The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.


vate debts.
Louisville is about to have q Jewish
temple.
It is suggested that the Southern
Opinion" will be only Pollard's opinion.
The Virginia State seal, which was
taken off at the evacuation Of Rich
mond, has turned up.
The workmen at the Tredegar and
Old Dominion iron works, in Richmond,
Virginia, are on strike.
A Norfolk paper says that city con-
tinues to march forward in the achieve
ment of her destiny-prospering and to
prosper.
Two bold and daring efforts were
made Monday night last to fire the most
business part ofDanville on Main street.
A colored lady in Memphis has pre-
sented four babies at one birth to the
fostering care of the Freedmen's Bureau.
A literal fact.
The 1O7th U. s. colored regiment was
paid off in Louisville last week. The
men entrusted their money to one OF
their officers for safe keeping and he
skedaddled with it.
The Alabama Legislature has passed,
and the Governor has approved, a bill
to authorize the working Of Peniten-
tiary conyicts outside of the walls.
The destitution at Chattanooga is so
widespread that it is proposed to open
soup houses at which such of the poor
as are unable to work, and cannot OBJ
tain employment, can receive one
wholesome meal o day.
The City Council of New Orleans
have provided for room, and for mes
sengers, couriers, &c, for the Congress
sional Investigation Committee, sent
there to manufacture capital for the
Northern market.
Hon. VIM. Johnson, president Of tho
Charlotte and Columbia railroad, has
donated to Miss. NJ. A. Buie, of Colum-
bia, South Carolina, plantation of one
hundred acres, on high and healthy
ridge, with q cool and gushing spring OF
pure water, for proposed school or
college for INDECENT orphans.
Deer seems to be quite plentiful in
the vicinity of Petersburg this season.
Several have been killed recently with
in two or three miles Of the city, and
one was knocked in the head the other
day while swimming the river. Cen
tlemen who 60 out hunting with
hounds. seldom fail to start one or more.
General order No. A from the War
Department, dated July 9th, 1866, which
directs, in case the civil authorities neg
lect to cause the arrest and bring to trial
offenders, the military shall arrest such
offenders and retain them until the
civil officers are ready and willing to
try them, is to be enforced in South
Carolina.
Professor R. NJ. Mcintosh, from Rich
mond, Va, music teacher, having in
his possession letters of recommendation
from the clergy and editors of that city.
left his boarding house in this city on
Monday the Sd instant, to spend few
hours in Washington, since which time
nothing has been heard of him. 1t is
feared he has been foully dealt with
alexandria Gazette.
A Washington county Miss, planter
gives some statistics of the cotton crop
in that county. On nineteen planta-
tions, embracing 1900 acres in cultiva-
ton, 2,975 bales have been made. where
as, formerly the crop was from bale to
bale and half per acre. Fully one
sixth Of the negroes in the county have
died during the year, and not more than
One-third of the freedmen have worked
we'll.
THE TRUE PoLrTIcs OF VIRGINIA.
The true politics of Virginia are, to-day,
to throw aside the ephemeral glory OF
"place and position" in government
strivings that bring no solid comfort
even when obtained-and go to work
practically with muscle as well as
brain. When she produces more than
she consumes, and becomes a seller
rather than purchaser, tariffs will af-
feet her but little, and taxation can be
borne; but above all, she will attain to
that power which is able to defend
against oppression fredericksburg Ners.
The Nashville Banner says that agents
from Cincinnati and other points are
travelling the South and buying oil the
railroad iron torn up and damaged dur
ing the war. Large amounts have been
shipped from this place, and there is
still more to be sent off. Old and rusty
rails, twisted into all sorts of fantastic
shapes, useless until remoulded, are
piled up to be sent away and shaped for
the new roads that are being built
throughout the country, never again,
let us hope, to be torn up by ruthless
soldiery.
The Memphis Post tells story greatly
to the honor of q son of General Lee.
At dinner party in Richmond, one Of
the guests proposed as a toast "The
Fallen Flag" 1t says:
Colonel Lee promptly placed his hand
upon the glass and arose. Gentlemen"
said he, 'sthis will not do. We are pa
rolled prisoners. We have now but one
flag, and that is the flag Of our whole
country-the glorious old stars and
stripes. can recognize no other, fight
for no other, and will drink to no other"
HoRsE-HAIR JUsTIcE.-Says s. G.
Goodrich, AZ once knew . boy, in the
olden time of Websters Grammer, who