Wat 5a% Cmtntersign. PUBLISHED BY THE LADEES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEV SANITARY FAIR. "POSSTJNT QUIA POSSE ^VlD^EiN'X JR." No. 1. St. Louis, Miay 17, 1864. F»rice lO Cents. L fx. I 27 j 26 1 25 I 2t I 23 I 82 | Z 1 I 0(S) (B) (S) (m) (m) (c^ (^IM, : (S) (m) (S) (S) (cm) fm) im^lsT DIAGRAM OF THE INTERIOR OF 3fo, I Charitable Association, 3 Ladies Room, 3 Bed Linen, 4 Faucy Work, - ft Bower of Rest, 6 Ladies Room, 7 Post Office, 8 Skating Park,' B China and Glass, 10 Jewelry and Plato, 11 Fish Pond, 12 Fancy Handyworli. 13 Bed Linen, 14 Millinery, 15 Swords, 16 Private Schools, No. 17 Books etc, " 18 Public Schools, " 19 Drugs etc , " 20 Newspapers, " 21 Curiosity Shope, " 32 Childrens' Department, " 23 Public Schools, *• 24 Books, etc., " 25 Dry Goods and Clothing, ■' 26 Shirts, *• 27 Sewing Machines, '■' 28 Freedmen and Refugees, '• 29 Hardware, '■ 30 Iron and Steel, '■ 31 New York Department, - 33 New England Kitchen, Ho. 33 Tobacco and Oie'UBt4ri)4^aiise cne st:^t£Di6nt:6y another which 'stall "ftJoV4 "in a caui>ter-cur- rent. .-. .-...._ Tot'nose'w^jo'mp; tjoJ.d'scOBrage arid- refuse a gene'rou's nv'alry m"the i'ail-.l'fwill eu'd'ciivor to offer a countercheck, by acting as a coun- tercharm, or rather as a counter-irritant. It will tr}- to counter-move all their prejudices by presenting, in the simplest way, all possi- ble counter-evidence. It oflers an excellent medium for the coun- terchange of loyal and patriotic sentiments, which it will most gladly welcome, and to which it will give a wide circulation ; we hope that many such will appear, as a coun- ter signal to the contributions of some of our best writers who have already generously con- tributed to ornament our pages. By afford- ing thus a counter-view, we hope to show how' a common pulse of loyalty unites the east and west. Thus we form our counter-guard and shall repel with counter strokes any attack. Having defined our position, we ask for your kind consideration in' our efforts to serve the great cause, and shall find our best reward in your approval of the Countersign. « NOTA BtiN-A. While every department of the Fair will receive notice in due time, it seems proper that the attention of the public should be es- pecially directed to one or two, the object or intent of which, seems not to be generally understood. The Fishing Pond, with its lim- ped water, its cool, green banks and its mys- terious nibbles and bites, speaks for itself to the eye of any passer ; but the Skating Park, shut from the vulgar gaze, attracts only by its name. Vain and vague have been the guesses of the uninitiated when mention has been made of the proposed "Skating Park." .Some have been troubled lest the ice should be injured by the anticipated warm weather to such a degree as to render motion on it anything but agreeable ; others have wisely concluded that it had nothing to do with ice, and was merely a smooth floor on which those children who were so fortunate as to possess parlor scates might rattle to their heart's con- tent. Indeed, some of tlie Fathers of the Fair have demurred at giving to this mys'erious arrangement so much room. St. Louis has been mystified, and now St. Louis is invited to walk in and see for itself. Bona fide ska- ting in angles and curves, of not twenty or thirty, but of hundreds, sedate lookers-on, un- fortunate tumblers, grace and awkwardness, gallantry and beauty meeting, crossing and passing. We are not going to tell you what it is, or describe the numerous devices which nature, talent and taste have used to amuse and delight you. Suflice it to say that at Brooklyn and New York, where the Skating Park made its dibat, it was constantly sur- rounded by an eager and delighted crowd. Improvements on the original have been made hj' the enterprising managers here, and it will disappoint no one who can by any possibility be charmed, fascinated or pleased. Another feature of the Fair — or, rather, two features — are the New England and Holland Kitchens. Here may the wandering Yankee be reminded of the long-ago in his dear,/ar- ofl" New England, of the winter evenings spent in the kitchen of some old farm-house, while the winter storm howled vainly with- out ; of the apple-pearings, the quiltings, the frolicking to which the blaze of the great logs in the ample fire-place made so many an ac- companiment. Here he may refresh his long- ing heart with baked beans, apple-butter, salt fish, and other delicacies of every season, which no one else knows so well how to enjoy. Turning to the other side, one passes at one step from the rocky soil of the land where the Pilgrims first trod in the New World, to the land which first aft'orded them a shelter from persecution, and whose friendl3' shores the3' left with many a sigh. The Holland Kitchen opens wide its hospitable doors to all weary travelers, and invites them to taete of its cheer. Let no one fail to see the busy scene, and to partake of the peculiar fare, served by gentle and willing hands. These are the kitchens we used to hear of, Vhere one could, with perfect safety eat from the floor as well as from the table, so scrupulously neat were the hands that willingly did the work. See for yourselves if we have at all exaggerated our statements. And when your feet are weary with peram- bulations, what so delightful as to become a real estate owner, for a time ; that is, to hire one of the easy chairs in the Bower of Rest, and lulled into quiet " with your head at ease, reclining on the cushion's velvet lining,'' see the busy and moving throng of flgures that pass and re-pass before you. Here you may watch and sympathize with the fortunate angler, as he draws his jirize from its resting place and leaps with joy at his success, or looking further on, see the merry children who. clustered around the Children's Depart- ment on the other side of the immense build- ing, and admire the.tast«i tmd skiU.of the Dec- orating Committee as "fur adown the Ion"- aisle'' 3'ou catch the names of General after General, and of waving banners and the col- ors dear to every true heart. LKTTKRFROM MRS. PARTING- TON. The following correspondence cannot fail to be of interest to our readers. We are proud to lay it before them. We feel a glow of hon- est pride that Mrs. Partington should take so great an interest in. the humble city of St. Louis. The original letter, with the signature of our venerable friend, and the photograph which she mentions, can be procured at this office. We are sorry to see by the writing, that the "romantic twinge" of which she speaks affects the steadiness of her hand : St. Louis, March 31, 1864. Dear Mrs. Partington : Through your varied and extensive reading, you have doubt- less heard of the preparations now being made for the great Sanitary Fair in St. Louis, May 17th. Will you honor us with your company during this festival, that your pleasant face and benignant smile may cheer us in our la- bors for the sick and wounded ? Pray don't neglect to bring that remarkable son, Ike. Should any domestic infelicity interfere with this arrangement, please drop me a line, and oblige, Tours trulj-. > Q. Boston, .\pril 11, 1864. My Dear Madayn: Not being very dexet- rious with a pen, ma'am, and troubled with a romantic twinge in my right shoulder, my little boy, which is Isaac, writes for me to say how facilitated I should be to make your in- vitation acceptable, and come to your Salu- tary Fair on the 17th. Most salutary it is. to be sure, where war is aodestructableto human life, dear me, and clothing is nothing. What would the poor soldiers have done if that ex- cellent bodj' and soul hadn't come, with heal- ing on its wings, bringing consolation and new clothes, to say nothing of the stockings and the old sheets torn up for bandages for the sufferers, blessings upon 'em, and amen to it. Tears come into my eyes as I think of all the good it has done, and may do — may iieaven be rewarded for it — and lam very sorry that I cannot come and be one of the features of the Fair, though my features are not fair : but, bless you, you may have the features, without my coming at all, for I have got a friend to go and sit for me at a photographer's, whose liniments I send in this. They are not hand- eome, but that is not his fault nor mine. I wish I was as rich as Creosote, and had a bank of money to send you ; but alas, the will must be taken for the deed, though that may not bring the fracture of a cent in the great aggregation. That the purse of the Corhmis- saries m.ay be crowded with greenbacks, and their hands and hearts strengthened for good by your Fair, is the desire of my heart, which it is my prayer that it may be realized. Yours, devotioually, RUTH PARTINGTON, Her signattire. THE DA^ILY COUISTTERSIGi^^ THE NEEDY AND THE BE- NEFICENT. BY HENRY QILKS. The needy are of manj- classes, and each class is nuuiorous. AVe shall, in these re- marks, say nothing of the poverty which is the consequence of vice or crime — though oven that we do not exclude from pity; nay, it is often the kind of poverty which calls for the deepest pity, as it is the saddest distress ■with the fewest consolations. But there are many kinds of poverty which are blameless. Let us glance at a few of them. There is ]iov- erty that will not Sfieak. The high and inde- pendent heart will not cringe ; it will be mule in its despair; it will stay alone in its solitude, wither, waste, and die. Call this silence pride, if you will, but what a tragic pride it is ! how noble and ll»w lofty! But it may not be pride : it may be only patient waiting which keeps the heart in its stillness, and the silence is not that of stubbornness, but that of truth- ful faith and of modest shame. Yesterday was dismal, to-day is dreary, possibly as God is merciful and as he pitielh his children, to- morrow may be brighter, and He who feedeth the ravens will not hear in vain the hungry cry of his little ones. Expectation can live long on little hopes. Seasons may be more prosperous in the future than they have been in the past. Better times may be in store. Etfort, struggle, search, may not always be without result ; still there is nothing but the "hope deferred which maketh the heartsick:" and though the heart is full of anguish, yet will not the mouth speak out of its fulness. Xor is this silence merely as to words — it is not the less so as to manner ; for such quiet poverty as much avoids dirt, bareness, and squallid raggedness, as it does craving, whin- 'ng and lamentation. Surely in this matter tni.:e is a brave heroism ; and such heroism may be found in very difl'erent conditions of life and of education. Numberless instances we should find of it. could the various social, commercial, political revolutions and the vicis- situdes of the world open to us their secrets. Then, also, there is poverty, there is want that can not speak — for instance, the sick and feeble poor, the dumb, the lonely, the bed-ridden, neglected age, neglected childhood, and the destitute stranger from other lands, who S|.eaks an unknown tongue to ears that h»ar but cannot understand. The recoj-ds of sui- cide have their darkest pages in stories of the deaths of foreigners who, driven to despera- tion, seek their last refuge in voluntary death. And yet could these poor people have made their helpless and hapless condition known, they might not only have lived, but have lived in credit, comfort and virtue. Now these are forms of need which are per- manent — essential as it would seem to the very existence of society, inwrought in the consti- tution of human nature, and belonging to its earthly and probationary imjierfection. To these we have to add others that have their sources in causes which are occasional and e.x- traordinary. Famine may come. It may come from the earth, the ocean, or the sky: it mav come at anv season, and the failure of a single crop in a single district of the globe, brings on millions, misfortune, starvation and mortality — a wholesale woe which moves the pity and the munificence of the world. So it is with pestilence that goeth about si- lently and stealthily day and night, and leaves the desolation of death in homes and on high- ways. So it is with great disturbances in commerce and industry, in which laborers become paupers, in which capitalists become bankrupts, in which all become embarrassed, unhappy, or desperate. So it is with tem- pests, shipwrecks, and numberless terrible ac- cidents to which human life, and most the life of the laborious, is constanth' exposed. War we mention last, because it is the most comprehensive among the special causes of suf- fering and adversity. We know that war may be a duty, an in evitable duty, as it is now with our nation and our government. But even when best and tri\est, war is at the cost of inlinite calamities to the generation amidst which it rages. Not in the camp or the field ; not on the march or in the hospital alone, are the miseries of war. They are not even limited to the countries iraniudiatelj' involved in the contest. They are as wide as the living world. The miseries, however, must be most bitter to those who are nearest the strife — ^to the non- combatants, as well as to those who directly fight. In many ways non-combatants must sulfer, and the most generous government cannot provide for all those whom combatants lost in war leave behind, that had on them re- liance for support. When a worthy soldier falls or dies, it is not natural sorrow alone that goes into his home and brings weeping and lamentation to his fireside : but soon there comes the sense that there is lost forever the dearest helper and the best protector. Wait- ing, a few days ago, for a train, we noticed a young mother of four young children, of whom the eldest was not more than six years of age. She and her babies, all in deep mourning, got into the same car as we did. A gentleman beside us whimpered— "Her hus- band was killed in battle.'' So, one bullet, thought we, has killed a man in the prime of young life, and made a widow and four or- phans. Supposing that nature and alfection were strong in this poor girl's heart — and they seemed to be, for her manner showed a grief that had no speech — how direfully must she have suffered by the bullet that took away a life dearer to her than her own. And yet this was merely a rejireseniative bullet — represent- ative of tempests of bullets throughout the land which are filling it with widows and or- phans. God, in his mysterious government, has sub- jected human nature and human life to many and grievous alliictions ; but in compensation He has filled the human heart with charities correspondent to the demands on them. These charities are the exhaustless fund on which the suli'ering have always to draw ; and those who have the means to pay the tax should pay it, not grudgingly, but most generously. We are in the midst of a terrific civil war. One peculiarity of it seems to be overlooked, and that is. the desolation which it carries into homes. Our armies are not standing. They are voln^iteers. It is odd that this distinction has been so little thought of. The Old World's armies are atanding, and consist mostly of single men. Ours are of the PEOPLE, and have among them numbers of married men who quit pleasant homes for the deadly field : and a man often leaves a helpless widow and a house full of orphans behind him when he falls. Perhaps in the history of nations, so mar- velous, so harmonious, so spontaneous, so im- passioned, we might say, expression of moral energy and sympathy has ever occurred as we witness now in these national Fairs held throughout the country. They show how pro- foundly the heart of the country is moved and how loyally it beats. The Fairs will present a pecuniary result at which the earth may wonder. But this wonder will be vulgar and temporary. JIuch of the vulgar and tempo- rary will be mixed up with these Fairs— but that will be nothing. What the world must admire will be, the grand burst of a nation's aftection to its volunteer soldiery. The wants of this soldierj', in all their complications, must still be supplied through the central gov- ernment : and all that the most gigantic per- sonal contributions could do towards supply- ing them would only be as a mustard seed to a mountain. But these genial, grand, gene- rous contributions have a moral value, which make the government supplies seem like a mountain reduced to a mustard seed. These supplies from the free hearts of the people, bind the hearts of the people to the hearts of the soldiers : and every soldier in every relief or comfort which they afford him, feels that his country knows him as a personal friend, and that he is dearly, fondly thought of by father, mother, brother, sister, friend, wife or sweetheart. May God prosper, bless him, and soon send him safe home to all— -when he will sing among his family the dangers he has passed, and his family will love him for the dangers he has braved. • ACR(^STIC. R ear to the Chieftnin y column of glory ; . O Jorous roses with laurels combine; S end down his name, thus embalm'd, into slory,, E ndeared to the people by conquests sublime. C berish his fame with a- grateful affection j n emember his prowess with deepest re-.pect ; A drift on War's storms, yet with bis protection N e'er shall the ship of our nation be wreck'd. S o gratefnlly will wc bis pillar erect. ,M. A. We are all practicing ground and lofty tum- bling, and our skill is as varied as our per- sons. Sweet-scented flowers lie all along our paths, but who does not prefer the Alpine blossom, which is hardly perceptible to mortal eve ■? We do not enjoy easy tasks. They make the stout arm slugglish. We all have visible or invisible grappling hooks, and long for some objects under the sea, upon the land, or over our heads, to whfbh to attach them. Why is an English edition of "Faust" like the projihet Elijah ? A.— Because it is trans- lated. • : Why is a boy trying to walk on ice like an article of a lady's dress? A.— Because he is a "slipper."' THE D^ILY COUlS7TERSIGl>T. FACTS NOT FANCIES. " Well Sosie, what's for dioner d«ar ?'' " Mj lo^'C, 1 do not fcuow, The litfrt day thai 1 dined at tiom« wai jnst two weeks ago; 3 g iiesa the girls will pick you op eoms little thing to-day 1 know yoa do not mindj my leve, youWe euch an easy way. Don't wait for me, 1 may notbc at home 'till after tea; Perhaps, if 1 don't come hy eight, yon'd better call and see; I'll be in our committee-room ; oh i neT«r mind the egg, 1 know they all are over-done — don't say a word, I beg, For Bridget waB at work forme, ] was aiircyon wonldn't care For the Miseifisipp: Valley Sanitary Fair. I'd wait and walk down town witli you, but Gear me, if you knew, / bout the new department there's heaps of work to do ; A new committee to be formed, and who's to take the lead ? Oh ! baby dear, mamma must go, go to yonr pap instead. He loves to have you hold him so; there Lucy dear, good bye, Mind all that Brid^^et says to you. Oh yes, if you won't cry. Some time I'll mend that dress you tore two weeks ago to-day. Be careful not to catrn it now, how badly it doeslfray ! But now 1 am so busy dear, 1 can't a moment spare From the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Pair." Well baby, since mamma Has gone, we'll read the morn- ing newe, And sec how Sherman manages the rebels to confuse ; V, hy Bridget, Where's the paper gone ? I laid it on the shelf, I'm sure J left it thfre just now; do come and look yourself. Yon know you'r not to touch it; 3 bate to have it missed," " An sbure an it's the paper snr? the mistress took it jist. An jist to fold the little scrap 1 ironed for her the morn. An shure sur I'm as innocent as e're a babe new-born, She took it with her snr indade ; be plased sur to in- qoare, For the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Pair." " Well, never mind the paper then ; there's plenty more down lown, 1 just remember now a note 3 must write to Tom Brown, I promised him to send him word this very day, so then — VThftt in the name of coiomotl sense does ail this plaguey pen? Let's have another I just as bad, J cannot make a dot." " Why. there isn't any ink papa, mamma said there was not. She was writing names on letters" — "1 filled it yester- niorn 1 That inkstand holds a hull a pint, and now it is all gone. Circulars directing — I vow and do declare, For the Mississippi Viiliey Sanitary Fair ! Well, what'.s thf wet Id a coming to ? 1 wishl, could feel clear 'Twas coming to May seventeenth some time within a year ! Thinge have been upside-doww so long, 'twould be a pleasant change Tk, set them right themselves once more, though 'twas a little strange. As for the husbands. Well, 1 hope that man is satisfied, For if he didn"*. break the bell, wire, certain 'tis he tried. Oh Bridget run and stop that noise I" "A letter sur for you," ■ Well, let me see i'' — " The AJt Committee meets to- day at two, Attendance punctual required we fine you if not there. Iloomn Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Of course! 1 might have known 'twas that I from early morn till night. These cabalistic characters are all that meet my sight. Their very sound bewitches all who hear them, that is plain, A hopeless frenzy, seises them ; they never vest again. No hoarded ^treasure sacred is ; they tase. and bear away, And their incoherent speeches at all hours of night and day Betray the monamama that holds them firmly bound. Ahont this Art Committee— yes. I surely must step round; I meant to trot my pony, but 1 scorn to shirk my share Of the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Pair. A. K. LETTER FROM TENNESSEE. Knoiville, April 20, 1864. Madam: I suppose it is my known suscep- tibility to the " Fair " — of course I mean the M. V. S. F. — that has been the means of lay- ing upon my table as "pooty " a lot of cor- respondence as you ever saw. Here they are, groat fat ones, in huge envelopes, directed in large business-like hands. There are narrow thin ones, scrawled over by pinched up let- ters, from a long slender pen, held in very long bony fingers. There are neat little white envelopes, with a tracery as delicate as frost work. And there are yellow packages, in all sorts of hand writings, and covered with strange devices. High and loity, above all, towers "M. V. S. F." Talismanic letters ! "With trembling hands and beating pulse, and throbbing heart I open some bravely and courageously; others, and others yet, in a business-like way, with about the same result. Some want trophies. I have not one. Every- thing I had of that sort has been robbed from me long, long since. The 128-pounder I cap- tured at Camp Jackson, and carried so long in my breast pocket, was filched from me by a converted rebel, who now claims to be a better Union man than I am. The first mus- ket I ever shouldered, and which I intended should go down to my children's children, was stolen from me by an old maid, to trans- mit to her posterity. The first pair of shoul- der straps I ever wore have passed away in a (s) car. The only bale of cotton I ever stole was sold at Sheriif's sale to pay almost ill- mannered tailor, who would not wait forty- eight months for twenty-eight dollars ; and the only girl who ever said she loved me begged to be excused from marrying me, as ' she promised, because I didn't have two hun- dred thousand dollars, a corner lot, with a ' marble front on it, a span of horses to a car- 1 riage, with a coat of arms, and a hammer- cloth on it. She was the greatest curiosity I ever owned, and the only trophy I ever won. I did not marry her, as I said, because she asked to be excuthed. She could do better. ' One of these letters asked for a lock of my [ hair, to entwine with similar locks from the poll of the President and each member of his Cabinet, together with all the distinguished Generals of the war. As I have no hair on the top of my head, I considered it a " sar- kasm," and passed that letter by with con- tempt. I have no idea of my dear locks being lost in any such mass of false artificial hair. Another otfers a premium for a shirt. "Ah !" thought I, "there's my chance!" but an in- vestigation of my wardrobe — that's a valise, and contains two shirts, a pair of — I don't like to say what — ^yes. I will : iivo pairs of socks, a pipe, a plug of tobacco, and a pack of cards, (visiting cards, of course. ) This investiga- tion showed that all the shirts were woolen and had no buttons on ; the shapes excellent, but I can't spare 'em long enough to have 'em done up and go to the Fair and back ; so there's a block to that game. As there is no prize ofiered to the purchaser of the shirts, and I cannot he there to sell any, I am cut ofi' from any connection with that department. I should like to offer something for the " La- dies' Grand Fancy Court," &c. I have not a thing of my own, and in the "Children's De- partment" I feel so "kinder" queer, that I never can get along. Most of tjie little ones like me, personally ; but since that young woman treated me so ill I have not the cour- age to offer myself — even to the fatherless. The big circular hints at everything. I would give a lecture, sing a song-solo, or any of them things, if I could be there with you ; but you see I can't. I am awav off here in the tented field, shivering in the cold, eating hominy and hard-tack, ".sarving" my coun- try. Therefore, and wherefore, and you'll wonder why I have taken so long to say so. I inclose you ten dollars to go towards the Fair in the Great West, my home and my pride. Yours, sorrowful I}-, patriotically and sani- tarily, Ma.jor. &c. 1^;^ The ten dollar note referred to in the preceediiig letter arrived safely. It is "pay- able in eight per cent, stock or bonds of the Confederate States, six months after a treaty of peace between the Confederate States aud the United States." It will be carefully pre- served till that time shall arrive and the pro- ceeds handed to the Sanitary Commission. OUR CONTRIBUTORS. We looked for them from the East and from the West, and we have notbeen disappointed. Skilled and swiftlj" moving pens answered our call, and we hope e'er our brief existence is passed to lay before our readers choice articles from those who are justly ranked among our first and best. We shall aim to serve up dishes for every palate, not forgetting the children — articles both grave and gay, both lively and severe. Already we recognize in our drawer the graceful handwriting of America's most characteristic jioet. John G. Whittier. of J.is- K. Lowell, of Robert Lowell, of Emerson. Dr., Frothinghara, Henry Giles, and a score of others who have done good service. We cor- dially invite all to contribute and swell the number. St. Louis has native talent enough to fill and worthily fill our columns. For the honor of the Queen City of the West, let us show a fair front that will not be ashamed of a comparison with the other papers that have flourished and bloomed in the hot bed of the Sanitary Fairs all over the country. Send us your best word, whether it be a song or a jest, a story or moral advice. Let us see what St. Louis will do. We wait your respon.se. Nature despises niggards — she throws her- self open, every treasury uncovered, and says, take, oh, take, use and not abuse — fill u; your whole being, and pour as you receive — my urn is never empty. THE D^ILY COUNTERSiaiSr. 5 Extracts from Unpublished 'Writings Fire may burn ir. man or woman, and God may select one or the other to touch new chords in the human breast. God talks through poem, marble, canvass, voice, sweet sound ; through beauty and utili- ty in every form. His channels are countless as phases ; as inex|)lioabIe as his mysteries. We are to bend the ear and listen — we are to watch the instruments made ready to our hands ; and having found our fitting element, float therein, and draw tlierefrom its varied store. Life is no fancy masquerade. We cannot disguise ourselves effectually ; we may assume characters but only our own will be tacked to our memory. We must shape our garments iiiid wear them, be they comely or otherwise; we cannot buy a solitary ptarl to broider thereon — soul and hard effort alone produce oar jewels. It is possible that the worst things done, may prove ladders to highest aspirations through agencies unseen to us. So unlit^e are organisms and circumstances, that one appa- rently sails into paradise by natural attributes, and another is lashed by trials into the most common decency. How much credit is due the former, how much blame falls to the latter, is known alone to Infinite Wisdom. One fact IS patent; eternity is a lengthened day, ind there is always .space and ojiportunity for revi- sion and correction. Sooner or later all must behold the light, be attracted thereto, and walk in the new paths. Humanity and eternal justice point to and demand this. Too much ease cannot be healthful, for amid the most charming security, the All- Merciful directs his thunder-bolts, and they stir up the languid waters, and another pulse beats in quick strokes. We are electrified in every possible manner, through good report and evil report, unexpected joy, sudden sor- row, adversity, fortune, sickness, bounding health, sadness, spiritual fullness, all remedial if rightly appreciated. What we most need is a fitting state to do this, a wise economy to educe the utmost from every phase. What moral gardener would ask wider fields to cul- tivate than the most ordinary existence offers. What trees, shrubs, plants, vines, fruits, tiowers. What wonderful variety, what soil, what stuck, what wealtl; of implements. (Jan we not a'i do something in this great t L;sbaudrj' — if wc cannot fell huge trunks, the weakest can eradicate a weed. If we cannot mount a ladder and select the fairest yield, we can pick up the golden bounties at our feet : if wc cannot invest, we can gratefully use : if we cannot sow. we can assiduously water, and so help forward. There is work for all — substantial, profitable in one or many senses. Not always for gold or silver or repose but for imperishable riches which gather usury forever. None need be drones, for if out- wardly powerless, they may be inwardly triumphant, and exert an influence of surjiris- ing magnitude. Hope, trust, exertion are for all, and to the faithful, no jot or tittle sliall be lost — multii'lication shall be infinite. All that is and has been, works with the upright, and distils power as fast as expended. Genbral Grajit. — Don't fail to see General Grant's little daughter selling dolls in the big shoe of the Children's Department this cve- ing. Marriage is like vaccination. You can be married aa many times as you please, as you can be vaccinated, but if it lakes the first time it will not the second. Persons desiring to preserve the full set of the Countersign can have it filed for them by leaving their names at the newspaper tabic, Pair Building. We make too sefious a matter of many, if not all our vicissitudes. When children fall how quickly wise mothers spur their heroism, and laugh the accident away. Though our scrambles "up again" should follow every trip, the very re-bound ie half a remedy. How whining and pining dwarfs the soul ; it is a gradual softening, and becomes an incurable disease. PHOTOGRAGHIC ALBUMS. Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig- s Microscopes, Games & Stationery, At No 9 South t'Utb strwt BIBLE AND TRACT DEFOSIJ'OHY. J, W. McINTYRE. DR. E. HALE, ,r>ENTIST VIHji'p Nt>f UiW(-«l cv^rn^T of Pj!(n imcJ Lufti-it sts . ST. LOUIS, MO. mmm AaioiiLTiiRAL mi'iitamiseeh stiire. Bluuden, Koenig & (Jo., No. 56 N'irth Second street. ST. LOUIS. MO. FULL assortrocn'L of Firtrm iiuplemtmts and Yarm and Garden Seeds constantly on hand. A Outley's Palace of Art, Nv. 39 Fourth fctreei, uppobile the Planicrs' Huu>ri- J.I. OUTLET, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, offers his servicps to all persons dpsirnig a perlect picture ot any kind.t'rum the smaHest lo'.kft to life size. Unusual inducements art=- offered to those wishing portraits of themselves or ol deceased friends, requiiinp only a suiali picture ot tbem. no matter how faded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine tiie portraiti; on exhibition. M. S. HOLMES, NO 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every depcriptiun of FAI'ER, BY THE REAM OR CASE. 53= 100 ton <.f R,ig! wanted tor caBti..43 THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Insurance Company OF HARTFORD. ACC'UMITLATED Capital, over $6,000,000. Number ot Policies issued iu I8S3, 5,685 ! Fifty per cent, divi- dends declared annually. Oue-lialf of premiuuis re- ceived in notes, wtiicb notes are cancelled l)y dividends. HENRY STAGO, Aeent, No. 40 Third street, corner Pine. Mutual Life Lisurance Company OK NKW YORK. FRED'K S. WINSTON. rKBsiPKNT. Accumulated cash Aspets. Isi Keh , 1864 $10 300.000, THE safest and ^(^onpe^*t Life Insurance Company jn^ tbe United States. SAM'I, COPI*. Jr.. Agent, N. W. corner Mam and .Second ste KIInTG, DOAJ^r & CO., Importer'^ ;in''l Jobbers^ ot FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, )\' Ui6 M,iii Slreel ST. LOUIS, MO. -A. TT O T lO TST fS . BY J. H. OSlioOl) & SON, 147 ConRress utrcct. Bost-.n. REGULAR Catalogue sale^ uf Dry Goods, Tuesdav^ aud Fridays. Ri-L-eivi'd m Public "Warehouse on Btorage. Wool, Cotton and Mer.-handise Renerally, for whu-h Legal Bocd Wan-house ri'ceipts will be given by J. H. OS<:iOtM>, Public Warehouseman. Liberal cash advdniM*< iiiiide on roufipnments. The Best in the Cheapest G. W. CURTISS & CO., No, 7 f^'Oith Fitl li -treft. KKEP lb* i.^-$t O'.ttl Oil and Lamps, the best crystal flint Ohimiieys. Globes. Wi».-k-:. &c. At-'ents for Fist's Coobing Lamp, for family UHe. Gives entire sat- isfaction. No family should he without ona. All kind.*; Coal Oil and Lamp goods sold whoU-sale and retail . LEWIS & GPvOSHON. 58 JVorth Fourth street, KEKP the latest styles ..i Gentlemen's Press Hals. Felt Hats of pvery drf;i'r:ption tor Men and Bovs ; Ololb Hats, Military Hats. Strjw Hats. Cloth Cape. Fancy Caps for Children, elesiaiitly tiimmed; Lcphorn and Straw Hatfi for Ludien. Misses and Children; TranMinc Baei^. Umbjellcis. &. .. and Furs in their season. -WILLIAM H. GRAT & CO., Wholesale ano Retail G R O C li: R s , N'.>=. 76 fit, 77 Souib Second street, opp.i-ite Pacific Railroad Depot. Orders from the country promptly attended to. CHAUNCEY L FILLEY, 108 Wain street, 108 Direct Importer and Dealer in CHINA, GLASS & OUEENSWARE, H AS. according to returns made by all the Queens- ware Dealers, Ihe largest slock in the city. CHAUNCEY I. PILLKy Has. accordinti to n-uirns made uuder "alh by all the Queensware ppalers, more stock than any two houses on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has. accordiiit^ t'l n'liirns niado over two hundred per « eiit, nioj .■ ware house on Main street. lath a.s above, an any Queens- CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keep*; a full assortment of staple and fancy China- Glass. Queensware, Coat Oil Lamps, Looking Glasses. BrittanniaWare. Silver^lated Ware. Trays, AVaiters, Ta- ble Cutiery, Water Coolers. Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is xtc only direct imporlt-r m the city, of Leddle Elliots & Sons' White Granite aud Parian Wares and Decorated Vases and Toilet Wai*es, which received the great prize medals at the "World's Fairs in London, Paris and New York, a variety of which they have liberally donated to the M. V. S. Pair. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY 'W\\{ receive nii^it'. tures. ■ ijK d'.rect fjoTH mai.u; 6 THE Di^ILY COX7]^^TERSIGI:^. J & A. GARDINER, "W A. T C M >I >V li E Jti S , Aii'l Inii.'.rti-is it Watches. Jewelry, Silverware, AKD FAXCl' GOODS, No. 93 Fourth street, KEMOVAL. DR. ISAIAH FORBES, D E I^^ T I S T HAS removed from his old stand, to No. 86 Olive, (one square further West.) three doors west of Fifth street. R. GUMERSELL, Sr., (SUcrKssoi! TO M(.ij:i;isux ^v cu.,) DRESS AND CLOAK TRIMMINGS, lacp:s. emceoideries. hosier r. Gloves, Fans, French Corsets, Skirts, &c. .\l.SO^ English, French and German Fancy Goods, No. lUO FOl'KTn STREKT. (H.ASItiHV ROW. ST. LOUIS, MO. INSURE YOUR LIVES. Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES. 2^0. 92 Broadwa.v, Xew York. S. A. RANLBTT, Special Agent, Xo. 1 Olive .-I.. X K I'ir. Main. S. W. Baldwin. S. M. Dodd. BALDWIN & DODD, Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS, BOXXETS, MILLIKEKY (ioODS. i^C, 93 Mam St., corner of Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. ROBERT DOUGHERTY, MANI.KAlTl.RER AND UEALEK IN ALL KINDS of Carnapes, Buggies, Barouches, &c., comer Fiitb and St. Cliarles streets. St. Louis, ito. Secoud hand Carnages taken iu exchange for new. Repairing executed with dispatch. C. G. KILFENSTEIN". A. R. DONALDS N. A. GER3E0N, NO. 52 NORTH FIFTH STREET, ST. LOUIS. MO. ADOLPH HtlNICKE. JOHN M ESTEL. HEINICKE & ESTEL, IMPORTERS .if and whoiesale dealers in Cuma, GUsj and Quoensware. Looking Glasses. Coal Oil, Lamps, iiritaonia Ware, &c.; Tea Trays_. Table Cutlery, ice., N'o. 26 N'orth Main street. St. Lf»uis, Mo. Assorted Crates for country trade kept on haad. Particular attention paid to packing. JAMES MAGUIRE. NSTANTINE MAGUIRE J. & O. MAGUIRE, 7"U0LESALE ani retail d.^aier- ni Drucis, M'-di- cmes. Cbenucais. Perrumery, Patent Medicinet.. Medicine Chests, &c,. Stc, Southwest corner, of OUve and Second streets, St. Louis, Mo. W JULIUS MORISSE, iDiporu-i and Dealer :u HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, 165 AND 285 BROADWAY. ST. LOUIb, MO. Geo D. Hunipbreys, LiLoius 11. Terry. M. M Broadwell. J ilLl N. Ilaiii^on C.G.HELFENSTEIN&CO., FURNISHING STORE , WM. S. HUMPHREYS, N. «'. CORXER FOURTH & PIXE STS., ST. LOUIS, MO, A. F. SHAPLEIGH & CO., IMPORTERS OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS AND HEAVY GOODS, Xo. 102 Mam St., het. Vine & Locust, ST. LOUIS. HO. Wholesale and Retail Emporium JAS. P.riSKE. AUGUSTUS KNIGHT. WM. B . G ARBITT. FISKE. KNIGHT & CO., Manui.u'tu; eri and Wh'.'lesale Uealfi-s- in Xo. S' Alajii sUcct, cuiuei L.'cuat, ,ST. LOUIS, MO. -FDR- PALMER & WEBER, PUBLISHERS 01 Unsiz, Su. 56 Founti street, St. Lcrs 1.. Mltihell, Rauiuielsber? & Co.) Maifaciiirefs of Fine Fmiture, And Dealers in Carpt^s, furtains, ((il Cliillis, 81iai|e<. ml Iplwlslcrv. k.. Nos. 134&l:J6X-orlh Fourth street. MANTZ & LYNCH, Whole-iile D.-,:;.-i- ill F-l.-iuri .iri I> ouesto WINES AND LIQUORS, And Rectifiers of "Whisky, 39 South Main :iiid 11 S.niih Commercial streets, be- tween Waluut and Elm streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Choice brands of Bourbon Whisky constantly on hand. EUROPEAN COLLECTION BUSINESS, (^T. Second 6l Chesnut sts,, up stairs. ST. LOUIS. MO. Edward A. Fellerer, M. D. ll(i-M(EurATHir PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 119 Olive St.. between Eijrhth and Kmtb sts.. norrh side. Otticc bnus— 7 to 9 o'clock, A. M.; 3 to 4 p, M. [Washington University. j UNIVERSITY HALL, Corner Washington avenue and Seventeenth street. WM. CHAUVENET. L. L. D., ChanoeUor. WM. G. ELIOT. D. D.. President. WAYMAN CROW, Vice President. S. A. KANLETT. Sec'y & Treasurer. Cominoncenieut. June 16. 1864. MRS. E. J. MORRIS, Fashionable DRESS AND MANTILLA MAKER, X'o. 66 North Fifth st., bet. Olive and Locutt, ST. LOUIS, MO. Branch of Mme. Demorest's. New York. Cutting and fitting done to order. THE I3A.ILY COUDSTTERSiaJST. 7 WESLEY FALLON, C. B. IIUBBELL, Jr. & CO, (SUI.'CESS.>R TO F U.l.ci.V ^ \VRI';ilT ) CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER, Nos. 84 and 86 North Fifih strc?et. ST. LOns. MO. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE STOCK (if everything m his line; All work sold guaran- teed as represented. WARNB, CHEEYEK & CO., ■WHOLESALE ANE RETAIL DEALER^ IK HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, Silver Plated and Japanned Goods, HoHcw Ware. Fine Planished and Custom-Maile MANTFACTUBERS OF WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, Reliigerators. Ice Chests. Waler Cooleri. Baiting Apparatus, ttry:. PATENT PORTABLE SODA FOUNTAINS. Xo. 125NOETH FOURTH STREET. (Marble Buildings, near Washington Av.) ST. LOUIS, MO. clothcie:e^.s, —AND— MERCHANT TAILORS,. N. W, COR. FOURTH ST. & WASHINGTON" AVENUE, (Branch under Linden Hotpl ) ST. LOUIS. Ubsdell, Barr, Dimcan k Co., IDI^ir O-OOIDS, FOURTH, VINE & ST. CHAHLES STS., ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. LOUiS UNION, PUBLISHED BY THE XJnioii ^^issjBiooiatioii. D. M. GRISSOM --- EditoH. J n p.iRSONS Business Maxageh Office, Corner Third aad Locust streets. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily, in advance - - - - - -SSOO Tri-Weekly. in advance - - - - - -400 Tn-Woekly. Clubs of Ten 30 00 Weekly, in advance - - - - - -150 Weekly, Clubs of Ten 10 00 WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL DEALERS IN FOREIGxN AND DOMESTIC TDT^IZ- O-OODS, 102 FOUKTH STREET. ST. LOUIS. R. II. FRANKLIN, WHOLESAI.E A]VD RET.4IL -AND- GILES F. FILLEY, MANUFACTURER OF COOKIXG AND HEATING STOVES, AND DEALER IX TIN PLATE, Sheet Iron, IVire, Rivets, COPPER botto:ms, PRESSED AND JAPANNED WARE. Office and Salesirtb Filth street, oppusito the Mercantile Librmy, St. L'-viis, Mo. Muft's, fee, taken for pr^-^ervution duriug the Summer, and the promptest attention giveii to all orders. P.H.JONES, SUCCESSOR TO BEN. F. lRANE & CO., DEALER IN CLOCKS. WATCHES, DIAMONDS, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, under Odd Fel- lows' Hall, corner Fourth and Locust streets, St. Louis, Mo. •Watches repaired and warranted. FANCY DRY GOODS, 132 FOURTH STREET. L, E. CARPENTER. P. II. ABRAMS. CARPENTER & ABRAMS, DEALERS IN BONNET RIBBONS, DRESS AND Cloak Trimmings, Fancy Goods, Notions, &c., 122 Fourth street. Verandah Row. between St. Charles st. and Washington avenue, St. Louis. COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, AND BR(;NZES, FRENCH CLOCKS, &C. J. CRAWSHAW & SON, HAVE just received and are now opening the largest and best stock of Lamps and Gab Fixtures ever seen in the Unitcfi States, wliich they offer low for cash only. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Xo. 78 North Fifth street. ST. LOUIS. UNION STORE. No. 108 NORTH FOURTH STREET, (Third door South of St. Charles.) ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION FLAGS. FRO.M ONE CENT TO $200. ALSO. Military Swonls, Sa-he-, Belts, Shoulder Snaps, Lice Buttons, Gold and Silver Bullion. S|i. ingles. Stars, Photographs, Photograiiil -\lbuins. Union Pins, Bad^'es, ■Mid Regalia ot all kinds, wh.le-.iie .ind Retail. PARLOR AND BEDROOM GRATES, T ATEST style and patterns, ril l.iwe~t -^ market rates. Dodge's patent and Skeel's patent Sot- ting. Maiiufactorv, 174 North Main street. B. HORTON MARY INSTITUTE, Lucas Place, between Fourteenth and Filteenih streets, ST. LOUIS. A SCHOOL of the hiuhest Older for young Ladies. Two terms of twenly weeks each per annum. Cat- alogues, terms of admission, or any other information, may be obtained of C. S. Pennell. A -M., Principal, at the Institute, or at his residence. No. 307 Chesnut st., or of S. A. RANLETT, Treasurer, No. 1 Olive, northeast corner Main. 8 THE D^ILY COUNTERSIGN. D. A. "WINTER & CO., CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, Vi) 20-lFiankUiiavcnae, l>«. Klpventh andTwcitth sts., ST. LOUIS, MO. Kt^pairiug warranted and accurately execnted. SEWINC MACHINE CO. No. 124 North Fourth street, (Wr ind.ih Row,) ST. LOUIS, MO. MFKlira ^ liY. 113 N. FOnRTH ST , COR, VTNS, ST. LOUIS. eS O O l-H o r— ! •i-l o o O 5 ^ biO so oil 5£5 ^ t ^ fl 6 t ^ ^ 'f< «3 w P3 A. SUMNEE. AGENT > JK. WHEELER & wn.SONS .# rj.^a^Ps% SEWING MACHINES, N' • 30 N.>irb Fitth -ureet, . ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION LINE. Uaioii Traiii5portaM & Insurance Co. FAST FREIGHT LINt KAST .i.ND WEST, VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RATES GUARANTEED. N. STKVKNS, Asfi'-t, No. 49 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. HOWE & Oi^JPEN'S NKW SKKH F!KK 4.'*fi) MARIMB iINSUKANCE^ AGENCY. j B K H (> L D~t"h E LIST: 'Columbia Fire Insurance Go. OF NEW rofts j office — No. 161 Broadway ; CaJB Cap :t:i,. $81:0,0(10; Surplus, $«3,493; A.ssets, $:68,«3. INSURES Buildings, Merchandiao. Household Furni- ture, Rents, Vessels in port and their Cargoes, and other Insurable property, .'iBamst loss or damage by fire. The insured receive 75 per cent, or uet profits without incurring any liability. ,, „ TIMOTHY- a. OHURCHILL, Pre.i't SDWARD KEMF.TS. S?'. Home Insurance Company, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. Ca NEBRASKA OITY, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections Ari.' made with the Hannibal and St Joe Railroad. Chicago, Burlington and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads of Iowa, Oa and after Sunday, November 15th, 1863, St. Jcieph Express leaves St. Louis at 1:16 A. M Mail and .Vcromniodation Train at 3:30 p. M Fare as Low as by any other Route. Commodious Passenger Rooms nave been fitted np at the Depot, corner of North Market street and Levee, with ev. ry arrangement for the comfort of pa.ssengers. I'R'KKTS FOR SALE AT No 40 Under Planters' House, AND FOOT OF NORTH MARKET STREET, Wiere reliable information cm be obtained relative to routes in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. JtJ- He certain that your ticket reads: ' Via North Missouri Railroad.** I. H. STURGEON, Superintendent. i H CONCANNON, General Ticket Agent. £> A.CIFIC K,.A.ILK.O-A-I3. ON and after Monday, December 7tb. 1863, trains will leave St. Louis, as follows : Mail Train— Daily at 8:30 a. M.. stopping at all stations and running through to Dresden, (196 miles.) Fr.anklin Accommodation— Daily except Sunday, at 4:16 p M Stagee— Leave Dresden for Warrensburg. Lexington. Pleasant Hill. Independence and Kansas City, daily on arrival of train. Leave Sedalia for Springfield. Bolivar and Warsaw, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings on arrival of train ; Leave Tipton every evening for Boonville Passengers taklug the 8:30 A. M. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily for Rolla and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning for Springfield. Through tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- pot, corner of Seventh .and Poplar streets, or at the Oomp.any's Through Ticket Office. No. 42 Fourth street, under the Planters' House. T. McKISSOCK, Sup't B. W. WALLACE, General Ticket Agent. St. Louis and Iron Mountain Eailroad. Spring Arrangement, commencing April 4. 1864 PASSENGER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, daily, as follows : for Pilot Knob, Potosi, and all stations, at. ..6:15 A. M. For Desoto at 6:16 .t. M. aiid4p, M. Eeturning- Will leave Pilot Knob at 5 2" ^ " 172 Broadway, (cor. Maiden Lane,) N. Y. Cash Capital, $400,000; Aaaita, Feb. 1, 18&t, $682,000, Scrip dividend, 1861, GO per cent,; Scrip dividend, 1862, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863, 60 per cent. THE Policies entitled to-participate. receive 75 per cent, of net pro.tts. Insures Buildings, Merchan- dise, Furniture, Rents, Leases, against less or damage by (l-c and marine risks on lakes, rivers and canals. 3E0. C. SATTKRLEB, President. liENRY WESTON, Vice President. WM. K. LOTIIROP, Secretary, •.V.SI A. 9C0TT, Ass't Sec'y. Potosi at V-"- D'jaoto at 6:00 a. 3:50 p. M. and5:3.T p. Carondelet Accommodation Trains. For OaronJolet at 6:15. 7:111, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A. M ; 2 00 400 6 25. 7:30, 9:00 and 11:30 p, »l , For Docks at 0:16, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A, M,, 2:00 and 4.00 P. M For J effirson Barracks and Quarantine at 6: 15, 11:30 a, M., and 4:00 p. M. Returning— Will leave Quarantine 317:30 a. m.; 1:00 and 7:50 p. m. Jefferson Barracks at 7:40 a. 01 ; 1:06 and 7:63 p. bi. Docks at 7:54, 9:16, 10:33, A. M.; 1:17, 3:07, 5:45 p. Carondelet at 6:30, 6:20, 8:00, 9:-i0, 10:40, k 3:10,5:48,7:00,8:10. 10:45 P. M. S, D. BARLOW, Pres't & Sup't. ISIDOR BUSH, General Agent. 1:20, Ifo dt^ottnlemgn. PUBLISHED BY THE LADIES' EXECU'lTVE COMMITTEE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR. "F»OSSTJ]VT QI:TIv\. POSiiSH: VIIJENTUR." No. 2. St. Lo-uis, M:ay 19, 1864. !Prioe lO Cents Masagkrs /Mrs. E. \V. CLARK. MANAGERS, jjyjgg g ^_ RANLETT. Editor. A>rNA C. BKACKETT. Tlnarsday, May 19, 1864. THE SMIZER FARM. It i3 proposed to dispcse of this generous do- nation by a raffle, near the close of the Fair. The Smizer Farm is a tract containing about five hundred acres, located on the Pacific Rail- road, twenty miles from the Court House. Three hundred acres of it are of the finest in the Meramec Bottom, highly suitable for meadow purposes, the raising of timothy, grass, &c. The remaining two hundred acres is bluff land, and is eminently adapted to the raising of the choice fruits and grapes ; or even for pasturing sheep. The Meramec River forms the entire northern boundary, in no place subdividing the estate, wliile one of the largest of springs furnishes continuous and wholesome water. Within an hour's ride of the Court House, the city will always pro- vide it with a market for its produce, and its proprietor, receiving the daily papers, may take advantage of his instant knowledge of prices to send his goods at the proper moment to that market. Upon the tract are several substantial frame dwellings, together with two buildings, one of which was designed for a grist, the other for a first class saw mill The entire title is in the county of St. Louis, which, under its power of conveying lands, will make over by deed the farm to the for- tunate drawer. Altogethei*, of this class of estates, a more desirable one could scarcely be selected. "We can conceive of no more pleasant way of contributing to the grand purjjoses of the Fair than by purchasing a ticket in this raflle. There is a pleasant sensa- tion in the thought that, by the investment of a single dollar, we might become the posses- sors of real estate to the value of $40,000. But the mere desire of winning possession of so much wealth will not influence the action of many. This raffle does not resemble a lottery, in which one invests with the bare mercenary desire of realizing a vast per cent- age on the risk incurred. No. We — and we speak for the community at large — will give our dollar with the pure and honest motive of helping forward the good cause, spending not another thought upon whether we shall obtain the prize or not, believing that o;v chance is hut small in forty thousand, and knowing that "so bulky a donation could not easily have been disposed of otherwise. Our feelings will more nearly resemble those we experience when setting down our name to one of the many subscriptions for charitable purposes brought so often to our doors. And there are not a few unselfish souls who have casually mentioned to us — and not a few who have thought the same — how pleasant it would be to obtain possession of the Farm, that they might re-donate it for a "Soldier's Home," or for some other purpose equally grateful to God and man. Wo need not prophesy that the charity and sacrificing spirit of those even who may disapprove the means will lead them to promote the noble end in view in this raffle. POST OFFICE. Knowing the general character of Fair Post Offices to be such as soon to exhaust the in- terest in its issues, the Committee on the Post Office of the M. V. S. Fair have exerted their ingenuity in devising new methods of render- ing this department attractive. The follow- ing is an outline of their plan : The Post Office is situated near the Olive street entrance, and is provided with two places of delivery, for ladies' and gentlemen's letters, respectively. The ladies' delivery will be constantly waited upon by the gents of the Committee ; while the ladiesof the Committee will ever beseen "like apples of gold in pictures of silver," through the aperture marked " Gentlemen's Delivery." It struck us that these apertures had been con- venientl}' and designedly arranged so as'to admit of pleasant conversation with outsiders. In addition to the ordinary undirected cor- respondence of a Post Office, each member — of whom there are some fifty — has handed in for delivery at least twent3'-five letters ad- dressed to his or her particular friend, and the same has been done by many outsiders. The Committee have likewise provided letters con- taining choice photographs of paintings by the best artists ; others containing neat curi- osities, comic surprises, and many other pleas- ant things. Letters in French and German «re also ready for delivery. An opening near the ■middle of this department gives admission to' "drop letters," and we would suggest that a vast amount of quiet fun and humor could be obtained by a correspondence through this channel with friends, or even with unknown parties. Having seen a great part of the Com- mittee's stock, we will also suggest that, as a great ra.any of the letters contain neat little original scraps of poetry and elegant little sto- ries, and are, thfrofore, worthy of a wider dissemination, those who are so fortunate as to receive these, should, after enjoying them, quietly slip them back into the Post Office, di- rected to some one of their friends. The speed and certainty of its delivery being sur- passed by no other method, it would be a great aid to the Fair if those who may have mes- sages to send or notices to give during its pro- gress would make use of the Post Office for that purpose. * ARMS AND TIU)PHIES. While we would agree with Mackay in his chapter on the insane admirers of relics — "men who have made fools of themselves for the jaw-bone of a saint, the toe-nail of an apostle, the handkerchief a king blew his nose in, or the rope that hanged a criminal ;" yet we believe there are relics which are able, and do exert a wholesome influence upon the beholder. Of this nature are the interesting trophies collected by this department, under the supervision of Gen. Gray. A wealth of historic associations clings around them, while the purity and honesty of the motives to those wars which have mostly supplied this Department must ever render them more hal- lowed and stirring to patriotic breasts. In one corner may be seen the shattered rem- nants of the battle flags of the 1st, 15th, 18th, 26th, 6th, 21st and 26th Missouri Regiments, showing too plainly that the brave Missouri boys are not afraid to emulate the charge of Baliiklava. The flag of the 15th went through the battlesof Pea Ridge, Stony River, Chicka- mauga and Missionary Ridge. A small standard made in the field by Laibold's Bri- gade on the 2d anniversary of Camp Jackson day, its title, the " Glee Club" standard, shows that war has not eradicated the finer senti- ments from the breasts of our soldiers. The flag used by this brigade when the gallant McCook led them to the final charge at Chick- amauga, is also in this collection. Several rebel flags captured by Missouri regiments form a second collection ; amongst these are a flag captured by the " Bloody 8th" from a Texas Regiment at Fort Donelson ; a fi.ie silk flag captured in Alabama, made at the Hunts- ville Female College, for the Huntsville Guards ; a third taken from the Court House of Little Rock, upon the capture of that city ; a fourth, interesting from the fact of being captured at Camp Jackson and again re-cap- tured at Port Donelson. Gen. Doniphan's Mexican flag may also be seen. The follow- ing articles may be found amongst the various swords gathered from many biittlefields, viz: a curious old Spanish sword found U|jon the bloody sward of Shiloh, on one side is the inscription, "par el rey Charles III" ori the other " /«/(iH^. THE FAIR MENAGERIE. PAKT I. Tou ask me to come to your beautitoJ-Tair, The grave and the gay and the lovely are there ; Tou say that fair hands have knitted and sewed, That genius has made it a Fair a la Mode. I enter yonr temple, hoping to find, Exciuisite taste and beauty combined ; \ I dream'dol young faces in loveliest bowers. Like fabulous fairies half hidden in flowers. Of strains of sweet music entrancing the soul. And exquisite splendor pervading the whole. Thus fancy sketch'd with her own bright hue, A beautiful vision, but alas! not true. I enter. Oh, h»rror ! I tremble with tear ! I'm met by a WoJffWho approaches too near; I flee from her presence in utter dismay- By a dexterous turn Ikeep her at bay. Alas ! lor my safety, I And I'm pursued By a Fox, in the distance I tried to elude; The fates are against me, I cried in despair, O where shall I flee to? A voice says, "Beware." A gay prancing Filley came then dashing by. Swift as a flash across the dark sky ; But ere I could turn I heard a light bound Of a Stagg which escaped from the fang of the hound Just while I was beating a hasty retreat. Up rose some fine Patrridges under my feet. Birds of bright plumage there, too, might be seen, Some ducks and a Drake with its beautiful sheen. PART II. Lightly falls the foot of time Where the balmy zephyrs Blow; Wafted from that sunny clime Where the perfumed blossoms grow. Swiftly flow the fleeting hours Where fair Flora sits enshrined In her sweet ambrosial bowers. With gay clematis entwined. The half has not been said or seen, Of grottos, groves and graces. Like splendors seen by Sheba's queen. Ne'er known in other places. Gay coteries assemble here. With beaux and belles by dozens. Revolving in their own bright sphere. With kindred dear as Cousins. Come, Tom, and Dick, and Harry too , Come prince and peasant freely— 'Tis open now for me and you, And ultra Horace Greely. PAKT III. But time would fail to tell the tale Of all the splendors in detail. Describing all that's rich and rare In this great Sanitary Fair." There sits a King, whose quiet sway His subjects loyally obey, Whose brow, ne'er shadowed by a frown, Disdains that bauble called a crown* And tho' not seated on a throne,^ Tet reigns supreme by love alone. Or if, perchance, your taste is rare, You'll quickly flee the city's glare. Oh, stay no.t 'mid the noisy cry ; Haste to the tranquil Pond near by. Whose peaceful pleasures Walton knew. Are there reserved for some like you. Sequestered 'mid thesc,lcafy bowers. Where verdant Copse and fragrant flowers, Those cheerful blessings all may Uale, Or Hazard nothing if they fail. ANON. ■W))y is this spring like Queen Victoria Because it has enjoyed a steady rain, (Keign. REMARKS BY MRS. GENERAL S. KNAIL. Yes, I went to the opening of the Fair, my dear, and glad I am of it, though I did get my new bonnet rather mashed, till I am sure Madame Paris would say it was a burning shame for me to wear it again in the street, or even to travel in, which I don't mind telling you, my dear, we mean to do this summer, either to the mountains or the sea-shore, and which of the two I am unable positively to state just now, on account of the General's general indecision ; but you know where my own feelings would take me, which is neither here nor there at the present time. I am sure it was a great sight, such as was never seen before in St. Louis by my eyes, which are as good as ever they were, th(^gh I do wear spectacles once in a while> as you know, but only when the twilight comes on, which it generally does very quickly at this season, which I am so rejoiced to say promises now some little warm weather for a variety that they do say is the spice of life, though why they should, I have never been quite sure. As for telling you one lialf or one quarter of what I saw on that day, which is to me ever memorable, and ever will be so as the birth- day of Andrew .Jackson or any other individ- ual, celebrated for his justice for which, as we all know. General "Washington was always re- nowned, which I always tell the General, and he never fails to slap the table with his fist and say, "Let justice be done, madam, though the heavens fall," though indeed what the two things have to do with each other I am not quite clear, till the dishes rattle, and I am obliged to remind him in a playful way that be is very strong, and his fist has great weight, as I know his opinions have on 'Change, for though I say it, it is the truth plainly spoken, as it always ought to be, and especially about the Fair. Of course I saw General Rosecrans, for we were standing waiting for him, as I had never seen him before, though he has been here so long, which I hope will not happen again, by which I mean,_my dear, my not seeing him, so don't misunderstand me, for I flatter my- self there is no need of that, except by a wil- ful prevarication of my meaning, which was a sin I never could endure, and therefore must take the liberty to censure whenever I find it, which liberty I am sure people will pardon in one of my age, though you would not think I was as old as I am, especially in looking at my photographs; which are certainly a great dis- covery,' and beat the old story of the man who had a lamp and a genius that he rubbed, which I used to read in my younger days. I have always been a little short-sighted, my dear, which accounts for my eyes being so strong, for which reason the General always says, when he sees any one coming that I know, though at a distance I may not be able to distinguish him from my eyes, " Bow, my dear }•" so when General Kosecrans came by, the General says in an under-tone, "Bow, my dear," and bow I did as stupid as a mule right ) at somebody else, though why mules should be called stupid I can't see, for they certainly are most obedient animals, and so useful in muddy weather, especially on account of their tails, though one cannot with truth say they are beautiful ; but of course use and beauty are not to be combined in everything as we find them in the Fair. However, I think General Rosecrans did not notice my confusion when I found my mis- take, which has troubled me very much, for he took off his hat directly to a lady on the op- posite side, which I must say wns done in such an engaging manner that I could have no fault to find, if that had been a supposable case, which it is not, but we will sufier it to be so. And now, my dear, if you are not tired of hearing of what I saw at the Fair, I will tell you some more at another time, which I hope will not be far removed, when I hope you will allow me to talk in my own way and not interrupt, which is the only way, as I tell the General, to drive straight at a thing and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left till you ha've said what you started to say, and then stop, which I do now, my dear. A NEW EXPERIENCE. The various expressions of the hum^n face have been a fruitful theme for writers since the days of Adam. With each generation the interest is renewed, and every new expe- rience deepens the impression that every pas- sion, emotion or shade of feeling has a cer- tain set of facial muscles that respond to the inner monitor. The writer has of late been forcibly impressed with this fact, having been brought in contact with persons under some- what novel circumstances, meeting one in hours of relaxation, when the mind is relieved from business cares, in the social circle, in church, upon the promenade ; the face wears a pleasant smile, the eyes beam with kindness the voice has a cordial tone of greeting, noth- ing but agreeable impressions remain ; but if you visit these same persons upon business, they meet you with the contracted brow, the calculating air, the formal manner Oiat be- speaks the man of cares, who desires short interviews. Ask him for a sum of money small though it may be, for some deserving object, instantly another set of muscles (which seem to have their growth from the pocket) are called into action, the line's around the eyes deepen, the corners of the mouth turn down- wards, he seems to mentally incase himself in armor of steel, although you may receive what you ask for, you feel that he will not receive the love promised to the cheerful giver, ev«Yi though the gift may save some child of want from suffering. Thank God there are honerabl^ exceptions to this class, but the rule holds good, and if your call is responded to in the same kind and ccrdiaVspirit with which you are met in hours of leism-e, mark that man as one of God's true hearted, whose every pulse vi- brates in unison to the demands of charity, and though his inability may cause a denial of your request, you leave him with more thanksgiving for his refusal than for the grudging gift of the other. Q- THE D^ILY OOUIS^TERSIGN^. 5 RIDDLE. A word, of our language ; we use it in prayer, While we use it in many a common aftair. When we give, then wc do it j when we ask then we say it . When wc snppUcatP humbly, we cannot hut pray it. It is ott a Kings' title to lordly domain, And many a tract, is here held by such claim. Prefix to this word, the initial.s which stand, Throuiih all the wide world, lor our own blessed laud, And tlic name of a hero you have, whom we trow, Will ne're lacS for laurels to grace his brave brow. M. A. The Countersign returns its acknowledg- ments for the following which was received yesterday : St. Louis, ]VJay 16, m'A. Mcsdames Clark ^ RanUtt : Publishers, Sfc. : — Enclosed we hand yon our check for two hundred and fifty dol- lars, which you will please accept as a testi- monial of our interest in the.success of your enterprise. With sentiments of the highest esteem we are. Your ob't. servants, Johnson & Sawyer. [For the Coutrtereigu.] THIS AND THAT. Said a soldier to me the other day, " This is a war for the nigger, not for the white man. The niggers have no souls ; they are nothing but great black monkeys, any way." After I had replied to this by saying that such sentiments, so exactly opposite to the plain teachings of the Bible and to the facts in the case, were alike dishonorable to his head and heart, he said: "Well, I don't be- lieve in freeing the niggers, any way ; for, if we do, they will come up North and scat- ter over the country, and overrun us all." "Well," said I, "look at your positions side by side. Wonderfully smart and powerful twenty millions of Northern white men must be, if four millions of no-souled monkeys can overrun them and degrade them." "O, con- sistency," &c. D. Bon Mot. — Probably in most loval families throughout the city the Sanitary Pair has fre- quently been the subject of conversation when the family met together. At No. street, it has been ttc theme for weeks past. A ^ew days ago A. remarked, "When the Fair closes the Curiosity Shop is to be kept open, and every man, woman and child found with a five cents in their pockets will be placed on exhibition." "Ah! yes," said the Gen- eral, " I had better make an investment of my spare cash immediately." "Papa," spoke a little curley head at his elbow, " put it in your vest pocket ; that will be a good invest- ment," The General took his hat and extin- guished himself. Q. Why is a kitten longer than a yard stick ? Because it has more than three feet. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the Decorating Committee, under the care of the Wilkes Club, for the evident design, and order, and beauty with which they have ac- complished their herculean task. A CALL. Spend all your leisure at this Fair, Leave money all about it; "Five hundred thousand we must have," And cannot do without it. Leave ofi' your drinks, leave off your smokes, Leave ofl^ your .satin dresses, And give the money that they cost To making savory niesses; And cooling drinks, aud all things nice, For sick and wounded brothers, t And prove you're worthy children of Good, honest. Union mothers. COaA FORBES. Why is one of our officers like Daniel Boone? Becau.se he is a"'General Hunter." HENRY FOLSOM & CO., Whulesale and Retail De.ikrs in is^1lit-a.k,-^ goods FIR£ ARMS, REVOLVERS, FLAGS, AND SPORTING APPARATUS. PRESKXT-iTTOX Swords aud Pistols on hand or made to ..id.T. H. FOLSOM & CO., 64 Fourth street. St. Louis. PHOTOGRAGHi:: ALBUMS, Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig's Microscopes, Gaines & Stationery, .\.t_No. 9 South Fifth street. BIBLE AND TRACT DEPOSITORY. J. W. MclNTYRE. DR. E. HALE, |^DENTIST,i Office, Northwest corner of Fifth and Locust sts., ST. LOUIS, MO. WESTERN A(JRMLTURAL DEPOT AND SEED STORE. Blunden, Koenig & Uo., N". 5G North Second street, ST. LOUIS, MO. FULL assortment nf Farm Implements aud Farm A ind G constantly ou hiin-i. Outley's Palace of Art, No. 39 Fourth street, opposite tbe Planters' House. J J. OUTLET, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, oifers his services to all persons desirinjr a perfect picture of any kind, from the smallest locket to life size. Unusual iuducements are oflered to those wishing portraits of themselves or of deceased friends, requiring only a smajl jjicture of them, no matter how faded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine the portraits on exhibition. M. S. HOLMES, NO. 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every description of PAPER, BY THE REA^I OR* CASE. 53= 100 ton of Hags wanted for cash.=|35 THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Insurance Company OP nARTFOKD. ACCUMULATED Capital, over $(;,000,000. Numher of Policies issued in 1863, 6,688 ! Fifty per cent, divi- dends declared annually. One-half of premiums re- ceived in notes, which notes are cancelled hy dividends, IIKNRT STAGG, Agent, No. 40 Third street, corner Pine. Mutual Life Lisurance Company OF NEW YORK. FRED'K S. WINSTON, Presldent. Accumulated cash Assets, 1st Feb., 1864, $10,300,000. TTIHE safest and strongest Life lusurauce Company in L the United states. SAM'L COM". Jit.. Agent, N. \V. corner Main aud Second sts. Kiisra, DO^isr & co., Iiiii)iirtev8 and J'-bbi-rs of FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, No. 105 Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. -A. XT O TI P 3>a" SS . BY J. H. OSGOOD & SON, 147 Contircss street, Boston. REGULAR Catalogue .-ales of Dry Goods, Tuesdays and Fridays. Received in Public Warehouse on storage, Wool, Cotton and Mcrclnndise generally, for which Legal Bond W.-.r^houso rt^ceipts will be given by J. n. OSGOOD, Publif Warehouseman. Liberal cash advmiceti made ou cuusigmnonts. The Best is the Cheapest G. W. CURTISS & CO., No. 7 South Fifth street, KEEP the best Coal Oil and Lamps, the best crystal fliut Chimneys. Globes, Wicks, &c. Agents for Fisk's Cookiny Lamp, for family use. Gives entire sat- isfaction, No family should be without ouo. All kinds Coal Oil and Lamp jioods sold wholesale and retail. LEWIS & GROSHON, 58 North Fourth street, KEEP the latest styles oi Gentlemen's Dress Hats, Felt Hats ot every description for Men and Boys; Cloth Hats, Military Hats, Straw Hats, Cloth Caps, Fancy Caps for Children, elegantly trimmed; Leghorn and Straw Hats fi«r Ladies. Misses and Children; Traveling Bags, Umbrellas, &c., and Purs in their season. WILLIAM H. GRAY & CO., Wbnles.jle and Retail a R O C E R s , Nos. 76 & 77 South Second street, opposite Pacific Railroad Depot. Orders from, the country promptly attended to. CHAUNCEY I FILLEY, 108 main street, 108 Direct Importer and Dealer in CHINA, GLASS & PEWABE, H AS, according to returns made by all the Queens- ware Dealers, the largest stock in the city. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has, accordint; to returns maJe under oi^th by all the Queensware Dealers, more stock than any two houses on Main street. • CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY . Has, according to returns made under oath as above, over two hundred per cent, more stock than any Queens- ware house on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keeps a full -assortment of staple and fancy China- Glass. Queenswarp, Cual Oil Lamps, Looking Glasses, BrittanniaWare, SilverTlated War-e, Trays.Waiters., Ta- ble Cutlery, Water Coolers, Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is the only direct importer in the city, of Leddlc Elliots & Sous' Wliite Granite and Parian Wares and Decorated Vases and Toilet Wares, which received the great prize medals at the WorhPs Fairs in London, Paris and New York, a variety of which they have liberally donated to theM. V. S. Fair. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY will receive monthty new goods direct from manufac- tures. 6 THE E)A.ILY COXJN^TERSIGISr. J & A. GARDINEB, Ami Importers uf Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, AND FANCY GOODS, No. 93 Fourth street. REMOVAL. DR. ISAIAH FORBES, D E N^ T I S T HAS removed from his old .stantl. to »^~ No. 85 Olive, (one square further^i West,) three doors west of Fifth .street. INSURE YOUR LIVES. Equitable Life Assiiraoce Society OF THE UNITED STATES, No. 92 Broadway, New York. S. A. RANIiETT, Special Agent. No. 1 Olive St., N E. cor. Main. S. W. Baldwin. S. M, Dodd, BALDWIN & DODD, Manufacturers and whnles.ale dealers lu HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS, BONNETS, MILLINERY GOODS, &C.. 98 Main St., corner of Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. R. GUMERSELL, Sr., (SUCCEShlOU TO MOKKISON *S; CO.,) —DEALER IN— DRESS AND CLOAK TRIMMINGS, LACES, EMBROroEBIES, HOSIER V, Gloves, Fans, French Corsets, Skirts, &c. — ALSO — English, French and German Fancy Goods, No. 100 FOURTH STREET. GLASGOW ROW, ST. LOUIS, MO. A. GERSHON, NO. 52 NORTH FIFTH STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Wholesale and Retail Emporium Gentlemen's, f ouths' and Children's GLOTmnsro-. Furnishing Goods and Army Outfits. C S GREELEY. C, B. BURNnAM. D. B- GALE GREELEY & GALE, WHOLESALE GROCERS, A' LSO, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MER- CHANTS, No 86 Second street, fft. Louis, Mo. BELCHER'S Sugar Refining Company. Office at Refinery Building, cor. O'Fallen and Lewis bIb., WHERE may be found all kinds of refined and clari- fied Sugars, in barrels, half barrels, sacks or hogs- beade. Also, Golden Syrups, Syrup Molasses andSu- tiarbouse Molasses in barrels, half barrels and kegs, and in quantities to suit, from twenty-five barrels and up- wards, at the card price when delivered. A box for or- ders wilt be found on the Northwest corner Second and Olive streeta. Cash on delivery. No charge for pack- ages or draynge. GEORGE PARTRIDGE, President. E. T. "Ware, Secretary. ROBERT DOUGHERTY, MANl'FACTURER AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS of Carnages, Buggies, Barouches, 6tc., corner Fifth and St. Charles streets, St. Louis, Mo. Second hand Carriages taken in exchange for new. Repairing executed with dispatch. C, G. niLFENSTEIN. A. R. UONALDSON. C.G.HELFENSTEIN&CO., GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, N. W. CORNER FOURTH St PINE STS., ST. LOUIS, MO, A. F. SHAPLEIGH & CO , IMPORTERS OF HARD\VaRE, CUTLERY, GUNS AND HEAVT GOODS, No. 102 Main St., bet. Vine & Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. JAS. P. FISKE. AUOUSTrs KNIGHT. WM. B. U.\RRITT. FISKE, KNIGHT & CO., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealer;; in Nu. 37 Main street, corner Locusf, ST. LOUIS, MO. PALMER & WEBER, PUBLISHERS of Music, No. 56 Fourtb street, Sf. Louis, Mo. Dealers in Piano-fortes andMusical In- struments of every description j Western agency for the sale of Steinway &. Sons' Gold Medal Pianos, and Prince & Go's Improved Patent Melodeons, which we furnish at the factory prices, wholesale and retail. GEORGE CORNING, Manufacturer and Dealer in Ladies' & Crentlemen's Bootis & Shoes, No. S6 Market St., bet. Third and Fourth, ST. LOUIS, MO. Alex. Young, Chicago. Dan. C, Touiig. St. Louis W. F.Stonf. New York. YOUNG BROS & CO., M:innfacturers aiul Whulesdle De.ilers in OXjOTHIHTCS-, 135 Main st.. St. Louis, Mo.; 33 and 36 Lake st., cor. Wabash avenue, Chicago, 111.; 120 Chambers st., N. T. ADOLPH HEINICKE JOHN M. E9TEL HEINICKE & ESTEL, IMPORTERS of and wholesale dealers in China, Glass and Queensware, Looking Glasses, Coal Oil, Lamps, Britannia Ware, &c ; Tea Trays. Table Cutlery, fitc, No, 26 North Main street, St, Louis, Mo. Assorted Crates for country trade kept on haad. Particular attention paid to packing. JAMES MAGUIRE. CONSTANTINE MAOtJIRE J. & C. MAGUIRE, TTTHOLESALE and retail dealers in Drugs, Medi- VV cines, Chemicals, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Medicine Cbests, &c., ice. Southwest corner of Olive and Second streets, St. Louis, Mo. JULIUS MORISSE, Importer and Dealer in HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, 165 AND 286 BROADWAY, ST. LOUIS. MO. WM. S. HUBIPHREYS, TTHOLESALE OROCER — AND— Commission Merchant, No 95 North Second street. ST. LOUIS. MO. IV. H. CLARK, FURNISHING DEALER — AND— SHIRT MANUFACTURER, 13S North Fourth St., Southwest cor. Washington Av., SAINT LOUIS. PLANT & BHOTHER, d^ SIGN OF THE GILT PLOW, =^ No. 25 North Main st. & 204 Broadway, Commission Merchants, And Dealers in Agricultural Seeds, Tools, Machines. BELTING, HOSE, &c. Erne.stC. Angelrodt, Consul General. Robert Barth, Consul. ROBERT & -WILLIAM MITCHELL. (Surr.^s-.ir^ to Mitchell, Rammelsberg & Co..) Manufacturers of Fine Fiirnitiire, And Dealer.-^ iu Carpeb, Curtains, Oil Cloth's. Slia'lei, and Upholstery, k., Nos. 134 & 136 North Fourth street. MANTZ & LYNCH, Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic WINES AND LIQUORS, And Rectifiers of Whisky, 39 South Main and 11 South Commercial streets, be- tween Walnut and Elm Streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. Choice brands of Bourbon Whisky constantly on band. ANGELRODT & BARTH, EUROPEAN COLLECTION BUSINESS, Cor, Second 5c Chesnui sts , up stairs, ST, LOUIS, MO. Edward A. Fellerer, M. D. n(>M(EOPATHI( PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 119 Olive St., between Eighth and Ninth sts., north side. Office hours— 7 to 9 o'clock, a. m.; 3 to 4 p. m. Washington University. UNIVERSITY HALL, Oorner Washiugtun avemie and Seventeenth street. WM CHAUVENET, L. L. D., ChanoeUor, WM. G. EI.IOT, D. D., President. WAYMAN CROW, Vice President. S. A. RANLBTT, Sec'y & Treasurer. Commencement, June 16. 1864 MRS- E. J. MORRIS, F.ishionuhle DRESS AND MANTILLA MAKER, No, 66 North Fifth st., bet. Olive and Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. Branch of Mme. Demorest's. New York. Cutting and fitting done to order. THE D^ILY COTJI^TERSiaN. WESLEY FALLON, (SUCCESSOR TO FAI.LON & WEIGHT.) CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER, N06. 84 and 8« North Fifth street. ST. LOUIS, MO. KBF.PS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE STOCK 01 everything in his lm«. All work sold guaran- teed as represented. WAMB, GHEEYER & Ca, WHOLESALE AND KETAIL DEALER6 IN HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, Silver Plated and Japanned Goods, Hollow Ware, Fine Planished and Custom-Madc MANUFACTUBEBS OF WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Water Coolers, Bathing Apparatus, &c., — ALSO— PATENT PORTABLE SODA FOUNTAINS. Xo. 125 NORTH FOURTH STREET, I (Marble Buildings, near Washington Av.) ST. LOUIS, MO. C. B. HUBBELL, Jr. & CO., WHOLESALE AWD RETAIL DEALERS IK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC IDTb'^ O-OODS, 102 FOURTH STREET, ST. LOUIS. GILES F. FILLEY, MAUUFACTURKR OF ytT — AND— MERCHANT TAILORS, N W. COR. FOURTH ST. & WASHINGTON AVENUE, (Branch under LindeU Hoiel.) ST. LOUIS. R. H. FRANKLIN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL COOKING AND HEATING STOVES, AND DEALER IN TIN PLATE, Sheet Iron, Wire, Rivets, COPPER BOTTOMS, PRESSED AND JAPANNED ■WTARE. Office and Salesroom. 156 it 157 Main st,, ST. LOUIS, MO. GEO. PARTBIDGE. HENRY B. REED. THOS, OBEEN. PARTRIDGE & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, COMMISSION AND FOR- WARDING Merchants, No. 84 North Second St., St. Louis. Will make liberal cash advances on consignment or Produce, lor sale in St. Louis, or to Partridge, Wells & Co., New York. -AND— Ubsdell, Barr, Duncan & Co., lD:Rir C3-OOXDS, FOUHTH, VINE & ST. CHARLES STS., ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. LOUIS UNION, PUBLISHED BY THE Union A^s^sociation. D. M GRISSOM -- -- Editob J H P.\RSONS Business Manager Office, Corner Third and Locust streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily, in advance - - - - - -$800 Tri-Weekly, In advance - - - - - -400 Tri-Weekly, Clubs of Ten 30 00 Weekly, in advance - - - - - -160 Weekly, Clubs ol Ten 10 00 FANCY DRY GOODS, 132 FOURTH STREET. LOUIS PETERS, IMPORTER, MANUFACTURER AND RETAIL DEAL- ER in Fancy Furs, and purchaser of all kinds of American Furs, No. 61 North Fifth street, opposite the Mercantile Library. St, Louis, Mo, Mufls, &c,, taken for preservation during the Summer, and the'promptest attention given to all orders. P. H. JONES, SUCCESSOR TO BEN. F. CRANE & CO. , DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, DIAMONDS, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, under Odd Fel- lows' Hall, corner Fourth and Locust streets, St, Louis, Mo, Watches repaired and warranted. L, E, CABPENTER. P, H. ABRAMS, CARPENTER & ABRAMS, DEALERS IN BONNET RIBBONS, DRESS AND Cloak Trimmings, Fancy Goods, Notions, &c., 122 Fourth street, Verandah Row, between St. Charles st. and Washington avenue, St. Louis. COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, A>'D BRONZES. FRENCH CLOCKS, &C. J. CBAWSHAW & SON, HAVE jubt received and are now opening the largest and best stock of Lamps and Gas Fixtures ever seen in the United States, which they offer low for cash only. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, No. 78 North Fifth street, ST. LOUIS. UNION_STORE. No. 108 NORTH FOURTH STREET, (Third door South of St. Charles.) ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION FLAGS, FROM ONE CENT TO $200. ALSO, Military Swords, Sashes, Belts, Shoulder Straps, Lace Buttons, Gold and Silver Bullion, Spangles, Stars, Photographs, Photograph Albums, Union Pins, Badges, and Regalia of all kinds, wholesale and Retail, PARLOR AND BEDROOM GRATES, LATEST style and patterns, at lowest market rates. Dodge's patent and Skcel's patent Set- ting, Manufactory, n4-North Main street, B. HORTON. MARY INSTITUTE, Lncas Place, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, ST. LOUIS. A SCHOOL of the highest order for young Ladies. Two terms of twenty weeks each per annum. Cat- alogues, terms of admission, or any other information, may be obtained of C. S, Pennell, A M,, Principal, at the Institute, or at his residence. No, 307 Chesnut st,, or of S. A, RANLETT, Treasurer, No, 1 Olive, northeast corner Main. 8 THE ID^ILY COXJISfTERSIGN. D. A. Winter. H. Wicke. D. A. WINTER & CO., CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, No. 204Fi£inkUli;iTenue, bet. Eleventh ami Twi-ltlli sis., ST. LOUIS, MO. Repairiug warranted and accurately executed. SEW8NG MACHiriE CO. SALKS ROOMS. No. 124 North Fourth street, (Verandah R..w,) ST. LOUIS, MO. MFKIIM k FlilY, 113 N. FOURTH ST., COR. VINE, STo LOUSS. 09 e3 xn ft A o I— ( o A m m bJO P3 •p-l +3 r, ,cl a -d 4J ^ «ia fl ^ ?5 »i 02 A. SUMNER, AGENT FOR WHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING MACHINES, Ho. 80 NortU Fiflli street, ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION LINE. Uiiiflii Trasjportatii & Iiisiiraiice Co. FAST TOKTOilT T.INE EAST A>fD WEST, VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RATES GUARANTEED. N. STEVENS, Agent, No. 40 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. HO^V^^E &> CAJPEN'S NKW VORR FIliE AND MARIJIE INSURANCE AGENCY. BEHOL D 'i'H E LIST: Columbia Fire Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. Office— No. 161 Broadway. Cash Capital, SSnO.OOO; Surplus, $08,493; Assets, $.i63,493. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furni- ture, Rents, Vessels in port and their Cargoes, and other insurable property, against loss or damage by Are. The insured receive 75 per cent, of net profits without incurring any liability. TIMOTHY G. CnURCHILL, Pres't. EDWARD KEMEYS, Sec. Home Insurance Company, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. Cash Capital, $600,000; Surplus, $70,396 12; Assets, $670,396 12. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furni- ture, Rents, Leases, and other insurable property, against loss or diimage by fire. Dealers receive 75 per cent ot net profits, on Dwellings and Merchandise risks. CHAS WILSON. Sec. D. R SATTERLEE, Pres't. SAM'L L. TALCOTT, (ien'l Ag't and Adjuster. Lamar Fire Insurance Company OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Capital, all paid up in cash, $300,(00; Surplus, January 1, 1864, $89,375 27; Assets. f389,375 27. ISAAC R. St. JOHN, Sec. EDW'D ANTHONY, Prest. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE, Metropolitan Insurance Comp'y, 108 Broadway. Nfw York, Cash Capital, $300,000; Assets. Jan. I, 1864, $642,541 85. Scrip dividend declared Jan. 12, 1864, 35 per cent. THIS Comj)aoy insures, at customary rates of pre- mium, against loss or damage by fire ; also, against all marine and land navigation, and war risks on cargo ur freight. The assured receive 75 per cent, of the net profits, without incurring any liability, or in lieu there- of, at their ostion, a libfral discount upon the premium. JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, Pres't. EOB'T M. C. (iRAHAM, Vice Pres't. EDW'D A. STANSBURY. 2d Vice Pres't. JOHN 0. GOODRIDGE. Secretary. WESTERN BASCOM, General Agent. STOCK COMPANY — INCORPORATED 1S21 . Manhattan Fire Insurance Co., NEW tore:. Cash Capital, $500,000; Surplus. $272,916 33; Assets, $773,916 33. "WM. PITT PALMER, Presidfnt. ANDREW J. SMITH, Secretary. INSURES Buildings. Merchandise and other property, agaiust loss or damage by flr--, at rates as low as oth- er first class companies. Particular attention given to the insurance of Farm property, isolated Dwellings and their Furniture, for one, three or five years. Losses adjusted and promptly paid in cash at this Agency. Phoenix Insurance Company, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Offices— No. 1 Court street, Bro^oklyn, N. Y.; No. 139 Broadway, New York. Cash Capital, $500 000 ; Surplus. March 1, 1864, $222,- 219 20; Assets, $722,219 20. INSURANCE against loss by Are, Marine, Lake, Canal and Inland transporlation. STEPHF.N CROWBLL. President. EDGAR W. CllOWELL Vice Pres't. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. SAFEST AND CHEAPEST SYSTEM OF INSURANCE. Washington Insurance Comp'y, 172 Bromlway, (cor. Maiden Lane.) N. Y. Cash Capital, $400,000; Assets, Feb. I, 1864, S582 000. Scrip dividend, 1861, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1862, GO per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863, 60 per cent. THE Policies entitled to p.irticipate. receive 75 per cent, of net profits. Insures Buildings. Merchan- dise, Furniture, Rents, Leases, against loss or damage by fire, and marine risks on lak "s rivers and canals. 3EO. C, SATTERLBF,. President. ■ HKNRY WESTON Vice President. W»l. K LOTIIRDP, Secretary, WM. A. SCIJTT, A.ss't Sec'y. North Missouri Railroad. In connect lyn with Ilaiiuib.il and St. Jo. Railroad. The Shortest and Quickest Route to QUINCY, KEOKUK, ST. .lOSEPH, ATCHISON, WESTON. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS. OMAHA, NEBRASKA CITY, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections Are madf wilh the Hannibal and St Joe Railioad, Chicago, BuiliDgton and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads of Iowa. On aud after Simdaj^ November 15th, 1863, St, Joseph Express leaves SI. Louis at 1:16 A. M. Mail and Accummudatiuii Tiain at 3:30 p. M- Fare as Low as by any other Route. Commodious Passenger Rooms have been fitted up at the Depot, corner of North Market street and Levee, with every arrangement tor the comfort of passengers TICKETS FOR SALE AT No. 40 Under Planters' House, AND FOOT OF NORTH MARKET STREET, Where reliable information can be obtained relative to routes in Ii'wa, Kansas and Nebraska. 5:^ Be certain that your ticket reads : "Via North Missouri Railroad."^ 1. H. STURGEON. Superintendent. " J, H. CONCANNON, General Ticket Agent. ON and after Monday. December 7th, 1863, trains will leave St, Louis, as follows ; Mail Train— Daily at 8:30 a, m., stopping at all stations andrunning through to Dresden, (196 miles.) Franklin Accommodation — Daily except Sunday, at 4:15 p. M. Stages — Leave Dresden for Warrensburg, Lexington, Pleasant Hill, Independence and Kansas City, daily on arrival of train. Leave Sedalia for Springfield, Bolivar and Warsaw, on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday evenings on arrival of train; Leave Tipton every evening for Boonville. Passengers taking the 8:30 A. M. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily for Rolla and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning for Springfield. Througn tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- pot, corner of Seventh and Poplar streets, or at the Company's Through Ticket Oflice. No. 42 Fourth street, under the Planters' House. T. McKISSOCK, Sup't. E. W. WALLACE, General Ticket Agent. St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railioad. Spring Arrangement, commencing April 4, 1864, PASSENGER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, daily, as follows : For Pilot Knob, Potosi, and all stations, at. ..6:15 A. M, For Desoto at 6:15 a. m. and 4 p. m. Returning— Will leave Pilot Knob at 3:00 P. M. Potosi at 3:60 p. M. DeSoto at 6:00 A. M. and 6:35 p. M. Carondelet Accommodation Trains. For Carondelet at 6:15. 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A, M ; 200 400 6:23, 7:30. 9:00 and 11:30 p. M. For Docks at 6:15, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A. M., 2:00 and 4:00 P.M. For Jeirerson Barracks and Quarantine at 6:16, 11:30 A. M., and 4:00 p, M. Returning- Will leave Quarantine at 7:30 a. m.; 1:00 and 7:50 p. M. J.'ffcrson Barracks at 7:40 a. m ; 1:06 and 7:65 p. M. Docks at 7:54, 9:15. 10:33, A^, M.; 1:17, 3:07, 5:46 P. M. Carondelet at 6:30 6:20 sloO. 9:20, 10:40, A. M.; 1:20. 3:10, 5:48, 7:00, 8:10, 10:46 P. M. S D. BARLOW, Pres't & Snp't. ISIDOR BOSH, General Agent. PUBLISHED BY THE LADIES' EXECUTIVE COJBIITTEE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR. 'FOSSUNT QUIA POSSE VIDENXUR. JSTo.g^ St. Loiais, 'NLay 20, 1864. 3?rice 10 Cents' i,r,.r.^^^. fiyiRS.E. \V. CLARK, >LuxAGER., I Mrs. s. A. RANLETT. Editor. AN^A C. BRACIvETT. Friday, May 20, 1864. Reducecl Rates of* AdiTLisi^ion, oii. aiad after Friday INTorning, May 30tli. ADMISSION" 60 cts. CHILDREN Halt Price. Doors open at eleven o'clock, a. m. Exhibition and sales close promptly at ten o'clock, p. ivi. MAJ- (JEN. KOSECRANS, President. Head Quarters of the Finance Committee Of the Miss. Val. San. Fair. F.viR Building, St. Louis, May 19, 1864, To the Cashiers of the Several Departments : The "Central Finance Committee" have in the Building a Fire and Burglar Proof Safe, and are prepared to receive your de- posits of money daily, at any hour of the day up to ten (10) o'clock, P. M. S. W. Ely, Esq., Assistant Secretary, will receipt for the same, and your Department will be duly credited. Very respectfully. Your ob't servant, E. W. Fox, Chairynan Cen. Fin. Com. M. J. LiFPMAN, Sec'y. (J^^'The Finance Committee have their Head Quarters near the Floral Department. THE FAIR. The Department of Bed Linen and Quilts has, prominent among its decprations, a por- trait of the soldier who "knew well how to die, but never to surrender," the lamented of the whole country — General Lyon — by which it might be distinguished. It purports to con- tain only quilts and bed linen, but shows a very fine assortment of sofa pillows and afghans, which would seem more properly to belong"to the Fancy Goods Department. They are very elegant, of ditlerent patterns, dark and light, large and small. This department occupies two tables, one central and one at the side ; and the central one contains per- haps the most showy of its articles. The most noticeable is a heavy silk q'ult, made entirely of the national colors, beautifully combined, and corded heavily with scarlet, finished at the corners by tassels. We understand no definite price has yet been fixed upon it, but it will be raified for before the close of the Fair, so those who desire it would do well to secure their chance. There is also a large woolen quilt, of the hexagon pattern, which is entered for the premium, and will also be raf- fled for, unless disposed of previously. Here one can certainly find quilts and bed spreads of all kinds — silk, cotton and woolen — for large beds, cribs and cradles, plain or highly orna- mented. We cannot refrain from calling at- tention to one large knit spread. It is of white cotton, and beautifully knit. The one which bears a cat rampant, ani must have cost much labor, will speak for itself. This is the place for the house-keeper who finds her pillow-cases "giving out" to supply herself for a long time to come. She can have her choice of cotton or linen, plain or embroid- ered, and of all styles and shapes. She cannot have, however, the elegantly embroidered set which may be found at the central table, for it is already sold. The Children's Department is divided into two parts by the wall table of the Public Schools, the largest being next to the Curi- osity Shop. It bears, in green letters, the names of Hancock and Sherman, audits deco- rations are particularly graceful and simple. The white festoons with the starry blue edge are refreshing to the eye after the endless combination of the red, white and blue, which one finds everywhere else. The aim of this department is to furnish all things for the use of children — toys and clothing of all kinds. What more desirable to a mother, even in these days of sewing machines, than ready- made clothing ? Here she may find it for her boys and girls — suits for boys, dresses, aprons socks, shoes, under and over garments of every description, made in the mo.-t approved patterns and in the nicest manner. She may gratify her taste for the beautiful and graceful in patterns of embroidery, or take counsel of simplicity and economy, and purchase accord- ingly. A large and beautiful collection of infants' baskets may also be found here, fur- nished with the needful of all kinds. We must not forget the Great Shoe, which the Co««- tersign has already advised its readers to see. Here is the old woman we all used to hear about, the only difterence in the real and ideal being that instead of — " Whipping them all soundly and sending tht^m to bed. She sells them, and so makes a profit instead." It is gratifying to find that there really was truth in the old story. St. Louis ingenuity has shown here that it cannot easily be sur- passed. On leaving the Children's Department, though we cast many "a longing, lingering look behind," we see just above us, protru- ding itself from the folds of drapery, the head of a veritable crocodile, who bears, sus- pended from his wide extended jaws, the hos- pitable notice, "People taken in here for twenty-five cents." Of course we could not refuse an invitation given in so open a man- ner, and we entered. The first idea that strikes one is that there are either too many articles or too little room. We are fain to confess that we think the Curiosity Shop and the Arms and Trophies have had rather poor luck in the hands of the Committee of Arrangements. It seems almost as if they might well have occu- pied as large a space as the Art Gallery. Here the collection is so numerous and varied that we can only glance at many things which would well repay hours of study. Here the geologist, the antiquarian, the lover of won- ders, might spend a day profitably ; only he would be like the — " Cobbler who lived in a shoon, And all that he wanted was elbow room." {The Committee of the Children's Depart- ment is responsible for our quoting Mother Goose.) To return. We begin first where the heart begins, with the relics of General Washington, which have been loaned by the authorities for exhibition. It seems almost like being near the man when one sees the clothes he has actually wore. Leteverj' one see for himself. We are glad to have seen them, and yet we could not help feeling that they were too precious as relics of one we all revere, to be trusted to the chances of a journey of so many miles. No money, recovered from some careless railroad company, could ever com- pensate us for their loss. However, it is hardly fair, we know, to complain of the bridge that carries us over. So we refrain. One almost fancies that the empty sleeve of the military coat which once was moved by the will of George Washington would, if sufficiently near, strike from its nail to the ground the smoking cap of General Bragg, which hangs not far distant. This last article was taken from Bragg's house by a Massachusetts officer, and is, we believe, for sale. Here we saw some ancient books, ponderous volumes, well soiled, with strong clasps, and bearing dates 17.31, 1705; also, some old patents for land from George II to one G. Latham. Here we found also a treat for the lovers of metaphys- ics, in the shape of a history of that science, bearing the date 1617. This was donated by Mr. George Hart. It should be said that these ancient books belong to the O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute, and were procured through Mr. John How. Our pen runs away with us here and space grows liudted, while we have not yet spoken of Daniel Boone's 2 THE D^ILY COXJISfTERSIG]Sr. rifle, cariosities from the South Sea Islands, and one from far Cathay, in the shape of an elegantly carved and embroidered sun-shade, donated by a gentleman in New York, and valued at $50. We found also models of many kinds of many things, a piece of the Giant's Causeway; and we micst mention the auto- graphs. Nearly four thousand have been do- nated from New York, and are for sale. Then on exhibition, we have Mr. L. J. Cist's mag- nificent collection, valued at $10,000. There is also an album of photographs and auto- graphs of the President, Vice President, Cabi- net and Senate, donated from Washington. Then, as for a specimen of ingenious word- cutting by a soldier, we can't describe it, for it ia omnia in parvo. It must be seen. We give only a sketch of the Curiosity Shop. We are unable to do it justice, for we can say nothing of the birds, insects, &c., which deco- rate its walls. All visitors to the Pair must have noticed the mysterious and awe-inspiring temple which rises on the west side of the main aisle. We approached it, though — "O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted. And said, as plain as whisper in the ear. The place is haunted." Here, surrounded by flaming symbols, the signs of the zodiac, and all other cabalistic characters, abides the Delphi Oracle, and turns the Wheel of Fortune. Approach slowly, and you cannot fail to feel the spirit of the place. Here, within the charmed circle of a table which bears fearful and mys- terious signs, while the owl keeps watch above, presides the priestess, who, of course, must of necessity be the seventh daughter of a sev- enth daughter. The mysterious wheels turn smoothly, and your fortune is revealed. Who would not seek his fortune under circum- stances so auspicious? Or do you choose to be told your fate in aaother way ? The priest- ess has other methods, more certain, more mysterious. The whole arrangement is the plan of the Chairman of the Fancy Goods De- partment, who cannot but feel satisfied with the result of her labors. Before leaving this temple we must call your attention to something new, in the shape of a medley picture which hangs just inside, and which claims attention, not only by its beauty and novelty, but by its exquisite neat- ness and finish. It must be a careful and ob- servant eye which will detect that it is not all engraved at once. Our space warns us that we must defer the rest of the fancy goods to another day. pens, aud we are disappointad in being there- by obliged to postpone our college commence- ment till the first of September. But all this is well. Our Government must be sus- tained. Without a good Government, what would onr college, or our homes be worth ? These young men have already made a proud record for themselves, and for their college, and we are confident that they will do their duty in every situation. With earnest de- sire for your complete success in yonr noble undertaking, I remain, Yours truly, D. READ. Shurtleff College, May 9, '64. [For the Coontereign.] OFF FOR THE WAR! Yes oflf for the war ; almost our entire col- lege has responded to the call of Governor Yates for 20,000 men for one hundred days. Find with patriotic zeal, our young men have sacrificed their own cherished plans of spendv ing the vacation at home, and among friends, and cheerfully given their seivices to their country. So of course the '•Countersign" will be disappointed in its expectations of re- ceiving contributions from their spirited BALLAD OF NEHEMIRK HAYNES. Come old and young, and you shall hear Of a man ^o lived in New Hamp-sheere. And if his name you do inquire, I'll simply say 'twas Ne-he-mire. He stood si.x feet and ten inches In his stockins, the neighbours sez. His form was so exceedin slim, Wlien the sun warn't out you couldn't see him ! But git a strong light on bis Sgger, Tour'e glad for him it warnt no bigger I His appetite it was so quick. Much food it took for his stomick. I've known that creature, in spite of his size, On Thanksgivin day eat 14 pies, 3 mince, 2 punkin, and — taint no bosh — He'd then wind off with the rest in squash ! Uncommon well he took to food. Especially when it was good; But the more he took the better he grew, "Till it seemed as if he'd break in tew. His legs was jest like reeds in amount, And reeds that warn't of any great account. Oh, he was a sight for yon to behold Just about meal times, I've been told ! Well, he resolved to go to sea. And into furrin parts to flee. The port my memory now has slipt. But I thint, for Afrikey he shipt. Well, he went on board an old skoo-ner That was a goin somewhere, rather fur, Auii inwardly his system riled As if his nat'ral powers had spiled. But in 3 days his powers got use. And he fell tew on the skooner's pro-duce. And the sailors vowed, and raved, and roared They'd have Ne-mire over board, Ef he didn't limmit his wital powers To 16 meals in 24 hours I But he. couldn't stan that and soon gin aout, And laid all raound like a torpid spent. Well they found him one mornin, comin on the coast. A sprawlin on deck, bavin' gin up the ghoel. In the usual way they disposed of Haynes, But the fishes they declined his mortal remains. And one old shark said, under his breath. That sooner'n eat him he'd starve to death. So what become of Haynes arter that, 1 don't know more'n a white fine cat; ' But folks do say ef his ghost should rise, 'Twouldn't be much more'n a pipe-stem in size. The following extract which we translate from the "Beobacbter" of November 7, 186", published in Stuttgart, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, in Germany, show what a deep sympathy is felt there for our national struggle, and how they honor those of their countrymen who die fighting our battles : LADISLAW SATTLER IM MEMORY OF THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUOA. It becomes our dnty to record the offering of another life, by our German brothers in America, to the cause of the Republic, and the cause of freedom — it is that of one of our intimate friends, and one who was dear to us all. Ladislaw Sattler was one of the most untiring, and at the same time most unassum- ing members of the glorious 9th volunteer regiment of the State of Ohio. (The 1st Ger- man, or 9th Ohio,) each of whom may say of himself what was recently written by one of their number. "I have volunteered with a full conviction of the justice of our cause, and faithful to my principles, I shall remain in the service, until I shall have received my honorable discharge." In an earlier battle [that of Mill Springs] he saw the friend of his youth, Hugo Tafel, fall at his side; and now, with a great number of his comrades, he lies on the field which was held manely by his own regiment against the enemy, outnum- bering them threo to one ; whereby they ren- dered it possible for the Army of the Cum- berland to fall back in safety upon Chattanoo- ga. On the same place where he had fought bravely and victoriously on the second day of the battle, [September the 20th,] he was found dead, with a ball through his head, by his friend, to whom, but an hour before, at the news that the field was still held on our side, he had called out ; "Then it will remain ours !" The field on which he terminated his noble career, remained his. It is beautiful to die thus ; and snch a death has been eulogized by all poets at all times. These young men, so full of energy and so full of hope not only die for their newly adopt- ed country, but they also die for a principle which is often seen more clearly and felt more intensely by the German soldiers than by those born in the Union. Our German sol- diers have repeatedly wrung from the Ameri- can peojile this confession, that German courage and German spirit upheld their cause in times of extreme danger. So, in this very battle of Chirkamauga according to the unani- mous testimony of the American Generals, the Germans not only maintained the honor of the day, but also saved Eastern Tennessee for the Union. It was General Willich, (well known in the revolution of Baden) who with his own brigade, in connection with the 9th Ohio regiment, repeatedly repulssd the enemy, and prevented his flanking and surrounding the army of Rosecraus. The Adjutant of Willich E. Schmidt says in a report in the " Volks Blatt," of Cincinnatti : "Among the regiments to which is due the honor of the di ■. is the 9th Ohio regiment, which at the point the bayonet, regained the lost battery oft 1 regulars, and afterwards, also, fought wii THE D^ILY COXJNTERSIGISr. true German spirit, and covered themselves with glory above all others. Their Colonel, Kamerling, has since been promoted to a Brigadier Generalship; and tlieir former Colo- nel, Robert MoCook, was promoted in lilie manner after the battle of Mill Springs, where the regiment signalized itself by the first bayonet charge on record in the war. The loss of this brave young man is, in- deed, a source of grief to his family, and to his friends : but testimonials and remembran- ces, such as the above, afford also a rare con- solation, and the memory of the deceased is made so much dearer, because in it is blen- ded the imago of the heroic soldier, and the thought of a life, gloriously ended. All that is done by our brothers in Ameri- ca for a good cause, contributes to the uni- versal progress of freedom and humanitv on this side of the ocean ; and for this reason, in Germany at large, the readiness with which our brothers in America yield up their lives to their adopted country, is contemplated with an e.xalted feeling of sympathy rather than of fruitless regret. What we say here in connection with one, we say for all. The reason, however, we sin- gle out this particular name is not because we were more intimately acquainted with him, and know his patriotic father, whose noble feelings the son on the field of battle had shown himsalf to inherit ; but, because some peculiar featnres characterized the life of this young soldier. As early as the year 1834, when he was christened, he was set apart by his godfather, an exiled Pole, (for whom he was named), to be a champion and a soldier ; for, as he observed. "A champion and a Pole are now synonymous terms, and when the child arrives at the age of maturity, there will be need of many champions." The prevailing feature of his character was indeed, self-sacrifice and disinterestedness ; and the feeling of friendship manifested it- self so strongly in his intercourse with his follow soldiers, that he was a favorite in the whole regiment. An instance of true soldier-friendship, however, is that which ex- isted between him and liis two friends Jacker and Bery. The friendship of these three ap- pears a touching episode, a charming idyl amid the din of weapons, the fatigueing marches where they were in need of everything, and the monotonous and toilsome work in the trenches. Atone time when they lay encamp- ed for a long period in|a precipitess and hilly country near Triure, about 35 miles from Nashville, the inseparable three made them- selves a garden in the desolate woods where the soil was obstructed by roots of oaks and hickory trees ; in this garden they built a sum- mer-house of materials collected in the forrest, and their little plantation was greatly admir- ed by the whole regiment ; this they did in addition to their hard work in the trenches, doing regular sentry duty, going out foraging, drilling for four hours in the day, and frequently being beat to quarters in the night. This same cheerful spirit with which they improvised this garden with its wild rose bushes and flowers and its cosy little house, that they would have to leave behind them at the shortest notice and which they really only enjoyed for a month. They evinced in their tedious marches through thick forests, mixed clay bottoms and swamps ; yea, cheer- fnlly and uncomplaing they lay down supper- less in the furrows of a corn field, and when they awoke next morning with their clothes all drenched, they made merry over it, and were in as good spirits as ever. It seems sad that one should be plucked from this noble ariad, and that they should be disappointed in their hope of re-visiting together next spring the home of their childhood ; but a bright star smiles even now over the grave of the brave Ladislaw. An American newspa- per in its own fashion related that there was left to Ladislaw in Swabia a large legacy, but that the young hero was no longer enabled to enjoy earthly goods, after he had yielded up the highest of all earthly possessions, his youthful life, on the battle field as an offering to humanity. Sattler belonged for ten years to the new country where his body now rests. May his memory and that of the noble soldiers who fell with him, not only bear rich fruits in America for the maintence of right, and the cause of humanity ; but also awaken an en- thuiasm in our own youths and make them see how noble and glorious it is, to die as champions for right and liberty. May the earth of the New World lie lightly on him and his fellow combatants. Z. ACR08TIC. M artyred Missouri, though tried as by fire, I 3 able this day, with the best to aspire j S addened by frienda who watch for her (all, S he 8its on her border, defying them all. I nch by inch she has fought for her right, S ent out her bravest and best to the fight ; S ternly repelling each traitorous band, I n any attempt on her freedom, or land; P roud of her loyal position to-day, P ity, she feels for the means and the way. If it is true I am free, she thought, V erily, Peace has been dearly bought ; A II around me, on land and on sea, L ie the sad victims to anarchy. L ying in paiu without comfort or stay, E very one shall be succoured I say, Y es, and that promise she made in the storm, S he's taxing the strength of her land to perform ; A. Iready the hearts of her people are atirred, if or yet has been uttered one murmuring word. I n every home there is working and care, T hat each may contribute a mite to the Fair . A nd if other States have done nobly and well, R ejoicing Missouri must strive to excel. T ea, countrymen, lords of a valley so sweet, F air a8 a Canaan, now pressed by your feet, A id as with means to show Liberty fair, I njured Missouri, now under her care, R emembers the sons who established her there CORA FORKES. SOMETHING FOR DHEN. THE CHIL [Lest our little friends should think, "The Counter- sign" has no word for the children, we give them the fol- lowing charming puem, which has never before appeared in print .] THE STRAWBERRY PLANT. A Strawberry plant grew by a road. Not Ear from which a merry brook flowed ; And she heard it sing in its rocky bed. Though she couldn't clearly make out what it said ; And though her very best she tried. She couldn't see more than an inch on each side. Now the Strawberry plant was a little bit vain ; And she thought, "I am certainly not so plain As the grasses and reeds that grow bo near. And look at themselves in the water clear . I would like very much for once to look And see myself in that singii^g brook." And one morning she heard a blue Iris say To another, "Good morning; a beautiful day ! I shouldn't think it strange if we Were to have a callfrom the bumble bee. Let us look in the water below, for I Want to look my best if he happens by." Then the Strawberry said, "I mean to try To do my best, and see if I Can't force a path to the side of the brook. And into its beautiful mirror look." So she sent out a runner, a slender thread. And to the tall grasses near her she said : "Will you please make a way for me down to the brook ?'» "With pleasure," a tall grass said, and took The runner and pointed it out the way ; "Thank you," the Strawberry said ; " Good day '." Then she hurried along the road very fast. And said, " I shall see myself then at last." But I never can tell how she had to prink. When she found herself at the streamlet's brink. A yellow buttoo she put on her head. And carefully all about it spread A beautiful quilling of delicate white; Then she looked m the water when all was right. But she hardly had time to take a look. When she saw a face looking up from the brook, And she heard the brook say, "Did you ever sea In all your life such vanity ? The flower only came here to try And look at herself— oh, flel oh, fie !" Then the poor little Strawberry huog her head; She dropped her white leaves for shame, and said, " I will hide myself in some lonely place, Fori never shall dare to show my face." So she hid behind a tali green sedge That grew by the little streamlet's edge. But the laughing sunbeams- followed and said. It dues very well to bane your head. Ton vain little thing !" till her cheeks grew flushed, And for very shame the poor plant blushed To think that all the flowers knew, no doubt, How the stream had found her vanity out. And every time that the sunbeams came. She blushed still redder and redder for shame, And hung still lower and lower her head. Till she stood a Strawberry, juicy and red ; And a fleld-mouse picked her where she hung. And carried her h>tnie to feed his young. G. C. B. Wc call ppecial attention to the advertise- ment of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, to be found to-day in our advertis- ing columns. The agent is Mr. Edwin Fow- ler, who may be found at 34, Olive street, and will afford f.ll facilities to any one who de.sires to provide for his family in case of sudden and unforeseen accident. One who has always pretended to be our friend, remarked yesterday that, the annouce- ment concerning the mailing of the Counter- sigHj was bare-faced. We endeavored to bear this sling of outrageous fortune with equa- nimity, but were barely able to control our in- dignation, and refrain from publishing the name of the miscreant. THE D^ILY COXJI^TERSIGjSr [For the Countereign.] QuiNCT, Mass., "j On the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. V May 1, 1864. J To the Older Classes m the St. Louis Schools, Missouri : Some of you have perhaps visited this or similar places ; yet I know that a much larger number never have ; and I am, therefore, led to address to you a few lines, as I fear you are oftener overlooked than you ought to be by those who write for public journals. It is May morning, and I wish you could all be here and walk with me ; at any rate, I will imagine you are here, and that I am, for the day, your teacher. I am not a learned teacher, but have been led to observe and to think about many of the most common things around me. I would have yon all acquire that habit, for it is not only from books you derive information. There are stones that are sermons, and brooks that are running com- mentaries ; but everything in nature is for- ever exclaiming : "The hand that made us is divine.^' Now, I was born a farmer's boy, and here stones were ever in my way. Whether I worked in the garden, or field, or road, or anywhere, stones were sure to abound. One day I heard a traveler say that out "West they had no stones to trouble them, and it was a marvel to me that any farmer should prefer to live here. .So, as a rarity for you, we will first walk to the famous Quincy granite quar- ries. Having been born and bred on alluvial soil, I am amused at your remarks upon the abundance of stones hereabouts. But here is one stone that extends for miles around, and for several hundred feet above the level of the sea to miles in depth ; or, as geologists would say, to the lowest strata of the earth's founda- tion. Here upon one side are hundreds of men, and they have cut into the solid rock, directly into the side of the mountain of gran- ite. What a noise! a clinking of hammers, chisels, drills, &c.; every man armed with the hardest of steel-clad tools, and all busy in cut- ting, splitting, hammering, or dressing the surface of the stones. Some work by the dajs some at two cents per wedge-hole, some at so much per foot of holes of two inches in diame- ter, drilled into the rock, and some at so much per square foot of surface, hammering or dressing the stones. A wedge-hole is about two inches long by one-half of an inch wide, and two deep. Drill holes are about two inches in diameter, and sometimes many feet in depth. In hammering stone, as in all other kinds of business, there is quite a tact, and an experi- enced hand can earn twice as much as a fresh one. If you were here in the morning when the blasting is generally done, you might well think the rebels were making a raid, for here is the heaviest artillery known. Talk of two or three hundred pounders, that require fifty or sixty pounds of powder for one discharge, and they are no trifles, I admit ; but what do you think of a loaded rock-bound mountain, and a charge of perhaps one thousand pounds of powder ? One explosion will cause a crev- ice or crack in the stones for perhaps fifty or one hundred feet, and into that and into drill holes the powder is poured as freely as you will hear men sometimes talk of pouring out their blood for their country, and when the drill holes -are properly closed up and the surface of the crevice is sealed, a match is applied to a train connecting all together and as Capt. Cutter would say, you have a gun as is a gun. Although no balls are used you may be assured "discretion here is the better part of valor," "distance lends enchantment to the view." No one is often hurt at these blasts as they are called, but one hundred tons or more are sometimes moved. There is a theory you know that if a person speaks one loud word, all the atmosphe^-e is moved around the world, and you may have heard of men that would move heaven and earth to accomplish their ends. Now here are the men that do it and you will seldom hear them promise of what they intend to do, nor boast of what they have done. When the blasts are over the workmen attack the fragments and very soon under their hands they will assume any form you may require, from the heaviest block or column used in any building to the most ornamental, from a wrought door or window frame to a sculptured head, bust or obelisk. This granite though much harder than any marble, is cut, hewn and split into any form. Great skill, strength and patience are required and these you know are yankee natural endowments. I think you have no buildings in St. Louis of granite, but there are several at New Orleans every stone of which was cut from the very rock on which you stand. These buildings may be also found in many of our cities. Cultivated travellers say that some of the blocks of stores and houses in Boston built of this material are far more beautiful than any of the re- nowned palace? of Europe. Now, as we turn to leave we pass trains of wagons, loaded with granite in all forms finished and rough irregu- lar blocks used for oellers and walls. While we "are upon pleasure bent," they are for no crime "condemned to transportation." Granite you know is said to be the oldest or the primitive rock as no kind of fossil is ever found in it. It has been thought to be a simple conglomerate, but it has been found to have a cleavage ; that is, it will split better in some directions than in others. Any one can come and work a quarry by pa_ving a toll of tM'o cents per ton for the stone carried off, of course he must not interfere with a j.revious squatter. • B. gin to be so straight as St. Louis. How I got here, after they put me into the cars, I don't know : there was steam, making frost on the windows all the time, I couldn't see nothing all the time ; I could just get a peep that all creation was a flying by us. I had not a cold foot all the way here, just as comfortable, all but the sleeping in those night-boxes, with the same cover on you, every one jumps out of. I did get into one, but, when I see Mr. C.'s long legs stretching down, and found he was to be hung up on a cane berth, above me, I felt scary, and so I sat up all the rest of the night. We had awful cold weather, and an awful accident that was just a-going to hap- pen, but didn't. I did not go in the sleeping box next night, for I heard the car-boys tell all about a woman who got smashed in and had her nose broke. First I was afraid Bosting had got to be an awful place, for, the first words said to me in my city, after being away twenty years, was, a man put his head into the ladies' depot, with brass writing on his hat, and hollered out, "Beware of female pick-pockets." It'happened he come right up to your honest old mother ; says I, "Ladies, we are complimented." AVell, I have been round and found Wash- ington street, but the house where I was mar- ried, is made into a theatre. The house I was born in has gone, and the place has gone too. I read the names on the door-plates; if its any body I know, I ring the bell I feel like a Mrs. Van-Winkle, all confused-like. As soon as I find Mrs. Partington and Ike, I shall get along ; they illuminate every body. Lors-a- mercy, I hunted up your folks, they were po- lite, but I know I frightened them, they'll saj', "She's Western." By the way, I con- clude, the Eastern bringing up, and the Western experience, turns out the smartest kind of folks. I told your folks how nice you behaved to the clergy, at the Bazaar, and ev- erv thing else about you, and now they have seen me, they have great hopes about you. I'll write again. Tour loving, &c., GRANDMA. CONVERSATION Overheard in the New England Kitchen. Good morning aunt Mehitable, they tell me aunt Nabby is going to Bosting as soon as this Fair is over, and I want you to tell her to prepare for it, and make up her mind to a great fuss. I'll read grandma's letters to Jerushy, and you'll see : Boston, all along Feb., 1863. You asked me my dear child, to write im- mediately, and so I will, Jerushy dear. I'm so flustered and pestered. " Bosting" don't be- To the following pledge we gladly give in- sertion. It will be found at the office of the Ladies' Executive Committee, No. 20, where all those who desire really to serve their coun- try in this hour of her need and who cannot fight for her, can do so most practically. It bears already the names of many of our most prominent and influential citizens, gentlemen as well as ladies. An opportunity is here off'ered for any one to sign : THE COVENANT. We, the undersigned, loyal men and wo- men, actuated by love of country and a regard to wise economy, do hereby promise that we will not, for the space of three years from July 4, 1804, or during the war, purchase any article of wearing apparel, or wines or liquors, of foreign piroduction or import, if a substi- tute can possibly be furnished by home pro- duction. Nor will we allow the same to be )iurchased by those we have under our control, and thereto we solemnlj' pledge our personal honor. [City papers please copy.] THE D^ILY OOXJ:NrTERSIG]Sr. 5 KNITTING FOR THE SOL- DIERS. Here I sit at the same old work. Knitting socks for the soldiers from daylight till dark ; Thread over and under, and back and through, Knitting socks for the soldiers, I don't know who ! But in fancy I've seen him and talked with him too. Tie is no hero of gentle birth, He's little in rank, but he's great in worth — He's plain of speech and strong of limb, He is rich in heart, but he's poor of kin — There are none at home to knit for him. He set his lips with a start and a frown. When he heard how the dear old flag was shot down From the walls of Fort Sumter, and flinging away His tools and his apron, he stopped but to say To his comrades, "I'm off boys, whoever may stav" — And was 'listed and gone by the close of the day. And whether he watches to-night on the sea, Or kindles his camp-flre on lone Tybee, By the dark Rapidan, or the far Tennessee. I know he's the noblest of all that are there, The promptest to do, and the bravest to dare, The foremost in hope, and the last in despair. So here I sit at the dear old work. Knitting socks for the soldiers from daylight till dark. And whispering low as the thread flies through, To him who shall wear them, I don't know who — " Oh! soldier fight bravely, be patient, be true. For some one is knitting and praying for vou," M. E. B. THE ANGEL S OF ONE SONG." BY J. S. LOWELL. The Rabbi Joshua used to say That God made angels every day. Perfect asMrcbael and the rest First brooded from Creation's nest, Yet whose sole office was to cry " Hosanna !" once, and then to die. The Rabbi Joshua had the skill To know that Heaven was in God's will, And doi',? that, though for a space One heart beat lung, may earn a grace As full of grandeur and of glow -ts princes of the Chariot know. "Twere glorious, no doubt, to be One of the wiuped hierarchy ; To burn with Seraphs, or to shine With Chernbs.Meathlessly divine; Yet I. perhaps, poor, earthly clod. Could I forget myself in God. And trace obedient nature's clew Simply as birds and blossoms do. Should find my place as near the Throne As the pearl angel of its zone, » And God would listen 'mid the throng. To my one breath of perfect song. •Written for the St. Louis Fair. The original copy will be fonud at the office of "The Countersign." CONIRIBUTIONS PROM THE COUNTRY. BT LESLIE WALTER. II. [We write about Birds.] Next to the flowers of the country, I sup- pose there is no subject upon which a rural enthusiast so excites himself, as its birds. It is astonishing that in this otherwise unbeliev- ing age, people can be found who have faith in these feathered hypocrites, and give them the character they have never deserved since the fall. In the golden era of Bden, no doubt their race was innocent with ours, but times are changed, and we have all deterior- ated together. The penalty, however, bears unequally, for while we publicly accuse our- selves as miserable sinners, their tribe still flourishes, like a confidence man, with false credentials, on the reputation they brought from Paradise. If my opinion had the weight of ray will, I could make an affidavit from personal expe- rience that should utterly destroy the credit of those little creatures, so that nobody would ever publish an mithology again. Their real and their popular characters diffep as much as a man's laudatory ei'itaph,and the account his neighbors give of him. Dr. Watts says that "Birds in their little nests agree," but they don't; they wrangle and quarrel and fight and fallout. I have picked them up many a time, to save them from the cat. A row among chimney-swallows is no joke; soot rises, feath- ers fly, a screaming and chattering goes on within like the tower of Babel in miniature. Bunches of smoky nests come tumbling down, and half a dozen dingy fledglings, who re- pay your tenderness by wringing your finger in an iron beak, and piercing it with a horny tongue, and sticking into it a set of "hooksd hands" like Tennyson's eagles: the whole in a very bad temper fresh from the commotion above. Farmers are told that birds are useful aux- iliaries in destroying insects, etc., but I be- lieve one honest barn-yard fowl does more in that way, for his stomachs sake, than a whole flying squadron of the higher orders for the behoof of the agricultural interest. I doubt the whole theory. A harmless earth worm, turning up thogoil, a quiet black beetle, mind- ing his ball, may indeed be snapped up by these benevolent bipeds, but I have yet to learn of any well directed eff'ort to extermin- ate the melon-bug, army-worm, curculio, or borer, that are the terror and pest of cultivat- ors. On the contrary, I consider this gratuit- ous assistance only a cloak for darker designs. Black birds live mostly on corn, and blue jays eat apples, and with a score of full cher- ry trees we never have a pie. An able-bodied sparrow brought up his whole family upon the produce of our garden last summer, "witout doing a stroke of work" as the New Englanders say, and required the entire cur- rant crop for their maintenance. A neighbor has had all his peas and berries confiscated for two years past, whithout so much as a song in return. His clients screamed and squabbled over his beautiful beds, while he bought stale fruit in the market. A professed peace man. he talks of an appeal to arms, and being of liberal theological views before, speaks darkly of total depravity. It is robbery, larcenj', swindling, theft, but they steal superbly, with the grace of Robert Macaire, and enjoy his impunity from consequences. Birds have a reputation as gossips, from Solomon's time, and if they do not still car- rv the matter how does it get about? There is a certain one among them — I shall not name him till assured of the truth of my sus- picions — that I have fixed upon as the agent in this business, and when the time comes I shall e.xpose him without mercy. Who says they are sensible? I have known a wood- pecker to hammer half a day on a piece of cast iron without discovering that her beak was being stunted by the process. Did she smell a worm inside, as the wise assert? I fear it was a screw. Dickens' raven tore up and swallowed by bits a stair case of six steps and a landing, our favorites are devouring a cornice by gradual instalments. May it never disagree with them. One bird, lives there, in his part of the con- quered territory, the eaves outside my cham- ber window, and I wish I did not have it to record, that he is a great nuisance there. He wakes up at an unearthly hour in the morn- ing, and startles me from my sleep with a shriek like a railroad whistle. Too-oo-oo-oo- oot! he says "get up!" Too-too-too-too-too ! (strongly insisting,) toot, toot, toot, toot ! (be quick,) Twee, wee, wee, wee-ee-e? (persever- ing. ) twoot, twoot, twoot, two-oot, two-oot ! (remonstrance,) two-hoot 1 ! ! with terrific en- ergy. Of course this brings a crowd who are soon all equally clamorous and indignant at the less virtuous people who prefer to wait for the sun. A hallehijah chorus is sung, a battle of Prague performed, unneeding ver- bal illustration. Thus it is that I get bad habits of laying in bed and learning to slum- ber again, like the sluggard, for being de- frauded of a precious hour at dawn by this reville, I am obliged to wait till they are gone to breakfast, and make it up afterwards. I don't know that bird, but I hate him. When I took singing lessons we were told to exercise our voices early in the morning. That is no doubt his idea. But I at least al- ways went away privately to practice, not to disturb the rest of the world, and I protest — I do protest — against this uncivil return. Let him trill and quaver, but not at my expense. The "mourning dove" is a special hypo- crite. With a nice nest, from good eggs and a devoted husband, she weeps her wrongs all day, and gets a great deal of misdirected sym- |iathy. Always fresh, fair, and in good con- dition, her Quaker weeds nicely smoothed, her soft black eye bright with unshed tears, her plaintive voice modulated to the most me- lodious monotone of sorrow, she is not unlike those widows by profession, in the mitigated afliiction, or gray-and-lavender stage, whom you meet at decorous "tea-fights." and small early parties. The gentle sufferer has a good appetite, her food nourishes her, her worldly affairs seem to flourish — she is prosperous, though disconsolate, yet ever and anon recurs that melancholy burden of her song — she is 6 THE D^ILY COUI^TERSIGlSr. but a lone, lone creature, after all. Awed by these ceaseless lamentations, her grief is held sacred— no spoiler dares disturb her home. My pretty blue-bird has lost her four nestlings, and droops in silent sorrow : the mocldng-bird turns cynic over his domestic misfortunes, and laughs his pain away : the swallow scolds and flutters ; but the stout dove wails on unmolested, and her treasures go to swell no school boy's trophy, for if such is her normal state of sadness, he thinks, ex- pressed by that heart-breaking cry, what would bereavement be? I have a few other struggling charges to bring against " my birds," such as tyranny and greediness, for we hang meat on the porches for them in the winter, and the big- gest ahCays get the best piece. I have seen a stout bill, which might have supported its owner fairly, in a legitimate way, plied all day with an unquenchable appetite, and con- suming as (nuch flesh as a Newfoundland dog, at the expense of charity. I also know of an instance of posthumous malice, on the part of a pretty wild duck, whose beautiful blue and green plumage inspired strong hopes of an equally delightful flavor, I had the misfortune to be present when he was roasted and brought to table. An ancient fish- like smell preceded him, and we opened all the doors. Politeness required that we should taste the delicacy. It was much worse than bad red herring, cod' liver oil and salt pork: but I did not eat my portion. I have since learned that iiis family name was the "hell- diver." or "devil-dipper." I can easily be lieve it. He tasted like that. ' Among the many beautiful articles of Hair- work, now on exhibition, may be mentioned one which has peculiar claim to our attention, not only for its wonderful delicacy, but also for its combination of the hair of nearly forty of our Generals, some of whom have laid down their lives for the Union, while others are still fightinejgallantly to defend it. Among these are, Scott, McClellan, Sherman, Rose- crans, Fremont, the late lamented Sedgwick. Gen. Meade, and Hancock, so foremost now on the bloody field. Photographs, ambrotypes, and original let- ters from all these, may be seen, and also a small assortment of hair charms neatly mount- ed with gold, through the kindness of Messrs. Jaccard and Gardener. The hair of Gen. Grant is not yet placed in the wreath, but will be so previous to the closing of the Fair, as Ibttera from Mrs. Gen. Grant will testify. All these are made by Miss A. S. N. S, Bailey, and merit the highest commendation. It was voted by the N. E. K. Committee there shor-y j^e no wedding in the kitchen un- less it was a bona fide one. Promptly a young lady answered that she would be the fide if some one would be the bona. Who "picks up the glove?" When the "tea party" comes off, Hde will be present ; but let no bachelor come who is afraid to fight for the noble flag that covers our coarse walla and smoked -dim- med rafters. For the Countersign, A PARABLE,* ' R has been a matter of regret to me that our Faire hitherto have ignored so utterly the wants of the Freed- men. All honor to the city o£ St. Louis for taking the lead in this respect ! To her should be awarded the rare eulogium of old King Solomon: ' Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.' " Te laid your costly table well, And bade me for your gueat ; I came, and with my hands outspread, The generous bounty blessed. Yet was the banquet incomplete — Where was the water (or my toil-worn feet ? And who brought oil, and as he poured \ The costly offering, said : ''For Freedom and a race oppressed. Is this annoiuting shed?" And who among you all gave this — That sweeteet tribute — love's repentant tias '? Oh, people of my care ! behoM The deed ye left undone. This daughter of an alien house, Repentant, dared not shun ! Remember me! — I spoke the word- She, weeping, turned and looked upon her Lord. For there are last that shall be first ; The seed her love hath sown Shall prosper 'neath my guarding hand, Though in strange furrows thrown; Until, beneath my ripening sun, The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon ! Fitchburg, Mass. CAROLINE A. MASON. •Luke vii : 44 — i6. THE SOL DIKR. O, history will be bright with names, but here I would not do Injustice to a million braves, by mentioning a few, Enough, so many have done well, and after years will prove, Tho' costly was our coimtry's life, bhe's worthy all our love; And yet. tho' hard the soldier's lot, in camp, on march, in field, Tho' evil is aggressive still, and modest worth must yield. It has the power to make men feel they must have Uved in vain To pass through such a war as this, nor see a battle plain. And hark ! I think I hear one say, "Of all the deaths to die, Upon a well fought battle-field, when Victory was the cry. Knowing my duty well was done, my soul would seem to move On brighter, stronger, pinions to thp blessed world above ; Then give to me a soldier's life, a soldier's death and bier, A soldier's shallow gra ve, and 0. a fellow soldier's tear." S. McG. [The following lines were found attached to one of the ihirts receivi-d by the shirt departmi-nt. — Bo.] (ro humble garment, help sustain the cause So dear to every Christian patriot's heart. Aid to restore a nation's trampled leaves, Though all uuknown and humble be thy part. 'Twas but two mites the Hebrew widow gave, Yet Jesus blessed the unpretending giftj Oh! may our mites our country help to save. And from the oppress'd the veil of darkness lift. The coral builders are but weak and small. But yet a mighty influence they wield, Unseen they fill the deep with mountains tall. And spread the oceau o'er with many a field. So may these humble oflenngs gathered hpre, Prom many a loyal heart and willing hand. A monument to freedom help to rear. And spread its blessings o'er a ransomed land. Enfield. May 6, 1864. A SOLDI ER'S DREAM. Ah, the flag is so bright ! Let it wave, let it wave ! With the flag, I am right. With the flag I am brave ! Ah, the flag is so soft ! How its motherly fold Sweeping round from aloft, Warms the heart growing cold ! Ah, the flag is so dear ! What loved fingers made Its brightness to cheer. And its Boftoess to shade ! Oh, dear flag ! oh, dear home ! Both are one — and kind word Sent from home to the flag, Is a tent and a sword. Brookline, Mass., April, 1864. SPECIAL NOTIOEa United States Christain Commission. — The meeting of this ortjanization at Mer- cantile Library Hall, on Sunday night next, is to be addressed [with others] by Chaplain McCabe, who was an inmate for five months of Libby Prison, and whose description of those scenes has thriled thousands of hearers. There will be a crowded house. Headquaters Finance Committee, south side Floral Department. Back numbers of 'the Countersign always for sale at our office. No. 20, Pair Building. The whole issue will be found well worth preserving, not only as a history of the Fair, but also for its original matter, St. Louis pa- pers please copy. Don't forget the Public School Exhibition to night at Mercantile Library Hall. Have you taken a chance in tho Bridal Party at the Private Shool table. Ticket $1 a share. We trust that no one visiting either the city or the Fair will fail to go and see the Sterkopticon, as without exception' it is far more beautiful as a work of art than anything of the kind ever exhibited in this country, showing in wonderful perfection the success of the photographic art. Its views of statua- ry and sculpture embrace more than could be seen in months of travel in the old world. Any one visiting it, will not fail to go again. Open each day at 11 A. M., 3 p. M. and 8 p. M. The great Swoed Contest goes on briskly, Hancock is still ahead followed by Grant, Butler, Rosecrans, McClellan, Sherman and some scattering. The books will remain open. Let every one cast his vote early. We are glad our old townsman Hancock is not forgotten, as his name will long wear the crown of glory. At eight p. M. last night the vote stood as follows: Hancock, 63 ; Grant, 43 ; Butler, 42 ; McClellan, 30 ; Rosecrans, 11 ; Sherman, 11 ; scattering 1. The Rooster at No. 20 to be raffled for to- morrow. 40 shares 10 cents a share. First chance taken already by Gen. Fisk. The Skatinq Park just west of the Olive street entrance, open and in operation day and evening. Don't omit to visit it, for it chal- lenges the admiration of every one. THE I3A.ILY COXJ]^^TERSIGN. 7 We retiirD, in behalf of the Mississippi Val- ley Sanitary Fair, our acknowledgments for the donation of $100. from Mr. Henry Cal- lender, of Boston. WAR CLAIMS Adjusted and Collected. OFFICE REMOVED TO No. 63 Washington Avenue, Two doors east of the Qnartermaster's Department . JOHN pTcAIVIP Will give tis attcDtion to the adjnstmeut and collection of^Vouchers and other claims against the United States Government in all its Departments. Accounts and bills against the Government made out in proper form, and Vouchers therefor obtained and the amounts collected. Merchants having vouchers for small amounte, can save themselves time and trouble by placing them in his hands for collection. REFERENCES: Hon. D. Da^is, Bloomiugton, 111.; Hon. Joseph Holt, Washington, D. C; Hon, H. Campbell, St, Louis, Mo ; Samuel T. Glover, St. Louis. Ho.; J. R. Shepley, Esq., St. Louis, Mo.; late Commissioners and Sounselors on War Claims for the Department of the Wef^t, BOOTS AND SHOES. THE finest and best assortment of custom made BOOTS AND SHOES in this city, may be found at SAMUEL HALE'S, 8S North Fourth yt,, opposite Planters' House. O'PALLON White Lead and Oil Company, Miiuafacturerb and Wholesale Dealers in LINSEED OIL, CASTOR OIL, WHITE LEAD, ZINC PAINTS, Colors,,Vaniishes, Japan, Putty, &c., &c. store. 108 Second elrept. ST. LOUIS, MO. St5"Caefa paid for Flaxseed and Castor Beans. GEO W. BANKER. President. FRANCIS BROWN, Treasurer. CHAS. C. FULLER, Secretary. D. A. BIGGERS, Wliolfsal.! and Retail G li O C E K , No. 110 Market street, between Fourth and Fifth, ST. LOUIS, MO. lEj^Goods sent to any part of the city free of charge A. S. W. fioodwio. Boh't Anderson, Poter Bohr. GOODWIN, ANDERSON & CO., Mjnufaciurers of LARD OIL, SOAP ANE CANDLES, FANCY AND TOILET SOAPS, No. 10 Pine street, between .Mam and Secrind. Factory— Poplar, Sonth end of Adolph st., ST. LOUIS, MO. COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, AND BRONZES, FRENCH CLOCKS, &c. H J. CHAWSHAW & SON, AVE juei received and ar^ now upi-msg the largest and bf st stock of Ijanip# and Gas Fixinreis, Kv«-r fleen in ttie United Stales, which they offer low For Cash Only, WHOLESAIiK AND RETAIL ."«o TSNortb Filth street. ST. LOUIS. What is Life Insurance ? ris. by its adoption or neglect, a FORTUKE gained i.ir loHt to a family at a man's death The Mutual BeMt Life Iiisurance Co. lias paid to heirs of deceased member^, over S3,200,000, And its accumulatu-n now exceeds S5,500,000. EDWIN POWLEE, State Agent, No. 34 Olive street. A. Johnson. F. O. Sawyer. JOHNSON & SAWYER, Wholesale Dealer.s iu Book, News & Wrapping Paper, X. E. Corner Second and Locust streets, ST. LOUIS. Jl3™Pap^rs of any size and weight made to order. PHOTOGRAGHIC ALBUMS, Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig's Microscopes, Games & Stationery, At No. 9 Siiuth Fifth street. BIBLE AND TRACT DEPOSITORY. J. W. McINTYRE. WESTERN .^GRMLTURAL PEPilT .WP i^iEEP STORE, Blunden, Koenig & (Jo., No- 56 North Second street. ST. LOUIS, MO. A FULL assortment of Farm Implements and Farm fi. and Garden Seeds constantly on hand. Outley's Palace of Art, No. 39 Fourth street, opposite the Planters' House. J J. OUTLET, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, offers his services to all persons desinug a perfect picture of any kind, from the smallest locket to life size. Unusual inducements are offered to those wishing portraits of themselves or of deceased friends, requiring only a small picture of them, no matter how laded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine the portraits on exhibition. Mutual Life Insurance Company OP NEW YORK. FRED'K S. WIXSTON, President. Accnmulated cash Assets, 1st Feb., 1864, $10,300,000. THE safest and strongest Life Insurance Company in the United States. SAM'L COPP, JR.. Agent. N. W. corner Main and Second sis. M. S. HOLMES, NO. 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every description uf PAPER, BY THE REAM OR CASE. B3= 100 ton of Rags wanted for cath.^f^S THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Lisurance Company OF HARTFORD. ACCUMULATED Capital, over $6,000,000. Number of Policies issued in 1863, 5,688 ! Fifty per cent, divi- dends declared anunally. One-half of premianis re- ceived in notes, which notes are cancelled by dividends, HENRY STAGG, Agent, No. 40 Third street, comer Pine. KINO, DO^I^ & CO., luipnjttTs and J.'liiM^rs *.i FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, No. 105 Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. jA-XJ O TI P 3Nr S . BY J. H. OSGOOD & SON, 147 Congress street, Boston. REGULAR Catalogue sales of Dry Goods, Tuesdays and Fridays. Received in Public Warehoutie on Storage, Wool, Cotton and Merchandise generally, for which Legal Bond Warehuuse receipts will be given by J. H. OSGOOD, Public Warehouseman. Liberal caeb advances made on consignments. The Be^t is the €heapej«t G. W. CURTISS & CO., No. 7 South Fifth street, KEEP the best Coal Oil and Lamps, the best cryt^tal flint Chimneys. Globes, Wicks, 6ic. Agents for Fist's Cooking Lamp, for family use. Gives entire sat- isfaction. No family should be without ona. All kinds Coal Oil and Lamp goods sold wholesale and retail. LEWIS & GROSHON, 58 JVorth Fourth street, KF>EP the Utest styles of Gentlemen's Dress Hats, Felt Hats of every description for Men and Boys ; Cloth Hats, Military Hats, Straw Hats. Cloth Caps, Fancy Caps for Children, elegantly trimmed; Leghorn and Straw Hats for Ludiee, Misses and Children; Traveling Bags, Umbrellas. &.c.. and Furs in their season. WILLIAM H. GRAY & CO., Whulesale anii Retail a R O C K R s , Nos. 75 & 77 South Second street, opposite Pacific Railroad Depot. Orders from the country promptly attended to. CHAUNCEY L FILLEY, 108 main street, 108 Direct Importer and Dealer in CHINA, GLASS & (JUEENSWARE, H AS. according to returns made by all the Queens- ware Dealers, the largest stock in the city. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has. according to returns made under oath by all the Queen^^ware Dealers, more stock than any two houses on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has, according to returns made under oath as above, over two hundred per cent, more stock than any Queens- ware house on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keeps a full assortment of staple and fancy China- Glass. Queensware. Coal Oil Lamps, Looking Glasses, BnttanniaWare. Silver'PIated Ware. Trays, Waiters, Ta- ble Cutlery, Wat.T Coolers. Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is the only direct importer in the city, of Leddle Elliots & Sons' White Granite and Parian Wares and Decorated Vases and Toilet Wares, which received the great prize medals at the World's Fairs in London. Paris and New York, a variety of which they have liberally donated tu thP M. V. S, Fair, CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Will receive monthly new goods direct from manufac- tures. / 8 THE D^ILY GOUnSTTERSIGI"^ n H. Wicke. D. A. Winter. D A. WINTER & CO , CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, Ko. aWFrnrtlm avenue, .,.-1. Kl-ventb »■"' T"-ani, st..s,, ST. LOUIS, MO. Repairing warr.«Ued and accurately executed. iicOWIi; & C^i^LP^N 'Sj North Missouri Railroad. SEWINC IVSACHINE CO. SALES P.OOM^. No. 124 North Fourth strset, ;Vfiandah Bow ) ST. LOUIS, 110. 113 N. FOURTH ST.. COR. VINE. ST LOUIS M a ■^ c3 CO M 02 ;3 ^ KM *N --i > o 02 o o r— I o 1 r~i 1—1 •i™* O Si o o ^ K &a 6 M.^V lOKK KIKK AND MIKINE INSliKANCE^ AGENCY. B i: II <) L D TH E LIST: Columbia Fire Insiuance Co. OF NEW YORK. y nice— No. 161 Broadway. Cash Caoital, $600,000; Surplus, 568,493; Asset s, $=,68,493. incurring any U,-ilaho-^^^^^ G. CUURCHILL, Pre.'t. EDWARD KEIIETS, Sec. Home Insm^ance Company, i OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. raKh Oauf.al iSOO.OtO; Surplus, «70,396 12; Assets, -rvsriBF!! Buildings Merchandise, Household Furnl- I ture lent" .leases, and other insurable property Lamar Fire Insm^ance Company OF THE CITT OF NEW YORK. Capital, all paid up ^"."^''vS^M/M^i, S«^P'"|; •'""■"■'■ 1 1864, $89,375 2T, Assets, S389,37& il. ISAAC R. ST. JOHN, Sec. EDW'D ANTHONY, Prest. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE, Metropolitan Lisurance Oomp'y, lOS Broadw;iy. New Yuik Cash Capital. $300,000; Assets, Jan. 1.-1864, $642 541 85. Scrip div.dMid declared Jan. 12, 1864, 35 per cent. rpHIS Company insures, at '^u^'"'"'"/^ f^'f,'; "',?;,!; 1 miu-.;i against Ijss ordamasi-byllre, a so, a„ain.i an marine and land navigation, and "" »f ^„,''" "^^^o or freieht. The assured receive 7o per cent, ot the net prJflts without incurring any liability, or J" ''-•" f "^- f at their ostion. a liberal discount upon the Dtem mm. JAMES LORIMER GR.4.H.^.M, Pros . ROB'T M. 0. GRAHAM. Vice Pres t EDW'D A. STANSBURY,2dVlcePres't. JOHN C. GOODRIDGE, Secretary. WESTERN BASCOM, General Agent. /fe-^ ""ir"" /S-l-JiftSl; In connection wilh Hanniiu! and SI j" i-.nii '■. i^i'' Shortest and Quickest Route to QUINCY, KEOKUK, ^^^^ ST. JOSEPH, ATCHISON, WESTON, LEAVENWOKTH, „ t o^ v KANSAS CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS. OMAHA, ^, ,^^„ NEBRASKA CITl, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections \re made with the Hannibal and St Joe R.ulr.jad, Chicago, Burlinston and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads ot Iowa. On and alter Sunday, November I5th. 1863, St, Joseph Express leaves St. Louis at 1:16 A. M Mail and Aeeonmioilatiou Tram at 3.3u p.m. Fare as Low as by any other Koute. Commodious Passenger Rooms have been titted up at the Tepot, corner ot North Market street and Levee, with every arrangement for the comfort of passengers TICKBTS FOR SALE XT No. 40 Under Planters' House, AND FOOT OF NORTH MARKET STREET, Where reliable information can be obtained relative to routes in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. „„..!, ^Be certa\n that your ticket reads : " Via North Missouri «""■■»'"'/'„ STURGEON, Supermtendent. J. H. CONCANNON, General Ticket Agent. A. SUMNER. WHEELER ^^•'^^'ILSON'S ..#^^'1'®% 1> STOCK (OMPANY— INCORPORATED 1821. Manhattan Fire Lisurance Co., NEW YORK. Cash C.ipital. $500,000; Surplus, $JT2,916 33; Assets, $772,916 33. WM. PITT PALMER, President. ANDREW J. SMITH, Secretary. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise and other property, agafuTt loss or daiiiage by ttr, , at rates as '"^ ^^ °'^- er flrst class companies. Particular attention given to he nsiSifce of Farm property, -ol^'"" dwellings and their Furniture, for one, three or Ave years. Losses adiisted and promptly paid in cash at this Agency. Insurance Company, BROOKLYN. N. Y " No. 139 r\N a-hdlter Monday, December 7th, 1863, trams will Vj leave St. Louis, as follows : Mill Tram— Daily at 8:20 .t. M., stopping at all stations "ini running through to Knobuoster, (208 miles.) Franklin Accommodation-Daily except Sunday, at 6:00 p. M. . , Stages-Leave Dresden for Warrensburg Lexington, "pleasant Hill, Independence and Kansas City, daily on arrival ot train. Leave Sedalia for Snrinslield, Bolivar and Warsaw, on Tuesday Thur^lay and Saturday evenings on arrival of tra"n; Leave Tipton every evening for BoonvUle. Passengers taking the 8:20 a.m. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily (or Rolla and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning tor Springfield. Through tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- under the Planters' House. T. McKISSOCK, Sup l. EW. WALLACE, Geueral Ticket Agent. Phoenix SEWING MACHINES, \., 80 N-riU Filth jli.el ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION LINE Union Transprlaticii & '"Mm Co. FAST FREIGHT I.IXE K.\ST AND WE.-^T, VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RAtIs'gUARANTEED. N. STEVENS, Agent, No. 49 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. Offlces-No. ICurt street. Brooklyn, N Broadway, New York. Cash Capital, feoO.OOO; Surplus March 1, 1864, $222,- 219 20; Assets, $722,219 20. TNSORANCB against loss by fire, Marine, Lake, Canal J and inland 'r™spona,io,i^ CROWELL. President. BDGAll W. CROWELL. -Vice Pres't. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. •SAFEST AND CHEAPEST SYSTEM OP INSimANOE. — Washinffton Insurance Comp'y, *-* . _ _. , »T-ai,l..M I.:lllf ■) N". Y. ITl Broadway, (cor. Maid.u L.viU,) X- Y Cash Capital, $100,000; Assets, Feb. I. 1864, $5*2 000 scrip dividend, 1861, 60 per cent ; Scr'>l„1''^^''™ft' '^- 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863, bO per ccni. Tnw Policies entitled to participa**. receive 76 pei c™T of net pr, fits. Insures BuUdings. Merchan- dise Fu niture, r'^^-uis. Leases against loss or damage hy are and marine i .k» on .|^--.v- -decanal. HENRY WESTON. Vice President. WM K. LOTHUOP. Secretary, WM. A. SCOTT, Ass't Sec'y. St. Louis and Iron MountaiB Kailroad. Spring Arrangement, commencing April 4, 1864. PASSENGER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, daily as follows; * cs^ , m For Pilot Knob, Potosi, and all BUt-ns, at.^.^y o .. «. For Desoto at "■ Returning— Will leave „ ,_ , 3:00 P.M. Pilot Knob at 3-60 p.m. S:^ :t;;:::::::::::::"::":""--'''-6:(^- "■^"■'=^^^ - »'■ Carondelet Accommodation Trams. For Carondelet at 6:15. 7:10. 8:40. 10:00, 11:30, A. M ; o^S 4 00 6 25 7:30, 9:00 and 11:30 P. M. For Docks ^6 16, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A, M., 2:00 and For Jc'^e'ou Barracks :.nd Quarantine at 6:16, 11:30 ,i. M., and 4:00 P. M. Returning— Will leave Quarantine at 7:30 A.M.; 1:00 and 7:50 p. M. Jefferson Barracks at 7:40 A. M ; 1:05 and7:5o P. M. Docks at 7:54, 9:15, 10:33, A. M.i 1:17, 3:07, 5:4o P. M^ Carondelet at 5:30. 6:20. 8^00, 9:20, 10:40, A. M.; 1:20, 3 10, 6-48, 7:00, 8:10, 10:45 P. M. S D. BARLOW, Pres't & Sup t. ISIDOR BUSH, General Agent. fc €^0mttraip. PUBLISHED BY THE LADIES' EXECUTIVE: COMMITTEE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR. "POSSUNT QrjIA. POSSK VIDENTXJR. I^o. 4. St. Louis, 'NLay 21, 1864. I*rioe 10 Cents. Managers /Mrs. E. W. CLARK, MANAQBBS, jjyjjjg g ^ RANLETT. Editoe, anna C. BRACKETT. Saturday, May 31, 1864. Reduced Rates or Admission, on. and after Friday Morning, May 30th. ADMISSION BO els. CHILDREN Half Price. DooiH open at eleven o'clock, A. M. Exhibition and sales close promptly at ten o'clock, p. M. MAJ. GEN. ROSBCRANS, PreBident. Head QtTARTERS of the Finance Committee Of the Miss. Val. San. Fair. Fair Bhilding, St. LOUIS, May 19, 1864, To the Cas/iiers of the Several Departments : The "Central Finance Committee" have in the Building a Fire and Burglar Proof Safe, and are prepared to receive your de- posits of money daily, at any hour of the day up to ten (10) o'clock, P. M. S. W. Ely, Esq., Assistant Secretary, will receipt for the same, and your Department will be duly credited. Very respectfully. Your ob't servant, E. W. Fox, Chairman Cen. Fin. Com. M. J. LiPPMAN, Sec'y. (|^°The Finance Committee have their Head Quarters near the Floral Department. TTKMS AND INCIDENTS OF THE FAIR. Knowing that persons visiting our city will naturally enquire for our " Big Guns," we take this opportunity of introducing them to those personages. Our three "big guns" may be found always ready for acquaintance-making at their stations in the central aisle of the south wing. Though we call these guns "ours," it must be understood that they em igrated from the unhealthy ncighbo.hood of Vicksburg. The first of these is a Venerable gun, having been born in 1768. It is a huge brass weapon, of Spanish descent. He is known as El Lusto. The second is of Eng- lish parentage, being a ten-pounder, of the famous Whitworth breech-loading patent. The third and the youngest, claims the South- ern Confederacy as Father land. • Have you called at No. 20 today 7 If you haven't, pitch in at once. AGRIOUi^TURAL IMPLE- MENTS. We think it was the King of Brobdignag who expressed the opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of man- kind and do m^ e essential service to his coun- try than the wn^le race of politicians togeth- er." We say nothing of politicians ; but there can be no doubt in this age that a scientific farmer is a public benefactor. The ancients supposed the plough to have fallen bodily from heaven ; but a comparison of one of these heavenly-descended ploughs, as describ- ed by Virgil, with a double-eagle plough, or the fine "Peoria" plough, as we have seen them on exhibition in this Department, would not greatly redound to the credit of celestial science or workmanship. Specimens of all the finer patent ploughs have been generally contributed to this Department. The scien- tific beauty of "Kirby's Patent Combined Reaper and Mower," would also contrast strongly with the rude inconvenience of the ancient sickle. Two articles in this Depa"-!- ment, though not strictly agricultural in char- acter, deserve attention. Hawe's patent clothes-dryer appeared to us to be an article which for convenience will recommend itself to all careful housekeepers. A heavy socket set in the ground receives an apparatus close ly resembling, when ready for use, a mam- moth umbrella turned inside out. The whale- bones of this umbrella are connected with the various ropes upon which the clotlies are de- signed to be hung. It can be reduced to the smallest compass with great ease, bo as to ad- mit of being carried into the house, and needs no attention when employed in windy weather. The appreciator of fresh "fried eggs" will have his attention arrested by the second of these articles, which is nothing else but a patent hen's nest, made of common wheat-straw ; it is shaped like a sugar-loaf and has its entrance on the side. Its merit consists in its cheap- ness and in the fact that when infested with vermin, it can quickly be rendered clean and sweet again by sleeping it in hot water. Visi- tors from the country will not leave this De- partment without examining the "Missouri No. 6," a beautiful fire-engine, presented to the city of St. Louis by the Board of Un derwriters. Specimens of the other parapher- nalia of the farm are not lacking. In that part of the building devoted to man- ufacturing interests, the Millers' and Bakers' Dc irtment makes a most creditable display. The high-piled barrels of flour and boxes of crackers of every variety, quickly banish all dread of famine from the mind of the behold- er. The millers of St. Louis have generously oflered the following premiums to contribu- tors to their Department: $100 for the best sample of Fall wheat flour manufactured out of St. Louis. $100 for the best sample of Fall wheat flour manufactured anywhere in the United States. $100 for the best sample of Spring wheat flour manufactured anywhere in the United States. $100 for the largest donation of Fall wheat flour. $100 for the largest donation of Spring wheat flour. The patriotic citizens of Summorfield, 111., and its vicinity, without desiring to compete for the piemiums, have ser.t the large contri- bution of one hundred bbls. of C. Eis enmayer's extra-choice F. F. F. G. flour, manufactured by Mr. Eisenmayer especially, for the M. V. S Fair. Amongst oiher donations, two bbls. of Cole's celebrated P. F. F. G. flour, deserve especial notice, from the fact that this flour is the original and choicest article of that brand. This flour is manufactured in Ches- ter, 111. The Boot and Shoe Department engage to supply all foot-leather worn out in the service of the Fair. Tlie contributions here amount to more than fifteen thousand dollars, being proportionably one of the most liberal of all the donations. The most noticeable article is the "Pike's Peak mining shoe," manufac- tured by J T. Comstock & Co., of this city. We must needs deem its nail-studded, steel- plated bottom to be "an immortal sole," and address it in the well known words that Ad- dison puts in the mouth of Cato. "The sole, secure in her existence, smiles," &c. Comstock & Co. have also contributed a dozen cases of hospital slippers, got up at a cheaper raie than the Sanitarj' Commission have hitherto been able to obtain them. The Penitentiary did not ignore the good work, but sent several cases of shoes, manufactured in that i lace. Boots of alligator skin, and show-cases of elegant fancy articles in leather, leiid a finish to the display. In connection with this department we must notice another, located near by : wo mean " Tlie Leather Do- partmont." Here, contributions from our pa- triotic fellow-citizens. How, Haseltine, and others, and from Eastern cities, to the amount of above four thousand dollars, make a rich and tasty display. We notice that the patri- otic colors — red, while and blue — form as beautiful a trinity in leather as in the "flag of the free." Every article necessary iu the THE D^ILY COTJISTTEHSIGISr. construction of the boot and shoe, from the strap to the peg, may here he obtained in pro- fusion, at prices considerably below the mar- ket standard. Amongst other beautiful skins, some rich, glossy articles, from the tanneries of Paris, were shown us, which, at wholesale prices, were valued as highly as three dollars per pound. • BOOKS AND STATIONERY- If it is true, "that every good book helps forward the millenium," there are enough of them in the Book and Stationery Department, presided over by Mr. Bell, to hasten the ap- proach of that period, "devoutly to be wished," by many years. We would like to notice, in connection with agricultural implements, a recent publication, entitled " Field and Gar- den Vegetation." Its author is Fearing Burr. This book is a clear and correct treatise on the nature and treatment of table vegetables, useful alike to the farmer and the consumer. A new publication, and one that is destined, from its intrinsic worth, to win for itself a place in every library, is " Appleton's New American Encyclopsedia," in eighteen vol- umes. It is a singular fact that an encyclo- paedia embracing a compendium of the "seven liberal arts "^grammar, logic, rhetoric, arith- metic, geometry, astronomy and music — writ- ten by Capella, an African, and published in Rome in 470, remained for more than one thou- sand years the common text-book throughout the schools of Europe. During all this period the human mind made no advance at all. Our text-books, on the contrary, under the pro- gressive spirit of the age, have been rapidly changing their character, until they have be- come not only reformed, but entirely trans- formed. To meet the demands of this "march of progress," Dr. Appleton proposes to add to his work a yearly volume, devoted to such topics and matters as a year may bring forth. A beautiful book, entitled " Plant's Etchings," is attractive, from the chaste elegance of its illustrations. Athingof interest to the French- men of St. Louis, is a work composed by the Comte de Segur, Grand Marshal of France in 1811. The good taste and tact of the Com- mittee of this department have supplied it with all the standard works and late publications. It has been said "that many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings — as some savage tribes deter- mine the power of muskets by their recoil ; that being considered the best which fairly prostrates the purchaser." Whatever may be true of the matter contained in this display of books, we can assure the public that no dam- age will bo wrought them by high charges in this department. All articles will be sold here at an averiige of fifteen per cent, cheaper than the like works can be purchased at any of the Fourth or Fifth street stores. The same i.n true of all other departments of the Fair. Copies of an lutographic letter from President Lincoln, in answer to a petition of the children of Massachusetts, asking the free- dom of the contraband children of the South, may be also found here ; as also many other letters of that stamp. Photographs of the fine buildings and distinguished personagea of St. Louis are for sale. Every article of station- ery, beautiful albums of tlie greatest variety, choice articles of vertu, stereographic views, &c., &c., to the amount of six thousand dol- lars, will be disposed of to the public. WHAT ^VE SAID TO THE PUB- LIC SCHOOL CHILDREN Yes, the starry flag of our pride goes on To a conquered peace, and to freedom won ; But how with the arms that hew it a.way, And bear it aloft in the bloody fray ? Up to the cannon's mouth. Ever towards the South, Up the stee)) ramparts, over the slain, "Old Glory " comes to its own again, It never calls for a bearer in vain : But low on the trampled field, They who that banner yield Only when strong hands fall, powerless to stay. Only when willing feet fail to obey. Lie in their pain as their life ebbs away. They bleed for the land that has given us birth. The land that is dearest of all the earth; To save our homes from the traitor band That have struck at the life of our Fatherland. Shall not our love so free Go where we cannot be. Lifting them tenderly up from the ground. Smoothing the pillow and cooling the wound. Scattering comfort and blessing around — Till the rough soldier's eyes' Moisten with strange surprise ; Till, as love leads all his fancies to roam Lovingly back to his far-away home. All holy memories, strengthening, shall come? Eager and breathless the children listened. Bright eyes flashed, then drooped and glis- tened ; Lovely as violets up from the sod. Sprang their quick impulse, the gift of our God. What did they bring us then, Shaming the bearded men, Who amid their luxuries, give, yet withhold The hearty " God speed " that should go with the gold, And that blesses the giver a hundred fold. Listen and hear how they Brought to us, day by day. All that to them was most precious and dear. Toys that they loved most, and gave with a tear — Treasures they'd hoarded for many a year. Whatever to their childish eyes Seemed as to winner seems his prize. The one best thing the world could hold. Dear as to miser's heart his gold — That one best thing they freely give. To bid the wounded soldiers live. The knife, the saw, the marbles bright. The gun, the whistle, top, and kite. The model ship, the basket, box, Tlie satchel and the painted blocks, The petted doll, the cup, the dish. The wagon and the magic fish — While, as his treasure, one brought there His silver quarter for the Fair. The fingers of the older boys Made chains, and carved the polished toys ; And then our girls right gladly, brought The work their patient skill had wrought. And when the little ones had toiled, An'd all their precious stores despoiled, They begged of those who love them best. That they would help them do the rest. Gates that brave all the tempest's shock, Swing open wide when the children knock ; Strongholds that bid defiance to all. Strike their flag when the children call. Strong hand and willing heart Came up to do their part ; Came up to give of their time and skill For the great free schools, that we trust shall still Save the land, by moulding the people's will. These were the words we said ; This was the answer made. They have heaped our stand till we have to spare ; The useful and beautiful all are there. Come and see what the children have done for the Fair. A. E. TAUNTON RIVER The Latin bard, in one of his charming eclogues, tells how he was accustomed to compare great things with small things, and imagine Home by the knowledge of his na- tive Mantua. In like manner, a dweller in the old Colony of Massachusetts, addressing readers in the great city by the great central river of the land, may tell of his own quiet land and of the small streams, sluggish as the ancient Mincius, which is yet the conspicuous grace and the perpetual blessing of the region through which it meanders. One of those phi- lanthropists who teach thepeople toknow the wonders of the human frame in six lectures, a dollar for the course, said once in our hear- ing to a crowd of eager listeners, "You think you know a great deal here in this town; you know Geography ; you know where all the great cities are ; but j'ou don't know every- thing : "Where's the Pancreas '!" Nobody could answer; all were ignorant of that im- portant item in physical economy, and seem- ed to be uncertain whether it was the name of a town, the name of a tree, or of some occult force or substance. It is to be feared that a similar lamentable ignorance, will perplex readers who glance at the title of this sketch. They know where the Mississippi is ; they know what the OhiQ is ; they have heard of the Danube, the Thames, the Tiber, and even the Rubicon ; but who knows what or where is the Taunton river. To dissipate this possible darkness, we com- mence by the general, strong, and boastful statement, that Taunton River, in proportion to its length and breadth, is the most impor- tant river in he whole land ; that it bears and distributes more wealth, and has more variety of interest in proportion to its size, than the mizhtest of our rivers, whether in the East or the West. It is always well where one is dealing with a small subject, tomakea stro :; statement at the outset. But we shall amj .• THE D^ILY COXJISrTERSIGISr. verify our statement, aiul convince the most incredulous, that it is not extravagant. Attend- ing first to the qualification above made, wo mention the navigable length of the river, from the town of Taunton at its head, to the city of Fall River, at its foot, as less than 20 miles. A majestic train of scows, indeed, (flat- boats, in Western dialect,) arc daily conveyed by a steam stern-wheeled pioneer under bridges and over shallows, to a point some six miles further up, where at last a hateful but most lucrative dam fatally stops the way. This twenty-six miles is the extreme limit of navigation, though there are humble voyagers of which we shall speak presently, that man- age to surmount it. The breadth of this stream is unequal. In some parts it is a .thousand feet wide or more ; in others, not more than a hundred feet. There are some pl.ices where a small boy, without much exertion, can easily throw a stone from bank to bank; and the achievement of swiraing the stream, even in the widest part, will involve no severe exer- tion to adventures in that art, far less expert than Leander or Lord Byron. Having thus attended to this qualification of our original statement, we proceed to adduce its proofs, and here we are embarrassed by one richer. First, thre is the quality of the water. All famous waters have some quality. It is the quality of Mississippi water to be mud- dy it the quality of the St. Lawrence to be limey : the Tiber is ysWoio andlhe Niger black. The Sea of Sodom is salt and bitter ; the Gan- ges is holy ; but the characteristic quality of of Taunton water is loeak. Everj'hody that has heard of Taunton at all, has heard of the proverb, "As weak as Taunton water." It is in New England what the proverb of the sour-grapes," mentioned by Ezekiel, (xviii. 2,) was to the tribes of Israel. Indeed the pro- verb is so ancient that it is almost a matter of surprise that it is omitted from the Hebrew summary. When that profligate character, Birdolredum Sawin, Esq., whose epistles are contained in the second volume of the poems of one J. R. Lowell, wishes to describe the extreme of his suflfering in the campaign in Mexico, he feelingly urges that he could not, "mornin, noon, nor night," get "nothin stronger to drink" than Taunton water. That was the acme of human misery to a thirsty soul. The comparison that commonly illustrates this iceakness of Taunton water, has never, however, seemed to us logically accurate. They say that it is so weak that it "won't run down hill." Now it requires no strength for watfr to run down hill, but a good deal of strength to resist the force of gravity that would carry it down. And as all rivers run somewhere, if Taunton water cannot run down hill, it must run up hill, which is a still more striking evidence of strength. Even the Mis- souri is not strong enough for that. And one who watches the surface of Taunton river at the flow of the tide, seems to see it setting up stream, and to have it proved to his eye that this excellent river has the miraculous privi- lege of overcoming the force which bears the water of larger rivers downward to the sea. The quality which made Taunton water dis- gusting to the Mexican hero, B. Sawin, com- mends it to the mariners and the temperate men. It is a beveraga,which cheers, but was never known to inebriate, and no man over can toll when he has taken too much of it. It rather improves by age, like some of the wines : and the genuine Bristol county skiji- per is as ardent in longing for it as was David for a draught from the well of Bethlehem. That it has peculiar healing virtues, we will not afhrm ; but it has none of those detesta- ble elements which vitiate the tastes of the devotees to sulphur and chalybeate fountains. If the water is weak, the ice which it produ- ces is unquestianably strong. And the qdali- ty of weakness is a great advantage in case of vessels grounded or tossed by storm. The waves of this propitious river were never known in their anger to break the sides of any stranded craft, nor do they, like the waves of the Mississippi, tear great rents in the banks, and vex the navigator by perpetually cutting new channels. They glide smoothly by, with a murmur soft as that of "sweet Afton." We pass to speak of another attribute of this water : the wealth that it contains — not in an- imalcul*, but in more palpable alewives. Per- haps this novel and stately word will fail to enlighten most of our readers, and we will therefore substitute the more familiar term herring. Taunton herring, indeed, usually go with Taunton water, in proverb as well as in fact. The moral state of the region is sup- posed to be indicated by the time and the run of the herrings in the river. A hundred years ago, so "the legend tells, if a Taunton man was found in Boston in the autumn of the year, and was asked where he came from, he was sure to reply, with hesitating accents and shame-faced look, "Taunton, good Lord !" At that season, herrings were not in the river. But if he was so accosted in the Spring, with head erect, defiant air, and bold tone, he in- stantly rejoined, "Taunton, you!" with an epithet and a wish more emphatic than po- lite, which it is not best here to repeat. And even to this day, when a Taunton man is met in any part of the land, he is likely to be sa- luted by the question, "How is it now? Taun- ton, good Lord, or Taunton, with the other words ?" Taunton herring are unlike all other her- ring. They are larger, nimbler, shinier, sweeter, and more regular in their habits. They all expect to " serve tables " sooner or later, in the homes oT the Old Colony farmers, and if they escape the nets of one and another season, continue to come year after year, until they are finally caught. The destiny of a Taunton herring ia as sure as that of a Mis- souri hog, and he rushes upon his fate with equal alacrity. We are writing at a season when the run is most abundant; and on the first four secular days of each week in April and May, the fishermen dip out all that their nets will hold. Ten thousand for a single net is a fair day's catch : 20,000 is a good day's catch ; 50,000 is an extra and memorable haul. The average value of a herring, fresh from the net, is about a cent. There are however, many bad days to offset the few good days. Wise fish have a perverse way of coming along on the prohibited days, which are the Mahometan, the Jewish, and the Christian Sabbaths. Some of the fishermen complain bitterly of the steamboats, paddling monsters, which trouble the water 5nd scare back the lawful prey which they have inherited from their fathers. For in this calling there is a spirit of caste as absolute as that in India. Some families are fishermen by descent, and reckon through seven generations this lineal branch of industry. They woilld be ashamed of them5elve3,if each Spring did not find them, like all their fathers, wading along the banks and drawing their nets. They have a sense of dignity in this occupation— fatiguing, vexa- tious and untidy as it evidently is. It is Apos- tolic—more Christian, even, than tilling the soil. Their local pride upholds it ; for did it not give wealth when the colony was young and feeble? There are races along this river that take to the herring fishery as naturally as a duck takes to water, and associate the idea of national prosperity with the success of this annual industry. And the legislation of the Colony and the State, from the earliest day, has been very jealous of the honor and the rights of this calling. Not a year passes but the "great and general Court" are asked to consider the subject anew, and to ordain an act, additional to an act, supplementary to an act, and so on, to protect the herring fishery in Taunton great river. No interest of agri- culture, manufactures or commerce, has been cared for so abundantly. The great Iron Company, who have stopped the river by their dam, are required to provide and protect a suitable fish-way, which is a giant water stair- case, such as the agile fish can comfortably ascend. There are special statutes to guard the tributary creeks, to prescribe the legal hours, to regulate the annual sale of the priv- ilege, and to set watchmen along the stream. The region is too democratic for coats of arms, and such trappings of foreign pride ; but if democratic vanity should ever copy that feudal style, a herring rampant will be here the sign of illustrious birth. With no love for the Popish religion, they would at least choose and use the " fisherman's ring " in making their mark. And the young man who has drawn in his million of herrings has a claim of defer- ence as genuine as that of the Nantucket whaleman who has speared his leviathan, or even the hero of Vicksburg. It is a sight for an artist, when some weather-beaten veteran comes home at set of sun, in his wagon loaded with this glittering spoil, as truly as when some warrior of twenty battles comes back with his tattered banners and his remnant of a regiment. We say nothing of the shad and other fish that come straying along in these great "schools" of herring, for they are as much out of place as Secessionists in a Sanitary Fair, and they are more at home in other riv- ers than in this. But as we have told of the wealth that comes in the river, we go on to speak of the wealth that comes ore the river. Long before the Mississippi was vexed by any keel, the trim barks of this humbler stream were busy in their voyages of profit. We do not propose to reveal the secret of their num- THE ID^ILY COUiN^TERSIGJSr. ber, nor shall we even hint that they are float- ing palaces, or rival in any sense the Conti- nentals and Autocrats and Imperials that lift their massive frames along the levee of St. Louis. We only say that they are numerous enough to make, by the grain which they bring, Taunton the ihi)-d port of entry in New England for this kind of merchandise — second only to Boston and Providence ; that they have given fortunes to many old men, and young men too ; that their speed and beauty are proverbial ; and that they are never burned, and rarely lost. They wear out, but do not rust out. Their names are not those of heroes and heroines in romance, but of the solid men who own or who furnish them. No craft in the land carry in proportion to their tonnage, heavier or more valuable burden; fabrics in iron, fabrics in copper, machines of all kinds, to say nothing of the primitive ]iyr- amid of bricks with which the decks are gar- nished. A Taunton schooner starting on her voyage for Baltimore, is as picturesque as a Nile cangia, spreading her sails for Thebes in the desert. One fact which we mention may authorize a favorable induction as to the speed of these unpretending river craft. At the great re- gatta in Newport a few years since, when all the yachts of Boston and New York were straining themselves for the race, it was a Taunton sloop that dashed in among them and easily distanced the whole of them. With becoming modesty the skipper contented him- self with the simple laurels of victory, and put in no claims for the offered prize. It is not necessary to say more, as the yacht club have not ventured to challenge the river fleet to a second trial. The result, however, could not be doubful. The mariners of this river are conservative in their tastes, and prefer clean sails to smoke pipes and their inevitable grime. As yet the steam fleet of the river can be counted upon the fingers of a single hand, and have some- thing then to spare. The single passenger boat was patriotically given at the begin- ning of the war to the service of the Govern- ment; and it is pleasant to reflect that the Government has not been ungrateful, but has returned to the owners very substantial thanks in the shape of large dividends. " When this cruel war is over," the self-denying citizens who sacriBced their usual summer recreation in the daily trips of this fairy steamer, will doubtless be able again to mention with pride "our 'oat, the Young America." At pres- ent the sum total of steamers that ascend the river is two tow-boats; but think of what they tow ! Are not these sufficient to tell of the good time coming ? The navigation of Taunton River is not al- together easy. There are curves not a few, sharper than those on the Mississippi. There are shallows, and sand-bars, and there are rocks, too, as infamous and threatening as those of Hurl Gate or Acrocerannia. Re- peatedly has Congress been solicited to appro- priate liberally for removing these ugly ob- structions ; but they have turned a deaf ear to every request. Now the inhabitants of this re- gion congratulate themselves that in case of an invasion from secessiondom, or France, or England, they will be secure ; their harbor is protected ; and all progress is barred to rebel rams as surely as it was barred five centuries ago to the prying keel of the Danish adven- turers. The Potomac is an open stream, but Taunton River lifts its needles of stone to warn back all that would rush upon destruc- tion. The ungrateful Congress may yet find it convenient to seek the shelter of this re- treat. Our pilots are loyal, and will not dis- close the secret of the channel to any buca- neer or traitor. And the mention of the Danish adventurers leads us to say a word upon the historical me- morial of Staunton River, its " blarney stone," the pictured rock of Dighton, or Berkley, as it should rather be called, since it is on the Berkley bank of the river. This interesting object, approached at low tide by a boat, shows on its seaward face a charmingly indis- tinct and fanciful conglomeration of hiero- glyphics, in which a deer's horns, the features and form of a man, some Roman numerals, and some uncouth scrawls, can be faintly made out. Prom the earliest days the origin of these marks has been disputed. Some say that they were primeval and antediluvian ; others suggest that the Indians are responsi- ble for them. A few assign them to some in- genious Yankee, who wished lo mystify pos- terity. But the most weighty decision, argued at length in the Danish Antiquaries, is that they were the work of northern voyagers in the 14th century, or perhaps somewhat later. This is an evidence that Columbus was not the first discoverer of America ; and, as it is a proof so flattering to our local pride, we pre- fer to believe it. We regret that want of space compels us to omit even an abstract of the touching story of suffering, and battle, and disappointment which the scholars of Den- mark have read from these mystical lines upon the stone. If we ever write a novel we have vowed to take this Scandinavian hero and his companions for our theme. In the meantime the inscription still invites visitors and inter- preters — some Kenriok or Rawlinson. It is a more serious puzzle than the Stone of Agri- cola, which Jonathan Oldbuck was sure that he could decipher ; or that famous Rochester Stone, which Mr. Pickwick was privileged to explain in his general club meeting. It is the property, by purchase, of the Royal Society of Danish Antiquaries ; but, inasmuch as it rests securely imbedded in the mud, and can- not be lifted by any available machinery, the historical mind of the Old Colony is easy as to its future. It will outlast, in its place, the Kingdom of Denmark. Have we not said enough already to justify our first assertion of the importance of Taun- ton River ? Yet we have not said a word of the beautiful scenery on its banks ; the villa- ges and villas ; the woods of various form and kind ; the wharves and factories, and the bor- dering railways ; the bridges which span it at intervals in the upper portion. But we must not leave unnoticed "the treasures hid in the sand " — the bivalves that give name to one of the most fascinating of summer feasts — the clam-bake. Taunton River excels all other ivers ,in the quality and the supply of this epicurean edible. We invite only the in- credulous to come in the month of July or August, to witness the simple and primitive spectacle; to partake clam rel palan, (which a friend of ours used to translate " clams by the pail full ;") arid then pronounce upon the merits of the river. More than one soul, rythmically organized, has been moved after such a feast to celebrate in flowing verse the charm of such a generous river. If Wads- worth had been allowed to come, he would have joined to the memorials of his visit an- other score of elaborate sonnets ; and if Campbell had tasted the clams of Taunton River, he would have disdained the less fa- vored Susquehanna. We have not told the whole. There are other things that might in- spire an ode. And if any friend wishes to while away a pleasant day, desipere in loco, let him take Bristol county, in Massachusetts, on his way, call in upon a clam-bake, eat for lunch a salted herring, drink a full goblet of "Taunton water," and stand triumphantly on Dighton Rock, the oldest monument in the land. CHARADE. The bird that soars on highest wing, Enjoyg my Jirst io fullest swing. The captive in his prison wall. Within his soul for me doth call ; While every bondsman in our land. Would give for me his own right hand. My second, you may search in vain, For miles and miles of prairie plain. Through Holland's every dike pursue. And not a glimpse will meet your view. In vain old Ocean's billows plough, You have not found me even now. The pine adorns my lofty crest, 'Tis there you'll flud the eaglet's nest; While at my foot the violet blue, Aud Switzer, with a heart as true, Make their sweet homes — and love me too Guess, and join these, and you have found The man whose brave, intrepid bound Crossed our broad land — whose eagle eye Was first the hidden path to spy. M. A ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. All who have any pride or interest in the Public Schools of the citj' should Iiave been present Friday morning when the members of the said schools, to the number of nearly eight thousand, visited the Sanitary Fair. As the procession did not pass through any of the business streets, but few, comparatively, had a chance of seeing it; but it was a sight well worth remembering. At the application of the ofiicient Superintendent, Ira Divoll, Esq., the Ladies' Committee of Arrangements kindl3- consented to open the Fair at nine, precisely, for the children, who were to have exclusive possession of the building till eleven. The head of the procession formed on the southwest corner of Chesnut and Seventh, and move3 to Sixth, through Sixth to Locust, through Locust to Eleventh, through Elev- enth to Olive, and then to the building It was a beautiful sight to see so many children, each wearing a badge with the name of the school to which he belonged, as in perl'-'t order, marshaled by theirteachers, with hem.-- THE ID^ILY COXJNTERSiai^. ing faces and sparkling eyes thoy entered tlie building, whose inside many of thom hud probably never expected to see. It seemed as if there was no end to the long line Prece- ded by a band and the Board of Public Schools on foot, it moved around and around the tables of the Fair. The orders were, to keep moving till all were inside, and so move* we did, but the end was not yet. Five, six lines were moving at one time, counter-marching in every direction. The lines closed up, but kept moving. The signal for a general dis- persion was to be "Hail, Columbia," by the band, and several voices were heard to call, "Give us 'Hail, Columbia," ' as they caught sight of something they wished to examine, but discipline still prevailed. General Grant's little daughter, iu the big shoe was most gal- lantly cheered by the boys as they passed her, and more than one school struck up a song to which they tuned their impatient feet. At last ! Hail Columbia sounded from the brazen instruments, hats and caps flew up in the air, and with one general shout of delight the children broke ranks and went where their desires led them. The Pishing Pond was of course surroun- ded at once, and the Skating Park did a thriving business, It was the general re- mark of the ladies in charge of these depart- ments that they wondered at the good be- havior of the children. The building fairly swarmed with them, and yet there was no compulsion no rudeness. At eleven the great bell warned them that their hour was over, and quietly they dis- persed. So ended an era in the history of the Sanitary Pair and of the Public Schools. Is there anything more beautiful than to give pleasure to so many children ? The ladies who so kindly gave of their time and strength must have felt rewarded by the evident en- joyment all around them. AROUSE TO DUTY! Our country ! has called, and our sons have departed. They bide in the tent-covered fields far away ! And lives there a woman, kind and true hearted, Who refuses to lend them her aid hereto-day? Shall the clangor of battle, call them into mo- tion, While we by our firesides peacefully sit ? And can wo not show to our counti'y devotion By the produ::t8 of what we can make, sew and knit? They wade through morasses,, they scale the high mountains. While we in our rocking-chairs softly recline. They ent their hard "tack," and drink from strange fountains, While luxury, feeds us, with wheat, oil and wine. Oh ! mothers and sisters arouse ye to duty, And pay back the debt to the brave that ye owe. Your industry now, can enhance every beauty. And cause the wan cheek with a rose-tint to glow. M. A. HOW HK FELT. The following incident ilustrates the noble spirit of the men for whom the funds roali/.ed at this Fair are intended, and it is worthy to stand beside the finest examples of heroic self- consecration in ancient or modern history. It has never been published before, but the wri- ter is ready to vouch for its truth. At the taking of Fort Donelson in March, 1862, our readers will remember the series of brilliant and desperate charges made on the works, several of which were repulsed with heavy loss. In these, our wounded who were unable to crawl off the field, remained under the fire of the enemy's guns, without any at- tention for twenty-four or thirty-six hours— du- ring which time a cold, freezing rain fell, drenching them to the skin, and leavingjthoir garments stiif as sheets of ice. In one of these charges a young lad of eighteen years was terribly wounded, and left on the spot where he fell until after the surrender of the fort. When our men went over the field pick- ing up the wounded, they found this boy with his clothes frozen to the ground and had to break the ice in a pool of bloody water where he lay, before he could be removed. But a little spark of life still burned within him and a smile of triumph was on his face. He had lain in that spot more than thirty hours, while charge after charge was made over him on the rebel works. He was borne away by his com- panions and tenderly nnrsed and cared for in one of our hospitals at Paducah. For weeks and months he lay in his cot, struggling be- tween life and death, unable even to turn him- self in his bod. At the end of eight weeks, nature and the best of medicine and attend- ance triumphed, and he began after that pe- riod rapidly to improve. A lady who was visiting the hospital learned his history and saw the wonderful patience and cheerfulne.s.s of the bravo lad. She asked him to describe his feelings and thoughts as he lay ca that bloody field through that dark, stormy night, and afterwards when our army, with thunder- ing tread, came charging over the spot wliere he lay. Tell me, said she, "How did you feel?" "Tell!" said he, "I felt that that fort had to bo taken, and I was nothing ; it did not matter whether I lived or died, if our men only took it — and when we heard their great shout of victory, I joined with all my might and didn't care if it took the last breath of life that I had I" Now, are not such men as this, and thou- sands and thousands like him, falling in such a cause, enduring such privations and suffer- ings patiently and sweetly, worthy of the best and the utmost that we can do for them ; worthy of all the sacrifices that we c„n make, i and all the prayers that we breathe? The man who will not labor and give to the utmost of his ability for these men, who have stood in his place and have fallen, fighting for the dearest blessings of man, is not worthy to have a country or a home. C. A S. THE COIJNTERSIGN. AM along our battle-liue Each sentry liolds the CountcrAigu ; JJy (lay, by uight — iu storm or shine, The challenge and reply combiiie ; While bayonet and ear incline, Intent to catch tlip word or sign. All through life's grand design. Guards every post the Countersign. The maiden's blush, incarnadine, Uoth guard the lire ou Vesta's shrine ; And from the heart'-s red fountains climb. Of manhood stern the seal and sign. And when our few brief years incline Eternity to intertwine ; And upward, to her home divine. The spirit soars — no more supine — May I and yon, and yours and mine, Bear on our palms the Countersign. But while on earth, wheu foes malign Would rule or ruin , when, in flue, The copper-headed reptiles mine The firm foundations laid lang syne. Up to the tables — dou't decline — Advance and give the Countersign. Conundrum, — Why was Joseph put into the pit ? Ans. Because there was not room enough in the family circle. THE REFUGEES To-day, passing through the Fair Grounds my eyes fell upon this department, with its rich stores of beautiful articles, and the array of kind and pleasant faces behind the coun- ter. In a moment all seemed transformed. I saw no longer the gay throngs of people in the living stream around me ; and the odor of flowers was unheeded ; the tinkling music of the fairy fountains fell upon ears deaf to all sounds, save those that Memory recalled, and they were wails and moans of pain and suffering. The Present faded from sight, and the Past, with all its bitterness and woe, had come back to blind my eyes with tears and fill my heart with the oft-repeated cry, "Oh, God of the poor and lowly and sorrowing, have mercy ! " Again : I stood under the fair sky of North Alabama, and witnessed scenes that will never fade from mind until death has sealed my vision upon earthly sorrows. I saw troops of pallid wanderers homeless, almost friend- less, and wearing looks of which no mortal tongue can ever express the deep meaning. Mothers with little children clinging to their dresses, and others in their arms would look up at me with mute, appealing eyes, while the pale, quivering lips were powerless to frame the story of want and distress it re- quired only a glance to see. Under every old shed, into every vacant house, these poor creatures were crowded by dozens. They could be seen sitting around little fires, insufficient to keep them warm in the least, with the cold rains beating down upon thinly clad shoulders, and the little curly heads of innocent children, who shiv- ered and sobbed, and hugged vainly for that warmth and care and food the poor mother could not give. Do not think that I paint the picture too strongly, you who may read^this ! That is utterly beyond mortal power. No tongue or pen I have ever seen were skilled enough to give the time-life coloring to scenes like these. Only the outlines are presented to the eye of 6 THE D^ILY COXJNTERSIGIS^. the reader. The details are only visible to the eye that has seen the reality. A few weeks ago, while General Dodge was at Athens, Alabama, with his division, large numbers of these unfortunate beings were brought into our lines and quartered in every nook and corner the town ati'orded. Some were in vacant houses — others out of doors, shelterless ; some under the sheds about the depot, and many even in smoke-houses, where they would thankfully throw their little beds upon the dirt, or earthen floor, and with a little fire kindled up in the centre, filling the whole place with smoke, sleej) the sleep of exhaustion. To give you an idea of the reality of which I am speaking, I will give an illustration : About a mile from town, a family had been placed, who had been driven out of Winston county in the most cruel manner. The man was in the Federal service, belonged to the 1st Alabama Cavalry, a regiment composed of the loyal Alabamians, against which the bitterest feelings have arisen in the Confed- eracy. The women being alone, had endeav- ored vainly to support themselves by hard labor. They had a good farm, but every horse and mule were taken, and no means left them to work it. They wove cloth, and knitted soeks and stockings, but as soon as fin- ished, the rebels seized them, appropriating everything to their own use. Finally, the 1st Alabama Cavalry was ordered to leave Mem- phis, Tenn., and report at Athens, and the rebels learning its close proximity, ordered the family to leave, telling them it must be done at once, or they would burn the house down over their heads. They left accord- ingly, making their way to Athens with great difficulty, where they took up their abode in the house I have mentioned, a mile from town. At the time, there were so many others coming in from all directions, the}' were over- looked, and had been a week there, ere I learned the fact. Then it was told me that they were all sick with measles — a most dread- ful disease among them, and very fatal to large numbers. I got in an ambulance at once, and drove out to the place to ascertain their condition, and the scene that greeted my eyes upon entering that abode of distress, seems ever before me, when the name of "Refugee'' is spoken in my hearing. (to he continued.) e hqj^^r ■f TIlB Headquarters State of Missouri, "j Adjutant Gbkerals Ofkiok. \ St. Louis, May 18th, 1864. J Colonel : I have just received §1,148 from the 5th M. S. M., for the Sanitary Fair, con- tributed by the officers and men of the regi- ment. Glorious, isn't it? I think th^t other regi- ments will do as well. [Signed] JOHN B. GRAY. Col. 0. D. Greene. Jim, how are you?" '• Oh, I'm Sanitary, hoa>*re vou ?" " Fair, thank you." The following despatches will speak for themselves. Old Abe always talks plain English and that's one reason why the peo- ple like him : S.iNiTARY Fair Buildings, 1 -St. Louis, May 19, 1864. / To the President, Waslmigion, D. C: The Officers and Executive Com- mittee of ladies and gentlemen of the Fair greet you warmly and desire to express their earnest wish that your endeavors to suppress the rebellion will soon be crowned with suc- cess. Our Fair has opened splendidly. The Mississippi Valley will do her full sh.-ire to aid the sick and wounded soldiers. God bless you. Alfred Mackay. Sec'y. of the Fair. Washington, May 20, 1804. Alfred Mackay, Sec'y of the Fair : Your despatch received. Thanks for your greeting, and congratulations for the successful opening of your Fair. Our sol- diers are doing well and must and will be done well by. A. Lincoln. A salvo of cheers, greeted the reading of this dispatch. Some how Old Abe gets at the hearts of the people if he don't do every thing in the wisest way. SPECIAL NOTIOES, It is encouragement to labor for good when the mind feels the results : yet if we see none, let us labor still. Mrs. Hale says : "Give to the world The mind and soul and strength — there's no reward Save barren promises or bitter bread ; Yet all the hours we dedicate to God Bear golden fruits." Yes, " golden fruits" that are not like Sodom Apples, but sweet to the taste. There is no joy so pure and perfect as that which springs from a consciousness of good done toothers. B. Z. S. Of course no one will forget the Opera of Martha to-night at the St. Louis Theatre. It is to be ]ierformed by the rery first and best amateur singers of the city, who have been for a long time in training under the leadership of Mr. Balmer, of the firm of Balmer & Weber. Mr. B. has been indefa- tigable in his labors in behalf of the Sanitary Fair, and deserves the very heartiest praise from all. Jno. S. Hayward, Esq.. of Hillsboro, 111., contributed $50 yesterday ; half to the Freed- men's Commisson. and half to the Fair. JcsT Discovered !— An unfailing, pure, ice-cold lemonade well. It was visited yester- day by several thousand persons. See the Carved Work from Switzerland, at the Book Stand. It is rare and curious. Sword !— Hancock still ahead ! Have you east your vote yet ? Now is the time to honor merit. At 8 o'clock last night the vote stood ; Hancock, 107; Butler, 62; Grant, 01; Mc- ClelUin, 48; Bosecrans, 15; Sherman, 12, and scattering. Back numbers of the Countersign always for sale at our office, No. 20 Fair Building. ■The whole issue will be found well worth preserving, not only as a history of the Fair, but also for its original matter. St. Louis papery please copy. We trust that no one visiting either the city or the Fair will fail to go and see the Stereopticon. as without exception it is far more beautiful as a work of art than anything of the kind ever exhibited in this country, showing in wonderful perfection the success of the photographic art. Its views of statua- ry and sculpture embraces more than could be seen in months of travel in the old world. Any one visiting it, will not fail to go again. Open each day at 11 A. M., 3 p. M, and 8 p. M. The Skating Park just west of the Olive street entrance, open and in operation day and evening. Don't omit to visit it, for it chal- lenges the admiration of every one. John P. Camp, Esq., has kindly volunteered to act as general agentfor the Central Finance Committee, and will visit all the depart- ments remote from the office, to give all ne- cessary assistance and information. Let every one who has never been in a real New England Kitchen, visit the one at the Fair. Those who "gottheir bro'tin' up down East" will not fail to go. Donation from California. — Among the donations received yesterday, we notice 20 gold quarter dollars, and 10 gold half dollars, from Frederick McCrellish, senior proprietor of the Alta California, through Mrs. S. E. Weed, of this city. These beautiful little coins "are of pure California gold, and are quite rare on this side of the continent. They are valuable additions to collections of curious coins, and are eagerly sought after as charms forjockets, etc. They may be found at the reedmen'sand Refugees' department. Co.MPLiMENTARY DINNER. — The Chamber of Commerce of this city are invited to dinner at 1 o'clock to-day, in the New England Kitchen. Other guests are expected. Grand Marm "Brown" has issued tickets at the modest sum of $2 each, thinking that arrange- ment will best suit the fastidious tastes of Miss Valley San-Fair, who is to take her "benefit " on this grand occasion. City papers please notice, and then, may -be, your reporters (always 'hungry and thirsty) may get a slice of "riz " cake. "> N. E. Blub Stocking. Bids will be received at the Book Stand for the National Photographic Album, which con- tains the autographs and likenesses of the President, Cabinet and Senators. Those de- sirous of getting a rare and valuable collec- tion will not fail to call and b'd. Mrs. L. Pope, 77 years old — mother of Gen. PopK — has made and presented to the Freed- men's Department a beautiful Afghan. Call and see it." BOOTS AND SHOES. TnE finest and best assortment ot custom made BOOTS AND SHOES in this city, may be found at SAMUEL HALE'S, 36 North Fourth St., opposite Planters' House. THE D^ILY COXJNTERSiaM. 7 ■WAR CLAIMS Adjusted and Collected. OFFICE REMOVED TU Xo. 63 Washington Avenue, Two doors easr of (be Quartermusier's Departm'-ni . JOHN p7caivip Will give his attention to tbe adjustment and collection of^^Vonchers and other claitDS against the United States Government in all its Departments. Accounts and lulls against the Government made out in proper form, and Vouchers therefor obtained anJ the amounts collected. Merchants having vouchers for small amounts, can .save themselves time and trouble by placing them in bis hands for collection. BEFERENCES: Uou. D. Davis, Bloomiugton^ 111.; Hon. Joseph Holt, ■Washington, D. C; Hon. H. Campbell, St. Louis, Mo ; Samuel T. Glover, St. Louis, Mo.; J. R. Shepley, Esq., St. Louis, Mo.; late Commissioners and Sounselors on War Claims for the Department of the West Samuel Kdux. IrwinZ. Smith. KNOX & SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BAJtBys BUILDING, my 21 3f Fifth and OUve Streets. O'FALLON White Lead and Oil Company, Mauafactui er? and Wholesale Di.'aU'rs in LINSEED OIL, CASTOR OIL, WHITE LEAD, ZINC PAINTS, Colors,__Varnishes, Japan, Putty, &c., &c. Slori?, 108 Second street, ST. LOUIS, MO. il3=Casli paid for Flaxseed and Castor Beaii«, GEO. W. BANKER. President. FRANCIS BROWN, Treasurer. CHAS. C. FULLER, Secretary. A. S. W. Goodwin. Rub't Anderson. Peter Bohr. QOODWIN, ANDERSON & CO., Manufacturers of LARD OIL, SOAP ANC CANDLES, FANCY AND TOILET SOAPS, No. 10 Pine street, between Mam and Second. Factory—Poplar, South end of Adolph st., ST. LOUIS. MO. Mutual Life Insurance Company (IF XEW roilK. FP.ED-K S. WIXSTOX. Presii^k.vt. Accumulated cash Assets, Isl Feb., 1864. $10,300,000. THE safest and strongest Lite Insurance Coni|)any in tlie United States. SAM'L COPP. Jn.. ABent, X. W. corner Main and Second Kts. D. A. BIGGERS, Wholesale and Retail a K O C E R , So. no Market street, between Fourth and Fifth, ST. LOUIS, MO. 33"Good5 sent to any part of the city free of charge. COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, AND BRONZES. FRENCH CLOCKS, &c. J. CRAWSHAW & SON, H.WE just received and are now openisg the largest and best stock of Laiup« and Cias Fixtures, Ever seen in tbe United States, which they offer low, For Cash. Only, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, .Vj. 78 North Fifth street, ST. LOUIS. What is Life Insurance ? ris, by its adoption or neglect, a FORTUNE gained yj- lost to a family at a man's death. Tie Mfltiial Benefit Life Insurance Co. Has paid to heirs of deceased members, over S3,200,000, And its accumulation now exceeds ^5,500,000. EDWIN FOWLER. State Agent, No. 34 Olive street. ^. Johnson. F. O. Sawyer. JOHNSON & SAWYER, Wliolesale Dealers in Book, News & Wrapping Paper, X. E. Corner Secund and Locust streets, ST. LOUIS. J^'Papers of any size and weight made to order. , PHOTOGRAGHIC ALBUMS, Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig's Microscopes, Games & Stationery, At No. 9 South Fifth street. BIBLE AND TRACT DEPOSITORY. J. W. McINTYRE. KING, UOAJS^ & CO., lni|iorlerh and Jolilier^; of FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, No. 105 Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. BY J. H. OSGOOD & SON, 147 Congress street, Boston. REGULAR Catalogue sales of Dry Goods, Tuesdavs and Fridays. Received in Public "Warehouse on tjtorage, Wool. Cotton and Merchandise generally, I'ur which Legal Bond Warehouse receipts will be given by J. H. OSGOOD, Public Warehouseman. Liberal cash advances made on consignments. The Be!^t is the Cheapest. G. W. CURTISS & CO., Ko. 7 South I'^ifth street, KEEP the best Coal Oil and Lamps, the best crystal Hint Chimneys, Globes, Wicks. &c. Agents for risk's Cooking Lamp, for family use. Gives entire sat- isfactimi. No family should be without ona. All kinds Oual Oil and Lamp goods sold wholesale and retail. LEWIS & GROSHON, 53 North Fourth street, KEEP the latest styles of Gentlemen's Dress Hats, Felt Hats of every description tor Men and Buys; Cloth Hats, Military Hats, Straw Hats, Cloth Caps, Fancy Caps for Children, elegantly trimmed} Leghorn and Straw Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children; Traveling Bags. Umbrellas, &;c., and Furs in their season. WESTERN AliRR'l'LTURAL MPOT .•\NP SEEP STORE. Blunden, Koenig & Co., No. 56 North Second street, ST. LOUIS. MO. A FULL assortment of Farm Implements and Farm LjL and Garden Seeds constantly on hand. Outley's Palace of Art, Xo. 39 Fourth Btreet, opposite the Planters' House. J J. OUTLET, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, oflers his services to all persons desiring a perfect picture of any kind, from the smallest locket to life size. Unusual inducements are offered to tbope wishing portraits of themselves or of deceased friends, requiring only a small picture of them, no matter bow faded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine the portraits on exhibition. M. S. HOLMES, NO. 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every de-:cription ot PAPER, BY THE REAM OR CASE. ilj" 100 ton of Rags wanted for cash.,=g3i THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Insurance Company OF HARTFORD. ACCUMULATED Capital, over $6,000 000. Nnmber of Policies issued in 1863, 6,686 ! Fifty per cent, divi- dends declared annually. One-halt of premiums re- ceived la notes, which notes are cancelled bv dividendK, HENRY STAGG, Agent, No. 40 Third street, corner Pine. WILLIAM H. GRAY & CO., Wholesale and Retail a R O C K H S , Nos. 75 & 77 South Second street, opposite Pacific Railroad Depot. Ordc-rs from the country promptly attended to. CHAUNCEY L FILLET, 108 .Wain street, 108 Direct Importer and Dealer in CHINA, GUSS & ODEESSf ARE, H AS, according to returns made by all the Queens- ware Dealers, the hu;_'cst .■iiock in the city. CHAUNCEY I. PILLEY Has. according to returns made under oath by all the Queensware Dealers, more stock than any two houses on Main t^tre^t. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has, acturding to returns made under oath ae above, over two hundred per cent, more stock than any Queens- w;ire huust* on Main -^irpft. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keeps a full assortment of staple 3nd fancy China- Glass. Queensware. Coal Oil Lamps, Looking Glasses, BrittanniaWare, SilverTlated Ware, Trays, Waiters, Ta- ble Cutlery, Wat'T Coolers. Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is the only direct importer in the city, of Leddle Elliots & Sons* Whit'- Granite and Parian Wares and Decorated Vanes and Toilet Wares, which received the great prize medals at the World's Fairs in London, Paris and New York, a variety of which thev have liberally donated to the M. V. S. Fair. CHAUNCEY I, FILLEY Will receive monthly new goods direct from mannfac- 8 THE D^ILY COXJIN^TERSIGI^. D. A. Winter. H. Wicko. D. A. WINTER & CO., CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, N"u. '204 Franklin avenue, bel. Elevenib and Twelfth sts., ST. Lours, MO. Repairiuj: warranted and accurately esecutr-d. SEWENC MACHirJE CO. SALES ROOMS, No. 124 North Fourth street, (Verjudah Row.) ST. LOUIS, MO. nil I FIIEY, 113 N. FOURTH ST.. COR. VINE, ST, LOUIS> ffi o ^ TS &tC cS .. d 6 +3 O o ,i:5 § 6 O Q C3 c3 ^ »• 1— 1 o •i-i A. SUMNER, AGENT FOR WHEELER & WILSON'S ,,#«^®%, SEWING MACHINES, No. 80 North Fifth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION LINE. Union TraisportatM & Iiisiirance Co. FAST FREIGHT LINE EAST AND WE.ST, VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RATES GUARANTEED. N. STEVENS, Agent, N'... 49 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. NEW VORR PIKi: AND MARISK INSURANCE AGENCY. BEHX^L P 'J' H E LIST: Columbia Fire Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. Office — No. 161 Broadway. Cash Capital, $6C0,00O; Surplus, Sfi8,493; Assets, $"68,493. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furni- ture, Rents, Vessels in port and their Cargoes, and other insurable 1)1 operty,again.st loss or damage by tire. The insured receive 7S per cent, of net profits without incurring any liability. TlMOTnv G. CnURCniLL, Pres't. EDWARD KEMEYS, Sec. Home Insurance Company, CONN, $70,39G 12 J Assets, OF NEW HAVEN Cash Capital, $600,000; Surplu $570,396 12. INSURES Buildings. Merchandise, Household Furifi- ture, Rents, Leases, and other insurable property, against loss or damage by fire. Dealers receive 75 per cent of net profits, on Dwellings and Merchandise risks CH.'VS WILSON, Sec. D. R SATTERLEE, Prcs't. SAM'L L. TALCOTT, (icn'lAg't and Adjuster. Lamar Fire Insurance Company OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Capital, all paid up in cash, $300,' 00 ; Surplus, Janu.iry I, 1864, $89,376 27; Assets, S389 376 27. ISAAC R. St. JOHN, Sec. BPW'D ANTHONY, Prest. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE. Metropolitan Insurance Comp'y, lOS Broadway, New York. Cash Capital, $300,000; Assets, Jan. 1, 1864, $642 641 86. Scrip dividend declared Jan. 12, 1864, 36 per cent. THIS Company insures, at customary rates of pre- mium, against loss or damage by fire ; also, against all marine and land navigation, and war risks on capgo or freight. The assured receive 75 per cent, of the net profits, without iucurring any liability, or in lien there- of, at their ostion, a liberal discount upon the premium JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, Pres-t. ROE'T M. 0. GRAHAM. Vice Pres't EDW'D A. STANSli0RY.2i Vice Pres't. JOHN C. GOODRIDGE, Socretary. WESTERN BASCOM, General Agent. STOrK COMPANY— INCORPORATED 182] . Manhattan Fire Insurance Co., NEW YORK. Cash Capital, $500,000; Surplus, $272,916 33; Assets, $772,916 33. WM. PITT PALMER, President, ANDREW J. SMITH, Secretary. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise and other property, against loss or damage by fir.', at rates as low as oth- er first class companies. Particular attention given to the insurance of Farm property, isolated Dwellings and their Furniture, for one, three or five years. Losses adjusted and promptly paid in cash at this Agency. Phoenix Insurance Company, BROOKLYN, N. Y, Offices— No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 139 Broadway, New York. Cash Capital. $500 000; Surplus. March 1, 1864 $222- 219 20; Assets, $722,219 20. FrsURANCB against loss by fire. Marine, Lake, Canal and Inland transportation. STEPHEN CROWEI.L, President, EDGAR W. CltOWELL Vice Pres't. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. SAFEST AND CHEAPEST SYSTEM OP INSURANCE. Washington Insurance Comp'y, 172 Broadivay, (cor. Maiden Lane,) N. Y. Cash Capital, $400,000; Assets, Feb. 1, 1864, $582 000. Scrip dividend, 1861, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1862, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863, 60 per cent. THE Policies entitled to piirttcipatc. receive 75 per cent, of net profits. Insures BuiMiugs, Merchan- dise. Furniture, Rents, Leases, against loss or damage by fire, .and marine risks on Likes rivers and canals. 3B0. C, SATTERLKK. President, IIBNRY WES'.'ON Vice President. WM. K LOTIIROP, Secretary, WM. A. SCOTT, Ass't Sec'y. Nortti Missouri Railroad. 3^^^ 0^z ^^^ ^^^w ^^^^ ^jiC»J^?^ In connection .rith Hannibal and St. Jo. Railroad. The Shortest and Quickest Route to QUINCY, KEOKUK, ST. JOSEPH, ATCHISON, "WESTON, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA CITY, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections Are made with the Haunihal and St Joe Railroad, Chicago, Builioston and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads of luwa. On and after Sunday, November 15th. 1863, St. Joseph Express leaves St. Louis at 1:16 a. M. Mail and Accommodation Train at 3:30 p. m. Fare as Low as by any other Route. Commodious Passen^^Pr Roonis have been fitted up at the Pepot, curntT of NoiLh Market street and Levee, with every arrangement for the comfort of passengers. No. 40 House, TICKETS FOR SALE AT Under Planters' AND FOOT OF NORTH MARKET STREET, Where reliable infonnation can be obtained relative to routes in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. 23= Be certain that your ticket reads i " Via North Missouri Railroad." I. n. STURGEON, Superintendent. J. H. CONCANNON, General Ticket Agent. P A-CIFIC K.-A.IIjS,0-A.aZ>. |N and after Monday, December 7th, 1863, trains will "eave St. Louis, as followa : Mail Train— Daily at 8:20 a. m., stopping at all stations andrunning through to Knobnohter, (208 miles.) Franklin Accommodation — Daily except Sunday, at 5:00 p. M. Stages — Leave Dresden for Warrensburfi, Lexington, Pleasant nill, Independence and Kansas City, daily on arrival of train. Leave Sedalia for Springfield. Bolivar and Wart^aw, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings on arrival of train; Leave Tipton every evening for Boonville. Passengers taking the 8:20 a. m. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily for RoUa and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning for Springfield. Through tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- pot, corner (if Seventh and Poplar streets, or at the Company'.-* Through Ticket Ofiice No. 42 Fourth street, under the Planters' tlouse. T. McKISSOCK, Sup't. B. W WALLACE, General Ticket Agent. St. Louis and Iron Mountain Eailroad. Spring Arrangement, commencing April 4, 1864. PASSENGER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, daily, as follows : For Pilot Rnob^ Potosi, and all stations, at. ..6:15 A. M, For Desoto ftt 6;15 a. m. and 4 p. m. Ectnrning— Will leave Pilot Knob at 3:00 P. M, Potosi at. 3:50 p. m, DeSoto at 6:00 a. m. and 5:35 p. m. Carondelet Accommodation Trains, For Carondelet at 6:15, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11,30, a. m ; 2:00 4:00 6:25. 7:30 9:00 and 11:30 r. m. For Dockt at 6:16, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30^ a. m., 2:00 and 4:00 p. M. For JeflTerson Barracks and Quarantine at 6:15, 11:30 a. M., and 4:00 p. M. Returning— Will leave Quarantine at 7.30 A. M.; 1:00 and 7:50 p. m. JeflTerson Barracks at 7:40 a. m ; 1:05 and 7:55 p. m. Docks at 7:54, 9;15, 10.33, a. m.; 1;I7, 3:07, 5:46 p. M. Carondelet at 5:30 6:20. 8:00, 9:20, 10:40, A. M.; 1:20, 3:10, 5:48, 7:00,8:10, 10:45 p. m. S D. BARLOW, Pres't & Sup't. ISIDOH BDSn, General Agent. Wkt ^mntmi^vi. PUBUSHED BY THE LADIES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOK THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITABY FAIR. 'POSSXJNT QUIA FOSSK ■VIDENXUR.' No. 5. St. Louis, ISlay 23, 1864. I^rice lO Cents. Makagebb. (Mrs. E. W. CLARK, I Mrs. S. a. RANLE'IT. Editor, ANNA C. BRACKETT. Monday, May 93, 1864. THE fj^t:r. Reduood Kates of Admission, on and aftcT Friday Morning, May iiOth.. ADMISSION 60 cts. CnlLDRKN Half Price. Doors open at eleven o'clock, A. M. Ssbibition and sales close promptly at ten o'clock, p. M. MAJ. GBN. KOSBCRANS, PraaideDt, Head Quarters op the Finance Committee Or THE Miss. Val. San. Fair. Fair building, St. Louis, Mny 19. 1864, To the Cashiers of the Several Departments : The "Central Finance Committee" have in the Building a Fire and Burglar Proof Safe, and are prepared to receive your de- posits of money daily, at any hour of the day up to ten (10) o'cloclc, P. M. 8. W. Ely, Esq., Assistant Secretary, will receipt for the same, and your Department will be duly credited. Very respectfully, ^ Your ob't servant, E. W. Fox, Chairman Cen. Fin. Com. M. J. LipPMAN, Sec'y. (J^°The Finance Committee have their Head Quarters near the Floral Departmert. THE FAIR. CONTECTIOKARY. The Confectionary table is in the North wing of the building, not far beyond the Flo- ral department. It needs no de.iorations, for its pyramids and towers adorn it sufBcienlly. These large pyramids are to be raffled for. One — very eluborate — on the east side of the table, deserves a special notice. It is in the form of a huge palace, and elegantly finished. Around it stand sugar guardians ot colossal stature, who might be said to form a suite of attendants. It is from the manufactory of Blanke & Co., 1G8 Market.street. Flags wave from its summit, and its towers look proudly down. A temple pyramid on the other side, "bears the name of the architect at base: L. Pezolt; and in point of architectiir.-il skill, may well challenge even Mr. Rumbold'g at- tention. The couiiler is freighted also with several large and elaborately ornamented cakes, which are also to be rafiled oiT. As for tolling our readers of the different temptations at this counter, it is of no use for us to attempt any such thing ; and as we hate to fail in any- thing we attempt, wo consider it safer not to try. The most refined tastes m.^.y be suited French candies and bonbons and chocolate fancies. It oughthardly to bo a recommenda- tion to say French candies. We almost wish the table had been stocked entirely with Amer- ican manufacture. It has been furnished by nearly all the city confectioners, and does them great credit. FANCY GOODS. On the west side of the sonth wing, will be found the wall table of the Fancy Goods de- partment. One scarcely knows where to be- gin here, or having begun, where to stop. Sofa pillows and afghans without number, of every variety and style — several elegant af- ghans which are to be raffled. This heavy worsted work suffers a disadvantage in that it is to be sold while the weather is so warm that it is absolutely uncomfortable to touch it. But just fancy a cool Fall day, and yourself riding in a buggy behind a fast horse on Washington aveno'j. and one of those 'afghans snugly tuckeii about your knees and over and around the one who shall sit beside you. That ia the way to look at them ; and if you do, you will be sure at least to take a chance, if not to pur- chase one outright. Eat an ice cream, drink soda from the New Bedford fountain, then sit down before the counter and fan yourself, and imagine the effect of that drivj. There is also an elegantly embroidered piano-cover, which it is well worth your while to examine. Its worth is $100. Moss-work, and fans, and work-baskets help to fill the alloited space; and over the heads of the attendants the words ' U. S. Grant," and " Union," are displayed. We have only one fault to find, and that is, that the decorations are rather too numerous and highly colored to display the goods to the best advantage. Plainer walls and ceiling would set otf the bright colors beneath, while now the eye is tired,, and longs for a colorless background. The "hints to yonng men," which may be found at the other table of this same department, may prove invaluable. fflsniNO POND. And now tor the Fishing Pond. It is sur- rounded by a strong fence to keep out those who might inadvertently fall in and wet their feet in the excitement of fis'ii ig. The fact is, wo have not been able to get very near it. In the first place, there is the path around, then the fence, and then generally two tieis of people— so wo sea only the linos, and the red, blue and white ribbons which ornament them, as the polos are moved to deceive and allure the fish. At the proper times, they donoteven need a bait, but snap eagerly at the bare hook. To be sure, blue fish do the same; but then one has to haul in with a taut lino, or they will leap from the hook before one can take them oft'. These fish are better behaved ; and after they are once on, they "si-ay put," till you choose to take them. The species are va- rious — Flounders, Haul-about, Her-rings, and ot^cr rings, &c., &c. Sometimes, we under- stand, rare and curious varieties are secured, and occasionally a gold or silver fish. The pond seems to be supplied by an intermittent spring, for sometimes the water entirely dis- appears, and of course fishing has to be sus- pended for a while ; but after a period it re- turns again, bringing an abundance of fresh fish. We are assured, however, iVom head- quarters, that it has no connection, under- ground or otherwise, with the guy-sirs of Ice- land. ffREBDMEN AND REFUaEKS. What would St. Louis have thought, three years ago, if, in a mrgic mirror, the scene of to day had been disclosed, and she had seen such a department as this in the future Pair ? Frcedmen ! These are the men who may bo seen at lienton Barracks ; and when we ask them how they like the army service, they ask in return, "What do the people say of us? Do they thir.k we are doing well for our- selves?" We remembered the brave charge at Fort Wagner, where Colonel Shaw fell, surrounded by his devoted followers, and said, "Nobly ; we Ave proud of you." And the Refugees ! Have we not seen them, too? Do we not know how, hunted down like wild beasts, they seek the shelter of the woods and mountains till they come under the shelter of the flag which is to them safety, and friends, and hope, and light in their diirkness? The names of "Port Hudson," and "Free Ar- kansas," ornament the wall.s. They have three departments — one being devoted en- tirely to the Freedtnen, one to the Refugees, and the middle one to both. The tables show a great variety, as might be expected. The old " Bay State" sent to the Freedmen two boxes of valuables from Walertown and Boston, and New Haven sent also a generous contri- • bution. This is the first of the Sanitary Fairs which has had such a department, as our read- ers will have noticed in the beautiful poem which we have already given tlicm from a Massachusetts woman. There are some ele- gantarticles, worked by colored people : a fine piiino stool— and tlic department have now a piano to match — sent from Rochester, N. Y. o, THE D_A.ILY COU:^^TERSIG]Sr. Who wants a piano ? Because, if yoit do, you may as well buy it here as anywhere else, and so help those who, with God's help,'are striving to help themselves. There is also a fine trans- parency of Colonel Colt, tho ever famous re- volver-colonel. A beautiful 'basket of wax flowers from Springfield, Illinois, also calls for a notice. But the cause pleads more loudly than all. Help those who are trying to help themselves. You stand on the top round of the ladder. Lend those below you a helping hand. You sit at ease and read your morning paper's account of the guerrilla ruffians. Give of your abundance to those who have suffered at their hands and lost their all. See for yourselves what slavery has done for them, both white and black, and pledge yourselves never to rest till it is swept from our whole land. PUT IT THROUOH. " Don't telegraph home to us, hut put it through." — President Lincoln to Jim Lane. Come, Freemen of the land, Come, meet the last demand, Here's a piece of work in hand. Put it through ! Here's a log across the way. We have stumbled on all day. Here's a ploughshare in the clay, Put it through ! Here's a country that's half free. And it waits for you and me To say what its fate shall be. Put it through ! While one traitor thought remains, While one spot its banner stains, One link of all its chains, Put it through ! Hear our brothers in the field. Steel your sworOs as theirs are steeled, Learn to wield the arms they wield, Put it through ! Lock the shop and look the store, And chalk this upon the door, - " We've enlisted for the war. " Put it through ! For the birthright yet unsold. For the History yet untold. For the Future not unrolled, — Put it through ! Lest our children point with shame On the fathers' dastard fame. Who gave up a nation's name. Put it through ! Father Abram ! no man thrives Till with all his team he drives ! Take our twenty million lives, — Put it through ! 'Tis to thee the trust is given, 'Tis by thee the bolt is driven, — By the very God of Heaven, Put it through! js, e. h. The Fair is A grand success. The receipts up to Friday night, from sales of tickets and articles at the Fair were upwards of $30,000. THE BRAHMIN FEEFI, IN AMERIC.4, TO His Brother Fo-Furn. in Calcutta. I came among these vast tribes of Yankees, 0, Fo-Fum, as thou knowest, to instruct them in the truths of oar sacred faith. I came un- terrified, though I had heard that they had as many religions as a centipede has legs, and that the various religionists agree only in hating one another, and cursing the name and power of Brahma. More than a year have I been in the land, and it is now time to give you my impressions and experiences. It is a most amusing people. They tell me they are not idolaters, yet they have more idols than the Egyptians. I am informed that they invent a new saint or deity every day of the year. Yesterday, it was a pretty dancer, to-morrow it will be a singer or fiddler, and next week it will bS some new and monstrous potato. You will hardly believe it, but for lack of sufficient idols to accommodate the whole people, they have, for years, been im- porting our best breeds of fowls ; and also, I grieve to add, those horrid, ostrich-legged and tailless monsters from Shanghae, that eat a bushel of corn at a mouthful. What can we expect from a people that delight in and worship such animals ? And yet the vanity of these people ! Dos'i thou believe it, 0, Fo- Fum, instead of my converting them, the}- have tried to convert me, a holy Brahmin, that have faithfully performed all the duties of the Braohmacari ; that have lived for years on roots and fruits ; that have swung for a week with an iron hook in mj- back ; that have stood on my head till I knew not which end I stood on ! These people do not believe in any such atonements. When I courteous- ly invite them to try a few swings by way of experiment, they reply that they believe in atoning for their sins by abusing other men behind their backs for theirs ; and not by sticking spiritual or material hooks into their own bodies. What little pity they have, comes in spasms, just as the cholera does in India after eating half a peck of cucumbers. I learn that this usually happens just after some man, or more especially some woman, makes a sad mistep in morals ; then the whole communi- ty agree to pounce upon the unhappy culprit, as a shoal of porpoises attack and devour a wounded lady, or gentleman of their race. I suppose this must be the requirement of the founder of their religion, though I confess I cannot find it in their Christian books. Yet it is these persons who offer prayers for me in their pagodas and temples ; yea, they have given me a large pile of Bibles to dis- tribute among my friends at home, and have already forwarded to Mrs. Fee-Fi and the children, enough Tracts to build a magnifi- cent funeral pyre, in case I should be so un- lucky as to die in this solitary land.. To my arguments they are deaf, and thej' answer my appeals only by scoffing. Oh ! Fo-Fum, for- give my bitterness of speech, for J am sorelj' vexed, and must let myself out, or explode in- stanter. As the flower blossoms fall upon the granite rock, so have my persuasive words fallen upon the hearts of these Yankees. As the fruit of the pomegranate and peach fall into the waters of the Ganges, and speedily float away into the waste ocean ; or sink into i the soft mud forever out of sight ; so fall the ripe words of our holy books, into tho muddy jand sappy minds of this fickle and rapid peo- ple. They only laugh at my bad English; I and the boys follow me in the streets, and pelt . me with mud and stones. One ray of light has darted along my path, I one breeze of hope has fanned my discour- I aged heart, one plaster only of encouraging balm has been clapped upon my wounded I spirits. One real and thorough convert only have I made. My own faithful servant and ! body-guard, Patrick O'Toole, was immedi- I ately converted, on my promising him in- crease of wages, in proportion to the increase of faith. For two rupees he gave up swear- ing by St. Patrick, and now swears altogether by the Holy Bull! He insists that it requires no change of sentiment, as his were alwaj's behind the Hoh' Bull, which if true, is a wonderful instance of intuitive faith. For a suit of clothes, he jumped three feet into the. air, and cried out, ''Bully for Brahma!" which he informs me is the English for "bless- ed and Holy Brahma." Hearing this, in my fulness of joy, I embraced him, and exclaim- ed, "0! Patrick, say bully for Brahma and ■Vishnu and Siva, and you shall have a silver watch." "I'll do it bedad," replied Patrick, "and if your reverence will give me & gold one, I'll bully the whole three millions of your Gods." O ! Fo-Fum, conceive my joy I He is the first fruits of my labors ; and I now feel that I have cast a great harpoon into the hide of the great crocodile, so that I have hopes of bagging the whole in the course of time. I was just going to write you about the in- satiable avarice of the Yankees, when circum- stances occurred which make me doubt my own senses. When I have been in the great cities, and stood at the corners, and seen hosts of men rushing to all points as if driven by four counter typhoons, I have often asked whither these people, and why such haste? Were their friends all just dj'ing of cholera? And the answer has ever been, they have gone to seek for monej-. The pedestrians rush along the streets in search of gold much faster than their broken down horses. The jpace of footmen in New York and Boston is six English miles per hour, while that of the omnibusses is only three or four. With these facts before me. you will not marvel, that I was about to add to the cata- logue of the follies of this people, the crime of a covetousness which knows no limit or abatement. But lo ! I have found my mis- take — do not all men have virtues which con- tradict, if they do not annihilate their vices? Know, then, that the Americans have for years, like the Europeans of China, been war- ring against vast hordes of rebels in the ne- gro country. They have dreadful battles, aT) BRONZES. FRENCH CLOCKS, &c. J. CRAWSHAW & SON, HAVE jut:l received and are now opening the largest and best stock of Iiainp« and Ga« Fixtures^ Kvf-r sien in the United States, which they offer low, For Cash Only, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, No. 78 Noilh Fifth strpfl. ST. LOUIS. A S. W Ooo.lwHi Kob't Anderson Peter Belir. GOODWIN, ANDEKSON & CO., Manufacturers of LARD OIL, SOAP AND CANDLES, FANCY AND TOILET SOAPS, No. 10 Pine street, between Main and Second. Factory— Poplar, South end of Adolph st.. ST. LOUIS, MO. What is Life Insurance ? IT in, hy its ndopl.ion or neplect. a F(.>RTUNE gained or lost to a family at a man's death. Tlie Iiitiial Benefit Life Insurance Co. Has paid to heirs of deceased membera, over S3,200,000, And its accumulation now exceeds ^5,500,000. EDWIN FOWLER, State Agent, No. 34 Olive street. A. Johnson. F. O. Sawyei . JOHNSON & SAWYER, Wholesale D-.-al'^rs lo Book, News & Wrapping Paper, N. E. corner Second and Locust streets, ST. LOUIS. Jl3^I*'^pers of any size and weight made to order. PHOTOGRAGHIC ALBUMS, Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig's Microscopes, Games & Stationery, At No. 9 South Fifth street. BEBLE AND TKACT DEPOSITOR A\ J. W. McINTYRB. WESTERN iUlRICULTURAl DEPOT AND SEED STORE. Blunden, Koenig & Co., No. 66 North Second street, ST. LOUIS, MO. A FULL assortment ot Farm Implements andFarm ri and Garden Seeds constantly on hand. Outley's Palace of Art, No. 39 Fourth street, opposite the Planters' House, J J. OUTLPiY, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, oflfers his services to all persons desiring a perfect picture oj any kind, from the smallest locket to life size. Unusual inducements are offered to those wishing portraits of themselves or of deceased friends, requiring only a Bmall picture of them, no matter how faded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine the portraits on exhibition. M. S. HOLMES, NO. 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every description of PAPER, BY THE REAM OR CASE. jl3= 100 ton of Rag5 wanted for cash.=£E THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Insurance Company OF nAKTFOKD. ACCDMULATED Capital, over $6,000,000. Number ot Policies Issued iu 1863, 5,685 f Fifty per cent, divi- dends declared annually. One-half of premiums re- ceived iu notes, which notes are cancelled by dividends. HF.NRT STAGS, Agent, No. 40 Third street,^corner Pine. Mutual Life Lisurance Company UF NF,W YORK. FRED'K S. WINSTON, President. Accumulateilcash Assets, 1st Feb.. 1864, $10,300,000. TlIK safest and strongest Life Insurance Conijianv in the United states. SAM'L COPP, Jr., Asent, N. W. corner Main and Second sts KINO, T>O.AJS[ & CO., Importers and Jobbers of FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, No. 106 M^iin Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. .A. XT O T l O PO- S . BY J. H. OSGOOD & SON, 147 Congress street, Boston. REGULAR Catalogue sales of Dry Goods, Tuesdays and Fridays. Received in Public Warehouse on storage. Wool. Cotton and Merchandise generally, for which Legal Bond Warehouse receipts will be given by J. H. OSGOOD. Public Warehouseman Liberal cash advances made on consignments. The Best is the Cheapest G. W. CITRTIS3 & CO.. No. 7 South Fifth street, KKEP the best Coal Oil and Lamps, the best cryeta! flint Chimneys. Globes, Wicks, &c. Agents for Fisk's Cooking Lamp, for family use. Gives entire sat- isfaction. No family should be without ona. All kinds Coal Oil and Lamp goods sold wholesale and retail. LEWIS & GROSHON, 58 North Fourth street, KEEP the latest styles of Gentlemen's Dress Hats, Felt Tlats uf every description for Men and Boys ; Cloth Hats, Military Hats, Straw Hats, Cloth Caps, Fancy Caps for Children, elegantly trimmed; Leghorn and Straw Hats for Ladies. Misses and Children; Travelin? Baas, Unihrellas, &c., and Furs in their season. "WILLIAM H. GRAY & CO.. Wholesale and Retail a R O C E K s , Nos. 75 &. 77 South Second street, opposite Pacific Railroad Depot. Orders from the country promptly attended to. CHAUNCEY L FILLEY, lOS inain street, 108 Direct Importer and Dealer in CHINA, GLASS & PEKSf ARE, H AS, according to returns made by ail the Queens- ware Dealers, the largest stock in the city. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has. according; to n-turns made under oath hy all the Queensware Dealers, more stock than any two houses on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Has, acLordiiig to return.- made under oath a£ above, over two hundred per cent, more stock than any Queens- ware house on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keeps a full assortment of staple and fancy China- Glass, Queensware, Coal Oil Lamps, Luukin^ Glasses, BrittanniaWare. Silver'PIated Ware, Trays. AVaiters. Ta- ble Cutlery. Water Coolers. Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is the only direct importer in the city, of Lcddle Elliot.^ & Sons' White Granite and Parian Wares and Decorated Vases and Toilet Wares, which received the great prize medals at the World's Fairs in London. Paris and Kew York, a variety of which they have liberally donated to the M. V. S. Fair. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Will receive monthly new guodfi direct from manufac- tures. 8 THE D^ILY COXJIsrTERSIGN. D. A. Winter. H. wicke. D. A. WINTEE & CO , CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, Ho 204 Franklin i%xnae, bet. Klevenlh and TwelfUi sts., ST. tOUIS, MO. Kepairing warranted and accurately executed. SEWtMC gW&CHIHE CO. SALES ROOMS. No. 124 North Fourth street, (Verandah Row.) ST. LOUIS, MO. MillM I FIIE 113 N. r-OURTH ST , COR. VIUS, ST. LOUJS. M q; OS (& O o 1—1 r Q rl bii 83 ~ ^ (^ ■P-) ■y:i o j-t^ § ^ 6 ?3 e3 e3 •r> »-^ ^. North Missouri Railroad. In connection with Hannibal and St. Jo. Railroad. The Shortest and duickest Route to QUINCY, KEOKUK, 8T. JOSEPH, ATCHISON, WESTON, LEAVENWOKTH, KANSAS CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, O.MAHA, NEBRASKA CITY, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections Are made with the Hannibal and St Joe Railroad, Chicago, Burlington and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads of Iowa. On and after Sunday, November 16th, 1863, St. Joseph Express leaves St. Louis at 1:16 a. m Mail and Accommodation Train at 3:30 p. M Fare as Low as by any other Koute. Commodiou.- Passenger Rooms have hern fitted up at the Depot, corner of North Maiket street and Levee, with every arrangement for the comfort of passengers. TICKETS FOR SALB AT No. 40 Under Planters' House, AND FOOT OP NORTH MARKET STREET, Where reliable information can be obtained relative to routes in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraalia, 53= Bo certain that your ticket reads : "ViaKorth Missouri Railroad." I. H. STURGEON, Superintendent. J. H. CONCANKON, General Ticket Agent. ^ ^^^ Cash Capital. $300,000; Assets. Jan. 1, 1864. $612 541 85 Scrip dividend declared Jan. 12, 1864, 35 per cent. THIS Company insures, at customary rates of pre- nuura, against loss or damage by tire ; also, against all marine and land navigation, ami war risks on cargo or freight. The assured receive 75 per cent, of the net profits, without incurring aui- liability, or in lieu ihere- of at their ostion. a lib* ral di.-count upon the premium. JAMES LOIllMER GRAHAM. Pres't. ROB'T M. C. ail.illAM Vice Pres't. EDW'D A. STANSUURV 2il Vice Pres't. JOHN C. GOODlllDGE, Secretary. WESTERN BASC04I, General Agent. STOCK COMPAJTT — INCORPORATED 1821 . Manhattan Fire Insurance Co., NEW YORK. Cash Capiral. $500 000; Surplus, $272 915 33; Assets, $772,916 33. WM. PITT PALMES, President. ANDREW J. SMITU, Secretary. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise and oiher property, against loss or damage by fir.-, at rates as low as oth- er first class companies. Particular attention given to the insurance of Farm property, isolated Dwellings and their Furniture, for one, three or five years. Losses adjusted and promptly paid in cash at this Agency. 1= A^cirio E..A.iijis,OA.rj. ON and alter Monday, December Ith, 1863, trains will leave St. Louis, as follows : Mail Train— Daily at 8:20 a. m., stopping «t all stations andrunning through to Koobnoster, (208 miles.) Franklin Acconimodaiion— Dally except Sunday, at 6:00 p. M. Stages— Leave Dresden for Warrensburg, Lexington, Pleasant Hill. Independence and Kansas City, dailv on arrival of train. Leave Sedalia lor Springfield, Bolivar and Warsaw, on Tuesday, Tlmrsday and Saturday evenings on arrival of train; Leave Tipton every evening for Boonville. Passengers taking the 8:20 a. m. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily for Rolla and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning for Springfield. Through tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- pot corner of S.-venlh ..iid Poplar streets, or at the Company's Through Ticket Office No. 42 Fourth street, under the Planters' House. T. McKISSOCK., Sup't. E. W WALLACE, General Ticket Agent. SEWING MACHINES, No. 80 North Fifth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION_EINE. Uaioii TraMiorlalM & Imraace Co. FAST FREIi,irr LINE EAST AND WEST VIA THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RATES GUARANTEED. N. STEVENS, Agent, No. 49 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. Phoenix Insurance Company, BROOKLTN, N. T. Ofaces— No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 139 Broadway, New York. Cash Capital, S600 000; Surplus March 1, 1861, }222, 219 20; Assets, $722.2:9 20. INSURANCE against loss by fire. Marine, Lake, Canal and Inland transportation. STEPHEN CROWKLL, President. EDGAR W CROiVELL Vice Pres't PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. SAFEST AND OHBAPKHT SlfSTKM OF IN8DRANCK. Washington Insurance Comp'y, 17:1 Broadway, (cor. .'vlaiden L:^up ) N. Y. Cash Capital, *t00 000; Assets, Feb. 1, 1864, $682 000. Scrip dividend, 1861, OOp'r cent ; Brrip dividend, 1862 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863 60 per cent. rinilK Policies entitled to participate, receive 75 per JL cent, of net profits. Insures BuiMings, Men han- dise. Furniture, Rents. Leases, against loss or damage by ttre, and marine risks on lakes rivers and canals. 5K0. C. SATTERl.EE, President. HENIIY WP.STON Vice President. WM. K. LOTH ROP, Secretary, WM. A. SCOTT, Aas't Sec'y. St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. Spring Arrangement, commencing April 4, 1864. PASSE.N'GER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, daily, as follows: , „ ,. For Pilot Knob, Potosi, and all stations, at...6:l.'> a. u. For Desoto at 6:15 a. m. and 4 P. M. Returning— Will leave Pilot Knob at 3:00 P. M. Potosi at ^-^ ^- "• UtSoto st.'.'.Z'.!'.'.'..'. 6:00 A. M. and 6:35 P. U. Carondelet Accommodation Trains. For Oarondelet at 6:15. 7:10. 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A. )M ; 2 00 4 00 6:23 7:30 9:00 and 11:30 p. M. For Docksat 6:16, 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A. M,, 2:00 and For JitlVrson Barracks and Quarantine at 0:16, 11:30 a, m., and 4:00 p. m. Returning— Will leave Quarantinoat7:30A. M.; 1:00 and 7:50 p. M. Jiff.rson Barracks at 7:40 A. M ; 1:06 and 7:65 p. M. Docks at 7:54, 9:15 10:33, A. M.; 1:17, 3:07. 6:45 P.M. Carondelet at 5:30 6:20 8:00 9:20, 10:40, A. M.; 1:20, 3:10, 6:48, 7:00, 8:10, 10:46 P. M. S D. BARLOW, Pres't & Sup't. ISIDOR BUSH, General Agent. PUBLISHED BY THE LADIES' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SANITARY FAIR. 'POSSXJNT QUIA. POSSK "VIDENTUR.- N"o. 6. St. TuovLis, 'May 24, 1864. 3?rice 10 Cents. Majtaoers (Mrs. E. W. CLARK, \Mrs. S. a. RANLETT. Editor, ANNA C. BRACKETT. Titesday, May 34, 1864. THE Fj^X:R. Ileduced Rates of" Adinissioni, on and aftei" Friday Morning, May 30th. ADMISSION .' 60 cts. CfilLDREN Half Pi ice. Doors open at eleven o'clock, a.m. Exhibition and s.iles close promptly at ten o'clock, p. M. MAJ GBN. ROSECRANS. President. he.id quarteks of the finance committee Of the Miss. Val. San. Pair. Fair Building, St. Louis, May 19, 1864. To the Cas/iie7-s of ihe Several Departments : The "Centrsil Finance Committee" have in the Building a Fire and Burglar Proof Safe, and are prepared to receive your de- posits of money daily, at any hour of the day up to ten (10) o'clock, P. M. S. W. Ely, Esq., Assistant Secretary, will receipt for the same, and your Department will be duly credited. Very respectfully. Your ob't servant, E. W. Pox, Chairman Cen. Fin. Corn. M. J. Lippman, Sec'y. (^p°The Finance Committee have their Head Quarters near the Floral Department. THE FAIR. It was a proper answer to the man who asked why any one should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that only a blind man should ask ; for the sight of anything beauti- ful so attracts the sight of all, that it is in the power of no man not to be delighted with it. Now, we profess that the soul of man requires something higlier and better than the mere gratification of his physical appetites and pas- sions. The human soul ia glad to find relief from the uncouth objects that lie along the dusty thoroughfare of every-day life, and seeks repose and pleasure in symmetry and proportion, in comeliness of shape, and har- mony of blended colors. Even old Socrates, " that model of all duty, Owned to a penchant, though discreet, for beauty." Beauty may be found everywhere about the Fair Buildings ; in the brilliant and ka- leidoscopic combinations of the general deco rations ; in the grand magnificence of the Tri umphal Column ; in the rare splendor of the Floral Temple, with its bewildering Diviui ties ; in the picturesque and refreshing sweet ness of the Grottoes, with their lily-.swopt waters; and best in the "Majesty of Love liness " which waits upon every counter, or hangs upon the lover's arm. But this article was intended to call especial attention to ihe Beauty of the Fair. Her station is in the cen- tre of the north compartment, and though measuring no less than eighteen feet, is of such faultless proportion that her huge size escapes remark. Five feet beam and twenty- eight inches depth complete her proportions. Modeled by D. R. Resley, built by Willi:mi Morse, and painted by W. A. Thornburg, this elegant vessel was donated by theofBccrs, from Captain to Engineer, belonging to the Memphis Packet Company. The chief mana- gers of this company are Henry W. Smith, President and General Superintendent ; Ira Scudder, Secretary; and Nathan Ranney, General Freight Agent. A raffle at 50 cents a chance will dispose of this article. Next to the stand of the Countersign is the depart- ment of DRUGS AND PBKPUMKRIES, under the charge of Eugene Massott and Mr. Richardson, Chairman of this Committee. 'Tis pleasant to be so near the vast variety of "rich distilled perfumes " here displayed. In big bottles and little bottles ; in the most tasteful arrangement; and in sulficient quan- tity to perfume vast multitudes, these products of the Alembic are worthy of the Sabeiin Grove. The larger part of these perfumes are from C. B. Wood, o£ Rochester, New York. Drugs, from the various retail deal- ers of the city, are here in sufficient quantity to kill or cure the whole Invalid Corps. Pa- tent medicines from Ayers, Hostetter, and other dealers in that article, are plentiful ; but of those, if we do not use the words of Romeo's apothecary, " Put this in any liquid you will And drink it otf ; and if you had the strength Of twenty men it would dispatch you straight," we would at least not imitate Oliver Twist in asking for "more." Likewise all kinds of hair oils, tooth powders, &c. Two fine show cases adorn this corner. One, from W. B. Parker & Co., of this city, contains, amongst other clioicc articles, a patent brusli, by means of a reservoir in the back of which the hair can be oiled without soiling the hands. The other case came from the well-known drug- gist, Alex. Loitch, and contains a complete as- sortment of choice toilet articles. The noted Homoeopathist, Dr. Luyties, sends a box full of his medicines, accompanied by a book ex- plaining their use and the practice of his pro- fession. The contributions to this department amount to several thousand dollars. Oppo- site our stand is that belonging to the GLASS AUD CHINA Department, the contributions to which are so large and numerous that the space allotted to it was not enough to contain all the articles. Several hogsheads remain unopened, while the committee are in daily expectation of the arrival of a large addition of choice goods from Liverpool and New York houses. A more varied display is not to be found in the building. At one end of the counter, stands a set of articles — a punch bowl and two flower stands— manufactured in Canton, China. The art of manufacturing the substance of which they are composed is known only to the Chi- nese. They are ornamented with figures painted in the customary brilliant colors of Chinese works of art, and when struck, give forth the rich sound of a bell. These articles were donated by Mr. Getting, of Boston, and are worth $100. Another interesting thing is a huge pitcher, twenty-eight inches iu height, and capable of holding thirty-five gallons. This was made by Enoch Wood & Sons — a picture of whose manufactory adorns one of its sides — and presented by that firm some thirty-three years ago, to Andrew T. Hall, of Boston, who donates itto the Fair. It was once filled with punch at a Fourth of July dinner given in Boston to Daniel Webster. Several fine specimens of American bronzes compare favorably with those of Prance or England. The finest is that of Garibaldi. Groups of grotesque figures for mantel adornments add to the attractions of this table. The gratitude of the American people|^to- ward those who have done them service is proverbial. The Senator, on his return from his labors, is greeted with public dinners; the Mayor or Alderman is jiresented with a cayie or a carriage ; while the successful General is fitted out for the next campaign with a horse, its caparisons, and a sword. These remarks were suggested to us by two departments which we had decided to discuss in our present number. The first of these may be found at the southwest corner of the Central Comiiartuiont, and is that of Here a beautiful sword, valued at $1,500, presented to the Fair by Henrj' Folsom & Co., of this city, and destined for the General re- 2 THE DA.ILY COUISTTEIlSiaiSr. ceiving the highest number of votes, is on ex- hibition. Votes are but one dollar each. The hilt of this sword is headed by an eagle, hav- ing its wings spre:^, carved out of a solid block of gold ; the inside of the sjrip is faced with the symmetrical figuro of a woman, carved out of a solid piece of silver. The rest of the haft is of gold, and is carved en- tirely, no part of it having been cast. The sheath is of silver, triple plated with gold, and near its upper end, thirty-seven diamonds are set upon a blue stone in a circle. Its blade is of the finest Damascus steel. Those who have any attachment for particular Generals, ought not to let slip this opportunity of manifesting it. Near by may be seen the finest sword, without exception, we have ever examined. It came from the depot of arms and military stores belonging to Henry Folsom & Co. Its hilt is a huge, solid female figure, beautifully carved in gold. Its scabbard is of triple-pla- ted gold, and the blade is of Damascus steel. A fine scarf and a sash accompanies it, and the whole is inclosed in a silver-mounted case. The value of this article is $.3,000. This department likewise contains four show- cases filled with attractive objects. The first contains a $1,500 sword presented to General Davidson, by the non-commissioned oflS- cers, exclusively, of the 1st Iowa Cav- alry. On the back of its haft is an oxydized silver figure of solid metal, and a fine ame- thyst is set with diamonds, arranged so as to form the initials of the owner's name. The design of this sword is exquisite. When the blade is sheathed, the adornments of the upper part represent the oak tree in early spring, just budding into life ; the ornaments near the centre a more advanced stage of the tree, now in the loaf; while the end is covered by the dense foliage and pendant acorns of the matured season. A sword presented to General Bussey for gallantry at the battle of Pea Ridge, was pur ment — saddle, bridle and shabrack — and is valued at one thousand dollars. Its three golden stars show it to be the saddle of a Lieu- tenant General, one of the very few such ever made in the United States. The donor, E. A. Corbet, of this city, who is also the manufac- turer, designed this saddle for Lieutenant Gen- oral Grant, provided its value were paid to the Fair by the dollar-contributions of the frieni^^ of that General. A parchment, containing a list of the names of the subscribers, will ac- company this gift. The saddle of a Major General, made by Grimsley & Co., and pre- sented by Mrs. Henry T. Blow, will be dis- posed of in the same way to General Rosecrans. Its value is placed at $500. The friends of these Generals can thus bring to their personal knowledge their admiration of these deserving men. Amongst a great variety of plainer saddles, we noticed a $100 lady's saddle, with leaping horn, from Sterling & Co.; a $50 English gent's saddle, of the McClellan pattern, on a regulation tree, from Ira Stansbury & Co.; two saddles from P. G. Peters ; two from Orn- dorft'& Sanford ; a finely carved Mexican sad- dle from J. P. Schiefi"er, worth $75; two from A. Meyer, of Sedalia ; a Texas saddle from J. F. Hackman ; and a lady's saddle from J. El- liot Condict. A gold mounted saddle-tree from Christian Ploeser, is a beautiful thing. We call the attention of stable men and horse owners to a self-adjusting gig saddle, patented by T. B. Hiihnhold, of Newark, N. J. Its merit consists in the fact that it adjusts itself to the back of the horse, removing all fear of white hairs or abrasion. The American Whip Company of New York City, contributed a large assortment of whips to this department; C. Maist, and Sterling & Co., a dozen trees a piece ; and a fine buggy harness came from Robert Tillson, of Quincy. The large display of collars is from D. Deming, and Krayer, Hildenbrand & Schrich. A 'skeleton wagon abounds, are eminently suggestive of loved repose and dreamy meditation. One of these, valued at $100, is to be raffled for. A fine scenic ottoman-cover presented an elegant specimen of needle work. Here gentlemen may be fitted out in all habiliments, from a silver cigar-ash holder to a suit of clothes. A case upon the counter contains several elegant suits ot clothes for exhibition, one of which, worth eighty dollars, is intended for Samuel Copp, Jr., the efiicient Cashier of the Pair. We were surprised at the cheapness of the ar- ticles for sale in this department. The average of prices is at least twenty-five per cent, be- low what would be paid for the same goods at the retail dealers on Fourth street. Thus the finest bleached muslins may be purchased here for 42 cents, which are worth 54 cents down town. Dress has a moral efi'ect upon the con- duct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neck-cloth, and a general negligence of dress, and he will in all probability find a corres- ponding disposition to negligence of address. 'Twas Goldsmith who said that "an Emperor in his night-cap would not meet with half the' respect of an Emperor with a crown." "A word to the wise," &c. Let every one hasten to provide himself with his summer clothing at this stand. The managers of this depart- ment propose, in a day or two, to offer a quan- tity of premiums to those investing money in their goods. chased for $1,500, but is worth, at the present fj.Q,„ -yvesley O'Fallon a sulky from Theodore .otanfnrnui r,p»,.»r*9«n Tt» .lo=i We passed over ground only too familiar to us in the loss of three of our bravest officers and a number of our comrades in a charge on the column of the never to be forgotten " Stone- wall." After a march of thirty-six miles we reached Orange Court House, foot-sore, hun- gry and cold, and with nothing to relieve us, we laid ourselves down at a camp fire, which was denominated Brig. Gen. Lee's Provost Marshal headquarters. On the following morning after having undergone an examin- ation by that General, we were marched to the Court House and confined in a damp and dark cellar which was used as a prison for iheii- poor wretches, of whom there was not one in the whole 250 prisoners who did not wish ho was North, and out of the cursed re- bellion. We were fairly stormed with questions and directions for their escape and usage in our lines, which we gave them to the best of our ability, but I can say with truth, a more motley, animated — with vermin, and beastly set of men I never saw, even in our own men who were then in prisons in- Richmond, south- ern chivalry was clearly defined in that de- jected and delapidated set of human beings. Wo were kept in this hole until ten o'clock, or for twenty four hours, when we were order- ed out, and marched to the depot, after em- barking and enjoying a lightning trip of eight miles an hour, we reached the capital of the rebellion at 7 p. M., a file of guards number- ing some ten or twelve, marched us to the Libby at which place we underwent still an- nother search they seeming to be determined to have everything we had. When we got to prison I found myself the lucky possessor of one suit of clothes, oh lucky being ! and laid myself down in an obscure corner to hide myself from the searching gaze of those who yet might want something, which decen- cy forbade. In the morning I found myself companion of about 350 of our soldiers and sailors, in a room measuring 60 by 20 feet, which, at this time, was filled with smoke, very little venti- lation being allowed to enter at any time. The sailors were both clean and tidy, owing to their recent capture, but some soldiers, who had been there for eight, nine and ten months were pitiful to behold, and their emaciated countenances told too j'lainly of the hardships and starvation they had undergone. The clothing sent by the United States had been delivered to some of the men, and as equally as possible, for the division was conducted by our own officers, Colonels Van Strador and Sanderson being the principals, but the men from hunger, had, in less than a month, disposed of them to the guard, who in re- turn gave them bread, soon leaving them in as bad a condition as at first. Private boxes were allowed to be sent US' from our homes, but not more than ten out of every fifty reached the men. The room in which they were stored, was littered with the contents, in the shape of gloves, house-wives' books, pa- per, ink, pens, jellies and pickles, which would have been a good treat to many Southern fam- ilies, destitute of most of these articles These boxes are under the direction of Maj. Turner, who also confiscates our greenbacks on our arrival, to be refunded when we are ex- changed, but this never has been done in a single case to enlisted men. Our rations in prison, at this time, consisted of corn bread, four inches square by one thick, and half a pint of either rice or black pea soup; the latter, however, the most fre- quent, being more profitable to them, as the worms in the peas make up for the deficiencj' of meat, which, at this time, was quoted at $3 00. These rations were dealt out to the men twice a day, at 10 a. m. and 3J p. M. On our arrival at the Peihberton building, we had not had a morsel for three days and as many nights, so you can imagine with what gusto the said corn bread and soup was de- voured. The prisons, which were formerly tobacco factories, are four in number, and known as Crew's, Pemberton and ScoU build- ings. The Libby is the officers prison. There are dungeons and cellars in the latter as well as in Castle Thunder, which are used for the benefit of those who do not act in harmony with the wishes of the Confederacy. To these add three hospitals, designated as Nos. 21 and 22 and Alabama, as also the small pox hospi- tal, and you have the residences of the Yan- kee prisoners in Eichmond. I was sent to the first named (No. 21,) in an insensible state, where I lay for five weeks, with a severe at- tack of pneumonia, typhoid, which disease, with diarrhea, forms the principal of which our men are the victims. Our rations here consisted of the same as those in the prisons, with the exception of oc- casionally to the lowest cases, tea and coffee, boiled rice and crackers, the latter articles being part of the sanitary stores forwarded at the same time as the clothing and rations by our Government, but the greater part of these went to the rebels as they had the whole con- trol of the distribution of them. One of the Surgeons, Dr. John Wilkins, at this time, (March,) was relieved from duty for the too heavy confiscation of these goods. J. W. F. [TO BE CONCLUDED.] Highly Importaht. — The Chairman of the Ladies' Executive Committee has a headache which will be raffled for, to-morrow afternoon, at 4 precisely. For so charitable an object, whose prejudices will not give way ? One hundred chances, 26 cents a share. THE SOLDIER OF ANTIETAM. In the darkness of the midnight, Midnight on the battle plain. Lay a soldier of the Union, Mid the gallant thousands slain; Far away in loved New England, Dear ones wait returning peace, But the soldier of Antietam, Lingers not for such release. Cold and chill the death damps gather, Gather on his youthful brow; Slower grows the labored breathing, Fainter beat the pulses low. While his comrade, o'er him bending. Waits the coming of the day, On the battle-field, Antietam, He must pass from earth away. "Breaks the morning,'' now he whispers, Whispered in his failing breath, God of mercy, send the morning. Ere my eyes are close in death; Yet one look, the last, the dearest, At the pictured face I bear. Ere the battle-field, Antietam, Shall for me a grave prepare. Take it eomr.ide, when you leave me, Leave me here alone to sleep. Bear it safely through the peril Homeward, where the loving weep; Tell her how to-night I clasped it. While you watched lifes ebbing tide. Tell her on jthe dark Antietam, Bravely, manfully I died. Bear a dying message homeward. Homeward to a father dear; Tell him life's bright hopes are precious, But a country doubly dear; And my mother — speak it gently — Tell, oh tell her how her son On the battle-field, Antietam, Victory over death has won. Morning breaks ! I see the angels. Angels on the other side. Visions blest beyond the river. Light me o'er its surging tide; Meet me comrade, meet mo yonder, And the soldier, faint and worn, Slumbers on the dark Antietam, Wakens in eternal morn. FURTHER REMARKS BY MRS. GEN. S. KNARL. Of course my dear, after going to the opening I went into the Fair building, which I had tried to do before, and behind, and at all the sides too, but what was the use, when a man with a drawn gun stood at each door, and asked me for a pass, which was just what I wanted, my dear, and it seemed a wai?te of words for me to say anything to him, for things were so confused, which with sold.' -rs and hogs, and mules, and wagons with bo> •■!, that were pawing and well they might : o THE ID^ILY oou:NTii:Rsia]sr. 5 frightened, for I looked in, and so much color might well frighten them, poor unroasonijig creatures, though I believe it is C0W8,after all, that are afraid of red, but that is in the coun- try. So I had given up all idea of going in be- fore the doors were fairly opened to the gene- ral public,and then when they were, of course we had a season ticket and went in, and I am sure enjoyed it much more than if I had been there before, as the rest of my neighbors had helping clear up, for which I am glad, because I was never very strong, so it was just as well for every one who was there. We went in at the Olive street door, of course, and such a sight I never before saw with my eyes, which could only look and exclaim when I saw the flags, and the festoons, and the green letters, and the wreaths of flowers which said on them. Infantry, and seemed to me peculiarly appropriate, especially when I saw the shoe in the children's department, which I had of- ten read of in the books of old, where the old woman lived in a shoe, and had such a large family which gave her so much trouble, and I am sure it was trouble to see so many beautiful things at once, for wherever I look- ed I wanted to go, and so I lost the General who stopped to talk with an officer, by his carrying him off while I was looking at some books, and it was so pleasant to my feelings to see the amicablenesses between the two Sewing Machines, though they do say Singers are dreadful quarrelsome people, and are always falling out among themselves, which must be owing to the Sanitary Fair, which was just what I was talking about. But just in themiddlewas theTemple where the flowers were, which were certainly very beautiful, though they reminded you of war by the bayonets above, and how any one ever thought of that way of fixing them I cannot see, so I went into the Art Gallery, where I could at least be quiet for a minute to collect my thoughts and arrange my dress, which were becoming a little confused, and if there is anything I deprecate it is confusion, for then one never knows what one is saying, and of course one's remarks don't amount to any- thing, so I satdown and looked at the pictures and for all the world I should have thought I was in Rome, or San Francisco or Japan, where they work such curious things with so much taste,which has been certainly shown by the committee in a manner very creditable to their skill anl patience. That being the case, I thought I would go on in my walk, which is quite fatiguing don't you think so, on the saw-dust being rather unreliable and something like snow in hat respect, only not so much so, which brought me to a great table, all covered with green cloth with pockets in the corners, that I suppose they use to keep their knives and forks in. which would save going to the china- closet so often which becomes tiresome espe- cially when you have alargedinner party and all the girls are sick, and then I wondered what the table was made so high for, for it would be quite inconvenient unless every one had a high chair and then the feet would not touch the ground, which habit the medical books say is a very bad one and injures the bone though I am not sure which one, but when wo went to school, my dear, Physiology was not a science. As there were no dishes on the table, some men were walking around it and pushing balls all over it, which I supposed was for the same reason that men roll the garden-walks at the east, and so I thought I would go on, though I felt rather lonesome but what was the use of looking for the General, for one might as well try to find a needle in a hay-mow as any one in that great building which looks so beautiful that I can't help saying so all the time which began to grow late, and I was get- ting worried, but I concealed it, for if I dis- like anything, it is to see a l.idy of my age excited and troublesome, and especially at the Sanitary Fair. So I went on quietly past all the chairs, and soap, which I forgot to tell the General we wanted some of this morning, and what Mary will do without it I cannot see for my life which as you said the other day has certainly been a very happy one and all on account of the General, whom I found in the New England Kitchen on the old fash- ioned settle talking with a woman with her hair all puffed up and a comb at least six inch- es high, and just like my own at home in the drawer, and now I speak of it, I do think I did lend it for this very thing which seemed to be very successful, for every one was look- ing quite satisfied, especially the General who took me htime after we had stayed some time and I think it is supper time so I must stop, but I will goon at a future date if you are not tired my dear. GOOD OUT OF EVIL. Cruel as this war is, it is not all cruel. It is not vSatan, but the Lord, that is sifting our nation as wheat. "We are receiving a liberal education in all the best humanities of life ; and every day one hears such deeds of gentleness, generosity and self-sacrifice, as promise that in the ten who are left there may remain as much manliness and womanliness as in the ninety who have found bloody graves. They are simple enough, these charities, which, amid the horrors of carnage, "soothe, and heal, and bless." The other day a woman deep mourning and with mournful face, came to one of our New England Sanitary rooms for work. She wished, she said, to do something for her country ; her means would not allow her to furnish material, but she could sew. She had given what else she could — her two sons. One of these had been killed ; the other was now in the thick fight, killed also, for aught she knew. Was the work ready ? True heart! that had given its best, and vet was ready to work on to the sad end ! In the same town there was a Sunday-school, with rows of rosy faces in the pews, and each had brought some money for the soldiers. Most of them were children from luxurious homes, but each had car«c(£ the pennies which he brought. One little boy said he "had lugged up a whole wheelbarrow full of wood, and it was dreadful heavy." Another had gone two miles at evening on an errand. A little girl had left her play to rock the baby asleep. As they poured into mine the pennies by twos and threes, warm from their little hands. I thought, " Sweet hearts! the war is not all so cruel !" I wrote to a friend in a New England village, which had always been full of enterprise in Sanitary work, asking if she could not create an interest in the St. Louis Fair, among her neigh- bors. Unwilling to make such a proposal toother.s, without doing her part, indelicate health, and dependent upon her own exertions for support, .she was without money, but went to a drawer locked and kept sacred, that was filled with keep-sakes from her friends, and selected such of them as were fresh and sale- able. She looked about her house, and took down little medallions and ornaments brought home from Europe in more prosperous days : and then going to the laboratory of a friend, begged the remainder of his experiments — crude copper, resin, &c. — which she sold. The result of her morning search was a contribution of her own, estimated by an- other person, at $42 50. Ah! how estimated by the Lord ? and, besides, a liberal box from the little town of N . Truly the funds of the Sanitary Commis- sion should be touched with reverent hands, for out of the sacredest places of home, and the deepest places of tried hearts, have come the rills of the mighty stream of love. C. S. W. There has been nothing more touching du- ring the whole course of this war than the universal desire of the poorest people to do something for the soldiers. While the ladies were at work arranging the tables before the opening of the Fair, a woman came in and offered her services. She said she was too poor to give anything. She was a lalSring woman, but she could work, and she wanted to give one day's work. Who gave the most, he who gives $100 of his abundance, or this poor woman ? An Irishman was telling a friend that his sister had a child, and when he was asked if it was a boy or girl, he replied, "Well, really, I don't know. I must find out, to know whether I am an uncle or an aunt." Vote last night for Swords : Hancock 179 Sherman 13 Butler, 127 Grant, 95 McClellan, 9.3 And scattering.... — Blair , 8 Fremont, 7 Abe Lincoln, 2 From Bellkvulb and St. Clair Coon- TY. — Besides numerous boxes of fancy goods, agricultural implements, provisions. &c., we have received $2,767 in cash — very liberal donation. 6 THE Di^ILY OOUNTERSiaN. DONATIONS Made to the Fine Art Department, and for sale at their rooins. Wm. H. Benton, 2 large pictures. Jas. Sidney Brown, 2 pictures. Mrs. I. S. B. AUyne, 4 pictures, landscapes. Mrs. A. S. Dean, painting. Doves, Miss Stetion. Tlios. L. Eliot. 3 landscapes, oil. J. C. Hoodly, New Bedford, oil painting, Danae, or Golden Shower. Union Society, Youth and Old Age. Edward Brehler, Church in Winter, oil. Mr;. Capt. Dewey, Fruit Piece. Miss Ittner, Snow Scene. Mrs. G. W. Fox, Shakespeare's Hamlet. Miss H. B. Skeele, same. Miss A. M. Tucker, 3 pastel heads. Mrs. Wyllys King, portrait of Henry Olay, wrought with his own hair. Miss D. Barnet, portrait of Gen. Rosecrans, Crayon. Geo. C. Bingham, landscape, "Mountain Lake." Mrs. Mary 0. Emmons. Magdalen by Carl Dolci. Charles Gray, Frank and Margaret. Miss Darrah, 2 has reliefs. Mrs. W. G. Eliot, 1 portrait of Rev. W. G. Eliot, 1 John Baptist by Raphael, original in oil, worth $200. Dr. Linton, portrait of Col. Benton. Capt. J. T. Allen, A. Q. M., Huntsvilla, Ala., a large oil painting, "Prodigal Jeff re- turning to Uncle Abe." Etiiilo L. Herzinger, War in Missouri, large picture in oil. Emilo L. Herzinger, portrait of Mrs. Lin- coln, water color. Mrs. E. B. Kirby, Spirit of '63, a very fine picture. Unknown, Madonna and Child, engraved on silk. Julius Keunmer, Thunder Storm on Prai- rie, large picture in oil, St.^ouis papers please copy and credit the "Countersign." SPECIAL NOTICES. From Chicago. — Gilbert Hubbard & Co. send us through J. Spencer Turner, $250. Will they not come down in an excursion and see how our Fair compares with theirs? We will return the call. This is their Fair — a Mississippi Valley Fair ! From Cairo. — Miss Addie M. Ford, agent, sent by C. R. Woodward, yesterday, $1,07-5, ijontr:!".;*.?'} Vj Oitlzsns of Cairo. Any one contributing to the Book Dbpart- MEKT a sum not less than twenty-five cents will receive a certificate of the amount signed by Major General Rosecrans. The Orderly's Mite.— Mr. Daniel Co.i, orderly at the Head Quarters, Department of Kansas, remitted $1 with his best wishes for the patriotic undertaking. That dollar was as much to him as hundreds from some con- tributors, and is fully appreciated. Mammoth and Miniature.— John Goodin, 42 Vine, yesterday donated two beautiful Steam Whistles to the Fair, one of the largest size, 7 inch bowl ; another, a little gem, only 5 inch bowl. We have heard of people spoil- ing their lips for singing, by whistling. Here is a chance for them to do their whistling by steam. From Milwaukee. — We received two bo.ies of fancy goods — beautiful and useful. From Phcenix, R. 1. — An old lady, in her 81st year, sends a pair of woolen socks — the 35th pair she has knit for the Sanitary Commission. These came in a well filled box of unique and attractive articles from Phce- nix. We acknowledge with pleasure the dona- tion of $50 from John H Shawhan, of Platts- burg. Mo. Why will strangers lose time by running all over the city in the heat and dust, "shop- ping," when they can here buy anything they want from fair clerks, at fair prices, for the benefit of the Fair ? Charles D. Drake's new book for sale at the Book Department. flVE HUNDRED DOLLAR.S' worth of books contributed by the American Trad Society, the proceeds of which are to be re-invested in books for the soldiers. Many of these books are especially designed for the soldiers ; and it is the earnest request of the donors that visitors to the Fair should purchase these books, write their names in them, to be sent to the soldiers, thus increasing the fund and giving additional interest by reminding our brave boys that they are not forgotten at home. Visitors who wish to "pass the guards" at the Fair, and avoid all unnecessary delay, should not fail to call at the olfice and get the "Countersign," before thoy leave the Fair ! For sale in the Curiosity Shop, the auto- graphs of Sir Charles Lyell and Professor Owen, of London. From Greenville, Ills. — F. G. Moore, in buhalfjof citizens of Greenville, Ills., yester- day deposited $147 with the Fair Traasurer. From New Orleans, we have glad tidings in the shape of $190,50 from the employees of Capt. N. S. Constable, A. Q. M. at that re- deemed city. We are glad to notice that an entrance to the Stereoscopticon exhibition has been 0[icned to the main building between the skating pond and the post office department. The price of admission being reduced to the small sum of twenty-five cents, will en- able all visitors to witness one of the finest works of art ever presented to an admiring public. Each exhibition lasts one hour. Com- fortable seats are provided, and one thousand persons can be accomodated. Gentlemanly ushers are in attendance to seat the audience. Hours of exhibition 11 J A, M., 3, 5, 8 and 9J P. M., makihg five exhibitions daily. General Grant's little daughter in the Shoe has had her photograph taken — dolls, cap, spectacles and all. They are capital, and are for sale at the Children's Department. Be sure and secure one. Mr Balmer cannot but feel very highly gratified with the performance of the Opera OF Martha on Saturday and Monday eve- nings. It was a perfect success — no prompt- ing, no failure anywhere. The dresses were beautiful and the singing true. We desire to call the attention of our read- ers to the life-like statuettes to be found in the Art Gallery. They are by a young man by the name of Rogers, and at the East have attracted great admiration. No one can fail tobestruck with the life-like representations of this talented young artist, whose genius seems to have waited for the war to call it out. Heads of Departments can be accommo- dated with special notices in the Countersign on any day, by sending such notices to No. 20, addressed to the Editor, before 8 o'clock on the preceding evening. The Stereopticon, one of the most won- derful achievements of modern science, is to be seen in the large building on Olive street, west of the main entrance, at 3, 8, and 9J, p. M. This immense building was erected by the Sanitary Committee, expressly for this modern wonder. Admission 25 cents. Bids will be received at the Book Stand for the National Photographic Album, which con- tains the autographs and likenesses of the President, Cabinet and Senators. Those de- sirous of getting a rare and valuable collec- tion will not fail to call and b d. The Skating Park just west of the Olive street entrance, open and in operation day and evening. Don't omit to visit it, for it chal- lenges the admiration of every one. John P. Camp, Esq., has kindly volunteered to act as general agent for the Central Finance Committee, and will visit all the depart- ments remote from the office, to give all ne- cessary assistance and information. Back numbers of the Countersign always for sale at our office, No. 20 Fair Building. The whole issue will be found well worth preserving, not only as a history of the Fair, but also for its original matter. St. Louis papers please copy. Notice the beautiful silk Flag at No. 20, to be given to the Rkgiment that has the most votes. Only 50 cents a vote. The 10th Kan- sas Infantry lias the most to-day. BOOTS AND SHOES. THE flnpst anJ best assortnir-nt of custom made bOOTS AND SHOES in tliis city, may be (ound at SAML'KL HALE'S, 33 North Fourth St., opposite Planters' House. MRS. E. J. MORRIS, Fashion;ible DRESS AND MANTILLA MAKER, No, 5G North Fifth St., bet. Olive and Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. A LARGE SUPPLY OF PATTERNS FOR SALE, THE D^ILY COXJNTERSiaN^. 7 ■WAR CLAIMS Adjusted and Collected. OFFICE HEMOVED TO No. 63 Washington Avenue^ Two doors east of the Quartermaster's Department. JOHN pTcAMP Wil! pive his attention to the adjustment and colleclion or Vouchers and other claims against the United States Goveinment in all ita DepartmentB. Accounts and bills against the Government made out in proper form, and Vouchers therefor obtained and the amounts collected. Merchants having vouchers for smaU amonnte, can save themselves time and trouble by placing them in his bauds for collection. REFERENCES; IToD, D. Davis, Bloomington, 111.; Hon. Joseph Holt, Washington, D. C; Hon. H. Campbell, St. Louin, Mo ; Samuel T. Glover. St. Louis, Mo.; J. R. Shepley, Esq,, St. Louis, Mo.; late CommiBsioners and Sounselors on War Claims for the Department of the West Samuel Kiios. Irwio Z. Smith. KNOX ifc SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DARBY'S BUILDING, my 21 3f Fifth and Olive Streets. O'PALLON White Lead and Oil Company, Manafacturero and Wholesale Dealers in LINSEED OIL, CASTOR OIL, WHITE LEAD, ZINO PAINTS, ColorSj^Varnishes, Japan, Putty, &c., &c. store, 108 Second street, ST. LOUIS, MO. JCf^Cash paid for Flaxseed and Castor Beans. GEO. W. BANKER, President. FRANCIS BROWN, Treasurer. CHAS. C. FULLER, Secretary. D. A. BIGGERS, Wholesale and Retail No. 110 Marfeet «jtreet. between Fourth and Fiftb. ST. LOUIS, MO. {r3*Goods sent to any part of the city free of charge. COAL OIL LAMPS, COAL OIL, AlTD BRONZES, PKENCH CLOCKS, &c. H J. CRAWSHAW & SON, AVE just received and are now openiag the largest and best stock of lianip^ aud Gas Fixtures, Kver seen in the United States, whi-'b they offer low, For Cash Only, WHOLfciSALE AND REITAIL. No. 78 Korttl Fiftti «treel. ST. LOUIS. A. S. W. Goodwin. Rob't Andersen. Peter lichr. GOODWIN, ANDERSON & CO., Manufacturers of lAKD OIL, SOAP AM CAMLES, FANCY AND TOILET SOAPS, No. 10 Pine street, between Main and Second. Factory— Poplar, South end of Adolph st., ST. Loms, MO. What is Life Insurance ? ris, by its adoption or neglect, a FORTUNK -gained or lost to a family at a man's death. Be Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. Has paid to heirs of deceaseil members, over S3,200,000, Aud ite accumulation now exceeds ^5,500,000. EDWIN POWLEll, State Agent. No. 34 011VO street. A. JohuBuD. F. O. Sawyer. JOHNSON & SAWYER, Wholesale Dealers in Bookj^News & Wrapping Paper, N. E corner Second and Locust streets, ST. LOUIS. JCj^P^P^t"^ "* ^^y ^i^P ^^'^ weight made to order. PHOTOGRAGHIC ALBUMS, Stereoscopes & Pictures, Craig's Microscopes, Games & Stationery, At No. 9 South Fifth street. BIBLE AND TRACT DEPOSITOR V. J. W. McINTTRB. WESTERN AGRICULTl'ML DEPOT ANll SEED STORE. Blunden, Koenig & (Jo., No. 56 North Second street. ST. LOUIS, iMO. A FULL assortment of Farm Implements and Farm tl and Garden Seeds (jonstautly on hand. Outley's Palace of Art, No. 39 Fourth street, opposite the Plantera' House. J J. OUTLET, the oldest established Artist in St. • Louis, ofTers his services to all persons desiring a perfect picture of any kind, from the smallest locket to life size. Unusual inducements are offered to those wishing portraits of themselves or of deceased friends, requiring only a small picture of them, no matter how faded, from which to paint a perfect likeness. Call at the rooms and examine the portraits on exhibition. M. S. HOLMES, NO. 28 NORTH SECOND STREET, Dealer in every deecription of PAPER, BY THE REAM OR CASE. 23^ 100 ton of Rags wanted for ca8h.«|3 THE CONNECTICUT Mutual Life Lisurance Company OF UARTFORD. ACCUMULATED Capital, over $6,000,000. Number of Policies issued in 1863, 6.636 ! Fifty per cent, clivi- dends declared annually. One-half of prenuums re- ceived in notes, which notes are cancelled by dividends. HENRr STAGG, Agent, No. 40 Third street, corner Pine. Mutual Life Lisurance Company OF NEW YORK. FRED'K S. WINSTON, 1'kksidknt. Accumulated cash Assets, IsL Feb., 1864, $10,300,000. I^IIE safest and strongest Life Insurance Company in . the United Slates. SAM'L COPP. Jii., AK..nl, N. W. corner Main and Second sts KIN a, DCAnsr & co. ImporterH and Jobbers of FANCY & STAPLE DRY GOODS, No. III.5 Main Street. ST. LOUIS, MO. .A-TTOTIOKTSt. BY J. H. OS^OD & SON, 147 Congress street, Boston. REGULAR Catalogue Bairns of Dry Goods, Tuesdays and Fridays. Received in Public Warehouse on storage, Wool, Cotton and Merchandise generally, for which Leg:*l Bond Warehousp ri'ceipts will he given bv J. H. OSGOOD. Public Warebousemau. Liberal cash advances made on consignmentK. The Best is the Cheapest G. W. CURTISS & CO., No. 7 South Fifth street, KEEP the best Coal Oil and Lamps, the best crystal tlint Chimneys, Globes, Wicks, &c. An*'uts for Fisk's Cooking Lamp, for family use. Gives entire sat- isfaction. No family should be without ona. All kinds Coal Oil and Lamp goods sold wholesale and retail. LEWIS & GROSHON, 58 North Fourth street. KEEP the latest styles of Gentlemen's Dress Hats, Felt Uats of every description for Men aud Boys; Cloth Hats, Military Hats, Straw Hats, Cloth Caps, Fancy Caps for Children, elegantly trimmed; Leghorn and Straw Hats fur Ladies, Misses and Children ; Traveling Bags, Umbrellas, &.C., and Furs in their season. "WILLIAM H. GRAY & CO., Wholesale and Retail a R O C E R s , Nos. 75 &. 77 South Second street, opposite Pacilic Railroad Depot. Orders from the country promptly attended to. GHAUNCEY L FILLEY 108 ITIain street, Direct Importer and Dealer in 108 CHIM, GLASS & OUEENSf ARE, H AS, according to returns made by all the Queeus- ware Dealers, the largest stock in the city. CHAXJNCEY I. FILLEY Has, according to rt'tarns made under oath by all the Queensware Dealers, more stock than any two houses on Maiu street. CHAXJNCEY I. FILLEY Has. according to returns made under oath as above, over two hundred per cent, more stock than any Queens- ware house on Main street. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Keeps a full assortment »t staple and fancy China- Glass, Queensware, Coal Oil Lamps, Looking Glaeees, BrittanniaWare. Silver Plated Ware, Trays, Waiters, Ta- ble Cutlery, Water Coolers, Fruit Jars, Toiletware, etc. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Is the only direct importer in the city, of Li'ddle Elliots & Sons' White Granite and Parian Wares and Decorated Vascti and Toilet Wares, which received the great prize medals at the World's Fairs in Loudon, Paris and New York, a variety of which they have liberally douated to theM. V. S. Fair. CHAUNCEY I. FILLEY Will receive monthly now goods direct from mauufac- 8 THE D^ILY COTJNTERSIGlSr. « D. A. Winter. H -SVicke. D. A. WINTER & CO , CLOCK & WATCHMAKERS, And Jewelry Manufactory, N"o ■2W Kranklin avenue, bet. Eleventh andTweimi sts., ST. LOUIS, MO. Kepairing warranted and accurately executed. SEWiMO iVmCHIME CO. .-(AI.KS P.OOM.S. No. 124 North Fourth street, (Verandah Row) ST. LOUIS, MO. 113 N. FOURTH ST., COR. VINE, 3T, LOUiS. 02 -1-3 p- u o 09 O I— t o xa m o bH ta r-! O P5 :3 ^ ^ o .1-3 ^ ^ ^ c6 »* 03 A. SUMNER, 2 WHEELER & iAVILSON:S #<^'>^. ^4^ HOA^^JE & CAJPEN'S North Missouri Railroad NkW lORK FIKK AND .M.iRI.NE INSUEANCE^ AGENCY. BKHOLD THE LIST: Columbia Fire Insui'ance Co. OF NEW YORK. Office — No. 161 Broadway. Cash Capital, S6n0,000; Surplus, $08,493; Assets, $!6S,493. INSCEES Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furni- ture llents. Vessels in port and their Cargoes, and other insurable property, against loss or damage by fire. The insured receive 75 per cent, of net profits without incurring any liability. TIMOTHY G. OUUBCHILL, Pres't. EDWARD KBMETS. Sec. Home Insurance Company, OF NEW HAVEN, CONN. Cash Capital, $SOO,OCO; Surplus, $70,396 !2 ; Assets, S570,396 12. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise, Household Furni- ture. Rents, Leases, and other insurable propert_y, against loss or damage by lire. Dealers receive 75 p'er cent of net profits, on Dwellings and Merchandise risks. CHAS WILSON, Sec. D. R SATTERLEB, Pres't. SAM'L L. TALCOTT, (ten'l Ag't and Adjuster. Lamar Fire Insurance Company OP THE CITY OF NEW YOBS.. Capital, all paid up in cash, S3C0,i 00; Surplus, January 1. 1864, $89,375 27; Assets, $389,375 27. ISAAC B. St. JOHN, SCO. BDW'D ANTHONY, Prest. FIRE AND TMRINE INSURANCE, Metropolitan Insm'ance Comp'y, 103 Broadway, Ni vv York. Cash C.ipi'.a!. $300,000; Assets, Jan. 1, 1S64. $6«,541 85, Scrip dividend declartd Jan. 12, 1864, 35 per cent. THIS Corapany insures, at customary rales, of pre- mium, against loss or damage by lire ; also, against all marine and land navigation, and war risks on cargo or freight. The assured receive 75 per cent, of the net profits. Without incurring any llainlily, or in lieu there- of, at their ostion, a liberal dijcount upon the premium. JAMES LORIMER GRAH-^-U, Pres't. ROB'T M. C. GRAHAM, Vice Pres't. EDW'DA. STANSBURY. 2d Vice Pres't. JOHN C. GOODRIDGE. Secretary. WESTERN BASCOM, General Agent. STOCK COMPANY — INCORPORATED 1821. Manhattan Fire Insurance Co. SEWING MACHINES, No. 80 North Fifth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. UNION LINE. Dm TransprtajM & Insurance Co, FAST FREIGHT LINE EAST AND WEST, VIA THB PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. TIME AND RATES GUARANTEED. N. STEVENS, Agent, No. 49 Olive street, ST. LOUIS. NEW YORK. • Cash Capital, $600,000; Surplus, $273,916 33; Assets, $772,916 33. WM, Prrr palmer. President, ANDREW J. SMITH, Secretary. INSURES Buildings, Merchandise and other property, against loss or damage by flrr, at rates as low as oth- er llrst class companies. Particular attention given to the insurance of Farm property, isolated Dwellings and their Furniture, for one, three or five years. Losses adjusted and promptly paid in cash at this Agency. In connection with il.innio r .uia bt. Jo. Railroad. Tho Shortest and Quickest Route to QUINGY, KEOKUK, ST. JOSEPH, ATCHISON, WESTON, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS CITY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA CITY, QUINCY AND HANNIBAL. Certain and Close Connections Are made with ^^e Hannibal and St Joe Railroad, Chicago, Burlington and Iowa Railroad, and all the Railroads of Iowa. On and after Sunday , November 15th, 1S63, St. Joseph Express ieavee St. Louis at 1:15 a. m, Mail and Accommodation Train at 3:30 p. m. Tare as Low as by any other Route. Commodious Passenger Rooms have been fitted up at the Depot, coiner of North Market street and Levee, with every arrangement for the comfort of passengers. TICKETS FOR SALE AT No. 40 Under Planters' House, AND FOOT OF NORTH MARKET STREET, Where reliable information can be obtained relative to routes in iuwa, Kansas and Nebraska. Ji::^ Be certain that your ticket reads : " Via North Missouri Railroad." I. H. STURGEON, Superintendent. J. H. CONCANNON, General Ticket Agent. r^-^cinc i^-A.iXjSiO-A-i:>- ON and after Monday, December 7th, 1863, trains will leave St. Louis, as tullows ; Mail Train— Daily at 8:30 a. m., stopping at all btations andrunning through to Euobnoster, (208 miles.) Franklin Accommodation — Daily except Sunday, at 5:00 p. M. Stages— Leave Dresden for Warrensburg, Lexington, Pleasant Hill, Independence and Kansas City, daily on arrival of train. Leave Sedalia for Springfield, Bolivar and Warsaw, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings on arrival of train J Leave Tipton every eveniug for Boonville. Passengers taking the 8:20 a. m. train from St. Louis, connect at Franklin with train daily for Rolla and in- termediate stations. Stages leave Rolla every morning for Spriugield- Through tickets may be obtained at the Passenger De- pot, corner of Seventh and Poplar streets, or at the Company's Through Ticket Office. No. 42 Fourth street, under the Planters' House. T. McKISSOCK, Sup't. B. W. WALLACE, General Ticket Agent. Phoenix Insurance BROOKLYN, N. T. Company, OtBces— No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; No. 139 Broadway, New York. Cash Capital, $600 000 ; Surplus. March 1, 18Q4, $222,- 219 20; Assets, $722,219 20. INSOR-\NCB against loss by ftrc, Marine, Lake, Oanal and Inland transportation. STEPHEN CROWELL. President. EDGAR W. CROWELL. Vice Pres't. PHILANDER SHAW, Secretary. SAFEST AND CHBAPBST SYSTEM OF INSURANCE, Washington Insurance Comp'y, 172 Broadway, (cor. Maldt-n Lane,) N Y. Cash Capital, $400,000; Assets, Feb. 1, 1864, 5582,000. Scrip dividend, 1861, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1862, 60 per cent.; Scrip dividend, 1863, 60 per cent. THE Policies entitled to participate, receive 75 per cent, of net prnflts. Insures Buildings, Merchan- dise, Furniture, Rents, Leases, against loss or damage by Are, and marine risks on lakes, rivers and canals. .,^ 3E0. C. SATTERLEB, President. HENRY WESTON. Vice President WM. K. LOTIIROP, Secretary, ^ta WM. A, SCOTT, Ass't Sec'y. St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. Spring Arrangement, corameucing April 4, 1864. PASSENGER Trains will leave Plum street Depot, dally, as follows ; For Pilot Knob, Putosi, and all stations, at. ..6:15 A. M. For Desoto at 6;15 .4. M. and 4 P. M. Returning — Win leave Pilot Knob at 3;00 P- "' Potosi at 3:60 p. M. DeSoto at 6:00.1. M. and 5;35 p. M. Carondelet Accommodation Trains. For Carondelet at 6:16. 7:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:30, A. M ; 2 00 400, 6:23. 7:30, 9:00 and 11:30 p. M. For Docks at 6:16, 7:10, 8:10,10:00, 11:30, a. m., 2:00 and 4:00 P.M. For Jefferson Barracks and Quarantine at 6:16, 11:30 A. M., and 4:00 p. M. Returning— Will leave Quarantine at 7:30 A. M.; 1:00 and 7:60 p. M. ?eCrerson Barracks at 7:40 A. M ; 1:05 and 7:66 p. M. Docks at 7:64, 9:16, 10:33, A. M.; 1:17, 3:07, 5:46 P. M. Carondelet at 6:30, 6:20, 8:00, 9:20, 10:40, A. M.; 1:20, 3:10, 6:18,7:00, 8:10, 10:45 P. M. S. D. BARLOW, Pres't & Sup't. ISIDOR BDSH, General Agent. THE D_A.ILY COXJNTERSiaN. 9 J. c. DunrQiJE, MERCHANT TAILOR, — AND— Dealer in Gents' Furnishing Goods, No. 74 N. Fifth St., Del. Locust & St. Charles sts. Undsou E. Bri.l Johu n. Bivieb. Leonard Hollaud BRIDGE, BEACH & CO., SUCCESSORS to Bridge & Bro., manufacturers of Tinut-rs' Tools and Machines, Japanned Ware, &c. Importers and dealers in Tin Plate, Copper, Sheet Iron, Wire, Xo. 37 Main street, St. Louis, Mo. John J, IToppf Jijhn N. Nfuhau'^ H, R Kiite. JOHN J. HOPPE & CO., WHOLESALE dealers in Fancy Goods, Notions, Toys, Sutlers' Supplies, &c., No. 16 South Main street, opposite Merchants' Exchange, St. Louis. ROBERT D. PATTERSON. H. I. LORING & CO., WOLESALE di-alers in Stationery, Paper and School Books, and Blank Book manufacturers, 136 North Main street, opposite State Bank, St. Louis. W. SPILKER, S. SIDES, Agent, 194 Olive St., bet. Twelfth aud Tliirteenth. Confectionary of the Best Quality, ALWAYS ON HAND. THOMAS liAIRD, (Successor to Fisher & Bennett,) WHOLESALE DEALER IN BOOKS, PAPERS & STATIONERY, 98 (Old Number) Main street, St. Louis. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND ALL THE BOOKS recommended by the State Superintendent, and a full assortmentof Record and Blank Books of all kiude. MAHUFACTURER OF ff.lGONS, MAYS, CARTS AMI WHEELBAREOWS. No. 692 Broadway, Between Jefferson and Monroe streets, ST. LOUIS. Xj XT ivr x: :^ on. . SCHULENBURG & BOECKELER, Tenth street, between Cass avenue and Mullanphy st ST. LOUIS. MO.. HAVE. IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR PLANING MILL, constantly on hand a large stock of well seasoned Pine Lumber, Flooring, Fencing, Joists, Shingles, Laths, ice, &c., which they offer at very low prices. Damon, Sherburne &, Co., ENGLISH, GERMAN, AMERICAN — A N D — Frencli Plate f into CHass, 20 and 22 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maujp R. R. Depot, (Haymarket Square,) Boston. Geo. D. Appleton, N. D. Noyes, John B. Maude. APPLETON, NOYES &. CO.. Wholesale Dealers m BOOTS AND SHOES, No. 110 North Main street, betweeen Locust and Vine, ST. LOTUS, MO. H. P. SHERBURNE, Dealer m Music, Piano Fortes M Mekleons, .\nd all kinds of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, No. 36 Market street, between Main and Se.-f.u'l. C. & W. TODD & CO., Manufacturt-rs of MACHINE BELTING Dealers in Mill Materials. Main street, corner of Morgan, St. Louis, Mo. Lyon, Sliorb & Co., Sole Manufacturers SLIGO AND TYRONE BAR, SHEET AND PLATE IRON. 268 North Second street, QEO. D. HALL, ST. LOUIS. J. B. SICKLES & CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN AND IMPORTERS OF SADDLERY HARDWARE, 42 Main street, St. Louis. H- B. Graham. Ben. B. Graham J. WOLFF & SON, Importers of Aniericaa and Foreign Fancy Goods, Toys, Notions, &c. No. 104 North Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. H. We^tcrmami, E. F. W. MeiPr. WESTERMANN & MEIER, IMPORTERS of and dealers in China, G)ass and Queenwwarej Britannia Ware, Table Cutlery, Toa Trays. Looking-GIasses, Coal Oil Lamps, &c. No. 148 North Main street, (west side.) between Vine street and Washington Avenue, St. Louis. Id^Especia! attention paid to careful packing. As- sorted Crates for the Country Trade constantly on hand. THOS. MORRISON, De.ilei in Boat Stores, Bacon, Lard, Flour, AND PnOVISIONS GENERALLY. No. 20 Levee, Corner of Pine street, ST. LOUIS, MO. J. R- Lionberger. Wm. C. Orr. J. R. LIONBERGER & CO. TMioiesalf Doalers in BOOT« & SHOES, No. 71 Main street, ST. LOUIS, MO. JoIju M. Krum. Ernst W. Decker. KRUM & DECKER, No. 45M Olive street, ST. LOUIS, MO. G^*i'igp Bender. BENDER & ETZEL, IMPORTERS and Wholesale dealers in Fancy Goods. White Goods, Hosiery, Tarns, Woolens, Threads, Buttons, Needles, Pipes, Wallets, Cutlery, Toys, Clocks, Brushes, Stationery, &c. No. 115 North Main street, SI. Louis, Mo. J. T. Wilson. A. J. Clark. WILSON & (JLARK, SHIRT MANUFACTURERS, AND DEALERS IN Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, No. 69 North Fuurth street, St. Louis, Mo. JCj'ShirtB in:ide to order. NIEDRINaHAUS & BRO., Manufacturers of T I IN" AAT JL iEe. E And Dealers in rpiNNERS' STOCK, TOOLS, MACHINERY, &c.. No. L 147 North M ain street. between Green and Wash- iugton avenue, St. Louis. Tin Plate IC, Coke Tin plate lead'd IX, Charc'l ■• " IC. B. P. Block Tin - - - " " 10x14, IC, Charcoal Brazier Copper, ' " " IX, Sheathing, " - - " ■■ 12x12, IC, Copper Bottoms, " " •■ IX, Sheet Zinc, - - - " '14x20,10, Russia^heet Iron, - " " :x. Sheet Iron, B, No. 20 to 27, •■' " " IXX, " C, No. 20 to 27, "lead'dlC, Prices subject to change c f market. JAMES M. CRAWFORD, TTTTIOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Fl.AW, VV Medical, School and Miscellaneous Books, Sta- tionery, Periodicals and Papers, No. 54 Fourth Btreetj St. Louis, Mo. H. B. Graham & Bro., No. 82 North Second Street. ST. LOUIS, MO. |Ci=CaEh paid for Rags. PETER E. BLOW, Importer and Wliolesale Dealer in IIEUGS, PAIKTS, WHITE LEAD, OILS, WINDOW (iLASS. Glassware, Perfumery, ^c, ^c. Nos. 66 & 68 Main street, between Olive and Pine, ST. LOUIS, Mo. L. E. CARPEKTER. P. e. ABRA.MS. CARPENTER & ABRAMS, DEALERS IN BONNET RIBBONS, DRESS AND Cloak Trimmings, Fancy Goods, Notions. &c., 122 Fourth street, Verandah Row, between St. Charles st. and Washington avenue, St. Louis. MERRITT'S Express Freight Line, Norlhweet corner Main and Locust streets, (Over Merchants' Bank,) ST. LOUIS. MO. J. "W. MERRITT, General Agent. CHARLES G. WELLS, "ITT^OLESALE and retail dealer in China, Glass and VV Queensware, Silver, Plated and Britannia Ware, Tea Trttys. Feather Dusters, Vases, Lamps, Chandeliers, Table Cutlery, &c.. fcic., Northwest corner Fourth and St. Charles streets. 81. Louis. Mo. WAR CLAIM OFFICE. NO. 58 NORTH THIRD STREET, Nearly opposite Post Office, ST. LOUIS, MO. CAVENDER&ROWSE, Back Pay and Bounties Collected, AND PENSIONS OBTAINED. CrOTernment Touchers Bought^ Sold or Collected. Claims against the State of Missouri, growing out of or connected with the enrolling, organizing, transport- ing, and furnishing supplies for the Enrolled Missouri Militia, or for rents or services rendered, and all claims of whatever nature, connected with the Milita- ry of the State adjusted and collected. Claims against the United States Government, for Negroes enlisted in the military service, adjusted and collected. REFERENCES. General John B. Gray, Adjutant General of Missouri j Colonel E. Anson Moore, Quartermaster General of Missouri : Col. Wm. Myers, Assistant Quartermaster; Major N. W. Brown, Paymaster U. S. A.j Major Robert Smith, Paymaster for discharged soldiers ; Messrs. Clark, Dodge & Co., New York; Partridge &. Co., S. C. Davis &. Co., St. Louis j McElhaney, Jaggard &Co. Rolla, Missouri ; St. Louis Building and Savings Asso' ciation. lO THE D^ILY OOU]NfTERSia:N^. Geo Kingslaocl. PUilil) Kiugsland. David FerKUSon. KINGSLANDS & FERGUSON, Pha-nlx Founiirj and Agrlculiiirai Worhs, CORNBB Second and Cherry slreets, St. Louis, Man- ufuclurcrs of Page & Child's Patent Circular Saw jaill-; steam EnKiues and Boilers of all sizes; Cox & WobertB' Patent Thresher and Cleaner; Threshers with- out Cleaners; E. Ball's Ohio Mower and Beapcr; Hand and Power Corn Shellers; Cotton Oins; Horse Powers and Castiui,'s.of every description. JOHN T MANNY, BmsIou. GEO. S. 1>RAKE, St. Louis. WM. DOWNING, Manny, Drake & Downing -iVHOLESALE DEALERS IX No. 154 Main street, ST. LOUIS, MO. E. Ha.-itiiiBs. ( JA. G. Anderson. E. Wi\lttr-\ju./ ( A. M. Brlttun, HASTINGS, WJLKERSON & CO. FANCY DRY GOODS NOTIONS, AND Fumisliing Goods, Hats, Caps and Straw CooJs, No. So Marn street, St. Louis, Mo- WILLIAM E. STOKER, WHOLKS.U.E DEALER IS 3BOOT!S jSk-T^TD SHOES, No. 86 North Main street, ST. LOUIS, MO. TO XHB AFFLICTED. If you .-uftVr with RHEUMATISM OR NEURALGIA, Use Lallemand's Specific JOHN H. BLOOD, Sole Agent, No. 24 North FlJlh street, St. Louis, Mo. PRICE, $1 PER BOTTL E^ SUPERVISING AGENCY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. FUR Fire, Marine & Life Insurance Companies, Reiiresentiug .an aggn«ate c.isb capital and surplus of . $8,847,455 12! MORRISON Sc HOLLAND, Local and Special Agents, Office 21 Locust street, over Merchants' Bank, St. Louis. Missouri losses adjusted and paid at this Agency. COMPANIES REPRESENTED ; Assets. .altna Insurance Company of Hartford $3,128,820 93 Merchants' Insurance Co. " !?1'^^ "}$ North America Insurance Co. " 384,010 « Harttord Fire Insurance Co. " 1,384,743 Go New York Life Insurance Company (mutual) 3,748,437 2b FASHIONABLE HATTER 271 Broadway, St. Louis. WHO LESALE & RETAIL. CKOW, McOREERY & CO., 55 Main street, St. Louis, Off'T to the tra'l'- a '.'rnital and well selected stock of Stanle aiii Faici fln CtOO^s, To WHICH THEY RESPECTFULLY INVITE THE attention ol all Ciii.b buyt-r:- visiting the maiket. JAS. RICHARDSON \ gj Louis W. C FORD, S WM. B. ENGLISH, Pitt:>tmrgh. G. CONZELMAN, IMPORTER and manufacturer of all kinds of Paper Hangings and Upholstery, wholesale and retail. Northwest corner Fifth and Olive streets, St. Louis, Mo. D R. LUYTIES, M. D., HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, 177 Locust St., bet. Eighth &. Ninth, north side, ST. LOUIS, MO. RICHAEDSON & CO., IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE I'EALERS IN Drugs. Chemicals and Dyeslufls. Oils. Paints, Win- dow Glass, &c., ice, Nos. 171 and 173 North Mam street, opposite Virginia Hotel, St. Louis, Mu. E. A. CORBET, M.^NUFACTUKER OF Saddles, Harness & MilitaryBquipments, 109 N':ath Fourth street, SAINT LOUIS. Tunstall & Holme, iSSION AM) FOEWARIllNG jitKiUAAW, No. 31 South Main street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Adolphus Meier. John C. Rust. Theo. G. Meier. Adolphus Meier & Co., luipurlers aud Jobbers of Foreign and Pouu'.^iw HARDWARE AMD CUTLERY, duns, Klli<;s, Chains, AutIIs and Vlcc-i, No 23 Main street, corner of Chesnut street, ST. LOUIS, MO. B H MILLER. CHAS. MILLER, J OHN S . J. M ILLER. R. H. Miller & Sons, IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS III China, Glass and tiueensware, Brittania Ware; Tea Trays, Hotel and Steamboat Ware, No. 121 North Fourth street. Collier Block, St. Louis, E. & W. MORGAN, AUCTIONEERS and Commission Merchants, 107 Fourth street. (Ten Buildings,) and No. 58 Tine street, between Third and Fourth streets, St. Louis, Mo. Out-door Sales promptly attended to. Attention giv- en to the sale of Bank Stock, Real Estate, Stc. Morgan's St. Louis Stock Mart, Northwest corner of Fifth and Carr streets. S. F. THAYER, LADIES' and Gents' premium Boot and Shoe manu- facturer. No. 37 North Fourth street, opposite Planters' House, St. Louis, Mo Officers' Riding Boots on hand and made to order at short notice. W. F. ULMAN, SUCCESSOR to Nathaniel Phillips. Established, 1837. Piano rooms corner Fifth and Locust streets, St. Louie, Mo. j Sole agent for Chickering & Son's, ^ Hallet D,ivi8 & Co. 'a, and other first class makers. Pianos for rent, tuned packed for shipping. moved and EZRA J. STERLING. HENRy F. CLARK. STERLING & CO., Saddlery and Saddlery Hardware, 107 and 109 Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. Wm. Young, St. houU. { Jno. H. Siegrist, " i ( E, T. Comstock, i New York. WM. YOUNG & CO., WX^t^lt^'L^i^ra^N^^ini^is's^:^; street. New York. 5t3=a full assortment of Boys' Clothing. ^ E. o c. J ("GILBERT, UPDIKE & CO. J No. 120 LaSalle St., I . stanard, ^ „. „. gilbert, i G. W. UPDIKE, r C. E. SLAYBACK.J Stanard, Gilbert & Co., G1ENERAL PRODUCE, COMMISSION AND FOR- r WARDING Merchants, No. 6 City Buildings, St Louis, Mo. EBEN RICHARDS, Jr., GROCER, Nos. 45 and 47 South Main street, ST. LOUIS, MO. O A It ^^ ^^ ^ • R. KBILBR & CO., Merchant Tailors and Clothiers, 129 131 & 133 Fourth St., Cur. Washington av., • SAINT LOUIS. ALL goods marked in plain figures, and sold at one price only. Military goods always on hand. J. F. COMSTOCK, I Bo&ton. 5 JAMES BLACKMAN, ) St, Louis. P H O T O G 15 A. P* M S. SIDNEY BROWN, ARTIST & PHOTOGRAPHER, No 82 North Fourth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. VISITORS to the city desiring flrst class Pictures, are respectfully invited to the Gallery, where they will find one of the finest collections in the Western country. Special attention given to the celebrated cartes de visile, or Album Pictures. Old Daguerreo- types, Ambrotypcs, etc., copied superior to any estab- lisbment in the city. ^^ J. F. Comstock & Co., (ESTABLISilEI), 1834.) WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES of all kinds. No. 73 Main street, St. Louia. PRATT & FOX, IMPORTERS, JOBBERS, And Manufacturers' Agents ct HARDWARE AND CDTLERY Nos. 139 and 141 Main street. ENDRES & COMPTON'S MUSIC STORE 52 Fourth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. WILLIAM D'OBNCH, Wholesale Dealer and Importer of Drugs, Chemicals, Paiuts, Oils, Glass, Dje Stuff*, ett.. No. 4 South Second street, ST. LOUIS, MO. ALSO, offers for sale the largest sl^ck of Perfumeries, Fancy Goods, etc., ever imported in this city. MeiMs&SlLoMPaeMCoiniiaEi. DAILY V. S. MAIL LINE, THE LARGEST STOCK OP FANCY GOODS & NOTIONS, L. & C. SPECK & CCS, No 61 North Main street, SAINT LOUIS. Composed of the following splendid Steamers, one ol which leaves daily, (except Sundays) at 6 p . M . . Capt. Musselman. Zeigler. BELLE MEMPHIS, BELLE ST. LOUIS, - C. E. HILLMAN, - Pl.ATT VALLEY, - CITT OF ALTON, MARBLE CITT. CITY OF CAIRO, - GEO, W. GRAHAM, - J. D. PERRY, COURIER. Sousley. Riley. Calvert. " Roland. " Wordeo. " Haney. HENRY W. SMITH, Gen'l Superintendent. N RANNBY, Gen'l Freight Agent. JOHM A. SCUUDER, Secretary. David Risley, Freight Clerk. THE D^ILY OOXJNTERSIG:^. 11 J & A. GABDINER, And Tnipoi tprs of Watches. Jewelry, Silverware, AND FANCY GOODS, No. SSFourta street. REMOVAI.. DR. ISAIAH FORBES, D E N^ T I S T HAS removed from his old st.md, to i No. 86 Olive, (one squiire fiirihertf Weet,) three doors west of Fifth street. INSURE YOUR LIVEs] Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES, No. 92 Broadway, New York. S. A. RANLBTT, Special Agent, No. 1 Olive St., N E. cor. Maia. R. GUMERSELL, Sr., (SUCCESSOR TO MORRISON & CO..) DRESS AND CLOAK TRIMMINGS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES, HOSIERV, Gloves, Fans, French Corsets, Skirts, &c. — ALSO — English, French and German Fancy Goods, No. 100 KOURTII STRKKT, GLASGOW ROW, ST. LOUIS, MO. ADOLPH HEINICKE. JOHN M. E8TEL. HEINICKE & ESTEL, IMrOUTKllS of and uliol»^s;iU: dfsUoia m China, Glass :ind Qucensware, Looking Glasses, Coal Oil, Lamps, Jtt itannia Ware, Slc; Tea Trays, Table Cutlery, ficc. No. 26 North Main street, St. Louis, Mo. Assorted Crates for country tratio kept on hand. Particular attention paid to packing. JAMES MAGUIRE. CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE. S. W. Baldwin. S. M. Dodd. BALDWIN & DODD, Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS, BONNETS, MILLINERY GOODS, ScC, 98 Main 3t., corner of Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. A. GERSHON, NO. 52 NORTH FIFTH STREET. ST. LOUIS, MO. Wholesale and Retail Emporium ROBERT DOUGHERTY, MAN L'FACTURER AND DEALER IX ALL KINDS of Carriages, Buggies, Barouches, Slc, corner Fifth and St. Charles streets, St. Louis, Mo. Second hand Carriages taken in exchange for new. Repairing executed with dispatch. C. a. aiLFENSTXIN. A. R. DONALDSON. C.G.HELFENSTEIN&CO., GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, N. W. CORNER FOURTH & PINE STS., ST. LOUIS, MO, A. F. SHAPLEIGH & CO., rrHPOHTERS OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS AND HEAVY GOODS, No. 102 Main st. , bet. Vine & Locust. ST. LOUIS, MO. J. & C. MAGUIRE, WHOLESALE and retail dealers in Drugs, Medi- cines, Chemicals, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Medicine Chests, &c., Slc, Southwest corner of Olive and Second streets, St. Louis, Mo. JULIUS MORISSE, Importer and Dealer la HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, 165 AND 285 BROADWAY, ST. LOUIS, MO. JA8. P. FISKE. AUGUSTUS KNIGHT. WM. B. GARBITT. FISKE, KNIGHT & CO., M.iDufa':turers and Wholesale Dealers m No. 37 Main street, corner Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. -FOR- Gentlemen's, Youths' aud Children's CL o T h: I isT a-. Furnishing Goods and Army Ontfits. . S. GREELEY. C. B. CURNHAM. D. B. GALE. GREELEY & GALE, WHOLESALE GROCERS, A' LSO, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MER- CHANTS, No 86 Second street, St. Louis, Mo. BELCHER'S Sugar Refining Company. Office at Refinery Building, cor. O'Fallen and Lewis ata., WHERE may be found all kinds of refined and clari- fied Sugars, in barrels, half barrels, sacks or hogs- heads. Also, Golden Syrups. Syrup Molasses and Su garhouse Molasses in barrels, half barrels and kegs, and m quantities to suit, from twenty-five barrels and up wards, at the card price when delivered. A box for or ders will be found on (he Northwest corner Second and Olive streets. Cash on dt livt-ry. No charge for pack- ages or drayage. GEORGE PARTRIDGE, President. E. T. Ware, Secretary. PALMER & WEBER, PUBLISHERS of Music, No. 56 Fourth street, St. Louis, Mo. Dealers in Piano-fortes andMusical In- trumeuts of every description ; Western agency for the sale of Steinway & Sons' Gold Meda! Pianos, and Prince 6t Go's Improved Patent Melodeons, which we furnish at the factory prices, wholesale and retail. GEORGE CORNING, Manufacturer and Dealer in Ladies' & Gendemeu's Boots & Shoes, No. 86 Market St., bet. Third and Fourth, ST. LOUIS, MO. Alex. Young, Cliicago. Dan. C. Young, St. Louis. T. S. Young, New York. W. P. stone, New York. YOUNG BROS. & CO., Manufacturers aud Wholesale Dealerw in 136 Main st., St. Louis, Mo.; 33 and 35 Lake st., cor. Wabash avenue. Chicago, III.; 120 Chambers st., N. Y. ROBERT & WILLIAM MITCHELL, (Successors to Mitchell, Ramrael^bcrg & Co. ) MaiiifactiirBi's of Fine Fnraitiire, And Dealers in Carpeb, Curtains, Oil Cloths, Sliate, ami Upholstery, k., N09. 134 &. 136 North Fourth street. WM. S. HUMPHREYS, Successor to Humphreya & Terry, WHOLESALE GROCER — AND— Commission Merchant, Ami Aeeiit for Ohio River Salt Company's Salt, No. 95 Second street, between Locust aud Vine streets, ST. LOUIS, MO. N. H. CLARK, FURNISHING DEALER — AND— SHIRT MANUFACTURER, 1-26 North Fourth st,, Southwest cor. Washington Av., SAINT LOUIS. PLANT & BROTHER, SIGN OF THE GILT PLOW, No. 25 North Main .si & 204 Broadway, Commission Merchants, And Dealers in Agricultural Seeds, Tools, Machines, BELTING, HOSE, &c. Ernest C. Angelrodt, Consul General. Robert Barth, Consul . ANGELRODT & BABTH, EUROPEAN COLLECTION BUSINESS, Cor. Second & Cheenut sts., up stairs, ST. LOUIS, MO. MANTZ & LYNCH, Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic WINES AND LIQUORS, And Rectifiers of "Whisky, 39 Soatb Main and IT South Commercial streets, be- tween Walnut and Elm ptreeta, ST. LOUIS, MO. Choice brands of Bourbon Whisky constantly on hand. Edward A. Fellerer, M. D. fK)M hionable DRESS AND MANTILLA MAKER, No. 56 North Fifth St., bet. Olive and Locust, ST. LOUIS, MO. Branch of Mme. Demorcsl*i), New York. Cutting and fittiue done to order. 12 THE D^ILY COUZSTTERSIGISr. WESLEY FALLON, (SUCCESSOR TO FALLON & WRIGHT) CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER, Nos. 84 and 86 North Filth street, ST. LOUIS, MO. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE STOCK of everything in hiB line. All work sold guaran- teed a6 represented. WAME, GHEEYER & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, Silver Plated and Japanned Goods, Hollow Ware, Fine Planished and Gnstom-Made MAMUFACTUREK9 OF WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Water Coolers, Bathing Apparatus, &c., —ALSO- PATENT PORTABLE SODA FOUNTAINS. No. 125 NORTH FOUKTH STREET, (Marble Buildings, near Washington Av.) ST. LOUIS, MO. ^8« —AND— MERCHANT TAILORS, K. W, COR. FOURTH ST, & WASHINGTON AVENUE^ (Branch under Lmdell Hotel,) ST. LOUIS. C. B. HUBBELL, Jr. (fc CO, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALEBS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC JD:Etir a-OODS, 302 FOUBTH STREET. ST. LOUIS. GILES F. FILLEY, MANUrACTURER OF COOKING iPID HEITINO STOVES, R. H. FRANKLIN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Ubsdell, Barr, Duncan & Co., HDI^ir O-OOIDS, FOUETH, VINE & ST. CHARLES SIS.. ST. LOUIS, MO. ST. LOUIS UNION, PUBLISHED BY THE XJnioii -A^ssociation. D M. GRISSOM EDITOR J. H. PARSONS Business Manager. Office, Comer Third and Locust streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Baily, in advance - - - - , -$800 Tri-Weekly, in advance - - - - - -4 00 Tri-Weekly, Clubs of Ten 30 00 Weekly, in advance - - - - - -150 Weekly, Cluba of Ten - - . . . ]o qq -AND— FANCY DRY GOODS, 132 FOURTH STREET. DR. E. HALE, ^DENTIST, §^^ OfGce, Northwest corner of Fifth and L' ST. LOUIS, MO. AND DEALER IN TIN PLATE, Sheet Iron, IVire, Rivets, COPPER BOTTOMS, PRESSED AND JAPANNED WARE. Office and Sa!e>room, 166