The tri-weekly news. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, October 18, 1866, Image 2
Thursday llorning, October 18, lbOO.
Z5: T. P. SLID.1, Esq., is the
sole agent for this paper in Charleston
S. C.
()- Mr. JAS. 11. SIITn, formerly
of this place, but now residing in
Charlotte, N. C. is our authorized
agent for the NEWS. a
Mr. .8MITIC can bo foumi at the
Timres0Aee.
The Health of the TOWn.
Many a time has it been sai-I that
the dwellers in the Town ought to buy
the- small body of forest growth lying
-just to the west of it. % hat is every
body's busincss fs no body's business,
and if the chill and fever were as in
different about taking hold oY thd
denizens of this once notably healthy
town, as these are to take care of their
health, we need not write these lines.
Nor d we expect to do one particle of
good by writing the'm. There haq
never yet been found a citizen with
gumption enoagh to take the whole
matter in hand and by indomitable
perseverance compel the comniunity to
open their eyes to what is beieficial to
their hygiene. Here one and their
another and everywhere else soie
other one is shaking wit,h theo chills,
and nearly (if not) every one belives:
who knows the facts of the case, thai
broad marsh only a quarter of a mnih
due west, whence blow night and da3
in the summer and early fall the west,
ern winds, is the principal-cause of al
thisohill and fever. And they be.
lieve further that clearing away th<
original forest growth which inter
,venes is peculiarly disastrous to th<
health of the town, and yet the clear
ing goes on. There will soon be ni
trees to shake in that region, but w,
opine there will be lots of bones i1
this corporation to quiver to thi
strokes of the chills.
The Illustrated Annual f Phrenolog
and Phyalognomy for 1867,
Just - published, dontains-Ilow ti
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Faculties.; Hindoo Heads and Charac
ters ; Fat Folks qnd Lean Folks; Ii
mortality-Scientifie Proofs ; Thohin
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the Poetess ; R,ev. Jas. 4artineau, th
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.the French 8thtesmai ; John Ruskit
the Art-writer; Rev. Charles Kingf
ley, the Author; Bashfulness-Diff
dene-Timidity ; Cause and Cure
Eminent American Clergyman ; Th
Spiritual and Physical ; Large E~yes
Ira Aldridge, the 'Tragedian ; Inflt
once of Marriage on Morals ; Societ
Classified, Etc. A capital t-hing, ful
of Portraits and many other Illustri
tiens. Price 20 cents. 4ddrea
Fowler & Wells, 889 Broadway, Ne
York.
Anti-Repudiation.
We republish from an exchange
letter from Hon. B. F. Moore, .<
North Carolina, on the subject of r<
pudiating, private -debts. We wis
his Vore the uncompromising, invinol
ble and unchangeable opinions c
overy citisen -of the State of Sout
CaroJina, no niatter were he swallon
ed head and heels in debt. No credi
tor will blame his debtor if he knowu
he is not able now to meet his pay
mont, but he will have just cause t
do so, if that debtor declare that h
means to repudiate it.
Moore could not be saidl in o Short
letter upon so important a subject.
Geli, Bratton's Letter.
Elsewhete we publish a part of thi
letter of Gen. Bratton,tb the Soldiers
(embryo) Association of Pickons, whiei
-we?coopy from the Keowee Courier o
asL week.
m- e
Now Adiertisements.
Duaboqa Egloston & Co.-Wite winc
vinegar nud.other very desiralle artcle.
in the grocery line. Try their new
maneceral'.l
.Fisher & Lowrancql3ootsand sioes
in vast'iimmhers to siit ladws, gentie
mn1 and children.
Zeb, -Mobly, Exr ,-Offors ."La
grange".g v l. Ref'qrs to Colrion.
4tchin,t eMaster &? Co.-prosent
a capital-asortment of now goods of al
kinds a 'qiihies. Oni of the- firn
has recently retiwned from New Tork,
and they now offer at reasonable prices
as pretty. a stock. as can be found else
where. "Quick sales and short profits,'
a their motto.
Beauregard and .rant,
A DIEETING'BETWEEN TlE TWO GENE
lRALS.
A correspondent of the Louisvill<
hentocrat, writing from Now York, un
der (lato of the 30th jlt., says:a
"General leauregard is in town
Ile is stopping at the Now York Ho
tel,.which is, as it has been for year
past, the great Southern rendevons ir
Gothain. The General' came. a pas
senger from Europe in the Ville d
Paris, which arrived yesterday fron
Brest. He is in excellent hc'lth am
fine spirits, us well he may be, seein
that hi inission to London and Paris
in connection with his Louisiana am
Mississippi railroad entei.prise, was f
success far beyond his most sangnin
anticipations. le not. only receive<
all the credit he askod., for but w:
pressed to accept double or treble the
amount. By this time, at least ou<
ship freighted with railroad iron is.oc
the way from Liverpool to New Or
loans, and others will quickly follow.
"General Beauregard is not muel
of a talking man, but he speaks ii
glowing terms of the kindness aml
hospitality whioh everywhere greeted
him among thb . great merchants an<
money kings of England and France
Thus encouraged he returns to his 6wl
country determined to do all in hi
power to resusoitato the industrial in
teresta of his native State, prostrate(
by the rolentfoss hand of war, andI it
this we can bid him, with a clear con
science, the -fullest measure of succoss
He goes to New Orleans In the steam
or of to-day. Yesterday lie took -
drive out to Central Park, and it i
D noted, as a curious incident, tha
. while he was dashing along in one di
- rootion -General Grant (who is also i:
town) was.dashing. along in another
B It is suportlaous to add thdt , the cour
tesies which gentlemen usually ex
I change under . these circuinstanb
I were oorupulously obsorved. This I
as it should be.
In graiping hadds'on Ithis occasion
a theso.two great solliers felt that i
, they were enenies In war, they.coul
0 be in peace . triends. No two livin
. men have better reason to rospec
each other and to experience in al
its fulness what the poet calls
;,That stern joy which warriors'fbel
In foemen worthy of their steel.'
'"Now, why cannot the noisy blatl
erskitos whA 'are bont on keoping u
o the old foud betwe'en the two section
.imitate the noble example thus se
them by tiese two great representa
tive men of the Norh and the South
YIf the men who d id all the hard hand
1 to-hand tighting during the war ca
.thus shake 'hands and, forgetting th
Spast, meet upon terms of perfec
equality, surel tho'fellows who stait
at home to <dodge the draft and groi
rich from shoddy contracts .can hav
Sno reason to hold back."'
DEA'Th or A VALUED CITrIZEN.--A
a late hour last evening, we receivec
Ithe painful announcement of the deati
- of Dr. R. W. Gibbes, Sr. He ha
ibeen ill for several months, and th
. most painful app'rehenuions were cin
tsertained for him for some days past
It is unnecessary to attempt to skotel
Sthe life and career of Dr. Gibbes 11
-this brief paragraph, and we will tak
- occasion to do his miemory justi'ce in:
day or two.- The doctor was born i
-Charleston on the 8th of July, 180t'
and was, consequently, in his f;fty
seven year. He was one of Col ur
ibia's best beloved bitizens, and ther.
will b1.fnany tears shed this nmorninj
on reading this announcement. W~
record his death'as wre would that o
a near relative, and extimnd to his fain.
ily our sincerest sympathies and eon,
dole3nce.-Phanix, 16th.*.t
An old lady refused to. let her niec4
dane wiha.youing grdaebecaust
shdarhew was a ato'fart4
r whereby she uaidorstood thut he was
an artfn1 batebolor.
1A
Latter from Gen. Bratton
TO TIM: Sol.DI-:RS'' M:F.TINO AT *AI.-*
Cow amr ~~ A, 1', C., Aet 7 16
M it. R, Livis. Pendleton S. C.;
My'Dcar Lieut.': Your )etter in'Ir
ing tie 1o- attend 11a Imleeting of Soldiers
at Walhalla, on tLe 22d prox., is re
ceived.
1 is wit'i much regret that I find my
ser conipelbid to foego the I
Of afmeoting, face to face, *iv o a niany
of my old comirade., and debarred' the
privilege of participating with them in
th noble work which. if I have conceiv
ed it right, it is the object. of.this ueet,
ing to achieve.
I have been for nearly t%vo years,
1uer the d ietate-8 oF necessity and the
advie. and count:c 0f the liolitiinix,
necepting the sittipion and redlikitif! fho
changes made in the old -tliiM, which
was.so dear to tiq under tAh'
"our cotint rv." TIe sad And ngoniziug
litt tiaver.ed by the mind'in 't'aeIhg
61it tliee chaniges, l,-Ad 't'o !darlk aid
glool"y conciusions iml which jW'limost
imtposAiblo to discern the old thinig fot
whichwt-. foight. It i< vainio-look to
our Stnte, at Present, as, a covering
ahield to'our maimed and mutilsited com
rades, or to the' orphans of 'our dead
heroes. It iz, as itvnr-, held in a st.qte
of tl en,ion by the victors in the lIte
stru gle, wrho seem to findl some-diffi
cult iii n"reoing iiong tieniselve on
thu' position to be assigned' 'us or the
terms to be allowed us. It is i qustion
of greet noment, involving in my judg,
ment, the fate of constitutional libq5ty
on this conitinlent ; but. ohe, ii the deci
sionof which we can tike n part.' We
have nfade our fight, have been -ovez
come, uiirl have submitted to an undon
ditional surrenider. The questiot is ,pro
perly-in the hands of tli-conquerors,
anlld there let it Itest nntil'they'see fit to
decide it.
Vhile the lowets of the Sttle afrb
thus itioperative and she is ufinble"to d?
her full duty to her sons, it is the gloriolls
privilege of her true ' pebple, in" who e
hearts she i.. enshrined, to combine thieir
effort-i and use ever.y means "in'tlit
power to make. good di oblignilon to
, preserve from oblivion and odfferlfrg the
memories and famfihsa of lik- herdic
k dead.
It had been in 'inythonght for'some
time past to organize, if possible, a
. Brigade Associatioii for the- beueflt of
the helpless of our Bligade'; nrydif olh-r
s Brigades would Ao the Oame,' htr-al
association 6f the whole inight finally be
Consummated, which w6old be A common
i receptncle for cherished memoriog hs
well as a common centre from' *lhich
charity could be-eficiently 'ali 1 Wgelv
, dispensed. : Oir Brigide is ad widely
Sscattered over tht. State thht' it *-flf be
impracticable to organize' in time to
moet the necessities of thopreut'mer.
, gency. whichcreqnimrs immedinte tii,
f stnch as can be taken by neighborhoods.
I You in your -'Aectidn- A entitled r the
thanks of the St4ote for leading off in -this
t direction, and I,trust- that youakdnple
l will hegenerally fblloW6d.
-, And now, niv dar Lieutenant, ac
cept my thanks for thei Amlhi'of kind.
ness that characterized y nr letter. It
stirred feelings of no obmtnod 'gratifica.
- tion, and awaiened .lad but glorioub
P recollections of my noble comrAdes who
are and ever will be ideified and asso
t ciated in my.heart with that sacred and
hallowdd name--"our cotuutry."
I am, most truly, yours,
-JN~o. BRaTToN..
t HE KNIoHTS Pr ARABIA TO TAKE
i Cuni.--The HIerad'Mobile corre'spon
, dent claims to have ascertained the
a objet of the seoet order of the Knights
of.Arabia, of which esptain Braine,
capturer of the Chesapeake, is the al
6 leged Grand Commander. He Bays:
1 1 am assqured, however, by a high
1 officer of the K. A's that they contem
a plate the conquest of some counrry
> which needs to be Christianized and
- evilized, and that they proposed do
-ing it in such a manner as not to em
1 broil the United States in internation
Sal difficulty. They declare emnphati
3 .cally that the grand objet has noth
L iiig to do with Mexico; that is entire
i ly distinct from our national polities
,and the rebellion, and numbers in its
-~ encampments many ox-Northern sol
- diers and Union men. ,I presume it
)will not be'diffieili for your readers
-to place the destinatign of the expedi
,tiesi. Cuba is unquestionably the
spot; hut as Braine is iiader arrest'and
t he organisation is not prospering, the
Captain-.General neer not be' in a
hurry abou6 packing hi trunk and va
l ides for a flank movement from -the
d-aland.
I Delicious Jam ' g alqu es
~ed to death h~~q~ wd of angelan
erin.olinue.
Ti Q'Uebeo.
NV Yunz1, e 1%.-By the fire nt
Qilbec, o , I the wholbedistrict west
of Ctown w fo' St. Hoover Toll Gate,
nearly a milb in length. is burnt. Seven.
teen Churches and Couvente are destroyed;
two thqtrsaudjqpp.qro re e 0,.
000 personi are rondered houseloss.
toia pwro
FonrnTAs Mo2%0of, 00t1ber 1O -Schoon
er Sarph $rans,, from TA10pa AW for jqw
York, was spoken by schooner St. James,
rom Corpus Chriti. yesterday. The Sarah
Evans was.15 miles east southeast from,
Capb. Henry, both nitible gotfe; trying to,
make IJampton. Roads,. wih jury matsa rig.
g*d. Ounboat Lonope ho. gone to her as.
sistance.'
An unknown brig went. nehore:ncar Chin
tateaque beach yesterday. at. 12 m.
The storm has prevailed-.with great vio.
lence along the boast according to accounts.
Intelligence of Marino ftsdstefs expected.
It:blew heavy last piglit.roin Northwet,
and the sea was breaking insido the ()apes
in seven fathoms.water, , ,
.Market forts.
Nasw Yonx, October 1.-Gold 149. Cot
ton 'iteAdy at 4'd-14.. Flour ' steady
Vuilthdrn 12@16 50: sales 400 barrels.
Wheat dull. Corn 1-o2 lower. Pork dull.
Lard:quiet.
Ltv noot,, Octobop5.-Cotton market
very act ive ; sales to-day 30,000 bales, Mid.
dlitig Uplands advanced 4-closing at 161
pence
- LooN, October 16.--Money Tuawket
SligiLtly tirmer. Consolp 8091, Fivep 70J
.Ny ,OaaNs, Octoeser l5.-otton high
or; sales 1,400 bales it :0@80
.Fro* Mexico,
NInf Qar.%,s, October' 15.-IN6*s 'from
the Rio rafido itatus thAt Gen. Mjia has
captured Montorey, dis ersed - the Liberal'
army, and id marobing qu Natitmoras.
rbm New -rbrk
NF1 YoRr,'Ootobor 16.-,beccher made
an Add ress at. the Aehden\y or Ilisic, B3rook
lyn, Idst night,'In whioi h)e advocated the
adoption bf the Constiturional -amendnent
as a necessity. Expresled his confidence in
tlho good faith of tbe Sout).;,ch4rqtrized
th0lep blicon paryas t t e quardian
of the oveittnef, TiclareOt b td 'lduty
of the NdAh to ed(trite the Sputh 6tt' a re
cbtxitibn ef bestiojustice.
I ., . From hitmoe.
BAMrx91nv, .00pbet 15.--4etitions are
being oir,rlatcd here, aild extqmsivelV sjlj
ei, calling oq,oiernient, to %rom6ve tIhe
preskit Pblico Com'missioners, 'Whioh it is
claimed lie can do in tih 1ecess'of the Le
gitlaturo. The fripnds of the Gomniission
era contead otherwije, howevor.
As they have ths .appoit,ment, of Judges
of the State Elect ion, ltepimportance of the
subject is'readily 6nrlersteod.
Further Vartiiulae of the Fire at,Quebeo.
QUan0, October 16.&.A mdderat4 compu.
taton plons 9be number of houses -destroy
ed by the firp'qt ?5,O00. Loss of real pro
porty from t)vo 4nd a half to three millions.
jhteen huii lred' ibrsons are ibdered
hioulieless.
THE OASE Or MR. DAVII.
Oorrespondence of* the President and
Attofney Genral,
. W4shUNoToN, October 18.-The Pre3 dent
as addressed the following - letter to the
Mtorney General in regard t the trial of
Mr. Jefferson Davis:
ExROuTKV' MA'x810o4, WAsHINGoN,
Odtobei 0, 1866.
ir: A special term of thie' ciujtl
of the United States was appointed for (1I
frot Tuesday of Octpbor, 166, ae
mend, Virginia, for the trigl of Jef'enjou
D)avis, on the charge of.- treason. i't now
appears that t'here will.6ie uo session of thmat
po7urt at Rictimond .ddring tihe present
month, and dotibis are expressed whether
the regular term, whIch by -law should om
mence on the fourth Monday of November
next, will be held. In view of this obstruc
tion, and the consequent.delay in proceed.
lng wIth the trial of Jefferson DayvI under
the prosecuion for treason now pendIng
in that Court, and there being, so far as the
President is informed, no good reason why
the civil courts of the United States are not
competent to exercise adequate jurisdiotlon
within the district or oirouit in whioh the
State of Virginia is inludedj deem it pro.
per to request your opinion dto what fur
ther steps, if any, should be taken by the
Executive, with a view . to a speedy, publio
andjmpart.lal trial of the accused according
to the* Constitution and laws of the United
States.
I am, Sir, very respectfully, yours, &e.,
ANDIaSW Jouwsoni
HIon. Hasar Stassnuar, Attorney Gen.,
In response to the above, the Attorney
General, under date of the 12th Instant,
says:
"I am elearly of opl'nlon' that there is
nothing in the prsent condition-of ilrgnia
to prevent a full,exeroisb of the jirrisdietion
of civil courts. The actual state of things,1
and your several proel.aiations of peace sad.
of the, restoration of civil order, guarantee.
to the civil authorities, Federal and BSte,<
Immunity againet militsr'y control or inter.1
ference. It seems to me that, In this pr
ticular, there js so nessity for er
action on the part, of the Executive, in the
wyof proclamation, espeiall ae ,
at th ae sesio, reqired the -Clrontt*
a~brt of the United. tates to be held at
Uiohmod't.he4rt Mon aof May and~ t
fourth Moad o(N.o oeae i each det
J6nd autheIsq apuclal er 4earned ,ternas
of that (7tr4 e*drdby tbWe~p
Justioe of tle BuprW .Oer% it stolt tpe i
pd-Ol-t 40h notico-aWs he mighbt P lhe,
regu f 'Thore is aq explloi Og.
nition'b' ",congriss .tht the stafta o ngs,
in Virginia admits the holding of the ed.
States curtsi'that. State."
lie 'pi-so states "Mr. Davis retua fib
cu%vidy at Fortress Monroe, precisely 10
was hIld in January last,, whon, n 1n I
to a iolutdon-ot 'dngree, .you rep da
comnunications from tt Sec etary of r
and the Attotney General, showing-4ha.
was held to await trlal by-the civil on
No action was thei tien by congress.
reference to the place 0o custody. No
tnan4 has sie beinmiside for his transf
inioc fvif dust o4Y. The DMstro, Attorne
of the United States for the District of Vi
giti, where Mr. Datif stands indicted fo
treasq,.hs bqen notifled t ha. the prisoner
would Be surrendered to thf United States.
Mrshtal dpn a,aplas ulidl? id0nnent,
but the Distriet Attorney -declines to have,
the capins Issued, because there Is no other
paoe within' theistrict wher4 the prisonor
could be kept, 'or'wh'ero' his personal comb
fort and -health'bould. be so well provided
for. No application iss been snade within
my knowledgo by the'eonneel for -Mr. )avis
for a transfer of- the lprlooni- to civil custo
dy. Recently an application was madt by
his counsel foruhi& transfie from F6rtress
Monroe to Fort LaFayertej otn the ground
chiefly of sanitary consideration. A, rcfer
ence was promptly nade to a Board of Sur.
geons, Whose report' was decidedly adverse
to the change, on the soro of heilth and
porsonal cothfort
I am unab(e iowses whit further action
can be taken, on the part of ihe Exeoutlve,
to bring the prisonet to tril. Mr Davis
must, for the present, iermain where lie is
until the court which has jurisdiction to try
him shall be ready to net, or unil his custo.
dy is demanded under .aswful process of the
federal courts.
The Attorney General suggests that, to
avuid any misunderstanding of the subject.,
an order be isswd td ther ,ommandant of'
Yortress Morroe, to surrender the prisoner
to civil custody wheneyer deimandedby the
United States WiriRal upon process fron
Mr. Qstanbnry- encloses a letter of the
United States Distriet Attorney for Virginia,
who states In Answer to'the (luestiion why no
dennd'had been made upon lie military
aut horties for the surrender of.lefferson Da
vis, in order that hemight be tried upon the
indictment found againet. hip in the United.
States oiretit court, at the terni held st Nor.
folk in May las, that two reasons had in
fluieneed him In not removing - him from
their custody. He says that one rolntes to,
klo,safe kpeping, the other to& his own per.
spnal comfort and health, I have never
ta (1any doubt f6th thait e would be deliver
ed to the United States Maiphal of the Dis.
irictl whenever he should have demanded.
him bn a "caplas," or any otheroivil pro
0ess.
European News.
IloNDON, October 15.-At the bai
quot in honor of the layers of the Ca
ble. on the 4th fistant, a message was
read from tbo ihoen conferring the
hQor of Knighthbod upon Captaii4
Anderson, Brofosor Thonpson, and
Messrs. Glass and Canning) and a Bar*
onbt4y upon- Messrs. Sampson an<r
The Queen says the reason for not
conferring distingoishing marks of
her favor-upon Mr. Fields is an ap
pi-honsion that it might encroach up
on the province of her-.own Govern
ment.
- Electioneering in various parts of
England i repotted, looking to.tho
dissolution of Parlinment next Spring..
It Is stated that the recent wet
weather in England has- destroyed a
e large .weat crop,
W ssor Arsenal has been lev
o the ground by an explosion of
fi botton. No lives lost.
lt is reported that Lor,. Lyons gue
coeds Earl Cowley at Paris.
The insurrection in Candia is still.
progressing, and the insurgents wore.
marching upon the city of Candia.
E'ire at Quebeo-Loss of Life and Pro
MQJNTREAL, October 15.-A most
aorrible fire oo9urred in Quebec last
night, in St. Rooks anti St. Stephens.
tuburbs.
Fifteen hundred houses wire de
ttroyed, four men killed, one goldilr
slown up, and one officer wounded.
Trom Washington,
WVASHINGTON, October 15.-For-/
ilg dates to~the 5th are acaired.
The London -Times complinmo$
uord- Stanley's speech at the Q~e
>anquet, which was, it says, d q~fed
o satisfy the TU. S. that our r
rith that country is safe in ji ands
. It suggests that his Lord ~p sho~
ako In hand the differen re1a
o the Alajama olftims, 4ich ~"
orsuaded:can be get a~t Ifa OuO.
lAar teliner and noe5"~
The leobat na Ge
60 oydis aaas,
tod among
iPer of'
7r,