The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-31
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= Ward Beeeher goes for universal suffrage He
is o UniversaIst, here and hereafter
- Albert Lowndes Drayton, an eS-Confederate,
and lately in the employ of the Southern Express
Company, committed suicide near Mobile on We'd
ncsday.
g Dexter, the defaulting treasury agent at Mo-
bile, has been discharged from custody, and the
sentence of the military commission thus nunneo'
Rev. ]. P. B. Wilder, native of Virginia.
lately Missionary Bishop Of Alabama was nnani-
nouslv elected Diocesan of Louisiana, as successor
of Bishop Polk
= The Baltimore american, rabid negro organ,
announces "rebel meeting at Westminster, Ma
rylaud. The "rebels were Andrew Johnsons s
friends and supporters.
- The recent serenade to the President and the
several members of his Cabinet, is reported to havc
been to force his advisers to show their hands.
Mr. Doolitte is said to be clamorous for disrup-
ton.
- Major James F. Milligan, the well-known
chief of the signal corps of General Lees army Of
Northern Virginia, has been offered similar posi-
tion in the Imperial army of Austria, by the Empe-
ror Francis Joseph.
- General Ferry has been elected United States
Senator for Connecticut, to succeed Mr.. Foster, by
the of the State Senate in the vote Of
the House.
- The Northern papers state that Lemuel Cook,
the last of the Revolutionary heroes died on Sun
day night, in Clarendon, Orleans county, at the
age of 1O2 years. He was born in Plymouth Yer
mont.
- Captain Wilkes who captured the two Con-
federate Commissioners from off the British packet
Trent, and who subsequently had to return them
to an English msn-of-war, has bought plantation
| in North Carolina.
| The War Department has detailed an officer to
visit the States of North Carolina, South Caroline
and Georgia. to investigate certain reports relative
to speculation in old iron belonging to the Govern
ment, and to make arrangements for diSposing Of
| the Same.
- Two members of the late Washington Artile-
ry were about to fight duel in New Orleans last
week, but the police captured one Of the principals
| and two of the seconds, and had them bound. Men
who have smelt powder on the field Of battle, like
the members Of that company, need not be fighting
duels.
- There ore only two States in the Union where
the negro is allowed to vote without property quail
| i6cations. They are Vermont and New Hamp-
SHIRE the former of which hos eighty negro voters,
and the latter one hundred and ninety.
= General Joseph E. Johnston was on the 1th
instant elected President of the Alabama and Ten
nessee River Railroad There was no opposition
to his election, and the Directors were authorized
to fix his salary ct any sum not less than ak thou
sand dollars year. The Selma Tines says that it
IS confidently expected that he will accept the posi-
ton.
= The Legislature of Georgia, ct its late session,
appropriated 100000 to the purchase of corn for
the INDECENT and suffering poor of that State The
agent appointed by the Governor to make this pur-
chase, is now en- route to St. Louis where he will
doubtless accomplish the object of his mission.
"A Wisconsin paper tells story of on aboli-
tjonist of that State who came South to fight for
freedom and the Union lin the capacity of sutler
or quartermaster, no doubt,) and secured, among
other plunder, young negro, whom he carried
home to Wisconsin, kept him hard at work for sew
eral months, and then swapped him off to another
abolitionist for dog
- After the Hon. Preston S. Brooks saned Sum-
ner some years ago, Sumner, in his sworn state
ment of the matter, says that when he was lying
bathed in blood, etc., he felt o pressure of the
hand, sOlicd seemed to come from Campbell, Of Ohio
The other day Sumner was the only Senator that
voted against the confirmation of this same Camp
bell, of Ohio, as Minister TO Mexico
- Later News confirms the report Of the death
of ex- Governor Henry w. Allen, Of Louisiana from
the effects of wounds received in the late war. At
the time of his DEATH he the editor of the Mex
lean Times, paper published in the city of Me1i-
co, in the English language. He had never recov-
cred from his old wounds, and was preparing to
visit Europe for his health when death interyened
and closed his career.
= at o recent meeting Of the colored residents
Of Helena, Ark, to discuss the means of educating
their children, Judge Hanly, who was member OF
the Confederate Congress- is reported to have made
speech, in which he took decided ground in favor
of negro suffrage. declaring it the best means of
solving the reconstruction problem, and expressed
his entire willingness to be taxed for the support of
colored schools.
= Seven different commissions will soon be en-
gagged in ascertaining the facts relative to the
Memphis, Tennessee riot. Congress has appointed
commission, Gen. Stoneman another, Gen. How
ard third, Gen. Fisk, fourth, the city Council
fifth, the white citizens sixth, and the negroes
seventh.
One of the henlthiost symptoms in the South is
the establishment of numerous factories of cloth
and iron in almost all of the eleven States North
ern capital and skill are going SdIa up
kind -Jf general prosperity and progress which