The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-07
From Washington.


WASHINGTON, May 20.
The United States Consul at Liverpool
has officially advised the State Depart
ment that the steamer City OF Dublin
would carry back to New York $4,000
bushels of wheat of American expectation.
The President has appointed William
Faxon, Chief Clerk of the Navy Depart
ment Assistant Secretary of tho Navy,
vice Captain Fox, resigned: The latter
has been nominated as additional Secre-
tary of the Navy, for six months, under
the law just passed.
T. C.. Commingsworth made an extra:
ordinary run of 1886 points in game OF
billiards to-day.
f.. B. C. Smith, of Louisiana, has
been appointed Consul at Athens.
The Department of State has received
despatches from the United States Minis
ter at Paris, which mentions that French
men who have been naturalized in the
United States, and who may be in France,
are liable to CONSUMPTION, but if they will
report to the department in which their
names are enrolled, and produce their pa.
pers of naturalization, their names will
probably be erased. 90
WASHINGTON, May 80.
The State Department learns that no
Austrians have been sent TO Mexico, and
that none will be sent
The national colors are displayed at
halfmast, from the departments and
other public buildings, in respect to the
memory of Gen. Scott.
II foroo of tho Nrpa SurV ia
engaged in receiving transfer of deposits
of dishurring officers from the National
Banks to.the United States Treasury and
Sub-Treasury.
Official orders respecting the death of
Gen. Scott, and the honors to be paid to
his memory, have been issued to the De-
partments. A large number of the most
distinguished officers in the service have
been detailed to attend the funeral at
West Point on Friday. The Depart
ments and Custom Houses will be closed
on that day, as mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased.
Gen. Grant announced the death OF
Gen. Scott in general orders, in which he
saws, as the vigor of his lite, whether in
peace or war, had been devoted to the
service of the country he loved so well, SO
in his age his country gave him in return
that veneration, reverence and esteem
which was the highest reward nation
can give. His memory will never fade
from the minds of those who had rever-
enced him so long. AS testimony OF
respect, officers will llwear the usual badge
of mourning for six months on the left
arm and the hilt of their swords.
WASHINGTON, May 81.
1t is said that the report Of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, will show the total
sales of nearly $3O,0O0,O 900 Gold since the
first, at 30a, and that no Gold was sold
in March and April, for less than I'll
Among the recent pardons, is that of w.
D; Simpson, Congressman from South
Carolina.
The Senate has confirmed the appoint
.ment of James Wilson, of Indiana, as Min
lister &c. Venezuela. VIM. Taxan, Conn.,
and Capt. G.. F. Fox, as assistant Secreta-'
ries of the Navy. James Ready, OF New
Orleans, Assessor ofthe Internal Revenue.
It is untrue as published, that the Presi-
dent does especially object to the resolu-
tion of the Reconstruction Committee
now pending the Senate. He adheres to
his own programme of reconstruction.
The Consul at Liverpool, writes to the
State Department May 18th: Two weeks
ago, 1 advised OF the shipment to New
York of Is, 1000 bushels of Wheat, Ameri-
can expectation. The steamship City
Cork, which sails tomorrow takes 49S
sacks of French Flour, and is the first in
stance of such shipment for this Port
to the United States and is probably the
first time that Flour was ever shipped
from Europe to America.
The Secretary sent to the House to-
day in compliance with. Gen. Whittlesey's s
request, the reports of Stoedman and Full
lerton on the Freedmen's Bureau.
Whittlesey, in reply, denies that they
made a thorough investigation or had
represented the good it had done, and
that their report is unfair and unjnst
-"Logan," who was in Louisville,
My, few days since, in a letter to the
Mississippi Standard, thus writes Of Geo.
D. Prentice, the world.renowned editor
of the Journal:
He is a homely and shabby looking