The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-24

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,2THE asRsTIs sHnhAThe movement towards q
general amnesty on the part Of Congress has OF
last assumed definite shape The Reconstruction
Committee of the House has dire cted Gen. BUTLER
to report bill by which Cong ress transfers the
greater portion of ,fhel rdoning power to the
United States District Courts, swiththe following
conditions: s. ~ 5s9 eg
It providesfhat ieverys citizen disfranchised by
the third section of the Fourteenth amendment
except persons who havE hefd commissions IN tne
armyyeY,naYy, or hAyeSbeep members ofSpHgTess'
shall De- rsstofedto all on
applyig -5y petition to- shehsa court many o'a,o
or Territory in which hs-had his home au,lhg ,he
war. setting forth what Office he ever hela under
the United States prior 70 APRIL ,lsot, lWnich oy
law REQUIRED any oath toe support the consti,
,ntion land alsosin whatrmannershe haa giyeh 1lu
or asaistanosl the rebellion os4whethar sha had
held snv Office under State or the Confederate
government or either Of them, qurlpg any part oi
the war-gvi6g particular escrlptlcn !l 81 Ihe
acts dong and offices or places hefd oy MN IN that
bshaIf. and that he therein and thereby renounces
al, ALLEGIANCE Or fsally oany government
heretofore set up against5the United States within
she same and chat he truly intends hereafter TO
act and conduct himself as true and loyalr cyl
zen aiid will bear true faith and toehe
government: that, he has NOT done,>since June l,
1865 any act of hostility to the United States or
committed an crime by violence against ai the laws
thereof or against the laws Of any State and chat
he has not endeayored Since that time, oy Iorce
acfraad. to interfere with the civil rights or any
,;ti,en. or to preyent eedol1 of election or OF
sneech: that from that day he has beena wen,
d;snosed andeeod citizen,zand that: he prays fhat
S;sr;rbts be restored to him.. This petition Is 10
he sworn ,S in OPEN court, and is to be publicly
advertised ,hisiy days, at the end OF which time
nerson NAV. appear and oppose such petition.
there be no opposition, the Judge can issue
esfTif cate to tRe petitioner; whereupon his dsar
b;iifiss shah be removed If there be sufficient
eysdsncs showing why the certificate should not
he Granted then the petitioner is foie debarred
fsom relief except by, special act OF, Congress:
NSfbinc in the act is to be construed to restore
aSy rIehts eli property lost or forfeited
by any citizen, or to allow any claim on Congress
for the sames -, > ,rk5iii.iT :. y g0t'@,l
:.-gsFbere is d man. living in the mountains OF
North Carolina not more than, forty miles from
Grseiyille South Carolina says the Tarboro Caro-.
l;,,iau, who has reached the extraordinary age OF
I43.years. AT the time of Braddocks defeat he
was twenty years old, and had wife and three
children. a gentleman at sGreenville states that
thiss man has come down to us from former gen.
era.ionr: has always been in moderate circumstaR-
css lived upon plain, coarse, yegetabl lesdet;
thai bsshas never drank any liquid but spring
yl1a,er ,-aud bids fair to live many years longer.
He enioys perfect health, possesses all OF man
t5Sf,sattrihntes and wants to marry He has
survived seven wives, and, having lost his last one
about sixty years ago, he now begins to feel quite
lenely:.. ~ = .ss -;