The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-30
News in Brief.

upon the Government by tobacco dealers, by which
600 yearly has been kept from the National
Treasury.
- Gen: Miles-the Sir Hudson Lowe Of Ameri-
ca-hss been appointed a Colonel in the regular
army, and assigned to the command of the Fourth
Regiment, negro troops.
- The Radical Sectional Convention is to meet
! in Philadelphia on Monday next, Sept. Sd.
= The editor of the Macon (Ga.) Jomna! and
Messenger says he has information that there IS q
very general excitement among the freedmen IN Ia
vor of going to Liberia, and that an expedition on
o large scale is organizing.
| - The hog cholera is prevailing in Boyle coun-
ty, Kentucky, and destroying vast numbers OF
swine.
- The number Of officers needed to supply the
full list of the medical corps of the United States
army is sixty. Forty-si1 of this number we're Gre
ated by the new army law.
- About half million dollars have boon sent
to Portland.
- Seven thousand negroes convened IN Choc-
taw, Ala. to discuss the subject Of emigration.
- The paid police system has been abolished in
", IN. "
tablished.
- Thaddeus Stevens, in his speech to the Lam
caster Convention, said that President Johnson is
"worse than the man who is incarcerated at For
tress Monroe"
= 1t is reported out West that the town Of Mon
roe, Ohio, has been blown away by hurricane
Anybody finding such town will please return it
to its former position, and no questions asked.
- An Alabama negress gave birth to four chill
dren, lately "Two were girls; the other boys;
The woman was doing we'll" The New York
World says she will probably never do any better.
I - Sumner is at the White Mountains and some
wag says that he has declared his intention to re-
main in New Hampshire until the Legislature
strikes out the word "whitc."
- The preparation for publication of the roll of
honor, which involves the important task Of COL
lecne the records and information in reference to
the dead of the Union armies from oil parts of the
country, has been assigned to Lieut.. Col. j. NJ.
Moore, A. 0. NJ Already over $4,000 names of de-
ceased soldiers have been alphabetically arranged
and published.
\ - The Cincinnati people ere excited over the
kind of water they drink They think they can
see something queer in the Ohio river
"A writer says: 81 think that 800, 900 bales
is quite large estimate for the growing crops, as
many things may yet occur to reduce the crop to
less than 100000"
- The Great Seal of the State Of Missouri has
been found. 1t was dug up from the bottom of
well near Marshall, Texas, at place where Ex-
Gov Reynolds headquarters were at one time es-
tablished.
= Rev. Henry Vincent, one of the most popular
lecturers in England, is coming to America in the
autumn, to spend o few months TO study our ooun-
try our people and our institutions. He is of the
very best class of Engishmen-
- It is stated that the Commissioner of the
Freedmens Bureau proposes cutting off all rations
|, now being issued to the destitute in the Southern
States, excepting those in hospitals and asylums,
, thus throwing the burden of support of the poor
now being taken care of by the Bureau upon the
I local authorities This includes both whites and
blacks.
| - Mrs. F. Polk, widow of the late Gen. Leoni-
das Polk, intends in future to devote herself to the
cause of female education. With this view she has
, removed to Columbia, Tenn, and associated her
self with the Rev DR.. Beckett Vice Principal Of
t the Columbia Female Institute. Her daughter
! Miss Susan Polk, will be similarly employed
(; - Gen. Tillson, Superintendent of the Freed
mems Bureau in Georgia, is urged as proper per-
son to be placed in charge of the Bureau, rice Gen
r Howard, whose withdrawal as Chief of Bureau is
now conceded.
|. - Gen. Joseph R. Davis, of Canton, Miss, has
/ gone to visit his uncle at Fortress Monroe. Gen.
Davis was Military Secretary of President Davis in
the early part of the war, and subsequently COM
: manded brigade in the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia.
- Cotton picking has commenced on Red River,
and the prospects are thought to be good for hall
Q of an ordinary crop. The reports from the sugar
crop of Louisiana are not so favorable, and very
reduced yield is looked for.
0 - The New York Herald calls upon the busi-
ness men of that city to meet in convention and
ratify the platform of the Philadelphia Convention
4 on the ground that the material and financial in
terests of the country depend upon the recon
strrction of the Union and the admission Of South
ern representatives in accordance with the decls
rations there put forth.
- "Perley," in his dispatch from Philadelphia
to the Boston Journal, speaking of the visit PAID
by delegates from South Carolina to the Massa
chusetts delegation, says:
oThen Gen. Custer came in, and was introduced
to Gen. McGowan, of the Confederate army
After cordially shaking hsnds, Custer said Gen
eral, NE have been looking at each other Otter
during the war through field glasses and amid thu
smoke of battle. If we can now shake hands, these
civilians who have stayed at their homes IN safety
. surely should"
- The New York Neps says: "Tho President