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THE DAILY PRESS,
UST 13ubearibere. is Tux DoLLeats /ut 1111M11,
moo; or TWENTY 013NTX PER WeNE. Pliyald• to
Carrier. Mailed to Subsoriben out of the city,
V Dou,Ave Pan Annum; now Dorman aro Firm
ai FOE iirx DIMES; Two Dome's OXD TWEarrf.
Cann yoz Tirana Nonni& invariably in &armee
• time ordered.
Advertisements Inserted at the tumid nig"
THE TILIAMICIELT razes,
to Weather% Inia DoLusa pen Arran, In
M. NEEDLES;
1024 CHESTNUT STREET,
attention to his large assortment of
LICE GOODS,
fIOTAARS. SETS. riIa(DHERMEIIBII,
1r the present season.
1,000 MUDS OF 2•YAED WIDE
FRENCH MU SLIN S,
Irgain• and/or sale low.
JLETANS,...ILLUEIONE, and other goods.
it BRIDALAIND PARTY DRESSES.
xteashos assortment of HARD BERG aIIIFS,
'ORM of which are offered
lob. below th 'present gold retell.
E. M. NE
an d Doylies, a large stook.
1.,1,...,,ara. by the piece or yard.
a t Sue quality. every width,
la of ey.lry kind., from 60 acute t 0101.60.
. 7 ,0 and Shoe Linens, 75 cents to 151.25.
bluirting and fine Fronting Linens.
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Jo and Towsll nts,a flue clock.
Meetings and PilloW Criallllol.
Most toe for best family nee.
Ceinbrice, Jai:mints, and Swiss
lio (lambdas, for ladles' wear.
Pique,lltrd;exe Linens. sce,
_ SILKS WITHO
free
itaa Partaken%
ed Ml i,
all widths and qnalitie% from, $2.90 to $9.
me de Rhine!. and Taffetas, tow.
t Stlre, for everting drone%
runt variety at low prices.
mr atlas the toteeat price%
, rood rut Intligmavit/e, 44 venter
rte, Parislnn%
COI ded Silks,
Una Gros ("rains,
White edge Black Taffetas,
Black Venetian Gorda,
Superior Black Grog de Rhinos,
SILKS of all grades, and for sale below the
.et of importation,
MEMO
JOHN KELLY,
TAILORS,
CHESTNUT STREET,
An *ow Neill= from their
INTER STOCK
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ADD DELLEHE IN FORUM AND'
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AND ZING PAINTS, PUTTY, aci.
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P. DUBOBQ & SON,
AT
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Informs his friends and etuitomers that he
large and 'varied stook of
JEWELRY, SILVER, AND .
PLATED WARE.
Manny on hand, a laste and wellnuortad
JMnV'3M.iIEtY.
N. 111:71.01%
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urn vsnl-LATnro PUBLIC
PRIVATE RIEILDISOIS;
eIAIWZID IT WM
FOB THE WELL
,BIOHRENE;
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YE AETIIVENATOR.
this POwerfUl invigorant may to inuonted
'ads. It relieves, with absolute certainty.
la/Wain ; auras nervous debility of every
‘Ls marmite& animal powers after long
"invents sad arrests premature da
zing, strength-renewing cordial to-the
idled anon by woman in all her physical
harmless and sure restorative; is an an
'unquote's of early Indiscretion in both
l aud upon es a specifts for panilyels.Pu.
hag no equal u t damnable, In cases of
tutu not only the physical strength, but
c itself; sad ls in all respects the bed
re and antl•biliona cordial In existence.
(WON. HOLLOWAY, & 00WDILA. No.
TR Street. Philsdslphla. • •
weir BOIL,. or six Bottleafor IA Sold by
tally,
Mac by addressing
& rarzyza. Proledorg.
81 OIDAIL Stmt. New York.
U. S.
SEAT EN-TU RTY LOAN.
Them Notes are bunted under data of August I% Inn,
and are payable three years from that time, in cur
renal, or are convertible at the option of the holder Into
These Bonds are now worth a NOI3IIIIIII .of nine per
cent., including gold interest from November, which
Rushee the actual profit en the 7.80 Loan, at current
rates, including Interest, about ten per sent. per an
num. beside. Its exemvtiott froos State and muntotwat
taxation, which adds from one to three per amt, snore,
according to the rats levied on other property% The
interest is payable semi. annually by coupe= attached
to each note, Whloft may be cat off and sold to any bank
or banker.
The interest amounts to
On. cent per day on a $6O note.
Two cents per day on a OM note.
Tea cents per day on a $5OO note.
Twenty cents per day on a $1,003 not..
One Dollar per day on a WM) ids. -
Notes of all the depomlnattre named will be prompt
ly furnished npon receipt of subscriptions. This is
THE ONLY LOAN IN IttAEKET
LIISTRB,
now offered by the Government, and it is confidently
expected that its superior adyantages will make it the
GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF TEE PEOPLE.
Less than $200,0:0.000 remain unsold, which will pro
bably be disposed of within, the next sixty or ninety
days, when the notes will undoubtedly command a
premium, as has uniformly been the OW on closing the
eubsariptionifof other Loam.
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DEPARTMENT OF , THE: SOUTH. Nv il ; 'ffil 3 e
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THE FIGHT AT. ,lIIVEWS BRIDGE. go* . ,rr
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ELOYEELEPTTS OF. THE EIGHT . AND LEFT 'Of all i
' • WINGS. . " : ' eat l' 1
VOL.
By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, the
tuidersiguel has assumed threeneral Subscription
Agency for the sale of United States Treasury Notts
bearing salsa and three•tentba per cent. Interest per
annum, known as the
SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN_
V. S.: 640 SIX PER DENT.
GOLD-BEARINO BONDS..
In order that citizens of efery town and motion of the
country, may be afforded facilities for taking the Loan.
the Rational Banks. Mato Banks. and Private Bankers
throughout the country have generally agreed to re
solve subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select their
own agents. in whom they have contidence. and who
only are tot* responsible for Uzi delivery of the notes
for Which they receive orders.
JAY COO'KE„
OUBSORIPTIoN maxim
No. 114 ROUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADSLPIIII.
10-40 10-40 10 - 40
COUPONS,
DUE MARCH ISt,
mom AT nunOam MARKS? BATS BY
XtIMX3MLA & CO.,
fottit B4 South MELD Street.
7 . 3-10. =" -
IarOaVIDN. O IIELTECTIC
IN AMOUNTS TO SUIT,
FOE BALE NI
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DREXEL' ( 1 11 004 .
.fe4.lm 54 South THIRD Street.
THE NEW
7-30 U. B. NOTES
FOR SALE;
IX BUMS TO SUIT TUSOHABBILL
DAVIES BROTHERS;
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
DIAIRES IN GOVRRNMENT 9EOIIBITIBB MUM
10-40 BONDo- .
5-20. .BON3CI
Otr
ILL Ig•tMDS,
8.011 . YA LY
A. ND JU 0 B, OASIIRD IN GOLD, BY
I3I~NRY A. 1-1.&-II.V.11 SONS,
DEALERS IN 00 3 7BRNBIBNT SECURITIES.
NO. 41 PINE Street. NSW YORK.
In view of the prospect of PEACE and a FALL IN
GOLD, holders of Gold Bonds will do well to detach the
Coupons and realize the littera et atpres nit rates for Gold.
Parties residing out of the city wishing to cash their
Coupons Gan forward them by express, and we wilt re
turn the Gold or its *slue in greenbacks, as desired.
fell 30t
H . a LEECH & COMPANY,
BANKERS AND STOCK BROKERS,
Fa. 14 FARQUHAR Bu.u,DINGSI
CWAL/BIT T. BELOW TBIED),
Gold, Government Bonds 011 and Misce ll aneous
'Gooks, bought and sold on Bonds,
at the Board of
Brokers. Dealers in Foreign Exchange. Letters of cre
dit Issued on Londoa, Parls, Antwerp, Jais-aga
CHAS. T. YBRKBS, .111,
STOOK AND BILL BROKER.
EEMIIICOVMD
No. 20 SOIITH THIRD STREET.
ia.161.=
C . T. YERKEE, JR., & CO.,
BANKERS;
STOOK AND EXCHANGE BROKERS.
GOLD, 1911.17M11,
BANK NOTEd WANTED.
No. PO South THIRD StrooS
Ja2s-122
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HOCH AND EXCHANGE BROKERS;
No. 15 Sou* Third Street,
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An SUM et lieniseat toads Ma Gold sad arm
might and wild. and Collestione made.
Tartleder 'Stettin' given k the parehise and sale
.1 G over ment, skin, and other Meeks and Los= on
annidulon. nol9-15a
CARBON & G89H.A.11,
STOCK BROKERS,
No. 305 °HASTERT STREET,
SHCOND dolly.
J. K. CARSON. Cte/8.1W9 THEO. R. GRAHAM
TREASURY DEPARTMENT ) OFFICE
-N- OF THE OOMPTEOLLER OP THE CURRENCY,
• WASHINGTON. January 25, 1865
Wierear, Ily
it satisfactory evidence prate/fled to the
understwned, has been made to appear that THE
NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANN OF PHILADELPHIA,
In the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadel-
Phi& and State of Penneylunit/ ft bee been duly orga
nised under and accordipg to the requirements of the
Act of Congress entitled. 'An act to provide a National
Currency; secured by a pledge of United States bowie,
and to provide for the circulation and redemption
tkereof," approved June 8,1864, and has - complied with
all the provisions of Reid act required to be complied
with before commencing the business of banking under
said Act— •
N ow , therefore, 7, HUGH MoIjULLOOH 00m0.
troller of the Currency, do hereity certify_ that THE,
NATIONAL EXCHANGE BAER or PHILADELPHIA,
In the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadel
phia, and State of PennsYlvaols, is authorised to com
mence the loudness of banking under the act aforesaid.
~Beal of the Intestimony whereof. witness my
tram , of a do hand and UM of office this twenty-
WM day of Jannaa7, 1855
Currency. HUGH MoCULLOCII,
Comptroller of the Ourrenci.
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A.PPAIItS POO"OTALIEFO.
Another Incendiary Plot In Savannah.
DISTRIBUTION OF LANDS TO TECE
FREEDAIENt,_
(Epeelel Correspondence of The Prete.)
PIL.thROLIA 11017814
BRA.VirO4T, S. 0., Feb. 1.2."
THE OLPTIIHIE OF unemoaviisat.
Sherman's army, which forthe past three Weeks
has boen variously moving . is South Caro
whither, the pubic have only epeoulated—hie at
length given some report of its
,progress. The prime
conclusion is that Sherman has taken Vranahrllle,
which the news from that vicinity leaves us little
rbom to doubt Forgone profeselng to hair() eirrlied,
from Branchville or its immediate neighborhood
give this statement. It is to ' be supposed
, that our troops have ere this been active at
their old pastime of tearing up railroads, and that
Branchville le no mores—unlit:abed, despoiled leaf
and twig, and all her fair connections lopped away
—South Carolina, as it were, severed from Charles.
ton. This achievement can scarcely be said to hint
the real object of the army, whatever it maybe,
whether a march upon Wilmington, giving Charles
ton the go-by, as unworthy of a siege, and of itself
certain to fall, or, for the present; a deettent ripon
'the mother city of Secession, and another open
ing out at sea=water. It is a _matter of proverb
throughout the army, and, in fact, it Is the opinion
of General Sherman, that to none'hne the object of
the present campaign been confided except the
general Oommanaing. The army started;with the
expectation of a thlrty•days , campaign, and, with
the prospect of more fighting and hardships than all
endured In the tramp through Georgia. It was
mobilized according to Sherman's practice, and
stripped for the work - -a campaign, with blankets,
rations, ammunition, and the aid of Sherman's
favorite, plan of subsistence, but no more._Let it
be set down that Branchville has bean taken.
AItILY OF van TEDIFIEBREE--THE BIGHT AT itrvsn's
MEC=
The fight on the 3d took place at River's Bridge,
on 'the west side of the Sititchatehle or Salkehatehle
river, a branch of the Combahee, running west of
Branchville. Up to this point the progress of the
Army of the Tennessee may be briefly stated. The
17th Corps moved from Foootallgo Bridge on the
30th, and moved on the road parallel , with the
Salkehatchle, followed by the 15th from Beaufort,
which marched from Pocotaligo in the same Wrap-
Oen by a road on the left of the 17th. .Skirmish
big began immediately after leaving reactitligo.
On the Ist of February the 17th left Ridgeville, and
skirmished for ten miles, obitruoted by rebel caval
ry, felled trees, and flooded rice swamps. On the
2d twelve miles wore marched, and stronger °pp°,
sition encountered, the troops sometimes being cont
pealed to form line and charge to dislodge the rebels.
On the 3d an advance or one mile was made, and the
enemy found in considerable foree at River Bridge,
in an entrenched position, with a battery of four
guns, and a mile of swamp in front. The , bridge
being destroyed, our troops out down timber, aded
across, and fought and charged in the swamps
beyond, many receiving wounds while in mire and
water nearly waist. deep. A fort was captured with
four gnu, The 15th Corps were supposed to have
crossed the river at another bridge below; and both
OMB wore on the march toward Branchville and
the Branchville and Charleston road. The oredit of
the small but severe and gallant action at River's
Bridge belongs to -the division of General R.
Mower, A celebrated figliker. The ad Brigade
of the let Division bore the brunt - of the eom.
bat, and_ a gallant charge was made by the 49d
and Cad Ohio, supported by the 63d- and 27th.
About 160 were killed and wounded, many , of the
latter severely. Col. Swain, of Ohio, and Col,
Kirby, of Gen. Elates staff, were placed hors du
combat, but will recover. Lieut. Taylor, of How
ard's staff; vas also shot slightly. Captain E. A.
Walker, of the 10th received a - ganshot
wound through his left shoulder, but is now dping
wedi, along - with other wounded in the Beaufort
hospital. Of these you have no doubt heard.- Ri
ver's Bridge is stated to be but fiftedit miles from
Branchville, whose occupation is placed at date of
the 6th. •
THB LETT WING.
The loft wing of the army, consisting of the 14th
and 20th Corps, under Gen. Slocum, marched into
Carolina by Sister's Ferry, woes the Savannah,
about one week and a half ago, and Wore doubtless
equally well advanced upon their line of march,
operating north of Branchville. With this column
Gen. Kilpatrick's cavalry have gone, and were pro.
wady the force heard of from. Barnwell, on the road
toward Augusta. Sherman is supposed to be with
the 16th Corps, along with Gen. Howard, a portion of
whose military household still remains at Beaufort
In charge of Captain and Adjutant Genbral Tag.
gart.
POPOTALIGO.
The line of railroad from - Poootaltgo, whose occu
pation protects the base of the main movement, is
now guarded by Gen. Hatch's forces of Gilmore's
command, who have been in frequent skirmish, as
far as Ashepoo, with the enemy's few bat trouble
some swamp-lighters. Between Hatch's command
and the great army no clear communication was
open. Troops and supplies reached Foootallgo by
Broad river and what is now called Blair's Land
ing, on the Poootaligo.
THE 15TH CORE% ON THE EIASIOR TO CHAELESTON.
As a postscript to the foregoing, we have credible
rumors that yesterday the lath Corps wore eighteen
miles from Charleston. This corps marched direct.;
ly toward the railroad between Charleston and!
Branchville, leaving the 17th to occupy Branchville
after date of the crossing of the Salkehatchle.
Firing was heard in the direction of Charleston,
and &joint attack by the army and navy in front,
for the purpose of arresting the enemy's attention
and favoring the movement of our forces in the rear,
was supposed to be in progress.
BRANORVILIR AND THB EDISTO.
]
Branchville captured may prove a oonverd
point of junction and bate and direction for t
grand army. The Edisto river, which is navigabl
through toward Branchville, Is thus opened. "
may not be surprised if, while the enemy is held in
Charleston by sufficient forces menacing front and
rear, Sherman secures the railroad running north
from Charleston to Florence.
i
BILBEIDMBN'S AFFAIRS.
Both here and in Savannah the black people
are making satisfaotory ithprovement under Gen.
Sexton's leadership and advice. The near island of
Edisto is being populated with returning runaways;
who speak cheerfully of Its climate and rate its trait
and eotton.growink properties higher than those of
any of the sea Islands In the vicinity. Gen Saxton
lately addressed a great and very enthusiastic meet.
ing at Savannah, and under provisions of the Ill
lowing orders (an imperfect 'ketch of whlok you
received some time ago) has portioned out to the
largest families lots of forty acres on the confiscated
sea islands of Georgia. About . flve thousand of the
blacks have taken lands :
HEADQUARTERS Mn, DIV. OP TOR BIISIOD3SIPP ,_r ;
IR THE FIELD. SAVANNAH, GS., Jan . 11% We.
SPECIAL FIELD OBDIES, Igo. lb.
L Theislands from Charleston South, the abandoted
rice-fields along the ri yore for thirty miles bask from the
sea, and the country bordering the St. Johns river,
Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of
the impose now made free by the acts of war and the
proclamation of the President of the United States
11. holisanfort, eiliton Head Savannah , Fernandina,
St. Augnetine, and Jacksonville, the blacks may re•
Main in their chosen or accustomed vocations; but on
the Islands, and In the settlements hereafter. to be ea.
tablishad, no white person mhaterer, unless military
officers and soldiers detailed for duty, wide be Permit
ted to reside: and. the sole and exclusive management
of straits will be left to the freed people themselves.
subject only to the United States military authority and
[Meseta of Congress. Ey the laws of war, and orders
of the President of the United States, the negro is free,
and mint be dealt with as each. He cannot be sub
fecto d to conscription or forced tut:Wart/derides,. ease
Op the written orders Of -the highest military authority
qf the Departmero, under such regulations as the Pre
sident or Congress may prescribe--aomestic serixinfit.
.1 tackentfths, carpenters, and other snaohanies tont he
free to select their own work and residence, but the
young and able bodied negroes must be encouraged to
en list as soldiers in the service of the United States, to
contribute their share towards maintaining their own
freedom and securing their rights as citizens of the
United Slates klegroes so enlisted will be organized
into cumptudies.• battalions, and memento; ander the
orders of the United States military authorities, and
will Fe paid, fed, and clothed according to law. The
bounties paid on enlistment may, with the consent of
the recruit, go to ooziest his family and settlement 111
-procuring axricultural imotements, seed, tools, boati,
clothing. and other rticles neceetary for their liven
hood . ,
111. Whenever three respectable negroes. heads of
.sball desire to settle on land, and obeli have
selected ' for that purpose an island or a locality clearly
defined, within ti e ladle above designated. the Inspoc.
tor of settlements and plantations will himself. or by
each anboreinste officer as ne may appoint give them a
license to settle each island or district, end afford them
such acetate nee as he can to enable them to establish a
peaceable agricultural settlement. The three parties
pained will subdivide the land, under the supervielon
of the Inspector, among themselves, and each others as
me y choose tO settle near them, to that cads family
shy It have a plot of not more I hen (44.forty,acred of
groused, and when it borders on sante water
bonnet, with not snore than eight hundred feet front,
in the possession of which land the militarjanthorLies
will afford them protection until such time as they can
Protect themselves, or until Congress shall regulate
their title. . . The quartermaster may, on the requisition
cf the inspctor of settlements and plantations; DiflCe at
the di.poee. of the Inspector one or more of the cap
tured rteani ere, to pl y between the ea Me meats and one or
more of the commercial points heretofore named in
orders, to afford the settlers the opportunity to supply
their necessary wants and to sell the products of their
land and labor.
IV. Whtnerer a negro has engeted in the mil Clary
PfrtliCe of the United States, he may locate him family
in any one of the stttlements at p/eaaure. and de.ortfre
a homestead and all other rights and privileges of a est
tler'oa thottyb present in pew on lunge man nor negroes
may settle their families and enrage on board the can
brats. or in fishing, or In the navigation of the
tra‘e, a, without losing any claim - .to land or oiher.ad•
vantages derived from this system. But no one unless
an actual settler as above defied, or unless absent on
Government eerViret Wtil the entitled to oialnl any right
der to carry oat this system of settlement, a
lc , r will be detailed as Inspector of Settlements
itione, Whose dory it shall be to visit the Bet
te regulate their police and general manage.
who will furnish personally to each bead of
thjeet to the approval of the Tresident of the
a tirirgcsgiirtitotattfitoiliarttitaigkgght:
41 charnel orcionflitits that may ache nader
ibjeol to the like anproyat, treating such
her ao possessory. Thd same general ogioer
oliarglid with the enlistment and organise.
etre recruits, and protecting their Interests
dent from their settlements, and will be'go
the ,rales and regulations prescribed by the
rtment (Or Oita lottrpoae.
(Adler Several Ftt. Saxton is hereby anpolated
01 Battlements and - Plantations. and will at
en the prrformence of his duties. No change
or desired in the settlement now on Beau
nor will any rights to property heretofore
affected thereby.
of Major General W, T it
Sh lrardN.
Major and Assistant adjutant General.
ie . ges italicised contain new and im
create to the freedmen. The abolition of ,
,dour conscription practised by money
reotuiters here, with permission of the
Military authority—the partition of land!
=MVO and loyal negroes-and .the security
ghtti of the enlisted blacks—are subjects of
Motion. That white pinions shall not be'
ed:, to reside on the Islands to be colonized,.
regretted: Unless the measure IS only tern.
and intended for the safe settlement of the
t.inakee a separation between white and
enetloial to the interests of neither.
SAVANNAH. •
'thearanoe which In the early weeks of the
lon did so much honor to- the intelligence
. Mess of the viototions troops has now the
• of being a protracted mildness too "long
out.'' Secessionism vaunts its opinions
and the old praslavery spirit jeers at
:rot The distribution of lands to the
s a timely lesson and warning. Georgia,
er States ,Oonierted by the bayonet, re
a, strong military government—certainly
or in vigor to that of mora loyal Tennessee.
o'firmest self-respect upon the, part of our
vernment can'oreate a whideSOme e reVerelloo
I Men in the minds of the Secessionist Geer
' be, like all the perverts and nerrow.heads
ebelllon, are probably unscrupulous to avail.
ves of-every means allowed, and are not to
y trusted. Of course, the planters are now
• Of the newlyfreed and landed negroes. That
t lout, is salutary.
ve just learned that another conspiracy to
city has been detected in Savannah.
dozen men, reported by the guards as be
to the poor Irish of the place, mete found
g to out the water-pipes. They were to
by regular eourt-martiel, in default of the
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SHBRAL&N'S ARMY. -
W. Golden, E, 10th illinols, gunshot wound
:h.
.ral Charles Emory, E, 39th Ohlo, left thigh.
Mo(lann, K 32d Wisoonsin, scalp.
am Mirth, K. 43d Ohio, hilt foot.
Ford, E, 39th Ohio, left thigh.
I Eke, G, 10th Illinois, sacrum.
; Vergl3le, K, 82d Wisconsin, right neck.
~ral Mao. H. Manse, lc, ma Ohio, right thigh.
; Tweed, E r loth Illinois, right arm.
Quearman, B, 26th Missouri right thigh.
pia J . V. Hornor, IC, 63d Ohio, foot.
nil Azro Young, K, 32d Wisconsin, fractured
1. arm.
Lee, E, 32d Wisconsin, leil thigh.
Snyder, H, 32d Wisconsin, left thigh.
Gurr, B, 25th Indiana, amputation finger.
. A
Jennings, G, 43d Ohio, fracture right ulna.
.11 Bonner, K 10th linnets, elbow joint.
Smith, (3-, lOch Illinois, right hand.
ony Roche, F,l2th Wisconsin, right foot.
• nd Henry, F, 82d Wisconsin, right shoulder.
oral Wm. Hill, F, 30th Okla, left arm. •
• . 0. Baker, E., 39th Ohlo, right forearm.
!. Stubbs, A, 6th Missouri, right face.
In V. 32d Wisconsin, scalp.
Mack,l, 43d Ohio toe.
C. Green, I, 43d Ohio, neck.
W. Cherry, A, 82d Wlsoonsin, nose.
.ant Shepard Sheldon, G, 821 Wisconsin,
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J. Walker, A, 89th Ohio, right hip braised.
next, D, 31st, Illinois, left leg.
Smith, 0,32 d Wisconsin, right leg.
.ral Monagban, K, 10th DlinoLs, 'right
al muscle,
ford .9lorgerty, B, 39th Ohio, right leg.
.I"ser,er, .E, 89tb. Ohio, global region.
Er.fght, 034 Ohio, left thigh. '
kiln Wicks, IC, 10thItnole, left hip.
W. - Saunders, K, 10th Illinois, right thigh.
Aral O: K. Booth, 10th Illinois, left knee.
51 Were, A, Old Ohio, right leg.
Simmons, B, 32ci Wisconsin, right leg.
ral Michael O'Brien, G, 10th Illinois, left
Preston, G, 10th . 1111 . nop, right hip,
_ tr, rig
dults, G, 10th Illinois, loft leg.
to L. Dein), B, 92d Wlsoonsin, fomural
NEW eton F. Nelson, E. 43d Ohio, right leg.
Tim y Toby, IC., 321 Wisoonitztaight arm.
Albe Smith, B. 32d Wisoonsin, left hip.
0. " Ofter, K, 321 WistonSin, right leg.
Prost, A, aid Wisconsin,amp. left thigh.
Sergr nt John Cramer, H. 25th Indiana, loft foot.
- Corp° al John Fetzer, I
13, 25th Indian right leg.
clorp. al. John Feurba0h,..8,.250. ndigma, him
shoulder, , '
Antonlaing;H,,2sth Indiana, rightleg. • '-
- Bavici Shotwell, E,-I.27lll•NoW:York,•left thigh.
John Wilson, 13, 81stIllineis, too frosted.
`Leroy XS colloid. A, 25th ohm, fore linger.
Christopher - Hughes, A. 25th Ohio, - scalded foot.
John lg. Hind, C., 25th Ohio, scald right foot,
• EiattheW E. Baldwin, I, 127th Now York, right
thigh.
s John Bncirris, 0, 6th Missouri; left thigh.
•
John W: Church, A, 26th Wisconsin, right foot.
`Wm. Compton, G, 26th Ohio, amputation right
Man, above, elbow.
,aon Douglass , A, 436 Ohio, right.side face.
/Oliver Olson, H, 25th Wisconsin, contusion right
: artholomew MoNamee, I, 63(1 Ohio, amputation
t
William A. Murray, IC, 32d Wisoonsin, sprained
Corporal Henry A. Campbell, H, 25th Wisoonsin,
Frht loot.
I Oliver B. Gardner,H, 25th Wisconsin, right liand.
Wm. Jessup, G. 127th New York, bruised hand.
George Jarvis, L, 29th Ohio, left hand.
5 &VMS NAIL
•GISTS OP PHILADELPHIA TO EHORMAI7 S I3
NET—THAIIXB TO OUR OITIZENS PAM THE
ICIOXIDIAPIDING GENERAL.
• the Editor of The Press:
. . • SAYAN - RAH, Ga., Feb. 12, 1885.
The General Commanding 4as requested me to
Sum his sincere thanks, through your journal, to
{hose citizens of the Quaker City who solaindly
donated supplies to the troops of this Department.
The pickles were very acceptable, and were much
relished by the "boys." To Capt. Geo. H. Smith,
for his very arduous labors and kindness, all join
in sending good Wishes ; he will ever live in the me.
mory of the brave fellows who presented this city as
a Christmas gift to the nation.
You will confer a great'flivor by inserting this in
your paper, so that your citizens may know that
their efforts in trying to add to our health and com
for,tare duly appreciated by those who were the
-recipients of the articles purchased with the means
which were kindly donated. The whole command
joins in wishing you long life and happiness,
'Very respectfully,
• 0. J. HINDS, A. A. General.
Department of Savannah.
Other papers will please copy.
?PAS Army Signal Corps.
THE MODE OF BENDING DESPATCHZ&..-.IIF.TIOTENCY
07 THE CORFB. •
A member of the United States Signal Corps con
tributes the following to the Boston Traveller:
"I think it about time that something relating to
the Signal Corps was published In your paper, and
with your leave will mention some of the duties of
this branch of the service.
"Probably no class of men employed in the army
are more useful than thefts engaged In the duty of
sending army despatches from ono point to another,
by means of signal flags. These flags are of differ
ent cetera ' white, Week, or red, to suit the circum
stances of the case. They are either four or six feet
square, fastened to pointed poles, the length of
which can be Increased or diminished as required.
The officers in charge of a Station are furnished with
field glasses and powerful telescopes, by moans of
which they can read the signals from twelve to
eighteen miles distant. For night work, torches are
used. The operation of transmitting signals is per
formed in this•manner : The message is sent to the
signal station, Which is generally located in the
highest tree upon the loltiest mountain or hill top.
The officer in charge arranges his key' upon a
circular pasteboard Instrument, marked with name.
rale. When all 18 ready, by the turning of tilled's°,
the proper numbers appear, and are called off to the
flagman. This Bagman, on hearing the number,
Immediately places the flag In the position indicated.
"Thus,.wavlog the flag according to a number,
requiring it to move from right to lett; will mean a.
certain Neerd.. l l2lo -4 11agis then stralkhtened up, and
another number called, which may raise the flag
above the bearer's head, or drop It towards the
ground. Again, Some number called out causes the
flagman to make , a motion with the flag that con
veys a whole sentence of Information to a distant
Station, where another signal•offioer hes been read
ing off, through his telescope, the numbers previ
ously sent. The reader of the despatch sits looking
through his
,glass, calling off the numbers to his
assistant, who notes them down upon the field-book.
When the entire message has been received,the
ritinaberB are transmitted to the next station, and so
on until It reaches the general to whom it is sent.
"The whole time occupied in sending a despatch
of thirty lines is generally less than as many
minutes. The flagman, by constant practice, works
rapidly, and the reader calls the numbers with
equal speed ; and when there are two or more offi
cers or flagmen at a station the message is passed
on to the next, as fast as it is received. When the
numberareach the last Station the key' signal is
sent over, and being properly adjusted, the officer
at the receiving station can then write out for or
read the message to his commanding general.
These keys are oonstaritly changed. • A combine,
Lion of keys' is arranged between two command
ing generals in a manner that insures their de.
spatches against any chancre of being read by even
the officers making the signals, and, of course, if
the 'rebels saw them they would be unable to de
mpher them. For instance, Gen. Sherman has ar
ranged with Gen. Howard that the key' to his de
spatches shall be sent under cover of a particular
word. Accordingly, when that word is received,
Gen. Howard has the key that unlocks the remain
der pt the despatch.
On Monday morning; General Sherman may
make use of key' that he discards in the after
noon. The afternoon key. is known to General
Howard by the word that accompanies the men.
!gage. lf , Clreneral Sherman wishes to speak with
General Logan, who may be stationed miles away,
hie arrangement of 'key' words may be totally dif.
ferent from those need In communicating with
Howard. • '
1 . Signal officers, by long practice, are often able
to abbreviate messages, especially when they know
that the station boyund is commanded by an officer
familiar with the. abbreviations. A bystander
looking on, when a message is being sent, will see
the gage in the hands of the men near him waving
rapidly, and strain his eyes In every direction to see
where the 'persons are who are taking notes. Ile
will, see no one, unless favored by a sight, through
the 'telescope, at the station. The great merit of
this' system of signalling consists in the secrecy
with which messages may be sent, and answers re
turned, although it is equally advantageous in an
engagement, when.secret messages are ot required
and , orders are rapidly conveyed from 'one point of
the Bald to another.- It la at this time that the elg
nal Moen and men are in the greatest danger.
The; rebels • have an offensive way of Intercepting
desgatenee with Male bullets, sent by the rifle ,of
Romig sharpshooter detailed to pick off the Harman
, andi others engaged at the signal station. Signal
We , are generally. moiipted on horses, and armed
Witlisabres sad Remmington'e six.ehoOters.
Yours, signally,
ALl:mutt' T., S. 0., U. S. AI
Petroleum.
The New York World, referring to the proposed
tax on crude petiolenm, says:
If our, national legislatora act the part of
Wisdom, they. should would at present reject any and every
proposition looking to the imposition of a tax of any
kind, light or heavy, upon crude petroleum. They
should reject such a suggestion, not alone bemuse
of the vast capital new embarked In the petroleum
business, not because of pagional, individual, or sec
tional interests, but for the most weighty national
reasons. By an amendment to the internal revenue
bill it is-proposed to levy a tax of six cents per
gallon upon crude petroleum, equal 'to about two
dollars and forty cents per barrel. It Is demonstra
ble, we think, If this amendment becomes a part of
the law, and Is enforced, that an injury will thereby
be inflicted upon what promises to become ultimate
ly the first commercial interest of the nation, equal
to its reduction to a merely nominal standard. .A.
tax of six cents per gallon on crude petroleum
Would inevitably add ten cents per gallon to the
cost, of the refined article, which already pays a
duty of twenty cents per gallon. -In this event, the
export trade will almost entirely cease, for the (foal
oil now manufactured in Great Britain le furnished
at a cost of about twenty.five cents per gallon, in
gold—much cheaper, than our oil could, under the
circumstances mentioned, be offered in the same or
in any other European market.
Again, the petroleum business is in its infancy.
True, it now gives signs of becoming the most gi
gantic commercial interest of this great continent;
but unwise legislation will so bind it about, cramp
and cripple it in ae... adolescence, that it will be ut
terly, unable to a even half its natural and
proper growth. If a.tax must be placed upon pe
taoleum, good sense
_dictates that its linpositlon
&quid' be postponed until it acquires that com
mercial strength which will enable it to 'bear the
load. It should be reteembered that America does
not Stand alone in the markets' of the world as the
producer of rock oil. In hail the countries of Eu
rope, Asia, and Africa, It either exists naturally or
is artificially evolved, is either manufactured or
mined. In the United States, it is true, the indica
tions are that the supply is boundless. Bat Hoar
vast interior seas could be transformed into so many
mighty pools of petroleum, we should not be one
teat the richer therefor, unless we were able to de
posit the oil in foreign markets at' a cheaper rate
tban any competitor. We can undersell all rivals ;
we can, and we must do it, in order to secure the
monopoly. Let our capitalists proceed in the work
of securing this ;let us make, as we can, the United
States - this vast oil well of the universe, and set all
the nations pumping, and then—tax.
The following items of oil news possess Interest:
On hail been discovered in large quantities on
Fish Creek, West Virginia, one of the tributaries of
the Ohio river, and same declare that it will prove
the most valuable territory yet dikeovered.
The Sandusky Register says that the oil company
boring at Homer's brewery, for some days past, has
just struck oil, and hive already commenced tubing.
- The oil seemed to be in a crevice, and at a depth
of sixty feet, but in what quantity the Itayisteris un
able to say.
the existence of petroleum in large quantities
throughout the. Russian Empire has led to the grant
of a concession by the Czar to a French company,
organized by Marquis la Rochejaquelein for the
utilization of this mineral oil in the prodnotion of
gas, and the lighting of St. Petersburg oh a more
economic system than that now in operation.
Tho excitement In Butler and Lawrence cma.
ties, Pennsylvania, 18 on the LAOTOBO3e, and Dr. Eg
bert, the old millionaire, has leased thousands of
acres of lands on'Sllppery Book Creek. Aiwall yield
ing two barrels per hour, by pimping, was opened
on the 2d inst. The lands On this creek have nearly
all been leased.
There is great activity On Fishing Creek, in Wet
zel county, West Virginia, where parties are boring
for. oil and proposing for operations. 011 has been
struck on Middle Island Creek, at Hissam's Mills,
in Tyler county, West Virginia, five miles from the
Ohio river, and nearly all the lands In the county
are bought or leased. An old salt well near Clarks.
burg, Harrison county, Virginia, was latelyopeued,
and threw out a large stream of gas and petroleum.
The name of a new and beautiful color, which is
derived from petroleum, is called garoftla,
The on excitement at Mecca, Ohio, is rapidly in
creasing, and heavy Eastern capitalists have lately
pnrchaoedarge tracks of real estate at high prices
for • oil purposes. A Philadelphia company has
leased all the land they could obtain on the Ma
homing, from Nies to Warren, with privilege of
boring for coal, oil, or salt. 011 indications have
been discovered at Leavlttsburg and In Howland
township: The price of land there is getting up to
011 Creek figures. A well in Athens county, Ohio,
owned by a Cincinnati company, yields eight bar
rels of lubricating oil per day. This is said to be
the only CinCinnati company that has received any
thing from its wells. There ls great excitement at
.Milan, Ohio,` over the !'show" of Oil, and Specula
' tore are taking up the lands:
Hosrthe Southerners Destroy their Pro.
perty.
The Southern people do not exhibit great anxiety
to prevent the march of Union armies by the seer'.
fled of their own property. The Now York Times
refers to the subject as follows :
"Nor would it seem that everything was laid
waste in Sherman's front, as he marched through
the State, We do not read that he found Orange
burg in flames, or Colombia in ashes, or anything
of the sort. Nor does it seem that the provisions
and supplies and forage were destroyed. The article
from Saturday's Richmond Dispatch, which is for
warded by General Grant, says: ".The general
opinion is that ho (Sherman) will go to Charleston
and establish a base there ; but we confess that we
do not see what need he has of a base. It Is to bo
presumed ho is subsisting on the country." All this
is wonderful, and especially in view of the proclama
tion of the — Governor, ordering universal destruc
tion. Ho cried out in his proclamation only a few
days ago:
" Remove your property from the reach of the
enemy, carry what von can to a place of safety ;
then quickly rally and return to the field. What
you cannot carry, destroy. Whatever you leave that
will be of use to your toe, what he will not need,
that will he destroy. Indulge no sickly hope that
you will be spared by submission ; terror will but
whet his revenge. Think not that your property
will be respected, and afterward recovered. No
such feeling prompts him. You leave It but to sup
port and sustain him ; you save It bat to help him
OD his course. Destioy what you cannot remove. lie
will make you return to your homes over a charred
and blackened road; prepare you the same way for
him as he advances. Let him read everywhsre and
in everything that in this State, from one portion
of it to the other, there is but one purpose and fixed
resolve—that purpose is to meet him at every point;
fight him at every road ; that resolve is to undergo
ell suffering, submit to every Baorifloe, welcome
any fate, sooner than subjeotion by his army or sub
mission to his terms."
The Mexican Empire.
DENIAL OP THE REPORTED CESSION OP SONORA.
TO PRA OR.
[Renter's Telegram ] PARIa, Feb. 5.
The news of the cession of certain Mexican pro
vinces to Franoe is wholly without foundation.
(From the Moniteur.)
AU reports which have been circulated in re.
ferenee to a cession mado to France by Mexico of
Sonora and other provinces, are absolute fabrics,.
tione.
3240 LAND ItEPIIB3B TO ACCEPT THE DENIAL-NATO•
LION'S POIIMIIIt " DENIALS " QUOTED.
(From the London Times I
The question of the cession of Lower California
to•Fruce is not considered to have been settled even by
the urivalidied assertion telegraphed from Paris, that
the news on the subject is wholly unfounded. In
deed, It Can be positively shown to have had some
foundation whatever may be the ultimate extent of
its realization. Mr. (twin, after the Southern Seto:m
elon, of which he.was an advocate, visited France,
and energetically laid certain plant before the Empe
ror, which, according to advices from Paris, were, at
all events, received with very great attention. It is
likewise believed that means were furnished to him to
proceed upon the strission which has led to the present
announcement. In any case, the public, remember
ing the number of formal statements and contradic
tions that preceded the transfer of Savoy to Franco,
will, for a considerable time, regard the matter with
reserve. According to some impressions, the most
probable arrangement is that France will not imme
diately take an absolute cession, but will guarantee a
new loan to Maxima on the security of the provinces
named.
ENGLAND REMITBB THE NEWS WITH " strspittsE
I=l
(Prom the London Timex
The alleged cession of Mexican tannery to France
created great surprise today, and from the pecu
liarity of the circumstances conneated , •with the
nomination of Mr. °win, as Viceroy, hee been re.
ceived with much reserve. It had no material ef
fect on the price of either Mexican stook or the
Confederate loan. • The popularity of snoh an acqui
sition In France seems very doubtful, but the chief
temptation would probably be fotuul.. Jo its endow
ing that country with a gold field; which might
more o less be to it what Australia Is to England,
and California to America.
BBALL 3 THZ REBEL Pnitara—Wa - v HZ WAS RE
SPITBD.—The preliminary preparations for the exe
cution of Captain Beall were all completed on
Friday 'before the President's respite arrived. The
prisoner fully expected that the sentence would be
carried out on Saturday, and had already bade his
counsel, James T. Brady, the final adieu. It is
stated that the respite was granted by the Presi
dent upon the urgent eollcitation of the prisoner's
mother, who came into our lines at Charleston, Va.,
on Wednesday last. In relation to the strong at
tachment between the prisoner and his mother, Mr.
Brady related an interesting incident on Saturday
evening, In his speech on behalf of the Patriot
Orphan Home. He stated that on the occasion of
his parting interview with Captain Beall, which
occurred on Friday afternoon, ho asked the con.
damned man it he would favor him with the address
of his mother, in order that he (Mr. Brady) might
communicate with her. Mr. Brady watohed the
countenance of the prisoner closely as he asked this
question to see what its effect would be; but Beall
exhibited no nervousness or emotion. Previous to
that, however, he had said to Mr. Brady that he
cared nothing for the judgment of mankind, and
nothing for the punishment he was condemned to
Buffer, because he knew his mother thought her son
was. right, and his sister would honor his memory.
Mrs. Beall has arrived here, and Is now with her
eon on Governor's Island: I t not known just now
when the execution will occur, but it to anderstoqd
that it will be deferred only a fow days, as the sole
object in postponing it was to enable Mrs. Beall to
be with her son in his last moments.
Tan Philadelphia Ledger has the largest circula
tion of 'any daily paper in the United States, if we
except the Herald. There are about 70,000 houses In
Philadelphia; and the Ledger prints about 70,000
copies; which is just one copy for each house. The
Ledger has always been most admirably managed;
Mr. Swath; its former proprietor, was at one time a
poor journeyman printer, :but he was a practical,
energetic man, and thoroughly understood his bust.
noes. Hence the extraordinary fumes of his paper.
fits successor, Mr. Childs, has been for a number of
years successfully engaged in the book publishing
business. He is a much younger man than Mr.
Swain—is energetic, judicious, has a well-balanoed
mind, and, all things considered, Is just the man to
infuse new vigor Into the old establishment and
keep It up with the times. Mr. Swain, as we have
already - intimated, always managed his business
wisely, but In no one set of his career as publisher
of the Philadelphia Ledger did heahow more wisdom
than in the ohoice of his successor. If we should
ever get tired of publishing our Ledger, we hope that
we may be as fortunate In obtaining a successor as
has been our Philadelphia friend. /t seems to us
that nothing Can be more agreeable to . a retired
publisher, who has spent the best years of his life fn
handing up a successful paper, than to have it fall
into the hands of a man who has the etierary_,_ the
wisdom, and the power to Oendnot It eu 0 0 0 3 6 =7.
Y, Ledger.
Woman's Bights and Dangers.
A EXPORT OP A ENOZAT LECTURE BY HISS ANAA A.
DIOBINSON OA LABOR 808 NYOBBA.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson lectured, on Tuesday eve
ning, at Henry 'Ward Beehher'il Church, Brooklyn,
on the subject of Labor. The church was filled with
a large and appreciative audience. The lecture
was a noble, earnest, and eloquent plea in behalf of
labor for women. Henry Ward Beecher introduced
the speaker at 8 o'clock. Woman, he Held, had now
become a power in the land, and power had no sex.
Re spoke briefly, too, of the extending sphere of
woman's Influence.
Mies Diekinson, who was attired In a scarlet silk
dress, with black waist, commenced by relating the
anecdote of Madame De Stasi, who, when asked by
the great Emptror of France why women meddled
with -politica, replied, "Sire, while you behead
women, we will ask the reason why." So to-night,
if she were asked why she spoke of this subject, elle
would say that, while women starve, body and soul,
and sink into untold depths of degradation and
despair, she would ask the reason why. The toiler
Is a person to be envied. The laborer Is one.to be
admired and honored. But society save it is right
for a man to work, but wrong for a girl to work.
Suppose a boy and girl starting in life. The boy
May labor, may achieve , and !Moiety Cries " Bravo. n
But suppose agirl goes oat and works—it may be
she works for an old mother or a sick sister, does
society urge her on, and praise her ? No; It says she
has lost all her chance for a comfortable settlement
for life. But suppose she lives In a tolerably com
fortable house and her father is tolerably well off.
She still may Lave a liking for comfortable things,
"an In fi nite hankering after all manner of pleasan t
things," and she may desire to earn money to ob
tain them. Society warreher that it is not proper ;
and If, despite that, she still persists, and obtains a
line house with nice furniture, society sees and
smells all over it the stain of work, and they put
their hands into their husbands' pockets, and say
how much better if this girl bad been satisfied with
the. life she was living, and waited until she got
married. There is no place nobler or happier for a
woman than tbat of a wife and mother. But there
is one unmarried girl to one unmarried man the
world over, and there are thousands of these that
prefer to go out and labor instead of staying at
hems to starve.
INEQUALITY IN PRICES.
A man is paid twice or three times as much as a
woman for his labor. Take the soUpole of Phila.
delphla for instance. The male prinoipal of the
male grammar school receives $l,BOO per year, and
the female principal of the female grammar school,
passing the same examination, receives $BOO per
year. Bat it is said that the man has others to sap.
port and the woman has not. That le not trae. The
man may be single, with no one to support, or may
have a mother and father, wife and children, to
port, and he still receives the same $1,600. The we
man may be single, or eke may have a father, mo
ther, or children, or even a husband—for such things
happen—to support., and she still receives only $BOO.
Mee Dickinson referred to an incident in her own
history, when she was teaching 80'001 in Western
Pennsylvania. She was applied for to teach in
a neighboring place, 'tad everything was satisfac
tory until they told her that they had been paying
$2B per month for a male teacher, and proposed now
to pay her $l6 per month. She scouted the offer.
That winter she went home, doing nothing, with
others depending upon her, to some extent, or sap.
port ; and she had not enough money to spare to
buy a two-tilling handkerchief; but she would
have swept at the street...crossing rather thatt
have taken that school at aloes price than a man
would have received for preoisely the same work.
WOP.S FOR WOMBS.
The speaker referred to the availability of girls
instead of young men as clerks for stores, and sops.
chilly in dry goods stores, where the men know no
thing about the goods they are dealing In, and the
women do. Still, it Is true, women do not receive
the Mine education for their work as men do. The
woman purchasing treats the young lady clerk with
rudeness and insolence, where she would treat a
young man with respect, and so the young lady
clerk returns the rudeness and insolenoe. One-half
the girls get married now• st.days for a home. If
they were able to support themselves, then a young
man and woman would get married because they
loved each other, and couldn't help it. This matter
rests in woman's own hands. Never yet did a wo
man determine to do a thing than she did it. Never
did she make any rule of society than that it would
become a law. You women of wealth say that this
is disagreeable, but do you know that your influence
in this matter is omnipotent I It may be, yon say,
a matter of no moment to you ; but,it may be the
life or death, honor or shame, to thousands and tens
of thousands of other women o.day, and who knows,
it may bo such to your child to morrow. Women
will often oppose this work; possibly they will op
pose more hatefully and persistently than men.
Men, too, will oppose young men who are not young
Men at all, but. merely vegetables—forked radishes ;
and other men with old prejudices, and other men,
of whom we may pray that their sons may not be
brutes like.their fathers, and their daughters slaves
like their mothers. But there are men and women
with noble, generous hearts, who will aid in We
work, and by and by, through the force of Its own
power, it will mould the usages of society to its own
convenience.
TECO SOCIAL lIVIL.
There aro thousands and tens of thousands of
young girls to-day Whose honor is resting by a
needle's point, and banging by a single thread, and
year by year they are crashed down, until perchanoe
the honor slips from the needle's point, and the tiny
thread, breaking strand by strand, gives way at
last, and drops these women into infamy and shame.
Miss Diokinson referred to some of the prices paid
now to sewing-girls. These women meet thisquee.
tion of the death of the body and the death of the
soul with starvation, destitution, and despair,
driving them on, and so, falling into this life, are,
perchance, driven into it, saving the body at the
expense of the soul. Society sweeps on, no matter
how bard these women strive to do better—no mat
ter how they may 'long—no matter how they may
pray—no matter how they may stretch up eager
hands out of this gulf of degradatiop and despair--
society . , sweeping on, tears loose the ellen - log hands,
and presses them down, down, down! eternally
down ! into this frightful living, breathing, enduring
death !
MERCY TO THE FALLEN WOMAN, OH JUBTIOR TO
BEE BETRAYER
I do not Bakou to be kind to these Women; it 18
no more than justice of which the world stands in
need. All that I ask you Is, you, madam, you who
perchance swept aside your spotless garments lest
even In touching this poor woman they would be
soiled and hurt—all that I ask of you, madam, is
that you do not turn away from this girl, may be
With a heart torn and wrung and quivering ; and so
turning away from her open wide your door and
welcomo into your parlor, place by the side of your
young and innocent daughter, the man who, per..
chance, has betrayed her;-taking his hand and
clasping it close, not seeing - upon it the stain of a
murdered and lost soul, not seeing between you and
him the ghost of a spirit driven down through un
told depths through life, and all of the eternity yet
to Come. I ask you simply that the same law shall
hold good for one as It does for the other. But what
I want to ask of you is, that you save otter women
from going Into this life. Oat of the cruel and ter.
Able necessities of this war there are hundreds of
thousands of women flung upon their own resources
for their own support. It is absolutely necessary
that these women have more work and better pay,
if you would save your sidewalks from being crowd.
ed with young girls, who today are spotless and
pare and innocent, mother, as the young girl sitting
at your side. -
li STORY OF dk GIRL'S LIFE.
Will you let me tell you a little story to Illustrate
the whole matterl Some time ago, I was going
home one night, just as the shades were closing
round; it commenced to rain, and I saw walking be.
fore me aheautifully dressed woman unsheltered.
Pwinkt up to her and said : " Madam, will you have
part of my umbrella ; will you walk with me up the
streets" She, looking at me and shaking her head
slowly, said, I don't think you know what you are
saying." "Oh, yes," I responded. "I say will you
walk up the street with me under my umbrella'!"
She said again, "I don't think you know what von
axe saying. Yon don't know who I am." Still I
said, "that makes noaltforence ;I don't care whether
you know me or not ; shall we go up the street to.
gather V' "No," she said, "I don't think you would
oare to have anybody who knows you meet you
walking up the street with Such a woman as me ;"
and I turning, looking Into her face as the gaslight
struck across it, saw there the traces of a life that
always leaves Its traces, knowing that the young
and beautiful woman standing beside me was one
upon whom society had branded "outcast" and
"abandoned," and ' I said, "No matter, we wlllgo on
together." And as we walked Isaid to her, " What
could have brought you to such a life; you are
young, you are pretty, you look well ; what could
have brought you to such a Mel" She told me
there her story ; and I, questioning thereafter,
found that the story wee strictly true. She was
a daughter of a clergyman in West Pennsyl
vania, who had died, leaving his widow and herself
bennitela and unprovided for. The girl tried to find
something to do. It was the common story repeat
ed. She tried to stand behind the counter, but they
preferred young Men ; she tried to keep School, but
there was only one in the village, and that had Its
teacher ; she tried to sew, but could not find the
wor* there to support herself and mother by it ; and
so they found their way to the great, busy, bustling
city In pursuit of work. She tried to keep school
there, but could not obtain an appointment. She
tried to get Into a store, but was told that she must
Past serve six months as an apprentice, without
pay. She was not so completely learned in her ao
compltshments as to teach them. She was driven
to the alopshop, making her miserable pittance by
sewing. One Saturday she took her work to her
employer and staked for her t ay. He looked at it,
and tearing it apart and flin ging it back to her tel
her to do it over again. S e carried it back, and
the next week bringing It house received no pay,
but was told to carry it baek.again ; and so, for
five weeks, she received no money. She had sold
or pawned everything she had for bread, that she
could" live and have a little fire, beside which
he might 'wbrk, and she- stood before her em
ployer with °leaped hands and tears trickling
over her face begging for the money she she had
rightfully earned, and it was still withheld from her,
and then this man said to her. " You are beautiful
and young, you need not labor for such a price as
this ; you might get plenty of money if you would."
She did, mother, what your daughter would have
. done—she left the store indignant and outraged, and
wandered up and down that city hour after hour,
and went up one street and down another, into store
after store, pleading for work, and some kind-hearted
people said to her, " We would give you work If we
could, but we have five hundred such applications
every day"; or, perchance, they would ask from her
a certificate fr om her last employer, and she had
none to show; others turned away carelessly, and
others insulted and outraged her as her old employer
had done ; and so, she said, at 10 o'clock that Satur
day night she found herself standing, without work,
without money, in front of her old store. There she
stood, in the night, and the storm, and the cold ;
there she stood, the gloom gathering about her, the
wind driving the rain in gusts Into her face and
through her torn garments. Oh I she said, do not
think I hesitated then. She looked up this long
street, dark with the night and tempest, up narrow
alleys and passageways, up winding flights Of
stairs, into a little garret-room, all poor and empty,
into the tire.place—no fire there—not a' stick of
wood—not a cent to buy any with ; into the"
little cornea Cupboard, all bare and empty, not
a orusrof bread, not a cent to buy any with.
Ah I she said, don't think I hesitated then Don't
think so meanly of me as that. But looking into
this little room, poor, starved, wretched,
miserable; looking round It into one corner,
there, she said, I saw my poor, poor mother, dying
of hunger and cold. Oh, whatinarvel, what marvel
that she fell I And so she had gone on lower and
lower, step by step. I said, "you must stop this life;
you shall go with me ; maybe I can find something
for you to do—nay, I will fled something for you to
do. You shall stand an honored and respectable
woman Once More." "No, no," she said, "don't try
It ; you need not talk to me so ; 'have tried it again
and again and am always disooveredand driven back.
You need not try to. help me. There is no hope,
there is no help for such a woman as I," and then
turning and looking at me—oh, men, oh, women,
careless and indifferent, oh, that you could have
seen the girl's face, and could have heard her say,
"You are young, you are handsomely dressed, may-
be you have wealth, maybe you have position, may
be influence, oh—l beg you,l pray you, to use them
all to save other young girls. They are coming into
this life, living it as I live it, suffering it as I suffer
it, dying in it as I ahall some day die." And 00 II
promised her, and to keep that promise I come and
pat the matter before you tonight. The speaker
said : that girl's story had an ending. One Christ
mas eve, not long ago, in one of our elegant streets,
in front of a beautiful dwelling,. blazing with light
from garret to basement, stood t his , girl
"With amazement
Homeless by ntsht;"
and the cilleer that testified afterward said
looking in at those beautiful windows into this rare
and orosant CO43D, TUN ittOod tha pug uma who?
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had been her employer with a yousgairl restingher hand in his, promising to love 'and honor bin, life; and it is said that up and down, up and
down, up and down. In thenight and cold, wandered °
thls poor waif, this miserable outcast,. still ;.and
when the (71mIstmas morning sun rose and streamed
up the street, there she rested, dead and at peso..
And the day thereafter tars ;gin, daughter of a
clam - mar, gently and tenderly reared with' a
mother who had loved her, this poor girt wee - car.
ried oat and burled In the pooAter'S field, with four
miserable abandoned women following her as liar
only mourners.
Oh, poor, tired, wronged, outraged soul, mast
thou have found the justice, of God more infinitely
tender than the mercies of men 1 And so, I ask you,
father end mother, with daughters . at home ; I ask
you, young man, with generous heart, loving a
sister ; I ask you, young girl, remembering the
thousands of other young girls, whose ionocenoe
and purity and womanhood are as desk to them as
yours to you ; I ask you all, simply and only, to
carry a lesson home with you to.rdght,. to think of
It as it deserves ; not carelessly, not indifferently,
but with the weight of these lost smile pressing upon
roe, I make this last plea, I put this bat query, I
oiler this last prayer in their behalf, putting, it to
you. and I ask you to decide , as itahould be decided,
for them, for yourselves, for the world, with the
dear . Lord Looking down and waiting for what
answer you will give, what will you do for these, HIS
poor lost little ones 1
The lecture was listened to with Intense Interon,
and during its delivery many of the audience shed
tears.
The amendment' of the Federal Constitution.
abollahlng and prohibiting human slaverythrough
out our country, which was proposed in Congress
and adopted by a two-thirds vote In either House,
Las already beon aproved and ratified by the Lees
latures of sixteen States (including loyal Old Fir.
Oita) as follows :
1. February 1. Inurrcus-Sonata and House.
2. February 2. rttrouroanr-Senate and - House.
3. February 1. lriAartano.-Housepd, Senate.
4. February 2. Raoul ISLAND - Senate and
House.
5. February 2. Naar Youn-Senate;Bd,Aasembly.
6. February 3. rdAssaoatrawrrs -- Senate and
RODS& •
7. February 8. PinnirIYLVANIA Senate and
House.
8. February 7. WireT VIRGINIA - Senate and
House.
9. February 7. .1111ssoura-Senate and HMO.
10. February 8. Mena-Senate and Renee.
11. February 8. Vutortma-Senate ; oth, House:
12. February 8. OHIO-Senate and Hoare.
18. February 8. hIiIcnITSOTA-Senate and Howe.
14. February 8. KANBAP-Senate and HOMO.
35. February 10. IranarrA-Senate ; 18th, House.
16. February 16. Nays.DA-Senate and House.
RIJEOTED.
1. February 8. Deuaweas--Senate end HOUBO.
Connecticut,
Vermont,
New Jersey,
Kentucky,.
Tennessee,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Georgia, ,
Florida,
UNION off Mirrnonnve.—The indications are ap
parent that on the return of peace will Vilna a re
union of all Methodists in the country. Previous to
the breaking out of the war Mare were nearly two
millions of communicants In the Methodist Church.
which was only divided on the question of slavery.
This evil abolished, the hope is indulged that all the
Methodists In the country will be united at the ap
proaching Centenary year. Already a movement
has been inaugurated to this end in Tennessee, Rev.
W. A. Critchlow, of Murfreesboro, having pub
lished an address upon the subject, acknowledging
the hand of God in using the rebellion to sweep
away the pretext for the division of the Chunk and
the dissolution of the Union, and declaring it pre
per, that with the restoration of the authority of the
Government over the revolted States, efforts Should
be made to reunite the Church.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
1 caudal having been enacted a legal holiday ?), s
recent act of Apeembly, the day was observed by oar•
public institutions. The banks were all closed, as elms
the Corn Exchange aad the Brokers' Boards. Tha
amount of business transacted was too limited to seta,-
bush any change of :quotations, The Gold Boom was
also &sorted, so that we are unable this morning_ to
eve any reliable figure for the precious metal.
The following letter will explain itself:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OP INTERNAL RETESITE
WASEINGTON. Fab. lit, was.
Sin: Your letter of February Id, enclosing letter of
Mew ball, Borie, & Co., in relation to .the bests 'EPPEL
wiich sales for gold are to be returnedatsa been re
ceived.
Punderatand the inquiry to refer to the tax on the
brokers' tales, and where those sales are made toy cold.
the sales are to be returned at the value of the gold is
currency at the time the sale is made, without regard to
the question whether a credit Is given or not. The ne..
halation of tho Eels is the business of the broker, which
makes him liable to_ tax, and when the contract of sale
is completed his liability attaches, and no eabseqaext
acts or the other parties can change it.
Very respectfully, E. a. ROLLIN%
Acting Commissioner.
WABICISOTON KETT% Esq., Astesaor Putt District, Phi
ladelphia, Pa.
The absence of the usual excltement in the stock mar
ket lately has probably had a tendency to increase the
speculation in gold, but from whatever cause it may
have resulted, it is evidently now the principal busi
ness of large numbers. representing all classes to the
community, and nearly all ages, from the messenger
boy of fourteen upwards. Gold wee formerly bought
either for immediate use or to hoard, generally through
bankers or brokers, and was a very simple transaction.
But now -a days the operations are conducted in an en
tirely different manner, and with a different end is
view. Those who buy generally intend to sell at as
advance before the time comes for the. gold to be deli
vered, and those who sell expect to parehass at a lowir
rate before the gold is called for. The result frequently
is in many cases, that no gold is actually sold, but the
whole transaction simply amounts to settling the differ.
once between the two prices.
The Savannah cotton fleet, so far as heard from. will
bring about 16, COO baler, the bulk of it being upland cot
ton. Another fleet is loading at Savannah, and will be
in New York in a short time. Estimating the weight
of the thirty thousand bales of cott:n at fifteen million
ponnds, and the price at seventy cents per pound, over
ten million dollars will be realized by its sale. The
lately increased supply of cotton' has had a depressing
effect on foreign exchange. It Is stated that a large
amount ofthe cotton 'seized at Savannah was the proper
ty of the rebel authorities, and was to have been ran.
through the blockading fleet, and •therefore justly for
feited to the United States Government. That portion.
of it which can be proved to have belonged to Unionists
will no doubt be paid for to three proprietors at a fattur•
time. It it evidently for the benefit of the loyal.see
tions of the country to get possession of this valuable
commodity for home consumption and "for export, AIL
that way be obtained will help to keep the cotton mills
supplied, and by furnishing a basis of exchange reduce .
the price of gold.
'I he New York Post of yesterday says:
Wall street to-day le ?extremely quiet Roney is
working more easily at 5 per cent. Surplus fonds ate
offered on loan, and at 6it is not easy for capitalists to
lend thelraccumulating unemployed means. The only
other feature of importance la the firmness of the prices
of the beet dividend-paying railroad &hares, most of
which shows tendency to advance.
To-day being a close holiday, no business of import
seen is doing. The Stock Exchange is closed, as are
also many of the leading brokers, except for the PAY
mint of drafts. For the tame purpose moat of the banks
are open. In the street a small , amount of business la
doing at quotations, which compare ea follows with.
those of yesterday afternoon:
Wed. Toes. Adv. Dee.
United States 6e,1881, coup... .111 111
United States 6.20 coupons.—llo% 111
'United States 14-40 coupOns-1023i 104,1_
United States certificates.-- 98.34 MX • • ---
Tennessee 6e. 68 68
Missouri Se 6P. s " issg
New York Central Railroad...llsE 1104 ..
Erie Railway 7434 7434'
Erie preferred-- '‘ 02.34 913; 31
Hudson River Railroad. 1.11.3fi
Reading Railroad 114 114 • •..
For gold the following are the chief fiactuatlons this
morning :-10:H), 201M - ;10:41, ; 10:60. 201%;11-145.
202; 11 :80, 100%; 11:45. E. 0% • 12:00. 22074; 21X:94:
12:16, 201 M; 12:4 3 . 20134; 1:15..200%.
In foreign exchange no transactions of importance
are reported. The supply pressing on the market con
tinues to commutate and quotations are drooping at
lomolom for gold.
The steady decline in gold is manifesting its initiates
in all brancues of trade, and where Talus, have not
sympathized with the • great regulator" in ite doWO.-
ward conies prices are but tittle more than nominal_
Wheat is moderately active under a speonlattvade
mend, but the sales show a decline on Saturday's
agates of 2X0'.1-1c e t bushel. Operations were priori-
Pally confined to No. 1 spring ,at from St 22/f@1.414,
closing at the Wide quotation. Small sales of No. 1
red winter were reported at $l 4.6; extra spring at $l. lB,
endND. 2 Gyring at $1.25. There was nothing whatever
done l Flour.
- .
The demand for Corn le limited and the market re
ceded 2., with sales of rejected at 720750, in store.
slowing dull at the inside figure.
firm a t t ma S r A k V et e ffOoira O
fo a r s
N in o . quiet
tand
he u rec e i p t t o fa lNw
York despatches
nitre is but little doing in be, and the market rabbit
easier, with light gale. at 9so for No. 1, and at 9fic for
No. 2.
Tt a rseeipte since yesterday have been 868 bbla Flour,
1e.t22 bus (Sate, 973'bus Ere, and 2 2001 ms Shorts. Thai
mar at for Flour harm with Wes of Western miming
at 119.7!@_10; C4p I?_ezta as st—edo:7s(4ll; mettiam do
at $ll. reggil LYN wig read:and hbolee, including favo
rite St. Lorna brands, at 1611.7c014 bbl. Southern.
Flour is quiet and re m the same. .Corn to ; new
Balaban yellt wat In_ 90* bile Oats are selling at s7e
*UT Du far Northern and Canada. Rye $1 76 if 4 btu:
tib064(6)66; Fine Feed WWI; and Middlings $664 ,
ionT
Paomerows. —Pork le selling at Mg 37 for prime; vs
(440 for Mere: and $46@48 for clear, easb. Beef re e s
trek:D*2(424f bbl ror eastern and Western Lard
24e bbls and tierces; and smoked flame 21@g2c .
arab. Butter and Cheese are dull.
Cincinnati Provision StarketsZeb.2otk.
Tfie Provision market on Sr tnrday was in a decidedly
better condition as regards halt meats and lard. For
the former there was an active foreign demand. princi
pally on foreign account, and sales of 3.10.00 D lbs. were
made at 16c for shoulders, 1733@18c for rib sides. 12c for
clear rib, and 200 for clear, all tortes. Nothing doing in.
uses Pork, and prices are entirely nominal. Lard—
sales to the extent of fully 4,000 tierces at 2114@f12c for
prime city, on orders from the Nast..,
Wu/ex - 2 le held at $2 17Q2.18
LETTER BAGS
AT THE 111[11031Airte EZOHANCM. PELLADEGPSTIA.
Brig Heroine, (Pol. /again, sass.
Brig Herald. soot.
PHILADELPHIA BOARD Or TRAM
Jos. O. GRUBB.
Exon:Yro A. BOUDER. Omoccrnrs or 77:11 MornL
GEO. L. BUZBT.
P.1):ii)411:1:nor.10:4,14:1r1,4: 4 :31P71
Sirs ittass....6 43 1 Sox Eisre...6 451 Etitia wATER. a 3ff
United States bark Hem of the Fes. George H Leirs
commanding, from Hey West 2d inst, to the Mary Tart
for repairs
Brig Vince/5k Morrison, 7 dare from Fortress 'Prix)46
is ballast to Workman a Co.
&dr F Et Baird, Ire/as. 10 days from Marie/ton Bar,
in ballaat to caßtain. -
-Fut Back. —'he schr Thomas Jeffereon, hones for
jesseica, previously repotted ashore on the pitch or
Ca pe ge x aopec. returned. th is morning . in a leaky eon:.
&don, for repairs.
10110HAIM&
Ship bland Light. Mate% cleared. at Liverpool /At
Inst. for this Port,
m
Ships PhiLaophia. Pool. and Corsair, for this Poet
were loading at Liverpool Ilth inst.
biLlp Peerless, Major. for Manila, sailed from Liver
pool 10t1o usto inst.
Bark Hn, Bose, cleared at Port Royal llth Inds
for this port,
Bark Tsittea. Harriman. for this Dort, sailed (not
Port Bora/ Nth inst.
Bark Piorenco Chlpmin, for this port. was loading at
Liverpool litlllmit.
Brig Daniel Maloney. Ireton, from Bczton. •at Part
Royal 10th Int. via Savannah
Behr John M. Broomall, Boulez', hence at Port
Royal 11th inst.
Bohr Sallie B, Bateman, at Port Royal 16th trod, fret*
Wilmboton.
Bohr neptarts. Busell, cleared et port Royal loth gall
for Savannah. _
Fehr Sidney Price, btoOrray. cleared at Port Royal
lath last for this port.
Beth Theodore 'l' Dorrieser. Blidatran. for this pOrt;
tailed from Port Royal lOth Last
Bohr Henry
.11aM. attires. for th is 040, Wig front
Red &id Win WAS.
•
Me Constitutional Amendment.
STATES TNT 10 VOTE.
lowa,
Wisconsin,
California,
Oregon,
Arkansas,
Louisiana,
Alabama,
Minimlppl,
Texas-18.
Chicago Markets, Feb. 20
Boat oim Markets, Feb. 2.1.
V) 1;1 ti $;; Ma CA fp CO *TO
ARRIVED