The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-07-06
WINNsBoRo, S. G., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1865


visitors calling on him, that the usual
reception at the Executive Mansion had
yesterday to be dispensed with.
BY the arrival here yesterday of.tho
steamship Havana, from Havana on the
2lst inst we have intelligence of the
seizure by her crew, while on the way
to liverpool, Of the ex.blockade running
British steamship Wren The mutnous
crew had taken the w rem to Key West,
Flas and the British Consul at Havana
had made a domand for her surrender,
with what result was not known.
General SBfeckinridge and his accom-
panying fugitive rebels were still in
tttSEvanaS Some of the wealthy secession
ssYmpathizers had shown Breckenridge
great attention, and offered to present
him with a honse'if he would remain
among them. 1t was rumored, however.
that he intended to go to Spain. The
ex,rebel ram Stonewali, alias Olinde,
stilf'rsmained in Havana harbor but no
one doubted that she would ultimately
be given up to our government A
number ofthe steamers lately engaged
in running the blockade of our Southern
ports are now lying idle at Havana.
Among them'is the Harriet Lane.
General Terry, commanding at Rich.
mond, has issued an order announcing
that slavery having ceased to exist in
Virginia, all; the State and municipal
laws restraining the personal liberty of
colored persons have become obsolete,
and that hereafter the colored people
Will ENJOY the same personal, liberty as
the whites, and be subject to only the
same restraints and puilishments. IVA.
grancy, however, will not be- permitted
ON the part of the negroes any more than
on that ,ofwhitc citizens. The testimony
OF colored persons, he also states, will be
received in all cases before tho military
courts in his department. t} ~
General HartsuH, commanding at
Petersburg, Va, has forbidden, m an
official order, the holding of any more
meetings by the planters to establish a
fixed price for the labor of the negroes;
or to make distinctions preiudiclal to
their interests, and no difference in rate
of compensation for the same labor by
whites and bl.cksis to be allowed.
+ The Virginia Legislature adjourned SINE
die on Friday evening last, after session
of five days. Nearly all the measures
required by Governor Pierpoiht to assist
him in the work Of reconstrpcting the
State government were PEI sliciting
little Or nodebate in theieps The
mostimportant Of these %lt& ,dend-
ling the elective franchise to peiabs who
were excluded from it,by the Alexandria
constitution. These persons are those
who have voluntarily given aid and
comfort to the rebellion since the LIST of
January, 1864. The election of members
Of Congress and of the new Legislature
is to take place on the 18th of next
October. At this election the people
are also to decide whether the Legislature
| shall have power to repeah- the consti.
tntional provision which excludes from
holding Office all who have been engaged
in the rebellion, ';,a z2 @ t,.#yi y
" The rebel General .Ewell, in letter
| written from Fort Warren, his present
| abiding place, to}a friend, furnishes his
statement Of howhe became engulfed in
maelstrom ofthe rebellion. The reasons
are some whatsimilar to those given by
Alexander Fl. Stephens for tho same
| misfortune. Ewell said he saw promi.
nent Northern men in and out of Con.
gfess advocating secession and declar.
ing that the rebels were right, and he
was thus, led to believe that dissolution
of The Union was inevitable, and there.
fore, though Very reluctantly, resigned
Ebis commission in the national army and
entered that of JEFF. Davis.