The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-08-26
\. Elk CoNFEDERATEs AT HAvANA.-
letter from Havana saws

J.
and southampton. General J. B. Ma.
gruder will be here in the next steamer
from Vera Cruz. Ex.Governor Rey.
nolds and lady, Captain Martin Of Mis-.
sour, and General Il. Kirby Smith, Of
Florida, willremain here until they have
communication with their, friends and
determine what to do and where to
60" Aass, tt4 Ss
TME AFFILIATIONS FOR PARDON
Thus farabout two thousand applications
for pardon, under the proclama.ion Of
tho President have been favorably acted
ION by the Attoney General, but not
more than 6ne fourth have been sent ont
by the State Department to the interest.
ed parties. The remainder await the
signatures Of the President and Secretary
Seward Raleigh Standard. =
The CoLoRED POPULATION IN NoRrH
CARoLINA. Brigadier, General Duncan.
who has his headquarters at Wilmington
North Carolina, has issued an order pro.
liihiting the county police from. enforcing
an old State law requiring the disarming
of the colored population. and directing
that all arms taken from them be return.
ed. .ei. +s5
The PROCLAMATION OF Gov. MARVIN
OF FLORIDA. .-AGov. Marvin has issued
a proclamation to the people of Florida.
He does not re.appoint old officers, tells
the people that slavery is dead, and does
not yet decide the day Tor calling con.
vention. Gov, Marvin's proclamation
nneets with appreciation in the North. p
4 "A correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune, writing July H., says that in
Southern Illinois the wheat is so badly
damaged by smut, rust, and spot, That
many of those fields which were the
most promising, will not be cut at all,
and those that will be harvested will not
produce near half crop,
The WHEAT CRoP.--The wheat crop
rin the Valley is said to be good, butin
every otherpor,ioa of the State it is
complete failure. The grain is defective
from the effects of rust and exposure to
the constant rains of che past ten months;
and, ia addition, the quantity of cheat,
cookie and onion is unusually large,
A man, one hundred and six, years
old, lives in Barnstead, New Hamp-
shire. Never tasted ''sperrits" in bis
life. There is a man ouf West, one hun.
dred and twenty-five, who. hassnot been
sober, since he was twenty-four years
old. ,s l W. ~ g4lsa &,
tbs ead that the President told q
prominent Republican a.few days, ago
that he would personally, like to insist
upon negro suffrage ut the South, but
he could not see that he had the power
under the Constitution to do so
IWashiaytoa ic@res. Springfield. Rep
u now appears that England and
France acted IN concert, and the conces
sions TO- Confederate vessels, allowing
them to be disarmed and sold in neutal
waters originated with Dr,iyn Del Hays,
Earl Russell agreeihg to the ,preposi,
ton. "a
. Mr.. Pratt,ta "a Republican member of
the Connecticut Legislature. declared that
Connecticut is a Sovereign State"---
that she alone has the right to say who
shall or shall not vote in her elections
and that ne'ls$w of Congress can inter-
fere in the matter. l"'5'sss's ''es1 'tSt2ei
tits stated that Attorney General
Speed declarea that all cotton captured
by our military forces in insurrectionary