The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-24
News in Brief.

News in Brief.
= General Mcclellan is said to be pre-
pairing history of his campaigns.
A negro at Cincinnati sued the judge
at an election for refusing his vote. He
claimed $4,000 damages, and the jury
gave him one cent.
= The War Department has suspend
ed the payment of over one hundred dis
charged officers who have failed to make
the proper returns
= The two Hebrew congregations of
Charleston, S. c., after a separation of a
quarter of century, have reunited.
= Mr. James r. Slayton, of Chatta-
nooga, publishes Colonel Wade, comman-
dant of the negro garrison at that place,
as unworthy the notice of a gentleman.
"A commission, of which Gen. Mar
Gus J. Wright is member, has been or
dered by Gen. Stoneman to make an in
vestigation of the Memphis riot.
-E. I'll. Marvin, one of tho Bishops
lately elected of the Methodist Church,
served in Gen. Prices army as chaplain.
= The post commandant of the United
States garrison at Macon has ordered all
vagrant negroes to be arrested and put
to work on the streets.
= The New York Herald it is reported,
will soon come out with sixteen pages
double the present size.
=. III the negro organs at the North
arc iubilant over the fact of whate man
being convicted recently on negro evil
dence at Newbern, N. G.
= The cholera is on the Rhino, and in
some places in Franco and Spain, but
there is none in England.
= There is q movement in Congress for
q fortnight's intermission towards the end
of this month.
= The New York World says Groely
has some pretension to personal convic-
tions, while Forney is merely dog that
barks with equal noise at whoever he is
set upon by his last owner.
Con. Rosencranz' name was not in
the list of recent promotion the quarrel
between Grant and Stanton and himself
is said to be deep and bitter.
The young soldier who was killed
at Pocahontas bridge, in Petersburg, the
night of the evacuation, having volun-
teered to fire it, was Cummings Mebane,
son of the late Rev. William Mebane, OF
Madison, n. G.
-"The Hermitage" General Jackson's
estate, has been offered by Tennessee to
tAe United States, conditional upon a
branch of the West Point academy being
located thereon.
= Gen. Dick Taylor arrived at Dab
lonega, Georgia, on the 3Oth ultimo. He is
going to work the gold mines at that
place in connection with some Northern
gentlemen.
= The supreme court of Massachusetts
has decided that revenue stamp is no
part of note, and need not be copied,
and thata noto is valid without it, if it
be not fraudulently omitted.
"A site for cemetery for United
States soldiers has been selected, and is
being laid out on the Seven Pines battle
field. between the Williamsburg and Nino
Mile roads, seven miles east by south OF
Richmond.
= There is another Inspector General
of the Freedman's Bureau going to Tex
as. He has served on the staff of Gen.
Butler, which is said to be an excellent
school for detective.
The Indians are very troublesome
this Spring on the border counties in
Texas. They steal horses, kill cattle, etc.,
to such an extent that they threaten to
break up the settlements.
A dispatch from st. Louis says that
Thomas Il. Wheeler, better knqWn as
Captain Jacobs, a notorious rebel, charg.
cd with killing, at various times, fifteen
or sixteen mon and other like atrocities
during the war, near Vicksburg, has been
sent to the Missouri Penitentiary.
= The New Orleans papers announce
the arrival in that city OF Ex-Governor
Charles Clarke of Mississippi, and state
that, though still using crutches, the vet
eran soldier never looked in finer health.
- The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that it is not necessary
for tax collectors to serve official notice
upon q person before paying his income
tax; but that he must 60 to the collec-
tors Office, obtain a blank and fill it up.
I'm other words he must step up to- the
collectors Office and settle.
The battle field of Franklin, Tenn,
where Hoods men fell by hundreds and
were buried, has been rented by the pro-
prietor to freedmen, and is about to be
egiven to the plow. Every Southern State
has its representatives on this field, and
their friends are ondeavoring to secure
means to remove the bodies before the
t,.ooas of tho Graves are trampled out