XIXVIIIth CONGRESS..-2d SESSION.
SENATE
January 17. —Mr. Sumner presented, as a
substitute for the House resolution on the sub
ct,
.a resolution that the notice given by the
PPresident of the United States, to the Go
vernment of Great Britain and Ireland, to
terminate the treaty of 1817, regulating the
naval force upon the lakes is fully adopted
and satisfied as if the same'had been author
ized by Congress. The resolution was or
dered to be printed. The day was spent in
preliminary legislation,
January 18.—The Military Committee,
through Mr. Howard, of Michigan, reported a
resolution, which, after characterizing the
starvation and brutalities practiced upon
Union prisoners in the South as paralleled
only in the lowest savage warfare, proposes to
the President the employment of a terrible
retaliation as the only probable means of se
curing an abatement of these abhorrent inhu
manities. The retaliation proposed is, that
insurgent officers, now or hereafter prisoners
in our hands, be placed in the custody of
those who have been prisoners of the rebel
army, under instruction that in respect to the
quality of food, 'clothing, 'fuel, medicine,
medical attendance, personal exposure, and'
other modes of dealing, they shall be treated
as nearly as possible according to the treat
ment which their custodians have experienced
or witnessed in Southern prisons. The re
solution is not mandatory on the President ;
it simply gives the Congressional approbation
of such a policy, should he adopt it. No ac
tion was had upon it beyond an order that it
be printed. Mr. Sumner's resolution of
fered yesterday, concerning the treaty of 1817,
was discussed and adopted.
January 19.—Resolutions of thanks to
General Terry and Admiral Porter for gal
lantry before Fort Fisherovere Amanlinously
passed. Several bills and resolutions intro
duced were referred to the appropriate com
mittees. The Senate' adjourned over until
Monday. •
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATivIS
January 17.—Among the matters of inci
pient legislation, was a bill introduced by Mr.
Holman of Indiana, providing for a donation
of public lands to the several 'suites and Ter
ritories, to the extent, of thirty thousand acres
for each Senator, Representative, and Dele
gate, for the founding of homes for disabled
soldiers and seamen, and for the support and.
education of orphan children of deceased
soldiers and seamen. A resolution was adop
ted, in view of the somewhat general belief
that our Indian troubles are the result of a
bad Indian policy and abuse of the Indians by
the whites, providing for a committee to in
vestigate the alleged abuses, with power to
send for persons and papers. The bill for the
reorganization of the insurgent States was de
bated, and posponed two weeks.
January 18.—The committee on alleged
abuse of Indians, ordered yesterday, was ap
pointed—all men of the region: Windom of
Minn., Hubbard of lowa, Ross of Ills. Rig
by, of -California, WorthiNAon, of Nevada.
After a smart debate, the House, by the deci
sive vote of 136 to 5, passed a resolution di
recting the Military Committee to ascertain
and report to the House the number of per
sons confined in specified prisons, with va
rious particulars, such as whether they are
confined without written charges, whether
their trial is unreasonably detained, &a.
January 19.—A resolution was adopted di
recting the Committee on Ways and Means
to consider the expediency of assessing a tax
of one per cent on incomes of $6OO or leas,
now exempt. The day was chiefly spend on
matters pertaining to finance and appropria
tions.
January 20.—Resolutions of inquiry, the
public loan, and the passing of the Post Of
fice appropriation bill, were the principle
business of the day.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TEE INDIANS.—General McDowell has for
bidden the' indiscriminate slaughter of the
Indians in California. We notice that the
overland mail route is again infested, and on
the 7th instant a party of Indians attacked
the overland mail coach near Julesburg,
Colorado, robbing the express mail. They
also attacked a mule train near by, killing one
man.. The troops at Julesburg were at once in
pursuit, and a fight ensued, in which thirty
five Indians and nineteen whites were killed.
The Indians finally retreated southward, but
it is said that they so largely outnumber our
troops that offensive operations cannot at
present be prosecuted with much chance of
success. The Denver City News reports that
Colonel Kit Carson, with a few of the com
panies of the Frst New Mexico Cavalry,
lately ran against a band of one thousand
Indians, Kiawas and Camanehes, on Red
river, south of the road from Fort Union to
the States, and was badly repulsed. He had
to fight his way back.
PETROLEUM IN BURMAII.—It seems that
the discovery of petroleum is not, after all,
quite the last wonder of the age. According
to the statements of Shaw Loo, an intelligent
Burmese convert to Christianity, now receiv
ing an edUcation at the Lewisburgh Univer
sity, oil wells have existed,. and their product
has been in use for centuries in that distant
empire. His account affords, however, a re
markable illustration of the progress and
power of' American invention, for the Bur
mese have to dig large- shafts hundreds of
feet deep, down which men -go by ladders,
and bring up the oil on their backs in proper
vessels ; while by our deep pumps and steam
engines nineteen-twentieths of the work is
saved:,. Nothinc , could more strongly mark
the contrast between Burman civilization and
*tars than the want of the least progress in
Aheir method of obtaining oil in that country
compared With the ingenious processes that
have sprung by the hundred from the inven
tive brams of our never-satisfied people.
LONDON VIEWS OF THE LATEST INTELLI
GENCE. —An arrival,. with London dates to
the 4th, brings no news of interest from any
quarter. • Great satisfaction was expressed in
England at the action of President Lincoln in
disapproving of General Dix's order in rela
tion to the pursuit of the raiders into Canada.
The English press complimented Mr. Lincoln
for his promptness. The Times, editorially,
is very much inclined to sympathize with the
Federals in the matter of the St. Alban's
raiders. It maintains that the authorities
ought to have taken the risk and responsi
bility of detaining the raiders till the warrant
was signed by the Governor-General. It says
that whatever fault may attach to the Cana
-dian authorities, the Government and people
of England had no power in the matter, and
have no other wish than to carry out the ex
tradition treaty with the utmost fairness and
fulness. Cardwell, the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, in a speech at Oxford,
,asserted
'that the Canadian Government would main
tain inviolate the neutrality of the British
territory, and if the existing laws prove in
sufficient, they will not long remain so. The
war news from America further depressed
the rebel loan, and it had declined to 52, a
fall of' 10 in a week. The Times says that
Sherman's skill and daring is rewarded with
brilliant success, and the mass of victories
-must raise the spirits of the Federals, and
confirm them in the belief that throughout
the South they have no enemy capable of
opposing their chief armies.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1865.
THE CANADA COURTS RIGHTING THEM
SELVES. —A Toronto date of January 20 says :
—" In the case of Burley, the Lake Erie
raider, judgment was given to-day by Re
corder judgment
The court was crowded,
and many Southerners were present. Burley
is committed as subject to extradition under
the treaty. The prisoner's counsel applied
immediately for a writ of habeas corpus and
a stay of proceedings."
THa CANADIAN EXECUTIVE ON RAIDING.
—The Canada Parliament opened in Quebec,
on the 19th. In the course of his speech, the
Governor-General, referring to outrages within
our territory by persons who had sought
refuge in Canada, said :—" In order to pre
vent the organization of such enterprises
within the provinces, and to enable me to dis
charge my duties effectually towards neigh
bering and friendly powers, I have seen fit to
organize a system of detective police on'the
frontier, and, with the same design, have
called out for permanent duty a portion of
the volunteer force of the provinces. Similar
considerations suggest the propriety of arm
ing the Executive Government with stronger
powers than it now possesses for dealing with
persons, who,.while availing themselves of the
right of asylum always allowed on British soil
to political refugees, may be unmindful of im-
plied obligations, which by-residence amongst
us they contract, to obey the laws and respect
the policy of the country. A bill framed for
thisurpose will be laid before the Houie,
and Task its early consideration."
THE WAI.
ADVANCE ON CIIARLESTON.—Dates from
Port Royal, January 17, contain intelligence
that the monitor Patapsco was destroyed off
Charleston at 2 o'clock on the - morning of the
17th, while doing picket duty, by a rebel tor
edo. Forty or fifty of the crew went down
with her. Their names were not ascertained
at the time of the sailing of the Fulton.
On the night of the 14th the Seventeenth
Corps and the troops commanded by General
Hatch advanced on the Pocotaligo bridge, on
the Charleston and Sairannah Railroad, and
captured it, tOgether with the fortiacations
and twelve guns, losing in the charge forty
men killed and wounded. The guns were
spiked. The enemy had evacuated the place
during the night, and fell back to Ashep's,
towards Charleston. It is thought the enemy
will make a stand at that point.
Among the Savannah items is one stating
that the Christian Commission has opened
rooms at 147 Bay street. The institution is
in great favor with the soldiers. • -
FORT FISHER.—We received the intelli
gence -of the capture of Fort Fisher just in
-time to crowd the welcome report into our
last number. How important an accession it
is to our late brilliant list of victories will ap
pear when it is considered that it releases a
large number of blockading vessels from a
service of comparative inactivity, and brings
them forward to aggressive duty. The very
mischievous rebel pirate Tallahassee was in
the port of Wilmington, and is there en
trapped. Her piratical career is probably
ended. The following despatch from Admiral
Porter to Secretary Welles, dated January
16, is a more deliberate account of the work
accomplished :
" SIR:—I wrote you yesterday that we had
all the forts. The army has captured 1800
men and a large number of officers, including
Gen. Whiting and Col. Lamb. The gunboats
are now in the river, and Wilmington is her
metically sealed against blockade-runners.
The rebels have destroyed the works on
Smith's- Island,,:and if they do not destroy
Fort Caswell, it is of no use to them, as we
yin go there after a little while. You must
v not expect too much at one time from us.
"These worksg-are tremendous. I was in
Fort Malakoff a few days after its surrender
to the combined armies of the two nations,
the French and English, who were many
months in capturing those strongholds, and it
don't compare either in size or strength with
Fort Fisher. The fort contained seventy-five
guns, and many of them were heavy ones. I
have not yet learned what our casualties are
in killed and wounded, but I thinkthree hun
dred will cover them all.
"We had a bad explosion in the fort this
morning, which killed and wounded a number
of men; about one hundred of our seamen
were blown up, 'and. Paymaster R. H. Gil
bert, of the Gettysburg, was killed. I will
send a de'tailed report as soon as I can get off
the wounded and arrange matters generally.
The world never saw such fighting as our
soldiers did.
44 - ."
4. am, 'very respectfully, your obedient
servant, D. D. PORTER,‘
"Rear Admiral."
From Fortress Monroe, January 19, we
have the following :—" The steamer Black
stone, Captain Berry, arrived here thiskaorn
ing from off Fort Fisher, bringing 210 Officers
and privates, wounded in the late assault
against that fort. The latest news from the
fort is that, shortly after the surrender, the
rebels blew up Fort Caswell and the othOr
minor works defending the entrance to Cape
Fear river. At the time of sailing, the smaller
gunboats had entered the river, and were ac
tively engaged in searching for torpedoes,
preparatory to an advance against Wilming
ton. Shortly after the capture of Fort Fisher,
a diagram, containing a plan of the whole
system of torpedo arrangement in Cape Fear
river, was discovered, and our naval officers
were making search for a key to the diagram,
by which means the infernal designs of the
enemy would be completely frustrated." 4-
PEACE-STRAWS.
We notice that several of the least excitable
papers are beginnin g to think that the nume
rous peace rumors of the past few days are
not all smoke. The late missions to Richmond
are, as yet, veiled in mystery, and for aught
that appears on this side of the lines, we
should unhesitatingly discredit their having
any official or semi-official character. From
the Executive Departments no indication is
given of anything extraordinary going for
ward ; no sign of any relaxing of the condi
tions prescribed by the deliberate vote of the
nation—unconditional submission, and then
peace. But the nervous excitement of the
Richmond and other Southern papers over the
visit of Blair—a nervousnessthat is all the more
apparent from the affected indifference of the
articles which betray it—show that the wish
is father to the thought of some unrevealed
purposes looking toward peace.
Nothing is clearer than this, that the South,
from centre to circumference, is tired of this
now hopeless experiment of rebellion, and
feels that in the contest the point of exhaustion
is nearly reached. Davis' Government is ob
stinate of course. To him personally return,
or resistance to the end, is about the same
thing. Personally he has nothing to hope
from peace. It is but natural that he should
raise rather than lower his tone, and use all
his remaining. influence to keep his people
keyed up to the point of not treating for peace
except as. Southern independence is an as
sumed preliminary. But the confidence of the
South in Davis is utterly gone.
We give below several extracts in point :
The Ramond Sentinel of Jan. 16, says :
" Mr. Blair left Richmond on Saturday morn
ing, on the flag;-of -truce boat, on his return to
Washington. There are many rumors afloat
as to the object of his visit, and as a matter
of interest to our readers, but without vouch
ing for its correctness, we give the prevailing
opinion : It is said that Mr. Blair sought an
interview with the President ostensibly for
the purpose of procuring certain captured
documents, and that, in the course of the
conversation, Mr. Blair touched on the sub
ject of peace, but admitted that he had no
authority to negotiate on the subject. The
answer of President Davis is said to have been
that the Confederate Government was now,
as it had always been, ready to receive pro
p_erly authorized commissioners from the
United States, or to send commissioners to
that Government to negotiate a settlement of
the difficulties existing."
The visits of Messrs. Blair and Singleton
have been eagerly watched by the Sentinel,
Examiner, and Enquirer, in all cases with
about the above result. The Rockingham
Register treats the chivalry to the following
contrast between
LINCOLN AND DAVIS
" When Abraham Lincoln took the chair
of the Presidency of the United States he
promised, in his flatboat lingo, to 'run the
machine as he found it.' Whether he has
strictly kept his promise,
those may doubt
who choose to consider the subject. It is
enough for us to know that, whether `running
his machine' in the pathway of his prede
cessors or not, he has run it with a stern,in
flexible purpose, a bold, steady hand, a vigi
lant, active eye, a sleepless energy, a fanatic
spirit, and an eye single t& his end—conquest
—emancipation. He has called around him,
in counsel, the ablest and most earnest men
of his country. Where he has lacked in indi
vidual ability, learning, experience, or states
manship, he has sought it, and has found it
in the able ,men about him, whose assistance
he .unhesitatingly accepts, whose powers he
applies to the advancement of the cause 'he
has undertaken. In the Cabinet and in the
field he has consistently and fearlessly preS.sed
on the search for men who could advance.his
cause, and has as unhesitatingly 'cut off all
those who clogged it with weakness,timidity,
imbecility, or failure. Force, energy, brains,
earnestness, he has collected around him in
every department. Blackguard and buffoon
as he is, he has pursued his end' with an
energy as untiring as an Indian; and a single-'
ness of purpose that inight almost be called
patriotic,. If he were not an usorupulous
knave in his end, and a fanatic in his politi
cal views, he would undoubtedly command
our respect as a ruler, so far as we are con
cerned. Abroad and at home he has exer
cised alike the same ceaseless energy and
circumspection. We turn our eyes to Rich
mond, and the contrast is appalling—sickening
to the heart."
The Charleston Mercury, (intense anti
peace,) under date of January 12,. says :
"We presume there is no one in this de
partment to whom the condition of our pre
sent military organizations is less satisfactory
than to the general commanding. Probably
there is no one so thoroughly aware of the
lamentable disorganization that prevails in
certain corps and sections of his command.
Yet it would searcely be fair to hold, him re
sponsible for this condition of things. His
department has been newly turned into his
hands, and many of the troops are new to
him and to this department. They came to
him under the command of imbeciles; he has
received them, a herd of stragglers and out
laws. What has been done to eradicate this
fatal evil, we shall not stop to inquire. The
time has been short to do much, and the forces
have been much scattered. But tht - very last
moments are arriving, when all must be done
that is to be done ; when all must be done
that can be done. The enemy does not intend
to wait upon our leisure. And there is much
to do. ' The path we are now travelling is
straight to destruction. The crisis of the Con
federacy has arrived in fatal earnest. ?he
result of the next six, months will bring the
Confederacy to the ground, or will reinstate
its power. Without reform we are doomed.
There is more than one department of govern
ment in which reform is important But re
form in our armies is essential, is vital. With
out it, the death-knell of the Confederacy: s
already tolled. With the proper reforms
made, he is a coward who carries his heart in
his boots. There are men in the land ; there
is fight in the land. It is the imbecile that
is sick at heart; it is the coward whose sto
mach is weal. There is nothing before ns
that cannot be overcome ; but to do it, there
must be a new state of things instituted. We
say again, there must be nerve. Men in com
mand must not be afraid to die ; they must
not be afraid to kill. Officers must be killed,
not mere privates. Reform must begin at
the top, not at the bottom of the service. To
reach the private, captains must be shot. We
want no child's. play ; we want an army. Let
old things pass away—let us have a new Con
dition of things. We want no more Jeff.
Davis foolery; we want one atom of brains,
one spark of nerve ; North Carolina, Georgia;
and South Carolina are in, no mood for
trifling. They have had enough of this sort
of thing. They don't intend to have much
more. South Carolina don't intend to be
conquered. She intends to fight. She don't
intend to be hampered or turned over to the
enemy. When she is thus dealt with, ther6
will be reckoning—a reckoning where there
will be no respecters of person."
To these extracts from rebel papers, we
add the following from the National
Intelli
gencer, Washington, - Jan. 21, in relation to
the Senior Blair 's immediate return to Rich
mond :—" the pertinacity with which the
Intclligencer has determined to adhere to a
grave, view of the Blair mission—based on its
confidence in the veracity of persons in high
position, as well, as on the signs of the times
—is strengthened by what appear to, he very
reliable rumors of the action of the rebel
Congress in regard to peace commissioners.
Conjqintly with this apparently accurate in
telligence from Richmond occurs the general
ly conceded fact that Mr. Blair is again on
his way from Washington to the rebel capitol.
It is for the public as well as ourselves to
draw inferences from these coincidences,
which tally so remarkably with all the spec
ulationg,made in this columain regard to this
mission.'
In another paragraph the same paper
says :—"We have good reason—not to say
authority "for stating that Mr. Blair Sr.,
goes to Rhmond upon no hollow or heart
less mission, but upon one of substance, giv
ing hope to patriotio men that an opportunity
for the highest reason will be afforded to
statesmen ttiring the present civil war to a
close by negotiation."
Since preparing the above a new manifesto
from Davis haiVi?ome to hand, It is in reply
to an inquiry from the Georgia Senators in
the rebel Oongress,wking his views of sepa
rate State action on :the subject of peace—
such as is agitatekin some of the rebel
States. He condemns' it unqualifiedly, and
then gges on gratuitiMsly to express his hos
tility to any attempt to-procure a convention
of all the States, North and South.
GENERAL ITEM.
The rebel prisoners at Elmira, N. Y. are
fast becoming weary of the bogus Confed
eracy. Two thousand of them have offered
to take the oath of allegiance.— , -Daniel S.
Norton has been elected, by the Minnesota,
Legislature, U. S. Senator in' place of Sena
tor Wilkinson whose term expires March 4.
Mr. Norton is a sound and able Unionist of Wi
nona County.—Four rebel spies have been
apprehended and confined in Fort Lafayette.
One of - them is known to haVe been connect
ed' with the plot to burn New York. They
are to be tried by a court martial.--Alex
ander T. Stewart, the well known dry goods
merchant in New York, reports his yearly in
come .at $5,000,000, and ppays thereon an in
come tax of $250,000. This is probably the
largest income in this country.— The-;Tex
an. rebels are spinning cowhair mixed with
cotton as a substitute for wool.—lt is said,
on the authority of accounts on file in the
Department at Washington, that, since the
rebellion began, Government has rendered
assistance to forty thousand more Southern
whites than blacks.—The manufacture of
the cable for the new Trans-Atlantic, or ra
ther Sub-Atlantic Telegraph, is now progres
sing at the rate of 80 miles per week. 750
miles had been completed on the 30th of De
cember, and it is expected that the whole
will be ready by the first of June.—Go
vernment means to make no child's play of
the passport s,ystem. At Gen. Dix's Head
quarters, an Englishman of the name of
Smedley has been tried by a military com
mission for crossing the line in ylefiance of it,
and sentenced to six months in Fort Lafay
ette, and deportation to England at the
expiration of the term.—Mrs. Myers, wife
of a rebel officer, ran the lines of our block
ade, and was arrested in New York while:
preparing to return with an invoice of goods.
She was fined $1,230, and is to be sent South
at her own expense.—A band of 200 In
dians burned fbur ranches and one Mall sta
tion, west of Valley Station, Colorada, on•the
14t11 , instant. They stole horses and cattle,
destroyed, property, tore down the telegraph,
and carried - bir 'the wires. There was some
fighting, and% few *ere killed.—There is a
dead lock in the Lower House Of the New
Jersey .Legislature. As elected, there was a
tie between the two parties, 30 to 30.. It was
broken by the death of Col. FoWlet, a Demo
cratic member. But previous to his death
the House had bound"itself by a resolution,
which required 31 votes to elect officers, and
31 votes to rescind the resolution. With this
resolution in'their hands, the Democrats, now
in the are able to, prevent •an or
ganization.
LA.TEST.-- Congress. In the Senate, it was
voted almost unanimously not to increase the
pay of "iovernment employees. 67,687
credits for enlistments in the navy were re
ported, as made or ready to be made to va
rious districts. The bill defining the rank
and pay of paymasters in the navy was pa§s
ed.. In' the House, a bill was passed, redu
cing the duty on printing paper to 3 per
-cent. ad valorem. A. B. Field, claiming a
seat 'from Lousiana, was excluded from the
privileges of the House, until the assault upon
Hon. Mr. Kelley had been examined by a
committee of the House. A threatemn_g
note from Gen. Butler to a copperhead M. U.
was the subject of a long debate.
A resolution has passed the rebel Con
gress, creatinc , b the office of commander-in
chief of all the armies of the rebellion. .
" I THINK the intimacy which is begotten
over the wine bottle," says Thackeray, "has
no heart. I never knew a good feeling come
from it, or an honest friendship made .by it;
it is only a phantom of friendship and feeling,
called - up by the delicious blood and the wick
ed spells of the wine."
MONEY.
•Caeh Acknowledgments for the week ending Janu
ary 18, 1865.
• Philadelphia Contributions as Follows :•
G. F. Curwen, Philad'a $lOO 00
Mrs. Mary R. Mitchell;Philad'a 10 00
J. M. Duncan, Philad'a, per J.E.
Busby k Co. . . .10 00
Irving Secondary School, Brides
burg, Philad'a co. per Flambe
A. Barton, . . . . 7 00
Mrs. Robert Patterson, Holmes
burg, Philad'a, . . 5 'OO ,
"Cash," Philad'a, . . 1 00
"C. L. C." Philad'a, . . 5 00
"E. If. P." Philad'a, . . 3 00
"Cash," Philad'a, . . 15— 141.15
Presbyterian church, West Ofies
ter, Pa. . .. . 335 50
To which the Faculty and Sta.- '
dents of Westchester Academy
contributed, . 185'50
Staff and Cadets of Pa.
tary Academy cont'd, 100 00
J. G. Thompson, Westchester, 2 00— 337:50
per W. E. Barber, Trees; Chester Co.
Auitiliary Commission.
Ladies' Christian Commission, Bridge
ton, N. J. per Mrs. Emily R. Davis, 15 00
Army Committee, Cleveland, Ohio, per
B. H. Mather, Treas. (for chapel tents) 1000 00
M. H. Merriman, Rochester, N. Y. . '5OO 00
Fourth Street Methodist Church, Wheel
ing, West Va. per R. Crangle, . 70 00
Christian Commission, Rochester, N.Y.
per O. D. Grosvener, Treas. . . 900 00
Chris. Commission, Bangor, Me per T.
G: Stickney, Treas. . . 600 00
Centre Church Congregational Sabbath
school, Brattleboro', Vt. per A. H.
Wright, . . . - . 10 00
A. R. Burroughs, Livingstonville, . 10 35
D. W. Cook, Lime Spring, lowa,, . • 150
John Wullsehlezer, Berger Station; Mo.
per Rev. B. K:Brc•bst, Allentown, Pa. ' '3 00
Wm. T. Barckley, Searsville, Orange
co. N. Y. . . 20 00
U. P..Church,Chemung, 111. per Daniel
Todd, . . . . . 20 00
Ladies' Aid Society, Blysburg, Pa. per
Miss Annie M. Robbins, Seey, . 5 00
Citizens of. Burton, Allegheny co. Md.
per Rev. Benj. Merrill, . . 50 00
Mrs. H. Van Syckel, Bridgeton, N. J. 5. 00
Congregations and Citizens' of York,
Livingston co. N. Y. per Rev. Thos.
M. Hodgman, .. 193 12
. .
Collected by C. W. Smith at Cinein
natus, Cortland co. N. Y. . . 20 00
Ladies of Beavertown Congregation,
per J. P. Shindel, Middleburg, Pa. 11 25
Presbyterian ,Sabbath-school, Rural,
Wis. per C. 'W. Phetteplace, . . 2 15
Ladies of Ithaca, N. Y. per J. L. H. . 10 09
Anonymous, Harrisburg, Pa. 5 00 -
German Lutheran Congregation
of Rev. C. Steinnauer, Syra
cuse, N. Y. • • .14 00— 19 00
- per Rev. S. K. Brobst, Allentown, Pa.
Mount Kisko, N. Y. add'l, per John Jay
Wood, . 12 00
Proceeds of Fair held by the Young
Ladies of the Ladies' Aid Society,
Belem, N. Y. per Mrs. Daniel Hawley, 100 00
Coll'n at Mount Holly, N. J. per Rev.
Samuel Aaron, . . 21 20
Meeting in Rahway, N. J. per A. C.
Watson, Treas. . . . 340 45
Mrs. "Z. J. A." Mercersburg, Pa. 5 00
"M. J. A." " 5 00— 10 00
Mrs. Eliza Culbert, Phelps, N. Y. . 50 00
A Lady, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. per
H. A. Wilson, . . 5:00
Three 'members of Rev. Jas. B. Ken-
nedy's Ch. Huntingdon Valley, Pa. 3 00
Ladies of Brooklyn, ill. per Miss Helen
Seevers,. . 10 00
. .
Chris. Commission Central Branch, N.
Y. per R. S. Williams, Treas: . 1000 00
Collection at Bradford, McKean co. Pa.
per Rev. Samuel Porter, . . 75 00
Total, 48,872 67
Amount previously acknowledged, $1,058,043 87
Total Receipts, $1,063,616 54
JOSEPH PATTERSON,
TILMASHRER CHRISTIAN COMMISSION,
Western Bank, Philadelphia.
STORES.
The United. States Christian Commission begs
leave to acknowledge the receipt of the following
additional stores, up to January 19, 1865 :
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia—A. P. D. 1 package; Mrs. Stod
dart, 24 pads.
Germantown—Ladies' Chris. Com. 1 package.
Kingston--Ladies' Aid Society, per Eliza S.
Hoyt, 1 box.
Grey's Va lley—Lathes' Chris. Cora. 1 box.
Troy— Aid Society, ,per Mrs. C. C. Paine,
2 boxes, 2 barrels.
.14rektoinvilie— Aid Society, per, Miss $. L.
Teinplin, 1 box.
1 1 / 4 .Eloensviite--1 box.
NEW JERSEY
Tom's River—Aid Soc. per F. Armack, 1 box.
Princeton—Ladies, per Miss Julia T. Smith,
Seey, 3 boxes.
NEW YORK.
New York—Branch U. S. C. C. 121,650 religious
papers.
Buffalo Branch U. S. C. C. 1200 religious
papers.
Greenfield Centie-1 box.
Sing Sing—Ladies' Christian Commission, per
Annie Rockwell, 1 box.
Parishville-1 box.
Albany—Branch U. S. C. C. per Wm. McElroy,
1 box.
Utica—Branch U. S.C. C. per Dr. D. W. Bristol,
3 boxes, 2 barrels.
Daneinora—Aid Society, I box.
Deposit Ladies' Christian Commission, per
Mrs. E. McKinnon ' 1 box.
Poughkeepsie, Dtachess Co.—Ladies' Christian
Commission, per Mrs. C. W. Tooker, Sec. 3 boxes.
Troy—Branch U. S. C. C. 2 boxes.
Sector—Friends, per D. W. Dirge, 1 box,
1 firkin.
*Waterford—Ladies' Aid .Society, per Mrs. G.
W. Eddy, 2 kegs.
Bufalo—Ladies' Chris. Com. 3 barrels 2 boxes.
Sandford--Ladies' Aid . Society, per Miss Sarah
M. Buck, 1 box. -
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston—Army' Coma Young Men's Christian
Assosiation, per L. P. Rowland, 4 boxes, 98,000
religious papers. • ,
Fall Rtiver—Citizens, per g. A. Chace, 1 box.
Whiteasville-Per Edward Whiten, 1 box.
RHODE ISLAND
East Greenwich—Mrs. Rev. T. H. Baker, 1 box
Provide,nce--Geerge.T. 'Spicer, 1 barrel.
CONNECTICIIT.
Hartford-Aid Association; per Mrs. S. S
Cowan, 1 box.
Forrostville—A. M. Miller, 2 barrels.
01110.
Cincinnati—Branch U. B. C. C. 10,300 religiouS
papers.
WEST VIRGINIA.
aarksburgh—Emily Y. Dodge, 1 keg
UNKNOWN
1 box, from Thomas Askine.
GEORGE H. STUART,
CHAIRMAN CHRISTIAN COMMISSION,
No. 11 Bank. Street, Philadelphia.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1840.
1865. CARD FOR THE NEW YEAR. 1865.
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We have always adhered to good Goods, and depended
on FAIR DEALING for Patronage.
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HUGUENOT SHEET3NGS.—DOUBLE WIDTH,
DOUBLE WEIGHT, and only double OLD PRICE;
304 'Huguenots for Hotels.
11-4 Huguenots for Families.
12-4 Huguenots for Families.
Fine Large Blankets.
1000 Soldier Blankets.
Quilts and ToweEYRE ec LA lings. wholesal ND e.
ELL.
Fourth and Arch.
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Fourth Arch,
S 'l' A. 33 Mr Sll FAD I IVAS4O.
1865.—CARD FOR NEW YEAL-1865
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES.
SILKS AND' DRESS GOODS.
SHAWLS AND SCARFS.
sTmETINGS AND TOWELINGS.
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS.
krbiing- Barijitto.
GROVER & BAKER'S
CELEBRATED SEWN lIA,CRINES
WERP, AWARDED TAB HIGHEST PREMIUMS
OVER ALL COMPETITORS,
For the best Family Sewing Machines, the best Manu
facturing Machines and the best Machine Work,
AT THE FOLLOWING STATE FAIRS.
New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Michigan, lowa. Kentucky and Oregon , be
side a'score of County and Institute Faire.
The work executed by the GROVER & HAR'Tilt
MACHINES has received the FIRST PREMIUM at
every State Fair in the United States where it has
been exhibited.'
The Grover & Baker. Sewing Machine Company
manutacture, in addition to their celebrated GRO
VER & BAKER STITCH MACHINES, the most
perfect
SHUTTLE OR "LOCK STITCH"
Machines in the market, and afford purchasers the
opportunity of selecting, after trial and examination
of both, the one best suited to their wants. Other
companies manufacture but one kind of machine each,
And cannot offer this Opportunity .of selection to their
customers. •
.4Q-• Pamphlets containing samples of Sewing, Em
broidery, etc., sent free to any address.
OFFICE No: '730 CHESTNUT STREET, •
fe2q-eaw PHILADELPHIA
WILLCEIX& IBBS
Sewing Machine
It entirely noiseless.
A patented device prevents its being turned back
ward.
The needle cannot be set wrong.
The Hemmer, Feller, and Braider are acknowledged
to be superior to (folders.
It received the Medal of the American Insti
tute in 18133.
It also received the first premium for "TER Axial'
Swum Its.caista." at thcgreat "New England Fair."
the " Vermont State Farr." the " Pennsylvania State
Fair," and the "Indiana State Fair," HSI.
Bend for a circular containing full information, no
tices from the press, testimonials from those using the
machine, dic.JAMBS WILLCOX;
Manufacturer, SOS BroadwaY, New York.
elmpaniso.
M'FATE FARM OIL CO
CAPITAL, $200,000.
200,000 Shares
Subieription; $1 per Share
WORKING CAPITAL, $25,000*
PRBSIDENT.
JACOB THOMAS.
TREASURER.
E. B. HARPER .
SECRETARY.
FRED. B. REIHLE
DIRECTORS.
JACOB THOMAS,
Philadelphia
T. A. DURNEY,
W. BARTON,
L. J. DEMUTH,
W. H. KINTER,
llfcClintockville, Pa
This Company owns in fee simple, eeventy-four
acres of land, situated on'Therry Run, between the
Reed Well and the Humboldt Works, being about
three-quarter% of a mile above the former (Reed
Well).
Twelve acres of the property have been leased
on which gm WELLS have been commenced, and,
according to the lesilss a sixteen more are to be drilled 7
from theie twelve acres leased, the Company re
,ceive one-half of the Oil free of any expenee.
The remaining property can be leased at a heavy
bonus, whenever the Company see proper to do so.
The Company having a working capital of $25,000,
can develop° the property if they desire to do so.
In the vicinity, on the properties of the Royal Pe•
troletim and Springfield Companies, great activity
prevails.
The Company do not claim that they are receiving
an immediate yield of Oil, but if the character of the
surrounding property be taken as a test, there is
no reason to doubt that out of nine wells now in
progress, some. of them cannot but be productive.
as all wells so far sunk on Cherry Run have pro
duced OIL Tux Rams, 250 barrels; Attsoas, 10)
barrels; GaANGER, 160 barrels, and BASES, 100 bar
rels, are but a short distance below; and the nett
well lately struck on the Humboldt ! property above.
Subscriptions received for a limited number of
Shares, at the office of
HARPER, DURNEY & CO.,
BANKERS,
55 S. •Third St., Phila.
Critrai garb.
COAL AT FIRST COST.
COST PRICE TO STOCKHOLDERS
$7 50 PER TON.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
• OF COAL OF THE BEST QUALITY.
_ . .
SHARES. each entitling to one and a half tons, at
cost, every year, for TWENTY years, and to cash Divi
dends of Profits from the sale of all surplus coal, may
now be obtained at $lO, payable half on subscribing
and half on January sth next, of the mutual
BEAR MOUNTAIN FRANKLIN COAL COMPANY
Oilier 121 South Third Street,
Opposite Girard Bank.
STOCK CAPITAL, 8500,000,
In 62,560 Shares.
Reserved Working, Capital, 12,500 Shares.
Subscriptions of 4 shares, $33; of 10 shares, $9O: of
20 shares, $175; of 50 shares442s; of 100 shares, SS• S ;
of 250 shares, Sp:100.
Each Shire entitles the holder to receive, ever!
year, one and a half tons of Coal, at cost, for 20 years,
and Cash Dividends every six months, of the Profit
from the sale of all surplus coal.
Stockholders who do not want any coal may hat!
their proportion of coal sold by the company for then
especial benefit, the profits being paid over to ties
of the regular cash dividends to which
they are also entitled.
The company possesses large and well built Coi.
Works atDonaldson,(near Tremont,)Selnylkilicoa
ty, with extensive mining and timber rights, an a.
cellent double Bro.a.ker. Slope Works, large Steal
Engines, Railroad., and all other Machinery and .41'"
paratus in full operation, capable of mining fit;,ee
tons, to be extended to 150,000 tons per year. It'
coal is of the best quanta', chiefly of the Black lieaL
and Primrose Veins, which, with. several other ado-
Able coal veins, extend within the lines of this coal
pant for two miles in length. A branch of the Rol
ing Railroad extends to the mines of this colaraer
over which the coal is daily sent to market.
Stockholders may order their coal in any of
usual sizes, via,, lump coal, broken, egg, stove sr.;
nut coal, all at the presentnoSt- price of $7 50 Per. u '',
delivered at the house, within the usual distances
th e company's yards, -in the northern, middle sr , '
• southern portions of the city.
Subscribers of stock are immediately supplied
coal. • ,
For_ circulars and subscriptions, apply at the
OFFICE. No. 19. South - -,THIRD Street, second Pi
opposite Girard Bank.
The Compixiy and all its Mining Works are e } - 4 ,
of debt, - and all operations are carried on on the
Pritie4Plt.
. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Wm. Schmoele, President, E. P. Ring,
William Ford, IL Schmoele.
D. B. Wolfe,, A. B. Barden, Swear'',
THOMAS CARRICK & CO.,
C,RACKER AND BISCUIT BAKER'
1906 J3Karket Street, Philadelphia .
SUPERIOR CRACKERS. PILOT and
SHIP BREAD, SODA. SUGAR and IVIS,
BISCUITS__, PIC *ICS. JUMBLES ,
GINctER NUTS, APSES,
and other Cakes.
Ground Crseker in any qOantity. Orders Draw,.'
filled.
SIB DOLLARS FROG FIFTY CO
Call and examine' something urgentlyne ac <
everybody, or sample will be sent free by uMl f f
cents, that zeds for $6. ft,„ WOLLu. :
681-17 170 Chatham Square,