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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-22
From the Germantown Telegraph.
Culfiration of Indian Corn.

Cultivation Of Indian Corn.
Corn is cereal which requires a
deep soil to produce a large crop. The
blowing should therefore be deep and
we'll done. | have used two yoke of
oxen to heavy pillow for turning the
first furrow and one yoke to ligh;
subsoil pillow to follow them, without
throwing the soil out of the furrow, bu;
simply to loosen it up.
DO not be afraid of turning up " that
yaller stuff" but If the subsoil is cold
and clayey, it is better to not bring
too much of it to the surface; in this
case the depth must be increased by
degrees.
If the soil is stiff, let the field be first
narrowed around and around the way
the pillow went, diagonally in both
directions, and lastly backward and
forward, parallel to the longest side
If the corn is to be put in with hoes.
mark out with pillow across the face Of
the hill, if the ground is rolling; then
select good, tiff pole twelve feet long,
four feet from each end attach two OK
chains, which should have one end
dragging on the ground. Let man and
boy or two boys take each an end of the
pole, and pass up the fence. at right
angles to the marking out of the pillow,
taking care to keep the chain next the
fence parallel to the same, and about
four feet distant. In coming back, the
end of the pole should be kept over the
last chain mark. A common ox-chan,
say ten feet long, will make plain mark
if the ground is in proper order.
Cover the corn carefully, and never
more than from ! to inches deep
If planted deeper than this, it will be
longer coming up, and after it comes up
it will grow very we'll un;il /; is three Oh
four inches high, when it remains station
airy for ten day or two weeks. BY ex-
aiming we will find that the first joint
is below the surface of the soil, also that
the roots are decaying, while new ones
are being thrown out from the joint ;
these new roots require some ten or fif-
teen days for their complete forma-
ton, and during this time the plant
remains stationary as far as growth is
concerned. AS soon as tho new roots
are fully formed the old ones will entire
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New Publications.

The Earl'S Heirs.-This new novel
by Mrs. Ellen Wood the authoress of
"East Lynne " and several other works
of fiction which is making considerable
of sensation in the reading world at
present, is a story of more than ordinary
merit. The plot Is ingeniously con-
structed, the incidents are highly dra-
matte, and, what is all essential to the
charm of a story, the secret is retained
till the closing page. The reader who
commences "The Earl's Heirs % will be
very apt to get too deeply interested
after reading Il few pages TO lay it aside
till it is finished. The price of the
book is but fifty cents, and the publish
crs T. b. Peterson & Brothers, of Phil
adelphia, will send it free of postage to
my one, on receipt of that amount.
Godys' Ladys Book.-The April
number of II" Cooley" contains seventy
eight engravings, the greatest number
ever published in one issue, while the
reading matter is of the usual variety
and interest. The ladies would be at a
loss for instruction and enter ainmcnt
in cer,ain departments if they didn't
receive a monthly visit from Cooley"
i. A. Cooley, Philadelphia, Publisher.
Price, $3 year.
PctcrSoas .hga:inc.-TLe April
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-22
The Army &c the Potomac.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY !
OF THE PoTAMAc, FAIRFAX, !
q II Va nnrch Ia 1909

G. H., Va. March IA, 1892.
SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE
PoToMAC For long time | have kept
you inactive, but not without purpose.
You were to be disciplined, armed and
instructed. The formidable artillery
you now have had to be created Other
armies were to move and accomplish GER
tain results. held you back, that you
might give the death blow 10 the rebel
lion that has distracted this once happy
country. The patience you have shown,
and your confidence in your General,
are worth dozen victories.
These preliminary results are now
accomplished feel that the patcn.
labors of many months have produced
their fruit. The Army of the Potomac
is now real army-magniGiccnt in
material, admirable in discipline and
instruction, excelleutly equipped and
armed. Your commanders are all that
l could wish.
The moment for action has arrived,
and know that | can trust in you to
save our country. AS / ride through
your ranks, | see in your faces the sure
prestige of victory feel that you will
do whatever | ask of you.
The period of inaction has passed.
| will bring you face to face with the
Rebels, and only pray that God may
defend the right.
In whatever direction you may move
however strange my &C ions may
appear to you-evcr bear in mind that
my fate is linked with yours, and that
all / do is to bring you where | know
you wish to be-on the decisive battle
field. 1t is my business to place you
there. l am to watch over you as u
parent over his children, and you know
that your General loves you from the
depth of his heart.
1t shall be my care, as it ever has
been, to gain success with the least pos
sible loss, but know that, if it is neces-
sary, you willingly follow me to our
graves for our righteous cause.
God smiles upon us. Victory attends
US. Yet / would not have you to think
that our aim is to be attained without
manly struggle. | will not disguise
it from you. You have brave foes to
encounter-foemen we'll worthy of the
steel you will use so we'll. | shall
demand of you great, heroic cxertions-
rapid and long marches. desperate COM
bats, privations, perhaps. We will
share all these together, and when this
sad war is over, we will all return to
our homes, and feel that we can ask no
higher honor than the proud conscious
ness that we belonged to the Army Of
the Potomac.
o. GEO. =. MCCLELLAN,
Major-G General Commanding.
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For The Cecil Wing.

TUT IHU CVCIl " H7B.
EDITOR OF CECIL WnIG.-Dear Sir
| annex a coyy of DR.. Breckenridge S
appeal, which please publish.
The DranviNe Review is quarterly,
conducted with great abili y, and from
it we have had some Of the best papers
in defense of the Union. Doubtless
there are many loyal men in Cecil county
who will not PERM, it to be put down,
by what seemed to be conspiracy
1t will give me pleasure to forward any
subscriptions sent to me at Port Deposit.
Subscription price SD per annum.
JEFFERSON RAMSAY.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-22

number of this Magazine is as good a
one as we have seen for some time.
Its illustrations are equally as fine,
although not so numerous, as "Godcy's, %
and its literary matter is infinitely
superior 1t is the best ladies Magazine
published in the country for the price.
9. j. Peterson, Philadelphia, publisher.
Price s. year.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-22

PALpABLE TRUTH.-An exchange
paper very aptly and tru.hfuly says:
i" Before you 60 shopping, take the
advertisements of newspaper. The
man who adyertiscs literally is liberal
dealer, he sells more goods than old
fogies who hide their light under BUSH
cl, and is, therefore, able to sell cheap
er,"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-08-07
A Good Union Platform.

The Republican and unconditional
Union members of Congress held
meeting on the l4th inst, and after
free and general interchange of opinion
the following resolution, offered by Mr..
Colfax, was unanimously adopted
"Resolved, That we hold it to be the
duty of all loyal men to stand by ths
Union in this hour of its trial, to unite
their hearts aud hands in earnest and
patriotic efforts for its maintenance
against those who are in arms against
it; to sustain with determined resolu-
tion our patriotic President and his
administration in their most energetic
efforts for the prosecution of the war
and the preservation of the Union
against its enemies at home and abroad
to punish traitors and treason with Gt-
ting severity, and to so crush the pres
ent wicked aud causless rebellion, that
no flag ordisunion shall ever again be
raised over any portion Of the Repub'
lie.
That to this end We invite the CO.
operation Of all men who love their
country, in the endeavor to rekindlo
throughout all the States such patri-
otic fire as shall utterly consume all
who strike at the Union of our fathers,
and a I who sympathize with their trea-
son or paliote their guilt"
Every sincerely loyal man can res
pond Amen to every word of that.
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Aoadqy, august II, 4. ID. 1862,

at o'clock p NJ of said duy, the following real estate,
So.wit
All that tract or parcel Of land, being part Of Capt
Andrew NiXOns surrey. No. $50 situate In Highland
stpunty Ohio, and bOunded az follows:
Beginning at tive hck9ries and gum the northwest
Ehrsties Surrey No z33, Gld running with sad line
north 30 degrees l9l peles WlGte-oa and ack.
oak, soutk west to Chse's said survey; thence
south degrees syest A6 ard 57lOOths poles white
k wS0d thence north 50 destees west llG poles
stOue the northeast toJohh r. Davis0ns tot
of land; thence with q his lines Sth II degn II
minutes west lsS poles gums Rsvsons southeast
COrner, and In line Of Surrey No. 2l5; theuce with
said line south GO degrees sNzt II poles to TeOak
dogwoOd and - oS s5bt.s Nest cUrneC to j. NJ. Trim
bles Survey No. SzS2 thence with St tho lines Of
said surrey north % degrees east 100 poles white
oaks ana dog-Hood, northwest to said survey
thence with aaother OF tho lines south Gs grccs 10
minutes east 1es poles TO q black - and hickory,
northeast corner to said survey No. S2S2 aud in line
Of SCOTS survey No $685. thence with said lin. north 10
degrees lis poles the begin Mug containing S
acres and except 23% and i5 poles at said
Ons survey No 1850, bcgnnlg at northeast
to John I. Davidson shryey OF tnd thence south
~ degrees west with DavidsoRs line II poles 20 two
gums aud IN Rtuekers liuc; thence with said
line south 6h degrees east M Pcies u stone nsaid
Zine, and southwest corner 70 S3ue Mitchels laud;
poles stoue ia lAe with John ID. Millers land;
thence with Miers Re 1oSth gs degrees Is poles
to the beginning
Valued at SAL per acre.
To he sold By order Of Court in eertain action,
whoreR David Noble is plaintiff, aud Johu Funk and
Sarah G. Funk are defendants.
Terms Of Sile--Cash.
n, W. sPARGUR, Sheriff,
And Special Master Commissioner
Barrore 4 Smith, Atty's. jyl0w5pfS9 Is
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1Ottrp.
THE NEW GALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

THE NEW GALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
AN APPEAL, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Listen, young heroes Your Country is calllugi
Time strikes the hour for the brave and the truei
Now, while the foremost are fighting and falling,
Fill up the ranks that have opened for you'll
You whom the Fathers made free and defended,
Stain not tho scroll that emblOzons their fame
You whose fair heritage spotlsssdescondcd,
Leave not your children a birthright Of shame
Stay not for questions while Freedom stands gasplug
Walt not till Honor lies wrapped in his palli
Brief the lips meeting be, swim tho hands elasping-
"of for the warsl" Is enough for them all.
Break from the arms that so fondly cares youl
Hark Ills the bugle.blasti sabres nre drawn
Mothers shall pray for you fathers shall bless you,
Noideus shall weep for you whom you arc gone
Never or now criesthe blood Of Nation,
Poured on the turf whore the red rose should bloom
Now is the day, and tho hour Of salvation
Never or nowl poals the trumpet Of doom
Never or nOwl roarv the hoarse.throated cannon
Through the black canopy blotting the skies;
Nevor' oruowl flaps the sho-basted pennon
Der She deep ooze where the Cumberland llesi
From the foul dens where our brothers are dying,
Alien a I'd foes In this land OF their birth,
From the rank swamps where our martyrs are lying,
Pleadin,y in vain for a handful Of earth
From the hot lains where they perish outnuubored
Furrowed nd ridged by the battlc.feld's plough,
Comcs the loua umons-too long You have Flumbered
Hear the last .tngcl-trulnp--Neve or Now
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The Designs of France.
Captain and A. A. G

"Malakoff" writes from Paris to the
New York Times under The date of Ju
ily8;
On Saturday last Cabinet Council
was held at Fontain bleau, under the Pres
idency of tho Emperor, and at which
were present Admiral de la Graviere,
and Gen. Forey. At this meeting the
Mexican policy of NJ. de Saligny was re.
/ adopted, and that of NJ. do la Graviere
, sent back to the second place. The ex
petition, therefore, is to assume pro-
pc, tions sponding to the object in
view. Twenty-Five thousand inst.ai Of
eighte,n thousand men are to be placed
Admiral re Ia Graviere will have four
instead of one cuirassed frignte under
his command. The feet in fact, will
be most furmida bic. Instead of wairing
till September, tn ese two general off =
GERS will start within fortnight to
I Acir posts, and the whole ex pedition
viii leave as rapidly a. possible. This
is sa id to be the new programme, and
the public, probably, will know of the
change of policy by the am 'ounccmcnt
that the position of the army Of General
Lorencez is so critical that ample rein
forccment,' must be sent to him at once.
We shall be- uble in n very short time
to decide ON the truth Of this change.
But has been suggested to me THAI
this expedition is out of all due proper.
ton to the wants of the service, and that
it las been Increased in size in order to
be ready for any e>entualities that may
arise in the United States NJ. de Per-
signy, who was at Saturdays council for
the first time sin ce his return from
England, and who ane home so thor
oughly Secessionist, it is said, as to
recommend boldly ant' without hesita-
ton to the Emperor a recognition of
the South, favored the increase of the
expedition, and laid dow the theory
that the North was so tired Of the war,
and so far away from the end they had
set out to attain, that if France, with "A
formidable force in Mexican winters as a
menace, would recognize the South, the
North would seize this as pretext to
voluntarily relax the blockade So Far as
to allow the exit of cotton, and perhaps
even to make peace with the South.
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The Rebel Conscrfption--l 100000
Soldiersin the Seeded States.
MEMPHIS, TENN, July 12.-It is dif.
6cult to estimate the force which the
rigid conscriptiou all over the South
will bring into the field against u.s.
From all the accounts, it is being en-.
forced without respect to persons. Ev-
cry man between the ages of seventeen
and thirty three is compelled to take
up arms aud go into the field. Hun.
dreds of refugees from Arkansas tell
the same story, Many of them .Ba9e.
laid in the woods for weeks to escape
from it, while others have taken 10
canoes and padded down the stream,
night after night, to meet our boats.-
There seems but a shadow Of chance
that man in Arkansas can escape.--
The majority of them enter the ranks
with a negative acquiesceuce, but, once
IN, make as good soldiers as any body.
The remainder, who are deadly opposed
to it, either run away and escape or are
caught and hung.
1t is stated in rebel circles that when
the conscription was resolved upon, the
rebel Secretary Of War caused the sher.
IFS OF every county in the seeded
States to make a return of the number
OF men between the above mentioned
ages mt to bear arms. The total re-
turns showed 100000 men, who can
be relied upon as soldiers when once
brought into the ranks. The conscrip.
tlon is the measure to accomplish this,
and, with ample powers to carry it out,
the end will surely be attained. With
one half of that available number in the
field, two or three months from now.
ana the rest as reserve, what may not
be expected in the way Of resistance Z?
twill be well for the North to un.
derstand these facts. 1t would have
been well if it had been understood
three months ago, for then people
would not have been astonished to find
two hundred thousand men at Rich
mond, when they only expected one.
third that number; while, if the official
statements from Corinth are true. there
are not less than 100000 more in
Mississippi, to say nothing of the AR.
kansas force, which is increasing by
hundreds every duy. The movement
is, to speak literally, a united uprising
of the people-an arming of every man
in the country who is capable Of bear.
ing arms. Not but they go unwillingly
enough many of them, but they CO.
They find arms, or the Government
finds arms for them Git has an album
dance to spare now,) and they become
soldiers from that day on.
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The Indiana Rebels Killed at New
h4rro

burg.
We learned yesterday some particu.
lars of the killing Of Carney and Mef.
ford, two of the traitors who guided
and assisted the rebel guerrillas in their
attack on Newburg, which have not
yet been published. While the rebels
were carrying off the plunder they had
taken from the hospital and such pri-
vate houses as they bad robbed, and
just before they started with the second
boat load to the Kentucky shore, these
tx2 villains went TO q ooffse house and
took drink, remarking to the bar
keeper that it was the last drink they
ever intended to take in the town, a
prophecy which was speedily fulfilled,
in manner very different from what
they expected. AS they came out they
were seen by young countryman, who
had hurried into the town, with few
others, TO defend it, when the news of
the attack got abroad, and he said they
should never leave the town alive. Ho
was armed with an old-lashioned large
bore rife, commonly called "yager,"
and as the truitors were making their
way toward the boat, he drew a bead on
Mefford and shot him, the ball passing
through his hips. The traitor fell NOR
tally wounded, but not dead. Carney
made a dash for the boat when he saw
his fellow-traitor fall, but he had run
only o few feet when a door opened on
the street and q citizen armed with q
rusty old musket and bayonet, stepped
out and fired at him. The ball struck
him in the breast, killing him instantly.
The man then walked up to Mefford,
who was lying close by, and stabbed him
with the bayonet two or three times, but
not fatally. Meford was taken to his
house and left there for a while, but
the citizens we're so enraged that to pre-
vent his being hung, wounded as he
was, Col. Bates, of the Warrick Legion,
determined to take him to Evansville.
lie was placed on a wagon or dray, for
that purpose, and while he was lying
there q voice in the crowd cried, "Give
him air." AS the crowd opened gun
was fred through the break and the ball
struck Mefford in the neck, breaking it
and killing him instantly.
Thus perished two traitors, who had
guided the enemy to their own town,
and assisted them in attacking and
plundering their own ellOw-townsmcn. e.
1t is bloody, but just retribution.
We cannot al prove the bayoneting and
shooting of the wounded traitor, richly
as he deserved it, but before it be too
harsbly ceusurcd, let the censor imag-
inc how he would feel if lie had beeu
subjected to the same outrages that
these people of Newburg we're In
dianapols Journal, 26th.
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The Now York Expresa saws aT

The Now York Express says; "The
Southern members of Congress, who
deserted their posts Of duty at the Cap
itol, and the States which instructed
them to resign their places, are respon.
siblo before God and the country for all
the sectional and anti-savery measures
which have since passed the two
Houses Of Congress, or which may r.,
passed while the present ADM ,.,..
tion is iu power
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The Chicago Times of Saturday CON
cludes two Of its editorial articles with
these sentences:
"Let the country rally, then, in re-
sponse to the call Of the Preside Mt
for rcinforcements foe the Union ar
mics"
"Let us all put our shoulders to the
wheel, and help the President and Hal
leOk aud Mcclellan through with the
war"
That is the way for loyal Democratic
papers to talk. Why can't We have
some Of it from the Democratic paperl
of Ohio
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NlistSIIanCOus.
r, rom tho Ohio State Journal.

A ~re Nst of Revere 1d Traitors---The
a ca. -pton Nest Ulcovered---Va :
la, di Cham and the sympathizert
in n Category.
Judg,n CLARK, Of Hamilton, has beer
an nyowe, vmpathizer viii h JEFF. Davi
in his efFor ts % overthrow The Govern
ment. he has interested himself il
looking after he welfare of the Rebe
prisoners in Cm up Chase, and pushed
attentions in theh 'ehalfupon thos Il
charge to degree Of pertiuacity th II
required the stern eiNukc Of our off
cials to make him desiS +. SO persistent
had these 'intervcntion. " become, that
the Judges family carriaL'e, which had
been at ono. time urged int the prison
in defiance of a we'll known order, had
to be turned about and take out by
the prison guard by order Of the Com
mondaut of the post.
1t soon became known that from st'ch
sweet and tender sympathy" the JuIA'e
was not slow in manifesting willing.
ness to lend more active aid and com.
fort to the enemies Of the government.
1t seems that nice little party of kin.
dred spirits, bearing the title Of rev
erends,' have Of late been accommoda-
ted at the house Of Judge Clark. In
obedience to the apostolic injunction
these saccrdOtal traitors did not "forgct
the assembling ofthemselves together"
but their purpose in thus assembling
under the roof. tree Of this Judge Clark
seems to have been to plot treason and
hatch rebellion. Their movements ex.
cited suspicion, They were observed.
Upon their departure from the rebel
abode of Clark, they were waited upon
by those having authority and detained
uuder arrest. Examination of their
papers reveals, it is said, the scorpion
egg of treason which they had uested,
and in the incubation of which, Vallau.
dieham, that Democratic elephant of
che secesh variety; had been assisting.
Such. is the sum and substance of the
affair, so far as at present developed
The more complete details promise to
be particularly rich and cap'fvating-so
much so that it is quite probable that
Fort Warren may receive new acces
sions to its present herd Of seeesh cat
tie.
The following dispatch was sent Fast
about this matter:
sECEssIoNIsT cLERoYMEN ARRESTED IN
OHto-YALLANDIGHAM IMPLIoAT 10.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27.-The Aev.
Dr. Brooks, Presbyterian minister, Pr-
merly of Dayton, but for the last year
, in St. Louis, and the Rev. D. HOyt, ol
Louisville, we're arrested last night at
Jones Station, at the house of one Judge
CLARK, of Hamilton, Ohio, a noted Sc
eession sympathist, WHO is at that place
They have both been tho guests Of the
Hon. G. L. Vallandisham, of this dis
trict, and it is reported that important
papers were found on Hoyt that impli
: cate the honorable member, and he will
also be taken with the others to Cincin
natl
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ADvANrAoE OF CROOKED LEos We
saw letter this morning from Madi'
son volunteer, in which the writer thank
ed his father for giving him crooked
or bow legs, saying that on the day be-
before he had narrowly escaped losing
both his legs, a canhon.ball passing
harmlessly. through the space occasion
ed by the "natural crook" of the legs
Every thing is for the best.-[ Madison
Patriot.