The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-02-16
VOLUME e---NO. 33.
From the Nesu York World.
Current Notes.

Wisconsin Legislature, and, the places being
all filled, the members are in dilemma
= The navigation of the Seine is needlessly
announced to be reopened. The sane wouid
never attempt navigation in this weather.
"A Chicago lady loves her husband so in.
tensely that she asks for divorce because he
won't kiss her now, and hasn't done 90 for seven
years.
= In the absence of the persons who have
been summoned to Washington to testify coz
cerning Ku Klux outrages North Carolins M
comparatively tranquil.
= New Orleans thinks it will be able to rnise
$1,000 for the family of the late Chief Justics
Taney. One distinguished lawyer of that city
heads the subscription-lst with $500. ~
Within the last month FIVE hundred col.
ored persons have applied to the Americon
Colonization Society for aid to 60 to LiberiG:
More negroes are now practically attracted to
the colony than ever before.
"A case is soon to be tried at Kansas City,
in which a colored woman will sue wealthy
merchant for $4,000, claimed by the woman for
taking care of baby left with her by the de-
PENDANTS wife, who had obtained it from found.
ling asylum and palmed it off on the husband a.
his own. The plaintiffs name is Jackson, and
the defendants is Hezekiah H. King.
= The West Point committee call for the
removal of all the officers and the dismissal OF
the entire first class. Why not dispose of tina
few remaining white inmates at the same time,
and convert the institution into private resi-
dence for Smith, where he can be entirely free
from annoyance and turn his toes in any direei
ton without battalions marching over them T.
= Congress has shown timely justice in per-
sioning the soldiers of the war of 1872. Now
that these are SO promptly provided for, would
it not be we'll to grant pensions to the surxii
vors of the naval expedition commanded by COL
umbus? America owes much, very much, TO
these gentlemen and an appropriate acknowl-
edgement of national gratitude could be made
at about the same expense as in the case of tho
veterans before mentioned. -
= The many admirers of Voii Moltke id
America will doubtless be hugely gratifed
by reading the following account of his appre-
citation of our late war. The story is given in
Versailles letter: General Won M6ltke Maa
appealed to by some gentlemen in society the
other evening to settle some disputed point ID
connection with the history of the America1
civil war; ~ know nothing about the Ameri-
can civil war;" was the quiet reply, at which
more than one in the room expressed surprise.
"No," said the great strategist, IL have pur.
posely kept myself in ignorance upon that
subject, because there was nothing to be learn:
ed from it. War is a science, and any record
of the mere scrambling of two armed mobs
can only produce confusion in the mind"
"A Kentucky paper shows that everybody
has been mistaken in believing that our Presi,
dents name is Grant, whereas it rightly is
Faruuharson The Scottish clans of Grant
and Gordon once warred with the Farquharson
clan, which they exterminated as 10 adults, all
though Gordon took about one hundred little
Farquharsons to his castle and maintained
them in the following interesting manner.
His steward placed long trough in an enclo-
sure, tumbed food into it, and bade the bafel
legged little rufhans welcome to his board.
Grant paid Gordon visit and was so greatly
entertained by the sight of the way in which
his enemy's children were reared that he took
some of them home with him, and they; of
course, took the clan name of Grant. At this
time many Scots were emigrating to America
in this way ship-owners took the poor across
the Atlantic, and sold them in order to raise
their passage money and as much more as pos.
sible In one party of emigrants was one sof
these Children of the trough" who was sold
to Connecticut farmer, and who procreated
Jesse R. Grant, the father of the great Ameri-
can brother-in-law and our gifted President
Doubt has been expressed as to his Christian
name, and now comes this as to his surname,
which will probably occasion future historians
to consider his whole course as q mythus, as
DR.. Whatley made strong point in his "His'
toric Doubts" of the name Napoleon"
: 1t appears from the Pittsburg Paper that
the President has entered into negotiations
with the authorities of the planet Saturn with
the ulterior purpose of annexing that body to
the United States. Admitting for the moment
o. a,f f1,aS of,r,
"Rumiaub" to be citizens of the republic. one
must, nevertheless, see that there is an inherent
improbabilty that they who have lived SO long
under annular tyranny could, merely because
their territory was legally annexed to our own,
become reliable men, willing to work out with
us the great problem of self-government. AL.
though the sun has less powerful effect on
Saturn than it has OIL the United States, yet
there are certain physical phenomena which
place it in the same category IS that In which
st. Domingo was placed by Senator Schurz,
when he objected to our annexing it because it
was too near the tropics. Saturn is now In
about the same condition as the United States
were about one hundred millions of years ago /;
its inhabitants are undeveloped and ignorant
to the last degree, even the ruling class being
unable to lay higher claims to an approach to
civilization than would Haeckel's Protists, and
how incapable of self-government they are, we
all know. 1t is possible to carry this matter OF
enfranchisement too far, and to annex without
ultimately according the full rights of citizen
ship is msnifestly impossible. Even now, Con-
gress has control and patronage of Tar too many
rings for the safety of its own subjects and this
attempt to foist Upon us the rings OF satnrn can
never meet with the appreciation Of the country
at large. 1t is understood that Congressional
ner. and Others whose names have not yet been
made public, has been appointed with authority
to receive delegations, examine witnesses, and
discus. the questions generally. Let this COM
mittee be 1Uatched.
THE BLUE RIDGE RA1LRoAD.-The Colum-
bia Union says: "The work of driving Dicks
Creek Tunnel, on the line of the Blue Ridgc
Railroad, is advancing at very fair rate. AL