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*/EGIS & LMELLIGENCER.
A. W. BATEMAN, Editor.
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BEL A1 R, MD.,
Friday, November 25, ISC4.
f&T-Tlie had a more extended circulation
among the intelligent fanner* mid business men ol
Harford, than any oilier paper in the county. No
4 ‘ Lock floppitaP’ *r other obscene or “ Lottery” adver
tisements will appear in our column* at any price. A
•urge number of our subscriber* pay tor their paper in ad
vance, and consequently arc Just the class advertiser* de
sire to reach.
The attention of respectable and legitimate advertisers
is directed to the above facts.
To Correspondents.
AH communication* for publication must lie ncoom
ponied with the real name of the author, op no atten
tion will he paid to them. The real name of the autho
will not In; published unless desired, but we cannot
consent to insert communications unless we know Hie
write r.
WAR NEWS.
A brief despatch from Chattanooga, under
date of the 19th insl., announces that the enemy
in force last Friday morning attacked the Union
troops at Strawberry Plains, eighteen miles
above Knoxville, Tcnn. Fighting at intervals
was continued throughout the day. Each as
sault of the enemy was repulsed. A later tele
gram from Louisville says that Gen. Gillem is
safe at Knoxville, and that in his late encounter
with Breckinridge, his loss is estimated at about
400 in killed, wounded and missing.
Memphis, Tcnn., papers of last Thursday, re
ceived at Cairo, state that Beauregard with a
considerable force is reported to be at Corinth,
where it was expected Forrest would join him.
Tlie only large force of the enemy near Memphis,
it is stated, was a body of about 4,000 at Mount
Pleasant, Miss., twelve miles from Colliersville.
Reports locate Longstrect and Chalmers at Holly
Springs.
Information from the Army of the Potomac,
says ; A good deal of firing was heard on Satur
day iu front of Petersburg, on the Appomattox
road, but, as far as heard, without important re
sults. Deserters report that the rebel tooops on
the James have all been withdrawn with the ex
ception of a skirmish line and enough to man
the guns on the forts. Up to Monday morning
there had been almost continuous rain for 36
hours.
Rumor* had readied the army that (he enemy
were evacuating Petersburg, but the report was
not generally believed.
An arrival at New York Monday from New Or
leans on the 12th, brought papers of that date
which ft ite that Gen.Canby’s wound was not a se
rious one, ami that he was doing well, and would
only he confined to bis quarters .for a short time.
A telegram from Washington reports that a
force of about forty rebels was discovered early
Sunday morning crossing above Edwards’s Fer
ry, fiom Maryland, into Virginia. They had
with them a number of horses and cattle. The
troops wore believed to have been commanded by
Harry Gilmer.
Provost Marshal General Fry has requested
the Governor of New York to have a careful ex
amination made of persons throughout the State
liable to military duty, with a view of reaching
the correct quota for future drafts.
Southern papers say that reports had it that
Gen. Sherman, having destroyed Atlanta, moved ;
with three corps, amounting to 33,000 men, in
the direction of Macon, Georgia, and onTursday |
of last week reached Jonesboro’. General
Hood’s army is reported to be still iu the vicinity i
of Florence, Ala., watched by the troops under
Ocn. Thomas. About 900 rebels, it is stated,
made a dash iuto Atlanta previous toils destruc
tion, and were captured by the Union troops.—
They arrived at Nashville last Saturday morn
ing.
Rumors were current at Fortress Monroe on
Monday that General Bn tier had blown out the
end of Dutch Gap, and had lot in the water.—
The army roads, it is stated, are in a miserable
condition, owing to the heavy rains that have
been falling for some days. A later despatch
from Washington says the rumor about the evac
uation of Petersburg originated with refugees
and deserleis, who merely expressed their ber
lief that such was the case.
Information from the Army of the Potomac up
to Monday morning was brought to Washington
yesterday by the arrival of the mail boat from
City Point. Picket firing fi r a day or two past
has been kept up with much spirit. An officer
who lert the Uuiou lines in front of Petersburg on
Monday morning, reports that there were no
signs at that time of theoraeuation of Petersburg.
The rebel works, it is stated, are stiil well man
ned.
It, is stated that Provost Marshal Gen. Fry has
issued peremptory orders for the correction and |
revision of all enrollment lists throughout the
country and specially enjoins upon the comtnis- j
sioners of the boards the duty of adding to and
erasing from all who become liable to or exempt
from military service in any sub-district.
A despatch from Washington says that for '
nearly two weeks the government lias received j
nothing from Gen. Sherman direct. The only
intelligence of his movements was that obtained
through Richmond papers of last Friday. Ac
cording to the Southern accounts Geu. Sher
man's plans that were communicated to the War
Department, nearly a month ago, have, it is sta
ted been so far successfully carried out.
A large number of prisoners have been sent to
Fort Lafayette within the last few weeks—in all
about fif y officers and non-commissioned officers,
in addilon to the seventy-five rebels formerly
there, have been received. Among them are
Gen. Page and staff, captured at Fort Morgan, 1
Mobile bay. Some of the minor officers in charge I
of the fort have bin superseded, and the change ’
is said to bo quite agic at U to. the older prison-!
era.
Tun Sattiiday Evbxiso Post.—The prospec-!
trs of this old established weekly will be found
i i our paj or of to-day, to which we invite atten
to'. The terms to clubs will be found easy.—
A lady who gets 20 subscribers at $2.50 each,
and sends S2O iu addition, will get one of Wheel
er k Wilson’s Sewing Machines, worth $53. If
she gels 30 subscribers, site will only have to add
$lO to the amount. If she gets 40 subscribers
at the regular price ($2.50,) she will get a Scw
machine for nothing. Specimen numbers
sent gratis, by application to Deacon & Pctersc n
319 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Sonoacji.—We have been presented with a
bottle of this article by Mr. Joseph Wetherill,
manufactured at his new mill, which is certainly
the best that we have seen any here. The mill,
wo are told, is cue of the finest in the country,
and certainly, if the bottle presented to ua is a
fair spec men of its work, in n who patronize it
can be disappointed.
The Employment of Freed Slaves in Ua- I
ryland.
On tie 15jh instant tho citizen* of
Charles county, Md., held a large meet
ing at Port Tobacco, to take into considera
tion the necessary measures to be adopted
in relation to the employment of fraud
slaves. B'. B. F. Burgess was appointed
: President, J. F. Gardiner and Dr. F. 11.
| Willis vice Presidents, and Samuel N.
, Cox and James B’. Matthews secretaries.
■ Gen. Walter Mitchell, in a few remarks,
declared the purposes of the meeting.—
lion. George Brent then submitted tho
> following resolutions, which, after a spir
ited discussion by Messrs. Thomas R.
Halley, George W. Carpinter and George
Brnut were unanimously adopted :
J Whereas, by the proclamation of the
• Governor of the State of Maryland, the
! domestic relation of muster and slave has
been abolished in this State, and the far
mer lias been thereby deprived of the la
bor heretofore employed iu agricultural
r operations, it becomes important, if such
, operations are to be continued, that some
i plan should be agreed upon to ensure cer
, tain labor, and that the price to be paid
5 therefor should be uniform. Therefore,
. be it
Resolved, That it is earnestly recora
-5 mended to the proprietors and owners of
r houses and land not to rent or lease any
t house or laud to any negro or negress, un
less such lease or renting was prior to the I
Ist of November, unless such bouse or
l land is kept under the control and super- I
vision of the proprietor or owner thereof,
so as to prevent such house or land from
being tho resort of the idle, vicious and
dishonest of this class.
RtSolved, That wo agree and recom
, mend that no free negro tie hired for ordi
nary field or farm service unless it be by
the year, except during the seasons of
[ hay-time and harvest, or in the event of
. the sickness or death oi some one or more
’ of those employed by the year.
| Resolved, That we will not by over
bidding, or by any other means, endeavor
to induce any one to quit the service of
his present employer.
Resolved, For the purpose of securing
ample support to the laborer, and adopting
a schedule which will he just and proper
, for both employer and employee, that tho
following scale of prices be agreed upon :
Ist. For first-class negro men,.the wages
, to be paid not to exceed $l2O per year,
, with house-room, firewood and food. 2d.
I For first-class negro women, without chil
dren, the wages to be paid not to exceed
SOO per year, with* house-room, firewood
and food. 3d. For boys under eighteen
years, the wages not to exceed S6O per
j year, with house-room, firewood and food
! —this amount, however, to be graduated
down according to age and capacity. 4th.
Wherever, in cases above mentioned, it
becomes proper to hire by the month, the
above scale of prices is recommended as a
guide for the amount of wages to be paid.
stb. A first-class woman, with two chil
dren incapable of work, is considered
worth their clothes and board; if more
than two, they should be supported by
i their parent or parents —this, however, to
be a mutter left to tho agreement of the
■ parties. oth. In all cases of hiring, lost
time is to be deducted.
j Resolved, That it is recommended as a
I matter of humanity to those who have in
their josse sion any, who from old age or
infirmity are incapable of labor, according
to the best of their means, to provide for
them until provision shall he made by law
for their suppoit.
Resolved, That the same be recom
mended iu regard to children too young
to work, except in cases where they may
have a parent or parents to take chaige of
them.
The New State of Nevada.
The territory of Nevada, which has just
been admitted to the Union as a State by
President Lincoln, was organized in
March, 1861. B’or this purpose about ten
thousand square miles was appropriated
from the Northern extremity of California,
and about seventy thousand from Western
Utah. At the time of its organization
the territory possessed a population of
very nearly seven thousand white settlers.
The development of her mineral resources ’
was rapid uud almost without parallel, and
atliaoted a constant stream of immigration
ito the territory. As the population has
! not been subject to the fluctuations from
which o her territories have suffered the
growth of Nevada has been rapid and stea
dy. At the general convention election
of 1863, nearly eleven thousand votes
were cast. Daring the present year great
accessions to the population have been
made.
Nevada is probably the richest State in
the Union in respect to mineral resources.
No region in the world is richer iu argen
tiferous leads. These leads are found
scattered over the entire Washoe country,
the richest of which is that known as the
Comstock lead, of Virginia City. The lo
calities of the other principal mines iu the
region east of the Sierrra Nevada are the
Esmerald mines, one hundred miles south
southeast of Virginia; the Humboldt ot e
hundred and sixty miles northeast; the
I Silver Mountain, sixty miles south ; Pea
j vine, thirty miles north, and the Reese riv
j cr country, one hundred and seventy miles
I east northeast, embracing many districts,
j aud flanked by two of mure than ordina
ry promise—the Cortez, seventy miles
north and the San Antonio, one hundred
miles south of Austin, now the principal
town on the Reese river.
A few months ago another deposit of
. mineral wealth was brou ht to light, which
l'l has proved of incalculable value to the sil
! ver mines. This was an immense basin
i ol gait, five miles square, near tiie sink of
. tho Carson River. This basin, says a gcr
i tlonian, who writes from Virginia City,
appears once In have been the bottom of a
hike, and the salt is found good even on
the sutfacu. A covering of about three
i inches is loose and indifferent; but be
neath tlx-s, for a depth of fourteen feut,
pure rock suit is found as clear as ice, and
white “us the river snow." Beneath
there is water, which seems to he filtered
1 through salt for an unknown depth. The
t whole fourteen feet in thickness dues not
contain a single streak of any deleterious
P'l
1 1 miter of rubbish, and is ready for quarry- ]
jig and rending to market. The locality
{> one hundred miles most of Reese lliver,
jnd seventy miles east of Virginia, on the
I ver’aod read.
In January of this year there were one
undred and twenty five quartz mills in
peration in Nevada, which were erected j
i t a cost ranging from 810,000 to 8100,-!
)00. About three-fourths of the quartz
mills of Nevada are driven by steam, and :
the balance by water power. Of the en-1
tire number, four-fifths are in the vicinity
of Virginia. There is an average of one
hundred mills in constant operation;
these will carry, on an average, ten stamps
each, making one thousand, with capacity
for crushing one thousand tons per day.—
This ore will yield at the rate of SSO per
ton, giving a daily production of 850,000,
or 815,000,000 per annum.
The General Assembly.
The following exhibits the state of po
! litieal parlies iu tbe Senate and House of
i Delegates:
Senate—, ,—House Dun.—,
Kep. Ucm. Rep. Deia.
Allegany 1— 5
Anne Arundel....— 1— 2
Baltimore Co 1— B 1
Baltimore city.... 3 lB
Carroll 1— 5
Calvert —1 6
j Caroline 1— 2
I Charles I —1
Cecil 1— 4
Dorchester —1 2
Frederick.... 1— 6
Harford —1 4
Howard —1 2
Kent —1 2
Montgomery —1 2
Prince George’s..— 1— 2
Queen Anne’s.... —1 2
Somerset —1 3
St. Mary’s —1 1
Talbot 1— 2
Washington 1— 5
Worcester —1 3
11 13 52 28
Democratic majority in the Senate 2,.
Republican majority in the House 24.
Result of the Presidential Election.
The smoke of the contest has so cleared
away as to enable us to give the result of
the vote for President by States, as fol
lows ;
STATES VOTING FOB LINCOLN 4 JOHNSON.
Maine 7 Illinois 16
New Hampshire B Michigan 8 I
Massachusetts 12 Wisconsin 8 !
Rhode Island 4 Missouri 11 j
Vermont 5 lowa 8
Connecticut 6 Kansas .. 4
New Yrk S 3 Minnesota 4 i
Pennsylvania 26 California 5
Maryland 7 Nevada 3 |
Ohio 21 Oregon 3 j
Indiana 13 I
Total Electoral votes 208
STATES POU M’CLKLLAN 4 PENDLETON.
New Jersey 7 I Kentucky 11
Delaware 3 |
Total Electoral votes 21
Making a majority for Lincoln of 187 in
the Electoral College.
Farms in Lower Maryland.—The
friends of emancipation predict great re
sults trom the abolition of slavery in Ma- j
ryland. On this subject the Washington
Chronicle remarks:
Wo hear from the Commissioner of Ag
riculture, and from many private sources,
where slaves have been lost to planters by
legislation or enlistments, there is a dispo
sition to sell their real estate at a low fig
ure. Proprietors cannot readily adapt
themselves to tho free labor system, and
therefore are desirous of exchanging the
present uncultivated fields for greenbacks.
It is also understood at the Department
of Agriculture that large numbers of the
best class of German farmers stand ready
to migrate to Maryland and Virginia, when
the war is over, expecting in this latitude
(which is so favorable to the raising of
wines as well as corn) to fiud unexampled
returns for investments.
However it may be with Virginia, there
is certainly nothing in military aspects,
present or prospective, to prevent an im
mediate immigration from the North into
Maryland. While improved farms, with
good buildings, &c., in the immediate vi
cinity of Washington or Baltimore bring
large sums, it may be stated that others,
less favorably situated and improved, sell
for twenty dollars tb'e acre. Probably im
proved plantations may be bought for
twenty or thirty dollars the acre in the
lower counties, where tbe soil is diversi
fied and suitable for planting or stock-rais
ing, and particular!) for the cultivation of
fruit and vegetables of all kinds. Rivers,
creeks and springs abound. The first,
named produce abundantly of oysters,
suud, herring and other delicious fish,
while forest and stream teem with the
finest game. There is no better mutton
than that which conics to this market from
Maryland, and every species of domestic
animal arrives at perfection within the l
bounds of the State.
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Economizing Coal.—The Scientific
American gives the following useful hints
upon this suhjdot, which are confirmed t
by every one’s experience who understands 1
tbe philosophy of coal fires ;
“A good bright fire can bo steadily
maintained with coal, with less trouble
than with any other kiud of fuel; but not
by raking, puking and piling in green fu
el continually. After breakfast tho fire
should be cleared of ashes, and fresh fuel
pul on to fill tbe grate moderately. Let
tbe oven damper be turned up, so as to
heat it, and leave tbe small top door open,
more or less, according to tbe intensity of
the heat required. In this way, air enters
over the top of tho fire, and maintains a
fir boiler consumption and consequently
greater beat than when tho draft dampers
are thrown open. A washing can be
done or ‘ironing’ accomplished with oue
ihird loss coal than is generally thought
necessary to use. So far as sifting ashes for
tho cinders they contain is concerned, it is
hopeless to expect much change. Huu
; dreds of poor families live off of the waste i
of their improvident neighbors, arid in this |
way there is something Used which would |
otherwise be lost j but it seems to us that
charity should be practiced in a different
an 1 more positive manner. It’ tl.ie proverb
bo true that etiarity begins at home, then
wo have a still stronger argument against
ft >—ti m
[ ibe wasteful practice. Cinders will burn
: admirably iu small cylinder stoves, and
heat a nursery or a laundry as hot as it
should be. Every shovel full saved is a
shovel full of coal put, in the cellar, and
a hint to tbe wise is enough on this
point.”
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A Brilliant Passage,
I During the Northrop-Kclly debate pre- i
I vious to the recent election in this State, j
|Mr Northrop, in reply to Judgo Kelly’s 1
j strictures on the Democratic party, intro- 1
duced the following brilliant and telling
j illustration : *
j “No sir, the Democratic party is not
I dead. But if you will pardon me, sir,
j (addressing Judge Kelly), I will allude to
| au illustration given by yourself, iu your
j place in Congress, in which you typified
the utter destruction of the Democratic
party beyond the hope of resurrection. It
■ is contained in a speech made by you on
the 21st of May, 1802. You there gave
the gentlemen of Congress your, view with
, regard to the vitality of tho Democratic
party, and you illustialed it very beauti
fully—of your thooky had only been a cor
rect one I You spoke about your travels
in Switzerland, and said that you had
there seen a desolate vale, where no blade
of grass grew ; and you asked the guide
what had caused all that desolation iu
that valley among tbe mountains. He
I told you that beuoath that broken aval-
I unebe of rock and earth had once stood
j the little village of Golden ; but that sud
denly a laud slide had come down fro n
the mountains completely crushing (hat
little village with all its inhabitants. You
remarked that there was nothing to in
duce the antiquarian to make researches
into the depths of that debris Then you
continued by saying so it was with the
Democratic party—that it bad been over
whelmed, and that no human energy or
j enterprise could over resurrect it from the
i ruins beneath which t was buried,
“Well, sir, iu accidentally reading that
passage from your speech, 1 was reminded
of another illustration which I thought
would more appropriately represent the
, Democratic party, I refer to au incident
which hud its place in my own country,
for unfortunately, perhaps, I have not been
abroad. I remember, sir—you may also
i that some years ago there was a little
[ frame house that stood on the side of one
|of those grand old mountains in Now
Hampshire. The family who tenanted
j that little house were one day suddenly
j startled by a thundering noise and over-
I shadowing darkness. Hastening to the
window, they saw that a fearful landslide
was descending upon their humble little
| home. They rushed out hut were speedi
j ly overtaken by that terrible avalanche of
earth and stone, and were crushed and
buried beneath it and perished there.
“ The next day, however, the scene
revealed amid all its terrible desola
tion, the little frame-house, still intact,
standing there; above and behind it was
a rook ; the moving mass when it rolled
down, seeming to threaten tho sure over
whelming of the frail tenement, struck
that rock and divided, leaving the house
uninjured—and there it remains to this
day. There, in that little house, wo have
tbe fitting type of the Democratic party.
Humble though it m iy be, it has the rock
of tbe Constitution above it as its sure
protection; and all tbe landslides, or tbe
war slides, that can bo brought to bear
upon it will never do more than crush
I those who may leave it.”
Election Incidents and Wagers.
Some curious wagers were made on the
result of the late election. A citizen of
Trenton, N. J., iu case McClellan carried
tbe State, was, on all the pleasant days of
a week, which he had the reserved right to
select,)to eat a frugal dinner on the steps
of tbe eourt-huuso, said dinner to be served
to him by bootblacks in the filthiest slate
ol dilapidation. In Chicago an cx-U. S.
marshal will, according to the terms of his
wager, be compelled to pay for and eat
four dinners with such colored company as
tho fortunate winner of his wages may se
lect. In Binghampton, N. 17.,I 7 ., there is a
lady whose suitor was a strong supporter
of McClellan. So certain was he of bis
favorite being the favorite of tbe people
that he proposed to his sweetheart that in
casa of Lincoln’s election be would prom
enade the public streets, at high noon, with
a largo placard on his back inscribed
“Sold,” never dreaming that lie would
have to fulfil his promise. But on Wed
nesday last, having discovered his mistake,
he was forced to execute his promenade,
much to his own disgust and to the de
light of small boys and the,amusement of
children of larger giowth. The New York
Sun mentions several other wagers as fol-
J lows:
| One man, a democrat, bet that McClellan j
would be elected. In the event of hislos- j
ing he was to saw and split a cord of wood I
at a certain hour in the day, in front of
| one of the principal hotels; and in ease
I he failed to do his work, even to the last
j stick, he was to forfeit 8250. Another
j promised to walk a mile and a half bare
foot, in case hi candidate is nut elected,
the penalty, iu case of failure being a hun
dred dollars ; a third is to wheel a barrow
filled with stones and earth through tho I
streets, or forfeit live hundred dollars ; a j
fourth, a republican, promises to wear a
J most ridiculously made hat during the |
four years of office of the successful caodi- j
date, and as the said candidate was his j
man, there is but little doubt but he wants |
to advertise himself as a Lincoln man, \
j and probably hopes thus to get a fat of- !
Coe.
Money-Order System — Tbe plan of j
transmitting money through the postoffice, |
under the money-order system, is progress- j
iug satisfactorily, the prospect being, from I
the number of persons who have thus far |
uvailu 1 themselves ol ns benefits, that it |
i will be, ere long, very generally adopted i
■ The orders are iu many instances io bitsi- \
] ness bouses, shoving -that the system is
used for business purposes. By the pay- j
incut, of additional fees any amount of |
money may bo transmitted on orders, j
though no one order can exceed (hi ty dol
lars. — Phil. Lciljer,
Freedman’s Home.
Headquarters Middle Department,')
Eighth Army Corps, >
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9, 1864. J
General Orders No. 112—Official in
i urination having been furnished, making
I clear that evil-disposed parties in certain
l aunties oi the State of Maryland, within
jhe limits of the Middle Departmen*, in
tend obstructing the operation, and nulli
j lying, as far us they can, 'he emancipation
i I iroviaion of the Now Constitution ; and
j ( out lor this purpose they are availing
!| hemselves of certain laws, portions of the
j iicienl .-lave code ot Mi yland, as yet un
epealed, to initiate us respects the per
sons heretofore slaves, a system of forced
| appreu iceship; for this, and for other
reus jus among them, that if they have
j any legal rights under e.vluiug laws, the
j persons spoken of are in iguorance of
j them ; that in certain counties the law
j officers are so unfriendly to the newly
made fi'cedmeu, and so hostile to the be
uiguaut measure that majo them such, as
to rende appeals to the courts worse than
lolly, even it the victims hud the money
with which to Lire lawyers; and that the
i necessities of the case make it essential, in
order to carry out truly and effectively the
grand purposes of the people of the State
of Maryland—emancipation of every slave,
man, woman and child, within her limits,
from and alter the first day of November,
of this pre-ent year—that there should
be remedies extraordinary for all their
grievances—remedies ins aitaneous with
out money or reward—and somebody to
have care for them, to protect them, to
show them the way to the freedom of
which they have yet hut, vague and unde
fined ideas. It is therefore, ordered ,
Ist. That all persons within the limits
of tho Middle Department, heretofore
slaves, but now free, by operation of the
New Constitution, shall be considered un
der special military protection until the
Legislature of Maryland may, by its en
actments, make such military protection
unnecessary,
2d. A Freedman’s Bureau for said De
partment is hereby created ; office in Bal
timore, Maj. William M. Este, A. D. C.,
in charge.
3d. Major Este is entrusted with the
execution of this order, and to make it ef
fective he is authorized to instigate inves
tigations, to scud for persons and papers,
and to make necessary arrests.
4th. Provost Marshals in their several
Districts, particularly on tho Eastern and
Western Shores, are requested and direc
ted to bear all complaints made to them
by persons within the meaning of this or
der, to collect and forward information
and proofs of wrongs dune to such persons,
and generally to render Major Este such
assistance us ho may require in tho per
formance of his duty.
50. As it will be impossible to carry
out this order without having a place in
which the sick, helpless, and needy cun be
temporarily rested and provided for, Ma
jor Este is directed to take possession of
the building known formerly us the Mary
land Club House, but now named “Freed
man’s Rest,’’ to select some excellent lady
to take charge of the same as Matron, and
to suitably prepare and furnish as many
rooms as may bo required for the purpose
proposed. And that this may be speedily
accomplished, donations are respectfully
solicited from all philanthropic and Chris
tian ptrsons wherever resident. All fines
hereafter assessed and collected by tbe
Provost Marshal of the Department will
be appropriated to the support of the
Freedman s Rest. To supply immediate
wants, Major Este is further directed to
draw on Colonel Woolley.
6th. Lest the moneys derived fr m do
nations and from fines collected, should
prove insufficient to support the institu
tion iu a manner corresponding to its im
portance, Major Este will proceed lo make
a list of all the avowed Rebel sympathiz
ers resident in the city of Baltimore, with
a view to levying such contributions upon
them in aid of the “Freedman’s Rost,” as
may be from time to time required.
7th. Major Este will enter upon the
execution of this order without delay.
By command of
Major General Wallace.
Oliver Matthews, Asst. Adjt. General.
Official ; James R. Ross, Major and
A. D. 0.
A Great Railroad Undertaking.
—The work of tunneling the Alps for
railroad purposes is so slow, compared
with the necessities of internal trade and
travel between France and Italy, that it is
contemplated to build a railroad over the
mountains on one of tho military roads 1
constructed by the first Napoleon. The
tunnel will not be completed in less than
twelve years, but the railroad can be (milt '
lin two. When it is remembered that the 1
j summit of the pass through the mountains '
iis 7,000 feet above the level of the sea, 1
with gradients at some points of one in
twelve, the descent equally rapid, the dif- ■
ticnities of the undertaking may be ima
gined. A locomotive expressly for such
ascents and descents has been constructed
The railway wiii bo covered with galleries
of wood, iron and stone, to protect it from
avalanches and snow drifts. The project
has been favorable received by the Italian
j government, and English capitalists pro
j pose to build it. It will shorten the over- '
! land route to India five hundred miles. — '
( ~
j A War-Like World. —The Opinlone
I Nationals, of a recent date gives this dis
-1 mal picture of the present belligerent eou
| ditiou of the world.
If there be a dead calm in politics, as
| well as business among us, it is not tbe
sruie in all parts of the little planet we in
| habit. Tnreii-quarters of huma dty, in
I fact, are J[ iving in the barbarous stale of
j W-r. •laeM is war in Poland, war in Al
I geria, war in Tunis, war in Mexico, war in
| the Uui.ed States, war iu I’eru, war in 1
i New Zealand, war in China and Kaohgar,
I War iii Japan, war in Afghanistan, war in
| twenty countries in Africa.
This is, unfortunately, enough to dis
j courage the friends of universal peace,
and who can say they will not meet with
! still greater disappointment next year?—
Italy, Hu igary, Poland, Denmark and the
Solavouian population of Turkey, arc not.
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it must be confessed, in the most pacific
humor, and, to those who study the gene
ral situation of our continent, it is quito
evident that the general situation, instead
of getting better, goes on from day to day
.getting more and more complicated.
Sweeping tue Struts of New York
City. —Very tew persons have any con
ception of the magnitude of tbe work to
be performed in cleaning the streets of a
large city like New York. The Herald,
in an aniole on the subject, remarks :
There are 2GB miles of paved streets In
this city, averaging thirty-three feet in
width. This gives an area of 1,139 acres
to be cleaned. The city inspector has the
whole area swept twice every fortnight;
about one-quarter is swept three times j
345 acres arc cleaned six times, and 75
acres twelve times, in the same space of
time. This is equivalent cleaning 3,553
acres once in two weeks. In addition to
this work tbe ash carts traverse every mile
of the streets, on each side, every day,
Sundays excepted. This is equivalent to
traversing 53b miles a day, and conveys
some idea of the extent of this magnificent
metropolis. The expense for street clean
ing lust year was 3398,223.
The “Bloomers” in Session. —lt
appears ihe “Bloomers” are holding a con
vention in New York. On Thursday a
Mrs. Jones made a speech anil argued that
men had no right to rule women, and that
women should dictate. In closing, she
prayed for the good lime coming, when a
lady could wear what she pleased, do what
she pleased, go where she pleased, and re
turn when she pleased, and when she
would not be bound to dress, fashion, or
the control of men against their wills.—
When that blissful era arrived, Mrs. Jones
held that a woman’s life would be a grand
epic poem, -fie.
Mrs. Slow bridge, M. D., of Cortland,
N. Y., delivered a lengthy address on cold
water, as a medicine, describing illness as
an evil spirit, which should be thus exor
cised.
Ridiculous Wagers. — A gentleman
in Twenty-third street, New York, for
his faith in McClellan’s popularity, will
have to make an equestrian tour of Cen
tral Park some Sunday, at noon, arrayed
in crinoline and all the other feminine
“fixings.” To comply with the teims of
another bet, a gentleman in Forty-first
street will have to (hive three of his horses,
tandem, attached to an oyster cart, from
the Battery to Macomb’s dam. A third
gentleman, who lives in Brooklyn, will
have to wear for a year a beaver hat two
feet in height ami seven inches in the brim.
JV. F. Times.
Paper from Corn Husks. —We ob
serve by foreign advices that paper from •
corn liukss is made in Austria by a govern
ment establishment. The len*-cent notes
of the government arc printed on that kind
of paper, and large quantities of it have
been purchased by private parties. Very
bea. tifnl specimens of this species of pa
per, it is stated, can be seen at the Agri
cultural Department in Washington. The
discovery or the invention is one of im
mense interest and importance.
summ.
On Tuesday, the 11th of October, near Harford
Furnace, by Rev. R. Scott Norris, WILLIAM
BROWN to .Miss CHARLOTTE A. CDLLUM.
On the same day and nenr the same place, by
ihe same, JullN TAVLuR to Miss MARY A.
SOMERS.
On the loth of November, in Bel Air, by the
same, JOHN BOTTB to Miss LIZZIE NORRIS,
all of this county.
NOTICE.
Meredith’s Ford & Jarrettsville
Turnpike.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the Mere
dith’s Ford and Jarrettsville Turn
pike are requested to pay two dollars ($2)
per share of their Stock in said road, on
or before
Monday, 6th Day of December, 1864,
to JOSHUA H SCARFF, Treasurer,
JOHN R. STREETT, President, or one
of the Directors.
The Board will meet at ASBURY
JOHNSON’S SHOP, on the day above
mentioned.
By order of the Board,
JOSHUA H SCARFF,
novlS Secretary.
FOR RENT7
'THE STORE HOUSE and DWELL
-i- ING at Clmrchville, occupied hv
Messrs. F. B. Hanson St Co. This is one
of the best places for business in the enmi
ty. Its value for selling goods is shown
by the fact that for the last twenty years
there have been but two tenants.
Possession given on the 15th day of
January next. Enquire of
DAVID HARLAN,
n 025 Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.
NOTICE.
WE the undersigned, having formed a
resolution to do a Cash business,
hereby give notice that hereafter we will
not he bound for the payment of any note,
order, or paper whatever, bearing either of
our signatures, unless witnessed by a
magistrate.
EPHRAIVf HOPKINS,
HANNAH H. HOPKINS.
Darlington, Nov. 25th, 1864.
E ST R A Y.
OTRAYED from the subscriber, on or
O about the first day of August last, a
red HEIFER with white face, tlu oat and
tail; her horns incline in at the ends, and
three years old last spring. Five dollars
reward will be paid for her return to the
o.vner, or any information hading to her
recovery.
. BENJ. STANDI FORD.
n025-5t
A PRESTON GILBERT, -
ATTORNEY AT MW,
Del Jjir , Aid.
Office with 11. D. Faruandis, Eeq-
Mil