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

Inc local eieCtiOnS In ILLINOIS anu lhul-
ana are all that can be desired to foresha-
dow complete Democratic victory in those
States the ensuing fall.
The ber.ou which Washingten's remains
were carried to the tomb, with many other
relics used to grace the museum at
Alexandria, Va, but which disappeared at
the.beginning of the war, have been re-
stored. having been kept seoreted from Gov
ernment detectives and other camp follow
ors.
Tho Now Haven Common Council have
been petitioned to abate as o nuisance one
of the cslored Methodist churches there, on
account Of unreasonably loud singing and
playing
The death of Major NJ. Barbour, formerly
Chief Quartermaster under Gen. Joseph L
Johnston, is announced in the Petersburg
Express Of tho 30th Major Barbour was q
native of Virginia, md he was n powerful
advocate forJudge Douglas in the Presiden-
,ial campaign Of 1860.
The President stands his ground. We
are told that his frmness is demoralzing
from their respective position, with q view
to preventing split in the Republican
party. Washington letter says
"The President openly avows his inten-
tiou to appoint none but the friends of his
policy. General Wilson's proposition in
the Senate upon restoration is significant"
The Government is about to re move
large part of the negroes on Roanoke Island
to tho interior OF North Carolina, whence
they came. A large steamer has left New
bern for TINT purpose. They will be distri-
buted all over the State, so that they may
more readily obtain employment. The same
disposition will be made of the negroes in
camp near Newbern.
1t will be remembered that tho President
has nominated the Hon. Henry Stansbury,
for the Supreme Bench, in the place of
Justice Catron deceased.
His political record is thus stated. At
the beginning of the war he addressed
pubic meeting in Cincinnati, denying the
wight of the Government to resort to coer
cion. He was opposed to the draft and to
the suspension of the habeas corpus. When
Gen. Sherman made his treaty with Gen.
Johnston, he maintained that the war was at
an end, that the State Governments were re-
stored, and all the rights of the people of
the South re e-instated ae before the late civil
war.
60 says the Albany EOening Journal.
AT the old cemetery in Macon, Ca, says
the Journal ana Messenger, Of Thursday, we
learn that the ladies' universally decorated
the graves of the deceased Federal prison.
ers, as they did those of the Confedcratcs.
Under the Christening influence of sorrow.
all resentments vanished from pure hearts
Of the Macon fair and they adorned, indis-
criminately the graves Of the dead of both
sections as the victims Of n common calami.
ty. Rev. Mr.. Warren, of the Baptist Church,
delivered most eloquent and touching adj
dress upon the occasion, and with feeling
alluded to this affecting incident
The deluge still continues along the river
borders Of Louisiana. Within the last few
days the waters of the Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Ouachita and Red rivers have broken
through the newly made lcvees near Lake
Providence, and flooded all that cotton
growing region aud the Ouachita country.
It has also forced immense crevasses
through the new levees of West Baton
Rouge, and flooded the whole Countrywide
richest plantations Of sugar and cotton in
Louisiana--down to the Bayou Plaquemine
1t is feared, even, that the whole country
down to the Bayou Lafourche will be over
flowed. Several crevasses have also broken
out in the immediate vacinity of New Or
leans.
1t reported that tho military districts
of Charleston, Port Royal, Eastern South
Carolina and Western South Carolina, to-
gether with the b-districts therein, are
ordered to be abolished These districts
are TO be divided into twelve military posts,
named as follows: Charleston, Colleton.