The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-11-13
News Items.

WAsHINaToN, November 10.-A dclega-
ton of prominent Western mon. including
Hon. Mr.. Morgan, member Of Congress
elect from Ohio, oulled upon the President
yesterday, to urge tho removal of Mr.. Rol-
lins and the appointment of Mr.. Spoonsr as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Lieutcnaut- General Sherman and Hon i.
D. Campbell, Minister to Mexico, sailed to-
day for Vera Cruz.
1t is thought that lonity will be extended
to the Fenian prisoner McMahon.
Late Mexican adviccs say that nll North
crn Mexico. except Durango, is ia Liberal
hands. Mexican territory is clcar of In
diahs, but that of Texas, the frontier mili-
'ary posts being unocoupied, is full of
them.
The greatest commercial city of the world,
London, sends on; no mall and HAS no pos
tai delivery or Sunday.
So neither does Winnsboro.
In Ohio, machine has lately been intro
duccd by which well sixteen feet deep,
and ono inch in diameter, may be dug in
forty minutes. The machine sinks an inch
pipe. The water thus produced Is said to
be pure and cool.
An Arizona letter dated October 12. says
scouting party from Fort Mcdowell killed
and wounded fifteen male Indians and cap
tured. two squaws aud seven children.
The Hartford. (Ct) Times says that The
barns, for miles around that city, are stuffed
with home-raised tobacco, worth moro than
o million of dollars. h#i
1Io! ron ArRIUA.-Thc ship Golconda,
which is TO cnrry of colorel pdssen-
gers to AfricI, arrived in Charleston on
Thursday.
a GLOOMY FoREBODINu.-Dr. j. F.. An
drews, senior editor of the Macon Georgia
Citizen. now on avisit to the North, writes
the following, among other things, of date
October p, to.his papcr. The Doctor is no
scisationalist, and what, therefore, so
slher-minded q man MS he may Say, should
ch"dcnSe the most serious consideration.
Right here, obacrves the Griffin Herald, let
Ms say, for feoFt0f being misunderstood,
that VIC hopn the2outh, guarantee or on
guarantee, never wAl pass the constitution
al amendment, oven if the act keeps
her out Of the Union for Tho next five hun
drcd years, Bntito the extract.
"Wlth reference TO the action Of The South
on the constitutional amendment to be SUBJ
mitted to their consideration, i have this to
S'I' hS my my WlSU--tnat we
will have 10 swallow the bitter draught to
the drcgs, or content ourselves with taxation
without representation for, perhaps, years
to come ! With this view of the subject
without intending to advocate the adoption
of hSamendment--.it were perhaps best to
let things takn their course. Could the
South have any guarantee that no more
would be required Of her than that now pre-.
sented, it would perhaps be best to yield to
the imperative circumstances of the condi-
ton, ms has been done before, and submit
with the best grace we can, TO the exactons
and humiliations imposed on a down trodden
people,"
YOUTHFUL APPLICANT ron DlvoRCE.-A
youthful applicant for divorce, nj the Cir.
Gun Court tins morning, was gratifcd ia her
desire to be separated fron, her husband.
The name of the young wife is Ellen j
ketchum, of Belleyile, In this co.n,y. Sbe
was married in May, 1864. when fourteen
years old. Her husband man of nearly
forty years of ago, said that he had formed
q fancy for the girl, and sire was old
enough to be married, and her parents Mt
length reluctantly gave their consent. The
loving couple lived together for few months
when the iil-treaiment by the husband,
which had commenced abont three weeks af
ter the marriage. eliminated in the wife
being turned out of doors. Ever since the
marriage, the wife asserts that she has been
supported by her parents, her husband re-
fnsing to furnish her with clothes, etc.
The divorce was granted, on the grounds
that The girl, when married, was under the
legal age of consent, and cruelty Of the hns-
band. As the husband was proved to be
worth 81, 400, an alimony of $500 was Civ
en- to the wife.--Detroit Tribune.
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ANOTHER ."MARUH TO THE SgA."--Tho
Chattanooga Union of the 31st ult., learns
that Maj. E. Is. Whitman was to have left
Nashville on the LIST, on tour of inspection
through number of Southern States. and
will follow the trail of Sherman's famous
"march to the sea-" Major Whitman has
been instructed TO report as completely
as possible, the list Of graves of the Union
soldiers. their locality, and ths condition Of
the bnttie-feds Of that renowned campaign.
AZ this city they will he joined by on escort
OF ten men of the Fifth Regular Cavalry.
The party will be provided with MI neocst
sary camp equipagc, and expect to be oc-
CllDieu over Two ynnnfha M ip., al bo