Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-10
Southern News.

The ex-pirate Raphael semnles is can
didate for Judge of the Probate Court Of
Mobile county.
A letter from Alabama reports fearful
mortality among the negroes. They have
scattered the small pox through town and
country, and are dying rapidly.
The Convention called to consider the
propriety of organizing a separate State
Government for East Tennessee, met at
Knoxville on the Sd inst.
The discovery Of petroleum in Western
Louisiana attracts much attention. A COM
pany has been formed for perfecting and
bringing It TO market. The coal-beds Of
Arkansas above are being worked
Montgomery (Ala. papers received con-
tain accounts of suffering and destitution in
various counties of the State. As many as
800 women have been sean at one time
around the Court House on days when ra-
tons were expected, having walked from
Montgomery there are 700 destitute in ac-
tual want of food to sustain life.
A fearful riot occurred in Memphis on
the 1st, continuing until the night of.the I'd,
occasioned by an alteration between a
white man and negro whose wagons-came
into collision. The police assisted the
white man, and the negroes came to the
rescue of their colored brother. i The affair
soon reached formidable dimensions, and
firearms were freely used. Some twelve
negroes were killed, and three or four white
men, before the former were put down. On
the might of'the I'd, about thirty houses &C.
cuppied by colored people, and all the
school-houses Of South Memphis, were pull
ed down'or burned. Order has since been
restored.
The New Orleans Crescent of the 2Oth
says: A desperate duel was fought on We'd
nesday, in the neighborhood of the city,
between an ex-Confederate and Federal
officer. The weapons were pistols, and at
the first FIRE the Federal received the bullet
of his antagonist through both lungs, caus-
a dangerous and probably fatal wound.
The ex-Confederate was shot through both
legs, below the knee, the tibia Of the right
leg being broken. We believe the quarrel
arose from politics. It is rumored. abou,
town that three more duels were TO have
been fought yesterday afternoon, and three
more this morning"
Last fall, negro woman, with five child
rem from six months to six years of age,
and her mother who was blind, deaf, and
dEnb) came to the farm Of Mr.. WEIGH, in
Pontotoc county, Miss, and engaged to
work. About three weeks ago Mr.. WEIGH
found her missing from the plantation, when
he Instituted a search and found the stair
door which led up into dark, narrow room
of her house heavily barricaded and lock-
ed. After some difficulty he opened the
door with an axe, and discovered the old
woman and two children lying against the
door, dead from starvation. Another child
was at the head of the stairs, dead also.
The other two were just alive, but one of
them has since died; the other,itis thought,
cannot survive. The missing woman was
found three miles from Jackson, MISSISSIPPI
pi, with negro man who had been seen
strolling around Mr.. Welch's plantation
with her. Her reason for her inhuman &C
ton was, that she did not like to work SO
hard TO support the old woman and the
'brats." She was carried back to Pontotoo
county 10 be tried.