The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-07-03
Davis Oh ArdCrSUnyiIlc.

There was food in the Confcieracy. but
no means for its collection, the holders hid.
ing il after the currency had become dcpre-
ciaied; and. If collected, then came the diff
hcnlty.o its transportation. Their railroads
were overtaxed, and the rolling stock soon
gave out. They could not feed their own
troops, and prisoners of war in complaint
Somc of his people confined in the West and
at Lookout Point had been nearly starved
At certain times, though he well knew, or
lAwell be lieycd, full prison rutions had been
ordered and paid for in these cases Herd
men together in idlcncss within an iuclo.
sure, their arms taken from them, their
organization lost, without employment for
their time, ana you will fnd il difficult TO
keep them in good health. Thty were o.
dercd to receive precisely the same raiions
given TO the troops guarding them but dis
honest Corlmssaries and Provost Marshals
were not conhnedto TO any people. Doubtless
the prisoners on both sides often suffered
that the officers having charge of them
might grow rich; but wherever such dis
honesty could hc brought home, prompt
punishment followed Gen Windcr and
Col. Norhrop did the bost they could. he
believed; but both were poorly obeycd or
sccoidcd by their subOrdnatcs To hold
him responsible for such unauthorized pri-
yations was both, cruel and, absurd He
issued order al0r order on the subject, :,
uud, conscious of the extreme dsfficnlly of
feeding the prisoners :rads the most libar-
nj offers Cor tXchansc c-llmost willing to
accept any terms thar would release his
people from their burden. Non exchange,
however. was the policy adopted by the
Federal Governmcnt-.iUs' as Austria, in
her late campaign against Frederick the
Great. refused to exchange; her calcnla.
ilon being, fiat as her population was five
times more numerous than Prussn's the
refusal would be n wise measure. That il
may have been prudent, though iubuman,
situated as the South was, he was not pre-.
pared.to TO deny; but protested against being
held responsible for evils which no power of
mis- could avert, and to escape from which
almost any concessions had been offered. j.
a SINGULAR CAsE.-Ar. Chas. T..
Chamblin ut the lime hc was wounded,
lientenantin the 9Th Virginia rcgi.
m mt. He coughed from his throat f. W
days since, q minnie ball that had been
lodged there for, more than four years.
lle was shot at 'Sevcn Pine, June !, =,
1862, the ball entering The side OF ;he
nose just below the left eye. It was
probed four inches. and found to have
passed near perpendcularly in scarcely
missing the brain. 1t disabled him for
duty, and has ever since caused macn
pain in damp weather frequently render.
ing 1t almost impossible to swallow at
all. When conghcd up on Tuesday eve
ming last, it seemed to have come. from
just below the right ear ppder the jaw
bone, and caused bnt little pain, and was
followed by no blood 1t was an ounce
minnie, not mashed out of its original
shape, although mucl, dentcd by concns.
sion with the bones in tho face. The
coming forth of the ball caused a sore.
ness in the throat and a giddiness in the
head for a day or Two, but nothing more.
--KeeSbmy { Va) Mirror.
.l.tt. -. Fr.rst. r,
The fifth, and sixth volumes Of the
German Translation Of Byron, by Otto
Gildcmelster, lave jns, appeared, con.
tainlng "Don JUAN