The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-06
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NUhS ltCmS,
General o. o. Toward, of the Freedmnn's
Bureau, leaves Washington on lecturing
tour. lie will visit the States of Massa.
chusetts and Maine, and will address tho
people of the principal cities Of those two
States on frcodman's affairs.
1t is understood. that the commissioners
a2pointed.to to revise the internal revenue
laws recommend the repeal Of the ten per
cent. ad valorem duty on tea, aud that n
tax Of ten per cent. additional, when the
article is imported direct from the country
of'its production, be imposed.
.'Parson" Brownlow has written letter
to Speaker Colfax in favor of the admission
Of the members of Congress form Tennes.
see. He says they are ''loyal." and can
take The Onth. The "Parson," however,
stonGly to the admission of the members
from any other Of the late rcbellious States.
The Secretary of the Treasury is still
previously pcrplexed in consequence Of his
inability 10 find persons at the South to net
as agents who can take the Congressional
oath. Otherwise than this, the applicants
for collectorships are frst-rate men, well
reeomnsndea en- t8%ah for honesty, industry, Sc,
h,ir emplay@ans II md The; ays ysResrstahTeyy 81 hey Is Is
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BY direction of the Ordinance Depart
mcnt, the ordnance depots at Nashville.
Tenn., Hilton Head, s. c., and F2rr Lea
venworth, Kansas, have been discontinued
and the officers relieved.
But one NutiOnal bank was established
last week-thc cChattnhoochie National Bank
of Columbus. Georgia, with capital of
100000. The total number of National
banks now in operation is one thousand six
hundred and thrifty.
An urgant pressure is being made to in
duce the President to issue an order .res.
tcring the Arlington estate to Mrs. General
Lee.
AT q late convention Of negroes al Angus.
to, Georgia, resolutions were adopted op.
posing universal suffrage, but favoring suf
frage for such blacks as can r, al and write.
The paragraph gazing the rounds about
General Hoods marriage Is untrue. Gen.
Hood is still single and Miss Preston is in
Europe.
A contemporary says there is a general
desire to know who is President, Andrew
johnson or Thad. Stevens.
Among the deaths in New York last week
were 1913 children under FIVE years Of age
That terrible Eastern plague, the
cholera, has fonnd its way to this couti.
nent at last, landing first on one Of the
West India islands, where its ravages
are described to be almost nnobstructed.
One hundred and tlity.one deaths a
day, out Of "a population of but ten
thousand, is ratio which will soon
change any peopled looaGty into soil.
tnde. It. appears TO. bt satisfactorily
known that the pestilencl was brought
direct from Marseilles, a vessel having
arrived from that port With cases on
board and from the clothing Of two of
the passengers, which w9 washed on
shore, the disease was communicated to
the family performing that service, and
thence spread with frigFul rapid,ty.
The family in question al died. The
pilot of the vessel was plaid und ar.
rest for his criminal negligence in not
Informing the authorities othe island OF
the fatal cargo Of infection be brought
Appreheusions were likefise felt at
Havana, at last accounts, fst,a vessel
just arrived from Cadie hight not be
smilary infected With his devasta.
ting. plague at work amoR the West
India islands, we shall inded feel that
Nitis at ont doors. = Charlcsi, Ne,cs.
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