Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-31
Late Southern Items |.

A cotton factory at Macon. Ga. is turning
ont $4,000 yards of sheeting per month.
bonds Of any other Southern State.
cotton factory at Macon is in full blast,
turning out ninety thousand yards of sheeung
Large numbers Of mules are arriving at At
Ianta from Kentucky: and Tennessee. They
bring COCO prices.
Since the close or the war there has come
into our markets from the Southern States
&&o,CoO,0o0 wor h Of cotton.
General Clem. Evans. OF the rebel army,
who commando Gordon's old division, when
Lee surrendered, has turned his attention TO
rellSious preac hing in Cass county, GA.
During the last Two years The Government
mas reahZed, from sales OF confiscated and
aoandoned cotton, sugar, &C., in Mississippi,
over S6,U0e,GcO
There was an emeute at Macon, Ga. on the
Stn instant, between the citizens and colored
soldiers. Several were wounded, but none
killed 1he city was put under martial law
The Empire (La.) Parish states that the
property IN the Parish OF Plaquemines, be-
longing 10 the estate of the late Lucien Bona
paIte, sold last week for S3O,sO0. There are at
least 1fieen hundred orange trees upon il.
Two cotton factories are soon 10 be established
near west Point, Georgia.
lwo cases of infantcide have occurred in
Georgia
Chattanooga has voted geo 600 for a direct
rallroad TO Cincinnati.
Arrangements ara being made for a speedy
reopening of the Government land Offices in
all the Southern States.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, will meet at New
Orleans, on the 4th of April.
II is to be seen in every New Orleans price
currents that France and Spain are buying ex-
tensIvely in that market
Over sixty of the men belonging to the 4sth
Ohio Regiment at Galveston, Texas are under
arrest for mutlny. They allege their time is
out, and hence the trouble.
The amount of vacant public lands in the
late Insurrectionary States is as follows: Ala
bama, 6,732,G5S acres Mississippi, 4,760,737;
louisiana, 6.22S, lO2; Arkansas, 9,2gS.0l2;
Florida. lG,e79,C35; total, II, 1896, 543 acres.
The Nicksburg Herald says that the Probate
Court OF Carroll county, Mis- sissippi, ap-
prenCced negro without summoning his
father 70 answer as to the custody of his son.
" hereupon the father sued out a wit of k06eds
corpus before Judge Cothran, VINO declared the
proceedings OF the Probate Court null and
father.
correspondent travelling through the
South says that nearly all OF the troubles be-
tween The whites and black arise from drunk
enness. Take away bad whiskey, he says,
and the "outrages," which are paraded under
stout headlines would almost cease TO be-
These "outraGes," as they are called, serve a
double purpose; the same drunken brawl in
which perhaps n negro, and perhaps white
man, Is killed or wounded, is seized upon by
radical journals and pronounced n murder, or
a numerous assault on negroes; while the
rebel sympathiZng papers parade it a negro
outrage on the whites, and claims IL as evil
dence that the black man Is unfit for liberty
These opposite constructions are frequently
put upon the same act, when the act itself
would bear neither.
THE SIMPLE SECRET.-Twenty clerks in q
store. Twenty hands in printing Office.
twenty young men In village. All want to
get along IN the world, and all expect to do So
One OF the clerks will rise 10 be partner and
make fortune On" of the compOsitors will
owna n ewsPaper and become an infiue initial and
prosperous citizen. One of the apprentices
VIII become master builder One of the viii
layers Will get handsome farm and live like
patriarch. But which destined to be the
lnulylduall is Inc
init The thing is almost as certain as the
rule OF three. The young fellow who dis
tances his competitors is he who masters his
business, who preserves his integrity, who
lives clearly and purely, who never gets in
debt, VINO gains friends by deserving them,
and puts ms money into savings bank. There
are many ways TO fortune that look shorter
than this dusty old highway. But the staunch
men OF The community, the men who achieve
something really worth having, good fortune,
good name, and a serene old age, all 20 this
road