The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-23


James l.. Harris, colored, is about to be
elected to Congress from the 4th District of
North Carolina, uice Devices resigned.
- The annual commencement of the Uni
versity Of Georgia begin on the first Wednes-
day in August.
The Havana police have again commenced
arrcsting members of the Masonic fraternity for
holding secret meetings.
= Mrs. Stanton, wife of the late Secretary of
War, has rented a mansion at Germantown, Pa.
Her health is somewhat impaired.
= United States Senators Anthony, of Rhode
Island, and Cragin, of New Hampshire, have
been reelected by their respective Legislatures.
- Col John Baxter, formerly of North Caro-
lima, was shot and wounded in the arm recently,
in street aflray at Knoxville, Tenn, with Gen.
Mabry.
- Jerome Bonaparte died in Baltimore last
Friday. aged 65. His mothcr-in-law, Mrs.
Williams died the same day and at the same
place. -
= Gen. Robert Anderson, who surrendered
Fort Sumter at the beginning of the late war,
has been living for some months at Tours, in
France, in declining health.
= The Springfield (Mass.) Republican thinks
it would be San excellent thing for the country
TO have two such dead-in-carnest men as Wen
dell Phillips and Andrew Johnson in Congress"
- The drought in France causes great dis
trcss and loss of property. Cattle are perishing
for want of fodder and water, and fears ere
entertained that the crops will be ruined.
: Col I. G. McKissick, of Union, has been
proposed as a candidate for Congress to repre-
sent the Fourth Congressional District. he is
eligible to Federal office, having had his dsa-
bilities removed by Congress.
The force at work on the Port Royal Rail
HI, :of ot oil
ments are in progress to work night and day,
and it is believed that the road will be compile
ted to Augusta by the 1st of November next.
= Fourteen negroes charged with murder,
robbery and arson. perpetrated in Green coun-
ty, Ala, some three weeks ago, have been ar
rested One of the party has turned States
evidence.
- Mr.. Dickens left fortune of sS0,0O0.
Six monthly parts of the "N1ystery of Edwin
brood" are finished, and the story is so out
lined as to leave its completion easy. 1t is
understood that Wilkie Collins undertakes the
task.
Some white gentlemen who took seats in
the colored mems car on Georgia railroad, the
other day, were invited to another car by the
conductor, as the two colored passengers OBJ
jectcd to white gentlemen sitting in the car.
Judge Melton has announced his opinion
in the case of the Blue Ridge Railroad, adj
ycrsev to the motion for injunction, which he
has ordered to be dissolved. We presume that
the question will be taken to the Supreme
Court for final adjudication
- Victor c. Barringer Esq, of North Caro-
l;na Judge James, of Ohio and Benjamin V.
Abbott. Of New York, have been appointed Il
new commission to codfy the laws of the Uni
ted States, the salary to be $1,000 year, with
stationery, &c
Sargent s. Prcntiss, son of the rcnown-
cd orator and advocate of the same name was
the other day admitted to the bar in louisiana
He has been engaged in mercantile pursuits for
Il number Of years, during which time he has
prepared himself for his new profession.
= A Democratic caucus of fifty members OF
Congress was in session at Washington last
Friday night. 1t is proposed to urge the South
ern people not TO nominate persons for Congress
incapable of taking the test oath, unless their
disabilities are removed.
= In the proposed new constitution OF llli-
nois, each member of the Legislature has to-
take an oath to the following effect THAT he
has not bribcd any votes at his election, and
neither has received, nor will receive any money
or other valuable thing for any vote or other
official act.
= Hon. Thomas D. Eliot formerly promi-
nent member of Congress from Massachusetts,
died in New Bedford on Tuesday, aged 62 years.
He was in Congress in 1855, and again from
1859 to 1869, and was one of the most active
members of the Commerce Committee OF the
House of Representatives.
w. J. I. Glenn, of Union, advertlses
winter grass, which he claims to have discover
ed on his own plantation and tested for more
than twelve wears. He says he is fully satisfied
it is grass that will enable every one owning
a few acres of land to have just as fine pastu-
rage in winter as in summer.
A correspondent of the Coahoma (Mlss)
Delta complains of the ill-treatment OF some
German immigrants by their employers I'm
that section, and says truly that if this practice
is observed to the new corners they will be very
likely not only to absent themselves, but advise.
their friends to stay away.
At Sunday School celebration in Jack
son. Tenn, over four thousand five hundred
children and ten thousand adults were In at
tendance. Hon. Jefferson Davis was present,
and addressed the immense audience for the
space of ten minutes, in an earnest and thrill
ling manner. His appearance on the stand oc-
casioncd tremendous applause.
The evidence in the case of Gen. Howard,
charged with corruption in the administrator
of the Frcedman's Bureau, has been closed.
The committee will carefully overhaul the tes'
timony. which will probably occupy the re,
maindcr of the session. The case was closed
with long statement from Howard.
Governor Holden has issued orders to the
different military divisions Of the State, for the
S,r Enrmation Of a regiment of State troops for ac
tive i service, to be made up of white volunteers
;f H thov can be obtained; if not negroes will be
enIisted m is vi He also orders the immediate enrol
mont of the militia, with instructions to set
apart apart special number of mounted men in
each regiment, to be used as reserve.
Gen. p. B. NJ. Young is in Washington,
urring that unless Binghams or some such
amendment is adopted, the people of Georgia
would greatly prefer government entirely in
the hands of the military until the State shall
be nroperly organized for admission into the