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1 - A~~~ s:. P" 1 1.1 HE' T + LY NEW VOLUME I.] WINNSBORO, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE A, 185. rmTTMnu IA TBE T14iEELY NEWS: DY J. B.. BAITTON. . TE-TR-WEEKLY NEWS is pabliebed on ysd I Thursday and Saturday, t ONE DOfiAR per montib, in aivancq. Single copies Cw Omau-ra. Advertisemente inserted at.ONE DOLLAR per square, of eight lines or lest, for the first, andSEVENT1-FIVE cents for each subso. quest idiertion, invariably in advance. [Correspondenee of the 16w york News.] The Conduct of Mr. Davis -IN PRISON CON818TIENT WITH HI8 FORMER LIFE-HIS DEMEANOR AND LANGUAGE THOSM OF A CHRISTIAN AND A GEN 1LPMAN-No EXOUSE OR PRoVOOA f'ION FOR HIS nYING PUT IN IRONS S:HIS SAFE KEEPING DOE SNOT REQUIRE CLOSE OONFINEMENT. Wdsingto, June 6, 1865. I nieed ot tell the raders of the News that all the ridiculousstories about Jef. ferson Davi, thit have beent set afloat ever since his capture, are pure fabrica tions, without the'least foundation. They have otaginated, and have been circit -Ated, with the sole design-of making Mr. Davis-appear' ridiculous; and of deprir. ing him of the',ympathT which he other wise would hive received. Mr. Davis is our enemy; biit he has been captured Indn4 is a - prisonet; -and nver before in the history of any enlightened and Chris tian siation. has there been an instance whee a captive has not been treated with kindness and gentleness, with cour tesy, and with all that consideration which is'due to the rank and the position .which lie formerly held.. W. has been rearved for this enlightened nation to. tfea, anjllustrious captive I Clhristiati, a g6htleman, a man of refined habits; in a mhnter so cruel, so barbatrous,.so uln necessarily severe; as.will leave an in effabable stain upon our history. 'te'falsehood about Mr.' Davis har ing been disguised in fenfale apparel is '..)owexploded, and only 'bripgiJidicnte -upb those who believed it. -Tiserved its purpose, however, and probably not. . one in a.thousand of those who.heard the falsehood have since seenita contrado, tion. The inhunatt treatment which Mr Davis has riceived, however, since hibtndaroeration in the dungeon' of For ttesfonroe, deserves to be plaedbo foe the world in its true ,olors. I here. with send you the fiots asihave learnedl. thens. - Vh conduct of Mr. Davis ever since lie has been inAprisoned itt ..the Foxtres, hiabefs oxactly what those wh. were hisefarnlriasoiates in the United States SePn4 ewould have oxpected from him. HE9kk* that-itwa's useless for hini to slr04logiist his(ate,..or.,to repine at -thek iifo(ie that has befalenhim. 'He h ab fteorei, necept.d .his thiefbrtune in as0pielt-oftrue Ohristiant resignat40u.. H is4Aever given utteranq (W:An an giy setoluen nor useoflauguage unbe. cofinig in ~a-genman.4rhetnandato be p 0t, -1ni4 who is oredloneisugh. to ,h4qq~ -Ais Jeflerson Davis 1rail ed '* Mifflors, or at the (1overntiiant, tbo lie thrqw his food Athe ieadodFthe .tediaxtf ,hit lie -knocked 4ows twOWf Tied the. ardo hie thyslI fwb ny n~ait 9f oOntmoan sige 'p h~e the e of *A right, audrWdai his, demanded it4 in *n' fetlltow~dovd and h ,,Ih to proper 40a0 Sbeen gtjuyalowed. Th.' of the- -phis fitnbsisga sge LoswIno 'etensa was niot Modeti *khap$neoi d s te oob have -thought of resisting a party of men composed of an officer, a blacksmith, and four strong soldiers, all armed to the teeth, with eight more soldiers at hand I All these facts, I repest will one day be known to the world. And now, how much more would it comport with the honor and dignity of the country; how much more lustre would it shed upon President Johnson's Administration, if General, Miles had been directed to take the parole of Mr.' Davis not to escape, and then to have allowed him the liberty of the Fortress, and a seat at the General's table? I presume a great many of your readers have seen For.tres Monroe, and remem her its internal arrangement. duarded as the prisoner could be, even with this liberty allowed to him,.his escape would be literally impossible. With a guard of sixty vigilant men, twenty on dutj all the time, with orders not to-lot him be out of .their sight for a moment, he could not escape, even without his parole. It 49 not too late to change the manner of his imprisonment even now. It can not be denied that, up to this time, the indignities that have beon heaped upon Mr. Davis and his rigorous imprisonment have. not been owing to fears of hi' es cipe but in order to wreak vengeance upon him for some fancied complioitylof his in the assassination. Even to per mit such things is unworthy of a mind like President Johnson's, and it may be hopQd that lie will put a stop to them. MALOOLM. (From the New York TrIbune.] -Trying and hanging for treason sim ply those defeated in our lat coutest we do not believe in; no't only because we hold that nine-tenths of the - worst and most guilty of. them' are shielded from such trial by a fitir construction of terms of capitulation proposed by Lienit. GinQGeqnL. and accepteO. by.,Gq. Lee. (for wat veteran army ever yet gave gave up its weapons-in order to be tried and punished for treason ?) but because we are most anxiotij to hgstph and per. reot the establishiient of Peaoe and Good Will between the North and South, between the White and Black, hindwe painfully fel that trying and haupng men for eirple treaon-now thiat the Rebellion lis utterly collapsed and erplode4-wioui4 tend to emhitter, to exaaperate, and to render the - ex eblel uganirnously, inflexibly .hostile to. any concession of political rights to their late slaves. In short, we feel that hanging ten (or treason merely--now th.at Peace is reltored'on the basis of Ileunion--woujd tend to fix Four Mil lipns of loyal Americans permanently in a statt [of polkieel impotence and' semi vassalage; while'We hope, by a contra rypolicy,'to pavie the way to a partial and ultimately thorotigh recognition of their rights as men ane4 itizens. oare proud of tie fact that no con spieo1Ws Ablitionistathose dayt when Abolt'on w*a gneAlly odien and ex. erd is itowa1 advoawte of. hanging forskaple truaqona;"iie, on the other ahl; we rhise none:9f th.pr'eent advodt. 'of hugig A$, goeh ndyw es aly 4tious that. tho.. 1japka shall b Onized by bur- aobstL tion* and awh tttthiedio 0heuoneb tights of me d. .0114th roi i"% inost ot h Ar.6 tlbtdo' or ph idmon , waeae M9 6i6t_ to-be ei~hd lika Mutr M-* .iu 'seem hs.6hance ia the'"eostu&! ,A wittWhites s'th oGalgtIoo ~f~ee 'biebi)& iJ 'a e Mtheitaid M if bela penalties, fair]y incurred shall rermair unexecuted. In the case in point, how. ever, there are special reasonq for not hanging, which seem to us of transcen dont gravity, anA4 which we trust wil Aot be overborne. [From the Petersburg News, June 10. The Alleged Indictmentf 0Gen. Lee. John C. Underwood, an itineraai schoolmaster, from a Northern State settled many- years ago in the county of Fairfrx,. Virginia, took charge of a country school, and began in a modesi way to 'correct the ignorance of this benighted State. In the course of time he diarried a very worthyl lady of that county, and obtained, through her con nections,'a large and useful acquaintance ship in that region, which Ite improvei financially and otherwise. His scati ments on the subject of slavery wer( obnoxious to the people, therefore, me deatly concealed until an opportunity o: their safe exposition was agorded, as he thought, at the time of the Fremoni campaign- we believe, when, in the inidst of a few fishermen. ho raised a pole al Occoquan bearitig'a flaig inscribed with the name of the Abolition candidate for the Presidency. This was more than his neighbors felt like enduring, and Under, wood was forced to leave, to avoid sharpei castigation than he had been wont to inflict on the rising heirs of Fairfax. During the war he was appointed to a judgeship-why, we cannot conceive: probably on the ground that as thor was nothing to be done, he could do no harm; but the conclusion of peace leaves him the highest judicial offcer in the Easterii Distret of Virginia; and the first official function.of a public nature whichi he discharges, on the. return of peace is td launiuh against a citizen of this State, the latwhets 6f whose shoes lie is un. worthy to loose, a proclamation, which, for violence, blasphemy and unfonndod asporseiqgE brave and chivalrous people beggr~igaf and'dee 'eomparison, No sooner had this charge been issued than its object was unfolded in the summoning of a cloud of witnesses before the grand jury, in order to -base on-their evidence an indictment against .Gen. Lee. Gen. Grant could afford afford hotonly to pardon Gen. Lee, but to exhauit the otiquette of conventional respect in all his intercourse with 'hiio. 'The great Army of the Potomac could doff their hite with'the'involuntary homage'ofthe soldier to genius, courage- and chivalry, as the old leader of the Army of Northern Virginia pasesed their lines after his sur render. The Northern visitors could vie with the residents and natives. of Richmond in paying him the most touch ing marks of respect as he wended his way: to bishome 'through the streets of our espital. . The staliart heroes of Sherman. could break out into r net. of insul as theylpssed his door' in their triumphant march. The Goiernment at Washiing. toi, which his thought proper to arrest qovernors and Ex-Gqvernors,. Commis. sioner apd Oongre'smen, bureau chiefs And bloegade'runoers, presidents. ad preabhr. has not laid the weightf a auger, or a tireat bn.the man to Whpm General CGrant has given his sol4ier' word for Iafgnard. $o, 'the foul tee4 was 1eA for the, tongenial perbrtnawce of an iiportpd.Jtdge, who, after malign , inthe iate whoe .'eople gave him bread in his . pvrty and conseqqPnb inx his obfirmityo.eij ns these 0eopIS to.aid Lir i" 'A- gtol1a doat hLA-ir We are gla4 to say~ tor thq 'lboner of the'Amenant epl all St t ha meqqions, that-ho wor4 had been learbn any qnrtea4f a ppthhi~n the reu n' uAnd we grnitoten pdrate ee aggect r if the iidgpation 1aq~eng be a en tse the robe navy, will be discharged upoi taking the- oath of allegiance. Second-Officers of the rebel army not above the arale of captain, and a the rebel navy not above the grade o lieutenant, except such as have graduate at the U. S. Military or Naval Academy and such as held a commission in eithei the U. 8. army or nvy at the beginninq of the rebellion, may be di'scharged upoi taking the oath of allegiance. Third-When the discharges hereb, ordered are completed, tegulations wil be issued in respect to the discharge o officers having higher rank than captain in the army or lieutenant' in the navy Fourth-The several comnanders o prison stations will dischairge each day as many of the prisoners hereby-author imed to be discharged as proper rolls ea be prepared for, beginning with those who have been longest in prison and from the most remote points -of th< country, and certified rolls will be for warded daily to the Commissary Gen oral of, Prisoners of those discharged The oath of allegiance only will b< administered: but notice will be given that all who desire will be Dermitted t< take the oath. of amniestv after their release inl accordance with tie regulation of the Department of State resiiecting the amnesty. . Fifth-The Quartermaster's Depart ment will furnish Iransportation to al released prisoners to the nearest accessibl< point to their homes by rail of steam boat. By order of the President of the U States. E. D. TowNSEND, Ass't A. Geni. Tx CRoPs.-The seasons, so far, have been fine for the growing crops Where the aorn has been pioperly work ed, the prospect is unusually good; but many plantations in this section have been over-run with grass and weeds in consequence of the' negroes leaving and refusing to work. We know of instan ces where negro men, having good homes and plenty to eat and wear, hav< left the crop just at the time it needed working, and come here to town and lie about the suburbs'in idleness ; and some of them, rather than' work on the plan. tations, are offering to do a day's. work in town for their dinner. Some, people may talk as they please, *and worship the negro to their heart's content,,but those who have been raised with liim 4nd un. derstand his habits and disposition, know that, as a general thing, compulsion is necessary to'make him work. There is no disposition on the part of former mas ters to oppress the isegro, but' there is a disposition to help him along if ho will work and be honest. The wheat crop is light, though the quality isaid to he -good. - . Vegetables are abundant, and V% prospect is gooV for' an uprecedented yield of frait.-Charlotte Denoetat. 4XCIONSTRUCOTION IN NoRTrIe CAno. 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