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Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-12-06
THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

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lfsubscribers order the discontinuance o.
their newspapers, the publisher may continne
to send them until all arrearages are paid.
lfsubscribers neglect or refuse to take their
newspapers from the Office to which they are
directed, they are held responsible until they
nave settled the bills and ordered them discon.
tinued.
If subscribers move TO other places without
informing thepublsher, and the nj ewspapersar are
sent to the former direction, they are held re-
sponsible.
The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers from the Office, or removing,
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facia
evidence ofintentional fraud.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may
~ concern, that the undersigned will make
applicn ton ut the next meeting Of the County
Commissioners to locate road beginning at
the head of Murley's Branch, and leading from
Williams road to Geo. Rohinetts, acrcss Mar
tins NJ Mountain to Moses q. Robine:t's, running
into the county road at that point.
VIM. ROBINFTT,
GEO. ROBINETT,
'-h +. A. JAMISON,
Nov l5--lm@ AMOS WILSON. a.
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An old Dutch acquaintane, some years a.
20 who was elected a member of the -
legislature, said in his broken English style;
Ven vent to de Lechshtaus, thought
would find dem all Solomons dere, but
soon Handldere was some as pick fools as
WAS myself. .. .-sf~'v r 3
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GENUINE FAMILY LIQUORS.
VIM. B, MORBHOUSB& &C.,,
Importers and Wholesale Dealers in

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in
Brandies, Wines, Gins, and Segars,
beg leave to call the attention OF the citizens
of the United States TO their Pure Wines and
Liquors, put up under their own supervision,
for Family and Medicinal use, in cases assorted
10 sut customers. Clubs, Military aud other
public bodies who require to purchase in large
or small quantities, in casks or bottles, will be
literally dealt with. Price list sent on appll-
cation.
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ANOTHER RIcH MAN Curs OFF His
DAUGHTER FOR MARRYING WITHOUT Con-
sENT.-Burtis Skidmore, of New York,
worth nearly a half a million dollars,
recently deceased, left will bcquoath-
ing one hundred dollars to his daughter,
and the remainder of his property to his
son. In 1896 the family Of Mr.. Skid
more consisted of a wife. son and daugh
ter. The daughter. Marian L., was
woed and won by Simon Chamacho, at
that time Venezuelan Consul, and now
Secretary of Legation of Venezuela, un-
der Gen. Paez. Mr.. Skidmore was op.
posed to the match, and the daughter
married without his consent. During
his LIFETIME the parties were not recon
clIed. Mrs. Skidmore, however, who
has since died, relcnted and became
friendly to her daughter, but the hostile
feelings of the father was interchangeable.
The will is to be contested.
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Germs oft9e Gioi(ian e ge(e0rap6.

TWO DOLLARS per annum, strictly in ad-
7ance-S2.5O if not so paid, and S3.OO if not
paid within the year.
Those who expect to receive the CIVILIAN h
FELBGRAPH for S2.oo must pay invariably in
advance.
" Bear in mind that no paper will be dis
'ontinucd until all arrearages are paid.
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A journeman potter, who is good workman
N will end constant employment and good
wages, on application to VIM. Kilmer, New
Greek Station Va, Bait. 4 Ohio Rail Road.
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ment.
Advertisements before Marriages aud Deaths,
10 cents per line FOR first acknowledgements
insertions, cents per line. Nine words are
counted as line in advertising.
Merchants and others, advertising by the
wear. will be charged Sl2 90.
Proceedings OF meetings not of q general
character, charged at cents per line for each
insertion.
Yearly advertisers must confine thciradver-
Using to their own business.
ALI TRANSIENT ADVERTISING, out side he city
ofCumberland, cash 10 advance.
Persons ordering the insertion oflegaladver-
.isemcnts will be held responsible for payment
for the same hen the time for which they were
ordered to be inserted shall have expired
ISsoLvEsT NoTIcEs, cash in advance.
PATENT MEpIoISEs one halfin advance and
the balance in six months.
ALL Jon WORK, cash.
The losses we have sustained compel us to
adopt this course. Ii will be strictly adhered
to in al cases, and no advertisement from n
distance will be inserted unless accompanied
by the cash..
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l. The election of Mr. Jefferson as Pres
idcnt, in the year 1900, frightened many
worthy but rather vcrdant people in
New England and throughout the coun-
ry' a correspondence of the National
intelIlgenccr, who remembers the ex-
cit9ment sixty years ago, says it was
eontcndcd that Mr.. Jetfcrsons election
would dis olive the Union, our country
would bo overrun by paupers and Other
criminals from other countries, our re-
ligion would be destroyed, our churches
closed and Bibles burnt. None
OF these occurred. The writer adds,
MIR. Jefferson proved to be one of the
most popular Presidents, the rights of
each state were protected, no churches
closed and no Bibles burnt. Such, l
dare believe, will be the course of Mr..
Lincoln, and, il do not greatly err in
my judgement, he will prove to be one of
the safest and best Presidents We ever
had.
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Short calls are the best. as the tiy sail
when he 1t on the stove.
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TRY IT FOR ONE YEAR,
Terms---Always in Advance !:

Que Copy, One Year S . 00
Three Copies, for One Year Oh
Five Copies, ior One Year 90
Eight Copies, for One Year 10 00
Sixteen Copies, for one Year 20 00
Premiums for Getiag up C2uLs.
Three, Five, Eight, o. Sixteen copies make II
club. To every persCn getting up n club, the
Proprietor will send IL magnificent mezzotlnt,
20 inches by n, OF the largest size for framing
the subject, 'Bunyaus Wife lnterceding for his
Release from Prison. Address, postpaid
CHARLES J. PETERSON,
BOG Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
ES- Specimens sent gratis.
Nov l5 IS60-3t.
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Rates of Advertising.

One square of IL lines, so cents for one In
sertion--subsequen insertions rs cents each
All advertisements under 2 lines charged as a
square.
Business Cardsin the Directory, per ann I'M
including subscrintion S6
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TuonouoH a PaAorrcAL BusIsEss Eprc 20

X th' 81 hrst e-s ,lii . - q. -
se ity res. .~s.'sd every week. We
have also made arrangement for furnishing
Prime GLADE Batter in kegs Cor winter use. Per-
sons dssirins to secure fret rate arfieis can DO
80 by making engage ate With during the
utanth Of 0ets1vr.
ssrt. p. q. e. eEAERH / go
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A Potter Wanted.

Nov l5--lm@ =
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31
Misery Loves Company.

The billing and cooling going Oh just
now all oyer the South between the
Douglas papers and the former organs
of the detunct Know-Nothing party is
marvellous TO behold. They seem to
have adopted the mutual admiration and
g~lori6cation principle, and are doing
their best to carry it out to its full OK
tent. They have forgotten their old
enmities-they have buried the Ratchet.
The journals, which for SO long have
profesSed to be the peculiar and exclu-
sive opponents Of American principles,
have suddenly changed their tune. They
are nov trumpeting the name Of one of
their old enemies with singular valor
and perseverance. They see the Little
Giant through a mental microscope, and
enthusiastically declare that he is a very
great man indeed. On the other hand,
the Douglss papers are net to be out
done in generosity and forbcarance.-
They forgive with a chcerfulness that
would almost lead one to imagine that
they forget. They would not for the
world indulge in the most distant allu-
sion to Thugs, dark lanterns, or any
other of the numerous useful and orna-
mental inventions which owe their ori-
gin to latter-day Americanism. In q
word, they Seem convinced that Sam
must have been an eminently sound
and conservative patriot, and that his
followers, Notwithstanding their little
vagaries, were, at bottom, very good
fellows indeed.
But this newborn affection between
these ancient foes, the know-Nothing
party and the Douglas clique, is not af-
Ter all, So very difficult TO be understood.
There are many points Of analogy in
their respective positions. Each is
pitiably weak, and each knows il. One
has been refused admission at the Dem
ocratic Threshold; the other has been
summarily kicked out. Both cherish
feelings of undying hostility to the De
mOcratic cause, although one of them
still clings pertinaciously to the Demo
cratic name; and both would, if they
could, traitorously yield up the rights
of the South in all the Territories, to
crafty the p~rejudices of Northern far
atlcS. This is the common aim which
has led them to link their fortunes to.
this is the fellow-feeling that
makes them wondrous kind.
" O. Courier.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

The LATE SkIFF HoMIcIDE.-Mr. b. +.
Bats, who killed Mr.. Timolien Ilebert, by fir,
ing upon him in a skin below Bayou GOula,
and TO which We alluded to in our last, has,
We understand, been admitted TO bail by Judge
Avery in the sum of $500, to stand his trial
at the next term Of our court. The true par.
~ticulars, as far ns We have been enabled to ar
rive at them, are these: Mr.. Bats is over.
seer for j.. II. Randolph. His negroes had
been ia the habit Of obtaining liquor ONE
how, and becoming intoxicated aud trouble
some. The OyerSeer with the assistance Of
other persons, had been trying without sue
cess to discover how or where the liquor was
obtained. Ga the night in question, probably
out for that purpose, Mr.. Bats and two 9TH
erS in company, saw q skiff at the bank oppo-
site DIR. Doyle'S plantation, with a person or
persons in it, and several negroes on the bank.
They appeared to be bartering for something,
the patty in the skiff and the party on shore
one story says that the former was buying
fish from the negroes another, that the me-
grocs were buying whiskey from the skIf-
However, Mr.. Bats and party eventually ap.
preached to discover and arrest the parties
the skiif put off from shore; it was hailed,
but no answer returned, and still making of,
when Mr.: Bats fred upon it Zone report says
he fired several times) and the result was the
death of the gentleman named above, having
been bit in the breast and the ball coming out
at the shoulder, causing his death Ia three
days afterwards; he lived on the opposite side
Of the river. \ friend Of his gives as an ex-
cuSe for his being on this side in a skiff a,
t!,at late hour, that a lurge log which he was
trying to get out Of the river, was with him
blown over on this side, when he tied It; and
procuring assistance, he came back after dark
10 get it, because the next day was Sunday,
when he met with some negroes fishing, &c.
Whatever the complexion Of the affair, the
fact Of the bail shows that there were strong
extenuating circumstances attending the act
Of the shooting.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

The HEAVEN OF Wisconsin
has abolished the system of collecting
debts by execution. The State must
hereafter be considered the heaven of
debtors The following sections show
the tenor of the ~bilflately enacted:
SEC. l. There shall hereafter no final
execution be issued, upon any Judgment
rendered upon the action for the rccov.
cry OF money due or owing, bv reason,
OF any contract, expressed or implied.
either for principal or costs.
SEC. 9. Process in the nature of final
execution, may be issued for the sole
purpose of restoring to the possession
OF ee@t que trust, pledge, mortgagee.
lessee, or otherpcrsons having a special
lien, or interest, in specific property.
personal or real, and entitled to such
possession or lien, by the terms of the
Judgment of the Court.
SEC. B. This act shall not annlv 70
contracts in force at the time of its mas.
sage, nor to actions found upon tort.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

Gratifying TO MEMBERS OF TIE BAR
Members of the profession, and, in fact
all those who have been interested in
legal questions, have long been awar,
OF the difficulty Of procuring copies oi
the statues of certain years. Some have
ent sly disappeared from circulation.
and are only to be found in a few pri
vatc Libraries. Besides this difficulty,
young lawyers, who have not vet had
time to build up both their fortunes and
their library, find it rather too expensive
to complete their series, even when the
copies wanted can be found.
An act passed by the late Legislator
has removed these difficulties, and will
doubtless be received with qualification
by all parties interested. The well
known and enterprising publishers.
Messrs. Bloomfield l. Steel, having un-
dertaken to republish a complete edi-
ton of the statutes, the Legislature has
enacted that "all such volumes of Acts
of the Legislature published by said
firm or assigns, shall be and are hereby
declared authority i'll all the Courts of
Law III this State"
The publishers have adopted a uni
form edition, at a price to suit every
purse. They will publish all the acts
Of this State, in the English language,
from 1904 to 1860, inclusive, with &
comprehensive index, complete in ten
volumes. The price of the work will
be fifty dollars, or five dollars per vol
ulnc.
\ work Of Tins kind has lon. been
needed, and will be Of the greatest
utility 10 members of the pruicssiou.-
We have no doubt that Mcssrs. Bloom-
field aud StccFs edition, which. by the
by, will be Il Southern work, printed
and boInd in New Orleans. will soon
adorn every library; and we hope that
the next Legislature will subscribe lib
orally for q sufficient number of copies
for the officers of the State, to enable
them to exchange literally with our
sister States for their statutes.
". q. Courier.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

u Capt. Searles, an aged and resp ected
citizen of Baton Rouge, committed suicide in
that city a few days since. He was confined
to his bed by sickness, which would probably
have been his last at any rate, when he put
a pistol TO his head and bowed his brains out
then with superhuman viii, laid the pistol
aside and crossed his hands on his breast he
was impatient, like many others are who now
walk the earth in strength and health, for the
last final moment when peace and rest for the
lscerated soul are at last obtained. His tomb
had been long prepared, and the inscription
upon it engraved; his winding sheet was also
ready.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31
Arrivals at the futile House,
For the Heet Ending March 90.

Mrs. +. Bigly aud family, Natchcz; II.
u. lIuggin>, La; T. b. Voolfolk. Crosse
Tete; }. L. Pike, Flint Island, Ky;
Thos. Mckeely. Va; }. c. Woods, w. b.
Rouge; c. ). Alexander, ny; Geo. Nit
chcltrec, Grand River; VIM. Deto, y. o.;
Mrs. Woodward. st. Louis; Mrs. Jules
llebert, l~bervillc; Mrs. Yale and family,
Ky; \. Mygatt, y. o.; Ursin Babin,
~lbervilic; VIM. K. Bootc, do: .Adolph
Babin, do; f. \. Arccncaux. do: Louis
Z. Bernard, Bayou Chen; +. BIouin As
scnsion; John Fitzuc, Upcr Red River;
VIM. Fitzuc, do; j. f. Dupuy. lbcrville;
Mrs. \. Dclauu, do; o. +. Hornsby. do;
Is. q. Brow, st. Martin; j. II. Randolph.
lbcrville; l.. Rcditt and lady, do; Mrs.
Allen, do: G.. :. Hebcrt. do.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

STILL More VIcTIMs.-Thc deadly Dol.
son administered to Col. Lemley's fam.
ly and his guests has not yet completed
its work of destruction. We learn from
good authority that Miss Young was in
a dying condition last night.
Col. Lcmlcy was seized with conyuL.
sions during the night, and great fears
are entertained this morning as 10 his
succumbing. 1t i, difficult to predict
the result as 10 all the sufferers. Al
times their condition improves appa.
rently, 50 a. 10 bring hope to their
friends, and then again it grows worse.
Keeping them III Il state of cruel anxiety
and suspense.
The mind shuddcrs at the thought of
this revolving crime. To satisfy hernia
tired and blind revenge for imaginary
wrongs. the cruel perpctrator Of this
hcinous deed has sent dcsolation to
many a family hearth: children are left
orphans, deprived Of their natural guar
dians and guides; young girls, on the
very threshold Of womanhood, who had
not yet tasted of lifc's bitter trials, but
saw before them the golden prospects
Of its joys and pleasures, have bccncut
down numerically; innocent babes,
wh" could have given offence to no one,
Writhcd in the fortunes of Il terrible and
unknown disease, and closed their eyes
i'll the arms Of the frantic mother, who
secs herself robbed Of her last joy
What a terrible record will be the tcs-
timony of these innocent victims. az
they rise one by one before the Great
Avengcr, Him, who is all mercy, but
also all Justice ". q. PicaUuHe.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

u The 'news clipper" Of the Picdyune
must keep his eyes better Skinned" unless
he intends positively to repudiate the existence
of our journal. But a short time since he ere.
dited to the Baton Rouge Adcocate some in.
teTesting items which he ''scissored" from our
editorial columns; subsequently he dubbed
the Comet as the originator OF another item
or SO which ue furnished him; and now in
last Tuesdays issue he extracts from the
Point Coupee EchO'a peice Of information
which our paper alone gave to the public in
its issue of the preceding Saturday. Come,
now, this is not only "cutting our acquain.
%tance," but denying our very existence-and
in our opinion and the opinion Of our friends
who have known US for the last twelve years,
there is about as much life in the Gazette d
Sentinel as any other paper in this section.
Cast the blur from your eyes, Mr.. News. clip.
per-
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

\ STRANGE PR0CEpURE.-Thc Della OF
Tuesday last says that a gang Of 81 planta-
ton slaves was discovered and arrested by
the Police on the preceding day, in CONNER.
cial Place in that city, who stated that they
were on the hunt Of a ~lawyer-that they be.
longed to the estate of James II. Shepherd,
OF Oak Grove plantation in St. James parish
that they were treated very badly by the over,
seer, and as they had not known for five years
whether they had a master or not 1.-THE estate
is owned by a number Of heirs they had
come to seek a lawyer, to see if he couldn't
put them on the track to find one, This is
certainly a. rare case. The Sheriff will soon
lind them a master, as the place is soon to be
sold, says the same paper.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

a LADY 100 YEARS 0LD, AND SAW ONLY
20 BIRTH DAYs.-There is now residing
on Hudson street, in the third ward of
Eimlra, an old lady named Mrs. Hannah
Webber, who reached her twenty-ffth
birth day on Wednesday of last week,
and yet is one hundred years old. This
remarkable circumstance is attributable
to the fact that she was born on Febru-
airy 29th, 1860, and as that was leap
year, there has been but twenty-five re.
currenees of that day from the time of
her birth to the present time. Mrs.
Weber receives an annual pension of
500 from the govecnment-her husband
having taken an active part in the Rev.
dictionary war Although she has at.
tanned such an advanced age, she is
still remarkably active and vigorous
She %converses intelligently and with de.
cided interest concerning the Golden
time," and of the trials and difficulties
with which the men and the women of
the Revolution were surrounded.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31
PLAQUEhiINE:
Saturday, March 81. 1880.
To Our Patrons.

Finding that il is impossible to leave our office, TO
attend to collecting, il We have due regard Cor th-
interests Of our patrons, We have placed all accounts
against those in this neighborhood IN the hands OF
JAS. l.. BARKER-ihoFe Of Bayou Goula End
vicinity in charge Of NJ. T. SNEE-and those in
tie noighborhood Of ST. Grbrisl Posioflice, We haze
entrusted to ADOLPHE HEBERT. In = few lnys
We will mention The num0s Of l!her gentlemen, who
will attend To our collecting in the other .iislric, Is #
the parish. Being determined to have our new press
and materials here BY The first Of June, if there is Il
possibility of doing so, tond The possibility rests
solely with our generous ifisnds and panous) ae
shall leave nothing unlon6 10 a~ccanplisbitiis great
objec, OF our pride Us it's Ct our necessity.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31

The SHOE TRADE.-The depression j IN
the shoe and leather markets at the East
continues, and even the absence of pro-
duction consequent upon the very gene
raj strike in the shoe manufacturing
towns of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, is contributing but little to
an improvement in prices. The total
number Of men now on the strike, has
been set down at from 5000 to 10. 900.
The Lynn Reporter says the number of
workmen on ladies' shoes, now out of
employment, is at least 1000. The av-
ersge number of shoes that they would
make, if at work, would be five pairs
each per day, which would make 20. 600
pairs per day, 10000 pairs per week,
and in four weeks the number would be
4SO,oOO pairs, o nearly 500, 900 per
month. The strike must very speedily
diminish the stock on hand, and in the
end compel manufacturers to a course
OF curtailment which they are always
unwilling to adopt of their own free will.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31
DrcudIul Poisoning.

At the residence Of Col. Lemley, 4 lawyer
Of New Orleans, a terrible poisoning affair oc,
CARED a few days since. The Colonel had
given a dinner party in honor of a young
friend, a Mr.. Hunt, who had just graduated
in medicine, and left that afternoon for his
home in the interior. There we're quite a
numter Of ladies present as guests; and it
appeared that ali at the table who partook Of
the desert called Charlotte Russo were in a
short time after violently attacked with sick.
ness. Mrs. Lcmley and two or three others
have since died, and it is reported that young
DIR. Hunt il dead. 1t was assuredly the feast
OF death, and reminds US Of the poisoning act
in "Lucretia Borsia." In the stomach Of Col.
Lemley's little son, the first victim, DIR. Craw.
cour found a portion Of the desert mentioned,
in which he discovered arsenic. Strong or
almost undoubtrd suspicion rests upon the
cook, who is in prison, together with the 9th
er servants. In smother column, under the
head Of 'Still More Victims" the Picdyuns
gives the latest about this sad affair.
Gazette and sentinel., 1860-03-31
~. We refer u readers 10 The nlr.i;s

w "eTeieI our TSsueTs.tH Tue auVet!se-
ment Of LEONARD ScoTr'S republication Of
Blackwood and the British Reviews. They
are indispensable to a man Of literary taste
and habits, or one particularly Who desires to
keep the acquaintance Of European aud con-.
tinental politics, and the literary celebrities of
Great Britain and the more civilized States OF
Europe. And when we say that those five
periodicals, with their great mass Of useful
and accomplished reading, can be obtained for
the triling sum of $40 per snnum, it should
not fail to decorate the library OF every gen.
tleman. a new volume has but recently
commenced.