Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-20
Late Southern Items.

The salary Of the Governor OF North Caro-.
lima has been fixed at $40 in gold per year.
all along the banks Of the Mississippi
The Woodville (MississippD Journal saws
that the freedmen in that section are working
with a zeal and an alacrity entirely unex-
peeted.
The trade Of New Orleans with the North.
west is increasing. Twenty-Five thousand
sacks Of grain were brought down the Missis-
The Houston Telegraph claims that the only
dark wines in the world that can compete in
a fair way with the Mustang wines of Texas
are the Madeira, Burgundy, and Lachryma
The Selma (Alabama) Times says a colored
woman left that city, recently, aged one hun
dred and twenty-seyen years. She is the
three times. ar.-r. - =
Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, of North Carolina, has
been sentenced by military commission in
tnat State to one years imprisonment in the
penltentlary, Tor killing negro. The Raleigh
Standard hopes executive clemency will be
exercised in her favor.
News from North Alabama represents the
coming crop as improving. The freed negroes
have made contracts with the planters to a
very satisfactory extent, and the white people
nave gone TO work with a commendable pur-
pose 10 better their condition.
A horrible murder was committed in Cairo
on the 3D. John Mamie, from Lexington, Ken
lucky, was robbed by two men named Harney
and Bryan,fand thrown on the railroad track
az az tuSluc W DV WHICH DOtl legs
were cut of, when death ensued IN several
hours after. Mamie was so far recovered as 10
be able to make statement aud identify his
murderers, who had been arrested on suspi-
cion.
Speaking of the month of the Mississippi in
letter to the New Orleans Pieayune. Gene
raj Beauregard says: From the earliest sur
yeys on record, the Passes have always had
the same depths of water. l. e. from six to siy-
teen feet, at ordinary low water. The mean
tidal rise there is from fourteen totwenty
inches. The two best OF the six Passes of the
river have generally had from fourteen and a
half TO sixteen feet water at ordinary low tide.
At present those two Passes are the South
west Pass and Pass q POutre. --.-
A military order has been issued at Charles
ton which permits the former owners Of lands
on the Sea Islands TO resume possession of
their plantations OF such islands as have not
been sold for taxes, but only on condition that
a certain portion of the land so repossessed
shall be set apart for the negroes colonized
upon them by General Sherman's SPECIAL field
orders. The occupancy, however, OF their
plantations on the part of the white owners is
not TO be construed into a formal restoration OF
such lands. ..'''.r .......... 5000.
Four railroads are now for sale in Missouri
Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi is
promoting movemel for the collection and
preservation OF records OF the rebel army, and
ments or "details Of robberies, confiagration,
and vandalism" !" "to be transmitted to posterity
in vindieation of the truth of history and the
reetitude OF our (the eenfederate) cause"
phe Monroe (La-) Intelligencer says that an
emigration society ought at once to be organ
lied in that section. The requisite quantity
of laborers is not in the country, ever IL every
negro should desire to go to work, and should
labor as well as before the war. There are
not more than half rs many laborers in the two
parishes or Ouachita and Morehouse as are
wanted now, aud for another year the want
Will be still more seriously felt.