The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-16
VOLUME Ono. 81.
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
Alexander II. Stephens has finished his lis
tory of the war.
Butler wants to be the next Governor Of
Massachusetts.
Seward is sick because Auburn gave Demo-
cratic majority.
The Vermont Republican State Convention
is to be held June %.
Ex-President Johnson declares he will run
for Congress anyhow.
Seven men are after the Senatorial seat of
Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire.
Archibald Hisle, colored man, IS candi-
date for sheriff of Madison County, KY;
Alexander 81. Stephens depends upon holsters
and crutches for continued existence. -
There are now nineteen candidates In the
field for next Governor of Pennsylvania.
The Rochester Chronicle charges break in
the Erie Canal to the Democratic partyl
The true Secretary Of the Navy is now said
to be Allen Pinkerton, the celebrated detective:
General Sherman prohibits the use of colored
inks in army correspondence, and Sumner Is
mad.
Judge BrinkerhoA, of Ohio, declines re-
election to the bench of the Supreme Court.
Cause, poor pay.
Temperance seems to be weak, as only about
forty persons were present at the anti-benzine
Convention of Ohio.
General Fitzpatrick, United States Minister
to Chile wants to give up his situation. 80
says Washington dispatch.
Fred. Douglass says that if colored man
wants to vote Democratic he must be allowed
to do so. Generous Fred
General Pratt, the "Great American Travel
err" says that American politics is hel's grist
mill to grind up devils in.
The Radical United States Senator Morrill,
gives General Frank Blair the credit of having
preserved Missouri to the Union.
Senator Cain, colored, of South Carolina,
says that thieves and robbers are destroying the
Republican party in that State.
The negroes can't get over the Fifteenth
amendment. Whenever three of them meet to-
gether they kick up their heels for joy.
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine. positively
declines renomination and his friends are
recommending him for United States Senator;
A London Journal says that Grant pleased
England by his action during the recent Fenian
raid a good deal more than he did the United
States.
Forney withdraws his name as g candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, because he has
been unable to find anybody willing to vote for
him.
Wendell Phillips is nominated by some of
the papers as candidate for Congress in the
Massachusetts, district now represented by MI.
Twitchell.
Sumner thinks that upon the death of the
present King Of the Sandwich Islands they will
seek protection under our flag, and be annexed
without difficulty.
A Richmond paper, calling attention to some
improved spotted pigs bred there, says: Our
maxim should be to encourage our own people
in preference to all Others"
ottarc tp Conotnra from X KpntIckV saw that
if general amnesty act is passed this session,
John G. Breckinridge will certainly succeed
Garret Davis in the Senate in 1873.
Representative McKenna, of Virginia, pro-
poses as there is no hope of Congressional, ae-
ton. that every man be allowed to fund his
own debts and regulate his own tariff.
Schenck, says the Chicago Times, calls Dawes
ga id Yankee trickster." Dawes has searched
the vocabulary in vain for words which will
express Schenck's true character.
The brother-in-law of the President recently
appointed as Appraiser of the San Francisco
Custom-house, didn't vote for Grant, and it is
therefore urged that he is not fit for the situa-
ton.
One of the best speeches made in either
House of Congress this session was made the
other day by Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota.
He said "Let us quit talking and commence
voting" Only this and nothing more.
The assessed returns of Virginia, under the
internal revenue laws, show an increase of over
25 per cent, as compared with last year. The
men who are not allowed to vote give good in
dications of their ability to pay taxes:
The Radical Cincinnati Commercial, In COM
menting upon the New York election, says:
"With heavy taxes, protective tariffs, land
grabbing legislation, and Summers social equal
ity bill, what other results are Republicans to
Judge Busteed, of Alabama, says the Chica-
20 Times, has retired to his country residence
on Long Island, New York, for the sumner.
His carpet-bag will not be packed with Ala
bama clothing before October. Meantime,
litigants can "wait for the verdict" -,
In the Mississippi Senate recently Mr. Gibbs
made remark which was construed by MI;
Morgan to mean that he was bribed. He told
Gibbs he lied. Gibbs went for him; but being
interrupted by the sergeant-at-arms, nice little
n,;ll oy tbo foor of the Senate was spoiled.