The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-01-10
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

ratlned the C0n6tltuLlouai dlueuumeut.
Chief Justice Chase has refused the applica-
tiou for writ of habeas corpus asked by the conn
sci of DR.. Mudd.
"A man in Arkansas stole horse, was detect
ed, tried, convicted and punished with thirty-nine
lashes On the bare back-all before breakfast.
= The government slaves in Brazil are being
emancipated, and Immediately drafted into the
army.
1t is stated that Brick Pomeroy is coming
South to pick up items and write letters for the
La Crosse Democrat
= The total debt of Ncrth Carolina, up to the
teen million dollars.
A fire broke out Christmas Eve at Warrens-
burg, Maine, which destroyed property to the
amount of two hundred thousand dollars.
- The Columbia Phenir says ''One thousand
freedmen have passed through this city during the
past week, on their way to Florida or the West"
- Mrs. General Williams formerly Mrs. S. A.
Douglas is among the "observed of all ObserTers'
in Washington society this winter.
- Cotton and mules stolen by wholesale in
the country around vickaburg Mississippi, and no
clue to the thieves con be obtained.
-Ex-Governor Marvin, Of Florida who is in
Washington, says there is not the remotest pros
pect of Florida ever rstifying tho constitutional
amendments
- General Howard as one Of the trustees, has
purchased grounds and buildings for univeraity
for colored mon in Washington. twill be opened
about the first of February.
- During the last two weeks no less than tVen-
tY-one persons have been burned to death in the
6res that have occurred in the various tenement
houses in New York.
1t is stated that member Of the Tennessee
Legislature, who is not satisfied with his pay, has
added trihe to his income by becoming waiter
in Nashville restaurant.
- At Pleasant Mills, New jersey, lives the
oldest John Smith His ego is III years, and his
faculties are not dim, nor is his natural force
| abated.
- The St. Louis Republican states that laborers
and vorkingmen in almost any branch OF indus
try pursued at the West ere in scant supply and
great demand
- The Masonic Brotherhood Of Philadelphia
city have decided to erect new Masonic Temple,
st the northeast corner Of Broad and Ransom
streets, to cost no less than half million dollars
- Mrs. Elizabeth Payne, resident OF Green
vile, was 90 badly choked last week, while swal-
lowing some article of food, that she died shortly
afterwards from its effects.
- The Auditor Of the South Carolina Railroad
/; all in
terest on the funded debt of the company, due on
the 1st instant Provision has also been made for
the payment ofinterest due in England.
1t is estimated that the cost Of intoxicating
liquors drunk in this country annually is S5OOO,-
900, that 10000 persons die annually from the
use of strong drink, and 200, 900 orphans are made
by it each year.
- The Congressional party have returned to
Washington. They speak in exalted terms of the
attentions and hosptalitios everywhere received,
and represent great revolution as taking place in
favor Of the Constitutional amendment
- The Treasury Department will pay no money
due prior to the war, to those who espouscd tne
Confederate cause. The reason is that resolu-
tion for the repudiation Of such debts is before
Congress-.
An excitement has broken out in buchanan
county, Missouri, over supposed discovery of
gold A few days since farmer brought into st.
Joseph gold worth sixty dollars, which he said he
had picked out Of an excavation on his farm.
= The Meridian Messenger saysthe State CT Mis-
sssppi has been twice territory, and will, il the
Radicals succeed, have been three times territory
and four times State, counting the state of un-
certainty which she has recently been Eept as one
"A clergyman in Chicago has been deserted
by his wife because he was guilty of plagiarism,
preached other mems sermons and was not as bril-
liant intellectually as she had supposed prior to
her marriage.
Gen. William Preston has written q letter in
which he says that he will accept the Democratic
nomination for Governor of kentucky. He is 'op-
posed to the constitutional amendment, and de-
cares for universal amnesty, but does not say q
word of impartial suffrage.
- General Brn1ton Bragg, formerly of the Con-
federate army is on visit to New Orleans, for
the first time since the late war. General Bragg
and General Sherman who were friends and init
mates of the old army, dined together in that city
on the Oath
1t is not improbable that Mudd, spangler,
O'Laughlin and Arnold the alleged assassination
consprators, will, in consequence Of the Supreme
Court decision against military commissions, be
brought to Washington from the Dsy Tortugas,
and transferred to civil tribunal for it's determi-
nation.
The New York ROrld has special dispatches
announcing that the Cotton Supply Administra-
tion Company Of Algiers has received from New
Orleans and South Carolina twenty hogsheads Of
Sea Island and mdding cotton seed, to be distrib-
utsd grasuitously among the inhabitants Of Al
giers. u