The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-21
eIEANrNGs FRoM OUR EXCHANGES.

at General Scotts funeral
= There are said to be ut present only 4S0 SOL
diers in Georgia, and good order prevails through
out the State
- TIE wheat, corn, and fruit crops, in East
Tennessee, are reported thrifty and promising.
- The Secretary of the Treasury has received
from Decatur, Alabama, specimens of new counter
felt $50 and 500. The lettering is somewhat
blurred the paper poor, and color Of note too gh1
as compared with the genuine.
= Governor Patton, in his late letter to Con-
gress, makes the startling that 'hefe
are fully twenty thousand widows and SIXTY thou-
sand orphans (whites) in Alabama, ana that three-
fourths of them ere utterly destitute!
- Silver has been discovered on farm near
Greenyille, Augusta county, Va, and old miners
pronounce the developments very rich.
- There is project on foot among the Israelites
of the United States to build 9 magnificent college,
for the purpose of educating the young men pro-
Tossing that faith in all the scientific and classical
branches, but particularly in Jewish Theology.
= The indianapolis Journal says that the Me-
tropolitan Literary Association, of that place, Of
which, no doubt, the editor of the Journal is o
member in good standing, "contemplates max
ing an excursion to the historic spot known as the
Mammoth Cave, about the 25th instant"
- 1t is stated that the negro troops stationed at
Fort Smith, Ark, are mutinous because they are
under orders to March to New Mexico. consid-
erable number of them arc under arrest at one
time there was danger of fight between the white
and black troops. A number of the blacks swore
they would rather die than go to New Mexico, and
loaded their guns to resist the officers. They wero
finally quelled, however.
- The Malay Prince, now visiting England, re-
pisters himself at the hotels as Datu Tumonggong
Abubakar Sir-Marahaiah, of Johore.
- The counties of Edgecombc, Ghowan and
Wilkes, North Carolina, have resolved to pay the
gold value of the debts contracted by them respect
lively during the war
= From India, we arc sorry to learn that Mr..
Rustomjee Jamesetjee Jeejecbhoy has resigned his
scat in the Council through i'll health.
- Many of the most experienced physicians of
New York are said to have expressed the convic-
ton that the disease at quarantine is not cholera
of the Asiatic Type at ALL and that the ceases" in
the city, about which so much fuss is making, were
only an aggravated diarrhea or at the worst,
cholera morbus.
- The Mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia. who
was suspended from Office week ago, because he
was not pardoned was on Thursday, restored to
his full political and civil rights by being pardoned
by the President The Mayor was Confederate
officer captured at Fort Fisher.
- General Beauregard visited the Liverpool Ex-
change on tho 30th ult., where his presence be-
coming known, great interest was excited, and the
news-room rapidly filled. He was applauded on
leaving, and considerable numbers of people fol-
lowed him through the streets.
It is now said that Gen. Joe. E. Johnston has
declined the Presidency of the Tennessee River
and Alabama Railroad, and remains ut the head of
the National Express Company, and is to reside in
Baltimore.
= Harvesting has commenced in the northwest
ern part of Georgia. The wheat crop is an average
one The corn prospects are fair. Not much at
tention paid to cotton.
- Heavy freshets have followed the late rains in
Alabama. 1t is estimated that the cotton crop on
the Alabama river has been damaged to the extent
of so, 900 bales The river still very high.
- In the United States District Court, at Mont
eomery, on the 5.h instant, Judge William G.
Jones, indicted for treason, was admitted to bail
in the sum of $4,000. The case of G. W. Gayle,
indicted for endeavoring to incite conspiracy to
assassinate President Lincoln, was continued until
the November term.
- In one of the lower counties of Georgia, says
the Columbus Sun, one individual paid sixty-one
thousand five hundred dollars internal revenue
tax for April last. Poor man, what consolation
but nevertheless, hurrah for Georgia.
= The hog cholera and army worm are troubling
farmers in different parts of Illinois. The potato
bug is making serious havoc in some sections of
Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois
= The Radicals of Missouri are still indicting
and fning ministers of the gospel for preaching
without taking the "test OATH"
"A number of prominent and well-known gen.
tlcmen of New York arc said to have subscribed
q handsome sum recently for the benefit of Mr.
Davis.
- The Pull Mall Gazette gives currency to the
rumor that the Emperor Napoleon has written to
the Emperor Macmillan, asking him to give over
the administration of the Mexican customs to the
French authorities, as guarantee for the payment
of the interest on thee per cent loan, and adding
that unless this is done it will be necessary to re-
call the French troops.
= About one o'clock Tuesday night, says the
Petersburg Inder, fire broke out in the office of
the Daily Express, on Bank street, and rapidly
spreading from that office to the building adjoin-
ing, occupied as q lawyers office, consumed nearly
all the inAammable material of both buildings in
the course of hour. The Express lost its types,
presses, books-cverything. Both buildings wero
insured, but to what extent is not known. The
proprietors of the Daily Express were insured on
tLe;r nr;nt1nc rnaterials huildiurs &c. for some