The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-03-29
GIEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Oulluho.
The Iowa House of Representatives has pass
ed the Senate resolution demanding the speedy
trial of JEFF. Davis for treason.
- The Washington Republican, a Radical sheet,
denounces the Pennsylvania Republican Conven-
vention rs set of hypocrites and demagogues.
The editor ought to know his own friends best
- Jesse T. Sherman, highly respectable citi-
zen, was assassinated in his own house in Mobile,
Alabama, on Friday night last. The assassin is
unknown. -
= The San Antonia Herald says. that, with the
exception of fifteen or twenty fights and the ex-
change of few friendly shots, without any un-
fortunate results, there is nothing of moment in
that city.
"A destructive fire occurred at Jacksonville,
Florida, on Sunday night last, which destroyed
the office of the Jacksonville Union and two other
buildings.
= Carrie F. Clark, of San Francisco, pretty
widow, has sued Michael Reese, rich Californian,
for breach of promise of marriage. Damages laid
at one hundred thousand dollars.
"A negro disturbance occurred at New Mar
ket, Mo-, the other day, which was finally sup
pressed by the shooting and hanging of several of
the rioters. Several houses were fired into by the
negroes, and women and children greatly imper-
| lied.
The Macon, Co., Telegraph learns from pri-
yate sources that G. B. Lamar has been sentenced
to three years Imprisonment and $25,0O0 fine for
cotton frauds bribery, &c. The decision of the
military commission awaits the approval of Presi-
dent Johnson.
"A Boston despatch says, that Jared Sparks,
the historian, and ex.Pres:dent of Harvard Col
legc died at his residence in Cambridge, on the
18th inst.
- The Confederate dead at and around Frank
lin, Tennessee, are being removed to beautiful
lot near the town, given by Mr.. John McGayOck
for the purpose. 1t is to be adorned with shrubs
and evergreens.
-E1-Governor John Gill Shorter, of Ala
bama it is said, has succeeded in procuring
the release of some Gotten belonging TO himself
and others who live in the neighborhood of Eu-
faula. The cotton was seized several months
the Confederate produce loan.
= English and American civilization is begin
ming to make progress in China as it has done in
India. An English school has been opened in
Pekin for Chinese youth, sustained by the imperi-
al authorities, and Chinese official in Shanghai
pays an American missionary $2,500 year for
the same purpose.
- There is considerable talk in Washington
about difficulty between two prominent politi-
clans, caused by the one kissing the others wife
after the lady had been entrusted to his care as o
friend by the husband.
| - Gen. j. C. Vaughan, who made his name fa-
miiar during the Lite contest as cavalry leader,
is at hard work upon the coast of Florida, having
lost everything, and being now exile from his
home in Swcetwater, Monroe county, East Ten
ncssee. His wife and children were all arrested
and sent North rs prisoners; oil he had conhsca-
ted, and even their wardrobes destroyed.
- The steamer General Hooker" was destroy
ed by fire on the 21st inst, near Beach Inlet,
Charleston harbor, and seven lives we're lost.
Three ladies' Miss Carrie Bush, Mrs. Rhodes and
Miss Risly, with four colored persons unknown,
were drowned.
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man, died recently in Philadelphia He was i'm
mensely rich, and at the time of his death, had
nearly completed an elegant private residence,
costing $500, 0,OO0, in which he designed to pass the
remainder of his days.
| = A dispatch from Washington Of March 10,
says that Mr. Stephens final acceptance of the
Georgia Senatorship was in consequence of an as
surance from high officials in this city that he
would be admitted to his seat and the President is
determined to do his best to secure that admission,
and that his case is not an isolated one.
| = The Baltimore Sun advises all who are hay-
| ing their property insured to examine we'll into
the character and ability of the insurance compa-
MES. The losses sustained have been unusually
heavy during the last two months, md several Of
the New York companies have recently failed.
- A house worth twenty-five thousand dollars
hos been presented to General Sherman in St.
Louis.
- The marriage law of Pennsylvania is under
going change. A simple agreement between the
couple, in presence of witnesses, has been held to
be a legal marriage heretofore, but that sort Of
thing will be done away with, and the services
of clergyman or magistrate will now be required.
- 1t is stated that Gen. Scott, who is at New
Orleans, unhestatingly endorses all that President
Johnson uttered in his speech on the 22d ult. He
expresses the hope that he will yet see the North
and South more firmly bound together than ever,
and that, to effect this, President Johnson has
adopted the only true and proper course.
= A man answering the description of Quan-
trell, the leader of the Lawrence, Kansas, masaa,
ere, was arrested in New York Saturday night,
and is now there in General Augur's guard house.
Itzss said several citizens of Kansas, including
Senators Lane and Pomeroy, and Captain NJ. H.
Insley, have visited him, and ure of the opinion
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