The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-04-19
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CONGRESSIONAL.


Nothing of any interest to our readers
comes from Washington in the waylof Com
gressional proceedings. nEE =
roEITIcAL. ..f f}
In politics the great centre Of the trade
{Washington) is all agog.
The Fenians are attracting interest.
The Government will not permit any oombi-
nation of men to entangle the United States
In unnecessary difficulties with friendly
powers.
The Reconstruction Committee is at q
dead lock.
The policy of issuing q general Amnesty
proclamation has not been agitated in Off
cial circles. All said about it is mere news
paper conjecture.
There are rumors Of Cabinet changes,
but none have yet been made.
Poor Jefferson Davis is treated with
strange indifference by the Executive, Le-
gislative and Judiciary. He is to be tried,
he is to be paroled, he is not to be tried,
and so he is left to pine away.
JUDICIAL. A
The Supreme Court of the United States
has adjourned. No measures were taken
to bring to trial Mr.. Davis, or others who
are under condemnation in advance Of any
trial.
The nature and'cxtent of the Peace Pro-
clamation has been tested both in Virginia
and Tennessee, before Judge Underwood in
the former, aud Judge Trigg in the latter.
In Virginia application for the writ of
ndbcas corpus was made by the council of
one JaSin who had been tried and convicted
by the Provost Judge. Judge Underwood
decided in substance that the Proclamation
did not apply to such cases, and remanded
the prisoner to custody.
The case in Tennessee is one of general
interest.
On Friday, 9th inst, Brig. Gen. Ed. W.
Rucker was arraigned before the U. S.
District and Circuit Courts for treason. A
motion for dischage was made, based upon
military parole. Upon this motion the
Judge rendered his decision in substance as
follows:
The Grant Lee and Johnson Sherman con-
ventions were legitimate, but they were the
exercise of belligerent right, sanctioned
by the laws Of war, and not that Of sover-
eighty as contra distinguished from belli~
gerent. The terms Of oapitulation were
substantially that the insurgents should lay
down their arms, repair to their homes, and
that they should not be molesed by the
United States so long as they refrained from
taking up arms againstthe Government, and
obeyed the laws of their respective States.
The officer commanding the forces of the
Government had no authority to exercise
the sovereign right of pardoning the crime
which was being perpetrated by those in re-
bellion against the Government, and moi
having such authority, it cannot be presum-
ed that such was the intention and under
standing of the terms of the agreement.
The President alone under the Constitution
he's the power of pardon, and this power he
does not possess as Commandcr-in-c chief of
the army and navy of the United States,
but in his character of civil magistrate.
We must regard this agreement, then, as
il seems to the Court, in no other light than
as q military parole upon the terms stpulat,
ed, and which the parties contemplated
should terminate with the war if its terms
remained unbroken, by the parties accept
ing it, until that time.
With the views herein presented, this
Court cam entertain the motion of the
defendant be discharged from arrest, but
mnst overrule the same, and the defendant
will be admitted to bail for his appearance
to answer at the next term Of the Court
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TIE TRIAL OF MAJ. GEE.-The mill.
tary Court, now in session at Raleigh,
trying Major Gee, having determined TO
continue the trial. notwithstanding the
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