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TH .."R ----- L-T NEWSJI VOLUME . WINNSBORO- S. C., THURSDAY 1ORNING, JUNE 22, 1865. -J. . I . W. NUMBER 42 T.E Till-WEKLY NEWS: BY 'J, E. BRITTON. THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS is publiahed 'o"'uesday, Thursday and Saturday, at ONE DLLAt. per month, in advance. Single edpe Tsa e-. Advertisomnute nserted at ONE DOLLAR per squar. of eight lines or less, for the first, and SERNTY FIVE cent, for each subse. quent hIsertion, invariably in advance . 3Mr. Davis' Capture in Burope. WHAT IS THOUGHT %IF HIS OAPTIVITY. Opinions of the Foreigs. Pes.. The news of the capture and imprison ment of Mr. Davis has reached Europe ai'd creates somo gensation and anxiety in England. The hop'i was generally expressed that he would be treated in no vindictive spirit, On one point, all the organs,,both English and French, agree. They sa$ that bavis ought not to bq hanged. The London Post asserts that only success was wanting to raise Mr. Davis to -a level with George Washing. ton. -The opinions of the British and French press on the subject are exceed. ingly curious and intersting, and we ivc some .extractsfrom them TICl 1ONDON TIM!ES nECOMMENDS MR DAVIS TO- MEROY. (Frotn the 14ondon Times May 27.] The public will wait with extreme inte esb the news, as by the spirit in which Mr. Davis is likely to be dealt with, not meiely from its bearing on the few re Itaining years of the life of an individual, but because of the effect it must iLave on the national reputation for future gene rations. Those, however, who know the 'ArAerican character best, and who are aware that, except;imder sutlden ex. citement,% they are amongst the wost placable people in the world, have little Zoar of the result. It is purely in the cause and for the credit of the Anieriaan Union that we irge its statesmnen, if there ig yet thne to consider again and'4gain ian wliom - a littl' 6ncea$s woulcive tranformed from a"Aktaint es traitor into somethiiingefy likea suc s'sfmil monarch. btodern E#iro-pe affords but one pre ced(itt for calitel punihnent in such a e.e-the troatmontof Poland by Rua3sia.; and tijat precedent is not one to encohr. age iitation. Whmn a p.eople rise fora common objedt they are riot likily to be detored by the prospect 6f individual punishment, and when liunishment ceases to beatifitable. $1Ud061oo, WOULD HAVE. MADE DAVls A WASHINGTON. Vrom the London Post, Ma M-7.~ 11Wtod as the Chief lMegistrate of six mil 'ons:of people, Mr. Davis achieted. fbr imself and for them,. during the'pe. riq4n which he held- his high office, a faitj fit presence of which that of his V i' rival must-pale. In the space of shoit years he helped to found &]R ic ehich possessed in itsipif all the of comniercial strepg th and pol 1 tness, apd which, butVor th: ng Aininosity, of fqd .whose: pm poved irresistible, would pr9 bA.4i ji6 have becorne onedf tie rno , Ul commonwoolthp in the w h Wih'w the groatnss, ephemeral th astthe Southern Confedera, af,' ate of its only President Will efrs, associated, ' and to Im iartjal midd il" always occur thg66t a4b. ea 'ftthir ost m terial'elenebt 6f all gre! i t~king las glye mn ainer the" (bidb oU fe Wnahieg . u tiw , ni~ indeed we $tha6 fi would have regarded.as t of pride the poities Davis hil Rihhmond than t M.. Lificoh) fti -Washingtons. We *enid also ventura to h content Mith; extinguihng * termed th9 orliellion in h Li'Stt States w~'ith having made their (Mid Magietda$a prfio'der, the gvernment at Wa. e 1n ,I~ - ro na~ Metof had feeling has always been that expressed in the well-known line, "We'll hang Jeff. Davis on a sour apple tree I" It is idle to disguise the fact that there was an in tense'personal animosity against him, and the abler he proved himself the more bit. ter this feeling grew. Hitherto, how ever, the Northern Americai's have con. fined themselves, as regards terrorism, to "tall talk" and unjustifiable arrests. It is one thing to shout at a camp fire a threat against the leader of the enemy; another to carry 't into 'effect, when he is a hlilpless prisoner. To use a homely saying, the bark of the Yankees is much worse than their bite. President John son's violeni speebhes has not yet abso lutely resulted in the execution of a sin gle man, and it is scarcely credible that Mr. Davis will be treated otherwise than as a prisoner of war. The fate of President Davis, whatever it may be, is a matter that exclusively concerns the people of the United States. For the sake of their own good itame, we, their kinsmen, enrvestly trust that they will not stain their victory with blood; but as a nation, we have no more right to protest on his behalf than we should have had to interfero.had the Em peror of Austria in 1849 ,caught Kos auth in Hungary and hanged him, or had the King of Italy, after Aspromoute, brought Garibaldi to tfe block. All who are 'unsuccessful in a pivil war becomi ipso facto rebels, and "%oe to the van quished" is an old, stern law, that is not yet quite obsolete. MANOHESTER PLEADS FOR MERCY. [From the Manchester Guardian, May 27.] President Davis is in the hands of his enerpies. It is undoubtedly in the. power of the Federal Government to punish hin to the last extremity for the political offence of levying war against them. Now. th6n, is the time for warnibg. That tho influence of a strong party in the North will be earnestly exerted to pro vent so shameful a crime frotn the stain ing the success of the republic... thero is efesf. reason-to believe. It s inceenly to brh d h ve, tlat l nymA pre vail to~prevent the horrors of the.gibbet being added to those which have been wrought by the sword; and no efforts which it may be thought the civilised Powers of the world can usefully employ towaids the accomplishment of this end ought to be withheld. [From the Manobster Examiner, Mar 27.] Should Mr. Davis be hanged at all, it will he, wo venture to predlict, not for murder, but for treason, and we trust he won't.be hanged for 'thnt. The New York Time says that to 'deliver Mr. Davis to the gallows will help to conIsign the rebellion to infa'ny. Wae, believe that if Anyihing can save 't from iltfamy it will be the execution of Mr. Davis. The Acaffold will assuredly make him a martyr. Nath will give his name a power with posterity that nothing else could give it. )PINIONS -O1 THE FRENCH PRESS, [Tralsla'ted from th Paris Patrie, May-27] Tbe oapture of Jefferson Dafis is the s'pilogue to the great natiynal drama that has laagd4 '1bur years in' Ainerica. Al though this last .triumph of the North: must be deplored, in'vieyv oj the-principle of Oulair liberty, still it should ie.ra garded as a provideriial event for the future ofthe Southen 'Stats..' In. fact' the ,detnoerais party lia go iself- into a position ntagonis oey:.sptuppnt of humanit' austice,,and gmerozjyy, and thme death ol M. D~yi byvioleno. would covqr the victims ith shamei, and guin them morplly. . ,Tfnalafedkom La 1raseas .. 4 * nu ipotnus fver1L,.and o'ei el m o1tisia d as the last iok th EntL4e OF ALL COMPLICITY IN !lU ASSASSI. NATION. The charge of complicity in the assassi nation, made against Mr. I avis, was re ceived in Europe with in redulity and I rror. - We give some tiacts upon this point : . [Translated from the P+.19 Pays.] If we may credit a desij) tch received from London, Mr. Johnsoi has frankly admitted that he committe I an error ir accusing Mr. -Davis of com .licity in the terrible crime of the 14th o April. N6 Jefferson Davis, a man wh was once a United States senator and Cabinet min ister, and who, before the war enjoyed the esteem of his follow c .izents in the North, and subsequently that of the Southerners, in connection with Stone wall Jackson, Lee and Joh ston, cannot be an assassin. His fort er life con founds such an accusation, and- the law of nations will not, allow hir to -be treat ed otherwise than as a van u shed am disarmed bnomy. A letter from Paris, say: "The Prbclamation of Pr sident John son, implicating Mr. Davis'i i the assassi nation plot protoked astorm >fincredulity on one side, and of violent d negations or the other. The Patrie, thej urnal whiel appears to take the defeat f its south. ern friends the most to - hea t exclaims 'The period of re-action, th reign of ter ror, has at last coeimenced f The loim looked for unchaining of official passioi seems at length arrivea " ', A letter from London, May 20th says "For four years all Englishmen whether they sympathized with hi cause or Aiot, have professed to admiro the personal character. of- Mr. Davis and they will.no., without overwheln ing proof, believe him to be an assassin. A Paris letter of the samedate make this comment on the matter: "President Johnson's iroclamatioi charging Jefferson Davis ; and other with full complicity with *$ooth, ha prodce4 amiost.p) ful iwnpression her 6m oznucA upon ocr enemies d:n p our' riends. Every manis innocent tif lie is prove guilty on formal trial. Suppose tha of trial'Davis should not be proved gum y Has the chief magistrate, the officia representtive of a great notion. hiinsel been guilty (and involved the nation ir the disgrace) of lowering the dignity c iis great office by this act, hastily don under the influence of febrile suspicion morbid excitement,.. passion, party paR sions. . The London &turday Review, in at article on the subject. says: Cromwell, Washington, Larochejac quoline, Kossuth and Garibaldi, com mitted treason in the same sense it which it is declared by Mr. Johnson t< be woese than nurder ; but with thi exception of the great A.nericn patriot ,not one of the number was entitled.t< immunity so fully as Mr. Jefferson Davis It is to this moment doubtful whethe secession 'was illegal, and it is. certait chat it was-approved by a great atid fre community. - If the elected ruler ofi State which has assumed independence i put to death by the authority df a con queror,-a question may arise ihethe the assassination of Mr. Lincolp . wai more criminal thtun the, viodictive alugh tor .of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Booth a leaqt maeriiiedbii liffe' with pnfliuchin andcimt, while 'Mr. Johnson, by fUltlinh his threats, woul, iisk' only, his' -QyI reputation, the .hnor .gf this on y add the~ re psec an~esteempf thme a y ze wQId. ' A -Ru~to, TsbIo6u Snasug A B411 Wkfi-4IheAPrlltes Trheolgia 1.~ a~ sh Qokjbn th , e his4 k DISFRANCHISEMENT IN VIRGINIA. A correspondent of the Washington C 1ronicle writes as follows from Rich. m nd upon the subject of disfranchise ment in Virginia tinder the Alexandria Constitution. He apparently writos with a kind of semi-official authority, ana claims, in closing his letter, that. his statements are "neither speculation or conjecture, but may be relied upon as correct in every particular." It is very obvious to th'e Governor that a large class of persons cannot take the oath, and are, by the restored gov. ernment of Virginia disfran6hised. He has ascertained, after consultation with the most. intelligent persons; that, in organizing some of the counties, there are not qualified constituents enough to fill the county offices, and that hardly one-twentieth df the. people could take the oath and become voters. The Gov ernor thinks that, under the circumstan cps, there is great danger of what he terms the honorable and truthful men re fusing to take the oath while those who care nothing for the privilege of voting may indifferently avail themselves of the opportunity. The Governor is of the opinion that while many of the soldiers were in the rebel service against their inclination, and from force of circumstances, the policy of excluding their officers, who can exert an influence upon those who served under them, . will he prod.ctive of great evi!s. The disfranchised offi cers would create, he thinks, a great deal of sympathy, which would enable them to control votes which might be used for improper ends, while the bane of proscription rested up'n then. The Governor regrets this, since. the soldiers and a large number of politicians, whom lie deems to be every way inferior ti the excluded class, can, under the law, ie', come qualified voters. Ie deeply sym pathizes with-the political disahilities of the chivalrf,' who hav$ stirred up the very depths of his compassion. He is even nowconsidering whether it is best to restor them to their former political right's, 6rforevir-i-i'acd thern; .1' - in speaking uporithis subject yester day, Governor Pierpoint remarkel that he would sooner cast his l.ot upon the proscribed class, under all the 'penalties of the authorities, than to be identified with the Copperheads of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York or Boston, who had the desire to injure the country but did not possess tho courage 'to enter the field in supportof their treason. A new revolution has taken place in Hayti, and the towns of Cape Haytien, Gonaives and, 8t. Marks have fallen into the hands of the insurgents. The leader of the rebellion, Col. Salane I petson vhq attempted to assassin ofPresident Geffrard's miniisterq months sinice. 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