Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-08
SOUTHERN NEWS.


ken up in Richmond.
The first civil court held in Warsenton, Va.
since the beginning of the war was largely
attended.
Some spectators in Richmond are buying
up Confederate currency and bonds, in antic-
ipation Of some proposition hereafter in Con.
gress for their payment.
A lady in Texas made contract with a
number of German families to cultivate her
plantations next year. They are to occupy
the houses heretofore occupied by the negroes
and to pay her $14 an acre for the rent of the
land.
One Of the largest and finest rolling mills
in the United States is already in operation
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, daily turning out
the best quality of railroad iron. A blast
furnace is in contemplation, and copper
rolling mill of 81, ,O0o, 600 capital is soon to
be put up.
Provost Marshals have been appointed in
every county of Alabsma, to administer the
oath of amnesty.
Two warehouses in st. Louis, Mo-, contain
ing 10, 600, 900 bales of hemp, were burned on
the soth ult. Loss, Se25,O00; insurance,
$3.50, 900.
1t is said that Gen. Sterling Price of Mis-
souri, has been made Major General in Max
imilian's service, and empowered to raise a
cavalry force of 10000 from among the men
of the disbanded Southern armies.
MajorGen. Thomas has severely repriman-
ded Col Blackburn and Superintendent Quin
for their most eowardly, brutal and unoficer-
like attack on the Rebel General Wheeler, at
Nashville, Tenn.
Merchants at Newbern, N. G, are sending
goods in large quantities into the Carolinas,
Georgia and Virginia, bringing back cotton,
tobacco, and other products The railroads
are running night and day.
Ice in New Orleans sells for twelve cents
per pound.
The Citizens Bank of Louisiana is paying
dividend of per cent to the stockholders
Governor Brownlow is much attached to
Eastern Tennessee. He says he would not
leave it to go anywhere but to the kingdom of
Heaven.
Hon. w. j. Jones, Judge Of the U. S.
Court of Alabama at the time of the seces-
sion of that State, and continued in the same
position by the succeeding regime, has been
arrested and bonded in $4,000.
The trial of jefferson Davis will take place
before United States Circuit Court, proba-
bly, at Norfolk.
Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, has call
ed on the people to form company of cayal-
ry and infantry in each county, to preserve
order and put a stop to murders and robber-
les.
Many of the farmers around Petersburg,
Va, viii not plow up their land for fear of
striking unexploded shells.
President johnson has issued proelama-
ton announcing that after the 1st of Septem.
ber all restrictions on trade with the Southern
States will be removed.
erOp .-a-e4-se an enure
failure throughout West Tennessee. The rust
is destroying it as fast as it natures.
An Office to procure white labor from Eu-
rope has been opened at Mobile
During the last six months nearly two mil
lions of dollars have left Cuba to be invested
in cotton land in Florida, South and North
Carolina.
The Southern blacks must go to work cheer
fully, steadily and Systematically, or they viii
be rooted out, exceptin the swamps, by white
labor.
In the South every encouragement is held
out to Northern emigrants.
The negroes of the South are very willing
to work for yankee Planters though not for
their former masters.
The prosperity of the South, of the plant
ers and of the negroes, depend alike on the
emigration of Yankees and Yankee energy.
A number of citizens of East Tennessee
have been compelled to leave their homes,
the loyal portion of the community refusing
to recognize them as fellow citizens.
All the able-bodied negroes once owned by
Wade Hampton, are now in his employ. The
men are paid $40 per month; women So,
without board.
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