The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-02

himself, with complete success.
The boys academy at Washington,
Rhea county, Tennessee, was entirely
destroyed by fire last week. Eighty
three students had their course sudden
ly terminated.
A broom factory is about to be erect
ed in Corinth, Mississippi. The Netos, of
that town, "sees no reason why the
South should not make its own brooms
as well as the North"
There died in the county poorhOuse,
at Nashville, lately, woman who was
once the wife of Ned Buntline, and af-
forwards mistress of the Texan ranger,
Ben McCulloch.
General Schofeld, in an official report
explaining the appointment of dele
gates to the Convention, says the ap-
portionment actually made, gives forty
seven delegates from election districts
having white majorities, and tifty-eight
from districts having colored majori-
ties.
Returns from all the counties in the
State of Virginia, except two, have been
received at the military headquarters in
Redmond. The total vote polled is
164, 1913; of this vote l0i,259 were for a
convention, and $3.50 against it; the
majority for convention being 50, 100;
. al g. he
and 629 against it; $4,000 whites voted
for and 81, ,033 against a convention.
A Washington special says that sew
eral prominent Southerners have re-
Gently expressed to the President their
conviction that general outbreak
among the negroes is imminent. They
say that nearly every negro man in the
South is we'll armed, while the whites
are almost entirely without means of
defence. The gentlemen strongly urge
upon The President an increase in the
military force now distributed through
that section.
NEGRO SHoT.-On Saturday night, Mr..
Abner Haden, who lives in Amherst, a
few miles from the city, ascertaiDed
that some one was trespassing on his
orchard. He went out with his gun,
and, discovering the poacher up an ap-
pie tree, fired at him. The shot had the
effect of bringing him down precipitatc.
ly, with loud cries of pain. On gaining
his feet he quickly fled. From the gen.
eral outline and appearance, Mr.. Haden
is confident he was negrc.-LyRchbWg
TirgiRidH.
One of the workmen on the tin roof of
the State House at Columbia, S. c., on
Tuesday, commenced slipping near the
summit, and finally attained a great
speed, glided toward death and the edge
of the lofty caves with fearful velocity.
1t so happened, however, that he heldin
his hand hatchet, and, with admirable
presence of mind, he drove it with all
his might through the tin and into the
wood, and thus was enabled to hold on
until he could be released from his fright
full position.
The Memphis 4rdlanche says: "In for
nation has reached us that Mr.. r. c.
Brinkley, President of the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad, short time ago
accepted a proposition of fNorthern capi-
talists to complete the road from St.
Francis river to DuvalPs Bluff (fGrty
six miles) by January next, for $1,5O0-
900, taking mortgage on the stock for
security; that this proposition has been
voted down by the directors (Col. Sam
Tate being absent and that Mr.. Brink
lev will in dne time submit the same
proposition to the stockholders.
We append a sample of the interest
ing letters now being sent by Hunni-
cut and his negro adherents to promi-
nent Richmond citizens. Says the En-
quirer of Wednesday:
Mr.. D. j. Mccormick, of the firm of
Mccormick & Kelley, on 20th street,
between Main and Cary, received the
following letter yesterday, ordering
him 10 leave the city on pain Of death :
RICHMOND, Va, October 25, 1867.
Mr.. MeC0rmick-We the undersigned
acting on impulse of honesty & the
feelins of uprite princepels, have taken
this method of warnin you as to the
course you now pursue, so if you don't
stop meddlin in our poliy-tix it will be
worse for yOu as your disgraceful re-
marks at the poles wear noticed by
more than us who swore to have your
life so il ever again is herd maxim any
remarks against the Republican party
OF Mr.. Hunnieutt you will be shot like
a dog & your felthy karkass thrown to
the Crows & Buzzards-so mind & take
warnin & for your better security We
will give yOu a week to leave town 81 if
you are not gone by Monday you may
wake in the morning some time and
find your hole place in fames-so take
heed for if you Cont you will be dealt
with
w.B.D,s. T. H, M A. .Y.s.D. D.
I'D, 8. & many others.