The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Great defalcations are reported in
Baltimore. h @
The Louisiana Legislature is intent
upon precipitating conflict with Con-
gress. "
Kentucky makes o vigorous protest
against the intermarriage OF persons
nearly related. "a.
Natchez sends saddle to Paris made
of Mississippi leopard and native rat
tlesnake skins. "
Eighty radical papers in the South
are supported by $500, 900 worth of Gov
ernment advertising.
The women of Missouri ask the Leg
islature to strike the word male from
the constitution of that State. E
We understand the freedmen of this
place have organized temperance soci-
ETY. which embraces large member
ship.-Danpille Register.
The negroes of Lynchburg are hold
ing secret meetings with reference to
the municipal election in that city in
April.
Forty negroes left Norfolk on Thurs
day, on their way to Arkansas. They
were hired at sls per month, rations
and travelling expenses, to cultivate cot
ton. - a.
A Baton Rouge (La.) paper says the
colored troops who have been paid and
mustered out at that post show no in
clination to re-enlist. Even the bounty,
$500, does not tempt them.
There is great suffering in the neigh
borhood of Yorktown in consequence of
the surplus of negro population. Or
ders have been issued to disperse them
and force sent to execute the orders.
A delegation from South Carolina
has already arrived in Washington to
confer with the President in regard to
the appointment of the Military Gov
ernor for the Second District under the
reconstruction bill.
Virginia will never enter the Union
by reason of any action of the present
Legislature under provisions Of the
Sherman bill.
One of the counts in the impeachment
of Andrew johnson will be the illegal
execution of Mrs. Surratt-Petersbnrg
Inder.
The Petersburg Express, in view of
the fact that the negroes viii have to
be allowed to vote in the approaching
municipal elections there, proposes that
separate polls be opened for their votes,
so as to avoid confusion and possible
occasion for disturbance.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph men
tions the seizure of an immense amount
of whisky at rectifying establishment
near there. Several one thousand gal
lon watts of fermenting whisky were
found. The property was Immediately
turned over to the government officials.
A fire occurred at Nashville, Tenn, on
Sunday, burning Trcschler's manufac-
tory of mineral water, which, with its
contents and three adjoining houses, was
destroyed. The German Methodist
church was also badly damaged. Loss
about $4,000.
The shortly .to-be-enfranchisei cullud
pusson, who puts ink on our type, don't
give over to rejoicing at the prospect of
confiscation aud the partitioning of the
lands among the freedmen. He says,
"what want VII lan'i Don't want to
work no lam. Gwine t git me some
wurms an 90 fishin'. And that is pre-
cisely what Horace Greeley says he
wants to do.-Danrille Register.
A BLACK Duck EGG.-Not an egg
from O black duck, but black egg
from a duck. Mr.. James o. Harris has
left at our Office perfectly black egg
laid by a duck. He states that last
year his ducks laid in the beginning OF
the season o number of black eggs, and
that gradually they laid lighter eggs,
until they became o pale blue. Mr..
Harris asks of us the explanation OF
this. 1t seems to US that the ducks
have niger on the brain.-Chdriotts-
rifle Chronicle.
C.L. Harris, and other "loyal Union
members of the North Carolina Legisla-
ture," have issued proclamation that
the people of the State promptly accept
the military bill, and have named one
hundred and forty "loyap citizens from
the different counties of the State, who
are requested to meet in convention at
Raleigh, on the 9th instant, "to mature
a plan to call Convention to frame a
Constitution" Holden says this is re-
construction.
A dispatch received in Petersburg,
Va, on Monday, announced the arrival
of Rev. Geo. T. Williams at Annapolis,
Nd, in condition of hopeless insanity.
The Petersburg Inder states that this
result has been apprehended by his
friends for some time, but they have de-
termined not to enter the plea of insan-
ity at his trial in New York, on the
charge Of picking lady's pocket in a
Broadway stage, but to rest the case,
as before, solely on its merits.
The San Antonio Herald publishes ad-
vertisements for two hundred cavalry
horses. The New Orleans Picoyune is
glad to chronicle the fact for three rea-
sons: "First, it gives the Western Tex
ans q chance to sell their surplus horses;
second, we know that the half and three
quarter blood horses raised on grass in
Texas, tough and wiry, are in every
way suited for campaigning beyond the
reach of fodder stacks and corn cribs;
and third, because it gives us some as
suranee that General Sheridan is pre-
pairing for an onslaught among the muir
derous fiends who have SO long preyed
upon the exposed Texan frontier
MethsAist Conference Appointments.