The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-25
News Items.


General saxtOn being mustered out, General r.
r. Scott Of Ohio, comes South to take his place.
Hon. c. G. Mcmmnger, Secretary of the Treas
ury of the late Confederate statcs is at Wizards
Hotel, Washington.
All the horses loaned by the United States Gov
ernment to the farmers in North Carolina, last
summer, have been ordered in.
The Augusta (Ga.) Consatutionalit states that
the National Bank recently started in that city is
doing heavy business.
George Wilkins Kendall, formerly of the Pickay-
unc is on visit to New Orleans, after seven years
absence in Texas.
Gen. James Longstrcct, of Alabama, has formed
copartnership, at New Orleans, in the commits
sion business, with. the young Mcssrs. Owen, who
did good service in the artillery.
General Howard has received letters showing
that there is great Improvement in the relations
existing between the freedmen and their former
masters in Georgia and Alabama.
The entire number of National Banks now in ex-
istencc in the United States, is sixteen hundred
and twenty-six, wholly absorbing the three hun
dred millions of capital authorized by Congress-
A bag containing FIVE thousand dollars in gold
part of the rece1t Adams Express robbery, waa,
found on Thursday near Coscob bridge, on the
New Haven Railroad.
AT Columbus, Mississippi, an oil and mining
company has been organized to operate in that
State and Alabama They have made important
discoveries, and have bought 5000 acres of land.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, ESQ, of Chicago, Illinois,
has made donation to Washington College of ten
thousand dollars rcservng the privilege OF increas-
ing it if this expression of interest be met with
corresponding contributions from other quarters.
PENNSYLVANIA asks Congress for 100000 to re-
pay the cost of rcpclng the rebel invasion of the
State. An attempt was made in the House to re-
fer this claim to the committee of which Mr. Ste
vens is chairman.
The story of the attempted assassination of Sen
ator Wade turns out to have been altogether more
of a farce than tragedy. The man who called on
him, Mt the time stated, was a half-crazed indi-
ydual, who would hurt nobody, not even Wadea a
shadow although his peculiar demeanor might
frighten old women and children.
Nlajor-General Thomas has approved requisl-
tion made by Governor r. NJ. Patton, on the War
Department in Washington city, for arms and am
munition for one hundred and four companies of
militia f(two for each county in the State), and
when these arc received, and the State troops thor
ouchly organized, the Federal forces will bo with
drawn from the State.
General Robert E. Lee is now on q visit 10 Rich
mond in connection with the interests of Washing
ton College.
General Lee is quietly performing his duty in
diligent efforts for the Advancement of the inter-
csts of the institution, to the admiration of the
students and of oil who know anything of his e1-
alted worth. The prospects of Washington Col
lege are very encouraging.
A Joint resolution has passed the Indiana Lcgis-
lature requiring the Governor, or his substitute
to enforce the thirteenth article Of the Constitu-
tion, prohibiting the immigration Of negroes into
the State, and authorizing him to call upon the
militia for the purpose, and holding him to fines
penalties and imprisonments if he does not en-
force the law Poor Sambo fares but lily among
his pretended friends
Various newspapers have given an impression
that Senator Wilson'S bill for remodeling the reg
ular army will produce standing force of ninety
thousand men. According to the terms of the bill
there are less than eighty regiments, all tod pro-
vidcd for, and by company organization of sixty
four men, rank and file, these regiments cannot be
more than seven hundred strong, thus giving an
army of ffty-fve thousand.
A letter is published from Gen. W. T. Sherman,
in which he .contradcts the general impression
that his appointment as Superintendent of the
Military Academy, at Alexandria, Louisiana, be-
fore the war, was due TO Bragg or Beaurcgard,
and denies that when he left Louisiana he was
pledged not to oppose secession. He concludes by
saying: wish the South woll. ''If have been a
scourcc, then how much better that it was so than
Butler or some other of that school,"
\ rumor has been prevalent at Fortress Monroe
during the past few days of plot being in course
of perfection there for the liberation of Jefferson
Davis. According to reports, the scheme contem-
plates the arrival there of the intended rescucrs
singly, on board trading vessels, so as to ward of
suspicion. The authorities have consequently in
stituted searches of the craft in the harbor but
there have not yet been no arrests made, as no
person of a suspicious appearance has been dis
covered.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S-In the Senate Ne
smith, of Oregon, made speech advocating gen
crous policy towards the South Wade, of Ohio,
followed at length, endorsing the theory of equal
rights of all men before the law.
The House was engaged all day in the discus
sion of the bill of free suffrage in the District OF
Columbia. The bill finally passed, giving the clcc-