The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-08
eLEAN1Nas FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

- It is stated as singular fact that the coun-
terfeiting of the United States currency has reach
ed such perfection that the counterfeit currency IS
regularly redeemed at the Treasury, cancelled and
destroyed, with the rest of the mutilated currency
- It's said that the Falls of Niagara, on the
American side, have undergone quite d change
within the past two weeks, in consequence of the
falling of huge masses Of rock. The centre Of the
fall has gone back about 150 feet, and its form s
almost as near the shape of horse shoe as the Ca
madam Fall.
= His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, has presented the Rev. A. T.
Porter Chairman of the Board of Missions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, o check for the sum
of 81, 900
= Gen. Sherman, It is nor believed, will become
Secretary of War ad interim, on December lst. The
statement that it is necessary for him to resign in
the army is erroneous Genera! Scott and other
army officers have acted as Secretary of War at
different periods in the history of the Government.
Ex-Confederate Postmaster General Reagan
is very strongly in favor of granting negroes the
the right of suffrage and all other rights the same
as VI hite men. He says any man unwilling to do
this is demagogue.
The Columbus Sun learns that the University
of Georgia is in o prosperous condition. The re-
ceipts of the College from the tuition of the stu
dents are between $1,000 and $4,000, and this,
added to the $4,000 of interest guaranteed to the
University by the State enables it to sustain itself
very creditably.
= The pardon of George A. Trenholm, who was
the "rebel' Secretary Of the Treasuryj was granted
at the special request of Major General 0. o. How
ard, Chief of the Freedmen's Bufeau; Major Gen.
eral Daniel E. Sickles, commanding n South Caro-
lina Major General Dix, and number of other
persons of similar military and political promi-
nence.
= The Kentucky Court of Appeals has rendered
decision which is in effect equivalent to de-
claration that aior- General John NJ. Palmer COM
mitted felony while in command of the department
of Kentucky, by aiding the escape of fugitive
slave.
- The New York Times, of Friday, says ''Judge
Underwoods Court at Norfolk, Va, met yesterday.
The charge to the jury delivered, and the Court
adjourned till the first Tuesday IN December fhe
oath of allegiance to the United States was not re-
quired of the jurors"
- Mrs. 8. Pettigru King, daughter of the well
known Hon. J. L. Pettigru, of Charleston. is e1-
pected to give series of readings in ST. Louis in
November.
= The New York Times says: With the presi-
dent removed, and General Grant officially decapi-
tated and the Southern States reduced to terrific
ries, and the Southern Whites held in bondage, and
with Browniow, and Butler, and Phillips '.running
the machine" the condition and fate OF the Re-
public might be confidently foretold.
MIR. Wilmer Mclean advertises for sale "the
house in which General Lee surrendered the army
of Northern Virginia to General Grant, on the 9th
of April, 1865, at Appomattox Court House."