The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-06
SOUTHERN NEWS

A constant stream of new comers are
met on every route leading into Texas
The Alabama Court of Appeals has
decided that contract is not invalid
for the want Of q stamp, '''
Large preparations for shad fishing
are being made in the waters adjacent
Almost every steamer at New, Orleans
brings two or three hundred emigrants,
bound to Texas.
The railroad bridgeat Columbus, Tex
as, on the Colorado, rs being pushed for
ward as fast us the work can be done.
A cotton factory of one thousand spin
dies and twenty-five, looms is soon TO be
started at Independence, Washington
county, Texas. ..a.'.... ..,. .si,...-
The Msmphiss Appeal newspaper has
been purchased by John Hogan, of st.
Louis, and others. 1t will be edited by
Geuersl Albert Pike.E'raTlA
The Hopkins plantation, Hounas Par
ish, Louisiana, containing 5000 acres,
was sold by the United States Marshal
q week ago, for $25s s0O0.n The samesplace
sold, before the, war;, with pegrocs and
stock, for $4,000.
The Alabama House of Representa-
tiyes have passed a bill to establish a
system of public schools for blacks and
whites alike, except that the schools for
each shall he separate in each school
district.
General Tillson, the head of the Bu-
reau in Georgia, has thrown up all his
commissions and bought Sea Island
cotton plantation in Bryan county,
where he will devote himself to the
cultivation of the soil.
A negro man near Vicksburg, Miss,
last Saturday threw an old bOmbshell
into the FIRE to see if the powder in it
was still good. He ascertained that it
was. He is now in q critical condition,
minus an arm and half his face. T-.
The Houston Journal says: "You can
scarcely get along Though our streets,
for goods, boxes, barrels. &c, Every
where we 90 we hear the cry Of more
brick and mortar The streets are full
of people: where they come from, or
where they are going, we have not the
time to inquire .-,.,.E,...,..,
I Mr.. G. w. Garmany, Of Savannah, is
authorized to announce to the people of
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina,
that the Emigration Agencies of New
York will furnish emigrants (male) who
will contract and work at ten dollars
per month.
The Legislature of Alabama has
created new county out of Green,
Perry and Marengo. 1t is named Hale,
in honor of Col. Stephen F. Hale, of
Eutaw, a Kentnckian by birth, who
was killed ut the head of his regiment,
the Eleventh Alabama, in the battle of
Gaines Mill, in June, lS6s. : i p
The tendency of the Southern popu=
lation toward the cities since the war
is as manifest in Virginia as, elsewhere.
To Judge by the number of "recommenfI
dationsr we notice in the Virginia pa
pers, large part of the population are
looking forward TO pleasant quarters
in the executive mansion ut Richmond.
A memorial has been presented to the
Senate from Senior de Palma, Vice Con-
sui at Savannah daring the rebellion,
claiming remuneration for property TAX
en- by Sherman's army. He had remov-
ed his family to Wynnsboro, South Car
olina, where, as he alleged, they were
plundered of 5000 in gold, and dia'
monds, jewelry and wearing apparel, to
the total of $32 ,474. He complains that
bis application for redress failed to re;
ceive proper consideration at the State
Department. i.l
The Raleigh N. CO. Sentinel says the
measures of popular relief, passed by
the North Carolina Legislature, have
proved ineffectuM. The Stasisel re-
marks:
From all parts of the States We learn
that, under the Stay law of the Con-
vention, creditors are putting their
claims in suit. In some counties there
are from 500 to LOCO writs returnable
to the next terms. Wherever there is
the remotest prospect Of making good q
debt, creditors are suing. The conse,
auence is general uneasiness and alarm
prevails among the debtor class.
At a semi-religious meeting of COL
ored folk in Richmond, Va, on Sunday
last, q young colored brother got up
and charged female of the congrega-
ton With abstracting five dollars from
tie treasury for the purpose of remu-
usr.ting Hunnicutt for his services as
EDITOR of the late. Nas ..Eation, where
unon ,be put her hand in her bosom,
drsw ont q pistol, and threatened 70
make daylight shine through the
nnnno man in less than two min
utes. The affair created o great sensa-
tion, and the congregation scattered ~
different directions in quite 9 nurrisd
manner. gl,-.ti -ryV ~
Nearly 900 tons Of ice have. been
gathered by the companies in Phsisdet:
phia.