The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-08-26

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From the st. Louis Republican, July 27ib]
The Exodus to Mexico Exaggerated,
BUT FEW OF THE TEXAS. ooNFtsDERATEs
~ GoNE---TuEY ARE GOING AGAINST
rs MAMMALIAN ISsrEAD OF FoR, Hisa;-3-
STERLING PRICE, GENRAL PARSONS
&c.
Major General Heron, who has just
arrived in This city from the Militsry Di-
vision of the Gulf gives us some informa.
ton which will correct an error that is
,anerally, If not universally, prevalent
throughout the North. 1t is in rela.
ton to the removal of late Confederate
soldiers to Mexico, with the intention Of
taking part in the contest by which that
unfortunate country is still distracted
Being just from Shreveport where lie re.
ccived the surrender of the bulk of Kir.
by Smiths army, and where he was
brought into contact with Confederatcs
of every rank, he is of course enabled to
speak advisedly.
Instcad of the seven or eight thous
md Missourians who are said TO have
accompanied Shelby beyond the Rio
Grande, that officer was followed it
seems, by a scanty band oftw hundred.
Their purpose, as well as their leaders,
was to join not Macmillan, as has been
reported, but Juarez and the liberal
cause. Missourians and men from Sc.
ceded States, will not exceed few hun.
dred in number, all told. Like the
former, they designed TO cast their
swords into the scale against Maximil.
ian, and the French and Austrians con-
tingents by whom he is supported.
This, he says, is the purpose Of all con.
federates who have sought or may seek
hand in the military affairs of Mexico.
Their motive m siding with the liberal
party is one of the resentments towards
Louis Napoleon, who so grievously dis.
appointed their hopes Of Intervention
against the United States in the contest
from which they have just emerged. A
partial revenge, they now think, is at
tainable by cxpelling his protege from
Mexican soil and they will do their best
to bring about such q result. OTHERS
upon whom this motive did not operate,
expressed Willingness to 20 out of pure
regard for the principle of the Monroe
doctrine, and thought that all inter
lopers upon American soil ought to be
driven off.
Sterling Priceis in Texas with his
family, and entertains no idea Of going
to Mexico. 1t is not improbable that
he may return to Missouri at no distant
day. General Monroe M. Parsons has
also located in Texas for tho purpose ol
practicing law. Gen. Churchill, who
was captured originally at Arkansas
Post, together w;th BuckneH Bragg and
Beauregard are in New Orleans-none
! of them thinking of removing perma.
nently from the United States. Gen.
eral Churchill expresses wish to go to
Europe to remain limited time abroad
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DREADFUL DISASTER. "A dreadful
disaster occurred on Lake Huron OIL
last Wednesday evening. The steam.
boats Pe,Oabtc and Meteor, both running
at full speed, the former going south.
ward and the latter nor,hward, collided
with fearful crash. The Pe,Oa5ic was
completely stove in on one side, and SO
disabled that she sank in three or four
minues after the collision, carrying down
with her about one hundred persons
She had on board from one hundred and
seventy.five to two hundred passengers,
about one half of whom were saved by
the Meteor, which was very little dam
aged. 1t was scarcely dark at the time,
and each of the boats had previously
been visible to persons on board of the
other when they were yet elk miles
apart.
The MUsTERING Our OF TRnops.--
An order has been issued from Wash.
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