The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-20
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- Butler announces himself candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts,.
- The Republican State Convention of Wis
consin meets at Madison, August 4th.
= Atlanta, Ga, is now constructing seven
hundred dwelling and business houses.
= Henry c. Page, who was killed in the
New York riot, was the financial manager Oh
Fisk's opera house.
- The slave trade on the east coast of Africa
is said to be Rourishing, Notwithstanding the
efforts of the English cruisers.
- There is nothing like enterprise. An
American fire insurance company has opened
branch Office in Paris.
- Some of the most respectable citizens on
East Tennessee have been arrested for whip
ping negroes.
= Mr.. Frederick Schuster, of Savannah, has
left for parts unknown, carrying with him
about $4,000 belonging to friends whose conf
dence he betrayed.
1t is reported that there are several Ku
Klux in Washington, for the purpose Of iden-
tifying witnesses before the Investigating Com
mittee, and reporting to the klan.
Col. w. H. Jenifer, at one time promi-
nent officer in the Confederate army, now holds
the commission of Colonel and Inspector OF
Cavalry in the army of the Khedive Of Egypt.
- The editor Of the indianapolis Journal has
a letter from Vice President Colfax, in which
he denies the statement that he has reconsid-
cred his determination to retire from public
life
= The employees of the Agricultural De-
partment gave testimonial to Gen. Capron ON
his retirement from the Commissioners office,
His successor, Prof Watts, has been duly In
stalled, and entered upon his duties.
An influential movement is now on foot
in Missouri to secure the Democratic nomina-
ton for the Presidency for Gen. W. S. Hancock.
Conservative Republicans and Democrats unite
in urging his claims and availability.
- The Virginia papers urge upon the rail-
ways which terminate in Norfolk and their
connecting roads to concert measures with the
Allan line of steamships for influencing the
immigration Of small farmers and farm labor
ers to settle upon tlyeir lines of route.
- In the case Of Laura Fair, under sentence
of death at San Francisco, an appeal has been
made to the Supreme Court, and hearing set
for October next. Hence, according to an AS
scciated Press dispatch, ''there is no likelihood
of her being hanged before January next"
= The Convention of Kentucky Baptists,
held in Louisville last week, offered $500, 600 to
remove the Theological Seminary from Green
Vile S. c., to an eligible point in Kentucky,
provided the other Southern States will raise
100000.
The Philadelphia Age is of the opinion
that by the time the Presidential election Of
1872 takes place, the people will be so pressed
by immediate issues of a financial and business
character, that they will have no room ia their
minds to accept trumped up stories in relation
to Ku Klux organizations in the South.
The New Hampshire House of Represen-
tatives has taken 2 step towards doing away
ls4lo l,xyn
enacts that husbands shall not hereafter be
liable for the debts of the wife contracted be-
fore marriage. Woman is to have her rights
to the extent of being free to pay her owu
debts, the same as tyrant man.
- The President will remain at Long Branch
until the 10th cf August, when he goes to Cal,
ifornia. Unless an emergency arises, he Will
not visit Washington, but will dispense pardons
for bigamy and receive presents from any dis
posed to make them at Hthe cottage by the sea"
It is suggested that Grant takes pardon along
wish him for Brigham Young as there are Sc
riors charges of polygamy against this Salt
Lake ofSeial, who is good Union man also:
The speech of Senator Trumbull, deliv-
cred on the 4th instant, in Illinois, has taken
the Radicals by surprise. In the course OF his
remarks, Mr. Trumbull said that attempts had
been made to clothe the Executive with too
great danger of the Republic. Local govern
ments are safeguards of liberty, while the Fed
eral Government is only needed to protect the
citizen. Liberal and kindly action on the part
of the general government was needed to heal
the wounds of the South.
- Hon. Daniel W. VOORHEES, has announced
his intention to withdraw entirely from politi-
cal life at the close of his present term of Con-
gress. accordingly, he says that under no
circumstances will he permit his name to be-
used in connection with the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor of Indiana, and that he is
not, and never again expects to be, a candidate
for any Office whatever. He will devote him
self exclusively to the duties of his profession,
and his sole wish in connection with political
affairs is that Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks may
be the Democratic candidate for President IN
1872
= The Savannah Republican contains an ac
count of turnpike road steam engine, which
was tried in that city few days since, and
worked to the entire satisfaction of those who
witnessed its performance. 1t turned in a
space not greater than its own length, and
made good time IN the heavy sand near Cohen's
wharf 1t is. eight horsepower, weighs five
tons, and is calculated to draw fifteen or twenty
TONS 1t was built by the Grant Locomotive
Works, at Patterson, New Jersey, at cost of
$4,000, for the Central Railroad Company, and
their introduction into Georgia is reduced to a
fixed fact.
"A Washington dispatch states that the
Administration is about to enter upon more
vigorous enforcement of the Ku Klux law,
not through the employment of military, but
by the appointment of special Assistant Dis
trict Attorneys, charged with prompt prosecu-
ton of alleged offenders in the United States
court. 1t is not pretended that there have been
any new developments regarding the condition
of affairs in the South that necessitates this
sudden decision of the Department of Justice
On the contrary, the evidence before the Ku
Klux Committee shows that the affairs are now
so peaccable in the South that all the evidence
taken relates mostly to the disturbances before
the present year.