Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
At the late term of the District Court

years, ana thornton Miller, freedman, for the
like offence, was sentenced to Eve years in
the Penitentiary. Even this can hardly be
the equality before the law" that Sumner
and Phillips and their followers claim for the
freedman. Anyhow, we trust that the New
York Tribune and Forney's Press will make
note of it.
"A company, with s3,OOO,oOO, is pro-
posing to organize coffee plantation in Flor
ida. There are to be ten settlements of 1000
people each, which are to come from the
North, and also the money. The profits are
to be S1,OOO,OOO year. Gardens and house
rent are tree, and at the end of ten years each
family is to have 40 acres of land. Nothing
is said about clothes. The head men live
there.
-"Ramie'' is new Southern staple from
Java. 1t will grow in the southern half of
Georgia, Yill yield five crops year of 500
pounds each; twenty>iour hours after being
cut it is laid out in long bands, of pure white
floss, ready to spin. 1t is planted like sugar
cane, once planted always planted, grows
twenty feet high, sells for twice the price of
cotton and is stronger and finer, will be ex-
hibited at Paris aud astonish the world if
only half is true.
The jackson (Miss) Clarion SAYS: We
learn from gentleman who arrived here last
night from Vicksburg, that negro settle
ment opposite that city, known as Desoto,
had been OverfOwed. Every effort was made
by-citlzcns Of Vicksburg to reach the unfor-
tunate inhabitants, but despite every assist
ance rendered, some eighty are known to
have perished in the waters. The houses and
shanties have been swept away, and the en-
tire population of the settlement left home
less and destitute.
- The Collector of Internal Revenue of
the First District Of Arkansas, Edwin B. Nc
CURE, has been detected in secreting the
Governments funds, and dcpositing them to
his own personal account, in various banks in
different cities. The amount recovered is
already over 100000, which was found de-
! posted in banks in New Orleans, Memphis,
&c. McGuire left his district. and enieay-
ored to withdraw the funds, but the Treasury
agents were ahead OF him with dispatches,
and with the aid of the military, Mcclure
was arrested in Texas, few days ago
Il Worcester (Md.) Shield says that
| hundreds of cords of wood have been Aoatcd
off by the food on the Pocomoke river and
lost; thousands Of bushels of grain damaged
in the granaries, aud hundreds Of cattle, hogs.
sheep, &c, drowned ON the seaside and
beach in This county, by the same unlortu>
nate deluge.
= The bill of complaint filed by Governor
jenkins, OF Georgia, in the Supreme Court
OF the United States, opposing the enforce>
ment Of the Military Reconstruction bill, is
against Secretary Stanton, General Grant and
General Pope, but does not include President
johnson, as does the Mississippi affair.
= The Macon Telegraph announces the
arrival in that city of Mrs Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and hopes that her sojourn in the
! South has been pleasant one, and that she
hnds the morals Of southern people much i'm
proved since she wrote ''Uncle Toms Cabin"
-"Jessie," wife of General Fremont. is
credited with having been the means of OBJ
tanning vessel from the Government to car
| ry supplies to the South from New York, and
also with having prominently aided to inspire
the action of the Senate in voting an appro-
| priation.
: The lumber, turpentine and rosin trade
OF Pensacola, Florida, is worth So 900 0CO
per annum, and new railway connection
promises to increase the amount
The Mobile Register thinks that Gen.
Beauregard's letter does not entitle him to
add to the reputation of soldier and patriot
that Of statesman and political philosopher.
= The trial of Judge Fred Tate, of Tex
as, for the killing, some time since, at New
Orleans, of j. j. Bryant, the noted faro deal
er, has resulted in his acquittal.
- An eagle, measuring six feet four inch
cs from tip to tip, was shot by AIr. William
DENLY on his farm near Lambert's Point, in
the vicinity of Norfolk, on Monday.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made
on Sunday night to burn the Commercial
Hotel, in Memphis Several rooms were
burned, and the hotel badly damaged by
water.
j. w. Barlow, crazy man, went to the
Walnut street Baptist Church, in Louisville,
on Sunday, aud fired two shots at Rev. q. G.
Smith, who was preaching. There was Il
terrible excitement in the church. of course
but no one was hurt. The maniac was taken
to Jail.
Minors can marry in Louisiana. The
legal age for the bridegroom is fourteen, for
the bride twelve.
John C. Breckenridge, it is stated, ad-
vises his friends to accept and make the best
of the military act.
North Carolina has followed the exam
pie Of some other Southern States in passing
law Furnishing horse stealing with death.
1t is stated that the colored men in
South Carolina, as in other portions Of the
South, will by no means vote as unit
Governor Worth, of North Carolina. and
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, are in
Char lesion, in conference with General
Sickles.
= A New York company is preparing to
bring from Rockbrdge county, Va, 500 bar
rels per month of white sand, to be used in
making fine glass.
Jefferson Davis has confded to jenkins
that he is writing his autobiography for pos
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