Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-08-31
THE NEWS OF TIFF WEEK.

purchased nall interest IN the Union Pacif
e Railroad
EfrSeventy cadets from West Point have
by recent order, received lieutenautcies i
the regular army, and in accordance witt
military regulations, will each receive tire
months leave. after which they will report t.
their proper stations.
Ez7-It appears that there really is an ic
manulactory in New Orleans. and the Plea
yune says that one Southerner recently pu
down $50, 900 to enlarge its capacity. as it
product and all imported were insufficient tC
supply the demand 1t would seem from this
that the New Orlenians intend if possible K
keep cool, at least. Philosophic people.
ExTGeorgc N. Saunders, the abducted
now goes armed by permission of the authori.
ties of Montreal, and wears belt or girdle,
in which are slung his revolvers and bowie
knife, while in his sido pockets he carries his
small revolvers, making his person quite an
arsenal.
The President will probably order the re-
lease of Alexander II Stevens,
His case has been under consideration for
some time and has been again urged by his
brother, Linton Stephens, who has had seve-
raj interviews with Mr. johnson
The ex-RcSel Governor Brown, of Georgia
is in Washington on important bushes con-
nected with the reorganization of his State -
He is in thorough sympathy with the policy of
the President
The proclamation permitting paroled pris-
oncrs to leave The country is regarded as sig
nificant indication of policy.
1t has been issued in response to the appli-
cation of number of cx -Confede crate civil and
military officers.
General Ike will avail himself of its provi-
sions to leave the country
Robert Ould ex-Rcbel Commissioner for the
exchange ofprisoners, was amcng the vis-
tors to The Presidents house on Saturday last.
Should the Wirz trial not progress faster
than it did last week, several months will be
consumed in bringing the proceedings to a
close, as only half dozen of the more than
one hundred and thirty witnesses have been
examined. The Commission give the defence
the greatest latitude for examination.
The repeated statementabout n contemplated
visit of the President to Richmond are mere
specuations
Our Minister at Constsntinople officially in
forms this Government that the cholera con
tlnucs to extend its ravages, and says that had
proper quarantine measures been taken ut first
the introduction of the cholera from Egyt
might have been prevented. Il seems to him
from the experience at Constantnoplc, that it
will be advisable in tie United States to
to guard against it by the most rigid quarau-
tine regulations
Previous to his departure from Washington
General Grant remarked to a party of friends
that sufficient evidence had been adduced ia
the late conspiracy trial. ana since received
by the Government, to convict jeff. Davis OF
completely in the assassination plot, and that
the fate If the conspirators settled that of the
arch-trait
1t has zen proposed among the prominent
men from Georgia now here 10 issue u letter
to the President, correcting certain misrcIr3-
sensations regarding the people Of tn, Sputh,
and to assure him Of an earnest support IN his
efforts to restore the Union.
1t has been stated that the number Of while
troops retained to constitute the regular ar.
my will humble: one hundred AMI twenty-five
thousand men. This is = mistake; the offcia,
records show but forty tire thousand nil
huadrcd, inciuliug general and staff officers.
BLooDY WoRK IN missouri The st. Louj.
Republican has a letter from. it SAYS. highl,
respectable Union man residing at Rolla. Mo.
from which it makes the following extract:
Judge Is. L. Wright and four Of his SON
yesterday were most brltaly shot and MUIR
iered by = mob Of Miller county militia, IN
der command of colonel Babcoke The bodice
have been br0rgh. into town to-day, ant
Coroner's Jury are now holding an in4ue b
Much Indignation and excitement. as wei
sorrow, is expressed by all parties in POI w. |
The militia numbering about forty hay aaa
ordered to report at Roils. when it IS cs acJe 4
they will be turned over to the civil aut
ties to answer the charge of murder Wa
rants for their arrest have already bee ISSUED
the military authority will aid in .seeura
their punishment.
mandirg post, has been ordered to report { L
Gen. Candy, at New Orleans Col " z
Shaiter, of the 17th United States Color. =.
Battery, succeeds him as post command y,
Yesterday morning Major Baker. of ten :
Wheeer's staff. challenged Colonel BiackJurl /
which was politely declined, Gen. Dcol tile !
hearing of the affair, ordered MOTOR Baker,
and Col Woolford who carried the message.
to leave the city by II o'clock, which order
was promptly obeyed.
VIM \. johnson, formerly correspondent
Of the Herald, who was imprisoned FOR three
years for defrauding the Government, has
osen ordered to be released by Gen. Thomas
IN payment of the money.
A PHILADELPHIA merchant, who has been
some time in Fayetteville, II. c., declares
hat it is not safe for Union man to express
lis sentiments in that city. Two female
who went there to establish
schools for colored children, were not allowed
o land by the Sheriff. and informed that were
hey men, they would be served as such peo-
Die were before the war.
The National forces, it will be remembered
we're Withdrawn from Fayetteville on a pledge
# the people to respect the authorities of the
United States and keep in subsection the pro-
lavery, secession element. That pledge has
lot been kept. The representatives of the
Provisional Government are treated with con-
empt; sometimes with defiance. 1t is, there
ore, probable that troops will be sent to Fay
tteville. 1t must be made safe for a Union
nan, or an anti-slavery man, to express his
pinions any where under the flag of the
United States, and no let or hindrance to the :
Establishment of schools, for either white or
lack children, will be tolerated. A charm-
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