Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-03-19
News Items.

II 10 estIualcu Lnat nearly TWO million o
barrels of crude oil have changed hands a
Pittsburg, Pa, durin; the last year.
General Tom Thumb and wife are to en-
ter public life again, and will commenc cx
hIbition in Boston next week
While gold is tumbling in price, and infa
nous spectators are shaking in their boots
Government securities are firm.
The Copperheads in Congress were consis
text up to the last hour of the session in OBJ
posing everything designed to aid in a vigo-
rous prosecution of the war.
Duty ON ApER.-Congress very properl,
refused to take the duty off of paper, but
reduced the rate from 35 to 20 per cent fol
the present.
The quantity of wheat in store at the
storehouse at Milwaukee on Saturday tn:
2Sth ultmo, was 1GS 900 bushels.
WORTH OF a PAPER DuLLAR.-When men
read OF gold being at 40, they naturally
conclude that a paper dollar is worth but 80
cents but the 80 cents in gold 70 per cent
! premium, is worth but 81 cents in paper, SC
that paper is worth about GO cents on tho
dollar when gold is quoted at ITO.
Major General Cassius NJ. Clay was on
Thursday confirmed by the Senate as Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister potcntiary
to the Court OF Russia.
UNION LEAGUES IN ILLINOIS .-The Chi.
cago Tribune is informed that there already
exists not less than five hundred clubs of the
! Union League in that State, and that the
organization is extending with surprising ra-
| pidity throughout the Loyal States.
1RoN.-The iron trade Of Lake Superior
is growing important. During 1862 lis, 72l
tons of iron ore and $3.50 tons of pig iron
were shipped for market The value of the
rough copper shipped from the same region
in 1862 is stated at 81 900 900.
Union Meetings are being held all over the
country, at New York, indianapolis, Cincn-
natl, Harrisburg and many other places.
| The country is once more settling down to n
vigorous prosecution of the war.
The pickets Of the enemy along certain
portions Of the line; on the opposite side OF
the Rappahannock, one-half negroes and
one-half wlitemcn. Tie negroes are armed
and uniformed the same as the whites. The
fact appears beyond Il question, only 100 TO
$50 yards intervening between our plckcts
and those Of the enemy, and they are plain
y to be distinguished without tie aid Of a
glass.
SYMPATHY FROM GERMANY. Consul Cen
eral Murphy, at Frankfort on the blaine. in
sending intelligence Of the shipment Of con-
| tributions Of sympathetic Germans of five
thousand pounds of lint and three thousand
If c,Ilinrcf cnc1.c lool, L,t
send to the army fighting in America for
freedom thirty-iive thousand men in ten
days, if he was authorized to do so. lie
represents the German States to he pcrvaded
with enthusiasm for the Union cause.
The GIVING AND TAKING OF PAROLES
General Hallock has prepared, and will soon
publish TO the army. complete regulations
concerning the giving and taking of paroles
They are said to be rigid in their provisions.
The Navy Department will soon prepare
similar regulations for the use of its subordi-
mates.
COMMON SENsE.-Thc following extract
from the American Railroad Journa! should
be read by every coppcrhcad in the coun-
try:
But any peace should destroy the Union,
set State against State, sever and oppose their
interests, endanger their boundaries, destroy
the freedom Of their trade, obstruct their ri
vers and lakes. and shut up their ports,
break up their internal lines of commune
cation, vary their traffic, interrupt their es-
tablished relations, introduce conflicting laws,
and throw society ere long back upon its
original elements, to be rC-arrangcl, recon-
structed, and nodded into form. to be torn
assunder with each new whim of their foun-
dcrs, or of the hour. would be no peace at
all, out endless war and misery
TIE WAR AND THE CoTToN TRADE
Speaking of the supply of cotton, the Euro
pean Times (LivcrpooD says:
Strange events have been produced by the
civil war in America. We are now recciv-
ing cotton-in driblets it is truc-from the
most likely and unlikely places in the world.
A ship has just arrive! in the Merscy from
China with full cargo of this invaluable
staple, and hardly week passes without the
receipt of some Of the same material from
quarters where, before the war, it was hard
ly ever heard of much less grown. But the
most extraordinary revulson in the cotton
trade is tie large expectation which is now
taking place to the Federal States. During
the last few days several cargoes of cotton
have been sent from Liverpool to New York
at full prices, the cost of which must be
largely increased by the cost of Shipment
This reversal of the ordinary laws of trade
will doubtless continue as long as the war
lasls'
a PEACE Proposition. In his Stamford
speech Mr. Vallandgham is reported to have
said that
The South had no reason to take up arms
all their grievances could have been settled
satisfactorily had they remained in the Union
and had he been in the South at the time the
secession movement was inauguratcd he
would have impressed this upon them.
Would it not be as well to send Mr.. VAL
laudigham South now, to impress it upon
them? No doubt the Rebels would hold
their noses little at his approach-but 10y
al people up here are beginning to do that
when they get near him.
DEATH OF Coll WILLIAM A. SPENCER
Colonel VIM. A. Spencer, Clerk of the Court
of Appeals of Maryland, died on Friday
last at his farm near Centrevile Queen Annes
county, of typhoid fever. lie left Annapo-
lis to enjoy the Christmas holydays at home,
and shortly after arriving he was Frustrated