Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-02-26
Correspondence.
For the Grilian and Telegraph.
BALTIMORE. Feb. % 1863

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Mr.. EDITOR This hive of busy men is
continually surging to and fro. either with
the excitement Of trade or the more exhile-
rating influence of war and politics. In all
times the community is strongly marked by
Its division into distinct party organizations,
but at this time this line Of demarkation be-
tween the loyal and the disloyal is so much
more strongly marked, and the spirit that
charac'erizes the two parties so exceedingly
hostile the one to the other, that old and long
established friendships have been torn assun-
der and family tics broken up. The accur-
Sod spirit of secession and rebellion has
wought its direful and hellsh work most eff
fectually work of animosity and enmity
and hate that will not pass away until the
present generation shall have been removed
from the activities of life.
Your readers have doubtless been made ac-
quainted with the arrest of the Rev. Mr..
Dashiel for an indignty offered the glorious
standard Of our beloved country. Thisg gen
.eman, though wanting to claim neutrality.
is in close and intimate relationship, with
| the Baltimore Methodist rebels; for there is
such class OF men in this city. The loyalty
of the masses of this church, and the action
of its conferences produced such holy horror
in those par excellent Christians that they
could no longer worship with the loyal
brcthern but under the leadership of the
Rev. Busey Wilson and two or three others,
set up for themselves, and from their assem-
blages and prayers carefully excluded ali
things favorable to the government under
whose protection they enjoy rich and inesti-
mabe blessings, and these are the people
with whom the Rev. gentleman so warmly
sympathizes. After his arrest and when
brought before Provost Marshal Fisk. for an
examination and to allow him an opportun-
ty to give his parole and return to his fami-
ly, ho stated to an old acquaintance but not
so as to allow Major Fisk to hear him that
he would rot before he would give his parole.
But Judgement for night or two on hard
boards and the prospect Of voyage to Fort
Lafayette brought him to better mind. and
led to his signing the parole and his return
to his family, if not a better man. with q
wholesome conviction that the government IS
not to u triiled with, or the flag of his ma
tive land not TO be desecratcd with impunj-
ty.
One evening last week there was IN Irish
secession ball at the New Assembly Rooms.
where the traitors assemble to keep each
other in spirit and where they could give
vent to the pent up fires of their hatred to
the government, " hich have of late been
smothered up to vent Of great extent. At
this gathering as one time during tho even
ing, the company marched in procession
round the hall, and the notorious traitor
Marshal Kane, who was present, took his
stand at a convenient place and the traitors
and traitoresses who We're in attendance,
shook him by the hand. After the ceremo-
ny was over they sent up three lusty shouts
for Marhal Kane the nert Mayor of Balt-
more. report also says they gave three cheers
for jeff. Davis.
A prospectus is in circulation for a new
paper to be published in Baltimore and to
be called the Nation. Wor;hingtoh Sneth-
ers is the proposed editor and the paper is to be
devoted to the support of the administration.
The loyal men of the city have long felt the
need Of a Journal upon which they could
justly and confidently rely, there being no
such paper now in the city. Whether this
enterprise will succeed or not remains to be
seen; much money will be required to sus
tain it and that is not easily had, if it should
succeed it cannot fail to render efficient sup
port to the Administration.
The notorious traitor Vallandngham was
advertised to deliver lecture in this CITY on
last Friday night, but the loyal men of the
city gave such unmistakable signs of a de-
sign not to submit to the insult that the c. m
mittee having the matter in hand postponed
the lecture indefinitely. Why such man
should have been selected for the purpose of
lecturing before Baltimore audience is diff
ficult to conceive, unless the man ayers wished
to insult the loyal sentiment of the commu-
nifty and produce a riot. We think it is al
together unlikely that rebel will be per-
mitted to make a public speech in this city
during the continuance of our troubles.
UNION.