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Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14
3Suttital.
NJ A II VI A N ID:
1.-THE HEART OF OUR UNION.

Unroll the NATIONS crumpled chart
Half rent, amid Disunion's jars
And mark the State whose loyal heart
Beats for the Union stars
Unfurl the Nations hammered blue,
And flash its gules from hill to hill;
For MARYLAND, thank God is true
True to the Union still
Behold! from Vernon's solemn gloom
Our FATEER lifts his guardian hand;
Behold from Vernon's silent tomb
lie points to MARY-LASDl
AS if, in sooth, his Mothers name
Could link no worther soil with fame
No need hast thou, oh Baltimore!
OF stored shafts to crown thy shore
While roll The waves of Chesapeake
Their seward song thy truth shall speak
And round our home, returning ships
Cry "UNIoS STILL !" with eager lips
For, high on Alleshany's edge,
And blue Catoctins misty ridge
And up the ancient Warrior crags,
l see ten thousand starry flags;
And, woven with every stripe and star.
In scrolls Of glory flashing far,
| see the UNIONS azure hand
Enclasp the zone of Maryland
Heart Of our Nation !-nobly steeled
To breast and battle dangers shocks
TRIED, in the changing battlefield
TRUE, at the ballot-box
Heart of the Maryland !
Clasp thou its Banner in thy hand
Let this thy faith repay:
Where Calvert's tolerant footsteps trod,
And good Charles Carroll worshippcd Gcd {;
There--dcep within thy hallowed sod
Plant thor that Flas--for aye!
From Susquehauna's joyous tide,
And where Patuxeut's waters glide,
To Wicomico's sunlt side,
Ye Southern maidens rise; Tband--
Go! crown with wreaths your patriot
Go bless the brave who loyal stand -
Go greet the sons of Maryland
With lips am! cheeks, and eyes!
Faithful, amid the faithlcss now,
Oh Sister Of the South thou ait
Henceforth our Banner Bearer thou
Thy name--"The Unions Heart"
Our Flag shall wave--our Union stand,
While beats the heart Of Maryland
A. J. II. DUGANNE.
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SINGERS
Sewing Machines q!
A New Machine
Which makes no Noise

WE desire to call the attention of Tai
w lUrs to our New Machines just from our
Mandatory, which is the Fastest Machine in
the World, runs easy, and makes no noise.
This improvement is found in no other ma
chine aud is secured by letters patent.
To those who have refrained from buying we
offer the most perfect machine, the only one that
does every kind OF tailoring, the finest and the
coarsesi, all the work OF ;he Family; binds hats,
caps, fronts, gaiters, shoes, and every thing me-
cesssry to be sewed The reputation Of our ma
chimes, 5000 in operation in this cityl is sufh-
cient recommendation to the new i'm mprovement.
sS- Send for a copy OF M.SlNGER Il Co 5
GAZETTE, which will be sent free. Parties
wishing to purchase, will notice our Machine
with one operator-will do more work than
any other two machines, which is i gain OF ! 90
per cent. Prices ranging from $50 10 Sl25.
". Z. BRODERlCk, Agent,
l59 Baltimore 81.
Baltimore. Nd. Jan 26, ls6O-ly.
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'-EI E-

They have some tall men in the recession
army al Pensacola. One Of their champions
bids fair to rival G ,liath uf Gath. He
is professor named Day, serving as pri-
vate in the Lalderdile Riffs, is master Of
six languages, superior mathematician, and
learned man in every respect He, is
moreover, six and half feet high in his
stockings. His weight is three hundred and
ten pounds; and he measures seven feet in
girth. He is the :.liest and biggest man in
the regiment. and Is noted for his great
strength. as well as for his huge proportions.
He has been known to shoulder six hun
died bale Of cotton, and has frequently taken
4 whisky barrel by the chimes, raised Il at
arms length and drank at the bunghoe-
On one occasion he threw \ mustang pony
and bis rider over ten rail fence, for which
offence he was tried and convicted in the cir
icuit court Of Lauderdale county, and fined
$500.
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A Brave Girl.

There are not many brave girls about il
these days, let the girls say what.they pleas
to tho contrary. We have been watching
to see how they maneuver, and this is th
conclusion to which we may come. Many
of them are real cuwards-they are afraid t,
keep on the right side of truth. They may
not be afraid of the dark. nor Of dogs ant
spiders; but they are afraid to do what they
think is right
There was Hattie Stone. bright-eyed, in.
ltelligent, sprghtly, loveable creature, sitting
| by her mother, who was trimming her winter
bonnet with gay ribbons and beautiful flow.
crs. when Nellie Larkn one of her playmates
called.
is that your bonnet 2 inquired Nellie,
Yes. replied Hattie. Isn't It pretty?'
1T is very pretty indeed, think, answer
ed Nellie. Mine is a poor looking thing be-
side that
! Are you not going to have new oneI
NO mother says my old one must an
swer this winter, with little repairing, and
| think i. will myself
I You will be the only girl in the meeting
house with an old bonnet on continued Hat
tie, and that will make You ieel badly.
| 'Nn. it will not make me feel badly at all. >
said Nellie. Il like your new bonnet very
much, and at the same time am contented
with my old one.
Wen, | should be afraid that ..eople
would laugh at me when everybody else had
/ new bonncts, responded Hattie. Il want to
look as well as the rest
Mother says it is cowardly to be afraid Of
what people viii! say about us if we are do
ing what we think is right
Then there arc a great many towards in
the world said Hattie, and suppose | am
one. But you mean to he brave and
wear your old bonnet and Hattie smiled as
she said it, for she evidently meant to ridl-
cue Nellies ideas of bravery.
Il don't think it necessary TO be vcrg brave
to wear last years bonnet, replied Nellie.
| am sure that it is no great cross to me, al
though do not like to be laughed at any
better than you do. Mother says she can't
afford better one, and that is enough for
me to know, 10 be satisfied with what have.
Now, Nellie did not really know that she
was y brave girl in deciding to wear the bon
net that she had worn Tor a year. But she
was the brave,t girl N the ncighhorhrod. -
/ lIattis--poor little miucing cowari-was af-
raid somebody would laugh at her if she did
not have bonnet as gay as peacock 5 tail,
and be in the height of fashion. She had no
courage to say, Let others think as they
please, | shall do what mother thinks is best
Poor weak thing! Suppose everybody else
should take it into their heads to 90 without
bonnots, she Of course would not dare to do
othcrwi ise, and 50 She would 60 bareheadei
N.lii, ,,,l,, ~
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NUMBER 7,
Sad Calamity House and -Four
Children Burned.

Twelve o'clock on Monday night, the
house of Wm. Costigan caught fire in the
town of Menomonce, Wauk esha county,
about twelve miles from this city. and
was entirely consumed, together with four
of his children. two boys and two girls,
aged from four to ten years.
Mr.. Costigan was Postmaster at that
point, and had store adjoining the dwell
ing, all in one building.
Mr.. G. and his wife were sitting up at
the time, and the first they knew of the
fire was the smoke and fame bursting
into the room of one of their sons. who
was asleep mp stairs, in the room adioin
ing that Of the chillren's who we're burn
ed. Mr.. G. ran down to alarm his par
ents. and getting Il pail of water, return
cd to the childrens room, and met his
sister, about eighteen years old, all in
flames and shriekiDg for help. He threw
The pail of water over her, and extin-
guishoJ the fire that was fast endanger-
ing her life. She went down stairs while
he attempted TO get into the children's
room and in so doing was himself bum
ed almost to death. His hair and eve
brows were burned off and his face, hands,
neck and arms were seriously burned -
He then ran down and out Of doors, and
attempted to get into the window, but as
ne broke open the window the flames
burst out and drove him back, and the
children were consumed
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14

Several thrifty farmers, about Ba&eryille,
Connecticut, VII Sc wives have got above
work, have made arrangements % start a
cheese factory next april. to which the milk
of the various parties interested shall be car
ried, morning and evening. and the same
made into cheese. BY hands employed FOR that
sole purpose. The concern viii start with
the prodnct of abou. one hundred and fits
COVE, though the establishment is planned
f,r much norr extensive business. Il is
estimated in cAeess manufacture that twenty
five gallons Of mix viii make twenty-thyss
pourds Of eleess, Thea properly c--ed.
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F't,liy.

1t is common practice in England to cx-
hilit fattcnci animals for prizes at the Christ
mas show, to draw a prize for them as the
fattest, and tlen few months afterwards to
exhibit the same animals, often with young
by their side, fo- prizes, as breeding anmals.
thus competing alternately for both the win
ter and the summer prizes, one for tie great
est fltness, the other for the best breeding
condition. How absurd and how delete
rious to tho stock of the country No won
der that the vitality of thin stock is dimu-
ishing and it9 mortality increasing. 4 breed
ing animal shonI1 D., exercised much, not
shut mp in 4 dark box to tat;cn, and the En-
.ish farmers know thlt, for In Yorkshire,
famous for breeding fiuc horses, it has been
the custom. time out Of mind, to do nearly
an the farm work with brood mares, with the
understanding that they may work steadily
but gently. through almost their entire prec-
nancy. The same principle holds with all
bruteanimals. and with the human race even.
Activity on the part Of the mother, light la
Dor, with a good deal Of locomotion, is condu-
Give TO the r-1r, longevity aud happiness of
the offspring. Active habits, with reasonable
labor on the part Of the male parent, are al
most as important; these are some Of the
reasons why the children of pamperei pa
rents are apt to he feeble and short-lved, +,
while those Of laboring parents with steady
habits are often vigorous and lonc-iyed.
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14

COLoR OF THE EYES. Tint the color OF
the eyes should affect their strength may
seem strange; yet that such is the case
need not at this time OF day to be pro-
we'd; and those whose eyes are brown or
dark -colored should be informed that
they are weaker and more susceptible Of
injury from various causes than gray or
blue eyes Light blue eyes are gener-
ally the most powerful, and next to these
are gray The lighter the pupil, the
greater and lonscr-continued is the de-
gree Of tension the eye can sustain.
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CONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY.

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1ouhs men pe"rte S', % anu petn'I jai @
senco unu n.HoS. '"'n' t"JI'y ypu mn ~, ufIn
souI .oHs t,'u''On'' ''' y '"
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Ro,p. Baltimore Street.
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Those who expect to receive the CIVILIAN
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I%Bear in mind that no paper will be dis
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THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

Ifsub5cribers order the discontnuarce OF
their newspapers, the publisher may continne
10 send them until all arrearages are paid.
Ifsubscribers 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-
timed.
If subscribers move to other places without
informing the publisher, and thenewspapers are
sent to the former direction, they are held re-
sponsible.
Tuo courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers from the office, or removing,
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facia
nyilnnce Of In ntional fraud.
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14
A Singular Story.

A singular story is told of an apple
tree planted over the grave of Roger
Williams. This tree he'd pushed down
ward one its main roots in sloping
direction, and nearly straight course, to-
ward the precise spot that had been oc-
cuped by the skull of Roger Williams.
There, making turn conforming with
its circumference, the root followed the
direction Of the back bone to the hips,
and thence divided into two branches,
oach one following The ieg-bone to the
heel, where they both turned upward to
the extremites Of the toes of the skele-
ton. One Of the roots formed slight
crook at the part occupied by the knee
joint, thus producing an increased re-
semblance to the outlines of the skeleton
of Roger Williams, as if, indeed, moul-
ded thereto by the powers of Vegetable.
life This singularly formed root has been
carefully preserved, as constituting a
very impressive exempifcation OF the
mode in which the contents Of the grave
have been entirely absorbed
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14

Jack Sheppard, the celebrated pedestrian,
performed the extraordinary fea. of walking
100 miles in one hundred consecutive hours,
without sleep, at Indianapolis. He began hi:
tramp at 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening aai
spdea At 10 o'clock on Saturday evening.
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-14

Larger space forshort periods, as per agree
-neut.
Advertisements before Marriages and Deaths,
cents per line for first acknowledgements
insertions, cents per line. Nine words are
counted as q line in advertising.
Merchants and others, advertising by the
ycRr will be charged Sl2 co.
Proceedings Of meetings not OF general
character, charged at 4 cents per line for each
Insertion.
Yearly advertisers must confine theiradver-
Using to their own business.
ALL TRANSIENT 4 ADVERTISING, outside the city
ofCumterland, cash in advance.
Person ordering heinsertion oflegaladver-
.isements will be held responsible for payment
FOR the same W hen the time for which they were
ordered 20 be inserted shall have expired.
ISsoLvEsr NorlcEs, cash in advance.
PATENT MEpIcIsEs one hsltin advance and
;Ae balance in six months.
ALI OBJ WORK, cash.
The losses we have sustained compel us TO
.dopt this course. 1t will be strictly adhered
tn In all cases, and no advertisement from q
listgnce will be inserted unless accompanied
by the cash
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The immense appetite Of London is
fed every year by aooat 30. 900 oxen,
besides $4,000 calves, / 500. 900 sheep.
and 90 00n zine.
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Rates of Advertising.

One square of IL lines, so cents for one in
insertions 25 cents each.
Al advertisements under II lines charged as
square.
Business Cardsin the Directory, per anuum,
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INSOLYENT'S NOTICE.

1NSOLN EN- Il > NO1lCE.
Abnersomervillel ORDERED, this Goth day
We. w of Dec. 1860, that Abner
His Creditors. somerville give notice to his
creditors, endorsers and sureties, that the
second Monday of April next is fixed for the
fa;d Abner Somervillle to appear in The Circuit
Court for Allegany County, to answer such in
terroga.ores as his creditors, dorsersand sure
ties may propose or allege against him; a nd that
copy of this order be published in some news-
paper printed in the city of Cumberland, once
a week for threesuccessive months prior to the
said second Monday IF April next, as such
notice.
Test-H. REsLEY,
Dec. 20, 1S6o-3m-$ Clerk.
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Patent Lard Lamp.

THE subscriber il nov manufacturing Patent
i Lard Lamp, which he offers for sale. II will
also burn any kind Of dirty greese. Call and
ey-ujus II. D1p. yeHE JeHrsQE.
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I'll compromise thus, If yonr able to win IL,
Inc articles yours Or rather lin ~
You're welcome to all the loose trash there 10
But and my heart go together. JENNIE.
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including subscription, So.
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Yet sometimes think, if an owner il had.
Who knew how to manage its feelings,
Id give i, up willingly nay I'd be glad
To be freed from such difficult dealings.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-30
FROM KANSAS.

ARREST or \ JAYHAWhING LEADER--MO'k-
NENTS or THE SECOND KANSAS REGIMENT
MOVEMENTS OF REBELS-kANSAST ROOPS
CoNCENTR ATING--M0yEMENrs or CINE
RAJ SrURGIS. 80,
LR.yRNwoRTH, Saturday, Sept a. io-
Cleveland, the leader of "A band Of JayhawAs"'
has been arrested bya military posse, and he'a
bail Tor examination.
The ID Kansas Regiment marched for La"re"'
tonight, where they will eneamp and recruit
There is nothing new from Gen. Lane com 'n''''
LxAvrSwoRra. Sept. q. ISL
Scouts came in this morning and report .nA
strong column of Rebels is on the mArca news" :,
from Lexington. Their supposed destination 81.
Joseph. All the organized companies OF 'ne n-
Militia are ordered to rendezvous in TINS '''' '"
distely. c..v Can, ?, 1851.
Gen. Sturgis with parts of the 9Th ana ''In 90,
Regiments, arrived here last night on Tue ''''''
Majors from Liberty.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-30

We are assured that n gentleman of this
city, who has been importing Enfield rifles for
the last three months at the rate of about one
hundred week, has sold them to the Govern
meut since the battle OF Bull Run at 500 so.
1t was distinctly understood, however, that he
could have had $2S each had they been in
larger lots, say of 500 or 900. The necessity
of picking them up in smaller lots made the
price lower to the merchants as the trouble
and expense Of getting them together enhanced
the price to the broker. Previous to the bat
tie of Bull Run they had fallen to $23 so.
If Enfield rifles have recently been con-
tracted for by Government at $50, as stated in
our Washington dispatch a few days since, it
is below the market price ruling in this city
within n few days, and can hardly therefore,
be taken as a standard in St. Louis.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-30

The Herald is making itself merry over
Richmond prediction of an advance of Beaure-
gard & Co. over the routed armies of the
Union to the capture and occupation of this
emporium. Says The Heraid:
They viii take New-York city, but they will
not harm il. II would destroy their pleasure, as
we'll comfort, ii they disturbed lis very much.
Our amusements will 90 on as usual, but under
Southern censorship. Fancy Mrs. Wood compelled
TO introduce Southern melodies in her buresque, and
Laura Keene forced to make the South ia the right
IN her Seven Sons and the Bryailts singing y Dix
les Lana at the point OF the bayoDet, and Hermann
essaying the 'Marseaise' and teaching Floyd and
Cobb prestdigitation, and the New Bowery folk or
dered TO play Ball Run, with a new faGie, until
further notice. Imagine Tar TRIBCNE suppressed,
aud Tile Tunes denied the mails; The Dag. BoOk
itself again aud The DAILY Ners revived THE Jour
mi n C0mmsrce with its old editor returned. and
The Express demonstrating daily that it had always
advocated Davis
Yes, "TnE TRIBUNE suppressed" would
doubtless DO among the incidents of Srch occu.
--i~- -. 49, 49, {" c~"av ~ iha. .A.s such
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-30
LATEST WAC NEWS.

Muus0n's Hill is at length in possession Of
our troops, the enemy having abandoned that,
and other positions in that direction, on Fri.
day night. AS no defensive works had been
erected there except a few rude rife pits, and
no guns apparently had been put in position,
it is quite possible that these points might
have been taken possession Of without waiting
for their voluntary evacuation by the Rebels
Munson's Hill has been valuable to them only
as a point Of observation of our works,
except, indeed, the empty satisfaction
they may have derived from holding a place
they could not have defended if attacked That
satisfaction probably will be enhanced when
they learn that we have lost more men in
taking possession of Falls Church, by one of
those deplorable oversight, from which we
have suffered 80 often, than If the position had
been attacked when in their possession, and
that our troops wantOnly DESTROYED from
$4O'OOO TO $4,000 worth Of property. II is
now supposed that there has not been at any
time more than 10000 men in front of Wash.
ingtOn. Successful fOragng expeditions went
out on Saturday IN the neighborhood of Edseps
Hill and to the Mount Vernon estate of the
late John A. Washington, bringing away large
quantities of hay and grain.
One of the Ofiiccrs who had arrived at st.
Louis from Lexington reports on the authority
Of Rebel QGaTtermaster, that the number of
rations given out to Prices command the day
after the surrender Of Lexington was thirty
four Thousand. This force is rapidly augment
iDg from al quarters. Nothing definite is
known of McCullOch. Scouts report strong
columns on the march northward, il is SUD-
posed To st. Joseph, from Lexington.
From Kentucky we learn that measures have
been adopted 10 prevent the smuggling Of arms
into that State; that two LOCKS on Green River
have been taken possession of by 500 Indiana
troops; that Regiment of Ohio cavalry have
gone into camp near CogingtOn; that the Rebels
had been badly whipped at Mud River; and
that Union men now are AockiDg TO Hawkins's
aid from oil directions. A writ of habeas
corpus has been granted in the case Of James
b. Clay, retuInable before Judge Catron TO-
day. Clay, together with sixteen other Seces.
tonists, has been committed to jail at Louis
gile.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-30

expressed. We are gratifed BY the tone Of
them; but we may DO wrong, and all these re-
lgious men may be wrong. Only we say that
it would be remarkable if speakers of piety,
thought, culture aud conscience, called to such
work as not once in a hundred years is it given
man to do, summoned in the hearing of God to
declare his word amid the horrors and hui
Mutations of internecine war, should one aud
all sound the same key note, and yet that note
be- false one We are still told by divers
croakiDg folk that the war has nothing to do
with "niggers," nor with emancipation, nor
with slavery as sin, nor with slavery as an
economical and political blunder. See how all
these ministers could not, for the lives OF them,
think so See how their pointed fingers all 90,
with the uncrriBg precision of instinct, directly
TO the livid and swollen plague-spOt, aud how
they all cry out, by authority and with their
Bibles before them Heal this" Certainly,
if they are laundering, these physicians with di.
vine diplomas, how shall others rightly deter
mine If the piety and the morality and the
incorporated virtue Of the land ia oil wrong,
The heavens may well be hung with black, ana
day changed to night! The blind are leading
the blind, and the ditch is just before us
And yet, LET us not view with suspicion that
intense patriotism which asks TIC, in these emer-
gencies, to free ourselves from al moral con-
siderations This is not war with which
Slavery has anything to do; and therefore let
us never mention it! This is war for the
flag, for the Union for the Patent-Otiice, the
Capitol, the Treasury, the Presidents IIonse,
and PENNSYLVANIA avenue! What pily all
these good clorgymen should have been so
much mistaken