The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-10
aLEANqNes FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

GLEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
- General Meade is reported to be seriously I'll
;at Eastport.
= The seacoast plantations Of Georgia are being
restored to. .ltheir owners.
- Madison, Wisconsin, is receiving the benefit
Of large number Of American citizens of African
descent
- The Radical 'editor of the Lafayette (Indiana9
Journal has been removed from the postofice at
that place by President Johnson.
The handsome residence OF Colonel Willism
Johnston, was burnt at Charlotte on Friday night
last by on inceudiary.
"A disordcry negro demonstration occurred
at Halifax oounty, North Carolina, last week,
which was fortunately quieted by the officers of
the Freedmen's Bureau.
= John Robinson, of cirons 1etoriety, shot by
guerillas at Crittonden, KY, April 2S died on the
S0th.
Gen. Finnegan has located at Ferandna, Fla,
| and is devoting himself to developing the future
metropolis Of that State.
- Dr. Daily Postofice Agent, says Louisiana is
the best reconstructed State in the South.
- Colonel R. v. Montague, late collector Of the
port Of Mobile, died last week.
All the Republican members Of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs in tho House Of Representa-
ti7es except General Banks, voted for the report
endorsing the Mexican loan Of the Juarez rebellion.
1t is rumored that Mrs. stover, President
Johnsons daughter is shortly to be married to the
Hon. Edward Cooper, member Of Congress from
Tennessee.
- Edward A. Swain, Of New Orleans, captured
whilst an officer Of the Confederate States navy,
on tho high aeae, and charged with priVateering,
has been released from Imprisonment BY the
President.
- Captain T. ". Greenwood, Q, 8. A., is on
trial before court martial at Mobile, for receiv-
ing property stolen by soldiers at Blaaea Springs,
Alabama knowing i. to be stolen, and screening
tAe thieves.
= Since the passage Of the Civil Rights bill, the
demand for manufactured perfumes has become
very great in Washington, and prices have risen.
Tho Texas papors refer to the exception,
made in the Presidents proclamation in the case Of
that State, under the caption: "To1as still the
lone STAR ..
Campbell, of the 18th Tennessee Volunteers, who
killed Gen. John H. Morgan, after he had surren-
dered, has received an appointment, upon the re-
commcndation of Judge Patterson, Senator elect
| from Tennessee.
- Mrs. Ball, of Warren county, North Caro-
lima, who vas ordered to be sent to the peniten-
tary q short time since by military commission
| at Raleigh, she having killed negro in self-de-
fence, has been released by President Johnson
= A raid was made last week on five or six Of
the heaviest lottery policy dealers in New York,
at the instance Of victim who alleges that he has
lost over $40, ,OOOby their fraudulent and illegal
transactions.
= The Henderson, Texas, Times, advances the
| best argument yet given for the division of that
State 1t says "0ne advantage at least would
be gained-we would not have so many fools to-
gether-in two separate bodies they would per-
| haps be less able to do mischief"
- When the remains Of General Robert Hatton,
late of the Confederate army, were being borne
through tho streets Of Nashville the other day, q
1 group of United States officers, who happened to
be near the line of the procession, raised their hats
and stood uncovered until tho funeral cortege had
passed.. :.
= The editor of the New Bedford (Niassachu-
! sctts) Mercury has had interview with Judge
| Clifford since his return from Washington, and
saws if the trial of Jefferson Davis takes place, it
will probably bo in Norfolk, Virginia, and adds,
eve feel confident that it will not be entered upon
unless tho object which the Government has IN
view can be attained by it,"
At recent mass meeting of the Johnson
party at St. Louis, letter from Majo General F.
p. Blair, Jr., was read, in which he claims that
England or France would be proud to accept as
equal citizens al men who had acted SO nobly and
gallantly as tho Southern people. He says that
those nations would be happy to claim as their
own men like Lee and Johnston and then he
asks: 'would they fail to honor and cherish, as
part Of their own glory, the memory of that illus
trous thropg of the dead led by 'StonewalP Jack
son ?" Mr.. Blair does himself honor by such
sentiments.
-EY-Senator Wigfall of Texas, who succeeded
| in escaping from the South at tho end Of the war;
has been tho subject of many surmises and In
ouiries by the Press of the country. These are
| now sct at rest by the London correspondent OF
Boston paper. According to this authority, Wig
fall reached the English capital some time IN
March, since which he and his wife have received
many civilitics from aristeoratic sympahsers with
the cause of secession.
= The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says the
recent troubles in Northern Georgia, have been
oreatly oyerratcd and that the measures adopted
4 will speedily bring them to an end. 1t has the
best authority for saying that these acts Of law
lossncss have been exclusively confined to the fen
counties which lio on the Tennessee border, and
that tho parties chiefly implicated ere outlaws from
our sister State