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THURSDAY MOKMXO ataJK*o *, Mb*.
CONFEDEZA TE Ci I SSL
SENATE.
Waaunavar, March 1, 1668.
Prayer by the Key. Mr. Doggct, of the
alr.tliotl ; *-t Church.
On motion, by Mr. Burnett of Ken
tucky tho Senate reconsidered the vote
by which was passed the bill to provide
for returned x»f»s° nors ' »■•<* tne fcrther
consideration of the bill «*us then post
poned till to day. «.,■!,
Mr. Simms, of Kentucky, offered the
following, which was agreed to :
Mj*BBBBBSa> That the Select Committee on th
"Exchange of Prisoners be instructed to Inquire into
the treßtment of returned prisoners, and that they
also be teats-acted to Inquire and report all neglect
in Usial|MlllH them to Richmond from the places
of exchange, and who is responaiale for ansa ae
glfCt.*'
Mr. Wigfall introduced a bill to pro
ride for the organization of a Bureau of j
Inspection in connection with the War
Department. Referred. „
Mr. Capcrton introduced a bill to regu
late the compensation of the State Col
lector of the State of Virginia.
Mr. Maxwell, of Florida, introduced a
resolution for the adjournment of Con
gress on Tuesday next.
On motion, by Mr. Johnson, of Mis
souri, the resolution was laid on the
table.
Senate bill fixing the first Monday in
October as the time of the regular meet
ing of Congress was taken op ; and, af
ter debate,
Oa motion, by Mr. Wigfall, the bill
was informally passed over.
Senate bill to authorise the Secretary
of the Treasury to receive specie from
the several States of the Confederate
States, and use the same for the benefit
of said States, was considered and.
passed.
Seuate bill regulating the destruction
of pror-ert3 T under military necessity, as
amended by the lie use, was taken up,
and Hous2 amendments were concurred
in and the bill passed.
The following is the bill, which awaits
the approval of the President to become
the law:
" Tlic Congress of the Confederate States oj Ame
rica do enact, That hereafter, whenever cotton or
tobacco, military or naval stores, or other property
of any kind whatever, which may ai 1 the e:i any in
the prosecution uf tho war, may bo it', an exposed
position, where it would L-o liable to seizure and r<
n.ov.il by the enemy, the general offices* onromand
iagr the department or district where the property
BBBT be sftasted ahull order the owners thereof to
move the same to seme place of safety, to be desig
nated by him, if Rich removal, in the judgment of
ansa general commanding, should be necessary to
prevent the aaid pw>B*rtyfrom falling into the hands
of the enemy; and if the property ia not removed
within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the com
manding general, by the owners thereof, it shall be
lawful for the said general officer to have th>- same
removed at the expanse of the owm-rs, under fune
ral regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary ot
War, or to doj-trov the same, as now provided; by
hr."
Mr. Semmes, from the committee of
conference on the House bill to provide
more effectually from the reduction and
redemption of tbe currency, reported
that the committee had not been able to
agree, and asked to be discharged from
the further consideration of the subject.
The report was received and the com
miitee were discharged.
The tax bill was then taken tip, and
Mr. Semmes, of Louisiana, explained
the amendments proposed by the ma
jority of the Senate Finance Committee.
Mr. Oldham addressed the Senate on
the minority report on the same bill.
The Senate then resolved into secret
session.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House mot at the usual hour and
was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Dickinson.
Mr. Staples, of Virgifria, presented
certain patriotic resolutions of the
Twenty-fourth Virginia regiment, which
took the usual course.
Under the call of States for bills,
resolutions, etc., the following were in
troduced :
By Mr. Fuller, of North Carolina:
Joint resolution of thanks to General
Whiting, Colonel Lamb, and their ofli
cers and men, for their gallant defence
of Fort Fisher against two attacks. Re
ferred to Committee on Military Affairs.
By Mr. J. T. Leach, of North Caro
lina: Joint resolutions approving the
appointment of General Lee as General
in-Chief, and recommending that he be
vested with power to treat for peace.—
Referred to the'same committee.
By Mr. Logan : A bill to facilitate the
settlement of claims due deceased sol
diers. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
The House then resolved into secret
session, and having spent some time
therein, again resolved into open ses
sion and resumed the consideration of
the unfinished business* viz: the bill to
provide payment for cotton purchased
in the Trans-Mississippi Department.—
Pending which, the House adjourned.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
[EXTRA SESSION.]
SENATE.
EVENING SESSION.
Tuesday, February 2S, 1805.
oJock P U T Vcned »t Wf-past seven
!**& Jhe tlWJjf bUSinm lranS "
The Committee from Courts of Joaxta.
reported a joint
between the Bu&ra oTpfr! t
Works and J. ft. Clarkeon for thi i*
of his slaves and allowing
for the salt agreed to be ili^Sto*!§£
Ides o?er under the rnles.
A bill to authorize the appointment of
aa Inspector of Salt, to reside at Salt-,
ville was reported from the Jclot Com
mittee on Salt and read the first and
second times.
Mr. I>ul.i»ey offered a resolution pro
viding that hereafter no member of the
Senate shall speak over ten minutes on
any one subject. Tho resolution was
adopted.
Mr. Keen, of Pittsylvania, offered the
following resolution, which, under the
rules, lies over: *
•« Risolved. That .•'ll the testimony taken by, and
now in tha rwsMvtaion at, the Salt Committee, to-'
■ether with sM letters an '. papers touching Ihe aate,
transportation una private oontracta far- aaM mams
factured al the salt works ah 1 shipped, or soughs t<.
lie shipped, therefrom, be placed in the posaeaißßß of
the Senate, and that the same bo printed for the
i.so (f the Senate.**
Mr. Keen also offered a resolution rc
questiog the President of tho Virginia
and Tennessee railroad to furnish to the
Senate a cony of all letters from his let
ter-book touching the sale and transpor
tation of salt shipped over the said
road, and that the the said letters be
printed for the urn of the Senate; and
that he furnish also any other informa
tion on the subject not previously com
municated to the Senate.
The resolution was discussed and
afterwards laid on the table.
On motion, at 10 1 2 o'clock, the Sen
ate adjourned.
SENATE.
Wednesday, March 1, 1805.
The Senate was called to order at 11
o'clock. Prayer l>y Rev. Dr. Edwards.
The following; Senate bills have been
passed by the House of Delegate:;:
Senate" bill disbanding the One Hun
dred and Seventy-ninth regiment militia
of the lino, and "for the more effectual
organization of the Nineteenth regiment
of militia und the Eirst regiment of the
second-class militia, so as to enlarge the
bounds and strength of the Nineteenth
regiment of militia of the line.
Senate bill, with the House amend
ments, exempting from service in the
militia ef this State, or in any reserved
forces of this Commonwealth, certain
mechanics and artisans in the service o(
any railroad or c.mal company in this
State. Ilouse amendment:) were disa
greed to.
Also, a bill re-enacting scetion one,
chapter twenty-two of Code of Virginia,
in relation to persons liable to military
duty.
The rule of the Senate requiring all
bills to be kept in the hands of the
Clerk two days before being sent to the
ilouse of Delegates waa rescinded for
the remainder of the present session, on
motion of Mr. Hart.
Mr. Keen, of Pittsylvania, arose to a
personal explanation in relation to a
card, over the signature of Mr. Collier,
of Petersburg, which appeared in the
Enquirer of this morning, concerning
the bill and substitute passed by the
Senate, in secret session, with regard to
putting negroes in the army. Jn con
clusion, he caused the following substi
tute for the fourth resolution to the bill,
which was offered By him, to be r ead, in
order that he should be fairly understood
upon the subject:
"The people of Virginia, relying upon the wisdom
of the commander of the forces of the Confederate
States, and Kin-.; willing to contribute all the re
sources of the Commonwealth for a successful prose
cution of the war, will devote to that cave such of
their dare population as may be needed therefor.
Whenever the commander of said forces Rhallcall
f_..r t-laves, such requisition shall be apportioned ac
cording to the slave -population ot each of the
slareholding States, and shall be called out by the
Governor according to the provisions of aa uctof
the General Assembly of Virginia, passed October
10, 1863, entitled 'An act to amend an-1 re-enact
the first and third sections.of an act passed March 13,
1863, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
further to provide for the public defence, passed
October 3, 1862,' and delivered upto the authorities
of the Confederate States, to be employed in such
sorvice as sold authorities may direct: Provided,
That the ownership to said slaves, and the relation
o; master and ..lave, shall not by impair* d thereby."
At a subsequent time, be submitted
the following as a substitute for the fore
going amendment, which was finally
pas.;ed by the Senate :
"Resclced, That the General Assembly of Vir
ginia da Lei* by authorise the Confederate authori
ties to ea'i upon fin tnia, through the Govt nor ul
the Commonwealth, for as many of her male slaves
and free negroes, between the ages of eighteen
a'lJ forty-five, not exceeding twenty-five per
eentnm of the free negroes, aa shall be deemed
natesasry for the public defence, to be called for on
the requisition of the General-in-Chief of the Cou
f di rat-* Annies ;:a he may deem moat expedient itr
the public service: Provided, That whenever such
call i ■ ataAe it shall be properly apportioned among
the different counties ami corporations of the Com-
Bsonweaith according to the Blare population of
each.
'• Reaolted, That <air Senators are hereby ir.
s'.n s'eii, a-id oar Rejavoentatives request* d, to vote
for the passage of a law to place at the disposal of
the Cosdederaa*authorities as many of the slaves
and free negroes of the Confederate States of Ame
rica, not ex eedrng twenty-Are p<r centum of the
slaves and twenty-five per centum of the free ne
groes, as are necessary for the public defence, to be
c :11< <*t for on the reqaisitioa of the Gensral-in-
Cbief cf i.ur Armies, in such numbers as iw. shall
deem best lor the pubic service,each State furnish
ing its proper auot i according to its slave, popukt
tion. But nothing in tneforegoing resolutions shall
be eonatruet into a rsatrietaon upon the General
in-Chief) f the Confederate Armies, or a prohibition
to the employment of the slaves and free negroes
for the public defence in such manner—as soldiers
or otherwias B< the General-in-Chief may deem
most expedient "
The following was the vote by which
the foregoing resolutions were passed at
the time in secret session:
Ykas.—Messrs. Ald-rsen, Arm*d.ron<?, Ball,
Christian of Augusta, Coghil!, Douglas, Fffasiar,
Garnelt, Garrison, Hunter, Keen, Lewis, Na«h,
Neeson, Newlon, Newman of Muhou, Newman of
Mgdiaon, .Stevenson, hjatk-r, Tayloe, Taylor and
Thomas —22.
Navk.—Messrs. Bales, Bruce, Christian of Mid
dlesex, Collier, Dickinson, Lulaney, (Jrahain, Guy,
Hart, Jones, LtStaa, Lynch, Quesonbcrrv, laun
der-, Wiley and Witten—l6.
Admiral Buchanan appearing in the
hall, on motion, the chair was vacated for
ten minutes, in order to give the mem
bers of the .Senate an opportunity to be
introduced to him.
When the President resumed the
chair, the order of the day, being the
.Senate bill imposing taxes for the sup
port of Government, was taken up and
'amended, and discussed till the hour of
adjournment.
EVENING SESSION.
The entire evening session was taken
S? Iv the bills imposing taxes
wr the current ysar.
HOUSE Of DELEGATES.
The House met at 11 A. IE.
Mr. Bouldin called up House bill or
dering the sale of certain bonds and
stocks held by the State, in order to
facilitate the payment of tho expenses
of the State (Jovernmcnt.
Mr. llouldm indicated, in some re
marks, that iho action of the House on
the bill would indicato whether the
House should consider it expedient to
go on with the consideration of the tax
bill to levy taxes for the Support of Go
vernment.
The bill was discussed at length, and
several propositions wero befoio the
House as amendments to the bill.
Mr. Staples, of Patrick, chairman of
the special committee appointed to in
quire into the expediency of recon
voking a convention of the sovereign
people of Virginia, reported "A bill to
conter upon the (ieneral Assembly ihe
powers of a convention."
[The bill recounts, in a preamble, that
the emergencies of war require this extra
ordinary measure, and goes on to direct
that the otlicers of election (to be held in
March) for members of the General
Assembly shall direct a separate poll
to be opened, where the question shall
be voted upon : " Shall the*powers of a
convention be conferred upon the Gene
ral Assembly of Virginia?" with the
reservation that said convention shall
not alter the Hill of Rights or* certain
sections of the State Constitution ; that
the tickets to be voted shall indicate
whether the voter is for or against a
convention.)
Messrs. l)eanc and Prctlow, of the
committee appointed to report upon the
subject, submitted a minority report, de
claring a convention inexpedient at this
time.
A debate "rose upon the disposal of
the bill. It eras finally ordered to be
printed, the Ilouse refusing to suspend
the rules in order to put the bill upon
its second reading. The consideration
of the bill was then made the order of
the day for to morrow.
Mr. Deane then moved the printing of
the minority report, and it was so or
dered.
Mr. Pendleton moved, at 1 o'clock, that
the ilouse go into secret session, but the
Ilouse refused—ayes, 32 ; noes, 40.
The bill to increase the pay of the pro
fessors of the Virginia Military Institute
was taken up and discussed to the hour
of recess.
LATER FROM THE NORTH.
"Wo have received New York papers of
Monday, the 27th. Gold, 200 7-8.
FROM GENERAL LEE'S AItMY.
The Herald gives the following sum
mary of what the enemy's surmises are
about General Lee's movements:
The Important report comes to us, in
our James river dispatches, that the
rebel General Leo has gone southward
to conduct the operations of opposing
Sherman, leaving General Joe Johnston
in command at Kichmond and Peters
burg; and we have additional particu
lars regarding the commotion and move
ments of troops which have been ob
served within the lines of tho rebels
around their capital during the past
week, giving evidence that something of
moment is in process of preparation by
them. A large part of their arm)- had
on Saturday last been under marching
orders for several days, and a considera
ble number of iebel troops are believed
to have been dispatched to act against
Sherman. The reports of Lee's designs
to shortly abandon Petersburg and Rich
mond are repeated, and deserters now
aid that notice has been given by him
to the people of the former place to have
their tobacco and other stores removed
within four days. They say that nearly
all the artillery has been taken from the
Petersburg batteries, only suilicient bet
ing left to keep up appearances.
NAVAL REPORT FROM WILMINGTON.
Porter continues to send his blowing
dispatches about the capture of "Wil
mington. The following is his last:
TJxrraß States Flabsbu** JUlvkun, )
Caps I*'kak Rives, February 22, lbG5. J
Sir*: I have the honor to inform you
that Wilmington has been evacuated and
is in the possession of our troops. After
the evacuation of Fort Anderson, I
pushed forward the gunboats up as far
as the water would permit. The army
pushed up at the same time on the right
and left banks of the river. After sound
ing and buoying out the middle ground
at Big island, I succeeded in getting the
gunboats over, and opened lire on Fort
Strong, the work commanding the prin
cipal obstructions, where the rebels had
also sunk a large steamer, the North
Eastern. Our tire soon drove the rebels
away from the fort. Now and then they
would fire a shot, one of-which struck
the Sassacus below water-mark, and set
her leaking badly. She was struck once
or twice more, but met with no loss of
men. That night (the 20th) the rebels
sent down two hundred floating torpe
does, but I had a strong force of picßct
boats out, and the torpedoes were sunk
with musketry. One got in the wheel
of tho Osceola, and blew her wheel-honsc
to pieces, and knocked down her bulk
head in-hoard, and there was no damage
to the hull Some of tho vessels picked
up the torpedoes with their torpedo nets.
The next morning I spread two fishing
nets across the river. Yesterday eve
ning, General Ames, with his division,
moved within a short distance of the
fort, and had a sharp encounter with the
rebels. On hearing the musketry and
seeing where our troops were, 1 opened a
rapid fire on the fort and all along the
enemy's line. The fort responded with
three or four shots, but was soon si
lenced. This morning we heard that
General Terry was within their works,
and the road was clear to Wilmington.
The Montauk could not get across the
shoals without lightening, which was a
work of some labor. I had the pleasure
of placing the Hag on Fort Strong, and
at 12 o'clock noon to day we all fire a
salute of thirty-five guns, this being the
anniversary of Washington's birthday.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient set-, ant,
D. P. Porter, Rear Admiral.
Gideon Welles, Secretary of tho Navy.
rilOM TIIE SOUTHWEST—MEXICO.
The Yankee dates from New Orleans
! are to tho 18th. The following is their
summary:
The constitutional amendment abolish
ing slavery was adopted by the Louisiana
Legislature on the 14th instant—in the
Senate by a vote of eighteen in favor to
only one against it, and in the House of
Representatives unanimously. The
amendment has now been ratified by
eighteen States. No military operations
of importance in the Department of the
Gulf since previous advices are reported.
A small band of rebels had been dis
persed in the vicinity of Rodney, Missis
sippi, by a detatchment of National
troops. General Kirby Smith's Trans-
Mississippi rebel army still to
cross to the east side of the Mississippi.
On two occasions that attempts have
been made to transfer it, the men have
positively declared that they would not
move, and it is believed that any further
efForts'to induce them to do so would
result in open and general mutiny. All
the Union naval prisoners at Camp Ford,
Texas, had been exchanged, and were
daily expected at New Orleans. Drafting
for the National army commenced in
Louisiana on the 15th instant. The
obstruction to nagivation by the increase
of deposit on the bar at the mouth oi
the Mississippi river having become se
rious, the New Orleans Chamber of Com
merce has appointed a committee to pro
ceed to Washington and memorialize
Congress for an appropriation to improve
the channel.
The trade of United States shipping
merchants with the Mexican port of Mata
moras has been interrupted, owing to
our Consul in that town being accredited
to the Government of Juarez, and Maxi
milian's oliicers there refusing to recog
nize him. There were large stocks of
American cotton at Matamoras. There
is no news of importance by this arrival
from Havana, and nothing from St. Do
mingo.
THE SOUTH NOT YET CONQUERED.
The New York Tribune is not so sure
that the " rebellion" is put down. It
says:
Of course, we do not rejoice as over
assured and accomplished triumph. We
know that there remain armies to van
quish and the efforts of desperation to
bailie. It is possible that the rebel hosts
now mustering for their last onset may
deal us an unexpected and telling blow.
Lee is to march northward into the free
States, says one rumor; he is going
West, to reclaim Kentucky and feed on
her undevastated herds and pastures,
says another; ho will elude Grant and
fall like a thunderbolt on Sherman, says
a third. It is possible that he may yet
be able to concentrate one hundred
thousand men, two thirds of them vete
rans; and such a force, well handled, is
never to be despised.
MOVEMENT OF TltOOrS IN WEST TEN
NESSEE.
The Memphis Bulletin says that the
rebel leaders lately issued orders
all the detachments of their troops in
West Tennessee together, with such
conscripts as they have gathered, sent
South without delay, and we have reason
to believe that the larger portion of the
rebel forces lately about Memphis have
already gone. Their destination will be
Mobile.
The raid into Arkansas has disclosed
the fact that much suffering exists thcro
from a scarcity of food.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A. 0. P. Nicholson, formerly a Senator
in Congress, has just been released from
the Tennessee penitentiary, and ordered
to be tried for conspiracy against the
Government.
General Grant, in a private letter to
Mr. Washburn, of the House of Repre
sentatives, speaks very hopefully of
Sherman's movements, and expresses
the opinion that a few more days of sue
cessful operations will put the rebels in
a position from which there will be no
escape.
Vanderbilt, the New York millionaire,
was arrested and taken to the station
house last week for fast driving in tho
street.
President Lincoln has ordered Roger
A. Pryor to report immediately to Gene
ral Grant, at City Point, for exchange.
Alexandre Dumas will be the guest of
George Bancroft in New York.
General D. C. Buell has written and
published a reply to General Sherman's
defence of General Grant
In the course of the Senate's debate of
Saturday evening on tbe Louisiana ques
tion, "Mr. Carlile, of Virginia, took the
floor in opposition to the resolution. In
the course of his remarks, Mr. Carlile
was asked a question in regard to the
legality of the Government of West
Virginia, and he replied that, if he had
had the means of supporting his family
without the three thousand a year he
received a* a Senator, he would have re
signed hi* seat on the very day that
the State of West Virginia was recog
nized by the Senate."
James Buchanan, late President of the
United States, reports his income, for the
last year, as having been eleven thou
sand, one hundred and eleven dollars.
STRrttElf QIRARfI.
Stephen Oirard lias not been so long dead but
many of the preacnt generation still remember him
distinctly, and hi- pwnliaritics; and ro man po*>
Rcwed peculiarities of a more striking ch-inicter.—
Villous *kctchrn of his life have been given to the
public, but th« fallowing, from the North Amerknm
Review for January, is inor** discriminating in
its character, and presents a tolerably accurate
picture of the man and anl mental and asd d pe
culiaritic* i
■'Within the nv-moiy of many pittSb* alive,
♦old Oirard,'as th.* h****t* Basket wis usually
styled, a-*)iort, stout, arisl old jre.ritlcraun, aaai to
wnlk, la hi-; swijt, awkward w-y. the attests of the
lower part of rniladelpua. Ih'V.iir'i *rHrjrlaJng
about him indicated that he had very Utile ia coat
mon with his feUoßr-citizeas, he was the marked
mao of the city ior riore-th»n a gcner'tUon. Mis
BBBBOtwas lather iasignifteant and >,uite annepos
ses..ing. Jl:s dress wm old-fashioß«d and lhabby ;
and ho wore the pig-tail, tho wh.t- *'e< k-cloth, tie
wide-brircmeu hat, aad th** laiae tSßltcd coat of the
last century. He w>ts blind in one eye , art! though
his hurly eyebrows gave* some eaaraeter lo Ins
countenance," it BBS curiously devoid of expression,
lie hid alrio the absent look of a man who rathe*
had no thought* or was absorbed in thought; and
ho fthufflel along on his enormous feet, looking
neither to the right nor to the left. I'h'-re. wa= al
ways a certain leak of the old mariner about him,
though he had been fifty years an inh ahitsnt of the
town. When he rode, it was in the plaiaest, least
OOmfwtable gig in Philadelphia, diawu by an an
cient and ill-foimei horse, driven always by the
Blaster's own hand at a good fence. Be chose still
to live whore he had lived for fifty years, in Water
street, close to the alls* PCS, in ft small and in
convenient hoeKC, darkened >-y tall fctore-hooses,
amid the bustle, the noise and the odors of com
merce.
••His sole pleasure was to visit, onre a day, a lit
tle farm which he possessed a few miles oat of town,
where ho w:'s wont to take otf his coat, roll ap its
shirt sleeves, and personally labor in BBS field aad
in the bans, hoeing corn, pruning trees, tossing
hay, and not disdaining! sen toassist in butchering
the animal.-', which he raised for market. It was
no mere ornamental or experimental farm. Jle
made iknsy. All of its produce was i srefully, nay
scrupulously, husbanded, soW, record* dand account
ed for. He loved his grapes, hi* plums, his pigs,
sad especially his rare breed of canary birds; but
the people of Philadi Iphia had the full benefit oi
their increase—at the highest market rates. Man)
feared, and many served, but none loved this singu
lar and lonely old man. If there was among the
very few who habitually eonrersed with him, one
who understood and esteemed him, there was but
one, and he was a man of such abounding charitj
that, like Uncle Toby, if he had heard that Ihe
Devil was hopelessly damned, would have said, 'I
am sorry for it.' Never was there a person more
destitute than Oirard of the qualities which win the
affection of others, ilis temper was violent, his
presence forbidding, ins usual manner ungracious,
his will inflexible, his heart untender, his imagina
tion dead, lie was odious to many of bis fellow
citizens, who considered him thebaraest and mcan
estofmea. He had bred among Ihcm for half, a
century, but he was bo more a Fhiladelphian in
1S3:) than he was in 1778. He still rpoke with a
French accent, and accompanied his words with a
French shrug and French gesticulation. Surround
ed with Christian churches, which he had helped to
build, he remained a sturdy unbeliever, and poa
i-eesed tho complete work ef only one man— Vol
taupß. , , rt
"He made it a point of duty to labor on Sunday,
as a good example to others. He made no secret
of the fact that he considered the idleness of
an injury to the people, moral and economical. —
He would have opened his bank on Sunday if any
one would have come to it. For his part, he required
n r > rest, and would hare none. He no r traveled.
He never attended public assemblies or amusements.
He had no affections to gratify, no friends to visit,
no curiosity to appease, no tastes to indulge. What
he once said of himself appeared to be true—that
he rose in the morning with but a single object, and
that was to labor so hard all day as to be able to
•deep all night. The world was absolutely nothing
to him but a working place. He scorned and •coated
the idea that old men should a see to labor, and
should sr< nd the evening of their daysin tranquilli
ty, 'If©,* he would say, 'labor is the price ot life,
its happiness, its everything; to rest is torus*.;
every man should labor t<> th- last hour of his abili
ty.' Snob was Stephen Oirard.
•' This is an unjlca.*ir,g picture of a citizen of po
lite and amiable Philadelphia. It were Indeed a
grim and dreary world wherein should prevail th<
principles of Ciirard. But see what this man has
dove tstr the city that love I him not ! Vast and im
posing structures rise on the banks of the Schuyl
kill, wherein, at this; fn..ur, six hundred orphan boys
are fe 1. clothed, trained and taught, upon the in
come of the emrmous estate which he won by this
entire consecration to the work of accumulating
property. In the ample irrounds of Oirard College,
lookingup at its five massive marble edifices, sti oil
ing in its shady walks or by its verdant play
grounds, or listening to the cheerful cries of the bbys
at play, the most sympathetic and imaginative of
men must pause before censuring the sterile and
unlovely tif.- of its founder. And if he Should in
quire closely into the character and career of the
man who willed this great institution into being,
he would, perhaps, be willing to admit that there
was room in the world' for one G-rard, though it
were a pi y there should ever be another.*"
MARFJED,
On the 21st of February, 1865, by the Rev. Mr.
Crook-, at the residence of the bride, Mr. GEORGE
W. HUNDSEN to Mi sa JOSEPHINE THOMAS,
both of this city. •
DIED,
At Columbus, Georgia, February 4, 1865, of dis
oase contracted whilst in the army, ALEXANDER
MEANS KIMBROTJQII, first lieutenant Second
battalion Oeorgia volunteers. *
PUBLISHED THIS DAY.
BEAUTIFUL BALLAD:
UK HMOND ON THE JAMBS.
"And on my heart, dear comrade, lay those nut
brown braids.
Of one that f/aa the fairest of all our village maids.
We were to have been wedded, but Death the bnde
nooea claims,
And she is far, that loves me, from Riffasaond on
the James."
rrBMSBtEB liV
B. 11. JONES x CO,
For nate at tho Mus.io Stores.
n.h 2— St*
ptHKAP LIGHT.
Omci Of MILITABT Tn.KMMI'HH, 1
Rn ii.ii.ni>, February 11, 1865. J
Dr. W. 8. Morris, President, dr.:
Sir: According; to your request, I distributed to
ca:b of U*e military offices around tbe Ricbmond
fnrtifb ations one Kerestne Lamp and one quart of
ECTLECTIC OIL, manufactured by Air. Baton. 1
Bad *•"'•*■ theofllasted,on an average, ninety Lours,
making th* co*,t 13 B-9 cents jht hour.
The operators JUfe all very raw h pleased, run!
agree thtt the light in far superior to that of the oil
lamp, with peanut oil. and BTaca cheaper.
I am decidedly Of the opinion that it is the best
light we can git for tbe country offices.
m Very respectfully,
Your obedient 'ervari*,
J. T. COLIAVMLL, Superintendent, kc.
The ECLECTIC OIL is for wtle at next door to tbe
corner of Broad and Sixth streets James Bolton &
Co.'a). ■tnh3-lt»l P. T. RATON.
13APER, ENVELOPES, &c.
60 reams aupenor ruled Cap Paper, im
ported by ourselves.
ALSO,
English Note I'uper,
Confederate Note Tuner,
300,000 English and Confederate Letter and
Official Envelope-J,
500 gross (Jillott's Pens,
100 gross Pencils (Faber'a and JlsitV,
2UO gross Pen-holders,
60 pounds English Sealing-Wn,*.,
200 down Memorandum, Mont v ajad Pocket-
Book*.
BAUOIfMAX k mctIAIUKS,
Tmportera and Dealota in Stationery
yah 1— 3f ( No. 19 l\. At \ ma**.
ITOHSES, &c.-Be»idt« other Horses
ii for sale to-day, privately, at No. 63 Main
streTt, Brill be two axeelleut animals, belonging to a
Trans-Miaaisiapni general bound homeward for
more troop*. Also, a douMe-««>ated Open Buggy,
sad two Top-Bugjriea, with lUrne**s; s Petersburg
made two-horae Wagon, new, and two Spring Wa
ge**, [tab. 2-lt») U. *rX)KT UJU JE LD TA V U>K.
P| I 8 8 0 L U T I 0 N .—Tho firm of
I / EDLING fc CO. la tha- 4.-17 rli-'oived by mu
tual esstsent. All t*erae*M tnd<-Med to the eoneera
♦rill Btoasa call and settle bamßaitateiy and take
tb«rir foods ctr.'.y, as we wiih to Biad up the ea m
eM M soon M BOSdbfo. EHLING (k. >O.
I*<-brutr>- 2», laaf. f; )| .;
DISSOLUTION Osf r< >-I'AKTNKK
silTl'.—The firm of WILLIA.'..'."*- ELLIOTT
ft CO. ia thia Auyafoßotvad >>y mataal eareeea.—
Persons fo aaesn aa ay iaatVb 4, »nd all was a™
indebted to as, win pfoaso oall as eoaa as BtaKtfca
ble and settle their SOOOBBIa.
wjlliams, eliiott k CO.
February 1, 166 i. mh l-oi*
/10-l'AJi'lXKRSIin* NOTICE.-We.
\-j the u**dcr*rfs*ht-d, hare associ ited our*. >. ■■■>
Bade* the style of H. at. IfORFI PET ft CO .•"-'•
the purple of eenaaetang a. Oeneral C*taßiisjjor:
Business, at the ol 1 ttaad of Witßaaaa ft V .•'►..-,
cornerpf Thirt« enth :irid faaiastreetii, to take > :.■ !
from the let day of February, !■••;">. We reapectfu ,-,
*toh< it the of -Jitr frien<la aad the | ■
geasßaHjri . tt. If. NORFLEET,
f K. Mil- HELL,
February 3, 1865. "W. i. SMITH.
fe 3—im
}7IREEMAN ft CO, AUCTIONEERS
" AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.— I:. •
Dndersigaed, of the late arm of Williamson 8c Co ,
having braied a vo-partr.er.-hip, under the Ban
aad style of FREEMAN ft CO., for the purpose
f.f conducting a GENERAL AUCTION AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS; sad ha-ring taken
the building on the nouthwest cornet of Main
and Ninth streets, well kaoß*n aa Bosher** HalL
do hereby respectfully offer their xrrices to, end
solicit the patronage of, their friends end the
public generally. GEO. A. I ItEEMAN,
tail— fo GEO H. RICHARDS.
COMMISSION UOUSE.-—The B*il»xri
' bera have associated th-m -iv , i.i.l-t tin
btyle t*f HILL 4 I'LEASAKTS, for the purpo • &l
SELLING ON COMMISSION ucharti .-.- '~,-.. -.
be consigned to Uw m by farntei ■ and oil.«•••-.
Th ii' bfS '.- ia et the auction-hoa -c <>f Iliil, T»; .'.
in- mfc Co., corner of Franklin and Wall ":••*.
They solicit the patronage of their friends and
the public.
They ii ive a good store-house and table.
N. i". HILL,
J. 11. riJiASASTTS.
fe 7- itewla
February 7th, 1865.
1) V THE GOVEIINI IB OF VI R(. fXI A.
> A PROCLAMATION.—The General Assem
bly having passed aa act to change the time for
holding the general elections of this State, ia<J
having prescribed that the elections for numbers
of the General Assembly and fur < omtni •..•»:• r of
Public Works for.the first district shall take pta
'on the fourth Thursday of the present month
(March), and for members of Congrew on t •
Wednesday in November next; therefore I, Wil
liam Smith. Governor of the Common* Ith, lo
hereby proclaim that the officers whose dntj it i«
to hold said elections in the several countii ...;
corporations, and in the several military camp.-* a
which troops from this State are statu in !,
hold - .i;d elections at thetinn .and places pi t-rib*.d
by law, and I hereby call the attention . • .. i
people of the Cvmniouwcalth to the copy ol ;...
hereto attached.
.-» - t <;.- Ji under say hand as Governor, ai I
I !.. a. j under Urn seal oi the Commonwi ilth, a 1
, I — > Richmond, this Ist day of March, IB6*>,aud
in the eighty-ninth jear ot the < ommoawealth.
WILLIAM .SMITH.
By the Governor*:
Qrvtmt W. M' sroßn,
Secretary "t the Coma* >BWe d 1 -
AN ACT TO AM UND AND RE-ENACT THE
FIRST SECTION OF THE SEVENTH CHAP
TEB OF Tin. CODE OF VIRGINIA [edition
of 1*60), AN"l> TO DIRECT A STNOPaIB OF
THE ELK. TION LAWS, TOLL BOOKS, k .
TO BE PREPARED, PRINTED AND L>L
LTYERED. Passed February U, 1865.
1. li- it enacted by the General Assemhty, That
tiie fir: t section of < haptci .sewn of the Code • 4 »',.
--ginia (edition of I860) be amended and re-enacUd
so as to read as follows:
"1. Elections shall be held in Urn several coun
ties and corporations entitled to representation, and
, elsewhere as provided by law, for the « ;■ tionol
'. Delegates and such Senators as are required by >'.*
to be elected in the room of those bkmniall* I •
placed ('it the fourth Thursday in March, n
year 1865, and on the same day in every • • i
year thereafter; for the election of 0 v. m >r, Lk .
v nant-Govern >i ;:nd Attorn* y-Geaeral on the fourth
Thursday in March, in the year 1867, and on the
same day in every fourth year thereafter; I r*.V
; election of Commissioner of the Board of Pubh
Works, in each of the diatrieta laid off foi that pur
posi, as follows: In the first district, on the fourth
Thursday in March, in the year 1865, and so on tl ■
same day for each ("utweding district evei
ye ira then after ; and for < noosing de tor ol r*r» * -
dent aad Vi le-Presidi at of the Coi ;'■ ■■■• i■■ >■ ■■'• ■
on the tits? Wednesday in November, in theyem
1867, or h other day < engross may deb nun. ,
and every sixth year there after: Pr : " »>»*, that upon
t ie order for ■ •pecial election of electon ofPn dd»-nt
and Vi>'t'-i'r'-idi-!!* of the Conf derate Stab -, vi .■ i
the requirements of the Cont'd'-rati.: Constitution' r
. 1 iwsof Congress,the eh ction rtiall b ♦heldon'ht day
sp. uti d by the < flii ci of the Confederate C >vern«
ment who <• duty it is to order such electi n, ai I
for the election of ftcpreicntatives in Congrei
thefirst Wednesday ia November, in th .. v l»«V<,
and on the.same d«y in every second v- i th -.- t
t-r It shall be the duty of the Secretary Ii-
Cemmonwealth to | repare a synopsis of the sen
laws relating to elections, showing the duties and
obligations of superintendents and other off) >•
holding elections, accompanying thi ime uith
forms of pell books, of oath ■of offlci ra, «n i of r< -
turns of election. The asme ahsll be print 1 ■-
tbe Public Printer, and a notice shall be pvei in
the newspapers in the city of Riehmonsl, ! tinu
that officers of elections may obtain coph >ther<
by*appli< ation to the aaid Si i rotary.
"**J. This act shall be in force from its passs ,
and contiaue m force only during Urn wmt."
A oopy fit in the rolls—T« ta :
WILLIAM L. GORDON, Ja ,
Clerk llfin-e of Delegates sad Keeper ol H • ■
All newspapers in tie- stat;* will co] y thr • tint •
and send bills to Examiner office for -■ ttl- -. •■ '
ml)2-St W. F ti..-'--
IT* Ci V PTIA N OORN.—BONA FIDE
li QUID PRO QUO.—Tha ahbacribei oft-rs to
farmers throughout the ooantry the EGYPTIAN
CORN, which, upon trial, waa found to ripen
planted even the in-."*, of July. It >- • dim it 1. fiom
its very proline qualities, to yield two hundred
bushels pert acre, and weighs, by sea] in. •
sixty-five pounds to the bushel ' l*bi • m ••• ■
dueedfrjm ome procured direct from Sir. J-.i •.*■
our Consular Agent, directly oa his returi
Egypt.
It aeeds no different culture from i I I
varieties, an lia thi South two i rope ml
in one year sa tbe a uue groaad. i; (-••' , "* - - : - :
form of a tree, and twenty-two ears bar - *
upon one stalk, and will average from fire to■ fif
t«e!i. For doaasstic rue ft ia rraparaUel I. v
proursdandrm>r*itybolt«iitise<iual,in
fineness, to wb*ut*n fiour, A-. a forogs i :•
sowing in drills or broadcast, for early 1 - '
Is n<> kind of com so well adapted to iuU
aad Bono that a*Ul yield half the valao ia talli ■
corn.
it c tn be lucoeßefully grown la any State.
lean give taamo&t satisfactory referen
the corn it, in every iBSBBCt. **.-■•-; 1111< pre*eßtit to I
and further, lam the only person Uu •■•..' ■'•'
country who has Ihie variety of corn. Harm." *
cared a Quantity, I am Dovabk to til all ardsrsl -
thesadesirous ol brsttagit.
To any parson who will Inclose, in ■ letter, i i*j
DOLT-Asa hi atampa or ourreni y, direct Ito i ■•• ■
wnl srnd, postage aaid. sufficient oorn topi
enough to plant, the sutasssrag yaar, from tweatv
thirty acres. AU-, dix. ctions fa* piau|iag BB I
vation. „ 1 nm
Any passe*) who will get up a uut> M awßwlu p
ceive ■ package gi utis. .
Give your tail name, i-aa caVo, eoaaty **»
Slate, written plain, so that BO BW BVJV '"••- u: '
Addresa I KAN X K. O. LIN DSKI.
Bavaa*a Nasi teat offl e«
Washington county, Vusi-- : *•
EovrriAN Cohn.-F. K. o. Isaaavyha -****» '
usaeirot hi- asr**f***Oßra, BSBsaraXire klvetl.- •
iaOßw-SBfor. Taoaßslrsßia bbM graia. A
who nuasd aome al It last j caff rata* a* * •
oate staUag that she aas eucne that h»-i ■■ -
plowed-it was town broudos-sWtha! ; ~ M* •*'
Üblvv ears to th.-stalk. -Ahingden .- **. •"•;*";
mh a - '*___
Pf HI AOMTT FOR 11 • ■ N l; ■' '!
I esttatf wilt diitributo a assail niaoUt> *>«
dUTTON CLOTH at the Oouuty Or*s***as*i*» *■
FRIDAY, th* .VI of March, hetwwn M>e »:oui ->■' '
mid 2 o'clock, to thou* entitled, who h«\ * act &*«*■
tofvrs rseeived thuir abares. ■ .
mh 8. MosVaJi A«*eat.