The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-22
ITEMs-.ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

General Banks has announced that ne Is
neta candidate for the Presidency.
: Reputation will be main issue in the
next legislative election in Mississippi.
lit is now stated that President Grants
visit to the Pacific coast has been arranged.
= Brigham Young celebrated his 10th birth
day by banquet at Salt Lake City, June "a.
- After July 1st the pay of private soldiers
in the United States army is to be S13 9 month.
= Mr.. Reverdy Johnson has received the
degree of LID. from the University of Mary
land.
"A gentleman of Medtord, Mass, is now
| repairing his house, which was built 237 years
ago.
. Another evil threatens the French people.
Their crops are failure and famine stares them
in the face.
- Commodore Josiah Tatnall, late of the
Confederate navy, died in Savannah on the l4th
inst, aged 76.
1t will take sixty years to restore to France
the forests ruthlessly wasted in the military op-
erations of the late war.
- Saturday, June 10, 1871, will be memoEa-
BILE on account of snow storm OF an hours
duration at birmingham, England.
- Some Southern turnouts will be seen at
Saratoga this year for the first time since the
commencement of the rebellion.
Eight millions of gallons of whiskey per
year are used in the United States, and there is
about half years supply now on hand.
- General McCook, the Democratic .candi-
date for Governor for Ohio, was the law partner
of Edwin NJ Stanton from 1S41 to 1846.
- Another disastrous storm visited Calves
ton, Texas, on the 18th instant, doing immense
damage to shipping and other property:
- Gen. Sherman announces that he is not
candidate for President and would not accept
the nomination from either party If nc received
- James w. Marshall, the discoverer of
Gold in California, is coming East on q visit,
| if he can obtain free passage over the rail-
roads.
- North Carolina has population of over
one million people, and there are only about
sixty newspapers and periodicals published Ill
the State.
= Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, it is an
| nounced, has entered the arena of journalism.
He has bought an interest in the Atlanta Sun,
| and will hereafter control its political course.
| - The late hail storm in Vermont attacked
railway train with such ferceness that the Loco
motive, with all the energy of 130 pounds OF
steam, required twenty minutes to haul the cars
mile.
= The Post Office Department, after thefirst
of July, intends to raise the price OF stamped
envelopes forty cents on the 1000 Three cent
envelopes, now sold at S33.40 per 1000, will
then cost S33.S0.
= The cable annouces that communist pris-
oners, to the number of twenty thousand, are
| to be transported to New Caledonia, a desolate
island in the South Pacific ocean, belonging
to France
= An English politician declares that the
expenses of all: kinds for State and national
elections in the United States cost the people
| more than it does the British for the Queen and
all the royal family.
= The New Orleans Picayune denies that
there is man living who can be claimed as
the representative Of the sentiments and opin-
| ions of the people of the twelve Southern
States of the American Union.
! = James A. Weston, Democrat, has been
elected Governor by the Legislature OF New
Hampshire. He received 167 votes, and his
Lopponent, james Pike, Republican, received
| 159 votes. -"
- TheAugustaS cOnstitutionalist learns from
good authority that the contract between the
Augusta and sHartwell Railroad and aicompa;;
ny0f English contractors has been signed, ana
1.-THE building of the road will commence at once.
- The Post Office Department is congratl:
lating itself on the increased prospect of max
ing the postal service, selfsustaining. 1t Is
found that the revenue thereof for the present
fiscal year is $1,0O0,0OG more than it was last
year.
= About three thousand public schools have
been established under the present common
school system in Mississippi during the past six
months. with upward of eighty thousand pupils
under the tuition of nearly four thousand
teachers.
/ - Among the things which Louis Napoleon
saved when he left the soil of France, and has
with him at Chiselhurst the same as when he
tliyed at the Tuilleries, is the rheumatism. It's
an affection equal to Mrs. Micawbers, and will
never desert him.
- Col. J. E. Peyton, of New jersey, is en-
gagged in 3he effort to secure a meeting OF the
male descendants of the signers of the Decla-
ration of independence, to make arrangements
to take part in the national celebration of the
centennial anniversary of American indepen-
| dence..
| = The telegraphic instrument used by Prof.
Morse in sending his congratulatory dispatch,
ON the occasion of the unveiling of the Morse
statue in New York on Saturday last was one
| of the old instruments used on the first public
| telegraph wire-that from Washington to Bal
| timore.
| - The Democratic Executive Committee of
| Arkansas held meeting at Little Rock q few
days since, and put forth the declaration that
sit would be unwise, impolitic and certain OF
defeat to resurrect the issues on which we we're
beaten in '6S and that the party is willing to
let the questions arising out of war rest where
they are"
- The New York World gives credence to
rumor that President Grants son Fred, just
graduated at West Point, will be married in
| 1873 to the Princess Beatrice, youngest daIgh-
ter of Queen Victoria 1t is stated that the
proposal has been made by Victoria, upon the
condition that Grant is reelected, when the
youg folks will be married and settled to rule
over Canada, thereby establishing peace and
harmony among all these nations.
= The newest swindling operation that has
come to the knowledge of the New York police
is, to notify parties residing at various places
in thecountry, that some (supPposaal relative,