The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
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Brigadler General Il. w. Ruckpr l..
of the Confederate States Army. was .a ag
raigned on the sixth instant ON NJ o. d.
charge Of treason, before Judge Con9,a4,e
w f. Trigg, of the United States Cir r',e.-
and District Courts, at Memphis. Pj BIZ,
entered: Parole. The Court ruled ia la
there are no longer any paroled n me-
oners since the late proclamation ~ ~
President Johnson, and the cases :" "
treason went to the civil authorite9o,
Gen. Rucker was held in q bond Of taa
thousand dollars to appear at the New,
term ofthe Court.
We have had the Rinderpest H.
"IIinderpest," the Trichina, and seye s5g
other frightful diseases among the hrns'al
creation; but the most destructive T.
them all is the "IIenpest," Which ba ~
just broken out at Elliott's Mills. W.
where over two hundred hens are saiGss'
have persisted in the short space Of fwo
days. WV
Philip i{eeder, a planter OF Laudefdalo
county, Tennessee, while returning to6is
home With an OK team, last week, Vas
murdered by two of his negroes. Who
broke his skull in with an axe and tban
threw his body into a creek, after whieb
they ran the oxen and wagon over fin
bridge, to make it appear that his deatb
was accidental.
It is in contemplation by the citizen.
of Alabama to erect a monument in
memory of the soldiers of that State who
died during the late war. 1t is to ha
erected on Capitol square, in Mont.
gomery, and in point of finish and de.
sign it will be a like an honor to thp
dead and living heroes of the war.
Mr.. \. Pardee of Hazelton, Pa, has
given fifty thousand dollars to the FEM.
an fund, and pledged himself as soon as
hostilities between the Fcnians and Enc
land would commence he would increase
the sum to one hundred thousand del.
lars.
Elias J. BegalIe, near Natchez was
taken from his house one night last week.
by negro soldiers, carried into the woods
and horribly murdered. His body was
not found for several days. Nine negroes
are under arrest.
The Crawford County Bank, the Oil
and the Lawrence County Bank ofPeAn-
sylvania have all failed, owing, it issaid,
to the suspension Of the banking house
1t is reported that Mrs. Jeff. Davisand
Gen. Dick Taylor have received permits
sion to visit Fortress Monroe, and that
movements on foot to obtain the release
or early hearing of Mr.. Davis under
writ of ha6eas corpus.
The President on Tuesday signed an
order granting pardons to thirteen
Louisianians, one South Carolinian and
one Alabamian-aIl under the twenty
thousand dollar clause.
Mr.. Melvin Of East Cambridge, Mass,
was set upon by three men, garroted and
robbed of four hundred dollars, Satur
day evening last, while returning to his
home from Charlestown.
A detachment of United States regi-
ment arrived at Macon, Ga, on the sixth
instant, to take the place ofnegro troops,
which are to be sent to Fort Pulaski at
once.
Thetrial of James w. Duncan, before
the military commission at Savannah,
has been postponed for the present, on
account of the absence of witnesses.
Mr.. George Peabody, the celebrated
London banker, is expected to arrive IN
this country during the present month.
Honorable A. M. Clayton of Marshall,
Mississippi, succeeds to the Bench made
vacant by the death of Judge Trotter.
Gen. d. II. Hill, of the late Confeder-
ate army, is about to start a magazineto
be called, ''The Land We Love-"
The whole duty of man is frequently
only to please himself.