The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-01
SOUTHERN NEWS

!no wheat crop OF NlTSinia Pgonisc
to be fine one.
1t is stated that the st. Louis Lindel
enterprise is dead.
Brass bands in Louisville serenad
those who "fght the tiger"
Nashville expects to make seventy
five millions of brick this year.
An infant in Richmond with a deel
blue eye and the other positive blacl
one attracts great attention.
Congressman Nye and Kelly have
been invited to visit New Orleans dur
ing their Southern tour.
A rumor is prevalent in Kentucky
that General Rousseau is to be appoint
ed Military Governor of that State.
A fire occurred in Charleston, S. c..
recently, among the auction and com
mission warehouses. Loss Sl5O,000.
General Sickles Saturday halted q
fremen's procession and compelled it to
obtain an American flag and honor it.
General Schofeld has given the Rich,
mond Times newspaper warning. He
says its course cannot be tolerated.
The members of the Tonkawa tribe
of Indians in Texas feed upon roast or
boiled Camanche whenever they can
get one. ."
A negro woman is living in Memphis
who remembers seeing Washington in
his cocked-hat, knee buckles, short
pants and blue coat.
An unusual area is being planted in
corn in Upper Georgia, and it is not an
unusual thing to see white women
dropping seed and hoeing in the fields.
Gen. Schofeld is about to settle the
street car difficulty in Richmond by
compelling the company to run extra
cars for the accommodation of the ne
groes.
A Georgia paper says the South is just
now "a field in which an Astor might
play the part of Macanos, and Imake
his name immortal" But Astor is no
such man.
The citizens of Savannah and Atlanta,
Ga, have lately held meetings con-
demning the course of Governor Jen-
kins, and their old leaders, and express
ing q desire to abide by the legislation
of Congress, and carry it out in good
faith.
General II. NJ. Saunders died in Ra-
leigh, North Carolina, last Sunday, aged
seventy-siX. In 1876 he was appointed
Minister to Spain, and remained in that
position until the end of President
Polk's administration.
&c. Clewell, a Captain in the rebel
army during the war, killed negro on
his plantation near Holly Springs, Mis-
sippl, some time ago. Fearing arrest
by the military authorities, he went to
st. Louis, where, on Tuesday night
last, he put an end to his life by taking
morphine.
A number of Northern capitalists
have been induced to visit this locality
for the purpose of erecting saw mills
for getting out ship timbers. They are
at present in the vicinity of the Dismal
Swamp prospecting for site, and,
should they find one to suit their pur-
poses, will invest immediately.-.Nor-
fox Tryinidn.
There is open war between the Meth
Ddist Churches, North and South, in
Blount County, Tennessee. Rev. Mr..
Haynes, of the Southern connection,
was driven out of Marysville last Sun
day, and another congregation of the
same church, in that neighborhood, was
dispersed on the same day, by the "Loy-
al League"
The Lynchburg Trginian says Of Sem
ator Wilson: "He will probably be
here in day or two, and we hope that
he will tell the brethren what he told
rs in February, 1861. while seated
upon a sofa in the United States Senate,
to wit /: that If no common ground OF
can be found, am in favor
IF peaceable separation of the sec
tons and against war under any cir
In st. Louis, on Friday, A. Z. Parker,
who has been advertising himself all
over the West as "Sole agent of the Uni
versal Family Knitting Machine" was
arrested. He had been receiving i'm
mensc numbers of letters, many of them
money for machines, which,
of course, we're never sent to the pur-
chasers, for the very good reason that
no such machine rs that advertised by
Parker was ever made. He does not
deny his swindling operations, but says
he was forced into the business for want
Of something better to do.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, address
ed large crowd of citizens at the court
house in Augusta on Saturday evening.
He took the same ground as in his At
lanta and Savannah speeches, and ad-
vised the people to accept the terms of
Congress, as being the best and only
hope of Southern restoration. He said
persistent opposition would exasperate
the Northern people, and may lead to
while, on the other hand,
a speedy acceptance of the terms offer
ed will lead to speedy restoration. The
address was received favorably.
A queer complication of affairs exists
in the First Arkansas Revenue District.
The Collector suddenly disappeared
some weeks ago. The Dep artment
made investigation of his Office and
found much money missing. Officers
were put Oh his track. He was traced
to Memphis and thence to New Orleans,
where he was arrested. At Washington
a new man was nominated and confirm
ed for the place. 1t turns out that lie
went To New Orleans to convert some
funds he had received in payment of
taxes. which he could not satisfactorily
at Memphis, and all the miss
inc money was safely deposited on In
Gle Sans account at New Orleans. The
Treasury Department is doing what it
can to make the suspected Collector
all right again.