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Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-03-03
The Florida Expedition.
Further Particulars.

BosroY, Feb. 29-Thc Providence Journal
prints letter from Lieutenant Eddy, of the Sd
Rhode Island Battery who participated in the
late battle in Florida. The letter is dated on
board the hospital steamer Cosmopolitan, Port
ROYAL Ilarbor, Feb 22d, and says;
On Saturday morning, goth ult., at clock
we started once more for the place called Lake
city, 80 miles distant which, if we had sue.
ceeded in occupying, would have stopped the
supplies being sent to the Western rebel armies.
We marched Is miles, when we met the enemy
and skirmished with them for the next four
miles, where we found they were in force and
had formed their line of battle.
Our columns were at once deployed into line
and our advance soon became sharply engaged:
We went in with four piece, ." horses, anu o.
men and four officers. In twenty mi."'es we
lost As men, 40 horses, and two pieces of artil-
lery and four officers, when we managed to get
off with what little there was left. 1t was our
misfortune to have for supports negro regi-
ment who by running caused us to loase our
pieces. The fight lasted three hours, when
finding his small army SO much cut up, the
General ordered retreat. We returned to
jacksonville, 50 miles distant, and reached
there Last night at IL o'clock. We had 5000
men engaged on our side, and lost one thousand
and two hundred in killed, wounded and mis-
sing, rs near as can learn.
The enemy had fifteen thousand men opposed
to us, and of course whipped us badly. All of
us officers had our horses shot under us. We
are now on board of the steamer bound for
Beaufort where all the wounded will be landed
except the officers. We return to Hilton Head
tomorrow. The battery remained at Jackson
VILE which our forces will find difficult to hold
as the enemy were following us closely. Ia
king every thing together we have done pretty
sharp work. In 90 hours we have marched
one hundred and ten miles, fought battle Of
three hours duration, got badly whipped, and
what there is left of our little army is back
npnin where we started from.
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Latest News.
Affairs I'm the South.

Afraid Of Decentralization Fas'
CrumJling : Wilmington Blockade
Runners-Capitd Of North Carolina
Ready for tie Stars and Stripes.
NEwBERN, N. c., February 26.-The
Charleston Mercury says that Secretary
Chase is making every exertion to food
the South with greenbacks, which, IN
less Immediately checked, will subvert
our currency, and thus inHict mortal
blow ON the success of the cause"
The same paper says that "the con-
slant dropping of the enemy's shot and
shell is telling upon the lower part of the
city" ..
The Wilmington On. c. Journa, an
nounces the arrival of the steamer Alice,
from Nassau, on the Sd; also, that the
steamer Spunkle is aground under the
guns of Fort Campbell, and likely to go
to pieces, though mort of her cargo will
be saved.
The Newborn Neus says: "The late
rebel raid has strengthened the Union
feeling. We cannot for a moment doubt
tl-Gt should strong Federal force move
on Raleigh and unfurl the old starred
banner from the Capitol, it would be
hailed with shouts of intense joy by tens
of thousands"
A rumor says that General Pickett will
be court-martialed for not capturing Ne.s-
bern
Colonel Dutton, of the Twenty-frst
Connecticut, fas been announced rs the
Chief of Staff ny General Peck Large
numbers are enlisting in the Second
Union North Carolina Regiment.
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Major General Franz Sigel has been
assigned to the command of the Military
Department of West Virginia. This in
telligence will be warmly welcomed by
thousands of our own and by all of Gen.
Sigeps countrymen. And we say so much
not to disparage the the great service of
General Kelley, while in the same COM
mand- service which entitle him to the
continued confidence of the Government.
The Copperheads, who hate Sigel because
he hates and fights against Slavery, have
recently been sorely agonized at what
they have been pleased to intimate was
the studied neglect of this fine officer by
tho General Administration. Circum-
stances have interfered with his earlier
assignment to active duty, and Gen.
Sigel, like good soldier, who knows
that obedience is cardinal military vir-
tue, patiently bided his time. The Ger
man citizens of the United States need no
such assurance as this to convince them
of the impartiality and liberality of the
President but as studied effort is now
making, in several quarters, to induce
them to abandan their known convictions
it may be we'll to show how easily the eff
forts Of prejudice are exposed and defeated.
Washington G. hronicle.
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Unconditional Union Meet
ing.

Pursuant to public notice, large meet
ing of Unconditional Union men con-
vencd at Sheary's School room, on the
9th inst for the purpose of clecting del
egation to attend the County Convention
to be held in Cumberland on the 3D. day
of March next to nominate delegates to
represent Allegany County in the Consti-
tutional Conyention.
The meeting was organized by the ap-
pointmcnt of M Joseph Mason as chair
man and Michael Sherry as Secretary,
when the following delegation was chosen
and the following resolutions passed
Delegation Douglas Percy, Owen Hitch
ings, r.. w. Mason, William Staples and
James IIoblitzcll.
Resolccd, That we will not send to the
County Convention any delegate who does
not declare himself in favor of immediate
and Unconditional Emancipation without
State compensation.
WHEREAS, we behold in the person of
Abraham Lincold true patriot, an able
statesman and an honest man, unmoved
from his purposes by the fattery of his
friends or the frowns Of his enemies
Therefore,
Rcsolrcd, That we heartily endorse all
the leading measures of his administration
and are decidedly in favor of his re-elec-
ton.
On motion, the proceedings ofthe meet
ing were ordered to be sent to the Editors
of the Telegraph" and "Union'" respcc-
lively for publication.
JOS. MASON, Chm.
NJ. SHERRY, Sec.
Frostburg, Feb. 81, 1864.
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who would re-enlist. to 20 home to recruit: |

who would re-enlist, to 90 home to recruit;
that from Is to 30 days are given them.
Gen. Lee tells his officers that the YAM
KEGS will be filling up their armies in
March, and he must be ready for them.
He says he will have sixty thousand men
by that time and can hold double that
number in check. When we made our
last move across the Rapidan, while But
Ter threatened Richmond, they were ap-
prised of our movement when it COM
mcnced by citizens coming in, and when
our troops crossed the river and surprised
their pickets, General Lee was engaged
in sending troops to Richmond by rail,
and told General Ewcll that this move on
his front was only fcint.
They have but two corps under A. p.
Hill and Ewell The latter is full, but
the former has been depleted to aid Long
street, whose whole corps is still absent.
Their horses have suffered severely for
the want of forage, many thousands hav-
ing died, and hundreds of men are with
out shoes and clothing to keep them warm
Over two hundred men have been shot
during the winter for desertion.
They were captured trying to get over
to our lines, and ut home, not being viii
ling to return to the army. He says tao
things, generally of some account, have
ceased to have any value in the srmy;
they are paper money and life. Private
soldiers have long ceased to use money to
buy anything. Suffers are no more, and
wanted is either obtained as a
gift or stolen, generally the latter.
Many refused to take their pay when
offered to them, alleging that is worthless
it taking nearly three months pay to buy
one dollar in gold. The soldiers families
all over the South have long been objects
of charity, and been forced to beg or steal
to keep life in their wasted frames, and
this is tending, more than anything else,
to demoralize their army, and may retard
the return of those home on furlcagh.
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EFFECT OF LrGHr.-A tadpole confined
in darkness would never become frog
and an infant being deprived of heavens
free light would only grow into a shape
less idiot, instead Of beautiful and rea-
sonablc being. Hence, in the deep dark
gorges and ravines of the Swiss Valois,
where the hideous prevalence of idiocy
startled the traveller. 1t is q strnage,
melancholy idiocy. Many citizens are
incapable of any articulate speech; some
are deaf, some blind, some labor nnder
all these privations, and all are mishapen
in almost every part of the body. l be-
lieve there is in all places marked diff
erence in the healthiness of houses accor-
ding to their aspect with regard to the
sun, and those are decidedly healthiest,
other things being equal, in which all the
rooms are during some part of the day,
fully exposed to the direct light. Epi-
denies attack inhabitants on the shady
side of the street, and even in epidemics
such as ague, the morbid influence is often
thus partial in its labors.-Doctor Moore.
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HEADQUARTERS
ILL FOR RECRUITING
rnJ0RED TROOPS

Southeast corner of Baltimore and Charles SITS.
(Sccond story,) entrance on Charles ST.,
open from 7 A. N. to II p. NJ.
All information in regard to this branch OF
the public service will be given at these Head
quarters.
All sound colored men, between the ages OF
l and as, bond or free, will be enlisted and
mustered into the United States service. Free
Men will be paid THREE HUNDRED DOLL
AIRS bounty by the State of Maryland, ana II
resident of the city of Baltimore, six months
prior to the enlistment, TWO HUNDRED more,
by the city. Slaves will receive personally
from the State each ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
The master gets from the State ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS, and if loyal, THREE HUNDREQ
| from the United States.
Recruiting stations are being established as
fast as possible, in central localities all over the
State. Each county will be duly credited for
all colorcd troops raised within their proper
Iiinits ana nUr all ps~i .'tt" -ss ~ Dol
timorc in charge of citizens of such counties,
| or by other persons who will make the proper
| representations, showing where the recruits be-
| long. The sum total of all colored recruits
will be credited to the State on her quota.
The number enlisted already at Baltimore is
| so large that parties from the country are adj
vsed not to send any to the city until after the
| 25th inst when they can have more prompt at
tention than is possible at the present time.
CoL. S. NJ. BOWMAN,
| Chief Mastering and Recruiting Officer for
Maryland.
March g. '64--3t.
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~ FOR PRESIDENT IN 1864,
tABRAHAM LINCOLN,
of Illinois.
Subject to the Decision Of National
Union Convention.
Organize! Organize !!

The Importance of the coming election
for Delegates to the Constitutional Con-
vention, issufiicient to arouse every Union
voter in the county, Indications through
ont the State point to quiet, yet determ-
ined resistance on the party of the
slaveocracy of our old Commonwealth.
And if the recent victories we have OBJ
tanned be not followed up by another blow,
as complete and decisiSe as that of last
fall, our efforts may III short of the
momentous object to be accomplished.
We must succeed in the coming contest,
and that too, by the selection of such re-
liable men as will put all doubts aside as
to their fitness to represent us, and their
indomnitable will to maintain our best in
tcrest to the last. In this connection the
Baltimore american says:
Under the Convention Bill it will require
sixty-fve members to constitute Convention,
SO that if thirty-one successful candidates choose
to absent themselves it will be impossible to
hold a Convention The Constitution itself
will be endangered should the counties elect
a sufficient number of members favorable to
State compensation to fasten the burden of n
heavy debt upon the State. The people of Bal
timore will never consent to adopt IL Constitu-
ton SO constructed. The cause of Emancipa-
ton is likely to be more imperiled from this
cause than anything else. Pretended friends,
who merely commit themselves to the general
principle of Emancipation and reserve their
opinion upon the only vital question now in
yo1ved In the contest, will seek to gain control
of the Convention. Shareholders will be found
active in securing nominations in the counties
MS pretended Emancipatoniss, 50 that they
may vote themselves compensation for their
negroes They will avoid any direct commit
tai, if possible, before the people, and do as
they please when they get to Annapolis. They
are as we'll aware as any that compensation
will kill the Constitution, and will crafty their
Pro-Slavery propensities as well in that way
as by open opposition. We want to raise n
warning voice to the people of the counties TO
make themselves sure on these points. Ques-
ton your candidates, or you will surely be de-
ceived Require of them distinct pledges in
writing that they are in favor of Immediate
Emancipation and opposed to State Compcnsa-
ton. We cannot urge too strongly the neces-
sity for this course 1t is absolutely vital to
the success of our cause. Even st. Mary's
county Rebels are openly advocating Compen-
stated Emancipation. Should their ideas be in
corporated in the Constitution, it will burden
the State, and ESPECIALLY the city of Baltimore
with such an intoerablc debt, that the taxation
necessary to pay it will prevent all the adyan-
tages of the measure.
Organize and work industriously. Let not
the grass grow under your feet between now
and the sixth of April next.
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origin. Bet row how changed, a stupen-
dous rebellion having been maugurated
for its spread and perpetuation-a rebel
lion which, if successful, must not only
result in the perpetuation of African
slavery, but as its legitimate consequence
degrade and forever debase the poor Ia
boring white man; as if inspired by the
spirit Of the departed patriots, the Amcrl-
can people in all the loyal States, with
multitudes in the Border and some in the
Slave States, regard the institution in the
same light in which it was viewed BY the
fathers of the Republic, and have resolved
on its destruction. What a glorious adj
vance in the right direction. What a
happy coming back to first principals
to the teaching of the fathers of our
country, whose names are as precious
ointment poured forth upon the American
people. Already many of the unjust en-
actments of our own legislations passed
under the dctation of this terrible power
have been repealed. A Convention is to
be called to remodel the organic Law of
our State, so as to wipe out the last YES
tige of slavery; when this shall have
been done, we may look forward to an
era of unparalleled prosperity; with the
free labor of the toiling white and black
man we may justly look forward to full
development of the inexbaustable re-
sources of our magnificent little State
such development as under the slave
system we could never with any prospect
anticipate. Every man then, who has
the welfare of his State himself his family
and his neighbors at heart, should aid in
pressing forward to glorious consumma-
ton so desirable result as the abolition
of slavery in our beloved Maryland.
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Progress.

Within the last three years, what Won
derful discoveries have been made by the
American people. Who would have
thought, in 1860, that the United States
Government could have put into the field
such vast armies, and in so short period
Of time; built such magnificent navy
that it could have provided funds solely
from amongst its own people to sustain
them in such gigantic war, and at so
little inconvenience to the country.
Surely, the resources of this Government
may we'll call forth the astonishment Of
The world, while it is matter of wonder
10 ourselves.
While we have made such rapid strides
IN the development of our resources,
snd given evidence to the world OF our
utility to endure, pass through and prose-
cute to q successful issue the most gigan-
tic war the world has ever witnessed, we
have made no less rapid strides in the
development and advancement of opinions
in direction the opposite to those which
controlled the public mind before the war
commenced.
When the foundations of this most
wonderful Republic were laid by WASH
ington, Jefferson, Jay, Adams, and their
compeers, and directly after the revolu-
tionary struggle, the universal sentiment
was opposed to slavery, and the day was
looked for as not distant when the ac-
cursed institution should cease to be
stain our fair cseucheon, and libel upon
the declaration our fathers made of indie
pendence. With the restoration of peace
and the establishment of our Government
came prosperity; prosperity increas-
ing with the growth of the nation, until
IL become unparalleled in the history of
the world, and under which influence we
become money making and money
loving people, SO much so that everything
that the vilest cupidity could force into
the service, was made to yield its inAu-
ence to the accomplishment of this one
great object. Labor being scarce and
lands abundant, as we passed away from
The days Of the fathers, and, as they, in
cbodieuce to the demands of an inexora-
BE law Of our being passed away from
=. and the demands for the products of
our country increased, we began to look
upen slavery with less aversion, until,
.lk6m regarding it as a necessary evil, we
began to recognize it as great blessing
md sought for reasons to justify it. not
only IN the arguments of political econo-
rl;sts. but In the revelations Of a just and
inhteous God. until utterly debauched
~ orr Conceptions Of its propriety, we
v1tie NJ "a regard all men who did not
S;cu It IN the same light with ourselves
= npr yilest enemies, enacting the
- penalties for any uneuarded ex-
foss thatnfght question it's God-like
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Communicated
New CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA,
February %, 1861.


Mn. EDITOR Il wish to mention one
of the many little incidents that transpire
almost daily in this department 1t ap-
pears that certain Captain w., of the
Twenty-third Illinois Regiment, while
out on Il scouting expedition, near Moore
field, captured a rebel Lieutenant and
two privatcs. lie brought them to this
post, where the privates were imprisoned
in the guard-house, the Lieutenant, of
course, was paroled; but we noticed
that, in the meantime, he was not left
friendless, for he Immediately found e
friend in Captain W., who escorted him
around New Creek and its Notifications.
He also gallanted him around to the
different drinking saloons of this place.
Captain WIS reasons for befriending the
rebel Lieutenant are as follows: 1t ap-
pears that this Captain W. was once cap
tured, between here and Petersburg, and
escorted to Richmond by this same rebel
Lieutenant, and by the influence of this
Lieutenant was shortly after his capture
exchanged. He Captain W. said that
this Lieutenant treated him well and he
was going to do the same. We believe
in "doing unto others as we would others
do unto U.S." but we assure Captain W.,
or anybody else, that this rebel Lieutenant
did not escort him around any of the
Notifications of Richmond, as Captain w.
did at this place, and no Union man will
doubt that Captain W. went too far with
his rebel FRIEND. Is it any wonder that
this department never succeeds in any of
its undertakings? Is it any wonder that
an exchange of commanders is wanted
but such is the rumor, and God grant
that such may be the case The sooner
the better. A PRIVATE.
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The Rebel Army i'm Wiz
ginia.

Il numbers Only %, 0OO-They Refuse to
take their Pay-Highiy Interesting De-
tails Of Facts, Etc.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-[Special Dis
patch to the Inquirer. ]--One of General
Lees ordcrlies, private Taylor, of the 4th
Virginia Cavalry, came into our lines
yesterday, and arrived here to-day. He
has been in the rebel army about fifteen
months, and the last three months has
been on duty at General Lees Head
quarters as orderly to Gen. Lee, whose
winter quarters are upon the road from
Orange Court House to Verdiersville,
about two miles from the place.
General Lee lives in tent without any
floor in it, having refused to have one put
in it as others were having done. He
keeps very much to himself, never drinks
or swears, aud is very popular with the
army, who have implicit reliance in the
old man.
General j. b. Stuart has his headquar-
tiers about two miles from Lees headquar-
tiers, and on the road to Robinson's Riv-
err. His camp is on the side of the noun
tain in the woods. His force is reduced
by casualties. desertion, by loss of horses,
and by going home to recruit, until they
have scarcely enough men to do camp du-
ty with. Jeb. Stuart is very gay, drinks
bad whiskey, and gives great many
parties, at which he entertains great
many friends from the army and from the
surrounding country.
Mr.. Taylor is young man, and has
relatives in Ohio. His chances for know
ing the strength of the rebel army were
good, and his stoty is credited at the War
Department, and he has been given tran
sportation to Cincinnati. He says there
are not now left in the vicinity Of Orange
Court House, in Lees entire command,
over twenty-five thousand men. if there
are that many that the last month Lee
has been giving furloughs literally to all