The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-15
SOUTHERN NEWS.

cost about FIVE million dollars.
During tho month Of May there were
1865 arrests made In New Orleans.
Mrs. H. B. Stowe has turned orange
woman. She has some 800 acres plant
ed in Florida. III. '...
Nearly all the battle-ields around
Richmond are now sown withgrain.
The surplus of the wheat harvest in
Georgia, it is estimated, will reach TO-.
600, 900 bushels.
The suffering at the South is believed
to be as great now as at any time dur
ing the past three months. I-FlEf
| A correspondent of the Mobile Times
describes Memphis as great city set
upon hill-in a mud hole.
Impeachment fails in Washington,
but is rampant in Missouri and Ten
nessee, where it aims no higher than
the judicial bench. AGst1&s.&J Is =
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars were received as revenue on tobacco
in the Richmond (Va.) district last
month.
The inhabitants of Washington coun-
ty, Texas, are uniting in urging recon-
struction under the laws of Congress.
At Democratic Convention of Car
roll and Trimble counties, KY, Tues
day, Jesse D. Bright was nominated as
n candidate for the Legislature.
A traveller in Georgia saw five hum
dred famishins women, many with
babies at their breasts, seeking bread a1d
clothing at one station near Dallas.
1t is reported that General Sheridan
will soon issue an order for the protec-
tion of all parties in the coming cam
paign, and proposing day of thanks
giving and praise.
Southern papers point to the six high
est graduates at West Point as a proof
that, although they were roughly
handled in the war, their brains are not
knocked out.
The freedmen in Arkansas are said to
have eclipsed the army of Flanders
when they first learned that they had
to pay tax of three cents per pound
on their part of the cotton crop.
The report of General Gillem, Super
intendent of Freedmen, in Mississippi,
has been received by General Howard.
He states that the freedmen generally
are doing we'll, and the whites are dis
posed to treat them fairly.
A Mississippi planter says that belt
of oats, ten feet in width, around q cot
ton field, will protect the cotton from
the worm. If true, it is pity this in-
formation had not been sooner commu-
nicated to the public.
A AcompIaint made by freedmen against
q member of the Registration Board in
Richmond, that he was favoring Con-
federetes has been Investigated by Gen.
eral SchOfeld and found to be not true.
A private letter from Franklinton, in
Louisiana, says man named Creal, o
notorious character from Mississippi,
killed the other day his daughter with
pine knot, because she refused to work
in the field. At last accounts the muir
derer had not been arrested, though
hotly pursued.
One of General Pope's new appointees
of the Mobile Board of Aldermen de-
clines to sit, saying that he was legally
elected in December and removed with
out cause, and that his acceptance
would be q reflection on the other mem
bsrs who were removed on equally
causeless grounds.
A young man named Greenwood and
his two sisters were drowned in White
county, Ark, a few miles above Des
Arc, few days ago. 1t appears they
had taken a boat and gone into the
creek to cut small cypress sapling,
| which fell upon the boat, upsetting and
drowning them before relief could be
had.
The crops on the northern and west
ern frontiers of Texas, with the excep-
ton of the wheat crop, are unusually
promising. Those regions are liable to
drought; but the abundant rains Of the
present season, which have injured the
low lands, have been just the thing tor
the high and rolling lands OF the upper
counties. -..r -
A friendly the name of Elisha Walk
or, and who lives on White river, Ark,
below Village creek, outraged his own
step-daughter last Monday week. Walk
or is only twenty-three years old, and
| is said to have three wives. He has lied
from Justice, but it is hoped that the
strong arm of the law will deal heavy
blow upon his guilty head.
The immense herds of cattle that now
roam at will through the wilds of Flor
ida and Georgia are proving serious
inconvenience to the railroad trains.
Scarcely train runs at night without
more or less destruction of stock, and
not unfrequently half a dozen at time
1 are hurled from the track and de-
stroyed. ~ ..-...... -.-.
/ Colored women with pickaninnies do
a thriving business in Mobile by lend
ing out their infants to such of the freed
men as may be brought befor. the
Mayors Court. 1t is reported as q fact
that colored woman with child in
lher arms receives no punishment for
the most disorderly conduct Mt the
hands of the soft-hearted Mayer. .a
A Northern historian has written q
book giving full account of a speech
made By Jefferson Davis at the Nash
Vile Disuuion Convention, how 1t was
received, etc. 1t is fact that Mr.. Da-
Wis was not q member of that Conyen-
tion. and during its session was quietly
attending to his official duties at Wash.
ington, and yet that historian is one OF
the most truthful Radicals in the coun-
try.
The West Tennessee Whig says: A
party of gentlemen in digging ditch,
in Hatchic bottom, in this county, a