Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-04-04
News OF the Day.

of the 25th ultimo contains the proceed
! ings of public meeting held at Frank
fort, in Alabama. at which the following
resolutions, among others of similar
character were passed
Resolved, That we approve the course
pursued by our delegates, Messrs. Wat.
kins and Steele, in Convention Mt Mont
gomery, in not signing the so called Sc
cesson Ordinance.
That secession is inexpedient and I'M
necessary, and we are opposed to it in
any form, and the more SO since major
ity of the Slave States have refused to
90 out. either by what is called South.
ern cooperation" or "precipitate seces-
sion," and that the refusal to submit the
so-called secession ordinance to the de-
csion of the people is an outrage upon
our rights and Liberties. and manifests a
spirit of assumption, unfairness and die
tatorship
That our Congressional nominee, if
elected, is to represent us in the United
States Congress, and not in the Congress
of this so-called Southern Contedera-
cy,"
puK PEACH Crop or MAINLAND The
Easton Gazette of Saturday has the fol-
lowing:
Much anxiety has been felt for some
days about the peach crop in this Sec
ton Owing to the first part Of the
month being very mild, the peach tree
buds were almost ready to burst, in fact,
We have heard that in the upper part of
the county some trees were in full bloom
when the present cold spell commenced
But those that have not bloomed out the
buds have become shrivelcd and cousid-
erably dried, and no doubt tho crop will
be almost total failure
| A BABY FOUND IN A BAGGAGE ROOM.
The baggage master of the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad found
in the baggage room at Crestline, on
thursday last, female child, apparent
ly about six years old, dressed in pink
frock and with quarter shawl around
it, the face being left exposed, doubtless
with n view to prevent its being thrown
aside as bundle, or perhaps to make it
more readily noticed. When found life
vas nearly extinct in the little waif from
cold and want of sustenance perhaps,
but careful nursing soon restored its nat
ural vitality The child was adopted by
family in Crestline, and a number of
the railroad men intend raising a fund
for its maintainance. 1t is supposed to
have been purposely left by a passenger
on either the Southern or Western train
on Wednesday night.
Aftor having been So long scourgcd by
civil war, India is now suffering from
famine, in consequence of recent
drought Four mill ons of persons are
deprived of the means If subsistence.
A TRUE UNION MAN-Roger Hanson,
in letter published recently in the
Cyuthiana (Ky.) News. tells number
of home truths. amongst which the fol
lowing is of the most general moment:
The friends of secession N Kentucky
are deceived. They have seen only the
surface of public opinion. When its
great depth is broken up, the public
heart will be found loyal to the core.
Mr. Hanson concludes the letter in
question as follows:
am one of those who are for the u
Mon uncondtioually.' am not one Of
these who profess to be for it. if this is
done, or that is done. am for it with
out ifs, and for it forever.
The New York Legislature have pas
scd bill adding Washington's Birthday
to the list Of legal holidays, and provi-
ding that when these fall on Sunday the
next Monday may be observed instead.
HEAVY FRosr IN NORTHERN ALABAMA.
- The Peach Crop Destroyed. The Ev-
ansville Qndiana) Journal says:
We are informed by gentleman who
has just returned from Northern Alaba-
ma and Mississippi that on Friday night
last the peach crop in that section of
country was entirely cut of. Tho tree,
were in full bloom. During the day
there was considerable rain, and in the
nj sht there was hard freeze. About
Florence, Tuscumbia, PASSPORT and
Chickasaw, it was supposed the peaches
were entirely destroyed. How far South
the freeze extended our informant did
not ascertain.
The Indians in Texas have rccommcn-
ccd hostilitics on the frontier of that
State, and with an activity which presa
gos much suffering and trouble to the
border counties. The San Antonio Her.
aid has tho details of the recent foray of
the Indians 10 ulvade county in the vi
entity of Camp Woods.
f. K. Collins; esq. of steamship no.
toricty, has struck oil near Hammonds-
vile New York.
The Georgia Convention has adopted
new State Convention and submitted
it to the vote of the people for acccp-
lance The same Convention few days
since refused to submit the permanent
Constitution of the Confederacy to the
people
Tue official census Of the United Sta
ties has just been completed, and it shows
a total of thirty-onc millions four hun=
dred and twenty nine thousand, eight
hundred and nincty-ono (3l ,426, SOL
OF these, three millions nine hundred
and fifty-one thousand aud eight hundred
aud one are slaves.
The Baltimore correspondent Of the
New York Times writes :-'Last week
Mrs. Harper, daughter Of Charles Car
roll, of Carrollton, died here. She was
present as a child when Washington re-
signed his commission at Annapolis. -,
Her picture may be seen as one of the
two auburn haired girls in Col. Trum-