The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-10-14
IrEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE
Hon. Armislead Burt and General McGowan,


- Hon. Armistead Burt and General McGowan,
of Abbeville, were among the speakers at a mass
meeting in Washington, Geo., ON thel lst
= Geo. A.Trenholm, once Secretary of the Con-
fedcrato Treasury, is delegate to The triennial
Episcopal Convention at New York.
- Gen. p. Nj. B. Young has been unanimously
re-nominnted as the Democratic candidate for Con-
grcss from the Seventh District of Georgia.
Gen. Grant will not return to Washington
until the last of October, just in time for the first
packet sailing. for Salt River.
r. c. DeLarge colored member of the Legis-
lature, has been appointed by Gov. Scott magis-
trate for Charleston county.
Its predictedthat, in the event the Democrats
triumph in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana ehis
week, several of the reconstructed Legislatures in
the South will choose electors, nolens oolens.
Richard H. Dana hos accepted the Republican
nomination in opposition to Ben Butler for Con-
gress the latter being nominated by portion of
the party. This may enable the Democrats to
carry the District.
= Buffers nomination for Congress in the
uSpoon District" of Massachusetts is said to have
cost him S4O; ;00G It was dog cheap at the price
The wonder is that for ten times that amount he
could induce men who have any claim to decency
to nominate him for anything.
- DR.. J. J. Chisolm, for ten years Professor of
Surgery in the Medical College of this State, and
author of o Hell-known Textbook on military sur
gerry, hos been appointed Professor of Military
Surgery and Pathological Anatomy in the Univer-
sity of Maryland.
"A negro named Menard has been nominated
for Congress in Louisiana, and accepts upon the
broad ground that the coloredpeople are entitled to
representative that they haTe done rs much if
not more than the white people to reconstruct the
government, and that the work Of restoration will
never be accomplished until the colored people are
fairly represented Look out, carpet-baggers and
| scalawags; the ss1nan and brother is coming
- The Radicals are divided in the Second Con-
rressional District Of this State. The Convention
to nominate candidate for Congress met in
Charleston some ofthe delegates bolted and the re-
suit is that two candidates in the field, namely
The present so-called Congressman, one Bowen of
dirty fame, and the fat boy jerks, of no fame at
all-both carpet-baggers. Jenks' friends held
meeting at Summerville 10 ratify his nomination,
when Bowens friends unexpectedly appeared upon
the scene, and changed the motley crowd into
favor With their: candidate "fay on, Macduff!"
- Dr. Bagby, of the Natius VHgaaan, says {:
ashades of Calhoun and Hayne defend US! At
tenuated ghosts of Rhett and Barnwell, and Gov
Perry, and dearest Pickcns. 'sborn insensible to
fear" revisit not the scenes of your late glories
at Charleston The Goth is in your high places.
The occiput and tho sinciput have been laughed to
scorn. The frontal bone has ceased to divide
breasts from men; neither the crooked tibia nor
the slongatcd heel CON longer avail to protect you
Three negroes have been duly and formally nd
mited to practice law in tho courts of South Caro-
lina.''
In recent speech in Atlanta Geo., General
John B. Gordon, o gallant Confederate officer aud
thorough. sensible Democrat, said that whatever
might be the result of the Presidential election,
the South would acquiescc in the will of tho United
States ms expressed through the ballot box; ard
if Grant is elected, and any party North or South
endeavored to prevent his Inauguration, for one,
the speaker pledged his sword anl best services
to place him in the Presidential chair. Gordon is
determined that the Radicals shall not use his
speeches for campaign documents in the North, as
they have some imprudcnt and hasty expressions
| of others.