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

arrived here Yesterday, via Charieston
Tiey have succeeded in buying several
hundred bales in small lots, atfrom ten
10 fonrteens cents in gold. There ap.,
pears TO be general feeling Of distrust
in South Carolina of paper money. !,
They were so severely bitten by thereb..
el government that it has shaken their
confidence in all paper currency. ss
St4 NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Thereis one subject upon which it is
impossible to talk with Southern people
without at once raising breeze, aud
upon which it is impossible to reason
with them and that is the policy of
granting negroes the right Of suffrage.
On this point they are united. No
amount of reasoning can convince them
Of the right or Justice ofthe plan; and
nothing but the force ofarms will ever
induce them to submit to it. They say
that they give up their slaves willingly;
but, when you come to put him upon q
social or political equality with sit is
more than we can stand. In time they
may be induced to grant the privilege
upon certain, conditions, such as for in
stance, being able to read aud write, and
The owner Of a thousand dollars in gov.
ernment securities. I doubt the feasi.
b;lity of church membership qualiRca-
tions, as nine.tenths of them are men,.
bers of the church. ..,
AS far as South Carolina is concerned,
I think it would be perfectly safe to
place itupon the'ground Of being able to
read and write, at the same time re.
stricting the whites to the Same test for
i'll the first year there will be more ne.
Sroes who possess that accomplishment
in the State than white people. The
negroes certainly are very desirous of
enlightenment, and the first use for their
freedom, as far as my experience goes, is
to learn to read. Their opportunities
as yet are very limited, as the citizens
do all in their power to discourage it;
but tits frequently tho case that I see
negroes, who. by some means have learn.
ed to read, seated by the roadside teach
ing their less enlightened brethren and
sisters the alphabet. Schools will un.
Iidopbtcdly be established ,as soon as tho
wants of this class are known at the
North. '+ ' ~
THE TRIsoN LOCATED At COLUMBIA,
where many Of four oiFicars were confined,
was the building erected as an addition
to. the Insane Asylum. Both the accom-
modation and treatment Of prisoners
were far superior here to many parts of
the South - E
l was a good deal amused at the con-
versatiou ofan intelligent colored driver,
who was pointing ont the places of inter
est to us as he drove us about the city.
Upon passing the Insane Asylum We
asked him ifthere were many confined
there at present, He said, ,"No; there
are not many now, but" says he, "Lord
bress you, massa, yon ought to have seen
how fast they looked crazy after the
Conscription bill was passed. Why"
said he, ''they used to bring them
in by the hundred so crazy that
they could not go into the army:
but as soon 'as the war was over they
had just as much sense as have" This
same negro told me that when some of
OF our prisoners were passing through
there, one OF them told him they he'd had
nothing to eat for two days. He went
off and bought forty loaves of bread.
which he managed to slip in to them at
night. He was informed on by some
person that saw him, and "My golly,"
says he, "they gave mo abont fifty
lashes." Ft#F
THE LADIES OF THE SOUTH N
take their defeat much more to heart
than the men. They are bitter in their
language and often insulting in manner.
towards Northern people. They have
been so long used to the ease and luxury
Of slave labor that they find Il difficult
to como down to the realities oflife and
cook their own dinners. The poor class
of white woman are the most ignorant
and debasea people inithe world. With.
out education or natural Intelligence,