The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-10-05
General News.

see proves. that the young man Baker
who was hung by the mob of citizens and
soldiers, was first assailed by Hall, whom
he killed. The mob was the logical con
sequence of the evil teachings of Cover
nor Irownlow. A spirit of lawlessness
and cruelty prevails in that section, and
Gen. Stoneznan declares that he cannot
suppress it so long as it is encouraged by
the Executive of the State. The negro
: soldiers have been killing white persons,
and have become so insolentin their bear
: ing that even Governor .Brownlow calls
for their removal
The life of Ex-Governor Brown, OF
Georgia, was threatened on his arrival at
Knoxville, Tennessee, one day last week,
by some railroad employees, who charged
That he had issued an order last year for
the hanging of every railroad person
found in the employment of the United
States A similar scene, in more. vio-
lent form, was enacted on the arrival OF
Gov. Brown at Chattanooga. The mill
tary interfered, protected the Governor
and quelled the disturbance
The court martial in the case of Lieut..
Col. Al. i. Thomas, late Chief Quarter
master of the Fifth Corps, have concluded
their .labors, but the decision has not been
promulgated. The specifications allege
that Col. Thomas, during the month Of
May, of the present year, while acting as
disbursing officer of the United States,
frequented gambling house on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, in Washington city, and
played faro, and lost the sum Of about
seventeen hundred dollars Government
funds in his hands, and for which he was
accountable as such disbursilig officer;
and further, that having been lawfully
commanded by his superior officer, Brevet
Major General M. G. Meigs, to transfer
without delay all the public funds in his
hands to Captain H. B. Lacy, 40. NJ,
he -disobeyed the order and neglected to
comply with it,
President Johnson has granted full
pardon to the Rev. II. E. johnson of
Chesterfield, who, upon trial before mil
itary court for taking the life of United
States soldier, was sentenced; ;saome two
or three months ago, to Imprisonment for
life: which sentence was modified by
General Devens to imprisonment for Il
term of five years. 1t will be remember
ed that Mr. Johnson, having reason to
believe that his premises were. invaded
and his garden being robbed, at night,
went out and fred his gun in the dark,
the shot from which. took effect upon the
body of robber, and cost him his life.
This was the offense.
The CINCINNATI Gazette learns, on the
most reliable authority, that the reports
circulated by the Eastern press relative
to the speedy trial of Jefferson Davis,
and Chief Justice Chase's connection with
it, are unfounded It says the Chief JUS
tice has very properly declined all confer
ence on the subject, and it is not at all
likely that he will hold any Court in Vim
ginia or North Carolina, until after Con-
gress shall have had an opportunity of
legislating in regard to the Circuits in the
rebel States.
Miss Ann Farrell, a young lady of Co
mmbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana,
was riding in buggy with gentleman,
On Saturday last, when the horse ran
away The young lady tried to jump out,
but her hoops caught on the buggy and
she was dragged about half q mile. The
horse then ran into q. mill race and the
young lady was drowned.
John P. Heiss, formerly of the New
Orleans Delta died recently in Nicaragua.
He was apartncr of Thomas Ritchie in
the Washington Uaion, and some years
later owned that famous steamer, the
Pampero, which he sold to the friends of
General Lopez for service in the so-eailed
Cuban expedition.
The Illinois papers abound in accounts
of murders and outrages of the. most fla
grant nature, quite equal in atrocity and
as numerous as the accounts we have
from any of the Northern Or southwcs-
tern States. Most of them appear to
have been perpetrated by. returned SOL
diers, or by the foreign immigrant,popu-
lation:
The Hon. Lucius Q. G. Lamar, ono of