The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-22
FROM THE SOUTH.
North Carolina Convention.
SOUTHERN RVILRoADs.
The Southern Mail Service.
Election for Delegates i'm North Caro-
iina-Pardons by the President
sceduIe of Railroad Rates in the
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| Scedule Of Railroad hates In tus
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| New YORK, Sept. 2i.-Ine election 20
choose delegates to the North Caroiins
reconstruction convention, which Is To
meet on the second of next month, Will
take place to-day, and an order has been
issued from military headquarters OF the
department forbidding enlisted men or
officers of the army throughout the
State visiting the polls, and no one Will
be allowed to leave the camp excepting
in case of necessity. But if there should
be attempts made to create disturbance
| at any of the polling places, it is enJoln-
ed on the military officers to see
| that order is preserved, even without
| al civil authorities
The Times special says the President
to-day pardoned Thomas A. Price and X.
Ii. Cunningham, repentant rebels in Vlr-
| ginia; and Francis Buchanan, repentant
| mail robber convicted in the district
| court of Wisconsin six years ago and sch
fenced to ten years, was also pardoned.
| The local government OF Alexandria
| has passed from the control OF military
| to civil authorities.
The following extensive schedule of
| railroad rates i'm the southern States in
! which postal service has been restored,
| is obtained from the official record ofthe
| Postoftice Department. With arailroad
| map the reader can readily and accurate
| " ascertain, not only TO what routes
| and offices postal service has been re-
| stored, but also what southern railroads
are again in regular operation, as the
| restoration of postal service speedily
follows the resumption of railroad ia
cilities:
Virginia Washington to Richmond
via Richmond; fredericksburg and Po-
tomac and Orange and Alexandria Rail
roads: Richmond to Danvillc G0rdons-
Vile to Selma, Va, by Virginia Central
Railroad; Lynchburg, Va, to Bristol,
Tennessee, via the Virginia and Tennes-
see Railroads Charlottesville 10 Lynch.
burg; Richmond to Weldon, \. e.; and
Petersburg to Lynchburg by South Side
Railroad over the river to Warrenton
Branch Railroad Total, eleven routes.
North Carolina-Goldsboro to Char
lotte; Raleigh to Weldon; Salisbury to
Morgantown; Weldon to Wilmington
Total, four routes.
Tennessee-Nashville to Chattanooga;
Knoxville to Dalton, Georgia; Knoxville
to Gordon, Va, Nashville to Decatur, Ala;
Nashville to Johnsonville; Memphis to
Paris; Memphis to Decatur, labama.-
Total, seven routes.
South Carolina-Kingsville to Will
mington, n. c.; Kingsville to Augusta.
Ga; Kingsville to Camden; Kingsville to
Columbia; Branchville to Charleston;
Florence to Cheraw; Charleston to Flor
ence; Columbia to Charlotte, n c.; Co
lumbia to Greenville Court House; Ches-
ter to Yorkville; Aston to Spartansburg;
Charleston to Savannah. Total, thirteen
routes.
Georgia-MacOn to Columbus; Macon
to Atlanta Fort Valley to Albany; Mil
ledgeville to Gordon; Milledgeville to
Extention; Augusta to Atlanta Branch
to Warrenton; Double Wells to Wash
inpton: Union Point to Athens; Atlanta
to West Point; Atlanta to Chattanooga;
Kingston to Rome. Total twelve routes.
Mississippi-Canton to Jackson, Tenn.
Columbus to Artesia; Mobile, Alabama,
to Columbus, Kentucky, via Mobile and
Ohio railroad; Meridian to Jackson. Total
four routes.
Louisiana-New Orleans to Canton,
Mississippi.
The Postmaster General has also in
yited proposals for the entire mail serv-
ice of the several Southern States, from
January /, 1866, to June 30, 1867. The
latter date being the tine when the reg
ular letting takes place, and the time
when contracts would have expired had
there been no interruption by the war.
Proposals will be received by the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, until DC
tober 81, and decisions rendered by No
vember 18th.
The Herald's special says The chief OF
the currency printing bureau made
| report to Secretary AlcCulloch today, III
reference to the new 500 counterfeit,
which has been the subject of inNestiga
tion at the Treasury for seversl days
past The points in the report in refer
ence to the production of the spurious
note from portions of genuine plate are
substantially those give in tue Herald
The Secretary spent several hours IN the
consideration of the report and the eX-
animation of experts in its support. 1t is
stoutly maintained by these that there Is
a gigantic fraud somewhere, not exactly
of the nature of counterfeiting, aud ap-
parently they have settled to the salts
faction of the Secretary, that the trouble
is not in the Printing Department OF the
Treasury.
A well executed $50 greeI,hack in two
parts pasted, received at the Treasury on
| the heels of the 800 excitement, gave
rise to the report that another dangerous
counterfeit had been discovered Inves
tigation proved 1t to be genuine note
which had been cut in pieces by some
cautions person for safe transmission by
mail
The following order is published to-
day:
| WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF REFUGEES,
| FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, ,
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, ls65.
The following names of officers are au-
nounced as Assistant Commissioners of
the Bureau for the States respectively
set opposite their names: Brevet Major
General R. Larkin, for Georgia and South
Carolina, at Charleston, S. c.; Brigadier-
General Davis Tillson, Commissioner for
Georgia, reporting to Brevet Major-Geu
eral Lowton, at Augusta, Ga; Brigadier-
General C. B. Fisk, for Kentucky aud