Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-10-26
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PETER McCLEERY.

The T. S. ship "Florida" arrived Friday,
bringing particulars Of the loss Of the brig
''Titania." When discovered by the Florida
the crew of the Titania were on a raft con-
structed from the foreyard, part of the main
topmast, and two cabin doors, with which
they pat of from their vessel when they saw
she must 90 down in few moments. The
materials of which this raft was constructed
were so scanty, that it sunk in the water till
the crew were submerged to the waist. The
rescued. ten in all, were completely exhausted
having been on the raft day and half with
out food. Signals of distress were made to
bark which passed within three miles of them
but were disregarded.
The counsel Of Jefferson Davis, it is stated,
has expressed Il desire that his client be gram
red an immediate trial. The desire for an
early arraignmcnt, came originally from Da-
Wis. who it is said, has declared that he has
'no fears for the issue" and that the govern
mcnt will do him great favor by arraigning
him at the earliest possible moment. it is
also reported that the recent favorable change
in his every day life was mainly the work of
the President, and at this hour he has all he
could ask save liberty itself, and the presence
of his family about him.
North Carolina has passed an ordinance, in
the State Convention, preventing any future
l.egislat ure assuming or saying any debt
created directly or indirectly for the prosecu
ton of the rebellion. This is in accordance
with the wishes of President johnson, who,
in despatch to Governor Holden, declared
"that every dollar of the debt created to aid
the rebellion should be repudiated finally and
forever"
The Mobile AdceHiscr and Register, of the
10Th says: ave learn that gentleman was in
dis city yesterday buying six and eight per
cent. Confederate bonds for house in New
York The price paid is said to have been
two dollars in gold for bonds of one thousand
dollars each.
Ey Maximilian, it is said, has issued a de-
cree directing that no vessels be admitted into
Mexican ports which cannot show proper pa
pers from consul of his empire in the port
whence they sailed.
EsrTreasury Secretary McCulloh has con-
cluded to receive deposits of gold, under the
authority of the act Congress approved on the
Sd of March 1868, and to issue in return for
them certificates payable on demand in gold,
as authorized by the act alluded to.
EyA VIRTuous LEGIsLArURE.-A New
York paper says "a person high in authoity
asserts that it is "all nonsense to elect men,
bers to the Legislature at Albany; for it is
much cheaper to buy them after the election is
over.
In Pennsylvania the gain of the Union par
ty in the recent ele,tion, over all losses. was
9. 5000 over the vote of 1862. The State
Senate will stand twenty-one Unionists to
twelve Democrats, and the House sixty-seven
Unionists to thirty-three Democrats.
The Senate of the Tennessee Legis atur c on
Thursday last. passed by one majority bill
providing for the admission of negro testim o.
nv in the civil courts of that State.
The guerllas, Champ Ferguson and Henry
C. Magruder, were hanged on Friday the for
mer at Nashville, Tenn, and the latter at
Louisville, Ky. Their executions were pri-
vate.
RYAN accident occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad on Saturday by which
eight persons were killed and two injured.
ETA steamboat explosion on the Sacra-
mento river, California, on the 18th. occurred,
killing ffty-two people and wounding forty.
EF A woman named Wilkes, alias Hough-
ton, was found dead in closet of her house in
yesterday. 1t is supposed that
she was strangled by her paramour.
re- Prince Demidoff, Russian nobleman,
recently surprised the fancy people at a dress
ball in Paris. He wore plain buff coat,
but he had in his cap of black velvet, dia-
moad worth half mi llion.