The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-02


President Pierce with many officers, and
did then. and do now, entertain a
high sense of the chivalric honor Of
many ofthem."
"Tbe Government may have been de.
ceived by the testimony, which has
since turned oueto be sheer perjury,
tending to implicate me in the assassina.
tion of President Lincoln or it may
have been subject to one Of those manias
which occasionally, like plaques, seize
governments and communities or what
is most likely, few unprincipled men,
seeing an opportunity in the excited
condition Of the nation for obtaining,
wealth and position through the instru.
mentality civilians suborned for the
purpose, really did impose upon the
Government, and led them to believe
for moment, in the whirl OF excite.
ment, the statements put fourth in the
proclamation for my capture. But gen.
tlemen, my heart is stranger to that plot.
These hands are unstained by innocent
blood. No unrighteous gold has ever,
during the Contederacy, rdhered to
these palms" He uttered the last sen.
tence in most solemn manner, holding
up his hands and raising his face to
Heaven, and with such a holy, chil,liike
simplicity that it is impossible for any
words, however weird, to convey half
idea-not all adequate one-of that
touching scene.
| could relate to you. casas Of great
suffering and trial to which they were
subjected, and in no case did any of
them ever finch. 1 will relate one case
of an extraordinary kind. (I must sup
press this story for the present; it shall
be published hereafter with some accom-.
.pes,irents7 ifI live.) Bcsiaes. Bishop,
Pho Mono was the only Prince in the
world that really wished well to our
cause, and sent us his blessings. I can.
not help liking the Catholics. The
happest hours Of my life were once
spent iii Catholic monastery. BY the
way, Bishop. 1 see our church in the
North is establishing sisterhoods in imi-
nation of ths Catholics How DO they
work 2" $50 well, said the Bishop,
"that I indend introducing them into
my diocese as soon as possible, Indeed.
there ares many good things and good
people among the Catholics; butt think
Mr.. Davis that our church is good
enough for u.s." Ourself: Gentlemen,
it is to mo incredible how to reconcile
it to reason, in a mad.house world like
this, where not only physical disease
afflicts more or less nine-tenths OF the
whole population, but where moral and
mental deprav,ty affects the whole race,
and when the Heaven sent healers, seal.
ed and annointed for theif mission, are
so few. Oh! it is terrible that they
should waste theirstrength by impusng
one on another, and, worst OF all, stir up
strife and bloodshed in carrying out theiy
great commission. Let us all love onb
another, dear, Bishop. and bear eadh
others in6rmities, and particularly AID
especially at this great juncture OF sur
country's history, let our moderation be
known to all men," ~
The coming Of the little child intq the
inner casement and climbing inI his
fathers arms. who had just leaned hpon
the sofa, gave occasion to Mrs. Datis to-
make some remarks about her bther
children, particlarly those in Cnads.
Bishop Green then remarked tlat he
would not have ventured TO intioduce
the subject, but as Mrs. Davis hal done
so herself, he felt bound to say as a
bishop 0! her own chosen church, ,he did
not thihk she acted entirely wise d send.
ing her children to q convent to be
taught. Mrs Davis replied: "Iwas in
teorgia and had no money. No insti.
tuition of my own church offered 10 tesck
my poor children, One day thf Sisters
of Charity came TO SEQ me. and brought
me Ave gold dollars; all the moaey they
had in the world they almost forced
me to take the money Sut / aid not;
they then offered to take my Children TO.
their school, in the neighbofhood Of
Savannah, whore the air was cool, and
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