The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-01-21
ITEMs-ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


been recognized under fayorable auspices:
- The Philadelphia Board of Trade protests
against further extension of2tlre Bankrupt law.
g T. J. Coghlan, of Sumter, has resigned his
seat in the Senate of this State. -
- Fnrmon University will be re:opened on the
Ord of February. with full corps of professors.
- Gen. Toombs is convalescing from recent
dangerous illness.
81 The Southern Press Association will meet in
Mobile on the second Wednesday in February.
"A resolution to adjourn on The 5thof February
has been introduced in the Legislature.
Carl Schurz has been elected United States
Senator from Missouri. <s
- Zadock Bullock, Democratic representative,
from Ho,ry county, has resigned on account OF i'll
health. a3 .t
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature
to amend the criminal law which abolishes capital
punishment for all offences except uilful murder.
- A Boston paper remarks that many people are
moving from New England To- the South, to avoid
the insecurity Of life and property in that section
-. The people Of Americus, Ga, are taking
steps 10 build cotton factory in that fourishing
little city.
- The garrison Of United States troops, station
ed in Newberry for the past three months has been
Withdrawn.
- George Bushyhead, chief of the Cherokee In
dians, has gone to Washington on business for his
people.
= The State Agricultural Society Of Georgia
will meet in Atlanta on the first Tuesday in Feb
ruury. ,;..!1
- We learn that tie Post Office in Pickens Coun-
ty known before the war as the Campground, has
been re-established. ."t.aI
"A colored club in Mississippi has passed
resolutions declaring that 'the carpet t-baggers
cannot tie trusted" -
= Gov. Hoffman is thirty nine years ofage, and
is The youngest Governor New York ever had, ez-
cept Seward.
= Gen Gillem tcsti6cs before the Reconstruction
Committee that there was fair election in Miss
sspp, and that the constitution was rejected.
= Thurlow Weed, editor and proprietor of the
New York Commercial Adrertiser, arrived in Char
lesion last week, and intends to spend the. winter
| in the South. a. ...,>
| = Ward II. Lnmon, veteran journalist, IS
writing the secret history Of Lincoln's administra-
ton. Some, curious relations ofpublic men, North
and South. are anticipated.
| - The Senate inle1ecutive session has confirmed
the nomination of Mr.. C. j. Stolbrand as Snperin
tendent of the Penitcntiary, ahd Mr.. Reuben
Tomlinson rs State Auditor of South Carolina.
= The material, type, machinery and Office fur
niture Of the Charleston Mercury were disposed of
at auction or the 18th Instant, and purchased by
different persons. '''''
ID. L. Mckay, ESQ.,, president Of the Peoples
National Bank Of Charleston, died in that city on
the 18th inst. He was native of Cheraw, and
was in the 6ad year Of his age.
= Judge Pelham, n prominent member of the
Republican party of Alabama, has decided that the
present Legislature is an illegal body, and Gov.
Smith an unlawful officer.
"A bill to validate previous Acts of the Legis-
lature. in reference 10 the bonded debt OF the
Grecnvillc and Columbia Railroad Company, has
been passed by both Houses Of The Legislature.
- Brownlow has sold out his interest in the
Knoxville Wing, and expects TO retire to the Uni
ted States Senate on and after the 4th of March
next. The yeope of Tennessee seem rejeieed at
the prospect.
= The recor,, o. cyisse in New York for 1868
shows That during the year there were forty eight
homicides, thirty mine inanicides Snd siaey- y-eght
suicides! Eight hundred and eigbtcemfataf casual
ties arc also reckoned.
- The Lynclburg Republican states that the
Hon. J. A. Seldom who acted for several years as
Confederate Secretary of War, has become men,
ber of the mercantile establishment of Geo. Lee
co., Of Richmond.
:. Mr.. Corbin has introduced a bill in the Sen
ate to determine the valse Of contracts made in
Confederate States notes on their equivalents. The
bill gives carefully arranged schedule OF the
yaue of Confederate notes and United States legal
tender notes during the war.
Hon. John II. Christy, editor of the Athens
(Goo.) EateAman, is declared elected to the Foreth
Congress, by the Committee on Elections. His
disabilities prevens him from taking the seat, but
the Reconstruction Committee will deGstless re-
move them. -
- James Wick, the celebrated scotsman of Ro-
chester. New York, and for many years member
Of the craft easrsto supply every journalist in
the land with choice selection of seeds, without
money and without price. He has our thanks for
the kina offer. .
= - Col. James P. Low, formerly an officer on
Cen Sickles' Staff, has been appointed civil engi-
neer of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and has COM
me aced an e1asninaton Of the records in order 10
make an estimate lOr te Oomsletion Of thaE impor-
,ant work.
w W. stribling reports to the walhaia
Courier that in 1866 he planted about thrce-quar-
lers of an acre of poor new ground in tobacco,
and realized Sl4O from sales thereof, besides using
it for two years himself. The same land would
not Weld. more than ten bushels Of corn.