the bill thut
the Palmetto Regiment was mustered into
service on TIL, Goth Of December, 1916,
with LOTT men, and was mustered out in
June, 1S4S, with but 800 survivors, and
thora are but 3i officers and men of that
famous regiment now living 1t is also
stated thnt there are about 5000 survivors
of the Mexican war who are entitled to
pensions under tho bill out Of an aggregate
force of 10000. The official records from
which Judge MacEey cites at length show
that the army fought ten general battles
and % engagements in the course of two
years without the loss of single stand of
'colors, aud that they entered tho City Of
Mexico, the Palmetto Regiment leading
with 6,S00 men, aud dictated a peace
within walled city, the captal of foreign
nation, of $50 900 iohab;tants The pop
ulation of Mexico at that time was 5000,
600. We acquired by our arms 100000
square miles Of territory, in which are now
embraced California, Nevada, Utah, Arizo-
ma, New Mexico, Wyoming, and part of
Nebraska. Tho bureau Of statistics reports
that from the territory, thus acquired ST.
lO0,O00,000 in gold and silver have been
taken in tn, past thirty two years. The
soldiers ask only eight dollars month. No
such results US they secured have ever been
achieved by so small an army for tho coun--
try that it served They more than
doubled tho territory Of the United States
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