The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-12-22
Bloody ARRAY at Portsmouth.

On Thursday night last bloody affray
occurred at q drinking saloon in Portsmouth.
Vn.. i'll which number of whites md NO.
groes participated, and which resulted in
serious injury TO four or five persons The
Norfolk Journal says:
Tho "Stsr" saloon ut the Portsmouth end
OF the Gosport bridge, on Market square, a
small doggery, kept by one Charles W.
Clark, nulatto, was entered by u party Of
yonng men belonging to Norfolk and Ports.
mouth, who happened 10 DO on "sort Of
spree" the contents demolished md the pro-
pretor and his wife pretty badly beaten.
The assault was proceeded by n lombard.
ment with brickbats, which smashed the
windows and broke the bottles in the bar.
After the assaiants got possession, = robust
coorcd barber named John Francis. doing
business next door, entered Clark's place
through the aide door leading from his shop
to see what was going on. He was assault.
ed by tho whites, and in the melee three of
the young men, Mr.. d. Fitzgerald. Thomas
Ferguson and Robert Peed. were badly cut.
The barber. 1t Is thought, used razor. and
inflicted all the wounds. The row was
brought TO close by the interference of the
police, who arrested nll the parties found in
the premises at the time, Fitzgerald. Fergu.
son and Peed were discovered to be 80 badly
to drug store TO nave their wounds dressed.
MIR. Fitzgerald was the worst sufferer, his
neck being cut in n most gastiy manner.
and he will have 7cry narrow escape ir he
snrviy"S. lie waS taken 10 the Amcricau
Hotel where he still log yesterday, in n
very cFlticTt condition. Mr.. Ferguson was
also cut IN the neck very severely. and was
tnkcn home. Mr.. reed had one of his ears
cut. and received very scrions confused
wound on the back ofthc head he was also
carried home The barber who performed
all this oody work, was badly cut in the
hands and about the neck. Two or three
razors and billy were found among tho
wreck after the affray. Charles W. Clark,
fhe Keeper of the house and John Francis,
the barber, were arrested.
TEE DECLINE rs Coin We clip the fol.
low from the National Licliigeseer of the
18Th inst - tos>-..s,. % - Les !,
Gold still tends downward n stands n,
thirty. seven anda fraction, bat il is fhoueht
thai twill 90 lower. There is less demand
Tor gold f"r the payment of duties. ny the
exports of cotton ana other prodacts are
considerable.
But the chief cause for the decline Of gold
is the uncertainty of tho legislation of Con.
gross upon subjects which will affect it's
prices.
The bill before tho Committee Of WAYS
and Means, providing for the sale Of two
millions of gold in the open market every
Monday morning, till tho suplus in the
Treasury shall DC reduced to forty-thrce
millions. hangs FIRE. There is some doubt
whether it, will be reported in that shape
The prospect Of its passage tends to make
gold temporarily lower but it may bcdouh.
ted whether, in practical effect, the meas.
urc would long depress the gold market.
The Ipan Herola, of the 29,h Septpm.
Der, announces that the Tycoon died y,
Osaco about three weeks previously, OF
disease resembling dropsy, unknown
IN Europe, bnt to which the Japanesc
are liabl" and called by them kake. 1t
adds: ''lfe was very inert by matnre,
and. although sympathy is fit for one
dying so young, and j'.st rs family en-.
denrmcnts were commencing with him,
yet for The good Of the country much
more able man was requisite. This wc
are led 70 expect in his successor.
Stotsbashi, for whom the Gorogo have
unanimously voted and made known
their choice to he hikado-and Stots.
hashi Is now in full charge ofthc govern.
ment
New PLANgT.--A new planet has been
discovered by a French astronomcr--dis.
covered an the night of the 4th Of Novem.
her. How it is situated he describes ns
follows e
NovGMpER j, 1866. AT IL ho""s - min
uies, 26 seconds. 2. NJ, n can time Of
Nlarselles- planet in Aries; ..n, .Nocn-
sion One hour, 40 minutes, 8 seconds;
polar distance, II degrees, 81 minutes
diumai motion, SO seconds in right ascen-
sion and minutes, SO seconds in distance
from pole. IS
fhe new astcrod, which makes the 9lst
ofth group situated between Jupiter and
Mars, has the brillianey oS o R,ar ofthe ll,h
uagnitude.
Gen. Sherman and Minister Campbell
are reported to BIO floating about on