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

- Post Master General Key refuses to
listen to personal appeals for Office, and
says applicants must file their papers,
and they will be considered and acted
upon in their order. It is understood
that there will be q number of changes
made in the Southern post Offices at an
early day..
"A correspondent wishes to know, in
view of the fact that Mr.. Tilden failed
to be declared President after having OBJ
tanned popular majority of nearly half
q million, how large a majority the
Democratic Presidential candidate in
1880 would require in order to secure the
Office. The best answer we can give at
this early period is Slight to Seven.
"A Washington dispatch of the 18th
inst. says: It appears that the Admin
istration still has some hopes that Messrs.
Chamberlain and Packard will yield to
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 is very
strong to give them few days' grace,
and it is now possible that Federal sup
pct will not be withdrawn until after
Fridays Cabinet. Meantime PROPOSE
tions, honorable to all parties, and look
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 and transporta-
ton can be continued without violation
of law, but the officers and men cannot
be paid after the 30th of June next.
This failure would cause discomfort, es-
pecially among the enlisted men, as a
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 144 But it is notlike-
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 was
turned over to the custody of Nicholps
Chief of Police by Gen. De Trobriand,
and Republicans at Washington make
haste to explain that this act was not q
recognition 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 Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue has issued circular TO collectors in
the South that the ordinary means of
collecting the revenue in portions Of
South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir-
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 to sup
press the illicit manufacture of spirits
and tobacco. ~.
"A special despatch from Atlanta,
Georgia, reports terrible tornado on the
9th instant, in the southwestern part Of
Alabama. It first appeared upon the
plantation of A. Grummett, in Tallapoosa
County, completely demolishing every
house on the place, except negro cabin.
Grummett's son and negro were killed
by the flying timber. The two ladies and
number Of children in the house were
caught under the root, but all were
rescued. Houses on several other plan
tations were demolished, but there was
no other loss of life.