The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-01
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.,.~---aefat Merritt, serving in Texas, is
se4 arrest on the somewhat serious charges of
drunkenness, demoraliEation and disoyal and
reasonable language uttered while drunk.
Captain Rufus Choate, formerly Of the Second
Massachusetts, regiment, and the only son OF the
late Hon. Rufus Choate, died in Dorchester, Mas
sachusetts, on Tuesday.
There is O child in Staunton, Virginia, seven
weeks old, which weighs only one pound and q.
half. When born it could be put in a tea cup, and
then weighed only half pound. The little Lili-
putian is I" doing well" :
Commodore Winslow, the principal witness
against Semmes, has arrived in Washington from
New Orleans, and the trial will take place as soon
as the necessary detail of officers for the court
tial can be assigned.
The New Orleans Delta thinks itominous that
.pontoon trains have been ordered from New Or
leans by the direction of Gen. Sheridan, whose
chief of Staff is now at Brownsville
Colonel Sperry late of the Knoxville (Tenn.)
Register has been liberated from prison after twelve
months confinement. -is's
Thepublisher of the Greensboro, IN. {. J Ntes was
arrested the other day by the Assistant superin-
ltendcnt of the Freedmen's Bureau for alleged dis
| loyal expressions.
The Louisville JoyrnuI Gays that Tennessee will
be the largest producing State in the Union
this year. The native industry of the State is
represented TO be in an admirable condition for
the resumption of activity, and emigration thither
from the North is said to have been on quite
arge SCALE
Ex-Generals Heath, Pillow, Hood, Longstreet,
and other Southern leaders, have been in Cincin--
natl within the past five weckshand engaged 900
white laborers, and purchased 500 cotton ploughs,
TO work plantations in the South
By direction of the War Department, Major-Gen-
eral Miles, commanding at Fortress Monroe, has
relieved q prominent officer at that post on the
charge of having clandestinely employed quite
number of ex-confederates in the workshops under
his superintendent.
The homestead of Henry Clay was sold on the
18th inst to the Regent of the KENTUCKY Univer-
sty for the sum of 500, 600. 1t consists Of three
hundred and twenty five acres, and will be trans
formed into the Agricultural College of that State
General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, is about to
locate OF Brunswick, Ca, where he will engage in
the lumber business. 1t is his purpose to erect
two large mills on the Brunswick railroad, and will
carry on an extensive business in connection with
other gentlemen.
The acting Secretary of State, by direction of
the President has transmitted letters to the Pro-
Yisional Governor and Governor elect, of Florida,
identical with those heretofore sent to the other
restored Southern States Texas is now tho only
State over which Provisional Governor presides
Hon. John a. Campbell, at the time of secession
one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
of the United States, and more recently Assistant
Secretary of War of the Confederate States, has
resumed the practice of the law in New Orleans, in
connection with Hon. Henry NJ. Spofford, late one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
The blasphemous Brownlow used the following
language in speech to the negroes in Nashville
the other day: Why, if the Savior of mon were to
descend from the clouds, with the shoulder straps
of a lieutenant general, and bring with him as
military staff the old Apostles, they could not
please these reconstruction rebels and galvanized
URion men, provided they held the principles VIC
have all announced here to-day
The following is the farewell address of q Wes-
tern editor to his readers " The undersigned re-
tires from the editorial chair with complete con-
viction that al is vanity. From the hour he
started his paper to the present time he has been
solicited to lie upon every given subject, and can't
remember ever having told o wholesome truth
without diminishing his subscription list, or max
ing an enemy. Under these circumstances of
trials. and having thorough contempt for himself
ho retires in order to recruit his moral constitu
ton.
The citizens Of Newbern, North Carolina, desir-
| ing to give musical entertainment for the benefit
of Mrs Stonewall Jackson, addressed Q note to
Colonel Wheeler, commandant of tho District, ask
/ ing his sanction. Herepled, saying: "The United
States military authorities can never object to a
charitable action. AL soldiers owe tribute to
gallantry and honor. 1t is presumed that every
officer of this command will esteem it privilege
to be permitted to engage with you the assis-
lance of lady whose husband was so respected
and renowned.
A HORRIBLE oUrnAoE.-The Montgomery Ala,
Adverfiser reports a horrible outrage. The Abo-
litonists will hardly howl over it but if the perpe
TRAITOR had been a Southern slayeowner, they would
have been heard:
ga gentleman from Now York who came down
the road yesterday, reports that at Opelika, ne
gro girl some sixteen or seventeen years old, came
in with her ears cut off close to her head, and al