Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-02-26

that an active, daring, and powerful en-
envy threatens them with every coIse-
ques of war; yet the cities must be defeu-
ded, and their inhabitants must assist
in the preparation.
Patriotism, duty, honor, self-preser-
vation, call them to the labor. and it
must be performed equally by all clases'
First.-All business must be suspen-
ded at nine o'clock to-day. Eve cry bus
mess house must be closed.
Second.-Under the direction of the
Mayor, the citizens must, within an
hour after the suspention of business,
(teu o'clock, A. NJ. assemble in con-
venient public place ready for orders
As soon as possible. they will BE- assign
ed to their work.
This labor ought to be that of love,
and the undersigned trusts and believes
it will be So Anyhow, it must bo
done.
The willing shall be properly credit
ed; the unwilling promptly visited. -
The principle adopted is: Citizeus for
the labor, soldiers for the battle.
Third. The ferry-boats will cease
plyiny the river after four o'clock A. n.
until further orders.
Martial law is hereby proclaimed in
the three cities; but until they can bo re-
relieved by the military. the iDjunctions
of this proclamation will be executed by
the police.
LEWIS WALLACE,
Major General Commanding.
Could anything be bolder and more to
the purpose ? It placed Cincinnati un.
der mai tial law. 1t totally suspended
business, and sent every citizen without
distinction, to the ranks or into the
trenches. Citizens for labor. soldiers
for battle. was the principle underlying
the whole plaza motto by which he
reached every able-bodied man in the
metropolis. and unitod the energies O.
forty thousand people-a motto origina
with himself, and for which he should
have the credit.
Imagine the astonishment that seized
the city, when, in the morning, thi
bold proclamation was rcad-a city un
used to the din of war and its impedi
n,ents. AS yet there was no word o
advance of the enemy in the direction
of Cincinnati. 1t was q question wheth'
er they would come or not. Thousands
did not believe in the impending danger
yet the proclamation was obeyed to the
letter, and this, too, when there wat
not a regiment to enforce it. The se'
cret is easy Of comprehension; it was the
universal confidence rcposed in the mai
who issued the order; and ho was equal
ly confident, not only in his own judg
ment, but in the people with whom b
had to deal.
If the enemy should not come afte
all this fuss, said one of the General q
friends, you will be ruined.
Very we'll he replied. but they will come
And if they do not, it will be because
this same fuss has caused them to think
better of it,
The ten days ensuing will be forever
memorable in the annals of the city o
Cincinnati. The cheerful alacrity will
which the people rose en- masse to swell
the ranks and crowd into the trenches
was sight worth seeing, and being seer
could not readily be forgotten.
Here was the representatives of all nation
and classes. The sturdy German, the lith
and gay-hearted Isishman, went shoulder t
shoulder in defence Of their adopted country
The man OF money, the man OF law, tn
merchant, the artist, and the artisan swelleC
tho lines Fastening to the scene of action, ar
med either with musket, pick or spade. Ad
ded to these was seen Dickson's long an,
dusky brigade of colorsd men; cheerful
vending their way to labor on the fortif1ca
tions, evidently holding it their especial rgh
to put whatever impcdiments they could il
tho northward path Of those whom they con
silered their own peculiar foe. But the plea
san,est and most picturesque sight Of thos
remarkable days was the almost endles
stream Of sturdy men W ho rushed to The res
cue from the rural districts of the State.
These were known as the Squirrel Hunters.
They came in files numbering thousand.
upon thousands, in all kinds Of costumes
and armed with all kinds of arms, bu
chiefly the deadly rife. which they knew SC
well how to use. Old men, midde-a.ed
men. young men, and often mere boys, like
the minute men Of the old Revolution, they
left the plow in the furrow, the fail on the
half-threshed sheaves, the unfinished iron
upon the anvil-in short, dropped all theil
peculiar avocations, aud with their leathern
pouches full of bullets and their oi-horns
filled with pow DER poured into the city oy
every highway and by-way in such numbers
that it seemed as If the whole State of Ohio
were peopled only with hunters, and that
the spirit of Daniel Boone stood upon the
hills opposite the town becoming them into
Kentucky. The pontoon bridge, which had
been begun and completed between sundown
and sundown, groaned day and night with
the perpetual stream of life all setting south
ward. In three days there were ten miles Of
intrenchments lining the hills, making
scmicircle from the river below, and these
were thickly manned from end to end, and
made terrible to the astouished enemy by
black and frowning cannon. Gen. Heath,
with his 1000 rebel veterans, flushed with
their late success at Richmond, drew up be-
fore these formidable preparations. and dec
ned it prudent to take the matter into Sc.
rous consideration before making the at
tack.