The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-02-22
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

Inc hicnmOnd inquirer IS IN favor
of free schools, with compulsory atten.
dance Of children.
The negro population Of Augusta,
Ga, rejoice in q new paper published
and edited by ancgro.
Ex-Governor Graham. United States
Senator elect. from North Carolina, is
out in letter favoring negro evidence.
Gen. Terry has suspended the Rich.
mond Examiner, one Of the most ma.
lignant secession sheets in the coun.
try, both before and since the close Of
the war.
Around Rome, Ga, and all through
that section Of the State, the wheat
crop is in excellent order and promis-
es large results.
James G. Fernando was recently
shot and killed at Union District,
South Carolina, by party Of soldiers
sent to arrest him. He had previously
shot one Of the soldiers.
The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says that
"two-thirds Of the negroes in Georgia
are willing to hire out, but, as u gene.
raj thing. they are opposed TO working
for their former masters"
The Natchez Courier says: A steam
er arrived at our landing on Sunday,
bringing TO this place some thirty or
forty white laborers, who have been
engaged to work plantation on Ten
sas River, in Louisiana.
Three frcedmen's school houses have
been destroyed by mob in the parish
Of st. Mary, and in Thibodeax, La
In the parish Lafourche a lady en-
pIoyed in teaching a school Of adult
freedmen was recently driven from her
work By mob.
A report made by committee to
the Alabama Legislature states, that in
the counties from which reports have
been received, including all in the State
but nine, there are twelve thousand
five hundred and thirty destitute fam
lilies, numbering fifty-two thousand
nine hundred and twenty-one persons.
The Union men of West Tennessee
indorse the memorial TO Congress of
East and Central Tennesse, that they
would prefer remaining under military
government to reconstrue m under
the proposed Democratic modo. Let
the real Union men Of the South speak
for themselves, and restoration" will
be made on correct principles.
The Kentuckian Yeoman now con-
tains in its daily issue more than two
columns of gubernatorial proclama-
tions, fifteen in ali, offering rewards
that amount in the aggregate to over
five thousand dollars, for the arrest OF
murderers who are yet at large.
Judge Kelley, in recent speech ia
tho House, read from an Alabama
newspaper a statement, that in one
county in that State, there were, in one
week, FIVE executions Of negroes, by
the regular sentence of courts, for the
crime of larceny-two ofthe executions
being for the stealing Of horse. The
newspaper in question justifes the
hanging. Italso contains the sentence
of negro TO SO ye-rs' imprisonment
for stealing potatoes.
The first expedition Of forty-two ex-
rebel colonists for Brazil, which sailed
from New Orleans on tho 9th day OF
December, has met with bad luck
Their vessel was wrecked on the coast
of Cuba, on the 4th of January. No
lives were lost, and the passengers saw
ed all their baggage. They made their
way to Havana, twenty-six miles dis
tant, and there scattered, some going
to Mexico, and the others returning 10
the homes which they had left Some
of them, however, declare their inten.
ton of renewing the effort 10 leave this
country.
r. L. Maury, late of the Confederate
army, in writing from Nexicao to his
friends in Virginia, says that Mexico
isthe place for them. Magruder is at the
head of tho Mexican land Office, and
others are filing places, under Maxi
millian's Government. lie says that
the Empire will pay tho passage of
those who wish to go. lie thinks the
Empire is gaining strength and will
succeed. Tho ex-rebela seem to be |
hand in glove with the usurper. Mr..
Maury winds up by saying if he had
forty good ncgl oes from Virginia he
could make his fortune in two years.