The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-27
SOUTHERN NEWS.

The yellow fever has appeared in New
Orleans.
Louisiana registers more than twice
as many blacks as whites.
Paul Morphy and family left New Or
leans last week for Paris.
The channel of the Savannah is being
dredged deeper and wider.
A Baltimore coroner's jury brought
in the verdict of "death from suicide
by his own hands"
About $4,000 in Confederate money
was sold in New Orleans the other day
at 4 cents pound.
There were 12a deaths in the city Of
New Orleans during the week ending
June 18th. Three were from Asiatic
cholei q.
RGovernor Jenkins has rendered the
appointment of Chief Justice of the
Georgia Supreme Court to Judge Hiram
Warner.
The heavy rains which have fallen in
North and South Carolina and Georgia
it is feared will seriously damage the
corn and wheat crops.
The registration OF voters in the par
ish of Orleans, La, numbered, on the
18th of June, as follows: Whites. II
a23; blacks. IA, 442; total, q PCS.
reward of $1,000 has been .offered
by Gov. Flanders for the arrest of John
T. Jones, charged with, on the I'd inst,
killing Cyrus w. Stautfer, ut Match
itOcheS, La.
A "woman and sister," of well friz-
zled brow, has sued q st. Louis COM
pany for keeping her out of o car. She
mOdestly estimates her damages at
$4,000.
The President has reco gnized Jacob
Lerb as consular agent of France at
Wilmington, N. c., and Frederick Chas-
taHet as consular agent of France at
Savannah.
Mr.. Trotter, a prominent mercha mt of
Memphis, who broke and absconded q
few months ago, has been arrested in
San Francisco, and will be brought back
to Memphis.
A Georgia paper suggests that, as
there will be greater yield of wheat
in that State than there has been for
many years, the Governor appoint day
of thanksgiving and prayer.
1t seems that Chief Justice Chase, in
the United States Circuit Court at Raj
eigh, assumed the responsibility of an
nuling a previous panel, for the purpose
of placing freedmen on the jury.
The bar of the Northern United States
District Court for Mississippi have set
their minimum fee in nOL-contested
bankruptcies at 800, at $3.50 in contest
ed cases, and as much more as they can
get.
The Fredericksburg (ya.,) Ledger re-
ports man, calling himself George
William Thompson, and claiming to be
a registrar, as having collected, at 81
per voter, $1,000 from the "intelligent
contrabands" in the Northern Neck.
Jacob Barker was violently assaulted
by an Irish woman in New Orleans, who
shook her bank book in his face, and
demanded her $50 lost through the fail
ure of his bank. But for some bystana-
ers she would have strangled him.
The final celebration of the Jefferson
Society of the University of Virginia
will be held on Friday evening, June
%. The orator of the occasion will be
Thomas Ii. Burke, of Virginia, and the
medalist, Alex. p. Humphrey, of Ken
lucky.
A dispatch from Galveston to the New
York Tribune states that since the deliv-
cry of the recent opinion of the Attorney
General, Mayor Haviland, who was re-
moved by General Griffin for rebel pro-
clivities, refuses to recognize military
authority.
! General Wager Swayne, the small
sized aspirant for 2egro votes, who sus-
tains his pretensiens by his epaulettes,
has ordered the Investigations of the
Kelly riot to be discontinued. Some
things are about to come ont not very
refreshing to Radical nerves.
Two gentlemen of well-known Con-
sentative politics living in McNairy
county have been ordered by anOny-
nous towards to leave the neighbor-
hood. Fearing violence of a fatal
character, they have left the county,
such is the rule of terror where the Rad
icals are in the ascendancy in Tennes-
see.
A planter near Charleston, South
Carolina, lately, took into his service a
colored orphan ten years Of age, and
treated him with great kindness. The
little rascal, prone to steal as sparks to
fly upwards, or fox to eat young chick
ems, absconded in few days, taking
with him trunk containing valuable
papers and SOME $500 in money. At
last accounts he had not been captured.
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A correspondent at Warsaw Ferry,
Milton county, Ga, writes the IntelHgen-
Ger that during last week boat was
successfully launched for the purpose Of
dredging the Chattahoochee FLYER for
gold. He also states that the machinery
for such operation is being rapidly
placed on board, and that the work OF
dredging will soon commerce.
The safe of the steamer Brooks, which
had Just arrived at st. Louis from the
Arkansas river, was robbed of eight
thousand dollars in money and some
valuables, early on Sunday morning.
The thief got the keys Of the Office and
cafe from under the pillow of one of the
owners, while he slepti in state-room