The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-22
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III Is stated that General Scott endorse,
the PRESIDENTS speech of ebruarv 22d
captain Raphael Semms. late of tho
Shenandoah, has been released by order
of the President.
lhe steamer Lock wood has been burn.
ed near Memphis, and twenty-five lives
are reported to be lost
:. The War Department has ordered the
iineratlon Of all Soldiers imprisoned at
Washington on the charge Of desertion.
One hundred clerks will probalv be
discharged from the Treasury Depart
ment within few weeks.
1t is stated that the special Treasury
agents il the South will soon be with
drawn and their operations terminated.
The Treasury Department has ordered
its agents in the South to begin the sales
of confscated cotton.
Unitarian Clergyman of Providence, r.
l., died on Saturday.
The bill to prevent the importation of
the rinderpest has been signed by the
President.
The issue Of five-cent currency, bear
ing S. NJ. Clark's portrait, is to be recall
ed and destroyed.
Orders have been issued to the army
department commanders to vacate all
rented buildings as speedily as possible.
Brigadier General Fullerton, late of
the Freedmen's Bureau, has been apoin-
ted Private Secretary to the President.
The gold bearing quartz near the Great
Falls of thePotomac, above Washington,
is beginning to attract attention.
The wheat crop inNirginia is very un-
promising. Sugar crops promise better
in Louisiana this year.
A thorough cleaning of every house in
Orleans has been ordered by the Mayor
in anticipation of the cholera.
A cotton factory at Macon, Georgia, is
in full blast, turning out ninety-siX thou
sand yards of sheeting per month.
The Charleston, South Carolina, pa
pers record active industry and enter
prise in the State.
The Captain General of Cuba has been
ordered by the Spanish Government to
send 5000 troops to join the Pacific Squad
ron.
Two of the men who robbed the L. S.
Express messenger at st. Louis, two
weeks since, have been arrested, and
over $4,000 Of the money recovered.
General Terry has ordered all news
paper publishers in Virginia to mail a
copy of each paper to his headquarters on
the day of publication.
The commanders of our revenue cut
tiers have been directed to warn Peruvian
or Spanish privateers against entering
United States ports with prizes.
The Virginia Legislature has appoint
ed Commissioners to proceed to West
Virginia to negotiate for a reunion of
the two States.
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has
ordered an election for twenty Represen-
latives to the State Legislature, to fill
caused by designations.
The Charleston Courier says that there
is not the least cause for apprehension
about the crops either in Georgia or
n orth Carolina.
1t is estimated that the Gee court mar
ial at Raleigh, North Carolina, will
cost the Government at least 100000 be-
ore it is at an end.
Work will soon be commenced on the
southern Pacific Railroad. The line will
De 500 miles in length. 1t has grants
to 100000 acres.
The Postmaster General has ordered
petroleum to be used instead of gas, in
n the Post-otfice at Washington. 1t is
hought that several hundred dollars
will be saved monthly by the change.
The Chinese laborers on the Chincha
Stands recently attempted to murder
heir overseers. They were subdued at !
er twenty six Of them had been killed :;
md wounded.
a circular from Archbishop McClos-
sey, against Fenianism was read in the .
'atholc churches in New York, on Sun
lay. The circular especially denounees
he Jones Wood demonstration
Three robbers were found dead in ,
rug store, in Charleston, $. c. on the {
3D. ult. They had eaten some poisoned
God which had been placed in q conve-
lent position in the store.