The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-20

larSe surplus populatlon, open pOrtS
and aplethoric treasury enables them
to provide, and the terrible necessi-
ties under which we were struggling,
still one Confederate prisoner died out
of every eight in their hands while but
one Federal prisoner died out of every
t'0et0e in ours, according to their own
reports. Nor Senates, nor Courts,
civil or military, nor Pulpits, nor His
tories, can hide the disagreeable and
terrible truth. Wirz may expire upon
the felon's gallows Gee may return
home wasted in health and estate, and
cx-Prcsidcnt Davis may languish, in
uncomplaining and heroic imprison-
ment these outrages will only pan
der to blood-thirsty appetites, but
will not deceive the world.
1t is time that these things should
be at an end. The South has done her
part to secure the permanent recon-
ciliation between the sections, at the
cost of much feeling and some humilia-
tion, and if corresponding good faith
is displayed upon the part of the
North, the wounds will yet be healed
and many of the scars removed, but it
cannot be done by officers of tho Gov
ernment 'heaping reflections upon us,
at the cost of truth, or hiding the ter
rible faults of their own people by
censuring ours.-Wtimtngton Journal.
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a SINGULAR REMINIsENcE.-Ho
many recolleetions come clustering
around us at the name or Yorktown
some sad, some serious, aQd some curl
Gus. few Of the last class may in
terest our readers. The 9Th Louis
lana Infantry, {Col. Hunt, command
ing,) landed at Yorktown in the midst
of cool rain storm of unusual vio-
lence. A captain of tho regiment,
with some other officers, sought refuge
in recently deserted house. His at
tcntion was attracted to what seemed
to be his own handwriting, in letter
among pile of loose papers on the
floor. Picking it up, nc found his
own signature to it, d native of an adj
joining county, Gloucester, we think, J
who had served at the seige of York
town. five remember rightly, the
grandfather, held the same rank in the
rebel army that his grandson held in
the new. The finding of the letter,
with all the attendant circumstances,
is certainly one of those. incidents
stranger than fiction ITSELF Gen. d.
H. Hill. ~
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JUSTICE IN WEST VIRGINIA.
following extract from letter from
Charleston, West Virginia. will show to
what extent radicalism is carried in that
bogus State:
GAS things 60 on in this new State,
there is little protection for, any South.
erner. Every man who was in any way
connected with thsrebellion, is liable to
a snit for damages sustained by loyal'
people during the war. Whether the
defendant was in any way implicated in
the injuries Inflicted or not, or whether
the injuries really were inflicted is oflit
tie consequence. Judgments are mva.
riably rendered, and there is no chance
of redress. l find one suit for $4,000
decided against me for trespass in, an ad
joining County, into which had never
put foot, instituted by a man oGwhom |
nave never heard. Another suit for So,
900 is now pending, and will be decided
against me at the next term. l am in
this case also utterly ignorant of the
party complaining or the trespass char.
ged."
An incident which occurred yesterday
on the boat as the President was cross.
ing the Ohio from Cogington to Cinc,n.
natti, affords an additional illustration of
the faithful attachmenc of the Grant fam
lily to President Johnson. The father of
Gen. Grant was presented to the Prees.
ident, and assured him OF his cordial ap-
probation Of the Presidents phlicy, and
expressed earnest wishes for its success.
There can be no doubt that Gen. Grant
himself cherishes the same views and
wishes. although his sense of the proprie
| ties of his nor,tinn learo h;n,, at,, d;nns3, .,