The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-14
e -e1FANrNes FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

e1EANrNes FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
- The foods in Texas have overfowed and de-
rastated oil the bottom lands, and the injury to
crops has been extensive.
The Congressional Committee, appointed to in
vestigate the Memphis riots, sc nearly completed
their labors AS they were sent there to do the
work of partisans, the public anticipate their
report.
= The Government authorities are taking steps
to prosecute such parties as have failed to make
the use of revenue stamps required by law.
= Mr.. White: late of Mosby's guerrillas, has
benn elected Mayor of Leesburg, Va. He was
pardoned several months ago.
= About three hundred colorcd couples were
married last week at the freedmen's village on Ar
lington Hights, in pursuance of Gen. Howards re-
cent order relative to concubinsge.
1t is said that the British Minister has de-
manded the surrender from our Government of the
captured Fenians. The demand will be complied
with.
= Leonard Huyck, late President of the Mer-
chants National Bank in Washington, has been
arrested and held for trial for violating the Naton
al Currency Act.
- There are $50 National Banks now in e1is-
tence Applications are being made to convert
other banking institutions into National Banks,
but the Comptroller of the Currency is refusing
them for want of power.
= The oourt-martial which has been trying Ma
ior Gee who was commandant Of the rebel prison
at Salisbury, has adjourned for short period. Up
to this time the expenses of the trial have been
$3.50, 900, and no evidence eliminating the prison
er has been adduced yet.
&. = Colonel Starr, of the 18th Kentucky Regi-
ment, claims the honor for his men of planting the
first Irish flag on the Canada shore.
- One of the noticeable incidents at the decora-
ton of the graves of Confederate soldiers at Holy
wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va, on the 91at, was
that many negroes brought flowers and laid them
afectionatey upon the graves of their former mas
ters who fell in battle.
Dana, late Of the Chicago Republican, is being
examined regarding the conduct of the War De-
partment during his administration as Assistant
Secretary. As Tom Carlyle once said of another
affair, ssThis is the dirticst chimney that has been
burned out in half o century"
= ThegNational Itclligencer says that when old
Thad. Stevens found, the other day, that several
Republican members we're opposed to his manner
of conducting hostilites against the Secretary Of
the Treasury, he turned e livid with rage and e1-
hibited, by his manner, the greatest violence"
= Our New York exchanges come to us filed
with the particulars of the imposing ceremonies at
tending the burial of the late Gen. Winfield Scott.
1t is singular fact that among those who compos-
ed the grand pageant there was no one who steod
in nearer relation to the deceased than "intimate
friends . and 8. family servants"
= A new and terrible explosive compound call
cd sodium-amalgum, has recently been discovered.
1t is said that one ounce of it is equal in explosive
power to twenty-five pounds Of gun-powder, and
ton and half pounds of nitro gycerine. tits e1-
ploded by moisture, and o spoonful of water oom-
ing in contact with two hundred ounces of it, will
produce the effect Of five thousand pounds gun
powder.
- Hon. E. Barksdale, formerly member of the
Confederate Congress from Mississippi, in note
to the editor of the Jackson Standard refers to the
recently published statements relative to the reno
vol of the remains of his gallant brother, Gen. VIM.
Barksdale, who fell at Gettysburg. He says ait
is the intention of his nearest kindred to remove
his body, at an early day, for consignment to its
final resting place. at some appropriate spot within
the limits Of his own State, without taxing the
generosity of Others"
"A poor unemployed soldier in New York
hung himself to his bed-post. There was no bu-
reau for him.
= The editor Of North Carolina country pa
per advertiscs for 500, 900 in grecnbacks. Hope
he will get 'cm.
= The European Congress was to meet at Paris
on May 25th. All the great powers had agreed to
it.
= Rev. G. C. Biting, of Alexandria, Va, has,
VIC learn received and will accept call from
Greenvile, S. G.
= The Cincinnati Gazette (do not forget the
name of the paper) informs its readers in recent
issue that the calamities of the South furnish
cause for unmi1ed joy and un6ounded enthusi-
asm."
- A meeting was held at Knoxville, on Thurs
day last, at which committee Of tventy-one was
appointed to visit Cincinnati with the committee
from Charleston to confer upon the subject of the
proposed Cincinnati, Knoxville and Charleston
Railroad.
THE TERM "FENIAN."