The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-04-21
NEWS ITEMS.

General Marmaduke is going into
the grocery business in ST. Louis.
Houston (TcXas) papers say that
Qnantrcll had passed through Texas to
Mexico.
A large number Of ~post-ollices in
Mississippi were, on Saturday last, or
drrcd to be Immediately %re-opencd,
The Louisiana crops are advancing
rapidly. The recent frost in Baton
Rouge parish killed the cotton.
In all the reports Of intcrments in
Alabama, the negroes Ontnumbcr The
whites in proportion Of onc-third.
The Notifications on the ''battcry'
at Charleston are being lcvclcd for u
promenade ground.
The st. Louis Dispatch asserts
that pilots on the Missouri rivers get
from sixteen to eighteen hundred dol
lars II month ut present.
A Mobile clergyman has secured
the thcatcr in that city for religious cX-
%crciscs and preaching on Sunday even
ings.
General Lees name does not ap-
near in the list Of Southern officers
who have applied to the President for
pardon.
--Mississippians say that they have
assurances that jefferson Davis will be
released OH parole, to remain in Mis-
sissippi.
The Methodist Conference has
adopted a report extending the juris-
diction Of the Southern Church in eve
ry direction asked for.
A dispatch from Washington says
that there is official evidence that Louis
Napoleon is withdrawing his troops,
and Macmillan is substituting Austrian
anu bc'Siih IttI'UlS'
The Methodist Conference at New
Orleans has appointed two bishops TO
proceed to Washington and thank the
President for restoring the church
property.
1t is reported that the mills of
Manchester, n. H., are running at Il
loss, the cotton on hand costing more
before it is made up than it will bring
now after il is manufactured.
--Morehcad City, N. G., was thrown
into a fever of excitement, a few days
ago, by the unexpected entrance into
the hurbor of three of the huge mon
stcrs of the deep in the shape ofwhalcs.
Two were Immediately captured.
Mr.. Parton, in the North Amcri-
can Review for April, thinks it proba-
bic that u method will be invented by
which a bundle Of newspapers can be
shot from New York to Chicago in
half IN hour.
The small pox is prevalent at
Memphis. There are hundred and
fifty eases in the hospital, and the dis
ease is spreading amongst the negroes
in the suburbs. Numerous deaths oc-
cur daily.
The Georgia courts have decided
that suits brought for the payment Of
notes given for slave property can be
sustained, Notwithstanding the aboli-
ton Of slavery, the latter not constitu-
ting u legal failure of consideration,
The New Haven Palladium states
that on Wednesday of last week II firm
ofthat city shipped a splendid carriage
to Maximilian, of Mexico. The car
rage is of the Landau style, was lined
with blue satin, and cost $4,000.
There is no truth in the reports
that cholera, yellow fever, or other cpl
demic diseases exist at Key West, Flor
ida. The Mayor and Health Officer of
that city report that Key West was
never in a more healthy condition than
at present.
The cotton and wooden manurac.
l
tory in the Penitentiary of Texas. in.
stead Of finding any difficulty in dispo.
sing Of its goods, cannot even complete
It's Texas orders, its prices ranging
from three to ten cents per yard under
those Of articles brought from the
North.
Gen. Sheridan has issued orders TO
the effect that all persons embarking
from New Orleans for Vera Cruz, Tam.
pico, or Matamoras, Mexico, must oh.
tain passports from the Provost Mar
shal. This order causes much remark.
The papers say that the order is direct
ed against Confederate colonization
schemes.