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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-02-21
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TtKTnN, HD,-All operations warranted
u 10 give sa'sfaction.
D7~Tecth Extracted and Filled without
causing pnin.
Persons can rely on seeing me by calling
q, any time during TIM first three weeks Of
each month. Nov e., lS62-tf.
CIR APE ROOTS.
DELAWARE GRAPE ROOTS, at $4,000
~ to- $1,000 per leo.
DIANA GRAPE ROOTS, at $500 and
Sl5.CO per 100.
CATAWBA GRAPE ROOTS, at So. 90
per 100; $50 90 per 1000.
ETC. ETC. ETC.
DR.. Grants STRAWBERRY PLANTS.
BARTLETT and TRlOMPHE DE GAND,
At Sl.50 per roo; $1,000 per 1000.
Correspondence solicited.
Address JAMES SWOBE,
Upper Principle, Cecil county, Md.
Oct rs, lSG2-tf.
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Cotton Goods, Very Cheap.

rJN DRENNEN has some Of the old stock on
/ hand yet, which is being sold at prices that
will Aefy competition They will be sold at the
ne for few days longer. Notwithstanding they
are still on the rise. Consumers should take ad
vantage of this anil buy now. for by putting it off
they will pay more. Sheelings all widths lO-4
"a, A. Pillow cases all widths AMI qualities -
hand Feb 81. 1863
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PUBLIC SALE,

rY virtue off, bill Of sale the subscriber
- will sell, at the residence of William
Glenn, on the road from Zion to Charles
Mathews mill, Oh
Tuesday, The ION tag of Mnrcb, neat,
the following personal property, to wit: s
work Horses, Cows, Shoats, .*ss x;
farm Wagon, Carriage. Snlkey,F .alAji
| horse Cart, l Sleigh, Corn - 1T
Shelter. ] Gram Cradle. Scythr. SET Of
Double Harness. Set Single Harness, Br-
die aud Saddle, pair of Fly Straps, Collars,
Brddles, and Lead Lines, = Ok Chains,
Broad AK. l Chopping AK, Maui and
Wedges, good Cross-cut Saw, Shovcls,
Spade, Forks, Post, Dog, Machine and
Anger, Feed Boxes, Work Bench,
Cook Stove, ! Template Stove, l Paror
Stove. Tables. Chairs, new Cupboard, Bed
steads, Lye Tub, Churn. . doz. Tin Milk
Pans. Cider Barrels. 3 doz. Grain Bags, II
lot Seed Potatoes. Also Hay, Straw and
Fodder.
Sale to commence at ] . o'clcck NJ.
Teams made known on day OF sale.
CHARLES ii. HAINES.
Feb. 16, 1SG3-2w.
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Vendue criers must take ont license as
a1ctoucera.
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DLACK MOURNING GOODS A new stock
ID opening, at T. DRENNEN
WHITE Cashmere and Fanncls for Shrouling
w at T. DRENNEN'S.
( LnTIllNG Coat. F,nts and Ves's largo
\. ,ceE at 1 pkENNl.N
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-02-21

A schooner which arrived at New York
on Sunday, reports having been chased by
the rebel privateer Retributiun, on the 29th
ult.. while on the voyage from Jacmcl. She
was too fast saicr for the Rctlibution, how
ever.
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THE Weller.
Phila., vii. / Bait, Railroad

TlaiIs leave North East Station as follows
70 PHILADELPHIA. To 3ALTIIuRE.
Isl rain, 1920 1st train, 10. 81
p d train, 1856 3Id train, SIS
Through Freight. with passenger cur at
tarh ed, lcnres North East for Baltimore at
&c SO P. u. Stops at Charlcsiowu. Prinvipiu,
Eelr, vile, and iiavrr- de- & race.
aJ No irwin for Philadelphia on Sunday.
". u. ALEXANDER,
Jan. 10, lSt8--tt. Agent.
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CERTIFICATES OF CURES,
From eight to twenty years standing. with names
known to SCIENCE AND FAME
For Medical Properties of BUCHlT, see Uspen.
satory Of the Unitel States
See Professor LEW EES valuable works on the
Practice of Physc.
SEQ remarks made by the late celebrated DR..
PlISlCK, Philadelphia.
See remarks made by DR.. EPIlRAIM MeDOW-
ELL, celebrated Physician. and Member of the
Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, and published
in the Transactions OF the King and Queens
Journal
See Medieo Cirurgicsl Review, published by
BENJAMIN TKAFERS, Fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
See most OF the Standard Works on N edcine
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Or half dozen of each for sl2 90, which will be
sufficient to cure the most obstinate cases. II
directions are adhered to.
Delivered to any address, securely packed from
observation.
!y' Describe symptoms in all communications.
Cures guaranteed Advice gratis.
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HeImboId's Rose Wash.

And excellent Lotion for Diseases of a Syphiltic
Nature and ms an injection in Diseases of the
Urinary Organs. arising from habits of dssiplton
used in connection with tho Extracts Buch L and
Sars,pari'la. in such diseases recommended.
Evidence of the most responsible and reliable
character will accompany the medicines.
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The pirate Florida has been forced to
take refuge at Kingston. Jamaica, where she
was at last accounts.
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AFFID VT.
Personally appeared before me an Alderman of
the city of Philadelphia, II 7. HELMRoLD who,
being duly sworn, doth say his preparations con-
tain no narcotic, no mercury, or other injurious
drugs, but are purely vegetable.
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of November, 1854. WIN. p. HUBBARD.
Alderman, Ninth street, above Race, phla
Address Letters for information in confidence
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INSANITY AND CONSUMPTION.

Many arc aware of the cause os their suffering.
but none will confess The records of the insane
Asy 'ums and 'hr melancholy deaths by Consump p
ton bear ample witness to the truth Of the asser-
ton
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-02-21

The pirate Alabama was spoken on the
2Sth of January about thirty miles northeast
Of St Johns, New Providence.
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The officers commanding the blockading
fleet off Charleston during the rccent<aaid OF
The rrbrl iron-clad gunbua's, have furnished
the Navy Department with formal denial of
the rebel report that the fleet was driven off
and the blockade raised They state the
rebel report to have been false in every par
tlcular, and relate facts to show that the
vessels remained at their usual anchoragcs
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
For the Standard.
I OUTS, UUI,
August 2Gth, 1863.

W. W. HOLDEN EN:-Some weeks ago somebody
passed very 1attering compliment on the Sabbath
School at Springfield in Guilford county, which was
we'll calculated to inspire more lively zeal among
the young who attend that school. But it may be
said there is another Sabbath school in Guiford,
that is equally deserving of notice though inferior
in its numbers to Springfield, and situated some
what more remotely from the notice of observers.
mean Centre. This is also a community made up
principally of those quiet, though industrious and
enterprising people, called. Quakers.
Nav it ever be SAID to their credit that though
they find it contrary to the dictates of their con-
science to use the sword and musket on the field OF
deadly strife, yet they are welding other weapons
in these times of war, that will effect much GOOD
among the rising generation in the cultivation OF
GOOD morals and the inculcation of principles and
sentiments of the Christian religion. Here, at Gen.
tire, there is very interesting Sabbath school, con-
sisting of more than fifty pupils who attend regu-
Iarly and are furnishing the most satisfactory eVi
dences of their advancement in. Scrlptural knoWl-
edge and the improvement of Christian morals.
The writer has often visited this school, and mas
so often been delighted to witness the exercises
which seemed to combine I" the useful with the
agreeable" and which we're conducted with appa-
rent ability by efficient teachers, both male and te-
male.
This school does not owe its existence to any one
individual though several worthy persons might Dc
named who led the way in this laudabe enterprise.
NAV stream of good morals continue to How from
these praise-worthy Institutions that will water ana
refresh the land. = ALPhA',
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
Northern Items.

Among the deaths reported at David's Island,
New York, we find that of 1st Lieut.. j. R. Emerson,
Co. E, 26th N @. regiment. "
By the arrival of the Sidon, from Europe, we
learn that the difficulty from Russia and the West
ern Powers, regarding Poland will be settled ami
cably.
The draft in New York continues quietly.
The G. S. steamer, Florida, captured the ship F.
B. Cutting, on her voyage from Liverpool, and bond
ed her for $40,000
The London Times says it looks in vain for the
seasons of Northern exutaton. There is no talter-
ing, it says in the spirit of the Southern people.
The Times prophecies a collision between the new
government of Mexico and the United States, and
saws the protection of this weak Empire by France
will place it in antagOnism to the pretensions of
Washington statemen.
The Baltimore american claims that on Monday
Forts Wagner and Gregg were silenced.
Dispatches from Memphis say that only the 18th
army corps is now stationed at V1cksburg. Gen.
Sherman's corps is encamped on the Big Black,
Bear, and Cedar Greeks The 18th army corps has
moved to Natchez for sanitary reasons.
Admiral Porters feet is scattered along the Mis-
sissppi river from New Orleans to Cairo.
An officer Just from the army of Gen. Rosencrans,
reports that the centre of Braggs army at Chat
anooga when he left and that the left wing was at
Bolton.
Gen. Bragg can muster an army of about thirty
thousand fighting troops.
The previous reports OF desertlons IRON the army
Of Gen. Bragg are fully confirmed
The mountains in East Tennessee are swarming
with Rebel deserters and it is estimated that one
thousand of them come into our lines weekly.
Furloughed men from Pemberton's army are
coming into our lines. They say that his army can
never be got together again.
The above are Northern statements which must
be received with many grains of allowance.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
Charleston.

+ seems that the enemy, in their approaches to
rr, Wagner, on Morris Island, advanced by zig gag
.s to within twenty-five yards of our rifle
it, Ga Tuesday evening last they assaulted the
AZ Dits in heavy force and took them. On the
nh they we're strengthening their position at the
Il, pits, three hundred yards in front of Wagner
hucbments from the 54th Georgia and 6lst North
rrOEna, consisting of some three hundred men,
rrs in the rife pits when the assault was made
ne 6ght lasted an hour. Our Toss was five killed
riUneteen wounded. The Mercury of the 9th
|zTS
Sumter is no longer double-tiered battery, for
is defence of the water approach to Charleston
Is great artillery fortress its proud proportions
re reduced to ruins. But the ground is sacred to
Nuthern independence. The site is negatively
uus6le, and, with even the rifle and bayonet only,
nav be held still from the hands Of our foes. At
Wagner the enemy's sap-roller is gradually moving
on and the foremost Yankee battery was at least
within long musket range of the fort. Wind and
FlFe however, still consplred to keep the feet
lctiven
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
E1actiOns ON Hands in Workshops.

S~ASAo On nouuS IN " OEkSnOpSs
AN employee in one Of the Confederate work
snops In this State who recently subscribed for the
standard writes as follows upon receipt of the pa
per:
In addition to the amount paid for
subscription, must thank you for the Standard
TO which have recently subscribed and would say
tnatl heartily concur with its sentiments
tseems that the time has come when some one
snoud speak out in behalf of the rights Of the peo
pie, which are being trampled on without mercy
by the despotic power of the military. We see it
daily in our workshops where we all are kept at
work at prices that will not procure the common
necessaries of life much less the comforts and are
not allowed to better our condition if opportuni
ty offers without the fear Of conscription if we
within the jurisdiction Of their despotie power
The people are fast becoming tired of such and
beginning to make it manifest in various ways !;
and unless there is a change soon, should not be
surprised to hear of similar outbreaks to those at
the North"
The evil referred to by, our correspondent is in
creaSng. The prices of all the necessaries of life
are advancing just in proportion as the Confederate
currency falls in value. The result is that me-
chanics generally, and especially those employed
in government workshops, are finding it more diff
cult every week to provide support for their fam
lilies. Some of them when they apply for increased
wages, to which they justly entitled, are threat
ened with being turned over to Camp Holmes as
conscripts; and so, between the fear of conscrip-
ton and the small means they realizing to sup
port their families, with prospect of improving
their condition, they are in great trouble. Con-
tractors who are making large profits should not
hesitate moment to advance the wages of their
employees. 1t is mean, .yrsnnicaI, and cowardly
10 tall
who is so pinched for the means of living that he
cannot refrain from asking for increase of wages
that unless he is quiet and returns to his work he
will be cOnscripted. Congress ought to make pro-
vision, if such thing be practicable to protect
employees who are thus imposed on. The power
full can generally take of themselves, but the
weak always in need of the protecting and sus.
tanning hand of law.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01

PoLITIcs IN TIE ARMY.-We publish on the first
page pf this paper, the proceedings of the Army
Convention, to which we alluded last week.
From the lights before US, We are confirmed in
the opinion expressed in our last that the priVae
soldiers had but little to do with this matter OF
6cerS originated the movement, drew up the resolu-
tions and perhaps the private did not feel disposed
to utter dissenting voice against several of the
resolutions, which were not in accordance with his
feelings. The committee appointed to prepare an ad
dress to the people is also composed of officers.
We do not consider the proceedings of the Conven-
ton as fully expressive of the sentiments of the
army. Phe proper way to have arrived at the voice
of the army would have been by ballot, giving the
private AN opportunity to vote in favor of negotiG
tiOns for peace or continuation the Soitout
an effort at Cancellation. In this way the true
sentiment of the army could have been ascertained.
., We consider the Convention nothing short of a
political or partizan movement and the shrewd,
calculating enemy will naturally come to the con-
clusion that there must be trouble in the camp to
cause this moVement-,SGLem Press.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
The Army of Virginia.

r.. recent advance of the enemy towards Rich
-,r8 BY way of the peninsula, turns out to have
=, made by d small cavalry force Of some 6OO.-
T,.,baye retired towards Williamsburg.
e. have nothing of interest from Gen. Lees
- The Examiner OF the 29th says:
I'VE are without any further intelligence from
lines on the Rappahannock, the down train on
Central Railroad, which is our usual source of
u nation from the army of Northern Virginia,
..rns Jailed to arrive last evening. This was owing
.,"e .5 understood to the cars being appropriated
= t5e military authorities, for the conveyance of
:Sns MS 10 certain points threatened by the enemy,
-S;ib We are not at liberty to mention So far as
,..ra .r advised the situation on the Rappahannock
'n,ins ar unchanged-both armies confronting each
@i,r I1 and each unwilling to throw down the gage
: bs,tle"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
Eastern Carolina.

We have report that the enemy at Newbern are
movement on considerable scale
wards the interior of this State. We have nothing
Esr than this report up to the time of going to
PISS, though it is believed that raid is really about
SNe made by the enemy.
We have reason to believe that authorities are
|ly advised of the movement, and will be ready at
points to meet it. In addition to the regular
rces, the Home Guard of some nineteen Counties
at of this, including Wake, have been called out
nd are under arms The Home Guard of this
nnty, commanded by Col William H. Harrison,
ave rendezvoused IN this City.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
Gov. Graham-The Charlotte Democrat.

Gov. Graham-The Charlotte Democrat,
Inc last Charlotte Democrat appeals to Gov Ora
nam to define his pOsiti0n-to say, in other words
whether he is for or against the South The Dem
OcrGt says:
I'VE have no good cause to suspicion that Mr..
Ursham IS not with the cause of the South heart
ana soul, though Toe are informed on good Guthori-
y that sOhen asked to express his opinions he put
h's hand on his mouth"
" Art thou in health, my brother ?"-and then
comes the stab under the fifth rib. The Democrat
is Uniformed on good authority" that Gov. Gra-
ham, when asked to express his opinions "put his
hand on his mouth" Every one who knows Will
liam A. Graham will brand this as untrue His
opinions are always the result of mature delibera-
tlon, and they are never concealed from those who
are entitled to know them. He is no time server
or temporizer does he shrink from any scrutiny
which may be instituted as to his opinions OF con-
duct. We are not authorized to speak for him !;
but we sure he will not be moved from his pro-
prlety, nor influenced in the slightest respect by
this insidious, and almost insulting appeal of the
Democrat.
The Democrat adds, eve can say to Mr.. Ora
ham that we were as much opposed to the COM
mencement Of the war as he was" This is not
true. Mr.. Lander, Mr.. Yates Capt. John Walker,
and others in the Meckenburg region, toere op-
posed to the bolt at Charleston, and in the interval
between the Convention at Charleston and the
Convention at Baltimore, they appeared to labor
earnestly and in good faith to preserve the national
Democratic party and avert the war; but they gave
way at Baltimore, and we're thenceforth active in
every movement which involved the country in
bloodshed. We speak from personal knowledge.
With an afectation of .nopartyism, the Democrat
has been constantly, since that period, firm sup
porter of the proscrptive policy of the Confederate
government, and has lost no occasion to insinuate
unsoundness against such men as William A Ora
ham. But that paper is noW anxious to clear its
skirts of original secessionism and to produce the
impression that it opposed the steps that led to the
war. In this it will fail Its record is known at
least to its readers if not generally to the people of
the State. Yet if the South should be conquered,
and the old government should be restored such is
the facility with which the Democrat accommodates
itself to circumstances that it will insist that its
Editor opposed to secession, and in no way re-
sponsible for the terrible civil war which abolition
ism and secessionsm, acting and re-acting on each
other, have brought upon the country.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-09-01
ALesson from Sacred History.

Saul reigned King over the Israelites for many
years. At his DEATH disputes as to who should
succeed him. One party, with Abner at its head,
proclaimed the of Saul king; and another party,
with Joab at its head, proclaimed David king
Both these leaders were valiant warriors and true
patriots.
Civil war followed. Battles were fought and the
blood of brethren was shed Finally, "Abner call
ed to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for
everP Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness
in the latter end2 how long shall it be then ere
thou bid the people return from following their
brethrenP" And then "Joab blew a trumpet and
all the people stood STILL and pursued after Israel
no more, neither fought they any more"
What masnanimity of soul was exhibited by the
warrior who thus invited peacel If Abner had
been a coward he would never have made the offer.
His moral courage was equal to his physical cour-
age. When Abner fell David did not rejoi3e. On
the contrary in the presence of all the people he
mourned the death of $50 great man in Israel"
. 1t requires a braver man to advocate peace than
to make war. 1t is easy-it scarcely requires an
effort to swim with the current; but the truly brave
man buffsts the waves, and labors against wind and
tide to bring the barque to the desired haven. He
is brave who, under all circumstances, does right
"Shall the sword devour foreVer?" What Joy
would thrill through this whole land from the St
Lawrence to the Rio Grande, if this question were
now rightly asked and answered.