The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-07-28

culated, whether so intended or not,
to aid those with whom he is contend
ing for the admission of the States on
a loyal basis; without any further
amendments of the Constitution. He
still holds that If there be but five
thousand loyal men in State, to
them should specially confded the
work of restoration that these loyal
men should constitute nucleus
around whom others should rally ;
that in this way, and in this way only,
can the whole lump be leavencd, and
the States be placed in condition,
when presented to Congress for ad-
mission, to make their claims on that
body irresistible. While he would be
glad to see all who engaged delibcr-
ately in the war acknowledge their
mistake, and pledge themselves for
the future, and show it by their acts,
to be unconditionally submissive to
the national authority, yet his sympa-
thies are chiefly and warmly with the
Union men, and he looks to them rs
leading actors in the work of rcstora-
tion.
Now "the so-called Southern Statcs''
in the above is good. And then mark
what meaning Mr.. Holden-fresh
from Washingto ''intcrvicws," as
cribes to the word "loyal" With him
it means ability to take the Test
Oath, and that, after all said and done,
isiust exactly the Northern interprc-
tation of the tcrm.-Auyusta Coxstitu.
tonaltSt
Some days since, ave stated, dead
man supposed to be tkat Of Tobnccon
iSt from North Carolina. had been found
in Cedar Creek near Gadsden, in this
Distmct. The Corcnrr being abseaL from
tn" District at the time, Magistrate D.
L. Hays impanneled Jury of Inquest.
but owing to tho fact that no one could
identify the body, or could give any ac
count OF it except the finding oft in the
C'r""i', III" Jnry were dismissed, suhicc,
ed to the call of the Magistrate or Con.
stable. On Saturday last, gentleman
from North Carolina informed Coroner
Walker that he had arrived here with
a young man who had been with Mr..
Van Eaton for several months. and was
travelling with him through this District
at the time OF the murder Upon this
Information the Coroner and Magistrate
Hays, assembled the Jury, at Gadsden.
on Monday last. aud after very iIl
investigation, (during which, the body
was ld"nlfird, although his he~,t hal
been severed from the bndvt) the Jury
rendered the following verdict.
That the said Charles +. Van Eaton,
came to his death on or before the 9th
OF April, 1866, fton the effects of wounds
inflicted by one Samuel D. Hodge alias
flenry Hodge, alias Henry Thomas
Corolinian 2Gh.
REVENUE STAMrS ON LKGAL PRO.
CEEDINGs.-The Act to provide an
Internal Revenne, requires stamp OF
h4ty cents to be placed on every writ or
other original process, by which any
suit is commenced in any Court of Reu.
ord. whether ot law or equity.
TheSupreme Court of Tennessee have
had HE validity Of this provision under
consideration in Lhe case of the Union
Bank Of Tennessee, against Wander
vile.
The Court decided this requirement
to be unconstitutional.
They held rhat it was not necessary
to the validity Of writs and other process
in judicial proceedings in tire Courts of
the States, that the Internal Revenue
Stamps prescribed by tho Act Of Con.
Sress should be affixed 20 the wrts or
process, that the Governments of the
United States has not The constitutional
power TO require stamps toll be affixed to
process issued by the State Conrts.
It's subject of interesting inquiry to
ascertain how much of the legislation
during the war, viii stand Ike test Of
constitutional investigation.---Chas. Cou-
! Tter. g,i a. .sr. ..,..