Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-11
Late Southern Items

Inc Governor OF Georgia has published an
aappeal 10 georgia capitalists for a loan to the
State 10 supply food for it's suffering DOOR
The New York Tribune has story of a duel
sald 10 have been fought near Eicksburg ON
tue 2ith ult, IN which a Vermont major named
Iomllns was killed by an ex-rebeI colonel
swords. o
murderer named Shields, who brutallv
IooDed ana murdered a citizen of the PENN
suia, rs 10 be hung in Richmond on the ION Of
next month. Another, named CLARK, is 10 he
life. ioi
The Atlanta Intelligencer gives the foIlov-inr y
striking facts: Within the limits Of fortysiS
counnes composing this, the fourth reyenue
@ SoIleclor district, there are over three hun
dred distillerIes. "No wonder corn and psock
are so abundant. But for the tax imposed
upon these articles. they would be "cheap As
DIRT and, as friend at our elbow suggests.
not any better.
Some OF Colonel Higgipson's old negro reei-
ment have established a land and lumber
company in Florida, erected a saw.miIl. and
are doing gsod busInes.
One thousand negroes stampeded from THAR
employers in Georgia In spite OF contracts, and
crops are consequently precarious
me Charleston Courier says that 3, 200 freed
men have emigrated to New England IN three
months, on contracts to work az soO ner ynon,h
ana tnat more will follow.
reports from Florida represent that emi.
sira, are pouring into that State from every
direction, and the papers say they are wei
come, especially IL they bri az money
Ihe Galveston (Texas) Bulletin prints a list
oi ., one one hundred and twenty post offices open
IA !h lnai State, one-quarter of which are under
,ne charge OF women. The last act is attri.
puiaoie 10 the stringency OF the oath required
by the Department
Inc Savannah (Ga.) Herald remarks that
the SAvannah post office is now doing a great
uedl OF business. Upwards of four thousand
TWO hundred letters were received and baodIed
nf m ~, sIe posi- once IN one day; The posmasters
OF ali prominent Offices at the North received
some weeks SINCE instructions TO send a daily
mail to Savannah ~ehf
AN agricultural reporter says the people OF
tne Caioilnas, Georgia, Alabama and Missis-
slppl are planting all the cotton thew c,n hnt
iaoor ls scarce, and the freedmen are emigrs-
well. PPe@a
The New Orleans Bee saws that ga. IN the
present disposition of freedmen TO live mo 10
tnelr contracts by reasonable good faith and
PesEss.sney, pr E,a Information from the interior Of
me stare, and from some other States is of a
hlghly gratifying nature. Not less than one
NAN OF the former number OF arricul,n raj
tSooiels "a IN the south has been extinguished in
culture" .a Aoui 1sii-
The Savannah Republican reports that ua
te aays since me Episcopal clergy of Charles
ION, accompanied by several proninent citi
zens, visited the free colored schools OF that
CITY, among whom was Governor orr Wm
nrennolm, the Secretary ofthe Treasury of the
iaIe Cohiederacy, and we are informed that the
distinguished visitors were yerv fsynr.hIv
Impressed with all they Witnessed SO much so
ina, tney suggested the necessity of taking i'm
eu m,euae steps ior the Organization of a COM
mon school system for the coiored people"
Inns Us eooo news; II shows that the good sense
OF horthern men Is showing them already the
Dement'S Of educating all classes.
a letter from Rev. DIR. McTyre, from Ala
pama, reports fearful mortality among the
negroes. They have scattered the small -pox
through town and country. and are dying
rapidly. To stop the disease appears impossi-
bic, in consequence of the wandering propen-
sities OF the blacks. Nor are the number of
fatal cases known, rs in most instances the
negroes do their own burying, and no report is
made of the deaths, either singly or in gross