The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

An anti-slavery paper is to be started
at Charleston, S. c.
Oil spPculations in Southern Ken
lucky have generally proved failure.
The Georgia Legislature has passed
the State law over the Governors veto.
DR.. Moore, late Surgeon General in
the Confederate army, is said to have
received pardon.
The cotton crop of northern Louis-
lana is reported as being all gathered
and in process of ginning.
1t is believed that about one-half of
the freedmen down South are working
for their old masters.
A report comes from Georgia that
Generals Grant and Dick Taylor are
partners in the ownership of q gold
mine.
On Saturday, steam boiler exploded
near Ashland, Va, killing three men
and wounding several others.
Ten thousand head Of beef cattle
passed Fort Scott, Arkansas, during the
last ten days, going north to market.
Senator Wilson is visiting the battle
fields around Richmond. He did not do
it with his regiment.
A committee of the leading citizens of
New Orleans will receive the Congress
committee to investigate the late riot,
and will also furnish them with abun
dant testimony.
Gen. Schoficld has issued an order re-
quiring all the horses and mules be-
longing to the United States, loaned to
the people of Virginia, or taken up
estray after the war, to be returned i'm
mediately.
The Virginia Legislature has re-elect-
ed VIM. F. Taylor, auditor of public ac-
counts; John NJ. Herndon, secretary of
the commonwealth {; John s. Calvert,
treasurer, and J. +. Pcndleton, superin-
tendent of the penitentiary.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph calls
for an immense sowing of small grains
this fall, and planting of corn in the
spring, so as to invite immigration with
cheap food for beginners.
Two gentlemen of Richmond have
generously offered to defray, out of
their private means, the expenses of the
Virginia Agricultural Convention.
Their names ought to be made public.
The Baton Rouge Adrocate Of the Sd
says it has every assurance that the
levees in Pointe COupee and West Baton
Rouge will be restored in time to save
the people of those parishes from anoth-
er inundation.
Harvey T. McCune, a native of Ken
tucky, aged sixty-five years, was muir
dered by robbers on Saturday last, near
Springfield, Missouri. The deceased
was one of the oldest residents ofSOuth-
western Missouri, and was highly re-
spected.
The Richmond Whig admits that the
farmers of Virginia have but little
wheat or corn to sell, the main reliance
being on the tobacco crop. As that will
not bring a good price at present, time
being necessary to improve the quality,
it is being generally sold at sacrifice,
under the pressure of necessity.
Henry Boyd Lewis, near male de-
sccndant of George Washington, was
convicted, on Saturday night, at King
George. Court House, Virginia, Of vol
untary manslaughter, in killing DR..
Ross some five years ago. He was SEN
fenced to three years and six months in
the penitentiary. Thejury recommend
ed the prisoner to mercy.
The Wilmington (N. c. Journal, in
calling for legislative action in behalf
ofthe negro, to assist in the improve
ment of his condition, says:
The negro has commended himself TO
us by long service as slave, and gen.
orally by cheerful and faithful labor;
and during a protracted struggle, in
which he was taught to believe that all
his interests were involved on the OPP
posing side, he remained, in most in
stances, the same faithful and obedient
creature of our wishes; exhibiting in
numberless instances a devoted attach
ment to the master and his family which
no temptation could shake.