The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-09
SOUTH ERN AND RECONSTRUCTION
MATTERS.

The weather for the last few weeks
has been very favorable to the sugar
crop of Louisiana. 1t is expected to be
about half larger than last.
The Memphis and Charleston Rail
road Company has paid up all in
debtedness to the Government
amounting to about a half million
dollars.
The Madison (Fla.) Messenger re-
ports the wedding one night recently
in that town, of IA lad of fourteen years
ofage, 10 Il widow who was tke mother
of five children.
The Mobile Tribune has at the head
of its editorial column as "white
mans ticket" the names of Franklin
/ Pierce and George II. Pendleton for
President and Vice-President in 1868.
| The sage at Concord is, next to Vallan-
| digham, the most popular man among
| the rebels at the South.
! CATTLE DISEAsE.--The Vicksburgh
Times says: We regret TO hear that Il
disease, somewhat resembling the blind
staggers, is prevailing amongst the cat
tie in this city and the vicinity. We
understand the animals get sick, stag
! ger like drunken men for awhile, then
| lie down and die.
DISCHARGED NEGRoES--Up to yester-
day, two hundred and twenty-seven
negroes reported at the Office of Capt.
Cook, (Freedmen' Bureau) and had
their names registered as having been
discharged for ''votinS contrary to the
wishes OF their employers. Richmond
Examiner.
A hat
eigth OF the entire negro population in
Lensas Parish, La, has died the pres
ent year, and that the mortality in the
Parish of madison, opposite Vicksburg,
has been frightful.
The Charleston Mercury of Tuesday
says: 1--WE have reason to know that
many letters have been received from
Radical members of Congress to gentle
men in the South, proposing COmprO-
mise. and friendly adjustment of the
negro suffrage matter.
"A leading Conservative paper says:
''The Radical party has for years been
ine6ridted with POWER"
The leader of the Conservative party,
A. Johnson, has been "inebriated"
frequently, but not latterly, with poaO-
er. On Inauguration day he was zine
STs'
KnorUilLe Wig.
If A. johnson is not inebriated with
power, he is often powerfully inebri
| ated.-NdShUiLLe Press.
The Petersburg index is in favor of
| Northern emigration to Virginia. 1t
advocates ga general combination of
landowners throughout the State"
with the view of adopting the Necessary
measures to attract white settlers to
their lands.
In Florida and Louisiana this year
the Orange crop is heavy one. a
Louisiana paper says: awe will soon
see thousands of golden fruit mingled
| with millions of green leaves, on the
grandest and most beautiful of all the
fruit bearing trees in the South"
The recent storms appear to have
driven vast multitudes of wild fowl
southwark. Chesapeak Bay and its
tributary streams are alive with the va
| rious varieties. Canvas back, mallard
black duck, teal and summer ducks
are found in abundance.
THERE are three National railway
bills awaiting the action of Congress.
First-The Galveston, Kansas and Lit
tie Rock Railroad, eight hundred miles
long. Second--A freight thorough fare
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic,
with depots at New York, Philadelphia
and Boston; and, Third-A coal
road from the eastern shore of New
Jersey to the mining regions of Penn
sylvania. There will also be presented
bills for railway from Beaufort, s. G.,
to Raleigh, N. c., and thence to Cum
berland Gap and Wytheville, Va, and
a connection with the Georgia State
road at Atlanta. and thence to Savannah
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