The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-01-03
Cotton and Finance.

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agent for5the adjustment of foreign balances and
.for bringing back the United States to specie pay
mentB Yet,iin place of developing and stimulating
this important resource they are crushing it with
heavy tax and killing it with neglect. The South
cannot produce q crop in 1867 without encourage
ment from the Government and pecuniary aid from
the capitalistsof the North. The soil We have,
and the labor question is manageable, but the
plantations mostly waste, the fences, gin hous-
es, buildings, gone by the torchof invading armies,
the implements of agriculture destroyed and stocks
of cattle and work animals greatly depleted. The
complete failure of the present crop has left the
planters pcnniless and without money to pay hire
and purchase food for the hands, and implements,
horses, and mules, Cotton crop is an impossible
| achievement Our merchants here are aooded with
planters applications for advances for this pur-
pose, and our merchants are unable to respond
The result will be, uniess more liberal policy is
adopted at Washington and in the North that the
crop OF 1867 viii not equal that of 1866 1t is for
tho wise men of the North to detersaine whether
timely assistance is not better than to do without
on export crop next year of the gold value of two
or three hundred millions of dollars.
What Congress VIII Do.
The New York Time, alludes to the tone aad
temper of Congress- and expresses the opinion that
| when it meets again, the business of legislation
will be carried on with more reference to the in
terests Of the country. 1t says:
On the other question Of national scope-that Of
Southern construction-Congressha has acted more
duoreetly than was anticipated. There is no hope.
Of the violent schemes Of the ultra Radicals
schemes of confscation, disfranchisement and deg
radiation The amendment is still held out to the
South; aud even if it be finally rejected We have
reason to look for other plans that will deal fairly
with our Southern fellow citizens as part OF the
American people.
I Congress will have but eight weeks to work In
| when it re-assembles in January next. We shall
look for it pursuing and completing tsgreat labers
not lees creditsbly than they have been begun
Military Courts.
The Washington correspondent Of the Baltimore
Sun writes
At the cabinet meeting on Friday last, the sub
ject Of trials by military commissions was cousd-
ered the case of Dr.. Watson, of Virginia, having
been brought to the notice of the Government
through Governor Letcher, of Virginia, who came
here to obtain revocation of the order convening
The military commission to try Watson. The Pres-
dent aad members Of the Cabinet, in view of the
recent decision Of the Supreme Court, determined
that no more trials Of civilians shall be permitted
before military tribunals any pretence whatever,
4 of War odv tn
order to the military commanders accordingly,
with instructions to them, also, that when they
, make arrests of civilians upon any ground what
ever, they shall report the matter to the War De.
partment instanter, and await Instructions there
from before proceeding further. The Secretary OF
War will issue an order at once couformable TO the
decision of the Cabinet.
A Dictator.
The Cincinnati Commercial, whose radcalism
will not be questioned, has tho following para
graph
If Judge Kelley's bill, vestiug in the Chief
Justice the appointment of internal revenue OH
GERS, becomes law, and that of Mr. Ward, of New
York, authorizing him to appoins Provisional Gov
crnors of the unrepresented Ststes, goes through,
the Chief Justice may as we'll throw off the judicial
ermine, and assume the imperial purple. The
combination of executive and judicial functions
would be complete. If some one can be found
land we would not like to swear that he cannot to
introduce bill authorizing him to make the laws,
MS well as decide upon them, and execute under
them, we shall have the dictator full fedged, and
it will not be of the least consequence who is the
!, next President, but it might be of the very first
Importance to know who is to be the next Chiei
Justice
, Faithful Public Servant.
The Legislature of Florida, at its last session
passed nm net increasing their per diem The
Comptroller refused to pay their warrants, on the
ground that there was an express provision i'll the
, Constitution prohibiting an increase during tht
, term in which such law was passed. The Legisla
ture threatened him with impeachment, but the
stern old man held firm to his position, thereby
saving the State some $4,000. All honor to John
Beard, who has the courage to do what he knows
to be right. The people of Florida will remember
and honor him when the legislators who endcavor-
cd to intimdate him havo shrunk back to their NO.
tive obscuriy ses-.,.
The Assassination Conspiratorss
We learn, says the Nationai Republican Of Wash
ington, December "a, that Judge Wayne, of the
Supreme Court of the Unitell States, WILL under
the recent decision of that tribunal against the
right of military commissions to try citizens not in
the military or naval service, issue writ by which
DR. Mudd, one of the assassin conspirators, will
be removed from confinement at the Dry Tortugas
and brought before civil tribunal for trial.
Similar writs may issue in the cases of Spangler,
Arnold and Mclaughlin, the other conspirators
confined there. ia
How to Hire Freedmen.
Thu New Orleans Pickdvune, noticing the calls