The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-03
Current of Events.
MISCELLANEOUS.


dist Episcopal Conference, held at Chicopee,
unanimously adopted:
Rcsoived, That wo cordially approve and
admire the noble stand taken and maintain
ed by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives in Washington against any connivance
or compromise with treason or oppression.
Especially do we offer our sympathies and
prayers for our honored Senators, one of
whom has endured in the past with martyrs
forutude, the barbarious assaults upon his
person of the champion of slavery, and has
lately been called to endure an equally un-
justifable assault upon his reputation by
the present Chief Magistrate of the United
States.
The Presidents message was read in
China forty-threo days after it was read in
Washington. 1t was tclcgraphed from
Washington to San Francisco, and carried
thence to China by sailing vessel, that
made the remarkably quick passage of forty
days.
The Atlanta Bulletin says that tho store
house accommodations of that city arc now
about equal to what they were before the war
and yet there is q continued demand for
houses There are now sixteen stores in
course of erection, most of them first class,
within space of four squares.
The San Francisco (Cal.) Scientific Press
says the rain fall in that city from Scptcm-
bcr l, 1865, to March /, 1866, was 19.49
inches. The fall in Navada for the same
period was 1892 inches. This is about the
usual proportion of rain between the sea-
cost, Mt San Francisco and, the middle
western slope of the Sierra Nevadas.
Tho New Orleans Picayunc says that pc
trolcum of great purity, and in large quan-
titles, has been found in Angclinc, Trinity
and Nacogdochcs counties in Texas.
On Virginia River, Arizona, twenty miles
above the point of navigation, is q ledge of
pure rocksalt, one hundred feet high, spark
ling and as clear as crystal.
recently published report of deaths in
San Francisco, according to tho Bulletin of
that city, exhibits smaller ratio of mortali.
~ than can be shown by any other city in
the United States.
The ways and Means Committee has de-
cided to take off all internal tax on paper,
ink and type, and all the material that en-
ter into their composition.
The yrcscnt lodgings Of Paris contain
637, 1859 families The Project of the Seine
thinks that in order that the lodgings should
continue moderate in price, there should
be thirty thousand always vacant
POLITICAL.
Tho .sNo,;opol JI,;o,
ton, Of which Hon. Alexandria W. Randall
is President, has adopted the following re-
solutions rs its platform:
l. Resolved, That VIC are now, ss hereto.
fore, ardcntfy attached to the Union of the
States under the Constitution Of The United
States; that we deny the right of any State
TO sccede, and hold that all attempts at So
cession are null and void that all the States
are now States Of this Union ms before the
rebellion, and we deny the power of the
General Government, under the Constitution,
TO exclude State from the Union or to
govern it as Territory.
2. ResOlued, That our confidence in the
ability, integrity, patriotism and statesman
ship of President 5ohnson is undminishcd.
and VIC cordially approve the general policy
Of his administration.
ton of Congress Of July, 1861, declaring
the object of the war, on our part, to be The
defence and maintenance of the supremacy
of the Constitution and the preservation of
the Union, with the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaircd.
4. Rcsotped, That, in the language of the
Chicago plantform of 1860, and MS quoted
by the late President Lincoln in his first in
nugural address, ''rhe maintenance invio-
late Of the rights of each State and cspe-
eally of the rights of each State to order
and control its own domestic institutions
according to it's own judgment exclusively
subject only to the Constitution of tho Uni
ted States, is essential to that balance of
power on which the perfection and cndu-
rance of our political fabric depends"
s, Resolued, That undcr the Constitution
Of The United States is reserved to the sevc.
raj States tho right to prescribe the qualifi-
cations Of electors therein; and that it
would be subycrsive of the principles of our
Government for Congress TO force universal
suffrage upon any portion of the country in