The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-15
Late News.

mas Occn COnUriHeu aS Minister TO the )lague.
NoRFoRK, May l1--I.ate yesterday after
noon the Grand Jury of the United States
Circuit Court in session, brought in True
Bill against Ex-Prcsideut Jefferson Davis
for treason, and adjourned to meet in Rich
mond on the first rnesdny in June:
Judge Underwood went North last night
taking with him n copy of the indictment
against Ex-President Jefferson Davis.
The Washington Republican Of yesterday
states thnt arrangements are now making
for the trinl of Mr.. Davis in Virginia, and
that it will take place at an early day. and
in n civil court. II is understood that Chief
Justice Chase will preside on tho occasion
GOING TO ENGLAND. THE New Orleans
Crescent, Of the ith inst, learns that Gene
rails Heaurcgard and Writ Adams, and Mr..
Schwartz have been deputied by the New
Orleans and jackson Railroad Company to
go to England and cndeavor to make some
arrangements for The relief of the corpora :
tion from its embnrrassmcnts.
WAsnINGTON, May 9.-SgNATE.-Mr
Grimes, from tho Naval Committee, report
ed n bill to restore Commander Charles
Hunter TO his former rank in the nnvy. In
the early part of the war Commander Hun
ter pursued n blockade runner, md ran her
ashore aud captured her on the const of
Cuca, within n marine league of that is
land. The Spanish Government took UNI
bragg Mt this, rs n violation of the neu,rali.
ty laws, and Commander Hnnter was cash :
Tered atits demand. The bill was passed.
WASHINGTON, May 1l.-Tho Senate pass :
ed the postal appropriation bill after strik-
ing ont the amendment heretofore adopted,
preventing parties appointed TO office dur
ing the recess from recovering any pay un.
til confirmed by the Senate. Before the
of passage of the bill. Cowan made
n speech declaring that those who intcrpos-
cd TO prevent the Southern States from be
ing represented were disunionists. and that
opposition to restoration was supcrinluced
by fear of losing political power
New RAILROAD.-The stockholders of the
Cheraw and Coalfcld Railroad held thei.
annual meeting in Charleston on tho 9th
inst. Maj. b. D. Townsend elected Presi-
dent.
From the reports of The officers, we learn
that the debts of the company arc incon-
siderable and represented in Confederate
currency, while its assets for the prosecu .
tion of the work consists of about $875, 900,
in the capital stocks Of the Northeastern
and Cieraw and Darlington Railroad Com
panics.
About ten miles of the road have been
graded. and comparatively little work is ne
cessary to prepare the road bed to receive
the superstructure rs far rs the North
Carolina linc.--.Phenix.
Raymond M. c., and editor of the
N. Y. Times says Of the Reconstruction
amendment
Asa plan of pacifcation and recon.
strnclion, the whole thing is worse than
a bnrlesqne. lLmight be styled farce,
were the country not in the midst of a
very serious drama. Its proper designa-
ton would be "a plan to prolong indef
nitely the exclusion of The South from
Congress. by imposing conditions to
which the Southern people never will
submit" This being the obvious scope
and tendency of the propositions, we are
bound to. assume thai it clearly reflects
the settled purpose of the committee.
So that the joint committee appointed
nearly FIVE months ago totake exclusive
charge of the question Of reconstruction,
now offer as the result of all their labors
what would in fact render reconstrnc
tion forever impossible.
And yet Raymond voted for the
amendment. 20 consistency, thou arta
jewel"--but n very scarce one. Icps.
NEws,1
THE FRgEDMEN's BqREAu.- Elk.
Gove,nor Letcher, Of Virginia, writes
as follows to n friend in New York:
"Much ofthe ill feeling manifested by
the Radicals toward the people of the
South grows out of the niisrepresenta.
tions and slanders prepared and circula.
ted by the agents Of the Frecdmen's s