The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-06
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Greenbacks are the prime necessity OF
the day in Georgia.
Ristori has made an engagement and
will shortly appear in Richmond.
Rev. Henry A. Wise has declined the
call rendered him by the Episcopal
Convention of Charlestown.
The NJ. f. Conference at Jackson,
Tennessee, has decided in favor of lay
delegation and change of name.
Rev. Mr.. Curry, formerly member
of Congress from Alabama, has received
call to the Second Baptist Church IN
Richmond, Va.
Two hundred and eighty-five gallons
of sorghum molasses were made from
one acre of cane this season by Rock
ingham (yirginia) farmer.
We have understood that, at the pres
emf time, there are $500 bodies buried
III the Federal Cemetery at this place.
Bv the time it is finished there will be
500, at least.-WiRchester Neirs.
A reverend member of the Presbyter-
ian General Assembly, in session at
Memphis, was, on the evening of Now
Goth, decoyed into a gambling hell of
that city, and after being drugged, was
robbed of $500.
1t is said that the Indebtedness of
Southern railroads for rolling stock and
locomotives bought since the war, is
81 900. 900, of which the Nashville and
Chattanooga road owes 81 ,3OO.OO0
The Collector of Internal Revenue at
Richmond, Va, reports that "four hum
dred returned one thousand dollars or
less one hundred and twenty-five re-
turned five thousand dollars or less
twenty-one returned over five thousand
dollars"
BARYTEs MrNEs.-These mines, says
the Wytheville Dispatch, were some
time since sold to Mr.. Mcdaniel, of
Lynchburg, for the sum of $1,000. We
learn that the purchaser has since sold
il for $4,000. There is another mine,
adjoining the one just sold, which is
represented to be very rich and vain
able.
The first church for colOred people
ever erected in the Valley of Virginia
was dedicated in Harrisonburg, on Sun
day, the 25th ult. 1t is called the John
Wesley Church, after the great founder
of Methodism. and the ministerin charge
is the Rev. Andrew Edmunson, who
was once slave.
A regular, old fashioned, old-feld
Virginia militia court martial convened
at the American Hotel in Harrisonburg
on Mouday last. A number of delin-
uuent militia men were fined 40 cents
for not being present at muster, accord
ing to law.
Resolutions were introduced i'll the
South Carolina House of Representa-
tives last week expressing sympathy
with Jefferson Davis, declaring will
lingness to make an appropriation to
pay part of the expenses of his trial,
and recommending that the people III
every district of the State make con-
tributions for the sustenance ana sup
port of his family.
The South Carolina journals announce
that there are at present III successful
operation in that State eleven cotton
factories. which run ~ 200 spindlcs and
996 looms. The largest mill is the kal-
mia, with 10000 spindles and GOO looms,
and the smallest the Valley Falls Fac
tory, with 500 spindles.
4 recent English journal mentions
the sailing of an emigrant ship from
Liverpool with some 800 Scotch farm
ers. for Texas. This is to he followed
by two or three other vessels, and the
passengers are to 60 at once to the inte-
rior of the State.
SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCEs.-The
taxes levied last year amounted to
$4l9, 500 II; collected, 1927 ,637 %. The
aggregate receipts were $477,743 96, and
expenditures S3O4, ,689 %, on appropria-
ton, leaving balance of Sl73,O55 O3, on
the first of October. The State debt,
exclusive of the debts growing ont OF
the war, is S5,2Ol .227 Ga, to meet which
Gov. Orr proposes n sinking fund OF
3, 900 a year.
The press andspeculators of the North
repeat their estimates of the cotton
crop monthly and weekly, making it
much beyond what it really is, as they
will learn in time. We have conversed
with well-informed persons from the
South. and from what they know and
say. we have no idea that it will exceed
|, 500, 900 bales, compared with 4,6OO,OOO
before the war.
A number of gentlemen from Ala
bama and Georgia are now in Washing
ton soliciting aid for the starving peo-
pie of those States. They recount the
most narrowing tales of suffering. Much
relief has been afforded by the agents of
the Freedmen's Bureau, but hundreds
are actually starving, and unless fnT-
nished aid from the North, many will
perish by famine during the ensuing
winter.
A dispatch from New Orleans, 2stb,
says: "a meeting is to be held tonight
of enthusiastic citizens to propose to
make the annual fair perpetual insti-
tuition among us. Earnest exertions
are making to raise crops of cotton and
sugar next year, Notwithstanding past
impediments.
The serious disaster to the wheat crop
of some portions of Ohio, has compel
led some of the farmers in that State to
look to Virginia for seed wheat for the
next crop. Wheat has been purchased
in the neighborhOod Of Loyettsyille,
and shipped to Belmont county, Ohio,
for that purpose. Though despoiled of
millions, Loudoun is still the land Of
Goshen to a part of the great North
west, and hel generous and industrious
farmers will cheerfully suuply the wants