The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-07
eIEANrNGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

GLEANINGS FROM OUR EACdANuE"'
- Gen. Joseph Il, Johnston is in Washington,
and while at the War office, conversed freely upon
the military incidents of the war. 1t is under
stood that he will write history of tho. war.
: James Stevens, the Fenian Head:Centre, is
on his way South to organize circles. He will be
in Richmond this week.
= The Tennessee Legislature has just appropri-
ated IN additional $780, 900 to the Knoxville and
Cincinnati Railroad.
= Hon. Henry S. Foote has changed his resi-
dencc from New York to Louisville.
= Gen. John a. Dix is being talked of BY the
Democrats in some parts of New York as theff can
ddate for Governor of New York. Dean Richmond
is also talked Of
- The affair of honor between Major Thomas
Walton and Captain Herald Bellamy, Of Sunfower
county, Miss, which vas to have taken place on
the 18th, was prevented by the arrest Of Bellamy.
Both of these gentlemen were known in the Vir-
ginia army Major Walton distinguished himself
ON several occasions, the staff of General Long
street while Captain Bellamy commanded a COM
pany in the 48th Mississippi regiment of Harris
brigade.
An exchange says John Minor Bolts announced
his intention of being present at the Ferret Con-
yention held at Alexandria recently. It further
asserts that Bolts is not only as dead as Forney,
but that his body is already decomposing- ad-
vises all Alexandrians to hold their noses'' dur
! lg his stay there
= Miss Evans, the authoress, has purchased q
marble mausoeum to be erected to the memory of
the Mobile soldiers who fell in the war.
/ Andrew Johnson, jr., nephew of the President
has been removed from the agency of the Tennes-
see State Penitentiary, by the commissioners of
that institution.
= Mr. Alexander Jackson, for many years con-
nected with the New Orleans Crescent, died on the
Goth. He was native of New York, but had lived
at the South the greater part of his life.
| -Athird attempt has been made to assassinate
COL Heart, of the Memphis Commercial.
= There are in New York city 10000 vagrant
children, the offspring of crime vice, and pauper-
ism.
= Quite number of Radical lawyers in New
England and out West lately have taken to preach
ing 1t pays better.
= We learn from the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Dis
patch that friend of that great and gallant militia
ry leader, is writing history of General Patrick
R. Cleburn. He desires those,of his soldiers who
remember incidents or anecdotes of the Stone
wall of the West," to write out and forward the
same to the editor of that paper.
= The Alabama Pcnitentiary is rapidly filling
with freedmen.
| = The freedmen of Columbus, Miss, have or
ganized fire company.
= The rate of fare on the Georgia road has been
reduced to five cents per mile.
= Crops in Tennessee are backward. Only one
half crop of wheat is anticipated, but corn and
cotton are promising
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer learn from its
Texas correspondent that the prospect for crops in
that State very fine, especially the wheat crop,
which will be the largest made in that State.
: Louisiana country papers give sad accounts
of the floods and distress Provisions are con-
stantly forwarded. Corn, cane and cotton in
twelve parishes are devastated.
= General Wigfall, ex-Confederatc Senator
from Texas, is in London, and about starting out
to lecture on the negro, beginning in the jungles
in Africa and concluding with review of his pre-
sent position in America.
| = One of the Massachusetts State constables,
named Captain H. 7. Johns, is reported to have
absconded, having been charged with black-mailing
liquor sellers, and discharged from his office. He
had been clergyman and Temperance lecturer,
and had just been mustered out as an officer in a
Massachusetts, regiment from Berkshire county.