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THE TR IW EEKIYNEWS, VOLUME 1.].- WINNSBOROS. C., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1865. [NUMBER 46. 'THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS BY J. E. BRITTON. TH. TRI-WEEKLY NEWS is publishe on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at ONI DOLLAR pr month, in advance. Sing copies Ti a UsT. Advertieements inserted at ONE DOLLAI per square, of eighte lines or less. for the first and SEVENTY-FIVE cents for each subse quent Insertion, invariably in advance. Regume of the News. It has been ascertained that whih General InoDEN was in chargo of pris ona South, he issued an order to the of fect'.that if any prisoner or prisoners a war, confined in anyof the military pris ons in the States of Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi, shall engage in any meet ink, or attempt by force to escape, th< guard shall instantly fire upon the muti neers, and, if necessary, upon tlio.wholh body of prisoners, until perfect order ii restored, and every prisoner found witt arms in his hands at the time of anm meeting or possible attempt to escap shall be instantly ihot to' death, and thi: penalty will in no case be remittei where such armed prisoners are over powered by surrendering to the guard or the suppression of a meeting. He alsr dir6cted that all prisoners of war ,whc condubted phemselves in an orderl; nanne; should be treated with that h'i manity becoming ,the Christian peoph of the Confederate States. The Richmond Times says tHat th( account from all parts of Virginia rep resent that the growing crops nevel gave greatur promise. The wheat an hay crops, in particular, are reported t< be unusually good, and the yield is e pected to be great over the average A gentleman from Albemarle tells um that the farmers there will make mor wheat this season than they have fo: many years. A Nshvile paper talks in the fol ]owing stiain of matters in that city Probably no city in the country ha such a motley population as Nashvill A the piesent tite. -The city is over run with paroled rebels, discharged gov ernment employees and thieves. Thit penitentiary is filled to overflowing,' ant Recorder SHANE is doing a ,heav5 ,business qvery morning in' the way d colleeting taxeafrom evil doers. Thieve ply their vocation every night and laug at the endeavor of the police to ferrel -them out. News from Jackson, Mississippi, is tA the effect thaithe .country thereabout4 has already farlmore merchandise thai -the people have money to pay for Good bacon ,was selling at ten dollar per hunded pounds, and lard for thi same by-the wagon load, showing shai there has heretofore been a general eon .cealment of pyoperty of the edible kind ' In the Washington city election th: 4bnservatives voted in greater strengt than sinme the war began, and electe4 the ticket which they piferred. The polled large, majorities against all wh partipgi ted in the recent meeting to .the bam g~t from the city of thee ,who left an~~4 war. The Presidea intied AND~RET J. IHuwro, of .ez 4e Provi Cional Geyernor of thf Sad ala JAxEs JosusexW, '0f Geotgi 1 Provisional Governor of ftd iA~ form of the proclamation 14 prqes a similar to those heretofore poml Provisional Governor. for No1t hYb lina.and Mississippi, and'the dritleis t seribed the Lame. .A corepondens. writing from Ne~ 'Olean ays : -"In short- time twe 'ty*0ve thouensd Southerners, from Thy aliJ b0 e in Mexico. Tgje symnpathih -of the leading inen o .that psrty will ne 'he.i*thr-Maaxilan beoen conflhate was sodashytr since for $9,000. It comprises 2,500 acres, with all the improvements--sugar house, mills, engines, dwellings, &c. In order to secure a loyal feeling in the South, it is proposed that the land warrants given to.soldiers surviving the late war, be located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, in abandoned lnds or confiscated -es tates. The military authorities at Chatta nooga, Tenn., have issued an order pro hibiting all p.aroled officers and men of the late Confederate army from visiting any places of public resort or amusement in that vicinity. HOWE . COBB is reported to have re. marked, when he heard of Gov. BROWNS arrest, "Yes, d-n him! he'll -go to Washinton -a prisoner, and be sleeping with -ANDY JoHNSoN inl less than a fortnight." Reliable information has reached the friends of JoHN C. BRECKINRIDGEI, at Lexington, Kentucky, that he has ar arrived safe in Cuba. How he got there they refuse to say. A sculptor of some hotoriety and no excess of loyalty, applied, to Secretary STANTON for permission to take a cast of BooTH's head. The blunt War Min. ister replied : "Better take care of your own head." Gov. WATTS of Alabama, who was arrested a few days ago at Macon, Ga., has been released from arrest, and has returned to Montgomery. The King of Saxony has just granted an amnesty, without exception, to every one implicated in the insurrectionary movementsof May, 1849. r Nearly all the leading Democratic papers of Ohio advocate the election of Gen. W. T. SHERMAN as Governor of of that State. The liberation of the negroes gives the South a claim to fourteen more repre sentatives in Congress. Guerrilla bauids are said to be pesti. lent in nordi Georgia, Alabama and Tennesse. The choicest, cotton is selling at Vicks. burg at twenty- five cents. From the Columbia Phaenix we gath. er the following items: The terrible explosiol at Mobile is now supposed to be the work of incen liarism. A man named John Jackson Wall has been arrested, charged with the blowing up of the two steamers. He tells the following story: On the night before the explosion at Mobile, lie helped to lay three torpedoes between two buildings, both stored with gunpowder. These three were laid by him, with the direction of a Confederate major, who, with drawn bword, threat. ened the men with instant death on the slightest resistance. After the torpe. does were laid, a shell with a long fuse attached was given to him, and he was told where to place it, at thg end of the line made by the three torpedoes, He r did as he was bid. He ascended a , plank ; he put down th'e shell-the fuse uppermost. Then the end of the fuse was lighted by the major, the three men r hurriedly getting 'out of the way. The -next mormng, the explosion occurred., > GRUENYILIE AND COLU'MBIA RrL.. B ROAD.-We have had a, conversation Swith Mr. LaSalle, the worthy' supe'irin tendent of this railroad, who tells us t1pat the surveyoxs have gone over the route of thie road, which is, to sup. hegpbetween Columbia aid Al. - ife sp eeicouragingly of the with all the energy .posibleto e t tances of the compag sand flis very importatit track -i al.to th'e prosperitg of Co. I e ooqptry tosok , n in d ' pronuse whidh W~oy mee in thl , H :~*Aussi uge the1th the people, expressing the hope that peace will be secured for the State on honorable and indulgent terms, and ex. horts them to peace and order. In Tennessee, the Act to limit the election franchise exclides the leadets of the rebels suffrage for fifteen years, and for five years denies the right to the smallei- fry. flow to determine the status of each will be the question. While the struggle lasted, every small tacky fancied himself a wheel horse. We believe that two and not three cents per pound is the amount of the in ternal revenue tax to be levied on cot. ton. Let the seller look to it. Short cottons obtain twenty cents in the Co. lumbia market at this moment. HoN. GEORGE A. TRENuoj..-It is with great satisfaction that we learn that this gentlemen has been released on his parole, and is now at large in the city of Charleston. From Mexico, WASHINGTON, June 16. Reliable and semi-official intelligenc4 from the city of Mexico to 'May 29 ha been received here. General Negrettp occupies the States of Tamaulipas, Ne* Leon and Coahuila. His retreat froi Matamoras was forced upon him on a count of a large French force sent b Marshal Bazaine to reinforce the garr son and the assistance rendered-to th imperialists by Texas rebels. De Potier, the French commando, imprisoned the wives and daughters f the. liberal Generals Arteaga, Regule , Salzar, and others. Maximilian ordel ed their release, but, as -De otier on obeys Marshal Bazaine, they have n t been eleased. In Moreha the Fren t punish the patriots with public whlit ping, and the inhabitants daily witne e the horrid scenes. A large force is to be sent by s a from Vera Cruz to Mattamoras, atd they intend to open the campai n against Negrete and 'prevent a Americans from crossing into Mexico. The courts martial are hard at wor . From eighty to one hundred patriots ate shot daily throughout that portion of I e country occupied by the imperialists. Elvin's mission.to France is to seek assistance from Louis Napoleon agaist the anticipated movements of Amci cans. Unless Napoleon will give Ope the strongest assurances of aid in men and money to the extent required by Maximilian, he threatens to leave the country and return to Miramar. A fight took place on the 2d instaat., near Matamoras, between Generals Cor. tina and Mejia. Cortina was twerty five miles from the city, when Mtjia sent Lopez to repulse him with two thousand men, but he was driven l-ack by Cortina 'aild forced to make for the A merican side of the Rio Grande. The latter expected reinforcements, but did not receive them. Publo Opinion-Negro Wages. At a public meeting of citizens of Din widdie, Va., on the 17th, the following among other resolutions were adopted: That we hold that all governments should afford to their citizens the protec tion of life, liberty an'd property, and when these Are extended to the citizens, it is their duty to obey the laws, and to support those chosen-Federal and State, civil and military-in all their legiti. mate efforts reserve order and to exe cute the law* Whatever difrence of opinion, may have heretofore existed among its on public afiairs, in our opinion th~ey should cease to be discussed4-that comn otion and - recrimination should . ha dia nte nanced, end that every good itiaen should use all of his influee to s~tore order, hairmiony and kindly feeling That we, the people of Dinwiddie coun ty, *ill allow no negro to eoune upon our plantations unlessn upon business with us, and without a pass frqes hje-tr her employer, or fsom the military g thoritios. It being nocessar-y Nhave some Axd price for, thsir laboI4 and the goiing county of Brungwick baying idit e from twot9tthree dollas per ma for women, ed.for boys under)8y p~d and, Ay diollars er pnenth for a~p tte.useseatseLf# Jy adheetqa a we maaea Mn ployer and employee can be forced t< comply with their. contracts. That while we recognise Franeis 11 Peirpoitit as Governor of this State, an( appreciate the generous sentiments h4 has expressed, and by which he has beei governed in his official course towardi us, we cannot but deprecate the Constitu Lion of Virginia now in force, passed b a smiall number of the citizens of thi: State, and not even ratified by the peo ple whom they represented, and there fore would respectfully request Gov Peirpoint, or, through him, the prope authorities, to call a convention of thi sovereign people of this State, prescrib ing the qualifications alike for the repre sentative and the voter, as prescribed b President Johnson, in North Carolina, o such as have taken the amneity oath and resumed their status as loyal citizens and to that convention, so called an< selected, be left the re-organization o the State, and the adoption of a prope constitution under the Constitution o the United States, which guarantee every State a republican from of govern ment. THE AMNESTY PARDoN.-Attorne, General Speed has issued the followinj circular, for the benefit of those classe making application for special - pardon under the President's Amnesty Procla mation : ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June '7, 1865. "By direction of the hesident, ~nl persons belonging to the excepted clas see enumerated in the -President's Am nesty Proclamation of May 29, 1865 ,who may make special application t< the President for pardon, are hereby no tified that, before their respective Ippli cations will be considered, it,must .b, asown that they have respectivel, en and subscribed the oath or allirma tida in the said Proclamation prescribed Every such person desiring a specis pardon should malje personal applicatio in writing therefor, and should transmi with such application the original oat or affirmation as taken and subscribe before an officer authorized, under th rules and regulatiou promulgated by-th Secretary of State, to administer th Amnesty oath prescribed in the sai4 Proclamation of the President. "JAMES SPEED, Attorney Gen'l." IMPORTANT DEcISION OF THE WIS CONSIN SUPREIE'COURT-THE UNITE] STATES STAMP I IfILD TO BE UNCON STITUTIONAL.-The Milwaukee Senidn of Friday says: In the case of Jones and others vf Keep, our Supreme Court decided Wed nesday that %he law of Congress requiT ing stamps to legal processes, in th commencement of suits or otherwise, i unconstitutional, and that the law ii this repect'is void, and the stamp on lega papers is not necessary. This decisioi was made by Chief Justice Dixon ani Judge Cole. Judge Downer dissented We have not yet seen the written opin ion of the Court, but we presume it pre ceeds upon the ground that the impositio of a tax upon any proceedings or proceE ses in a State Court isan invasion of th right ofthe State to regulate proceeding in its o*n courts; that if Congress cai tax these proceedings at all it- can la' upon them a tax which would practicall, amount to a prohibition, and can thui practically legislate the State Court on of existence. 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