The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-07-05
nrEaNINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

aLEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
- The notorious Forney has declared himself
candidate for the United States Senate, and is max
ing speeches in advocacy of his claims
- There is no prospect of an early adjournment
Of Congress.
Lent's New York Circus, gets an annual salary of
$4,000.
= Mr.. Grinnell picked up a piece of the cane
with which Gen. Rosseau whipped him, and said
he proposed to present it to Mrs. Grinnell
- The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
are understood to be aversc to the confirmation of
the nominations of ex-Governors Holden and John
son to foreign missions.
- Private Miles ORiley is the author of DR..
Craven's book on the prison life of jeff. Davis-so
says the Albany Journal.
The colored citizens of Philadelphia held
mass meeting on Thursday evening, to protest
against their exclusion from the street cars.
= The Lexington, Kentucky, Gazette has been
received in Democratic interests.
- The committee appointed to raise by sub
scription million of dollars from the citizens of
Cincinnati, to secure the building of the Southern
railroad, have procured subscriptions amounting to
about S860,000.
A most remarkable trial is now going on in
one of the courts in London, in which even the
right of Queen Victoria to sit upon the throne is
brought into dispute.
- General Cass was estimated to be worth from
four to FIVE millions.
A Presbyterian clergyman living at Medina,
New York. chastised his child three years old, for
two hours, on account of its refusing to say its
PRAYERS The little sufferer died from the effects
of the hideous cruelty.
- Horace Greely suggests that the o. S. Senate
be reconstructed as follows: Each State with less
than 5Oo 900 enfranchised population, one SENATOR
over 5OO,O 900 and under 100000, two Senators;
for each additional 100000, oness moro.
- Senator Lane of Kansas is quito ill, being
threatened with paralysis. He has received leave
of absence for the remainder of the first session OF
the present Congress.
= The case of General Blair against the judge
of election in Missouri, who refused to receive his
vote without taking the iron-clad oath, was decided
AGAINST the General 1t is the first decision in the
State of Missouri involving the validity of voters
oath.
- A lump of gold taken from the North Carroll
ma gold mines, weighing five pounds, is on exhioi-
ton at Statesville, North Carolina 1t is the larg
est lump found in the State since 1928.
= Colonel John Taylor Wood, grandson of
General Rachary Taylor, and Captain Wilkinson,
both of the late Confederate navy, are engaged in
the commission business at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
and are doing we'll in business.
- Gen. McLaws, of the late Confederate army,
recently elected Clerk of the Superior Court of
Richmond county, Georgia, has received IN order
from Gen. Tillson, commanding in that State, for
bidding him to hold or exercise any civil or poiti-
cal office.
- An Austrian officer has arrived at Mobile,
empowered to offer positions in the Austrian army
to ex-Confederates. 1t is throught that quite
number will avail themselves of the opportunity to
plunge again into the exciting scenes Of war.
- Gen. JAS F. Shields is to stump Missouri for
the Conservative ticket 1t is said that he is to be
o candidate for United States Senator from Mis-
souri,.
- An American watch facto~y at Elgin, Ill.,
with $3.50, 900 capital will be ready to make sixty
watches per day by September. Most of the
stockholders were formerly workmen OF Wal
than.
- The cotton crop of Mississippi is estimated
ut one fourth the usual amount. 1t is in fine
condition.
- General Banks stated in the House of Repre-
sentatves that he had reason to believe our Gov
ernment would ask from Great Britain the release
of the Fenian prisoners taken in Canada.
- The bill to reimburse the State of West vir-
ginia for expenditures in enrolling, equipping and
paying troops during the war; has received the
Presidents signature.
- The President has approved the bill extend
ing the provisions of the Homestead Law to oil the
public lands in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
Arkansas and Florida, with provision that for
two years no entry shall be made for more than
eighty acres. The bill permits negroes as well as
whites to acquire homesteads on these lands.
- William White, of Henrico county, Virginia,
one of the prisoners at the Dry Tortugas, who was
recently pardoned, has arrived at Memphis. He
is quite you'll, and had been confined on the is
land about two years Oh the charge of being spy
during the war.
- The Franklin (Tennessee) Reviev says that
the Confederate dead from the battle field, and for
FIVE miles about Franklin, have been removed and
reinterred in the McGavock Cemetery. The num-
ber inferred is 1856 Head and foot boards are
placed to each grave, and very few are unknown.
- The Rosseau and Grinnell Investigating Com
mittee have done nothing, owing to the absence of
the two members of the Committee. Both of the
principals have returned, and are anxious that the
matter should be disposed of. The members of the
Committee are not in favor of expelling Rosseau.