The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-31
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calls the attention of all officers to the re-
ports in circulation concerning the acts
of cruelty and severity towards freedmen
on their own part, and to reported dere-
lictions in rendering accounts, &C., and
says every officer SO accused shall have
an opportunity of vindication before
court-martial. The order also forbids In
vestments of officers in planting interests,
,aas the Commissioner says such action will
almost inevitably lead to corruption, as it
already has to bitter accusations.
Commander Leon Smith, late of the
Confederate Navy, was pardoned, to-day,
by the President, upon the recommends
tion of several prominent Republican
Senators and others. Henry Bragg, Of
Missouri, late an officer in the Confeder-
ate army, was also pardoned.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-In compliance
with the Presidents instructions, DR..
Cooper, Surgeon United States Army, has
reported npon the condition of Jefferson
Davis. He reports that Mr.. Davis is con-
ssiderabY emaciated, the fatty tissues hav-
ing almost disappeared, leaving his skin
shrivelled. His muscles are small, faccid
and very soft, and he has but little mus
ciular strength. He is quite weak and
.debilitated,r consequently his gait is une-
ven and irregular His digestive organs
at present are in comparatively good
condition, bat become quickly deranged
under anything but most carefully pre-
pared food. With diet disagreeing with
him, dyspeptic symptoms probably make
their appearance, followed by vertigo, Sc
we're facial ard cranial neuralgia, erysepe-
slatics, Inflammation of posterior scalp and
rightIside of nose, which quickly affects
the right eye, the only sound one he now
has, and extends through the nasal duct
into. the interior nose. His nervous sys-
tenn is greatly deranged, being much pros
trated and excessively irritable. Slight
noises, which are scarcely perceptible to
robust health, cause him much pain--the
description of the sensation being as of
one fayed and having every septient
nerve exposed to the waves of sound.
Want of sleep has been great and is al
most the principal cause of his nervous ex-
citability This has heen,produced by the
constant tramp of the creaking boots Of
the sentinels on post around his prison
room, and the relieving of the guard at
the expiration of. every two hours, which
almost invariably wakcns him. Mr.. Davis
states that he has scarcely enjoyed over
two hours of unbroken sleep at one time
since his confinement. Means have beon
taken, by placing mating on the floors
for the sentinels to walk on, to alleviate
this source of disturbance, but with only
partial success. His vital condition is low,
and he has but little recuperative force.
Should he be attacked by any ofthe severe
forms of disease to which the tide-water
region of Virginia is subject, Surgeon
Cooper, with good reason. fears for the
result;
--aWAsHINGyoN, May 24.-At the serenade
to the President, most of his Cabinet were
present and spoke. Secretaries McCul-
foch, Welles and Dennison cordially en-
dorse the President. Secretary Stanton
considers that section of the programme
of the Reconstruction Committee which
proposes to disqualify Southern men as
depforable, and without justice or wisdom.
Secretaries Speed and Harlan declined to
speak.
Letters were received from number of
parties, amongst which was one of dis
courteous character from Forney, Cd. D. }
denouncing AlcCulloch's former. speech as
brutal endorsement of tyrant by su-
percilous official.
BY direction of the President, the De-
-partments of North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama have been discon-
tinued. North and South Carolina will
hereafter form one department. and be in
command of Maj. General Daniel b.
Sickles.
Gen. Whittlesey, of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau in North Carolina, has been relieved,
and will be succeeded by Gen. Ruger.
The Departments of Georgia and Ala
bama willbe consolidated, under the COM
mand of Gen. G. R. Woods Gems. Till
son and Swaine will have charge of {" the
Bureau"
1t is stated that delegation has arriv-
ed here from Newborn, N. c., on mis-
sion to break the effect of the exposures
made by Gems. Fullerton and Steedman as
to the management Of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau in, that State The afidavits reflect
ing upon the private conduct of QUE OF the
Presidents commissioners while at New
bern, has already been forwarded, and
it's publication anxiously looked tor. 1t is
believed no stone will be left unturned to
crush the men who have been instrument
al in exposing the nefarious transactions
of the Freedmen's Bureau agents.
In default of action by Congress provi-
ding for the prompt redemption of curren-
cy by National Banks, the Secretary OF
the Treasury centemplates establishing at
tie Treasury Department q system OF
sorting and forwarding to the banks
for redemption their National Bank is
sues.
4 special despatch to the Charleston