The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-28
eLEAN1rGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

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GLEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
= The Richmond Times says an order has been
issued at Washington releasing Dick Turner, the
turnkey of Libby Prison during the war.
- Gen. Oserhaus has been confirmed Consul
to Lyons.
= The House of Representatives has rejected
IN amendment to the Cors.tituton, proposed by
Thad. Stephens, providing for an export duty on
cotton.
- The Radical Grinnell lately martyred by Gen
eral Rousscaus rattan cane, was defeated for re-
nomination to Congress.
= The new Captain General of Cuba has issued
o circular expressing the determination of the
Queen of Spain to cx:erminate the slave trade and
his OWE resolve to enforce the law on the subject
- 1t is said Gov. Morton, of Indiana, will not
call an extra session of the Legislature to ratify
the constitutional amendment, whatever other
Governors may do in matter.
- Gov. A. ]. Hamilton, of Texas, is in WASH
ington He says the free labor system is working
well, and that the cotton crop, owing to tie great
amount of rain which has fallen, will not reach
one-haIf crop.
- The Milledgeville (Gcorgia) Recorder says:
"Camden District, South Carolina, lost by Shcr
mans army 2,1OO gold watches, besides pccks of
silver spoons, forks, &C. These gold watches are
to-day scattered through the whole North"
A meeting of negroes was lately held in Cher
okee county, Alabama, where they bound them
selves together not to work for less than two dol
lars per day during the present harvest upon
peaalty of receiving fifty lashes. Consequently,
the negroes are idle, and white men are gathering
harvest at one dollar and fifty cents per day.
= The coal, petroleum and mineral resources
of the Red river country above Shreveport are at
tractiug considerable attention.
"A formidable riot broke out at City Point,
Virginia, on Sunday night, between the soldiers
and the residents of that place. large number on
both sides were wounded. In the melee there was
a general robbery of stores and dwellings. The
citizens took refuge in flight to Richmond. The
cause of the riot is not stated.
- There is proposition before Congress to al-
low the Secretary of the Treasury to sell remove
the buildings and other property of the branch
mints at Charlotte, North Carolina, and Dahloncga
Co., which has been agreed to by the House, but
it will encounter decided opposition in the Finance
Committee of the Senate, to which it has been re-
ferred
An old man committed suicide at Patterson,
New Jersey, on his first wife's grave, because he
didn't like his second. letter was found in his
pocket containing a feeling alluson to his recent
troubles, and concluding with touching request
to be buried in tho same grave with his dead wife,
Secretary Seward has expressed the opinion
privately, that collision Of European Empires is
unavoidable and inevitable.
1t is said that james 7. Brady has been en-
gagged rs counsel for General Sweeney in the
matter of his arrest for violation Of the neutrality
laws.
The right of colored people to ride in street
cars, in Philadelphia, has not yet been conceded
Another case is now pending in the courts on that
question!
The University of North Carolina has conferred
the degree of Doctor of Laws on President john
son.
- Johnsons Island, Lake Erie, the abiding
place of many unfortunate Confederates during
the war, has been finally abandoned by the mill
tary, and all the appurtcnanccs of war removed.
- It's rumored that the New York Legislature
will be convened in August to ratify the constitu-
tional amendment.
= The Richmond Times says that Bishop Early,
and the others who suffered more severely by the
late disaster the Danville Railroad, are in fair
way of recovering and will soon be able to be to-
ken to their homes.
- Charles T. Chamblin, of Leesburg, formerly
of the Eighth Virginia regiment coughed up few
days since minnie ball by which he was wounded
in the throat at the battle of Seven Pines, June l,
1862:
- Ore of the objects of Gen. Grants visit to
st. Louis was to dispossess tenant occupying
some property belonging to the General, and who
refused to give it up, being " determined to fight
it out on that line all Summer.
- The friends and counsel Of Jefferson Davis
have renewed with vigor an application to- the
President for the parole Of Jefferson Davis.