The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-09
4 SOUTHERN MELANaE.

the following brief melange of Southern
incidents:
GEoRaiA--A public exhibition came Off
at one OF the fTecdmen's schools in Augusta.
Ca Friday, which was largely attended by
children and parents. The valedictory was
rected by sprightly quadrOOn.
The following are statistics Of freedmen's
schools ~ Macon. Augusta and Savannah :
Number of schools, 62; teachers, 50 schol-
ars, $3.50; readers 2Gl0; writers, l,O20.
Cash contributed by freedmen, 1888.
A desperate conflict took place. few
days ago, on plantation In Stewart county
Georgia, during which three whites and
seven negroes were killed, and number of
Others injured.
\ young girl residential Lexington. Ky,
made application at the City Buildings,
Cincinnati, for assistance in returning
home, stating that she had been scduced by
a rebel COlonel, who had brought her there
lived with her week. and deserted her
the old story. She received some good adj
vice and was sent to her home.
A letter from Stewart County saws a
party of white men went TO "a plantatation,
u few days ago, for the purpose of plum
dcring. They were driven off by the plan
tatlon negroes. The next day the party re-
JuIHtils WIN fCluiOTtClutntS, anu II ueSppf-
ate conilictensued. Three whites and seven
negroes were killed, and several Others
wounded. Great excitement prevailed.
.LoUIsvILLE.-The sth Colored Artillery,
nine hundred strong, arrived to-day from
Victoria. Texas, and are to be paid on here
and mustered out.
The guerrillas, one-armed Berry and
Wells, sentenced to be hung here, had their
aI hrVn Il.
ten years contlnemement in the Albany,
New York, Penitentiary.
New ORLEANS, MARCH 1.-THE New Or
leans PicGyme gives an account of another
of General Buffers seizures while I'm COM
mand mt New Orleans, which has recently
been In litigation, and been decided against
the General. Shortly before the occupa-
tion Of the city by the national troops, the
municipal authorities made Mr.. Pelie the
City Surveyor, n present of $1,000, which
the General ordered the recipient to restore
to the city treasury, in default of which he
condemned him To Tortugas with ball and
chain. In lieu of this Mr., Pcle paid the
money, Mr.. Pelie lately sued the city for
the amount, and the Judges decision was
that 1t should be returned to him,
General Scott is still here, and not at
Pensacola, as reported. 1t is rumOred that
eral Fullerton is to be the Presidents Sec
retary of State.
Recruiting for the Liberal army is going
on here.
The Presidents veto of the Frecdmen's
Bureau bill arrested the contemplated emil
grafton Of Il large number of Texans to
foreign countries. Freedmen's affairs in
Texas are favorable; in this State more sat
isfactory.
Goods are selling at Houston twenty-five
per cent below invoice prices.
The effort of the Galveston Convention
to base representation in the Legislature on
the number of free persons, failed. The
Committee on Legislative Department eX-
pressed unqualified opposition to negro
suffrage,
NAsHvILLE.-Governor Brownlow, of
Tennessee, received dispatch from Gren-
ada, Mississippi, warning him that a plot
for his assassination had been entered into
by party of Mississippians, The dispatch
was signed by Captain of the 5Sth United
States Colored Troops, commanding the
station of Grenada, Mississippi 7
General n. b. Forests ease was called
up in the United States Court at Memphis
yesterday, but was postponed on account
of the General being sick with the small
poX.
Twenty-one members of the House of
Representatives of Tennessee having re-
signed their seats, thus leaving that body
without quorum, the members of the
Senate, as well as those remaining of the
House, have gone home. Governor Brown
low has issued his proclamation ordering a
new election