The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.

activity.
A great many Virginians are settling
in Daviess county, KY.
Gov. Brownlow has commissioned 9
colored man to be captain in the Ten
nessee militia.
A clarvoyant has sued st. Louis pa.
per for libel and thinks she sees hel
way clear to get $4,000.
The convicts in the Alabama peniten'
tiary at Wetumpka are being hired
ont to work on the RAILROADS of the
State.
The delectable Hunnicutt has an idea
that the military authority in Vir
ginia will be exercised for his especial
benefit.
The Athens Watchman, and other Geor'
gia papers, say the wheat crop in that
State was never more promising.
Jacob Bauman, veteran of Napole-
on's grand army, died in Natchez, on
the 18th, at the advanced age of eighty
eight years.
Thomas j. Durant has published IN
address to the people of Louisiana, ad-
vising them to take steps toward call
ing q State Convention.
The Georgia railroad proposes to trans
mort corn from Baltimore to Atlanta,
via Charleston and Augusta, at thirty
FIVE cents bushel.
A party Of soldiers invaded" the
work-house at Nashville, last Friday,
and forcibly released number of their
comrades who had been imprisoned
there.
The Pamela (Miss.) Star says very
distinct shock of an earthquake was felt
in that vicinity at 2 o'clock last Mon
day morning, and created considerable
alarm.
Ten negroes voted at local election
in Jacksborough, Campbell county, Ten
nessee, on the 21st nit. They were the
first votes cast by colorcd voters in that
State since 1884.
1t is generally believed in Washington
that jeff Davis Will be brought to trial
at the May term of the United States
District Court for Virginia. to be held
at Richmond.
The ship Northampton, Capt. Barker
commanding, cleared from Savannah for
Liverpool, on the Goth ult., with 1913
bales Sea Island cotton, 3,119 bales up
land cotton, and 3,325 oak slaves.
We learn that a meeting of the ne
groes of upper Prince George was held
few days since. The proceedings are
reported to us as having been credita-
BILE to neither the heads nor hearts of
MISUNDERSTANDING Inder.
Memphis issues city currency which
the banks of that city receive at par.
The $50 notes have vignette Of Gen.
Gaines. All the notes are signed by
the Mayor and Controller and are pay
able on demand,
Several civil officers of Upton coun-
ty, Tenn, have written to Governor
Brownlow, protesting against the send
ing of troops'to that county. They say
that perfect peace and freedom OF per
son and speech are enjoyed there.
A writer in the Atlanta Mtelligencer
states that Mr.. Stephens some time
since decided to keep entirely aloOf
from politics, and devote his whole time
and attention to the history of the war
which he has undertaken.
The Montgomery advertiser says that
within a few days, more than three,
hundred chignons have been commit
ted to the flames by the ladies of that
city. A new style of chignOn is grow
ing, fashionable in Alabama, and it is
styled the "cocoanut."
Col. John Decatur Barry, of the Will
mington Dispatch, died on Sunday
morning. As man, a patriot, soldier
and journalist, ne maintained posi-
ton which entitled him to the admira-
tion of all with whom he was associa-
ted during life. -. --...
The State Auditor day or two since
gave to Thomas P. Copes, af Accomac,
the sum of $500 in payment for his
negro man Sam, convicted in the Coun-
ty Court of AccOmac, in 1862. of felony,
and sentenced to transportation.-Rich-
mond Dispatch, March %.
The Austin (Texas) Intelligencer says
brown domestics of an excellent quail
ity, and in all respects equal to the
Northern brands, are now made by the
manufacturing companies of New
Braunfels, 3 flourishing German town,
situated near the junction Of the Comal
and Guadalpupe. a.a'
A young man named Bridges was
frozen to death near Friars Point,
above Memphis, few days ago. He
had been UPSET in perogue, in COM
pany With two negroes, and started for
the nearest house with q view Of OBJ
tanning assistance. When found, he
was hanging by one arm to tree,
frozen stiff, and with his head under
water. Mr.. Bridges served under For
rest during the war.
The Kentucky Legislature at its re-
cent session incorporated a company
styled the Kentucky Poultry Company,
the objects of which are to import and
raise poultry for market, and improve
our breed of fowls. The Courier says 1t
is the design of the company to go into
the raising and Improvement Of fowls
on an extensive scale, and if they
succeed, as we have no doubt they Will, +,
in rivalling the efforts of other associ-
ations of the kind in Europe, Kentucky
will soon become as renowned for the
quantity and character of her fowls as
she is now for herThorses and other
stock.
Coal Spring, near Petersburg, witness
ed an exciting cock-tisht one day last
week. The contest was between Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. The fighting
was spirited and the birds fine and in