The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-12-10
SOUTH

Southwestern Georgia is overrun by
agents seeking negro laborers, to work in the
cotton fields Of Arkansas and other sections. |
The steamboat Sabine, from Shreye-
port for New Orleans with a cargo OF cotton
and lot OF sugar, struck snag at Creole
Bend, last week. and sunk in twenty feet wa
tor The boat will probably prove a total loss.
The cotton will be saved in a damaged condi-
ton. The boat was valued at $4,000, and
insured in New Orleans companies.
A fire broke out in the stock stables
of Galloway, at Emnence, KY, last week,
which destroyed twenty-five thousand dollars
worth OF property, including twenty eight
horses, several mules and all the carriages
and other contents Of the stable. Among the
horses was the fine thoroughbred stallion
Gold Chief valued at five thousand dollars,
and owned by Galloway and E!ainard Smith,
OF Chicago, and the thoroughbred stallion
Hambletonan STAR valued at three thousand
dollars
A special to the Courier.Journal says
that three negroes were taken from jail by
band of masked men at Morganield n.y.:
Tuesday night, and hanged to trees, near
town. Uniontown, in the same county, was
visited by destructive fire some weeks since,
and these negroes had been arrested and
charged with starting the conGagration. They
afterwards confessed the crime, giving as an
excuse that the proprietor of the distillery
in which it was started had turned the mother
Of one of the negroes out OF one OF the
houses in which she was living. The "regu-
lators" we're mounted and are thought to have
come from Uniontown.
The Memphis cotton exchange crot
report for November gives the following sum
mary, derived from 1O7 responses from Wes
Tennessee, North mississippi and Arkansas
north Of Arkansas river Sixty-four repor
damaged by frost forty throe no damage
The average damage by frost ID three and one
half per cent The average decrease in acre
age is one and one-half per cent Due excl
tions have been and are being made to ssV
tho crop, The average closing picking seaso
last year was January a. This year 1t WI
close about December 7. The crop is BEN
marketed unprecedentedly fast. The cor
crop of this district is about thirty TWO pc
cent. short of the average of the past tw
seasons. The aggregate OF responses uo'
not indicate any change in the morale
laborers. The prospect is that the entire cro
will la saved in better condition than eV'
known, The committee are OF opinion III
the decrease of the cotton crop III this distr'
from last wear, will be about thirty-hVe p
cent
In the cheap transportation conventic
now on session at Richmond Va, a bill pr
pared by Gen. Duff Greene, of Georgia, pr
yiding for the Inauguration OF scheme
internal improvements to be sustained DS
sv.tem OF banking connected Herewith,
presented and referred. M. i. Lloyd, OF II
uois, presented his views as to the constr'
,ion Of a double track trunk railway by t
government, to secure competition III
transportaton of freghts. Gen. Forbel
Georpia, presented resolution looking to
establishment and maintenance of commerc
intercourse between the states OF the uhl'
to revive the commerce of the nation. !
committee on resolutions presented rep
based upon resolution of Col Johnson
North Carolina, in which they declare IN IA
of asking the government to aid in the c
struction of the Southern Pacific railroad
of the great water lines, such aid to con
to the government the right to control
rates of transportation over such lines, WI
provso that the government guarantees az
shall be 80 guarded as to protect the NATL
treasury from loss. -Four members Oh
committee presented protest against
adoption of the report, and against as
the government to aid in the constructor
railroads.