The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-04-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Five hundred emigrants are expected
at New York from Mobile, bound to
Para, Brazil.
The Chamber of Commerce of st.
Paul. Mimi, has donated 81 900 for the
destitute Of the South.
man named Reeves has been ar
rested in Warren, Iowa, charged with
choking his child, babe, to death,
few days since.
Many raids are being made upon the
saloons in Des Moines, Iowa, and the
streets fairly run with the liquor poured
into them.
A. II. Felter, the wife murderer in
Tampa county. Iowa, has been sentenced
to the Penitentiary for life.
4 tobacco warehouse in the First Ave
nue., New York, has baen seized for
alleged fraudulent returns to the In
ternal Revenue officers.
Negroes are saduced from New Orleans
to New York on promise of good wages.
They work their passage, and, on ar
irving, are left on the dock to starve.
Advices have been received that the
Nova Scotia Parliament has endorsed
the action of the Confederate delegates
BY a large majority.
The Grecian Government has asked
the leading powers of Europe to inter-
vene for the prevention of further blood
shed in Gambia.
4 swindler succeeded in victimizing
the New York Custom-house on the
30th ult., to the amount OF 81 800, by
forged pay rolls of the clerks. The
Government is the loser.
All the North German Parliament
amendments to draft Constitution pro-
viding for freedom to the press, and the
righ, OF public meetings, were rejected
on the Dist.
John Till killed his brother Henry on
Saturday, 30th ult., near New Castle,
Delaware, during a quarrel about to-
bacco. Till was arrested and lodged in
jail.
Three hundred and fifty Texan emf
grants. bound for Brazil, to remain in
New York city till the 22d of April, are
entirely destitute. An appeal has been
made for their relief
The Inauguration Of the Clay monu-
ment Il, Louisville, will not take place
Ill tItlut tbc Vi 4hdy ONllS W
tln. non arrival of the pedestal from
New York. No formal invitations have
as ve. been extended.
At San Francisco, in the suit Of the
United States against three hundred
ana eiNty-seven cases of wine. Maury
claimant Judge Hoffman, on Wednes-
dav. entered a decree eonfseating the
wine for undervaluation.
A dispatch from Rome dated the 28th
ult.. says that a proclamation had been
Issued at Frasmore, Offering reward
of Geo scudi for the capture of every
brioand. dead or alive, and 200 scudi
for the capture of every chief of band.
Bntra,o are said to be more plentiful
along the North Platte this season than
for many wears previous. Their presence
so far north is attributed to a scarcity of
grass. ana to Indians hunting and dri-
wing them up from the South.
The accounts from Montana continue
to he most encouraging. A dispatch
from there, dated February %, to the
st.l.ouis and Montana Mining Company,
save the Company may expect three
tons Of silver by the first boat down.
A letter from Georgia says that many
people In Northern Georgia have no
bread and nothing to buy it with. Deal
err. in corn and bacon will not sell eX-
cept for cash. In one family near Dal
ton four children died Of starvation in
February, and it is believed that others
died from the same cause.
It T. announced thst King George OF
Greece. ia SOON to marry the niece Of
Queen Victoria.
The coronation OF Francis Joseph,
Emperor 81 Austria, as King OF Hun
gary. will take place 1t the Capitol in
JGiy next.
Rnnker Hill Baptist Church in Charles
town. Mass, WAS set on fire on Tuesday
morning. 2sth ult., and partially de-
stroytss.
Robert l.. Walpole, a prominent law.
yer and resident Of Indianapolis, died
in that city on Tuesday morning, o6th
ult.
The house carpenters Of New York
city have given notice Of their intention
to demand Z. y day.
4 negro recently refused to take the
oath az postmaster at Forest Depot, Vir-
ginia. because he "sympathized" with
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