The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-07
SOUTHERN NEWS.

six marriages in Richmond In lo6o.
A Memphis merchant complains OF
having been robbed mysteriously OF
$25 900.
1t is proposed on some near day to
give calico ball in Richmond for the
benefit of the poor.
1t is not true, as stated, that General
Grant had ordered all troops away from
Richmond.
The Lynchburg Neus is in favor Of
postponing the election OF q new Cover
nor of Virginia until next fall.
Lieutenant Hoge, of the late confed'
crate navy, who was said to have been
killed in one of the Fenian raids, turned
up in Richmond on Monday.
There is steady stream of emigrants
passing through Alabama to Texas.
One day last week two hundred and
fifty went through Montgomery.
A supposed burglar was shot at, in
Norfolk, Saturday evening, by young
lady from North Carolina, who was
visiting at Mr.. Robert Rhea's house.
The Louisiana papers say they have
"hog-killing" weather down there. We
hope the Congressional Committee Will
not come back packed i'll pork barrel,
1t is now stated that three hundred
people perished by the burning OF the
steamer Fashion on the Lower MissiS-
sippi. They were mainly freedmen Tho
were aboard on holiday excursion.
The ladies of Danville, Charlottesville
and other towns in Virginia, celebrated
the holidays by Christmas trees, sup
pers and such like entertainments, by
which they raised funds for charitable
purposes. rrs-
The colored man committed to jail at
Marlboro, Nd. some weeks since, sup
posed to be Richaros, one of the Lyle
murderers, was not identified, and has
been discharged. He gave his name as
Isaac Gordon, native of Portsmouth,
Virginia.
Mayor Monroe has had prepared, at
the request of the Riot Investigation
committee, list of the regular und su-
pernumerary police on duty on the 3Oth
of July last. The Mayor states that
there were no extra policemen on duty
during tho riot.
Charles w. Poulson, son of Rev. A.
Poulson, of Wilmington, Delaware, Is
reported to have lost his life on the
steamboat Fashion, which was burnt
in the Mississippi river, below st.
Louis. on the 9th ult., when eighty
lives were lost. Mr.. PoulsOn was gen
eral railroad agent for the South.
Forney calls Little "the barbarian
who edits the fredericksburg Ners.'-
Richmond Dispatch.
If Forney is civilized" we prefer to
be a "barbarian." No doubt Benedict
Arnold, the Connecticut "loyalist," Of
ten called George Washington, the Nir-
ginian. q "rebel. .'-AeUs.
So many destitute travellers pass
through Chattanooga, who spend the
night huddled together promiscuously,
without either bedding, fire or food, at
the Union passenger depot, that the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
company proposes in conjunction with
other roads, centering at that point to
erect buildings.
Freeland, the chief marshal of the
negro celebration in Petersburg, on
Tuesday, made speech from which we
extract the following paragraphs, Free
land is a native of Petersburg, out was
ten years ago sold to gentleman, who
took him to Alabama, where he resided
until the close of the war:
"My brethren, we are too apt to look
to Washington and expect to see anoth-
er Moses for our protection, and for jus
tice. instead of to Mayor Collier.
~ love the State of Virginia, and the
first fight / had in Alabama was with
man for speaking against her, and will
support her forever against all odds,
looking to her for compensation
We clip the following from Mont
gomery letter to the Tuscnmbia North
.flabamian The revised code prepared
by Chief Justice A. J. Walker has been
submitted to the Legislature and refer
red to q joint committee of the two
Houses, consisting of Messrs. Barnes,
Lindsay, Stansel and Forney, of the
Senate, and Mckinstry, Whitfield, Good
win, Smith, Lawrence and Worthy, of
the House. The examination will be
very laborious, but the committee will
be assisted by Judge Walker, who will
very greatly facilitate their labors.
Those who have examined the manu-
script pronounce it complete, and amon-
ument to the skill and ability Of Judge
Walker, who has been engaged for sew
eral months almost labOriously in its
1t will make volume
nearly double the size Of the present
code, and win contain all the general
laws which have been enacted to the
close { the present session, and refer
ences to the decisions of the Supreme
Court. The committee will not be able
to report for several weeks.
A letter from Lawrence county, Mis-
sissippi, to the New York Journal Of
Commerce, says: "To- day has been one
of activity in business for our little
town. Not less than three hundred
freedmen and their employers have been
in our place to-day selling cotton,
(about two hundred bales) and making
their final settlements, all of which has
passed off pleasantly and satisfactorily:
not single disagreement to my knowl-
edge has happened, the freedmen wear
ing happy faces, and their wagons load
ed with good things for Christmas, and,
as a general thing, entering into new
contracts for another year, which is be-
ing done almost invariably by giving a
share of the crop, at about the following
o,raau,apt. The a,pn1oyer furnishes fbe l