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

Hon. Armistead Burt and General McGowan,
of Abbeville, were among the speakers at mass
meeting in Washington, Geo, on the 1st.
: Geo. A. Trenholm, once Secretary of the Con-
federato Treasury, is q delegate to the triennial
Episcopal Convention at New York.
= Gen. P. Nj. B. Young has been unanimously
re-nominated rs the Democratic candidate for Con-
gross 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 mags-
trate for Charleston county
1t predictedthat, in theevent the Democrats
triumph in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana ehis
week, several of the reconstructed Legislatures in
the South will choose electors, nozens polen,.
- Richard II. 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
cost him sAO;G0G 1t 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. Cbisolm, for ten years Professor of
Surgery in the Medical College of this State, and
author Of o well-known textbook on military sur
gerry, has 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 colored people are entitled to
representative; that they hare done as much if
not more than the white people to reconstruct the
government, and that the work of restoration will
never be accomplished until the coored people are
fairly represented. Look out, carpet-baggers and
scalawags; the ssnan and brother" is coming!
| - The Radicals are divided in the Second Con-
gressional District of this State. The Convention
to nominate q candidate for Congress met in
Charleston some of the delegates bolted and the re-
suit is, that two candidates ore 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. jerks friends held q
meeting at Summerville TO ratify his nomination,
when Bowen's friends unexpectedly appeared upon
the scene, and changed the motley crowd into
favor wilh their candidate. "tay on, Macduff!"
= DR.. Bagby, of the Natius VHgiaian, says:
s.Shades of Calhoun and Hayne defend u.s. At
tenuated ghosts of Rhett and Barnwell, and Gov.
Perry, and dearest Pickcns. '.born insensible to
fear" revisit not the scenes of your late gories
at Charleston! The Goth is in your high places.
The occiput and the sinciput have been laughed to
scorn The frontal bone has ceased to divide
breasts from men; neither the crooked tibia nor
the slongacd heel can longer avail to protect you.
Three negroes have been duly and formally nd
mitted to practice law in tho courts of South Caro-
linn.''
= In recent speech in Atlanta. Geo., General
John B. Gordon, 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 the United
States as expressed through the ballot boz; aud
if Grant is elected, and any party North or South
endeuvored to prevent his Inauguration, for one,
the speaker pledged his sword and 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