The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-06

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1t has been remarked here that the
presence of Generals Grant and Lee at
the convention of the soldiers, North
and South, would tend more to engender
an abiding spirit of union and fraternity,
amongst al classes ofpeople throughout
the country than any event that could
occur. The enthusiasm WHICH anima-
ted the Philadelphia Convention upon
the entrance, arm in arm of the Massa.
chusetts and South Carolina delegations,
would be but meagre display, compar.
ed to that which would hail the entrance
Of these chieltains into the Soldiers
Convention. The event would send
thrill Of Joy through the heart OF the
nation, and present to the world spec.
tacle more sublime and impressive than
ever marked the advent of peace or
illustrated that grand moral pre.eminance
and abiding conservatism which consti-
tute such strong guarantees of pelma
nent unity and fraternity. 1t is impos-
sible to conceive what influence such an
exhibition ewould exercise upon the
country. 1t would eAectual!y diepel
any lingering resentment that might
exist, and stamp upon the Union the
impress of indissolubilty. The two
Generals, in their sublime relation,
would be esteemed living types of ma.
tional unity, and happy emblems of
abiding peace and fraternity. A sol.
diers' convention, hallowed by the
presence of such men, in relations of
cordial fraternity, would squelch what.
ever of radicalism may have survived
the Philadelphia !assemblages.
A WOMAN BRANDED-Eurore has
often wept over the imaginary woes of
Southern slaves; to all such we COM
mend this true tale of Partisan life.
In the biography of Victor Hugo we
find the following:
At Paris, in 1918, on q summers
day, towards twelve O'Clock at noon,
was passing. by the square of the Pa
laise de Justice. A crowd was assem-
bled there around post. 1 drew
near. To the post was tied young
female, wife collar round her neck,
and writing over her head. A cha
fing dish of burning Goals, was on the
ground, before her; an iron instru-
ment,with a wooden handle, was pla-
ced in the live embers, and was being
heated there. The crowd looked per-
fectly satisfied. The woman was gull
ty of what the law called domestic
theft. AS the clock struck noon, be-
hind that woman, and without being
seen by her, man stepped up to the
post. had noticed that the jacket
worn by thss woman had an opening
behind, kept together by strings; the
man quietly united these, drew aside
the jacket, exposed the woman's back
as far as the waist, seized the iron
which was in the chafng dish, and ap-
pliod it, leaning heavily ON the bare
shoulder. Both the iron and the wrist
of the executioner disappeared. This
is now. more than forty years ago, but
there still rings in my ears the hcr-
riblc shrek Of this wretched ceature.
70 me, she had been a thief, but was
now martyr, / was then sixteen
years Of age, and / left the place de.
termined to combat to the last days of
nay life these cruel deeds of the law.
GEN. BU4LER.-The La Crosse
Democrat throws the following large-.
sized brick at the hero Of Big Bethel:
Ben. Butler the National Spoon
Stealer and silver Ware Thief, will be
in Milwaukee this week, on tour Of
inspection connected with the Soldiers
National Asylums. Ben. will doubt.
less bring along his Italic eyes and par.
loining disposition, for which REASON
children Of tender years should be kept
within doors aud valuable portable pro.
perty locked up,
Several bodies, Of Confederate sol.
diers, killed in the Valley, passed
through Stauntoa last week. It was
touching to.notioe that every coffin had
q wreath of flowers on it, the tribute ,of
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