The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-02-07
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

"a heV OllDert haven, N thlS week . 1t"e-
pendent, has discovered plan to settle at once all
our political and social differences. Thesubstance
of it Els that-the nation must cease to use the
words freedmen and coored' and white and
know only that of ruen and brethren"
Why cannot Congress declare by resolution that
there no black men, and that the notion is an
optical illusion? '
= The members of the Maine Legislature have
voted themselves copy each of Webster's Diction-
ary (unabrdged), Lippincotts Gazetteer, the Bi-
BILE, and ten dollars worth of postage stamps.
At Black Hawk, Colorado, they charge Sl4
day for board, and $50 for board with lodgings
"A fine piano, the gift of Mr.. Charles NJ
Stieff, of Baltimore, to the Richmond Hollywood
Memorial Bazaar, has been received IN Richmond.
- A difficulty occurred at Fernando, Florida, on
the Goth ultimo; the citizens resisting the seizure
by the sheriff of some property that had been sold
for taxes. The sheriff was driven off, and appealed
to the Governor for military force, and the Cover
nor having no men, asks the interference of United
States troops. Colonel Sprague, who has charge
of the latter, declined, and the Governor has ap
nlied to the President. All was q,tiet and the au
thorities were awaiting instructions from Washing
ton.
= Miss Ann P. Cunningham, Regent Of the
Ladies' Mount Vernon Association, has made re-
port showing the receipts to date to be about $780,
900, of which Edward Everett raised S6S,OoO-
The purchase has been completed, and $4,000
spent in repairs
:. Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri, has instituteda
libel suit against the Missouri Republican, in the
sum of 100000, for publications relating to his
"loval militia" in their recent raid to Lafayette
and Lexington.
4 Gen Sweeney, Fenian Secretary of War,
who has been re-appointed in the United States
army, made speech recently in Georgia, in favor
of d speedy restoration of the South.
= The Washington correspondent of the Spring
field Mass Republican, rcputed as accurate in his
observations and statements, estimates the chances
of impeachment as being one in a hundred, and of
conviction as one in a thousand.
Four hundred colorcd voters have been regis
tered in Georgetown, D. c., nearly as many rs
there arc of white voters negro has been nomi-
mated for Councilman in that city.
-Ex-Presidcnt Pierce has been ill again, but is
understood to be recovering. He is sixiy-three
years old.
Mr.. JsmesG G. Bennett, Jr., offered, rs asllght
testimonial of his gratitude for the unbounded hos
pital:ty the American yatchmen had received IN
England, to present the Henrietta to Prince Alfred
the representative of English yatchmen, but the
Prince, in a very graceful letter, declines the mag
hof ah hey
a yacht that will beat the Henrietta.
- General Alcorn, United States Senator elect
from Mississippi, has addressed both branches OF
the Mississippi Legislature advising them to accept
the Constitutional amendment as the least of Con-
pressonnl evils. A unanimous vote rejecting it
was the response.
"A wedding took place in Raleigh recently
among the ''uppcr crust of darkeydom, at which
the guests receiving the usual cards of invitation,
were required to pay an entrance fee Of five dol
lars, and after entering the charmed precincts
were required to expcnd five dollars more in refresh
ments. This money was turned over to the BRIDE
and groom, who had taken this method of raising
money to start on their journey of life
- Hon. Roscoe Conkling United States Sena-
tor from New York, is man of muscular ability.
He is several inches over six feet in height, with
proportonatc build In the next Congress New
York will have two notwithstanding IN
the Senate and Morrsscy in the lIouse-who call
take care of themselves.
= The Newbcrn Commercial says that, within a
radius of thirty miles of that city, during the last
Twelve months, there have been perpetrated not
fewer than one hundred cases Of rape, murder, ar
son and burglary, to say nothing of the hundreds
! of cases of minor offences against the law. These
offences are committed, in nearly every instance, by
negroes
- "On Wednesday last" says the Beaufort Is.
FC.) J Nev South of Saturday, "Major:Gencral r..
K Scott addressed the freedmen in this town. He
gave them some good advice, which, if needed,
would secure to them both temporal and spiritual
prosperity The General has been on tour through
this section of the State and seem tired and wor-
ricd by his trip"
- The Ocala Banner announces that the Florida
Railroad, from Waldo to Ocala, and on TO Tampa,
would be built in short time. This road, says
the Banner, taps the garden spot of Florida; and
when built will wonderfully assist in developing the
unknown resources and wealth of this section of
the State.
- Horace Greeley, few days ago, was reelected
editor -in-chef of the New York Tribune The pa
per- being owned by an Association, the form of
elccting an editor-in-chicf is yearly gone through
with, with the same gratifying result to all parties
concerned
"A fortune s25O,OO is awaiting DR.. Benjamin
F. Patterson, of Mobile. He was formerly sur
geon in the U. S. Army, but has not been heard
of since 1864 when he was at Bermuda Hundreds,
Va
- 1t will surprise some people to learn that The
Federal military still occupy the executive mansion