The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-01
1TEMs-.ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE


= The death of Lieut. Gov. Applegate oc-
Cured at Mobile on Sunday morning, 2lst ult.
= The Winnsboro Neacs announces the death
of Capt. A. S. Gaillard, an esteemed citizen of
Fairfield county.
Lewis D. Campbell, ex-minister to Mexi-
co, is the Democratic candidate for Congress
against General Schenck
- The Newberry Herald announces the sud-
den death of Mr. J. R. Wicker, young mer-
chant of that place, on the 22nd ult
Mrs. Eliza G. Marshall, relict of Dr. S.
Marshall formerly of Abbeville, died on the
18th of August, in the city of Greenville, aged
70 years.
Commercial Convention will be held at Cincin-
natl, Ohio, beginning on Tuesday, October 4th,
1870.
The Darlington Democrat announces the
death of E. B. Brunson, Jr., after painful and
lingering illness; and of ]. S. Mccall, who
died suddenly.
- Vice Admiral Porter has been appointed
admiral in the United States navy, filling the
vacancy occasioned by the death OF the late
Admiral Farragut.
-Oconee has twelve candidates for the office
of County Commissioner; half that number
for the Legislature; five or six for School Com
missioner
The Virginia Springs are crowded with
distinguished ex-Confederate officers, so much
so that some of them, intent on pleasure, are
compelled to camp out.
= In one of the late battles Herbert Bis
marek, one of the sons of the Prussian Prime
Minister, was wounded in the foot His brother
| William had his horse killed under him.
= Messrs. r. C. Poole, J. Banks Lyle, JOS
| L. Wofford and Robert M. Smith are the NOM
inees of the Union Reform party to represent
Spartanburg county in the next Legislature
- Rev. John T. Presley, D. D., an eminent
divine of the Associate Reformed church, and
formerly of Abbeville died at his home in
Allegheny City, Penn, on the 18th of August
aged 76 years.
= President Grant has issued proclamation
of neutrality between France and Prussia. He
recites the laws bearing upon the subject, and
withdraws the protection of the United States
from persons violating them.
= illinois and Iowa are now said to stand at
the head of the wheat-growing States. In for
mer times Pennsylvania took the lead This is
claimed as another and very strongindicatlon
that empire is rapidly drifting westward.
= Maj Edward Freeman, young merchant,
and Edward Hamlin, a young lawyer, fought
duel near Memphis OIL last Friday. They fought
with derringers, at distance of fifteen PAGES,
and fired simultaneously. HamGn was shot
through the body and died in ten minutes.
= Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, is now
putting his militia on war footing. Missis-
sippi has been so quiet for months that we have
hardly known there is such State; but the
word has gone forth from Republican headquar-
ters to make ready for the fall elections.
= Attorney General Alderman decides that
he has nothing to do with the conflict between
State and Federal laws regarding voting IN the
States, and parties must appeal to the courts.
The question at issue involves the right OF Con-
federates to vote in Missouri.
= The annual fair of the South Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical Society will be
held in Columbia, commencing on the 9th OF
November next and continuing for four days.
Extensive preparations are making to insure Its
complete success.
The Winnsboro News says: "In the Con-
vention of 1865, impartial suffrage, without re-
gard to color, might have been adopted, but for
the opposition of Orr and those who then
thought him honest. His argument was that
universal suffrage could not be reached in
twenty years"
ored) have recently had slight misunderstand-
ing, they mutually charging each other with
"seeing light" while representing Laurens in
the last Legislature. They attempted to fight,
but were separated without serious damage
Both were armed with siX-shooters.
1t is telegraphed from Washington that
the Democratic Campaign Committee is in re-
ceipt of the most favorable intelligence from all
parts of the country Since the North Carolina
election the situation in the South has decided
" improved, and from the West the news Is
equally cheering. Great gains are expected in
Ohio and Indiana.
- Cuban advices to the New York Euening
Post state that a Spanish column recently had
an engagement with the insurgents in the juris-
diction of Santa Perita. The Spanish loss was
600 killed, wounded and missing. LIE VoS de
| Cuba admits that detachment of forty Span
iards were surprised and twenty killed, and
some accounts say only five escaped.
- Col. John H. Savage of Warren, Tennes-
see declines nomination to Congress because
of the fourteenth amendment. Nevertheless,
he thinks the United States has no sufficient
cause to hold him, in law and morals, an enemy
and rebel. for he has rebel leg and loyaIleg
-one shattered under the United States flag at
Molino del Rey, and the other under the Con-
federate States flag at Perryville.
Advices from North Carolina state that
the preliminaries are being arranged for the
impeachment of Governor Holden. The Con-
servatives state that they have sufficient evil
dcnce in their possession to show that the
Governor has done more than enough to cause
his removal from Office through the form of
impeachment. Some of the Republicans who
blame Holden for politically losing the 81 S5ats 6f
him.
Louis Napoleon has now ruled France for
twenty-five years. Of his immediate prede-
cessors, Louis Philippe reigned eighteen years,
Charles X six years, Louis XVIII nine years,
Napoleon fifteen years. An old man, broken
in health, with all his ambitions gratified, save
that in which is built the hopes of his successor
we do not look to Napoleon III for any tame
submission to the storm bursting both in front
and rear. He, no doubt, fully realizes thepres-
ent as the crisis of his fate, and will, in all hu-