The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-01-31
Ghanings- from our Exchanges.


.eiary Committee is taking iiapeachment evidence.
3 The Empress Carlottas health Is said to re
.much improved, there aot being the slighte* men,
tai arrangement apparent. 6 = e
J Gen. Sterling Prices fsfoads nre arranging to
buy him $4,000 house in St. Louis. A sterling
price for house and house for Sterling Price.
"A meeting vas held in Warrenton, Virginia,
on Monday last foe thep purpose Of sending corn to
the destitute of South Carolina.
- General Hood has requested that the fund
subscribed for purchasnga Texas lhomesiead for
him be given for religious purposes Ho says he
wishes to live by his own industry.
-J.C. Cole drew prize of $4,000 at gift
concern in Covington, Kentucky. They won't
give it to him, and he has commenced suit to OBJ
tain it. 49,,
General Grant has announced his intention to
visit Europe this year, and will probably sail in
April next SO as to be present at the Paris expo.
sition. He will take his entire family with him.
= The State of Maine has, through her Legis-
lature ordered "the repeal Of that portion of the
statutes prohibiting in Maine the marriage of o
white person with an Indian, negro or mulatto."
- The eolored population of Petersburg, Vir-
gna, ore taking measures TO provide for the indi-
gent of their own class, and propose to establish
soup-house for that purpose.
The Chicago papers are full Of local items,
detailing murders, rapes, suicides, burgaries, rob-
berries, seductions, etc. Chicago is nice city to
live in provided one don't want to live very long.
- Hon. E. D. Washburne, Of Illinois, will soon
sail for Europe intending to be absent about three
months. He is said to be suffering from spinal
disease and goes for the purpose Of obtaining
medical assistance.
= Judge Perkins, Of Columbus, Mississippi,
died recently, in the eighty sixth year Of his age.
He gave not less than $4,000, Of which sum he
placed 100000 in the hands Of the directors Of the
Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina.
A Gotham journal states that the prices Of
the absolute neccssaries Of life are higher now
than during the same time last year, -four costing
from two to four, ,dollars more per barrel, and
whi,key nearly twenty cents more per gallon.
= The Raleigh STANDARD is reproducing extracts
from Confederate papers published beforethe close
Of the war Its object of course is to do away
with the prejudices and enmities engendered by
the conflict and re-establish the era of good feel
ing"
- The New York Post (Radical) does not join
in the "hue and cry against the Supreme Court,
but concludes that "the more temperate and sensi-
BILE part of the community accepts them as9nevi-
table, because in strict conformity with the Con-
stitution.' - - -
An exchange says that the expenses Of the
Indian Bureau last year amounted to $sl, 100000,
AMI the result was thekilling Of 30 Indians Rather
expensive, if killing Indians is the business Of the
Bureau, but we thought its idea was to take of
them.
- .sSimon Cameron" says IN exchange, "began
life as journeyman printer" We are. not to un-
derstand by this that he literally entered the world
with composing stick in his hand, but only that
he went to the case as soon as he was old enough
to know how to steal sorts and duplicate his proof
Wendell Phillips said in speech at Albany,
that if Southern Representatives were admitted to
Congress; they would distribute Confederate money
freely to secure ON assumption Of the Confederate
debt; and that he knew one Massachusetts Repre-
sentative who could not resist such; an argument
for six hours
"A Kentucky newspaper states that at the re-
cent settlement of accounts with the treasury by
the sherifs Of the various "wolfscalp counties of
that State, not dollar of money was paid over;
These sherifs liquidatcd tho entire taxation of
their county with wool-scalps, for each of which,
AZ. of iLo
State pays small amount. ,..s-
-. The Charlottesville ,(va.) Chronicle says:
"Aunt Milly," colored woman, formerly belong
ing to Captain James NJ. Harris, residing near
Roekfsh Gap, in Nelson county, died at the resi-
dence Of that gentleman the 7th instant, in the
one hundred and thirty.si1th year of her age. She
was cotemporary Of Pope, Swift, and Boiling
broke, though probably she never heard of them.
- In his commentaries on the Constitution,
Judge Story referring to the powers and duties of
the President, says "In the exercise of his poiti
cal powers, he is to use his own discretion and is
accountable only to his country, and to lis own
conscience His decision in relation to these pow
ers is subject to no control; and his discretion,
when exercised, is conclusive" -
At the Southern relief meeting, held in New
York on Friday last, resolutions were adopted that
commission, consisting Of thirty men, with power
to add three to the number, be appointed to raise
money and distribute supplies among the destitute
of the South without distinction of race or opinion,
and that the philantropic women throughout the
North be invited to share in the responsibilities and
blessings of the work. ;.;,s a., go.
- The Houston (Texas) Journal sums up the
present condition of that'city thus: "Tho weather
is beautiful everybody sober; the streets present
lively, businsss-like appearance. The cottonis
coming in; citizens are buying supplies fine coats,
boots, &C.; freedmen indugng in fancy groceries
and eatables. Tenants are casting together the
odds and ends to pay up rents. Landlords are
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