The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-12-20
News in Brief.

| - General Pillow, who made contracts
with large number of freedmen to work
upon his plantation in Arkansas. is said
to have raised 5000 bales of cotton this
year.
- The Bostonians sent a commission
to Portland, Maine, to investigate the
charge of drunkenness against General
Banks. Suffice it to say they proved 9
pretty "tight" case on him.
Many members of the House think
it probable that the internal tax on cot
ton will be reduced by the present Con-
gress. There is strong outside pressure
in favor of the repeal Of the tax altogeth-
er.
"A clerk in the Post Office at Mont
gomery, Ala, has been for some time past
engaged in purloining small amounts Of
money from letters, stealing stamps, and
little amusements of that kind, for which
he has been lodged in jail, to await hia
trial before the U. s. court.
- Forney has written q letter with
drawing from the candidacy for Senator
from Pennsylvania, and eulogistically
suggests Thaddeus Stevens as the proper
person for that thonor-belieying that this
selection would promote lasting harmony
in their political household. ~ 1910.
Congress cannot go behind its own
blunder. 1t neglected to impose any
disabilities on treason while the offense
was being committed It cannot now
deny to citizens their political rights on
the ground that they have been engaged
in rebellion. Er post faoto laws are not
in fashion in this country.
Now that the Supreme Court OF the
United States has declared the test oath
to be unconstitutional, new work pre-
sents itself to Congress- namely: the re-
construction of the Supreme Court. The
best way 10 reach that will be to abolish
the Constitution altogether, and not tinker
it any more. .e..a ,.,
"A systematic effort on the part of
some speculating scoundrels to swindle
the freedmen out of their cotton by buy
ing it with counterfeit greenbacks, has
Just been brought to light on the Sea Is
lands. Gen. Scott, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, is doing his best to ferret out the
perpetrators Of this piece Of heartless
knavery. 'T
= Judge W. J. Oldham, who was Sem.
ator in the G. S. Congress, from Texas, has
returned from his exile in Mexico. He
has again settled in Texas and has re-
sumed the practice of tho profession Of
the law, at Houston. In this day of her
gloom and disaster, the South needs the
energies and abilities of every one of her
sons.
= The New York Tribune says that
every line of the Presidents message re-
garding restoration reads rs though it
might have been written hundred years
ago. The principles on which the lines
of the message are founded were written
nearly hundred years ago. They were
first written with tho points of the swords
of Washington and tho heroes of the Rev
olutlon, and afterwards inscribed on the
tablets of the Constitution by the same
great hands.
= In Homer, Michigan, q few days
ago, q school mistress named Dyer, whip.
ped pupil who had inadvertently ad-
dressed her without the accustomed nod
of consent, until she had used up three
whips nearly as large rs a mans finger,
She then took ferrule, an inch in diane.
ter, and scourged the boy with this until
her strength gave way. The subject OF
her discipline is covered with abscesses
from head to waist, and his arm has been
rendered useless.