Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-12
Late Southern Items.

General Frank BLAIR has taken TO raising
cotton N Mississippi
Nearly all the post Offices in Texas are In
NatcheZ policeman was murdered by
negroes last week
Southern Travellers Insurance Co. with a
capital Of haiI a million, Is forming in South
Carolina.
frcedmen's savings bank at Beau fort S. c..
has deposits exceeding S2ju,js ~.
The Sou bern Express Company was robbed
g. bTaZos, Texas, last week, OF twenty live
thousand dollars.
Vim. Wright, of New Orleans. has been
sentenced 10 two years. hard labor for hur-
rang for the Southern COME eracy
MI Reagan, ex-Pos'master General of the
I2ie Confectionery, IF now farming in Texas.
he works II the field with his employees.
Gen. RuCker, late OF the Con tedrrate States
army, was arraiCneC III the United States Cir
cut Court, at Memphis, on the 9th instant, on
charge OF treason, and held in Slu,UCJ bail TO
ans wCr 81 the next term OF court.
negro was shot last Sunday morning in
font of the Macon (Ga.) Jail, while standing
There ConNeTsIng with some prisoners. An in
dISIduai named Tom Knight told him to
move on: ana upon his refusing. knight fired
ms pistol, the ball striking his victim in the
neck and wounding him DANGEROUSLY knight
says he intended only 10 frighten the man.
The AuStla lntellicencer OF the 2sd saws that
upwards OF seven hundred cases of measles
and other diseases are reported in Austin and
vicinity, and the epidemic is now decreasing
only Tor want of material. OF this extraor-
binary number of cases q large percentage has
terminated fatally. AT last accounts IL was
rumOred that the scarlet fever was in the city
The people OF East tennessee. disgusted by
the CULCuct of the s.bOlting'' members of the
state Legislature, and believing that Central
and western Tennessee have interests totally
distinct from that section, are agitating a uues.
GCA o. Il DIVISION OF the State. A writer in the
JCnesEoro' (Tenn.) + lag asserts that he has
talked with a large EumDer of citizens, and
nnds them almost unanimous for the measure
lie fTst street cars ever seen in Tennessee
Were starred on the Nashville street railroad
Iasc rI6ay.
The receipts into the Virginia Treasury are
aLOu- S.,ICO day, and the expenditures about
IL" saIae.
Kew orzer, on a visit 70 Virginia writes
thai he negro women of that State have with
drawn from any thing like labor, and are de-
NCtlLg their time 10 dress, promenading &c
dispatch from New Orleans saws that all
restrictions on commercial cipher dispatches
are removed by an order from the War De-
psrtment.
The Marion IS. o. Star SAYS that on the
night OF The lst a portion OF the United States
garrison there set fire TO the house of Kate
LOWS. 4 cortezan, burned up the school room
ti 'ie Tree negroes, anC beat several of their
cClO-ed brethren unmercifully
a Correspondent, writing from Columbia. =.
Z, says that no L Mon soldier is safe in that
vicinity, and that attempts are frequently
mace to asSassinate them. A rebel General
named Geery, wEo boasts that he has .neyer
surrender a" was recently arrested for COM
piIci;y III the Outrages up pom the Federal troops
ana ctEandsd TO be treated LAS u prisoner Of
war"