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

| There was heavy frost IN MoOlIe,
Dec. 1st.
Ben. Hill, of Georgia, received a fee
of Sl50,00O in recent cotton case.
Greeley thinks of accepting the invi-
tation to speak in New Orleans.
The Lynehburg negroes are giving
theatrical representations.
Officers have been sent TO all the prin-
cipal cities South TO recruit for the reg
ular infantry.
The Georgia planters say that the
larger part of the Southern States is
well adapted to white labor.
There are two hundred and thirty
students at the University of Mississippi,
and from numerous letters received it is
expected this number will be largely in
creased after the holidays.
The Rev. B. Tucker Lacy at one time
in charge Of the Presbyterian Church at
Fredericksburg, Va, and since the war
at Wytheville, has been called 20 the
Pine street Church at st. Louis.
The other morning q freedman Of
Petersburg rushed into the telegraph
Office and deposited box weighing be-
tween two and three hundred pounds,
with the request that the operator send
it to Richmond over the wires.
They have had conscienceless set of
thieves in Nor folk. Recently they rob-
bed Christ Church of its collection
plate, and actually carried off the sacred
vestments of the rector, besides desc
Grating the House of God in the vilest
possible manner.
The Mobile Tribune estimates the cot
ton crop of the present year at 100000
bales. The fine open weather, Of late,
it says, added not less than 100000 bales
to the aggregate product. A letter
from Charleston says the estimate in
that city amounts to within 100000
bales.
New Orleans papers are delighted in
receiving a visit from Hon. Mr.. Doolit-
tie, of Wisconsin, who (says the Plea
yune,) "will be remembered long and
most kindly by the South, for the gen.
erous and liberal spirit which he has
manifested towards it in its desolation
and bereavement"
The Savannah (Ga.) Ners urges the
Legislature to make an adequate appro-
priation for the opening of the Savan-
nah river. The numerous distractions
which were placed in the river during
the war have made the channel in some
places very tortuous, and in others very
shallow, so that it is only with the
greatest difficulty that vessels of heavy
tonnage can reach the city. The mu-
nicipal authorities have negotiated the
purchase of a dredging machine, in the
expectation that the Legislature will
grant them assistance. The NG,rS claims
that the improvement of the channel is
n benefit to the whole State, and that
if it is not effected the success of the
! Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, in whose
bonds the State has invested nearly
81 ,000, 900, will be seriously endangered.
The Florida House Of Representatives
has adopted report and resolutions
upon the case of Colonel George Saint
Leger Greenfell, n lieutenant in the
British army, who volunteered for the
Confederate cause, and subsequently
was placed on the stats of Generals
Bragg and Lee. Owing to miSunder-
standing with the Confederate War
Department, he resigned, and subsc-
quently, while hunting on the prarics Of
Illinois, was arrested and tried by a
military commission, for COnspiring to
release Confederate prisoners at Camp
Douglas, and to burn Chicago. He was
sentenced to death, but the sentence
was cOmmutcd to imprisonment for life
at the Dry TortuSas in Florida, where
he now is. The committee say that the
charges are utterly groundlcss and the
Colonel is victim to perjury. They
say that there are about five hundred
prisoners now at Dry TOrtugas.
A correspondent of the Boston Post,
who has arrived in Savannah, tells the
following:
was walking to the station this
evening with a small carpet bag in my
hand, and when few squares distant
from it saw poor, half-clothed, half
starved looking negro lad leaning
against fence by the sidewalk. As
approached him the following converse
tion transpired:
"Boy, do you want to carry my carpet
bag to the railroad depotp
Don't know. How much gimmep
"a quarter of dollar"
"Humph (contemptuously), ye don't
! fool dis chile to work for muffin for ye.
Gimme dollar m Inebbe I'll tote it,
The incident is very Illustrative of the
negro idea of free labor.