The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-26
SOUTHERN NEWS,

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General Pillow has raised 5000 bales
of cotton this year.
Ex-senator Oldham, of Texas, is run
ming a photograph wagon in Mexico.
The negro population of Mississippi
has decreased thirteen per cent. since
the war.
Mrs. Jacob Thompson has been assur-
ed that her husband is at liberty to re- |
turn TO this country.
The final accounts of the commission
ers appointed to collect United States
direct tax in the State of North Carroll
ma have been submitted to the Treasury
Department. Over S400, 900 have been
collected at the expense to the govern
ment.
Andrew McCallum, sugar planter of
Louisiana, who went to Brazil with a
view to emigration, has returned, and
pronounces against it as unsuitable,
and less favorable to the Southemers
than their own country.
The Shreveport Southeastern says that
day does not pass in which the editor
does not see trains of emigrant wagons,
bound for Texas. The movers seem
te be very we'll provided with all kinds
of stock. -...
The average number of cars ofthrough |
freight passing over "the Airline" from
Memphis to Norfolk, we learn, is about
twenty daily. Almost the whole of the
freight is cotton.-RichmoRd Whig.
1t is said that the negroes of Mobile
established savings bank short time
since, and it got along swimming until
a circus came along, when the deposit |
ors drew all the money out in order to
attendit.
Four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in gold, en- route from New Orleans
to New York, passed through Lynch
burg Saturday morning, in charge of
the Southern Express Company. 1t be-
longed to Uncle Sam.
The Georgia Legislature, for the pro-
motion of the agricultural interests,
have passed bill for the transporta-
ton, free of charge, of lime on the State
road, provided it should be sold Mt no
more than eight cents bustel.
Young, the Rio Grande bandit, was
chief of Sheridan's scouts in the Valley,
and was the man who captured the
dashing Harry Gilmore and conveyed
him to Fort Warren. He was the lead
er of the late band that has been pila-
ging the rancheroes, and that were pur-
sued by the United States troops.
Andrew McCallum, sugar planter of
louisiana, who went to Brazil with a
view to emigration, has returned, OPP
posed to the movement.
The Gavelston Civilian says that
rents are higher in that city than any
where else on the face of the earth.
Handsome residences, it says, can be
obtained in the fashionable quarters of
London at from two hundred and fifty
to three hundred dollars per annum,
while such cannot be obtained in Gal
weston for less than twelve or fifteen
! hundred dollars.
Some enterprising gentlemen in Mem
phis have recently made arrangements
with one of the largest and wealthiest
firms in Marseilles, France, whereby the
the practicability of establishing line
of steamers between those cities is to be
thoroughly tested.
G. w. HARRIS ("Sut Lovongood'') was
elected Superintendent of the Wills Val
ley Railroad, at Chattanooga, last Sat
urday.
In the Methodist Church South. thus
far, indications are doubtful as to the
adoption of the change of the name, but
favorable to lay representation. A
three-fOurths vote is necessary for their
adoption, which has been obtained for
the the former measure in tho HolstOn
and Arkansas conferences, but has
failed in those of Louisville and Ten
nessee All except the last have voted
for lay representation.
The Governor of Texas has vetoed the
stay law recently passed by the legis-
lature. The Houston Telegraph
thinks it cannot be passed over the
Governors veto, but thinks it will be
modified in accordance to the sug-
gestions of the Governor, in which
shape it will be passed. p The Telegraph
says that without some process to stay
the sacrifice Of estates the people will
be ruined.
The Indianola Times says: "If some
Northern and Western people are sur
prised to learn that there are instances
of as many as 10000 cattle owned by
one man in Texas, they will no doubt be
more surprised To hear that such men
hardly ever have milk or butter on
their tables. In an adjoining county,
where the number Of cattle are given in
for taxes exceeds 10000, the merchants
purchase Borden's condensed milk and
Goshen butter to sell to their CUSTOM