The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-24
southern Items.

In Nashville the mayor gives no charity orders,
but all who want food obtain II at the soup house.
ST. Louis paper remarks: Major Millinger,
OF Pennsylvania, tried three years OF existence
under Brownlow, in Tennessee, but finally sue
cumbed, and last week blew out what brains the
constant contemplation Of Brownlow had len
him.
perfect mania seems to exist among the ne
groes in shelbyville. Tennessee, TO go 10 house
keeping. Women with several children are re-
fusipp 10 hire either themselves or their children,
and are firmly convinced Of the importance of
The Richmond Wing says that General Meade,
in letter recommending Professor Ewell's appeal
in behalf of william and Mary College, writes that
he il satisfied on examination OF the facts OF the
case that the destruction of the buildings OF that
college by the federal troops, during the war, was
unnecessary and unauthorized, and deplorable
General Meade finds an empty treasury in Geor-
Qia and the public institutions Of the State suffer
ing for money. He therefore considers II probable
that he will have to deprive some Of the State
officials Of q part OF their salary, and pay the
members Of the convention portion Of their per
diem and mileage. II he can get it. The Macon
Telegraph says the matter has already gone
pretty far, but ii Is to be hoped the general con-.
msnding will consider the reasons given by legal
minds against such mode Of payment OF these
Conventions, and be careful about what disposition
is made of the States money, If she ever has any,
w s's- $3.50 treesurvr. There nny some ds5 81
The Charleston Mercury. describing the pro-
ceedngs Of radical convention, says that at one
time several motions were made with view OF
inducing the outside bsrbarians to take of their
hats. One, to the effect that all gentlemen would
remove their hats, and all not gentlemen would
keep them on, had the effect Of moving all the
hats except that Of one white youth, apparently
about nineteen or twenty years Of age, who kept
bis on as much as 10 say: [" IL all these negroes
and Yahoos around me are gentlemen, am not
gentleman"
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeomsn Is Publishing
choice extracts from Gen. Sherman's letters and
reports for the benefit OF its readers. II gives the
following 1" am going into the very bowels Of
the Confederacy and propose to leave a trail that
will be recognized fifty years hence. propose
to destroy Macon, Augusta, Savannah and Charles,
a track Of desolation, as wen as sufficient force
to bold fast all that Is Of permanent value to our
cause"
Alta recent execution sale near Fayetteville,
Tenn, sixteen bales Of good cotton sold at six
cents per pound, and sixty barrels OF corn sold
at eighty cents per barrel, or sixteen cents per
bushel. The corn was gathered and In pens.
The Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer says Mr..
Stevens, of Russell county, Alabama, raised on
ordinary pine land an average Of twentY-six hun
bred pounds in seed cotton from Brazilian seed,
of rich creamy yellow color, very fine fiber and
long staple. Experienced cotton dealers pro-
nounce IL worth twice as much as the ordinary
upland cotton.
A Houston (Texas) paper gives the following
sensible advice TO young men about to visit that
place In search Of business situations: "Stay
away; there are no vacancies here. Stay where
you are; pull of your coat and take hold Of apew.
Stay away from the cities. Times are hard, tits
true they will never be flush unless we al learn
to depend on our own resources, and cork out our
own salvation"
Mrs. Norcross, a sister of Major General Han
cock is In Memphis with her daughter.
A white woman was nearly chopped to pieces
near Norfolk, Va, few days ago, by negro
washerwoman In her employ, for the purposes Of
robbery and murder.
The Georgia planters were so near broken by
last years failure In the cotton crop that they
have become more deliberate In getting laborers.
Many of them are planting wheat and corn in lieu
of lcotton, the army worm and the low prices
having convinced them that 1t Is impossible to get
rich making cotton. while buying Northern corn,
and hiring lazy freedmen. One farmer cleared
$1,000 last year by planting wheat on the same
piece of land on which he cultivated cotton In
1866 and lost $1,000.
Booth left Memphis for Chicago on the 10th.
On the 18th burglar was shot dead, in Mem
phis and man murdered in a saloon.
A Miss Sophie Miles is playing Hamlet at Gal
weston.
A niger member of the North Carolina con.
vention, in a set Speech the other day, denied
that there was a negro on the hoor OF the con-
yention; insisted that the word negro bad no
significance as to color, but could only be used
in reproachful and degrading sense; and he
further declared that no man on that floor knew
where the term negro originated, since IL was not
found in ancient history, either inspired or pro-
fame