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Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-19

AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.-A letter from Macon, Ga,
gives very cheering accounts as follows: "The rapid
ty with which the trade and former prosperity of
Georgia is reviving is perfectly astonishing. con-
slant stream of imports is passing into every city and
town. The railroads destroyed by the federal armies
with the exception of the Central, have long since
been repaired, and they are now taxed to their ut
never carried much freight and many passen-
gers before the war as they are doing now. The Cen
trail road, for distance of one hundred and twenty
with the exception of about forty-nine miles. 1t is
being rapidly repaired and will be in running order
throughout its whole length by the middle of Febru-
airy or first of March The Mason and Brunswick
and the Atlantic and Gulf Companies are pushing
%
Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-19

CIScIYNATI, Dee. 1s.-Flour is dull and unchanged.
Whisky is held nj 1925 without sales. Hogs are in
good demand at SD.50; net receipts 5000. Mess Pork
dull at ST. for old and New City. Green Meats are
in good demand. Bulk meats are dull. Lard II cts.
for prime city. Gold Lao.
Memphis Cotton Market.
MEMPHIS, Dee 16th.-Cotton has advanced 4 cts.
Mddling quoted at Il cts; strict Mddling 1904 Cts
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Chicago Markets.

CHICAGO, Dec. ls-Four is quite dull. Wheat is
for No and 92la@93 cts for No 2 Corn is quiet al
46 cts for No. and 4394f15 cts for No. >. Barley is
buoyant at % cts. Whisky is active at S2.l5@2l6,
Provisions dull. Mess Pork $3.50 on the spot, and
S2i50 for delivery in January Hogs are in moderate
demand at $S621@@9.25 for good Ohio choice dressed
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philadelphia Cattle Market.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec l8.-Beeyes are dull and prices
unchanged. Sales of 100 head. Sheep less active
and prices rather lower. Sales of 10000 head at s.
@S7.25. Cows have declined. Sales $50 head at S}5
Sales $500 head.
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Increase in 1865, tons,......,,,,... ...... 22,237
The quantity now sent forward is confined princi-
pally to the line and the city. The shipments for
Port Richmond are rapidly falling off, and the trade
is almost at u stand. f.r,@ .I.
We understand thatthere are several miles of boats
between Philadelphia and y ew York, many of which
may be caught by the present cold snap If it should
continue for several days. l.-4--
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-09

Whilst the first American Revolution
was in progress, the British commander,
Lord Howe, wrote a friendly letter to
Benjamin Franklin, communicating to
him terms Of peace and pardon upon
submission. DIR. Franklin thus replied !:
"I received also the letters your Lordship 80
kindly forwarded to me, and beg you to accept my
thanks.
"The official dispatehes to which you refer me
contained nothing more than what we had seen IN
act of Parliament. viz Offers Of pardon upon sub
mission, which was sorry to fud il must give
your Lordship pain 10 be sent tar upon SO hope
less business.
"Directiny parions 10 be offered to the colonies,
who are the very parties injured. expressed Indeed
thatopinion Of our ignorance bascness and insens,-
biity, which Your uninjured and proud nation has
long been pleased TO entertain Of US but It can
have no other effect than that Of ncreaing our re-
sentiment. -.
at is impossible we should think Of submission
TO n Government that has, with the most wanton
barbarity and cruelty, buried defenceless towns
ia the midst Of winter; excted the savages "a
naassacfe our fpeaeefu farmers, and our slaves %
" ards, tLor masteas, ald Is now even .bssnsiAg
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from her bed Of pain and sadness with
reluvenated youth and beauty. The old
woman Inc has sworn to love, honor and
obey, will bring him only a dowry Of
sharp fangs, long nails and bitter curses.
She will net permit him long to enjoy
tho soft rcposc of his cotton mattress.
She will pull it out from under him, and
kick him out from bed and. board. lie
will have the taste of that oath in his
mouth all his life. lie will realize, to his
last hour, that kccncst pang Of such
minds "The wicked have liggcd pit
and have fallen into the midst OF it them.
selves"
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occur YING. CONFEDERATE
CITIES.

At ono period, during the war of the
Revolution, the British occupied almost
all the cities of the struggling colonies.
What did Washington think Of that p
" am convinced he wrote, "that the
enemy, long ere this, are perfectly salts
fed that the possession of our towns,
while we have an army in the field, will
avail them little. Is involves us in diff
culties, but does not, by any means, in
sure conquest to them. They we'll know
that it is our arms, not defenceless towns,
which they have to subdue before they
can arrive at the haven of their wishes,
and that, till this is accomplished, the
superstructurc they have been endeavor
ing to raise, like the bascless fabric of a
vision,' falls to nothing"
We recommend that to the cIoakcrs,
if any are left now, who imagine that
the possession of one or all the Confede.
rate towns is to decide this contest.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-09
TIE MEETING TO-U.4y,

We need not invoke a grand rally at
the assemblasc to day The immense
popular enthusiasm will bring together
such a concourse as has never been seen
in Richmond. Not even the days OF
1861 approached the blazing fires which
Lincoln has Just kindled afresh in every
Confederate heart. They will flash forth
to-day in the matchless eloquence of the
most gifted and patriotic. statesmen of
the Confederaey, and the responsive
thundcrs will be echoed ere long from a
hundred battle fields. We can only
hope that rropitious weather and proper
facilities for hearing all that is said will
enable every man, woman and child Of
Richmond to be present on the august
o:casion, and hear the answer to the
tyyant.
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sccutiOn.

When Napoleon, at twenty-six years
of age, took command Of the Army Of
Italy, that army consisted of four effec.
tive divisions, under the. command Of
Generals Massena, Augureau, LaHarpe
and Serrurier, each mastering about
seven thousand men. The cavalry only
numbered about three thousand more,
and was in the most miserable plight
imaginable. The draught horses had
perished for want, and nothing remained
for the transport Of artillery but about
two hundred mules. The supply Of
bread was scanty and uncertain, distri-
buttons of meat had long ceased, the
soldiers were in rags and many Of them
shoeless, and the finances Of the Repub-
lic-were at so low an ebb that With all
the exertions Of the Directory, only ten
thousand dollars could be raised in spe-
Gle to enable the young General to under
take the conquest Of Italy,! 1t is men,
toned as an instance Of the poverty Of
the public treasury that an order, signed
by Berthier, has been preserved, in which
! gratuity Of twenty dollars is ordered to
be distributed to each Of the-generals!
This small, ragged, unpaid army of
thirty thousand Frenchmen was con-
ironted by upwards Of eighty thousand
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WHAT GENERA LEE 81 Us.

A Richmond correspondent of South.
crn paper says: "General Lee told Mr..
W. c. Rivcs, the other day, that there
was but a single thing to fear, and that
was the spreading Of a causeless de
spondcncy among the people. Prevent
that, and all would be we'll We had
strength enough left to win our indie
pendcnce, and we were certain to win it
if the people will only not give way to a
foolish despair.
"To another distinguished gentleman,
General Lee said that the attack of the
press on the President panied him Lee,
very much. He had confidence in the
President, and did not think we could
find 4 better man for that place"
We have also heard, from another
source, which we consider entitled to
credit, that General Lee said he was
surprised at the dependency of the
citizens" When General Lee speaks
thus; when General Lee says "re hare
strength enouyh ltfl 10 miu orr indcpcnd-
ence, and arc are certuin ~ scin It If
tie pcop}e "Hl oniY net gre 9ov 10 Il
I/ooii~h dc>p"ir,' the people ought to
believe him. This is not The irrcsronsi
blc uttcrancc Of an excited politician anu
still less of a street corner oracle; it is
the voice Of the highest military au-
.hority in the Contcdcracy Of a man
better informed than any other Of the
resources of the enemy and OF our own !.
it is spoken in the freedom Of social ill.,
tercourse, and not for public effect; and
it comes from man who never cxagse
rates, and who would not stain his honor
Ivy deception for all the renown the world
could give. DO the people believe Robert
Z. Lee? And if they do, will they not
dismiss at once that "foolish despair
Which. he assures them, is the only OBJ
staclc to their independence :;
The people of the Conlelcracy know
At last what the loss Of their indcpcnd
cnce means. They have that knowledge
from the Federal Congress, and from the
lips Of Lincoln and Seward. There is
no earthly hope for them but in stern
and UNANIMOUS resistance and in thai
there is every thing to hope. SO Genera
Lee declares, and that trumpet gives ne
uncertain sound.
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foreign mcrcenalies to deluge our settlement with
oiood. These atrocious injuries have eA eAtnguished
every spark Of affection for that parent country ws
once held dear; but, were it possible for VI 10
forget and forgive them. il IL not possible for rou
Il mean tn. bsitish natio.) TO forgive the people
You have go heavily injured. You csn never cur-
nde again in these AS feiloX-sut]eets, AMI permit
them ~ enjoy equal freedom, to whom you know
you have gwen such Just causes Of lasting enmity
and must imiel you, were AGAIN under vour
government, to endeayor the breakin: OF our spirit
by the severest tyranny, and o.sifcting, ty every
means IN your power, sour growing strength and
prosperity
The terms proposed by England were
even more lenient than those of Lincoln.
Pardon was offered in advance; but Lin
coin demands unconditional submission,
reserving to himself the right to deter
mine afterwards who shall be hung and
who shall receive the royal clemcncy.-
Nay, more The Northern Government
claims, in addition, to make the laws by
which we are to be governed hereafter.
Can such an offer have any other effect
than "that Of increasing ouls resent
ment"? We are inclined to believe that
it was intended to have no other effect;
that the ambitious schcmers at Washing
ton do not desire the pacification of the
land upon any terms; that they want
the war to continue to enable them to
subvert the freedom of the United States
as well as of the Confederacy, and estab-
lish military monarchy in name, as well
as in fact, upon the ruins of constitutional
liberty.
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BY GENERAL L
HITLER

VIC have received copy Of North
cru paper containing, III full, tho speech
of General Butler at Lowell. It.tills, five
columns, printed in very small type
There is good deal Of information in it
which viii be entirely new in the Con
tedctatc States. We give some extracts
from it:
TIE EXCHANGE Oh FKlsONERs-GEAnI
RESPONSIBLE FOR STOPPING 1T.
Butler emphatically denies having, at
any time, stopped the exchange Of pri~
scncrs. lie says that he and Colonel
ould, in March last, arranged all CA
change, man for man, the latter refusing
to give up negro slaves captured in arms,
and Butler determining to keep back q
sufficient number of Confcdcratcs to
balance that point. lie says:
reported the points Of agreement be
tween myself and the rebel agent to the
Secretary of War, and asked for power
to adjust the other questions of difference
SO as to have the question Of enslaying
negro soldiers stand alone, to be dealt
with by ITSELF and that the whole power
of the United States should be exerted
to do Justice to those who had fous sht the
battles of the country and been cap
tured in its service.
The whole subject was referred by the
IS NN~,. In tIf0 T1o,,tcn Mt e o.
neral commanding, who telegraphed me
on the l4th of April, 1864, insubstance ::
"Break of; all negotiations on the SUBJ
ject Of exchange till further orders" "
And therefore all negotiations were bro :
ken of, save that special exchange OF
sick and wounded on either side went on.
On the 10Th of April received an
other telegram from General Grant, Or
dering not another man be gicem to the
rebels To that answered, on the same
day "Lieutenant.G General Grants in
structions shall be implicitly obeyed. /
assume that you do not mean to stop the
special exchange of, the sick and wound
ed now going on" To this | received =
reply. in substance "Do not give the
rebels single able bodied man" From
that hour, so long as | remained in the
department., exchanges Of prisoners stop.
ped under that order, because could
not give the rebels any Of their able
bodied soldiers in exchange By sending
the sick and wounded forward, however,
some twelve thousand Of our SUFFERING
soldiers were relieved, being upwards
of eight thousand moro than We gave
| the rebels. -
In August last, Mr.: Onld, finding ne
gotiations were broken of, and that nc
| exchanges were made, wrote to Genera
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VOLUME NXNIII.
8it!,n>ond 9isp'ltfbl,
pyJ A cowAEpfT s. co.
7tfr eF 1gBScHIFiias

1IfF - @cbSe #If u
Hetig Furf7.- iof one year. "ft ''Hhhfn put
rsH.. six meath, ~ noLh'hH Three ''nch'bS'
tNt>ts-trg tatt,Es; one month. ttN poit'rs
Ac.nts aud N.@a lIcslet, viii he furnished at
4;liarY DOLLARS pcr hundred copies.
AR orders must be accompanied With tie money,
10 in>urc attention; aud all remittance b. mail
Will be =, t.sc r \ Of those who make them.
.fdrrfhsing.-Adv Will be inserted at
the rate of 1HRlf DOLLARS per square for each in
eegtl0n. kght lines ,or1eSsl constitute square.
k Larger advertisements IL exact proportion.
ADVERT 5einents rnblishef TIL iorbil WILL be
charged InRLL polt,as per riGare !or every iuser
ton.
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of the enemy, consisting Of about sixty
thousand Austrians, commanded by the
the famous veteran, Borleau, and twenty
thousand SarInians, under Collie, be-
siJes eight or ten thousand Neapolitana.
On reviewing the troops, Napoleon thus
addressed them: Soldiers, you are
naked and hungry; the Republic owes
you much; but she has not the means of
paying her debts The constaney and
courage you have shown in the midst Of
these rocks arc admirable; but they win
you no glory. l am come to lead YOU
into the most fertile plains in the world,
where rich provinces and great cities
will be at your disposal. There you
will find wealth, honor, glory. Soldiers
of Italy, will you now be wanting in
fidelity and valor?"
What those thirty thousand ragged
Frenchmen achieved is indelibly engraved
on the pages of history. Are the Con-
federate armies reduced to such straits
as the Army of Italy when it marched
to the conquest of Europe? Have we
any such odds to encounter? Can they
not fight in defence of life, liberty, pro-
perty and honor as well as those French.
men i'm a war of INVASION?
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SHERMAN'S NEWSPAPER RULE


Sherman has not neglected, in his mill
tary march, to "garrison the press. ~
The Savannah Republican, an old
and. long established journal of that
city, has been manned and officered by
an Abolition detachment. In one of it's
editorials it thus discourseth:
eve rely almost uhol'y on our army and navy
patronage the sales to citizens being, of course just
now, very small. It will require time to teach the
rnbid rebels of Savannah their fatal error and
might very naturally be expected, people close
y allied with the interests and OF jeff Davis
wicked rebellion will not patronize. in any way,
representatives Of such internal Abolition sheet
as the Tribune, if they can help it. This class
forms quite laygt element in the resident popua-
lation OF the city of Savannah. and as long they
can purchase Corperhead or Northern rebel Jour
nals frcm whose columns they can constantly draw
bountifttl supply Of consolation, We need not
peCt any assistance from Mem."
We are glad to learn that the new
organ of Sherman is compelled to rely
,eholly on the Yankee soldiers and sail
ors for patronage, the sales to citizens
being, at present, very small. This shows
that, in spite of representations to the
contrary, the great mass of the people of
Savannah have not followed the lead of
Arnold, Lamar & Co., and have no sym
pathy with the invaders. The HepuJli-
can, indeed, admits as much, but it is by
no means dcspondcnt, 1t will "rcquirc
time to teach the rabid rebels of Savan-
nah their fatal error" The manner Of
conveying this instruction is not clearly
Indicated, but, from the example uf New
Orleans anu other Confederate cities in
Yankee possession, VIC can readily
imagine the process of cnlishtnins dark
ened understandings. Insult, de,rada-
tion, stoning and plunder, will open their
eyes to the beauties of abolition philan-
thropy; or, if they still continue incred-
ulous, Danish them by wholesale and
seize their houses and effects. The
"iatal error" Of the Confederate people
is to imagine that they have any right to
exist on the planet. When they are
converted from that mortal heresy, and
renounce it with their dying breath, they
may expect to escape from Yankee per-
ScCutiOn.
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In Pennsylvanis Ihers arc thirteen
thousand public achoola With sls..s1
thousand teachers and seven punass0 ~
nine thousand pupils.
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III tRSDAT MORNING LHsrAkI ., lGGt.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-06-28
AnetdOle of Horses.

A cart horse. noted for his sagacity, once
found wagon obsuncting the way which
led 10 his stable. The space was too mar.
row to allow him TO pass on either side
Placing his. breas; again ST the vehicle, he
pushed it onward till be came to a part OF
the road which was wide enough to allow
him 10 60 by it. On another occasion a
large wide drain had been dng in the
same road, and planks laid over il for him
10 cross. II was winter, and one morning,
the planks being covered with snow and
ice, in stopping upon them his feet slipped
He drew back and seemed al a loss how 10
proceed. Near the planks was a heap Of
sand he put his fore leet into this and
looked wist.uIY 10 the other side OF the
drain, where stood the boy who was accus.
toned 10 attend 10 him. Seeing his hesita-
ton The boy called him. The horse imme-
diaiely turned round scraped the sand over
upon the planks till they we're completely
covered. He then, without hesitation Iroi-
ted directly into the stable.
Some horses kept in an enclosure logelh-
er, were supplied with water by a trough
which was 6lled from a pump. One of
them learned TO supply h:msel: and his
companions, OF his own accord. by taking
The pump handle between his teeth and
working it with his head. The others find
ing that he could thus supply their wants,
would force him, by biting and kicking, 10
pump for them, and would moi allow him
10 drink ill they were satisfied.
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LONGEVITY OF SOLDIERS. find the iol-
loving statistic in an old copy of a news
paper. We publish it just now, as evil
dence that, where the constitution is strong,
the hardships of camp-Iife do not shorten
life MANY soldiers and officers of the
Revolutionary War died q. an advanced age.
The hardships they underwent in that con :
test gave them iron constitutions Jchn
Lask, who died in Tennessee in 1888, at
the age OF one hundred and four years, had
been soldier in The old French War, and
was al the battle OF Abrahsm's Plains, Que
bee, Canada East, where Gen. Wolfe died
victorious. He also went through The Con-
linen'al War. James Stafford died at AL
leniown: New Jersey, aged one hundred
and Two. He was a midshipman in the AL
lance frigaIe. Anthony Van PeIt, who
died in New York city, in 1880, was beyond
doubt, the oldest person dying in that year.
He was in The Que hundred and thirlieth
year OF his age. Aaron Burr died at an
advanced age, and many other Revolution
ary heroes whom IL is needless IN mention
here" Our General Scott, The hero OF many
battles, is in his seventy ninth year
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UMBIA COUNTY, PA WEDNESDAY. JUNE g. 1865

auni, uncle, and long list of cousins, are
not counted out by any means. We :hink
the mother acts the most sensible, though
even she has her failings and weak points
in regard TO baby, and will occasionally ex-
hibl trace OF insanity when dilaiing upon
his charms and accomplishments.
The effect babies have on progression is
self-evident. No one ever knew of baby
inferior TO any other preceding baby
On the contrary, each one is a liille in adj
vance of any yet born and when we think
of the vast number yet 10 be, and how ev-
cry one will be irifle superior to his pre-
decessor, what glorious future awaits us (!
We shaI eventually reach perfection. How
can those persons who believe that we ret
rograde instead of progress, reconcile this
fact with their absurd theory
Some people, little enthusiastic, look
upon baby 'as thing of beauty and Joy
forever" Now we have seen some whom
we thought had liberal discount on their
beauty, and their soy forever" would qui-
etly vanish on having il commence TO cry
and 'sretuse TO be comforted, - when left in
our charge, aud We busiIy engaged in read
ing or wiring.
II must be comforting too man, no mat
ter how ugly or despissd he may be, TO
think that he was once a baby, beloved by
large circle of relatives and friends. II is
comfort we would not deny him. There
are quite a number of this worlds people;
who were not loving babies great while !;
they arrived at years when people cease TO
love them, quite early in life, and have
never been babies since.
Babies resemble wheat in many respects
First-neither are good for much till they
arrive al maturity. Secondly both are bred
in the house, and also The fo,Uer OF the
family. Thirdly-both have 10 be Graded.
FouEhY-both are generally well hrashed
before they are done with
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PULPIT ZEAL No man was ever scoice ed
olt oi his sins. The heart, corrupt as il is,
I'd because il is so grows angry If il be not
treated with some management and good
manners, scolds back again. surley mas
# will bear perhaps 10 be siroked, though
he will erowl even under the operation; but
if you touch him roughly, he will bile
There is no grace that the spirit OF self can
counterfeit with more success than a rslig-
ious zeal. A man thinks be is fighting for
Christ, and he is fighting for his own no.
lions. He thinks he is skilinlly searching
the hearts of others, when he is only graii-
tying The maligaity of his own ; and charit..
ably supposes his hearers destitute Of all
grace that he may shine the more in his
own eyes by comparison. When he has
performed this notable task he wanders that
they are not converted, he has given il 10
them soundly and il they do mol tremble
that God is in him OF truth, he gives them
up as reprobates; incorrigible, and lost for
ever. Bat man that loves me. II he sees
me in an error, will pity me, and endeavor
calmly TO convince me Of il, and persuade
me to forsake il. II he has great and good
news 10 tell me, he will not do il angrily,
and in much hea, and discomposure of spir-
IT. il is not, therefore, easy 10 conceive on
what ground mi mister can justify con-
duct which proves that be does not UNDER
stand his errand. The absurdiiy of il would
certainly strike him, If he were not himself
deluded.