Report of the Committee for the Month of July.
By E. S. W.
Two hundred new subscribers have been added to our list during the month of July as the result of the labors of our committee. The following list shows the names of the members reporting, and the number sent in by each, viz: One each. D. W. Johnson, C. A. Osgood, P. S. Thurston, N. D. Richmond, D. Hildreth, S. H. Hinsey, J. B. Frisbie, E. Ireland, J. C. Brown, S. M. Holly, Mrs. K. Bressler, C. C. Bodley, J. H. Rogers, J. P. Flemming, E. L. Bascom, J. Park, A. S. Hutchins, L. A. Pinkerton, T. Paton, E. Inman, Mrs. L. B. Webber, S. A. Mc Pherson, G. P. Cushman, M. H. Collins, S. B. Craig, Z. Brooks, J. R. Goodenough, Mary Churchill, H. Hoag, P. C. Rodman, A. R. Morton, N. Fuller, G. G. Rogers, C. R. Ogden, A. Hunt, A. Harmon, Josephine House, Esther Doty, Sister Gould, T. M. Steward, M. Lane, S. Conery, W. H. Snook, A. Mc Allaster, G. Cruzan, Lovisa Urquhart, A. Graham, S. Sellers, J. M. Santee, M. J. Babcock, M. E. Reynolds, C. Penoyer, J. Hiestand, A. A. Dodge, Betsey Landon, J. A. Wilcox, S. Robinson, G. W. States, L. Shellhouse, C. Jones, J. R. Ginley, J. N. Wilkerson, Mary F. Maxson, B. Armitage, A. Olson, L. Sheldon, H. L. Richmond, Eliza Nelson, L. Lathrop, and Eli Wick. Two each. J. W. Landes, Mary R. Tahor, Lucy Seymour, John Clarke, A. A. Marks, C. O. Taylor, W. T. Hinton, M. W. Stockwell, B. F. Snook, H. Kenyon, Harriet Hicks, J. N. Andrews, and R. B. Delap. Three each. W. S. Higley, Jr., A. Caldwell, A. A. Fairfield and L. M. Jones. Four each. H. Howe, J. L. Kilgore, P. Wilson and F. A. Dayton. Five each. S. O. Winslow and L. G. Bostwick. Thirty-three. M. E. Cornell. We congratulate our committee on their faithfulness and perseverance in the laudable enterprise in which they are engaged. Although we have not yet accomplished the object for which we were organized, the result of the labors of the past month show an increase over that of the two preceding months, which is an indication that the committee is yet alive, and that its members still have a mind and will to work. When we first entered on our duties, we supposed that we would have raised our list to the five thousand before this time; but we have met with unforeseen difficulties and losses which we have had to make good. Obtaining subscribers is something like enlisting men for the army. While recruiting is going on, the enemy is at work reducing the number on hand, so that enlistments have to be made, not only to supply the want at the time of the call; but to make good all losses in the mean time. Could we have retained what we had when we commenced our mission, we should now have very nearly the designated number; but through natural causes and in the several skirmishes which we have had in the "wilderness" of delinquency up to the close of July, we lost about four hundred subscribers, and last week on the same unfavorable ground we had what might be termed a battle in which we lost in killed, wounded and missing about the same number. Many of the wounded will probably recover and the missing return with "spoil" (Greenbacks) and again take their place in our ranks. By a masterly "strategic" movement nearly all our present forces are now securely entrenched within the impregnable walls of Fort Pay-in-advance, so that our mortality hereafter will be but slight; and with new recruits, together with accessions, by the recovery of our wounded, and the return of the missing, our decimated ranks will soon again be filled and we shall then be prepared for another "forward movement."