The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-26
VIRGINIA JITEMs.
From the WINCHESTER Times.

- SPNSAeA tSA IL VI lhO NASoAA ,
Judge Richard Parker presiding con-
vened on Monday tohear the arguments
in the Bank of the Valley case, emLra
cling some nice questions of law. n.
HoN. JAS, NJ. MAsoS,-From an ex-
change we learn that our former dis
tinguished townsman, Hon. James NJ.
Mason, arrived in London, CIV, on
Saturday last, and is staying at the Te-
cumseh House for few days. Mr.. Ma
son is engaged visiting some of the
principal towns and cities in Canada,
with a view Of ascertaining their re-
spective capacities for manufacturing
aud other purposes, and reporting the
same to southernors of capital who de-
sire to locate in the Dominion.
SHOOTING AFFAIR IN BERRYvGLLE.-
A man named Stahl was arrested in Ber-
ryville few days since, charged with
shooting one Richmond. s., it is said,
was drunk and very abusive to his fam
! lily, and Richmond interfering to quiet
affairs, was treated to load from car
bine, which passed close to the shoulder
blade, causing flesh wound. The par
ties to the affair are Union men, " So
called" .
HORSES DEowNED.-An old gentle
man named Cooper, residing five miles
ont on the Pughtown road, attempted to
cross the Opequon at Spout Springs,
with two horse team, ON Thursday af
ternoon, despite the swollen condition
of that stream. The result was that the
team, as we'll as the driver, was washed
rapidly down. Help being near, Mr..
Cooper was with difficulty rescued, but
the horses were drowned. Mr.. Cooper
is a poor man, these horses constituting
his sole dependence in conducting his
agricultural operations.
ANOTHER DECIsIoN.-The Board of
Registration for Loudon county, at its
second session, determined that under
the last order of General Schofield,
common councilmen como under the
disfranchised class, and struck of some
twelve or fifteen names previously reg
istered, who had held that distinguish
ed post. An appeal was made 10 the
Commanding General, which resulted
in the reversal of the action of the
Board; so that neither common council
men nor deputy clerks are DISTINGUISHED
So SAYS THE KING We have hereto
fore noticed the issuance of "Starva-
ton orders, No. 81" The ration draw
ers of the Freedmen's Bureau are empty,
and the national cupboard is to yield
no more free grub to the niggers. Ga
the Goth Of August the order went into
effect, and since that date the care and
support of the poor black As well as
white, has been devolved upon the
State and the civil authorities of ths
cities, towns and counties thereof; and
all the alms-houses, poOr-houscS and
other retrea's for the necessitOus are 10
throw wide tie doors of welcome to the
thousands of pauper negroes, who new
ertheless have registered, and will vote
against the State and the institutions
that shelter, feed aud clothe them. Thus
SAYS general orders number fifty-One,
by Major General Schofield, signed and
done.
MINERALs.-We have seen several
specimens of rock from the western
base of the Blue Ridge, near Castleman's
Ferry, containing galena in mass, with
carbonate of copper. They were taken
from bluff Of sandstone rock one hun
dred feet in length, within one hundred
wards of the Shenandoah river. The
rock when broken exhibits i'll every
part of this bluff the same mineral char
acter. Accompanying the minerals above
named, hematite iron ore and barytes
are abundantly interspersed. If it
should be found upon further examina-
tion that the workinglwill prove profit
table, the vicinity of the river will
as a imeans of transportation add
greatly to the value Of the mines. These
ores are found upon the farms of DIR.
Raleigh T. Colston, General Thomas T.
Fauntleroy and Champ Shepherd, Esq.
THE MANASSAS Gar K. R.-The con-
tract for building this road from the
present terminus of the track, at Pied
mont, in Fauquier county, twenty
seven miles from its junction with the
Grange and Alexandria Railroad, to
Mount Jackson, distance of fifty-one
miles, has been awarded to MeSsrs. Pla
eide & Clark, Of Baltimore, and the
work will be commenced mt ence. On
portion Of the line, from Strasburg to
Timberville, "a short distance beyond
Mount Jackson To which point the
road was constructed prior 10 the break
ing out of the war, the rails are laid,
never having been disturbed since put
down, and thus necessitating only the
reconst1 uctiol Of the bridges and read
justirg tn the prosecution of the work,
the whole of which is expected to be fin
ished by the first of next January, the
necessary iron having been purchased,
and ready for laying the track as fast as
needed.
From the Fincastle Herald
DR.. Brown. n mulatto from Baltimore,
delivered a speech in from: Of the Court
House, on Monday the 18th inst, 10
mixed crowd of whites and blacks. His
advice tot the negroes on the ouestion of