Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-07
EVENING STAR.
Late Southern Items.

Late Southern Items.
The Jaeinto (Miss.) Patriot has within
very short perioi had the n,elan choly pleasure
Of announcing the death Of i've newspapers al
Cortnth.
Coloni es OF emigrants are pei ng brought into
Texas from various quarte-s A colony OF
Polls are being settled upon the lands east OF
the Trinity, in the region near Palestine
Monday a gentleman owning some four hun
dred or Eve hundred acres OF land. which
some eight or ten years since cost him two
dollars and fifty cents per acre, positively re-
fused ar offer OF seventy five dollars an acre
an speeie-Lynekbarg Eetcs, 2stA.
The Fredericksourg Herald says:-"A North
ern man arrived az our railroad station, in the
ears. some days since, and after the train
passed, approached the polite ticket agent in.
curing n ne would take charge of his pocket
book, as he, the stranger, had some business to
attend 70 up Gown. The agent acquiesced,
after which the stranger again, in very CONN.,
Dental tones, inquired If a guard conId not be
Obtained 10 escort him mp the street!''
The editor of the Newborn North Caro-
Ina Times has just returned from a trim
through the States Of South Carolina, Georgia
and portion Of Alabama He witnessed
abundant evidences Of the general disposition
TO cultivate fully as much land as could be
put INTO crops. The only fear is in regard to
tne INSTABILITY OF the contracts with the freed
men There were some complaints OF the I'M.
faithfnlness of the latter, but il is hoped that
morey was measurably supplied by the issue
tons
The Charleston Courier is gratined TO OBJ
serve indications Of the rebuilding of the burnt
district in that city.
Governor Browniow has issued an order for
State Legislature, to fill the vacancies oc-
casioned by recent designations.
The Charleston papers mention the cleoring
last week from that port ola vessel for Liver
pool wAfh cargo Of cotton amounting to 12S
bales Sea Island and 1912 bales Upland cot
ton, l,21e,i55 pounds, and valued ut the heavy
The effort of Mr.. Gran to re-establish the
drama IN Richmond has proved a failure, and
he took his farewell benefit there on Tuesday
night, having sunk between four and five
thousand dollars during his six weeks ex-
perim.utai lease Of the theatre.
The Charleston South Carolnian states that
on the sd ult. three thieves Were found dead
behind the counter of n druggist, in King street
~ that city Ii seems thai poison had been
pot In some food and placed in a convenient
died '>''"
A letter from Major Corwyn lare of Sheri-
dams army, to Archbishop Purcell, published
in the Catholic Telegraph, fixes the response
tility OF the burning of Columbia, :. c., upon
wade hampton, who was foolish enough to
MI the streets with loose cotton, and refuse to
MIR. g. ii. Hammond teacher of the freed
men N Virginia, IS reported TO have been as
saulted by armed rnffians, ducked several
times In The Shenaadoa and threatened with
death unless he left the place within three
DAYS. He was sent out by the American Mis-
sIonary Association OF New York.
A bill has been introduced into the Iouisj-
ana house or Representatives granting to G
l. BeaureguaId any other persons the sole
right TO exeayate and keep free from obstruc-
tisns the mouth of the Mississ ppi river A
depth of water of eighteen feet s to be con-
SANITY preserved on the bar. Valuable fran
chises are granted TO the corporation thus
formed.
An intelligent planter writes to the Galveston
News that he l. well pleased with his pros
poets under the free labor system. His freed
men have remained, and performed their
nsual work for a portion of the crop He has
divided his hands into sections. and EMPLOYS
premium cystem To promote compe itioI. His
people are respectful and obedient, and the
Change IN their condition has not altered their
conduct.
The stockholders of the Southern Pacific
Railroad have inst held a meeting in New Or
leans to take measures for the early prosecution
OF the work. The road is proposed to be con-
suucted from the Texas State line, between
Shreveport and Marshal, TO FL Paso, a dis
lance OF eight hundred miles There IL will
connect with the California Southern Pacific
Railroad. Texas has made grants of about
1000 acres of land, in alternate sections for
every mile OF railroad completed within her
borders. The grant TO the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company Will be 100000 Of acres