The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-02-21
News Summary.

Alta recent meeting of tie Board of
Trustees of the Newberry College, Rev.
]. B. Smeltzer was elected President pro
ten, vice Rev. DR.. Brown, resigned.
To BE HuNG-John G. Burckmyer and
Richard White-convicted of murder
have been sentenced to be hung, in Char
lesion, on Friday, the 10Th day of April.
The Nashville Patrio1, of Tuesday last,
states that a difficulty occurred at Cola
tin, Tennessee, on the 10th, between Hon.
R. A. Bennett, member of the Tennessee
Legislature, and DR.. Kennedy, in which
the former was shot in the breast with e
shot gun, very dangerously wounding him.
The difficulty arose out Of political differ
ences.
1t is regarded as somewhat remarka-
bic coincidence, the fact that, on the very
same night on which Mss Cora Anderson,
a celebrated st. Louis belle, was married,
the steamer Cora anderson, named in hon
or OF the lady, struck snag about forty
miles above Vicksburg, Immediately sunk,
and will prove total loss.
The damage done to the GreenvilIe and
Columbia Railroad by the late freshet has
been repaired, and trains now pass with
out detention.
The New York Herald, in leading ed
itorial, Thursday, admonishes the Ameri-.
can people to prepare for the calamities Of
a civil war, and for the ruinous expert
ment Of a military despotism at Washing
ton city.
The grand jury in Richmond, Va, On
Tuesday, took initiatory steps for prevent
ing the circulation of the New Yorl.
World, New York Tribune, and New York
Times in that city.
Hon. Geo. c. Crawford, who reported
the ordinance of secession which was
adopted by the Georgia Convention, was
a member of Gen. Taylor's cabinet.
Hon. Edward Frost, acting Secretary
of the Treasury of South Carolina, ac-
knowlcdgcs the receipt Of $500 from James
D. McFaddcn, Esq.
The authorities of the County of Green
vile, Va, have appropriated S2500 for the
purchase of arms for the defence of the
County.
Wm. Greer, an old printer of Washing
ton, D. c., died on Wednesday last. he
was in his Slst year, native Of Pennsyl-
vani:,, and the first State printer ever ap-
pointed in that State.
Hon. George E. Badger is candidate
for the North Carolina Convention in
Wake coanty.
The Stay Law Bill has been defeated
in the North Carolina Legislature.
Hon. c. G. Clay, late United States
Senator from Alabama, is lying i'll at Pc
tcrsburg, Va.
MONTGOMERY, February 19.-In- the
Southern Congress to-day Mr.. Brooks re-
ported bill for the organization Of the
Department Of State, for the consideration
Of which the Congress went into secret.
session.
1t is understood that the President is
waiting for the organization Of the Execu-
tive Departments by Congress before
making his appointments 1t is probable
the organization bills wili pass tomorrow;
and the cabinet will be nominated next
dry. The President has not ssyet deter
mined on single Eernbar Of his cabinet.
The Charlotte Bulletin has received the
following dispatch from Senator Cling
WASHINGTON, Feb, 1s, 1861.
Editor Bulletin: Therc~is no chance
whatever for Crittenden's proposition
North Carolina must secede er aid Lincoln
in making war on the South.
~ r. CJTNGMAN.