The tri-weekly news. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, June 17, 1865, Image 2
SATURDAYMO1NIN It.'
The citizens of Fairfield Dis.
t-iet are respectfilly invited to
attend a.
* PUBLIC MEET-MG,
to be held at Wlwnsboro, on
Wedne8day, 22nd ib. at 11
o'clock, a. M., for the purpose of
adopting measures fi .the res
toration of the Civil Govern
ment of the State of South
CarcJina.
To the Hon. W..W. BoyoE are. we
indebted for a copy of the Richmond
.les, of the 12th inst.
Mr. A. LAUGHLIN will please accept
our aoknegledgements for a late Colum.
"la paper.
o j, de also indebted to our kind
frienO, Dr. J. R. Qoox, for a similar fa.
.Vot.
We are-again placed under obligations
to that obliging gentleman, Mr. DAVID
ONES, of the Southern Express Com.
'pany for late favors. The - Express
'Company is an "institution," and but
for it, and the obliging kindness of its
Messengers, we would be almost'totally
in'she dark in point of news.
Jefferson Davis.
We have been informed by an ofmloer
'recently released from Fort Delaware,
who passed through Washington and
stopped at Fortress Monroe, that JEF
PERSON DAVIS is still in confinement at
-the latter place, and never was carried to
Washington, as stated by Northern cor
respondents. It is true that DAvIS had
been manacled, but only for a slort
time; and then not by order of the Gov.
ernment. He is now simply incarcera
'ted with A guard or two.
The Daily Record.
A new paper has made its appearance
in, aleigh, N. ., under ffio stye and
title 4f The .Day Record. We wish
the proprietors much suoess -in the'ir
new enterprise. The copy before us is
will Alt'ed 'ith ohoice and interesting
matter.
We hsvo entered the Recor4 on our
' change list, and hope toreceive its
r4acordof pasbing events" regularly.
By-thqby, our*Raleigh exqhanges we
nver see. Cannot our brother editors
in' aleigh send us tlieir. publications
through t rising "instjtu.
tion t: ess Gotipany?
Kewing spress Com.
any h hers of the
ro1W pre thinkitil
not desert th are no mails
y7 w'hich'the o the ire:.
changes. Fvare high.
.4ition'bf a~alrs.
A Resom~e of the Edwa.
-we lesarn that it is 'rudrfoed thit~ Hon.
osata?'THLI:of Medlbovn, 'bseets g
ipointed Governor of' Georgi, by Prssi
- deutJ6hsha.
T'he mecn who captured the monay~$
the Riehmond Banks, whean du 1t' wa
from Wsi1ngton, G4. ar reported to
have been g~tieg % -
Thed 'k' aele & ~
says thak ight hurndcl# &usand dol
FwlareIn gVS6e4 hai asii qca ed,
lim Macon Sot~ ie tapse pagi'n fof
the gsirisond Aior othew al~n at
Penses.
-ce rf
been ~ ~
t -~
th Us WI~S4 si '
'Lnndontoiurdkka
ernu1 u~tdecision As to te
~nde~he United Ntes for
the 1. t the Federa tizens
by 9 te ruisers suchl e ther
Albam and others, constructed and
equipped in English ports since the begin
ning of the war.
1sj. Gen. HALLtosi ha iWsuud aU ur.
aer that fkem and after May 20, all per.
sons found in arms against the authority
of the United States in the States of
Virginia and North Carolina will be
treated as robbers and outlaws.
An exchange says that the new
three cent piece, which is a great im.
provement on the old one, is enough
smaller than the cent to be easily distin
guished from it, and is of the color of
silver. On the face is the head of Lib.
erty surrounded witli the legend "Uni
ted States of America, 1865 ;" on the
reverse the numeral III, with a gwreath
of what we take to be the heads of
wheat.. It is colposed of equal parts of
copper and nickel, and, it is said, will
not tarnish. It will be welcomed as the
first promise of a substitute for the pa
per currency.
Chief Justice BULLIT of'Kentucky, it
is said, is to be -tried on the charge of
conspiracy against the Government of
the United States.
The Supireme Court of Michigan has
decided in favor of the power of Congress
to make Treasuay notes a legal tender.
The losses occasioned by the late
inundations in Lower Canada, amount
to one hun'dred thousand dollars. The
loss of life was probably not less than
fifty persons, of all ages.
Government detectives sent to the
Pennsylvania oil regions find no evidence
that BOOTH ever owned any oil lands. or
other oil property there.
Dr. BLAcKBUiRN, the man who tried
tp introduce the yellow fever into
New York by means of old rags,
has been held to bail at Toronto, Canada,
in the sum of $4,000,
The Internal Revenue Department
has decided that a manufacturer . is en
titled to deduct all taxes paid by him as
a manufacturer, either as taxes, - or un
der the head of expense of business, in
his estimation of income.
BARNUM offers fAve hundred d6llars
for the dress in which JEFF. DAVtS was
captured, and two Chicago gentlemen
are pleading tQ be allowed to add the
same arment to the. attractiveness 'of
the great North-Western Fair.
The Montreal paper. give another
letter frotn GXORGE N. SANDERS, ad
dressed to the people of Europe, in
Vhi cesupc0 the President's pro.
elain reward for the ar
reinators as "mendacious
anad adds that new eti
deI dced to prove this as
se - -
A- ting leld at Shreveport,
La., e~lal ?itratRz#, of Texas, gor
pounced a glowityg panegyrip on Bootra
the asasi~n, whom he eotnpared to 2c
Tos; thie slafer ofOsaand predicted
for hifu a high Knd endurrig famie.
, he 1iotlavi\)e .Demoorps leanta
the 8#etetaf-y of War will, in the oourse
of Mtda htelve &ays, spydidt eimnis
ioteas to it thie value of. slaves whc
have enlisted or been drafe dpite. the
tinited &tates .rndes froa te 8tate o1
Kentuioy
troobied f the pat rear bf guewifl
The resdnte hyedeterst jtoeau
out theseerdbberh,4 few daye Ml
hbetj QMI~st ,Akte limb of ty
boy w1e'yggag ebao
one
y y on t Aindhehto
stent shall tn h
06on 10, war, t those offic a
privatte the late rebel, servied Iwhi j
have consented to the murder and star. t
vation of our men when prisoners of war. c
It is understood that President JOHN
= agereed with the delepti'n, and wilt
proceed to act upon . their representa a
tions by directing that testimony be im
mediately taken upon the subject.
[From the Columbia Phnix.1
leturn to the Union-Publio Meet
tog.
In pursaance of a call of Council for a
public meeting of the citizens'of Colin.
bia and of Richland District, with the
view to restoration of the State of South
Carolina to the United States, a large
and respectable assemblage took place at
the City Hall; yesterday morning. On
motion of Mr. M. C.' Mordecai, Mayor
Gibbes was called to the Chair, Mr. An
drew G. Baskin was appointed Secre
tary, and the meeting was duly organ
ized. The objects of the meeting being
then fully stated by the Uhairman, Mr.
C. R. Bryce moved that a committee of
five be appointed by the Chair to report
upon the object in view. The commit
tee consisted of Messrs. C, R. Bryce,
John Caldwell, A. R. Taylor. Edward
J. Arthur, and W. H. Scarhorough,
who reported, through their Chairian,
the following resolutions, wThich were
adopted:
Resolved, That the citizens of Colum
bia and Richland District, respectfully
request his Excellency Andrew John
son, President of the United States, to
take such measures as will it-ad to an
early restoration of the State of South
Carlina to her former relations with her
sister States of the Federal Republic,
and will restore her people to the enjoy
ment of their civil and political rights in
the Union and under the Constitution
and laws thereof, and remit them, at an
early day, to the prosecution of their
wonted industrial pursuits.
Resolved, That a committee of twen
ty-one be appointed to communicate the
foregoing application in such manner
as they may find most proper and con
Yenlient..
Resolved. That oui follow-citizens of
the other Districts in the State, are ear
nestly ihvited to take an early action for
the attainment of the above objects, and
that the committee appointed under the
second resolution are authorized to act'
" p committee of correspondence with
them whenever it nay be desirable.
The following gentlemen 'constitute
the committee' appointed on the' se
cond resolution : C. R. Bryce, John
COldwell, Dr. John Fisher, if. C. Mor
decai,'A. M. Hunt, Jacob Lyons. E. J.
Arthur, Capt.- W. B. Stanley, Wm.
Gilmore Simms, John Townsend, Win.
F. iSaussure, E. J. Scott, J. A:Craw
ford, E. .L. Kerrison, J. McKenzie, A.
R. Taylor, W. .H. Scarborough, H.
Leiding, C. H. Baldwin, C. A. Bedell,
. M. Blakeley.
The War Department-hos 4ecided that
omieer of Volunteers below the rank of
Brigadier-General, who.. have been or
may .be honorably discherged, uinder the
provisions of 6General Orders Nos. 70
and 82, of May 1 and 6, 1865, issued4
from the War Depeartment, and have
con joued in the nilitary sartice .ti
the olpee of the wer, ,and are therefore.
entitled to threeb ,anothbs proper,
authorised by eestifon four, of the act of
Congr-es. approved March 3, 1865. Tb.e
beneist. of the same act will be extended
to volunteer ofMiers below thie rank of
Brigaier Genea4 who may -hereaft~er
be 4scharged-.hy honorable. ,uster 9ut
with their reglhnents or o#herwise, in
oesequence o@6. th? .goveznment, no
longer requirig hekr ervicse,
r.Wenul ~hIp~ be ae4 i
eeh recen! d e ,n
0phish ~ lI.Mt
ew
inled 1M id 4n
se oia(i
p ps%44 nn
K.t imed
The 16oV o ily 862, pld President p1
incoln's pr oolaton conpequent there- in
yon, imposed the penalty of forfeiture n
the entire property, real and personal, ie
pon every man whiloshould continue,
ter sixty tlays, to' paticipate in,. or in of
ny manner abet, the rebellion. .,It was pi
trenchant measures of nyuoh the raipe I
haracter as the enactment of the Co. p
aderate'Opngress, ten moniths ptevious, 1
hich smote all sorts and descrptions- ti
f property belonging to ",alien enemies;"' t"
hit is to say, to- friends of the Union. p
Vere this law now to be carried out, it
Vould make iearly.every Southern man e.
ad woman houseless, landless, penniless; pi
or nearly every Southern aman and wo- t
nan has in some way participated in
he rebellion since that time. -
The Amnesty Proclamation of Presi
lent Johnson relieves all from this for
eiture, excepting those embraced within I
he fourteen categories specified. Its 0l
Practical effect is'to lift the liability to I
onfscation from nearly every Southern e
mrin and plantation. Comparatively
ow of the owners of farms and vlanta- t:
ions come within the range of the desig- I
iated exceptions. The men who served i
n the Confederate Congress, and who
led the Confederate offices, were mostly 4
awyers, or professional politicians, who
iad notLing to do with agriculture. The I
nilitary offieers above the rank of Colonel I
bere mostly officers of the old national I
krmy, who had lived in garrison, and 1
wn-d little or no real estate. The h
?antire and fhrmers of the South almost k
Liniversally remained at home without
iny official connection with the Con- j
ederate Government. This was in- ac i
.ordance not only with their own habits I
nd dispositions, but with the policy of
Lhat government ;.-one of its chief
solicitudes being to secure for its great
irmies adequmate subsistence. The only
-ne of the eceptions speified, which, to
rny extent, touches the planting and
arming classes of the South, is that which
xcludte from the benefit ofthe 'amnnety
1l abetters of ile rebellioi who have
taxable property valued at more than
Iwenty thousand dollars. But the rava
ges of the war, the loss of slave property,
the disorganization of the whole labor
system, and the uncertainties . of the fu.
Lure, have so greatly reduced. all of the
old agricultural values, that it is safe to
say that not one in one hundred of the
present landholders of the South has
taxable property to the amount named
in this proclamation.
will be then, at mot, but oom
parativelv little confiscation of Southern
fandt.- 'hisk fact, we doubt not, will
give general satisfaction. The object
ofthe original law was 'not retributive
bat retorative. It was hoped -that-tho
property-holders of the South' would. be
influbnced by the fear of ruin to take
advantage of the sitty days grace -prie
sented by the President's proclamanon,
and retard to their alegianoe.. Pfrhops
some such effect might. have followed,
had McClellan taket' Richmond within
the twoo monthes; a 1aathen expected.
But the Soutbern people could llnd, oth
in in hie disasters to-mesure themn of the
ability of the government to, zeestablish
its piower. . o So'ithern mani, at that,
timue, however 'percoaslly attached to
the, old flag, could honoludt from our
method of oonduictinig the war,.that-the
rbellion wotuld be overoomne; andsit is
not as all strange that Southesrn pioport
hplderse did not withdaw'frotn the rebel I
ion at'the tihn. In pursuianee of Pzrgi.I
dent Lincoldis1 add wanings
.rub nlAL o Tu&-,$W 1v dst
.aysbe Charlesenu
Otrolina to h ifoellkuoy h tede
of the:United te~ hjs'0
ate ofBoh *6
..tlltyb llimWt
'bke
I deprs
4h,
h .pi I'thll destroy
rise sac iand in 'teon the
y. j peculations In the
f p i legitimate com
eree OUT mei aste'can ef'ect
>thing wiihoot the aid of your Exvel.
noy's authority..
The State haevfr oot4inued a par
the great. integralf-thi Wde The:
sople are ,asprapisd. Thet aplbint
ent. of a provisional goYurner, withy
>wer to reorgainise the Late Govern.
ent, woula leid, to an early testora.
on of civil gove'Iment, and c6nfet en
e people of this State the blessingi of
Your memoralists, therefore, pray th'.t
ime citisen of this State be appointed
rovisional governor of the State of
outh.Carol~xa;il pr.
And your memoralists will ever ray.
From Teas.
WAsieNoTON, June 9, 1865.-A
tter in the Star, from its correspondent
i board the United. States steamer
lenguns, off Sabine Pass, dated May 27,
iys :
The forts at Sabine Pass surrendered
> the United States steamer Gawsco,
'he American Bag was hoisted over the
orke at four o'clock, P. M.
We expect G0ltestur to surrendor
>-metrote.
NEw ORLE ANI* June 8.--'rownlille
'exas, was entered by the forces of
Irighdier-General Brown on May 81sL
'he rebels, before leaving, sold their artil.
?ry to the Imaperialists. Cortena was
arboring about Matamoris coifronted
y General Mejia.
The report of Kirby Smith hating
one to Mexico is confirmed. it 's sai
e tobk a large amount of rnoney with
General Canby has turne& over part.
,f his cavalry force to General Sbrida42 .
A, dangerous crevasse broke ,throtagt
ielow and threatened to ovpflow te
ity and cause great destrueion of pro.
ierty,- but it has been stopped.
We have had a sight oiho Charl
on Courier, of the 18th inst., fktam
vhiich we gather the Iie rhich follow
611d which we condense'to oui liit:.
The South Carolinw'I-ailroid hiW been
urned .over to the Fresidlent W. J,
dagrath, who will at, once proceed to
he riorganization of the several depart
,wnts.
Gov. A. G. iagrath, w-ho de be %
,onfnned at Fort Pulseki, returned tt.
hat fortrees, by special orderssofQVhe'
President, aftot be. had been con'oyed
)y ship to Fortress Monroe.
The military authorities of Sou h
Darolina have re-trasterred thd NOt
istem Railroad, with -41i ol ity rlio.
itock and other. material, to thea 1re.
lent, Alfred Ravenel, ani#, !undt hi.9
nanagement and th.e-supetluttededo6e
>f Mr. Solomons, it is.expectedtbat In"
, few weeks, comMMtuIosUon will be ye
established between 04arlestoud end W~ilW
mington. The4%w.icexpe tflk i
4 fewdLays, ailway "'CofuitIo.wiW
lso be renew# betwoe O1(adeutpu egd
Bsta'busb, ia 4her, rIlog of 0801.c
It will6a i'HW .0orett tutor.6VW
both Fat0 te4otne te'
iestp 'Aus I the oldand weg
kdown r~bote.-~rotes.a
pot a'far idosa]& r of sh -
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