The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Rents IN memphis nave reached pal-
loon prices.
Hon. C. H. Smith (Bill Arpl is nomi-
mated for Mayor of Rome. Ga.
Miss. Mary F. Hampton, sister ofGen.
Wade Hampton, died at Columbia, s.
c., last week.
The Norfolk Day Book says the city
Jail there is worse than the "Black Hole
of Calcutta"
A Southern paper styles Congress as
"Grand Phantasmagora of Giescutes
tes."
There is a deficiency in this seasons
cotton crop in Ouachita parish, La, of
1900 bales.
The Greensboro, n. c., PdtLiOt says
the Gardner Hill mine is shipping cop
per ore of a superior quality to Balti-
more.
The Norfolk freedmen propose having
a grand celebration of the emancipation
proclamation on the 1st of Jvnuary.
There are eighty-two day scholars
and one hundred night pupils attend
in the colored school in Harrisonburg.
Tobacco planters say that unless
there is n material reduction in the to-
bacco tax they will grow grain.
The House of Delegates of the Legis-
lature of South Carolina rejected yes
terday the Constitutional amendment
by vote of % to /.
One of the reporters of the Richmond
Enquirer has the govt. A contemporary
asks "upon what meat dost this our
Cesar feed.
The n. o. Pic. is very proud of re-
cent snow storm in the Crescent city.
1t will be talking of strawberries in q
few days, no doubt.
Major General Churchill, who was
commander of and captured at Arkan-
sas post, is candidate for lieutenant
governor of Texas.
David +. Swain, Ex-Governor ofNorth
Carolina, and for thirty years president
of the University of North Carolina, has
written letter against the constitn-
tional amendment.
A barn on the farm of J. II. Cordrey,
at Chaffin's Bluff, on James river, 4 few
miles below Richmond, Va, was burnt
on Monday night, with its contents, con-
sisting of seven hundred and fifty bar
rels of corn, shucks, fodder, farm imple-
ments, &c. No insurance.
n numDer VI northern settlers in the
vicinity OF Dcmopoiis, Ala, nave pup-
lished o card denying the many rumors
of violence by Southerners to Northern
settlers, and urging emigration thither-
ward.
At n meeting of the State Mission
Board of the Baptist General Associa-
ton of Virginia, held on Monday night
at Richmond, several appointments of
missionaries were made, among them
the Rev. George +. Adams, formerly of
Baltimore. to be stationed ut Hampton,
Va.
A colony of emigrants is being estab-
lished at New Smyrna, Florida, for the
purpose of cutting and saving lumber.
The colony is located about ninety
miles south of st. Augustine. The Err
dminer of the 9Th says it will be the
opening of very valuable portion of
the State.
The little town of Weldon, in the
State of North Carolina, was thrown
into q state of great excitement on
Monday night last by the arrest of
couple of thieves, one of whom proved
to he the United States Postmaster at
CASTOR, and the other q negro, rs they
were in the act of stealing a lot of goods
from the warehouse of the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad.
The Louisville Democrat tells of a man
who passed himself off there for Col.
J. S. Mosby, and was greatly lionized;
until falling in with Capt. Bridges, who
knows Mosby well, the latter collared
him and pronounced him an imposter.
Thereupon Mr.. Karsner, who had been
deceived by the fellow, pulled his nose,
drove him ont of the door, and put the
police after him. The latter, however,
were soon distanced by the impOstor,
who proved to be no sham in foot
race.
In the Circuit Court of st. Mary's
county, Nd, last week, John H. Sotho-
ron, indicted for manslaughter, was ac-
quilted. Mr.. Sothoron, it will be re.
killed Federal lieutenant,
named Reuben Price, in the early part
of the war, who approached him armed
and In threatening manner; ana got
into some difficulty with him about the
slaves of Sothoron, whom the lieutenant
and some soldiers were seizing TO take
off as recruits, against their will. Soth-
oron fed South, and his farm was taken
possession of, but has since been re-
stored, and the testimony, it is under
stood; went to prove his action in self
defense.
We are informed by one of the oldest
and best-informcd Virginia pilots that
the Confederate Ram Virginia, more
generally known as the Merrimac, is one
Of the fixtures Of our harbOr. She is Iy-
ing on the west side of the channel in
the blight of Craney Island, and from
her immense weight and peculiar con-
iition, can never be raised. He thinks
that all the modern appliances of the
wreekers' craft will not be able to move
her an inch but ii is seonsoling to know
that she is not in the way of those who |
know the channel, and will keep it,
Norfolk Day Book.
Rev. Mr.. BEEcHER delivered q lecture
in Boston recently, in which he went
the whole figure on the suffrage ques-
ton. He held "that the franchise
L. 90 Il oI...o. .I.Iwo.