The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-01
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ticket for tho Presidency. ,,lis -45 s. +
+ + A scheme is on foot in the Sonth te
purchase home for JEFF. Davis 70
Fourteen barrels of copper, mined in
Tennessee, is on its way east. -
Governor Jenkins urges the people
Of Georgia to raise corn, and let cotton
alone.
Brownlow's negro militia have ere
ated reign of terror in Bristol, Ten
uessee. ,s,1gszAs s'BLEuJ :
A movement is on foot in Vicksburs
to send negro Congressman from Mis-
sissippi.
Miss Hosmer's statue of Thomas II
Benton is to be erected at Lafayatte
Park, st. Louis.
Three women in Florida who attempt
ed to fill lighted kerosene lamp, now
fill c0ffins.
The Abingdon Tirginidn says that the
wheat crop in that section was never
more promising.
The lumber, turpentine and rosin
trade of Pensacola, Florida, is worth
$4,000, 600 per annuIn.
The Richmond City Council have in
vited the President to visit Richmond
on the way to Raleigh.
A disease known as glanders is pre-
vailing to u very fatal extent among
the mules Of Southwestern Georgia.
A Florida letter says that every acre
Of land at any time cultivated in that
State will be under cultivation this
year. .' A..t
Arrangements have been completed
for the reorganization Of the Agricul-
tural Department of the University Of
Georgia.
There is an unusual activity in the
Gosport ravy yard, caused by the fit
ting out Of the sloops of war Dale and
Savannah.
In some of the Western counties in
North Carolina the "Hessian Fly" has
made his appearance. Notwithstanding
the wheat crop is promising.
AMemphis paper says there are thir-
ty-6ve "pure quacks" In that city, who,
without medical education and having
failed in everything else, concluded to
be doctors.
The last man in Tennessee who sold
negro slave at auction and took pay
ment therefor in Confederate money, is
now one of the Radical candidates for
Congress.
Reports from the West say that thirty
deserters left Fort Hays, Kansas, last
week, FIVE of whom were killed and
scalped by the Indians, near the fort,
on the oath.
The Lynchburg Jirgiaidn says that a
small lot of tobacco was sold him last
Friday which WAS sixteen years old,
being part of the crop of 1851. 1t was
entirely sound and sweet.
Brownlow said he would shed his
blood to preserve slavery. Now he con-
tends that he is the only true friend of
the colored race and has given notice
that if the blacks do not vote for him
they are traitors.
Rev. Julius Degmire was arrested at
Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night,
for embezzling $15, 900 worth of revenue
stamps. He was formerly connected
with the Internal Revenue office as
clerk.
1t is stated that Governor Brownlow
is projecting navy-in the shape of
two old steamers to be iron-plated-for
service on the Cumberland river, and
thus cooperate with the land forces in
keeping rebels from the polls.
A fight occurred on Tuesday at Dan
vile, Virginia, between the members of
the United States Burial Corps and the
negroes of Danville. Bricks and pistols
were used. The Burial Corps were
driven out of town. Two were wound
ell on each side.
The Petersburg Inder says that the
quantity of produce on the line of the
railroad has increased so
much of late that it has become neces-
sary to run daily freight train. This
is gratifying indication not only for
the interests of the road, but for that of
the merchants and planters also.
The Athens (Ga.) Post states that
great revival of religion in that town
has been in progress for near three
weeks at the Methodist Church by the
united efforts of the Baptist, Cnmber-
land, Presbyterian and Methodist con-
gregations of that place, and that near
seventy persons have been converted.
A letter from New Orleans says that
returns from the registration in Lou
isiana show that but very few white
people are being registered. In st.
Charles parish, for instance, the regis
Lry SHOWS tuc Ddluco VI tuIcc uuuuItu
and forty-fve colored men to six whites,
and in st. Bernard Parish the names Of I
three hundred cOlored men to eighty
whites. D..
A soldier of the garrison at Rome,
Georgia, attempted to outrage a young,
invalid girl of twelve or thirteen years
If age one day last week. He succeed
ID in abducting her three or four hun
lred yards, but fortunately she was
,escued. The fiend was arrested and
slaced in prison by the military, but
n night or two he escaped.
4 company of soldiers, belonging to
he regiment doing duty in this city,
was dispatched by General stoneman to
Danville on Thursday last. 1t is un-
lerstood that the colored men in that
,icinity are engaged in organizing mil
tary companies, and this movement is
Intended to disband those which have
ave been formed, and to prevent the
ormation of others.-PetersbHrg IRdeI.
st. Louis can boast of the finest
rambling houses in the country, and
he worst of them are furnished gor-