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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-17
gUSINESS NOTICES.
ny GROCERY AND COMMITS

1rrW GROCERY AND CoMMIS-
y s1Dv uOuSE. The subscribers have assoc
49, n.s,r.tIve,. under the style of WALKER x
.,xN Gr the purpose oi conducting GRO
Wy HNp GENERAL COMMISSION EifST-
,.,,ss -rteir storohou>e Is on Fourteenth street,
-. Main and Franklin.
rT's.ffg+ cousiennents Of ali kinds Of CoUN-
~ rponTrCE and MERCHANDISE generally
: ,-s,laa themselves - give s;sict attention ana
-. ra,;.r;> 20 ali sales intr1sted TO them.
.t....-e> .uS boarding house keepers would do
- n+Ia IKE i, a call betoIr purchasing elsewhere.
g- t.4r a.rnts throughout the country buying
.-s,f,.aus JOHN W. WALKER,
late If Cumberland county.
\. w WRENN,
-coc.' late Of Cutgepos county, Virginia.
COMMISSION HOTSE-'Tho suts,,i-
, Ter. haze a43oNAted themaelyCs. under the
~. Z lIlTL & rIEA&ANrS. for the purpose Of
.,llING OK CoNMiSS such articles a3 may
A. a.su.ie-rl 70 lGcIa hy farmers ana others.
5e.r Ire rs at The tuctlon-ho,tse of Hill, hick
-..o = G. toratr ot Franklin and Wall streets.
They Sol,lt the patronage Of their fnentj and
as Ygbit.
I, lave q good store-house and stable.
y. L. HILL,
J. II. pLEASANFS.
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-17
4. FARLEY & CO,
as COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND
2iEHCHANUiSE BROKERS',
RIHIiMNNn NIR(iINIA

ror%FE ot Iltyi%IH AEp CiCr STRUTS,
respectfully oIcr their services u he public i'll III"
gi")vc ,alntity. Our acquaintance with the trade
oii.Is peculiar advantage t. those having PRO
DJ Cf. of III |i,d5 t,r disposal.
St5l,t Attentions Will he gwen to purchase STOCKS,
COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS, &c.
IfITEs ia
u 7. Williams & 60, Richmond.
Davenport Il Co.. Richmond.
A I. & J. ID. Harvey, Richmond.
J. ". Conrad, Chester, Virginia
". I. Anderson y Co. Lynchburg, Virginia.
T. d, Neal, Danvillo, Virginia.
Harris & Howell, Wilmington, North Carolina.
George .iiden. Camden, South Carolina.
james Dunlop, Camden, South Carolina.
L. 4. Williams, Gainesville, Virginia.
SanIi.i Il Raeltni, Richmond. tc i-lm
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

THE LADY's FRIEND Another beautiful steel
engraving opens the March number of this favor
lite periodical, just received. The engraving has
no title other than the two simple lines
ooh, see them sinking, sinking slowly,
Those olden dreams so pure and holy.'
The design and execution of this engraving are
exquisite. The steel Fashion Plate of this month
is double one and, as usual, admirably ell
graved. We need hardly alude to the usual
number of wood engravings, devoted to the illus
tration of the fashions &c. The music is Those
Laughing Eyes, ballad. Among the literary
contents we note Aunt Hester's Story "A Death
Scene Tracing Resemblances,' "A Story of
Household My Angel in Disguise Bitten IA
sad story relative to the famous Mad Some of
which story the leading facts are declared by the
author, physicians wife, to be true,) Four
Birthdays, Alone, yet Not Alone Passion
Flowers THE Mansion at Lesslngton,' Novel
ties, Editorials, &C., &c.
Price $780, 2 copies 81 90; copies SIG 90;
81 copies $500. Specimen numbers will be
sent those DESTROYS of making up clubs for 10 cts.
Wheeler & Wilson'S celebrated Sewing Machines
are furnished as Premiums Address Deacon b
Peterson, 3l9 Walnut street. Philadelphia.
Now is the time to send on subscriptions for
1866
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
The Coming Crash,

The Chicago Tribune, one Of the most
ultra of the Lincoln Abolition sheets, has
the following article. 1t says:
All fast livers, spectators, as well as
those beginning to pick their ears for u
start towards extravaganza in expenditure,
should give heed to the words of wisdom.
The feeling is pervading all classes in so
cie'y. A paper dollar, says our cotempo-
rary is deprecated to torty-four cents, gold
value. Currency is plenty, and growing
plentler. Come easy, 60 easy, the prevail
ing feeling. But sooner or later the pres.
ent abnormal condition of things will ter
minate-perhaps gradually, perhaps sud-
denly. The values Of all commodities, in.
Guiding money, are fearfully s'watered."
But when the crash comes the water will
be bailed out, leaving only what is repre-
sented by the gold standard. Men are
walking on high stills, and are making
long but insecure strides. But all must
dismount one of these days, and come
down until their feet touch the earth
Many will be precipitated headlong who
now tower alott on their stills. Wise and
prudent men will prepare in time for the
inevitable change The classes who will
suffer by the termination of the war are
those in debt A merchant with stock
Of goods on hand, worth say, $500 aud
half paid for, will not realize therefrom
enough to pay what he owes. When the
goods are all sold, he will find himself still!
in debt for them five or ten thousand dol
lars, and this debt he must liquidate,
principal and interest, with gold or its
equivalent, or go into bankruptcy. The
consequence OF the end of the war on the
debtor class will be to increase every mans
debts above 125 per cent. An obligation
OF $4,000 will become, in practical effect,
$4,000. That is, it will require proper
ty or labor now worth in currency $lO,-
600 to pay it. A note outstanding draw
ing ten per cent interest, would then draw
what would now be equivalent to twenty
tiv" per cent or thereabouts, to say moth
ing of the princip pal of the note, the diff
Guilty of whose payment will swell into a
corresponding ratio
Our advice is for every man to pay off
his debts, and contract no more new ones;
to pay cash for whatever he buys, and if
he cannot do that, to go without the arti-
Gle. Do not spread too much SAIL Keep
plenty of ballast in the hold, and see that
the anchors are ready to let her 60 when
the hurricane comes, and thereby prevent
your vessel from psizing, laundering
or dashing on the breakers of a lee shore.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
Result Of Deprecated Currency.

"The heaviest possible war tax" says
the N. Y. Times, "ls the depreciation of
the currency" This is undoubtedly so,
aud the first duty of Congress is to take
Immediate measures to reduce the curren.
cy and thereby equalize, as nearly as pos
sible, the value of paper and gold. The
Times, although Republican, enforces lis
doctrine in true Democratic style. 1t
says:
"Every man, woman and child now pays
half of their monthly earning into the cof-
fers of the war If mechanic earns his
$500 year, $500 are paid away in the
paper currency; if clergyman or college
professor receives 81, 500 salary, he now
gives $3.50 to sustain the circulation of
the country. 1t is so with every day la
borer and the poorest seamstress. 1t il
equally so with the Government ITSELF
Vi its two millions paid out every day, one
million Is lost by the depreciation of the cir
culating medium. The nation doubles its
debt every day, because its paper represent
tative of value has lost its worth. Every
person dependent on salaries or fixed wa.
ges is just one-half poorer to-day than he
should be because of the reduced value of
the currency. The dollar is only worth fif-
ty cents. Every one knows this. The
people see that what is called the price of
gold, is to them the most important of all
pecuniary matters, and that the tax ON the
currency far outruns all other taxes In.
deed it is we'll seen now that direct tax
Of fifty per cent on every PERSONS Income,
provided it brought the currency up to
par) would be less exacting and wasteful
than the present depreciation, because it
would be fixed, aud would not permit such
excessive speculation and over charging
by thu dealers in commodities
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Progressing.

A bill has passed the Senate of Penn
sylvania to compel the City Railroad Com
panies to allow negroes to ride in the street
cars, notwithstanding a recent vote proved
that nineteen out of every twenty who use
these cars, are opposed to it. A Resolu-
ton was offered by Democratic Senator
to appropriate every fifth car to the use of
colored folks and to have that painted black
and drawn by black horses. The aboi-
ton majority voted that down thus prov.
ing hat their object is not to accommo-
dare Sambo, but to elevate the negro to
level with the white man. Morrow B.
Lowry, Senator from Erie, in the debate
boldly avowed himself in favor of negro
suffrage, and no abolitionist denied that
such were the sentiments of their party.
A Convention of free "Americans of AT
rican descent was also held at Harrisburg
last week, at which resolutions were adop-
ted demanding the passage of law to give
them the right to vote and other rights of
citizenship. Some of the abolition mem
bers of the Legislature attended the Con-
vention and pledged themselves to favor
its objects. 1t strikes US that these rep
resentatives have found quarters in the
wrong building. Their proper place would
be in the State Lnnatic Asylum, near
Harrisburg.
But these things prove the fanaticism of
the hour. We see men possessed of ia
telligence striving to break down the bar
rier that God has established between the
black and white races, and degrade the
white man, politically and socially. Such
reformers have existed in all ages and in
countries, and We presume they must have
their day here.
We have no doubt an attempt will in
due time be made 10 amepd the Consti-
tuition of Pennsylvania 50 as to put the
negro on a political equality with the
white man, aud we will see the Forneys
and Lowreys of the abolition party advo-
eating it.-Iorh Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
The Shenandoah Relief Association.

A number of the ladies of Hagerstown, in this
State, have formed themselves into society,
called 'The Ladies' Relief Association, the object
of which is TO relieve, as far as possible the I'M
happy and suffering condition of the people of
the Shenandoah Valley, many of whom are
houseess and homeless, owing to the complete
devastation and waste of that once productive
portion of the State of Virginia The Baltimore
County Union, in an article on the subject, says
1.-THE recent laying waste of the Shenandoah
Valley has caused untold suffering, with people
who once possessed happy homes and fresides,
farms handsomely stocked with cattle, and barns
filed with grain and hay. The Garden of Vir-
ginia has in a measure become a desert, and
entire households have from the effects of pinch
ing want been reduced to an actual state of
dependence upon the charitable and humane
Large numbers Of these people, from the grand
parent with whitened locks to the innocent help
less babe at its mothers breast, are continually
arriving inside the Federal lines, Their appeal
for succor in their sore distress ought not to pass
UNDECIDED"
'Great praise is due the ladies of Hagerstown
for the truly Christian effort which they are
making to relieve the sufferngs of these once
prosperous, but now destitute people, most of
whom, says the Hagerstown Mail, are women
and children. The Association socits the aid
of the acknowledgement, the humane and the
charitable.
Contributions of money, food, hats, bonnets,
boots, shoes, and any kind of substantial cloth
ing (new or second-hand) will be thankfully re
ceived. Everything intended for the Society
should be directed to Daniel Dechert, Treasurer
Ladies' Shenandoah Relief Association, Hagers-
town, Md.
The Hagerstown Mail says:
SIT is not an unusual case to find these poor
refugees very thiny clad, and in many instances
actually suffering from exposure and want of
sufficient clothing to keep them warm and com
Portable. They are principally composed of
women and children, together with few men,
nearly all of whom are advanced in years.
''These people once had happy homes and fire.
sides, like yourself but the terrible track of
war has stripped them of all comforts, and they
now plead their own cause, that of suffering hui
manity They comprise all political shades,
and on this score there ought to be no complaint,
for the sufferers, as general thing, are nom
combatants, being nearly all women and child
rem ~
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The Internal Revenue System.

The Internal Revenue System is pro-
ducing much larger returns than the first
year of its operations For the year end
ing June 30, 1864, the collections amount
to $l02, 5O9,24l, which is nearly three
times the amount collected in ten months
of the previous year. The gross amount
uf taxes received from manufacturers aud
productions was S75,iO3 ,3s6GO New
York contributed SIG. 14,455,90; P'nu-
sylvania, $3.50, 964,65 From iron the
amount collected in Pennsylvania was
S955,SSO; New York 5000 9S8; Massa-
chusetts, $3.50, 1881 and Ohio, $685.
SAG, 46. The twenty. second District of
Pennsy lvania, on its manufacturers Of iron
was taxed $2l2,2S SO, larger sum than
was paid by any district in the coun-
try.
Pennsylvania has S1,335, 1856 tax on
coal oil; New York, S243,420 On dis
tiled spirits Pennsylvania paid $2,194,-
425; New York, $685., 255; Illinois
contributes the highest amount, about
seven millions and quarter; Ohio, six
millions aud half The whole tax from
distilled spirits was about twenty millions
and half. Paper and the manufacture
of paper 1901 ,914,l7; leather, $685.
1856, tobacco, 81 ,0S6,6S4 manufactures
of WOOL sl,679,940; sugar from sugar
cane, 81 1907 go; manufactures of cot
ton, $l,SS5,O27; raw cotton, Sl,27S,-
4l2, Sc; cotton cloths and all textile fab.
RIGS before they are prepared, $1,7l3,178;
fermented liquors, S2,22l,6 l9. Cigars
paid S1,255,424 of which Pennsylvania
paid $292,784 slaughtered animals.
S695, l,6S; gross receipts of steamers,
express companies, &c., 1896, 99S, SO;
sales by auction, &c, Sl39, 0S2,43; loga-
cies, $50, S36,lS licenses for business,
exhibitions, &c, 81, l78, 2O5; retail liquor
dealers S4,336,345; wholesale dealers in
liquor, Sl76,764 commercial brokers,
$2O4, 098 manufacturers, Sill, O9l ;
physicians, 1922, 7S4; peddlers, SOL
III; lawyers Sl2O, 1856; hotels, $685.
0Sl; brokers of cattle, 06,337 20;
money brokers, $98,679,65.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

served for their old age or for the benefit
Of their children, there is nothing which
presents so many advantages as this Ma
tioDal Loan.
The HIGHEST Motive The war is
evidently drawing to close, but while it
lasts the Treasury must have money to
meet its cost, and every motive that patri.
otism can inspire should induce the poo.
pie to supply its wants without delay
The Government can buy cheaper for cash
in hand than on credit. Let us see that
its wants are promptly and literally salts
tied-NeW York Eram,ner
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
A "Sboddy" Hearse.

The Philadelphia North american, of
the 9th ult., says: A vehicle has Just
been completed in this city that may very
safely be asserted to be the most sump-
tuous affair Of the kind in the United
States. 1t is'a hearse built to the order
of fashionable sexton in San Francisco.
There is nothing nearly so elaborate eth
cr in Philadelphia or New York, and the
same taste for spledor that San Fran
cisco manifests on her bar-rooms and
cub-houses is shown by this underta-
ker in the order he has given for
his imperial hearse. The body, which
measures seven feet on the inside, is oval
IN shape, constructed Of plate glass, like
two monster mirrors standing upon their
side, about five feet apart. The wood
work in which they are set, and which is
the frame of the body, is in ebony and gold
every detail of the WORK being as perfect
as In the most delicate ornament for the
etagereS. There are two sets of cashmere
curtains, tasseing and fringes, and ham
mer-cloths to correspond. One Set is
white, the other blue, and two sets of
plum'es for the tops are provided to match.
There are gilded crosses upon the top of
the vehicle, that are removable at pleas
ure The mountings are of gilded brass,
and the iron work is of the most costly
and highly finished description, fire gilt.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
WAR NEWS.

steamer arrived at Washington from City
Point with nearly 1000 passengers, all persons
not connected with the Army of the Potomac
having been ordered to leave the lines. They
report that considerable cannonading and pick
ct firing occurred on Saturday, and during Sat-
urday night heavy and continuous cannonading
was heard in the direction of the Appomattox
river, which did not cease until near daylight
The cause of it was not known at City Point
when the steamer left on Sunday morning. For
few days past large bodies of rebel troops were
discovered movingto and fro and the belief is
expressed that either Lee is receiving reinforce
ments from Beauregards army, or is massing
his forces for the purpose of attacking the Union
lines.
The largest number of rebel deserters that have
come into the Union lines in front of Petersburg
at any one time thus far were brought to Wash
ington yesterday. They amounted to &c.,
Some of them state that the rebel authorities
have notified the people of Petersburg to remove,
with their effects from the city within four days
There are other circumstances, it is stated which
would seem to infer that Gen. Lee is contempla-
ting the evacuation of Petersburg, and will fall
back behind the Appomattox river.
One of the Washington papers mentions ru-
NOR which was current in that city of there be-
ing indications up the Potomac river, that an
invasion into Maryland was about to be made
by the enemy, but the story could be traced to
no reliable source. The deep mud caused by the
recent heavy rains would alone render such a
movement almost impossible.
Richmond papers of Saturday contain tele-
grams to the rebel War Department announcing
that Gems. Kelly and Crook had reached Har-
risonbnrg on Friday, and it was expected they
would arrive at Richmond on Saturday. Gen.
Lee reports that detachment of Vaughan's cav
airy captured sixty men of the goth Ohio Regi-
ment with their horses and equipments, ut Sweet
Water and Athens Stations, on the railroad be-
yond Knoxville, Tenn.
General Joseph E. Johnston, according to the
Southern accounts has been assigned to the
command of the forces opposing Gen. Sherman,
and succeeds Gen. Beauregard, who it was ru-
mored asked TO be relieved on account of ILL.,
health. Other reports have il that Gen. Johns.
ton is to command at Richmond whilst General
Lee has gone South to meet Gen Sherman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

MUTILATED TREASURY NOTES.-THE
U. y. Maa( the official paper of the Post.
office Department, says that "postmasters
are obliged to receive all Treasury notes
for stamps and hostages, if clearly gcnu-
inc, no matter how torn or defaced they
may be, provided one-twentieth part
thereof be not missing-and fractional
currency, if not one-tenth part missing.
Such notes and currency received as are
unfit for reissue should be kept separate
and distinct, and returned as occasion re-
quires to the Treasurer of the United
States, Washington, in sums of not less
than three dollars, to be exchanged for
new"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

THE New PEACE MIssIoN.-We bave
reason to believe that Gen. Singleton re-
ceived authority from our government to
pass to the rebel lines, and that he has
gone, not upon private business, as was sill
lilly attributed by partisaus to both himself
mad Mr.. Blair awhile since, but to see what
may be done by him to bring about peace.
We believe that Judge Hughes is to act
in the same capacity MteMi,
gencer
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03
Proceedings Of the Circuit Court for Har
ford County.
FEBRUARY TERM.

The February Term of the Circuit
Court for Hartford county commenced on
Monday last-Hon. John H. Price on the
bench VIM. Ii. Dallam, Clerk VIM.
Galloway, prosecuting, and Isaac Amos,
Sheriff.
The following is list of the Grand and
Petit Juries:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

CosT OF LIVING IN PuILADELPHIA.-
Meats Of all kinds reached a higher figure
on Saturday THAI it had previously attain
ed. Choice pieces of beef sold at IS and
80 cents per pound, and mutton chop
brought from % to % cents, few selling
for less than the latter price. Racks OF
mutton sold for Is cents, and shoulders
at Is and 20 ceuts. Shoulders of veal,
which before the war were sold at and 7
cents per pound, could not be obtained on
Saturday for less than Is and 20 ceuts.-
Outlets brought 80 cents, and pork steaks
the same. Vegetables of all kinds are
high. Best quality of potatoes sold for
So per bushel turnips 10 cents per quar-
'er peck. Cabbages we're difficult to he
got at any price. Prime quality butter
sold at 70 and IS cents per pound eggs
IS cents per dozen.-PhH Ledyer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-03-03

PACIFIC MoNTHLY.-The March number of this
work is we'll worth the time spent in its exam-
nation. On the first page will be found fine
view of San Francisco, taken from Telegraph
lIill looking east. The mining department is
rich with valuable and interesting statistics and
useful details of mining operations. The fashions
are from Nine. Demorest, and the comic iustra-
tons are excellent. Price SIS in United States
currency, or So 5oin specie. Address David NJ.
Gazlay, No. "a Liberty street, New York.
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u. S. $50 Six per cent.
GOLD BEARING BONDS,

These bonds are now worth premium
of nine per cent, including gold interest
from November, which makes the actual
profit on the 7-3O loan, at current rates,
including interest, about ten per cent per
annum, besides its exemption from State
and municipal taxation, mhich adds from
one TO three per cent. more, according to
the rate levied on other properly. The
interest is payable se,ni-annually by cou-
pons attached to each note, hi,h NAV he
cut off and sold TO any bank or broker.