The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-22

- Post Master General Key refuses 70
listen TO personal appeals for Office, and
says applicautE mnst fle their papers,
aad they viii be considered and acted
nnnss in thallD order. It il understood
that there wlll bs O number of changes
made IN HE Southern post officea ne an
eariy day. ,ag*
"A correspondent wishes TO know, In
view OF the fact that Dir. Tiidon failed
to be declared President after having OBJ
tained popular majority Of nearly half
million, how large majority the
Democratic Presidential candidate in
1880 would require in order to secure the
Office. The beat answer we can give ut
this early period is-Eight to Seven.
A Washington dispatch of the 17th
inst. says: 1t appears that the Admin
istration still has some hopes that Measrs
Chamberlain and Packard will yield tn
the suggestions of those who claim to be
the best friends of the Republican party
of the country, and Of the persons direct
ly in question, The pressure il very
strong to give thom few daya' grace,
and It Is now possible that Federal sup-
port will not be withdrawn until after
Fridays Cabinet. Meantime PROPOSE
tions, honorable 70 all parties, and fook-
ing to the quiet enforcement of the policy
Of reconciliation, will be pressed.
- The estimated requirements of the
army for the next fiscal year are nearly
thirty-two millions. 1t Is claimed that
contracts for subsistence ard transporta-
ton can be continued without violation
OF law, bit the officers aud nion cannot
be paid after the 30th of JuLe next.
This failure would cause discomfort, es-
pecially among the enlisted men, as q
private soldier is forbidden by law from
hypothecating his pay.
= The election in New Hampshire
completes the list Of members Of the
next Congress. If the disputed elections
in Florida. South Carolina and Louisiana
be conceded to Republican claimants, the
roll of the House will stand-Democrats
149; Republicans IA. But is not like.
ly the Democratic clerk of the House
will enroll the names Of Republicans
from those States, so the majority for the
Democrats at the time of organization
will probably be eight or ten.
= A Federal soldier who killed com
rade in New Orleans the other day waa
turned over to the custody of Nicholl'a
Chief of Police by Gen. De Trobriand,
and Republicans at Washington make
haste to explain thet this act was not q
-ecognition of the Nichols Government.
De Trobriand merely surrendered the
culprit to the only civil power in exist
ence there. Packard's Jurisdiction has
for some time been confined to the terri.
tory covered by the old st. Louis Hotel.
= The Commissioners of Internal Rev.
enue has issued circular to collectors in
the South that the ordinary means OF
collecting the revenue in portions oi
South Carolina, North Carolina, Viz.
ginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee
have failed. He advises the collectors
that the use Of military should be avoid
ed when possible, and assigns three dep
uties for each collection district. These
deputies are specially designed 30 sup
press the illicit manufacture of spirit
and tobacco.
= A special despatch from Atlanta
Georgia, reports terrible tornado on the
9th instant, in the southwestern part oil
Alabama. It first appeared upon the
plantation of A. Grummett, in Tallapoosa
County, completely demolishing evcry
house on the place, except negro cabin
Grummetts son and a negro were killed
by the aying timber The two ladies and
number Of children in the house were
caught under the roof. but al! werc
rescued. Houses on several other plan.
tatious we're demolished, but there wa,
no other loss of life.