The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The planters are gradually organizing
schools.
The restoration of the South is o
financial necessity. p.
The ladies of Mississippi are raising
funds to support the family of jeff. Da-
Wis.
The negroes in New Orleans are aban-
doning their white wives. They are
getting aristocratic.-Louisrille journal.
FOil has been discovered on Shoal
Creek, st. Clair county, Alabama, in
abundance at depth of 300 feet.
Miss Gregg, of South Corolina, sister
of the late rebel General Maxey Gregg,
has gone to Siberia as missionary.
Clinton Burbridge, a notorious Con-
federate spy and guerilla during the
war, has been arrested at st. Louis for
vagrancy.
A man was found in the streets OF
Louisville frozen to death, with nothing
on his person but pair Of stockings
and neck-tie.
Some ex-slaves of Gen. Taylor at New
port, KY, have recovered, through the
courts, property bequeathed them by
their former masters will.
A negro woman in Richmond after
dancing at ball all night found her
child half eaten by rats in the morning
its face, hands and ears knawed away
A colored laborer fell a distance Of
nearly thirty feet, from building in
Georgia, a few days since,
and alighted on his head. He was con-
stunned for time, but ex-
pected to resume work next day.
1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court of Georgia, that cause dismissed
during the late war, on the ground that
the plaintiff was citizen of the United
States, and therefore an alien enemy,
may be rcinvested on motion.
Four freedmen, from the vicinity Of
it seems, made raid on VIM.
Logan, Esq, of Halifax county, and
drove off five head of his cattle. They
had slaughtered one OK before they were
but some of the cattle,
which were mich cows, were found
alive and driven back to their owner.
The negroes, who lived a few miles from
town, were arrested, carried before
and examined, and sent by
him to Halifax Jail for trial.
The Alexandria Gazette of Saturday
last gives an account of a series of out
RACES perpetrated by gang of negroes
in the suburbs on Friday night, and asks
that the negro troops stationed there,
be prohibited from coming within the
corporate limits during the holidays.
1t SAYS: ave want no more Christmas
riots nor military commissions here;
bur last nights proceedings are ominous
of what may happen"
Coffee County, in Tennessee, is being
,olonized by Pcnnsylvanians. Some
fifteen or twenty families from that State
nave purchased lands around Concord
ma OAK nm, ana ale scItIinS. lhey
nave already laid out some eighty-fve
thousand dollars for lands, and the cry
IS "still they come" They are excellent
farmers and good citizens, and there IS
ample room for all such.
Capt. B. j. Smith, one of the most
successful business men in Georgia, has
ust returned from six months tour in
Europe. He thinks that the present
Liverpool prices. are based on the sup
position that over 100000 bales will
be produced in America the present
year, and he expresses the opinion that
50 soon as they appreciate the true state
Of things that the staple will range at
90d. He urges that cotton lands are
and that we must not let Cui-
fee emigrate.-.Nontgomery 1drert'Ser.
A writer for the Richmond Christian
Adrocate urges the necessity for the word
being sticken from the South
ern Church, (which has come to mean
in the most of the United States an
offensive political creed," so as to let
the people know that it has become n
corruption, and therefore has been cut
otf. and to let them know whenever a
preacher appears, calling himself a
Methodist, he is the emissary of poIti-
cal radcalism. The name suggested by
way of change is Evangelical Episco-
pal Church."
Mrs. jeff. Davis says, concerning her
finances, that she can see her way clear
for the next three months-beyond that
"all is dark Having to maintain two
her mother and children in
Canada, and her husband and Younger
children ut Fortress Monroe, her ex-
penses are necessarily very large. Mrs.
Davis saws her husband is well taken
care of, but it is the Southern people
alone who keep him from starving, as
he would inevitably, if, in his delicate
health, he had only the food provi Jed
for him by the authorities.
The ex-Confederate General Forrest
has a contract for constructing forty
five miles of the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad, from Duvalrs Bluff to
Madison, Ark, and the work is being
with energy, but laborers
are very scarce, and General Forrest
wants five hundred, whom he will pay
81 per day and rations, and sell them
any ar ticle of clothing they may require
at reasonable rates, or pay them all
cash.
On Thursday afternoon, Mrs. DR.. Up
shur embarked on board the ferry-boat
at Gloucester Point to go to Yorktown
for the purpose of taking passage in the
steamer Eolus for this city. Just as the
boat was showing off from the shore,
party of negroes run down from the
beach and peremtorily ordered the lady
out oft, ct the same time threatening
her with pistols. Their threats COM
PEELED the lady to jump overheard and
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