The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-02
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now Baptist preacher IN mississippi,
General Beauregard s busy with the New
Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad
OF which he Is Superintendent
General D. Fl. Hill, late c. s. A., is a dele
gate TO the Presbyterian General Assembly, now
IN session OF Macon, Ga.
Colonel Robert II. Crockett has become the
commercial and river reporter of the Memphis
dU0lGnche.
-Fortyone superintendents of the Freedmens
Bureau nave been appointed in Kentucky by
General Fisk.
Marcus Conner was robbed on the high way
near Columbus, Ca, by a negro. His horse,
saddle, bIidle, and twenty dollars in money were
taken.
The sacrament of baptism was conferred
upon Major. General B. f. Cheatham, by Bishop
Quintard, at Christ Church, Nashville, on Tues
day night.
The salary OF General Joseph e. Johnston,
as President OF the National Express Company,
has been fixed at ten thousand dollars per
annum.
Mrs. william Chisholm an old and most
estimable lady of Montgomery, Ala, died there
recently az the residence OF Mr. ID. II. Shuler,
her son-n-law.
Charles Herndon, of Spottsyvania, was
elected on last Thursday, by the Legislature of
Virginia, Secretary of the Commonwealth, over
Colonel Lewis, the present incumbent.
-Mrs. Robert e. Lee has sold her farm near
Warrenton to DR.. Drewry, OF Richmond 1t
1t was $40 per acre, or S32OOO for the entire
tract.
Hon. Herschel V. johnson authorizes state.
ment that he IS not candidate for the seat on
the Supreme Bench of Georgia made vacant by
the resignation OF Charles j. Jenkins Governor
elect
The President has commuted the sentence Of
John Kile, Jr., 3lst Tennessee (COnfederate)
Cavalry, ITO be hung" to imprisonment during
and for the term OF his natural lite, at the State
peuitentiary at Columbus, OHIO.
Hon. Benjamin Hill, Joshua Hill, A. H.
Stephens, l.. j. Gqruell, Ex-Governor James
johnson, Colnuel Kee and Colonel Dougherty
are all prominently spoken OF as candidates for
the United States Senate from Georgia,
The Savannah Herald announces the death
of General PeJer Cone, OF Bullock county, Ga,
q prominent militiauren. Il State Senator for
torty-two wears, and soldier in the war OF 1872,
under Jackson.
John Spears, AGED ninety.fve years, died
recently at Danvile, Ky. He was born in Rock
ingham county, Va, in l77l and witnessed the
surrender OF COlnwal's and other leading events
OF the Revolutionary war.
Augustus E. Maxwell and James NJ. Baxter,
both Senators IN the late Confederate Congress,
from Florida, have been appointed by the Gov
eTnor Associate Justices OF the Supreme Court
of that State. Charles ii. Dupont has been ap-
pointed Chief Justice.
"A bill is now Iending in the Legislature of
Tennessee, granting charter to company,
consisting Of T. NJ. Speed, W. VI. Degrove, G. II.
Speed, A. G. Shirrell, and their associates, to
establish telegraph line connecting with Louis
vile and New Orleans.
"A very serious shooting affray occurred in
Benton, Mississippi, between Richard Manning
and Thomas Young both citizens of the county,
which resulted in the instant death o the latter
Mr.. Manning has surrendered himself to the
authorities.
MIR. w. Patt. Berry, OF Atlanta, in passing
along the street on Tuesday last, accidentally
ran against negro soldier, who, to resent an
imagined attront, pushed MIR. Berry in a mud
hole, and seized a gtone for the purpose of
striking him, when Mr.. Berry shot him through
the heart, killing him instantly.
j. c. Keys his son Robert Keys, Elisha
Byrem, citizen of Anderson District, South Caro-
lima, and F. G. Stewcrs. u citizen OF Georgia,
have been brought to Savannah and confined in
jail, to await their trial on the charge of muir
dering three Federal soldiers at Browns Ferry,
in Anderson District.
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and
Abandoned Lands, of the Washington District,
during the month of December returned the
following lands:-The proDcrty of Charles B..
Tbbs, in Loudon county, Va; the property of
George B. Hall, In Loudon county, Va. and the
property OF Sanderson Thrift, in Loudon county,
Virginia.
The library of the Virginia Historical So.
Ciety is safe. The Richmond Enquirer says
"a portion of the Historical Library some
seven hundred volumes, has been deposited in
the library room of the Young Mems Christian
Association, and the rest have again been boxed
up, and are in the safe Keeping of DR.. Barney,
the treasurer Of the society, who deserves credit
Tor the trouble and expense he has incurred in
taking care of them. Had he not given his
personal attention to the matter, it is question
able whether the valuable collection would
have been saved from the general wreck"
1t has already been announced that Mr..
Simms is editing collection Of Southern war
poetry. He publishes the following notice:-
POETRY OF THE Wharf.-The subscriber is
about to collect the poetry OF the South during
the late war; and begs of those who have written
that they will send HIM copies of all such pieces
as relate to the war or any OF its incidents. He
would wish that the poems be dated If possible,
and the names given OF the periodicals or news
papers in which they originally appeared. Com
muncations will be addressed to him at the
Office of the South CdTOiinidn, Charleston, s. O.
''W, GILMORE Snnds"
Southern biographies are multiplying. The
Charleston South C0rOliRiGn says:-"We knew,
some short time after the death of Mr.. Pettgru,
and some years before the Death OF Mr. GraYsOn,
that the latter had been busIly engaged In pro-
curing materials for biography OF the former.
1t was with Mr. Grayson a labor of love, and
he pursued it heedullY and with a1ectionate in
terest in spite of all the storms OF war; We re-
ioice that his own life was spared to its compile
tion. The book has Just been issued from the
press of Harper Brothers, and trust that it
will! reach our citizens without delay. To no
hand could such work be better cOnided than
TO Mr.. Grayson's. An old intimate of Mr.. Petit.
CRU, he was AS perfectly familiar with his subject
as was any OF his friends; and, surrounded by
these friends in numbers he enjoyed the most
admirable opportunities for procuring his mate
rial" Mr.. W.. f. Sanford, OF Alabama, who is
engaged in the preparation OF the Life OF Viii.
liam l.. Yancey," already noticed, has issued a
prospectus, in which he says:-
81 hope to be able to complete the book OF
about five hundred pages, oc avo, and get it to
the public during the next year. Many years oil
plO.pst Tpa 1v "a