Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

All the cid banks in Philadelphia, with
one or two exceptions, have organized under
the National Banking law. Twrnty-niuc #
the forty-two State banking institutions Of
Boston are now doing business in that city
us National Banks, leaving only thirteen
working under their original organizations
-Monsgnor Aattcncci, director of the
police at Rome has issued an cdict prescribiu"
certain days during the present carnival during
which people may wear masquerade apparel
but without either masks, false noses, or
boards or any ether means of ccnceai.ng the
face.
A Madrid dispatch says that letters re-
! ceived from Porto Rico s;ates that a party
hostile to Spain were agitating throughout the
country. Some political agents from the
United States had been arrested and expelled
by the authorities.
Gen. STRENGTHENING. in command at
Charleston. is a Prussan by birth and was
educated in the Prussian military school for
staff officers. lie entered our service as Col.
Of the 74th Pennsylvania volunteers.
A recent order of the War Department
direct, the issuin. of ration of fish, namely
fourteen ounces of dried fish. or eighteen
ounces Of picked fish, to be made to the
troops once a week, in lieu Of the ratons Of
fresh beef.
Mr. i. p. Bowers, author of the popu-
lar songs of - Brothers fainting at the Door"
Write a Letter to My Mother" &c. and
negro minstrel OF some notoriety died Oh
Monday morning at s o'clock, of concessions
of the brain.
SMuGGLrsG.-Therc has recently been
brisk business along the lake frontier in
smuggling whisky over from Canada but it
likely 10 be soon broken up. as several i'm
portant seizures h I'VE been made by our reve-
nue. officers,
The Cataraugus Oil Company, whose
lands are located in Cattaraugus county. New
York, haue struck oil in paying quantities at
the depth of CeJ feet. This is the best bear
ing strike thus far made in the State.
-Advices from France show that the re-
ported cesson of Sonora is without foundation,
and indicate that the relations between France
and the United States are not likely to undergo
any disturbance.
1t is stated that ten regiments have been
recruited from among the contrabands who
joined Sherman in his recent march through
Georgia, and further large additions are ex-
pectcd to this force from his present cam
paign.
They have on exhibition at working
mans Association in Londen. an alarm clock
which on striking the hour appointed, lights
lamp and boils a pot of coffee or tea while
the workman is dressing.
The Union Commission have applied to
the War Department for permission to send
an Agent to Charleston, to relieve the neces-
sites of the white people and report on their
condition
A trotting match in Paris between the
American horse - Sheppard" and the French
horse :" Express" resulted in the victory Of
the American horse by 100 yards.
Those who come into our lines from the
confederate armies insist that the rebels have
no right to blame them. They say they have
not desei ted-merely seeded.
"A boarding house next door to the Spots
wood Hotel adve Uses in the Examiner of the
9th to accommodate persons visiting Rich
mond with board and lodging at S35 per day
Single meals--dinner, SIS, breakfast and
supper each, $40.
Fourteen vessels. laden with an arcre-
cato of fourteen thousand bales of cotton,
sailed from Tybee Roads, Savannah river, Oh
the q ut, for New York.