The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-09
[TEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

Mr.. John T. Humphreys, a merchant of
Greenville, died suddenly on the 25th ult
= The debt of New Hampshire is trife un-
der 100000.
- Ex-senator Wade, more familiarly known
as "Honest Ben" is candidate for Congress
in Ohio.
- Mrs. Elizabeth F. Tew, widow of Col. G.
G. Tew, (who losthis life at Gettysburg died in
Columbia on Friday last.
= Thirty thousand children recently partici-
pated in Sunday School celebration at Brook
lw, NY.
= Morton, of Indiana, has read Senator
Revels out of the Radical party, notwithstand-
ing he is Radical dye1 in the wool.
- California has now G30 miles of railroad,
and confidently expects to build at least 100
more this year.
- The complete statement of the Fenian
losses in the late raid gives eleven killed and
seventeen wounded--three mortally.
= Gen. Marston, of New Hampshire has
been nominated for Governor of Idaho, in place
of DR.. Samuel Bard, recently declined.
= The Wilmington Star itemizes North
Carolina news under the heading, "Spirits of
Turpentine." Very good reading for the "tar
heels"
- Medical authority is responsible for the
alarming statement that Gov. Brownlow's life
can be prolonged fifteen or twenty years, with
careful treatment.
In South Carolina there are five daily
newspapers, four tri-weekly newspapers, one
semi. weekly newspaper, forty-two weekly news
papers, two monthlies, one quarterly.
= The Alabama Legislature has passed law
imposing tax of $40 upon every Georgia
lawyer practicing id the courts Of Alabama.
The Georgia lawyers threaten resistance.
= Two persons during the past year have
contributed 81 500 to the endowment fund of
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Co.
lumbia S. G.
= Ladies refusing to tell the eensus-taker
their ages are to be fined thirty dollars in each
handsome revenue to the government.
= The Washington Star says that the Re
construction Committee have agreed to amend
the Georgia bill so as to require the election of
new Legislature for that State next fall.
= The Reconstruction Committee met last
week to dispose of the question of reconstruc-
| ting Tennessee. A majority of the committee
will oppose any Congressional interference.
= The debate in Congress on the income tax
shows that there is clear majority in favor of
reducing the tax to three per cent. and extend
ing exemption to two thousand dollars.
: DR.. ]. w. Stokes, for many years widely
known as President of the Bank of Hamburg
died on last Thursday. He enjoyed the con-
fdence and respect of large circle of friends.
= Gen. R. E. Lee has returned to his home
improved in health. Many of his friends, how
ever, urge the necessity of a trip to Europe this
summer.
"A correspondent of the Charleston Repub-
kcan reports that COL R. F. Graham, of Marion
has Joined the Republican party. Col. Graham
was one of the Democratic electors Oh the Sey-
mour and Blair ticket
= The cornerstone of a monument to Baron
von Steuben, of revolutionary memory, was laid
with imposing ceremonies in the town of Steu-
! ben, N Y, on Wednesday last. Hon. Horatio
Seymour delivered the Grafton.
= The London Shipping and Mercantile Ga
=ettc, journal of intelligence and extensive in
formation, thinks that the Southern States have
planted too much cotton and too little grain,
and apprehends bad results.
! = The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer says a
majority of the men who left the Democratic
party in 1861, to join the "Union" faction, are
anxious to get back to the old fold. 1t is
thought that reconciliation will be effected
The Rhode Island Legislature organized
on the 1st inst. by the election of Republican
officers. A Republican caucus nominated An
thony for reelection to the United States Sen
ate, which is deafeat of the Sprague party in
! that State.
= The Reconstruction Committee has adopt
ed a rule not to remove disabilities except up
on written applications. The recommendations
of friends or high officials are not respected
The petition must be accompanied with express
sions indicating proper submission.
= It is said there are ten thousand white
men in the little State of Rhode Island depriv-
T ed of the ballot, and the Radical party can do
nothing for their relief If they were negroes,
says the Philadelphia Age, something would be
done. But white men have no rights which
Radicals are bound to respect.
A steamer twenty-one feet long has left
Liverpool for New York. 1t is provisioned for
three months, and the captain expects to- make
the voyage in fifty days. The crew consists of
one man besides the captain, and New
the smallest venture across the Atlantic by
steam power that has ever been made; ],
1t is reported that the Captain-General Of
Cuba has informed the Spanish Government
that he has received offers of surrender from
the insurgent generals, provided that their lives
and property are spared. The government has
replied that if they give up the contest and SIN
cerely desire reconciliation, that they shall be
generously dealt with.
1t was reported that Col. Mosby, ofgue-
rilla fame, was engaged in the Fenian raid.
An exchange says that "Mosby has been very
much surprised on learning that he was on the
Canadian border all last week, organizing Fe-
nian cavalry. Until he read the kilograms, he
was laboring under the impression that he was
quietly attending to his law business in War
renton, Va"
The Boston Post declares that "with New
York for fulcrum, the national Democratic
party will be able to overturn the mountain of
corruption which now oppresses the land, re-
store the Government to honest hands, relieve
the people from burdens imposed by an usurp-
ing and tyrannical party, and once more give
ali the States what the constitution promises
"A republican form of government"
= The Richmond Enquirer, in its account of