The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Galveston, Texas, has no place 10 bury
hcr dead, all of her cemeteries being
full.
Both houses Of the Georgia Logisla-
ture have repealed the act taxing cot
ton as merchandise.
East Tennessee can spare one million
bushels Of corn for export.
The New Orleans papers are in rap
lures over the result of the Louisiana
State Fair.
Lynched individuals in Texas arc
spoken of rs having 'bcnt sent up the
branch"
\ Louisiana paper announces that IL
will take oysters i'll subscription.
A copper-colored lady of Texas with
ten children has sued colored man for
breach of promise.
Six hundred negroes lately left
Charleston for the shores of Africa, to
join the colony at Liberia.
A New Orleans letter says Texas beef
now takes the lead in that market, and
that Western butchers are giving large
orders.
Major W. +. Collins, Of Warren cOun-
ty, North Carolina, has discovered on
his farm rich deposit of iron ore.
A lady living on Sumner street was
yesterday notified by letter from Colum-
bus, Ca, that she and her daughter had
fallen joint heirs to S24, 4,OOO.-NdshrilIe
Banner.
The City Council of Galveston has
sent an envoy to Washington to confer
with the Government in reference to re-
storing their harbor to its fomer pro,
portions.
In Louisville, KY, there are forty,
two a half miles of street railroads
The number of passengers carried pei
month is 925,000, and the receipts pei
annum are S5i0,000.
The La Grange (Tcxas) Era learns
from member of General Sheridan
staff. that there will be 10,0o0 troops il
that State by spring-that the yolun'
tcer regiments are being rapidly mus
tered out.
The movement 20 reduce the Southern
States to a Territorial condition has
begun in the Senate and House, and il
| is understood that Hon. Francis
Thomas, of Maryland, is already pre-
pairing bill having this end for its OBJ
jcct.
The 100000 bales of cotton grown be-
fore the war, on the alluvial lands OF
Louisiana and Mississippi, We're made
by half the number of hands that pro.
duccd the quantity Of cotton i'll any
other district of the South.
Mr.. C. White. u wealthy citizen ot
Kingston Springs, about % miles from
Nashville, Tennessee, on the Western
Railroad, was murdered on Thursday
night by man named Patterson. The
murderer assaulted Mr.. White with IN
axe inst as he was entering the door OF
his house. and killed him instantly.
The object OF the murder was undoubt'
edly plunder.
The Norfolk Day Book mentions a
mania which seems to exist among Il
portion of the negro population for car
rying concealed weapons. The weapons
are generally razors, and quite mum
her have been collected at the police
Office in Norfolk, which were taken from
negroes.
Ex-Governor Magrath, of South Car
olina, has written letter to Governor
Orr in favor of the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment by the Southern
States as a measure of relief, and the
wisrst policy for the masses. Magrath's
confinement mt Fort Pulaski seems Il
have turned his head.
The special corr respondent at Hunts
vile, Alabama, of the New York Tribune
writes that Judge Busteed charged his
grand Jury Omitted States Court to in.
diet rebels for treason who abuse Con
gress, whether they had been pardoned
or not. 4 pardon, he said, did not hold
in such cases.
A dispatch from Savannah, Georgia,
says John Shepherd, the pedestrian, In
attempting to walk one hundred and
ten consecutive hours, fell at S:53 in the
the afternoon on Saturday, losing by
one hour and seven minutes. He was
taken out on Il strctcher, having walked
one hundred and eight hours and fifty
minutes.
There seems to be conflict in Louis
lana between tho State and city cur
rency. The latter is at par, but the
former at discount, lowing, it is
claimed, to the refusal of the city au-
thoritics to accept it in payment of city
taxes. The newspapers are urging the
councils to change this policy, and thus
put it on a par with the city currency.