The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-07-11

and where resistance to the federal gov
er,ment had been advocated Tor years,
9she, people should feel more of the cruel.
ties and horrors of war, than some of
her less guilty sister States but now
that the war is over and we look about
US at the terrible desolation existing on
every side, we can but Sthink that
though their crime was great, their pun
ishment has been equally so.
=. r COLUMBIA.
The once beautiful capital of South
Carolina did not escape the avenging
hand of Sherman. Her beautiful blocks
ofelegant mansions and pnblic buildings
are in ashes. In one night twelve hun.
dred buildings were destroyed, and four.
teen hundred families made homeless.
Eighty.four squares, comprising at least
two.thirds of the city, are in ruins.
Probably no city Of its size in the Uni.
ted States could compare with Columbia
in beauty or in wealth and refinement of
its inhabitants. There was its capital,
and here We're congregated the elite and
chivalry of tie State. All that nature,
art and wealth could do to embellish and
adorn its streets and gardens and to
make it attractive had been done. The
streets are wide and the walks lined
with every variety of foliage most at.
tractive to the eye. Flowers ia infinite
number and variety are to be seen on
every side while the parks, gardens
dooryards are most tasefully arranged
There can be but little doubt that the
destruction Of Columbia was the work of
our army I have taken considerable
pains to get the truth of the matter, and
it is the universal testimony of the cti-
zens. as well as the negroes, that Sher.
mans troops went from house to house
with burning torches setting f;e to
them, and in many instances burning
them while occupied by the families
On Main.strect, the principal business
street in the city, not single building
was left standing. These were mostly
of brick, while most of the private resi-
dences were built Of wood. Among the
buildings saved are the South Carolina
Institute, Young Ladies' Seminary,
churches, Insane ASYLUM, the elegant
residence of General Wade Hampton,
together with quite number of private
residences on the outskirts of town.
THE INHABITANTs, z
from the highest to the lowest are to.
day in the most abject state Of poverty.
They have neither provisions nor the
wherewith to obtain them. People
who occupy elegant mansions, and who,
a few weeks since, were worth their
thousands, are now penniless and with.
out the means of buying the actual ne
cessaries Of life. Money, there is none,
with the exception of little put in cir.
culation by the officers and soldiers of the
garrison. e'4l v b $40,
Instaiking will, the citizens + find
them generally ready and willing to sub.
NIT to, the NECESSITIES of the case. but
without any Abandonment of the princi.
pies of State rights for Tw'hI,is!. they have
been contending. They say, 1--WE are
compelled to abandon the cause for the
PiSeShS ouI "o IHto yOit, diiG always
shall continue to do So" In addition
to the hatred ofthe Yankees, they now
seem to feelfthe most bitter hatred to.
wards the negro. The negroes have all
learned that they are free, and, as ia
usually the case at first, most of them
stopped work, both on the plantations
and in the city, and congregaAd n1arge
numbers at Columbia. AS there are in
South Carolina more than double the
humber Of negroes than white people, it
was found necessary to have q military
force distributed through the country 70
preserve order Lieutenant Colonel
Haughton. commanding the Twenty.
fifth Ohio Volunteers, was accordingly
sent to Columbia for this purpose. IJp.
onarriving near the town he found the
roads and streets ofthe city blocked ,ip
with negroes. The next morning he
sent out and arrested all the able,bodied
male negroes, and set them to work
clearing the rubbish from the burned
district They Evyorted all day fa;tbf,,lL