Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

few rowing bands in the cane brakes
near Island No, IA.
The total amount Of Stock now held by
the Government in trust for the Indian
tribes is $3,037 1902. y,
I The first twenty bales os cotton ever
raised on the Island of Cuba were deposit
ted in one of the warehouses in Havana
few days ago.
A Coal operator in Carban county, Pa.
recently sold his mines and machinery for
seven hundred thottsand dollars. A few
years ago he was Il bankrupt.
Speaker Colfax has issued an order
forbiding the sale Of liquor in the House
of the Capitol, and his order is being
strictly enforced. .....
The Port Royal Is, c. South, men,
tons the death in an obscure town in that
State, of Edmund Rhett, one Of the men,
bcrs of the celebrated rebel, family Of
that name.
The Springfield Gil. } journal says that
Con. McClernand has rendered his re-
signation as Major General in the vol
unteer service of the United States.
A letter of the 10Th ,frome one of the
Philadelphia Inquirer's correspondents at
Brandy Station, says that the Confederates
were engaged yesterday in throwing up
new ri6e-pits along the Rapidan.
How to hasten the end, Gen, CAN'T, Of
Arkansas, does not appreciate the efforts
of the so-called Conservatives" In a
recent speech he said:-'' belieAe this
war nearly ended. l believe that if GER
tain men in the North will stop talking
about peace and conservatism, and use
every effort in support of the war, that the
rebellion will be 50 pushed as to collasps
by spring time"
Gen. Marston recently made "raid''
from Point Lookout, over the Potomac,
into Virginia, He was gone three days,
and destroyed greet quantity of provi-
sions, leather, g., and brought off %
prisoners, 60 horses, 20 mules, 65 head
of cattle, and 100 sheep.
There is rumor that an Independent
lolumn of 80 900 men is to be given. on
or before the opening of the Spring cam
pain, to one of the ablest fighting Gene
ais in the army, who will be authorized
to take Richmond in his own way and at
is own time,
A brutal murder took place near Lib
erty, in Frederick county, recently. A
woman and little boy were found dead in
the house, and the house had been rob-
bed. A young man named Smeltzcr has
been lodged in Frederick Jail, charged
with the deed.
There have been rumors for the past
few days of a reorganization and CONSOLE
daticn of the army of the Potomac into
three corps, cqualling in that respect
Lees Corps, commanded by Longstreet,
Ewcll and Hill.
Thirteen hundred and ninety miles of
railroad were added to the completed
roads in the United States during 1868.
This while a great war is raging, and the
great scarcity of labor.-What country?
A severe snow storm passed over some
parts of the West recently blocking up
railroad trains and causing great suffering
among the passengers and residents of the
country, A number Of persons were
fozen to death.
General Hancock has been authorized
to raise $4,000 men for special service,
and he appeals to the citizens of Pcensyl-
vania for aid in this purpose.
Capt. White Provost MAJ s'lal of the first
District, Penn, was dismissed the service
and lodged in the old Capitol Prison for
alleged frauds. .-
All the ice-houses in the vicinity of
Boston are already filed to their fullest
capacity. One dealer has fifty thousand
tons housed.
The Chesapeake is unloading her car
60 at the government warehouse in Hall
fax, for safe keeping.
Charles A. Dana, formerly editor of
the New York Tribune, has been appoint
ed second assistant secretary of war
The New Jersey Legislature is the on
ly legislative body in the Union with
Democratic majority.
The first National Bank of York, Pa,
has gone into operation.
A National Bank is about to be estab-
l:shed at Harrisburg, Pa.
There are fifty-six wooden foctories in
Rhode Island; having 225 sets Of cards
The premium OH Sterling Exchange is
relatively lower than that upon gold.
A wit has just discovered the trne eau sc
of bravery in negro troops; they are the
color bedcry Of the human race.
A cartel exchange has been agreed upon
between General Franklin and General
Dick Taylor in western Louisiana.
The following terrible cpidemics are
raging in Nashville, Tennessee Small
pox, pneumonia, diphtheria, shooting, and
bad whisky!
Levi Coffin, of Ohio, says he is a
Quaker, and claims to have harbored
three thousand deserters andto have helped
many Of, them to get to Canada.
Letters from New Orleans represent
that the severe cold weather of the last
three weeks has destroyed nearly all the
sugar cane in Louisiana.
The President has sentenced Lieuten-
ant Commanding Low, of New York, for
not doing his duty in endeavoring to re-
capture the Harriet Lane from the Rebels
at Galveston, to three years suspension
from the naval service,
The principal armies of the Union and
Treason are quietly recognizing for the
campaigns Of next spring and Summer.
The Rebels are concentrating on the Rapi-
dan and Holston rivers, and at Dalton,
Georgia. They hope to take the field
with an army Of three hundred thousand