The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-11
News Items.
Ienry Winter Davis, of Baltimore,

News 1tems.
Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore,
died on the 3Oth ult.
The Government has ordered that q
large quantity of military clothing be sent
to the freedmen's bureau in North Caro-
lima, South Carolina and Georgia, for the
freedmen in those States.
A strange accident has taken place at q
public ball at Vienna. An officer became
entangled by the eripoline of his partner,
and falling, broke one of his legs; the
lady rolling over him in her turn fell on
the other leg and fractured it likewise.
Christmas passed over quietly at Rich
nond, Va. At Manchester, however,
the freedmen surrounded the jail and re-
leased two colored prisoners.
Two newspaper reporters were gar
roted q few nights since in Richmond,
Va. The garroters made ten cents by
the operation.
Governor Jenkins Of Georgia, has sent
q dispatch to Secretary Seward, in which
he tenders his grateful Acknowledgements
to the President for his recognition of the
government of the State, and his thanks
for the tender of Executive aid in secur-
ing the full restoration of Georgia to the
Union.
The Hon. VIM. Porcher Miles, formerly
distinguished member of Congress from
Charleston, is in New Orleans, and en-
tertains the idea of permanently locating
there, Mr.. Miles is gentleman of great
learning, ability and accomplishments,
and of high moral and personal worth.
A Washington despatch says that
Speaker Colfax is looming up as the most
available Republican candidate for the
next Presidency.
TIE New York Times says that "every
man in Congress who devotes himself to
the perpetuation of bitterness towards
the South, ought to be accounted a pub
lie enemy"
Wade Hampton's departure for his
Mississippi plantation, taking with him
large number of freedmen as laborers, is
the subject of very fattering comment in
Washington.
Advices from Washington Of the 1st,
state that the President will issue proc
lamation declaring the restoration Of all
States to the Union as soon as Florida
and Texas are recognized.
The Raleigh Sentinel, of the 2Sth ult.,
brings us the gratifying intelligence that
the President of the United States has
pardoned William A. Graham, Senator
elect from North Carolina.
1t is said that the negroes in the vi
cinity of Lynchburg, Virginia, are SEEM
ingly getting rid of their reluctance to
enter into labor contracts with their late
masters, and that within the last fow days
many more have made engagements to
go into the country as farm Iaborers, than
has been the case before since the close of
TIE war.
A Eufaula, Alabama, paper says Of the
freedmen: "This class of our population
have manifested much more disposition
the past week to enter into contracts to
labor this year, than they have at any
time since the close of the war. We hear
of many planters who have secured as
many hands as they desire; but on the
other hand many have secured but few,
if any"
In Western Texas the planters, far
mers and freedmen are generally making
contracts for the next year satisfactory to
both parties. In central Texas the pros
poets are not SO good, the planters being
discouraged. On such as the sugar and
cotton plantations of Brazos, Colorado,
Corey, and other streams near the coast,
Gen. Gregory is making tour, address
sing the freedmen, with view to per-
suade them to make contracts for labor
next year.
Brigadier General Vaughan, lately re-
ported having attempted to commit
rsaicide at St. Louis, has published a let
ter denying the charge and explaining
the circumstances which gave rise to the
story. He says that an overdose of med