BAItflMORE AGRICULTURAL AID SOCIETY Report. r REPORT OF THE SECRETARY UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY Agricultural Aid Society. PRINTED BY JOHN MUBPHY& Co. PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLEES, PBIKIE8S AKD SlATIO'EBS, 182 Baltimore Street. 1865. HEWAXX. NJ. wiuuuismr, PA. IDS ANCEUS, OUf. BMNTFORO. ONT. Y r i.n!.! 823U 'ffmrs far 1865. President, JAMES HOOPER, JR. Vice-President, CHAS. J. BAKER. Treasurer, DANIEL MILLER. Cor. Secretary, LAWRENCE SANGSTON. Directors : JAMES CAREY, WILLIAM DEVRIES, WM. H. BALDWIN, GERMON H. HUNT, WILLIAM CHESNUT, B. F. CATOR, G. WASHINGTON WARD, CHAS. M. DOUGHERTY, CHARLES WEBB, ISRAEL M. PARR, MYER STEIN, WM. CRICHTON. SAM. H. MILES. Executive Committee: JAMES HOOPER, JR. CHARLES J. BAKER, CHARLES WEBB, JAMES CAREY, B. F. CATOR. UCSB URPARY BALTIMORE, December 23, 1865. To the Directors of the Agricultural Society. GENTLEMEN: v The period having arrived when I can make a full report of the operations of the Society and the execution of the trust confided in me, I have the honor to lay before you the accounts herewith annexed, the books and vouchers for which are at your command. As very few, comparatively, of the subscribers, have any knowledge of the operations of the Society, or what has been effected by it, I propose, for their information, to give a short history of its origin, its object, its mode of applica- tion, and what it has accomplished. Shortly after the close of the civil war, which devastated so large a portion of the Southern States, and more particu- larly the neighboring State of Virginia leaving thousands of people in a state of utter destitution, without the means of cultivating their land or of procuring the necessary im- plements and seed to enable them to avoid starvation or the abandonment of their homes a few gentlemen of this city, differing in their political views, but fully agreeing in the necessity of prompt action to afford relief to those suffering- people, conceived the idea of an organized effort to supply them with stock, agricultural implements and seed to enable them to resume their farming operations and provide bread for their families. It was not proposed to place them in the attitude of paupers receiving charity, but to furnish them, at cost, with such articles as they required, and take a bond for repayment out of the next crop, or as soon thereafter as possible. The motives that actuated those gentlemen were as vari- ous as they were creditable chiefly common humanity to- wards those in distress, and the desire to efface the unkind feelings naturally arising from the war, and restore that harmony which had previously existed, and without which the Union is worthless. Looking, too, to the fact that Vir- ginia, (to which State it was proposed to confine operations for the time being,) had heretofore found its principal mar- ket, both for purchases and sales, in this city, adding largely to its business and its wealth, there was felt, in addition, a laudable desire while affording that assistance which the remembrance of past benefits made a duty, without refer- ence to the future to build up and restore that commercial intercourse, valuable to them, as to us, which had been sus- pended by the existence of the war, and destroyed by the mode of conducting it. That an effort, at such a time, to accomplish such objects, should have met with opposition from any human being in a civilized country, might well excite astonishment, but un- fortunately such beings exist and are not without their in- fluence. Immediately on the announcement of the organi- zation of the Society and the objects it hoped to accomplish, it was made the subject of a series of attacks from the lead- ing partisan editor of the city. Its intentions were misrep- resented, its motive were traduced, its objects were grossly falsified, and all who participated in it were denounced as traitors. The power of this man, who, for four years, with impunity, success, and profit, had bullied and brow-beaten the people of Baltimore at his pleasure, had not then, as it now has, passed away, neither had the timidity arising from the style of discipline to which the public had been subjected during the same period. The very natural result was, that all that class of prudent people who lacked confidence in their own loyalty, and were afraid to do or say anything that might cause it to be suspected or doubted, as well as the very large class who here, as in all communities, are happy at being furnished with an excuse for not doing what other- wise a sense of duty might have compelled them do, utterly refused to have any connection with it. While this opposition necessarily contracted the sphere of usefulness of the Society, by limiting its means, it crea- ted much embarrassment in other respects. At the period referred to, the paper in question, the ''Baltimore American? was the only one which the people of Virginia had access to, being the only paper of this city which was permitted to pass through the military mails, or to be sold where the military authority prevailed. The result was, that a large number of the people of that State, having no other means of information, and not being aware of the reputation of the paper as to veracity, and the necessity of applying to its statements and assertions the same rule universally laid down for the interpretation of dreams, were misled by its false representations some supposing the Society to be a speculative operation, having some improper object in view others believing it was a "Loan Bank? as the American asserted, intended to give " large salaries to its officers and large dividends to its stockliolders" The former idea prevented many deserving parties from making appli- cation for assistance, from the fear that in some shape or form they were to be swindled ; the latter caused the secre- tary to be overwhelmed with applications for loans and mortgages sufficient to have absorbed the banking capital of the city. Nor were these the only difficulties arising from the same cause. Much of the transportation was un- der the control of the military authorities, who were not disposed to regard with favor what had been denounced by the leading "loyal" editor of the city as an act of dis- loyalty. The result was, much petty annoyance, some loss from breakage of machinery, and excessive charges for transportation. Nevertheless, the Directors of the Society determined, to the extent of their ability, to carry out the object for which they were associated, and to the extent of their means have successfully accomplished that object. The plan of operations adopted by the Directors was to select, in each of the counties in which they proposed to operate, two or three gentlemen, of the highest respecta- bility and position, to act as local agents, who understood the wants of their immediate neighborhoods, and would re- ceive, endorse and forward the applications, receive and dis- tribute the articles sent, and collect and remit to the Secre- tary bonds for repayment. The plan was found to work well. Most of the gentle- men applied to at once responded and entered upon their duties in many cases at the expense of much time and labor, but in all cases with great pleasure to themselves, and without charge to the Society. How far the object of the Society has been attained, and the spirit in which it has been met, will be best understood by a perusal of a few extracts from the letters of those agents, appended to this report, all of whom write to the same effect. Referring to my report of August 28th, the amount then subscribed, about $50,000, was nearly exhausted, with seve- ral hundred applications from Eastern Virginia for seed wheat remaining unanswered. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held that day, it was determined to make an effort to procure $50,000 additional subscription to meet this pressing necessity, there being in the Tidewater counties of Virginia little or no wheat fit for seed, and the mass of the people without the means of procuring it. The effort was not successful, but $10,000 being raised, and the season for planting too far advanced to admit of further delay; in this emergency, a number of gentlemen connected with the Society as directors or subscribers nobly came to its assist- ance, and proffered the use of their names and credit. Charles J. Baker, Esq., advanced his note at 12 months for $5,000, and Messrs. Miles & Marshall their note for $2,500, which were discounted by the Franklin Bank; Messrs. Charles Webb, Lewis Turner, Sr., Jacob J. Bankard and Hugh Sisson advanced their joint note for $5,000, which was discounted by the Bank of Commerce; Israel M. Parr, Esq., his note for $2,500, and Messrs. Wm. Crichton and George W. Ward, each their note for $1,000, which were discounted by the Farmers and Merchants' Bank ; and Ben. F. Cator, Esq., $750 in cash. This timely aid enabled me to distribute seed wheat to those counties to the extent of $30,000, reducing the quan- tities applied for about half in each case. Messrs. Israel M. Parr and Samuel Gr. Miles kindly undertaking the pur- chase of the wheat and its preparation for shipment, with- out any charge or commission. The creation of this debt is necessarily a preferred claim on the assets of the Society, and to that extent will delay the return of the subscriptions, but does not impair my confidence in the opinion heretofore expressed, that the subscribers might rely on ultimately receiving eighty per cent, of their subscriptions. It will be remembered that in June last, J. S. Thayer, Esq., of New York, sent to the Society, two valuable Reap- ing and two Mowing Machines, to be appropriated to the Shenandoah Valley. As it was not the purpose of the Society 10 to make donations, I wrote to Mr. Thayer, asking permis- sion to receive and treat them as any other subscription. Not receiving any reply, I did not feel at liberty to deviate from his instructions without permission, and disposed of them in such localities in the Shenandoah Valley, as from personal enquiry I supposed they would be of the most service. The total amount of subscriptions and loans, is $77,120, which was distributed to 915 persons residing in 30 coun- ties, for which 711 bonds amounting to $57,330 87, have been received and deposited in Bank, subject to the control of the Executive Committe, and 204 bonds amounting to $19,218 37, are yet to be forwarded by the County Agents, it will probably be two or three months before they are all received owing to the absence of mail facilities in most of the counties and the necessity of awaiting private opportu- nities of transmission. It will be observed that the total amount of bonds is slightly in excess of the disbursements which requires some explanation. I endeavored, in compliance with the views of the Ex- ecutive Committee, to add to the invoices, when charges or expenses were incurred, such amount as would barely cover those expenses, as it was desired to avoid the appear- ance of any charge beyond the exact expenditure, unfor- seen expenses arising from difficulties of transportation, breakage of machinery, sometimes from accident, sometimes from malice, petty thefts of bags of wheat and small packa- ges while in transitu, and the loss of eight horses from dis- ease, would have involved the Society in a loss of about one thousand dollars. This deficiency has been made up, and slightly added to by contributions from various gentlemen, Messrs. Poole & 11 Hunt, Geo. Page & Co., John Murphy & Co., John D. Ham- mond, Messrs. Bickford & Huffman, of Macedon, N. Y., and others. The adoption of Winchester as a distributive point for the Valley of Virginia necessarily caused a vast amount of labor at that point, the more so, that the railway transpor- tation terminated at the military camp, five miles from the town where storage or protection from the weather was impossible. Without the untiring assistance of the Agent in Winchester, James H. Burgess, Esq , it would have been almost impossible to have carried out the necessary detail. G.O. Meigs, Esq., then Agent of the Read Express Co., also giving much time and labor in assisting Mr. Burgess. To all the various lines of transportation used by the Society, I am indebted for facilities, none of them exacted the usual tariff for freight. The Norfolk Line of Steamers, under direction of Moore N. Falls, Esq., made no charge; the Eappahannock Steamers, under the direction of J. J. Taylor, Esq., for the first two months carried a large amount of troublesome freight free of charge; to John W. Garrett, Esq , President of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road I am specially indebted to for assistance in the most difficult part of my labor in reaching the Valley of Virginia, for an abatement of one-half the established rates of freight, and free transit for myself and employees, and general instruc- tions to the agents of the road to assist me. To Messrs. Carey & Bangs I am also under many obli- gations for the gratuitous use of their office for the business of the Society. In reviewing the operations of the Society, from personal observations in such parts of the country as I have visited, and the concurrent testimony of the County Agents, I feel entirely justified in the assertion, that it will add half a 12 million of dollars next year to the agricultural products of Virginia a new creation of wealth from labor which other- wise could have had no existence, far better than the estab- lishment of half a dozen new banks. While those people accept it as an evidence of kind feeling on the part of the people of Baltimore, it cannot but have its reflective influ- ence on the future trade of the City. For myself, I cannot but rejoice that I did not know the vast amount of dull and tedious labor it involved, as otherwise, I should certainly have been deterred from doing what I shall always regard as the best act of my life. And now, gentlemen, and ladies too for the names of both will be found on the appended subscription list if the re- mark of the philosopher be true that whoever makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefac- tor of the human race the many thousands of acres of golden grain that will ripen under the summer sun, and gracefully wave to the summer breeze, will bear silent, but grateful testimony, that every one of you is entitled to that proud appellation. The many hundreds of homes made more happy through your agency, will not cease to cherish the most cordial remembrance of those who came voluntarily to their assistance, in their sorest need, without wounding their pride or insulting their poverty. Eespectfully submitted, LAWEENCE SANGSTON, Cor. Sec'y. 13 AGRICULTURAL AID SOCIETY. In Account with Lawrence Sangston, Secretary. DR. x 711 County Bonds on hand $57,339 87 204 " " in hands of Agents to be re- mitted 19,218 37 Daniel Miller, Treasurer 805 59 $77,363 83 CB. Subscription Account $59,370 00 Loan Account : Charles J. Baker 5,000 00 Charles Webb, Lewis Turner, J. J. Bankard, and Hugh Sisson 5,00000 Israel M. Parr 2,500 00 Miles & Marshall 2,500 00 Wm. Crichton 1,00000 Geo. W. Ward 1,000 00 Benj. F. Cator 750 00 Expense Account 243 83 $77,363 83 Disbursements : Cash Loans to 27 Persons in sums of $50 to $400 $ 4,350 00 Horses 7,310 00 Agricultural Implements and Machinery 24,042 55 Seed Wheat 39,877 72 Guano t 977 97 $76,558 24 PURCHASES. 18,182 Bushels Seed "Wheat. 6,081 Bags. 98 Horses. 2 Steam Saw Mills. 7 Threshing Machines. 12 Wheat Drills. 7 Buggy Horse Rakes. 2 Combined Reaping and Mowing Machines. 6 Mowing Machines. 16 Hay Cutters. 6 Grindstones. 2 Clover Hullers. 613 Plows. 43 Harrows. 87 Cultivators. 914 ps. Plow Castings. 46 setts Wagon Harness 217 " Plow 2 Wheat Fans, 3 Corn Shellers. 1 pair French Burr Millstones. 4 Bolting Cloths. 3 Blacksmith Shops. 1 Cooking Stove. 16 Tons Rhodes' Phosphate. 2 Domestic Mills, 53 ps Cedar Ware. 728 ps. Hardware, Axes, Hoes, Shovels, Spades, &c. Clover and Garden Seed, $376 88. LETTERS FROM COUNTY AGENTS. JAMES H. BURGESS, ESQ., Winchester, Va. "As our business relations are now drawing to a close, permit me to make some reference to the operations of your Society, so far as they have come under my observation in our once beautiful, but now desolated Valley. "When your association was initiated in our Valley, already had another society engaged in the laudable work of bestowing charity in various ways, clothing, food, &c., being the usual articles of distribution ; but these, much as they were needed and however much good resulted from their dis- tribution, served, but in part, the wants of one class of our citizens. There was another and more important class more important, for the reason that the future prosperity of the section mainly depended on it. Those constituting this class could not be ber.efitted by the charity referred to: in the first place they could not be induced to accept charity so bestowed, though needed never so badly ; their wants were of a different kind. They needed the means to enable them to resume their farming operations, without which their fertile lands were valueless, for their stock had been killed or taken away, their farms laid waste, their implements destroyed, their labor disorganized, and the only currency within their reach totally without value Under these circumstances it was impossible for them to operate without the reception of outside aid. Our banks could not extend that aid, for they, too, had virtually ceased to exist. "The Baltimore Agricultural Aid Society seemed to appreciate truly the condition of our*pe<^ple, and came to their assistance in a manner not only calculated to extend, perhaps, the greatest amount of good for the funds employed, but also in a manner so delicately devised as to remove from the minds of all, the objections they would have had to receive assistance less delicately tendered The horses, agricultural implements, seed, grain, &c., furnished by the Society, has enabled our farmers (many of whom otherwise could not have done so) to get out small crops of wheat this fall, and make more extended preparations for the crops of next spring, the benefits of whioh must be largely felt in another year. " In my intercourse with the people of this vicinity, I have learned much of their feelings. While they consider themselves indented to the Balti- more Agricultural Aid Society in so much, measured by dollars and cents, they feel that they owe a debt of deep gratitude for the kindly manner in which that debt was brought about. Not more, sir, do the people appre- ciate the kindness of the Association than your own individual, untiring exertions in their behalf; your patience under the most trying circum- stances seemed never to fail you your exertions under the most laborious performances never diminished." 16 THOMAS N. ASHBY, ESQ., Warren County, Va. " Before closing this communication, I would do injustice to our people did I omit an expression of appreciation of the generous motives which prompted the members of your Society in coming to their assistance in this, their time of need. 'While the sum at your disposal was too small to meet the wants of the many who have been reduced, I might say, to destitution, the judicious manner of its distribution has done great good. May the seed sown fall upon good ground, which shall spring up and increase an hundred fold, and prove to all as ' bread cast upon the waters to be found after many days.' " R. H. LYELL, BSQ , Richmond County, Va. " Our people are under lasting obligations to you and the Society you represent for the assistance they have received ; it is like bread cast upon the waters. I will also state, that I feel confident that five per cent, will cover all loss in the way of bad debts." JAMES H. CLARK, ESQ., Clarke County, Va. " This closes my agency for your Association, and I cannot part from you without an expression of my thanks for the noble manner in which your Society has come to the aid of our impoverished people. Without the aid you furnished us. not more than one-third of the wheat put out in this neighborhood could have been sown, nor other operations of the farm been as successfully prosecuted. I trust that our people may now be able to make bread, at least, and, in the course of two or three years, be also able to pay up old scores. To the benevolent people of Baltimore they feel that they owe a large debt of gratitude, and it will certainly be paid manifold in the future." JOHN N. GRESHAM, ESQ., King and Queen County, Va. "The wheat crop in this county was unusually small, and the quality poor and very little suitable for seed, the farmers without the means of purchasing, were most anxious to seed some, but how or where to procure it they knew not, when the Baltimore Agricultural Aid Society came to their relief, thus enabling many to soed a crop that otherwise could not. "I trust that this laudable effort of a few noble men of Baltimore will long be remembered by this county and be productive of much good to all parties. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and the Society has proved this friend," DR. THOMAS M. MILLER, Newtown, Frederic Go.,Va. 14 In closing up my accounts with you as agent of the Agricultural Aid Society, I deem it my duty to express, in behalf of those who were re- cipients of your aid their gratitude, and also to indicate the amount of good you have done for our suffering and dejected people. "When I made myself known as agent of the Society, and explained the object of it, the people seemed to arouse from their lethargy and indiffer- ence, and assume a new life. But few had plows, and those who had, had no wheat. When I told them they would be supplied with wheat and implements, their souls were filled with hope, and happiness soon took the place of almost despair. It is useless for me to go into details or minute descriptions. I will only mention the article of wheat I purchased with the money you sent me enough to sow four hundred acres, this land will produce, if only a moderate season, six thousand bushels of wheat, if a good season, eight to ten thousand. "In conclusion, let me assure you the name of the Agricultural Aid Society, will ever be remembered by the people of the Valley. It will be transmitted from one generation to another, as long as our Government has an existence." JOHN L. STANSBURY, ESQ., Spottsylvania County, Va. 44 This closes my distribution as agent for the Agricultural Aid Society, which I know must result in incalculable benefit to the people of this part of Virginia, for had it not been for your Society, there could not have been any wheat sown in this part of the county, and in my opinion, there could not have been anything devised by the benevolent people of Balti- more, that could have produced the same beneficial results, not only to the agricultural interest, but the entire community." WM. T. SAMUEL, ESQ., King William County, Va. " I tender you my grateful acknowledgments on behalf of the benefi- ciaries of this noble deed of generosity and kindness, which will long be remembered by the people of King William." DAVID J. MILLER, ESQ., Middletown, Frederic County, Va. "The citizens of the Valley, are under many obligations to your very benevolent Society, but for its assistance, many acres of land could not have been cultivated ; as it is, we have a fair crop of wheat sown, and horses and plows to go on for a corn crop, and I hope its members will meet their full reward for their charitable undertaking. The old Valley will not forget the Baltimore Agricultural Aid Society, in this generation ; you have nobly done your part, I hope we may be able to do ours in re- turn." 18 WM. H. HANSBROUGH, ESQ., Stafford County, Va. "The people of our County seem very grateful for the favors done them, and I hope Baltimore will long be dear to their hearts." H. B. TOMLIN, ESQ., King William County, Va. 11 Permit me to unite, with my neighbors, in expressions of my thanks to your Society, and especially to yourself, for the very great accommoda- tion and favor received at your hands." HON. WM. BOULWARE, King William County, Va. " The Virginia farmers are under such obligations to your Society, as can never be forgotten. The bonds of amity, before strong between your City and State and ours, are now still stronger, from the many manifes- tations of sympathy and kindness in our recent misfortunes." R. C. DABNEY, ESQ., Spottsylvania County, Va. " Allow me to express, on behalf of those your Society have so gener- ously aided, their grateful acknowledgments. Many of the parties, from causes that will readily suggest themselves to you, would have been unable to procure either seed or implements. Much relief has been afforded to the people of this county, who have availed themselves of the opportunity thus afforded." ALFRED PALMER, ESQ., Middlesex County, Va. "With regard to the benefits derived from your Society, it gives me pleasure to state that I am sure, from the expressions of gratitude from the beneficiaries of your Society, and from others in this community, that it has been of great utility and lasting benefit to the Southern farmers, as far as it has gone, inasmuch as it was proffered to them so opportunely." JOHN E. SEQAR, ESQ., Middlesex County, Va. " I think your agency has been productive of much good among the citizens I furnished with wheat and agricultural implements, as far as it went, as the persons whom you furnished in my field of operations had no money, and no means of getting any to get them. And I would also say that I think the whole amount will be paid." 19 COL. TAOMAS BROWN, Westmoreland County, Va. " 1 feel no hesitancy in stating that I consider that our section has been greatly benefitted by the aid it has received at the hands of your Aid Society.' Many have been able to commence farming anew by the assis- tance afforded them by your Society, and are now diligently pursuing their work with a fair prospect of success, and the country, in many places, is wearing a cheerful aspect from the seed you have furnished, which other- wise would have been dreary and waste." GEORGE M. CARTER, ESQ. , Westmoreland County, Va. " I tender my sincere thanks to your Society for their timely aid to my county, and to you for your indefatigable exertions in carrying out their design, which was grand in conception and generous in execution. Like all good institutions, its benefits will be felt by some who are incapable of appreciating them, but that will not detract from its value. The enclosed letter from the Rev. Mr. Locke, may be accepted as an illustration of the condition of most of our people, and the importance of the assistance ren- dered them." RECTORY, Nov. 27th, 1865. George M. Carter, Esq. DEAR SIR : I send you my note for wheat furnished me by the Agricultural Aid Society. But for the aid of that Society, I would have been without farming im- plements, and consequently could not have seeded any wheat this year. I am fully persuaded that this Society has done great good to our com- munity, for very many around us were in a similar situation with myself. I feel that I am under great obligations to it. Yours, truly? THOMAS E. LOCKE. GEORGE A. HUPP, ESQ., Shenandoah County, Va. " The citizens in this part of the Shenandoah Valley, who have been the recipients of the means furnished them by the Society in procuring seed wheat and implements, are under lasting obligations for so much benevo- lence manifested in their behalf, but for this timely aid a very small pro- portion of the land could have been seeded. I trust that this favor of the citizens of Baltimore will long be remembered by those who have shared in its benefits." Mrs. Isabella Brown $3,000 George S. Brown 2,000 Wm. G. Harrison 1,500 Charles M. .Dougherty 1,000 Charles J. Baker 1,000 Numsen, Carroll & Co 1,000 Kobert Garrett & Sons 1,000 Beef Butchers' Hide and Tal- low Asso'n, per L. Turner, President 1,000 William Devries 600 Armstrong, Cator & Co 500 Daniel Miller & Co 500 James Armstrong & Co 500 Wm. H. Baldwin 500 James Hooper & Sons 500 J. J. Bankard 500 Whiteley Bros. & Co 500 Smith & Curlett 500 Hamilton Easter & Co 500 T. J. Magruder & Co 500 Leonard Passano 500 Hugh Gelston 500 J. & H. Warden 500 B. M. Rhodes & Co 500 Jacob Brandt, Jr 500 Samuel Bevan & Co 500 John S. Williams & Bro 500 Charles A. Gambrill & Co 500 J. B. Brinkley 500 John W. Bruff & Co.. 500 Hodges Bros. & Co 500 Wm. T. Walters & Co 500 Charles W. Lord 600 Thomas McCormick & Bro... 500 Wisenfeld & Co $500 Drost& Sutro 500 J. Smith & Son 500 Wm. A. Boyd & Co 500 Austin Dall & Co 500 John S. Barry & Co 500 Wethered Bros 500 Wm. H. Graham 500 Howard, Cole & Co 500 Eobert Moore & Co 500 Purvis & Co 500 Richard Cromwell 500 H. F. Albert? & Co 500 James Corner & Sons. 500 Stein Brothers 500 Charles H. Ross & Co 500 Spence & Reid 500 Wm. D. Shurtz & Co 600 Barnum's Hotel 600 F. W. Brune & Sons 500 Hopkins, Hull & Atkinson 500 Hiram Woods, Jr 500 Kirkland, Chase & Co 500 Joseph Carson & Co 500 Mrs. John Glenn 500 G. W. Gail & Ax 600 Eutaw House 600 Henry Riem an & Sons 500 Wm. Knabe & Co 500 William Chrichton 340 Lewis Myers & Co 300 Hurst & Co 300 Wm. Chesnut & Co 300 Bayne & Co 300 G. H. Reese & Bro.... . 300 21 Andrew Gregg & Co $300 Maynard, Ely & Eose 300 E. Whitman & Sons 300 F. W. Bennett 250 Newcomer & Co 250 Stonebraker & Co 250 J. G. Harvey & Co 250 Geo. W. Grafflin 250 Orendorff & Beam 250 B. M. Makepeace & Co 250 Smith & Nicodemus 250 Meixsell & Grafton 250 Renehan & Kirwans 250 O. D. Slingluff & Sons 250 Augustus J. Albert 250 Poole & Hunt 250 John Sullivan & Co 250 Sam'l S. Levering ... 250 John L. Weeks 250 A. S. Abell 250 Chancy, Kandall & Co 250 Spiller& Alcocke 250 H. L. Whitridge 250 Oberndorff & Lauer 200 F. B. Loney & Co 200 Wm. A. Dean 200 Lambert Gittings & Co 200 "Wm. H. Perot & Co 200 Samuel Kirk & Son 200 Cortlan & Co 200 Edward Reese 200 Roche & Co 200 Fisher Bros. & Co 200 "Wm. H. Clabaugh, Fountain Hotel 200 Henry James 150 Cooper & Slicer 150 Wm. J. Rieman & Co 150 Wm. Davidson & Co 150 George M. Gill 150 George W. Webb & Co $100 Henry Bogue 100 Cumberland Dugan & Co 100 J. A. Dushane.... 100 Joseph Rogers, Jr 100 P. Ticrnan & Son 100 A. G. Meyer & Co 100 Miss Henrietta Randall 100 Hugh Bolton & Co 100 John Hurst _ 100 Edward Jenkins & Sons 100 Neale, Harris & Co 100 Edward Mitchell & Sons 100 A. Seemuller & Sons 100 John M. Buck 100 John C. Mason & Co 100 J. M. Girvin 100 James E. Tyson 100 Schwerdtmann & Co 100 Israel M. Parr 100 F. F. Pope 100 H. R. Tucker & Co 100 Capt. C. A. Berry 100 Joseph C. Ycates & Co 100 Samuel Mactier 100 J. S. & J. Price 100 Thomas Booz & Bro 100 Coleman & Bailey 100 Walter Crook, Jr 100 E. Bonney JOO Eli Ulery 100 W. J. Kirk 100 H. R, Williar & Bro 100 G. M. Bastable 100 Wm. Wilhelm 100 Freeland & Hall 100 Thomas J. Reese & Co 100 Hopkins & Janncy 100 Peter Mowell 100 Dr. T. F. Cherry 100 22 L. F. Dietz & Co $100 Mayer & Brother 100 John D. Hammond 100 Sam'l Frankenstein 100 Edward Holten. 100 Jacob Ellinger 100 Joseph H. McGee 100 Henry R. Wilson 100 W. King& Bro 100 N. A. Pfeiffer 100 R. J. Baker 100 Geo. G. Presbury, Jr 100 Carroll, Adams & Neir 100 W. L. Blocker 100 Nathan Lehman. ... 100 George Appold 100 R. Mason & Sons 100 Middleton & Denny 100 Burns & Sloan 100 Thistle Manufacturing Co 100 J. A. Edmondson 100 Mrs. Tamsey A. Reeso 100 Woodside, Griffith & Hoblit- zell 100 "Win. H. Stran & Co 100 Win. Henry Johnson .. 100 William Mclntosh 100 Henry T. Roberts 100 Gazette Office 100 Thomas S. Godey 100 William Walsh & Sons 100 E. C. Thomas & Sons 100 Cugle, Sickle & Co 100 James Bullock 100 Charles F. Pitt 50 John R. Laws... 50 A, A. Perry 50 A. L. Webb 50 S. P. Thomson & Co 50 M. A. Mitchell... 50 R. B. Porter & Sons $50 Randolph, Golibart & Co 50 Jones & Ashcraft 50 Henry Boss 50 James G. Ramsey 50 William Brown & Son 50 C. Blake 50 J. P. Hartman & Sons 50 R. H. Millikin 50 Heim, Nicodemus & Co 50 Charles Simon 50 John R. Diggs 50 Boswell & Dorsett 50 Captain Samuel M. Travers 50 W.. Shirley & Son 50 Cofforth & Miller 50 Dry Goods Clerk 50 Gephart & Barber 50 Joseph Thomas & Son 50 Peter Zell & Son 50 William Wilson, Jr 50 Ferdinand Meyer 50 J. Whiting & Co 50 Morehead & Nitze 50 William B. Larmour 50 Thomas Bond 50 William Bond 50 W. J. Delcher 50 Poultney & Moale 50 Barry & Hoogewerft' 50 B. A. Vickers 50 Adams & Davidson 50 James E. Buchanan 50 A. C. Ahrens 50 William A. Wentz 50 R. & W. H. Cathcart 25 Charles J. Morris 26 John Whittamoro 25 H. Straus & Bro 25 LeBrou & Bro .. 25 23 Thomas P. Stran $25 George W. Holden 25 James C. Wheedin, Jr 25 F. W. Wilson 25 A Friend 25 Bevan & Son 25 B. T. Hynson & Son 25 G. W. Burns 25 John Murray, of Peter 25 Mrs. Emma L. Blocher 25 Armstrong & Hopkins 25 J. A. Richardson & Co 25 Win. Applegarth 25 Poe & Scrimger 25 Hyland & Wood $25 John Welsh 20 Captain Alexander Jones 20 Captain James Etchberger 20 Arthur Emory & Co 20 J. H. Durand 20 Uri Kiburn 20 D. G. Murray 20 N. E. Berry 20 George Evans 20 Wm. H. Price 20 H.W.Webb 20 James Lucas 20 Small amounts under $20 90 Total amount $59,370 A 000 844 531 4 THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. Series 9482 NEWARK, NJ. WILLIAMSfOf 10$ ANGEUS, CALIF. BMNTFOM, ONT.