Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-07
Late Southern Items

Captain John English was killed at Crockett,
Texas, on the morning OF the 18th ulL by
squad OF soldiers.
The Jacksonville (Fla) Times saws that
thousands OF negro children are now educated
IN thar State by their present employers, who
were Shareholders.
Reports from Florida represent that emi-
grants are pouring INTO thai State from every
direction, and the papers say they sTe well
come, especially If they bring money.
The Mobile Tribune of March 30 says the
news from all parts of Alabama is TO the effect
that the freedmen are realizing their situation,
and are gCng TO work with will.
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says that in
le6l and lSi2 there were in cultivation 1900
plantations in sixteen parishes OF louisiana,
on which 3~9.5i7 hogsheads of sugar were pro-
duced. In 1854 and ISIS there We're only I79
plantations worked, producing 6,755 hogsheads
of sugar.
The Charleston Courier reports that three
thousand TWO hundred freedmen have emi-
grated from North Carolina during the last
three months TO Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and the other New England States, on cOu-
tracts TO work at twenty dollars per month,
and thar more will follow.
The people OF Eicksburg are much alarmed
az the high water which now prevails in the
Mississippi. The Journal of that city says the
river is advancing steadily, and lie already
encroaching on Grove street where 10 has
covered fGllv half an acre. The planters are
nst he greatest alarm, as there is every indica-
tion Of the river breaking the leyee and over
flowing the country.
The State election will take place in Texas
will meet on the first Monday IN August.
The Charleston Courier says large number
OF Charleston families will spend the summer
months AZ the North, and are already preparing
| for the change.
The Athens (Ga.) watchman of the I4th,
| reports that although the very cold weather
| some weeks ago killed everything green; the
| wheat crop of that section now gives promise
of doing well.
| The Edgefield Is. c. Advertiser OF We'd
nesday last reports the arrest of some coxen or
~ haf vic k.rf
IsIlItary authorities, and their Incarceration al
Columbia IN that Stale.
IL is stated that all colored troops in the
military department OF the Mississippi have
| been ordered 10 rendezvous AT jackson, in that
| State, for the purpose OF being mustered out Of
the service.
freedmen At Charleston, South Carolina, had
article so violently abusive of the President
after his veto of the Bureau bill, that Mayor
General Devens sent word 70 the editor thai he
must print no more snch ARTICLES Thereupon
he editor, M A. Coffin, from Mas~ach u-..tts.
resigned, and Mr.. Moore, i South CaroIInian,
succeeds him.
An afiray took place at Atlanta Cieorgia, on
Thursday night last, in which James G. Dillon
a discharged soldier, and a native OF Tennes-
see, was killed ~ James Davis, an Alabamian.
Dillon WAS shot through the heart and killed
instantly. and Davis was severely stabbed.
Another man was also stabbed. Davis was
proved before the coroner's jury 10 have acted
in self-defence.
A Nr. Ross, formerly a wealthy slave and
owner OF the premises occupied by the Freed
mems Court in Nash vile, has notified Gene
raj Fisk OF his intention TO build school houses
on his large plantations IN Arkansas, for
colored people, and requests that he may be
supplied with teachers BY the Freedmen's
Bureau.
The proceedings of the Texas State Conyen-
tiOn have been moro satisfactory than those of
any reconstruction body. One of the most n
couraging acts has been the provision made
for the establishment OF public schools i'm the
State. The future Legislature is instructed TO
set aside a perpetual fund for their MAIN
tenance and support.